Blue Silver Grass Strategy

The cats and dogs among the soul beasts may give birth to offspring with ordinary cats and dogs due to some seasonal reasons. However, the number of horses among the soul beasts is much less than that of cats and dogs, and the breeding is much more difficult than that of cats and dogs.

In the vast Douluo Continent, the most famous is the "Heavenly Soul Horse", the exclusive mount of the Royal Knights of the [Tian Dou Empire].

"Sky Soul Horse" is a hybrid horse with a certain amount of soul beast blood. Although it has no attack ability, it is incredibly fast and can carry a huge load. Coupled with its extraordinary endurance, it has always been the best choice for cavalry.

The horse can be covered with armor, and with the knight wearing bright armor behind him, such weight still cannot affect the speed of the horse at all.

Once such a cavalry team launched a charge, its power would naturally be extremely astonishing. Even Soul Kings and Soul Emperors would not dare to stand in direct confrontation.

The Royal Knights have always been an elite team that the royal family of the [Tiandou Empire] has been committed to building. It has a total of 50,000 people, and the captains of the teams above 100 are all soul masters.

Despite the extremely expensive cost, the deterrent effect it brings is equally huge!

At least, the several kingdoms and principalities under the name of [Tiandou Empire] would never dare to act rashly under its threat.

Until now, no one knows how the royal family of the [Tiandou Empire] bred so many "Heavenly Soul Horses".

But once the "Heavenly Soul Horse" is lost in the open, the [Tiandou Empire] will definitely conduct a thorough investigation.

By then, not to mention Long Yin’s father who is at the Soul Sect level, even the entire [Shuimu Principality] will not be able to withstand the wrath of the [Tiandou Empire].

As soon as Qingqiu Xin's words came out, Long Yin subconsciously shrank his neck, but he retorted unconvincedly: "I didn't say I wanted to get a "Heavenly Soul Horse"...

I still don't believe it. There are no other soul beasts with horse bloodline in the entire Douluo Continent!"

"Of course there are~" Qingqiu Xin nodded and continued: "I heard that when the royal family of the [Xingluo Empire] travels, they use horses with the bloodline of soul beasts to pull carriages. They are not the same breed as the "Heavenly Soul Horses" of the [Tiandou Empire] -

In addition, there is…”

“Okay!” Long Yin stood up and sat down next to Ling Yi, away from Qingqiu Xin, and complained unhappily: “It’s just my fantasy, okay—”

Zhang Mufeng smiled at this time, interrupted the quarrel between Long Yin and Qingqiu Xin, and said: "Okay, let's follow Brother Yi's method and use soul power to stimulate the blood and qi of these horses and strengthen their bodies. In the future, they will definitely be no weaker than that "Heavenly Soul Horse"! "

Long Yin: "That's right! If you ask me..."

Listening to the heated discussion of his three friends, Ling Yi did not join in. He just watched with a smile. The soul power in his body was running at a constant speed, and his mind was simulating and sensing the "Blue Silver Grass" around him.

Chapter 101 Looking back on the past

Before noon the next day, Ling Yi and the other three, each leading their horses, followed the crowd into the west gate of "Muzhi City".

The headquarters of the Blacksmith Association Shuimu Principality Branch is in front of a three-story building that is fifteen meters high.

Ling Yi stopped and said to Zhang Mufeng: "Ah Feng, you should go back first. We haven't seen each other for so long. I'm sure the senior brothers and the others miss you too—"

"Hmm~" Zhang Mufeng did not refuse. This was what they had agreed on on the way here. He nodded and said, "Then, Brother Yi, I'll go home first and come to the association to find you later—"

"Hehe~" Long Yin stepped forward and patted Zhang Mufeng's shoulders, which were as broad as his own, and said jokingly: "Don't let it slip when you go back, kid. At home, you still have to call Brother Yi your uncle, don't forget--!"

"That's right!" Qingqiu Xin also took the opportunity to add: "If your father finds out that you call his junior fellow apprentice brother 'Brother Yi' and indirectly become his brother, I think you might have to prepare some medicine in advance--"

Giving the duo a blank look at the gloating duo, Zhang Mufeng said unhappily, "I remember your father was also on good terms with Brother Yi, so shouldn't he call him uncle first?"

