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Although the grand occasion of the fireworks show has passed, that cold winter night will be destined to be a legendary day and will inevitably be remembered for the rest of my life by those who have seen it with my own eyes.

After that night, the reputation of Qinghe Hou became even more popular in Nanyang. Tens of thousands of tourists were like lobbyists, constantly telling the grand occasion of the immortals they saw to people from all over the country.

Every day, villagers from nearby towns offer candy rice and flour in Taiyi Temple on the bank of Xiaoqing River in Qinghe Town, and the merchants who come will also pay a stick of incense to ask Qinghe Hou to bless you with a safe fortune.

The incense of Taiyi Temple in Wancheng is even more prosperous. The altar in front of the Taiyi Temple is even full of fruits and melons and fruits. In the big pit that exploded, a thick layer of copper coins had been piled up, and all kinds of coins were included, as well as gold cakes, jade pendants and hairpins.

Several respected Wancheng Su Lao and a group of fairy-like alchemists are responsible for receiving endless pilgrims here every day.

These alchemists claimed to be Taiyi disciples. They devoutly worship Taiyi Immortal Lord, were willing to convert to Taiyi Divine Cult, and respected Chen Xu, the Marquis of Qinghe as the leader. They also carved a lifelike statue of Chen Xu with a huge nanmu wood in the temple for worship.

However, Chen Xu didn't know about this. After he found out, he only asked someone to bring him a sentence, and he was not allowed to commit illegal or commit crimes in his name, otherwise he would inevitably use Taiyi Divine Thunder to blow it into powder.

With Chen Xu's affirmation, these people became even more pious. They also carved the statues of Yu Wuya and Shui Qingrou on both sides of the statues of Chen Xu. As the left and right guardians of the Immortal Lord disciples, they received incense together. Later, they carved a pair of giant pandas as mounts of immortal beasts, and later carved a monkey squatted on Chen Xu's shoulders, calling them the Spirit Monkey Wukong...

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“Quick~Quick~~”

In the Wild Wolf Valley in Qinghe Town, five hundred teenagers are split into five teams and running sprints.

On the training ground, five straight runways in parallel with lime were drawn with five people in each round, and the first place would be qualified to advance.

This is the list of Chen Xu's selections to follow him to Xianyang. There are 50 people in total. Without an accurate clock, it can only be done in this simple way.

Amid the applause and cheering of all the young people, everyone involved was very excited and worked very hard. At least they had to enter the first round before they had the opportunity to follow the Marquis to Xianyang and experience a wider world.

Since Chen Xu returned to Qinghe Town in November, nearly two months have passed in a blink of an eye. It is now early spring in January. Although the weather is still cold, winter has passed after all. The wheat seedlings on both sides of the Xiaoqing River are more than one foot high, and the withered hillsides and grasslands have begun to sprout new green. There are even flowers and plants in early spring that have begun to spit out, blooming beautiful flowers in the cold wind.

After more than two months of training, these teenagers have completely changed. Not only have they all removed their pale face and thin skin, but they even look much stronger, but they are also completely familiar with various commands. There is a hint of a warrior when walking, sitting and lying down.

From training to now, no one has been driven away. Everyone cherishes this opportunity very much. In addition to eating and sleeping, they are conducting seemingly simple delineation training every day. Now everyone can strictly follow orders and perform various actions.

In fact, it is very difficult to train this seemingly simple movement until it is now. After all, they are all a group of wild children.

Looking at the young man running up the desperate situation, Chen Xu felt very satisfied.

Chen Hu was also very satisfied. Although he didn't understand Chen Xu's seemingly useless walking, sitting and lying down every day, after more than a month of training, Chen Hu also felt the benefit, which was the strict orders. As long as there was no command to retreat, no matter whether he walked into a puddle or hit a thorn bush, he had to keep walking. Even if someone was bleeding from the thorns, no one took a step back.

This is an order. Anyone who dares to hesitate and retreat will be severely punished. At first, there were thirty push-ups. However, after the punishment was completed, it would be rewarded with meat. However, it increased to fifty or one hundred, and now it has grown to two hundred perverts. At this number, no one dares to deliberately violate the order, because if you can't finish it, not only will you not have meat to eat, but you can't even eat food.

Under Chen Xu's various strange reward and punishment measures, the group of teenagers are now able to comply with various orders without any violation.

It is already spring, and Chen Xu is also preparing to go back to Xianyang, because the Dongfang Road has begun to be officially built, and there are still several places that need to be changed and straightened, he will personally guide the blasting. Moreover, this road is related to his bet with Li Si, and it is the first time that he has truly used the power of business to leverage the development of the entire Qin Dynasty. Once this road is completed, the entire Qin Dynasty will be completely revitalized from east to west. Commerce will flourish with this trunk road as the central axis. Moreover, with the production of cement factories in various places, the structure of the building will be greatly changed. Therefore, he needs to go back early to command Xianyang.

In particular, Huaxia Money Bank has now played the role of a central bank and used non-existent money to issue loans of more than 200 million yuan. Therefore, it is necessary to ensure the stable operation of Huaxia Money Bank and must not make any mistakes, otherwise it will cause coaxing and lead to the collapse of the capital chain. Not to mention building roads, maybe several shareholders of Huaxia Money Bank will lose their lives.

