Endless Winter: My Camp Infinite Upgrades

Chapter 319: Blood Jade Fox and Prank, Boiling Xia City, Migration Begins

The second silver vein is at the same depth as the first, but it is about thirteen kilometers further south.

The two veins are also different in shape. The former is a mountain, while the one in front of us is located in a slightly raised hilly area.

However, the area of ​​the hill is very large, with an estimated total radius of 25 kilometers.

When they were still two kilometers away from the mound, Li Xuanling stopped and took the two of them and jumped onto a nearby big tree.

After Xia Hong climbed up the tree and looked at the mound from afar, he suddenly felt his scalp tingling.

On the side of the mound facing him, there was a large group of silver-backed, fleshy-tailed long-tailed mice lying densely at the bottom. A rough estimate was that there were more than 3,000 mice lying on the ground alone. The key point was that many of the mice had their bodies burrowed underground, with only a section of their flesh-colored long tails dangling on the ground.

Although it was far away, Xia Hong still noticed that there were flashes of golden light from time to time, and it was obvious that there were high-level rodents inside.

This is just the bottom. Going further up, in the middle area of ​​the mound, there are hundreds of golden-armored Lei Kui with a body length of more than ten meters. The ground between those Lei Kui appears to be golden fluid. Apparently, like the group of rats, some of the Lei Kui are hiding underground.

Further up, at the top of the mound, there are densely packed cave entrances with a diameter of about half a meter. Although it is too far away to see what is inside the cave, one can only see the blood-red rainbow light faintly visible inside.

"Although there is no beast king in this silver vein, there are six groups of cold beasts, namely, the Gnat Rat, the Thunder Kui, the White Dragon, the Hyena Tiger, the Snow Mane, and the Blood Jade Fox. When my father discovered this silver mine in his early years, the number of these six groups of cold beasts was not large, and the total number was estimated to be just over 10,000. However, their population has been expanding at an increasingly rapid rate in recent years, and now the total number is estimated to be close to 40,000. Let alone sending people to mine, it is difficult to even see the number of cold beasts up close."

Different from his reaction when he saw the first silver mine, Xia Hong did not shake his head and sigh this time. Instead, he showed obvious interest.

Although the number of cold beasts occupying this silver mine is four times that of the previous one, the structure of six cold beast populations living together, plus the absence of a beast king, these two points alone provide a lot to be said for.

There is a mutually restraining relationship between different populations of cold beasts. So far, three pairs have been discovered in Daxia, namely, the gnat and the Tengjiao, the fire stone tiger and the frost lightning ape, the white bear and the thunder Kui. The six populations of cold beasts entrenched on the mounds must have natural enemies.

In addition, Daxia has torches, which are the best weapon to attract cold beasts. As long as the preparations are proper and there are sufficient numbers of cold-resistant beasts, there is still hope of eliminating these six populations of cold beasts and mining this silver mine.

Of course, there are too many preparations involved. At present, Daxia’s understanding of the cold beast population and the number of cold-resistant people are far from enough. In the short term, it is definitely impossible to do it.
At least there is hope!

Xia Hong was not discouraged. Instead, he took Li Tiancheng and Li Xuanling and walked around the mound to observe the other four groups of cold beasts.

The two populations entrenched on the north side of the mound are the Bairong and the Hyena, which are considered to be the unique cold-blooded beast species of Longshan. Xia Hong had already seen them in the warehouse of the base, so he did not show any surprise.

Not to mention Snowmane, there are a ton of them in Redwood Ridge.

"Those caves on top of the mound are the habitats of the Blood Jade Foxes, right? Do they rarely come out to move around? How come we haven't seen any?"

The only thing left was the Blood Jade Fox, so Xia Hong asked curiously.

"Among the six species of cold beasts, the strongest is the Blood Jade Fox. Although this cold beast is very small, with an intermediate body length of only about half a meter, its speed is more than twice that of a rat, and its two golden claws are extremely sharp and can easily cut through the membrane of a cold-resistant beast.

