Because the bandits in the Soul Mountain were taken away by the Jiangning government, it had become a land without a trace at this time. Cao Yi had asked Yang before whether the Soul Mountain belonged to Jiangning Prefecture or Taiping Prefecture. Cao Yi asked this because he wanted to buy the land of Soul Mountain as well as the second secret camp of the Star Fire Secret Camp, so that he could echo each other with the previous Star Fire Secret Camp in Guanyin Mountain.

Although bandits do evil and are full of evil, they are indeed good at choosing a garrison. The Soul Mountain is easy to defend and difficult to attack. The west is an empty mountain road, the only entrance, and the other three sides are steep mountains. If you want to attack, you can only raid from the west concave, because the other three sides are steep, with dense woods, and it is very difficult to go up the mountain. The possibility of large troops gathering through is almost zero, but if you escape from the mountain village on the west, it is very convenient. If you drill into the mountains and forests, you will not even see your personal figure.

Moreover, according to Wang Shu and Yun Qing, they had arranged dozens of people to explore the entire area of ​​Fighting Soul Mountain. Unexpectedly, they found that the top of the mountain was actually a large flat land. The key was that there was a natural mountain lake. In this way, Fighting Soul Mountain actually initially met the physical conditions of self-sufficiency. First of all, the mountain lake can ensure sufficient living drinking water, while the flat land on the top of the mountain can cultivate some essential food. If several sloping farmlands are transformed on the hillside to plant rice and raise fish in the rice fields, it should also be able to satisfy the supply and diet of about 500 people.

Now the Zuixianlou in Yangzhou will be open soon, and the Zuixianlou in Hangzhou is also under accelerated construction. It is expected to be open to the public around the Dragon Boat Festival. After these two Zuixianlou are open, whether it is a restaurant guard or a caravan escort for caravan transporting goods, they will need a large number of people. These are just two branches. If the branches are really added one by one according to the prefecture, army, and road as planned by Cao Yi, it will require a large number of guards. Therefore, a Spark Secret Camp alone is definitely not enough. The construction of this second Spark Secret Camp is very necessary.

In addition, Cao Yi now has the Shen family handed over one million taels of silver, and he is very rich in funds, so he started to build a second secret camp of Sparks. Cao Yi's idea hit it off with Wang Zhiyuan, Yuan Qing, Liu Baiqing and others. After seeing the terrain of Shuhun Mountain, they also had plans in this regard, and even wanted Cao Yi to move the secret camp to Shuhun Mountain. After all, Shuhun Mountain is larger in area, more steeper and more secret, and is very suitable as a base for the secret camp.

But Guanyin Mountain's spark secret camp must also have it. After all, the brewing shop that produces Qinglian wine and Taibaizui is here, so it must be protected. Moreover, Cao Yi bought all the outer land in the hope of accepting the old orphans of Zhending Army and the old orphans of Mo Lin Army. In order to better take care of these people, the armed forces in the secret camp are also indispensable. Therefore, the foundation of Guanyin Mountain's spark secret camp is retained.

On the basis of this, it is imperative to expand the Spark Secret Camp in Shunhun Mountain, which is the main reason why Cao Yi planned to buy the entire Shunhun Mountain.

Fortunately, the Soul-Shenhun Mountain belongs to Jiangning Prefecture, so when Cao Yi mentioned buying the Soul-Shenhun Mountain, Yang Gong agreed happily and said to Cao Yi with a smile: "In order to thank you for the contribution you gave me to the bandit suppression, I decided to sell it to you at a cheap price and pay 5,000 taels of silver."

"What? Five thousand taels?" Cao Yi said in disbelief.

"Why, I still think it's too expensive? It's already cheap. If it continues to be cheaper, others may think that I and you have money transactions behind your back." Mr. Yang thought for a while and said teasingly.

"No, no, Mr. Yang, I don't think it's too expensive. I'm just shocked by such a cheap price." Cao Yi shook his hand and said astonished.

Mr. Yang smiled and explained: "In fact, it is this price. Because this land has been occupied by bandits before, no one is willing to buy it, so the price is very low. In addition, the price of mountain land itself is much lower than that of cultivated land and residential land. The price of this 5,000 taels of silver is because the area of ​​the Soul Mountain is too large, otherwise the price will be lower."

