After executing the strategic deception plan, the danger of Tiansheng Sect was finally eliminated. However, Tiansheng Sect offended a big enemy, and this big enemy will definitely retaliate in the future.
Based on the current development situation of Tiansheng Sect, it is certain to enter Central Continent in the future, and as long as they go to Central Continent, Tianxuan Sect will definitely not be able to get around it, which puts great pressure on Lin Xiao.
The only way to alleviate this pressure is to develop strength. As long as Tiansheng Sect reaches a certain level of strength and can achieve a balance of power with Tianxuan Sect, they may not dare to take action directly.
In recent years, many minerals have been discovered in the realm of Wu Kingdom, which has caused the Tiansheng Sect's financial resources to skyrocket. According to Nanxuan's statistics, when several minerals such as Xijin Mine and Manhuang are fully excavated, after deducting various expenses, there can be more than
Millions of profits.
But this is theoretical. In fact, it is very difficult to mine minerals in the wilderness. There are many monsters there, and the environment has not been transformed and is not suitable for mortal life. If you use immortal cultivators to work as miners, the cost will be
will surge and profits will fall.
Therefore, Nanxuan's wild plan began to accelerate. Most of the income from Xijin Mine was invested in the wild. Not only did he call on casual cultivators and small forces to go to the wild, the various sects of the Tiansheng Sect also began to carry out planned operations.
It's desolate.
The first step in the wilderness is to hunt down the monsters and eliminate the first threat to mortals. To this end, the Tiansheng Sect, together with the Danyang Sect and other sects, frequently send troops. Every year, there are at least 20,000 monks operating in the wilderness.
The 20,000 people used Qiaotou Mountain as a base to hunt monsters in all directions. At this time, it was no longer the mode of a dozen teams, but thousands of people were dispatched at a time to directly encircle a spiritual mountain, using dragnets to
This way, the monsters on the mountain will be completely eliminated.
After two or three years of operations, the safety range of Qiaotou Mountain has been expanded to four to five hundred kilometers. With the safety range in place, Wu State began to relocate mortals.
The wild area is equivalent to a tropical rainforest, with very hot flashes, and various mosquitoes, poisonous insects, and miasma breed. These hazards cannot harm immortal cultivators, but they pose a great threat to mortals. The first batch of 5,000 people in Nanxuan
After the immigrants arrived, half of them died in less than a year.
Among these casualties, less than one percent died from the mouths of monsters and beasts, and 90% were caused by various diseases. Although immortal cultivators have various elixirs, these elixirs are not enough for immortal cultivators. How can they provide them to
If it is used by mortals, even if it is enough for this batch of mortals, what will happen to hundreds of thousands and millions of mortals in the future?
So Lin Xiao quickly made another decision, which was to treat the relocated mortals as prisoners. The territory of the Wu Kingdom had expanded greatly, and the population under the rule had grown rapidly even without war for hundreds of years. Now the population
It has exceeded 70 million people.
Among such a huge population, there are many criminals, such as murder, theft, robbery, etc. The crimes that are common in the mortal world are also common in the Wu Kingdom.
So Lin Xiao immediately canceled the death penalty for mortals in the Wu Kingdom. All death row prisoners did not need to be beheaded, but were thrown into the wilderness to do hard labor. Lin Xiao only gave these death row prisoners three pardons a year, and most of them were
To work until death.
Serious criminals under the death penalty are more tolerant, and there are hundreds of pardons available every year. As for minor criminals, they only need to serve a few to several years of hard labor before they can be exempted from punishment.
"Chief, this group is the newly arrived prisoners, 300 death row inmates, 800 multiple-sentence prisoners, and the remaining more than 1,000 people are light criminals."
In Qiaotou Mountain, Jia Mengran took out a list for Lin Xiao to check. At the foot of the mountain, there was a caravan unloading goods. These criminals followed the caravan.
"How many mortals are there in Qiaotou Mountain now?"
"Excluding those brought by various families, the number of relocated prisoners has exceeded 500,000. All prisoners from the entire Wu Kingdom have been gathered here. A total of more than 1,500 villages and towns have been set up, spread over a radius of 300 miles, and fertile land has been opened up.
Hundreds of thousands of acres, no external expansion within ten years, but environmental transformation.”
"Do you have a renovation plan?"
"Yes, the sect has come up with a template. The first step is to cut down and burn the mountains. Cut down a huge number, burn low trees and the like, level the fields, and plant food.
The second step is to build water conservancy facilities to control rivers and prevent floods. The third step is to fill in some swamp lakes, which are breeding grounds for mosquitoes. Only by filling them in can diseases be reduced.
The fourth step is to build roads, connect all the more than a thousand villages and towns with roads, and strengthen the connections between the villages and towns. This can coordinate resources and eliminate the need for expenditures on the Wu Kingdom.
Some other measures are very complicated, such as establishing a mortal management system, especially the Medical Department, which is extremely important. The Wu Kingdom has mobilized 600 mortal doctors and 3,000 apprentices to reduce the burden of population losses.
It’s on them.”
"Among the relocated population, those who are not prisoners must be compensated. Not many of the 500,000 people will survive this time."
"It is natural to understand that only about half of the 500,000 prisoners can survive, but as long as they do a good job in these ten years, the survival rate of the mortals who will be moved here in the future can be improved. According to the calculations by the sect
, as long as 70% of people survive within ten years, it will be a good deal."
