In Ninggao County, in a forest, Li Fucheng was half-kneeling on the ground, breathing heavily. The golden-red mysterious energy lingered around him for a long time and never dissipated.
"How...how is it possible!? How could you break through my Chengyun Kung!? It's obviously just the realm of a great profound master! How is it possible!!!"
Opposite Li Fucheng, a man with a big hole in his chest looked in disbelief.
"Ha...ha..." Li Fucheng, who finally regained his breath, slowly stood up and walked slowly towards the rude man, dragging his body covered with scars.
"Wait a minute... wait a minute, what do you want? I can give you whatever you want! Don't kill me! Don't kill me!"
"Zhuang Tianyi! You wantonly defraud and harm the villagers. You usually kill people for pleasure and do anything! By killing you today, you are doing justice to God!"
Seeing Li Fucheng's momentum getting higher and higher, Zhuang Tianyi knew that begging for mercy was useless, so he shouted viciously: "My master is the leader of the Wuxiang Sect! Gu Qingyue, if you dare to kill me today! My master will definitely not let you go.
your!"
"Before I die, let me tell you something."
Li Fucheng raised his right hand high as he spoke.
"I have heard this sentence more than a hundred times."
After speaking, Li Fucheng used a move of Suyang Palm to slam down Zhuang Tianyi's Tianling Gai.
With a muffled sound, Zhuang Tianyi's eyes lost all look and he slowly fell to the ground.
"Cough! Cough cough... cough!"
After several violent coughs, Li Fucheng spit out a mouthful of blood. Just now he relied on the formation to forcibly improve his cultivation and skills. Now the backlash came, and his internal organs seemed to be squeezed together.
"Brother!" Tang Tingshuang, who had been standing at the back, rushed forward, poured a clear yellow Qingling Pill from the green medicine bottle and fed it into Li Fucheng's mouth.
After swallowing the elixir, Li Fucheng said "thank you" and sat up in meditation.
After drinking tea, the violent profound energy in Li Fucheng's body calmed down a little, and his frown began to slowly unwind.
Seeing his senior brother slowly opening his eyes, Tang Tingshuang asked with worry on his face: "Senior brother, are you okay?"
"Huh..." Li Fucheng let out a long breath, waved his hands and said: "It doesn't matter, just rest for a while."
At this time, a figure suddenly ran from a distance at an extremely fast speed. After seeing Zhuang Tianyi's body on the ground clearly, he laughed and said, "Hahaha, brother, I knew you could do it! With the cultivation of the Great Mystic Master,
, cross the ranks and kill the Xuanling-level powerhouse! I really can’t understand your strength more and more.”
Listening to Zhou Guican's exaggerated tone, Li Fucheng smiled and said: "It's just good luck this time. If I hadn't understood Zhuang Tianyi's skills in advance, I would have had no chance of winning this battle. How are you doing there?
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Zhou Guican was unhappy after hearing this and said: "You look down on brother, don't you? You can even kill Zhuang Tianyi, brother, if I kill his few minions, won't I be able to catch him?"
"In this case, it's not suitable to stay here for a long time. Let's leave as soon as possible."
"Okay, let's go!"
Coming to a secluded courtyard, Tang Tingshuang took off Li Fucheng's shirt and started to help him treat his wounds. Zhou Guican sat next to him, brewed a pot of tea and said, "Hey, have you heard that Menliang County
The dog officer was beheaded at the entrance of the vegetable market. I have to say that the new emperor is really powerful. He killed so many dog officers in one month. It was really fun!"
Hearing the words "new emperor", Li Fucheng couldn't help but think of the figure that he admired very much.
Not long after the new emperor ascended the throne, Li Fucheng inquired about his background. After learning that he was a disciple of the Guixin Sect, Li Fucheng's first reaction was to think of Brother Wang. Unfortunately, he finally found that the name did not match.
But because the new emperor and Brother Wang both belonged to the Guixin Sect, Li Fucheng paid special attention to every move of the new emperor, and soon discovered that the new emperor had the world at heart, loved the people like his own son, and showed him every new decree.
He sighed greatly, but it was just a sigh, because he knew that these new decrees seemed beautiful, but it was extremely difficult to implement them.
However, not long after he finished sighing, he discovered that the emperor actually started to "conquer personally"!
In just a few days, the new emperor appeared in various counties and villages in Fengzhou like a magic weapon descending from the sky. Whenever he met a corrupt official, he would immediately take off his hat. If the case was serious, he would be directly pushed to Caishikou to be beheaded.
