Dali Palace, flowers, dancers, wine, and banquets. Amidst the feasts, everyone raised their glasses to toast.

This is a family dinner held by Dali Emperor Duan Zhengchun. The invited people are naturally Chen Can and Wang Yuyan.

Duan Zhengchun looked at the girls beside Chen Can with a complicated expression. He really didn't expect that the brat would marry four of his five daughters at once.

And it was the first time he knew that the power next door called "Dragon" country was the guy behind him!

Duan Zhengchun couldn't see Chen Can's ambition, but whenever he thought of his four daughters, Duan Zhengchun couldn't be hard.

Faced with Chen Can's request to "alliance", Duan Zhengchun finally agreed!

Maybe it was because I was open-minded, or maybe it was because I thought of Chen Can's future descendants, and he, Duan Zhengchun, and the two sides were very harmonious in the future.

Duan Zhengchun even took the initiative to open a trade route to the Southwest Yi, and from then on, the two sides can communicate with each other!

Chen Can didn't expect Duan Zhengchun to be so well-informed, which also gave him a new understanding of the weakness of the Duan family.

Chen Can stayed in the Dali Palace for a week, and had a good time with his brother-in-law Duan Yu, and a few girls to have fun in the entire Dali City.

Seeing Duan Yu's sunny smile without any scheming, Chen Can sighed secretly in his heart. If there was a day in the future, when the two sides met, he would definitely leave the Duan family with one path.

After the exchange and inspection, Chen Can's crisis was mostly reduced.

With the cover of Dali and the market of Dali, the development of "Dragon" will be faster and safer.

Chen Can spent the next two months busy, busy with government affairs during the day and plowed the fields at night, day and night.

The hard work will eventually lead to fruition.

Azhu became pregnant first, then Mu Wanqing and Abi were pregnant, and in the end, only A Zi and Wang Yuyan were left without any movement.

Faced with Wang Yuyan's loss, Chen Can could only work harder to serve him.

Although the two months of rest and recuperation have not yet achieved great results, the development of the "Dragon" country is improving at a speed visible to the naked eye.

As the trade routes are opened and the population is gathering, the local commerce in the southwest has gradually formed a scale.

The former southwestern barbarian forces were mixed and most of the transportation was inconvenient. Those who did business had to pay the protection fee alone along the way, and their personal safety was not guaranteed, which led to the high local prices!

Now, everything has been solved. Chen Can encourages business. Commercial tax is only one-tenth of the value of the goods, and there is no repeated charges. Paying tax once will make it easy.

Even for the goods that are scarce in the southwest barbarians, Chen Can also introduced a support and subsidy policy. This entry and exit not only greatly enriched the local business quantity and output, but also attracted a large number of merchants to come.

The most important thing is safety. In order to avoid local forces’ investigation, many businessmen were cautious, which was worried. Many business roads were paths in the primeval forest, and they could only trade in small batches with mules and horses!

Now, all newly built cities in the southwest Yi have opened official roads, and groups of caravans can wholesale tons of goods at one time!

If you want to be rich, the policy of building roads first is Chen Can's first policy after he occupied the local area!

Since opening trade routes with Dali, merchants from both places have frequently come and go. In almost a very short time, Dali has been filled with goods from the southwest barbarians. The most important thing is that it is good quality and low price.

Commodities in the southwest Yi region are cheaper than those of the same products in this era!

The salt, sugar and other industries that improve technology, the prices of commodities in various industries have steadily declined. Compared with the prices of other countries, the prices of the land in Southwest Yi and the lives of the people are simply paradise!

Take salt as an example. In the past, the Southwest Yi had no less than 150 cents per kilogram of salt, and some areas even exceeded 300 cents!

Now, the price of salt purchased by local people is 8 cents per catty, while the purchase price of merchants from other countries is only 5 cents per catty, which still includes the tax price!

You should know that the salt price in Dali is usually 80 cents per kilogram, while the wholesale price of Southwest Yi has been as low as five cents.

It is conceivable that when the surrounding forces heard about the salt prices of the southwest barbarians, they almost flocked to them.

The salt price in Dali has dropped from 80 ci to 20 ci in just two months!

