The sun rose. After Qin Ge and Xiao Hei absorbed the sun's essence, they began to practice the exercises in the yard. No matter how busy they were, Qin Ge would spare an hour every morning to practice the exercises, day and night!
At this time, a black aura circulated around Qin Ge's body. This was a manifestation of the internal energy leaking out after entering the silver product. The black aura was the dragon aura that was obtained by combining the White Tiger Art, the Xuanwu Art, and the Great Devouring Demon Technique! Qin Ge stood up and swung his sword in the White Tiger style. The inner energy of the sword movement moved along with the blade, making the sound of dragon and tiger. With the blessing of the inner energy, every swing of the sword was extremely powerful!
When practicing the White Tiger Form, the White Tiger Art in the body starts to operate on its own, causing the other two magic arts to also start to operate, but the operating speed is only half of the White Tiger Art! When Qin Ge practices the White Tiger Form and the Xuanwu Form, it will lead to the practice of the other two methods. However, since the Xuanwu Form is completed and the White Tiger Form is still just an introduction, the efficiency of practicing the Xuanwu Form is ten times that of the White Tiger Form. The efficiency is higher, but Qin Ge still practices the White Tiger Pose hard and is not in the conscious space, so the practice of the White Tiger Pose is very slow. However, Shilong Xingyun Jue follows the bucket rule, and he must practice the Nebula Jue together.
The five postures of the White Tiger Form emphasize continuous power, with each posture stronger than the last. Qin Ge was swinging his sword crazily in the courtyard like a tiger. At the same time, Xu Tu came forward with a saber and shield! Xu Tu's sword was still in its scabbard, and he held the shield in one hand and the sword in the other. Xu Tuan has experienced several battles and has been able to fully control the power of the inflow. Zhan Dun used the two armies to confront each other. Qin Ge's ferocious attacks hit the shield. Xu Tuan was like a fortress and did not squat at all!
Qin Ge quickly ran around Xu Tuan. With the blessing of Yinpin's internal energy, his speed was as fast as the wind. Xu Tuan stood on the spot like a standing Vajra, waving his shield, and all Qin Ge's attacks were blocked. At the same time, he kept waving his sword to kill Qin Ge!
The two of them fought back and forth for about an hour. The internal energy in Qin Ge's body was exhausted. Qin Ge's body was also covered with scars, which were cut with a scabbard! Xu Kuan quickly took the wound medicine and gauze from a tiger's hand, took off Qin Ge's armor and applied the wound medicine. Xu Tu also had faint sweat on his forehead.
Qin Ge sat on the stone steps, put away his sword and said with emotion: "Compared with the inner strength and the true strength, it is like the difference between cotton wool and steel. I can mobilize the inner strength to attack now, but I have no power before your true strength." Fight back!"
Xu Tuan put the bruise medicine on the palm of his hand and rubbed the red and swollen parts of Qin Ge's body vigorously. Qin Ge groaned. Since he basically had to compete with Xu Tuan on a daily basis, Xu Tuan knew Qin Ge's details very well. During the battle, he could use his strength. The fire is controlled just right, which can repel Qin Ge, but does not damage Qin Ge's muscles and bones.
Xu Kuan smiled and said: "Lord, don't be discouraged! Your skills are already very powerful, and the power burst out from your internal energy is no less than the third level of gold! And the internal energy is endless, and at the same time it carries a terrifying devouring power, as well as wind-like The speed and sharpness of the three combined, coupled with your white tiger shape and basalt shape, I am afraid that you can compete with the gold rank six!" When the cultivation level reaches the gold rank, the internal energy will begin to be condensed, and one condensation is called one. Turn, condensing it twice is the second turn, and it can be condensed up to nine times, which is called the nine turns!
In fact, when a gold-level warrior's internal energy reaches three levels, he can condense his strength, but this will lead to a weak foundation, and his lifetime limit will reach the third level, and he will not be able to move up to the next level. After six turns of inner strength, one can hit the second-rate, and after three turns, one can hit the first-rate. Therefore, although many top evolvers have already entered the gold level, they have yet to break through to the mainstream. A very important reason is to condense the inner strength, but the condensation of the inner strength is very time-consuming and labor-intensive. For example, it takes a year for an ordinary warrior to turn one, and it takes a year to turn two. It takes two years, the third turn takes four years, and the fourth turn takes eight years. If there are no adventures, it will be difficult to complete the ninth turn even if it takes a lifetime.
