Chapter 6636 Obsession

Chapter 6636 Obsession
There is nothing much to say about Beigui's Qi training. They are mainly composed of the guys who came to Chang'an to pick up Princess Qinghe for her marriage. Some are strong, some are weak, but there are also top-notch masters. Every winter, it is a necessary procedure for them to travel from Kandahar to Chang'an to see the princess.

Not only Liu Tong knew about this, but Liu Bei and Chen Xi also knew about it. In fact, even Cao Cao pretended not to know. There was no way, no way to persuade them, absolutely no way to persuade them.

Therefore, as long as it did not affect the smooth operation of Kandahar, Cao Cao always took a laissez-faire attitude towards these Northern Gui officers and soldiers going to see Liu Tong. After all, after so many years, Cao Cao almost understood what the princess meant to the Kushan Empire.

Especially what kind of attraction did Liu Tong, the princess with the most noble status in the 400 years of the Han Dynasty, have for the straw dogs of Dayuezhi? To put it bluntly, the straw dogs of Dayuezhi would really spare no expense to see the princess.

The reason why the backbone members of the Dayuezhi clan under Lao Cao have been able to continuously produce people who can practice Qigong and become Gang in recent years is that if they arrange for people who can practice Qigong during the Chinese New Year, there is a certain probability that they will be able to go to Chang'an.

In addition, if you are very strong and good at fighting, and can make it into the top 500 among a group of brothers, the probability will be even greater. Therefore, the Beigui brothers under Lao Cao have been thriving in recent years. Without the visualization of gods and Buddhas, and without any external force blessing, relying on their passion, they have maintained a promotion rate of Qi training into Gang that is higher than the world average.

If one really calculates it based on the ratio, Beigui's rate of becoming a Gang through Qi training is actually quite outrageous. In any case, Liu Tong alone has seen more than two thousand different people who have become a Gang through Qi training. Even if Liu Tong says that he doesn't pay attention to these guys, he knows that they are almost his iron-clad crops.

So when someone said there was going to be a big martial arts performance or something, Liu Tong would naturally ask a few questions.

Hearing Liu Tong's words, Liu Bei and Chen Xi looked at each other, and then Liu Bei nodded without hesitation, "Of course it's possible. The actual 30,000 or so Qi training and Gang formations have already taken into account all the manpower, the backbone of Beigui, and also our important strength."

In Liu Bei's view, those people of Dayuezhi who practiced Qigong were very pure elites. They had been moving forward in the mountains with a certain belief for more than a hundred years. It was both touching and tragic. Now that they had joined the Han Dynasty, although he could not fulfill all of their wishes, he still had to fulfill this small matter of seeing the princess when it could be done.

"Come to think of it, are there so many people who have achieved the state of Qi training now?" Cookie frowned and asked with some surprise, "In the early years, the proportion of people who achieved the state of Qi training was one in ten thousand, right? The rate of internal Qi leaving the body is about one in a million."

"A big part of the credit goes to your Heaven and Earth Essence Rice. There is basically no threshold to condense your internal energy to the point where you can train your internal energy into a Gang. The threshold for practicing martial arts is just getting started and having internal energy leave the body. The other thresholds are not that difficult." Chen Xi looked at Cookie and explained.

"Nowadays, the probability of becoming a Gang through practicing Qi is about one in three thousand, and the probability of internal Qi leaving the body is about one in hundreds of thousands. The former mainly relies on the essence of heaven and earth, rice, and the increasing number of various ferocious beasts with internal Qi leaving the body. As for the latter, it is not so clear." Chen Xi said after thinking for a while.

Although the summary of martial arts by Lu Bu and others is also very important, when it comes to credit, it still goes to Cookie. The essence of heaven and earth and rice have been of great help in increasing the number of people who have practiced Qi and become Gang. It was okay when the scale was small in the early days, but now, this thing is the main driving force for achieving Qi training and becoming Gang.

Even meat that is rich in the essence of heaven and earth cannot compare with this thing in this respect.

