What a lucky world!

Chapter 171 White Horse Volunteers!

After a few more hours, Ye Hanzhou completely digested the half dragon blood fruit.

His cultivation level also advanced to the middle stage of the Nourishing Liquid Realm, and he even transformed one more sea of orifices than Zhang Mu. Now, five sea of orifices have been successfully transformed, and the sixth sea of orifices has also reached 60% to 70% of the Yuan Liquid.

This trip to Suzhou was very rewarding!
First of all, the Yongxiu Company was taken back, and a cooperation was reached with the Bai family. In the future, he would also have a share of the profits from the Buduan Gang business.

Although it is only 10% of the Bai family's profits, Bai Jingqi revealed that it is at least not worse than the income of Yongxiu Company.

That means the minimum annual salary is 70,000 taels of silver.

Including the Yongxiu Company, if there are no major accidents, the annual income in the future will be 140,000 to 150,000 taels of silver.

Of course, the most practical gain at the moment is the extra 100,000 taels of silver notes given by the Bai family, and Xu Lie's dragon blood fruit, which allowed him and Ye Hanzhou to both advance to the middle stage of the Nourishing Liquid Realm.

What a great harvest!
It was getting late, so Zhang Mu decided to stay one more night and set off back to the mountain tomorrow!

……

The night is as cold as water.

Zhang Mu was sleeping soundly on the bed, when suddenly his eyebrows moved and he opened his eyes.

Xuan Ji, who was sleeping on Zhang Mu's chest, felt the movement, glanced at Zhang Mu, and said in her smoky voice, "Is it pressing on you, meow?"

"No!" Zhang Mu rubbed Xuan Ji's head casually and sat up. Xuan Ji jumped off Zhang Mu's chest and sat next to him.

Zhang Mu took off a small sachet pendant from his neck.

This is a bug bag that Zhuge Nanxian gave to Zhang Mu when he left.

"Meow~ Are you missing me in the middle of the night?" Xuan Ji glanced at the insect bag, turned her head, walked to the corner of the bed, and curled up.

Zhang Mu ignored Xuan Ji, but opened the insect bag and poured out a poisonous insect the size of a grain of rice.

Heart-linking Gu!
At the beginning, Zhang Mu went to Lanling City to capture Ye Hanzhou according to the instructions of the Tianji Scroll. After experiencing a series of events, he learned the whereabouts of the Baima Yicong military training method.

It was engraved inside Ye Hanzhou’s magic gourd.

To obtain the military training method, one must split the magic gourd. This magic gourd is not only a treasure for cultivation, but also a thought left to Ye Hanzhou by his father.

For a moment, Zhang Mu was unable to make a decision.

Fortunately, Zhuge Nanxian thought of a solution at that time and proposed to use the ability of the Lianxin Gu and put the Lianxin Gu into the magic gourd to "read" the Baima Yicong's military training methods.

If you just want the Lianxin Gu to recognize you as your master and achieve a state of telepathy, you need to feed it with your own essence and blood every day.

According to Zhuge Nanxian, it will take about a month.

So Zhang Mu carried the poisonous insect with him and fed it every day.

Just now, while he was still asleep, his heart suddenly skipped a beat, as if he heard a silent call.

Almost subconsciously, Zhang Mu understood where this feeling came from——

Lian Xin Gu recognized its master!
This Su City is truly Zhang Mu’s blessed land.

Zhang Mu simply gave up sleeping. He got out of bed, ran to the next room, and woke up Ye Hanzhou who was also sleeping soundly.

After hearing the news that Lianxin Gu had recognized its master, Ye Hanzhou immediately understood Zhang Mu's idea. He took out his magic gourd, poured out all the wine inside, and then handed the magic gourd to Zhang Mu.

Zhang Mu carefully placed the Lianxin Gu into the magic gourd, then closed his eyes and activated the Lianxin Gu's ability.

The next moment, a dark space appeared in Zhang Mu's mind.

This feeling is very strange. It is not the feeling of putting a camera in the magic gourd, but an unprecedented feeling.

It was as if... he had turned into the Heart-Linking Gu.

After adapting a little, Zhang Mu used induction to control the Lianxin Gu to move around in the magic gourd.

Originally, Zhang Mu thought that this magic gourd was only that big, and there were not many words on it about military training. It was not until this moment that Zhang Mu realized that he was extremely wrong.

