Chen Can decided to use Lingjiu Palace as his base and began to develop his own power.

Although the power of Lingjiu Palace was huge before, it was too loose. The thirty-six caves and seventy-two island owners were too scattered, and in fact they did not have much effect.

There are only a thousand real core disciples of the nine divisions of Lingjiu Palace, and they are all women, and their martial strength is basically mediocre.

In the past, when the Tianshan Child Mother was in power, she basically implemented a destructive rule over these women. These women were not allowed to marry for life, let alone have an affair. Violators would be severely punished.

Under the long-term oppression, those women inside the Vulture Palace have some psychological problems!

After Chen Can took power, he naturally could no longer allow it to develop like this. He had to make Lingjiu Palace bigger and stronger.

So he issued more than a dozen reform decrees.

One of them is that any woman who has stayed in Lingjiu Palace for ten years can marry freely!

In other words, Chen Can is planning to adopt a seniority system so that those women can determine their own destiny for the rest of their lives!

Almost every other decree is a ground-breaking reform.

At the same time, he began to recruit troops and vigorously develop his own cavalry!

Lingjiu Palace controls a population of hundreds of thousands in the local Tianshan City. Chen Can temporarily plans to use this population to build a cavalry of about 2,000 people.

His purpose in establishing this cavalry was not to fight, but to do business. Open up business routes and establish trade channels in the Western Regions!

Yes, Chen Can plans to establish a Western Region Business Alliance in local cities.

In the next few years, Tianshan City will expand several times and become a commercial city!

The current power of the Vulture Palace is not enough to support his expansion of territory. What he needs now is population, horses, money, and time!

Chen Can plans to make a ten-year plan!

He plans to establish two bases in the next ten years. The first base is centered on Tianshan City, which is currently controlled by Lingjiu Palace, to create a commercial city that can influence the entire Western Region.

The second base area is to establish a force of one's own in the southwest barbarian area, and finally slowly expand the force in the direction of Jiaozhi (Vietnam). When the time is right, completely annex Dali and establish a real political power!

In this era, various forces are intertwined. It is not too difficult to establish a force, but it is too difficult to establish a country to survive or even unify the world.

It's not that Chen Can never thought about it, he directly learned Wanyan Aguda, went straight to the Liao Kingdom Huanglong, defeated the opponent inside, and finally completely annexed the Liao Kingdom.

But Chen Can is not a Jurchen. Although he is a Xianbei, he has already been Chineseized and is now a full-fledged Han. Therefore, without any foundation, he can only slowly pursue it.

Now Chen Can's power is still too small. Although martial arts can solve most problems, facing thousands of troops, he can't change the general situation by himself!

Population, horses, money, and time are all indispensable!

Chen Can wants to establish power in the south, have his own population and land, build his own country within a country, and then open up trade routes in the Western Regions through trade, earn a lot of money, and then use this money to buy horses from the Western Regions to train troops.

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The reason why the Mongols in the future will be able to conquer all of Central Asia is because of their iron cavalry!

With the iron cavalry and the unique martial arts secrets of this era, Chen Can wants to build a real iron army!

The geographical location of Lingjiu Palace is actually very good. This place is considered the boundary of the Western Region. To the west is Xixia, and it is also bordered by the Song Dynasty and Tubo. Further to the west, there are a large number of Western Region forces controlled by the Huiji tribe. It can be said that this place is

Does not belong to any sphere of influence!

The Western Region has always been full of races, and all kinds of forces, large and small, are good sources of nourishment. If Chen Can wants to recruit troops, these are the best sources of troops!

In a few years, the Song Dynasty would establish the Longyou Protectorate on this land, but this was the last afterglow of the Song Dynasty.

The matter at Lingjiu Palace cannot be finished in a short while, and Chen Can's control over the Central Plains Wulin has not relaxed.

After five issues of the Wulin Monthly News, the reputation of Beggar Gang Qiao Feng is at its peak.

After Qiao Feng's vigorous rectification, the unhealthy tendencies within the Beggar Clan have been wiped out. Now the Beggar Clan is united, with Qiao Feng as the leader!

Qiao Feng also lived up to Chen Can's instructions and began to select a large number of young people with martial arts talents within the Beggar Clan and began centralized training.

The Beggar Clan has a lot of martial arts, but in fact they are all second- and third-rate techniques. For this reason, Chen Can sent Qiao Feng a large number of martial arts secrets.

Although the Beggar Gang is the largest gang in the world, it only refers to its large number of people, and its martial arts attainments are far behind those of the Shaolin Temple.

Although the Shaolin monks are vegetarians, these monks have nothing to do all day, studying martial arts, which is a set of techniques. For hundreds of years, the inheritance of martial arts has never been interrupted.

After all, the Beggar Clan is just a group of beggars, basically hanging out among the three religions and nine streams. Except for the top group of people, the real masters are basically third-rate people.

But now, the Beggar Clan wants to change this situation. Chen Can not only gives them advice, but also supports them with a lot of money and martial arts secrets.

Although there are many people in the Beggar Clan, they are all poor. Without Chen Can's financial support, Qiao Feng would not be able to support so many people practicing martial arts off-duty.

Chen Can's support for the Beggar Clan is certainly not a selfless contribution!

The first demand is population!

There were hundreds of millions of people in the Song Dynasty who did not have enough to eat. Every year, a large number of refugees who fled natural disasters and man-made disasters became beggars and eventually became the bottom members of the beggar gang.

