I became a saint with idle books

Walking out of the City Lord’s Mansion, a desolate and ruined atmosphere rushed towards Chen Luo.

At the beginning of the establishment of Dongcang City, the imperial court at that time had high expectations. According to historical records, at that time, there were two great Confucians, 36 masters, 300 Confucians, and a total of 200,000 prisoners, and it took half a year to build this Dongcang City in this barren land.

“Guangya” said: In the color is pale; “Erya Shitian” Note: The East is in the sky.

Hence the name of the city “Dongcang”.

The “Kaogongji” recorded: Da Ru Ying Cang, Rong Min Million, Fang Erjiu, Pang Sanmen, Nine Meridians and Nine Latitudes, and Jing Tu Nine Tracks.

This means that when Da Ru designed this Dongcang City, he planned to accommodate a population of one million in the city, each wall was eighteen miles long, one wall opened three gates, and there were nine avenues in the city, with nine special cart tracks.

In fact, at the beginning of the founding of Dongcang City, there was indeed a brief period of glory, but it soon fell silent because of the obstruction of shipping.

The ground is paved with cyan rocks, and now it is potholed and overgrown with weeds along the roadside. Looking around, except for the official mansion that was built in advance, the rest are wooden huts built at random, and there is no layout to speak of.

Along the way, the street was empty, there were people in those wooden huts, or women, or children, or old people, everyone looked out through the gap between the door and the window looking at Chen Luo and Yun Siyao who came all the way, Chen Luo sensed his gaze and looked towards each other’s line of sight, the line of sight immediately dodged, and then blocked the gap between the door and window.

After walking for a while, he walked out of the street in front of the city lord’s mansion, and suddenly a commotion smell came. The ground was full of dry black filth, Yun Siyao couldn’t help but raise his hand to cover his mouth and nose, and Chen Luo was not in the mood to continue shopping, and suddenly there was a cry in his ears.

Following the prestige, it is a hut on the left-hand side. Chen Luo walked over with Yun Siyao, pushed open the door, and saw a four or five-year-old boy sitting on the ground crying loudly, the little boy had a chain tied to his feet, and the other end of the chain was fixed to a stone pillar. The little boy was holding half a somewhat blackened baked bun in his hand, and on the ground were several broken pieces of porcelain.

Presumably, the child accidentally smashed the porcelain bowl, and then cried in distress.

Chen Luo frowned slightly, just a few steps ahead of the mountain, the little boy saw Chen Luo and Yun Siyao, and immediately retreated in fear, covering his mouth with a pair of hands, his eyes full of unease.

Yun Siyao pulled Chen Luo and patted the small gourd pendant hanging on his earlobe, and the pendant trembled, fell to the ground, and turned into Xiao Qi.

This is a new spell that Xiao Qi doesn’t know when he comprehends and can turn himself into a small gourd pendant. In the handle of the grandfather and the earrings of the beautiful sister, Xiao Qi still chose the latter.

That little boy He had seen Xiao Qi, a little girl like this who gathered the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, his eyes were dumbfounded for a while, and he subconsciously wanted to pull his pants down to cover the iron chains on his feet.

Xiao Qi glanced at Chen Luo, immediately understood what Chen Luo meant, jumped up and walked to the little boy, took out a wrapped sugar cake from the small purse he carried, and handed it to the little boy.

The little boy hid back with some inferiority, but soon smelled the sweetness of the sugar cake again and swallowed his saliva. Xiao Qi skillfully pulled the sugar paper and handed it to the little boy, who hesitated, took the sugar cake, just licked it with his tongue, with a satisfied expression on his face, and then carefully handed the sugar cake back to Xiao Qi.

Xiao Qi took out a handkerchief from his purse, wiped the little boy’s dirty face, and shook his head to signal that he didn’t have to return it to himself.

The little boy dodged slightly, worried that he had soiled the beautiful looking handkerchief, but did not dodge, whispered thanks, carefully wrapped the sugar cake in sugar paper, and carried it into his arms.