This military training method has at least tens of thousands of words, and I don’t know how the predecessor who carved it into the gourd did it.

Zhang Mu focused his mind and slowly "felt" the method of training soldiers. As his "feeling" deepened, Zhang Mu gradually discovered that his understanding of the method of training soldiers was also somewhat biased.

Previously, Zhang Mu believed that military training was about gathering thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of troops to fight against a powerful individual. For example, Gongsun Feng's White Horse Volunteers had a record of killing a master in battle!
The founding emperor of Dayun rode his horse across the world, crushing one sect with a long history after another, relying on the iron army trained by these military training methods.

But after "reading" the Baima Yicong's military training methods, Zhang Mu realized that he had a narrow vision.

The true meaning of military training is the army itself!
It is to build a strong army.

As for killing powerful individuals, that is just a side effect of achieving this goal.

The core of military training is to strengthen the individual soldier's qualities. Through a series of methods such as diet, training, and medicinal baths, soldiers embark on a path of cultivation distinct from that of warriors. While the upper limit is not high, it is still far superior to that of ordinary soldiers. On this basis, the various profound mysteries of military training are then used to create special battle formations.

Just like the White Horse Volunteers, their upper limit was 3,000 men. Zhang Mu estimated that if an army composed of ordinary soldiers wanted to compete, they would need at least ten times the number of troops.

Simply put, only a strong army that practices military tactics can fight fairly against a strong army that also practices military tactics.

The rest is not worth discussing.

No wonder military training methods have become a sacred object that has been strictly controlled by all dynasties.

It's no exaggeration to call this thing a thing that suppresses luck.

……

It was not until dawn that Zhang Mu completely "finished reading" the entire Baima Yicong's military training methods.

As Zhang Mu memorized it, the "military training method" in the magic gourd began to dissipate, as if it had completed its mission.

After opening his eyes again, Zhang Mu took out the heart-linking insect from the magic gourd.

The effect of this heart-linking insect is quite amazing, but it's a pity that it is only effective when it is no more than ten feet away from its owner, so it is not very useful.

Zhang Mu put away the Lianxin Gu worm and returned the treasure gourd to Ye Hanzhou, who was guarding him. Seeing that Zhang Mu's face was no longer happy, Ye Hanzhou asked, "What's wrong? Is there a problem with the training method?"

"No problem!" Zhang Mu couldn't help but sigh and said with a wry smile, "It's because there's no problem that I have a headache..."

"Ah? Why?" Ye Hanzhou was even more confused.

"Because it's too expensive!" Zhang Mu rubbed his face, "It's true that the poor are good at literature and the rich are good at martial arts!"

"I roughly estimated that for a knight of the White Horse Volunteers, from the moment he joined until he perfectly matched the requirements, the cost of food, medicinal baths, supplements, and other miscellaneous items alone would be at least several thousand taels of silver."

"That doesn't even include the cost of equipment and horses."

In his previous life, Zhang Mu had heard that the cost of training a pilot was almost equal to his real weight in gold. Now he thought that the cost of training a White Horse Volunteer Knight was probably equal to his real weight in silver. Oh, and this equal weight included the horse.

"The White Horse Volunteers have a full complement of 3,000 men. Without tens of millions of taels, we can't get out."

Ye Hanzhou heard this and smiled helplessly, then said: "But a team built with tens of millions of taels can kill a master!"

Zhang Mu also nodded: "Hearing you say that, I feel much better!"

What did Mr. Lu Xun say?

“Expensive things have no other disadvantages except being expensive.”

Wise words.

(Lu Xun: I never said that, go away!)
Zhang Mu thought about the 100,000 taels of silver in his hand that hadn't even warmed up yet, and it seemed like he couldn't keep it.

It’s not that I don’t want to save money, it’s just that the new skin looks so good.

Now that you have the military training methods, you can't just stop practicing them just because they are expensive, right?
Only a fool wouldn’t practice!

Money is a bastard, spend it and earn it again!
"Let's get a team of 100 people first..."

First, to test the real power of the White Horse Volunteers' training methods, and second, when the full complement of White Horse Volunteers is really formed in the future, these one hundred people will become the backbone of the team.

According to the current economic strength, we can still afford to support one hundred people.

After making this decision, Zhang Mu finally smiled again.

Looking at the sky outside the window, Zhang Mu said, "Let's go home!"

(End of this chapter)