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And the reason why he was able to learn this information was not because he was quick to inquire, but because the new emperor began to vigorously publicize it after doing this, posted notices everywhere, and even set up a special official position called "reporter" everywhere.
Read out the contents of the notice so that even illiterate people can understand it, and record the people's feedback after hearing it one by one to make it known to the world.
Working together, these news swept through the entire Fengzhou like a storm. It can be said that all local officials were in danger and tried their best to implement the new policy to ensure that even if the emperor suddenly appeared in his village, he would not be beheaded.
Such a good emperor who saved the people of Fengzhou from danger made Li Fucheng have to think of Brother Wang again, and his intuition told him that this Jiang Beiran might have something to do with Brother Wang.
Thinking of this, Li Fucheng looked at Zhou Guican and asked, "When did you know the news about Menliang County?"
"I heard this morning that a notice was posted outside the village."
"Menliang County is not far from here. I heard that the emperor would stay until night wherever he went. Why don't we try our luck? See if we can meet the emperor."
"Good idea! But do your injuries matter?"
"It's okay, let's get going without further delay."
"Senior brother!" Tang Tingshuang, who was bandaging Li Fucheng's wound, shouted, "No matter how urgent it is, the wound must be treated first."
"Okay, Shuang'er, please hurry up."
"I don't know why you are so interested in the emperor..." Shaking his head, Tang Tingshuang continued to wipe the sword wounds on Li Fucheng's body.
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In Menliang County, in Pingsha Village, Jiang Beiran was sitting in a pavilion drinking wine poured for him by the village leader.
"Your Majesty, the Yanshan wine in our village is famous for its fragrant aroma. Please try it."
After taking a sip of the wine, Jiang Beiran said slowly: "Don't drink the wine in a hurry. First, please bring the village's household registration book to me for a look."
"According to the order! I will go and get it now, I will go and get it now!"
Rushing out of the pavilion, Cunzheng shouted to the villagers who were standing in a circle and looking in: "What are you doing here! If you disturb the Holy Master, you will be beheaded!"
Although the villagers took two steps back after hearing this, they still stretched their necks and looked in, wanting to see what the eternal wise king on the bulletin board looked like.
"Sir! The clothes worn by the villagers here are much better than those in Stone Village! They look very warm at first glance. You are so awesome, sir! Long live people like you!"
Behind Jiang Beiran, Kong Qianqian said while squeezing his shoulders.
Because no matter how he corrected her, Kong Qianqian would always call her the wrong name, so Jiang Beiran was too lazy to bother with her anymore and just called her sir.
"Want to drink?" Jiang Beiran asked, picking up the wine glass on the table.
Kong Qianqian swallowed her saliva and said, "What Qianqian just said came from the bottom of her heart! She was not trying to get a drink."
"really?"
"Seriously!" Kong Qianqian replied sonorously and forcefully.
"That's good. Sir hates people who don't tell the truth."
When Kong Qianqian heard this, he immediately panicked. He walked up to Jiang Beiran and gestured: "Actually...it's actually a little bit, just a little bit, just to ask for a drink. It's really just a little bit."
As Kong Qianqian spoke, he pressed his thumb and index finger together hard, making sure to leave a tiny gap.
Jiang Beiran couldn't help but laugh after hearing this. Teasing Kong Qianqian occasionally could indeed make him feel happy physically and mentally.
"Take it and drink." Jiang Beiran said and handed the wine glass to Kong Qianqian.
"Thank you, sir!" Kong Qianqian took the cup with a smile, walked to Mu Yao and said, "Senior sister, you drink first."
Mu Yao shook her head and said with a smile: "Drink it yourself." Then she continued to look at the villagers outside the pavilion.
In just one month, she understood what real earth-shaking meant.
From the beginning, we saw deserted towns and dilapidated villages one after another, as well as the villagers with dull eyes, as if they were numb. Now we can often see some villages repairing the dilapidated houses in the village, and the faces of the villagers are full of tears.
Overflowing with a happy smile.
All this has only happened a month ago.
Looking at Jiang Beiran's back and recalling everything that had happened in the past few months, Mu Yao felt sincerely that this man could always think of the most concise and effective way to solve problems, and he did so resolutely.
'Maybe this is what a king should really look like...'
After a while, Muramasa, who had obtained the household registration book, ran back to the pavilion.
"Your Majesty, this is the village's household registration book. Please take a look at it."
Taking the household registration book, Jiang Beiran glanced at it and praised: "Your household registration book is really well made."
Hearing the emperor's praise, Muramasa immediately knelt on the ground and said: "I just did my job well, and I don't dare to be praised like this by the emperor."
