Chapter 129: Resurrection
After the independence of the state, according to the laws of the Celestial Empire, the power of the local government and the state was given, and the original old city lord also became a state taishou naturally, and everyone in the government was promoted to the top of the rank. In the eyes of ordinary people, this is a great thing, but in the eyes of the current state capital, they will be uncomfortable in the future.
In the years following independence, the number of people in the state became smaller and smaller, until it reached less than 100,000.
The land is eroded by the sea breeze all the year round, and most of the agricultural crops cannot be sown, only relying on the natural fishing grounds on the edge of the border to fish for a living, and now the fishing grounds are gone, and the state is too shou to make this place exist, which can be described as painstaking.
For example, raising silkworms to make silk, but before the silk is ready, a large number of silkworms in the workshop die, and then they use mountain wood to make furniture, and the trees are damp, and they are scattered and rarely sold out, until no one buys them anymore. In addition to these, there are many, many more, but in the end they have all failed, and they should be poor or poor.
When a state does not have enough economic capacity to maintain the people's life, you can directly write a letter of request to the imperial court, and then there will be officials to investigate, if it is true, the imperial court will provide relief subsidies to the people, they can leave here, they can continue to stay here, and from now on, there will be no more irrigation on the map of the Celestial Empire, and all the officials in the state will be allocated, and this will become a desolate place.
One night, the governor of the prefecture summoned all the officials to discuss the issue of dissolving the prefecture with the imperial court, and in less than a quarter of an hour, everyone reached a consensus, that is, to submit the request.
The next day, Taishou had prepared the letter and wanted to send it to the imperial court immediately, but on this day, a personable Xiucai with the official order stamped by the emperor himself stopped at the gate of the state capital on a white horse, and looked at the old Taishou who had just stepped on the carriage with one foot, he looked at the state capital building that lacked a bit of delicacy, and said with a smile:
"Excuse me, is this the capital of Yuzhou?"
The old lady looked at him carefully, and saw that he had an outstanding temperament, he must be a scholar, and asked politely: "Exactly, why did Xiaoyou come?"
He didn't say that he was Taishou, anyway, this Taishou's hat could be worn for two days at most.
The scholar on the back of the white horse turned over, looked like he was standing firmly on the ground with both hands, and took out a yellow cloth scroll from his arms, which he slowly opened, revealing the golden dragon totem seal behind the scroll.
Seeing this, the old lady widened her eyes and took a closer look, and suddenly her legs and feet weakened, and she knelt down with a thud when she took a few steps back, leaning down and putting her palms on the ground, and the other officials present did the same.
In the middle of the sound, the old lady said in a somewhat hoarse voice: "Long live my king, long live, long live!"
The scholar coughed twice, said a word of please, and began to read:
"Fengtian carrier, the emperor's edict said, today the state ......"
The old lady stood up and patted the dust on her clothes, and listened carefully, probably meaning that the court knew the difficulties of Shuzhou, and when she heard the end, she only heard him say: "In order to reduce the suffering of Shuzhou and the pain of the people, Song Huanduo is specially appointed as the new Taishou, effective immediately, and the current Taishou Ma Shun is old and weak, and then supplies fifty taels of gold every month, enjoy the old age, Qin!"
After that, scholar Song Huanduo stepped up the steps and entered the attached middle school, leaving only one sentence: "Come in quickly and give the official." ”
The old lady grabbed the back of her head, put the letter in her arms, and trotted in.
In the main hall of the state capital, after the official awarding ceremony, Song Huanduo changed into Ma Shun's five-clawed rattan yellow robe, representing the lord of a state.
And Ma Shun was dressed in white, he stroked his black and white beard, and said softly: "That...... Song Taishou, I see that I should know the situation in Yuzhou, it can no longer be maintained, you have a good future, why did you come to this barren land?"
Saying this, he took out the letter of invitation he had prepared earlier, and said with a helpless smile: "If you are one step later, I am afraid that there will be no more such a world as Irrigation in the future." “
Song Huanduo sat unceremoniously on the seat of the Taishou, watched him take out a letter, stretched out his right hand and raised his sleeve, his five fingers were bent, and a blue spiritual power flowed out, forming an invisible pull, sending the letter in Ma Shun's hand to his hand.
The old lady looked surprised, took a few steps back, and if it wasn't for the person next to her to support her, she would have sat down.
"Cultivator?!"
He exclaimed, in this area of Yuzhou, nine out of ten people are fishermen, and besides, the former was a small city in Sampanzhou, and there are almost no cultivators, even if there are, they have already gone out on their own, where do they still stay here.
After reading the contents of the letter, Song Huanduo smiled lightly, spiritual power overflowed from the palm of his hand, twisted the letter paper into powder, flew away, and then said confidently: "Don't be afraid, with me, you can rest assured!"
In this way, Song Huanduo became the Taishou, and in the next ten days, he traveled all over the prefecture and thoroughly understood the local situation.