After saying that, without waiting for the two to say anything else, he jumped on his horse, nodded to Ling Yi, and said, "Brother Yi, I'm leaving first--"

Ling Yi waved his hand and warned: "Go slowly on the road and pay attention to pedestrians~"

Zhang Mufeng nodded and said, "Hey! Don't worry, Brother Yi, I will -"

Then, he knocked on the horse's belly and trotted away with the crisp sound of "dee~dee~dee~" of horse hooves.

……

[Blacksmith Association·Mizumi Principality Branch] On the third floor of the headquarters, in an office facing south on the east side.

Ling Yi sat in the chair in front of the desk, looking down at the account books and documents.

Behind the desk opposite, Mr. Jin was fiddling with a brand new set of tea sets. From time to time, he would glance at Ling Yi who was concentrating, with a look of relief and satisfaction on his old face.

Compared to two years ago, Mr. Jin's hair and beard are whiter, and he looks older. But looking at his ruddy face at this moment, you can tell that the old man is more energetic than before.

Come to think of it, although Mr. Jin was one of the three great craftsmen of the principality and a guest of honor of Grand Duke Mufeng and several marquises, he was ultimately just an old man swinging a hammer.

His strength was at the Soul Master level, but it was slowly declining as his body aged.

How does it feel to watch your once strong and powerful body become old and weak little by little?

Even though the disciples he taught were spread all over the [Shuimu Principality], this false reputation could not bring any substantial benefits to Grandpa Jin and the descendants of the Jin family.

The blacksmith group is just a group of taller people among ordinary people. In the Douluo Continent dominated by soul masters, they cannot stand out.

On the contrary, Mr. Jin, who has many children and grandchildren, sometimes worries that if the Jin family fails to produce a new and influential heir after he closes his eyes, will they be able to continue to gain a foothold in the capital, "Muzhi City"?

Although Jiang Yuan calls Mr. Jin "Second Uncle", he is not a member of the Jin family after all. His last name is Jiang!

Even though Jiang Yuan's martial soul is the Jin family's "Iron Refining Gauntlet".

Fortunately, luckily for the Jin family and for King Kong, he was able to receive a disciple like Ling Yi, who could be called an "anomaly", in his twilight years!

Before accepting Ling Yi as his apprentice, Grandpa Jin's greatest wish was that one of his twelve direct disciples could break through to the level of a blacksmith and inherit his position as one of the three great craftsmen in the principality.

After decades of getting along, these twelve disciples were all carefully selected by him. Whether it was their character, talent, or family background, after they inherited his position, they would continue to help and support each other with the Jin family behind them, and support each other to take root in "Muzhi City".

When Ling Yi became his apprentice, Grandpa Jin thought that although this kid's martial soul aptitude was not good, he was at least a high-level blacksmith as a guarantee, and would be a good force among many disciples in the future.

If the thirteen senior blacksmith-level disciples work together to help the Jin family, the lives of the fourteen families will not be too bad in the future.

However, when Ling Yi cultivated to the tenth level at an unexpected speed and successfully obtained a hundred-year-level first soul ring, and proposed to him that he wanted to use Fu Shan's connections to enter the Principality's military, Grandpa Jin suddenly realized that this little disciple seemed to have always been a very opinionated person.

Looking back at the time when this little fellow entered "Muzhi City", whether he was enrolled in the Soul Master Academy or became an apprentice to learn forging, he really made steady progress step by step.

Of course, this is not a bad thing.

On the contrary, Ling Yi is not the kind of "fool" who only knows how to cultivate soul power and forging. Mr. Jin's expectations for him have become even higher.

After several years of getting along and watching Ling Yi grow from a seven-year-old kid to a young boy in his early teens, Mr. Jin asked himself if he knew Ling Yi quite well.

Ling Yi is a very pure person.

I watched him unite with his classmates, respect his teachers, study hard, and generously share his learning results with his classmates; I watched him in the blacksmith shop, humbly asking for advice from his senior brothers, diligently honing his boring forging skills, being kind to everyone, smart, patient, humble, and friendly...

Almost all the words of praise that Grandpa Jin could think of could be applied to this little disciple.

For this purpose, Grandpa Jin specially wrote that letter, asking his junior brother, Tie Futu, who had not been in contact for decades and had already achieved success and become the only master craftsman in Douluo Continent, to agree to teach Ling Yi the complete "Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique" and not to bury such a rough gem.

