The master said: "The army needs vegetables and meat. Your workshop has many people and is quite large. The products produced should be able to supply the surrounding areas."
Yamazaki was sweating, "The things in my workshop are mediocre, and I dare not supply them to the army."
"Don't worry, nothing will happen."
"In that case, I have to thank you." Yamazaki had no choice but to agree and gave him a jade pendant as a thank you.
The jade pendant is naturally not the best kind, but you can tell it is worth a lot at a glance.
The master was very happy and gave the workshop many conveniences with a stroke of his pen.
During the period of supplying military supplies, tax concessions are provided and you can move at will within the scope.
You can also equip guards and forge weapons.
You can even boil the sea salt yourself, no need to purchase it separately.
After Yamazaki thanked him, he retreated helplessly.
Now it’s okay, I have to get serious about selling pickles.
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Go out and tell the townspeople outside, and they are very happy.
Yamazaki didn't want to say anything about leaving the city to meet Shandai, but the townspeople happily told her, making Shandai burst into laughter.
Yamazaki sighed and asked the townspeople to go back to the town and take out money to make purchases.
The war is about to begin, and supplies need to be stocked up.
The necessary supplies are grain, iron ore, coal and stone, carriage drivers, and carts.
Then there are medicinal materials, wine, tea, and tobacco.
Then bring some cloth, pots, bowls, baskets, brooms and other daily groceries.
The last thing is pickles. I bought a lot of pickles and put them over there.
In this way, if the workshop cannot make pickles, the purchased pickles will be used as an emergency.
Food, medicinal materials, pickles, etc. are purchased across the border from Lingyun Country, and the rest are purchased locally.
After struggling for more than ten days, I bought a mountain of things and borrowed the cellars of many houses in Zhenshan before stuffing them down.
After Yamazaki took inventory, he could make pickles with peace of mind.
sweat!
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February.
Yamazaki arranged the things in the workshop, then opened the furnace to make iron and study the spiritual energy iron ore.
In my spare time, I collected the news on the street and sorted through the news from a few months ago.
Bai Jingdan still went to the spirit world. The Shendan Sect was very satisfied with him and gave more places to the Lingyun Dan Sect.
However, these places are all taken by the senior leaders of the Lingyun Dan sect, who go up to provide for their retirement.
The number of work quotas is still the same, and after these capable people come up, the internal forces of Lingyun Kingdom will change.
Even the leader of Lingyun Kingdom was unable to suppress the situation and could only ensure the safety of the capital and surrounding areas.
In other places, fighting has begun and is getting more intense.
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After all, the aristocratic families in Lingyun Kingdom are too powerful. Each family has innate masters, and there are dozens of them among the eight major aristocratic families.
A big family and its allies can produce two to three hundred innate masters.
Even if Lingyun Dan sent them, they could not make them surrender to their enemies.
On the contrary, these aristocratic families have deep foundations, accumulated a lot, have abundant financial resources, have many people and are powerful, and have broad paths.
You can buy talismans from Lingyuan Mall of Lingyuan Talisman Sect, or even flying swords from Lingtian City of Lingtian Sword Sect.
As a result, even Qi practitioners must be careful.
Therefore, the support of Lingyun Dan Sect has more symbolic significance than practical significance.
Therefore, war is inevitable.
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March.
The chaos in Lingyun Kingdom spread rapidly, and some people dragged their families and fled across the border to the Linghai Sect's sphere of influence to avoid trouble.
The Linghai faction was weak and did not dare to neglect, so they nervously mobilized their troops to meet them.
Many of them are just one-month-old recruits, but if they show off with a large number of people, that's enough.
Temporarily suppress the situation and guide the people from Lingyun Kingdom to disperse.
The people in the town were not dissatisfied with Yamazaki, they all respectfully admired him.
Without it, Yamazaki spent countless amounts of money hoarding all kinds of things, which are now ten times the price, and even if he has money, he can't buy them.
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April.
More and more people are crossing the border from Lingyun Kingdom to Linghai Sect, not only the rich and powerful people who bring money and food to protect them, but also a large number of refugees.
The security in the border areas began to become chaotic. Yamazaki organized a group of guards at the request of the townspeople.
The weapons are the swords that Yamazaki made this month. There are not many of them, so most of the guards in the town carry farm tools.
Seeing that the refugees were hungry, Yamazaki reluctantly took out the food, pancaked it again, and recruited more guards.
In order to save food, I exchanged fine grains with people in the town for coarse grains and made pickles and coarse grain cakes.
One meal, one piece of cake is enough for each person.
Recruiting manpower, for the people in the town, is to protect the food in the fields.
Although the people in the town were wary, they had to admit that with their current manpower, it would be good to be able to defend the town.
There is absolutely nothing we can do about the tens of thousands of acres of fields outside the town.
Yamazaki's food belongs to him, and he is willing to use it to recruit people to protect everyone's fields. This is really nothing to say.
And Yamazaki recruited people and asked them to clear mountains and cultivate more fields.
Those who have martial arts skills use martial arts, and those who don’t have martial arts skills borrow farm tools from the villagers.
If the fields can grow food, then grow food. If the fields cannot grow food, you can also grow vegetables.
In short, take precautions and prepare to fill more people’s bellies.
At the same time, they asked the people in the town to help them burn bricks and build houses. They did not want to be splendid. They just wanted to build long houses that could protect everyone from wind and rain.
The refugees in Lingyun Country can also tolerate it. After all, they have fields and houses at home, and they only live temporarily.
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May.
The grain planted in the spring is not yet mature, but I heard that there are already people in other places grabbing grain from the fields.
Fortunately, here in Pickle Town, the newly added guards were on guard and patrolling day and night, making people afraid to come over and they all went to other places.
And since no one came, Yamazaki just pretended that nothing happened.
In any case, life here is very tight, and he can't spare food to help others.
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June.
The Linghai faction recruited troops again, this time recruiting refugees from the Lingyun country and using food to make them work for their lives.
The refugees in Lingyun Country had no choice but to follow.
The Linghai faction sent troops north without hesitation, with a very obvious intention to take the opportunity to annex all the forces in the north.
At this time, the food in the north is not far from being mature. As long as more territory is captured, more food can be obtained.
At that time, we can recruit more refugees from Lingyun Country and have more troops.
Yamazaki looked at the map and continued to blacksmith and sell pickles.
Whether the Linghai Sect's plan can succeed or not depends entirely on how the Lingyun Congress fares.
The only thing that is certain is that there will be many refugees around Lingyun Kingdom.
If Linghai Sect is like this, other forces will be like this too.
Both sides are recruiting people from the Lingyun Kingdom. After the war, the cracks within the Lingyun Kingdom will become even greater.
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July.
Yamazaki received the news from a few months ago, and after sorting it out, he determined that the war was going on for a while and could not stop.
The leader of Lingyun Kingdom has the intention to suppress the eight great families and suppress the chaos from its source.
But the eight aristocratic families noticed it first and left the capital one after another.
Although he did not hold high the flag of rebellion or openly said that he would not obey the orders of the king, he did not carry out the orders of the king.
The aristocratic families no longer use their servants to fight, but instead enclose the land and occupy the city, use local soldiers to fight, and recruit strong men from the local area to join the army.
Everyone's forces are intertwined, and when this fight breaks out, all farmers and merchants will be in chaos.
The leader of Lingyun Kingdom has elite soldiers, but they are small in number and cannot control the situation, so he can only recruit soldiers.
But it will take at least a year to bring the situation under control.
That's when the army will take shape, but we don't know what it will be like a year later.
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