This is also the reason why the Han Dynasty, without the visualization of gods and Buddhas, quickly caught up with the ratio of the Kushan Dynasty in the past, and once again became one of the three major empires in the world with the largest number of people who have practiced Qigong.

To be honest, the rapid recovery of the Essence of Heaven and Earth at that time allowed the Visualization of Gods and Buddhas to far surpass the Han Dynasty and Rome in the efficiency of practicing Qigong, and even at one point made the Kushan Empire have the most Qigong among the three major empires. However, faced with such a heaven-defying cheating thing as the Essence of Heaven and Earth Rice, the Visualization of Gods and Buddhas did not have enough stamina, or at least it could not keep up.

"Oh oh oh, I remember I also made things like cabbage and locust flowers that are rich in the essence of heaven and earth." Cookie straightened his chest when he heard this. He could provide important assistance to such a great cause of the empire, which also proved his value to some extent.

Although Cookie always thought he was pretty awesome, he couldn't help but admire himself for making such an amazing result with just a random thing.

"Forget about the cabbage. Just continue to feed it to the cows." Chen Xi waved his hand and said, "We did a comparison and found that the cabbage, which is rich in the essence of heaven and earth, does not help much in practicing Qigong. It seems that humans cannot digest this stuff very well. I suggest feeding it to cows."

"Ah?" Cookie was stunned for a moment, then said seriously, "Zichuan, let me ask you a question. Is this a control experiment or is it because you want to eat beef?"

"Nonsense, of course it's a controlled experiment. I want to eat, but I can't find a suitable cow myself. Who are you looking down on? Those more than 20 large ranches in the northern border will naturally produce a group of beef cattle rich in the essence of heaven and earth after a year of grazing." Seeing Cookie's questioning look, Chen Xi refuted on the spot, who are you looking down on? I can do it myself.

However, what Chen Xi said was not false. When the cattle and sheep on the large ranch were grazing on the grassland in the summer, there would always be some of them that would naturally possess internal energy. There was no special reason, they just gnawed something on the grassland and then gained internal energy.

As for the war horses, after sending Bole to the ranch, the herd of horses definitely needs the characteristics of a leader, and with Bole's amazing operation, basically every year he can produce a few war horses with internal energy leaving their bodies and send them back to Chang'an as a result. What is an excellent horse herder, what is a horse breeder who will be famous throughout the ages, this is it, he can really produce war horses with internal energy leaving their bodies in batches for you.

Although there are only a few horses a year, but they will always be there for a long time, which is a skill. So what Lu Hu did was just a thing of the past. As an important strategic resource, the previous ones were not considered losses, but necessary investments.

"That's right. You have so many cattle and sheep in the Northern Frontier Ranch. Even if you don't have as much as I have, you still have food to eat. But I'm curious about who did this control experiment. Why is it so generous?" Cookie asked curiously. No one should waste food that is so rich in the essence of heaven and earth.

"I did it." Si Niang raised her hand and said, "I discovered this problem when I was eating cabbage, so I fed the cabbage to the cow, and then the cow quickly gained internal energy."

"Did you only do one comparison?" Cookie turned his head and looked at Chen Xi and asked.

"Actually, it's more than that. I've done it many times. I now suspect that the essence of heaven and earth contained in cabbage is all in the fiber, and we can't absorb it. So let's feed it to cows. Feeding cows is good. Cows have the essence of heaven and earth, and we just eat cows. Although there will be losses, the losses are not big. After all, cows have internal energy, so we don't need to feed them cabbage. They will grow by eating other things." Chen Xi explained. The first person to do this experiment was Si Niang, and the following ones were all done as controls by Chen Xi.

"Then I'll do a control experiment when I go back." Cookie trusted Chen Xi's ability, but he had doubts about Chen Xi's thinking in some aspects. What's more, he could also do this kind of control experiment. He could set up a dozen control groups for comparison, and the results would be more convincing.

