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After exchanging a few words with the craftsmen and women, Liu Zhiqiang took the lead and carried Mu Li to the Benevolence Hall.

The reason Wentworth had been so busy these days was because he had to deal with pressure from all sides of the government, as well as the salt merchants, and the pig farmers, who had to find raw materials for Liu Zhiqiang's mining operations (to make guns), and people who had to go to village C to collect coal mines (the internal combustion engine was used, the mountain area of village C was often sold for open-air coal inspection, some farmers were hired for Liu Zhiqiang's discovery). This was because he had to be extremely busy. Even so, it was still an official business force that took the initiative to launch an offensive. Only a portion of the merchants that maintained a neutral stance and watched on the sidelines were able to maintain their initial purchase price, but it was still a drop in the bucket.

Wen Shou knew that the Sky Valve Mountain was powerful, and was secretly called Cheng Xiang Yi Hu by the salt merchants, but this was still not enough to go against the imperial government, and their force could not resolve everything.

Thinking of these vexations, he walked past the new training ground and canteen. Seeing that there was no mud on the ground after a rainy day, he felt strange in his heart. He touched the ground and felt that the gray ground was strange. It was hard, but it didn't melt. Recently, he felt that the bank that he was in charge of was like a flowing stream of water that could not be entered! He did not think much of Liu Zhiqiang's military training. Although he guessed that Liu Zhiqiang was ambitious, but other than developing his influence in the underworld, could he really challenge the Ming dynasty?

Arriving at the assembly hall, he saw the zombie, Wen Tianjie, playing chess with a youth. Seeing this, Wen Shou forgot his worries and watched the two play.

The young man looked at the middle-aged man who looked like he was in his fifties, with a horizontal beard and goatee under his mouth. He remembered seeing the young man during the last Sky Valve Army parade, and being one of the leaders, he stood at attention, his right hand hitting his chest and said: "Reporting, Wen Lao is good!"

Wen Shou could only clasp his hands and return the greeting. He was not a soldier of the Heaven Valve, so there was no need to learn how to salute to Liu Zhiqiang's strange toy.

After that, Wen Shou Si had the teenager (Li Li Mu He) go find the boss for help (Wen Shou Si didn't seem to mind the odd salutations of the military commander, since there were only 400 soldiers, then all the gangs and bandits in the world could be changed to military, so he still called the boss in private).

Still, he used the military salute to shout, "Yes!" Then he turned around and jogged out of the door.

He could only turn his attention back to the rapidly flowing silver taels (the currency circulation in the Ming Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty was based on copper and not silver, just like how the soldiers of the Heavenly Valve Army used silver as a unit of consumption. This was also one of the reasons why the villagers near the foot of the Heavenly Valve Mountain actively converted to selling goods on the beach, which also imperceptibly gave the Heavenly Valve Army a good advertisement for the treatment of their citizens and built the foundation for their joining the Heavenly Valve Army in the future).

The zombie Young Master Wen treated this old man Wen from the Wen family like an uninvited guest. Just as he was about to let the family know the benefits, an orange uniformed man jogged in from outside and gave a military salute to Wen Shou Si.

Wen Shousi had some impression of this soldier. He was the squad leader who was stationed here. It turned out that Liu Zhiqiang had set a new bias against the four centurions. For example, Old Qin San and Li Ben were company commanders and vice company commanders respectively. There were four platoons under their command, with a total of four platoon leaders of a hundred people. There was a total of forty platoon leaders for each squad.

There were two squads on guard duty in the mountains, divided into the front and back guard duty, it was just that the power of the Sky Valve Mountain had increased tremendously, and very few people could provoke them, coupled with Liu Zhiqiang's newly established management mode, the soldiers were always on guard, do not just look at the sentries, in fact there were also several secret sentries supervising the enemy and the sentries, the same modern special forces gesture, the different squads were supervising them.

Liu Zhiqiang had been too busy recently. Other than going back twice, he would stay on the mountain to clean up the army and check the status of an invention. At the same time, he would promote some skilled craftsmen to check each person's character and choose generals from among the dwarves.

As for why zombie Wen Shao would play chess, it turned out that during a field training break, two energetic soldiers actually brought chess with them, which attracted a few onlookers, including zombie Wen Shao. This zombie Wen did not follow the rules of a true gentleman, and actually helped the losing team.

After this period of time, he found out that zombie Wen didn't need to be around the zombies to play chess, nor did she go crazy. She could also improve the relationship between zombies and the soldiers (in fact, he only recognized their clothes and smell), but what confused Liu Zhiqiang was that this guy's chess skills were quite good, not only did Liu Zhiqiang teach the soldiers how to read and write, but he also told them about the famous war between China and abroad (the modern game was a country that changed its name into a story).