Chen Luo raised his eyebrows: “Why don’t you eat it?” ”

The little boy looked at Chen Luo and boldly replied, “Leave it for daddy to eat.” ”

Chen Luo still wanted to ask again, but Luo Hongnu’s voice came from the door: “Gongzi…”

Chen Luo turned around, Luo Hongnu had already walked in, and Qin Fuzi followed behind him. Luo Hongnu handed the storage order to Chen Luo and said, “Gongzi, everything is done. ”

Chen Luo nodded, and looked at Qin Fuzi again, Qin Fuzi hurriedly saluted and said: “The herbs have been arranged, and the subordinates think that the uncle should want to know the current situation of Dongcang City, so he came to listen to the order before.” ”

“Good. Chen Luo said, stretching out his finger to point to the iron chain on the little boy’s feet, “What’s going on?” ”

As soon as Qin Dangguo entered the door, he knew the situation of this household, and replied: “Back to Uncle, the head of this household is called Zeng Wannian, who was injured when the brute blood beast attacked the city, and his wife was by his side to take care of him. It must have been worried that the child was running around and being bitten by the brute blood beast, so he made this decision to bind the child. ”

Chen Luo nodded, he probably also guessed like this, so he stopped studying it in detail, and said: “Let’s go, go back to the city lord’s mansion, there are some things that Qin Fuzi needs to solve for me.” ”

After speaking, he pointed to the little boy again: “Let’s take this child with you.” ”

“Whoosh! ”

……

“Uncle, there are a total of four thousand six hundred and forty-two households in Qingcang City right now, with a total of sixteen thousand three hundred and thirty-six people. This is the family register. ”

In the city lord’s mansion, Qin Dangguo handed a roll of records to Chen Luo, Chen Luo took it casually, put it aside, and asked, “In such a person?” ”

Qin Dangguo sighed: “When Dongcang City was the most populous, it was when it was first built, because a large number of people were stranded, so there was also a scale of 100,000 people. ”

“Later, the increase and decrease basically fluctuated around 20,000 people. ”

“Dongcang City is said to be a big city, but in fact, in addition to the official residence and some pre-built work, it is equivalent to building four walls on the flat ground and enclosing it. ”

“It’s nothing more than leveling the ground and laying stone bricks. ”

“The residents are generally gathered in three regions, one of which is to expand outward around the city lord’s mansion, mainly local officials and Confucianism. ”

“Then there is the east of the city, which is closest to the Qushui River, which is easy to plant, and a group of people have reclaimed wasteland there. ”

“Then there is the north of the city, twenty miles north of the city, is Daye Ridge, and they rely on Daye Ridge for their livelihood. ”

“Although they are all in the same city, Dongcang City is sparsely populated, and there are not many people coming and going on weekdays, but like three tribes of barbarians. ”

Saying this, Qin Dangguo found that the words were used inappropriately, and quickly apologized: “The words are inappropriate, Wan Anbo forgives.” ”

“It doesn’t hurt. Chen Luo waved his hand and asked again, “Talking about the situation of this attack on the city, I remember that the barbarian beast hates the Heavenly Dao, so it won’t take the initiative to attack the Heavenly Dao territory, right?” ”

Qin Dangguo quickly explained: “Uncle Ye is right. However, some of the barbarian beasts will always be impregnated by the power of the Heavenly Dao for various reasons, so they will give birth to innate impure offspring. Such a descendant is a brute blood beast. The barbarian blood beast has no spiritual intelligence, and the highest does not exceed the realm of the fourth rank, but it can travel between the Heavenly Dao and the Barbarian Heaven. ”

“The closest contact between the Barbarian Plain and my Dongcang is the Barbarian Roar Valley, which is one of the nine barbarian beast gathering places on the Barbarian Plain, and the chance of barbarian blood beasts naturally appearing is very large. ”

“Barbarian beasts don’t like the breath of barbarian blood beasts, so they often abandon barbarian blood beasts after they are born. The brute blood beasts that could survive did not dare to approach the Barbarian Roar Valley, and most of them survived in Daye Ridge. ”

“The one who invaded Dongcang City this time was the Dayeling Barbarian Blood Beast. ”

“Big Leaf Ridge? Chen Luo glanced at the specific map in the City Lord’s Mansion, and quickly found the specific location of this place on it.

Twenty miles northeast of Dongcang City, there is a north-south mountain range, which is about five hundred li wide and more than two thousand li long from the map, half in the land of heavenly path, and half under the barbarian sky.

