Chapter 6635: Grand Martial Arts Show

Chapter 6635: Grand Martial Arts Show

Liu Tong's action really shocked everyone who knew about it. To be honest, no one had ever thought that such an operation could be possible before.

Afterwards, Chen Xi thought about it and decided that logically speaking, Liu Tong did handle the situation quite well. At least he had to give Cang Hou the status and face, and besides, he did not lack that.

"Forget it. It happened so many years ago. Let's not mention it." Liu Tong said with a little embarrassment. It was just a brain spasm back then. It was very normal. We are young and need to be understanding.

"So you know how embarrassing it is." Chen Xi said unhappily.

"It seems there are some jokes we don't know about." Han Xin had a teasing expression on his face, and then Liu Tong and Si Niang rolled their eyes at him. To be honest, he was young back then.

Afterwards realizing that something seemed to be wrong with the matter, Liu Tong and Si Niang stopped doing it. Otherwise, how could they be as harmonious as they are now? Wouldn't they have to go to the Nonghuang Temple to pray for blessings first?
"Let's put this joke aside for now and continue talking about the secret medicine." Chen Xi didn't want to dwell on the amazing performance of his brain spasm that year, so he naturally changed the subject and clicked on the secret mirror to reveal a new thing. "This is the strange secret medicine that Wang Ke obtained from Zheng's family in Xingyang."

Wang Ke's brain is average, but Zheng Ling is very smart. Although she was stunned by Zheng Tai's boomerang in Central Asia, she copied all the relevant information from the Zheng family after she recovered. Only after she calmed down did she have time to ask Wang Ke what benefits he had gained.

Wang Ke was waiting for his wife. Although he also wanted to digest this precious power, he had been following his wife's instructions for so many years without any major mistakes. He thought that he was not very smart and should let his wife take a look. He resisted the urge to take the secret medicine as soon as possible and waited for his wife to finish copying the information and come to find him.

After asking her husband about the effects of the secret medicine, Zheng Ling confirmed again and again that Wang Ke had not heard of the same kind of thing from other brothers, and immediately realized how to maximize the benefits.

After all, Wang Ke is a high-ranking noble after all, and his father also has a lot of friends, and he can find several brothers who have reached the sixth level of smelting. According to the performance of Liu Bei and Chen Xi over the years, if this kind of thing that is useful to top veterans really exists in the hands of the Han Dynasty, then Wang Ke can at least hear some rumors.

Even though his connections could not reach the top, Wang Ke must know someone who could get this kind of thing, so the fact that there was no rumor at all could only mean that the Han Dynasty did not have it.

So he decisively sent it to Chang'an. At that time, Huang Tao was taking private work in Central Asia. When Wang Ke received the news, he asked Huang Tao to take this thing to Chang'an and deliver it directly to Li You. Huang Tao said there was no problem.

As for the Zheng family in Xingyang, this thing itself was a product accidentally created by the Zheng family. It was not what Zheng Tai originally wanted, and it was quite expensive. It had been kept by the Zheng family all along, and there was no intention of handing it over to the country. After giving it to Wang Ke, Zheng Tai finally realized it, but how could he be faster than Huang Tao? After all, the Zheng family did not have the top-notch strongmen, and this family was in its developmental stage.

Because of this time difference, Wang Ke finally picked the fruit.

When Li You received this thing, he realized its value, and then he took the secret medicine to inform Chen Xi. Chen Xi then asked the Medical College to copy ten copies at any cost, returned three copies to Wang Ke, and then began formal research.

Even Chen Xi has to admit the preciousness of this thing. Even though the cost is extremely high, it still needs to be researched and promoted in the future.

From a certain perspective, this thing really breaks some existing concepts. It is simply outrageous. What's even more outrageous is that this thing was truly independently researched by the Zheng family of Xingyang, without any involvement from other families. Even if it is an unexpected by-product, you can tell whether it is a product or not.

But if Chen Xi saw it, it would be Chen Xi's property. Copyright? What is that? As a wealthy family with generations of riches, occasionally some gold coins would appear. What's the point of talking about copyright? Just appear.

“So this thing can be done completely painlessly and without any bottlenecks. It can directly allow people who have reached the peak of Qi Training to achieve internal Qi leaving the body. Although it is the weakest type of internal Qi leaving the body, this is a bit too incredible.” Liu Bei looked at the new secret medicine that Chen Xi took out, and his whole body was numb. He didn't even know that the Han Dynasty had such a thing. You know, Liu Bei has only just reached the stage of Qi Training to achieve internal Qi leaving the body.

