"Haha, you don't understand this!" Song Zhong said with a smile: "Zhu Rongtian's materials are not rich, and they won't give you more if you ask for it. So I simply don't want it and sell it to them as a favor. This way If so, will our military strength and craftsmen be available? You know, they have a lot of idle craftsmen now, and I promise to give them a lot as soon as they are needed!"
"But what are the craftsmen doing here? Also, without the formation materials, your city wall will not be strong even if it is built?" Feng Xi said in surprise.
"Don't worry, I will prepare the materials for carving the formation, and I will make sure nothing goes wrong!" Song Zhong said with a smile: "As for those craftsmen? Hehe, I am of great use. By the way, you can stay behind in the city. A special area is designated to house these craftsmen. The place must be sealed. The things I want them to build are confidential and must not be leaked! Do you understand?"
"Yes, I understand!" Although Feng Xi was surprised, he agreed happily.
Then, Song Zhong ordered: "In that case, then you can give this thing away later. By the way, I will report directly to Lord Huode Xing. Has there been any overstep? Will the Emperor Zhongyue blame me?"
When Feng Xi heard this, he immediately smiled and said: "Don't worry, sir. Although you are one level lower than Emperor Zhongyue, there is no subordinate relationship between you. Lord Huodexing is your direct superior."
Later, Feng Xi carefully explained: "You have to understand that neither Heaven nor Zhu Rongtian wants to see the Four Seas Dragon Realm controlled by a certain person!"
When Song Zhong heard this, he immediately understood. This is obviously a check and balance policy from heaven. Therefore, the rights of this place were divided into five to avoid the emergence of a domineering earth emperor in the Four Seas Dragon Realm.
After understanding, Song Zhong nodded, and then smiled and said: "Yes, I understand! By the way, didn't you arrange to recruit monks to build the city wall? Why did you come here?"
"That's it!" Feng Xi hurriedly explained: "Those guys saw the mountains of materials you piled up in the warehouse, and they were all greedy to death, so they all wanted to get rid of the purple jade, and instead asked for materials to compensate them for their wages! This matter I don’t dare to decide, so I’m here to ask for your advice!”
"That's it!" Song Zhong smiled slightly and said, "Okay, anyway, I still have plenty of materials here, so just go ahead and arrange it!"
"Yes!" After hearing this, Feng Xi immediately agreed, and then said again: "Sir, there is another thing. You know, I am the city lord of another place. Chentang Pass is not under my control! I occasionally intervene during the war. It’s okay, but as the war ends, my identity will be awkward? Look at this~”
"Yes!" Song Zhong nodded, and then said: "Otherwise, you can come to Chentangguan as a city guard in the future! Leave your original place to your deputy!"
"Ah? Isn't this appropriate?" When Feng Xi heard this, he immediately said in a dumbfounded voice: "Sir, does Chentangguan not have the position of city guard? Are you, the commander-in-chief, just a military and political officer?"
"I don't care about this. In short, just come and be the city guard!" Song Zhong waved his hand impatiently and said: "I don't have that much free time to manage. I only care about fighting. You can handle all other government affairs. !”
"This~" Before Feng Xi could object, Song Zhong disappeared directly in front of him and went to recover from his injuries.
Feng Xi had no choice at this time. However, although Song Zhong's actions were somewhat irresponsible, Feng Xi felt warm in his heart. After all, being given an important task represented Song Zhong's trust and optimism in them, right
Thinking of this, Feng Xi slowly left with complicated emotions.
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One day later, Huode Xingjun in Zhu Rongtian received an official document from Song Zhong. In fact, he had already received information about what happened to Song Zhong through other channels, but the official document would be later. After all, the losses after the war, the number of kills, and the merits of each individual had to be calculated. This all takes time.
Mr. Huo Dexing, who was sitting high on the chair, looked at the official document sent from below. His mood was surprised, happy, and embarrassed. In short, it was extremely complicated.
Chentangguan was raided and suffered heavy losses. This was what surprised him. Song Zhong won a great victory and killed two great demons at the level of Daluo Jinxian. This was what he was happy about. But the reward afterwards would make things difficult for him.
He knew that 17 of Chentangguan's eighteen city defenses had been shattered. How much manpower and material resources would it cost to rebuild the 17 thousands of miles of city defenses? Obviously, it was impossible for Chen Tangguan to reimburse these things, and they couldn't afford it, so Zhu Rongtian had to pay for them.
Ordinary things are fine, even the purple jade Zhu Rongtian is not lacking, but those mid- and low-level materials used to set up the formation restrictions will kill Huode Xingjun! Originally, he didn't have much of these things. After all, he had to supply tens of millions of troops to the five emperors with ordnance and various supplies, and the consumption involved was an extremely terrifying figure.