The key is that when they are in danger, they will also spray out a colorless and odorless hallucinogenic poisonous mist that can penetrate through the human skin membrane. Once the Digging Realm inhales it, they will immediately fall into an illusion and die suddenly. The poisonous mist sprayed by the high-level Blood Jade Fox is difficult for even the Cold Resistance Realm to resist..."

Li Xuanling obviously knows a lot about Blood Jade Fox. He paused for a moment, a strange look on his face, and continued, "Moreover, the fur of Blood Jade Fox is extremely concealed. It is pure white without light, but once exposed to light, it will turn into a crystal clear blood jade color, so it is extremely difficult to hunt."

Xia Hong understood as soon as he heard it.

Bingyuan hunts cold beasts at night.

It is white when there is no light source. At first glance, it seems to have nothing to do with concealment, but considering that this is the Ice Abyss World, the ground is covered with snow, and all the vegetation is covered with a layer of frost, it is easy to understand.

The Blood Jade Fox is so small that it blends into the snow at night, making it difficult to spot. Moreover, its speed is more than twice that of a rat. Not to mention its claws and poisonous mist, these two points alone make it very difficult to deal with.

Of course, Xia Hong also noticed the strange look on Li Xuanling's face.

But he didn't say much, just nodded and said: "Okay, we've checked all four positions, let's go back first!"

Li Xuanling and the other person nodded, and jumped off the tree behind him.

However, when the three jumped off the tree and turned around, their expressions froze instantly.

Whoosh…whoosh…whoosh…whoosh…

An extremely familiar sound of heavy breathing suddenly came from behind.

The three of them didn't dare to turn around at the first moment, but just turned their heads slightly to look at each other, and they saw horror and shock in each other's eyes.

This breathing sound was clearly the one they had just heard at the first silver mine.

Is that the beast king following us?

Gulp...

This time, even Xia Hong couldn't help swallowing his saliva. He stood there for three or four breaths before he suddenly turned his head to look behind him.

Li Xuanling and Li Tiancheng also followed and looked behind them.

Behind them, more than a hundred meters away from the west side of the slope, stood a huge beast with a body length of over a hundred meters and a shoulder height of more than ten feet.

The diameter of the giant beast's head alone was more than ten meters, and its body was covered with a layer of silver hair as bright as moonlight. The barbs on its neck were more than ten meters long, and looked like sharp steel thorns on a snowy night, extremely creepy. The vertical blue pupils in its two eyes were like two diamond-shaped doors of cattail fans, staring at the three of them motionlessly.

"Wolf King, this is the beast king from the first silver mine!"

"It had already spotted us and was following us from behind."

"Separate and run, or no one will survive!"

After Li Xuanling had an exchange with Li Tiancheng, they immediately decided to escape separately. However, just as they were about to leave, they were stopped by Xia Hong.

"Wait, there's a problem!"

Xia Hong sniffed, a glimmer of light flashed in his left eye. After staring at the giant wolf for a while, the solemnity on his face immediately disappeared.

"What a wicked beast! He actually resorted to such a shady trick..."

Li Xuanling and Li Tiancheng both looked puzzled, not knowing what Xia Hong meant.

"Don't move, wait for me!"

However, before the two of them could ask, Xia Hong left a word, directly drew out the Cold Blood Knife from his waist, and rushed towards the huge wolf king.

"This man is crazy!"

"No, something seems to be wrong. The wolf king is so big, but the cold beast on the mound behind him didn't react at all."

Li Xuanling was stunned for a moment, then he reacted immediately.

On the west side, Xia Hong had already rushed to the front of the Wolf King.

"Roar…………"

The wolf king's earth-shaking roar exploded in her ears. Li Xuanling suddenly felt that the area within a radius of ten miles around her began to tremble violently. She turned her head again to look at the mound behind her and found that there was no movement at all. Her expression then became ugly.

"We really got hit. It should be the poison mist sprayed by the high-level Blood Jade Fox. The three of us all inhaled it. How did he see that?"

"You forgot that when Bai Lugui controlled the six Xuantian people to assassinate him, he was discovered immediately. He must have some means to see through illusions and disguises."

