Start with a red name

After listening to Xu Peng's report, Geng Xuan silently thought about it in his mind.

He then asked, "What about other supplies besides food?"

Xu Peng said: "In addition to food, the main inventory materials are various medicines, mainly for hemostasis, pain relief, detoxification, and deworming.

There are also many drugs that can help with sleeping, boost mental strength, ignore injuries and illnesses for a short period of time, and stimulate the body's potential. They are very effective, but they all have serious side effects.

In terms of weight, it is about 800,000 to 900,000 jin, or as much as 5,000 to 6,000 dan. It is the first time I have seen so much medicine.

In terms of quantity alone, it is not even as much as a warehouse of grain, but its value is greater than all the grain and meat in the basin combined.

At the current Yuanzhou city price, the value of these medicines exceeds 30 million taels of silver!"

"What else?" Geng Xuan asked hurriedly.

"Oh, there are also 2 blood-replenishing pills, 30 Xuanyou pills, 1 essence pills, and 4 tranquilizing pills.

Unlike other food and medicine, these pills, though small in quantity, are well-preserved."

Having said this, Xu Peng paused and said:

“If calculated based on the current market price in Yuanzhou, it is worth over 15 million taels.

Even in the past, it would have been worth at least six or seven million taels."

Geng Xuan asked in surprise, "Is that all?"

His words made Xu Peng fall into a state of shock, and he seemed to not understand what these words meant.

On the contrary, Chen Zhan, who was already very familiar with the situation of "Su Ruiliang", and who participated in Dong Guan's grain and medicine procurement in Yuanzhou throughout the whole process, was also very familiar with the internal situation.

So, he immediately understood what Su Ruiliang was wondering about.

He quickly explained:

“Boss, this is different from the food that is too difficult to transport over long distances.

Only half of the various medicines purchased from Yuanzhou this time were left in this basin.

The other half took the water route, crossed the Hang River, and entered Xuanzhou.

A large number of precious pills, including Xuanyou Pill, were left in the warehouse in this basin, with less than 10% left in case of emergency.

Over 90% of the precious pills were immediately delivered to Xuanzhou."

"I see."

Geng Xuan nodded in understanding, but soon he paused and said, "... However, this is still very different from the number I estimated."

Chen Zhan looked at him, thought for a moment, and said slowly:
"The gang leader feels that the number of pills such as Blood Replenishing Pills and Essence Pills used to assist in cultivation is too small, right?"

"Ah."

“Because according to the requirements, any medicinal materials that can be used to refine Xuanyou Pills must be used to refine Xuanyou Pills first.

The number of pills for cultivators, such as Blood Replenishing Pills and Essence Pills, is limited."

If a cultivator does not have pills such as Blood Replenishing Pills and Essence Pills, his cultivation progress may be seriously hindered or even stagnate.

But if you endure it, it will pass.

With human "tolerance", such a small obstacle can be overcome with just a slight step.

But the Xuanyou horse is different. If the supply of Xuanyou pills cannot keep up, it will be treated like a human being, whipped and demanded without any replenishment. It will really die in front of you in a minute!

People can endure it.

Xuanyou Ma really couldn't bear it at all.

In order to make them output a certain amount of value, corresponding Xuanyou Dan must be invested as "fuel".

——Now, Geng Xuan uses hundreds of Xuanyou horses as a highly efficient means of transportation, but the cost is a sharp increase in the consumption of Xuanyou Pills. And at the current price in Yuanzhou City, the price of a Xuanyou Pill is forty or fifty taels.

From this we can see how huge the cost is to send a person who is thousands of miles away to the construction site about ten days in advance.

This is entirely based on the purchase time of silver or corresponding pill resources.

However, until now, all the resources and money in Geng Xuan's hands were obtained through no-cost transactions.

Therefore, Geng Xuan is rather slow in this regard.

Even though he spent money like water every day, he didn't feel much.

Chen Zhan's answer was not yet finished, he continued:
"Also, you, Boss, may have a big misunderstanding about the success rate of other pharmaceutical manufacturers."

"Oh?"

"Boss, your estimate should be based on the output of the batch of medicinal materials from Kangleji, right?" Chen Zhan said.

