I become a god in another world

Chapter 279: A Soft Strike
Chapter 279

"The ghost seal has been placed, and the power of the door god has been upgraded. From now on, the Yu family will be protected by the door god and no ghosts can invade."

Zhao Fusheng looked at the uneasy Yu Weide and said in a good mood.

Yu Weide's face turned red, and his eyes showed surprise and joy. Just as he was about to speak, the side door next to him was opened, and a gatekeeper stuck his head out.

Before he could say anything, he saw Yu Weide lying on the ground and couldn't help but exclaimed:
"master--"

Zhao Fusheng pulled Yu Wei up, picked up his crutches and placed them beside him:
"I'll leave first once your family members come out."

"Thank you, sir. Please do as you please. I will prepare gifts and go to the Demon Suppression Division later—"

He spoke anxiously, and Zhao Fusheng nodded, strode away from his side, got back on the carriage, and said to Fan Bisi, the driver:
"let's go."

Liu Yizhen asked:

"Has your gate god power changed?"

The printing display in front of Yu's house was much larger than that at Xu Yachen's house.

Zhao Fusheng made such a big show in front of the Xu residence, probably to publicize the power of the Demon Suppression Division, but she came to the Yu family for a sudden uprising and did not notify anyone to wait in advance, so there was no need to make such a big fuss.

In other words, the strange phenomenon that occurred when the Yu family was making the ghost seal was purely due to the power of the door god itself.

Everyone was supposed to go to Liutu Village to investigate the headless corpse case, but Zhao Fusheng had to come to Yu's house to print something temporarily, probably for her own reasons.

Combined with the strangeness of the Yu family, Liu Yizhen guessed that leaving the door god mark should be of certain benefit to the evil spirit controlled by Zhao Fusheng.

"Did you sense it?" Zhao Fusheng wiped the water droplets from his hair and asked him.

Liu Yizhen nodded:
"I felt it the moment you made the mark just now."

"I felt it too." Fan Bisi nodded.

This time Fan Wujiu finally found an opportunity to speak, and he hurriedly said:
"Me too."

Zhao Fusheng smiled and said:
"The gate god has indeed been promoted." She had previously worried that the gate god's strength would be weakened after suppressing Liu Huacheng, but after the gate god was promoted this time, as long as one is a believer of the gate god and wherever the ghost seal radiates, they will be protected by the gate god.

"When disturbed by the power of ghosts, the clone of the gate god will appear and repel the ghosts."

The power of the ghost's clone is naturally not as strong as the main body itself, but there is a Zhao Fusheng who can temporarily borrow the ghost body of the door god to travel between the brands - thus enhancing the power of the ghost brand in disguise.

"In this way, wouldn't this trip to Liutu Village be a piece of cake?" Fan Bisi said with ease.

"maybe."

Speaking of the headless corpse case, Zhao Fusheng's good mood was affected to a certain extent.

She frowned.

"If we talk about the severity of ghost cases, just like my second brother said, the case in Liutu Village is not very lethal."

The rules for evil spirits to mark people are different from the general process of the spread of ghost disasters.

Taking the case of Goutou Village as an example, after Wu Datong's family raised a ghost son, the ghost disaster first spread to his family, then to those who were related to the ghost, and finally to the entire village.

And as the level of evil ghosts grows, the ghosts will eventually expand the area of ​​ghost domain radiation.

If Zhao Fusheng had not subdued it when it was at the substitute ghost level, after it became a disaster level in the future, it would have been very likely to expand its marked territory to the county and state. At that time, anyone who heard or mentioned anything related to Goutou Village would be marked by it and then killed one by one.

This kind of ghost disaster is like a plague. Once it is provoked, the consequences will be extremely serious.

But the ghost disaster in Liutu Village is different.

After the incident in Changsheng Town, only members of the Li family died - if people had died in the town subsequently, the matter would have been reported long ago and would not have failed to attract the attention of County Magistrate Pang.

In Liutu Village, only Yang Tiehan's family died.

According to Wang Hun's report, no one else in the village was in trouble, which means that the ghost only killed one family.

This is simply incredible.

Even the most evil beggar ghost in Beggar Alley that day covered a ghost domain, trapping Beggar Alley outside Confucius Temple in the ghost domain.

The coachman Fan Bisi made a suggestion:

"Is it the headless ghost..." When he mentioned this name, he felt a little awkward in his heart. After thinking about it, he changed the name: "Is it because the head-eating ghost is of too low a rank, and the ghost domain formed is not powerful enough? Wang Hun is a servant, and he is at an age of vigor and vitality. He has strong yang energy and is not affected by the ghost domain, so he escaped smoothly?"

