Pei Jinhua suddenly came to report the news, and Sun Buhui was a little confused. He thought that Chen Hai's rejection of Princess Yuecheng's marriage in public had made the whole world known. It was also said that Qin Muhou Dong Shou became so embarrassed and angry afterwards that he thought Chen Hai was killed to vent his anger. Fortunately, Chen Hai saw the opportunity quickly and escaped to Wen Boyuan's house for a while. It was almost a year ago, and everyone had almost forgotten that Pei Jinhua suddenly came here. What happened
Chen Hai glanced at Sun Buhui and couldn't help but weigh Hexi's attitude. Although Hexi was the first to set up a Taoist temple in Shicheng Ridge, he did not gain more interests in Juquan Ridge. What would Hexi think? The eldest son Cai Chou What do you think? Or maybe, even if a craftsmen's association is to be established, the Dong family should be allowed to take the lead, so that they can gain more benefits and feel more balanced
At this time, Juquan Ridge, starting from the huge supply of quenched iron materials, has actually formed a large-scale armor and war equipment casting and distribution center. Every month, thousands of high-quality armors are cast and exported to everywhere.
At this time, Juquan Ridge apparently controlled the output of quenched iron materials, but the price of quenched iron materials was jointly controlled by other forces. Juquan Ridge no longer had the final say.
"Dong Ning wants to marry Jinzhou?" Chen Hai asked in a voiceless voice.
And the craftsmen of various sects and tribes gathered in Juquan Ridge, so for the first time in thousands of years, Yanzhou had a communication platform for exchanging weapons, armor, weapons and magic weapon castings outside the academy. The machine puppet and war weapon manufacturing technology has developed unimaginably.
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After winter entered the seventy-fifth year of Emperor Yi Tian, the situation around Juquan Ridge had already made Ding Shuang, Zhou Jingyuan, Wu Meng and others dumbfounded.
Pei Jinhua was once the chief of the Seven Peaks of Taiwei Sect. He entered Yanjing with the Jinzhuo mission three years ago, and then stayed in Yanjing. He actually stayed on Dong Ning to act as a protector. Dong Ning sadly returned to Hexi. , Pei Jinhua went to Shichengling Taoist Temple to serve as a law enforcement elder.
Sun Buhui's face was full of embarrassment. He was also one of the master craftsmen of Juquan Ridge and knew about the craftsmen's meeting.
Even in the foundry of Juquan Ridge, there are more than twelve master craftsmen above the Mingqiao realm, and the only one who belongs to Zhaoyang Tinghou Mansion is Su Yuan. Outside Juquan Ridge, as many as forty or fifty people of Mingqiao Realm powerhouses gathered, representing dozens of overlords respectively, extending their tentacles into Juquan Ridge.
Although the scenery of Juquan Ridge and Juquan Lake was extremely beautiful at this time, Zhou Jingyuan, who rushed to the Zhongfeng Bamboo Forest to see Chen Hai, was not in a good mood to appreciate the scenery.
All the factions eat meat but don't spit out the bones. No one will tolerate a small faction monopolizing Juquan Ridge under the side couch.
However, it would be too hasty for each family to set up an organization like the Craftsmen's Association at this time and seek to seize the leadership of Juquan Ridge.
Seeing Sun Buhui here, Zhou Jingyuan's full of resentment could not be vented for the time being.
"Also, there are several great craftsmen in the foundry who have been planning to set up a craftsmen's association in the past few days so that the armor and puppet refining can bring out the old and the new. They seem to have good intentions, but they have hidden intentions behind them. I really can't sue anyone." Zhou Jingyuan said energetically.
The construction of the city of Liquan has nothing to do with Juquan Ridge or Tongbei Prefecture. It was jointly promoted by eight Taoist temples including Shicheng Ridge and will be jointly managed by the eight Taoist temples after its completion.
Now someone is trying to establish a craftsmen's association within Juquan Ridge with the intention of ousting their side. It's no wonder that Zhou Jingyuan is furious.
Juquan Ridge has just received its first snowfall of the year. The snow was not heavy and there was just some white accumulation on the mountains.
After taking a look at Sun Buhui, Zhou Jingyuan thought that they had some grievances and it would be okay to let the Hexi side know about it, so he said: "Today, representatives from the eight Taoist academies came to the door together to ask for the quenching supplies for the next batch. They are really going too far to deceive people by lowering the price of gold and iron materials by another 30%. As a result, the benefits we can get from quenching gold and iron materials will be minimal. The price is even only 10% of what other companies smelt quenching iron materials. One part…”
The primary mechanical beasts that Juquan Ridge initially supplied to Mojiasi were greatly improved at this time. This was precisely driven by the full communication between many craftsmen.
And when the city of Liquan is built, and a wide road connecting Liquan to the outside world is opened, the status of Juquan Ridge will be further weakened.
Pei Jinhua is past middle age, but her charm is still there. Chen Hai greets her with a smile, but her beautiful face is stretched there, standing on the bright blue spiritual sword, and she has no intention of coming down to take a breath. , said directly: "Hexi wants to marry the West Qiang Kingdom, I will come over and tell you."
Even Shichengling Taoist Temple, representing Hexi, joined forces with seven other Taoist temples to restrict Juquanling from raising the price of quenched iron materials.
It was really uncomfortable to see Zhou Jingyuan holding back something he couldn't say. Chen Hai smiled and said, "Senior Brother Sun is not an outsider, what can't he say?"