Thinking of the difficulty of cultivation, Qin Ge sighed and ignored it. At the same time, he stood up and began to move in the inner hall. This time he practiced the Suzaku style and entered the silver level. If Qin Ge wanted to advance to the gold level, he had to incorporate another method into the dragon power. After thinking about it, Qin Ge Decided to practice the Suzaku style. The Suzaku style represents the fire element and is consistent with Xiao Hei's attributes. When practicing with Xiao Hei, his understanding of the fire element will be twice the result with half the effort. This is something Qin Ge can feel from Po Jun when he practices the Great Devouring Demon Art. When the dark energy resonates, practice will get twice the result with half the effort, so Qin Ge prepares to practice the Suzaku Jue.
Qin Ge's body was jumping around in the yard like a big bird. Xiao Hei also flapped his wings to rotate around him, feeling the secret of the fire in Xiao Hei's body. The fire energy in Qin Ge's body began to flow slowly, running for a week in the body. Then it was integrated into Dragon Power. Dragon Power pays attention to advancing at the same time. Qin Ge still has a long way to go before he can truly integrate the fire element experience into Dragon Power.
Qin Ge practiced the Suzaku pose for an hour, looked up at the sky, put away his knife, put on his clothes, and walked to the county government office.
At this time, Man Chong, Chen Yuan, Mao Jie, Sun Guan, Ren Jun, Qian Zhao, Qin Jiben and others were sitting in the county government office. They all stood up when they saw Qin Ge come in.
Qin Ge nodded and motioned for everyone to sit down. He looked at a few people and said: "At this time, the county seat of Mou County has been initially determined, and the population of the eight towns in the western part of Mou County has also begun to be re-checked and registered. Now everything is waiting to be done. I will freely accept it now." what to do!"
Everyone looked at each other, and Man Chong stood up first and said: "What we need to solve immediately is the legitimate issue, that is, the identity of the lord. However, this time the lord captured Mou County and obtained the first title of the 'Recruitment Order' issued by His Majesty. For his meritorious service, Your Majesty granted you the title of Captain, the title of a righteous man who saved the country, and the title of Baron. Although my lord last time made Yanzhou Governor Liu Dai bear a grudge because of his righteousness in freeing Zang Ba, now my lord is a righteous man appointed by your Majesty. I believe Mou County The post of county magistrate will be appointed soon! With the justifiable status, the first priority now is to preside over spring plowing. Currently, there are more than 4 million refugees registered in the territory, and according to my guess, eight people in the western district of Waitou County After the town population is registered, there will be more than 5 million people in Mou County! Now, the food we have hoarded through commercial routes has gradually begun to run out. According to the report from the health supervisor, the price of food in various places continues to rise, and it has doubled compared with last year. times, and the supply of goods is getting less and less. Director Wei is constantly expanding the scope of trade. Now the fiscal revenue of the territory can barely meet the material needs of the refugees! The top priority is to put all these refugees into production and solve their livelihood problems as soon as possible. Otherwise, the refugees will not only It will become a burden to us and may shake our foundation!" Qin Ge fell into deep thought after hearing this. Now the territory is carrying out work-for-relief work, large-scale water conservancy projects, road construction and township construction, and issuance of relief grains as wages. Temporarily The refugees settled down, but this was not a long-term solution. The refugees were like a mountain weighing Qin Ge unable to move. If it hadn't been for Mao Jie's trick this time, using Dian Wei's influence and the power of the evolvers to repel Xingyao, the Free Territory would have been dragged to death by the war even if it hadn't been destroyed by Xingyao.
After Man Chong finished his report, Chen Yuan stood up and said: "My problem is the same as Mandarin's. It is also a refugee resettlement problem. Recently, although our county has been carrying out water conservancy projects and reclaiming wasteland, the overall land in Mou County has increased by five One percent! At present, the land of our county can accommodate two million laborers, plus more than 500,000 urban residents, leaving more than 2.5 million refugees with no place to settle. At present, the biggest problem is how to integrate these Proper resettlement of refugees!”
Qin Ge rubbed his forehead with his hands and said: "The urgent problem now is to solve the problem of refugee resettlement. I have dispatched Jiwu to lead the 80,000 new troops reorganized by Liao Huaxin to wipe out the bandits in Liangfu County and Bo County, and take the opportunity to recover the towns. At that time, some refugees can be resettled! At the same time, I plan to have Sun Guan and Qianzhao follow Qian Shudong out of Gai County, and Ren Jun, Wu Anguo, You Yong, and Ji Ben will go north to Laiwu County and do their best to expand the land, but two hundred and fifty More than 100,000 refugees need land from nearly 20 towns to be resettled. We plan to compete for about ten towns at most. What should we do with the 1.2 million refugees? It is really a headache!" Now free to absorb Refugees are like overfed fat people. If they don't digest their food, they will be starved to death.