As for feeding cows with cabbage that is rich in the essence of heaven and earth, Cookie's wife has done it herself, and Huaxiong's son also did it when he wanted to eat beef. Even Huatai's cows are raised by Huatai himself.

"Okay." Chen Xi nodded. He didn't think there was anything wrong with Cookie's idea. After all, he was not a professional. If Cookie wanted to do this kind of professional comparison, he might even work with the bigwigs in the animal husbandry industry. By then, the results would be more accurate. He might even publish a technical paper to specifically demonstrate how to feed cows with cabbage rich in the essence of heaven and earth so that cows can acquire internal energy faster.

"Come to think of it, haven't there been any new crops rich in the essence of heaven and earth appearing in the past few years? This thing is indeed the fastest and most effective means of promoting internal energy cultivation at present. Although there is no apparent effect on internal energy leaving the body, long-term use can help people achieve internal energy condensation, and its property of promoting qi training into Gang is still very obvious." Chen Xi turned his head to ask Cookie.

Chen Xi has made great contributions to the progress of the Han Dynasty in recent years, but Cookie's contribution to the advancement of the country's overall strength is also very obvious, especially the Heaven and Earth Essence Rice, which has greatly improved the rate of internal energy condensation of the Han army. However, the output is still too small. If there are more, and it can be popularized to all the people of the Han Dynasty, then it is only a matter of time before all the Han people have internal energy.

"It's not that there aren't any, but they can only be grown on a small scale and are very complicated to manage. Currently, the more mature products are cabbage and rice. These two can gather the essence of heaven and earth to the core, and the rest of the food is no longer exposed, effectively reducing the probability of being eaten by other animals." Cookie said with some exhaustion. He is also working hard, but he also has to talk about output. If there is no output, it's all nonsense.

"It's enough to have it. This kind of thing requires a bit of luck." Chen Xi was helpless about it. Special crops made from the essence of heaven and earth without special protection measures were easily eaten by wild beasts and were extremely difficult to grow. In the early years, crops made from the essence of heaven and earth had not been produced on a large scale because the labor cost was too high. Just driving away the birds, beasts, fish and insects required an astonishing amount of manpower.

In recent years, rice and cabbage with the essence of heaven and earth have begun to appear on the market. To put it simply, this is because cookies can be regarded as products that have improved how to self-enclose the essence of heaven and earth, making it impossible for wild animals to detect the essence contained in these plants and thus successfully live to maturity.

Although it is inevitable that there will be insect pests far higher than normal levels, but in general the labor cost has dropped by 70 to 80 percent compared to before, and it is a mature product that Chen Xi can accept. This is why the number of people who have practiced Qigong and become Gang has grown explosively in recent years.

"I already have wheat and millet products similar to rice. I estimate that they should be available for sowing within two to three years." Cookie said after thinking for a while.

In recent years, Cookie has been mainly dealing with wheat and millet. There was no other way, rice was not Cookie's staple food, and it was an accidental product that he created the rice with the essence of heaven and earth. Rice is ok for Cookie to eat occasionally, but if he eats it every day, he really can't stand it. However, his wife always makes him eat the rice that is rich in the essence of heaven and earth after she cooks it, and she will watch him finish it even if he doesn't want to.

Earlier, when Huatai was still there, Ji Xue scooped a bowl of food for Cookie, and then Cookie was making a fuss at home, so Huatai climbed over the wall and ate the meal for Cookie.

As for whether this behavior is a bit shameless, Huatai said that Cookie was his uncle's, and his uncle didn't want to eat it, so he helped him eat it. This is filial piety!

In short, Huatai was able to develop thick skin and flesh by eating these high-energy things, and he learned farming because when he got older, he felt that Cookie's bowl of rice was not enough for him. Even if Cookie tried hard to ask his wife to fill the bowl with rice, it was still not enough for a boy like Huatai.

