The voices of these "Song Dynasty" officials were extremely low, and in fact they were only used as a foil for someone's inspection, as long as they didn't say something too taboo, the attendants didn't even bother to pay attention to it. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Yan Fulong and Wang Cong'er are walking behind Wei Ye, among the Taoist officials, this couple has the highest Dao rank, Yan Fulong is an old subordinate who has followed Wei Ye for many years and has been promoted all the way from the position of Taoist soldiers, compared with the young Taoist officials trained in those academies, they are more affectionate.

But because of this, Yan Fulong, the Taoist envoy, became more and more uncomfortable-

This time, Daohai Zongyuan used troops against Liao, and he, Yan Fulong, as an important general, was bound to be of great use, but under his management, there was such a big mistake in Zhuozhou City! The envoy of the Song army who was detained in the state government suddenly attacked, and there were inexplicable assassins who appeared, and even the camp roar broke out in the camp of the exile camp, which almost let these people break out.

Although looking at the appearance of the lord, it is a way to treat the funeral as a happy event, and it is definitely necessary to "commend advanced collectives and advanced individuals", showing the strong combat effectiveness of Daohai Zongyuan to the outside world. Among them, the technical chief officer led by Mu Lan resolutely suppressed the chaos at the moment when the camp roared among the displaced people, which was quite eye-catching in the battle that was almost overturned by the assassins.

Otherwise, the lord would not have picked this time to inspect the progress of the fortress in the outer city of Zhuozhou.

Mu Lan didn't notice anything, but according to his habit in the Lihuo Cutting Academy, if there was anything that needed to be explained about the entire fortress project, he stepped forward to perform his duties as a technical officer, and reported the data one by one. After saying that, he walked directly back to the queue of Taoist officials.

Everyone knows what kind of temperament the Taoist official of the Fire Cutting Golden Academy is, but when it comes to dealing with them so really, it doesn't feel very adaptable.

Of course, the head teacher of Daohai Sect Origin didn't say anything, so everyone had to smile and nod.

After turning the entire octagonal fortress, the Taoist officials had no opinion. According to their opinion, the progress of this fortress can only be regarded as unsatisfactory, the thickness of the wall is only eight feet, and the defense against trebuchets or something is competent, but in the face of heavy artillery fire, the eight-foot thick wall seems to be thin.

However, fortunately, there is also a five-way fire array in the fortifications of the fortress, and under the strengthening of the five-party fire array, this bamboo-reinforced concrete fortress should have a qualitative leap in defensive power, and there is no need to be harsh.

The immortal warlock stretched his waist, exhaled again, turned his head to look at Yan Fulong and his wife, and beckoned very casually: "I'm a little thirsty when I patrol such a section." Yan Fulong, Wang Cong'er, according to you, you also provided Zhao Liangsi and his group with excellent group tea? These thieves and birds refuse to accept it, so let's go and order some tea soup to quench our thirst!"

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The words were said lightly, but when the chief Taoist officials led by Yan Fulong followed Wei Ye to the state office, there was no room for cooking tea and talking.

Everyone sat down and listened to Wei Ye's lecture first:

"I thought that you were also experienced in wars, not characters like Zhao Kuo and Ma Tan, but this time we fought with an opponent in the shadows, and our shortcomings were exposed. ”

Putting down the teacup, the immortal warlock still shook his head: "After thinking about it carefully, whether you Yan Fulong exterminated those traitors of the Blood Neck Sect of Zhehe Ninja in Ganshan, or the Cossack pioneer group who bullied the Rakshasa country in the northeast, where is this a serious war? Those traitors of Zhehe Ninja are nothing more than relying on the blood courage of martyrdom for the Lord, and use their heads to catch your Liujia arrows." Even those Cossacks in Russia, who have no serious heavy firepower in their hands, will be crushed by a volley of arrows from the Taoist soldiers. ”

"From the beginning to the end, it was my Daohai Sect Origin who was bullying the barbarians with the vast majority of Dao skills and guns, making you think that this unequal war was the essence of war. But if you change to an opponent who is also proficient in magic, don't say anything about 'chess opponents, will meet good materials', look, look, a Qingxu doctor, a Bixu lady, and two high-level Taoist officials can be regarded as a draw, if I hadn't rushed back in time, Zhao Liangsi would have been able to run across the Baigou River in one go!"

Speaking of this, the immortal warlock stood up and paced in a circle: "The past does not forget the teacher of the future, gentlemen, you must learn from it! Don't think that the fire suppresses this set, and it is easy to use it anywhere." Among our opponents this time, there are quite a few forces that have experience in the battlefield use of magic. If you fool things with the mentality of an outing like this, you will suffer a big loss sooner or later!"