The reason why Dali can still maintain a price of 20 cents is because the local salt tax includes five cents, which has long increased the procurement cost.

Chen Can did not adopt the ancient high-priced salt tax policy. In other countries, salt tax is an extremely important income in taxation, while in the Southwest Yi, salt is just a commodity. Chen Can never thought of monopolizing this huge profit with high prices.

In addition to the salt that is closely related to the people, other commodities produced by the Southwest Yipin were also snatched by caravans from all sides.

Among them, sugar and cloth are the most popular things. White sugar has never appeared before and is popular because it is rare.

And cloth is the real killer of Long Kingdom. Because Chen Can improved the textile machine and then added a hydroloom, the efficiency was increased by dozens of times, and the production of cloth increased rapidly.

Although the price is only 30% cheaper than usual, this thing can be used as money in this era, and almost all merchants have inexplicable desires and demands for cloth.

Due to insufficient raw materials, the fabrics in Longguo are far from meeting the demand. Chen Can purchased a large number of cotton seeds in the Western Regions. After the spring begins, the local area will plant a large amount of cotton.

There are countless commodities in the Dragon Kingdom that flow into neighboring countries through various channels, and even agricultural tools have become popular goods.

Originally, Chen Can was worried about the crisis from the Song Dynasty, but this winter, a severe snow disaster occurred in the Liao Kingdom. As winter just passed, a large number of Liao troops began to gather on the border, preparing to come to the Song Dynasty to fight the autumn wind.

So the Song army focused almost all of its attention on the border of the Liao Kingdom, so that it had no time to take care of the barbarian land in the southwest.

There is another main point. Although Chen Can has controlled the Southwest Yi now, he did not establish a country or proclaim himself emperor. In the eyes of outsiders, this is simply a powerful local tyrant replaced here!

In the eyes of the Song people of this era, the Southwest Yi Yi was full of miasma, mosquitoes, snakes and ants everywhere, and it was not suitable for survival at all!

The most important thing is that Chen Can has not launched a large-scale war since he was recuperating. Although the trade is prosperous, he is not afraid of other forces.

Chen Can made preparations for the Song Dynasty. The first step was to spend a lot of money and train a large number of 25 boys to let them move in the capital. Millions of silver were spent every year. Almost any news about the Southwest Yi court in the Song Dynasty could be known at the first time.

The second preparation is to provoke friction between the two countries from time to time on the borders of Xixia and Liao, so that there will never be peace on the borders of the Three Kingdoms.

The best way to this kind of friction is assassination. Once there are signs of easing in the border areas, the military generals of both sides will inexplicably die in assassination. Over time, the conflicts on the border between the two sides will never be eliminated, and local conflicts will break out!

Compared with the crises of Dali and the Song Dynasty, the country that really has ideas about the Southwest Yi is Dayue.

As the Li family of Dayue Kingdom has been strong in recent years, they have been conquering the surrounding forces and have achieved good results. They have even fought several wars with Dali, and they have basically won, which makes Dayue monkey more and more arrogant!

The Southwest Yi was originally a territorial area, but a strong force suddenly appeared. As a neighbor, the Great Yue Kingdom naturally had ideas.

However, Chen Can has been on guard against the Dayue Monkey. They tried several times, but they were all solved by Chen Can sent a master to him, and they had to end up in vain.

As the Southwest Yi began to recuperate and promoted the trade, Dayue began to make small moves again. Fortunately, Dayue's main enemy is their small regimes in the northwest. I have never thought about sending troops to the Southwest Yi for the time being. There are some minor frictions between the two sides, but it is still far from the point of starting a war.

At present, the overall peace of the Southwest Yi is still relatively peaceful, and Chen Can quickly seized this precious time to develop!

Chen Can’s real purpose in resting and recuperation is to train troops!

Raising horses in the Western Regions makes money to buy resources, and making irons in the southwest trains and prepares for war. Local arsenals were built one by one. The improved iron plants finally refined steel, armor and long swords were produced from the arsenal.

After the local government implemented the conscription system, the number of troops increased by geometric numbers. Now there are more than 5,000 cavalry and nearly 80,000 infantry.

After these infantry served for two years, except for a small number of elite soldiers who would stay, most of the other soldiers would automatically retire.

