The bearded man was also embarrassed by Wu Weng's words.
Because as a low-level military officer, he was very familiar with the bad things in the military camp.
Usually, the superiors oppress the subordinates, and the subordinates oppress the little shrimps below.
Anyone who has some ability or a dark heart will go out and look for ways to make money.
In this area of dozens of miles, not even bandits come, because the people in the military camp are bandits themselves.
Fortunately, they only make money and do not harm the poor people around them.
It's not that rabbits don't eat grass around their nests, it's that there's no grass at all around their nests.
After several people had dinner, Old Man Wu led Zhou Wuchang around the village, and Zhou Wuchang actually called Yingbao over.
As they walked, they talked about how to support their families.
Zhou Wuchang suddenly asked Yingbao: "Disciple, how do you think this village should develop?"
When you buy land, you have to pay taxes. Whether it is mountainous land or gravel land, as long as you buy it, you will definitely pay taxes to the government every year.
Zhou Wuchang remained silent, his expression getting more and more ugly.
Zhou Wuchang thought for a while and finally nodded: "Okay, since you are so sure, let the villagers try it. However, there is no need for the villagers to buy the cave. This will save them from getting into discord, so the teacher will pay for it, and then
Build a Taoist temple over there."
When Ying Bao heard the word "fairy", her eyes lit up and she quickly asked: "Grandpa Wu, what kind of fairy cave is this?"
Zhou Wuchang nodded.
Old man Wu was deaf and didn't hear clearly what the master and apprentice said. He only looked at them curiously.
"It's the cave in Shiquan Mountain. I heard from my grandfather that it is the life-saving spring given by the gods in the sky. It is called this cave from the elders." Wu Weng said proudly.
Ying Bao tugged at Master's wide sleeves and whispered: "Master, I have thought of a way to make the people in the village rich."
Old Man Wu became more and more sad as he talked and kept wiping his eyes with his sleeves.
Hehe, maybe this village will become famous from now on and become another wealthy village.
Ying Bao licked her skin and nodded: "Okay."
She is just a seven-and-a-half-year-old girl, how can she handle this?
Seeing that his apprentice didn't seem to understand, Zhou Wuchang added: "I have been to Dongchen Village as a teacher. Their lives are richer than those in the county. People in your village also say that they can afford to build big tile-roofed houses and have no worries about food and clothing.
All thanks to you.”
Zhou Wuchang was stunned for a moment and shook his head: "It costs a lot of money to buy a load of water? Who would be so stupid?"
She suddenly doubted the true purpose of her master bringing her here to experience.
He had some connections with this village, because he had been stationed here for several years, and the villagers had fought with him against Jurchen attacks, and then stayed at Wu Weng's house to recover from his injuries for several months.
Li Zheng and Zhou Wuchang were old acquaintances, so he immediately took them to the county government office to estimate the price.
Every household in the village was so impoverished that the court not only refused to reduce or reduce taxes, but also forcibly collected money and grain again and again.
In this way, even if the rich and powerful rob Shiquan, they still have to treat these villagers well.
In the end, Zhou Wuchang spent more than four hundred taels of silver to buy the entire top of Shiquan Mountain and the surrounding gravel land.
Wu Weng laughed: "No one is. There isn't even a tree growing on that mountain. Who wants a place like that?"
Yingbao thought for a while and asked, "Whose cave does it belong to?"
The first thing now is to buy this hilltop and make up a story so that the people in the surrounding villages become the guardians of the Fairy Cave, so that no one else dares to touch it.
I heard Master ask Wu Weng: "Hasn't the pond where you use daily water been cleaned yet?"
"It's been cleaned up. It was cleaned up last year. Now the pond is twice as big as before." Wu Weng said.
There is a lack of water here, and there seems to be no paddy fields. According to what Wu Weng said, the people here only grow millet, not even wheat.
Ying Bao scratched her head and couldn't think of any way to make money in such a poor place.
Upon seeing this, Ying Bao looked around hard, trying to figure out how to make these people rich.
Those officials don't care about the life and death of the people at all. The only purpose of keeping the people alive is to make money for the officials to grow food and provide free labor and soldiers for the powerful.
Zhou Wuchang sighed and continued: "If you come up with any good ideas, apprentice, please tell me. I will thank you on behalf of the people here."
How about letting them grow golden ears too?
But now it's frost, the weather is getting colder, and it might snow soon.
Yingbao chuckled: "Since there is a fairy cave here, and there is a stone spring given by the gods in the cave, why not let the villagers buy the cave and sell the fairy water to the city people for a penny."
Next, the master and the apprentice went to Shiquan Mountain to investigate and decide where to build a Taoist temple.
But Ying Bao still saw clearly that it was a piece of cotton that she had asked her second senior brother to throw away last night.
At this time, Cuihua came over carrying a basket with a ball of light yellow cloth in it.
After that, I went to see Li Zheng and talked about buying the hilltop over Shiquan.
If that doesn't work, you can just get some flowers and plant them in the cave to create a miracle. You don't have to worry about the rich people in the city not coming to buy them.
Wu Weng opened the conversation and talked about the drought that occurred from last year to this summer: "Fortunately we have a mountain god cave here, otherwise, all the people in the surrounding villages would have fled. Alas, it has not rained for half a year, and the water in several villages has
The ponds all bottomed out, and it wasn’t until June that there were a few rains, and then the ponds were filled to the brim.”
Even over in Fucheng, the mountain spring water was brought into the city at a cost of only five cents and ten cents per load. When the water was most scarce, it did not exceed twenty cents. As soon as he opened his mouth, his little apprentice always paid for one load, unless he bought water.
You are crazy, otherwise this deal will never be done.
Ying Bao blinked, not understanding why Master asked her this.
Yingbao:·······
Compared with the prosperity of cities and Kyoto, people in remote villages basically do not have enough food to eat and no clothing to cover their bodies.
In order to avoid starving to death and freezing to death, people sold their children. Some were afraid that they would not be able to pay taxes and poll taxes if they had too many children, so they would push their newborn babies into basins of water and drown them alive, or throw them directly into the ravine.
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Old man Wu didn't understand what the master and apprentice were saying, and he still talked to Zhou Wuchang about the past few years with a sad face.
"Oh?" Zhou Wuchang was also curious about what the young apprentice could come up with: "What do you want them to do?"
"We'll find out if we're stupid or not." Yingbao is very optimistic about this business.
Seeing Ying Bao staring at her, Cuihua was a little stunned and subconsciously protected the things in the basket with her arms.
Ying Bao turned away and pretended to look into the distance.
So even if the government doesn’t want money and gives it away, no one dares to accept it.
Zhang Min was stunned by the master's operation and asked the master repeatedly: "Master, do we want to practice Taoism here?"
"As a teacher, I just want to establish a foothold here. If you want to stay and practice Taoism, it's not impossible." Zhou Wuchang said.
Zhang Min: "I don't want to stay." This place is not fun at all. There is no food or drink, not even a fruit tree.
Thanks to Yan, I will reward you with 10,000 starting coins for destroying the baby. I will definitely work hard.
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