The sound of applause and cheering in the valley came one after another, and groups of teenagers continued to run, and the quotas for the shortlist began to appear.

In the fierce competition, two hours soon passed and a hundred finalists had appeared.

After two minutes of lunch break, the finalists conducted the second round of selection again. The selection included push-ups and sit-ups. The competitions were each limited to half incense stick time, and the number of top 80 people advanced.

After a moment of rest, the third round of selection was carried out. Eighty people acted together and ran to the end of the valley two miles away to climb a bare and steep hillside. The slope was about two hundred meters high. There were fifty small flags on the top of the mountain. The fifty people who successfully obtained the small flag would complete the task and officially follow Chen Xu to Xianyang.

The rest time between these three selections was very short, which was a great test for the limits of the body for these teenagers.

Standing on the ridge on the side, watching the exhausted group of teenagers in the valley sweating and rushing towards the slope at the end of the valley with pale faces. Chen Xu stood up from a stone, took out a monocular glass to start observing. Chen Hu, who was standing next to him, also held a monocular glass and watched at the end of the valley.

The other unsuccessful or eliminated teenagers in the valley also ran into the valley to cheer for their teammates.

"The morale of the army is available, and everyone is very united!" Chen Hu kept searching for the target he was following through his glasses, and was also deeply moved.

"Dad, after I leave, I will give you all the remaining teenagers. In addition to training, walking, lying down and weapons, you can also take them to climb more mountains and train on weekdays, and provide sufficient food. After a while, I will arrange for people to bring some special weapons to make them familiar with the training!"

"Special weapon?" Chen Hu put down his glasses and turned to look at Chen Xu.

"Well, it is a weapon I created that uses gunpowder to drive. It is completely different from the swords, guns, bows and arrows. It is called a divine thunder musket. It has a range of about fifty feet. Although it is not greater than that of bows and arrows, it is better because it is simple and easy to use. Even if women and children are proficient in their ability..."

While speaking, Chen Xu took out two hand guns from his arms, then took out a few small bamboo tubes and placed them on a large stone.

"Is this the divine thunder musket?" Chen Hu was puzzled at the strange-shaped weapon.

"This is a portable divine thunder musket, called a pistol, with a range of only twenty feet, and is mainly used for self-defense. The real divine thunder musket is seven feet long and weighs more than twenty kilograms..."

Chen Xu said while taking off a suede stuffed at the mouth of the bamboo tube, poured half of the gunpowder into the barrel, and then stabbed the steel bullet wrapped in the suede in, and finally poured the remaining gunpowder from the bamboo tube at the fire door. After filling it, Chen Xu broke the hammer and raised his gun to aim at a big tree ten meters away.

"Dad, what I just loaded in was the gunpowder that set off the divine thunder fireworks and some small iron bullets. You have seen the operation. It is very simple. Now I will demonstrate the power of the divine thunder fireworks to you. It is louder, don't be afraid..."

"Boom~"

Chen Xu pulled the trigger, and his arms and body shook slightly. A loud bang was heard, accompanied by a fire ejecting from the muzzle. Wood chips splashed on the big tree trunk ten meters away, and it was directly blasted out, a mess of a rice bowl. A strong blue smoke dissipated with the wind, and the air was filled with the same pungent smell after setting off fireworks.

The loud noise not only scared Chen Hu, but many of the young men in the valley who were scrambling to climb the cliff were also scared. Almost everyone stopped, and some even rolled down in panic.

"Ding ~~"

"What a panic? You are not allowed to stop without orders. Climb quickly!" A young commander roared while blowing the bamboo flute, and looked back at the mountains on the side in fear.

Chen Xu had already walked to the front of the big tree at this time, looking at the bark that was blown out, revealing the wood inside. Seven or eight iron marbles were all hit on the trunk, and it was more than an inch deep inside the wood.

"Dad, have you seen that this is the power of a musket. It can smash the head of a wild wolf within five feet..."

Chen Xu touched the position of the pistol with his hand and said.

Chen Hu came back from his incomparable fear, walked over and looked carefully at the bullet marks on the tree trunk, nodded with a serious expression, "Yes, although it looks less powerful than a crossbow, it is worse than a large attack area. If it hits a person, it will definitely be a skinny and fleshy. If it hits the head, it will definitely die. I really didn't expect that this power would be just a little gunpowder in the bamboo tube!"

"The real divine thunder musket is more powerful, and it will make deafening sounds and fire smoke at the same time, which will add more fear to the enemy!"

Chen Xu returned to the side of the big stone and handed the other hand gun to Chen Hu: "Dad, I will leave this musket for you to be familiar with the usage of muskets, and it can also be used for self-defense. It is very concealed when hiding it on your body. I will teach you how to load and shoot..."

Next, Chen Xu carefully explained the structure of the pistol, and then taught Chen Hu step by step to learn how to load gunpowder.

Ten minutes later, Chen Hu had fully understood the structure of the pistol and the maintenance measures of daily life, and both of them had already filled the gunpowder steel balls.

"Boom~Boom~"
Chapter completed!