Limburg Town.

Standing on the roof of the town center building, blew with a warm wind, looking at the prosperous town scenery, Zhou Ming, who felt full of accomplishment, had little joy on his face.

Instead, it was a slightly frown and a deep worry.

"How can we protect this paradise-like prosperity?"

Protect for a long time.

This is a question that Zhou Ming has been thinking about recently.

Monk.

Cultivators who have reached the late stage of Qi Refining or above can give this border town a devastating blow.

As long as you offend someone, Zhou Ming’s years of hard work will be ruined.

If you make an image metaphor: those cultivators with high cultivation are like dragons in Western legends. They usually don’t get out of the hole, but once they come out, they can easily destroy a city.

The difference is that according to the level of cultivation, some are partially destroyed and some are completely destroyed.

Of course, killing people and slaughtering cities at any time is something evil cultivators do. Most decent monks will not do such things on purpose unless they accidentally use their ultimate moves and fail to pay attention to them, and fall into the big city.

That can only be said to be Sao Rui.

What's more, some monks who want to deal with Zhou Ming may not necessarily destroy his foundation, just kill Zhou Ming.

Zhou Ming died, and all his efforts were in vain.

Look at Zhou Ming’s current cultivation level, he is less than the middle stage of Qi Refining. Faced with the pursuit of high-strength cultivators, he can’t even escape.

So no matter what, Zhou Ming has to improve his strength and improve the defense of Linbao Town.

To what extent?

Enough to defend one's own interests and enough to kill the powerful people in the late stage of Qi Refining.

How can this level be achieved?

Zhou Ming came up with three solutions.

The first type is to recruit guests.

Rewards are paid by spiritual stones, spiritual coins, herbs and elixirs, and some monks with higher cultivation are recruited to serve as guest officials.

This method works quickly, and there are many people who are willing to be a guest official, so they are not afraid of not being able to recruit people.

The disadvantage is that it is expensive, requires a lot of rewards, and needs to be served well.

The second type is to establish an army.

Establish a regular and disciplined army, supplemented by strict training, and teach the methods of fighting formations. Everyone practices "Dragon and Snake Martial Arts". This set of martial arts skills can also compete with the monks in the early stage of Qi refining, although the chances of victory are not high.

But what about one hundred, one thousand, ten thousand?

Even if you consume, you can consume a cultivator with a lower level of cultivation.

If you develop plate armor in terms of weapons to improve the defense of this army; and then develop crossbows or firearms to enhance the attack power of this army, monks with higher cultivation can also resist it.

The third type is to train monks.

The first two methods have certain shortcomings and cannot completely fundamentally solve the problem of insufficient defense in Linbao Town.

Some people say that they develop technology, create laser guns, nuclear weapons, crush those monks, and flatten this plane. Of course, Zhou Ming thought of this and tried it a long time ago, but found that it was not possible.

The laser gun cannot be used. When the hard metal is taken to this plane, it immediately becomes softer than mud, and the physical and chemical properties change in reverse.

I tried to use sulfur, charcoal, saltpeter and some black gunpowder, but it couldn't even burn it, let alone an explosion.

Technology is almost impossible to go through.

You can only establish a cultivation school by yourself, let the system check your physical fitness, select some good seedlings, send them to the school, and then invite a few monks and teachers to guide them to the path of cultivation, and provide spirit stones, elixirs and various materials to cultivate talents and cultivate monks.

Enhance the defense capabilities of Limburg Town.

This school was established two years ago and was named "Huxiang Academy".

There are currently 30 students, Zhou Ming serves as the principal, cultural subject teacher, practice subject teacher, miscellaneous subject teacher... He is very busy with several positions.

Now, among these 30 students, 16 "feel" "anger", and 8 have completed the "foundation building". Although the number is not large, it also makes Zhou Ming full of confidence in the future!

"At the development speed of Limburg Town, the population expands at a rate of 10% per year, and the economic growth space is almost no limit. The primeval forests in the west also have hundreds of millions of square kilometers of land waiting for development. It may take about a hundred years to build this town into a huge empire..."

"If this empire had a population of one billion and a proportion of one ten thousand, talented monks would be cultivated and trained with all the country's strength, I believe that at that time, this empire would be able to compete with those large sects."

Of course, it is unlikely to establish such a powerful empire in about a hundred years, but it is still very likely to accumulate the power that makes large sects afraid and dare not act rashly.

But in this process, you still have to ensure that everything is foolproof and prevent accidents.

Therefore, Zhou Ming planned to take three steps to train monks, but also recruit guests and form an army.

So Zhou Ming went to Jinyan City and released the news of "hiring a guest official with high salaries" through some channels:

Number of hires: 2 people.

Cultivation requirements: mid-stage to late stage of Qi refining.

Treatment: 50,000 yuan per person per year (also year-end rewards and other benefits).

Employment duration: 10 years.

After the news spread, because the treatment was very attractive, someone soon came to apply for an interview.

Zhou Ming interviewed three groups of people, and finally fell in love with a couple.

