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Chapter 323- Five Finger Mountain

Translator: TeamTWO
Editor: Jun

As the 1st Sun slowly rose, the bright glow signified the start of a new day.

During the night, there were constantly sounds of desolate beasts roaring in the island, making one's hair stand. Ouyang Shuo had barely had any rest in last night and woke up really early.

He walked out of the cabin and went up onto the 1st layer of the boat, looking towards the distance.

Using the morning glow, the beauty and brilliance of Yazhou was exemplified.

The coast of Yazhou was the famous golden coast; what covered the entire beach area was a natural salt pan. Undeniably, sea salt would become the main economic avenues of Yazhou Territory in the future.

Northern Salt Fields couldn't even be compared to the Yazhou Sh.o.r.e.

Across the golden coast was the endless plains, wild gra.s.s proliferated. The Ningyuan river was like a huge dragon as it swerved left and right on the plains.

The fertile soil of the Yazhou Plains and the presence of salt.w.a.ter made this a good place for agriculture.

Qiongzhou Island, which was located on the tropical region, had enough water and sunlight and was the most suitable to grow rice. Other plants like sugarcane, potatoes and corn were also very suited for this climate.

Apart from that, rubber and coconut which were common in tropical regions also had a bright future. Especially rubber, which was a highly important aspect in Ouyang Shuo's strategic plans.

Looking across the plains, there was the Five Finger Mountain.

The Five Finger Mountain was the tallest mountain range in Qiongzhou Island. It was located in the middle of the island and got its name due to there being 5 peaks which made it look like five fingers. The area was covered by tropical rainforests and there were layers upon layers of them.

The Five Finger Mountain wasn't the mountain range that Sun Wukong was crushed by in the Journey to the West, but there were other legends in which players had triggered special quests in the last life.

Ouyang Shuo remembered that player was called Wu Mingzhi whose occupation was a chivalrous expert, and he was also a solo player who liked to explore.

One time, he suddenly had an idea to rent a big boat in Quanzhou and float out in the ocean towards Qiongzhou. After thousands of near-death situations, he finally reached the Five Finger Mountain.

The tragedy was that Wu Mingzhi got lost.

Luckily for him, he probably sowed good karma. Just as he had lost his way, he had unintentionally walked into the house of one of the indigenous people.

Coincidentally at this moment, a bunch of pirates raided.

Wu Mingzhi didn't hesitate and used his strong martial arts to chase them away. After they left, to thank Wu Mingzhi for saving their life, the family gave him a sword.

Originally, Wu Mingzhi didn't care much about the reward. After all, they were just a normal family in the mountains, what treasure could they have? He didn't expect for that sword to actually be a G.o.d weapon.

Wu Mingzhi then realized that he had stumbled across an adventure quest.

The adventure quests that Gaia set didn't have any system notifications when the player triggered it. The choice was totally up to the player. If Wu Mingzhi had chosen to leave, he would have no affinity with the quest.

After he left, he shared his experience on the forums. However to protect that family from being hounded by other players, he didn't reveal their exact location.

Who knows, maybe Wu Mingzhi who was lost didn't even know where he was at.

After leaving the Five Finger Mountain, Wu Mingzhi relied on that G.o.d weapon and became one of the experts amongst adventure gamemode players. He made a name for himself in the underworld and was envied by many.

In this life, who knew who would become that lucky person?

As Wu Mingzhi didn't reveal the exact mission location, for Ouyang Shuo to find that family in the vast mountains was like finding a needle in a haystack. Needless to say, he had to conveniently face a water bandit's attack. If not, he wouldn't be able to trigger the adventure quest.

Everything coming together was actually what the luck stat was for.

With Ouyang Shuo's luck, he pretty much didn't have any hope of that happening. However, Ouyang Shuo could send Song Jia in and try, although her luck wasn't as high as Bing'er's, she was at 18 points.

Apart from the legend, the Five Finger Mountain was a treasure vault with many natural resources.

In the Five Finger Mountain, there were 1400 plant types, 150 types of high cla.s.s wood, over 1000 medicinal herbs and 100 odd famous Five Finger Mountain flowers.

The mountains were a good place for spirits, and they nurtured many rare spirit beasts and desolate beasts. Amongst which was a spirit b.u.t.terfly known as the golden spotted b.u.t.terfly. It was very famous in the last life and highly adored by female players.

The golden spotted b.u.t.terfly was not only beautiful, but it was also good at medicinal arts and illusions, making it the ideal pet for adventure mode players.