"I know, let's go and take a walk around the spiritual mountains."
Lin Xiao nodded. As a superior, his temperament was getting colder and colder. The lives and deaths of these five hundred thousand people were already insignificant in the face of the strategy of opening up the wilderness.
"Master, from this point of view, although the safety range of mortals is only three hundred miles, we immortal cultivators are more than that. Now our scope of activities has expanded to more than two thousand miles with Qiaotou Mountain as the center. It can be
It is said that the entire wilderness buffer zone directly under the Wu Kingdom is within the scope of our activities.
According to statistics, there are a total of thirty-five spiritual mountains of various levels within these thousands of miles. Now we have captured thirty of them, eighteen of which have been completely stabilized and produced, and the remaining twelve only need to be conquered.
It's enough to fight off a few counterattacks from monsters.
It is also ten years. In just ten more years, we will be able to completely occupy the wilderness buffer zone and move the buffer zone thousands of miles south. The situation then will be similar to that of Tianyun Prefecture five or six hundred years ago."
Lin Xiao didn't know what Tianyun Prefecture was like five or six hundred years ago, but when he was there, Tianyun Prefecture was still full of monsters and monsters. Many spiritual mountains in the territory were inhabited by monsters and monsters. Mortals under the rule did not dare to leave the mortal villages.
A hundred miles away, otherwise your life will be in danger.
However, in just two to three hundred years, Tianyun Prefecture became the Kingdom of Wu. Within the Kingdom of Wu, mortals did not have to worry about being attacked by monsters no matter where they went. Even the beasts could only tremble in the mountains and forests.
"That is to say, in the past ten years, there has been no output in the wilderness. We still need continuous support from the Wu Kingdom, right?"
"Absolutely. The level of the spiritual vein is too low, and there is not much output at all. What can make up for the income now is hunting monsters. The 20,000 troops of the Wu Kingdom gather in the wilderness buffer zone, which consumes a lot of money, so the real defense
There are only over 10,000 men and horses, and the rest have poured into the depths of the wilderness, hunting monsters and collecting elixirs and minerals to supplement their income. Even so, the entire Wu Kingdom will have to invest tens of millions of Xuanjing in a year."
"It's worth it. There are thirty-five spiritual mountains in the buffer zone alone. As long as we put some thought and time into it, this will be a source of wealth in the future."
"Yes, the leaders of each sect have a good vision and are investing in it. Our Tiansheng Sect now occupies eight Lingshan Mountains, and our family owns 30% of the shares in Qiaotou Mountain. As time goes by, we can still take advantage of the interests here.
Big head"
"This is our Tiansheng Sect's spiritual mountain, isn't it? All the crops grown there are spiritual rice?"
Lin Xiao pointed to a spiritual field and said that there were more than a dozen monks and a group of mortals working on it.
"Yes, it's spiritual rice. Spiritual rice is a bulk commodity. It takes up too much space to dispatch from the Wu Kingdom and is of low value. However, our Tiansheng Sect always needs to purchase part of the spiritual rice from outside. In addition, the spiritual veins here are not high.
, it is impossible to grow high-level elixirs, so spiritual rice is most suitable."
"Very good, Meng Ran, you have done a good job. Do it well. After you have laid a solid foundation for things here, you will return to the sect and prepare for a breakthrough."
"Yes, Master. Actually, I'm not in a hurry. I'm still decades away from a breakthrough."
"We are making such a big move, is there any reaction from the purple-eyed demon king?"
"The reaction is not big. Originally, the demon king closest to the buffer zone was the Tiger King. The last time the Tiger King was killed in the beast tide, the Tiger clan also suffered heavy losses. Now it is no longer able to control this area. The newly promoted fifth-level demon king is Chi
Crystal leopards, this red crystal leopard is extremely powerful individually, especially its pair of red crystals, which can hurt people's souls and make them difficult to guard against. However, their species is very small in number, less than 300 in total, and they cannot control this large area at all, resulting in
It has eliminated great confusion and given us convenience.
The Purple-Eyed Demon King doesn't seem to care about the life and death of ordinary monsters. As long as the Red Crystal Leopard is alive, it won't go crazy. That's why we didn't mobilize experts to hunt down the Red Crystal Leopard.
However, there is a spiritual mountain about 10,000 miles away from Qiaotou Mountain called Purple Thunder Peak. The Chen Kingdom was destroyed because the thunder beasts on Purple Thunder Peak were killed. It is the territory of the direct descendants of the Purple-Eyed Demon King. It is worth noting that it cannot be
"Move lightly"
"Then ignore it for the time being. The conditions for Thunder Beast cultivation are harsh and are not suitable for ordinary spiritual mountains. They will not come out easily and should not cause great harm to us."
"The monsters from Purple Thunder Peak really don't like to come out. Our losses in the years of pioneering the wilderness are actually not huge. According to incomplete statistics, the number of people our Wu Kingdom has lost in the wilderness in these years is only about 3,000, which is not as good as the beasts.
Chao killed many people in a battle, far less than the number of men and horses that could be replenished."
"It seems that the Wilderness side has entered the right track, so I don't have to worry about it. I have to go out in a while. You can sit back and take care of it. If anything happens, send the news back to the sect. Someone will take care of it over there."
Lin Xiao nodded. Nan Xuan and Jia Mengran had done a good job. It seemed that he didn't have to worry about the wild things anymore, so he had to solve other problems.