"It cannot be said that there is no bottleneck at all. In a situation like Li Tiao's, this secret medicine is not very useful, but it should be able to open up some of the internal and external channels." Chen Xi thought for a while and said, "In short, this medicine is indeed a completely painless and harmless magic medicine that can break the bottleneck of Qi training into Gang. It's just that the current price is relatively high. We are also trying to find a way to research and replicate it."

"What's the price now?" Liu Tong asked with a somewhat strange look. She was interested in this and it didn't matter if it was a bit expensive. She had Chen Xi's New Year's money anyway. Liu Tong firmly believed that the New Year's money given by Chen Xi could buy most of the things in the world that cost money.

"According to the manpower and material resources invested, it will probably take around 12 million." Chen Xi thought for a while and said, just from the price one can see how much stronger Chen Xi is than Zheng family of Xingyang. It would cost at least 30 million for Zheng family to copy one such injection, while the Han Dynasty, without any prior technology, only needed 12 million to copy the finished product.

"If we consider the value of internal energy leaving the body and its property of not destroying the innate smelting ability, the price of twelve million is acceptable." After pondering for a long time, Liu Bei gave his own judgment. Of course, this judgment was entirely based on the fact that Chen Xi was right next to him.

Liu Bei, who had experienced the reign of Emperor Ling and witnessed the Yellow Turban Rebellion, knew very well what twelve million yuan really meant. To put it bluntly, even under the current conditions of the Han Dynasty, an ordinary family would need almost a thousand years of accumulation to save up such a sum of money.

But considering that Chen Xi was right next to him, Liu Bei could accept this price.

"In fact, it's not unacceptable if we have to accept it, but I think the price can still be pushed down." Chen Xi did not refute. He also felt that the current price was barely acceptable, but it was not popular enough.

"Currently, the Han Dynasty has nearly 30,000 or even more than 30,000 Qigong masters, and half of them have reached the level of perfection. However, there is no way forward, and it is basically impossible for them to break through to the point where their internal Qi leaves their bodies." Liu Tong recalled what he had memorized when he was looking through the statistics. "If we calculate it based on 12 million per stick, then it seems that only about 200 billion will be needed."

"If I heard this somewhere else, I think I shouldn't participate in the discussion at all, but after hearing this here, I think I can still accept it. It seems that a scale of 200 billion is not a problem at all for Zichuan." Cookie said with a smile.

"If I remember correctly, Zichuan seems to spend 100 billion yuan or even more every year to collect grain. While maintaining prices, it ensures the operation of state-owned factories and mines, and provides raw materials for some grain processing industries?" Liu Bei turned his head and looked at Chen Xi and asked. He was very clear about this, as he had had in-depth discussions with Chen Xi on this issue before.

"That's true. We do spend hundreds of billions of dollars every year to collect grain from the people." Chen Xi did not refute when he heard this. This was indeed a fact. In fact, if the grain was not collected, the grain price in the market would not be able to maintain the current price. The number of incidents where low grain prices hurt farmers would increase significantly, and the prices of certain products would also fall, which would be detrimental to the Han Dynasty as a whole.

Instead of doing this, it would be better to collect the grain and provide part of it as food rations to state-owned factories and mines, construction corps, and national military service, and transport the rest as raw materials to Yanzhou Agriculture and Grain, local wineries, various agricultural product processing workshops, etc. This way, while consuming this part of the grain, it can also increase the happiness of the local people and maintain the current stable price structure.

"In this case, we can move some of the funds to this aspect first, and a few hundred will come out." Bai Qi said very casually, not noticing that what he said was somewhat unpolitical.

"The situation is somewhat different from what you think." Chen Xi was thinking about how to explain to this group of people that the money from collecting grain would later enter the operation of society, and the collected grain would also enter the operation of society, so Chen Xi was essentially just making adjustments, and did not cause too much loss to the overall social wealth.

But if it is used to make this secret medicine, the input does not enter the operation of society, and the output also does not enter the operation of society, this part of the wealth is equivalent to disappearing directly from the country.

Although the army itself is such a thing, it only has input but no output, but the significance of the army is to protect its own output or plunder the output of others. Its own non-output problem is not a big problem overall, but the premise is that the proportion is not too large.