What is the blood and vigor, the yang energy is strong——

Liu Yizhen was stunned by Fan Bisi's words and asked him:
"how do you know?"

Fan Bisi said honestly:
"I was just talking nonsense."

"..." Liu Yizhen was speechless.

"Okay, stop talking nonsense." Zhao Fusheng shook his head and looked at Fan Bisi deeply.

At first, Fan Bisi avoided ghost disasters as much as possible, but now he can even participate in the discussion. This is a big change.

She didn't point it out, but said:
"The situation of the evil spirit is still unclear. What Brother Fan said cannot be completely ruled out. It may be one of the reasons." She said seriously:

"But there is a greater possibility——"

"What's possible?" Fan Wujiu asked curiously.

Zhao Fusheng said:
"Perhaps the evil spirit has already deployed the ghost domain mark, but we can't see it now."

As soon as she finished speaking, Fan Bisi thought of the possibility she said, and couldn't help but shudder, and couldn't help but cry out:
"How can it be--"

The existence of evil spirits is already a difficult problem for humans.

Ghosts are between the visible and invisible, and their power is completely disproportionate to that of humans.

If humans had not used ghosts to fight ghosts, they would have been defeated when facing the slaughter of ghosts.

In the face of the threat of rampant evil spirits, the hundreds of years of experience passed down by the Han Dynasty is a great life-saving asset for future generations.

Among these experiences, the existence of evil spirits and the rules of killing are fixed, and there are traces of ghost domains and evil spirit marks.

Once the evil spirit is discovered to have revived, humans still have a chance to escape and save their lives before the ghost domain is formed.

But if, as Zhao Fusheng said, the evil ghost in the head-eating ghost case in Liutu Village leaves no trace of the marking rules, and the ghost domain unfolds without anyone noticing, making it impossible for people to get a glimpse of clues in advance - then the consequences of this matter will be very serious.

This is tantamount to overturning some of the cognition before the Han Dynasty.

Such a hidden and unknown evil spirit is impossible to capture and difficult to drive away. Once encountered, you will be put in a passive situation.

"This is impossible--"

Fan Bisi shook his head desperately. It was more like he was trying to convince himself than to talk to the other people in the carriage.

"This is impossible—is it—"

"Whether it's possible or not, we'll know after we get to Liutu Village and see it."

Zhao Fusheng frowned:
"Shaochun has a keen sense of smell. He smells danger from Wang. We must be on high alert."

Liu Yizhen found her character to be very contradictory.

In his mind, Zhao Fusheng has always been sharp and suspicious, and is unwilling to trust others easily, but she has shown great trust in the people of the Demon Suppression Bureau.

——Even after he joined the Demon Suppression Division, Zhao Fusheng seemed to be on guard against him. In the process of dealing with her afterwards, Liu Yizhen could feel her sincerity. Perhaps this is also the reason why everyone in the Demon Suppression Division is willing to follow her.

Liu Yizhen thought to himself.

Zhao Fusheng didn't know what he was thinking, and continued:
"I always feel that Wang Hun's sleepiness is not normal. After we enter Liutu Village, we must pay attention to sleepiness, as well as those villagers who yawn frequently and scratch their necks."

"it is good."

Several people nodded in response.

After that, no one said anything more. The carriage drove out of the city gate and headed straight for Liutu Village.

After walking for about two or three quarters of an hour, several barren farmlands came into view.

It was the middle of winter, and the fields were barren and covered with withered weeds.

Zhao Fusheng's eyes moved away from the file that Magistrate Pang handed to her and fell on the wasteland outside the city:

"Are these the lands of Liutu Village?"

"should be."

Fan Bisi nodded:
"Most of the villagers here came here to escape famine."

In fact, he was not very clear about the political affairs of Wan'an County, which was not within the jurisdiction of the Demon Suppression Division.

But after Zhao Fusheng took control of the Demon Suppression Bureau, she seized all power in the county. Fan Bisi's brothers had offended her before and they didn't have any ghost control. They were afraid that she still hated them, so they tried their best to show their ability in the hope that Zhao Fusheng would forgive them because they tried their best to make up for their mistakes.

Therefore, he had also made up for some of Wan'an County's government affairs, so when asked at this time, he would not be clueless.

"They came at a good time, so they reclaimed land and cultivated it, and settled down here."

"A good time?" Zhao Fusheng was a little skeptical when he heard this:
"What's a good time?"

"It's about measuring the land." Fan Bisi said.

Zhao Fusheng suddenly remembered:

"First, it happened when the old emperor was still alive."

When she finished speaking, Fan Bisi was somewhat surprised:
"Adults also know?"