Speaking of this, the immortal warlock took a sip of the half-warm tea soup and turned his head to look at Wang Cong'er: "Yan Fulong is certainly careless this time, but what about you, Wang Cong'er?

Wang Cong'er, who was named, could only stand up and be trained: "What Shijun criticized was that our internal supervision work was not in place enough, so that we were careless and let the enemy take advantage of the loopholes. ”

In this regard, Wei Ye just waved his hand: "That's it, the main mirror of a lotus light fixed spirit mirror plus a few mirror mirrors can't establish a complete monitoring system, and we are now short of human resources, and it is expected that there will be mistakes." But—"

Speaking of this, the Immortal Warlock's voice suddenly rose by three points: "Since the human resources are insufficient, then we have to work elsewhere for now." No matter what else my Daohai Sect originates, some spells and magic weapons can still be taken out. ”

Hearing this, the Dao officials led by Yan Fulong suddenly showed a clear look - war is to burn money, and what Daohai Zongyuan is not afraid of is burning money.

The Great Song Dynasty is known as the richest civilized country in this era, although the land area is far inferior to that of the Han and Tang Dynasties, but the comprehensive national strength is better than that of the Liao State and the Western Xia. Not to mention, since Zhao Kuangyin, Zhao Song has always regarded "strong cadres and weak branches" as a family heirloom of the emperor's heart, in order to prevent the recurrence of the disaster of the five dynasties of feudal towns, not only in the military system has made many restrictions, but even the local financial power has been fully collected by the imperial court. In addition, Wang Anshi's reform during the reign of Shenzong actually made a fuss about financial revenue, which supported the Huanghuang Great Song Dynasty, a regime with redundant officials and a redundant army.

But even so, there is always a limit to the productivity of an agrarian society. As far as pig iron production is concerned, since Zhao Ji succeeded to the throne, the annual income of pig iron is only more than 10,000 tons.

However, this data is nothing under the rule of Daohai Zongyuan, and the annual output of steel in Foshan Town alone is about 30,000 tons - this is still the data after the iron smelting industry in Foshan Town gradually changed from extensive production to deep processing of iron products. The Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant alone produces about 300,000 tons of pig iron and crude steel per year.

However, such a steel output was only exchanged for Wei Ye's ridicule: "With the power of the whole country to put into production, and with the promotion of black technology, the output of Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant is only slightly stronger than the Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant built by Zhang Zhidong in the Guangxu period of the late Qing Dynasty, with a full score of 100 points, which is enough to give a passing grade." ”

Although several steel cities have been put into production thanks to the technological leap promoted by Daohai Zongyuan and the Red Copper Crown Group, the combined production of pig iron and crude steel is less than 4 million tons, which is only similar to that of the second-rate industrial countries in the mid-19th century.

However, with such a productive force, there is absolutely no problem in beating the two countries of Song and Liao.

Not to mention, the Daohai Sect is still a serious Immortal Dao Sect.

A cultivation sect that operates in a time and space with a lower energy level can leave three or five inheritance magic weapons, which can be regarded as a great sect if it can be regarded as wealthy, and if it can allow each inner disciple to have a spell-level equipment, it will be considered a great sect.

However, in Daohai Zongyuan, even if they are just Dao soldiers who have just embarked on the path of cultivation, once they go to the battlefield, they are all equipped with a three-piece set of spell-level standard equipment such as Liujia arrows, fire bronze magic swords, and talisman Dao clothes.

But at the level of Taoist officials, the magic weapons distributed are very unsatisfactory, in addition to the treatment of ordinary Taoist officials in the past, they are also a three-piece set of Liujia arrows, fire copper magic swords and talisman Taoist clothes. Although later, under the guidance of someone, the Lihuo Jinyuan began to focus on the sacrificial refining methods of various magic mirrors, except for female Taoist officials and some civilian Taoist officials, everyone's acceptance of carrying mirrors with them was not too high.

Even a local dignitary like Yan Fulong is equipped with the same magic weapons, only there are more mixed yuan boxes for storage, and there are also magic seals that indicate the identity of the Daomen's prestige envoy - Yan Fulong's Zhou Tian Fire Sword, Wang Cong'er's Lotus Light Tranquility Mirror, or the light of the activities of the Mind Snatchers in Zhuoyi Erzhou.

So hearing Wei Ye say that "some spells and magic weapons, you can still take them out", it aroused everyone's interest.

Although everyone didn't speak, they looked at the eyes of a certain master master, and they were full of curiosity.

However, what flashed in someone's palm was still a round and flat piece of metal—

It's another magic mirror.

