Mortal Immortal Gourd

Since the high price of one stone per person for resettlement was offered, a large number of people have been pouring into Sanyang County every day.

The soldiers of the surrounding counties and prefectures tried to stop them, and many villages fled and rushed to a new life together.

Sanyang County finally managed to gather a population of 10,000 people in time for the spring plowing.

In order to cultivate as much land as possible, Er Gouzi made ten iron bulls that were driven by spiritual stones.

He asked his men to take the iron bulls and first plow all the spiritual fields, and then plant spiritual medicines or spiritual grains and vegetables.

Then he went to each village and turned the soil over, and the rest of the work was much easier.

With the help of these iron bulls, one-third of the land in the county was finally cultivated.

The population was sufficient, and the remaining land was temporarily abandoned.

Seeing that he still had so much land to waste, Er Gouzi was so distressed that he slept for a long time.

He even hated to carry a hoe to plant a few acres.

But he still held back. Even if he was made of iron, he would still have a few nails. He still had to rely on the strength of numbers.

Even in this situation of lack of manpower, Qingzhou Prefecture sent people to him to ask for a batch of civilians.

In just a few months, they had asked for civilians twice.

If Er Gouzi had offered a high price, people would have been scared away.

After waiting for a long time, Huang Mancang finally came back.

This time, Emperor Longxing Sheng did not issue an edict, but only approved his memorial with a few words.

"When hiring people, you can decide at your own discretion."

Er Gouzi and the Huang family father and son stared at the short line of words together, and they knew what the Holy Emperor Longxing meant.

He didn't say to exempt him, nor did he say to let him pay, and let him decide at his own discretion.

This reply was very vague. On the surface, he could decide by himself, whether to pay taxes or to send people.

Er Gouzi certainly didn't want to pay a grain or half a person.

But without the clear intention of the Holy Emperor Longxing, the prefecture would recognize it and would still urge him to pay grain and people.

I didn't understand it after reading it for a long time, and I could only sigh that the emperor was unpredictable.

Sure enough, in the next period of time, Qingzhou Prefecture collected a lot of things from Sanyang County every now and then.

The war in front was tense, and a batch of marching clothes were collected from Sanyang County.

The wall of Qingzhou Prefecture was broken, so Sanyang County was asked to contribute money and labor.

Xia Mingyuan wanted to train soldiers, so Sanyang County was asked to contribute spiritual stones and spiritual herbs...

There were so many reasons, and people came to Sanyang County to ask for money every now and then, which was annoying.

Later one day, Er Gouzi suddenly figured it out. All the causes and consequences were because he became the governor of Sanyang County.

In fact, he was not a governor in the right and wrong. When he grew up, he was dismissed and went back to farming.

A few days later, an envoy from the Qingzhou Prefecture government came.

When this person first came, he was arrogant. Huang Laocai received him, but he was also picky.

Er Gouzi instructed Huang Laocai to place people in a remote small house and not provide any food.

The envoy was furious and threw things and cursed for several days, but he didn't even see Er Gouzi.

After being left there for a month, the envoy finally became honest and looked for Huang Laocai all day, using both soft and hard methods to ask to see Er Gouzi.

But Huang Laocai was also a shrewd man. No matter what you said, he would smile and agree to it in person, but he would do what he should do behind the scenes.

In this way, the envoy spent more than a month, but still didn't see Er Gouzi.

Since Er Gouzi figured it out, he decided to break the jar and lie down.

No matter how you toss, I will cooperate anyway. If you have the ability, go to the emperor to complain and give me up.

Anyway, in the reply of Emperor Longxing Sheng, he was allowed to make his own decision.

With a minor official position, Xia Mingyuan would directly dismiss Er Gouzi from office, and even more directly punish him and execute him.

He must report to the court and get approval.

Er Gouzi has been hiding in Shekou Mountain for a while. In addition to practicing every day, he replenishes the spiritual energy of the magic weapon Shekou Mountain.

In the past, every time he activated the formation to replenish spiritual energy, most of the spiritual stones would be exhausted and turned into powder because of the lack of time to take them out.

As his cultivation strength improved and his control became stronger, the spiritual stones he lost each time became less and less.

