Chapter 66: Reunion of an

Zhihai Stockade at night looked quite large, but because it leaned against the mountains and faced the sea, it couldn't be seen clearly.

Looking closely during the day,

Although the barracks and civilian houses here were in disrepair and dilapidated, they were well-planned.

Next to the wharf where ships docked, a shipyard was built, which could repair warships.

Outside the civilian houses where military families lived, there were also windmills and oil mills for refining.

On the second day after taking office, after Zhang Gui toured the military stockade, he ordered Li Yunbo to remake the military and civilian registers of Zhihai Stockade.

Then he began to personally investigate the military stockade's intelligence, including personnel, power, and property.

After tossing and turning for a day, he confirmed two points: "Zhihai Stockade" was truly poor to the point of rotting.

Li Yunbo could truly be called a kind old man.

So, on the fourteenth day of the first lunar month,

Zhang Gui went to Xuanzhi Mountain and found two large and three small black-skinned forest deer, killed them all neatly, and threw the whole family to the cook to stew soup.

To improve the food for his soldiers.

Afterwards, he returned to the Zhihai Stockade Yamen, sat in the main seat of the main hall, and while experiencing the "joy" of being an Eighth-Rank Seal-Holding Colonel of a ragtag army of the Ming Song Dynasty, he used his brain and Qi:

"Even though I was made a scapegoat, guarding this broken stockade with more than twenty thousand mu of thin fields and thousands of petty laborers who can serve as cheap labor,

If I were shameless, it would still be easy to extort over a thousand taels of silver a year.

So I'm afraid that the big shot who pushed me to the top really didn't think I would blame him..."

Just as he was pondering, Old Man Li brought two personal soldiers holding green-skinned registers and trotted into the stockade yamen.

"Governor, the new military and civilian registers are done.

Currently, there are nineteen squad leaders, two hundred and eleven regular soldiers, and six hundred and sixty minor soldiers in the stockade.

Six brick and tile master craftsmen, twenty apprentices.

Five blacksmith masters, seventeen apprentices.

Four shipwrights, fifteen shipbuilders in total.

Seven hundred and seventy-six civilian households, totaling three thousand two hundred and forty people..."

Zhang Gui took the green register, looked at it carefully for a while, and put it away carefully.

After chatting with Old Li for a while, he swayed out of the stockade gate and ran into Xuanzhi Mountain.

In the same mountain range, Zhihai Stockade was more than seventy li away from Mushroom Valley.

The mountain road was difficult to travel, and it took him two quarters of an hour to reach his destination.

He teleported to the Upper Stone Corpse Capital of the True Dragon Kingdom on Giant Serpent Island...

Although the True Dragon Kingdom is small, the basic living materials are very abundant.

The philosophy of governing the country is simply loving the people to the extreme compared to other forces, and in just half a month, it has captured the hearts of tens of thousands of former slaves.

Coupled with the effective use of people, although it is an extremely small country with few people, it has already shown a prosperous trend.

Now, the power of the "Capital Element" rules accumulated in one day is equivalent to the harvest of converting ten taels of gold at the beginning.

But such a calculation is quite vague, so during this period, Zhang Gui created a calculation unit for the connection between the Capital Element rules and the power of divine authority: "Virtual and Real."

And one "Virtual and Real" is the consumption of teleporting one hundred and fifty jin of material from Mushroom Valley to the Upper Stone Corpse Capital in the mysterious domain.

Of course, with the improvement of Zhang Gui's transcendent level, or the leapfrog development of the True Dragon Kingdom.

The mysterious domain consumption generated by him teleporting one hundred and fifty jin of material between Mushroom Valley and the Upper Stone Corpse Capital will definitely be very different in the future.

In fact, Zhang Gui discovered that compared to the first ten days, the consumption of this teleportation in the mysterious domain has already decreased by a very tiny amount.

That is to say, the quality of the power of element rules and divine authority power he has mastered is constantly improving.

Therefore, the "Virtual and Real" used as a measurement unit is not constant in consumption.

But the event itself of teleporting one hundred and fifty jin of material from Mushroom Valley to the Upper Stone Corpse Capital...