"Yeah." There was nothing to hide, Geng Xuan nodded slightly.

Chen Zhan bowed to him and said:
"I have made a rough statistical analysis of the number of pills and medicines sold secretly in the eight villages around Kangle Market.

Based on the data I have, if those medicines and pills are all from the batch of medicinal materials stolen from Anleji.

The efficiency of making medicine and pills is really too high.

It’s at least three to four times higher than the average success rate of Yuanzhou Pharmacy! "

"If you take all these factors into consideration, the discrepancy may not be that big." Chen Zhan said finally.

Geng Xuan was stunned for a moment, then nodded slightly, agreeing with his explanation.

"There is one last question." Geng Xuan said.

"Boss, you say." Chen Zhan said.

"Dong Guan's actions against Yuanzhou only started this year, right?"

“To be exact, it officially started in March this year.

"I was one of the first people in Yuanzhou to learn of this, and I only learned of the specific plan on March 3rd," Chen Zhan said.

"In less than a year... How did these two million shi of supplies get in?

I looked at the road leading into the mountain, and it doesn't look like it can handle such a heavy responsibility." Geng Xuan said.

Chen Zhan was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then his lips curved slightly in a smile, as if he found Geng Xuan's words quite interesting.

"Boss, the mountain path you saw is mainly used to conceal people's presence and is also a secondary path for people to enter and exit.

The one who truly shoulders this heavy responsibility is to the north of this camp."

"North? Isn't that deeper into the mountain range?" Geng Xuan was stunned.

Chen Zhan said:
“It’s true that the north is deeper into the Peak Mountains, but there’s also a river coming from the north that turns sharply east four or five miles north of the camp.

After traveling east for dozens of miles, it merges with several other rivers that also originate from Chiwu Mountain and Cenling, and then flows into a large lake.

If you follow this river all the way down, you can even reach Yueluyuan.

This is a natural waterway, and the two million tons of materials were transferred silently through this waterway."

Listening to Chen Zhan's words, Geng Xuan was stunned again.

Geng Xuan heard a lot of familiar things in Chen Zhan's words.

After thinking about it for a while, it connected with what Guo Zian had told him.

Geng Xuan had a strange feeling as if "a flood had flushed the Dragon King Temple".

He nodded slightly, suppressing the urge to go see the river right away.

He looked at Xu Peng and asked, "Have you arranged everything else?"

Xu Peng replied respectfully:

"Everything has been arranged. Except for the thirty official gang members who stayed behind to guard the warehouse, all the others have been brought out.

Aside from the two hundred people you personally took with you, there are a total of 1850 people, all of whom have now settled into the camp."

Geng Xuan was surprised:

"This is a lot more than what I originally left behind!"

Xu Peng said:
"Boss, didn't you say that we should take the opportunity to bring out those people in the basin who are worth cultivating and let them see the world together?"

At this point, he glanced at Deng Shan next to him and said:
“Although they don’t understand proper cultivation, as long as they can live to their teens, their physical conditions are very good.

They also have a tradition of respecting warriors. Anyone who dares to go into the mountains alone to hunt a wild beast during their coming-of-age ceremony and survives will receive extraordinary treatment.

...I just gave them some slight training, and many of them successfully stepped into the threshold of leather refining.

The key is that they are simple-minded and have not been polluted by the Yuanzhou customs.

If the gang leader is willing, he can easily turn them into a sharp blade!"

Geng Xuan found Xu Peng's changing emotions very interesting.

He could see that Xu Peng was actually somewhat reluctant about selecting these "excellent seeds" and presenting them to him.

But despite this, he was able to overcome his emotions and stand on a completely fair position, selecting the best and most promising of these "indigenous savages" and sending them here.

Geng Xuan praised him for being so sensible of the current situation and said, "That's thoughtful."

Then, he looked at Deng Shan and said to him:

"You must control your people. There are many different rules inside and outside the mountain. You can't let them do whatever they want."

When Deng Shan heard Geng Xuan talking to him, he immediately fell to his knees and said in a trembling voice:
"Your Excellency, please rest assured. I will strictly control them. Anyone who dares to..."

Seeing him reply like this, Geng Xuan quickly interrupted:
“If you say so, I dare not leave them to your charge.

