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Since the tall statue of Sakyamuni Buddha was erected, the population of the small town below the Buddhist kingdom has been increasing every day.

The reason why this small town can change rapidly from a small town to a city is not the huge Buddha statue, nor Naha's promise to save the common people.

It's money!

It's supplies!
It's cattle and sheep!
When Naha poured the old monkey's life savings into this small town, the people here immediately had food, cattle and sheep, cloth, salt, iron pots, tents, houses...

All these things are distributed to the common people by the Buddha Kingdom free of charge, without money or life, let alone the children of the common people.

In the territory of the Buddha Kingdom, there are large tracts of grasslands, large tracts of cold pine forests, dense river systems, and a beautiful lake.

After inspecting the entire area of ​​the Buddha Kingdom, Yun Chu and Rou Wen were very sure that at least 20 people could live here and millions of livestock could be accommodated here.

If these people start a life of half-cultivation and half-grazing, the number of people they carry will further increase, reaching a terrifying 30 people.

There is basically no city in the Western Regions with a permanent population of more than [-]. If Naha's Buddha Kingdom achieves this goal, then, naturally, the Buddha Kingdom will become the economic, cultural, and political center of the Western Regions.

The reason why the old monkey established the Buddha Kingdom here is not only considering the advantages of the geographical environment here, but also considering the important event of the Buddha Kingdom's external communication.

The big and small Bolu, the nine surnames of Zhaowu, He Zhong, the big cannibal, and the Persians who are very good at doing business are all within its radiation range.

Most importantly, the establishment of the Buddha Kingdom extended the safe road of the Silk Road to the west for five thousand miles.

This will greatly stimulate the business environment between the Western Regions and Chang'an, and the safe road will encourage more risk-taking merchants to set foot on this ancient silk road.

At that time, spices from the sea, glass from Rome, a large number of rare treasures from the West, various grains, and vegetable seeds will continue to arrive in Chang'an through this road.

Then through Yunchu, a person who knows the goods, pick out the most important and deadly good things and advertise them widely, completely changing Datang's relatively poor seed bank and dining table structure.

The most powerful horse bandit group on the Silk Road is Lao Houzi's subordinates. It is because of these twelve horse bandit groups that Naha can receive a huge amount of protection money in Chang'an.

Only by offering a certain amount of treasure to the Buddha Naha, can the Buddha's permission be obtained to use a flag, and the caravan with this flag will not be attacked by thieves on the Silk Road.

Now, Naha is off to do business in person, and it's time for the horse bandits to cook.

Whenever a group of horse thieves came back from the wilderness driving a large group of people from the Western Regions, the leader of the group of horse thieves would enter the cave where the old monkey lived to meet the old leader.

As long as those leaders entered the stone cave where the old monkey lived, they never came out again.

So much so that Lian Yunchu had some psychological barriers to entering the old monkey's cave. He always felt that this damn old monkey was a wounded tiger, waiting for its prey to fall into its trap.

After all the leaders went in, it was the turn of the second leader to go in, and after the second leader went in, it was the turn of the third leader and the horse thief who was expected to succeed these leaders.

Now, there are still people walking into the old monkey's cave full of excitement.

Yunchu and Rourou stood at the window holding a teacup and watched another tough horse thief enter the old monkey's room.

"You said, these people should know that their leader is dead?"

Yunchu scratched his head and asked Wenrou, Wenrou was more accurate than him in seeing the thoughts of people in the officialdom.

"When the big chief died, the second chief was secretly happy, and when the second chief died, the third chief was secretly happy, thinking that it was finally his turn to be the leader of the horse bandit group.

By analogy, when leader No. [-] dies, the strongest horse thief will be delighted, feeling that his chance has finally come.

Therefore, their deaths were self-inflicted, driven by greed under the coercion of the old monkey, and death is not a pity. "

"You said Monkey Lord is not afraid of making all these horse thieves rebel by doing this?"

He smiled gently and said: "There is a sequence here, which is very important. The most rebellious leader in the horse bandit group was killed first by him. After killing the horse bandit leader who is most likely to betray, the following horse bandit leader I always feel that I am loyal to Monkey King and will not be purged.

What they don't know is that this time, Monkey Lord is going to completely eliminate the horse thief from the sequence of the Buddha Kingdom.

He is the head of the horse thieves, so he naturally knows that these people are wild and unruly, so killing them by means is the safest choice. "

Yun Chu said: "I promised Monkey Lord that I would deal with these horse thieves, but now it seems that he has decided to do it himself."

He smiled gently and said: "This should be part of the agreement reached between the Monkey King and the imperial court. You see, it won't take long for Wang Xiaojie from the Shule Governor's Mansion to come to the Buddha Kingdom to take over the defense here.

