In Lingmu City, thousands of cavalry led their troops out of the city gate, then dispersed and marched toward the southwest. They were the third batch of sentinels. Tens of thousands of people had already gone out to prepare for the army.
Behind them, rows of monks slowly moved out. After several days of rest, Lin Xiao led an army of 1.5 million to advance to Shenmu City.
There were four city gates in a row, and it took a full day to bring out more than one million people. The procession stretched for hundreds of miles, and there were vigilant monks watching from the front, back, left, and right of the procession.
"Fellow Daoist Tan, Lingmu City is left to you. This is the most important rear area of the army. You must guard it."
"Don't worry, Alliance Leader Lin, we are here in the city."
"Okay, then I'm leaving"
Tan Minghua bid farewell to Lin Xiao and others at the gate of the city. Lin Xiao gave a long-winded instruction, then left and flew to the front of the team.
Tan Minghua waited until Lin Xiao and others left, then convened a meeting with several confidants. Lingmu City was still extremely important to the Nanzhou army. It was not only the retreat route for the army, but also the transportation center for supplies. Once it was lost, the army would be completely destroyed.
If you have no roots and are drifting, the consequences are self-evident.
"The first thing is to repair the fortifications and build a war fortress. Lingmu City fell too quickly before, and the losses of fortifications and the like were very small, but not enough. We want to turn the entire Lingmu City into a huge fortress. Even within the city,
Countless fortifications are needed, and there are more than 10,000 newly arrived prisoners in the city. All of these prisoners have been drafted as coolies. I request that this project be completed within a month.
The second thing is about the reserve of supplies. The next war will be more and more difficult to fight. The Immortal League is speeding up its efforts to clear the country. In the future, the enemies we will face will be large-scale enemies. The gains will be reduced and the consumption will increase.
Transporting it from Nanzhou is not only a long way, but also extremely dangerous and consumes too much money, so we must feed on the enemy, and Lingmu City is our rear area.
The third thing is about clearing out the remaining enemies. Although the monks in Lingmu City were defeated by us, we didn’t kill many. For Lingmu City, they must..."
Tan Minghua talked about many of his initiatives at the meeting. Tan Minghua is also a senior member of the Tianyue Sect and the boss in charge. He used to work with Lin Xiao, but his shine was overshadowed by Lin Xiao. In fact, his ability is not low, and he is in charge at this time.
Naturally, he has to make some political achievements.
Outside Lingmu City, a group of thousands of Nanzhou troops rushed into a spiritual mountain. Most of the monks in the spiritual mountain left, leaving only a few old and weak monks to look after the house, and some mortals.
There are thousands of acres of spiritual fields on the mountain. The precious elixirs and trees in the fields have been taken away, but some low-level elixirs and rice have not been destroyed or harvested.
These are the things they have grown fortunately and painstakingly, and are also their biggest source of income. They also believe that the Shenmu Sect will not be completely defeated and will fight back soon. If it is destroyed, what will happen to their future livelihoods?
There are many small forces with this attitude.
After the Nanzhou monk discovered this incident, he quickly reported it. Tan Minglun immediately sent out a team of men to plunder these things. For the army, high-level spiritual objects were indeed precious, but low-level items were the most expensive.
Naturally, a few old and weak monks couldn't stop the army. The Nanzhou monks didn't even kill them, they just knocked them unconscious. Then thousands of them became coolies and began to harvest spiritual rice.
After harvesting all the things in the spiritual field on the mountain, they went to the next spiritual mountain. There were spies in front of them to investigate, and everyone knew where there was anything left.
Three thousand miles away, in a Xuanjing mine, corpses were scattered everywhere. The monks who rushed out from Lingmu City entered here to support, but they could not stop the Nanzhou army. Bai Zichen led his team to break through the place, and almost
In a matter of days, the remaining enemies have been eliminated.
"Bai Zichen, these are the miners. They are all casual cultivators recruited by the Shenmu Sect. They have been checked several times and the people of the Shenmu Sect have been cleaned up. What are you going to do?"
"They are all a bunch of bitter people. It is useless to kill them. Tell them that not only will we not kill them, but we will continue to employ them, and we will guarantee better treatment than the Shenmu Sect. Find some disciples of the Tiansheng Sect and let them study it.
Come up with a set of incentive measures. In the future, all treatment in the mine will adopt incentive measures. The more you do, the more you will get."
"Bai Zichen, do you want to run this place? Leader Lin didn't say this."
"I didn't say you can apply. My head is not a pedantic person. If we dig out one more mysterious crystal from the enemy, the enemy will be less of a threat to us. This is called feeding on the enemy. I will do the application work, and you will help me.
That’s fine”
Bai Zichen replied that he was very familiar with Lin Xiao. As long as there was a reason for the matter and there was sufficient reason, Lin Xiao would not object and would let you do it, so he would never let this mine go to waste.
Tan Minglun had nothing to say. Lin Xiao was the head of Tiansheng Sect, so he naturally favored Bai Zichen. This was the benefit of having someone above him. Since Bai Zichen wanted to do it, he could do it.