Putting aside the shock of the two, Xia Hong over there had already fought with the wolf king decisively.

The wolf king was so huge that Xia Hong, who rushed over from the ground, was insignificant. Even though he jumped very high, he could still only reach the wolf king's jaw.

call out…………

Hanxue is a horizontal sword, so Xia Hong often uses it to slash, but this time he used it to chop, and his target was not the wolf king's jaw, but the lower part of the wolf king's right forelimb.

hiss……

With a sharp tearing sound, the wolf king suddenly raised his right forelimb, facing Xia Hong's cold blood knife, and left three golden claw marks.

The golden claw mark seemed to have cut through the air, and it was almost impossible to see any trace of its movement. It only appeared for a moment when the Wolf King raised his claw, and then it directly collided with Xia Hong's Cold Blood Knife.

clang…………

There was a violent sound of metal and stone clashing, and sparks instantly burst out all over the sky.

"With more than thirty manes, the power of this blood jade fox is so strong!"

The moment the cold blood knife collided with the golden claw, the huge body of the wolf king disappeared directly. What appeared in front of Xia Hong was a snow-white fox-shaped cold beast with a body of only more than 20 centimeters and a half-meter long furry tail.

The sparks in the sky had not yet dissipated. Under the illumination of the fire, the originally snow-white fur of the cold beast turned into a crystal clear blood jade color like jade, just as Li Xuanling said. It really lived up to the name of the blood jade fox.

"Chirp..."

The blood jade fox's red pupils were filled with panic at this moment, because a small part of its claws was directly cut off by Xia Hong's cold blood knife.

With the strength of more than thirty horses, he naturally has no right to act violently in front of Xia Hong.

The Blood Jade Fox reacted quickly. It didn't even have time to retract its claws before it turned into a streak of white light and fled towards the east, in the direction of the mound's nest.

"They've come to me on their own initiative, and you still want to run away!"

It’s a pity that Xia Hong didn’t give him a chance.

Before the Blood Jade Fox had escaped ten meters away, Xia Hong suddenly turned around, rushed over, and stabbed the cold blood knife from above at the front end of the white light.

“Shhhhh…”

The cold blood knife directly pierced through the neck of the blood jade fox and nailed it to the ground. The blood jade fox was still unwilling to give up resistance. It looked at Xia Hong with fierce eyes and made a hissing sound from its mouth.

But soon, it noticed something, its eyes were full of fear, and it turned its head frantically, obviously trying to break free from the Cold Blood Knife.

But Xia Hong's strength was so terrifying that he held the hilt tightly, and the Blood Jade Fox only struggled for three or four breaths before it became motionless.

Xia Hong drew out his knife, held the Blood Jade Fox in his hand and weighed it for a while, then looked down at the Cold Blood Knife in his hand which had become much heavier, and shook his head slightly.

"Your blood-sucking speed is getting faster and faster. You've lost 70 to 80 pounds in just a short while. You need to draw your sword faster next time, otherwise all the high-level beast blood will be used to feed you in the future."

Although the amount of blood lost by a high-level cold beast is only ten to fifteen kilograms, the effect is ten times that of the blood of a mid-level beast, and it can also be used to make pills. For Da Xia, it is also an extremely precious resource. Xia Hong feels a little distressed now that all of it is used to feed the knife.

Li Xuanling and Li Tiancheng also came over from behind at this time.

The two men looked at Xia Hong, the shock on their faces had not yet dissipated. They were obviously amazed that he could kill a blood jade fox so cleanly and neatly.

"Blood Jade Fox, can you kill it by yourself?"

Li Xuanling exclaimed in surprise. After that, he looked at the blood jade fox in Xia Hong's hand, and there was an obvious hint of desire in his eyes.

Li Tiancheng opened his mouth wide, and after a long silence, he slowly spoke:

"Captain Xia is extremely powerful. I admire him!"

Xia Hong naturally did not take the compliments from the two to heart. He waved his hand, suddenly turned to look at Li Xuanling, and asked softly, "You don't want this blood jade fox, do you?"