According to Master Jin's idea, when Ling Yi's strength becomes stronger and he hits a bottleneck among high-level blacksmiths, he will recommend him to go to Gengxin City in the Xingluo Empire to find Tie Futu to learn the complete version of the Chaos Cloak Hammer Method and learn more advanced forging skills...

Who would have thought that more than two years later, a fat man who claimed to be a disciple of his junior fellow apprentice Tie Futu suddenly came to visit his uncle.

A Soul King-level nephew who is also a master blacksmith!

God knows that King Kong is almost 80 years old, and he still has such a person visiting him? !

He received his nephew named Lou Gao in a daze, and watched him go to the northern part of the principality to find his young disciple Ling Yi. King Kong was in high spirits at that time.

Sure enough, after just over half a year, when the young disciple Ling Yi returned to "Muzhi City" again, he became the fourth blacksmith in [Shuimu Principality] after himself, Fu Shan and Li Qiang!

And this is not the biggest surprise.

Until now, King Kong still clearly remembered that day when he became the blacksmith's disciple, stood in front of him and told him that he wanted to gather all the senior blacksmiths in the entire [Shuimu Principality] to form an organization like the [Blacksmith Association] in [Gengxin City], the metal capital of the [Xingluo Empire].

He wanted all the blacksmiths in the [Shuimu Principality] to join this organization.

He wants to improve the status of all blacksmiths in the eyes of the world and their actual income!

He wants to let...

More than a year, almost two years, has passed, and these goals have been achieved one by one.

Now, all members of the Jin family, except women and children, are in this association, and all of King Kong’s disciples are also in this association.

At this point, Mr. Jin suddenly realized that when all the blacksmiths came together, they formed such an unexpected behemoth!

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Well, the author received an inquiry from the editor on the morning of July 7th, asking me whether to put the book on the shelves. The current number of readers is 19.

I don’t know whether this number is high or low, but think about the last book, which was published on June 3, signed on July 5, and put on the shelves on August 1. Now this book can be put on the shelves ahead of time, which seems pretty good, so I immediately said, “Put it on the shelves.”

Because time is a bit tight, I can only write one more chapter on the basis of ensuring two chapters a day. Please bear with me~

Next, I can’t say how much more there will be, but two updates a day should be no problem.

Well, without further ado, it’s almost 1am, and I, the author, should go to bed. I have to get up early for work tomorrow morning~

Chapter 102 Association Affairs

Putting down the last account book in his hand, Ling Yi closed his eyes, did some deduction in his mind, and then opened his eyes to look at Mr. Jin opposite him.

At the right time, Mr. Jin pushed over a cup of freshly brewed tea.

Ling Yi stood up, thanked him, took the teacup with both hands, took a sip of the clear and hot tea with the scented white mist.

Putting down the teacup, Ling Yi reached out and gently tapped the account books and documents on the table in front of him, and said:

"Master, I have looked at the association's accounts and expenses for the past three months—"

Hearing this, Mr. Jin played with his small teapot in his hand, first looking at the account books and documents, then meeting Ling Yi's clear eyes, and asked expectantly: "Tell me about it, how about it?"

In the past three months, because Ling Yi was away, Mr. Jin had to deal with these things on his own, and he felt like he was almost depressed.

He is an old man who has swung a hammer all his life. It is really difficult for him to face all these rules and regulations when he is old!

That is to say, before, Ling Yi would pass by "Muzhi City" every few months to help him sort out various matters within the association, formulate a development direction and action plan, etc., and he only had to read from the script.

In addition, with the help of Li Qiang who was also in "Muzhi City" from time to time, the newly established [Blacksmith Association·Shuimu Principality Branch] did not fall into a series of situations such as unclear responsibilities and powers, unclear division of labor, etc.

However, when Ling Yi was not around, Mr. Jin always felt flustered and overwhelmed when dealing with things.

It's not that he didn't think about recruiting some help, but he picked seven or eight people in a row. There were smart blacksmiths in the association, as well as veterans who managed family affairs from the families of vice presidents such as Li Qiang, Fu Shan, Long Ang, Qingqiu Li, etc. Even his own Jin family, he found some young and old members of the clan to assist him in handling various affairs within the association.

However, when these people arrived at the association and saw the complicated affairs, they were all dumbfounded or confused.

