In Xingyuan City, Ding Yi took Zhang Bao, Yan Jingfeng, and Zhang Chi to wander around this small town for three days.

Xingyuan is the city closest to Pig Pen Island, and it is also the hometown of Zhang Bao. Zhang Bao did not expect that he would be able to return to his hometown so soon, and not only return home in rich clothes, but also become the mayor of Xingyuan City.

Zhang Bao has a letter of appointment signed by Zou Ming and a "shadow book" in his hand. The so-called shadow book is a document that uses cultivation techniques to leave audio and video images on special paper. This is not easy to fake. But Ding Yi did a little research.

After this 'shadow book', I quickly cracked this thing.

After all, this is a low-end cultivation item, and there is no challenge for Ding Yi.

Zhang Bao has not officially taken office yet. These days he has been following Ding Yi, listening carefully to Ding Yi's opinions.

Xingyuan is a small city, with an urban population of only 110,000 to 20,000 people. The surrounding villages and towns together have a population of about 100,000 people, and the total is only about 200,000 people. There are seven fishing villages near the sea, including

Yanji Village, where Brother Cai and his wife live, has nearly 30,000 people in the city engaged in fishing or fishery-related activities. Others are mainly engaged in agriculture.

Xingyuan's agriculture is very backward, with not only few products, but also very low yields. It mainly produces corn, but according to Zhang Bao, Xingyuan is famous for its abundant fruits and melons in Fulong Kingdom. No wonder Ding Yi passed by some farmhouses.

, you will see many big pumpkins piled up in many people’s homes.

There are only a dozen woodware workshops in the entire Xingyuan, which are considered Xingyuan's specialty products. There are other small workshops for pottery making, wine making, silk weaving, etc., all of which are not large in scale.

The entire working population in Xingyuan City is only about 20,000 to 30,000 people, and most of them, especially the men, have gone to work in the mines in Xinghua next door.

Xingyuan is still a city that is very short of water resources. Interestingly, the city is flooded every year when the rainy season comes.

There are not many rich people and wealthy businessmen living in the city. Such large households are rare in Xingyuan. There are only twenty or thirty. To be honest, Xingyuan City is far behind Jiyun City where Ding Yi was born.

In the past three days, Ding Yi and the others visited all the villages in Xingyuan. Ding Yi had a very intuitive understanding of Xingyuan.

The largest manor and landowner in Xingyuan is Zou Ming. He not only occupies the largest and most fertile land in Xingyuan, but also owns a lot of industries in Xingyuan.

Zhang Chi and Yan Jingfeng's daily task is to buy, buy, buy, and then organize and send the purchased materials to Yanji for the pirates there to transport to Pig Cage Island. They follow Ding Yi, in addition to studying their majors

Knowledge, and was also taught by Ding Yi to learn many chores.

Such as surveying, statistics, etc.

The things Ding Yi purchased were so miscellaneous that Yan Jingfeng and Zhang Chi were completely confused. Ding Yi did not reveal the identity of the puppet master to them, and they had no way of judging Ding Yi's purpose from the materials he purchased.

Ding Yi did not explain it clearly to them. Three days later, all the goods organized by Zou Ming were delivered to Yanji Village. The Vespa had already made two rounds. Ding Yi took Zhang Bao and the others aboard the Vespa.

With this batch of goods, they returned to Pig Pen Island.

In the past ten days, Yang Jiabiao had studied extremely hard. Especially when he heard that Zhang Bao had become the mayor of Xingyuan City after following Ding Yi this time. This touched him greatly. After studying these days, he

It was almost a matter of perseverance, and he exceeded the literacy requirement set by Ding Yi every day. By the time Ding Yi returned to Pig Cage Island, Yang Jiabiao had almost learned three to four hundred characters.

This time, Ding Yi asked Zhang Bao to follow him back first. There was a sense of setting an example, which would have an imitation effect among the pirates. The implication is that as long as you listen to Ding Yi, Ding Yi will not hesitate to give you the position of Marquis of Baili.

Originally, these pirates were forced to take the "obedient water" and had only natural fear of Ding Yi. Now everyone's hearts are ignited with a raging fire. They have a future with Mr. Wu! The road to becoming an official and making a fortune, Mr. Wu has already

After paving the way for them, whether they can become Bailihou like Zhang Bao and Su Chen depends on their own performance.

The morale of the entire Pig Pent Island was greatly boosted.