In the past, when selecting members of beggar gangs, they had to go through several rounds of inspections before they could finally join the gang.

But now, whenever a natural disaster occurs in a certain place, the beggar gang will secretly encourage those refugees who cannot survive, and let them go south to Southwest Yi, where there is land and people to accept them.

Chen Can supports the Beggar Gang with a large amount of money every year, which can be exchanged for tens of thousands of people.

The second is channels. In this era, the circulation of information across the country is very slow, and the Beggar Gang has branches all over the country. This is the best circulation channel. The previous Wulin Monthly News was distributed through the channels of the Beggar Gang.

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With the channels of the Beggar Clan, Chen Can could almost control the situation in various parts of the Song Dynasty in a short period of time.

Even which officials and wealthy households in a certain place have assets, these are among the information that Chen Can requested for statistics. In the future, these people will be mobile sheep, the kind that are inexhaustible.

Of course, Chen Can was also secretly establishing his own intelligence channels and establishing his own secret strongholds throughout the Song Dynasty.

Among the thousands of women in Lingjiu Palace, as long as they want to start a family, Chen Can will arrange for them to choose men. Once these women get married, Chen Can will send them to settle down and start a family all over the world. From then on, they will become Chen Can's secret information.

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The role of the Beggar Gang to Chen Can is so great that Chen Can is willing to support him with millions of silver taels every year just in exchange for population and time!

The southwestern barbarians in the Song Dynasty refer to Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and other places in later generations. In the eyes of the Central Plains people of this era, they were still barbarian lands.

So Southwest Yi was nominally the sphere of influence of the Song Dynasty, but in fact, it had never been truly unified for hundreds of years!

Among them, the Dali Kingdom is the largest force in the southwest region. In addition to Dali, there are more than a dozen other large and small forces, including some that have established their own country.

The Vulture Palace's local power is not small. It controls dozens of sects and has a sphere of influence of hundreds of kilometers. This small amount of territory is certainly not enough. Chen Can will completely control other forces except Dali within the next year.

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Southwest Yi is one of Chen Can's future base areas, and Chen Can will personally take action!

Those who follow me will prosper, those who go against me will perish!

After sixty days of seclusion in the Tianshan Child Elder's retreat, her strength once again returned to its peak. Perhaps because she lost her support in life, she became a little taciturn. She did not interfere with the management of Lingjiu Palace anymore, and chose a palace in the back mountain to start.

I have studied martial arts for a long time and no longer care about worldly affairs.

However, Chen Can was very coveted for the life and death talisman of Tianshan Tonglao. He begged for it several times and finally the other party agreed to teach him!

It's a pity that learning this life and death talisman makes Chen Can want to die!

This life and death talisman is divided into two steps. The first step is to refine the life and death talisman.

This life and death talisman is not a hidden weapon such as a talisman, but uses water and other liquids to reverse the true energy, and uses the power of cold to refine the water into thin ice.

The second step is to use the true energy to shoot into several acupoints in the body. Each of these acupoints is particular and must be accurate.

This thin ice is not an ordinary thin ice, but contains the power of extreme yin and yang. Once penetrated into the human body, the thin ice will quickly integrate into the body and invade the human body's muscles. Once the body makes even half a movement, it will involve the muscles and veins.

The power of yin and yang causes cold and heat to circulate in the muscles and veins of the human body. The feeling is beyond words!

Once an attack occurs, the body will first feel itchy, then painful, and finally, every organ in the whole body will be itchy. It feels like you can't live or die, it's like purgatory on earth!

The essence of this life and death talisman required Chen Can to retreat for several days before he could get started with it, but Abi, on the other hand, mastered the essence after only practicing it once!

Chen Can even wondered if he hadn't learned the Beiming Divine Art, so he couldn't fully master the Talisman of Life and Death.

Perhaps as Chen Can guessed, Beiming's magical power transforms Beiming's true energy, which is half a level higher than the internal force. It reverses the true energy, and the thin ice that appears has a very good effect. Chen Can uses the internal force to reverse the yin and yang power.

, the effect is worse than just a little bit!

Regarding such a result, Chen Can could only give up temporarily!

The more he understands the Xiaoyao Sect, the deeper Chen Can feels about the Beiming Divine Art.

The Beiming Divine Skill is indeed a good thing, far superior to today's martial arts, and Chen Can even regrets his original choice.

However, you can't learn the Beiming Divine Skill yourself, there are others who can learn it.

After Chen Can took over Lingjiu Palace, he was surrounded by a group of orioles and swallows every day. Among them, the four maids that Chen Can liked the most were the plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum maids.

These four maids were accidentally picked up by Tianshan's child grandmother more than ten years ago at the foot of the mountain. Later, seeing how well-behaved the girls were, she kept them by her side as personal maids.

Four people are born from the same pack. The quadruplets look exactly the same. They have lively and cute personalities. They are innocent and innocent. Perhaps because they are young, their bodies are just getting better. They still have some baby fat on their faces. They each have a dimple when they smile. They are very cute.

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Originally, the girls had been serving Tianshan Child Elder, but now Tianshan Child Elder was disheartened and did not want any maids by her side, so the girls could only stay with Chen Can.

The girls were quite afraid of Chen Can at first, but after a few days of contact, they found that Chen Can was easy-going and had no airs. He was not as moody as the Tianshan Child Elder.

After all, the girls were all sisters, and as they were in their teens, they soon lost their restraints and became tired of being around Chen Can all day long.
To be continued...