Conquer all worlds starting from the mythical Three Kingdoms

"Guo Fengxiao, you are not a good son!"

Cao Cao covered his head and roared angrily in his room.

Xi Zhicai also had a bitter smile on his face. They had originally found a way to make money steadily and long-term, but right at the beginning, they were tricked by Guo Jia.

Bad money drives out good money. Guo Jia produced a large number of high-quality imitations and counterfeits, which directly impacted the entire Ming Dynasty market and had a huge impact on Cao Cao and his business.

After all, the market is mixed with good and bad products, and Cao Cao couldn't come forward to prove it himself, which resulted in the end of the famous products they had before they even started to expand production.

Except for the agreement reached with Jiajing on the supply of elixirs, all other businesses were affected.

The elixir business will not last long. Although Jiajing came here for the reputations of various immortals, he is not a fool. Sooner or later, the formula of the elixir he takes back will be figured out.

By then, only Jiajing would be left to take these elixirs, and they would be able to make some money. What should have been a long-term path was savagely shattered by Guo Jia.

"Since Guo Fengxiao is so unkind, don't blame me for being unjust. Go and recruit some tomb robbers for me. What's the point of making fake ones? Let's just dig the real ones!"

Because of the headache, Cao Cao seemed a little irritable.

Xi Zhicai was shocked when he heard this, but after thinking about it, he did not stop it.

It was just as Cao Cao said, Guo Jia was secretly setting a trap for them. They were not the kind of people who would suffer losses. Since Guo Jia could do it on the first day, they could do it on the fifteenth day as well.

You deal in high-end imitations and fakes, and I'll go dig up the real ones underground.

"Find me another 5,000 men from here, give them the title of tomb raiders, and have them learn from the tomb robbers. Not only do they go back to dig, but they also dig up the tombs of the kings of the dynasties here!"

Cao Cao sneered and said, "Antiques must be really old to be worthy of being called antiques. They use fakes to cover up their imitations, so we will just use the real ones to kick all their stuff out of the market!"

Xi Zhicai nodded. This might be a good idea for Cao Cao, although it felt like destroying the bridge after crossing it, and it would also make Cao Cao's reputation bad.

But reputation is something that is meant to be monetized, it’s just a matter of value.

The antique business looks attractive enough, so it is worth their effort to study it.

Cao Cao's massive tomb-robbing operation began. At first, Guo Jia didn't react and thought Cao Cao was learning their trick of imitating tombs.

He originally didn't care at all. After all, the productivity bases of both sides were not at the same level at all. The level of the craftsmen on his side had all undergone Huang Tianji's systematic training.

Although Cao Cao recruited some people when he left, it was completely impossible to compete with him in output with that few people. Guo Jia also had no intention of pushing Cao Cao to death. It was harmless for him to eat the meat and let Cao Cao drink some soup.

However, the next development was beyond Guo Jia's expectations. Cao Cao shipped the goods even faster than he did.

At first, Guo Jia did not associate it with tomb robbing. After all, this thing was more or less a taboo. Guo Jia never expected that Cao Cao's moral level was so low that he would do such a thing that would wipe out his entire family.

It was not until Jia Xu's men captured a group of tomb raiders that Guo Jia learned the truth.

"What did I say? It's easy to change a country but hard to change one's nature. This Cao Mengde will still become Prime Minister Cao in the future!"

Guo Jia threw the information in front of Chen Gong, and Chen Gong looked at the information in front of him with a bit of disbelief.

But please report that there is Jia Xu's testimony, which means that the news has been confirmed.

"Captain of the Tomb Raiders... Our King of Wei really has some ideas!" Like Chen Gong and Guo Jia, they did not expect that Cao Cao's moral bottom line was so low.

To be honest, they both began to think that the Cao Cao in this world and the Cao Cao described in the book were two different people. But now that Cao Cao took action, they realized that the Cao Cao in the book and the Cao Cao in reality were exactly the same person.

Cao Cao looked like a human being before, but now he really is suspicious.

"What should we do next? Should we report it to the emperor?" Chen Gong put down the information in his hand and asked Guo Jia.