Conquering the Five Finger Mountain was one of Ouyang Shuo's goals for this trip.

In the last life, Ouyang Shuo remembered that Feng Qiuhuang had spent 100 thousand gold to buy one golden spotted b.u.t.terfly, which became one of her representative icons, leading the craze for female players and pets.

Because of the presence of the golden spotted b.u.t.terfly, the Five Finger Mountain became one of the training hot spots for adventure gamemode players in the last life. Large numbers of adventure gamemode players teleported to Qiongzhou Island and ventured deep into the mountains.

They hoped to be able to catch on golden spotted b.u.t.terfly and become rich overnight.

Even if they didn't manage to, the Five Finger Mountain was also an ideal leveling spot. There were many high level desolate beasts, even some bosses which made it suitable for leveling up.

Of course, those weak players wouldn't think about it as they were too noob to gain anything.

Ouyang Shuo remembered that in the last life there was a player territory near to the Five Finger Mountain which earned tens of thousands of gold solely on teleportation costs.

Needless to say, the huge numbers of adventure gamemode players spending in the territory also helped its economy to develop.

Such a huge treasure trove, Ouyang Shuo naturally wouldn't give it up. At most he could build a subsidiary territory at the outskirts of the mountain to be used to welcome the adventure gamemode players.

As for how to promote it, Ouyang Shuo already had an idea.

The northern and eastern sides of the Yazhou Plains were basically circled by the Five Finger Mountain range. To the west was a vast gra.s.sland which one couldn't see the end of, so it would also be the main development direction of the territory.

Such a vast and fertile soil, wasn't it the best place to develop agriculture?

The south of the plains was the end of the Five Finger Mountain range and was another famous mountain on the island, the South Mountain.

It was the mountain located in the southmost portion of the China region, and was termed as the land of prosperity. There was a phrase in China: prosperity like the East Sea and longevity like the South Mountain. The mountain referred to this mountain.

The South Mountain was also the place where Buddhist Dharma was spread out from. Legends had it that Guanyin Pusa and Tang Sen had all stepped foot on the South Mountain and spread around Buddhism.

In the last life, as the Tang Dynasty joined into the game progression, the South Mountain temple appeared on the mountain. The G.o.d that the temple wors.h.i.+pped was Guanyin Pusa,

Ouyang Shuo couldn't predict how the future South Mountain Temple would affect the Mazu Temple as after all based on legends, Mazu was inspired by Guanyin Pusa.

Apart from that, South Mountain also had a small paradise. It was one of the few in the China region which was one of the mysterious regions that players could repeatedly explore.

In the last life, the South Mountain paradise was unintentionally found by an adventure gamemode player in the 4th year of gaia. Now that Ouyang Shuo had arrived on Yazhou, naturally he wouldn't miss out the chance to explore it.

The future South Mountain Paradise, apart from the Five Finger Mountain, would be another hotspot for adventure gamemode players.

All in all, Yazhou was a treasure island.

The prerequisite would be that Ouyang Shuo needed to have a firm footing on the island.

The engagement last night had displayed the dangers and cruelty of Yazhou. To be able to be stable in Yazhou, even though Ouyang Shuo had made a lot of preparations, it still wasn't easy.

What was in front of him were two choices. One was to enter the plains to find a suitable village building spot. The other was to temporarily stay by the ocean and build a port.

Both had its pros and cons.

If it was to build the village, they could immediately set up the teleportation formation to obtain reinforcements; there would also be new refugees, which meant their army would only get stronger.

The weakness would be that they currently had nothing. If they went too deep, they might be attacked by beasts and indigenous people.

With the strength of the Guards regiment and the Beihai Naval fleet, if there were too many enemies, not only would there be heavy casualties, they might even be overwhelmed.

The current situation in the Lianzhou Basin didn't allow Ouyang Shuo to move large amounts of troops. After all, Lianzhou Prefecture was the root of the territory, and they couldn't lose it.

As for building the port, the strengths and weaknesses were very apparent.

The strength would be that they would be safe. From the observation yesterday, Ouyang Shuo found that be it desolate beasts or indigenous people, they basically wouldn't come out from the bushes. So the chances of them being attacked would be very small.

The weakness would be the low efficiency. Building a port wasn't done in a day. Before it was finished, a large portion of the people would be useless and have nothing to do.

Apart from that, grain was a huge problem. They only brought limited grain, and without using the super trading platform or getting any supplies from Shanhai City, they could only last for half a month.

Half a month wasn't enough to complete a large port.