Several Tiansheng Sect disciples quickly gathered together, and as for the incentive measures, they were quickly prepared. They checked the previous production records of this Xuanjing Mine, knew where the level was, and took one of the values. If it exceeded this value, it would be
There are rewards, and there is no upper limit. The more you do, the more you get. If you are below a certain level, just get out. As for the rest of the rules, everything remains the same.
Bai Zichen's approach made tens of thousands of miners overjoyed, and their panic quickly calmed down. They had no interest in the war between the Immortal Alliance and the Five Continents Alliance, and did not pay attention at all. They were just monks at the lowest level in the world of immortality.
Without skills, they can only be reduced to coolies. Now the people in Nanzhou are treated better than those from Shenmu Sect, so they can just work as usual.
However, these tens of thousands of people obviously cannot satisfy Bai Zichen. They have three to four hundred thousand troops stationed here. The productivity of tens of thousands of people is not enough for their own consumption, let alone to support Lin Xiao.
Bai Zichen began to recruit mortal young men. Mortal young men needed a lot of things to work. It would be a big loss to give them to Xuan Jing, so Bai Zichen sent some men out to rob mortals of supplies.
However, Bai Zichen also emphasized that it is necessary to rob the wealthy households among mortals, especially those who are full of evil and have connections with the Shenmu Sect. Anyone who inquires will know this kind of thing.
Moreover, it is very simple to rob these large households. It only takes a dozen monks to do it. Of course, there will be some immortal cultivators in those large households, and they are also the lowest level and least promising ones. If they are powerful, they will not stay.
among mortals.
Three thousand people were divided into three hundred teams, and within three days they got back a huge amount of things, ranging from food, cloth, gold and silver, jewelry to all kinds of things. Anyway, I just took what I saw, and there were plenty of storage bags anyway.
yes.
Bai Zichen then recruited 300,000 young men at one go to mine in the mines. These mortals opened a number of mines on their own, and the management was also managed by the mortals themselves. He only sent 300 people to serve as supervisors and guards.
Bai Zichen's method was extremely simple and crude. He divided these young men into countless small teams, then checked the workload of the immortal cultivators and miners, and set goals for mortals with a 50% discount. He was able to reward food, cloth, livestock, tools, and money at will, and he was extremely generous.
, If you can't do it, the leader will be killed on the spot. No matter what your reasons are, he only needs to see Xuan Jing anyway.
Bai Zichen's actions made Tan Minglun stunned. He really couldn't understand the habits of Tiansheng Sect. Sometimes he was extremely delicate when doing things, without even a single flaw, but sometimes he was too rough, like...
It's like asking a mortal to mine. I'm given a set of tools and a goal and don't care about anything else. Is this possible?
The result is naturally feasible. There is no difference in human nature between mortals and those in the world of immortals. The treatment given by Bai Zichen is extremely generous. They will only see the good things and subconsciously forget the risks. These things are too high for them.
The temptation was strong, so many leaders emerged overnight, formed their own teams of miners, and went into the mines with simple tools.
A few days later, the ore dug by the first batch of miners also reached Bai Zichen's goal, and their respective finances were rewarded in accordance with regulations. This was enough to make the rest of the mortals jealous, and the whole mood was aroused.
"The head of my family has said that it is not difficult to manage a place. You just need to be fair and just, and do what you say. As for how to formulate a reasonable policy, that will happen later. You have to make others trust you."
If you do, he will be devoted to you. You must know how to delegate power and give him autonomy."
"Been taught a lesson"
"Now that you have been taught, let's continue. The Xuanjing Mine needs to increase its manpower. In addition, there are other mines in Lingshan on the Shenmu Sect's territory. I will go and knock them down. You can follow the management behind and copy the operations here.
Just the pattern”
Bai Zichen told Tan Minglun that even one Xuanjing mine could not satisfy his appetite. There were many Lingshan mines in other places, some of which were manned and some of which were unguarded. Bai Zichen was going to take them down.
There are still nearly three million people in the Nanzhou army, and Lin Xiao has taken away half of them. There are still two hundred thousand people in Lingmu City, and there are more than one million people outside. All of these people are led by Bai Zichen.
Bai Zichen kept gathering people and troops, and then began to sweep across the Shenmu Sect's territory. There were also a large number of Shenmu Sect monks scattered on these territories. Most of them were old, weak, sick, and disabled, and they fought on their own. They were just a ragtag group of people.
Losing to Bai Zichen, Lingshan mines fell one after another.
Tan Minglun presided over the management work at the rear. He adopted the model of Xuanjing Mine. The Nanzhou monks were only responsible for safety and supervision. They just set the next goal and recruited people to complete it. The price they offered was double or twice that of the original Shenmu Sect.
, naturally many people are looking for it and there is no shortage of manpower.
In fact, this is a colonial method. This is what the Western pioneers in Lin Xiao's previous life did. They defeated the local forces, supported the faction that was close to them, and let them be responsible for the specific production. They only needed to divide it with these leaders.
Just profit.
When these people taste the sweetness, they will naturally follow them. Even if there are resisters, they will be even more excited and their will to suppress will be even stronger. This is an extremely clever method.