"I also hope, but judging from the current situation, this hope is unlikely to come true."
He glanced at Hui Ji calmly. Fortunately, Pei Wende had already gotten used to his senior brother's character, otherwise he would have spit on him now.
After all, the other party has the status of a national master to support him, and he is a serious wandering monk.
If you participate in this large-scale purge of officialdom and gentry, you can easily become an "outlaw maniac" if you are not careful.
If the officials and gentry in Runzhou hadn't gone too far, based on Pei Wende's true intentions, he actually didn't want to get involved further.
"Alas, you can still live if you do evil by God, but you can't live if you do evil on your own."
Without continuing the topic, Huiji turned around and asked a more critical question.
"Now that Runzhou is experiencing a famine, you are reopening the temple at this time. Do you want to recreate the 'refugee camp' in Ningxiang County?"
After experiencing this catastrophe, although the people of Runzhou could not be said to have survived, the two consecutive years of famine still displaced the people here.
Nowadays, all the capable and physically fit young adults in Runzhou have fled.
Most of those who couldn't run away had fallen into the trap of the invaders, leaving only a few old, weak, women and children still lingering.
Pei Wende chose to reopen the temple at this time, no matter how he thought about it, it could not be just for the incense of Zexin Temple.
"The evil spirits causing chaos are on the outside, and the corrupt officials are on the inside..."
"No matter what I do, all I do is that I can't bear to see the people here being displaced."
Looking at the people at the foot of the mountain, every word Pei Wende said at this time came from the bottom of his heart.
Because through the iron poison scattered throughout Runzhou, Pei Wende understood the disaster that happened in this land almost better than anyone else.
Obviously, life has just gotten better in the past few years, but the people in this land are even more desolate than Tanzhou, which was plagued by famine.
It is normal here to have insufficient food and clothing.
It is daily life here to avoid the bandits in Luocao and struggle to survive amidst the exploitation of corrupt officials.
The Nandu embankment bursting for two consecutive years not only resulted in a loss of food harvest, but also vividly demonstrated the evil of human nature.
"This place is different from Ningxiang. There is no county official who supports you wholeheartedly, and there is no rich lady who also silently supports you behind the scenes."
Bui Wende was able to gather the victims and finally made them self-reliant, which was largely due to his two brothers and sisters.
However, today's Runzhou does not have this condition. It is simply difficult for Pei Wende to treat the victims here and even enable them to make a living with skills.
To be honest, even Hui Ji, who has cultivated the magical power and wisdom of Luo, is a little confused about where to start when facing this messy Runzhou.
"It is true that there is no county magistrate here who is willing to delegate power, but there is a national preceptor here who has been appointed by the emperor."
"As for the money and food issue?"
"Although I did not inherit the Pei family's shop, I have a golden mountain at my feet."
Holding the gold mine tightly in his hand, Pei Wende knew that this was where his confidence lay.
Now that Zhang Yuanze, the governor of Runzhou, has died, Pei Wende can completely use Huiji's name and the golden mountain at his feet to reorganize Runzhou from scratch.
"It just so happened that the Nandu embankment was destroyed, and it was the time when people were urgently needed to build it."
"Using the 'relief for work' method to gather people's hearts and restore water conservancy will not only allow the people to survive this year, but also solve the food problem next year."
"And the only thing we need to do now is to replace the golden mountain under my feet with food."
If it were on the border of Tanzhou, it would be difficult for Pei Wende to do all this.
But this is Runzhou, a waterway transportation artery adjacent to Yangzhou and Suzhou.
As long as you have money in this place, you don't have to worry about not being able to exchange for food. At best, you just spend more money and less money.
"So, this is why you changed the name of Zexin Temple to Jinshan Temple?"
"You want to use the people who come up the mountain to publicize the discovery of Jinshan here?"
Huiji had to admit that although her junior brother was devoted to cultivation, he was more skillful in various specific disaster relief methods than those officials who were actually responsible for disaster relief.
At the very least, Huiji never thought that she could use the method of changing her name to announce to the outside world that "I am rich".
As long as the reputation of Jinshan Temple spreads, there will be no need to worry about those vendors not transporting food to Runzhou.
With enough food as a foundation, Pei Wende can express his ambitions, carry out infrastructure construction throughout Runzhou, gather popularity, and then completely revitalize the economy here.
"This can only be said to be one of the reasons!"
Without denying Hui Ji's words, Pei Wende just shook his head calmly.
"This golden mountain is transformed from the dragon blood of Dragon Girl Bodhisattva..."
"If we can save millions of people in Runzhou with gold mountains, it will also be a kind of salvation for Dragon Girl Bodhisattva."
As Pei Wende said, the golden mountain in Zexin Temple did not exist from the beginning.
This golden mountain took hundreds of years and was "polluted" by the dragon's blood spilled from the Suolongjing for a long time, and it gradually formed its current scale.
Regarding this, Pei Wende also realized this after going deep into Suolongjing.
"Having both means and compassion..."
"Wende, you are the 'Buddha Treasure' of our Tongqing Temple!"
Hearing Hui Ji's sudden emotion, Pei Wende was stunned for a moment, and then reacted.
"If you didn't mention this, I would have forgotten it!"
"When you sent that phalanx back to Tongqing Temple, did you just think that I wouldn't prevent you from disaster?"
"I don't believe you didn't notice the Five Colors Taoist..."
"I don't even believe that with the Taoist Taoism of Five Colors, I can find out your whereabouts!"
"You must have known about the existence of the 'Tai Sui Demon God' for a long time. You deliberately led him to Weishan for me to solve!"
When Pei Wende said this, his tone was unusually certain.
After all, my senior brother has practiced all kinds of magical powers, and disasters of the level of "Tai Sui Demon God" cannot be easily ignored no matter what.
"Haha, I didn't know that. The main body didn't give me that memory."
Laughing and shaking his head in denial, Huiji remembered her identity as "Ying Shen" at this moment.
But Pei Wende didn't know how much truth and how much falsehood was in the other person's words.
"If you really want to cause trouble for that guy, I strongly support you!"
"It's better to punch him two more times and take it out on me."
"That guy obviously ran away, but he still left me here to guard Suolongjing."
"If you hadn't come quickly, God knows how long I would have been here with you."
So, amidst the daily banter between the two senior brothers, Zexin Temple ushered in the first day when it changed its name to Jinshan City.
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