Firstly, they had limited workers, and secondly, the wood and stone resources were limited. Ouyang Shuo predicted that with their current circ.u.mstances, they needed at least 2 months before barely completing it.

Ouyang Shuo was in a terrible situation.

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Chapter 324- Three p.r.o.nged Method

Translator: TeamTWO
Editor: Jun

After eating his breakfast, Ouyang Shuo gathered the core members of the group for a meeting. Apart from the Guards regiment colonel w.a.n.g Feng, was Pei Donglai, Secretary Bai Nanpu, Song Jia and Sun Xiaoyue.

Ouyang Shuo briefly described his views and asked for their opinions.

As military generals, w.a.n.g Feng and Pei Donglai wouldn't say their views on such a strategic decision as furthermore this wasn't their specialty.

Song Jia was here to have fun, so naturally she wouldn't interfere in his decision. Sun Xiaoyue joined the trip as the overall architect, so she was in charge of the planning and organization of the new territory.

The only one who could express his views was only Bai Nanpu.

Ever since the day he became Ouyang Shuo's secretary, 10 months had pa.s.sed. The impression that he gave Ouyang Shuo was that he was really low profile.

Although the position of secretary was similar to that of a a.s.sistant, it was a tough job. His responsibility apart from organizing the letters. He was also in charge of spreading instructions and helping with administrative matters.

Sometimes Ouyang Shuo would ask him for his opinion on some matters written in the letter.

Each part of his job was important, and to do it well, one would hold tremendous power. Hence, the secretary was a very popular person and was even one whom everybody wanted to make friends with.

What astonished people was that Bai Nanpu as a secretary was like an invisible person. Usually, even Ouyang Shuo wouldn't notice his presence.

More mysteriously was that when Ouyang Shuo needed him, he would appear at the appropriate moments. The letters placed on his desk were always so neat and well arranged.

Ouyang Shuo also hadn't heard about Bai Nanpu meeting any officials in private. He was always in the secretary office, either dealing with letters or reading.

Fan Zhongyan had given Bai Nanpu an evaluation, saying that he couldn't see through this young secretary, and that his perseverance and resilience were scary.

That's right, "scary" was the word that Fan Zhongyan had used.

Fan Zhongyan was one of the 3 heads of the civil servants in the territory. For him to evaluate you as 'scary' meant that you were really special.

At that moment, Ouyang Shuo had just laughed it off, but secretly he started to pay closer attention to this secretary.

Overall, towards this secretary, Ouyang Shuo was extremely pleased. As for his subtlety, Ouyang Shuo felt that it wasn't a problem.

For this long trip, Ouyang Shuo specifically brought him along to give him some training. After all, after being the secretary for a long time, his eyes were opened but he didn't have any administrative experience.

Ouyang Shuo wanted to let Bai Nanpu lead the early administrative works of the Yazhou Territory. Before leaving, he also specifically tracked him down to have a deep conversation.

Although he didn't say it directly, Bai Nanpu probably understood his intentions.

Meeting hall

Noticing the glance from the marquis, Bai Nanpu knew that the lord was waiting for him to answer. This answer was a test for him.

The previous words from the marquis had ignited a series of thoughts in his hard. The meaning from which made even his cool character feel emotional and excited.

Becoming an official and leading a territory was the dream of everyone.

What was better was to lead such a place like Yazhou, the importance of which didn't need to be further emphasized.

As for how to open up Yazhou, Bai Nanpu had pondered about it throughout the night before obtaining a short rest.

Bai Nanpu calmed himself down and said, "Marquis, I feel that to build the territory first is not right. The risk is too big, and isn't the rational decision. Furthermore, we also have the Chamber of Commerces following us and we can't endanger them or it would affect your honor." Bai Nanpu's words were the same as rejecting the first suggestion.

Ouyang Shuo nodded, not agreeing or disagreeing.

Bai Nanpu continued, "Building the military port is also too slow. At this moment, I suggest to split into three parts and work all at once."

"Have a go!"

"Firstly, the military port will proceed as usual, it would be of the utmost importance. Secondly, contact Shanhai City to form up the second batch of people, bringing over more workers and grain. Thirdly, explore the island and the region around us to better prepare to build our territory." Bai Nanpu came out with his 3-part plan.

Ouyang Shuo nodded, finally revealing a smile. "Not bad!"

Bai Nanpu relaxed and went back to his seat.

Ouyang Shuo looked around and started to give out orders. "General Pei!"

"Yes my lord!"