Li Xuanling's cheeks turned slightly red when she heard this, but this time, for the first time ever, she did not refute.

"Then keep thinking about it and go back."

After Xia Hong finished speaking, he picked up the blood jade fox and turned away.

Li Xuanling's cheeks, which were already slightly red, suddenly turned redder after being teased like this. She stomped her feet on the spot and started cursing.

"Bah, who said I wanted it, Xia Hong, you can't spit out ivory from your mouth!"

Li Tiancheng watched this scene from the side, shaking his head repeatedly. Finally, he persuaded Li Xuanling a few words and pulled her to follow Xia Hong towards the station.

Li Xuanling couldn't stand the teasing and was so angry that she didn't speak to Xia Hong all the way. When they almost arrived at the base and Li Tiancheng left, she suddenly remembered something, took out the Yang Yuan Dan from her arms, thought for a moment, and then caught up with Xia Hong in front of her.

"Xia Hong, how many contribution points do I need to exchange for a Yang Yuan Pill in Da Xia?"

The new policy was discussed on the eighth day of July. Today, the twelfth, Xia Chuan, together with Yuwen Tao and others, had already set up the six departments in Longshan.

Of course, Longshan is a subordinate organization, so it is not called a department but is renamed the Sixth Department. By the way, Xia Chuan also determined the job titles of the Sixth Department.

The Ministry of Defense is called Shouzheng, the Ministry of Camp Supply is called Wubei, the Ministry of Craftsmen is called Liangzao, the Ministry of Civil Affairs is called Zhengling, the Ministry of Hunting is called Shanyu, and the Ministry of Logging is called Yaobo.

All six departments have come out, and among the tens of thousands of people in Longshan, those who are at the logging level and above have naturally begun to register with the quartermaster department one after another and have their own contribution value records.

As these initiatives were rolled out one by one, everyone basically understood Daxia's resource allocation rules and contribution value system.

The fact that Li Xuanling came to ask about the price of Yang Yuan Dan proved that she had been secretly paying attention to the Six Departments and the contribution value rules in the past few days.

Xia Hong raised his eyebrows slightly and replied:

"3000 points per piece, only the Cold-Proof grade can be redeemed on demand, how?"

"It's really unfair. I saw the data released by the Quartermaster Department. A high-grade snow mane handed over to the Quartermaster Department can only be exchanged for 15000 contribution points. Based on the three kilograms of bones, nine Yang Yuan Pills can be refined. Based on 3000 points, this is 27000 contribution points. Add in the high-grade hides, blood, and meat, and the value is not low. The camp just earned half of it for nothing..."

"Just say what you want to say, don't waste your words!"

Xia Hong was in no mood to argue with Li Xuanling about this. Besides, that was not how she calculated the bill. The formula of Yang Yuan Dan, the 18 kinds of precious medicinal materials required for refining, and the huge amount of coal and manpower consumed in the process...

Of course the camp made some profit, but it was definitely not as exaggerated as Li Xuanling said.

Thinking of the meat rations given to the reserve forces and children under six years old by Daxia, as well as the many measures taken in Longshan in the previous four days, Li Xuanling obviously knew that he was not in the right. He did not lose his temper when he was interrupted, but said softly to Xia Hong: "My second uncle is old. It is too dangerous to let him go out with others to hunt high-level cold beasts. Can you give him a few of these Yang Yuan Pills every month?"

Xia Hong raised his eyebrows when he heard this, turned to look at Li Xuanling, and said, "You mean he doesn't do anything and wants me to give him a few coins every month?"

Li Xuanling nodded as a matter of course.

Obviously, she thought that Daxia was just like Longshan before, where the top leaders all had privileges, and that for someone as powerful and experienced as Li Tiancheng, getting a few Yang Yuan Dan every month was nothing. "Do you know that since Daxia established the contribution value rule, how many people don't need to use contribution points to exchange for supplies?"

