My Apprenticeship to Uncle Jiu: I Was a Warlord in the Republic of China

Jiang Li nodded after hearing what he said. This nod was not just in response to what he said, but was an affirmation of him as a person, or more precisely, an affirmation of the person trained by Wang Zhi.

Although such soldiers are somewhat rigid in their speech and actions, they are not too complicated and are easier to command and manage. They are excellent grassroots officers.

"Okay, you go back first. I will organize some people in a few days to clean up the surrounding bandits, and then we can develop this town."

After saluting, the captain left, and Jiang Li began to think, "There should be a lot of medicinal herbs in Youlin Town, which is backed by mountains. It seems that there will be no shortage of herbs for refining pills in the future."

"And we can also arrange for mushroom cultivation, and then the economy here will pick up."

Thinking of this, he did not stay any longer. After instructing the mayor, he took his Taoist soldiers and left.

After returning to Tengteng County, he asked Jiang Youchi to inquire about the bandits in the northeast. More than half a month later, when the training of the new recruits was completed, he asked Wang Zhi to select eight officer cadets with good performance.

After the team had been properly trained, they were allowed to use Jiang Youchi's intelligence to once again carry out the bandit suppression work.

The operation lasted for more than half a month, during which seven or eight gangs of bandits of varying sizes were wiped out, dozens of people were killed or injured, nearly two hundred people were captured, and a number of gold, silver, valuables, food, livestock, and dozens of old-style rifles were seized.

Looking at the battle report, Jiang Li was very pleased. This time, there were only a few injured and no one died.

So he followed the usual practice and appointed them all as company commanders. As the bandit problem had been resolved, Youlin Town also sent people into the mountains one after another, and from time to time they would collect some precious medicinal herbs, which of course were all purchased by Jiang Li.

He transferred some more personnel from the gravel slope and established a new mushroom cultivation base in Youlin Town. For this purpose, he also specially established the garrison of Youlin Town into a reinforced company.

Not only did the numbers allow him to retain 150 people, but he also allocated three machine guns so that each squad could have a light machine gun to prevent the arsenal from being wiped out due to lack of firepower.

After doing all this, he put the matters over there aside, because he could not help much with either the expansion of the arsenal or the collection and hunting of medicinal materials. He could only give them some time to develop freely.

But he was not idle at the moment. The batch of nesting blood mushrooms he specially cultivated had already gone through three nesting processes.

According to a Taoist soldier who was guarding it, the thing seemed to have become a lot redder. He ate one and the medicinal effect became much stronger. At this time, he already had a strength of 500 kilograms, which was 70% stronger than before.

Jiang Li went to Caoping Mountain immediately after hearing the news. When he saw the animals being used to draw blood, he almost dropped his jaw in shock.

Because each of them is so incredibly big, one chicken weighs over 20 kilograms, more than double its previous weight.

The black dog, cattle and sheep were also large in size, but he noticed that the number of these livestock seemed wrong, and they were not kept in pens, so he asked someone about it.

"Why aren't these animals kept in pens? And I think their numbers don't seem right. Why are there so many more?"

"In reply to what the young master said, we had too few livestock before, and the blood they lost was not enough to irrigate the blood mushrooms, so we took the initiative to cultivate more."

Jiang Li nodded and said nothing.

"After eating the blood mushrooms, these animals have become incredibly powerful and full of energy. Our cages and wooden walls cannot contain them at all."

"I had no choice but to let them roam freely. Fortunately, after they grew bigger, the food they found on their own was not enough to fill their stomachs, so they came back to us every day for a snack, which also allowed us to draw blood smoothly."

Hearing this, Jiang Li frowned and nodded, "You did a good job. You didn't force yourself to do it."

"Don't feed these livestock blood mushrooms anymore. Raise a new batch. I want to see if they have any health problems when they grow bigger."

Having said that, he waved the man away and then turned his head to the huge yellow cattle again. As far as he knew, a yellow cattle in the south could weigh up to 800 kilograms, which was considered a large individual.

These yellow cattle were much bigger than the bull monster bought from Dengdengxianji. He estimated that their weight was about one ton, and their bodies were covered with muscles, making them look very powerful.

However, the more Jiang Li looked at these guys, the weirder they seemed. It felt like they were on steroids.

So he ordered to stop the blood mushrooms to see if they would be beaten back to their original form.

Afterwards, he packed up the dozen or so blood mushrooms he had obtained from nesting dolls over the past few months and took them away. Of course, he couldn't eat them directly, so he had to take them back and preserve them.

After a while, we will see whether the Taoist soldier who has eaten the blood mushroom produced by this set of dolls will have any abnormal changes in his body, and then decide whether to eat it.

After returning to the Jiang family, he processed the blood mushrooms and put them away, then found Ren Tingting who was practicing in the yard. Seeing how hard she was practicing, he knew that this was all to help him.

Because he had said before that as long as her cultivation level improved a little more, they would be able to practice dual cultivation. By then, the harmony of yin and yang would not only purify their magic power, but also speed up their cultivation and enhance the relationship between husband and wife. It could be said to be a good thing that kills two birds with one stone.

When Jiang Li saw Ren Tingting like this, it was obvious that she had taken it to heart. It seemed that she had always been brooding over the fact that she could not satisfy herself.

Without disturbing her practice, he returned to the study and checked the reports for this period. It turned out that Jiang Li had told Jiang Youchi about this before he left.

Less important news can be put in the study until he has time to read it, but important news must naturally be told to him as soon as possible.

Sitting down on a chair in front of the table and flipping through the books, the first thing he saw was the transformation of the demon rat in Qingyun Temple into a spirit rat. Then it said how many guns and ammunition the purchasing officer had bought, how many soldiers were recruited in various towns, and how his eldest brother had married a concubine.

By the way, Jiang Daniu’s son is already two years old, and his wife is currently pregnant with one. It is for this reason that he couldn’t help but marry another concubine.

Of course, these things were not very urgent for Jiang Li, so he didn't care much about them, but the next two pieces of news made his eyes light up.

One is the banana spirit of Qingyun Temple, and the bunch of bananas she produced is about to mature.

Another thing is that there is a town called Daliusi two hundred miles to the northwest. According to unreliable rumors, there is a huge willow tree in the town that has been growing for hundreds of years.

The villagers worship it as a god and pray for it whenever they have a headache or fever. It is said to be quite effective and is suspected to be a spiritual plant that has awakened its spiritual intelligence.

When Jiang Li saw these two pieces of news, he sent a message to Jiang Youchi, asking him to send more people to Dalui Town to investigate and make sure to get accurate information.

Then he stood up and wanted to go to Qingyun Temple.

But then I thought, it was already afternoon, and the banana was not yet ripe, so one night would not make a difference.

So he sat down and continued to check the information on the table.