Chapter 016 The dilemma of the cottage

　　The thief group has always implemented the principle of respecting the strong. Whoever has the big fist is the boss. These ordinary thief have weak physique, so their status in the cottage is also the lowest.

　　Above the lowest-ranking ordinary bandits, there are some people who are in the middle position in the cottage, and belong to the technical type of work. These people are the 50 or so blacksmith workers who were kept in captivity in the cottage by the Xiao family.

　　 Hong Ji was surprised. She had no idea that there would be so many blacksmith workers in such an ordinary cottage.

　　 "This is so easy! With these basic blacksmith workers, I am confident that a steam engine can be manufactured within a month, and the cottage will enter the steam age!"

　　 Hong Ji stared scorchingly at the crude smelting and iron-making tools piled up in the cottage warehouse, which were exclusive to this era. Not only did he not have the slightest dislike in his heart, but he was extremely excited.

　　 Teng Yuan, who was in charge of the introduction, pointed to the idle iron tools in the cottage warehouse and the neatly displayed handful of finished products on the weapon rack and explained.

"These tools for smelting and iron making were provided by the Xiao family, and the purpose was to quietly forge their weapons and armor for the Xiao family. Because of the laws of the princes, the number of private soldiers kept in captivity by the family was limited, weapons and armors. These have strict upper limits, and the purpose is to ensure that the military power of the princes and kings always has an absolute advantage."

　　 When Hong Ji introduced her origins after taking over the cottage, she claimed to be from an unborn hermit sect. Because the school has been cut off from the outside world for a long time, there is a lot of current common sense information that is not known.

　　 Teng Yuan also explained this to Hong Ji in such detail at this time based on such considerations. Of course, Hong Ji made up everything about the hermit sect. In fact, Hong Ji has already obtained everything you want to know from Teng Yuan's brain memory. The reason why I am still patiently listening to Teng Yuan's explanation is just a cutscene.

　　 Hongji obviously didn't pay attention to Teng Yuan's words, but she nodded gently, indicating that she was listening.

　　 Teng Yuan received positive feedback from Hong Ji, and he was quite excited at the moment. You know, from Hong Ji's point of view, introducing Hong Ji to the internal affairs of the Shanzhai at this time is a great opportunity to please Hong Ji.

　　 Teng Yuan is not only talented and capable, but also has a lot of ambition and ambition in his heart. He used to rely on the arrogance and pursuit in his heart to achieve the position of the leader of the bandit all the way from the ordinary bandit, although it was only the last boss.

　　 At this time, Teng Yuan had only one thought in his mind, and he worked hard to perform well in front of Hong Ji. If he could get the attention of Hong Ji and pass on his martial arts with one and a half strokes, then he would be so prosperous.

　　 If you can be fortunate enough to worship the hermit sect behind Hong Ji, it will be even more straightforward. The development of the civilian status of Teng Yuan in this era has been too much restrained and discriminated against. If there is no adventure, Teng Yuan will not be able to surpass the civilian class in his life.

　　 It is impossible for aristocratic family clan to reuse Teng Yuan, who was a commoner. In this era, the class threshold is extremely strict. It is impossible for the upper class to allow the lower class to share their interests.

　　 Xiao Clan cannot give it to Teng Yuan, but a warrior who came from a secluded school like Hong Ji can give it to him. It is precisely because of this that Teng Yuan spared no effort after turning around Hong Ji's camp.

　　 Teng Yuan is betting, he bet his future on Hong Ji.

"However, although each vassal state has specific laws restricting the number of private soldiers of each family's family, the family's family can always think of alternative methods, such as raising bandits as soldiers, building and hoarding weapons and armors in deep mountain strongholds, once The situation has changed. In a short period of time, these noble families will be able to arm a strong armoured army."

　　 Hongji opened the metal detector and found that there were nearly 1,008 weapons and 508 armors piled up in the warehouse. From the analysis of the metal oxide layer on the surface of the armor of these weapons, the creation of the armor of these weapons has spanned at least a few years.

　　 "Really deliberate..."

　　 Hongji couldn't help sighing for the patience of these family members. Within the princes countries where iron ore is strictly controlled, it took several years to save these possessions by means of smuggling, smuggling, and misrepresentation of losses. And now everything here is cheaper for her.

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　　 finished the inspection of the weapons warehouse, and Teng Yuan finally took Hong Ji to check the accounts in the cottage.

　　 Hong Ji is generally satisfied with all the previous things. The material foundation of the cottage is good, especially the more than 50 blacksmiths and tools for smelting and ironing are enough to support the cottage from the progress of ancient feudal civilization to the progress of steam civilization within one month.

　　 However, the good situation seems to come to an abrupt end when it comes to the internal affairs accounts of the cottage.

　　 Hongji held in her hand Teng Yuan's complicated and long accounts recorded in the ancient writings of this era, and it took nearly half a minute to turn a thick account from beginning to end.

　　The intelligent core with super computing power can easily find the problem of the internal accounts of the cottage.

　　 "From these accounts, the amount of money looted by the Shanzhai in the past six months is huge, but the income, expenditure and balance obviously don't match...Teng Yuan, explain it."

　　 Hong Ji did not leave the account book, but saw her flipping through the account casually, and at the same time, she asked Teng Yuan a question in a cold voice.

　　 "Yes~~Yes!" Hearing Hong Ji's question, Teng Yuan's voice clearly trembled. Obviously, he didn't expect Hong Ji to see the problem so quickly.

　　 After sorting out his mind a little, he raised the language secretly, and Teng Yuan immediately explained the reason.

It turns out that this cottage was kept secretly by the Xiao clan, and most of the property obtained from the looting of the cottage would be confiscated by the Xiao clan. Naturally, the Xiao clan would not value those money. The reason why UU reading www.uukanshu.com did so was the same. In order to strengthen the control of the cottage.

　　 is also in order to strengthen the control of the cottage. The Xiao family will send people to transport the looted property back to the Xiao family every once in a while, and at the same time bring back the food, salt, medicine and other materials necessary for the survival of the people in the cottage when they return.

　　 Just before Hong Ji entered the cottage, Chu Yi’s wife, Xiao Ruyi, had returned to the Xiao family with the money that the cottage had looted for nearly half a year. According to the plan, when Xiao Ruyi came back from the Xiao family, he would bring enough grain for half a year of the cottage to supplement the current shortage of grain in the cottage.

　　 But now Hong Ji has killed Xiao Rulie and stole the control of the cottage, which is tantamount to grabbing food from a tiger's mouth.

The survival of the cottage depends on the supply of materials from the Xiaos. Now the entire cottage has enough food for half a month. It can be said that the situation in the cottage is known to the Xiaos. The Xiaos want to solve their cottage without even spending a soldier. All that is required is to cut off the food supply in the cottage. Half a month later, most people in the cottage had to starve to death.

　　In the Northern Territory, which has been fought for years, food is extremely precious. Except for a family like the Xiao family, it is impossible for ordinary people to get a lot of food.

　　 The room leak happened to rain in the night, and at this moment, someone suddenly came up to Chu Yi quietly with a cat waist, and whispered something while lying in his ear.

　　 But Chu Qi, who was originally self-explanatory, changed his face suddenly after hearing this person's report.

I saw him hurriedly taking a step forward and arching his hand toward Hong Ji with a heavy expression: "The big master, just got the news that two of them have released the two homing pigeons in the cottage without permission, fearing that it was the Xiao family who had planted it in the cottage. Nails are reporting to Xiao's!"

　　 "Hiss!"

　　 All the bandit leaders at the scene took a breath of cold breath when they heard Chu Yi's words, and they all secretly said in their hearts: something bad!