Cao Yi nodded in a clear way and said, "Then the price is good. Mr. Yang, you will arrange for the government office to send someone to measure the land boundary and size. I will do this in a short time, so that I can first demolish the robbers' cottage above and build a few houses."

"The scenery there is really good. Recently, many merchants would rather go to the far side of the city to buy quiet forests to make villas. The scenery is beautiful, warm in winter and cool in summer, which is not bad. However, Cao Yi, you are young, have you been thinking about living a comfortable life of 'picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence and leisurely seeing the southern mountains'?"

Gong Yang teased Cao Yi and said, but he knew that Cao Yi had just obtained one million silver from the Shen family, so it was not impossible to buy a mountain to play. What he understood was that Cao Yi was valuable in surrounding the bandits in the Soul-Slaying Mountain. As a man, it was not impossible to buy this mountain as a testimony to his merits.

Although this is not the case, if Mr. Yang thought so, Cao Yi would not explain more. Instead, he would reduce unnecessary trouble. He smiled and said, "Mr. Yang, you should also know that you have no idea about me about fame and career, at least not yet, so I can be a pastoral rich man. Besides, with my father, with a civil servant and military general like Mr. Yang, you will be in peace and stability, and the people will live and work in peace. There will be no natural disasters or human disasters. A yellow-haired boy like me, it is enough to calm down, read a lot of books, and do a good job."

Mr. Yang was quite happy to hear Cao Yi's words,

He pointed at Cao Yi and said with a smile: "You little sloppy, I think you are rich and want to enjoy life..."

"Haha, Mr. Yang is indeed as keen as a wise man. You discovered some of his little thoughts at once." Cao Yi said with a hearty smile.

"But Cao Yi, although this mountain has always been called Shouhun Mountain, you can change your name yourself after buying it and report it to the government. You should think about what the name is good, and then change it with the land deed and documents."

"Well, this Soul-Slaying Mountain doesn't seem to be clear. You have to think about what kind of name it is better to choose."

"You are the number one talented man in Jiangning, and you are not a good person to be famous. You can name it after your name, even if it is called Xianxian Mountain, Taibai Mountain, Qinglian Mountain, or even Zhaozheng Mountain." Yang said jokingly. Young people like to show off. If Cao Yi really gave these names, he would not find it strange.

"Haha, Mr. Yang is teasing me again, but since I sell Taibai Zui and Qinglian wine, and I am also named "the talent of exiled immortals", then I will be named after Li Taibai's allusion, called Ziji Mountain."

Mr. Yang was stunned for a moment, and then realized that Li Bai had received a talisman as a Taoist priest in the Ziji Palace in Chang'an City. He met He Zhizhang here. His magnificent poetry and elegant style surprised He Zhizhang, which was the famous saying, "Are you too white and Venus in the earth?" From then on, he was given the title of Li Taibai, and it was not impossible for Cao Yi to take it like this.

Mr. Yang patted Cao Yi's keyboard and said earnestly. "Nephew, Xingwen will go to Hangzhou tomorrow. Others like the magistrate, the recorder, the military, the corps and the army, the army, the corps and the army, and the other men will almost set off to go to the Imperial College in Beijing. You young people will gather together in the evening. I won't talk about Xingwen. Our two families are originally aristocratic families, but you also have to get along well with others, which will be of great benefit to your future development. Even if you don't become an official in the future, you will also do business. Your Zuixian Tower and your Taibai Chamber of Commerce are open everywhere. You need connections. You just need to know more people and deal with them more. If you are not a master in the world, I will teach you that people can't be too noble sometimes. You can be unreasonable, but you must understand the worldly style. I hope you can understand the painstaking efforts of your uncle..."

Cao Yi bowed to Mr. Yang and said seriously: "Thank you, Mr. Yang, for your advice. I will keep what you say in mind and remind myself at all times."

"That's good. It's normal for this age to be young and energetic, but you still have to have social interactions. However, you are born low-key and your personality is due to your own personality, so you can just grasp the degree in the middle..."

Cao Yi nodded and agreed.
Chapter completed!