Xuyun Dao is long, but Longshan Mansion is a well-known master.

It is said that this Taoist master has profound mana and has won the true inheritance of the Dragon and Tiger Dao. If you want to ask him to do business, you will have to pay a minimum of 200 gold for a carriage and horse, and you will have to increase the price depending on the distance of the road. Combined with the offerings and incense and candle materials used in the practice, the gold coins spent are definitely an astonishing number. It can be seen from this that the people of Changshan Town have despaired of the drought.

On weekdays, these hard-working peasants are reluctant to throw their money on it.

Because of the livelihood of the people in the town, almost the entire town of Changshan was alarmed. Before dawn in the morning, more than 3,000 villagers from Changshan Town poured into the open space at the east end of the town, crowding the already large area. If you count the displaced people who haven't gotten up yet and watched the excitement, the total number is only more than 4,000!

For Changshan Town, it may not be as lively as this once or twice a year.

Affected by the severe drought, the villagers of Changshan Town who rushed to the city did not have any sense of joy, their yellow and thin faces were full of sorrow, and they looked forward to the center of the clearing with a little hope. There, a dojo that came strictly according to the rules had been built, and all kinds of melons, fruits, incense, candles and other sacrifices had been put in place, just waiting for the Xuyun Daoist and his apprentices to arrive.

The person who came back half an hour ago to report the news said that the carriage and horses of the Xuyun Road were less than ten miles away from here.

Everyone hoped that this Daoist with profound Taoist skills would be able to communicate with nature and really bring a heavy rain to the town. But there are also some people who are well-versed in things and understand in their hearts that whether it rains or not depends on God's intentions, and the so-called Fa (meeting) is just to seek peace of mind. It's just that in such a situation, there are some things that cannot be said, and you can only wait patiently for the result.

Chen Wu also stood in the crowd with Sun Tian and waited.

As an important day, he got up early today and was fully prepared. His clothes and shoes were new, and the short knife he got from Dian Yong was also on his waist. Because he has been cultivating for a few days and eating well, his whole person looks completely different from before, and he has a strong taste.

It seemed that Chen Wuzheng was chatting with Sun Tian without saying a word, and his mind was actually all outside the town.

He, like everyone else, was waiting. It's just that thousands of Changshan townspeople are waiting for the Xuyun Dao Chief, who has traveled dozens of miles to pray for rain, while Chen Wu is waiting for the fast catchers and officers and soldiers sent down by Yicheng.

Although the requisitioning officials and officials were attacked by the black turban thieves, the government had no way to recover those losses. In order to recover their losses, there is only one way they can take, and that is - increase taxes!

And it's to die!

As for the name, this one is too much. If the empire wants to use troops against the tile thorns in the northwest, it is called "levying the western tax". What if one is not enough? Find a reason to pull the people to the border pass, travel thousands of miles, and bring their own dry food. Someone is afraid of death and doesn't want to go? Add a "husband tax exemption". Just find a few reasons casually, and you can force these simple and cowardly townspeople to obediently pay for the little wealth at the bottom of the box.

In the history of Empires, this project was aborted due to the tossing and turning of new players all over the world.

But this time, there are no hundreds of messengers of justice who have a strong sense of justice and can be resurrected infinitely.

Some, a player who made up his mind a few days ago to use these poor townsfolk as stepping stones!

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In the realm of Longshan Mansion, the scorching sun of midsummer has a terrifying heat.

Even if it's not yet morning, the temperature outside has already exceeded 30 degrees, and the blazing sun makes people can't open their eyes. Sun Tian in the crowd stomped his feet, and secretly regretted that he had forgotten to wear a straw hat when he came out. Chen Wu's body was also soaked with sweat, but at this time, he couldn't leave rashly, so he could only wipe his sweat with his sleeve and continue to wait patiently.

"It's coming, it's coming!"

I don't know who shouted, and the townspeople who had been waiting for a long time were in a commotion, and they rushed outside.