The materials for 17 city defenses are not a small amount. If it were normal, Huode Xingjun could still squeeze it out. However, with the depletion of the mines around Zhu Rongtian, the materials he has now can only barely survive. Extra support for Song Zhong
Therefore, Lord Huodexing picked up Song Zhong's official document with a worried mind, and then frowned at it. However, as the reading continued, the sadness on Mr. Huodexing's face gradually disappeared and was replaced by a burst of surprise.
"Haha, did this silly boy forget to ask me for something?" Mr. Huo Dexing couldn't help shouting excitedly.
It turned out that when he saw Song Zhong's official document, he had no intention of asking him for materials at all, but only asked for support of troops and craftsmen. He immediately thought that Song Zhong had forgotten it. But then he thought about it again and felt that Song Zhong didn't seem to be such a stupid person.
However, no matter what, Lord Huo Dexing had a very good attitude towards Song Zhong's official document. Without saying a word, he took out a large pen and approved to give Song Zhong an additional 300,000 heavenly soldiers and generals with a swipe of his pen. , and also allocated 500,000 craftsmen to him!
To be honest, the number of these troops and craftsmen is indeed quite large. But to Huodexingjun, this is nothing at all. The troops are allocated by Heaven, and he doesn't feel bad if they are given to him. As for the craftsmen, it was because of the shortage of materials that they had a batch of spare work. Song Zhong just needed it, so give them all to him!
From Huo Dexingjun's point of view, I don't care if you forgot to ask for the materials, I will treat you as if you don't need them anyway. Allocating so many people to you is just to shut your mouth. Even if you think about it later and want to ask for materials again, I can use this as an excuse to refuse!
After settling this matter, Huode Xingjun was in a much better mood, and along with it, the rewards for meritorious people such as Song Zhong also became extremely generous.
Then, Lord Huodexing wrote the official document of approval and gave it to his subordinate officials to deliver it to Song Zhong. At the same time, he also told them to tell Song Zhong that his contribution was enough. If you want anything, please speak quickly!
This heartwarming gesture is nothing more than winning people's hearts. At the same time, it can be regarded as a compensation for Huode Xingjun for plotting against Song Zhong.
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When Lord Huodexing's subordinates came to Chentangguan with official documents, they were stunned on the spot. The reason lies in the almost terrifying project of building the city wall.
In the past, the city walls of Chentangguan were all built with mountain rocks, but now, they are all made of iron!
There are two to three million monks and immortals working hard on the construction site that is thousands of miles long. In just two days, they had used magic power to dig the foundation, a large pit two hundred feet deep and a hundred miles wide.
Then, countless alchemy furnaces were set up, many of which were brought by each sect themselves. The mixed liquid of iron mother and other materials refined with real fire was poured continuously into the large pit, and it was almost filled with a layer.
Although this job is very difficult to do, even the immortals find it difficult to do it. But everyone who participated was extremely excited and hurriedly worked hard. No one complained or was lazy! This made Huode Xingjun's subordinate officials puzzled.
He couldn't help but secretly inquire about it, and then he found out that it turned out that the thousands of miles of city wall was divided into dozens of equal sections and contracted out to different sects. Song Zhong put down his words. The first sect to complete the work will be rewarded with a variety of intermediate and advanced materials. The second and third place will also be rewarded!
This greatly stimulated the sect's enthusiasm for work, so in order to catch up with the progress, they would not hesitate to move their own furnaces and send disciples to work in shifts, with the purpose of grabbing the first place.
Of course, in order for the disciples to have no complaints, these sects may have made a promise that as long as they get first place, everyone will have some kind of reward. Even if you don't get first place, some special rewards will be given to the disciples who have worked hard.
Therefore, under this stimulation, these monks will work so crazily. The crazy energy was no less than fighting against the enemy of life and death, so much so that Huode Xingjun's subordinate officers couldn't help but marvel at it.
In addition, what this subordinate officer is more concerned about is where Song Zhong's materials come from. You know, it seems that no one except Zhu Rongtian can provide such a large-scale iron mother? But the problem is, if Zhu Rongtian suddenly takes out so many materials, will he not have enough? That would delay normal production and affect the military supplies of the five heavenly emperors. Is this a serious crime? I'm afraid no one would dare to risk going to the Immortal Execution Platform to sell Song Zhong so many materials.
If this is the case, where did the materials in Song Zhong's hands come from? This made Huode Xingjun's subordinate officials puzzled!