In the past ten days, Shi Kai has led the pirates to complete the construction of the dock. At the same time, according to Ding Yi's plan, a row of warehouses has also been built.

After Ding Yi returned, he made some adjustments to the personnel. He sent additional manpower to the shore, especially Yanji, and also began to speed up the renovation of Pig Pen Island.

In the saline-alkali land and barren tidal flats in the north, Ding Yi asked Yan Jingfeng to set fire to burn all the weeds. A row of new houses was built there. At the same time, agencies and observation posts were arranged at several of the most critical locations on Pig Pent Island.

There are many forests in Xingyuan. Zhang Bao's main purpose of returning to Xingyuan was to transport wood to Pig Pen Island. Ding Yi's original purpose was to build Pig Pen Island into a distribution center with many merchant ships.

The loach boat owned by the Coast Guard was parked at the dock by Ding Yi and underwent large-scale renovations. Many buildings on the deck and the masts were all removed.

The Shenwu Empire's ocean-going ships relied on formation spirit stones to drive propellers, and Ding Yi transplanted this system.

Ding Yi and Zhong Wu once studied transverse ships together, and they even modified Wanli's transverse ships, so he didn't put much effort into rectifying the loach ship this time.

It's just that the helpers around Ding Yi are a bit weak. Whether it's Yan Jingfeng, Shi Kai, or Zhang Chi, they basically can't help Ding Yi.

But the great thing about the puppet master is that he can create all kinds of machines and mechanisms

For example, Yan Jingfeng could not use his spiritual power to melt cast iron due to his low spiritual power. Ding Yi simply built a cupola and used formations and spiritual stones to complete the job.

Ding Yi also has two universal puppets beside him, which means he has two master craftsmen to assist him in manufacturing.

At the same time, Ding Yi forced everyone on the island to learn cultural knowledge. Every day, Ding Yi personally explained the principles of mechanism to these pirates.

The entire Pig Pen Island is under military management, with a team of one or two hundred people, which is not too complicated. The personnel are divided into three large groups, one part is the sailors on the ship, and a lot of this part has been laid off, whether it is the new Ichthyosaurus

The number of non-combat personnel has been greatly reduced. There are still some people assigned to the dock and construction side, and the remaining people are responsible for logistics.

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Everyone on the island, regardless of age or sex, must receive basic cultural education, and everyone has their own position.

Not only does the island implement militarized management, Ding Yi has formulated an assessment, reward and punishment system. Those who study well, can obey management, and complete tasks well will enjoy higher treatment. Otherwise, they will receive certain punishments. Salary, housing,

Food, vacation time...these are at different levels and will receive different treatments.

The life of a pirate was very unorganized in the past. The pirates were not accustomed to Ding Yi's high-intensity military management at first. However, most of them drank Ding Yi's "obedient water" and their lives were in danger.

In the hands of Ding Yi. Ding Yi also has three cultivator apprentices who are like wolves and tigers (Shi Kai also strongly requested to become Ding Yi as his disciple). No one dares to challenge Ding Yi's authority, and no one dares to break Ding Yi's rules.

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On the eighth day after returning to Pig Pent Island, the Ichthyosaur replaced the Wasp to transport wood. After the Ichthyosaurus was modified, the speed increased five or six times. The original transportation task was once every two days, and now it can make two round trips a day.

, Pig Pen Island has accumulated a lot of wood in the past twenty days.

Half a month later, both ships were renovated and they were transporting wood together. Even more wood was accumulated on the island.

Ding Yi hoarded so much wood, of course, for shipbuilding. Two general-purpose puppets worked 24 hours a day to process the delivered wood into pieces of wood. Then they were sent to the warehouse. Ding Yi used the secret method of cultivation to

In the warehouse, the wood was dehydrated so that the wood that would have been stored for one or two years could be used in advance. At the same time, Zhang Chi was instructed to prepare cultivation potions and preservative treatment for the wood.

Shi Kai and Yan Jingfeng, under the guidance of Ding Yi, refined various nails, screws, gears, and some bone glue...

Every night, Ding Yi instructs the three people to practice. Ding Yi arranges the spirit gathering array on the island and configures it differently according to the different qualifications of the three people.

Because of himself, Ding Yi is one of those cultivators with low qualifications. Ding Yi has put considerable effort into how to improve his qualifications and enhance his spiritual power.

At the same time, he was also taught by the three great masters of Iron Cast City, as well as many famous great masters of the Shenwu Empire including Zong Xiao, Kang Rengui... etc. He is an absolute expert in this field.

