&1t;/strong>Xiao Shi didn't care and said as if nothing had happened: "Report to Elder Du, not the two seniors, there are 9,860 monks in this city, including 435 people in the Foundation Establishment Period, and the rest are all in the Qi Refining Period.

In terms of personnel deployment, it is mainly divided into four parts, namely mining, city guarding, patroling and debris. Among them, the main tasks are guarding the city and mining. There are more than 6,800 mining personnel, more than 2,100 guarding the city, and 300 patrol personnel, and the rest are basically all miscellaneous personnel.

The mining progress of the stronghold is about 1.9 billion yuan per month…”

After a full stick of incense, Xiaoshi finished reporting the general situation in the city.

Du Fan listened very carefully because the memories he got from Peng Dahai were not complete. In addition, as a city, Peng Dahai considered far-sighted things on weekdays, and it was impossible to do everything by himself. Some detailed tasks naturally need to be assigned. Therefore, his understanding of the affairs of the No. 38 stronghold may not be as clear as Xiaoshi, the butler, knowing about the big and small matters of the No. 38 stronghold.

However, after Xiaoshi introduced it, Du Fan knew a lot of things.

Du Fan pondered for a moment and asked, "Who is mainly responsible for the mining of spiritual ore?"

"Report to Elder Du, he is a junior." A middle-aged woman in her forties replied.

"You rush to the mining area immediately and withdraw a thousand people." Du Fan ordered.

The middle-aged woman was a little surprised and opened her mouth and asked something, but someone next to her pulled her sleeve and shook her head.

"Is there any problem?" Du Fan's face darkened and he asked.

"No problem, I'll do it now." The middle-aged woman was shocked and immediately took the order.

"By the way, after you arrive at the mining area, concentrate on a certain area to retreat, and don't make it scattered." Du Fan added another sentence.

"Yes, I remember it." The middle-aged woman saluted Du Fan and walked out of the hall.

"Who is responsible for guarding the wall?"

"When I go back to Elder Du, I am mainly responsible for guarding the city walls."

"There will be all the 1,000 people withdrawn from the mining area to you to strengthen the city's defense."

"Yes, my juniors take the order."

"Okay, let's talk about this today. We'll go after the meeting. Let's go to your own business. If you have something to do, I'll call you." Du Fan thought for a while, and felt that nothing was wrong for the time being, so he waved his hand and said.

"My younger brother takes his leave..."

Upon hearing this, a group of high-level deacons immediately saluted Du Fan in unison, and then walked out of the hall one by one.

...

When there were only two people left in the hall, Du Fan fell down and leaned on the wide chair, winked at Bailichou, and said, "Advisor, use four words to describe your mood at this moment."

Baili Qiu almost didn't think about it and blurted out: "The magpie's nest..."

"I am worthy of being a master and apprentice, but I have a tacit understanding, haha..." Du Fan laughed loudly, and then said: "I'll ask you another question, what is the purpose of laying off a thousand miners for my master?"

"Fill in the 1,000 villagers whom they recruited some time ago. They don't have to hand over any of the spirit stone mines they mined, they are all ours..." Baili Qiu said with a blank expression.

"You are only half right... Although the spiritual ore mined with those 1,000 people do not need to be handed over to the Southwest Fortress, General Wu must come over to get a share of the pie, so this part of the spiritual ore is not all ours." Du Fan was a little sad.

"General Wu doesn't know how many mines the thousand villagers we recruited have mined. We just need to report a random number and divide the money for him."

"You are too naive. Who is General Wu? He is simply a bitch who has lived for two lifetimes, seen through the true meaning of life, escaped from the glitz of the world, and realized the great enlightenment! How many mines can a miner open every day? How can he not know? It is impossible to play tricks with him!" Du Fan said with his eyes narrowed.

"Master, I will let the young master say that you have lived for two lifetimes."

Du Fan was stunned and immediately scolded: "He is nonsense!...I'm discussing serious matters, don't talk to me... As for the current situation, what would you do if you were me?"

Baili Qiu thought for a while and replied: "Recruit more miners to increase the output of spiritual mines, and achieve a win-win situation with General Wu."

"It's a win-win situation, what I want is a single win!"

"Then there is nothing I can do... Master, you know me, I'm not good at these."

Du Fan sighed, and after a long silence, he whispered: "Nothing is as he expected by General Wu. For example, this time, he originally sent me to steal the enemy's stronghold, but I did something even better than robbing the stronghold. I went straight to steal the day and exchange for the sun. I sat here, and as long as I say a word, the whole city's enemy army will use it for me.

General Wu would never dream of such a situation, and I don’t plan to tell him, because we have to rely on this approach to expand our business and become bigger and stronger... Well, the previous plan needs to be adjusted, and those thousand people cannot come for the time being."

"Ah? If you don't tell General Wu, why are we going to work together?" Baili Qiu was surprised.

Du Fan said with thoughts: "Isn't it enough to get another stronghold? This time I have to fight with you, but I have to pick a soft persimmon. After all, that stronghold is just a guise to deal with General Wu. It doesn't rely on it to make money, so there is no need to go through a lot of trouble.

I studied it and the enemy's No. 37 stronghold near here is good. Although the mining area within the sphere of influence is a little smaller, the quality is not very good. The key is that the city defense is weak, and there is only one Jindan monk in charge, so I guess it will be captured in one day."

"This method is good... But what if General Wu asks us why we don't follow the combat plan he designated, what should we do?"

"This is easy to deal with. We have tried our best. The No. 38 stronghold was really unable to conquer. As a last resort, we had to settle for the second best and take the No. 37 stronghold...

In fact, with the city defense situation of the No. 38 stronghold, if it is a head-on confrontation, even if two middle-stage Nascent Souls come, they will not be able to break through in a short period of time. When the city can be broken, the enemy reinforcements will come long ago... General Wu just has the nerve to make me feel embarrassed.

Of course, he might just want to use this to test me to see how many pounds I am and whether it is as magical as the legendary one." Du Fan's eyes flashed and he murmured.

"Master, I have a question that I have been hiding in my heart for a long time and I have always wanted to ask you."

"explain."

"In this Jiuzhou Great 6, the master is a true existence. In terms of identity and reputation, and in terms of combat power, it is comparable to the middle and late stages of the Nascent Soul, you should be a powerful figure, but why did you become extremely low-key and careful after coming to the battlefield? Is it really just for the sake of making money in silence?" (To be continued.)
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