If two hundred billion were to be poured in as is being said now, it would be truly a waste of resources, and even Chen Xi would find it difficult to maintain stability.

"In other words, there is a big difference between rushing into the people's livelihood and rushing into the army?" Liu Bei asked with some curiosity after listening to Chen Xi's explanation.

"As long as it is not eaten by termites, it will not be lost in the continuous circulation process, but will generate new value and create more wealth. The logic of the army is not on the same logical chain as this logic, so it is impossible to charge 200 billion." Chen Xi said very seriously, "and this single 12 million is too expensive, it needs to be optimized."

"That means a batch has been produced now, right?" Liu Bei didn't understand the logic of wealth generation, but he understood another thing, that is, Chen Xi had already produced a batch, so the subsequent batches could be put aside for now.

"That's right. A batch of about two hundred were indeed manufactured." Chen Xi nodded. After all, technical verification also requires a wave of production. What's more, Chen Xi asked the Medical Academy to verify several ideas. The big guys there are much more powerful than the Zheng family. The routes they dare to verify are at least the kind that will not be wasted.

In this way, when these routes are verified and the budget of more than 2 billion is spent, only so many will be produced. The so-called 12 million is just the average price. The cheapest one has actually dropped to tens of millions, but the technical process is more complicated. When it all depends on the coordination of the old masters, the complexity of the process is not important when the money reaches tens of millions.

But for Chen Xi, who wanted to put this thing on the assembly line like muscle-building injections, he had to give up first if the actual operation process was too long, even if the price was cheaper.

"What are you going to do with these things?" Liu Bei thought for a moment, and a large number of officers who had sufficient military merit but were stuck at the peak of Qi training, as well as some backbones who had reached the sixth or seventh level of smelting but had not been promoted yet, flashed through his mind. From Liu Bei's point of view, these people were the best candidates for use, and there were more than two hundred of them, which was almost enough.

"I haven't thought about it yet. Except for a dozen that need to be kept, the others can be distributed now. But the distribution targets have not been decided yet. This can be considered later. It's not a problem." Chen Xi said calmly. He also considered the group of officers who had enough military merits but were stuck in Qigong training, as well as those backbone veterans, but Chen Xi felt that this matter needed to be reconsidered.

"I'll draw up a list later, tick the items, and send them out first so that they can get used to it in advance. The sooner this stuff is used, the better. And for a guy like Huang Tao, if he can achieve the state of having internal energy leaving the body, his mobility will be even more outrageous." Liu Bei said with some excitement.

"Forget about this. Huang Tao hasn't even cultivated his Qi into a Gang." Chen Xi said helplessly. If Huang Tao had cultivated his Qi into a Gang, with his achievements, this whole thing wouldn't be a problem. But Huang Tao was condensing his internal Qi, which was strange. When he met Huang Tao in Yangzhou that year, Huang Tao was condensing his internal Qi, and he is still condensing his internal Qi now. He always felt that something was wrong.

"That's true. However, there are some other veterans who have advanced to the level of Internal Qi Leaving the Body while retaining their talent smelting. For them, ordinary Internal Qi Leaving the Body is no different from soldiers of the same level. Especially for those top veterans, if they can be promoted in this way, it will almost completely overturn the previous legion system. Those heavy mechas will not be a problem for them at all." Liu Bei said excitedly. For mechas, big is beautiful, strong is good, and that's no joke.

"Well, there's nothing wrong with this idea. The purpose of studying this potion is to realize this possibility. But in fact, this is quite difficult because this potion does not provide combat power. It just allows you to open the internal and external channels smoothly. The subsequent accumulation depends entirely on yourself." Chen Xi recalled that he did not seem to have told this group of people about the actual effect of this potion.

Afterwards, Chen Xi explained to Liu Bei and the others the rapid change from fifty to five hundred in a normal breakthrough, and popularized the process of the slow accumulation of this secret medicine starting from fifty, so that everyone present could understand the logic of why the smelting talent could still be maintained.

"The reason for the collapse in the past was actually the sudden change. The magnitude of the improvement was too great, resulting in the inability to continue to maintain the talent structure. The improvement of the secret medicine is a gradual release, which allows the smelting to be improved along with the improvement of the foundation. The improvement of smelting is a multiple, and it is based on the multiple of the individual foundation." Chen Xi roughly explained the reason, "This is also the reason why the three people headed by Li Jue are not strong, but dare to beat up the strong on the battlefield."

