A great battle ended with the retreat of the Great Wei army.

However, most of the dependents under Luo Shen's command have been crippled, and the construction that was originally in full swing has been stopped for a while, and the entire mountain base that has begun to take shape has been reduced to a large area of uninhabited ruins.

And.

The Great Wei court was not incompetent, and after the army withdrew from the mountains, the generals who commanded the battle immediately reported to the court, detailing in the recital that they had seen and heard about the special abilities of the white-haired demon boy to "bewitch people's hearts" and "turn civilians into demons".

This time.

Even the imperial court, which has a strong bureaucratic atmosphere, has taken it seriously in the face of this kind of demon that can set off civil unrest in a short period of time. Immediately, the nearby state capitals and counties were ordered, and all began to defend strictly.

Not only did it completely seal off this huge mountain range, but it also quickly mobilized manpower and material resources to build a walled fort and block all major outlets.

Presumably, he was determined to trap this demon in the form of a white-haired boy in this mountain.

Of course, the rulers of vast states with 8,000 miles of mountains and rivers fought back when they found the possibility of overthrowing their rule.

Soon.

A large number of people from the rivers and lakes and people dressed as monks and Taoists began to gather in Linguo County, Nanyang County, Guobei County, Guodong County, and Guocheng in the east of Hefu City near the mountain.

After some inquiry, people who don't know the inside story found out that the imperial court was actually rewarding the world with a reward of 10,000 taels of silver, pardoning the identity of a real person or a mage, and the benefits of opening a temple to take the life of the white-haired demon boy!

How much is 10,000 taels of silver worth?

You must know that ordinary people in Dawei only earn about 100 yuan a day of labor. The price of inferior rice is about sixty or seventy yuan a liter.

It's just enough for a family of three to barely eat two meals.

This is to say that people with little appetite.

Under normal circumstances, ordinary families have limited access to the able-bodied labour, and women and children who cannot earn money are in fact often in a state of hunger.

In Dawei, one tael of silver is worth a thousand dollars, which is equal to the income of a coolie for nearly ten days.

A few hundred taels of silver can be used to buy an ordinary shop in the city, or to buy a good house, so there is no need to say how attractive these ten thousand taels of silver are.

But if it's just money, it's okay to attract those ordinary people and Taoist priests.

But how many of those real Taoist and Buddhist masters care about worldly property?

Then.

What really attracts them is the identity of the real person or mage pardoned by the imperial court, and the most important thing is the benefit of opening a temple!

Speaking of which, we have to mention the division of practitioners among countries today.

The kingdom of the heavens.

For cultivators who have power beyond mortals, there is an attitude of three points of awe and seven points of rejection.

In the past dynasties, there are definitely no lack of cases of cultivators using the law to disrupt discipline and confuse the monarch with magic.

Therefore.

In order to balance these practitioners, they were punished with the large-scale slaughter of the Buddha and the forbidden path and the burning of the Dao Sutra and the pit of warlocks that occurred in every dynasty.

During the period when the contradictions between the two sides eased slightly, the imperial courts of various countries pardoned those Taoist priests and temples who were willing to attach themselves to the imperial court and do things for the imperial court as orthodox monks.

As long as these people thought that the court would do things and kill the rebellious demons, the court would give them some power.

For example, in the Great Wei Dynasty, temples and Taoist temples throughout the country did not have to pay taxes, and monks and Taoists with official documents could also live in temples and Taoist temples in various places by virtue of their degree orders when they traveled around the world.

And the identity of the so-called "real person" and "mage" is the rank of the highest-level Taoist priest and monk in the official system of the Great Wei.

On the surface, it's just a title.

But in fact, once you get the title of real person or mage, you have the right to open a temple and build a temple, and if you don't kneel when you see an official, you will immediately ascend to heaven, and from then on you will have "wealth" and "land".

Immediately a large number of civilians, who were overwhelmed by the taxes, sold their land and became serfs in temples or Taoist temples.

It can be said that this is exactly what the monks of the world attach the most importance to.

Now.

The Great Wei Imperial Court offered such generous conditions, and those regular Taoist Buddhist temples naturally sent people to respond, and those wild cultivators who had no identity also rushed to the sky, wanting to ascend to the sky with this matter.

……

The mountains are lush and verdant.

Because there are few human tracks other than woodcutters and hunters who go into the mountains to make a living, the road into the mountains is only a few rugged paths.

Further down, it is often necessary to go through the forest and over the mountains, and cross the waterfall against the stream.

Finally.

When the group turned over the last hill, an open valley surrounded by mountains appeared in front of them, and among them, bathed in the sun, it was the magic city established by the legendary white-haired demon boy!

However......

When many monks cautiously tried to sneak into the city, they were stunned to find that this dilapidated "city" was already empty and uninhabited.

Not to mention the news of the "Demon Mountain" brought back by the Wei Army, that is, even half of the demon has not been seen.

And at the same time that all the monks in the world pounced.

A family who allegedly offended people in their hometown in the south and relocated to Guobei County quietly bought a large mansion outside Guobei County.

Not a few days.

This family also bought all the fields of 100 nearby families and the surrounding mountains and forests and wasteland, and recruited long-term tenant farmers, as if it had become another large family with more than 100 acres of fertile land in Guobei County.

Rumors.

This family is actually the family of a certain official in the south, just to avoid it, so they came here to spend money to buy family property.

Some people also say that this family is actually a water thief somewhere in the south, who robbed the silver transported by the government and attracted the pursuit, so they ran here incognito......

There are many opinions.

But all that is true cannot be proven.

When the county magistrate of Guobei County heard about this, he also sent someone to investigate, but after a day or two of these arrests, those who returned were all found to have no such matter.

There was no robbery of the silver in the south, and there was no investigation into whether there was a high-ranking official behind the family.

It's just that the county magistrate of Guobei County didn't notice that the relationship between these catchers he sent seemed to have changed a little delicately after he went out.

The original intrigue, the struggle for merit is gone.

All that remains is a group of amiable and efficient work.

What he had no way of knowing.

Since then, there has been an atmosphere of outsiders in Guobei County, as little as one person, more than 100 caravans, and after taking the procedures handled by the county government, they will go to all parts of the Great Wei Dynasty.

Rice merchants, tea merchants, cloth merchants......

All kinds of industries are available.

Most of these people are new to those industries, so naturally most of them lose money, and very few make money.

However, for some reason, none of these caravans, large and small, flinched.

still went to all parts of the country with silver taels.

It's weird.