Chapter 186: Poor Performance

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

The soldiers and officials of the surrounding counties and prefectures could not stop them, and in many places the whole village fled and rushed to a new life together.

Sanyang County finally managed to gather 60,000 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 medicine or spiritual grains and vegetables.

Then he went to each village and turned over the land, 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.

Due to insufficient population, the remaining land can only be abandoned for the time being.

Seeing that he still had so much land to be abandoned, Er Gouzi was so distressed that he couldn't sleep for a long time.

He even wanted to carry a hoe to plant a few acres of land himself.

But he still held back. Even if he was made of iron, he couldn't hammer a few nails. He still had to rely on the power of numbers.

Even in this situation of shortage of people, 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 hadn't offered a high price, people would have been scared away.

After waiting anxiously, Huang Mancang finally came back.

This time, the Holy Emperor Longxing did not issue an edict, but only replied to his memorial with a few words.

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

Er Gouzi and the Huang family father and son stared at the short line of words, not knowing what the Holy Emperor Longxing meant.

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

This reply was very vague. On the surface, he could decide whether to pay taxes or to provide civilians.

Of course, Er Gouzi didn't want to pay a grain or half a person.

But without the clear intention of the Holy Emperor Longxing, the prefecture would not approve it and would still urge him to pay grain and people.

After reading it for a long time, I still couldn't understand it. I could only sigh that the emperor's heart was unpredictable.

Sure enough, in the following 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 march pills were collected from Sanyang County.

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

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

In short, there were many reasons, and people came to Sanyang County every now and then to ask for money, which made people very annoyed.

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

In fact, he didn't have to be the governor. At most, he would be dismissed and go back to farm.

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

When this man first came, he was arrogant. Huang Laocai received him, but he was still picky.

Er Gouzi instructed Huang Laocai to place the people in a remote small house without providing any food.

The envoy was furious and threw things and cursed for several days, but he couldn'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 couldn't see the shadow of Er Gouzi.

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

No matter how you toss, I won't cooperate anyway. If you have the ability, go to the emperor to complain and dismiss me.

Anyway, he could have made his own decision in the reply of Emperor Longxing Sheng.

With a small official position, Xia Mingyuan couldn't directly dismiss Er Gouzi, let alone punish him and kill him.

It must be reported to the court and approved.

Er Gouzi has been hiding in Shekou Mountain for a while. In addition to daily cultivation, he has been replenishing the spiritual energy of 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 there was no time to take them out.

As his cultivation strength improved and his control ability became stronger, the spiritual stones 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 until now, he has activated it at least five or six hundred times.

If it weren't for his gourd that could replenish spiritual energy, it would be equivalent to using 50,000 or 60,000 spiritual stones.

However, there is a reward for hard work.

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

The rocks that originally looked ordinary and could be knocked open by mortals are now absorbing spiritual energy and their quality is slowly changing.

Now the hardness of the stones on Shekou Mountain is almost the same as ordinary steel, and it is difficult to knock.

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

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

He had previously refined the jade floor with the blood refining method and mastered the core of the formation of Shekou Mountain.

Now it is relatively easier to refine it further.

After refining for a period of time, Er Gouzi can now use his spiritual sense to sense the existence of the magic weapon of Shekou Mountain.

As for mobilizing the magic weapon, he dare not try it now.

There are two necessary conditions for mobilizing a magic weapon, one is a strong spiritual sense, and the second is a strong mana.

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 consuming mana, you can't be opportunistic, and you don't have enough strength. If you use mana to activate the magic weapon without authorization, you might be sucked into someone else.

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 profusely in the ground.

He only had one Yushan, and Yushan was needed to work on both Hululi and Shekou Mountain, so he had to alternate between the two.

"Hasan, don't move!"

As soon as Ergouzi finished speaking, Yushan had disappeared from the top of the mountain and was taken 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 is almost done. 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."

"Sorry, my duties are to farm, train troops, and serve as herders for the emperor...

Among all the duties, receiving guests is not included. "

Ergouzi has decided to lie down now, but he doesn't like this guy.

"This time I brought General Xia's military order, ordering you to prepare 100,000 stones of military rations and 800 civilian men. There must be no mistakes."

Xia Ji said, took out another military order 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 military order, there must be no mistake!"

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

"Listen clearly, I said no!"

Ergouzi still answered simply, not wanting to waste time with him.

"I'm not blind. Now is the autumn harvest season. Your Sanyang County can harvest at least 3 million shi of grain this year."

"Also, in the past six months, you have sucked the population of surrounding counties dry, causing the fields in other counties to be 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 are none?"

Xia Ji was so angry that he 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 memorial approved by Emperor Longxing Sheng in front of Xia Ji.

"Wise and wise, with literary and martial arts skills, virtue spread to all people, long life without borders, the supreme emperor Longxing Sheng has the will.

I can decide at my own discretion whether to hand it over or not. "

"Okay! If you dare, just wait for Mr. Xia to punish you!"

Xia Ji struggled for several months without getting a grain of food, so he could only say harsh words and leave angrily.

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