I asked you to restrain them, but I did not ask you to tame them into obedient animals. "

Deng Shan raised his head and looked at him blankly.

Geng Xuan opened his mouth, but felt a headache coming on. Not wanting to waste any more words on this, he said to Xu Peng:
"You should understand what I mean. You should take better care of them in the future and make sure they don't grow astray."

"Yes." Xu Peng replied.

……

Geng Xuan finally looked at Cheng Hui and said:
"My only request to you is, don't worry about losing your pigeons, just try it!
No matter how many carrier pigeons you lose, I can give you double the compensation.

Even if the probability is one in nine, only nine carrier pigeons will die in one message delivery.

So, you must not have any burden in this regard, and do not be influenced by the pigeon training academy."

Cheng Hui said excitedly: "Yes."

He also discovered that the children from the pigeon training academy were good in all other aspects, and any one of them could be his teacher.

But the only thing is that they are a bit too "stingy" in the use of carrier pigeons.

People are also too fussy about the loss of homing pigeons.

He really wanted to ask them, "Don't you know the gang leader's ability in this area?"

He saw with his own eyes how his gang leader tamed hundreds of wild pigeons of various types for his own use in the blink of an eye.

That was Qingyuanji on the edge of the Chiwu Mountain range.

He couldn't even imagine how many wild pigeons he could forcibly "naturalize" at once if the same method was used deep in the Chiwu Mountains.

It can be said that as long as the pigeons in Chiwu Mountain are not completely dead, they don’t need to worry about the loss of homing pigeons.

However, Cheng Hui could only keep these thoughts in his heart.

Since the gang leader did not take the initiative to answer their questions, he could not act on his own.

Moreover, he also knew that it was one thing for the gang leader to allow him to "spend extravagantly", but he could not really "spend extravagantly".

Especially when laying this "information line" which is mostly located deep in Chiwu Mountain and Gaoling Mountains, faced with the alarming loss rate, he still had to come up with an optimized plan with the least loss of pigeons and the most information transmission.

This is the attitude he should have.

This is exactly what these children from the pigeon training school are best at and what he needs to learn carefully.

With the completion of the laying of this "pigeon line" connecting to the "Ochre-Red Eye" basin, the "vision" of the Giant Bear Gang will become brighter than ever before.

The southwest corner of Yuanzhou will be completely "lit up" by the Giant Bear Gang.

The biggest disadvantage of homing pigeons is their poor endurance and inability to sustain long-distance flight.

Otherwise, the speed will drop sharply and the probability of information loss will increase infinitely.

However, this is not a problem for Cheng Hui and others who have laid out a complete "network" with information nodes within two or three hundred miles.

After testing, it was found that as long as the distance of a message transmission was controlled within 175 miles, carrier pigeons could transmit messages at a high speed of miles per hour on this "network" ( kilometers per hour).
Consider the flying carrier pigeon, which can ignore the winding paths of the earth and choose a nearly straight route.

This means that the distance between nodes in the "information network" carried by carrier pigeons is usually closer than the distance on the ground, and the efficiency is also higher.

Now, this information network has basically spread to the surrounding seventeen markets and the entire Yueluyuan.

Even if Geng Xuan was now in the northernmost outpost camp, at the southernmost end of the farthest "Southern Four Collections", and any emergency situation at the southeast end of Yueluyuan, he could be informed within two hours.

In Geng Xuan's previous life, this would naturally be nothing.

But in this era, the ability to obtain such information is equivalent to giving him a powerful privilege.

……

After finishing the discussion, Geng Xuan sent them away directly without keeping them for a "heart-to-heart exchange".

For the current "Su Ruiliang", such behavior is no longer necessary.

After leaving his tent, some people will leave immediately and continue their planned journey.

Some would stay in the camp and wait until the next day to return east with him, or continue to stay in the camp.

This has its own set of operating rules, and he doesn't need to bother giving instructions or asking about it.

Before resting, Geng Xuan still spent about an hour completing his practice which had been interrupted by the series of visits.

Before falling asleep, he successfully digested the accumulated energy of Geng Xuan, and consumed 24 points, 24 points, and 16 points of luck respectively, to further improve the three abilities of "Hongbo Swimming Body Technique", "Turtle Breathing Technique", and "Lishui Light Thorn", and advanced from Great Accomplishment to Master.

