Suddenly, Wang Jingzhu was startled by the building in front of him.
A magnificent and magnificent... temple?
Looking at the shape of the gate, it looks like a temple.
The plaque reads "Tianlan Road Mountain River Supervisor".
Wang Jingzhu searched in his memory, but could not find any information in this regard. Wang Jingzhu, who was ignorant and unskilled, had never heard of "Shanhe Prison".
Diancui: "Girl, this is Shanhe Prison."
Wang Jingzhu: "Your girl, I am literate. What does Shanhe Supervisor do?" It can't be the City God's Temple, right?
Diancui: "The Shanhe Supervisor is the yamen that manages the mountains and rivers of the empire. From the owner of each farm to the big city lord of the city, all assessments are done in the Shanhe Supervisor."
Wang Jingzhu: "A small farm owner still needs to be assessed?"
"Yes. Once every three years, if you fail the assessment, the empire will take back the village and sell it again. My family was originally the owner of a small farm, but then monsters invaded, and all the cultivators in the family died at the mouth of monsters. It just so happened that during the farm assessment that year, my family’s land was taken back by the empire.”
"What are the tests?"
"Food tax."
"Tax? Pay Bai Jing? How much do you have to pay?"
Diancui shook his head. "No, you can only pay grain or silk and hemp. You can't use iron coins or white crystals instead. My father said that it's because everyone who has the ability must cultivate immortality. But if you don't cultivate the land and don't produce food, except for those who are above the foundation building stage If you are a high-level cultivator, everyone will starve to death, and the country will destroy itself without attacking. Therefore, His Majesty the Emperor made a rule that the farm can only be used to produce grain and silk and hemp, and it must be produced. It cannot be used Grow fairy herbs and raise spiritual beasts.”
"The empire prohibits growing elixirs, herbs, and raising spiritual beasts?"
"No. It's a place to grow elixirs and spiritual herbs and raise spiritual beasts. It needs special approval and needs to pay more taxes to the empire."
"Do we also need the Immortal Medicine Garden and Spiritual Beast Garden of Tianzong?"
"No need. The sect belongs to a place outside the country and is not controlled by the empire. They will only send people to fight when the empire is invaded."
Wang Jingzhu thought to herself: Maybe they won’t send personnel to participate in the war, right? Sure enough, a big fist is the last word.
The sect and the empire can live in peace because there is no fundamental conflict of interest between the two parties.
The sect just wants to catch a group of geniuses and run wildly on the road to becoming immortals and gods, and ordinary people and losers will be as far apart as they can be.
What the empire has in its hands are those that the major sects don’t want, as well as a few who are unwilling to join the sect.
Wang Jingzhu thought to herself: Those top aristocratic families, like the sects, are not subject to the control of the empire, right?
Jinchuan City is the Taoist palace of Tianlan Road.
There is only one Shanhe Supervisor in the entire Tianlan Road.
Anqing City does not have it, so it is not in Wang Jingzhu’s memory.
"Come on, let's go in and take a look."
Wang Jingzhu walked towards the gate of Shanhe Prison.
"What are you doing?" The two soldiers guarding the door immediately stepped forward to stop Wang Jingzhu.
"Buying a farm, is this here?"
"Please come in." The attitude of the two soldiers instantly became respectful.
Diancui's eyes lit up, his master was indeed someone with great ambitions.
If you want to be the lord of a city, you must first be a good village owner. Only families that have passed the farm assessment for ten consecutive years are eligible to compete for the position of city lord in the area where the farm is located.
The bye-laws of the empire's farms were written in great detail.
Each mu of land must pay 200 jins of mortal grain, 10 jins of fairy grain, 30 jins of silk, or 100 jins of hemp every year.
Wang Jingzhu took a look and found that the tax was not high.
"How can anyone fail to pay this little tax?"
Diancui blinked and realized that her girl was indeed a noble lady who didn't know the sufferings of the people. "Girl, there are demon rats in the ground, various demon birds in the sky, and the demon beasts in the forest often come out to destroy food. Even the water necessary for farming is difficult to obtain. Generally, there are demons in rivers and lakes. If you plant What’s more, it’s good fairy food like spiritual rice, and there will be fairy masters with swords coming to steal it.”
Wang Jingzhu:......
Will Yu Jian steal it?
Isn't it unethical to be offline?
It is really difficult to be a farmer in the world of cultivation.
To buy a farm, you must first sign a contract.
The price is very cheap. In safe and rich places near cities, hundreds of white crystals can be purchased per acre; in remote areas, especially those close to forests, one white crystal per acre is almost a waste.
The only condition is to sign a blood deed guaranteeing that the land will be returned if the tax is not paid, and the cost of purchasing the land will not be refunded.
A clerk led Wang Jingzhu to the mountain and river geography sand table on Tianlan Road.
The sand table is very realistic, and the mountains and rivers are clearly represented with different colors. There are many small flags on it.
"Every place where flags are placed is land that is for sale. Green flags are farms, yellow flags are forest farms, and red flags are pastures... There are two sets of numbers on the flag, the top one is the total area, and the bottom one is the sales price per acre of land. Price." The clerk said clearly.
Looking at thousands of flags, Wang Jingzhu's scalp felt numb.
Sure enough, people in the cultivation world are not happy to be farmers. (You have already become an immortal, so why do you still farm? How much money can you make from farming?)
The territory under the jurisdiction of Tianlan Dao seems to be very vast, covering seven to eight million square kilometers, but the Tianlan Mountains must be excluded in the middle. More than half of the Tianlan Mountain Range is the realm of monsters, and the smaller half is the territory of the Wentian Sect. The empire only has nominal jurisdiction.
On the surface, the empire controls a circle around the Tianlan Mountains, but it actually controls eight cities including Anqing City and Jinchuan City, as well as the area 20 miles outside these eight cities.
Wang Jingzhu still sighed. "Tianlan Dao, it's so big! Is it two to three thousand kilometers deep?"
The clerk smiled bitterly: "Yes. Tianlan Road is the third avenue of the Galaxy Empire, in terms of area alone. However, we only have eight cities. Gyeonggi Road is only one-third of our size, but it has more than two hundred cities."
In the face of the monster army, only the impregnable towns have the power to fight.
Zhuangzi outside the city, no matter how big or small, was wiped out by a wave of beasts.
Tianlan Dao was barely supported by only eight cities, and that was all thanks to the Wentian Sect. If Wentian Sect didn't need these eight cities as material supply points and disciples' birthplaces, none of these eight cities could be saved.
Wang Jingzhu chose carefully. She really wanted a Zhuangzi.
A safe house!
The clerk continued: "My dear lady, in order to encourage everyone to choose farms near the Tianlan Mountains, the Lord has issued an order to benefit the people. As long as he is the owner of a farm near the Tianlan Mountains, the Lord will personally give him a set of Jinchuan City 's mansion."
Dian Cui curled his lips. "Is my wife a person who doesn't have a house? I heard that the small house used by the master to send the border village owners is only as big as a sparrow cage. Only the common people who are casual cultivators will find it rare."
The clerk apologized profusely. "Yes, yes, the little lady certainly doesn't look down on a house like this. His Majesty recently issued a reward. As long as the owner of the village has paid his taxes in advance, he can enter the library of each state to watch various martial arts achievements for free."
Diancui showed a dismissive expression. "You're talking about the library next to the government office?"
"Yes, that's it."