After waiting for nearly two hours, in the anticipation of thousands of Changshan townspeople, the frame of Master Xuyun finally appeared on the post road at the east end of the town. Seeing the appearance of this Taoist chief who had been entrusted with the heavy responsibility and high hopes of praying for rain, the townspeople cheered again, and a few devout believers were even more happy, silently reciting the sermon.

With the head of Xuyun Dao coming forward, the drought-stricken Changshan Town was finally saved.

Many of the townspeople and homeless people who hadn't eaten a full meal for a few days thought optimistically.

Chen Wu, who came from another civilization in another world, naturally would not believe in this foolish set. If it really rains when the Dharma (meeting) is held, then there will not be so many displaced people in Ganding Province, which has held six or seven rain prayer ceremonies, and there will be no Wudou Midao Uprising that swept through the four counties. He just held the player's detached attitude and followed the crowd to watch the excitement.

As one of the few leading figures in Changshan Town, Dian Yong is naturally also listed, and his position is relatively high in the front row.

This Haoqiang, who received a standard Eastern Continent-style elite education, is also not interested in this set. Because of his notoriety, he didn't even deliberately hide his senseless attitude. But everyone knows that he is not easy to mess with, but no one dares to say anything. And Dian Yong didn't break the rules, what the other characters on the head and face, he also followed, so that people couldn't find anything wrong.

Soon, with the Xuyun Daoist Chief, who was dressed in a green robe, ascended the altar with the support of his disciples, burned incense and candles, lit yellow paper filled with prayers for rain in advance, and began the ritual.

According to the predetermined process, this rain prayer ritual will last for at least two hours, and in the end, the Void Cloud Dao Chief will also use the "Secret Collection" talisman of the Dragon and Tiger Dao to help the boundary of Changshan Town call for wind and rain. It looked like that was the case, but only Chen Wu knew that this Fa (meeting) would take another quarter of an hour at most, and it would be forced to stop.

The people of the government are coming!

Although Chen Wu's activities will inevitably affect this world, and then cause changes in all aspects. But the general trend of "Empire" is not so easy to influence. Moreover, from his rebirth to the present, what he has done has not even affected the small place of Changshan Town, and naturally it will not implicate Yicheng, which is dozens of miles away.

The fact that the brigade was catching as scheduled is the best proof of this.

After all, not long ago, there was a big case of black turban thieves attacking the government officials at night, and the Yicheng officials sent down this time specially strengthened their defenses, bringing twice as many people as last time, and there was also a team of officers and soldiers from the city defense battalion.

The military system of the empire was heavily influenced by the Western Continent, with a team of ten people, a team of 100 people, and a wing of 1,000 people. Yicheng is a small county, with a population of only tens of thousands, neither a threat from an enemy country nor a strategic location, and there are only two brigades in the city defense battalion, plus a team of four light cavalry. But even so, it can still play a pivotal role at the local level. It's a pity that after three hundred years of peace in the empire, the brigades of these two city defense battalions have long been rotten. It is said that there are 200 people, but the actual soldiers are not even 100, and all the others are paid in name.

In this way, among the remaining 100 people, there are still many old, weak, sick and disabled.

Of the four teams of cavalry, even fewer were still able to fight, and many of them didn't even have horses.

In order to levy taxes this time and deter the villagers of Changshan Town, the warden also took a lot of effort this time, carefully selected ten people who looked a little energetic from a group of unusable big-headed soldiers, and received a set of armor and swords from the treasury, waving a brand new banner, beating and scolding, and set off yesterday. finally drove them for dozens of miles, and barely maintained their reliance on Changshan.

In the eyes of the well-informed Chen Wu, the soldiers of this city defense battalion are purely bluffing, and they can't even count the four words "strong outside and middle cadres". But in the eyes of the uninformed townspeople of Changshan, this group of soldiers with weapons and armor is like wolves and tigers, and they are murderous.

Seeing such a group of officers and soldiers and a large group of arresters rushing to the town, and the nearly 4,000 townspeople gathered here, all of them felt a strong sense of uneasiness in their hearts. The aftermath of the requisition has not yet dissipated, and these townspeople are really worried that these government people will come to oppress them again.

In fact, they really guessed right!