It has been nearly fifty years since the land was opened.
Today's Xin'an Town has entered a mature stage of development, with large and small farms scattered throughout Xin'an Town.
In addition to the family farm, there are also villages built one after another close to the mountains and rivers. The villagers living there are all common people who followed the Wang family to open up wasteland in the early days.
Those civilians are all poor civilian families from Changning Guard or several nearby guards, or some tenant farmer families whose contracts have been terminated. Although it is dangerous to move and open up wasteland, once you successfully establish a foothold, you can own a lot of self-cultivated land. The total household income can make a qualitative leap.
The Wang family of Changning held a development order to open up wasteland in Xin'an Town, which did not mean that all the land in Xin'an Town was enclosed and turned into the Wang family's private farm.
The reason why Daqian State encourages land reclamation and even provides some financial support is that its main purpose is to open up the land and increase the breeding habitat of the entire human race. Therefore, the families participating in the land reclamation have the right to prioritize the enclosure of land to build farms based on the amount of investment, but they must also guide Ordinary civilians who are willing to open up wasteland thrive here.
In addition, the government will divide the areas under the jurisdiction of the aristocratic families based on the agreements between the aristocratic families. All civilians in the areas under the jurisdiction of the aristocratic families belong to the areas under the jurisdiction of the aristocratic families. The aristocratic families have the responsibility of guarding the land and bringing peace to the people, and they also have to shoulder the responsibility of collecting taxes and other duties.
In return, 10% of the 40% tax in the area under the aristocratic family's jurisdiction belongs to the local aristocratic family.
It can be seen from this that the land and civilians attached to the aristocratic family are called jurisdictional land, not private territory. Only those farms that have been measured, registered and approved by the government can be regarded as the legal private property of the aristocratic family.
It's just that the Wang family in Changning is too powerful, and the influence of the local government has been reduced to a minimum. As long as it does not violate national laws, in most situations, they are at the mercy of the Wang family.
Fortunately, the Changning Wang family is not that kind of bully family that exploits the common people. Instead, they take good care of the common people under their jurisdiction and think of them whenever there is an opportunity to make a fortune.
Dongbang Village, Xin'an Town.
This place is located in the northwest of the town. Because there are many rivers and rocky hills, the fertile land that can be cultivated here is relatively fragmented and messy, which does not fit the Wang family's large-scale farm production model.
Therefore, a group of civilians settled here and pioneered under the guidance of the Wang family. Over the past few decades, Dongbang Village has had a settled population of about 1,300 people. A small amount of fertile land is used to cultivate the Wang family's grain seeds, and most of them are cultivated. Inferior fields were transformed into mulberry and fish pond models.
The fish farmed in fish ponds will be purchased by Wang's fish stall. The varieties of mulberry trees are also high-quality varieties provided by Wang. The silkworms they raise have a high survival rate and excellent cocoon quality.
There is no need to worry about the sales of raw cocoons, the United Silk Reeling Factory of the in-law alliance will purchase them uniformly.
Therefore, the villagers of Dongbang Village have a good income and are willing to send their children to the [Village School] to receive enlightenment education while living and working in peace and contentment.
The Village School is an enlightenment school jointly run by the Wang family and the government. The "Wang Clan School" trains "teachers" and teaches on a rotating basis in each village to popularize basic education for school-age children. It only charges some basic fees, and the rest is paid Wang family and government subsidies.
Dongbang Village School is located at the entrance of the village. It is built with good bricks and cement. It is not very beautiful, but it is very solid.
At this time, about seventy or eighty schoolchildren were listening carefully to the class in the village school.
Outside the classroom.
A slightly plump, wealthy man in his fifties or sixties was nodding his head and saying: "Seventh Young Master, our village school in Dongbang Village has always been one of the best among the schools in Xin'an Town. Every year, there are three or four students
An outstanding student is admitted to the Wang Clan Academy, and every year some of them are selected into our Wang Clan's domestic servant team."
Nowadays, not everyone can be a servant of the Wang family.
If you want to enter the Wang family servant system, you must have relatively good grades in the entire Wang family clan school. Their future development path can also start from working as maids, servants, etc., and then gradually move to management positions such as stewardship, or
It is a senior management-level leadership position.