Having been to so many villages, Jiang Beiran had also seen a lot of household registration books of all kinds. Some were scrawled, some were pieced together, and all in all they looked like things that had been prepared in a hurry.
But the household register in front of me is not only well-preserved, but also contains not only the names of the villagers, but also the villagers' family income and expenditure records.
For example, on this page, the Daichuan family's annual income is 120 shi of grain (a total of 7,200 qian) and ten pieces of weaving (a total of 4,000 qian).
The expenditure is more detailed, for example, two shi (900 yen) for salt, 6 shi (380 yen) for seed saving, and 7 shi (420 yen) for farm tools.
In addition, there are land rents, taxes, sacrifices, medicine, etc.
"Did you help memorize everyone in the village?" Jiang Beiran looked up and asked when he turned to the last page.
"Reporting to Your Majesty! I have nothing to do in my free time, so I will help the villagers write down some of their expenses so that they know how to save, so that they will not be deprived of life when encountering a famine."
"Very good." Jiang Beiran nodded, looked at Deng Xianghan next to him and said, "Write it down."
"According to the order." After Deng Xianghan said that, he immediately took out the paper and pen and started writing.
Of course, Jiang Beiran's plan to pay a private visit incognito is not really to experience the addiction of a drama, but mainly to do business. What is business? It is business to let these local officials know that they have an emperor who can come to them for inspection at any time!
From the very beginning, he had no intention of ruling the country with just the strategies of wise kings learned in textbooks. This is a fantasy world! It can be cheated! There are many ways to magically modify it and the efficiency will increase!
And being able to fly is the top plug-in.
In addition to visiting the scene in person, publicity is also very important. When thinking about how to spread the information quickly, two words immediately popped into Jiang Beiran's mind.
【reporter】
When Jiang Beiran expressed his idea of being a reporter, Deng Xianghan responded positively and wanted to be one of the first reporters to write down everything he saw and heard along the way.
After writing down Muramasa's words, Deng Xianghan saluted and said, "I will report back to Your Majesty. I have recorded them all."
Jiang Beiran nodded after hearing this, reached out and patted Muramasa on the shoulder and said, "Well done, what's your name?"
Muramasa excitedly shouted: "Your Majesty, my name is Liu Ya!"
"Okay, I will take you as an example and tell the whole country, so that all parents and officials will learn from you!"
Liu Ya had never experienced such a great stimulation. For a moment, he couldn't say anything excited, so he could only kowtow "bang bang bang".
"Stop knocking, your wine is really good. Go and prepare some food for me. I will have dinner at your place today."
"According to the order! Your Majesty, please wait a moment. I will go and prepare now. I will go and prepare now!"
After Liu Ya finished speaking, he rushed out of the pavilion again.
"What a rare good official." Deng Xianghan said with emotion.
"Yes." Jiang Beiran nodded, "That's why we need to let the world know that such good officials still exist."
About half an hour later, Liu Ya, who had prepared the meal, ran back to the pavilion and reported back: "Your Majesty, the meal has been prepared for you. Do you want to eat here, or go to the villain's humble abode and make a living?"
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"Let's eat in this pavilion. The scenery here is nice, just perfect for drinking."
"According to the order!"
After Liu Ya finished speaking, he immediately withdrew and led the villagers to deliver the food into the pavilion one by one.
I don’t know whether Liu Ya didn’t intend to make his face swollen to look fat, or whether it was because he had made his face swollen that he couldn’t look fat. The dishes on this table were very farm-style.
Steamed sorghum rice, white flour steamed buns, fried water melon and lotus root, and a large plate of pumpkin and sweet potatoes, there was really no meaty taste at all.
While Jiang Beiran was looking at these dishes, Liu Ya bowed and said: "Your Majesty, I'll allow you to be brave. I guess you are tired of eating delicacies from the mountains and seas in the palace, so I have prepared some more farm dishes for you to try. Although these dishes
They may look a bit unsatisfying, but I promise they taste great."
Jiang Beiran nodded after hearing this: "It looks good. You can sit down and eat together."
"The villain dare not!"
"I want you to sit down."
"This... villain obeys the order."
After Liu Ya finished speaking, he tremblingly sat down opposite Jiang Beiran, but he didn't dare to touch the chair with his buttocks.
Seeing Liu Ya who was shaking more and more violently, Jiang Beiran finally decided not to force others to do anything, and said: "Forget it, get up and stand next to me."
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Liu Ya, who felt that his legs were almost numb, quickly stood up, bowed to the emperor, and then stood next to him as the emperor said.