I have been a county magistrate for ten years. My subordinates insist on giving me a yellow robe.

When Jiang Yuan saw the iron monster, he thought that this thing must not be cheap.

But, I didn’t expect it to be so outrageously expensive!

Meteorite from outer space, where can I find this stuff?

Who knows when a meteorite will fall from the sky, and most of these things fall in the wilderness, so they are completely priceless.

There are some weapons on the market that are said to be made of meteorite iron, but the key is that these things are ridiculously expensive, and most of them are small objects such as daggers or silver needles.

In order to create this iron monster, Jiang Yuan estimated that he would need at least ten daggers.

It’s okay if it’s a little more expensive. At worst, I can just let Li Hu steal it.

But the point is, you can't steal more than ten of these things.

In contrast, another material is the thousand-year-old cold wood from the snow region. I have heard of this thing, and it is said that there are quite a lot of it in the snow region.

But the key is that this is Daduan, and it takes at least three to five years to go back and forth to the Snow Region. Moreover, the thousand-year-old cold wood is not actually a living tree. It is a tree that has been frozen under the ice layer of the Snow Region for who knows how many years, and it is extremely difficult to mine.

Either of these two materials is priced sky-high, and that's fine, but you may not be able to buy it even if you pay for it.

"You made this with meteorite iron and thousand-year-old cold wood?" Jiang Yuan looked at Chen Xudong with some suspicion. The two materials he mentioned were really too outrageous.

"Of course." Chen Xudong said with great certainty.

Jiang Yuan was really speechless. Damn, according to a non-conservative estimate, the value of these materials was over 200,000 taels of silver, and that was assuming they could be purchased.

This kid is running around with hundreds of thousands of taels of silver on him, no wonder his fighting ability is so awesome.

"Then how many iron monsters have you made?" Jiang Yuan spoke again. Whenever Chen Xudong said that Prince Zhao had hundreds of these things, I would immediately contact Prince Zhao without saying a word and exchange one iron monster for one Ding Yin.

"What kind of iron monster is this? It's called a war beast!" Chen Xudong said dissatisfiedly.

"Okay, okay, how many war beasts do you have in total?" Jiang Yuan nodded repeatedly, too lazy to bother with just a name.

Chen Xudong looked at Jiang Yuan with pride: "We have a total of ten war beasts, including the city-breaking beast, which is me, as well as the formation-breaking beast, the formation-charging beast, and so on."

Hearing this, Jiang Yuan's heart was finally at ease. There were only ten of them in total, and at most they could change the local battle formation, but they had no ability to reverse the overall situation.

"How did you come up with this thing? And how did you get in touch with Crown Prince Zhao? Tell me the truth."

"This……"

"If you don't tell me, I'll beat you to death!"

"Tell the truth or I'll have someone pop your asshole!"

"Tell me whatever you ask, or I'll strip you naked and throw you out on the street!"

Soon, under the verbal threats of the three old hooligans Zhao Kai, Kong Xuan and Li Hu, Chen Xudong's face turned pale, and he seemed to be willing to tell everything he knew.

After a while, Jiang Yuan nodded in sudden realization.

The Bailian family is a secluded family that has been passed down for thousands of years. It is said that their ancestors learned the true skills from the master carpenter. After the master passed away, the ancestor of the Bailian family simply retired to the mountains with his people.

However, due to his great fame, he would be asked from time to time by a few bigwigs who found clues and asked to help build siege equipment.

In this life, he was invited out by Prince Zhao.

"Tsk tsk! They claim to be a secluded family, but in the end they came out just for the golden and silver things." Zhao Kai said disdainfully.

Chen Xudong's face flushed, and he argued, "No, my master decided to come out of seclusion in order to test the feasibility of the war beast, not for the money!"

Zhao Kai immediately showed a look of disdain when he heard this: "Experimenting on human lives? Then why didn't your master use members of your Bailian family for the experiment?"

"No! We decided to help Prince Zhao in order to help the weak. Otherwise, we could have gone to the Emperor of Daduan." Chen Xudong argued stubbornly.

"Haha!" Kong Xuan sneered twice, walked over and kicked the shell of the war beast.

"Then do you know how many more people might die because of you?"

"You are just an aristocratic family, not a dynasty. At most, you can make up for the disadvantage of Crown Prince Zhao, but you still can't decide the outcome. On the contrary, because of your participation, a battle that should have ended long ago has not yet ended."

"You think this is helping the weak? In my opinion, you are just causing more people to die!"

"Stop arguing!"

Jiang Yuan interrupted Chen Xudong who was about to speak.

The ideas of these two people are somewhat similar to those of two of the hundreds of schools of thought in China. Jiang Yuan is too lazy to care about these. Anyway, as long as the dead are not from his Taiping County, he can't care about the rest, nor does he want to care.

"Chen Xudong, if we don't have these materials, will we be unable to create a war beast?" Jiang Yuan said lightly.

After thinking for a while, Chen Xudong said in a low voice: "I don't know about this. I haven't tried it."

"Well, you can go do the experiment now, Mu Cangtian, don't hide anymore. I'm leaving this kid to you. Give him whatever he wants and assist him with all your strength."

Mu Cangtian, who had been hiding outside the door and watching the show for a long time, sighed helplessly. I haven't appeared in the show for such a long time, and I was assigned a task as soon as I came out. I was born to be a tool!

"Everyone else, don't just stand there. Go clean up the mess. Throw the bodies outside away and dispose of them. Don't waste the weapons outside. Bring them back and reforge them."

"By the way, count the casualties and send me all the silver according to our regulations. Also, Ma Zhi, come here."

After everyone left, Ma Zhi came over with the recorded battle achievements.

"My lord, it's all here."

Jiang Yuan took the battle record, glanced at it, and then threw it back to Ma Zhi.

"Change it. The rebels have 8,000 men. Give the extra 3,000 military merits to Wang Gang, Chen Qing, Zhao Kai, Kong Xuan, Wang Jue, and Li Hu."

"We finally fought a good fight, at least these guys got some points."

"I understand." As Ma Zhi spoke, he had already taken out his brush and started to make some corrections.

After a while, Jiang Yuan, who got the military merit book, stamped it with his own seal, waved his hand and asked Ma Zhishun to hand it over to the people at the post station to see if he could find a way to send it to the imperial capital.

The war in Taiping County has just ended, and the battle on the Yunzhou border thousands of miles away has entered a white-hot stage.

Chen Liu, who was in charge of the main camp, was issuing orders in an orderly manner. The same was true for Prince Zhao in the opposite camp. The two sides had been deadlocked for a whole day, and it depended on who would be the last to be defeated first.