In addition to the domestic servant system, the Wang family also has the servant system and the family general system. The latter two have slightly lower performance requirements, but have higher requirements for bloodline qualifications. In addition, there are various types of work systems of the Wang family, representing
are all in different directions of development.
The person known as the "Seventh Young Master" is a young boy with an immature complexion. He is wearing a brocade garment made of cloud-patterned spiritual cotton, with a jade belt tied around his waist, swords and shoes on his feet, and a spiritual jade hanging from his waist.
A typical young man from a wealthy family.
The identity of this young master is not simple. He is the current great-great-grandson of the Wang family in Changning - Wang Anye. He is the seventh eldest son in the Wang family's An family, so he is called the seventh young master.
Not only that, his mother's origins are also extraordinary. His mother Qian Yurou is the eldest granddaughter of the contemporary patriarch of the Qian clan in Longzuo. With the identity of the two direct descendants of the Wang family and the Qian family, one can imagine what Wang Anye's identity is.
How high?
Therefore, in addition to the two clever young men behind him, there were also two generals from the Lingtai Realm family guarding him in the open.
And in the darkness, there is another Celestial Realm family general from the Qian family looking after the clan elder for twelve hours. It can be seen that even the Qian family attaches great importance to this direct bloodline.
This kind of protection treatment is unique to the entire Wang family.
I saw Wang Anye with his hands behind his back and asked lazily: "I heard that Liu Lizheng recently took a concubine? Congratulations."
Although Wang Anye is only nine years old, he often follows his great-grandfather Wang Shouzhe to teach him advice. He has been studying at the Wang Clan Academy for three years. Naturally, he is different from other children. He speaks with a mature look.
"This..." Liu Lizheng was sweating profusely. He had been wondering before why the great-grandson of the Wang family came to inspect the village school in the small village.
Faced with such pressure, Liu Lizheng knelt down and said, "Seventh Young Master, I was deceived by my lard. I shouldn't have used force to take Mrs. Zhao as my concubine... using someone who was despicable..."
"Okay, okay." Wang Anye waved his hand slightly impatiently, "You don't have to tell me this. I'm only nine years old, and I don't understand those nasty things. If it weren't for Senior Sister Zhao from the clan school who came to complain to me,
My young master…since you admit it, that’s fine…Wang Xing.”
"The villain is here." Wang Xing, a smart boy, came out and stared at Liu Lizheng fiercely, "Master, how should we deal with this thief?"
"Hmm~ Grandpa said that even garbage has a certain use. I also heard from grandpa that when Qingluowei opened up wasteland, there was a sea area called Storm Bay that was quite difficult to deal with." Wang Anye thought for a while and said, "Then buy it for him.
A flying chariot ticket and send it to Storm Bay to use your remaining energy."
"Young Master Yingming." Wang Xing grabbed Liu Lizheng.
"Spare your life, young master, please spare your life, I don't dare anymore, I don't dare anymore." Liu Lizheng wailed and cried miserably, "You, you have no right to deal with me. I am Li Zheng, I am a minor official appointed and dismissed by the town guard.
.”
"It turns out that I am still a minor official, so I have to abide by the rules and laws." Wang Anye touched his chin and said seriously, "It seems that my sixth grandpa has been transferred to guard Changning City. In this case, I will send him to the city first.
The governor will interrogate him, and after the evidence is conclusive, he will be sent to Qingluo Sea Storm Bay."
The final word.
Liu Lizheng, who was crying, had rags stuffed in his mouth and was dragged down and tied up by his guards. There was no chance of him turning around in this life.
An hour later.
Wang Anye was in a carriage pulled by a spiritual ox, happily eating roast chicken and mulberry fruits, which were gifts of thanks from the villagers. He didn't want the expensive ones, so he took some cheap food and strange stones.
"Master, you are so kind-hearted. For such a trivial matter, you actually come to provide justice to the common people yourself." The boy said flatteringly.
"Alas~" Wang Anye sighed deeply, "How can this be said to be a trivial matter? My great-great-grandfather once said that a thousand-mile embankment breaks down in an ant nest, so don't neglect doing good deeds because they are small."
