[Burn^文^Bookstore] Tieling Town was once destroyed by the corpse-eating vine demon. The town, filled with people, turned into a shura field of raging flames. Innocent men and women were reduced to blood food, and the death and injury were horrific. [Wuruo first release].
After a great tragedy, people who fled into the mountains and forests returned to their hometowns. After their loved ones died, they buried them. They gritted their teeth and grieved for a while. The house was burned down, and then they rebuilt it. They gritted their teeth and worked hard for a while. No matter what happened, life must go on, right? For most people, it is no longer easy to have enough food and clothing. No matter how deeply sad they are, even if they have been hungry for three days, they will temporarily put it aside.
Only a few people are qualified to mourn and miss us for a long time.
Many years have passed, and the pain of that night remains deep in my memory, fading bit by bit. Tieling Town has restored its old appearance, with caravans coming and going, the number of people gradually increasing, and even the incense of Pudu Temple flourishing.
The old man passed away, the newborn was born, and everything was moving in the right direction. However, just when everyone was trying to forget consciously or unconsciously, the nightmare came again. The corpse-eating vine demon emerged from the ground, waving its vines in pursuit of blood food. Tieling Town was submerged in a sea of fire. People cried and ran around, helping the old and the young. The place where they lived collapsed and turned into ruins.
The losses were heavy. The only good thing was that there were not many casualties. The corpse-eating vine demon lived up to its name and focused on destruction rather than killing.
Just when it was wreaking havoc and showing off its power, a Kunlun immortal master happened to pass by and drove away the demon with his sword. The vine demon abandoned more than ten vines and fled in a hurry.
The body of the corpse-eating vine demon is hidden deep in the ground. It cannot be eradicated and will cause endless troubles. The immortal master took pity on the hardships of people's livelihood and told the vine demon that it will come again. In order to avoid the disaster, it is better to move to Huzigou, where there is an immortal master. Guard, the vine demons can avoid it, and you can find peace.
The hometown is hard to move, and it is human nature. Everyone is lucky and can't leave. The immortal master sighed again and again, leaving a talisman and pasting it on a dilapidated archway in the east of the town, telling him that if the vine demon comes again, he can stay safe by avoiding this place. , and then drifted away.
Sure enough, on the evening of the third day, the corpse-eating vine demon appeared again, completely destroying Tieling Town. It waved the rattan and chased the blood food all the way to the archway. However, a golden light lit up, and the talisman burned to ashes. The vine demon was severely injured and sharpened. He screamed and fled underground.
Then the next time, no one reaches out to help.
The survivors were frightened and hesitant. They checked what was available in the ruins and left one after another. The poor ones with their children and their daughters mostly went to Huzigou. The wealthy people in large and small cars scattered everywhere to seek refuge with relatives and friends. Find another way out.
In this way, Huzigou welcomed the first batch of immigrants.
The person who took them in was Cao Jinren, an outer disciple of the Xiandu Sect.
Cao Jinren was born as a businessman in the market. He was very discerning and well-organized. He designated an area, settled everyone temporarily, organized people to collect firewood, make fires, eat some hot food, and then selected young and strong men to cut down trees in the mountains. Trees and shelters were built to provide shelter for the old, weak, women and children.
Whenever labor is used, he pays a certain amount of remuneration. Even if the shed is built for himself, he can still receive a certain amount of copper coins.
Wei Shiqi stood on the cliff, looking at the busy crowds in the col. From chaos at the beginning to orderliness later, it was like water covering the ground and flowing into the ravine. He looked back at Chen Suzhen and said with a smile: "This relative of yours is indeed an extraordinary person. It would be a pity to place him outside the capital."
"Uncle brought him here to use his strengths." His junior brother has now become an uncle. Chen Suzhenliang said with emotion. To be fair, being in charge of Jie Tianling is not a disadvantage, but looking at his handiwork, it seems that he wants to compete with him. The three factions of Xiandu, Pingyuan and Xuantong are on the verge of becoming different, and their plans are not trivial.
The most important thing is that Lu Wei intends to tie Xiandu to him and advance and retreat together. With such strong support, there is no need to worry about not being able to accomplish things.