It is so powerful that one layer of defense smelting is so powerful. Combined with the basic quality improvement brought by smelting, although the basic strength itself is not strong, it can still fight with masters and will not be killed in seconds.

"In that case, this thing is actually very suitable for veterans with high melting points." Liu Bei thought for a moment and said, more than a hundred names had already appeared in his mind.

"Yes, for a veteran who has undergone the sixth level of smelting, because of the talent multiplier, if the base level increases by one point, the overall combat effectiveness will actually increase by several points. If a veteran who has undergone the sixth level of smelting truly reaches the lower limit of the internal energy leaving the body, then the combat effectiveness will be very terrifying." Chen Xi said very seriously. To be honest, the enhancement brought by smelting is very outrageous.

"In this way, if we give it to the veterans, we can produce hundreds of backbones with top-notch internal energy and out-of-body combat capabilities." Liu Bei knocked on the table with his knuckles bent. This was a very outrageous situation, which had great significance for the Han Dynasty to further crush the Kushans.

In the past, the biggest headache for the Kushans was the huge amount of internal Qi leaving the body. But now with this secret medicine, the Han Dynasty can completely crush the Kushans in terms of the quantity and quality of internal Qi leaving the body.

"For an old soldier who has already reached the sixth level of smelting, his strength is only slightly weaker than that of an ordinary person under the cloud. After opening the internal and external channels and advancing to the level of internal qi leaving the body, he can fully tap his potential in a short period of time and with the help of smelting, he should be stronger than an ordinary person." Chen Xi thought for a while and said, the reason why he was willing to spend a lot of money on this thing was because it would really enhance the national defense of the Han Dynasty, right?
"I will distribute this thing. Just redeem it with military merit." Liu Bei thought for a while and said. If this thing is in the hands of others, it will be easy to have problems in the exchange process. But for Liu Bei, Liu Bei really doesn't believe that anyone will find fault with him, even if it is his own brother, he has to speak up.

"Okay, I'll ask the Medical Academy to keep a dozen bottles for further research and replication to see if we can get the price down. You can use the rest, Mr. Xuande." Chen Xi said calmly. It would be better to use this thing early.

"In this way, there are more than 200 people with comprehensive screening capabilities." Han Xin stroked his beard and said with some emotion, "In this way, some guys who originally couldn't command a legion can now command a legion. The number of legion commanders is no longer a problem. Even if there are 3 million troops, the original gap can now be filled by 100."

Liu Bei did not speak, but nodded. Although he would certainly consider the use of immortal veterans, he would definitely take all factors into consideration when distributing them. For some special veterans who could command large armies, Liu Bei would definitely relax the conditions for them. For veterans like Jiang Guang who could only fight, the difficulty of obtaining them would increase. But to be honest, even if the difficulty was increased, it would not make any difference to Jiang Guang.

"How about this? We will hold a large martial arts performance in Chang'an before the grand court meeting in the tenth year of Yuanfeng to compete in strength and comprehensive ability. As long as one has reached a certain level of military merit, one can participate. It's a good opportunity for us to take stock of our own strength." Chen Xi suddenly suggested, as if he remembered something.

"Not bad. In recent years, we have either been organizing imperial examinations or banquets. At most, we have held a military service competition in Chang'an County. It would be fine to hold a nationwide martial arts performance. It happens to be right after the military service competition in September, so it would be nice to hold a nationwide martial arts performance." Liu Bei thought about it and felt that this was fair and open. Although if he was chosen internally, there would be no mistakes based on his understanding of veterans from all over the country, but if he held a large-scale martial arts performance, there might be surprises.

"Then should we let the princes from all directions participate?" Liu Tong touched the golden book and jade volume beside her. These people paid her. Although they would not help her with all their strength, it would be okay for them to lend a helping hand when the problem was not serious. For example, this sentence now was worth at least five million coins.

"Let's participate. I estimate that this year the Zhongguo Guild will come in person from the Yuan family. On the one hand, it is the tenth year of Yuanfeng, and on the other hand, it is also because of Rome." Chen Xi thought for a while and suggested to Liu Bei.

"Then join us. We are all the backbone of the Han Dynasty. Why should we separate ourselves?" Liu Bei thought for a moment and said, "Then I will have to trouble you and Wenru to organize us."

