Chapter 269 Managing the Kingdom of God
Almost all the earthly immortals from the aristocratic families have fled to the capital. It seems that the earthly immortals from the dukes and nobles from all over the Ming Dynasty are also rushing to the capital. Even the princes and royal family members are running to the capital. No one knows how many earthly immortals have gathered in the capital!
Chen Jiu couldn't help but frown when he received the report from the bat soldiers around the capital.
It seems that his idea of counterattacking the capital in a short period of time may not be realized.
Even if he could give birth to three or four hundred demon gods in a short period of time, it would not work because there are too many earthly immortals in the capital. Not to mention more than three thousand, there are definitely more than two thousand five hundred.
Although the Hongmeng Sect does not know how to form a formation of ten thousand immortals, it still knows simple formations. If they organize these earthly immortals and let the True Lords lead the formation to protect themselves, it will be useless for the three or four hundred demon gods to rush forward. Other people can use the earthly immortals to hold back the three or four hundred demon gods.
What's more, these earthly immortals are all aiming to become gods, and their true gods will surely increase in number. As long as they can cultivate a hundred or so true gods, and then cooperate with more than two thousand earthly immortals, it will be possible for them to kill his three or four hundred demon gods.
At this moment, there are still a million elite garrison troops and a hundred thousand elite troops from the Shenji Camp and the Shenwu Camp in the capital. He cannot take the risk.
Anyway, he has the formulas for ordinary magic pills and even resurrection pills, as well as the Honghuang Divine Cauldron that can refine magic weapons and even treasures. His strength will definitely grow faster than others. By that time, if more than 3,000 demon immortals have become gods, and even equipped with magical weapons, it will be easy for him to counterattack the capital and kill Chilian Tianzun.
Near noon that day, he was sitting cross-legged on the top of the Shen Lian Peak, wondering whether he should change his strategy and exchange fewer elixirs and more magical artifacts. Suddenly, Sun Wukong, Zhu Tianpeng and Niu Dali came together.
They probably have screened all the mortals in the Kingdom of God.
Sure enough, Sun Dasheng bowed and said, "Master, we have carefully checked the mortals in the seventeen kingdoms of God, and there are about 1.5 million people with spiritual roots."
ah!
so much?
Chen Jiu was stunned when he heard this.
At this moment, Patriarch Hongyun has withdrawn all the people from Qingyang Zhang family. They no longer do business in Yingzhou. He still has to find a way to solve the food and salary problem for the 500,000 troops outside. Now another 1.5 million is coming, which means 2 million!
How much is the food and wages for an army of two million?
He gets a headache just thinking about it.
This matter cannot be delayed any longer. After all, it involves two million people, and delaying it for even a day would be disastrous.
He thought about it carefully, and then said decisively: "Okay, you transform into the size of ordinary people and go to the hall under Linlang Peak to wait. I will go and pick up you junior brothers and discuss it carefully."
After saying that, he quickly rushed to Sishui Pass and brought over eight disciples including Yu Dayou.
As the meal had not started yet, he simply summoned Patriarch Hongyun, Tianzun Yuyi, Zhenjun Wuyun, and eight little fairies.
Everyone thought they were gathering for a big meal , but who knew that the table was empty.
Chen Jiu raised his hand slightly to signal everyone to sit down, and then he said solemnly: "We now have an army of 500,000. It is estimated that we will soon expand to 2 million. We should also find a way to solve the food and wages of these two million troops. Dayou, tell me first, how much food and wages are needed for two million troops per month."
Yu Dayou thought about it carefully after hearing this, and then said carefully: "If it is ordinary garrison elites, the kind without spiritual roots and without practicing the way of qi and blood, two million troops would require about four to five million taels of silver a month, and about four to five million dan of grain.
If there are people with spiritual roots who have cultivated the way of Qi and blood, their salary will be at least five times higher. If they reach the level of Earth Immortal, it will be ten times higher. People can follow us because they are loyal to the master. Otherwise, they can earn a hundred, a thousand, or even ten thousand times more money by doing anything.
As for food, those who practiced the techniques, especially those who practiced the way of Qi and Blood, can eat more than ordinary people. Forty to fifty million dan of food a month is probably not enough. At least another forty to fifty million jin of meat will be needed. "
My God, are the people who practice martial arts so difficult to train?