He smiled a little wryly, before he came, he thought that he had guessed enough to guess the badness of this place, but he was still too young to really see through, if you want to use one word to describe the environment of this place, it is miserable, not the worst, only worse. There are swamps and rotten puddles everywhere, there is not a single loess that can grow food normally, and there are not a few good trees growing in the only mountain.
But these are not what he is worried about, he is not here to grow food, but to revive the former prosperity of this place, that is, to make this place become the "land of ten thousand fish" again!
Half a month later, he gathered a group of fishermen to the east coast, where the rough waves continued to crash against the cliffs and make a whistling sound.
Song Huanduo stood with his hands in his hands, looking at the sea, and an old fisherman beside him bent over and said respectfully: "My lord, this is the place where the current used to meet, but as early as thirty years ago, this place became like this, and there are no good fish products coming here, since then, our fishermen's life here is not as good as day by day!"
Song Huanduo nodded, he had read thousands of books, and naturally knew that it was because of the convergence of cold and warm currents in the sea, most fish came here, especially good fish species, but due to climate change, the intersection gradually moved away from the coast, and the fish followed. This is very uncomfortable for the people, who can barely survive by fishing.
Song Huanduo, who had always kept the scholar's smile, his face became calm, the dantian spiritual power came out vigorously, and the water element spiritual power surrounded his whole body, at this time, he was just thirty, and his cultivation had reached the lower grade of the Mahayana realm, and he already had the ability to be a master. Several officials and fishermen beside him shivered a little, and they retreated a few meters in fright, for fear that Yu Shi would cause harm to him.
Song Huanduo snorted, the spiritual power in his hand condensed into substance, and the pure blue spiritual power corresponded with the sea water. The spiritual power melted into the water, and the water stood still at this moment, and slowly, counterclockwise, formed a huge whirlpool, and the water flowing around it poured into the middle hole.
After this lasted for about a quarter of an hour, Song Taishou's forehead was already sweating profusely, and the fishermen and officials were confused, and they couldn't touch their heads for a while, not knowing what this new Taishou was going to do, but it looked quite powerful.
Everyone didn't speak, just watched carefully, and after another quarter of an hour, a miracle finally appeared, the corners of Song Huanduo's mouth rose, revealing white teeth, looking extremely happy, and looking along his line of sight, he saw that around the whirlpool, two golden big carps swam around it.
"Haha!"
Song Huanduo laughed, he put his hands together, the spiritual power on the water exploded, the whirlpool was chaotic, the waves waved, and two large carps that were two and a half feet long were shocked into the air.
The body of the fish was crystal clear, and the scales of the fish that were originally golden shone more and more golden under the sunlight, and many old fishermen were extremely excited when they saw the situation, their pupils were bright, their mouths were open and round, and some of them couldn't help but cry out.
"It's been thirty years, it's been thirty years!
Song Huanduo picked up the huge fishing net under his feet, his legs and feet were forceful, his whole body jumped into the air, his arms were outstretched, and the two fish were framed.
After falling to the ground, the net was flung and the fish returned to the water, but at the moment it was trapped by the net and could not escape.
Taishou pulled the twitching tail of the net, took out a stake, and nailed it to the ground.
He clapped his hands, and the sea breeze made him feel good, and he turned back, looked at the crowd, and said with satisfaction:
"How?"
Hearing this, everyone reacted, knelt down in unison, and spoke in unison.
"Your Excellency is wise, your adult is wise!"
Song Huanduo was stunned, he just got two big carps, and before he could use his trick, the people were so excited, not to mention, he was not a person who liked to be bowed down to by people just now, and hurriedly told them to stand up quickly.
Everyone gathered on the shore, and some children who came with their parents pointed to the big carp and said innocently with shining eyes: "Wow! Is that the golden big carp in the book, so beautiful!"
Song Huanduo heard their joyful words, his heart was like the wind and waves on the sea, the waves were rising, he was extremely excited, and said to himself: "It is really wonderful to leave the family that is fighting for power and profit, and come to a place where there is no dispute with the world to be a petty official and benefit the people!"
After a moment, Taishou raised his hand and made a quiet gesture.
"Okay, okay, everyone, take a step back, leave me some space, something good happens!"
When the people heard this, they immediately walked back, to a distant place, leaving a large area for him. Song Huanduo was stunned for a while, and said with a wry smile in his heart: "The space left here is also too big!"
Thinking of this, he came back to his senses, looked at the two carps under his feet, he snorted, and his spiritual power expanded out again, condensing in front of his hands, forming two darts, pushing out with both palms, and the darts struck away like a bamboo.
"Smack!"
The actual spiritual power entered the carp's body, and suddenly there was a blur of flesh and blood, and large pieces of flesh rose into the air.
Everyone standing far away was shocked to see it, and some rubbed their eyes to make sure that it was a piece of carp meat.
"Adult ......"