Li Xuanling was stunned for a moment, then he answered subconsciously: "You, your brother Xia Chuan, and those cold-resistant-class players in the Hive who fought to the death, should all be..."

"One person. In the whole of Daxia, there is only one person!"

After being interrupted, Li Xuanling was stunned for a moment, then realized that the person Xia Hong was talking about could only be himself, and immediately showed an expression of disbelief.

"how is this possible?"

"How is it impossible? Otherwise, why do you think so many people in Daxia are willing to obediently hand over the cold beasts they hunted, including the medicinal herbs they collected, the iron ore and coal they mined... It is because of this rule that everyone is treated equally. Everyone knows that the part earned by the camp will eventually be fed back to them through the camp supply department..."

Xia Hong paused here and continued, "Your second uncle has a basic strength of twenty-seven manes. It is not too difficult to call a few cold-resistant level people to go out together to hunt high-level cold beasts. If you are really afraid of danger, even if you hunt mid-level cold beasts, it is easy to exchange for the Yang Yuan Dan needed for cultivation at one-tenth of the contribution value."

As the number of cold-resistant beasts in the camp increases greatly, in order to prevent people from deliberately hunting intermediate cold beasts in large quantities to obtain contribution points, Xia Chuan and Qiu Peng issued new regulations in mid-June. Cold-resistant beasts hunted at the intermediate level can only be exchanged for one-tenth of the original value.

The value of a mid-level cold beast is generally between 4000 and 5000. One tenth of it is a little over 400. It takes about 30 of them to be equivalent to one high-level cold beast.

Even so, for Li Tiancheng, it was enough to exchange for Yang Yuan Dan.

However, Xia Hong's response obviously did not meet Li Xuanling's expectations.

She brought this up obviously with the intention of gaining resource privileges for Li Tiancheng, but was directly rejected by Xia Hong, and her little face immediately tensed up.

Seeing Xia Hong walking directly into the camp, seemingly ignoring her, she asked angrily, "What about me? What about my cultivation resources? The Camp Supply Department has registered the contribution points of all the people in the camp who are above the Woodcutting Realm in the past four days, but no one has come to find me. Are you afraid that my cultivation speed is too fast and will surpass you?"

"Ah……"

Xia Hong did not stop, but smiled contemptuously, threw a small porcelain bottle to Li Xuanling, and said softly: "Since you follow me, I will naturally take care of your food, clothing, housing, transportation, and cultivation expenses in the future. I will give you 10 Yang Yuan Pills every month. If you think it is not enough, or if you want to help your second uncle get cultivation resources, go hunt high-level cold beasts yourself!"

Hearing this, Li Xuanling's face suddenly turned rosy. Then he opened the porcelain bottle and saw at least hundreds of Yang Yuan Dan lying inside. He looked up at Xia Hong's back, his eyes full of complexity and entanglement.

What she didn't notice was that Xia Hong, who was walking towards the main building, bared his teeth slightly, with a hint of pain on his face.

"Li Xuantian and his six men dropped 215 drops, and the eight newly added bases seized a total of 139 drops. We took 21 drops from Li Xuanling's boudoir, and counted the 85 drops we harvested tonight. The current inventory of Hanping Yulu totals 460 drops. As long as we gather a dozen other medicinal materials, we will be able to refine more than 4000 drops. If I give this woman 10 drops a month, she should be able to handle it, right?"

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The first day of August, the second year of Daxia
Compared with the revitalized Longshan, Xiacheng is much more lively.

To say it was lively is not enough. It should be said that the whole city of Xia was in a state of excitement since the night of the eighth day of the seventh lunar month.

The reason was very simple, because Liu Yuan came back on the night of the eighth day of the Lunar New Year.

The great victories at Fengchao and Longshan, the unification of Longyou, and one piece of news after another spread from Liu Yuan, each one more explosive than the last, and the entire Xiacheng immediately became abuzz.

Not only ordinary people, loggers, and diggers, but even Yuan Cheng and the other eighteen people who had just returned from the Beehive to recuperate, could not help grinning and laughing every day after learning the news of the great victory in Longshan and the unification of Longyou.