In the entire [Shuimu Principality], there are three major cities, hundreds of towns, seventy to eighty senior blacksmiths, and nearly seven hundred blacksmith shops.

Among them, the number of intermediate blacksmiths, junior blacksmiths, and blacksmith apprentices adds up to as many as two to three thousand!

Every day, when a customer orders ironware from the association, the association will coordinate based on the conditions of these nearly 700 blacksmith shops.

For example, whether the customer orders directly from the blacksmith shop or from the association, how much ironware is ordered, how high the requirements are, whether the blacksmiths in each blacksmith shop are free or busy, whether their skills are up to standard or more than enough...

In addition, there are some blacksmith shops where customers come to buy the finished products made by the blacksmiths in their spare time...

The blacksmith shops opened by blacksmiths of different levels, how much can they subscribe to from the raw materials purchased by the association, how much was consumed before, is this time more or less than the last time...

There are too many situations like this. No matter who comes to see these categories, they will cry on the spot.

Anyway, no one can stay with Mr. Jin for three full days.

Either they resigned on their own initiative, or they were kicked out by Mr. Jin and the people behind them.

Fortunately, every time Ling Yi passed by, he not only perfectly solved the association's previous accumulated affairs, but also left a general framework and standards for reference and implementation for the subsequent operation of the association, and everyone carried out their respective division of labor.

The current association seems like a replica of Xiao Gui Cao Sui. It is no exaggeration to say that 'Ling Gui Jin Sui'.

The happiest time for Mr. Jin now is every time Ling Yi returns to the association's headquarters to help him deal with the various account books and documents that seem like incomprehensible to him.

Under the eager gaze of the old man, Ling Yi always maintained a respectful and humble look on his face, raised his hand and pointed at the books and documents spread out to the north, and said in a gentle voice:

"Master, here...here...there are more than companies here. The materials they subscribed last time, excluding the orders in the association and their own consumption in their spare time, at least half of them are left...but I think they In the application form for subscription this time, the share written is about % to % more than the previous one, which is a bit of a waste—"

"As for these dozen or so families, their apprentices and junior blacksmiths are known for their skills. The quality of the ordinary ironware they have sold recently is much higher than what the customers require. They should have been upgraded, and the material consumption is also much higher than before. However, the quota they applied for is a bit conservative. We can talk to them and give them more burdens..."

Looking at the names of the blacksmith shops pointed out by Ling Yi, and listening to the words that sounded in his ears, Mr. Jin's expression became solemn, and he matched Ling Yi's words with the memories in his mind one by one, nodding from time to time.

"Also~"

After discussing the purchase of raw materials, the sale of finished ironware, and the distribution of orders, Ling Yi took out a few sheets of goose yellow letter paper from under a pile of documents and continued:

"Master Yuan from Qingshan Town applied for the senior blacksmith assessment. If he passes the assessment, he hopes to transfer the blacksmith shop in Qingshan Town to the association and let the association arrange someone to take it over. He himself hopes to open a new blacksmith shop in the "Blue City" ...

Similarly, Master Zhu from Hedongji under Daihewan Town has applied for the intermediate blacksmith assessment. If he passes the assessment, Master Liu from Daihewan Town hopes to recruit Master Zhu into his own blacksmith shop, and the blacksmith shop in Hedongji will be merged into the name of Master Liu..."

After saying four or five of them, Ling Yi finally stopped and said to Old Master Jin, "Master, for these tests, it's best for you, Uncle Li Qiang, and Uncle Fu Shan to send one of your brothers to go down together and conduct the tests together. Don't do it like the previous times when you only sent one person to go through the motions. That would easily lead to gossip and cause problems—"

Hearing this, Mr. Jin nodded and said, "Okay, I'll make a note of this. I'll tell Xiao Li and Xiao Fu later~"

Ling Yi looked at Mr. Jin and nodded in agreement, then continued: "Master, I looked at all the account books and compared them. Our apportionment work still needs to be improved. Sometimes we have to consider whether the distance between the blacksmiths' shops is suitable for the final transaction handover..."

"In addition~" After a pause, Ling Yi took a deep breath, frowned slightly, and after the old man's expression became solemn, he said calmly: "I found that the price of the raw materials purchased last month was nearly 20% higher than when we first purchased them.