Among Ding Yi's apprentices, Zhang Chi is the least qualified and the oldest. This guy is already seventy-three this year, and relatively speaking, it is also the hardest to advance. However, Ding Yi is very fond of his old apprentice.

He never gave up and came up with many ways to change Zhang Chi's situation.

Ding Yi's other apprentices, to be honest, don't have much qualifications. The youngest, Shi Kai, is already in his twenties, and he is still only at the mid-level feather level. Yan Jingfeng is also in his thirties. These

People, their qualifications are not very good, and they have not received systematic cultivation education. They basically do not even have cultivation books that match their qualifications, and they do not have qualified teachers to teach them. In fact, most of these guys,

They are all trying to cultivate their true nature.

If Ding Yi hadn't accepted them, these three cultivators would have had limited room for growth, and their entire life of cultivating to the spiritual level would have been over.

Before Ding Yi returned to Pig Pen Island, he collected a lot of medicinal materials. When he arrived at Pig Pen Island, Ding Yi guided Zhang Chi to refine several furnaces of Pei Yuan Dan, Huang Ya Dan, and Foundation Establishment Dan.

At the same time, he also prepared some medicines for the three of them to soak in for several hours every day. He also taught the three of them several sets of natural door breathing methods and asked them to meditate and practice every day.

Ding Yi also built a gravity room and asked the three of them to practice physical skills with him every day...

A multi-pronged approach is adopted to guide each person's practice in a step-by-step manner based on their situation.

Ding Yi stayed on the island for nearly thirty days before taking Yan Jingfeng to leave Pig Pen Island and go to Fulong City, the capital of Fulong Kingdom.

He wanted to verify the results of Zou Ming's training in the past month, and at the same time, it was a kind of insurance for Zou Ming to ensure that Zou Ming could successfully qualify this time.

This time, the two of them did not take a boat, but wore flying hats and headed to Fulong City from the air.

During his time on the island, Ding Yi made three flying hats. Mortals had no spiritual power and could not control the operation of these things, so Ding Yi did not do much. He did not plan to promote these things in the mirage.

Although neither Ding Yi nor Yan Jingfeng had been to Fulong City, Ding Yi had done his homework beforehand and it was not difficult to fly to Fulong City.

Ding Yi was very cautious and tried to avoid big cities when flying. He did not want to expose himself too early.

After flying nearly 800 miles in one night, both of them were very tired, but they finally flew to Fulong City before dawn.

The family members of all cultivators in Fulong Kingdom are arranged in Fulong City

.This is the technique used by the king of Fulong Kingdom to control his subordinates. The family members of these cultivators are all hostages of the king of Fulong Kingdom. These people are concentrated in the west area of ​​Fulong City.

When the sky was still dark, Ding Yi and Yan Jingfeng entered Fulong City. Ding Yi did not fly directly over the city wall. He noticed that the city wall of Fulong City was equipped with formations. He did not want to alert Fulong City. He and Yan Jingfeng

We queued up obediently, and after each person paid ten iron nose coins, we entered Fulong City.

The money of Fulong Kingdom is divided into four types: iron-nosed coins, copper plates, silver dollars and gold coins. All the money is not minted as well as that of Shenwu Empire. Not only the quality is different, but the weight is also much worse.

Ding Yi and Yan Jingfeng went directly to Zou Ming's residence.

After Zou Ming was promoted to the Intermediate Spirit Level, he received a commendation from the King of Fulong Kingdom. It had only been a few days since he returned to Fulong City, but there was an endless stream of guests who came to visit him.

At the moment, he was having breakfast with a high-ranking spiritual minister. The Minister of Commerce of Fulong Kingdom was trying his best to persuade Zou Ming to give up the battle for provincial governor.

Zou Ming felt extremely conflicted. At this time, the servant informed him that Ding Yi and Yan Jingfeng had arrived.

Zou Ming's hanging heart finally calmed down.

"Minister Zhou, I'm very sorry. This time, I want to give it a try! To be honest, I have no interest in being the Minister of Transportation." Zou Ming explained to Minister Zhou of the Ministry of Commerce.

The Minister of Commerce of Fulong Kingdom, Zhou Xianyao, was named Zhou Xianyao. He was a high-level spiritual cultivator with Jin Ling qualifications. He was very keenly aware of Zou Ming's emotional changes.

He was still a little wavering at first, but after his servant informed him, Zou Ming made up his mind.
To be continued...