A madman may not be a genius, but the absolute majority of geniuses are madmen.

In the face of Liu Xing, who is both like a genius and more like a madman, it is superfluous for the seed master to know that he has any doubts.

Every time Liu Xing, who is like a genius and a madman, proposes a large framework, Yelu Bashen, a madman-like craftsman, can take the Hunter Valley in the depths of Wutai Mountain with the skilled craftsmen who are now said to have reached 50,000 to turn it into a real thing, and quickly put it into practice.

For such a pair of skillful partners, whether it is Seed Master Zhong or Zong Ze, they all understand that it is useless to question more, just wait and see as the two turn those strange ideas into reality again and again.

In the minds of the two, Liu Xing was already similar to a genius and madman in terms of engineering and technology, but what the two of them didn't expect was that Liu Xing didn't let the two of them come to the front this time just to plan to quickly prepare for the Royal Navy's ironclad fleet led by giant ships.

"Senior Uncle and Zong Shuai, I mainly want the two of you to reach an agreement with me this time, and jointly sign to allow me to set up a merchant army in the Hunter Valley." Seeing that the two of them no longer talked about the Royal Navy, Liu Xing finally decided to say the theme of summoning the two of them here.

The Hunter Valley and the Ghost-faced Red Turban Army were the base camp of Liu Xing's sudden rise to prominence, and with the valley where it was easy to advance and retreat, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and more protected by the gods and men, Liu Xing created a new poem against gold.

However, since walking out of Wutai Mountain, the ownership of the Hunter Valley has caused many controversies in the court. Zhao Ding, Yang Shi, and Hu Anguo knew that the Hunter Valley could create many fresh and sharp weapons that could not be made anywhere else in this world, so they had been begging that valley to be completely owned by the court of the Northern Dynasty.

However, every time Su Dong, Ma Kuo, Wang Mingde, Su Quan and others learned that Zhao Ding, Yang Shi and others proposed to return the Hunter Valley to the imperial court, they would immediately jointly write a letter and strongly oppose it.

What are the reasons for the opposition of the Su brothers, Ma Kuo, Wang Mingde and others? There are two reasons for this. One of them is that the Hunter Valley was originally given to Liu Xing by the Divine Realm Tianzun Juan San Lang. If the land given by people in the divine realm is changed without permission, it will inevitably cause discord between the gods and the human world.

Today's trend. The Demon Dao Ming helped the Jurchens and was infiltrating and controlling the Mengwu Prairie, and the Ghost Dao secretly helped the Southern Dynasty to let King Kang support him for so long. Although the strength of the Demon Spirit Dao was greatly damaged after the First Battle of the Western Xia, and there was almost no strong foundation in the Central Plains, he went to the Western Regions and helped Yelu Dashi openly and secretly.

In this case, if the Divine Realm is angered by the issue of the ownership of the Hunter Valley, it will cause the Divine Realm and the Northern Dynasty, which is actually the ruling court of the Human Dao, to turn against each other. Then no one can afford the negative impact, or even the negative effect.

Second, the Hunter Valley is now nominally in the position of the secretary of the Ministry of Industry of the Northern Song Dynasty, but anyone who has a little common sense and is not blind can see it. Jeruvarshin never went to court. He rarely came to Bianjing to attend the court meetings of the Heavenly Pivot, the Cabinet or the Privy Council.

Why? Why does a Ministry of Industry Shangshu not go to the court and do not participate in the court meeting? Because Yelu Bashen has said more than once in various sparse passages: I am not a Han minister, only loyal to the Taifu, and would rather be a retainer than a minister of the Han emperor.

Yelu Bashen was a Khitan, he was unwilling to be a vassal to the Han emperor, and his loyalty was actually Liu Xing, who really convinced him and made him sincerely admire.

Yelu Bashen Mingzhi would rather be a retainer than a courtier for the Han emperor. Under these circumstances, the Northern Dynasty needed him to continue to bring a steady stream of skilled craftsmen to make more firearms for the army.

Since he needed to make more firearms, he could not be dismissed because he was not a vassal to the Han emperor. If you can't get rid of his official, you can only let him not go to court for a long time, but hide in the Hunter Valley for a long time as a retainer of Liu Xing's family.

The industries in the Hunter Valley are all owned by Liu Xing, and the reason why the craftsmen in the Hunter Valley moved their families into the valley was that they first admired and admired Liu Xing, and then became loyal before they could be allowed to settle in the valley with their families.

Whoever has the real power should call the shots. To whom the heart belongs. Who is the master of that piece of heaven and earth?

The real power holder is Yelu Bashen, who would rather be a retainer of Liu Xing's family, if he wants the Hunter Valley to return to the imperial court. Then the first thing is to change the Ministry of Justice. Who can replace Jeruvarshin? Above the court of the Northern Dynasty, at least for now, there is no one to replace.

The hearts of the craftsmen in the 50,000 valleys belong to Liu Xing alone, and most of those craftsmen are also like Yelu Bashen, who has long hated the mediocrity and incompetence of the Zhao and Song dynasties, and the suspicious and troubled country.

Let a group of craftsmen who hated the Zhao family return to the imperial court, even if it will only cause some infighting, and then affect the supply of firearms to the various departments of the Great Song Dynasty.

In Liu Xing's words, the resulting butterfly effect would quickly bring the Northern Dynasty to the brink of collapse, and then lead to the collapse of the entire ......

No one can imagine that once the butterfly effect mentioned by Liu Xing appears, the small Hunter Valley will cause the entire Northern Dynasty to collapse, or even collapse, to what extent.

Therefore, for such a long time, Zhao Yang's faction has repeatedly decided to collect the grain and return to the dynasty, and has been repeatedly criticized by Ersu and Wang Ma and blocked back.

However, all along, whether it is the faction led by Zhao Ding and Yang Shi who "collects the grain and returns to the dynasty and unanimously serves the public", or the faction of Ersu, Ma Kuo and Wang Mingde, who are only loyal to Liu Xing and not the Great Song Dynasty in their hearts, "Baogu privatization and not return to the dynasty". They all ignored a question, that is, what Liu Xing thought in his heart.

And what about Liu Xing? Every time I was asked by people from the two factions before, I always shirked the matter from myself with extremely tactful words and means, and used Tai Chi to shirk the matter, only watching the two factions fight in front of me but never really express the true thoughts in my heart.

So why did Liu Xing express it today? It is because the missing three souls and six spirits of the old faint monarch Zhao Ji are returning to their places one after another due to the loss of the magic power of prison control, once the three souls and six spirits of the old faint monarch are all returned, he is also destined to completely wake up from that muddy and nightmare state.

Once Zhao Ji is sober, although he has sworn in Jinpan, he will never again seize the power of the dynasty with imperial power. But Jun Wu joked that it was a lie, Liu Xingcai would not believe that such an old emperor, who was used to doing things in the past, could really watch himself go over and bully the monarch after he sobered up!

Therefore, Liu Xing decided to tell his true thoughts about the Hunter Valley in his heart, and this statement was to use the strong financial resources and strength of the Hunter Valley to build a merchant army that was truly loyal to himself alone. (To be continued.) )