Every time he activated the formation, he had to use 100 spiritual stones, and the spiritual energy of Shekou Mountain would increase a little bit.

He activated the formation several times a day, and up to now, he had activated it at least five hundred times.

If his gourd was not enough to replenish the spiritual energy, it would be equivalent to using up 50,000 spiritual stones.

However, hard work pays off.

Now the interior of Shekou Mountain is full of spiritual energy.

Originally, it looked very ordinary, and mortals could not knock the rocks open with force. Now, as it absorbs spiritual energy, the quality is slowly changing.

Now the hardness of the stones on Shekou Mountain is much different from ordinary steel, and it is difficult to knock.

And as the supplementary spiritual energy is absorbed, this quality is still slowly improving.

While repairing this magic weapon, he is also trying to refine Shekou Mountain.

He has already refined the jade plate with blood refining and mastered the Shekou Mountain array core.

Now it is relatively easier to refine it further.

After refining for a period of time, Er Gouzi has now sensed the existence of the magic weapon Shekou Mountain with his spiritual sense.

As for mobilizing the magic weapon, he still dared not try it.

There are two necessary conditions for mobilizing a magic weapon, one is a strong spiritual consciousness, and the other is a strong magic power.

Due to the special nature of Shekou Mountain, having a weapon spirit like Chang Ling'er requires slightly less spiritual consciousness.

But when it comes to mana consumption, you can't be opportunistic. If you don't have enough strength, you can use mana to activate the magic weapon without authorization. If you do it well, you will be sucked.

It’s better to save more mana and try again.

On this day, Ergouzi came out of the cave at the foot of the mountain and walked to the top of the mountain. Yushan was still sweating like rain.

He only has one Yushan. Both Hululi and Shekou Mountain need Yushan to work, but he has to alternate between them.

"Hasan, don't move!"

As soon as Ergouzi finished speaking, Yushan had disappeared from the top of the mountain and was collected into the gourd.

After taking Yushan in, Ergouzi rode the goose and flew towards the county town.

The envoy from Qingzhou Prefecture has been waiting for several months, and it is much worse. He plans to go and have a look.

When they arrived at the Qingzhou government office, the envoy quickly came to the door.

It turned out to be Xia Ji, an old acquaintance. This guy had been tortured for several months, and when he saw Er Gouzi, he still looked arrogant.

"County Commander Zhang, you are derelict in your duty by hiding like this and not seeing others."

"I'm sorry, my duties are to farm, train troops, and be a herdsman for the emperor...

Among all the duties, one does not include picking up guests. "

Ergouzi has now decided to lie down and spoil this guy.

"I brought General Xia with me this time. I ordered you to prepare 100,000 shi of military rations and 800 civilians. The order was wrong."

Xia Ji said, took out a copy of the army and opened it in front of Er Gouzi.

"No!"

Ergouzi didn't even look at it, and replied coldly with two words.

"See clearly, this is General Xia's army, there is a mistake!"

Xia Ji was stunned and almost thought he heard wrongly. He didn't expect that a mere county guard would dare to disobey Commander Xia.

"Listen clearly, I said no!"

Ergouzi still answered simply and simply, wanting to waste time with him.

"I am blind. It is the autumn harvest season now. Your Sanyang County will harvest at least 3 million shi of grain this year."

"Also, in the past six months, you have drained the population of surrounding counties and counties, causing other counties and counties to have their fields abandoned. You have at least a hundred thousand people here."

"Now we only have 100,000 shi of grain and 800 people. Do you think there is none?"

Xia Ji was furious and slapped the table hard. He was talking nonsense with his eyes open.

"You are wrong. Sanyang County has just suffered a major disaster. There are not many people and there is no food."

Ergouzi shook his head and placed the copy of the memorial approved by Emperor Longxing Sheng in front of Xia Ji.

"Wise and wise, civilized and martial arts, virtuous to the common people, long life without borders, the supreme emperor Longxing Sheng has the purpose.

The payment is made at our sole discretion. "

"Okay! If you have the guts, just wait for Mr. Xia to punish you!"

Xia Ji struggled for several months without getting a grain of food, so he just left with harsh words and angrily left.

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