Just as he was about to fall asleep, Geng Xuan was suddenly distracted by the messages coming from the "Suizhu".

【It's a bit of luck. 】

【It's a bit of luck. 】

【It's a bit of luck. 】

【…】

Looking at the eight consecutive messages about getting "a little" of Bai Yun that seemed to be flooding the screen in a short period of time, Geng Xuan fell into deep thought.

For a moment, he couldn't even analyze the source of every bit of Bai Luck because there were so many possibilities.

It is possible that the "expansion plan" that Tang Caizhu, Xue Zhiheng, the two elders of the Xu family and others had reported to him has been officially implemented.

They, or the forces under his command, expanded further.

It is also possible that they are members of the Giant Bear Gang who received the mission of “clearing out the remnants of the Worry-Free Palace” last night. Some of them are fast, their destination is relatively close, and they have extensive connections and more “brothers outside the gang”.

After a day and a night of hard work, we officially entered the "mission" phase.

They couldn't help being so anxious. Ever since Geng Xuan linked the "heads of the Wuyou Palace's remnants" to the "Blessing Ceremony," the "Wuyou Palace's remnants" had gone from being a "source of danger" to an "experience monster."

Moreover, these "experience monsters" only have one life and will not refresh repeatedly.

If you have a quick hand, you will have it, but if you have a slow hand, you will not have it.

If you don't try your best at this time, you won't be able to eat hot shit.

It is also possible that Liu Yueji, who knew about this before anyone else and had made preparations for it early on, began the "fission-like" expansion of the team after meeting him in person.

——This was not difficult for him, because there were already many rangers from Yueluyuan gathered around him.

As he was well prepared, he could naturally do personnel screening in advance.

Now, it’s just a matter of going through the process to turn them into “temporary members” of the Giant Bear Gang, making them officially qualified to take on this mission.

Just when Geng Xuan was still pondering this in his mind, he suddenly felt his eyes light up.

Two red balls passed through the wall one after another and appeared in front of him. The next moment they disappeared into the "flint bead" between his eyebrows.

[Capture the remaining energy, do you want to refine it? ]

【whether?】

[Capture the remaining energy, do you want to refine it? ]

【whether?】

"...Isn't this efficiency a bit too high?!"

Although he thought this, it did not prevent Geng Xuan from making a choice immediately.

As the two red names were quickly refined.

【You get 26 points of good luck and 2 points of bad luck. 】

【Gain 32 points of good fortune.】

After refining the two red names, Geng Xuan first paid attention to their "followers", both of which were two unfamiliar names that he had no impression of.

But Geng Xuan's gaze lingered for a moment on the harvest after refining the second group of red names.

Because according to his past experience, this exudes a strong "Wuyou Palace atmosphere".

Good luck has given me so much, but bad luck has not given me any at all.

The operation to eliminate the remnants of Wuyou Palace scattered throughout Yuanzhou was launched silently.

Geng Xuan made this judgment in his heart.

Thinking that somewhere hundreds or thousands of miles away, a battle against the remnants of the Wuyou Palace has already begun.

Geng Xuan felt inexplicably excited.

Sitting in a tent deep in the mountains, he thought about it from afar and felt even happier than participating in it in person.

This kind of wandering imagination was forcibly interrupted when another group of red names appeared in front of him.

Geng Xuan even took the initiative to block the message reminders from "Suizhu" and turned on the "Do Not Disturb" mode.

Next, before he took over again, the "Flint Pearl" could capture and refine automatically without his authorization or consent.

"Go to sleep, go to sleep. If you continue like this, you might as well not sleep tonight."

Geng Xuan warned himself in this way in his heart, and after a while, he finally fell into a deep sleep.

……

December, 23rd.

early morning.

In the thick fog, Geng Xuan left the tent early.

Seeing the iron pillar-like figure standing beside the tent, Geng Xuan asked, "You have been guarding here all night?"

"Yes, master." Zha Luo said.

Geng Xuan said helplessly: "I've told you so many times, there's really no need to do this."

Hearing this, Zha Luo grinned and said, "I have to be on duty anyway. The camp is so small, it doesn't matter where I stay."