"Not for now. What Cao Mengde and we are doing is ultimately a business competition. Although Cao Mengde is a bit shameless, we don't have any better solution..."

"Pass the news to those noble families in Central Asia and see how they react!"

After thinking for a while, Guo Jia came up with a way to break the impasse. Cao Cao's tomb-robbing skills did achieve some success.

However, if you cross the moral bottom line, you will be attacked by the crowd.

Once you cross the bottom line, it becomes difficult for people to trust you.

It seemed that there was a general lack of trust in Sima Yi within Xinghan. After all, the Luoshui Oath had a great impact on Sima Yi.

As the pillar of the Sima family, Sima Yi naturally also received the intelligence sent to him by Guo Jia.

"Cao Mengde, you are such an unfilial son! Go, recruit some men to rob Cao Cao's tomb!"

Sima Yi was extremely unhappy and asked someone to rob Cao Cao's tomb in the Song Dynasty, and then sold all the antiques to Cao Cao, highlighting his intention to disgust Cao Cao.

No one went back to bet whether Cao Cao would dig up his ancestors' graves.

Even if they moved away, their ancestors are still buried here.

Cao Cao's tomb-robbing lieutenant had clearly crossed the moral bottom line. No one dared to bet whether the next tomb to be robbed would be their own ancestral tomb.

Especially those families with a long history are more vigilant about Cao Cao, because their family tombs have been passed down from ancient times.

To be honest, they are no less than the Ji family, which claims to be descendants of Emperor Huang, and the Jiang family, which claims to be descendants of Shennong.

They dare not gamble on Cao Cao's moral bottom line.

For a time, Cao Cao became the target of everyone's condemnation. Of course, this condemnation mainly referred to the former aristocratic families.

On the contrary, the common people did not feel anything about this. After all, Cao Cao's targets were the tombs of princes and nobles, which had little to do with them.

"Is there any good idea?" Yang Xiu looked at the information with a frown.

Guo Jia's intention of passing the news to them was obvious, but even if he had moved abroad and successfully became the prime minister of the Kushan Empire.

Although Arvind was nominally the king of the Kushan Empire, the real caller was the Yang family. Even Arvind himself was restrained by the Yang family, after all, he was also the son-in-law of the Yang family.

And in the Yang family, the person with the highest authority was none other than Yang Xiu.

"I'd rather die than have a friend die. Send someone to contact Cao Cao and cooperate with them. Let's release the information we have about other families. In exchange, Cao Mengde will stay away from my Yang family's ancestral land."

After thinking for a while, Yang Xiu decided to sell out his teammates. In this race to break the moral bottom line, if you want to succeed, you need to have a lower moral level than your opponent.

Anyway, Cao Cao was seeking wealth, and someone like him who sent his teammates to be sacrificed might be able to make some money from it.

There were many people who had the same idea as Yang Xiu. When all the information was gathered in Cao Cao's hands, Cao Cao was a little speechless.

After all, tomb robbing is not something that can be done in a respectable manner. Now that so many people know about it, even if Cao Cao has the courage to betray the whole world, he still has to make some compromises.

However, this compromise is only limited to those families who provide intelligence.

He didn't know who sent it, but he remembered clearly who didn't.

After a long period of scheming between the two sides, Cao Cao finally restrained himself a lot. Morally speaking, he didn't have any feelings about it.

But the problem is that as this thing is exposed to many people, the underground is almost on the surface, and each family is strictly guarding their own ancestral land.

Those tomb-raiding lieutenants under Cao Cao were simply offering their heads when facing the old soldiers and regular troops who were seconded here.

Except for a small number of families that had been killed by Mu Yi, whose ancestral graves were dug up and no one disturbed them, more ancestral graves were manned, and the most common choice was the construct soldier mercenaries.

Because it cannot be applied on the battlefield at present, the squeezed inventory is emptied instantly.

After all, compared to normal soldiers, construct mercenaries are perfect candidates to guard tombs, and all you need to do is send someone to check on them regularly.

Compared with the current strict defense, it would be more reassuring for them to directly stockpile construct soldiers and mercenaries.

Of course, these construct mercenaries will stop being able to function because of the secret technique.