"Red Star Outer City, I want to leave it to you to manage, with you as the leader and Cao Jinren as the assistant. You make the big decisions and just let go of the minor details. If there are not enough people, Liu Mulian and Li Lanxiang, whoever they think is suitable can be used. Right now. , Scarlet Star City is just a village at best, given time, I want a city full of people."
"Yes, uncle, don't worry, I will do my best." Chen Suzhen feels that his qualifications are mediocre. Since he formed the Dao Fetus, he has not been able to make any further progress in the past few years. The path of sword cultivation has come to an end. Instead of wasting his years at Xianyun Peak, It's better to find another way out and show off your talents. If Wei Shiqi is ambitious and achieves something, she can also benefit from it.
"As for the inner city of Dongming..." Wei Shiqi hesitated for a moment, "You are not cultivated enough, so don't interfere for the time being. We will talk about it later."
Although Dongming City is a dilapidated ghost city, under Wei Shiqi's layout, it will become a fairyland that attracts sword cultivators and mystical cultivators from all over the world in the future. Chen Suzhen is self-aware, and "insufficient cultivation" is not an excuse. In her opinion, Later, Qin Zhen and Yu Yao were qualified to aspire for the title. Their swordsmanship was so strong that even the leader Lu Wei could not give in.
However, she guessed that Wei Shiqi would not leave the inner city to them. Without him, she would just watch with cold eyes. She thought that Qin and Yu did not have this talent.
Cultivation alone is not enough to accomplish anything.
Three days later, a caravan from the town customs stationed in Huzigou, bringing rice, noodles, vegetables, daily necessities, and cheap credit to meet urgent needs. Everyone calmed down from the initial panic. Those who hunted, those who gathered herbs, those who caught fish caught fish, those who forged iron, snakes and snakes walked on the road and rats walked on the road, and each of them was busy working for their livelihood.
About half a month later, the second group of people came to Huzigou. Among them were wealthy people who had left Tieling Town before. After asking, they found out that Tieling Town was not the only place attacked by the corpse-eating vine demon. A hundred miles in radius has become the hunting ground of the vine demon.
Being homeless, they could only live here temporarily. With the continuous influx of population, Red Star City expanded at an extremely fast speed, gradually becoming somewhat like a city.
It is just a beautiful imagination to have simple folk customs and not pick up lost things on the road. There are all kinds of birds in the forest. Where there are people, there will be disputes, stealing and kidnapping, being unkind for the sake of wealth, bullying others, and gatherings to fight. All the dark sides that a city should have have emerged one by one. Cao Jinren is deeply saddened by this. I was thinking so much that I felt a little powerless.
But he knew clearly where the bottleneck was for Scarlet Star City to get on the right track and what problems it urgently needed to solve.
Before he could mention it to Chen Suzhen, the prefect Xu Tang and his party had arrived at Huzigou and contacted him solemnly. Soon after, Chixing City had a government office, a yamen, a prison, officials, and With the addition of government officials, staff, and lawyers, the people quickly stabilized and order was under control. Under Xu Tang's auspices, Red Star City began to renovate the city, regulate the market, and build city walls. At the same time, shops, inns, restaurants, pawn shops, medical clinics, brothels, and casinos gradually emerged, and communication with the outside world became increasingly frequent.
Although Xu Tang was an official, he was not pedantic. He regarded Chen Suzhen and Cao Jinren as his masters, obeyed their advice, was respectful, abided by his duties, and never went beyond the boundaries. Chen and Cao also reciprocated the favor and did not interfere in official affairs. .
After all, Chen Suzhen is a disciple of the inner sect of Xiandu, and he has a bit of arrogance in his bones. On the contrary, Cao Jinren is good at dancing and often deals with Xu Tang. During the chat, Xu Tang inadvertently mentioned that the post of governor of Scarlet Star City was not appointed by the capital's Emperor Zhao. He came from the town customs and was a relative of the Hussars General Xu Changsheng.
Cao Jinren was shocked.
It was already half a year later that the news that Bianliang, the capital, had been breached, reached Scarlet Star City. The Zhao Dynasty was overthrown, General Xu Changsheng ascended the throne, and the new dynasty's name was changed to Zhenhai.
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