These retired soldiers will automatically transform into militias, and will be farmers and merchants in vain. They will automatically become soldiers in wartime. In just ten years, the Southwest Yi will enter the scene where everyone is a soldier. By then, Chen Can has millions of soldiers at any time!

Some of the remaining elites who are skilled will be inserted into various caravans and become walking barracks, spread across several surrounding countries and forces. Once wars are launched in the future, these people will cooperate with the military's actions at any time and launch attacks from the enemy!

In order to prevent the military strength of the "Dragon Kingdom" from being exposed, the military camps are all classified as military unmanned areas within a radius of 50 kilometers. On this land, 100,000 troops will not cause any trouble.

All Chen Can needs now is time!

It was already mid-May before time could be realized. Chen Can must set off immediately in the trip to Songshan Mountain in Shaolin in June!

Chen Can did not make a big fuss because Abi was pregnant, Chen Can only bring A Zi and two followers, and set off lightly.

Everyone rushed to the Shaolin Temple, and when they arrived at the martial arts conference, there were still three days before the martial arts conference!

A rare event in the Central Plains martial arts world that has never been seen in a century has been seen. Thousands of martial arts people have poured into the entire Songshan area!

Chen Can finally meet Qiao Feng, who had been away for more than a year, here!

The two brothers met again and felt very intimate. They drank a drink until dawn again.

Although the two brothers had never met during this year, they communicated with each other almost every other month, and they knew about each other's situation.

Whether it is Chen Can's Southwest Yi or Qiao Feng's Beggars' Sect, there have been earth-shaking changes this year.

If the total number of Beggars' Gang is close to one million, it will be distributed throughout the Song Dynasty.

The Beggars' Sect originally had their own spy organization, but now with the financial support of Chen Can, they have established branches in the Liao Kingdom, Xixia and Tubo.

Not only that, in the past year, the Beggars' Sect has trained nearly 2,000 people. Qiao Feng personally took charge for half a year and trained a large number of martial arts masters!

It can be said that the Beggars' Sect is now the martial arts world in the Central Plains and is well-deserved to be the number one gang in the world.

Those martial arts gangs will only pass on family martial arts to their offspring, or their core disciples, so how could they mass-produce martial arts masters like the Beggars’ Sect!

Chen Can brought a large number of lost martial arts secrets from Yanziwu to Qiao Feng and even sent them to him. There were even many Shaolin 72 unique skills.

Shaolin's Eighteen Arhat Formation and Beggars' Sect's Dog-beating Formation are all famous formations in the martial arts world, and are now integrated into training.

In fact, Chen Can's army also trained a large number of military masters, even more elite than the Beggars' Sect.

Learning martial arts requires talent. Every recruit who joins the army will practice basic internal skills and mental skills under the guidance of the instructor, and then combine them with a set of boxing techniques.

After the three-month recruitment period, those soldiers with martial arts talent will be screened. Some will practice light skills in the next three years, some will practice sword skills, sword skills, etc.

Shaolin Temple is worthy of being the world's number one martial arts library. Shaolin Temple's horizontal martial arts is a first-class tough martial arts, especially suitable for military practice. In the "Dragon Kingdom" military camp, almost every soldier mastered the most basic Shaolin horizontal martial arts skills.

The martial arts of the Xiaoyao Sect are too profound and too evil. Once they are spread, they will probably change the entire world, especially the Beiming Divine Art. Once it spreads, it will be a disaster!

So Chen Can only choose eight people to study in Lingjiu Palace, including four people, plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum.

The martial arts of the Xiaoyao Sect is the real trump card of Chen Can after the founding of the country in the future, and the secret legend of the royal family, just like the current Duan family in Dali.

The martial arts of the Duan family in Dali have been spread for hundreds of years. Although they were eventually lost, they have also given Duan family the power to protect themselves over the past few hundred years.

Chen Can looked at Qiao Feng's laughing heartily and couldn't help but sigh. If it weren't for his appearance, Qiao Feng would probably have been desperate now.

Unfortunately, this guy is in his thirties and there are still a group of men around him. He doesn't know how good a woman is. Chen Can is wondering whether to give him a few beauties.
To be continued...