Three months later, it was as if there was some kind of festive day in Qing Ning Valley.
Although only a few buildings have just been built on the main peak of Qingning Valley, the main hall that has just been built is crowded with people, and it is even more lively than the Chinese New Year.
Xie Puzong stood outside the hall with a glowing face, welcoming waves of leaders from various surrounding sects.
After everyone was seated, they waited patiently for half a day. Suddenly there was thunder and lightning and strong winds. If it weren't for the Nascent Soul-level protective formation, this sudden strong wind might have knocked everyone over.
However, the strong wind came and went quickly, and soon disappeared, replaced by two mysterious lights, one white and one black, rotating outside the protective formation. Moreover, at the same time, there was a fairy-like singing voice:
"The day is so short, a hundred years are full in a blink of an eye. The sky is vast, and the Tai Chi is flowing."
As soon as Xie Puzong saw the vision of heaven and earth and the singing, he didn't know that the real owner had arrived. He quickly opened the protective formation and greeted him out of the hall with great courtesy, saying loudly: "Welcome to the high cultivator!"
As soon as Jie Puzong finished speaking, the black and white Taoist figure suddenly appeared in front of him.
As soon as the black and white Taoist appeared, he held Xie Puzong up and smiled very kindly and said politely:
"I passed by here recently and saw how peaceful your sect was, so I got some insights from my heart. I was so blessed that I wanted to use your precious land to do a small dipping ceremony. I wonder if it would hinder the sect's operations?"
Jie Puzonglian said he did not dare and respectfully led the black and white Taoist priests into the main hall.
Now that everyone involved saw the relationship between Jie Puzong and Taoist Black and White, all kinds of weird looks appeared on everyone's face.
Taoist Black and White didn't care about the thoughts of the people below. He stood on the altar that Jie Puzong had prepared for him as if he was really here to do something. With a slight tap, he officially started to practice.
As for Qian Yunsheng here, since he knew that Taoist Black and White was coming to perform rituals to help Qingning Valley eliminate disasters, he was naturally happy to hide out long ago.
He was leisurely hiding in Yunmeng City, listening to Gong Xiaoyuehui's report: "In the past few months, as the monks from the south have turned around, some of the abandoned mortals have finally begun to panic."
"In addition, the food and spiritual stones they carry are limited, living in the city is expensive, and it is not safe outside the city. When all the factions were there before, the wild beasts still knew how to restrain themselves."
"But during this period, as the number of monks has gradually decreased, some bold beasts have begun to come out and move around. Just yesterday, three lives were injured."
Qian Yunsheng smiled slightly and said: "I arranged for them to gradually transform the volcanic magma land and plant wild vines. Now they have achieved some initial results. As more land is sorted out, you can continue to absorb the population. , transferred in one after another."
"But you still continue to describe the conditions as harsh. What we want are people who will be grateful after being taken in by us, not duplicitous traitors."
"Yes!" Gong Xiaoyue knew that Qian Yunsheng was upset by Wujizi's incident, so she complained like this.
She simply stopped mentioning such things to him, and instead said in a different tone: "Since this period of time, we have relocated 130,000 mortals from Qing Ning Valley, as well as two people recruited on the spot. One hundred thousand mortals were transported into the New Qingning Valley."
"As a result, plus our population in the six counties of Qingning Valley in Zhongzhou, the number of people has returned to the state of about 600,000 in Qingning Valley back then."
Upon hearing this, Qian Yunsheng nodded silently and thought secretly:
"I didn't expect that Qingning Valley just sold some counties, and directly sold a population of 200,000. This is equivalent to selling dozens of monks this year. No wonder those people came to buy the county and it was so crowded. Headed off."
"But fortunately, a population of 200,000 has been admitted here. Although the level of loyalty cannot be the same as that of Zhongzhou, it is beneficial to us."
"Because for us, what we need is not those who were originally loyal to Qing Ning Valley, but these new people who are loyal to New Qing Ning Valley."
Just as Qian Yunsheng was thinking this, he listened to Gong Xiaoyue continue to report: "The focus of the next period of time will be the second batch of people from Qing Ning Valley from the south, as well as the continued recruitment of refugees."
"Although there are only 20,000 people in this group who are willing to move south, according to Xiaoyue's estimation, there are only six counties in Zhongzhou now, with many people and little land. There will inevitably be people who are willing to move south because the population density is too high and their lives are unsatisfactory. Migrated south.”
Qian Yunsheng nodded and said: "Xie Puzong and Sha Baili have already made an agreement with Wujizi. They will allocate a large piece of land here for Wujizi's family in exchange for 30,000 people from Wujizi's family going south. "
"With the leadership of the Wujizi family, more people will be interested."
