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Chapter 195: Getting Better and Better

"Amitabha." Bai Xuexing chanted the Buddha's name in a calm tone, "You guys stop them first, and I'll go back after I finish handling the affairs here."

Dongfang Zhentian frowned.

"Oh, the young master is here!" County Magistrate Cao bowed to Dongfang Zhentian, and then reported to Bai Xuexing with a happy face, "The Taoist priest is really amazing. There is no new patient today."

Bai Xuexing's face turned unhappy when he heard this.

He didn't want to waste his spiritual energy, so he mainly used medicine to treat the epidemic, but medicinal materials could not appear out of thin air!
All the herbs used for treatment were paid for out of his own pocket. In his storage bag, there were only a few ordinary-quality herbs, and the rest were all natural treasures he had accumulated over the years. How could the effect not be good? !
Fortunately, there are many mountains near the two counties, and there are many medicinal herbs there, so he can switch to using newly prepared medicinal materials later. Otherwise, he would really have to cut blood and flesh!
Dongfang Zhentian said: "You can come with me now!"

Bai Xuexing calmed down, stood up and chanted "Wulian Tianzun" again, and told County Magistrate Cao to continue giving the victims medicine for three more days. When he was about to leave, he suddenly saw a paper crane flying in front of him.

"Oh! It's an adult!" Dongfang Zhentian happily grabbed the paper crane and quickly opened the letter. As he read it, the smile on his face froze.

She stuffed the letter into Bai Xuexing's hand and said quickly, "I'll go back to Linxi County first!"

Before he finished speaking, the person disappeared.

As soon as he saw her reaction, Bai Xuexing knew that something was wrong, but no matter what, he had to face it.

Bai Xuexing felt that his mentality had been getting better and better in recent times, and he would never collapse at any time again.

He calmly unfolded the letter and read the contents word by word. His expression instantly collapsed: "Seventy thousand people! How dare she!"

County Magistrate Cao was worried: "What do you mean 70,000 people?"

Bai Xuexing pressed the letter into his hands.

After County Magistrate Cao finished reading it, his legs went weak. He quickly reached out to hold the back of the chair next to him and asked in a trembling voice, "Sir, have you brought the Northwest Army here?"

Ever since he knew about Master Xuanying's ambition, Cao Yu had been thinking about it every day. He was worried about his weak strength, thinking about how to recruit soldiers, how to expand the territory step by step, how to accumulate wealth and increase the population. He thought he had made sufficient psychological preparations...

As a result, I couldn’t keep up with the pace at all!

She was like an arrow piercing the clouds, breaking through the barriers of the chaotic world with unstoppable power and speed, and putting all the fruitful results directly into her pocket.

"No wonder..." County Magistrate Cao muttered to himself.

Before, he could not figure out why the county magistrate valued the officials of the two counties. Except for Liu Zhubu, he and Huang Xiancheng were not considered strategists, let alone wise ones. Now he suddenly understood that they all had one thing in common - they were able to govern a county well in troubled times.

Mr. County Magistrate... She wants to expand the territory herself, and what she needs is an official who can take care of local affairs.

County Magistrate Cao admired and said: "In such a short period of time, we have acquired territory, population, and troops!"

Bai Xuexing: Yes, there is the territory, but it has not been integrated yet, and the indigenous people are still fighting with the people of Linxi County; there is the population, but not only are they homeless, they are also sick and need a lot of medicinal materials; there are soldiers and horses, but they may not listen to her at the moment!
"Lord Cao, why don't you take care of yourself." Bai Xuexing said calmly, "The epidemic has stabilized for the time being. About 70,000 people will arrive in half a month, of which at least 5,000 will be arranged to enter Tao County. You should be prepared. I will go back to Linxi County to deal with some things first." Only 5,000 of the 70,000 people will be arranged to enter Tao County. It may seem like a small number, but in fact it is likely to exceed the capacity.

Lu Xi has already sent over more than 10,000 people. It's as if the old man has engraved Master Xuanying's words "the more the better" into his soul. He is still tirelessly going out to pick up people. Adding these 5,000 people, it is estimated that 20,000 people will not be enough.

County Magistrate Cao really wanted to hug the old man's thighs and cry regardless of his image.

Tao County is mostly mountainous, with a small per capita arable land area. There is only a small amount of land suitable for growing crops, and there is no land for reclaiming! And the several workshops in the county cannot only recruit people from the disaster victims, as that would inevitably lead to conflicts between the indigenous people and the disaster victims.

Not to mention future development issues, even where to put these 20,000 people is a headache!

County Magistrate Cao realized belatedly that he was beginning to feel sorry for himself...

But fortunately, the actual situation is better than County Magistrate Cao imagined.

After the epidemic was eradicated, he began to arrange these more than 10,000 people, and it went so smoothly that it was surprisingly smooth!
Apart from the areas where humans cannot survive, the disaster-stricken area in the northwest of Qu State can be regarded as the poorest place in the entire continent. When these disaster victims came to Tao County and saw the mountains full of lush green vegetation and the wild fruit trees laden with fruits, they were simply dazzled!

When County Magistrate Cao nervously announced the mountain land allocated to them, no one present objected. Instead, they took the deeds with great joy and went to find their own land. Then they took the farm tools borrowed from the government and began to prepare and build houses.

Seeing them like this, the locals couldn't help but feel sympathy and admiration for them. After harvesting the rice, many of them took the initiative to lend them their farm tools, and the two sides got along quite well.

However, County Magistrate Cao was not overwhelmed by the sudden surprise. He knew that these were only temporary. When these people knew that the people of Tao County had fertile farmland and rice seeds with an output of nearly 1,000 kilograms per mu, over time, they would probably not think the same way as they do now.

County Magistrate Cao did not think there was anything wrong with feeling aggrieved. What was worrying was not the scarcity of wealth but the inequality. There were people in this world who could calmly accept this kind of contrast, but they were a minority after all.

People seem to be struggling from the moment they are born. County Magistrate Cao has never seen anyone who accepts his fate from the moment he is born.

He wandered around the mountains every day and found that the victims were cutting trees and bamboo and picking up stones from the mountains to build houses. They were smiling every day, as if they had never seen such abundant supplies. He felt a little relieved, as these things would be enough to keep them going for a while.

When the disaster victims were gradually settled, he posted a notice to recruit workers. No matter whether they were from Tao County or new Tao County, they could compete fairly and the best ones would be selected after passing the assessment. In addition, they would build roads, shipbuilding, digging ditches, strengthening river embankments, and building city walls. Unlike previous labor service, this time the government would provide two meals a day and the labor fee would be 10 cents a day.

Not many of the disaster victims in the northwest were literate, so County Magistrate Cao specially sent people to beat gongs and read aloud.

They were worried about their livelihood, and when this timely help came, almost every household had someone sign up.

However, these are still only temporary.

County Magistrate Cao was so busy that he only slept two hours a day. Even during these two hours he had to take some time out to think about how to find a long-term livelihood for these people.

"My hair has turned white from watching the money and grain flowing out like water every day." Cao Yu sighed and found that there was no movement around him, so he reached out and poked.

Madam Cao turned over in annoyance: "Go to sleep quickly, you only need to sleep for a short while in a day, if you continue to think about random things, it will be in vain!"