Mortal Immortal Gourd

In the Zhou Dynasty, everyone thought that Sanyang County was a piece of fat meat, and they all wanted to get in here. They used all their connections to be placed in Sanyang County as officials.

Those newly placed officials spent a lot of money to use connections to get in, and now that they have taken office, they are thinking of ways to get back their money with interest.

As soon as they took office, they couldn't wait to continue to implement the previous methods, asking the tenants for food and money.

As a senior farmer, Er Gouzi instinctively loves the crops in his field from the depths of his blood.

The field is not small, and it will hurt for a long time if you step on a seedling, so how can you tolerate those officials destroying your crops.

More than a dozen teams were organized to patrol everywhere, specifically focusing on these placed officials, and chopping them off as soon as they reach out.

Gather all the evidence and submit it to the court. Even if some people want to stop it, they can only accept it openly by citing the Zhou law.

In two years, six county magistrates, eight county lieutenants, and two captains have been beheaded according to Zhou law...

As for the position of county lieutenant, almost one is killed.

There has been no suitable person, so Huang Laocai, a country bumpkin with no culture, no strength, and no fame, has to temporarily take over the position of county lieutenant.

Under Er Gouzi's severe suppression, officials like county magistrates finally behaved.

Those officials then realized that not only did they not get to eat the people's fat and blood in Sanyang County, but they were also watched by people every day, just like a little wife, and they would be beheaded if they did not do it well.

But they had a reason and evidence, and all were handled according to Zhou law.

In this day and age, the laws of Zhou Dynasty are just a decoration. Who really takes them seriously? Even the Holy Emperor Longxing almost forgot about them.

But this set of Zhou laws was formulated by the Holy Emperor Taizu, the founding emperor of Zhou Dynasty. At least on the surface, everyone must abide by them.

All Zhou people come out to make money. No one likes to work hard without making money.

So these officials stayed in the yamen every day, doing nothing, not making money, not doing anything, just waiting to be transferred away as soon as possible and make money elsewhere.

Gradually, except for a few people who continued to covet Er Gouzi's position as the county governor, no one wanted to come to Sanyang County to suffer.

Er Gouzi saw that his officials were all of such character, so he could only think of ways to cultivate his own people.

While the court was placing officials in Sanyang County, the civil and military examinations here were also resumed.

This year, Er Gouzi obtained more than a dozen Juren in the military examination of Sanyang County.

Under the auspices of the emperor, the examination of Sanyang County does not allow for advance ranking. Now the emperor is eager for talents, not those messy relationships.

Those who can pass the examination are the best in all aspects.

However, although these people pass the examination, if they want to officially serve in Sanyang County, they still have to report to the court and get approval.

Previously, Huang Laocai was appointed as the temporary county magistrate, which was not a formal official and was not recognized by the court.

Now that Huang Mancang has passed the military examination, Er Gouzi can only recommend Huang Mancang to serve as the county magistrate.

It took a lot of effort, and in the end it was the help of King Qi that got him a position as the county magistrate.

After Huang Mancang became the county magistrate, he was sent by Er Gouzi to train troops at the foot of Sheji Mountain, and all the affairs that the county magistrate should do were thrown to Huang Laocai.

Huang Laocai has become more experienced in handling things after these years of training.

Er Gouzi threw most of the affairs of the county to him, and he still focused on cultivation.

After several years of cultivation, the batch of Xuanyuan grass that he had obtained before had been refined into pills and eaten.

After eating hundreds of Xuanyuan pills, with the help of various spiritual objects such as Linggu, his cultivation level has made rapid progress.

Now his cultivation level has once again reached the middle stage of foundation building, and the sea of ​​​​Dantian has reached a width of more than 10 feet.

After the sea of ​​​​Dantian changes, every inch of increase will increase the total capacity by one point, and it can carry more mana.

I feel that my current strength is only stronger than those who are more crude in the late stage of foundation building.

On this day, a military supply officer from Qingzhou Prefecture came to Er Gouzi with a military order to ask for some military rations.

After being rejected by Er Gouzi for several years, Qingzhou was indeed short of food, so they had to lower their posture and beg.

Now Er Gouzi is not short of food. There are more than 10 million shi of food in the gourd, and 5 million shi in the warehouses of various places.

Moreover, there are a lot of food in the homes of 600,000 residents in Sanyang County.

These tenants even use the surplus food to raise some poultry and livestock. In addition to selling them for money, they can occasionally improve their meals and eat meat.

Er Gouzi's tenants have never been so rich in their lifetime.

However, he is still not happy about paying military rations.

He saw with his own eyes that Xia Ji resold military supplies with others.

He handed in the food honestly, but in the end it went into the pockets of some people.

"Mr. Xia, I'm short of money recently. I'm worried about the next meal after the last one. I really can't afford to give out food."

"Mr. Zhang, my surname is Li. I'm an official sent by the court. I have no relationship with the Xia family."

This quartermaster is actually not surnamed Xia for the first time in history, and he has no relationship with the Xia family. It's rare to see.

"Mr. Zhang, there is drought in Qingzhou again this year. Many places have no harvest. Only Sanyang County still has a good harvest."

"Can you help me hand over some food? The soldiers on the front line are already starving!"

"Some time ago, evil cultivators attacked food and grass again. Even the Zhenguo Army is starving."

"General Chen of the Zhenguo Army has personally written a letter to you."

