Looking at the majestic team in the square, Yang Zhen, standing behind Zhang Qianfan on the high platform, was also filled with excitement.
For two years, he really formed an army in this different world, an army to deal with monsters.
In the past, whenever a tide of beasts came, ordinary people with no cultivation could only hide in the walled city and rely on high walls and cold weapons to deal with the monsters.
However, most monsters have rough skin and thick flesh. It only takes three swords and spears to cut a bloody mark, and it takes ten spears to stab a monster. The effect is really worrying.
The only effective one is the bed crossbow, each arrow can almost pierce a monster.
It's a pity that the launch speed is too slow and requires a lot of personnel. In the tide of beasts all over the sky, the effect is actually insignificant.
So most of the time, mortals just rely on spears and iron forks to push monsters off the city wall to delay time and wait for rescue.
If the rescue is not timely, the whole village will be destroyed.
Until he made the spirit stone gun.
The effect has been tested by Yang Zhen personally. Within a hundred feet, the bullets fired can penetrate half a foot into the second-order Yunnan wood!
This means that as long as it hits the vital position of a first-level monster, one shot can kill it!
This is what mortals rely on to protect themselves in the face of monsters!
He paid a lot for this gun.
The first is ammunition.
The power of traditional black powder is too low in a place like the world of immortality.
It wasn't until he discovered the truth about the explosion in Tianlei Mountain two years ago that after many experiments, he finally found the perfect ratio of black moss powder and soul-absorbing Hades steel stone powder.
He called this amazingly lethal medicinal powder explosive powder.
Then, in order to adapt to the bursting effect of the new powder, the newly made cartridge case was not only thickened several times, but also made of second-level refining materials.
Then there are the newly improved springs, which are also made from second-level metal materials. They have amazing elasticity and can achieve extremely strong impact effects.
There are countless other parts that need to be improved and strengthened, such as the warhead and barrel.
After this, the cost of a spirit stone gun alone is no less than thirty spirit stones; and the price of bullets has also reached an astonishing twenty spirit drops per bullet.
Yang Zhen purchased a total of 5,000 spirit stone guns priced at 100 spirit stones, and a total of 250,000 bullets priced at 40 spirit drops each.
Even if the final price was 20% off, it still cost him a full 480,000 spiritual stones!
Fortunately, two years ago, he made a small fortune from the Liang family and several casual cultivators from the Rogue Cultivator Alliance, earning seven to eight million spiritual stones, more than half of which he sold off one after another and exchanged them for Got the spirit stone.
Coupled with Chu Nanbao's income in the past two years and the profits that Qingshi Space has continuously brought him, he can support him to pay such a huge sum of money.
Of course, another reason is that half of the shares in the Lingshi Gun Workshop belong to him and Zhao Yue'er.
The two of them invested a total of 100,000 spiritual stones, occupying 50%.
Others include Lan Caifang who invested 20,000 yuan and Zixue who was very interested in investing 20,000 yuan, each holding 10% of the shares.
Yang Zhen did not let the two second-level weapon refiners from the Alchemy Academy work hard on researching and refining the spirit stone gun, but gave them half a share each.
Finally, Caiyun, Chen Fugui, Tian Tiezhu, Zhang Qianfan, Dou Manxiong, Shen Jiugeng, Hei Tuyue and other relatives, friends and subordinates, etc. Some gave dozens or hundreds of spirit stones, some thousands, and a total of 40,000 were collected. , accounting for the last 20% of the shares.
There are no rules in this world that prohibit officials from doing business.
What's interesting is that after Yang Zhen's business was completed, the Lingshi Gun Workshop, which involved the interests of many friends, finally turned a profit and its books became better-looking.
Yang Zhen set up this workshop in Chunan Fort.
Using this as a leader, a series of upstream workshops were established, such as the production of gun barrels, wooden stocks, firing pins and other components, all of which were built in Chunan Town, bringing opportunities for many townspeople to make money.
Only the bullet casings, bullets, and other components that required special refining were set up in Yunya Town and were entrusted to the weapon refining workshop for refining, and he would bring them back every once in a while.
With all this, in one year, the total production of spirit stone guns reached 10,000.
In addition to the four thousand he bought, Heiwo Township and Kanmu Township also bought five hundred each. In addition, Qi-training families from other townships in Wushui County also purchased dozens or hundreds.
There were two thousand more, which Wushui County took away in the name of lease. Except for the normal payment for ammunition consumption, the gun itself is free.
Finally, there is Zhu Guanzhu from neighboring Chengbu County, who just bought two thousand. There has been a beast tide in this place two days ago, and it is said that it is quite serious. Zhao Yue'er, as the visitor, rushed there with Zixue yesterday to rescue the emergency.
Wushui County can only rely on the county's monks for the time being.
At this time, bursts of noise suddenly came from the crowd watching, even mixed with the screams of women and children.
I saw a group of twenty people, most of whom were monks from the Tongxin Association back then, each carrying an iron cage and walking into the square with their heads held high.
Inside the iron cage is the most common monster in this wilderness:
There are long squirrels, black moon wolves, mountain rabbits, black-bellied scale snakes, ghost-faced raccoons, and even a black-skinned pig demon.
These monsters were several times larger than the commonly seen rats, wolves, rabbits, snakes, etc. Each one of them bared their teeth in the cage and hissed filial piety, looking extremely unruly.
Especially the demon pig, which kept banging its head against the railing in an attempt to escape.