"What's more, as my eldest great-grandson, I, Wang Anye, can't do anything important. I can only wait to inherit the family business. Alas, this boring life that can be seen all the way to the end will not be solved if I don't do something good.
To get out of trouble, should we still learn to be a playboy?"
"Hey, this stone seems a little weird. Wang Xing, cut it open."
Then a stone given by the villagers was cut open, revealing a sparkling spiritual stone...
"Master, it turns out to be a spiritual stone. Is it possible that there is a spiritual stone mine hidden under the small Dongbang Village? This time I made a fortune." The boy shouted excitedly.
"The Lingshi mine is okay. It hasn't been discovered for so long. It should be just a small and micro Lingshi mine. Let's report it to the family and let people go explore it." Wang Anye didn't feel excited at all, but looked a little bored.
"Yes, young master. Are you going to go back to the main house next?" The young man is used to his young master's character. Anyway, his young master always encounters good things wherever he goes, so he doesn't take it seriously.
"I've been feeling a little bored recently, so I went to the flying chariot station in Xin'an Town and took the flying chariot to Baidaowei to watch the sunrise and relax." Wang Anye seemed tired of the boring life at such a young age, "Then I'll take a ride there.
I’ll go to Northwest Wei to watch the sunset for a few days, and then... I’ll drop by Longzuo County to visit my grandfather, great-grandfather, and the others. Well, there’s also the third great-grandfather and the seventh great-grandfather~”
The young man is sweating coldly. Is this a smooth journey? Young Master, your itinerary has completely crossed Longzuo County! However, the Young Master’s orders cannot be violated. Anyway, there are Lingtai Realm family generals and Tianren Realm guards to take care of you. With the Young Master’s identity,
I'm afraid no one in Longzuo County would dare to touch him.
The chariot pulled by the spirit beast headed happily towards the center of Xin'an Town.
…
At the same time, Xin'an Town.
Unconsciously, decades have passed since the completion of "Shouzheguan". Xin'an Town, which was once a wasteland waiting for development, has now become a large and densely populated town that is increasingly prosperous.
The only thing that has not changed is "Shou Zheguan".
The city gate, which is more than ten feet high and several feet wide, is majestic and majestic. It is like a smoky gray dragon coiling between the mountains, stretching for ten miles. Standing at the foot of "Shouzhe Pass" and looking around, you can't see anything at all.
to the end.
It is like a natural moat, isolating the inner realm from the outer realm.
Separated by a wall, there are two worlds.
Not far behind "Shouzhe Pass" is the garrison of Xin'an Town.
Defending the territory, protecting the territory and the people are the duties of the garrison. In order to protect the city pass, the garrison was built very close to the "Shouzhe Pass". Basically, inside the garrison, as long as you open the door, you can see
See the towering Shouzhe Pass.
There is also an urn city between the Zhengshou Mansion and Shouzhe Pass.
In Wengcheng, there is a "Transaction Department", which is responsible for supervising transactions.
Loose cultivators who have returned from exploring the outside world can set up a stall here to collect the cards and sell the items they have gained from exploring the outside world.
Anyone who conducts transactions in Wengcheng only needs to pay half of the national tax and half of the family tax, and only needs to pay transaction tax and no customs duties.
If you want to trade outside Wengcheng, you will have to pay a 20% transaction tax according to Daqian law. When entering the customs, you will also need to pay a 10% "tariff" to the Changning Wang family as a reward for the Wang family to open this customs.
Because of this rule, unless it is a really valuable item, most casual cultivators will choose to sell it directly in the Wengcheng.
This barbican city has therefore become an extremely lively trade center and material distribution center. Countless casual cultivators come in and out every day, setting up stalls to sell goods, and countless heads of aristocratic families come here to purchase materials.
Even in the entire Xinan Town, there are few places more lively than here.
At noon.
The dazzling sun hung high in the zenith, emitting scorching heat. The shadow cast by Shouzhe Pass only covered a small area of Wengcheng, and most of the area was exposed to the sun.
At this moment, it is the hottest time of the day in Wengcheng, and it is also the time when there are the fewest people in Wengcheng.