After Huatai passed away, Ji Xue discovered that her husband's appetite had dropped dramatically. He used to eat a large bowl of rice with a large bowl, but now he could only eat a bowl of rice with a small bowl. Ji Xue was so scared that she thought her husband was sick, so she dragged Cookie to find Zhang Zhongjing. In the end, she confirmed that Cookie didn't like rice at all, and most of the pot of rice that was steamed every day went into Huatai's stomach.

After Huatai finished eating Cookie's meal, he climbed over the wall back to his home and went through the front door. He called Ji Xue "Auntie", and then Ji Xue shoveled all the remaining rice in the pot to Huatai.

In other words, in the past, when Ji Xue steamed a pot of rice, except for a small bowl for herself, the rest was actually eaten by Huatai. Cookies were eaten once every ten days or half a month, and the rest of the time they were eaten with the millet rice or big meat buns brought by Huatai.

This also explains why Hua Xiong came back and found that his son seemed to have been spoiled. However, with his strength, he was able to beat and throw Huatai, but Huatai was still able to run around without any problem. He is a typical example of thick skin and strong flesh. This is the result of more than 1,500 kilograms of rice and meat rich in the essence of heaven and earth, as well as various other things of the Cookie Type, eaten every year.

Martial arts are something that is acquired through practice, but more importantly, through diet. The amount Huatai eats is fully capable of supporting the three practices of Huatai. Even if Huatai does not have this awareness, he will naturally follow this path according to the logic of overflowing essence, refining essence into qi, and refining qi into spirit.

This is also the case when Huaxiong hit Huatai hard, but Huatai just cried out in pain and was not knocked down on the bed.

But after Ji Xue realized this, he would stare at Cookie every time they ate, and would not let Cookie finish eating before leaving. This made Cookie very painful. Although he was a southerner, he was a southerner from Sichuan, where millet was grown in those days, and Cookie had always eaten millet.

"Oh, so that's good. If we only had rice, there would be some other problems. It's good to have these now." Chen Xi nodded and said, "But there's no need to rush. As long as we can get it done later, it will take some time to promote it. It will take time after the Kushan Empire is annihilated."

"It's hard for me to think that I will need to eat rice for several more years." Cookie sighed. Even though it is rich in the essence of heaven and earth, for Cookie, this thing is like taking medicine. If you eat too much, you will not feel good.

"It's good to have something to eat, not to mention rice that is rich in the essence of heaven and earth." Chen Xi said unhappily, "Come to think of it, if I eat more of this, I think I will be able to advance to the Qi training stage. It's not easy. After so many years, if I hadn't gotten sick, I should have been able to advance to the Qi training stage when I was sixteen."

When Liu Bei heard this, he glanced at Chen Xi. If Liu Bei did not break through to the point where internal energy left the body because he had his own considerations and was prepared to suppress his internal energy, waiting for a certain moment to break through to the point where internal energy left the body, then Chen Xi did not reach the point where he could practice Qi and become a Gang because of his laziness.

Feeling Liu Bei's gaze, Chen Xi laughed dryly twice and stopped discussing this aspect. Instead, he turned to the content related to the grand martial arts performance in order to finalize some details with Liu Tong and others.

"Speaking of which, there is one thing I want to confirm." Liu Tong raised his hand, then looked at Chen Xi and asked, "It's about Masinde and Fuward."

"About the two of them? Tell me." Chen Xi nodded calmly.

"We should be able to capture Fu Ward. He has been in the Tibetan area and is a threat to us. Although you have surrounded Yizhou, Hanzhong, and the Yanbian area of ​​Xinzhou, and have also conquered Masinde and suppressed Fu Ward, the fact that he has been staying in Tibetan Province has a great impact on us." Liu Tong looked at Chen Xi and asked in surprise.

"It is possible to take him down, but we have not found the right opportunity." Chen Xi nodded and said, "Although Masinde has sided with us, you know that he is actually semi-neutral. He only cooperates with us because of his resentment towards certain actions of the Kushan Empire. The most obvious point is that his and Rangarajan's talents cannot be used by Kong Ming."