A month's food and wages are calculated in tens of millions of taels or tens of millions of shi, and it also requires tens of millions of kilograms of meat!
Chen Jiu was stunned when he heard this.
How to raise this?
To put it bluntly, even if all the money, grain and meat of the Ming Dynasty were used, it might not be enough to feed two million soldiers who practiced martial arts.
He could find a solution in the Kingdom of God, but the problem was, with so much money, grain and meat, how many people would be needed to plant, raise, mine, and smelt them?
He really can't figure this out.
He thought for a long time before asking , "Who knows how much grain is produced per mu in the Kingdom of God?"
Wuyun Zhenjun said without hesitation: "At least five stones per mu."
Well, 50 million shi a month means 600 million shi a year.
Chen Jiu asked again: "Master Turtle, how many crops can be grown in the Kingdom of God in a year?
True Lord Wuyun said without hesitation: "If we ignore the mortals inside and let them plant whatever they want, they usually plant two crops a year. If you issue an oracle to urge them, there will be no problem planting four seasons a year."
You can grow crops in four seasons a year, but you can't calculate it based on one mu and five shi. After all, this is the food grown by people, and they have to feed their families. If you collect one shi out of one mu and five shi, the tax is 20%, which is already cruel enough. If it's any crueler, it would be extortion.
In other words, each acre can only produce one stone of grain.
Six hundred million divided by four equals 150 million acres!
How many people are needed to farm 150 million acres?
A normal person would be exhausted after planting 15 acres of land. So if you calculate it this way, it would take 10 million people working hard to plant the land!
There are so many mortals in the kingdom of God , but the problem is that not all of these mortals are young and strong enough to farm, and they also have to raise livestock.
It seems that there is no way to solve the problem of food. It would be fine if these people did not practice martial arts, as they do not eat much and can still feed themselves. But once you teach them martial arts, it will be troublesome. They don’t even have enough food to eat, and they are still fighting for you?
It seems that we can't be greedy. Two million troops is a bit too much and cannot be supported at all.
Chen Jiu thought about it carefully, and then asked: "Great Sage, are those with spiritual roots all young and strong?"
Sun Dasheng was a little puzzled and asked: "Master, what is young and strong?"
Oh my god, I forgot to tell my apprentice this!
Chen Jiu roughly explained: "Young and strong people are around 20 years old, and they are men. Women cannot go to the battlefield."
Sun Dasheng thought for a long time before he said carefully: "Master, if that's the case, then among the 1.5 million people, only about half are young and strong, because there are both men and women, young and old, and there are more young and strong, but not all of them are young and strong."
Well, it seems that I was thinking too much. It is impossible to gather an army of two million. It would be good enough to gather an army of one million people who can practice all-round skills.
Chen Jiu nodded slightly, and then asked: "Master Turtle, if you practice the Five Elements Kung Fu, will farming be very powerful?"
True Lord Wuyun said without hesitation: "Of course, you don't know that some True Lords in the God Realm are very good. They are afraid that the mortals in their kingdoms will get tired, so they always use their divine consciousness to help the mortals to farm. He alone can do what millions of mortals do in a month by working hard for just one or two days."
Well, what I mean is, if a True Lord goes to farm, one True Lord can easily farm 15 million acres, and ten True Lords can also easily farm 15 million acres.
The question is, let the True Lord go farming, okay?
Chen Jiu subconsciously looked at Master Wuyun and the others.
Wuyun Zhenjun and the others nodded repeatedly and said, "Master Jiu, if you need help, just let me know. We don't have much to do anyway, so a day or two will be no problem."
Uh, that's not what I meant. I just glanced at you subconsciously.
Unexpectedly, the three fairies including Biyun Tianzun also said with interest: "Master Turtle, farming is fun, right? We can also try it."
Uh, Tianzun goes to farm!
Well, if it's for fun it's fine.
It seems that the food problem is not a big problem. If the problem persists, it would be easy to train the old, weak, women and children who have spiritual roots and let them farm.
Chen Jiu smiled slightly and said, "Let's talk about this later. Is it difficult to refine gold and silver in the Kingdom of God? Has anyone of you tried it?"
Patriarch Hongyun said without hesitation: "This is very simple. Any earthly immortal can refine tens of thousands of taels of gold and silver in a day. This is just for those who have only learned gold-related skills. If they have learned both gold-related skills and fire-related skills, the amount will be even greater."