In the inner city of Daxia, in the square in front of the main building, Yuan Cheng, wrapped in bandages, was sitting in a wooden wheelchair, watching a group of young boys with an average age of just over ten years old doing boxing in the square.

"Hey, you bunch of brats, your punches are so weak, and you usually eat beast meat in vain. No wonder you haven't broken through the Digging Realm even though you are so big. When will I drag you to the wilderness to fight with the cold beasts? You won't dare to continue to live in the city."

"At the Martial Arts Academy, the current record for the youngest person to break through the Digging Realm is ten years and three months old. He will soon be pulled down to under ten years old. If you guys are slower, you may not even be able to beat a child in the future."

"Don't disbelieve me. When I followed the leader out of the earth slope, I was about the same age as you. Tsk tsk, our Great Xia was so weak back then that we couldn't even find a good knife. I fought with the leader and Si Cheng in the wilderness with a snow-maned beast for a whole night with a stone axe and almost lost my life..."

………………

Yuan Cheng kept talking incessantly, not noticing that many people in the back row of the boxing team had already started to cover their mouths and laugh, making fun of him.

"Master Yuan has been coming to watch us practice boxing every day."

"No, he should brag to us every day."

"Isn't it a bit too idle?"

"I'm not idle, I'm recuperating. I heard that a total of 19 masters in the Hive were seriously injured, including Si Cheng. Master Yuan's injury is the most serious among them, so he hasn't recovered yet."

"I know. Three more Cold-Resistant-class soldiers died in the battle. A lot of bodies were brought back on the 15th of last month. I heard crying next door to my house."

"I heard that more than 3,000 people died in the battle. On the 20th of last month, Lord Zhu Yuan held a unified funeral for all the dead soldiers in accordance with the funeral system of Xia Li. Not only their families, but also all the adults in the camp attended."

"I know that Lord Zhu Yuan's brother is one of them. The pension given by the camp is not low. One Digging Realm will be given 20000 contribution points. In addition, his assets during his lifetime, including the military merits he made this time, will be inherited by his widow and children. If there are none, one of the orphans will be chosen to inherit."

"Many people died, but our camp also gained a lot! The entire Longyou belongs to our Great Xia. I heard from adults that it is 13,000 square kilometers. I don't even know how big it is. Do you know?"

"I don't know either. They say it's more than ten times our current territory."

"Ten times, hiss..."

………………

"The leader is amazing. He has taken us outside to hunt cold beasts before we even break through the Digging Realm. I..."

The discussions at the back of the team did not interfere with Yuan Cheng's bragging. He continued to talk incessantly about the story he had made up.

But soon, it was interrupted by a discordant voice.

"Alright, alright, what are you bragging about? If I remember correctly, you broke through to the Digging Realm when you were seventeen. I think all of these guys in front of you can break through before you. Aren't you ashamed?"

"Get lost, Xu Ning, what nonsense are you talking about? Everything I said is true."

In fact, those who can come to the main building to practice are basically the children of the core circle of the inner city. The parents of these children are either captains of the hunting team or soldiers of the Yunjiao Army. Even the parents of a few children are at the cold-resistant level of Da Xia.

These children already knew the early history of Da Xia's rise very well, and they were even more familiar with Xia Hong, Xia Chuan, and Yuan Cheng himself.

How could they not hear the bragging that Yuan Cheng had been doing recently? It was just that due to his power and knowing that he was in a very good mood recently, no one dared, nor was willing to, take the initiative to expose him.

Now that Xu Ning had exposed the truth so loudly and directly, and seeing Yuan Cheng's embarrassed and awkward look, the group of children couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"Ha ha ha ha……"

"Hahaha!"

………………

"No one is allowed to laugh, just keep boxing."

The group of children simply ignored his scolding and continued to laugh.

Seeing that he couldn't stop shouting, Yuan Cheng couldn't hold it in any longer either. He turned to look at Xu Ning and said, "Aren't you going back to Wuyuan? Why are you here to mess with me?"

