Daily life of slaying demons in the government

Chapter 510: Baodan and National War

After Yang Qian's alchemy skills improved, he began to prepare to try to refine two furnaces of pills. First, to test his skills, and second, to adjust the combination of the pill formula in a targeted manner.

The alchemy furnace was seized by Yang Qian from Zhu Hongchan's storage bag, and it was not the one he had refined before.

Now, this alchemy furnace is two and a half feet high, with a gourd-shaped body and a pair of ears on the top and bottom. The whole body is dark red, and it is inlaid with golden magic array patterns.

Good-looking is one thing, but more importantly, it is a magic-level alchemy furnace.

Yang Qian had already become familiar with the many special enhancements of this furnace during the process of refining it. It can basically be summed up in one sentence: no fancy tricks, just extreme temperature control.

With such a magical weapon in hand, Yang Qian's confidence is naturally stronger. The top-grade Qi-replenishing Pill is only the minimum requirement, and what he wants is a treasure pill-level Qi-replenishing Pill.

He refined the medicinal materials that he had improved according to the recipe, and after completion, he put them into the alchemy furnace in order.

Then, the alchemy fire was used to continuously change the temperature inside and outside the alchemy furnace, and at the same time, the divine consciousness was used to control the refining of the medicinal materials in the furnace and the combination of their medicinal properties.

The alchemy secrets, techniques, timing and temperature are the embodiment of an alchemist's level. Whether the alchemy fire can reach the refining temperature and dissolve the medicinal power is the embodiment of the alchemist's cultivation.

Both are indispensable.

Yang Qian spent almost a whole day refining this batch of pills. When he finally opened the furnace, the furnace gas rushed up, and three pills rushed out from it, hovering half a foot away from the furnace mouth.

Yang Qian scooped up three finger-sized pills and they were in his palm.

Not afraid of the heat, he looked at it carefully with a smile.

Putting aside the quality of the pill, just in terms of the amount of pills Yang Qian can produce, can he be far better than all other alchemists?
Moreover, the quality of these three Qi-boosting pills is not low. The patterns on the surface of the pills can tell that these three Qi-boosting pills are all top-grade pills, and they are close to the limit of the top-grade ones. In other words, these three pills are just a little bit away from the level of buying precious pills.

He threw one into his mouth, and the pill melted in his mouth. The medicinal power instantly swept through his body, replenishing all the mysterious energy that Yang Qian had used up in refining the pill just now, and a lot of it remained to be incorporated into the Wuhun Pill.

Yang Qian was quite satisfied with the speed and total amount of replenishment, which had basically met his initial expectations.

But can we go further?

Yang Qian thought it was okay.

Because although the result of the previous batch of pills was very good, there were still many flaws in the refining process.

Yang Qian could not correct these flaws immediately during refining, nor did he dare to interrupt the refining process. But he could make adjustments afterwards, and he could prepare in advance and avoid them later.

So after carefully studying and improving his refining techniques, Yang Qian proceeded to refine the second batch of pills.

This time the furnace was opened for a shorter time, and the number of pills produced remained at three, but the quality of the pills still did not reach the level of precious pills, but the efficacy was still greatly increased.

After frowning and pondering for a while, Yang Qian came to the conclusion that the herbs he selected were not sufficient to refine the elixir, and he needed to change the types of some herbs.

So this struggle lasted for several days. Finally, when Yang Qian opened the sixth furnace of elixirs, three Qi-boosting pills finally landed in his palm. They were hot but had already successfully entered the threshold of precious pills.

After taking one precious pill, the surging spiritual energy made Yang Qian experience for the first time what it felt like to be "instantly full". "Now that the pill formula and the pill formula techniques have been determined, the next step is to refine the pill to prepare for the body tempering and strengthening."

When Yang Qian was about to take the next step, the magic circle outside the house came to remind him that someone was knocking on the magic circle node outside, which would only be knocked in an emergency. And the people who came were Cui Mingsheng and Zhao Ting.

Yang Qian frowned slightly. Although it disturbed his interest in cultivation, he still had to deal with the matters that needed to be dealt with. Besides, Cui Mingsheng would not come to him with such a small matter. He was accompanied by General Zhao Ting, so the matters they were carrying must be very important.

Yang Qian opened the magic circle and let Cui Mingsheng and the other two in.

In the yard, Yang Qian held a Feiyu urgent order in his hand and frowned slightly.

This flying feather letter has wax and seal from the Ministry of War, so the content inside is naturally related to military affairs.

To put it simply: war is about to begin.

"What's the situation at Donglin Mansion?" Yang Qian put down the urgent order of only 300 words in his hand. He knew in his heart that although there were not many words in the order, the things involved were extraordinary and needed to be carefully considered.

The Donglin Prefecture mentioned by Yang Qian was actually the easternmost prefecture of the Hongwu Dynasty. Like Shuangqing Prefecture, it was not only located on the border, but was also often in a state of war. The entire prefecture had always been military-oriented, and people's livelihood was relatively backward. However, Donglin Prefecture had always been under the control of the Hongwu Dynasty, and did not have the complicated demons and bandits like Shuangqing Prefecture.

But the urgency of the war is no less than that in Shuangqing Prefecture.

Zhao Ting stepped forward and said, "To answer your question, the Donglin Prefecture has already started to expand its army three months ago, with a total of five guards. According to the custom of the border army, the first batch of trained recruits should have been added to the main battle array.

In two months at most, these five guards should be able to form a preliminary combat force."

Cui Mingsheng continued, "The two prefectures adjacent to Donglin Prefecture are already building road granaries, and orders to raise grain have been issued to six prefectures surrounding Donglin Prefecture.

Not only that, there was also an order to recruit corvée labor. The first batch of laborers was 100,000. And all the exiled prisoners were transferred to Donglin Prefecture.

My lord, it looks like this is quite a big deal."

Of course, the battle was not small! Even a marginal prefecture like Shuangqing Prefecture received the order to mobilise troops, but it was too far away and Shuangqing Prefecture was too poor, so what was mobilised was not people, but things that ordinary people could not use: spirit stones.

The first thing he said was "One thousand low-grade spirit stones and three hundred medium-grade spirit stones."

After listening to the words of his two capable generals, Yang Qian said again: "This is the rhythm of opening a war! Is the situation on the opposite side of Yoshitomo really so bad?"

"Sir, Yoshitomo has been in chaos since the death of Emperor Yoshitomo at the beginning of last year. The edict of succession was tampered with, and the princes of various regions claimed that they should be the next emperor.

Now it is said that there are three forces, and they have officially started fighting. As a result, the border of Yoshitomo is empty, and only three of the ten guards are left. Weapons are seriously lacking.

If we attack now, we will definitely be able to achieve good results. At least it shouldn't be a problem to capture Yoshitomo's prefecture."

Zhao Ting had been serving in the army, and in the past year he had resumed contact with the official newspaper of the Ministry of War. He was most concerned about the war preparations of the Donglin Prefecture. Now when Yang Qian asked him about it, he naturally answered fluently.

Yang Qian was also slightly moved when he heard this, and realized that the Hongwu Dynasty was preparing to take advantage of the situation and add insult to injury!
(End of this chapter)