"Split the Naval fleet into two. Half will return to Beihai City and guard the next batch as they come here. The other will monitor the region around the island and draw up a nautical map and on the way, get rid of the pirates. It's best if you are able to make a round trip around the island and obtain first hand intel."

"Yes my lord!" Pei Donglai was good at this, and as such he was filled with confidence.

"The Dragon Head will be under your charge!"

"Thank you my lord!" Pei Donglai was elated; he had been wanting and yearning for the Dragon Head.

If one were to make a decision between beauties and wars.h.i.+ps, Pei Donglai would definitely choose the latter.

Ouyang Shuo continued. "w.a.n.g Feng!"

"Present!"

Towards w.a.n.g Feng, Ouyang Shuo was warmer and it could be seen from his greeting.

"Split the Guards regiment into two. Three units will be to defend the camp and the rest will be to kill the beasts at the outer parts of Yazhou. Remember, remain in a unit until you reach the village building area. Apart from that, arrange an elite squadron to go deep into the island and get intel about the indigenous people."

Compared to the wild beasts and desolate beasts, Ouyang Shuo was more wary of the indigenous people who didn't appear. If he didn't know the current state and know more about his environment, he couldn't be at ease.

No matter how strong the desolate beasts were, they had a hunting region. The indigenous people were different, they have lived here for generations and knew every nook and cranny well. With such a huge population, they would also have strong warriors and also smart shamans, a strong enemy for the travelling army.

Different from the mountain barbarians, the indigenous people here wouldn't easily bow down to food. If Ouyang Shuo wanted to buy their hearts using some grain, it was nearly impossible.

The Five Finger Mountain had huge amounts of food and without winter, the indigenous people had no lack of food.

The Guards regiment soldiers had all basically underwent a period of special forces training, and in terms of intel gathering they naturally had a bit of skill. Hence, Ouyang Shuo didn't bring the Military Intelligence Division over.

"Yes my lord!" w.a.n.g Feng was given a heavy responsibility.

After Ouyang Shuo delegated military duties, he looked once again to Bai Nanpu. "As for the building of the port, you will be in charge. Apart from that, remember to choose a plot of the sh.o.r.e to reclaim the salt pans. The salt workers must be given some work to do."

"Yes, my lord!" Bai Nanpu held the emotions on his heart and nodded. The plan that the marquis had made was more detailed and better than his suggestions, making him feel that his experience was lacking.

Ouyang Shuo nodded and was ready to to announce the end of the meeting. Using up so much time, the troops and people outside were waiting to receive their duties for the day.

Suddenly, Sun Xiaoyue stepped out. "Wuyi, I have a suggestion."

"Oh?"

"It's like this. I suggest that when the Guards regiment are clearing out the wild beasts, they could open up a region along the ocean which can be used to build a farm."

"Farm?"

"Based on the weather of Qiongzhou Island, this period is suitable to grow some vegetables. Apart from that, there should be large numbers of wild pigs and cows on the island. If we can obtain their calves, we could rear a batch of animals. With that, we could solve our food problems. Even if it means we will build the territory later, our group will be self sufficient and can last for a long time." Sun Xiaoyue said her thoughts.

After finis.h.i.+ng, her heart was beating. She didn't know why she wanted so hard to help Ouyang Shuo and also why she so badly wanted his recognition.

Ouyang Shuo nodded. If based on her suggestion, there would be plenty of benefits and all the people brought over would all have something to do.

"Good, this idea is not bad." Ouyang Shuo turned and looked at Bai Nanpu, "Note it down!"

"Don't worry my lord." Although Bai Nanpu lacked creativity, he was really good at following orders and would do it to the best of his ability.

Song Jia sat to the side and gave Sun Xiaoyue a glance, but instantly returned back to normal.

This time Ouyang Shuo had taken up the role of a boss and pa.s.sed around responsibilities while he didn't join in.

At this stage, if such things needed his personal management, it meant that he had failed and that he wasn't a pa.s.sable lord.

Ouyang Shuo wanted to use the chance to spend time with Bing'er and Song Jia.

As for exploring the South Mountain Paradise, it would have to wait until the territory was built. With just him and Song Jia, they didn't have the ability to explore the mysterious region. Thinking about it, he probably had to invite Little Aunt down to help.

Of course, before the territory was built up, he wouldn't inform Little Aunt. It wasn't because he didn't trust her, but it was because he didn't trust the other members.

The betrayal by the Snow-war Rose Mercenary group the previous time showed that even if it was the core of the team, there were things that they couldn't totally control.

Ouyang Shuo had no choice but to be careful.

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