What a lucky world!

Chapter 172 The secret of the back mountain

The return journey was not as urgent as the journey here, as there was no need to travel day and night, so it took five days to return to Qianyuan Wuzhai.

Dad is still in seclusion. Thirteenth Lady left the mountain to take charge of the "Non-Alignment Plan" proposed by Zhang Mu before. Wei Wuyou is the only one in charge.

Zhang Mu first briefly recounted some of the events of his trip to Sucheng, leaving Wei Wuyou shocked one after another.

"What? You and Xiao Ye teamed up to repel the Jiang family's late-stage Yangye realm servant and took back the Yongxiu Trading Company?"

"What? You'll get 10% of the Bai family's profits from the future cloth and forging trade?"

"What? A hundred-year-old dragon blood fruit? You and Xiaoye shared it, and both of you have advanced to the middle stage of crystal cultivation?"

Wei Wuyou's mustache trembled, and he subconsciously looked at the almanac hanging in the conference room.

This guy has been down the mountain for more than ten days, right? Why does it feel like he's been gone for two or three years?
However, Wei Wuyou was an old man after all, and he had seen many ups and downs in the martial arts world. He calmed down in just a few breaths.

"Let's talk about the silver first." Wei Wuyou flung open his white paper fan. "According to the village's rules, 70% of the harvest from the mountains belongs to the public."

"Yongxiu Trading Company is the stake between Shuangyue Martial Village and our Qianyuan Martial Village, so even if you didn't use the forces in the village this time, this rule still applies."

"The remaining 30% is something you and Xiaoye will negotiate on your own. Oh, and Xuanji as well."

"That cat loves money."

Zhang Mu nodded. He had no objection to this. In fact, he had already agreed with Ye Hanzhou on the way.

Originally, Zhang Mu planned to split it in half, but Ye Hanzhou didn't want any. However, considering the cost of cultivation, they each took a step back in the end. Zhang Mu took 20% and Ye Hanzhou took 10%.

As for Xuan Ji...

In her opinion, what is the difference between Zhang Mu's money and her money.

"However..." Wei Wuyou suddenly changed the subject, "Your cooperation with the Bai family is your personal behavior. According to the rules, the copycat will not touch the profits!"

"Including the 100,000 taels of silver notes, these are all your private accounts, you don't need to hand them over."

This surprised Zhang Mu a little, but he was going to raise the White Horse Volunteers next, and within the rules, the more money he controlled, the better.

"Uncle Wei, I also want to recruit a hundred soldiers from the mountain stronghold to build a guard."

Wei Wuji took a sip from his teacup and said, "Well, the leader of the stronghold has the authority to lead the troops. When the time comes, Shisan Niang and I will pool our resources and assign some to you."

"Uncle Wei, I want new recruits around eighteen years old."

"At eighteen, he's only at the first or second level of Tongmai. What can he be worth?"

"Talent doesn't matter, I want to train my own soldiers!"

"What can you achieve by training your own soldiers? You're just forcing them to practice. Listen to me, select those who are around 30 years old and above with Tongmai level 4, then your guard will be useful..."

"I have a method for training soldiers!"

"You're not even practicing military tactics...what?!"

Wei Wuyou almost dropped the teacup in his hand. He casually put it down and looked at Zhang Mu, "Did I hear wrongly? Do you have any military training methods?"

Zhang Mu nodded, and then briefly explained the origin of the Baima Yicong's military training method.

It wasn’t that Zhang Mu wanted to hide it before, but the military training method had not been finally implemented, and this matter was too big, so he didn’t say it for the time being.

Now the military training method is already in his mind, and the other party is Wei Wuyou, so he can naturally tell him.

After listening to Zhang Mu's story, Wei Wuyou stopped waving the paper fan in his hand. He stood up excitedly and walked around, muttering to himself.

"White Horse Volunteers! Hey, White Horse Volunteers!"

"Okay...it's really good..."

"God help me in Qianyuanwu Village!"

After a moment, Wei Wuyou stopped and asked, "Besides you and me, who else knows about this?"

"I haven't mentioned it to anyone else. The only people who know about it are Han Zhou and Xuan Ji."

In fact, Zhuge Nanxian also knew about it, but Zhang Mu thought about it and didn't mention her.

Wei Wuyou lowered his voice and said, "Don't spread the news about the training methods." "The new recruits just said they accidentally got some fragments of battle formations and compiled them for practice."

Zhang Mu nodded: "I know."

Wei Wuyou thought about it again and asked again: "Is one hundred people enough?"

Zhang Mu gave a wry smile and told Wei Wuyou about the training costs. Unexpectedly, Wei Wuyou waved his hand and said, "Money is not a problem!"

"At worst, we can just raise more money!"

"If we can't come up with ten million taels of silver, even if we have to eat bran and drink porridge, we will find a way to raise a million taels for you!"

"No, no!" Zhang Mu shook his head. "Training soldiers is not something that can be accomplished overnight. Money is invested step by step, so it won't take that much at the beginning."

"Besides, making such a big show of it is like trying to cover up one's mistakes and steal the bell. Wouldn't it be like telling others that we have this training method?"

"I still have my own training. One hundred people are just right. I don't have the energy for more. Once I've trained them well, I'll let them train the new recruits."

"Besides..." Zhang Mu thought for a moment, "Although martial arts training doesn't require natural talent, naturally strong muscles and bones are preferred. This source of soldiers..."

"Let's go to the back mountain to recruit!" Wei Wuyou said without hesitation, "Let's go now!"

……

Zhang Mu had heard from Wei Wuyou before that Qianyuan Wuzhai was actually divided into two parts.

Wuzhai Front Mountain and Wuzhai Back Mountain.

The front mountain is mainly populated by combatants, while the back mountain is mainly populated by the elderly, the weak, women and children, and many of them are family members of the combatants in the front mountain.

Following Wei Wuyou towards the back mountain, Zhang Mu realized that this back mountain was really back.

how to say?

The front and back mountains are not connected, but there is a mountain blocking the middle.

"This location was chosen to ensure that there would be enough land in the front mountain of the Wuzhai in the future to accommodate more soldiers."

"Secondly... you'll understand when you get there!"

Wei Wuyou kept the question a secret, and Zhang Mu didn't dare to ask any more questions.

Even with Zhang Mu and Wei Wuyou's strength, it took them half a day to walk through a dense bamboo forest. Suddenly, Zhang Mu's eyes opened up.

He was standing on the top of the mountain at this time, and he saw a large village at the foot of the mountain.

The smoke from cooking rises up, making it look like a paradise.

Seeing Zhang Mu's surprised expression, Wei Wuyou was also very proud. He pinched his mustache habitually and said: "We call this place Qianyuan Village. There are more than 2,500 villagers living here."

"In today's world, people are like grass."

"With more money, we can take in more refugees."

"This is the essence of Qianyuan Wuzhai."

Zhang Mu was a little surprised: "Gossip?"

Yes, the Qianyuan Village in front of Zhang Mu was actually a Bagua layout.

"Yes!" Wei Wuyou nodded and walked down the mountain with Zhang Mu, saying, "We'll use the existing foundation and build the house like this."

Zhang Mu followed Wei Wuyou and asked curiously, "There was a foundation there originally? Was there someone living here before?"

Wei Wuyou nodded: "Four hundred years ago, Qianyuan Mountain was not called Qianyuan Mountain."

“It’s called Sanqing Mountain!”

"There was a sect here that was wiped out because they refused to follow the Dayun Dynasty."

"You should have heard of the name of this sect!"

"Tianji Sect!"