The quartermaster said a lot of good things and also brought a letter to suppress the national army.

Speaking of the Zhenguo Army, Ergouzi's expression was inevitably moved.

It is still hard to forget the strong strength shown by the Zhenguo Army when they first met.

Moreover, the last time I was able to get rid of the charges in Daoxuan Secret Treasure and made great achievements, it was all reported to the superiors by the Zhenguo Army.

I opened the letter from General Chen and took a look at it.

General Chen did not use righteousness to suppress him, nor did he put on official airs. He just talked about old times with him.

By the way, he mentioned in the letter the various difficulties currently encountered by the Zhenguo Army and hoped that Ergouzi could help.

Judging from the contents of the letter, the quartermaster named Li is indeed not from the Xia family, but specializes in providing logistics for the Zhenguo Army.

Because the military supplies from the imperial court could not be waited for, and there was really no food available in Qingzhou, they could only come to Sanyang County to ask Ergouzi for support.

"How much food do you need?"

"The marching pill is 60 stones."

"If not, thirty stones will do."

The quartermaster surnamed Li was afraid that the figure was too high, but Ergouzi disagreed, so he took the initiative to reduce the amount.

"Okay, I'll give you 60 stone marching pills."

60 stone marching pills, the effect of which is equivalent to tens of thousands of stones of grain, is really not a big deal for today's Ergouzi, so he quickly agreed.

"Thank you so much Mr. Zhang!"

The quartermaster surnamed Li was so excited that he thanked him repeatedly. It was not easy.

During this period of time, in order to prepare food, I traveled a lot and encountered a lot of troubles.

Now that food prices are rising, people in many places have no food to eat. It is difficult to get even one or two shi, let alone 60 shi.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Qingtian, the stingiest and stingiest person in the world, could agree to 60 stones so easily.

Three days later, the quartermaster left Sanyang County with a storage bag full of marching pills.

The front line was still waiting for 놛's marching pills. 놛 did not make any publicity along the way and quietly traveled day and night to the border area.

Finally, I saw the lights of the Zhenguo Army Camp in the distance.

The quartermaster was so happy that he couldn't help but quicken his pace and walked toward the camp.

At this moment, a figure appeared behind 놛 like a ghost.

The quartermaster didn't notice it and walked forward quickly. The soldiers in the camp were still waiting for 놛's rice to be cooked.

Suddenly 놛's neck tightened, and an arm came around from behind and pinched 놛's neck tightly.

"Ho ho ho..."

The quartermaster struck back several times, but failed to touch anyone.

He wanted to use the flying sword, but found that he couldn't mobilize any mana.

He could only hold the cold hand tightly with both hands, but it was of no avail. The essence and blood in his body were still flowing rapidly to that hand.

Gradually, the quartermaster's blood ran out, his limbs lost strength, and they fell to the ground.

The black shadow threw the mummy in his hand to the ground and took off the storage bag on the body.

Just as he was about to destroy the body, he discovered that several soldiers from the Zhenguo Army had already flown in from afar.

The black shadow's body turned into a bloody light and disappeared in place.

When that group of nationalist troops came after them, they could only collect the corpses for the quartermaster on the ground...

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After Ergouzi sent away the quartermaster named Li, he didn't pay much attention to the matter.

Two months later, Sanyang County welcomed an old friend.

It was Yang Tie, the former governor of Sanyang County, who was the predecessor of 놛.

"Brother Yang꺶, why are you here?"

Er Gouzi was also very happy to see Yang Tie.

This Brother Yang has the air of an elder. He was the leader of 놛 at the beginning, and he also taught 놛 many things in officialdom.

"Alas! It's hard to explain, I've taken on a hard job."

"I have known for a long time that Brother Zhang is a good person among men. Sure enough, he has become the governor of Sanyang County so quickly, and was even praised by Emperor Longxingsheng personally for his skills as a herdsman!"

After meeting again after several years of separation, Yang Tie was filled with emotion when he saw Er Gouzi.

The young man who seemed ignorant back then was only in the early stages of Qi training. In less than ten years, his official career was prosperous and he had already climbed to the position of county guard.

Thinking of myself, I realized that I had worked hard for decades and paid a huge price to reach the position of county guard.

Sure enough, it would be good to be in the relationship with King Qi!

"Brother Zhang, I brought you a job this time."

Yang Tie said with a solemn expression.

"Sanyang County Governor Zhang Ergou accepted the order..."

Suddenly, neither Ergouzi nor Ergouzi expected that Yang Tie also brought an imperial edict to 놛.

Ergouzi had not forgotten the rules he had been taught by Yang Tie, so he quickly took out three spiritual stones and handed them to Yang Tie.

But this time Yang Tie didn't receive the spirit stone.

"Brother Zhang, this time you and I work together, and I have to rely on your help."

Ergouzi received the imperial edict and listened to Yang Tie's explanation before he learned that Yang Tie had been appointed Qingzhou Food Road.

Responsible for preparing food and grass supplies for the Qingzhou front line.

Officials like Liangdao were the most lucrative positions in the past, and they were good jobs that were hard to grab, but now that the entire Qingzhou is short of food, not many people are willing to come.

As for Er Gouzi, this time he was appointed by Emperor Longxingsheng to assist Yang Tie in transporting grain and grass, and escorted the grain and grass along the way.

This time, the imperial court ordered the two of them to ensure the food supply on the frontline battlefield.