The monks and wife are both in their early 30s. The man is named "Su Yuanlong". She is handsome and dressed in white. She is quite elegant. Her cultivation is in the middle stage of Qi refining; the woman is named "Wang Caifeng". She is beautiful in appearance, outstanding in swordsmanship, and her cultivation is also in the middle stage of Qi refining.

The couple also have a son and a daughter. Because they have been walking in the world for a long time, their income is not stable, and their children cannot take good care of them. They accidentally heard that Linbao Town is recruiting guests, and their treatment is exciting, so they all have the intention to calm down.

Zhou Ming was even more surprised. The monk group who started a family and had children was the ideal recruitment target. There was no need to be too cautious. With the involvement of children, he would not be indifferent and would leave as long as he wanted, which was even more reassuring.

After the couple brought their children to Limburg Town, the town in front of them opened their mouths in surprise.

"This...I've never seen such a lively town, it... is very special."

Su Yuanlong has seen many people in the world, but the town in front of him still refreshed him and felt very unique.

How to say, the first sense this town brings him is vitality and full of vitality.

"I have heard some people say that Limburg Town is a very special place, but I can't tell you that it's special. I saw it today, it's really special..."

Wang Caifeng said with a smile. With the smile she observed from the faces of the people coming and going, she felt that the town was filled with... happiness.

On the carriage, their children opened their eyes wide and looked at the town in front. They had become full of curiosity because of their depressed mood from moving from a prosperous city to a remote and backward countryside.

Zhou Ming laughed and said to them: "This town is still in its early stages of development... You will also like this here in the future."

...

A house with the best facilities was vacated in the town center, a guest official was placed, and a chef and a nanny were appointed. The other party was very satisfied with all kinds of preferential treatment and quickly settled down.

A few days later, Su Yuanlong and Wang Caifeng even took the initiative to go to the "Guangxiang School" to serve as the teacher of the practice course, effectively reducing Zhou Ming's burden.

Therefore, Zhou Ming had more time to focus his work on the establishment of the "Country Protection Army".

"The Guarding Army" means "Defending Hometown" from the name alone. The purpose of establishing this army is naturally to protect the hometown and maintain the development and prosperity of Linbao Town.

Zhou Ming selected 150 people from the young hunters with a ratio of 20 draws, and after three months of devilish training, he formally formed a professional and regular army - the Guarding Army.

Although this army has a small number of people, it is strict discipline, elite weapons, advanced ideological awareness, and loves its hometown. It is an army with only combat effectiveness and faith.

Most of them, in order to defend their hometown and resist foreign enemies, are willing to fight to the death, even if they sacrifice their lives.

Of course, standing in front of these young and passionate soldiers, as the supreme commander, Zhou Ming knew very well that once faced the invasion of powerful monks, most of them would not be able to play any role. Perhaps the sacrifice of their individual individuals would only delay the powerful enemy for a few seconds, and their role was equivalent to cannon fodder.

Their greatest value is also to maintain public order, crack down on illegal and criminal activities, and maintain daily peace.

What if the real challenge comes?

They can only be cannon fodder?

I'm afraid they themselves cannot accept this positioning, so every time Zhou Ming talks about the threat of the monks, they hold their breath in their hearts and try their best to train themselves.

To prove their worth!

So Zhou Ming thought about it and found that the talents of these soldiers from the village protection army would definitely not be able to improve them, but they could only strengthen them in terms of weapons.

Advanced weapons can sometimes eliminate the physical "generation gap".

If you can't get a scientific and technological weapon for the time being, Zhou Ming can only do something about traditional weapons.

Divine Arm Crossbow - full name "Divine Arm Crossbow with Super Powerful Ultimate Form with Single Soldiers".

Zhou Ming spent more than a year searching for countless materials, drawing countless design drawings, and even conducted trillions of simulations in a supercomputer.

In the actual manufacturing process, this kind of crossbow has complex manufacturing processes, extremely high requirements for material and processing accuracy, and strict requirements for craftsmen's craftsmanship.

In order to create a "divine arm crossbow" in full power, Zhou Ming tried more than 300 woods, more than 500 animal tendons and strings, and more than ten kinds of metal materials. It took several months to finally successfully create one.

During the test shooting, the performance was amazing.

A man from a thousand meters away hugged a thick tree trunk and a fine iron crossbow arrow that could be penetrated directly.

The initial firing speed is greater than the speed of sound, and its power is far superior to that of ordinary rifle bullets, and it can even be compared with medium caliber sniper rifle bullets.

With huge lethality, even Su Yuanlong, who was in the middle stage of Qi Refining, had his face changed wildly when he stood a thousand meters away, and he said it was difficult to resist when he was unprepared.

"If all the arrows are fired together, even the strong ones in the late stage of Qi Refining will not dare to take it head-on." Su Yuanlong commented.

Zhou Ming nodded, feeling confident.

Of course, the Divine Arm Crossbow is not without its shortcomings, it is expensive (300 spiritual coins per hand), and the use requirements are very high (the arm strength can only be fully loaded if it exceeds 500 kilograms. In the rural protection army, less than one-third of the soldiers can do it), but Zhou Ming still decided to establish a production line and strive to achieve mass production.

Because this is the first weapon that can make "mortals" barely compete with monks.
Chapter completed!