Everyone was thinking, Man Chong gritted his teeth and said: "If it doesn't work, we can only cut off the arm of a strong man!"
Upon hearing this, Chen Yuan stood up and shouted: "This must not be done! Lord! These refugees came to seek refuge in your name. They are desperate. If they are driven out of the territory now, they will have no choice but to starve to death. Then But the lives of millions of people! And this move will be a blow to the lord's reputation!" Chen Yuan has always been upright and often angrily criticized Qin Ge in meetings, and everyone has become accustomed to it.
Mao Jie was silent for a while and said: "The current Free Territory is like a big ship on the sea, carrying countless refugees. If some refugees are not unloaded at this time, the entire ship will sink, and not only those who will die will be killed." All the refugees who should be abandoned will die!" After hearing this, Chen Yuan's eyes flashed with pain, but he didn't say a word, he just sat in his seat without saying a word! He knew that Man Chong and Mao Jie's approach was the safest, and now the Free Leader had no choice.
Qin Ge also fell into silence, and the sound of needle drops could be heard in the field. Qin Ge was silent for a while and said: "We can only put this matter aside for the time being, waiting for the results of our territory expansion, but Shu De, you have to make a plan. If If it really doesn’t work, we can only take this step!”
Chen Yuan clasped his fists with trembling lips and said, "I accept my orders!" Chen Yuan is determined to serve the people in his life. Different from Man Chong and Mao Jie's idea of helping Mingjun to dominate, he just wants to bring happiness to the people. Sometimes his ideals It will conflict with Qin Ge's development philosophy.
Mao Jie stood up and clasped his fists and said: "My lord! These days I visited the noble families in Mou County, the Gao family and the Yang family. The two families do not object to their children participating in the affairs of the Free Territory, and they do not want to sit back and have nothing, but the heads of the two families strongly I hope we can send troops to help them regain their lost territory! And we are willing to help us raise troops to suppress the bandits. I am planning to hold the first talent selection examination in the territory in half a month. The aristocratic families and nobles are enthusiastic about participating!" Mao Jie is He was a famous scholar in Yanzhou and came from a famous family, so he had great influence among the gentry in Yanzhou. Moreover, he was a hereditary baron. It can be said that his status was the most noble among the free leaders. With Mao Jie's call, the gentry who came to Mou County for refuge were very popular. Welcome, Mao Jie represents the gentry class.
The gentry monopolizes high-level talents. If the gentry is appointed, the talents connected by their blood will gradually form a family monopoly on the territorial administration. Qin Ge deeply hates this family monopoly administrative system, but with the rapid expansion of the free territory, With the expansion, the available talents under his men became increasingly scarce. He had to accept nobles as officials. Qin Ge knew the disadvantages of this, but now he could only do this for the stability and development of the territory. He nodded and said: "The selection of talents depends on Sir!"
Chen Yuan stood up and said: "My lord! Although Mr. Mao's election method is innovative, it still has flaws. I hope my lord will notice clearly!" If Mao Jie represents the gentry, then Chen Yuan represents the lower class of the poor.
Mao Jie was inspecting the territory during this period and knew Chen Yuan's name. He had an excellent reputation among the people and was even as influential as Man Chong. He was so stubborn that even the lord Qin Ge was often rebuffed and couldn't get off the stage. Chen Yuan cupped his fists and said: "The basic program of the establishment of the Free Territory is that everyone is equal, and Mr. Mao Jie's method of selecting talents is based on cultural level as the basic assessment. This is bound to be biased for aristocratic families, and for the children of poor families. unfair!"
Mao Jie squinted his eyes and said: "Mr. Chen's words are wrong. Since ancient times, political affairs and orders have been based on official documents. Gentlemen who have practiced writing since childhood are the best choice to become officials, while children from poor families are illiterate and ignorant in their thinking. The only way to do this is to act with integrity, and this is fair!"
Zhuge Xiaoliang stood up and said: "Mr. Mao focuses on talent, while Mr. Chen focuses on ability. I think the selection of scholars should be based on a combination of the two. Talents can be selected through examinations, and talents can be placed in positions for trial. During the probation period, How about conducting assessments and scoring, and hiring talents based on both?"
Qin Ge nodded and said: "Yes! What Shude is worried about is the emergence of a gentry monopoly class in the territory. I plan to expand the scale of the Free Academy and include Legalism and Peasants in the Academy curriculum, alongside Confucianism. When recruiting scholars for relevant positions, they can Legalist and peasant knowledge will be included in the assessment, expanding the coverage of the academy and gradually realizing the scientific application of talents!"
Mao Jie's eyes lit up, he stood up and clasped his fists and said: "My lord is wise, I will immediately revise the plan to recruit soldiers!"
