Chapter 166 The Xu Clan's Heritage (Subscription Request)
The sun is scorching and the temperature is soaring. This kind of weather is quite good and tolerable in the south. If you pay a little attention, you will not suffer from heat stroke even if you go out to farm. If you are in the north, it is basically like entering a furnace. Heat stroke is a minor matter, but death from heat is a big deal.
Before the first system update in the Mythical World, the weather and astronomical phenomena were as gentle as the changing of the four seasons, and there would be no sudden outbreaks of severe droughts, floods, etc. in the Mythical World.
However, after the system was updated and the rules of heaven and earth were aligned, disasters and celestial phenomena appeared frequently on the vast land of China, causing huge disasters to the people.
This is also evidence of the celestial phenomenon that occurs in troubled times, as if God is angry.
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There are clusters of vines in the corridor, making it look like an abandoned ruin deep in the mountains.
The long corridor is the only passage leading to Xufu Town's secret warehouse.
The secret storehouse was built deep in a cave. This secret storehouse was built by Xu Fu based on the terrain. After repairing the natural cave, a warehouse for storing treasures was built deep in the cave.
This corridor is actually a cave passage. After many years of construction, it was restored to its current appearance.
The secret warehouse is built in this cave because the temperature of this cave is moderate and has the miraculous effect of constant temperature. No matter it is hot in summer or cold in winter, it has no impact on the temperature of this cave.
When Xu Yuan was moving supplies before, he did not move all the rare treasures from the secret warehouse because this was the best storage room.
Along the corridor, you can go directly to the secret vault.
The secret vault looks more like an underground palace, a palace built deep in the underground cave.
Four relief stone pillars, the size of a person embracing each other, stand in front of the stone door of the secret library, with patterns of animals carved on them.
In front of the stone door of the secret library, a white-haired old man sat on a rocking chair, leisurely and leisurely. Next to him was Qingming, who was curling up with light smoke. This is the seventh uncle Xu Yuan talks about, Xu Hou, Xu Beicai.
Marquis Xu is the clan elder who guards the secret treasury, and the Xu clan’s heritage is not just talk.
Don't underestimate him, Lin Mu learned from Xu Yuan that this old man with fluttering silver hair also had the strength of an earth-level military general and was considered the backbone of the Xu clan's combat effectiveness. The Xu clan is famous for its alchemists, but Xu Hou is special. He is a military commander and has no interest in the art of Kanyu.
Hearing that Xu Hou had earth-level strength, Lin Mu also wanted to ask him to come out of the mountain, so that he would have full confidence in conquering the bandits on the Dong'an Mountain side. However, Xu Yuan asked Lin Mu to give up this idea, because the Xu clan had not yet Loyal to him.
This old man is also very stubborn and will not be fooled easily. Otherwise, he would not have been stationed in this secret vault for ten years.
Lin Mu walked to Xu Hou and said politely in a soft voice: "Junior Lin Mu, Lin Daojiu, have met senior Peicai!"
Xu Hou opened his eyes, stood up straight, stared at Lin Mu, and said in a deep voice: "Dao Jiu, the word Dao... Dao Jiu!!" He did not respond to Lin Mu, but whispered in a voice he had just heard. : "I didn't expect that I already have the Dao Seal. What an opportunity! I made the right choice on the tenth day of the lunar month!"
Lin Mu's name is currently only known to senior officials such as Chang Yinfengzhong and Xu Yuan of the territory, while other middle-level subordinates such as Lu Hao do not know.
This is also the first time that Lin Mu uses his own name when introducing himself.
"Well, you are the lord of our Xu clan, so you don't need to be so polite. What's the matter with your coming here?" Xu Hou stood up, bowed slightly and nodded as a courtesy.
Lin Mu didn't care at all about Xu Hou's coldness, and said with a smile: "Because I don't have any weapons in my hands, I wanted to forge a magic weapon, but I lacked the materials and conditions, so I took the liberty to come to the secret warehouse today to misappropriate some treasures. I hope senior will open the secret vault.”
"Oh, a magic weapon. In your case, you probably want to forge your own magic weapon!" Xu Hou was well-informed and could guess Lin Mu's purpose at once.
It is not allowed to use the Xu clan's treasures frequently, otherwise the distinction between monarch and minister will be lost, and the etiquette between monarch and minister will be lost.
Lin Mu is very strict with himself in this regard and will not go beyond it easily.
Lin Mu did not use the coins on Chang Yin and Feng Zhong when they appeared, and Chang Yin, Feng Zhong and the others also knew the difference between public and private affairs among these monarchs and ministers.
When Lin Mu conquered Qingfeng Town, he did not confiscate the wealth of the townspeople, and even traded with them to buy salt and other items; the same happened after Longma Town and Xufu Town were surrendered. He only collected some rare minerals and herbs, but Lin Mu did not touch anything else.
But there is one exception, and that is Qinglong Town. Qinglong Town is different in that it was conquered by violence. After conquering Qinglong Town, Lin Mu moved all the wealth in the warehouse and emptied it to enrich the inventory of Zhenlong Town.
Even some of the surrendered soldiers were looted, and after they surrendered, they went back to win people's hearts, and all the soldiers who had died in the past were given a generous burial.