Liu Tong nodded. She had heard this before, and it was the key reason why Mahinde and Rangarajan were considered neutral rather than allies.

As for why these two people were considered to have turned to the Han Dynasty under such circumstances, it was because of Liu Tong. Liu Tong's spiritual talent had always been linked to Rangarajan, providing support for Rangarajan to use his spiritual talent. It was also thanks to Rangarajan's special spiritual talent that many of the Han Dynasty's stuck technologies quickly broke through the barriers and entered a stage of rapid development.

This is also the most direct manifestation of the other party's neutrality but closeness to the Han Dynasty.

As for Mahinde, Rangarajan had given a guarantee, so Chen Xi did not impose any special restrictions on Mahinde. In addition, Mahinde did help Chen Xi deal with some personnel shortages, so Chen Xi just let it go in this regard.

But in fact, both of them are neutral in nature and will not take the initiative to attack the Kushans. This was the condition agreed upon when negotiating with the two.

In other words, it's fine to give me intelligence, but it's not okay for me to do it myself.

This is also the reason why Fu Ward can still linger in Zangzhou. Otherwise, if Masinde took action personally, Fu Ward would have fallen long ago.

"In other words, we can only rely on ourselves?" Liu Tong frowned and said, "If we don't solve the trouble in Zangzhou, the enemy will rush down from Yizhou and destroy the viaduct. The subsequent expedition will definitely run into problems."

The idea of ​​going through Hanzhong and heading straight to Chang'an is basically impossible to implement now, because the defense of this road is very complete. Ever since Fu Ward appeared in Zangzhou, the Han Dynasty has strengthened its defense. After all, if foreign troops broke into the vicinity of Chang'an, to be honest, it would really be a complete loss of face.

Think about why the Huns were hated by the Han Dynasty. To put it bluntly, wasn't it because the Huns could advance to Chang'an to show off their reputation? Now if the Kushans advance to the vicinity of the Han Dynasty's capital, the Han Dynasty will also be slapped in the face, the kind of humiliation that will be lost to the grandmother's house.

Therefore, after learning that Fu Ward had gone to Zangzhou, the Han Dynasty deliberately strengthened the defense line from Hanzhong to Chang'an while blocking Zangzhou to prevent Fu Ward from doing something that would go down in history.

"This will be resolved later, and Fu Ward may not stay in Zangzhou forever. His purpose in implementing the Zangzhou strategy was to tie down the Han Dynasty's military strength. This purpose bought the Kushans a lot of time and room for maneuver. But now, it is no longer meaningful. Fu Ward still stays in Zangzhou more because of the soldiers under his command." Chen Xi said expressionlessly.

If Fu Ward wanted to run away, as a powerful man with extremely powerful internal energy leaving his body, there was no way to stop him. If he wanted to return to Kushan from the Himalayas, there was actually no way to stop him. Unless Masinde took action personally, it was only a matter of time before Fu Ward wanted to return to Kushan.

"You mean that Fu Ward might run away?" Liu Tong frowned. This was not good news. If the other party ran away like this, then all their efforts would be in vain.

"I'm afraid Masinde's intention is to let Fuward leave and return to Kushan on his own, and then he will take the others to join the Han Dynasty, and the two sides will part ways peacefully." Chen Xi said calmly.

Regarding this era, there are some things that Chen Xi has never been able to figure out, such as the logic behind Mashind's behavior. In Chen Xi's opinion, it has come to this point and he should just do it to the extreme. However, Mashind's current situation is obviously to let Fuward return to Kushan.

Although having one more Fu Ward wouldn't change anything, Chen Xi was somewhat unhappy with this behavior. However, because of Masinde's value, Chen Xi wouldn't say anything even if he wasn't satisfied with this behavior, but dissatisfaction was dissatisfaction.

"Forget it, let him be. It's better for him to fulfill his last obsession." Chen Xi said with some dissatisfaction. After all, people are nostalgic, so it is normal for Mashind to behave like this.

I got up late. I'll write the whole extra chapter in a while.