Except for the slight difference in the talisman on the back of the mirror, it is difficult for anyone to see the essential difference between this palm-sized bronze mirror and the magic mirrors that were previously issued to grassroots Taoist officials.

Looking at the magic mirror that was less than the size of a palm, the Taoist officials attending the meeting finally could no longer hide the disappointment on their faces.

Everyone knows that in addition to the lotus light mirror that Shijun specially gave to Wang Cong'er, which can be regarded as a wonderful treasure, most of the magic mirrors are still in accordance with the idea of "taking the image of the sun and the moon and understanding the spirits" of the Daomen mirror.

However, this kind of magic mirror is not a killing weapon after all, and the kind of magic that specializes in the magic of blinding the eyes and the illusion change technique is not suitable for playing a role when the two armies are facing each other. Only those Dao officials who are responsible for dealing with mutated demons and ghosts have a rigid need for this kind of magic mirror.

As for Mu Lan, who is accustomed to carrying a turtle with a mirror to perform forbidden techniques, he is particularly eye-catching and unsociable when mixed with the provincial officials of the north and south who are keen on military exploits.

All in all, whether it is an ordinary magic mirror like the Turtle Bu Han Elephant Mirror or a unique treasure mirror like the Lotus Light Tranquility Mirror, it is not a very popular equipment among the Dao officials of the Daohai Sect. When the Taoist officials mentioned Yan Fulong's newly acquired Zhou Tian Flame Sword, their eyebrows fluttered, and they were very envious.

So above the meeting, only Wei Ye's voice sounded faintly: "Well-informed people should know about the electrical experiments that Murong Parrot is carrying out, right? A while ago, some people took the stories from the pile of old papers and applied to the two governments for the project budget for the research and development of rune letters, but why was it not approved? Because Murong Parrot has already successfully trial-produced a wired telegraph, pulled up a ten-mile-long communication line, and the central command can be reached instantly—what does this mean? This means that the communication work that has been done for thousands of years by relying on the dead horses of the messenger can now save a lot of manpower and material resources as long as the telegraph line is long enough. Compare what our allies have come up with, and you'd rather be worthy of it?"

Speaking of this, the sarcasm became even stronger: "Among you, some of you are also from the Fire Cutting Academy, and some of you have heard Wei teach in person, but this insight always has a bit of a smell of 'respecting the past and thinning the present'. When Murong Parrot was studying the telegram, what was the idea of the rune transmission technique under my Daohai Sect Sect?"

In addition to having less labor and horse material than the post messenger, this kind of messenger is not as good as the rush of military information transmission in the past! Even compared with the carrier pigeon in the army, the paper crane is much more dangerous to be disturbed by magic and intercepted. ”

Daohai Zongyuan's master shook his head mockingly, and then put the small bronze mirror in his hand on the coffee table beside him: "Although the Dao technique I have passed down is probably aimed at punishing evil and purifying filth, I don't want you all to become firepower-only battle maniacs. Especially at the moment when the opponent in the dark also has a masterful magic inheritance, it doesn't mean that the salvo of Liujia arrows is the panacea for victory on the battlefield. This time, on the surface, it was the battle of Yanyun that interfered in the Song, Liao, and Jin Kingdoms, but behind it, there were forces under the table that were playing secretly everywhere. In such an environment, we must not be blind and dumb in the first place, but also be flexible, so an efficient and stable liaison system is essential——"

Speaking of this, the immortal warlock flicked the magic mirror in his hand, and the buzzing sound echoed in the council hall, but Wang Cong'er, who was closest to Wei Ye, suddenly found that the Lotus Light Tranquility Mirror he was wearing with him also sounded softly: "Master, this is-"

"Although the magic mirror that was transferred this time is still the turtle Bu Hanxiang mirror issued by the Taoist official, but when the mirror was cast, it was slightly changed in imitation of the mirror pattern of the lotus light fixed spirit mirror. ”

Speaking of this, the immortal warlock picked up the turtle Bu Han mirror in his hand, and with a little fingertip, he drew a talisman seal, but in an instant, a rune with the same stroke was revealed on the lotus light fixing mirror.

None of the people present were stupid people, looking at the changes between the two magic mirrors, Yan Fulong's head reacted one by one: "Master, this means that you can directly use the magic mirror to communicate in the future?"

"In theory, yes, but in practice it's not that simple. Playing with the magic mirror in his hand, the immortal warlock still habitually poured a basin of cold water over: "There is also a distance limit between the magic mirrors, based on the energy level of the turtle and elephant mirror that you are accustomed to, the limit of the two magic mirrors echoing each other is about ten miles, and beyond this distance, you must rely on the third magic mirror as a relay station for signal forwarding." ”

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