"In this way, I estimate that Zhongzhou will eventually return to the size of a county of about 20 to 30 thousand people. By then, the tense relationship between people and place will return to normal."
Gong Xiaoyue took the abacus and calculated, and said with a smile: "In this way, plus the refugees we continue to recruit, the total population of our New Qingning Valley will reach 800,000 in the end. It can hit the million mark."
Qian Yunsheng smiled and shook his head: "There is no need to be in such a hurry. If the population grows too fast, your food and supplies will also have problems."
"Anyway, you recruit refugees according to the progress of purchasing food and supplies, and we will continue to serve those soup kitchens. Let these people live a hard life, and they will only be more grateful to us in the future."
After finishing speaking, he also started to count with his fingers: "I did a simple calculation. As the farmland in Xinqingning Valley begins to be sorted out for farming, in this first year, we still have to bear the food expenses of the entire population. .”
"In the second year, as we started to have harvests, we still had to cover half of the population's food expenses."
"Only in the third year can we basically start to be self-sufficient and even have a slight surplus."
Gong Xiaoyue was about to mention this matter, so she pouted and said: "Uncle Master, if you don't mention it, Xiaoyue will show her hands to Uncle Master!"
"Originally, Xiaoyue was quite confident that I could complete the task given to me by my uncle. But the previous one was about preparing to connect to the small world of Huangquan, which increased the budget a lot. Now it is added that you are about to go deep into Nanman , which adds a lot of additional expenses.”
"Especially the teleportation altars and puppets that you have listed to be refined. Many of the materials required are extremely remote, and the time requirements are tight, so Xiaoyue had no choice but to pay a high price for them."
"In this case, coupled with the food and drink expenses of so many people, our Geng Gold Mine alone cannot support it. If uncle Shi doesn't find a way, Xiaoyue will not be able to produce so much food."
Qian Yunsheng also knew that he had spent a lot of money recently in order to go deep into the southern barbarians. When Gong Xiaoyue said this, he suddenly laughed and said to himself: "Can this ability of crying about poverty be contagious?"
Like Hai Lanzhu, he had to take out the Wsha Stone in a mysterious manner and said, "How many spiritual stones do you estimate you can sell for this thing?"
Gong Xiaoyue took the Wusa stone and looked at it carefully, then said in deep thought: "This thing is commonly used in the market. Its nature is cold, but it is a commonly used stone in the earth and fire chambers, ice caves and even some stone chambers. .”
"If the quantity is small, like this one, I estimate that I can sell ten spiritual stones. If the quantity is huge, I estimate that I can sell almost eight spiritual stones."
Qian Yunsheng calculated in his mind, nodded and said, "It's about the same price as the same weight of fine spiritual rice."
After saying that, he took out a cave magic weapon that could only accommodate one person. He got it from Xuanji and put it next to the Tiandao seeds. Now that it is of no use, I might as well use it to hold the Wusa Stone.
He handed the cave magic weapon to Gong Xiaoyue and said: "Since you are short of spiritual stones recently, you should use these first to support yourself. I have a lot of these Wusha stones, I think it will be enough to make up for your gap."
"As for the Wu Sha Stone, you don't want to replace it all with spiritual stones. You can also replace it with some low-grade spiritual rice."
"Based on the one-to-three conversion between high-grade spiritual rice and low-grade spiritual rice, as long as we save some money in the spiritual land and use the lower-grade spiritual rice to support it first, I think so many Wusha stones will be enough for us to cope with it for a while."
Gong Xiaoyue took the Dongtian magic weapon and inspected it briefly, and said in surprise: "Uncle, where did you get so many Wusha stones? Could it be that you robbed a mineral vein?"
Unexpectedly, Qian Yunsheng smiled and shook his head: "You are so smart, is it possible that you still can't guess it?"
"Okay, I guess with these, your place should be more open. In addition, you can also ask the Geng Gold Mine to increase its mining intensity. Anyway, remember that based on our financial resources, if possible, try to recruit as many mortals as possible and food coming in.”
"I have developed two puppet techniques, but I am worried that no one will make them!"
"When these puppet energy sources are continuously produced in the future, you will probably be busy studying how to sell them again."
Qian Yunsheng said this, originally thinking that he could deflect Gong Xiaoyue's complaint that the whole store was now buying more than selling. Who knew Gong Xiaoyue covered her mouth and chuckled:
"Earning spiritual stones is much more interesting than spending spiritual stones. Master, please work hard here. I'm still waiting for the day when I can get a lot of spiritual stones!"
