The edict of Yangzhou Zuotu Mansion is mandatory, and its effectiveness comes from the cooperation of Yangzhou Tingsi. With the strong support of Tian Siwei, two squads, Mending and Chengjia, went on a long journey and took Tingsi away. Half of the temple officials enforced the edict and drove away the savages and captured the refugees around Yanluo Mountain.
Wu Sheng knew that forced demolition was not easy, so he brought Zhong Shenyan and his brothers out to cooperate with Men Ding and Cheng Jia. The two sides cooperated extremely smoothly and complemented each other in handling the situation.
For a time, everything within a hundred miles of Yanluo Mountain was like flying.
In the concept of Yangzhou officials, the Yanluoshan area is an uninhabited wilderness area, because there are no feudal towns or city walls. As for the savage villages, they are not considered "inhabited". Only Chinese people are considered "inhabited" in the true sense. ".
When Wu Sheng moved to other places, the actual range of the move exceeded "a hundred miles". The number of hundreds of miles was an imaginary number, not to mention that no one really cared about how far a hundred miles was.
Mending and Chengjia understood Wu Sheng's intention and expanded the area of eviction to more than 120 miles. Zhong Shenyan understood even deeper and reached as far as 150 miles away, where they found a home belonging to more than ten households. Xiaocun, drove them all into Yanluo Mountain.
Although the savages were reluctant to give up, they did not dare to resist. They had no choice but to leave behind the cultivated fields and wooden houses and mud houses where they lived, moved their families to Yanluo Mountain, and rebuilt their homes on the designated land by Yanluo Lake.
Fortunately, the edict clearly designated places where they could live, giving them hope of settling down in the future. It was more or less compensation for abandoning their fields and houses, and the savages could still accept it.
The savage Hu Da was the leader of the small village where Zhong Shenyan moved from the farthest place. Twelve families and more than sixty people all succumbed to Zhong Shenyan's whip, with tears of sadness and hatred towards Zhong Shenyan. With anger in his eyes, he helped the old and the young to Yanluo Mountain. Moving one hundred and fifty miles north is not a short journey, not to mention carrying all kinds of belongings on our shoulders that we are reluctant to abandon. It is really hard to walk. It took four days of walking before we arrived at the pass of Yanluo Mountain.
The extremely vicious Zhongshen pointed at the mountain and said: "Go in, there will be someone to pick you up inside, hurry up, it doesn't take three days to travel, but you delayed me for four days, you really deserve to die!"
Hu Da was worried that the villagers would be whipped again, so he had to urge him repeatedly and reluctantly dragged the people into the mountain pass. When he looked back, Zhong Shen saw that the villains had already beaten their horses and left. Suddenly, there was a cry among the villagers. It was a real journey. It's so hard.
The tall woman suddenly screamed, but the second son of his family was exhausted and fainted. No matter how hard he poured water and shook, he didn't wake up.
Hu Da's heart plummeted to the bottom. In such a situation, the child would probably die.
Just when they were frowning and at a loss, a handsome girl suddenly appeared in front of the villagers. She came to the fainting child, touched his nose, touched his wrist, and said to the villagers: "Go to the Yuwang Temple quickly. If it’s too late, the child will be gone!”
Hu Da was stunned: "Is there any help?"
The girl replied: "Of course, who is the father of the child? Put the child on your back and follow me!"
To the villagers, this young and beautiful girl looked like a noble, no, a fairy. What she said must be right! Hu Da said nothing, picked up the child on his back, and ran into the mountains with the girl.
Hu Da rushed to the Yuwang Temple with the child on his back. Under the guidance of the girl, he placed the child in the shrine, burned incense and worshiped, kowtowed and prayed countless times. Suddenly, he heard a soft cry from behind the shrine, and Hu Da immediately rushed over. , but his child woke up leisurely and was trying to get up feebly.