Xu Ning smiled and said, "I'm not here to ruin your show on purpose. There's news from Longshan. Si Cheng asked you, how long will it take for you to recover?"

Hearing that it was Xia Chuan who asked, Yuan Cheng immediately looked solemn and replied, "It will probably take another half a month. What, does Si Cheng have any orders for me?"

Xu Ning nodded and said, "Eight new garrisons have been added in Longyou. Currently, the leader has appointed a garrison commander for Longshan. The garrison commanders for the other seven garrisons have not yet been announced. It's time for you, the chief of the garrison, to get started!"

Upon hearing this, Yuan Cheng immediately looked bitter and shook his head repeatedly.

"Don't mention it. A lot of people have come to me these days and said they want to go, but I don't know who to let go. If you ask me, why don't you just let the leader and Si Cheng choose directly and let me choose? I don't know who to choose, either."

Xu Ning had a strange expression on his face when he heard this, but when he thought that the number of cold-resistant people in Da Xia was far more than before, he quickly understood.

There are not many positions in Daxia at present. Apart from Xia Chuan, the secretary, there are the directors and deputy directors of the six ministries, and below those are the six newly added departments in Longshan recently. The garrison commander can only be regarded as a low-end version of the chief. Although his rank is the same as that of the heads of the six departments, his authority is obviously lower.

In theory, this is not a very impressive position, but the problem is that there are too many people and too few vacancies. There are only so many positions in total, and there are more than 80 cold-resistant level positions in the camp right now, so they will definitely all be snatched up.

Moreover, there have been rumors recently that after the October merit-based rewards ceremony, the camp will undergo another round of restructuring, and it is said that those with positions will receive special treatment.

As a result, the competition among people naturally became more intense.

"I have an idea, would you like to hear it?"

"Tell me, what's your idea?"

After hearing Xu Ning's words, Yuan Cheng immediately started asking. He had been worried about this matter recently. When he heard that Xia Chuan had sent someone to urge him, he became even more anxious. If Xu Ning had any good suggestions, he would of course listen to them.

"In fact, from the fact that the leader personally appointed Yue Feng as the Longshan Guard, we can roughly see that the most important thing for the two positions of Guard is probably not strength, but the ability to manage the local area.

Since Yue Feng took over as the garrison commander of Jinggu, he has transported a lot of iron ore and coal to Xiacheng, as well as a lot of animal meat, blood, bones, snow bamboo, and bamboo silk. In addition, during the Longyou War from April to July, there were no problems in transporting troops and supplies along the two straight north-south roads in Jinggu.

So it's not surprising that the leader picked him!"

After hearing these words, Yuan Cheng immediately fell into deep thought.

"You mean, you want me to test those people's ability to manage the economy?"

"of course."

"Then how should we take the test?"

"I heard that the straight road will be completed next month. The people in Longyou should be waiting to migrate now. The normal hunting and mining in the seven garrisons have probably stopped. If anyone is interested, you can directly send them with their hunting teams to the garrison for a month. The period is one month. Whoever transports the most supplies to Xiacheng in the end will be the garrison commander!"

"That's a good idea, Xu Ning. You've got it."

Yuan Cheng then suddenly understood and his expression immediately became excited.

This method of selecting people is indeed the most appropriate.

The more Yuan Cheng thought about it, the happier he became. However, after staring at Xu Ning for a while, he suddenly remembered something and said with a look of regret: "It's a pity for you. Wuyuan is not like Jinggu. I think if I send you to Jinggu, you may not do worse than Yue Feng. Maybe this Longshan Shouzheng will be yours."

When Xu Ning heard this, he just shook his head but did not refute.

There is some truth to what Yuan Cheng said.

After all, Jinggu was previously the site of a giant camp. Not to mention the large resource area of ​​Jianzhulin, when it was incorporated into Daxia, there were already two proven iron mines in its territory.

Compared with Jinggu, Wuyuan is not good enough. First of all, the scope of Wuyuan Mountain is not large, so the cold beast resources are naturally not so abundant; secondly, there is only one iron mine, the one at the Sanhu camp.