"It's okay. We can transfer a group of people from Gongyou to repair the martial arts arena. However, there will inevitably be fighting during the selection process. If the referee..." Chen Xi looked at Liu Bei and asked, "This is no joke."

"Yun Chang and his men said that they were seriously injured in Africa, and so were the officers of the Kushan Empire. It is estimated that neither side will make any large-scale moves in terms of the army. The alliance will continue until the time when we signed it." Liu Bei did not answer directly, but informed Chen Xi of the news he had received before, "Let Yun Chang and his men act as referees at that time."

In the battle to eliminate Locust Tian in East Africa, the army commanders of Han, Rome and Kushan all suffered heavy losses. Locust Tian's immortal golden nature had a great influence on the officers who took action. According to Lu Bu's judgment, most of Kushan's officers could not even erase this golden nature without external help.

In this situation, although the Kushans certainly have some other officers who can guard the Ganges like the Han Dynasty, the officers and soldiers centered on the main force under Oswald have all suffered heavy losses. To be honest, it is impossible to start a war in a short time.

After all, even officers like Balas and Falgon who came from Northern Europe suffered quite severe backlash, let alone what happened to the other guys.

Even though when the action took place, after Lu Bu took the lead, Su and Perennis followed suit with expressionless faces, as if the Kushan Empire was just slacking off. In fact, the Kushan Empire did not want to see a third round of locust plagues because of the problem of food loss, so they really risked their lives and suffered heavy losses.

Of course, the Han Dynasty was also half dead, only Zhao Yun seemed to be fine. As for the others, Lu Bu, who led the charge, had his head crooked now. Guan Yu felt like his head was about to fall off, and he was only able to survive thanks to God's will. Zhang Fei's two big arms were almost shattered, and he was only able to hold on thanks to his solid foundation...

Under such circumstances, the Han army had no spare energy to launch an attack on the Kushans on land.

But that's only the army. As for the navy, both the Han army and the Kushan have reserved enough spare strength. This is why Zhou Yu believed that after he was defeated, the Kushan would most likely tear up the alliance and take action. Of course, the navy taking action does not mean that the army will follow suit. By then, there may be a tense situation on land, but I'm afraid no one dares to take action first. After all, the main backbones of both sides are recovering in the rear.

"Is that so?" Chen Xi nodded when he heard this. With the strength of Lu Bu and Guan Yu, even if they were seriously injured, as long as they could still stand in the position of referee, there would be no big problem.

To put it bluntly, even if the veteran soldier of the sixth level of smelting broke through the state of internal energy leaving the body and gained extremely strong strength by relying on high smelting, he was only at the same level as Guan Yu before Hulao Pass. Compared with the current Guan Yu, there is still a huge gap. What's more, the divine light after Guan Yu opened his eyes was quite scary even to Chen Xi now.

"Let Yunchang and the others be the referees then. They haven't had a good rest in all these years. They got hurt this time, so it's a good opportunity for them to take a break." Liu Bei said with a nostalgic look, "By the way, I also have some words to say to Yunchang and the others."

Seeing that Liu Bei's face turned a little gloomy when he said the last sentence, but then he tried to restrain himself, Chen Xi understood what Liu Bei wanted to say. Even Liu Tong knew exactly what was happening in the Ganges. Liu Bei might have given him some special instructions in case Guan Yu was affected.

"A big martial arts performance, then I'll provide some materials as well. I just happen to have some good stuff." Cookie also likes the excitement. "How about this, I'll provide some of the materials. It doesn't matter if there's a reward or not. Just put them in the food. I'll also provide some drinks. This will also be considered my sponsorship. I want to sit in the best seat in the first row."

"Even if you don't have these things, we won't refuse you if you want to sit in the best seat in the first row." Chen Xi said unhappily, "You brought out so many things and made this request, as if we don't respect you."

"It's not that I don't respect them, but I respect them too much. Sometimes when I look at the clay sculptures in the temple, I find that I look a bit like them." Cookie said with an unhappy look on his face. Being too respectful is not good either, as it can easily make him feel out of place. People should still hang out in groups.

"By the way, what if the Qigong masters from Beigui want to participate?" Liu Tong asked thoughtfully, "At the end of every year, a group of Qigong masters from Beigui will appear. What if they want to participate?"

I won't do it randomly. I promised to update a lot throughout the month, but I really didn't make up for it today. I got up late. Anyway, there are still Saturday and Sunday, so don't worry.