"It's really not easy for you. You were assigned to our Flower City for training."
The county magistrate took off his official uniform and felt refreshed. He looked at Su Yan and his entourage with regret on his face and said, "Our only job here every day is to clean the city and clean up the bodies of people who died on the roadside. There is no merit. I caught it for you.”
"Forget it, let's not talk about those disappointing things. Today is your first day in Flower City. Let me personally lead you to experience the local customs!"
"Are clans and tribes really that powerful?" Su Yan asked with a face full of surprise and uncertainty.
"Fellow Taoists, please come this way."
The county magistrate invited everyone to take a seat in the inner hall, and then asked the government officials to go to the street market to buy some specialties. Then in the evening, a banquet was held directly at the official office to entertain the Taoist friends who came from the main city of the Xia Yu Dynasty to be the culprits.
"It's not that they are so powerful. The Red King is the ruler in the Red King's fiefdom. It's just that you are busy fighting the war with the Eternal Life Sect and the southern Xinjiang tribes, so you don't have time to manage these newly built cities."
The county magistrate waited until everyone was seated, then said with a wry smile: "We are outsiders, and we are not very good at cultivation. How can the local clans and tribes think highly of us?"
"As long as you pay the exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes on time every year, the Red King will treat our flowers. Well, in a word, you are just rich young men who come here to hang out. Don't have a serious conflict with the local clan in one day."
"I don't want to know your backgrounds. We are just passers-by who share a relationship with each other. No matter how powerful your family becomes, it will be you who will be beaten in a second. No matter how cruel the revenge is, it will not stop the pain on your body."
The situation in Flower City is particularly complex. As a border city in the southeast of the Red King's fiefdom, it is often invaded by the Eternal Life Sect and barbarians from southern Xinjiang. The Red King's army is currently very short of manpower for two-front operations, so it has given the border city to clans and indigenous people. They had great autonomy and ordered the natives to defend the cities where they lived.
The indigenous people here are armed to the teeth, and there are only three main positions in the Flower City official office.
One: Repair the city and keep it clean.
Two: Supervise the production of Flower City, where a small number of Xia Yu's artificial spiritual plants and most of the flowers come from.
The last step is to collect various taxes from the city.
"These are the responsibilities of our official office. I just finished sweeping the streets with the government officials this morning, and I almost fell down from exhaustion. If you hadn't taken over,"
The county magistrate paused for a moment, then an expression of gloating appeared on his face and said: "Then the county magistrate and I may take the lead in planting rice and sowing in the countryside next week."
As a county magistrate in an agricultural area, in addition to having basic city management capabilities, he also needs to have farming knowledge and procedures.
It is impossible to get promoted in Flower City through management, so the county magistrate and county magistrate are specializing in agriculture. They want to improve the productivity of the flower area and tidy up the tax accounts. Only in this way can they be promoted and leave as soon as possible. This is a place where there is no royal law.
"As a county magistrate, do you need to sweep the streets and farm?" Su Yan looked at the fat man with a strange expression and asked.
"Generally speaking, there is no need, because the Chiwang Palace has a salary specifically for the scavengers, but sitting in the official office and doing nothing is just idle. It is better to earn another salary. Anyway, it is already embarrassing enough for the magistrate of Huahua City, but It’s better to earn more so that you can be filial to your superiors.” The county magistrate explained to everyone with a nonchalant expression:
"Of course, as the county magistrate of an agricultural area, you should set an example for the people, but you don't need to do those things."
The county magistrate is a master in agriculture. He will guide the tenant farmers every year during the rice transplanting and sowing season. The landowners are also happy to see the increase in production and will cooperate with the county magistrate's work.
After listening to the county magistrate's description of the area under his jurisdiction, everyone fell into a state of speechlessness.
"What about the Eternal Life Sect and the Southern Xinjiang tribe?"
Seeing that everyone was beginning to doubt their lives, Su Yan looked unwilling to ask the county magistrate about other matters.
If we can’t get the performance in management and production, then wouldn’t it be difficult for us to get some credit for public security?
"The Eternal Life Sect and the Southern Xinjiang Tribe?"
The county magistrate poured Su Yan another cup of tea, and then said slowly: "That is a demonic path developed in the southern state in the past hundred years. How can they describe it to you? You may not be able to find it in the entire sect. A normal creature, right?"
"Or you can come with me and I'll show you what's in the warehouse."
Seeing that Su Yan was curious about the Eternal Life Sect, the county magistrate had no intention of hiding it. In the previous letter, he also specifically asked the county magistrate to provide more help with intelligence. Naturally, the magistrate told him everything he knew.
As the county magistrate opened the warehouse door, he picked up the official seal of his flower district from next to the metal door. After opening the second metal door, he led everyone into a cage made entirely of silver, with gold inlays on the walls. The pattern drawn by silk.
"It is the formation of the Eternal Life Sect."
After the county magistrate glanced at everyone, he handed the official seal to the county head who seemed to be the most stable and oldest.
In the cage in the secret room of the warehouse, there is a wooden sculpture that is green all over. The wooden girl's facial features are lifelike and vivid, and the pair of fox ears on her head make her lively and naughty. However, the green layer on her body is like moss. It also looks like something moldy, causing the entire body of the wooden man to emit a fishy earthy smell.
It even made the air in the cell turbid.
The county magistrate covered his mouth and nose with his sleeves, raised his hand and used a dagger to spread the green moss on the wooden man's chest, completely exposing his chest to everyone, and said: "Seeing the wound on the chest that was penetrated by the sword blade. I think, you guys You should all know what it was when it was alive, right?"
The lifelike wooden sculpture of a fox-eared girl in front of me was actually a living creature three years ago.
The wooden girl was once a member of the Immortal Demon Path. After her death, she turned directly into a rotten wooden sculpture. If the cage formation had not been used to maintain her body, her body would have rotted long ago.
"The Eternal Life Sect was born out of the Nightmare Town Sect. It is an evil method that can alienate living beings. She was originally a maid in a rural landlord's family. Later, she fell into the hands of the Eternal Life Sect and became a golden elixir monk in less than two years. She turned around and sneaked in Flower City assassinated the Hua clan members." The county magistrate shook his head and said, "The cruelty of Eternal Life is beyond the imagination of my county magistrate with my salary."
"I've already said what needs to be said. As students who have been trained in Yongle Academy, you may be more intelligent than all our officials combined. I won't go on and on and advise you to be careful. Think about it for yourself. It just depends on whether it’s worth it.”
"Let's go outside and drink tea. The scented tea we produce is Xia Yu's best."
The flower area under the jurisdiction of the Red King is a war-torn area, and the Eternal Life Sect and the barbarians from southern Xinjiang often appear.
Moreover, this is a clan autonomous region, and the influence of Xia Yu's official office is relatively small. Clans, large and small, choose to live here because they are afraid of the Red King. Hundreds of years of mutual marriage and annexation have created several clans with earthly immortals sitting in the clan. of a powerful family.
The official office of Huahua City also belonged to the Xia Yu Dynasty, otherwise it would have been bulldozed by those clans and a kiln built in this prime location to earn money from the people in the city.
Local forces can be described as terrifying.
The county magistrate did not say these things, but he actively expressed and revealed the true situation both inside and outside his words.
Don't be stupid here. After the Red King's army gets rid of the Eternal Life Sect and the barbarians in southern Xinjiang and annexes their lands, they will naturally rectify the security of the fiefdom and attack the local indigenous clan forces.
There is no need for you to interfere too much here. You are not doing this to gain political achievements!
.Horrifying, there was an earthquake in my house.
(End of chapter)