Although each cage is equipped with restraints, it is impossible for them to escape. However, such a big wild boar can be easily lifted by a strong man like Tian Tiezhu who has both cultivation and natural strength.
Yang Zhen looked at her friend with a smile on her face. Although Tie Zhu and Cai Si were less qualified, with his help from Hu Shudan in recent years, they had successfully attacked Black Wind Valley in the past two months and entered the middle stage of Qi training.
At this time, these twenty monks had arrived at a corner of the playground, standing far away from a team of 200 spearmen.
As the captain of this group of people, Tian Tiezhu gave the order and all the cages were opened, and twenty monster beasts roared out of the cages.
Then, he took out a copper bell, activated his magic power, and made a clanging sound.
This sound can amplify the fear of the monster beast, and the monster beast suddenly panics and runs towards the spear team 300 feet away.
The townspeople watching from a distance let out a cry of terror, and some were even so frightened that they wanted to turn around and run away.
"No need to panic." Zhang Qianfan shouted loudly, his voice filling the square with anger, and the crowd gradually became quiet.
The leader of the spear team was a thin female cultivator, but it was Bao Yinglian.
After two years of training, this woman is no longer the weak yet strong woman she once was.
"Raise the gun!" the woman shouted in a deep voice.
The two hundred people quickly distanced themselves, each about three feet apart, and at the same time took off the long spears slung on their right shoulders.
"Load!" she continued to order.
The steps for loading bullets into the spirit stone gun are similar to those of the 38-year-old Gai, and are not complicated.
"aim!"
At this time, the distance between the monster and the beast was close to a hundred feet. In the entire playground, except for the roar of the monster and Bao Yinglian's orders, there was no other sound. Everyone was watching the action here with bated breath.
One hundred feet, ninety feet, fifty feet, thirty feet...
Finally, when the fastest Black Moon Wolf had entered the range of thirty feet, Bao Yinglian's voice was sonorous and powerful:
"shooting!"
The gunshots were loud, like thunder coming from distant mountains.
The monster beasts seemed to have been hit hard by a heavy hammer. Their forward momentum was stopped, and they staggered and fell to the ground.
"Okay!" cheers came and went.
"Not good!" Some people exclaimed, but none of the four black-bellied scale snakes lagging behind were hit by bullets and continued to move forward.
Compared with monsters such as pigs and wolves, monster snakes are slender and more flexible.
"Load!" Bao Yinglian's unhurried voice sounded again.
Two hundred soldiers reloaded quickly, and some were so nervous that they could not insert bullets and almost got their fingers stuck.
"Group A, shoot first from the left, Group B, second from the left, Group C..." Bao Yinglian ordered.
There was another burst of intensive gunfire. This time, the four demon snakes were unable to escape and were all killed.
"Okay!" Earth-shattering cheers resounded in the square again.
This is the first time that a mortal can kill a monster so easily.
From this day on, they are no longer weaklings who are unable to fight back. They can protect themselves in front of monsters!
The cheers resounded through the sky and lasted in the square...
…
Yang Zhen is basically satisfied with this exercise. Some minor flaws, such as the tension of the soldiers, the failure of the guns to fire, and the uneven distribution of firepower, can continue to be improved. Some even require actual combat before they can be completely solved.
He stayed in Chunan Town for several days. Sometimes he and Zhang Qianfan watched the training of the town soldiers; sometimes he inspected the towns and workshops; and on the other two days, he took Chen Fuzhen, Tian Tiezhu and others to the village to inspect the spring sowing situation.
Even though the beast tide is spreading, the land that needs to be planted will still be planted.
In the past two years, under the leadership of Chen and Tian, Chunan Town has carried out rectifications one by one, eradicating those village tyrants who used to be rich and unkind and bullied men and women. Some were dismissed from their posts, some were arrested, and there was public outrage. Those who have blood debts in their hands will be tried on the spot and executed.
This move allowed Yang Zhen to gain the support of the vast majority of villagers.
Next, he readjusted and allocated the fields, built water conservancy projects, diverted lakes into canals, and arranged for monks to spread clouds and rain, etc. Soon Chunan Town ushered in two years of bumper harvests.
After the success in Chunan Town, Yang Zhen also promoted the experience throughout the county and tried to eliminate all kinds of injustices.
This is his way of governing the world, which coincides with the way of protection he has always pursued.
Especially half a month ago, when he officially entered the stage of Qi training and was about to attack and build the foundation when the time was right, he felt more and more that the monks' training, spiritual power techniques, etc. were just means. The Taoist heart will be the foundation that affects a monk's lifelong cultivation.
Since I am the lord of Wushui County, I must protect the people here!
…
On this day, Yang Zhen was inspecting Old Man Qi’s talisman paper workshop.
This workshop is no longer what it used to be. With the support of the young castle owner, the workshop has expanded several times in size.
In addition to Old Man Qi still taking charge of the processing of animal skins, the workshop also hired two people to be responsible for the production of various bark talismans.
In particular, there are a large number of purple pulp trees in the bluestone space. After simplifying several key processes, the output has been greatly increased.
He also continuously provided Liu Rou with a large amount of talismans.
"Uncle Qi," Yang Zhen asked: "After the beast tide is over, a large number of monster corpses will be harvested. Will we be able to handle these furs by then? Do we need to recruit more people?"
Uncle Qi thought for a moment and nodded: "That's fine, it's just this spiritual stone..."
"I'll take care of this." Yang Zhen smiled.
While he was talking, a paper kite fell into the young man's hand.
Yang Zhen opened it and took a look, her brows suddenly raised——
The beast tide is coming!