“Brute blood beasts generally haunt the depths of Daye Ridge. According to previous years, every winter, there was a shortage of food in Daye Ridge, and there would indeed be brute blood beasts rushing out of Daye Ridge and attacking Dongcang City. But throughout the winter, there were at most seven or eight, and there were more than a dozen in the sky, but I didn’t expect that this time there were hundreds of brute blood beasts rushing out. ”

“Among them, the hunter group in the north of the city suffered the heaviest casualties, and seven or eight out of ten of the seriously injured people so far are people from that area. ”

“Fortunately, the city is big enough, and you can’t afford to hide, so after the gang of brute blood beasts made a fuss, they retreated to Daye Ridge. ”

Chen Luo frowned slightly: “Then will they come out again?” ”

Qin Fuzi paused for a moment and hesitated, “It should… No way? ”

At this time, Yun Siyao said lightly: “If something goes wrong, there will be a demon.” This time, hundreds of barbarian beasts rushed out, and something must have happened in Daye Ridge. If you do it again, it may not be impossible. ”

Chen Luo and Qin Fuzi were both silent for a moment, and Chen Luo suddenly asked, “We, don’t you have a city gate?” ”

Qin Fuzi smiled bitterly and said: “Dongcang City was established for logistics trade, and there was no danger in research and judgment at that time, so the city gate was only hastily arranged, unlike other cities that are generally equipped with formations. ”

“I don’t know when, the city gate was dismantled and sold by the people here…”

Chen Luo scratched his head with some headache, and remembered another thing.

“Wu Peizhi said before that the inhabitants of this city are sacrifices, what is going on? “To be honest, he is actually more concerned about this matter than the brute blood beast attacking the city.

Qin Dangguo hesitated slightly, and after a moment of silence, he said, “Wu Peizhi said something wrong. ”

“Uncle, when you chose Dongcang City, you must have known that Dongcang City would have barbarian power infiltrate, right? ”

Chen Luo and Yun Siyao glanced at each other and nodded.

“Actually, this is a wrestling between Barbarian and Heavenly Dao. ”

“A half-saint once came here to deduce seven days and seven nights, and finally decided that if he didn’t do anything, this area would slowly turn into a barbarian world. ”

“This is the beginning of the construction of the East Cang. ”

“Therefore, the Terran Qi Luck is needed to eliminate this infiltrated barbarian power, so although Dongcang City is abandoned, it will not be abandoned. Therefore, the former dynasty had been stationed in this city, but no one objected to the saints. ”

“That’s why my subordinates said that this is a heroic city!” ”

“It’s just that this matter is recorded in the secret file! ”

“I’m afraid the barbarians don’t know either! ”

Chen Luo’s heart sank, and he thought of the people hiding in the house one by one, thinking of the child who was locked by chains and licked a bite of sugar cake and carefully treasured it.

Along the way, everyone mentioned Dongcang with sympathy, contempt, or ridicule and incomprehension.

It’s just a broken city.

I didn’t know that there was such a task.

At this time, Chen Luo recalled that when he decided to choose Dongcang, his senior sister sent a letter to Zhulin, and the teacher quickly replied with one word – Miao!

At this time, Chen Luo understood that when he said in the court that he wanted to choose Dongcang, why the political minister and the law minister looked at his gaze with some meaning!

They believe in themselves and can bring the city back to life.

Perhaps it is precisely in this way that there is a return of eight hundred miles outside Zhongjing.

……

“Mr. Qin, I brought some grain and grass cloth this time, and I bother you to discuss with the red slaves and distribute these. However, it is not given for nothing, it is necessary to pay for work. ”

“Sweeping the streets, caring for the wounded, preparing for defense… In short, everyone should get moving. ”

“I want to see the city alive, not as lifeless as it is today. ”

“Hang Wu Peizhi’s head in the most conspicuous place, just say that he withheld the materials sent by Tianbo City and was beheaded by me. ”

“Then, issue a recruitment order! ”

Chen Luo said his orders one by one, Qin Dangguo recorded them one by one, handed over the order, and turned to leave.

At this time, Chen Luo looked at Yun Siyao, who had been sitting beside him: “Sixth Senior Sister, what kind of cultivation are you?” ”

Yun Siyao seemed to have been prepared, smiled slightly, and a shadow of five mountains and seas appeared behind him.

“If Confucian cultivation is the case…”

“Second Grade Da Ru! ”

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