Hu Da immediately burst into tears and took the child out. Regardless of his physical weakness, he pushed him down forcefully and made the child respectfully kowtow three times to the statue of King Yu again: "Son, King Yu appeared. King Yu saved your life." Damn it!"
When leaving the Temple of King Yu, Hu Da asked the girl: "May I ask what your noble name is?"
The girl smiled and replied: "I am Xiaohuan, the guardian god of King Yu. If you have any difficulties in the future, just come to the temple to find me. By the way, from now on, you must come to kowtow to King Yu at dusk every day, otherwise you will encounter difficulties in the future. , King Yu may not be able to help you anymore.”
Huda's Savage Village is located on a gentle slope beside Yan Lake. Although it is a sloping land, it is close to the lake, so there is no problem in irrigation and farming.
After demarcating the village, Hu Shi organized the villagers to build wooden houses. In the evening, Xiaohuan came again and said to the villagers: "Are you all hungry? Let's go to the Yuwang Temple to get today's food."
Hu Da led the villagers to the Yuwang Temple. Each person who kowtowed three times in the temple could get two pieces of flour cake from Xiang Qiniang. They were really innocent.
In this way, the villagers began to settle in Yanhu, building houses in half a month, cultivating the fields in half a month, sowing seeds and working hard. Every evening, Hu Da led the villagers to kowtow at the Yuwang Temple and receive food, and occasionally meat and salt.
If villagers suffer from diseases, they often go to the Yuwang Temple and worship, and they will be given elixir. According to Xiaohuan, this is called Yuwang Pill, which can cure all diseases. In fact, it is true.
Sometimes, you can see the figure of a dragon emerging from the water in Yanhu Lake. After emerging from the water, the dragon often exhales and chants, and bows to the temple of King Yu, which attracts the villagers to respect King Yu even more.
The stories engraved on the wooden plaques in King Yu's temple not only enriched the villagers' leisure time, but also gave everyone a deeper understanding of King Yu's miracles.
Within a hundred miles of Yanluo Mountain, there were seven barbarian villages of various sizes that were forcibly relocated to the mountains, with a total number of two hundred households and a population of more than a thousand. If Wu Sheng hadn't been so wealthy, he really wouldn't have been able to support so many people.
While a large amount of food was being spread out, the effect was also extremely significant. Thousands of people contributed their faith every day, and puddles of water gradually gathered in the pond below the well, which was worse than that of Wu Sheng, Yong Zhi and Jin Wuhuan. It is hundreds of times faster to kowtow to oneself.
It is very expensive to run the Yuwang Temple. The seeds are sown in the medicinal gardens and farmland. It is far from the time of harvest. Even if you save flowers, the daily expenses are more than three gold, so Wu Sheng must hurry up and enter the role. , the great elixir.
Mo You and Yue Zhong were recruited to Yanhu Villa to refine ordinary elixirs such as Wushen Pills, Bone Bone Pills, Dahuang Pills, and Ningxiang Dew according to Wu Sheng's requirements. They had a "master-disciple relationship" with Wu Sheng. With this relationship, Wu Sheng is not worried about them betraying their teachers to seek glory. Selling their teachers to seek glory will definitely do more harm than good. Even if they succeed, they will definitely be ruined. Therefore, like the Seven Disciples, they are tied to Wu Sheng. Grasshopper on the grass.
With the help of Mo You and Yue Zhong, when the second month passed, Wu Sheng delivered the first batch of elixirs worth a hundred gold to Cui Ming, and the financial pressure was relieved.
In addition to Mo You and Yue Zhong, Wu Sheng also finally brought his concubine Dong Xue from Nuoxi Village to Yanhu Villa. In this remote place far away from the sky, Dong Xue's safety can be fully guaranteed.
This time, Wu Sheng tailored a Taoist nun outfit for her and asked her to be responsible for treating people in the Yuwang Temple, further reducing her burden.
After working hard for three months, Yanluoshan began to show a prosperous scene.
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