No one has said it verbally, but this is an unspoken rule. In previous lives, when many players conquered or recruited powerful generals and counselors, they plundered too much of their private wealth, causing a huge gap, which was not conducive to the power of the emperor and his ministers in the future, and there would be endless troubles!
There are degrees of rewards and punishments, distinctions between monarch and ministers, the monarch is the master and the ministers are responsible. These are important rules for the development of Longting over the years.
This time I came to the secret warehouse in Xu Fuzhen, but I had no choice. I was very eager for the exclusive magic weapon. Xu Yuan and the others were also very trustworthy about this master, so they directly asked him to come to the secret warehouse to select the treasure.
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"Senior Gaozhan!" Lin Mu nodded and confirmed.
"Okay, wait a moment! I'll open the door." Xu Hou didn't say anything. He took out a palm-sized token from his arms and pressed it on a special concave place. After a flash of white light, the stone door slowly opened, and the rumbling sound echoed in the empty corridor.
If there is no token key, you can't even get in the door. Why is Xu Hou still stationed here? Lin Mu flashed a doubt in his mind, but it was only a moment.
Xu Hou took Lin Mu into the secret library.
This secret library looks very large from the outside, but in fact the space inside is very small. Looking around, it is roughly estimated to be only 200 square meters.
However, in the not-so-spacious secret library, the walls around it are actually green jade. No, it should be just stone, but it is just a special stone that is as crystal clear as green jade. Is this kind of stone the key to constant temperature?
The closed secret library does not have the slightest feeling of suffocation due to air stagnation, but it is very comfortable, as if the air here is better than outside and very suitable for living.
At the same time, there is no candle lit in the secret library, but there is enough light, so there is no problem reading.
Without going into the magic of the stone and the secret library, Lin Mu cast his eyes on the four rows of luxurious counters made of white jade.
The four counters stood against the wall, and there was only a ten-foot-sized altar in the center of the secret library. There was no incense or anything like that on the altar, only some ancient and mottled books and bamboo slips.
"The things on this altar are the geomancy knowledge and inheritance passed down by our Xu clan from our ancestors!" Xu Hou introduced.
"The other four counters, the one on the left side of the altar is some old and new skill books and specialty books, which should be helpful for the lord to build the territory. It is useless for our Xu clan to keep it. The lord can take it away when he leaves." Xu Hou said calmly, as if the things on the entire counter had no value at all.
But Lin Mu was delighted when he heard this. The counter was piled with skill books. How many were there? With Xu Yuan and others' temperament, they should not all be basic skill specialties. What a harvest!
"The ones on the right side of the altar are some rare ores, such as the seventh-level special ore [Seven-Star Meteorite Iron], the sixth-level special ore [Sky Iron], the sixth-level special ore [Cangming Blue Jade], the eighth-level ore [Deep Sea Fine Gold Stone]..." Xu Hou roughly talked about the things on the counter, and Lin Mu was shocked. He was not shocked because he got it, but because he was shocked by the foundation of the Xu family. None of these thousand-year-old families are poor and destitute, they are all local tyrants!
When Lin Mu heard about these ores, he also remembered them in his heart. Xu Hou also mentioned the characteristics and properties of these ores later, which was regarded as a [Special Ore Knowledge Popularization Class] for Lin Mu. When he encounters them in the future, he may be able to recognize them and will not miss them.
Xu Hou also told Lin Mu that if he needs these ores, he can take them away. Anyway, there is not much use in collecting them. Their Xu family is not a family of military generals or a family of casting. Collecting these ores is just a matter of convenience.
Hearing this, Lin Mu felt no guilt at all and was ready to collect them all back to let the experts and masters of the territory see what rare goods are. They have been applying to buy various minerals all day long. Now you are satisfied.
"As for the two counters behind the altar, they are used to store and collect various rare objects or special unknown objects with unknown properties. The nine-color dragon silk that the lord needs is also there. Please!" Xu Hou invited Lin Mu to bypass the altar and walk to the counter for collecting rare objects.
Xu Hou pulled out a wide and deep drawer from the second layer of the counter below, which was full of nine-color dragon silk the size of broad beans.
16,600 broad beans filled the entire drawer, which was very shocking. The nine-color color sprayed out, like a rainbow hovering here.
Magical, indeed extraordinary. Enough to be fully qualified for the position of spear tassel.
Lin Mu filled a bag with a cloth bag. He didn't know the exact number, but it was full. The amount of spear tassels and sacrifices was enough. Lin Mu also showed favoritism and took some more, ready to take it back to show tailors like Chen Hui.
Xu Hou did not stop him and stood by with a normal look.
Lin Mu was satisfied with what he wanted, and did not continue to check the remaining items, because a page of the mother page in Lin Mu's arms was vibrating, and there was news.
Lin Mu took it out and saw that it was from the child page on Xu Yuan.
Although the Qiankun Zimu Book has an important role, its defects are also very obvious. There are few pages, the use is limited, the information transmission channel is relatively single, and there is no unimpeded communication.
Lin Mu looked at it carefully:
"Lord, there is something big in the secret passage of the underworld! Come quickly!"
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