Evacuating the cage and changing the bird, this is what His Majesty wants. Before this happened, I thought His Majesty was really confiding in Buddhism.

Yun Chu sighed and said: "There are no less than [-] people in the twelve horse bandit regiments, it seems that Monkey Lord intends not to keep any of them.

Just wait, the internal strife among the horse bandits is coming soon...

"Wan Wen shook her head and drank the water in the teacup, sighed: "It's really a thunderous trick... This kind of thing can't be done by ordinary people.

Perhaps, this is another interpretation of Monkey King himself for "putting down the butcher knife and becoming a Buddha immediately". "

Unknowingly, the ice in the creek began to melt, and the ice gradually changed from blue to white.

When the yellow flowers of dandelions came out of the cracks in the ice, a blizzard arrived as expected.

One moment the sky was full of sunshine, making people feel warm, and the next moment, under the howling wind, the wind rolled up snowflakes and hit from a distance like a wall.

Before the azure blue sky could change its color in time, the sky darkened. In the gaps in the gloomy dark clouds, there were still a few rays of afterglow falling on the ground, which were soon swallowed by the sudden blizzard.

Yun Chu, who was eating mutton hotpot with Wen Rou, Zhong Kui, and Naha, glanced at the snowstorm outside, and sighed, "The white calamity is here."

Gently took a bite of mutton and said comfortably: "White catastrophe?"

Naha said on the side: "The snow is too heavy, the hay is buried, the sheep can't eat the grass under the snow, and they will starve to death.

For herdsmen, it is the most terrible disaster.

My brother and I also encountered a terrible white disaster at the foot of Tianshan Mountain. My brother immediately killed all the sheep in the house. My mother and I hid in the house with sheepskins. My brother had to clean it up every once in a while. To remove the snow from the tent, a snow wall must be built outside the tent to prevent the cold wind from blowing on the tent.

That time, we hid in the tent for a full 23 days. When my mother and I got out of the tent with my brother’s permission, the snow outside turned into water, and the whole tribe snatched other people’s food with red eyes.

My elder brother and Uncle Jie Siga stayed outside to protect my mother and me for [-] days. Almost everyone died, and we had enough food left before we came out.

That time, my brother was stabbed twice, and one of Uncle Jaska's legs was almost cut off. Fortunately, he survived in the end. "

Rourou listened to Naha's story, looked at Yunchu and said, "Did you live so hard at that time?"

While peeling the mutton into the hot pot with a knife, Yunchu said: "As for the white disaster, you can relate it to the rare drought in the Central Plains in a hundred years. There are starving people everywhere, and people exchange their children for food. Exactly the same, even more miserable."

Zhong Kui nodded and said: "Now I begin to understand why those who rely on grazing tend to be predatory.

Herding is a more unreliable way of life than growing crops. After I came to the Western Regions, I found that the herdsmen don’t eat much beef and mutton, but rely on the by-product milk produced by herding sheep, cattle, and horses, plus the use of cattle. Sheep and livestock are exchanged for food to live on.

All the meat was eaten by people like us. "

Naha pursed her mouth and said, "Fortunately, my brother can catch marmots, fish, and rabbits."

Big fat marmot was squatting at Yunchu's feet and eating soybeans, when he suddenly heard Naha's words, it seemed to be talking about marmot, he raised his head, looked at Naha in confusion, suddenly saw the boiling soup pot, and decided to Giving up on the soybeans in his mouth, he left this terrifying room with a scramble, even in the heavy snow, he still wanted to go to Selema...

The crisis Marmot felt didn't come from Naha, but from the cold air emanating from Yunchu and Wenrou.

The year of catastrophe and epidemic is a good time to change people's original life trajectory.

Every major change in human beings follows the pace of catastrophes, epidemics and even wars.

Now, there is a white disaster here in the Buddha country.

In the eyes of ordinary people, it is a disaster, but in the eyes of high-ranking and powerful people, it often represents a change!

In the past, some bad things should be discarded, but because of human nature, there is no way to discard them, and now they can be discarded.

Those things that people were unwilling to change in the past can now be changed through the catastrophe.

When people's lives are seriously threatened, many insistences will be abandoned, and people just want to survive.

At this time, whoever has the power to save people will naturally have power.

As for Yun Chu, a person like Wen Rou cannot give up this opportunity to manipulate power.

Zhong Kui lowered his head and ate vigorously. He is also a learned man, how could he not know what Yun Chu and Wen Rou were thinking.

It's just that he doesn't want to say it, he doesn't want to think about it, and in his heart, he has decided to carve out two most vicious ghosts based on Yunchu and Wenrou.