"I've heard Wu Dajing mention that..."

She mentioned the deceased village elder, hiding a sigh under her peaceful face:
"He said that the old emperor had proposed measuring the land in the early years and encouraged the people to open up wasteland."

"Yes." Fan Bisi nodded:

"At that time, those who reclaimed wasteland were rewarded with three dou of wheat bran per day for one mu of land, and the court promised that whoever reclaimed the land would have it recorded in his name."

After this decree was issued, people all over the world complained.

Today, with evil spirits running rampant, the power of the Han Dynasty has long since fallen into the hands of others.

The ghost power of the Demon Suppression Bureau is greater than the royal power, and there is even a sense of "the royal power is granted by ghosts".

Even in terms of taxation, the Demon Suppression Division collected more taxes than the imperial court.

There is a rumor among the people that people would rather owe taxes to the imperial court than lack a grain of rice from the Demon Suppression Bureau.

From this we can see the clue.

When the old emperor was in power, he had no choice but to propose such political reforms.

The imperial treasury was empty and the emperor had no money, so he wanted to squeeze and exploit the people to fill his own pocket.

At that time, the people worked hard to reclaim wasteland in order to comply with the imperial court's decree, but in the end, the court's promise was not fulfilled.

After the reclamation was completed, the court did not fulfill its promise.

The officials in office at the time recorded the reclaimed wasteland as their political achievements, and were promoted one after another at the end of their term, but left a mess and pain to the people.

The people worked hard but received no reward from the court. Instead, the wasteland they reclaimed was blamed on them.

Before every spring, they had to pay high taxes for the newly reclaimed wasteland under their names, and they could not afford to pay a penny less.

However, most of these wastelands are barren and the yield of wheat grown on them is extremely low.

People often work hard for a year, but when autumn comes, the grain they collect is less than one-third of the high taxes.

When they learned the bad news that they had to pay taxes, many villagers gathered to protest, but they were all suppressed one by one.

The ghost controllers of the Demon Suppression Bureau are inhuman beings. The imperial court also has runners. If these people can't deal with evil spirits, how can they deal with the peasants who work hard in the fields?
After beating and killing several groups, the blood dyed the city gate red, and the protests were finally suppressed.

However, since then, people from all over the Han Dynasty owed the imperial court huge amounts of money.

"Take our Wan'an County as an example. The people of Liutu Village probably owed money to the imperial court since their fathers' generation."

Pay every year, and owe every year.

"I looked at the account books earlier. The largest amount owed was over 180 taels of silver."

These villagers only produce sparks with their hoes all year round, so how much silver can they dig out from the ground?

"It is only natural that a son pays for his father's debts. These debts have been passed down from generation to generation. Even after a hundred years, they will never be able to pay them off." Fan Bisi said.

Such a topic is too heavy.

Even Liu Yizhen, who grew up in the Confucius Temple and lived with evil spirits, and had developed a heart of stone, could not help but feel the hardships of people's lives when he heard these words, and remained silent.

The people of Liutu Village are one of the products of this deformed new policy.

"Once these villagers arrived in Wan'an County, they were burdened with debts that could not be repaid for generations. But fortunately, even though the land is barren, they still have land."

Fan Bisi realized that this topic was too serious and tried to save the situation:
"Most of them are refugees from famine. I heard that their hometowns were flooded and their fields were submerged, so they left their homes and came here. Although they are in debt, some of them stutter."

“Just barely surviving.”

Zhao Fusheng looked at the fields overgrown with weeds with a gloomy expression.

She sighed silently, and Fan Bisi sensed the tense atmosphere. Just when he was feeling a little nervous, he quickly saw the dilapidated houses hidden behind the wasteland through the half-human-high weeds in the distance.

"Sir, we have arrived at Liutu Village."

As soon as he finished speaking, he and Liu Yizhen couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Fan Wujiu is very insensitive.

He did not notice the strange atmosphere, he was just eager to investigate the ghost case. When he heard that they had arrived at Liutu Village, his eyes lit up and he hurried to get out of the car.

"Slower--"

Before Fan Bisi could rein in his horse, he noticed that something seemed amiss at the entrance of the village ahead, so he quickly called out to his brother.

But he spoke too late, and Fan Wujiu was too impatient. Before he could finish his words, Fan Wujiu had already jumped out of the car.

"My lord, something seems to be wrong."

Zhao Fusheng's expression did not change after hearing this.

When she was in the carriage, she heard Fan Bisi mention the origin of Liutu Village. She knew that the villagers had been cheated by the imperial court, and that almost every household in the village was still in huge debt. She knew that this business would probably run into some difficulties.