As the saying goes, a good cook cannot cook without rice. He was assigned to a place with relatively scarce resources, so naturally the resources he supplied to Xiacheng were not as much as Yue Feng's.

In addition, the recent wars were all aimed at Longyou, and Yue Feng had more opportunities to make merit than himself. In this way, it was natural for him to stand out and be chosen by Xia Hong as the Guardian of Longshan.

Xu Ning obviously didn't want to talk more about this topic, and suddenly asked Yuan Cheng:

"By the way, has Qiu Peng come to count your military achievements?"

Hearing about the military merit, Yuan Cheng's expression suddenly became excited. He smiled and nodded and replied, "I was asked about it the day before yesterday. Haha, I blocked three cold-resistant level warriors by myself, one of whom was Li Xuanping. Qiu Peng said that in the Beehive Defense War, my military merit was definitely among the best. I guess I was only slightly worse than Si Cheng. Even Chen Yingyuan was not as good as me."

When Xu Ning heard this, a hint of envy first appeared on his face, but then he calmed down a lot when he saw Yuan Cheng's body full of injuries.

He was also present on the night of the Hive Defense Battle, and he also saw the scene where Yuan Cheng single-handedly fought against three cold-resistant-level warriors.

To be honest, if it wasn't for the coincidence that Shi Ping, who had just broken through, showed up and saved Yuan Cheng, Xu Ning was almost certain that Yuan Cheng would be the fourth cold-resistant level warrior to sacrifice in Da Xia that night.

This can be considered as the military merit that Yuan Cheng earned at the cost of his life.

It is indeed enviable, but also difficult to replicate.

"My military merit should be lower than yours. I severely damaged a cold-resistant level soldier in Longshan. Qiu Peng went to Longshan to confirm his identity. I think his name is Lu Yushan."

"It's so strict, but we still need to confirm the other party's identity?"

Hearing Qiu Peng confirm his identity so seriously, Yuan Cheng immediately showed curiosity, and then asked: "I heard that there will be a big event in October regarding the merit-based rewards, and the camp seems to be undergoing a restructuring. Is it true or false?"

Obviously, everyone has heard about the reform.

Xu Ning nodded and said, "I have inquired about some things from Qiu Peng. The reason why the military merit is so strictly checked is because the title will be conferred based on the military merit. It seems that in the future, in addition to the six positions in the camp, the most important thing is the title. I don't know what it is specifically."

Title?

Yuan Cheng was stunned when he heard this, but then he thought of something and said, "Shi Lu went to Xiafufang yesterday to make a set of clothes for my kid. She said she saw the tailors in Xiafufang tinkering with a kind of beautiful clothes. I heard that they were all woven with bamboo silk and dyed with Jinlin powder. She kept talking about it when she came back and insisted that I go to Xiafufang to ask if I could change a set.

The people at the craftsman workshop said that the clothes were custom-made by Si Cheng and that they would not be used until October. Could it be related to the title of nobility?"

Xu Ning shook his head when he heard this, obviously not understanding.

"Okay, I have to go back to Wuyuan first. I haven't been there for almost a month, and I don't know what the situation is like over there."

"Okay, you go first, I'll go find Qiu Peng and ask."

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The excitement in Xiacheng continued, with more and more speculative discussions about military exploits and titles. Of course, the most important thing was the curiosity about the more than 200,000 people who were about to migrate from Longyou.

Temporary large wooden houses were rising one after another in the outer city, and the ground began to be planned, obviously preparing land for later comers.

People who already live in the outer city, knowing that more people are about to pour in, undoubtedly feel a greater sense of urgency, especially those who just came from Fengchao, Wushuang and Hanqiong in May and have not yet had time to buy land and build houses.

The migration will begin in September, and they don’t have much time left.

Time passed slowly and August was over quickly.

On the tenth day of September, the five Xiazhi roads leading to Wushuang from the five garrisons at Longshan, Zhaoyang, Baiyuan, Xiling and Dongkang were successfully declared completed.

A massive migration has finally begun...

(End of this chapter)