On the morning of the second day after the locust plague broke out, after the locust swarms in Yang's nine counties were under control, Yang sent his disciples to carry out a large-scale clearing of the locust swarms in the wilderness.
By the third day, the locust swarms in Yang's nine counties had been basically eliminated, making Yuzhou the first force to get rid of the locust plague, and the entire cultivation world.
Among them, green-winged ducks, yellow-bellied golden pheasants and other poultry beasts have played a huge role. With these beast-like giant locusts as food rations, this year's green-winged ducks and yellow-bellied golden pheasants will also be fatter and more delicious.
In three days, Yang's losses due to the locust plague were roughly estimated. All Lingtian's Linggu has basically been harvested, but because it has not yet reached full maturity, the final output is 10% less than in previous years.
When the news came out, the entire Yang family not only did not feel depressed, but everyone looked happy, even happier than in previous good harvest years.
Because news of the disaster in various counties in Yuzhou has been constantly reaching the Yang family in the past two days. From this news, it can be seen that very few other counties in Yuzhou have only maintained 50% of their harvests.
In the entire Yuzhou, only the spiritual fields near the various factions were able to maintain 50% to 60% of the harvest, but this was because of the presence of real-world monks and sect formations.
It would be good if the other counties and towns under each faction could maintain 30% to 40% of the harvest, and the Yang family in Xishan suddenly became unique in the entire Yuzhou.
For this reason, all factions in Yuzhou secretly regretted that they did not follow the advice of the Yang family and make preparations in advance. The spiritual power boom period has not really come yet, but it has been hit hard. This year, let alone raising the domestic grain tax, in order to stabilize people's hearts, it will have to use the treasury to subsidize part of it.
Although the locusts in Yang's nine counties have been basically eliminated, the Yang family's Baiyi Hall, Bingzhan Hall, Farming Hall, and Gongzao Hall are still very busy.
The Yang family was able to eliminate the locusts so quickly. On the one hand, the Yang family was well prepared. On the other hand, it was the promotion and application of Yijin Formation and Locust Spirit Powder. Finally, it was the Yang family's spirit duck army.
The supply of Yijin Formation and Locust Spirit Powder currently produced by the Yang family is in short supply. Various factions in Yuzhou have sent people to purchase them, and at the same time, they all requested to rent green-winged ducks to exterminate the locusts.
The Yang family easily received a large amount of jade coins. At the same time, the Yang family's military war hall formed a locust extermination team and was invited to go to Yuzhou to assist various factions in exterminating the locusts.
In this battle to eliminate locusts, the Yang family can be said to have gained both fame and fortune. After a few days of this, with the strong assistance of the Yang family, Yuzhou became one of the first major states in the cultivation world to control the locust plague, although its strength was low.
The losses in spiritual valleys of various subordinate sects in Yuzhou have also been calculated. For example, due to their strong strength, Shaking Tian Sect and the four Yuzhou sects have barely maintained 50% of their cultivation base in previous years.
As for the remaining small sects, the harvest was only 30 to 40% of previous years, and the price of spiritual grain in the entire Yuzhou suddenly doubled. This was the result of the Yang family's timely supply of a large amount of spiritual grain at an underpriced price.
The Yang family already has a good reputation in Yuzhou, and their performance during the huge locust plague has greatly improved the prestige of the Yang family in Yuzhou. Now, which spiritual farmer in any village or town in Yuzhou does not envy the spiritual farmers under the Yang family? Farmers.
Faced with such a severe locust plague, various factions in Yuzhou have reduced or reduced taxes on their subordinate villages and towns, but the Shaotian Sect only reduced the food tax by one-third.
As soon as the news came out, the entire Yu County except Chenyu County howled. A hundred years ago, when the Shaking Sky Sect supported Master Yi Deng in his attack on the Dao Realm, due to a hundred years of recuperation, the Shaking Sky Sect had accumulated some wealth and did not levy more taxes on its subordinate counties and towns.
However, after the death of Master Yi Deng and the second time Shaantian Sect supported Master Yanshan in his attack on the Dao Realm, they had to increase the tax collection from subordinate counties and towns.
Ten years ago, when Master Yanshan failed to break through to the Dao realm for the first time, Shaking Tianzong supported Master Yanshan to break through to the Dao realm three times, and had no choice but to squeeze and exploit the families in the subordinate counties and towns.
But because of the 10% tax that the Yang family pays to the Shaking Heaven Sect every year, although the subordinate spiritual farmers cannot bear the oppression, they are not unable to make ends meet.
However, in the face of such a huge locust plague this time, the grain tax of Shaking Tian Sect was only reduced by 10%, which forced the subordinate spiritual cultivators to die.
Faced with the oppression of the Shaking Sky Sect, the five counties and one county in Yu County, ranging from the wealthy family Wangmen to the ordinary spiritual farmers, showed great resistance.
The Shaking Sky Sect then announced the standards for recruiting outer and inner disciples. For example, the standards for outer disciples were determined based on the completion of each village's food tax collection.
The smaller the harvest in a village that pays the full grain tax, the better the performance of the village leader will be, the higher the loyalty to the Shaking Sky Sect, and the greater the chance of being promoted to deputy guard.
At the same time, for the children of the powerful families in the counties who are members of the Shaking Sky Sect, the better the grain tax revenue of the county or town controlled by their family, the greater their room for advancement.
