"Subordinate...Zhi, Zhicheng, bye...bye, meet the master!" Zhicheng led the two people in and saluted Jiang Yao.

Jiang Yao greeted him personally, "Oh, Shi Zai finally returned home safely and without worries!"

Zhi Cheng's eyes filled with tears, "Subordinate...finally...no, it has fulfilled its mission..."

Jiang Yao patted his hand and said, "Shi Zai's journey is difficult and tiring. Needless to say, I understand."

"Taifu, this trip was very dangerous. Of the six people in our group, three of them died." Du Zhao, a martial arts master responsible for protecting Zhicheng, said, "If it hadn't been for the life-saving magic weapon given by Taifu, none of us would have survived.

"

The six people found the secret Tianzhen Valley between Kun Cave and Wujian Desert. Relying on the talent of Zhicheng Zhen's spirit body, they avoided many powerful natural attack arrays and psychedelic arrays. In addition, Zhicheng carried high-level life-saving magic weapons.

Finally, after three people died, three people came back.

After several months of adventure, going tens of thousands of miles deep into the dense valley of the Heavenly Formation, and going through countless dangers, the gains from Zhicheng were astonishing. It was not a worthwhile trip, but it was very worthwhile.

So the three remaining people all looked excited.

"Sit!" Jiang Yao also knew that there was a big harvest, and she was looking forward to it in her heart.

Du Zhao knew that Zhi Cheng stuttered, so he simply said it himself:

"After we arrived at Kun's Point, Shizai sensed where the barrier of the Heavenly Formation Valley was, and spent a few days finding the natural formation eye and entering the secret realm."

"It is deep in the earth. It is a huge ground. There are various natural formations, killing formations, trapping formations, confusion formations, phantom formations... If it were not for Shi Zai's cleverness, we would have died in it long ago..."

"Later, Shizai finally sensed a natural protective formation core. We used this protective formation core to continue searching deep for several months, narrowly escaping death, and finally found a natural formation mother!"

While Du Zhao was talking, Zhi Cheng took out a gray stone drum. This stone drum was filled with an ethereal and profound space concept, like a corner of the starry sky hidden in it.

Even an idiot can see that this is an extraordinary treasure.

Jiang Yao was surprised to find that his spiritual consciousness could not understand this wonderful acquired formation mother.

He was sure that if it weren't for Zhi Cheng being an array spirit, it would have been impossible to obtain this acquired array mother. Most people would have no chance of this thing at all.

What is the acquired formation mother?

It is the mother womb of formations naturally conceived by the laws of heaven and earth, which can give birth to all natural formations and form a semi-independent world.

The acquired formation mother is an acquired spiritual treasure that exceeds the ninth level. Once cultivated, it can form a comprehensive natural formation.

In this comprehensive natural formation, there are natural killing formations, natural trapping formations, psychedelic formations, hiding formations, protective formations, spirit gathering formations, teleportation formations and many other formations. They are all super natural formations!

Once the formation mother grows up and the formation materials are enough, it can cover a radius of 90,000 miles. The huge space of 90,000 miles in length and breadth can be placed under the protection of the natural formation mother, and millions of armies cannot break it.

A radius of 90,000 miles is just a small area in the vast real world, a drop in the ocean. However, it is enough to cover the Qing clan's jurisdiction.

Even Jiang Yao, who had seen many treasures, was so excited that he could not control himself when facing the natural formation mother.

This acquired formation mother is not much worse than the life world he once obtained and was taken away by Li Xixia!

The original purpose of Zhicheng was just to find the natural formation mother, but in the end, it found the acquired formation mother, and the harvest far exceeded expectations.

"Shi Zai has done a great job in finding the acquired formation mother. Shi Zai is a lucky star." Jiang Yao was very happy.

But Zhi Cheng was not too happy.

"Taifu, after this, the day after tomorrow... the formation, although the mother of the formation is powerful..."

After listening to Zhi Cheng's words with difficulty, Jiang Yao's joy also faded.

The acquired formation mother is of course a good thing, but there are nine levels of growth space, and each level requires different levels and quantities of spiritual veins.

If you want to grow to level nine and cover 90,000 miles, you will need five great spiritual veins of level nine, arranged according to the five elements!

One ninth-level spiritual vein is a huge wealth, let alone five?

To put it bluntly, even if Jiang Yao was lucky enough to discover a ninth-level spiritual vein, he would not be able to extract it.

Without the cultivation of a martial saint, there would be no power to pull out the great spiritual veins from the ground.

Moreover, even the Martial Saint does not have a ring that can accommodate large spiritual veins. This is why the Martial Saint of Shenzhou does not collect spiritual veins.

No place to install it.

The Great Spiritual Pulse can be hundreds of miles long and short, like a small mountain range, far beyond the accommodation space of a top-level ring.

Jiang Yao frowned and said, "Don't worry, Shi Zai, I will come up with a solution for the matter of the ninth-level great spiritual vein."

He does have a super ring. The ring Li Xixia gave him contained the great spiritual vein of decay.

It is also possible for him to find the ninth-level spiritual vein. The biggest problem is that he is not strong enough to draw it out.