Song Huanduo ignored it and continued to cast the spell, and the spiritual power in his hand suddenly softened, transforming into pink light and rising into the air to wrap the fish pieces.
In an instant, the meat was hovering in the air, and when you counted it, there were hundreds of pieces!
With a wave in his hand, the pink light and soft spiritual power seeped into the Dao fish flesh little by little, until more and more spiritual power seeped in, and in just a moment and a half, the meat was about to grow at a speed visible to the naked eye!
Bigger and bigger, longer and longer!
Gradually, the flesh is about to deform and become carp-shaped, and the golden scales emerge from the flesh like tender grass.
In the eyes of everyone, hundreds of golden carp are growing incredibly.
Half a zhang long, one zhang long!
Song Huanduo's dantian spiritual power was about to be exhausted, and when the carp grew the last half zhang long, the spiritual power dispersed, and Taishou sat on the ground, panting heavily, sweating like rain on his face, baring his teeth, but he was excited to watch a hundred golden carps one and a half zhang long fall into the net below.
The officers and soldiers behind him had their eyes straight and their expressions were sluggish, and you and I looked at each other and ran up quickly, driving forward and tiptoeing on the edge of the cliff, opening their mouths to look. As everyone knows, there is also a Song Taishou on the cliff, and this crowd is surging, almost squeezing him down.
He stood up cautiously, raised his arms, and said loudly, "Everyone, don't be impatient, don't be impatient!"
As soon as he spoke, everyone also stopped, took a few steps back, and gathered on him with a very grateful look in their eyes.
Song Huanduo stroked his scattered sideburns with a smile, pointed to the carp under the water, and said: "This is one hundred and twenty-seven golden carp, although it is only one and a half zhang long, but it is also a real good quality, take it to the fish market, and you can buy a hundred taels of gold without one!"
When everyone heard this, they knelt down again, and some old fishermen naturally knew in their hearts that the eastern part of the Celestial Empire that has been along the coast, whether it is the North Sea, the East China Sea, or the South China Sea, there are almost no rare species like this, only the deep sea far away from the coastline will appear, a hundred years ago because of a continental climate change, the cold and warm currents that should have been located in the center of the convergence drifted here, and after a few decades, the climate recovered, and the intersection point went back.
And now, if you can hit such a golden carp, you can sell it for a hundred taels, you can sell it for a thousand taels, and there is still no shortage of rich people in this world.
"Your Excellency is wise, your adult is wise!"
"Adults are our reborn parents!"
Song Huanduo was going to ask them to do how to distribute, but he saw the collective kneeling again, although he had been an official for many years, he did not like to be bowed down to others, or to bow down to others.
"Everyone, get up, you can't kneel!"
Song Huanduo stepped forward to support an old fisherman who looked to be eighty years old, and pulled him up, but he refused to get up, his eyes were already full of old tears, he was excited, his lips trembled up and down, and he said hoarsely: " My lord, for 30 years, you are really powerful, even the golden carp can get it, but in these 30 years, the coastline is rolling waves every day, the environment is harsh, not to mention this rare fish, even the plopping fish and shrimp are difficult to appear, we can only rely on fishing for a living, we can only rely on the old book left back in the year to live, day by day!"
"And today, you have summoned carp for us, I don't know how many people's food and clothing have been solved!"
Song Huanduo didn't laugh, he only had sympathy in his heart, and listened to them constantly echo: "Yes, my lord, my lord is really a living bodhisattva, a great immortal!"
He turned his head and saw a young woman pressing her three-year-old child's head with her palm, pressing it down vigorously as she said, "Huzi, quickly kowtow to the adults!"
Song Taishou wanted to stop him, but he heard him shout nervously Dad, and there were three rings in a row.
The young woman shrank her neck in fear, hugged her child's head, bowed her head and immediately said, "My lord forgives my sins, but the child is ignorant, so I will teach him a lesson!"
After speaking, she tore open the child's pants to reveal her white and tender buttocks, and was about to hit it with one hand, Song Huanduo reached out and held the arm that contributed to it, smiled slightly, and said, "No need, how can I be qualified to be this child's father, and I can't be scolded to death by his own father?"
"His father went to the sea to fish, and he didn't come back. ”
The young woman subconsciously said that he was afraid that Song Taishou would blame her.
Song Huanduo was stunned for a moment, her heart was a little complicated, let go of her hand, and let her be afraid of hitting the child's buttocks, the child was a little sensible, but she didn't scream.
He raised his head, walked to the shore, closed his eyes, and said softly: "Coming back to life, I'm afraid I won't be able to find a second person in this world with my excellent healing physique, but my father actually asked me to be the deputy general of the imperial court, help the imperial court suppress foreign tribes, expand the territory and seal the territory, it is really helping to abuse the people, so that the people are not at peace!"
"Now I hide my physique, please come to this desolate place, if I can bring this place back to the old days and benefit the people, it will be thousands of times better than him provoking war!"