Chapter 73

In the ninth year of Daye, Yang Guang was defeated again. This had something to do with Yang Xuangan's rebellion, but Su Fan knew clearly that if he couldn't take down Fu Cailin or send someone to stop Fu Cailin, no matter what, Yang Guang couldn't break the capital of Goguryeo. At most, he would cause certain casualties to Goguryeo.

However, these had nothing to do with Su Fan. He hid in Wu Jun, practicing martial arts peacefully, and when he had nothing to do, he gathered one batch of refugees after another.

Because of his actions, a large number of refugees in Yangzhou all ran to Wu Jun.

In just a few months, seven or eight thousand refugees flocked to Wu Jun.

Of course, the consequence was that the Prefectural Office was squeezed dry, and it still wasn't enough. For this reason, he even specially borrowed grain from several powerful families. As for whether to pay it back.

In Su Fan's words, it was borrowed in the name of the Yuwen family, so why should he pay it back? He is surnamed Su.

Of course, it is estimated that those families couldn't let him pay it back either.

However, Su Fan let people reclaim wasteland, which caused some criticism from powerful families. It was just that Su Fan let Ren Tong take hundreds of private soldiers and wiped out two groups of bandits around Wu Jun, and suddenly these criticisms disappeared.

In Wu Jun, although there are powerful families, they are not very powerful. At most, the family has one or two second-rate experts.

But they didn't dare to fight against hundreds of elite soldiers, unless your strength reached the first-rate, then you could charge the formation with one against a thousand. Second-rate is not enough, and Jianghu martial artists are even weaker when facing the battlefield.

After a round of bandit suppression and deterrence, Wu Jun was completely in Su Fan's hands. In the city and surrounding areas, the powerful families' manor territories, Su Fan didn't move. He just went to the village and town places to reclaim wasteland.

Giving refugees a way to survive, at the same time, it can also be considered as collecting some people to join the army. These refugees, fleeing from the north to Yangzhou, were almost all strong adults; the old and weak died on the road.

If there was enough grain, Su Fan could instantly raise an army of tens of thousands.

Of course, Su Fan naturally wouldn't do that.

He again selected eight hundred strong men from these tens of thousands of refugees to enter his private soldiers, using the old to lead the new, letting them cultivate the basic body-tempering technique Su Fan issued.

He even let Ren Tong and Huang Quan teach these people to read and write.

"It's time to make money."

The Prefectural Office had no money, and he couldn't just send people to rob those powerful families. It wasn't that he was afraid, but that the time hadn't come yet.

However, speaking of making money, for Su Fan, it really wasn't difficult. After all, in the previous martial arts world, Su Fan could be said to be rich enough to rival a country by the end.

In this life, his identity was even better than the previous one, and many things he was afraid of in the previous life, he didn't need to be afraid of in this life.

Salt and iron are definitely the most profitable businesses.

So Su Fan first set his sights on salt. The eastern part of Wu Jun is the sea.

Su Fan naturally understood the technology of salt and iron.

And with his identity, he didn't need to be afraid. Even the Dongming Sect dared to do the business of weapons, so Su Fan naturally wasn't afraid.

As for craftsmen and people, he just said one word, and the people below ran until their legs broke and finished it for him.

The method of sun-drying sea salt, he handed over to Ren Tong, let him take four hundred people, and then pulled a batch of craftsmen and two thousand refugees to the seaside.

Steel is more troublesome. Wu Jun itself has no iron ore. Even if you refine iron and steel, you need to pull iron ore from other places.

Therefore, Su Fan put more thought into salt making, and at the same time arranged for some craftsmen to start attacking the manufacture of glass.

Glass is definitely a big killer. In the previous martial arts world, Su Fan also tried it, but at that time, glass was already on the market, so the price was no longer an expensive luxury.

But now this is the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Colored glaze is very expensive, and glass is even more so.

With these two items, Su Fan would no longer be short of money. Besides, he had no intention of fighting for the world. He only needed to maintain Wu Jun. Perhaps in the future, he could take down Yuhang Commandery around Wu Jun.

As for Jiangdu, he didn't need to do it himself in the future. In fact, the current Jiangdu is also in the hands of the Yuwen family, and the tens of thousands of garrison soldiers in Jiangdu are all under the control of the Yuwen family.

It's just a pity that a good hand of cards was played into a mess by the Yuwen family.

Yuwen Huaji, whether in history or in this world, is not a good commander, let alone a monarch. His ability is terrible.

Compared to Li Yuan, he is really too far behind. Otherwise, as one of the four great clans and occupying the south, why did he fail?

You know, Yangzhou was almost controlled by the Yuwen family at that time, and in the Jianghuai area, Du Fuwei, Shen Faxing, and Li Zitong were not very strong.

Especially in this world, experts can sometimes determine the outcome of a battle. For example, Evil King, Yin Empress, etc., if they want to kill the enemy's garrison general in the middle of the army, without experts of the same level or several lower-level experts to block, it is really difficult to stop their assassination.

Not to mention the Grandmaster. Yang Guang's million-strong army attacked Goguryeo three times and didn't succeed, which was also because of Fu Cailin.

The Yuwen family has many experts, the Grandmaster Yuwen Shang, and the four great experts are all first-rate family experts, but they still couldn't achieve anything.

From this, it can be seen that the ability is really not enough.

And they are arrogant.

For the Yuwen family, he is speechless, but no matter what, his identity now cannot be changed.

Of course, he is not afraid either. Now his strength is comparable to the first-rate of the Jianghu. Unless a Grandmaster expert like the Evil King comes to kill him, otherwise, even super first-rate, it is estimated that he will not pose much threat to him.

It has only been two years, and his martial arts have only reached the level of practicing blood.

Su Fan's martial arts realm, from the beginning, practicing skin, changing tendons, tempering bones, and then practicing blood, tempering the five viscera.

As for what realms are behind, he needs to slowly deduce them. After all, in the previous martial arts world, he obtained the external body-tempering technique, and only reached the level of changing tendons and tempering bones. Practicing blood and tempering the five viscera were only obtained after he returned to the main world, relying on the evolution space to continuously deduce them.

As for the follow-up, without a new body-tempering technique, I am afraid it will take a longer time to slowly deduce.

Evolution space is not omnipotent; it cannot evolve martial arts realms out of thin air. Everything needs to be based on martial arts, and then evolved and deduced.

So Su Fan is also ready to start searching for some martial arts from this world. He didn't care much about the internal energy flow techniques. After all, he is focusing on the fleshly martial arts flow in this life.

Fortunately, the martial arts of this world are more brilliant. There are indeed quite a few martial arts external body-tempering methods in the army.

The martial arts practiced by Ren Tong and the others are the martial arts of the battlefield. Of course, they are better than what he obtained from the previous world, but compared to the "Five Elements Body Forging Art" he melted himself, they are much worse.