Today, it was the turn of a class monitor to play chess with the zombies, causing the zombie that was completely engrossed in the game to feel a little boring. This class monitor could only take over the game he had recently learned, and replace him with a hidden sentry.

Fortunately, recently, Li Mu had improved a lot in chess (for the zombie Wen Shao to force out), and although he still lost, his victory made it harder for Wen Shao to find out. So it turns out that Wen Shao was not a good-for-nothing rich and handsome young man, and his chess skills were not inferior to the national player's, perhaps because he still retained some memories after becoming a zombie.

The zombie Wen Shao saw the class monitor come in and ignored his military salute and asked him to sit down. Although this person's chess skills were poor, he was still better than nothing, right? The class monitor could only bitterly smile as he sat down and began to talk with zombie Wen Shaoyi.

After waiting about half a quarter of an hour for Wenzhou to think about it, it was as if the time truly passed like a year. He thought to himself: It wasn't easy to get this kind of situation, but the cost was really fast. Looking at his lost business, Wen Shou's heart was in extreme pain.

When the curtain was lifted, Liu Zhiqiang was at the front and Li Mu was behind. He stood up to greet them with a gentle expression, while the monitor on duty bowed with his chest pressed against his chest.

Liu Zhiqiang returned a smile to Wen Shou, looked at the class monitor who was busy playing chess and even saluted with a breast buttoning salute. Then, he sat down at the main seat in the hall, pointed at the open hall floor, and indicated that Li Muheng should put the bag of refined salt on his shoulder on the ground.

He put the salt bag on the ground and looked at Liu Zhiqiang. Liu Zhiqiang said, "Untie it." Looking carefully at his face, there was a look of worry and confusion on his face as he thought about Wen Shou.

Liu Zhiqiang's heart skipped a beat, this man was also worried about the Heavenly Valve Mountain, otherwise he would not have a worried expression. That was true, if he did not know how to purify the salt and produce the glass, he should be worried.

Wen Shou looked at the class monitor who withdrew under the direction of Liu Zhiqiang, then looked at the open sack which stood there, stretching his neck to see what it was. Liu Zhi Qiang pursed his lips, and Wen Shou wiped the sweat off his face with his long sleeve.

Wen Shou looked at Liu Zhiqiang, then went up to see what was inside.

Wen Shou-si looked ahead and saw that the bag was filled with small transparent white crystals. They looked like salt, but they were not, because the salt grains in the south were not this good in color. There were also fine grains of sand in the middle, and the salt grains were yellow and black.

When he looked closer to his eyes, he could see that the crystal grains were much more transparent than the salt. When he tasted it with his mouth, Wen Shou nodded and said, "This is the best of the best, I wonder where the owner got it from."

Since I'm going to use you, Liu Zhiqiang thought, I shouldn't hide too much from you. He then asked, "Elder Wen, how much is the salt?"

He gave Liu Zhiqiang time to digest the information of the salt, and continued, "The value of the salt is shown in its priceless value in the city. In the salt production area, the price starts at 15 silver each, and in the production area with such a good color, it should be at least 20 silver each. In fact, it is the first time the old child has seen something as good as this."

He paused before continuing, "Speaking of priceless markets, in fact, this is the price of producing countries. For example, we in Guangdong changed hands a few times and the price was over 45 taels to 60 taels per cup. This kind of good salt is too rare, and those that can afford it are mostly rich. Back then, our little boy's family was quite well-off, and he could still afford to use quality green salt. Right now, our Heavenly Valve Mountain has mostly taken over the business of using crude salt; I wonder if this green salt … "

As he spoke, he pointed to the bag of green salt.

Liu Zhiqiang said, "This is the green salt produced by my Heavenly Valve Mountain. We still have a lot in the warehouse, so much that we can't keep it anymore. Elder Wen, you know what to do!"

Wen Shou Si felt his ears buzzing, as though he had misheard something. Tiansuo Mountain could mine green salt, what a joke, there was no place in Guangdong where the green salt could be found. He expressed his doubts and looked at Liu Zhiqiang again. He wanted to know the answer, because with these green salts, or a steady stream of them, this meant countless wealth, and it might even be able to control all the salt trading businesses in Cheng Village County. Even developing and expanding his territory beyond Cheng Village County.

After looking at Liu Zhiqiang for a long time, Wen Shou could only ask again, "According to my child's knowledge, we don't seem to produce green salt in Guangdong province.

Liu Zhiqiang had been puzzled by Wen Zhensi's puzzled eyes. Hearing him ask, he said, "It wasn't mined in a salt mine, but was specially made using crude salt. Therefore, the production is huge, the cost is easy to control, and the process can still be reduced after it matures."