After being busy for most of the morning, the casual cultivators who set up the stalls rarely had time to take a breath, so they simply closed the stalls and gathered together in twos and threes to chat.
"To say that this 'Shou Zhe Pass' is really amazing." A casual cultivator with a square head and big ears wiped his stainless steel sword with an oil cloth and sighed repeatedly, "I have stayed here for more than thirty years.
, I have witnessed four beast tides with my own eyes. Tsk tsk tsk~ It was so easy to block it~~ If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn’t have believed that the beast tide could have been blocked so easily.”
"The beast tide itself is not big, right~" the casual cultivator next to him said nonchalantly, "I heard that it took ten years from the beginning to the completion of the 'Shou Zhe Pass'. It was built so quickly, how can it be built so fast?"
How strong is it?"
"Hey~ Do you really think I've never seen a beast tide?" Big-Eared Cultivator rolled his eyes at him disdainfully, "In terms of scale, the last two beast tides had hundreds of ferocious beasts, so they are not even big in scale.
It’s not small, but in the end, it didn’t even break through the city gate. It’s not strong enough, so how can it be considered strong?”
"Moreover, the level of the ferocious beasts participating in these beast tides is not low. There are three or four fifth-level ferocious beasts that I have seen with my own eyes. If they were to be placed elsewhere, something big would happen.
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As he spoke, he couldn't help but fall into memories.
"The most recent time, I stood on the top of the city and watched with my own eyes a fifth-level ground-breaking giant tiger roaring at the city gate. I was still holding the bow and arrow issued by Wang in my hand, and I was completely frightened.
I even forgot to hide."
"Then I saw a figure falling from the sky, and with just one sword strike, the fifth-level colorful tiger was frozen into an ice sculpture, and then cut into two pieces in the middle."
As he spoke, he danced and gestured, and his whole body was immersed in the excitement and shock at that time.
The casual cultivator next to him was a little unconvinced at first, but seeing how sincere he said it, he couldn't help but believe it.
However, some of the other casual cultivators suddenly reacted: "Ice bloodline is rare, let alone the strength to freeze a fifth-level ferocious beast with one sword. Hiss! Could it be that the person you saw is actually
Is it the ancestor of the Wang family in Changning?"
"That one?"
"Who else could it be? Of course it's the ancestor of Longyan!" As soon as the gossip was mentioned, the casual cultivator immediately became energetic. "You don't know that this ancestor was seriously injured, and many people said that she was alive.
It won’t be a few years. Guess what? At that time, the Wang family gave birth to the head of the Shouzhe family..."
Just talking.
A young master appeared in the market of casual cultivators with some guards.
The young master was extremely generous in his dealings. Whenever he saw something good, he would buy it without any counter-offering, and then throw it into the bottomless storage ring.
This kind of look shows that the boy who scattered wealth has arrived.
The casual cultivators stopped bragging and hurriedly took out all the good things from the bottom of the box. They rushed to the young master one after another and said as if they were offering treasures: "Young master, this fourth-level ferocious beast is the Moon-Watching Rhinoceros.
The horn is a treasure used for refining spiritual weapons or medicine, and it only sells for four, no, three thousand gold."
The casual cultivator wanted to call out the high price, but after being glared at by the general from the Lingtai realm next to the young master, he immediately swallowed the high price and quoted a more honest and slightly higher price.
As soon as he finished speaking, the young master took the moon-watching rhinoceros horn and put it away, and then another boy followed him to pay the bill.
In a short period of time, he had purchased supplies worth tens of thousands of gold. But he was still thinking that if Grandpa Seventh wanted to make alchemy, he would have to get him more good alchemy materials.
I have my grandfather’s gift, but it’s too grandpa’s... Oh, I have a headache.
There are a lot of relatives in Longzuo County. How can the seven young masters leave empty-handed when they go to visit relatives? What's more, when did they go to visit relatives, they didn't bring a one-cent gift, but returned with a nine-cent gift?
Not far away, several Lingtai realm casual cultivators with somewhat fierce expressions saw this scene. After looking at each other, they seemed to have made some determination.