Geng Xuan nodded, and without further discussing the matter, he asked, "Have you had breakfast?"

"not yet."

"Well, come with me. I have something I want to talk to you about."

"okay."

Zha Luo responded and followed Geng Xuan with a smile on his face.

Soon, the two came to a lively and open space.

Crowded lines of people are queuing up to get their meals.

Geng Xuan and Zha Luo naturally didn't need to do this. When they saw them appear from afar, someone led them into a special tent and brought them the breakfast that had been prepared long ago.

Not only did they have a dining room all their own, but they also had a variety of exquisite meals and snacks, no less than ten in number, which were very different from the thick bowl of stew of millet, wheat, beans and other grains that other people had.

In this regard, Geng Xuan was not naive enough to insist on being treated the same as others.

Unless he takes the initiative to cut his own salary and the salary of the entire senior management, the material conditions will simply not be able to support it.

More importantly, it is an absolute iron wall of ideas.

Not to mention that other senior executives would be resistant to this.

——Everyone works hard and risks their lives to cultivate, the purpose is to be better than others in all aspects, not to sacrifice themselves for others.

Even those who were queuing up for meals felt panicked and at a loss as to what to do.

For example, giving "housewarming money" to the people who moved westward is a one-sided act of goodwill, but once is enough.

It was also this lesson that made Geng Xuan realize that excessive goodwill would not bring good results, but would only lead to greater chaos.

In fact, not only he and Zha Luo received special treatment, but other people in the marrow refining realm, bone refining realm, blood refining realm... people with different cultivation strengths, different identities and statuses, all received different breakfasts.

However, the further down you go, the smaller the differences become.

But there are definitely differences.

Even if it's just half a spoonful of pickles.

This is not only reflected in eating, but in all aspects of camp life.

The only thing Geng Xuan could guarantee was that everyone would have enough to eat and that no one would be beaten or humiliated without reason.

"Master, how can Zha Luo help you?" Zha Luo handed the chopsticks to Geng Xuan with both hands and asked eagerly.

Geng Xuan took the chopsticks and said:

"You should sit down and eat too. I just want to chat with you."

Zha Luo was not shy at all and sat down at the bottom, asking with a questioning look on his face, "Want to chat casually?"

"Yeah, just chatting." Geng Xuan looked at the mixture of mashed beans and "bloated" wheat grains.

Many things suddenly popped up in my mind: stone mill, flour, steamed buns, noodles, pancakes, soybean oil, soy milk, fried dough sticks, tofu... and so on.

Avoiding this "wonderful" wheat bean snack, Geng Xuan served himself a bowl of corn porridge, looking at its tempting color and fragrant aroma.

I thought, it makes sense to use low-yield corn as the staple food.

Zha Luo took the wheat-bean mixture that Geng Xuan disliked and said:

"Master, what do you want to talk to me about?"

"Tell me about the situation in Xuanyou and Youzhou."

"Ah?" Zha Luo opened his mouth in surprise, looking like an idiot who didn't know where to start.

"Let's talk about the Sand People." Geng Xuan said.

"it is good."

Seeing that there was finally a clear direction, Zha Luo responded happily, and then began to talk incessantly.

Zha Luo is actually a very good person to chat with. With a little guidance, he, who is a talkative person, will immediately turn into a nonstop talking machine.

Perhaps, this characteristic will only be revealed in front of him, the "master".

At other times, Zha Luo was very silent.

Having followed the "Giant Bear" to many places, there was almost nothing in the two states of Xuanyou that he was not familiar with.

Moreover, although he came from the humblest background, he saw a vast world with the help of the "Giant Bear"'s shoulders. The information that his "vision" could capture was actually more abundant and comprehensive than that of the "Giant Bear" and people like Dong Guan.

It just requires a pair of eyes that are good at discovering and organizing.

Even Zha Luo himself does not have such ability.

Many times, he just "sees" and does not have the ability to organize and process the various information he sees.

Of course, he doesn't need to have such ability.

This is not a good thing for him either, but will only bring pain and danger.

For example, now, Zha Luo uses the perspective of a cicada in the sky to describe the suffering of the sand people in the two states of Xuanyou under the rule of Dong Guan in a bird's-eye view.