Jiang Yao accepted Hou Tian's formation mother and said: "Shi Zai has made great achievements, so I will appoint you as the Minister of the Formation Dao Temple, the second rank, in charge of setting up the formation, teaching the formation, formation materials, formation master and other matters."

"Thank you, Taifu!" Zhi Cheng was overjoyed.

The minister of Zhendao Temple, the second rank, is in the same position as the six tribes.

That's right, Jiang Yao's temple-level unit is the same as the ministry level, not smaller than the ministry level.

Because this is the real world after all. For alchemy, how important is the formation? How can it be smaller than Liubu?

"This Houtian formation mother, even without spiritual veins, can cover three thousand miles." Zhi Cheng stopped stammering when talking about the formation, "My subordinates can deploy the formation mother in Mingshan Mountain and turn Mingshan Mountain into a knot.

boundary."

"In this way, the tens of thousands of Wu Zun recruits who have been worried that the secret will be leaked can be trained under the protection of the formation mother barrier, and the outside world will not know."

"Good. Shi Zai's words are in agreement with Gu's intention." Jiang Yao nodded, "Pass on Gu's secret order, and all 30,000 Wu Zun's recruits will be dispersed and secretly mobilized to Mingshan."

Nowadays, the average cultivation level of the Qing clan has greatly increased, and the number of Wuzun monks has skyrocketed, creating conditions for the formation of a Wuzun army.

These 30,000 Wu Zun soldiers are the result of Jiang Yao's reform.

With the acquired formation mother, this future ace can be hidden and trained secretly.

………

"Congratulations, Grand Master, you are ranked 20th on the herringbone monthly vote list." Feng Ke, Minister of the Ministry of War, came to congratulate Jiang Yao.

The monthly vote list is published once a month.

Everyone knows it.

Ginger's ranking has risen to twenty in the past six months.

Ouyang Feng has already entered the top 100 in the local rankings. Luo Xianzi has not appeared for a long time and has now dropped to twenty-sixth place.

And Yu Yan, who is not yet nine years old, has already entered the top 100!

The speed of progress is unparalleled.

Jiang Yao doesn't pay attention to the monthly vote list at all, and there is no benefit for the time being anyway. What he is most concerned about right now is the training of soldiers and horses.

"Brother Buji, how are our soldiers and horses doing now?" He summoned Feng Ke to ask about the soldiers.

Feng Ke had already prepared: "Taifu, our young and old army consists of 118,000 and almost have ten thousand li of horses. There is nothing to say about this. As for the new army..."

"Wuzun's new army is thirty thousand, and Samurai Yuancheng's new army is one hundred thousand. According to Taifu's secret order, they have all been transferred to Mingshan for secret training."

"There are three major problems at the moment. First, the military expenditure is too high, and there will be no money after the new year. Second, there is a lack of thousands of horses. The gap is at least 100,000. Third, there is a lack of weapons and magic, especially tens of thousands of stone bows and arrows.

"

"These three major problems are all about money in the final analysis. They can be easily solved if you have money. From my perspective, can I use the storage of Da Qing Jade Company?"

Jiang Yao shook his head without thinking, "Da Qing Jade House's customer storage cannot be misappropriated for military expenses. Otherwise, once word spreads, the reputation of the Jade House will be ruined."

Feng Ke smiled bitterly and said: "My minister, the Minister of War, is most afraid of losing military expenditures. This year, military expenditures have been spent at 700 million to 800 million yuan! This is four times the amount before the reform! But the Ministry of Revenue said that this year's income is not even 700 million yuan.

"

"There are still hundreds of thousands of regiments and militiamen training, and military spending is like a bottomless pit. It will only increase in the third year of Xuantong (next year)!"

The Qing clan has been completely aggressive in the past two years.

A second-class military lord actually uses the military strength of a first-class powerful vassal as its standard. Financially, it is simply unsustainable.

The money spent on confiscating the house has dried up, and the harvest from the previous great victory is about to dry up again.

Without the huge revenue, the imperial court would have shut down due to a financial crisis by the third year of Xuantong.

Jiang Yao called Zhu Yan, the Minister of Household Affairs, and asked immediately: "How much money does the imperial court have?"

Zhu Yan replied: "The tax and other income for the second year of Xuantong has been collected, and there is still 480 million in the treasury. It can probably last for half a year."

"There will be no money in half a year. Military expenditures are too large."

"Right now, our army cannot expand, nor can we embezzle the Jade Bank's deposits."

"The most difficult thing will be next year. By the time next year comes, the seven newly occupied counties will have been digested, the production of spiritual rice will also increase, and the military expenditure will be enough."

When Jiang Yao heard this, he knew he had to find a way to make a lot of money.

Within half a year, hundreds of millions of spiritual jade must be collected to tide over this lean season.

"Then the imperial court will issue bonds, and Daqing Jade Bank will invest in the imperial bonds." Jiang Yao came up with the best idea.

In this way, hundreds of millions of spiritual jade can be raised.

After Zhu Yan heard the explanation about bonds, although she thought the idea was brilliant, she discovered a new problem.
To be continued...