On the Guiyang Palace square, Zhang Gui calculated the "Virtual and Real" he had saved, which had already exceeded three digits.

If there were gold, silver, and copper mines stored underground in the Upper Stone Corpse Capital, or if he hadn't consumed most of the gold and silver he had stolen and robbed when he teleported the population of Wangbei Manor,

The problem of "Zhihai Stockade" would have been much easier to handle.

"Pacify the interior before resisting the exterior" is the truth.

But now, at most, he can only bring the remaining small two thousand taels of silver back to the Dongsheng Continent.

Taking advantage of the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month to buy people's hearts.

He made up his mind.

After Zhang Gui met with Song Huawen and Sang Gui, who were left behind to develop the foundation, he strolled around the street a few times.

He randomly delivered a speech that both stabilized people's hearts and painted a big picture.

Afterwards, he reviewed the one thousand newly recruited soldiers on the training ground.

Although the scale of the army was shabby, he still enthusiastically expressed his lofty respect for the soldiers who defended their homes and country.

And repeated the promises he had previously arranged for Gui Sang to make.

One month after the army was formed, one hundred soldiers who performed best in military training would be selected and granted transcendence.

And while Zhang Gui was painting a big picture with great sincerity, a fanatical familiar face flashed before his eyes.

"Zhao Sanshi, why does this kid have such an expression?

Is his tolerance for chicken soup so low?

But he was weird the first time we met."

Time was tight today, so he let it go.

After leaving the barracks,

Zhang Gui hurriedly said goodbye to his ragtag team, took the nearly five thousand taels of silver wrapped in whale skin, and teleported back to Mushroom Valley.

Hundreds of jin of silver, even if it had been recast into silver plates, was not small in volume.

If it weren't for the fact that the raw material of the whale skin bundle he used was a giant whale that had washed ashore and committed suicide near the coast of the Upper Stone Corpse Capital, he was afraid he wouldn't be able to carry it.

But now it was very simple.

Zhang Gui unleashed his incomplete primordial ability, "Black God Explosive Warlord All Methods," combined with the "Chief Breaks Heaven" divine cluster, and transformed into a golden-bodied giant of a zhang.

The whale skin bundle that originally reached his waist was grabbed with one hand.

Carrying it casually, with Qi and blood surging throughout his body, Zhang Gui unleashed the Vertical and Horizontal Flying Runner art combined with "Swift Legs," and flashed into the jungle like a giant bear as light as a bird.

At the same time, next to the huge tung oil hardwood gate of Zhihai Stockade,

An old scholar with a goatee, refined and seemingly unsuccessful in middle age, reached out and touched the broken iron buckle.

With a force, he actually lifted the whole wooden gate.

He weighed it, and a look of doubt appeared on his face.

"Although this gate doesn't look too heavy to me, the broken card slot is not sturdy either.

But the 'Vertical and Horizontal Book' is a medium-level entry-level technique characterized by 'agility.'

Let alone the 'Ding' grade that has just achieved something, even a 'Bing Shao' would find it difficult to break such a gate with force.

There must be something tricky about it."

He was Guan Xihui, one of the right-hand men of the great pirate Zhang Yan, who turned the world upside down and betrayed the Pingyang Zhang Family.

Originally, the old deputy Governor of Zhihai Stockade, Li Yunbo, calculated that he wouldn't transport smuggled goods and stolen loot to the military stockade until after the Lantern Festival.

Unexpectedly, he was a few days early.

As a result, Guan Xihui learned that the wharf his group had used for years to sell stolen goods was now managed by a young man named Zhang Gui, a half-familiar face who had turned over a new leaf.

And the reason for Zhang Gui's turnaround stemmed from a trick his group had played while causing chaos in the Zhang Family.

He couldn't help but sigh that the changes in the world are truly hard to fathom.

He also learned that when Zhang Gui first arrived at the military stockade, he had actually sent the gate of Zhihai Stockade flying to the ground with force while establishing his authority.

His curiosity was piqued, and without doing any business, he hurriedly brought his subordinates over to investigate.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 67 =====