"Young Master, this is the egg of the Yuanshui Spirit Crane, a sixth-level water-based spiritual bird that we risked our lives to retrieve from a lake outside the territory... If this thing is destined for you, I will accept three hundred thousand gold from you."
Although this group of casual cultivators were worried, they made up their mind to fly away as quickly as possible after finishing this task, and would never come to Xin'an Town again in this life.
"Yuan Shui Spirit Pattern? What a wonderful wave, containing infinite vitality." The young master stopped and said with great interest, "It is indeed somewhat similar to the Yuanshui Spirit Crane Egg. Isn't 300,000 yuan too cheap? "
"The young master has a keen eye. As the saying goes, treasures are given to heroes. Only the young master is like this..." Several casual cultivators looked happy.
But before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by the young master: "It's a pity that you are so uneducated that you have never seen the real Yuanshui Linghe eggs. Yuanshui Linghe eggs usually weigh more than two kilograms. And this egg, The two ends are round and round, not even weighing a pound... These are probably large goose eggs, right? Alas, the casual cultivators these days don't even bother to fake them."
"This, this, this..." Several casual cultivators were sweating profusely. After being exposed, they hurriedly laughed, "Maybe we made a mistake, the young master really has a boundless eye... Farewell, farewell~"
But they couldn't help but curse in their hearts, who could have seen the Yuanshui Linghe egg without any trouble? They just picked up such an unknown egg and pretended to be a Yuanshui Linghe egg.
"Wait a minute." The young master sighed, "Although the attempt to deceive someone was successful, the amount of money defrauded is so huge. This is not a small crime."
"Let's do this. Qingluo Sea Storm Bay is short of people, so I'll fine you three years. Wang Xing, please make arrangements and give them some free chariot tickets."
Are you kidding me? Those casual cultivators looked at each other, dropped the "large goose eggs", then stood up and fled. But before they could fly far, the aura of a cultivator in the heavenly realm burst out: "You little bastards are so blind that the seventh young master gave you chariot tickets just to give you face."
It is natural that those few Lingtai realm casual cultivators with good strength were captured, and then according to the instructions of the young master, they will definitely be sent to Storm Bay.
The other casual cultivators all looked at each other in horror.
What is the origin of this young master? He actually carries a Celestial Realm guard with him...
Isn’t this bullying?
Next, Wang Anye bought a lot of gifts at a very suitable price, with a total value of no less than hundreds of thousands of gold.
Half an hour later.
On the chariot going to Baidaowei, Wang Anye leaned against the window, watching the rolling clouds, his face expressionless and bored. This kind of carefree life, where you can see the end at a glance, is really boring.
I can only do something to punish evil and promote good, to spice up my boring life.
That’s all!
Bake the big goose egg just now and eat it to relieve your boredom.
Wang Anye took out the "big goose egg", and the clear sunlight from the sky fell on the "big goose egg" through the glass porthole. The water spirit pattern on the goose egg suddenly bloomed, almost blinding Wang Anye's eyes.
"Wait! Is this the Yuanshuidao pattern?" Wang Anye touched his chin and thought carefully, "The eggs are mottled in color, rounded with ink spots at both ends, and weighs about a pound. He was born with Yuanshuidao patterns. Could it be... this?"
"Seventh-level spiritual bird, the egg of Yuanshui Tianque?"
"Congratulations, young master, congratulations, young master." The boys and guards on the side all congratulated one after another. Even the Celestial Realm guard sitting in the corner looked sideways. The life of these seven young masters must be too good.
?
"Aunt Li Yao happens to be of the Yuanshui bloodline. Let's drop by the academy and let her hatch and keep her as a pet." Wang Anye thought for a while and then decided its fate.
Wang Xing, the personal servant, asked weakly: "Young master, those casual cultivators and fraudsters? Are you still planning to go to Qingluo Sea Storm Bay?"
"Well, my great-grandfather said that they call it an attempted crime that was not terminated on their own initiative. Just because they were slapped in the eye does not affect their charges."
The young boy Wang Xing suddenly felt that those few Lingtai realm casual cultivators were unjustly accused. Not only did they catch a treasure, but they were stupid and bold enough to defraud the seventh young master... They had no idea how weird the seventh young master was!