Since the Yuzhou War, the Shaking Sky Sect has shrunk its forces in Shaking Sky Peak in order to prevent the sect's enemies. The position of magistrate of each county is held by powerful people in each county, and the town code of each town is held by prominent families. Hundreds of years have passed, and these counties and towns have been controlled by powerful families.
As soon as this order came out, all the wealthy and distinguished families in Yu County changed their previous rejection and sent their family members to collect grain taxes one after another, and expressed their loyalty to the Shaking Sky Sect.
Various forced harvest scenes were staged in various counties in Yu County from time to time. Some elderly spiritual cultivators and monks fell into decline because they did not have enough spiritual grain, and some became tenant farmers because they could not collect enough spiritual grain to sell their spiritual fields.
The entire Yu County, except for Chenyu County, suddenly burst into flames.
"Uncle, I am afraid that this move will make our Shaking Sky Sect lose all their hearts, and the Yang family..." Shaking Sky Peak, the sect's main hall, Master Yushu looked at the situation in each county summarized by the counties, with an ugly expression. Facing the white-haired Master Lu.
"Hey, this move is also a helpless move. Your uncle Yanshan has reached a critical moment, and you must not fall short!" Master Lu looked at Master Yushu who was hesitant to speak, and then spoke again: "It doesn't matter, wait until those The rich and famous families have lost people's hearts, and I, the Shaking Heaven Sect, come out to appease people's hearts again. The Yuzhou War has been over for hundreds of years, and these rich and famous families have also become fatter, and it's time to kill one or two of them. Huh, I really thought that they had nothing to do with Yuzhou. The various sects in the state can hide their secrets from me, Shaking Heaven Sect, and it’s just that the time has not come yet!” When Master Lu said this, his eyes lit up, and he looked like he was about to die.
"It has to be this way!" Master Yushu also sighed, obviously knowing how the Shaking Sky Sect survived the difficult years a thousand years ago.
It’s just that Master Yushu is still frowning. In order to support Yi Deng and Yan Shan to advance to the Taoist realm, people within Shaotian Sect are now divided.
Now, because of the grain tax issue, the lower-level spiritual farmers have become angry and resentful. If he attacks the wealthy families in various counties again, he will really offend everyone inside and outside the Shaotian Sect.
Once Master Yanshan's attack fails, the Shaking Sky Sect will once again be in a critical situation. And this time the enemy is not only external, but the greater hidden danger is the scattered hearts and minds within, and more importantly, the increasingly powerful Yang family.
Although the Yang family is still submissive, their strong strength and outstanding virtue still make Yushu real person sleepless and sleepless.
"Junior Brother Yanshan will definitely succeed!" Master Lu looked determined, as if he was a gambler who had already put everything on his back.
What Master Yushu can see, Master Lu can also see. But now, neither he nor Shaotian Sect has any way out and must go on.
The cultivation world was originally rejoicing that it was about to enter a period of spiritual prosperity, but a huge locust plague that almost swept the entire cultivation world gave the entire cultivation world a blow.
Soon this matter was learned by the Taoist masters of Lingxiao Palace. The loss of the spiritual valley was nothing more, but there were signs of demonization on these giant locusts. For those who were qualified to enter and exit the territory, they knew that this demonic beast was Differences from ferocious beasts.
If the giant locust demon that appears in the cultivation world is still specious, what appears in the overseas cultivation world is a real monster, or more accurately, a demon clan.
The overseas cultivation world was least affected by the ban on heaven and earth, and was at the forefront of the eight continental states when spiritual power was revived.
When locust plagues broke out in eight states on the mainland, a large-scale beast wave broke out overseas at the same time.
Thanks to the cultivation community's development of the distant sea cultivation community in recent years, not only have a large number of barbarian and wild-level sea beasts been eliminated, but the strength of the overseas cultivation community has also improved a lot.
A large-scale beast tide broke out, and although some real-person forces were wiped out, in the end the overseas cultivation community successfully resisted the beast tide and gained huge gains.
But this is only temporary. Those who can enter and exit the territory know how huge the power of the demon clan outside the territory is.
Nowadays, the ferocious beasts in the cultivation world have not yet become demonized at the beginning, but if they continue to develop and take advantage of the period of spiritual power prosperity, this will be a huge disaster for the cultivation world!
The Huangting realm monks in the Lingxiao Palace may not yet know the meaning of the demonization of ferocious beasts in the cultivation world, but the immortals in the Immortal Palace already have a bold guess in their minds.
It has taken thousands of years for the immortals in the Immortal Palace to become immortals, and they have also been wandering outside the realm for thousands of years, so they naturally know about the transformation of the starry sky into the world.
Thinking back to the sect's classics, it was recorded that the astral world was transformed into a world due to the Jiu Ren Patriarch breaking the sky five thousand years ago. Now that the five thousand year period is approaching, could it be possible?
. . . . In response to this, the immortals in the Immortal Palace just replied to wait and see what happens, but then they all left the Immortal Palace in a hurry, gathering their disciples and grandchildren to arrange affairs.
Although sects and wanderings are two different streams, if they are in the world world, they still put their own interests first. Naturally, the Four Immortals of Youli also heard this. Although the Youli lineage is the strongest now, they know the least about these secrets.
And the preparations for the world world are the least, after all, there were only four immortals in the free lineage hundreds of years ago.
In this regard, Tianling Immortal Lord just let them practice in peace, and there was no need to take care of the rest. He would arrange it himself.
After receiving the words of Tianling Immortal, the Four Free Immortals were slightly relieved. After all, Tianling Immortal had won their trust and respect with his planning strength time and time again.