In order to make the masters he serves more satisfied, Zha Luo also specially selected some more story-telling deeds to present the group of sand people.

Occasionally, he would even add some self-proclaimed comedic elements to depict the desperate situation and sufferings faced by the people of Sha during the years under Dong Guan's rule.

And...their struggle, which seemed stupid and funny to Zha Luo, was like an egg hitting a stone.

"Haha... Master, don't you think these idiots are funny?

He didn't know how to practice, didn't know what body tempering was, and thought the nobility of the Xuanyou Iron Cavalry was due to that set of armor.

They were so self-righteous in their careful planning that they actually managed to steal several sets of armor.

They were still dreaming of starting out with a few sets of armor, becoming sand bandits, living a life of luxury, and not being bullied by Dong Guan.

The dream is not even finished, but disaster has already struck."

Zha Luo finished telling a story about "The Stupid Thief and the Armored Thief" with a smile and was about to look for other new stories related to the Sand People.

Geng Xuan suddenly said, "Let's talk about the Sand Bandits."

“Ah? …Okay…”

After a moment's pause, Zha Luo changed the topic.

The topic shifted from the sand people to the sand bandits.

It was a swarm of locusts.

They roamed across the vast deserts of Xuanyou and Youzhou, using small oases as springboards to harass the sand dwellers and plunder cattle and sheep.

Dong Guan naturally wouldn't be nice to those things that dared to snatch food from him.

They even dispatched the Xuanyou Cavalry to carry out a clean-up operation.

But when you finally do the economic calculations, it's a huge loss.

Moreover, as long as his high-pressure exploitation of the sand people does not end, and as long as the oases as small as sesame seeds in the two states of Xuanyou continue to exist widely.

The sand bandits are like leeks in the field, once you cut one crop there will always be another.

It is impossible to really eradicate it.

In the end, as long as these annoying things don't come to him on their own initiative and don't touch things that they shouldn't touch, Dong Guan can only tolerate the existence of these flies with a pinch of his nose.

Zha Luo spoke with great enthusiasm, and Geng Xuan listened attentively.

But the time for a meal will eventually come to an end.

Geng Xuan put down his bowl and chopsticks and said to Zha Luo, "Yes, that's all for today... When you have nothing to do, think about it in your mind. I want to hear more next time when I have time."

Zha Luo happily responded: "Yes, Master!"

Geng Xuan walked out of the tent and saw Chen Zhan waiting outside.

Chen Zhan first bowed respectfully to him, then asked, "Boss, can we set off now?"

Geng Xuan shook his head and said, "Don't worry, there's something I need to do first."

Chen Zhan was stunned and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Recruiting new members." Geng Xuan simply answered with two words.

Chen Zhan took a deep breath and asked, "Right here?"

As the Giant Bear Gang's strength and scale rapidly increased, its internal rules became increasingly strict.

Even though Geng Xuan had never asked for anything in this regard, the current Giant Bear Gang was completely different from the early days of thirty or forty people, when there was a strong atmosphere of brotherhood between the "highest levels" like Luo Qing and others and the "lowest levels".

——If Geng Xuan were to describe it, the Giant Bear Gang had two diseases at the same time, "big system disease" and "bureaucracy".

Among them, the one with the most stringent rules is naturally the "new member reception ceremony".

Although Zha Luo is stronger than him, he also enjoys more trust from "Su Ruiliang" than him.

But strictly speaking, Zha Luo is not a member of the Giant Bear Gang, but a servant of "Su Ruiliang".

Apart from the tying of the knots, the person most qualified to preside over this ceremony right now is none other than Chen Zhan.

But Chen Zhan could fully foresee that according to certain tacit rules within the Giant Bear Gang, if he presided over this recruitment, he would never have a peaceful life again.

Even if he himself does not want to, he will become the largest independent faction besides "Deputy Gang Leader Fang".

Chen Zhan, who did not want to be involved in this "fishy" thing, was somewhat resistant to this.

Seeing him like this, Geng Xuan squinted at him and asked, "Isn't that inappropriate?"

Chen Zhan was startled when he heard this and quickly said, "No, no, I'll go get ready now." (End of this chapter)