Although things generally developed according to Chen Hai's original vision, the more it went so far, the more complicated he found the many interests at stake, entangled him in it, and made it difficult to escape.
Although Sun Buhui has a good personal relationship with Chen Hai and the others, he can only obey the orders of the sect and the Hexi Protectorate in this matter. He believes that Chen Hai will not give in easily on the matter of the Craftsman Association. After all, it involves Juquan Ridge will have the future leadership, but it should make some concessions on other matters to satisfy the appetite of the families.
Chen Hai stood with his hands on his sleeves and looked into the distance. At the mountain pass less than twenty miles away from Juquan Ridge, the city named Liquan had already been built in some rudimentary form.
In this process, Chen Hai also benefited greatly from his research on the art of puppetry. However, others thought that he had received ancient inheritance and did not think that it would be of much help to him.
Although two large-scale smelting furnaces are about to be put into use, and the daily output of quenched iron materials in Juquan Ridge will increase to 40,000 kilograms, Zhou Jingyuan calculated carefully and found that the real benefits they can get from them are not even as good as at the beginning of the year. At that time, why didn't he complain
According to his idea, it was better to agree to the terms of the Black Yan Army, lure 30,000 elite Black Yan Army back into Qintong Mountain, and control the area north of Zuojin Valley, so as to avoid today's bad luck.
The bamboo forest is located at the foot of the Zhongfeng cliff. A waterfall falls from the 100-meter-high bank, forming a pool that bypasses Zhongfeng and flows to the big stream at the east foot.
At this time, a long rainbow swept over from the direction of Shicheng Ridge. Chen Hai, Sun Buhui, and Zhou Jingyuan looked up. After a while, they saw Pei Jinhua, the law enforcement elder of the Shicheng Ridge Taoist Academy. He was wearing a purple and green uniform and a graceful imperial eunuch. The sword flew.
When the Craftsmen Association was established within Juquan Ridge, it was said that it would not interfere with the senior management of Juquan Ridge. However, after it was actually established, the mid-level and senior craftsmen within Juquan Ridge became a force, not to mention that they would interfere with the management. It is very likely that it is a matter of water channels.
Chen Hai didn't know why Pei Jinhua suddenly came to Juquan Ridge, so he stepped forward and saluted, "Why did Elder Pei come to Juquan Ridge as a guest today?"
At this time, Chen Haizheng and Sun Buhui were discussing the art of swordsmanship by the creek. Su Ling was squatting on the stone bank, watching a special kind of small whitebait from Juquan Ridge swimming in the crystal clear stream.
No one is stupid. They can clearly estimate how cheap the quenched iron materials from Juquan Ridge are. How could they continue to stupidly buy them at ten times the price
Since the Hexi side had no ambition to monopolize Juquan Ridge, they were afraid of public outrage, so they still followed the opinions of other families when it came to lowering the price of tempered iron and establishing the craftsmen's association.
If he only considered finding a way to dominate and separatize the local area among the various forces, Juquan Ridge would form the current situation, and he would undoubtedly not be considered a success, but it could not be considered a failure either.
Ultimately, this is because Zhaoyang Tinghou Mansion's own power is too weak, but it occupies a great treasure that can change the world's structure. How can it be immune to itself
In addition to several secret rooms opened up in the cliff cave for hidden cultivation and weapon refining, Chen Hai's residence in Juquan Ridge was a few bamboo houses in front of the bamboo forest.
Chen Hai's personal energy is always limited, and it is impossible to take all aspects into consideration. More often, he needs to work together. However, the manpower of Zhaoyang Tinghou Mansion is still very limited. At the earliest, even one person There are no great craftsmen in the Mingqiao realm.
Unless you don't want to develop the great treasure of the Lake Mud Sand Mine, otherwise, the formation of today's balanced situation can be regarded as quite successful. The power of the Zhaoyang Tinghou Mansion is still too weak, and it cannot monopolize the great treasure of Juquan Lake.
A situation surrounded by wolves has been formed. Their big fat sheep has temporarily survived, but it will be more difficult for the big fat sheep to decide its own destiny from now on.
Although the situation evolved and developed much faster than Chen Hai expected, he did not feel too surprised or angry.
Pei Jinhua didn't want to explain any more. He glanced at Sun Buhui, Zhou Jingyuan and Su Ling, then activated his sword skills and flew towards Shichengling Taoist Temple.
The situation that Chen Hai mentioned at the beginning was surrounded by wolves, but at this time, there were eight Taoist temples around Juquan Ridge, including Shicheng Ridge, and Mojia Workshop, representing the nine major forces including the Dong family in Hexi and Yanjing respectively. At this time, there were nearly twenty large and small foundries independent of Juquan Ridge, which were the eyes of other small and medium-sized sects and sect forces in Juquan Ridge.
Zhou Jingyuan knew that after rejecting the marriage, Dong Ning sent someone overnight to inform Chen Hai to run away. It was obvious that Dong Ning had a deep affection for Chen Hai, but Zhou Jingyuan didn't know what Chen Hai thought of Dong Ning. , but thinking that since Chen Hai has rejected Dong Ning's marriage contract, the Dong family will marry Dong Ning to the Western Qiang Kingdom in exchange for the peace of the Western Border. Even if Chen Hai feels bad, this is a fact that no one can change. .
A situation of being surrounded by wolves has formed. No one wants to see other families swallowing up the fat sheep, but does that mean that the wolves will not join forces to shear the wool from the fat sheep