Chang Er Zhenjun was puzzled and said, "Master Jiu, why are you refining gold and silver? Why not refine gold essence and silver essence directly? Although those things are not very valuable, if you have more, you can exchange them for a lot of immortal pills."
Well, it looks like there's no problem with gold and silver.
Chen Jiu thought about it, and simply waved his hand and said, "Let's go, how about we go to the Kingdom of God to see what's going on? Xiaoyun, drive a cloud out, and we'll go to the sky to see."
Upon hearing this, the Yunxia Beast immediately raised a large auspicious cloud outside and soon brought everyone to the top of the entrance to the kingdom of the gods.
Chen Jiu randomly picked a wood-type kingdom and told everyone how to get in and out, and everyone's spiritual sense swept in.
This place is actually similar to the New Domain, except that there is an area of farmland, villages and cities in the middle.
Chen Jiu pointed to a sparse forest of about 100 miles in radius in the mortal settlement area with his spiritual sense and said, "Master Turtle, try to turn that sparse forest into fertile farmland."
This was too easy. As soon as True Lord Wuyun moved his spiritual consciousness, the sparse trees were like being shredded in half by a crusher, and they turned into powder and scattered all over the ground. Then, he moved his spiritual consciousness again, and the weeds and debris on the ground were burned into black ashes. Then, his spiritual consciousness moved again, and the area within a hundred miles rolled up like a tumbling earth dragon.
"Okay, this land can be used to grow food."
Oh my god, it's so easy!
Chen Jiu simply brought a mountain of grain from the city's warehouse and scattered it down, then said to the Cloud Beast: "Xiaoyun, bring some rain."
With a whoosh, a huge white cloud rushed up to the sky and soon turned into a dark cloud, and then heavy rain fell down.
Chen Jiu wrapped a ball of wood spiritual energy and poured it into the seeds. The seedlings quickly grew to about a foot tall.
That's about it. All we need is some rain from time to time, and we can harvest the crops in two or three months.
How many acres are there in an area of over a hundred miles? Even though they don’t think it’s big, it’s actually two to three million acres!
Chen Jiu said decisively: "Okay, I'll trouble you guys with the food, Grandpa Turtle, just get it like this, and then arrange people to watch around and harvest it when it's ripe."
This is too simple. For a true lord, farming is a piece of cake for him.
Then, he randomly found a golden kingdom, told everyone how to enter and exit, and then led everyone's spiritual consciousness in.
There are mineral soils, ores and mines everywhere.
Chen Jiu looked at it carefully, and then asked: "Master Rabbit, how do you refine these?"
Chang Er Zhenjun said without hesitation: "Wrap the ore with your spiritual consciousness and throw it into the Fire God Kingdom. It will be very fast to refine it using the fire spirit energy in the Fire God Kingdom. But you need to prepare a good set of tools."
Oh, it turns out that the True Lord is directly refining gold and silver or gold essence and silver essence in the gold kingdom.
Today Chen Jiu wanted to take a closer look at how this kingdom of God was run.
He simply sat down cross-legged and started to crack the fire kingdom next to him.
He was luckier this time and cracked it in about quarter of an hour.
He directly told everyone how to get in and out, and then led everyone's spiritual consciousness to take a look. Then he used his spiritual consciousness to transmit a message: "Who has a good one? Try it and show it to me."
There was a clanging sound, and immediately a bunch of furnaces, molds, big pots and so on appeared in the Fire God's Kingdom. I don't know how many people wanted to refine something for him to see.
They simply threw the ore, coal, charcoal, etc. into a large furnace that was dozens or even hundreds of feet high, and then poured fire spiritual energy into it. After a burst of fierce fire, the ore turned into gold and silver liquid and flowed into the huge mold.
Chang Er Zhenjun seemed to have brought in some water and sprayed it on the mold, then he said lightly: "Okay, if you want gold and silver, these are enough. If you want gold essence and silver essence, you have to put them into that sophisticated furnace and put them in the lava to refine for an hour or so."
It’s so simple, it seems that no earthly immortal is needed. As long as the spiritual awareness is strengthened a little and the furnace is made smaller, an ordinary spiritual officer can do the job.
It seems that the business of refining gold, silver, copper and iron essences can really be done.
Seeing this, Chen Jiu already had an idea in his mind.
