Touch~
In the river, the sailors at the helm found an inlet nearby, where the current was relatively calm, and stopped the ship.
The edge of the boat made a soft sound as it hit the shore.
Yang Si and others disembarked.
The group of people walked directly towards the government servants, women and children who were harvesting crops.
Yang Si looked at the golden waves surging around him. This should be the joy of the harvest season, but now it seemed a little strange.
Soon, Yang Si and his party approached.
Yang Si noticed that, except for some of the government servants who were still young and strong, the rest of the harvesters were old, young, women and children.
There are very few even younger women.
Yang Si looked confused, where are those young men?
Just ask and you'll find out.
Then Yang Si took Chu Yi, Zhang Yuan and others to a farmland nearby.
In this farmland, there is an old woman who looks like she has white hair, and she is harvesting grain with a little child who is babbling and walking brightly.
It can be seen that the old lady is very tired, but she is still gritting her teeth and persisting.
The little kid who was babbling tried to help, but he couldn't even pick up a sickle.
However, there was a young man in government uniform in the field, helping diligently.
"Hello."
Yang Si spoke.
Brush~
The yamen servant who was immersed in his work raised his head warily. Just now, he had been immersed in his work and did not notice the arrival of Yang Si and others.
"Who are you?" The officer looked at Yang Si and others in surprise.
"Are you from the Divine Catching Division?" At this time, the officer noticed the clothes of Zhang Yuan and others behind Yang Si.
The costumes of the Great Xia God are uniform across the country.
The yamen officer was a little surprised: "Your Chief of Police is not arresting the demon monk now, why are you here?"
Hearing this, Yang Si frowned: "Monk?"
Why are you related to the monk again? Yang Si frowned, why don't these monks do any good things?
At this time, the sound here also attracted the attention of others.
The magistrate of Jiangbei County, Chen Tong, raised his head and was slightly startled when he saw Yang Si and others.
Silver medal agent? Three? Xiao Cheng and Yang Huai were originally silver medal agents, but after successfully breaking through the six realms with the breakthrough pill given by Yang Si, they were promoted to silver medals.
In fact, second-rate masters can be promoted to silver medals as long as they have enough merits. However, Xiao Cheng and Yang Huai had basically no major merits before, so naturally they were not promoted.
However, in the Divine Catcher Division, you can also receive meritorious service awards as your strength increases. If you stay in the Divine Catcher Division all the time, even if you do nothing, if your strength rises from the third realm to the sixth realm, the commendations and meritorious deeds for the improved realm alone will be enough to upgrade you to a silver medal. The catch is fast.
Similar to Xiao Cheng and Yang Huai now, they were both third-rate warriors who joined the Divine Catching Division when they were in the second and third realms.
This is also the reason why most of the silver medal agents are from the Sixth Realm.
Because there are really many agents in the God Catching Division, and they are also quite complicated.
After all, every meritorious service is linked to one's own reward official position.
Jiangbei County Magistrate Chen Tong couldn't help but look happy when he saw the three silver-medal detectives. The most powerful person in the Jiangbei County Sheriff's Department was just a silver-medal detective.
No need to think that it was definitely someone from above.
Calculating the time, if the information can be delivered in time, we should definitely arrive by taking the waterway down the river.
Chen Tong immediately put down the sickle in his hand and trotted over with a look of surprise on his face.
"My lords, I have finally waited for you." Chen Tong shouted in surprise as he jogged.
Yang Si and others noticed the man in commoner clothes, and thought he was just an ordinary farmer based on his clothes, plus the way Chen Tong was dressed now.
Yang Si and others were still a little confused about who this was.
The young government official in the field said respectfully: "Your Majesty the County Magistrate."
Aha? Yang Si and others were stunned. Is this guy a county magistrate?
However, even the county magistrate came out to help collect grain, which shows that the situation here is quite serious.
At this time, Chen Tong had already run in front of Yang Si.
"I am the magistrate of Jiangbei County. Chen Tong has met all of you." Chen Tong bowed respectfully.
"My lords, I'm from Chang'an." Chen Tong looked at Yang Si.
Although Yang Si was very young, the three silver medal agents from the Detective Division were following behind him. It was obvious that this young man should be the one to make the decision.
"That's right, we came from Chang'an." Yang Si nodded slightly.
Then Yang Si looked at Chen Tong, who looked like a complete old farmer: "Are you really the county magistrate?"
"Ahem, I brought my subordinates to help collect food for two days." At this point, Chen Tong's tone was inexplicably sad.
Although he has led all the county officials out to help collect, the manpower is really limited, and it is only a drop in the bucket.
"You do it yourself, and no one can say anything to you." Yang Si nodded slightly: "Can you tell me the specific situation? Why is there no such thing as a young man?"
Although the South China Sea is not peaceful now, it is basically at sea, and there is no need to recruit any labor from the private sector.
The Western Territory is currently at war with the Three Holy Kingdoms, and some young and middle-aged civilians have been recruited as civilian husbands to help transport grain and grass.
But now because it is the autumn harvest season, there are not many civilians recruited in the western border, so it will be no problem if they can maintain the basic food and grass transportation for the army.
And in the South China Sea, have there been any recruitment of civilians, these young and strong people?
"Those young people are busy eating fast and chanting Buddha's name."
At this time, the old woman in the farmland straightened up and said in a complaining tone.
"Eating fast and chanting Buddha's name?" Yang Si was stunned for a moment.
"What is the specific situation? And what did he say about the demon monk just now? Are the people from the Divine Catcher Division hunting him?"
Chen Tong's expression darkened: "Yes, a group of demonic monks."
"I don't know when it started. There are a lot more monks in the county here in Nanhai."
"Because it is adjacent to the Buddhist Kingdom, there are actually many monks in Yicheng."
"So no one cares about it, and there are also many people who believe in Buddhism in Yicheng."
Chen Tong gritted his teeth: "At first, no one cared."
"Until, as the autumn harvest approaches, some young and strong people come out to harvest food."
"No one noticed anything unusual until they noticed that the crops were getting more mature and some even fell into the fields."
"That's when I noticed that the crops in many fertile fields were already ripe, but no people came out to harvest them."
"Then I asked people to go down and visit, and I found that all the people in those villages were gathering in groups to burn incense and worship Buddha."
"They are like crazy." When Chen Tong said this, there was a trace of fear in his eyes.
"No matter whether they are men, women, old or young, they all have a look of fanaticism in their eyes, and they don't care about anything."
Yang Si frowned.
Monk!
A monk again?
"Yicheng is adjacent to the Buddhist country, and there are many Buddhists, but they have never been so enthusiastic." Chen Tong said.
"What happened to the demon monk mentioned earlier?" Yang Si continued to ask.
"Among those monks, there was a group of monks who traveled throughout the South China Sea to preach. Every village they passed through, the villagers all became like that."
Chen Tong said.