But how could these tomb-raiding captains have the secret techniques of the Ming Dynasty, the Mongols, and the Qing Dynasty? They were simply unable to break through the defenses.

Many tomb raiders suffered heavy losses, and many were even killed by construct mercenaries, but the authorities did not make any comments on this.

After all, it was the tomb raider who broke into someone's ancestral tomb. Strictly speaking, this was at most a self-defense counterattack by the noble family.

Even if the construct soldiers killed these tomb-raiding captains, it would be understandable.

Besides, the tomb-raiding lieutenants who would be killed were more or less noobs. After this purge, Cao Cao actually had an extra group of tomb-raiding lieutenants under his command. Although the number was small, they all possessed unique skills.

In the end, this business trip was completely aborted.

Both sides paid a considerable price, but relative to the price paid, Cao Cao gained more resources and fame.

Although it is a bad reputation for poor families, for ordinary people, this reputation is neither good nor bad. At least it made Cao Cao's name popular.

……

Cao Cao and the others' secret rivalry did not attract Mu Yi's attention. After all, the core was all for high development. Some people cared, while others did not.

Mu Yi actually supported Cao Cao's move. After all, it would be a waste to bury these things in the tomb. It would be better to take them out and benefit the public.

However, Mu Yi did not expect that these things actually brought some benefits.

It was none other than the Construct Mercenary.

This thing was directly blocked and killed during the battle with Dorgon, and was expelled from some positions.

Without the support of corresponding secret arts, the military will not choose to use construct soldiers.

It is also because of this that the noble family purchased a large number of construct soldiers to serve as gravekeepers.

During this process, someone discovered something unusual and informed Mu Yi and Huang Tianji.

"What's the situation? Has it been confirmed?"

"It's confirmed!"

"These construct mercenaries can indeed grow into elemental creatures and develop wills, which the mystic arts will be unable to control!"

"This is the same element we noticed in the small world before!" Huang Tianji affirmed.

This was also the reason why they transferred Feixiong over there before. They found that if these constructed soldiers were buried in the soil and baptized by the essence of heaven and earth, elemental life might be born.

They had been conducting experiments before, but before any results appeared there, these noble families gave them verification.

“I didn’t expect the method to be so simple!”

Mu Yi looked at the improved cultivation method and the elemental life forms of God's will that were born bit by bit in the earth, and he couldn't help but feel happy.

Having willpower is definitely a good thing for construct mercenaries. It can make them stronger and even allow them to be trained like ordinary legions.

The most important thing is that the growth cycle of these elemental lives is only three months. Excluding the cannon fodder troops in the Heroes of Might and Magic world, they can finally have a regular army with a short growth cycle but can be put to use.

As long as you plant a row of construct mercenaries in the spring, you can harvest a large number of earth elemental mercenaries in the autumn.

This process can also be accelerated through the Shennong series of spells, and can be completed in a world within one month at the fastest cost of four times the resources.

It can also allow things like vine armor to parasitize on the body. When it takes shape, the body surface will become more indestructible. Although it is still restrained by fire, the person under the vine armor is not a human at all.

Therefore, whether the rattan armor is afraid of fire is not a weakness for them.

This discovery allowed the institute to directly begin large-scale experiments.

The production line that had been stopped started production again, and all those who knew the news were gathered together and put under some degree of surveillance and sealing.

Then we concentrated our resources to start researching deeper enhancements.

After all, whether it is a construct mercenary or an elemental spirit mercenary, in a sense there is a lot of room for transformation.

Confucianists tried to imprint Confucian classics on the bodies of these soldiers and mercenaries, while Yin-Yangists tried to create five-element spells for these soldiers and mercenaries, turning them into multi-elemental beings.

Each school of thought had its own way of playing, and in the end they did produce a lot of results, but the effects varied, and there wasn't even a specific standard to judge them.

With the example of the elemental spirits in front, Mu Yi also took out the seized fragments of heaven, intending to get a group of angels from them.

Mu Yi felt that the concepts of angels and elemental spirit mercenaries should be similar, one attribute is light and the other attribute is earth.

It can also be regarded as strengthening the air force combat units.

At present, they still have huge shortcomings in this regard.