Episode 15 The great changes in Xiaoyu County
Winter has gone to spring, and it has been almost three years since the Blue Star Autonomous Group came to Xiaoyu County. In the past three years, www.biquge.info the Blue Star Autonomous Group has been developing in an orderly manner in accordance with their plan, combining the knowledge on the earth with the production experience on the Blue Star Island, and giving full play to the stage of Xiaoyu County.
They first expanded the new camp, not only expanding the original camp several times, building sturdy cement houses, warehouses and factories, but also cultivating farmland and planting crops brought from Blue Star Island. With the continuous development of various industries of the autonomous group, all kinds of trade are becoming more and more frequent, and the camp is full of people coming and going every day, even more lively than Xiaoyu County. Because the new camp was built by the Blue Star Autonomous Group, people gradually called this place "Blue Star Camp", and this place name also spread to all parts of Li County with the activities of the residents of Xiaoyu County.
In the Lanxing camp, the people of the autonomous regiment have successively built modern factories such as metallurgical factories, metal processing factories, textile factories, brick factories, chemical factories and fertilizer factories, and also used water conservancy and wind power to build more than ten mills, employing a large number of residents of Xiaoyu County as workers, and can produce a large number of industrial products every day. Although the equipment and technology of these factories are still quite rudimentary, and the products produced are certainly not comparable with those on the earth, they are very popular with the residents of Xiaoyu County.
For the products produced, some of them are used by the autonomous group itself, and the others are all sold to the surrounding areas of Xiaoyu County. A variety of new production tools greatly enhanced the local production capacity of Xiaoyu County, and soon replaced various original tools in local hands. However, the people of the Autonomous Mission also pay attention to technical secrecy, and they firmly control the production technology and capabilities in their own hands, eliminating any possible competitors, and constantly developing more and newer products. Gradually, the products of the Blue Star Camp have become an indispensable existence for the locals, and there are endless people who buy goods in Xiaoyu County every day, and the Blue Star Autonomous Group is also making a lot of profits in trading, and has accumulated huge wealth while promoting the development of local production.
The members of the autonomous group also cooperated with some local farmers to set up cooperative farms. They sent people familiar with agricultural production to guide production, adopted all kinds of new tools to apply to farming, popularized the new varieties they had cultivated on Lanxing Island, and used chemical fertilizers and pesticides to greatly increase the output of grain and other crops, and in just one season, the grain output increased several times, which was much more than the harvest of other local farmers.
Seeing the benefits of joining the cooperative farm, other farmers have applied to join the Blue Star Autonomous Group, and other farmers who have not joined the farm have also had various kinds of cooperation with the Blue Star Autonomous Group. In less than a year, the Blue Star Autonomous Group monopolized the production of almost all farmland in Xiaoyu County, made a lot of money just by relying on grain seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, etc., and also bought a large number of apprentices, becoming a real "big landlord".
The mercenaries and hunters of Xiaoyu County also benefited immensely from the Blue Star Battalion. They purchased single-shot rifles, replacing traditional cold weapons such as bows, arrows, swords, etc., which greatly improved their combat effectiveness, and even made great gains in participating in the hunting of demon beasts. When the elders of Xiaoyu City saw this, they immediately let all the militia teams in the county be equipped with this rifle, and also hired Schroeder and others as instructors to train the army according to the model on the earth, and practice shooting every day, and soon formed a strong combat effectiveness, and the militia team suddenly underwent earth-shaking changes.
The wealthy Blue Star Autonomous Group did not hide their wealth, in addition to constantly expanding production, they also spent a lot of effort on the construction of towns in Xiaoyu City. Not only paid for the maintenance of the city wall, some houses belonging to the town presbyterian church were transformed into brick houses, but also built a large number of public facilities in the city, built toilets, expanded the streets, laid the underground drainage system, and built schools and hospitals, transforming Xiaoyu City into a prototype close to the modern city.
In addition, Lin Da also specially provided a large number of cultivation materials for Shen Hao, the guardian monk of the Shen family, the largest family in the city. The autonomous group sent a special operations team led by Schroeder, led by the local militia, to land on the magic lizard island where Linda had been back then, and killed more than a dozen monitor lizards in one go, and obtained a large number of precious and abnormal cultivation materials. Lin Da gave Shen Hao the demon cores he got for free to help him cultivate. After obtaining this precious cultivation material, Shen Hao's cultivation progressed by leaps and bounds, and after several months of retreat, he broke through the peak of the Qi Realm in one breath and entered the Realm Realm, becoming a rare Realm Cultivator among the scattered cultivators.
These achievements of the Blue Star Autonomous Group have naturally been supported and affirmed by Xiaoyu County, and its prestige and majesty are increasing day by day, and even faintly surpassing those cultivators in people's hearts. As a result, Grant, Linda and others were elected as elder members by the county council of elders and became the "parent officials" of Xiaoyu County. Many members of the autonomous group were also warmly welcomed by the local people, and many of them also married wives and had children in the local area, and they blended well with the locals. The Blue Star Autonomous Group has also nearly doubled its size due to its integration with the locals.
It was time for another year to pay tribute, and as in previous years, Baron Lisheng sat in a wide carriage and marched all the way from Lijun to Xiaoyu County with a mighty tribute procession, collecting the tribute that must be paid every year from the counties along the way. But unlike previous years, when he came to several counties adjacent to Xiaoyu County, he found that it became more and more lively. The closer to Xiaoyu County, the more the population, the traffic and horses are like shuttles, the pedestrian spirit is high, the complexion is healthy, the road is wide, the houses are gradually more, and there is a faint style of a prosperous city.
Although Baron Lisheng was greatly surprised by this, he was even more looking forward to how many personal benefits he could reap from this tribute. For an aristocratic cultivator like him, he usually cultivates in his own cave mansion, rarely goes out, is basically indifferent to the mortal world, and leaves everything to the mortals of the family to do, and only when it comes to the annual tribute season, he will strive to obtain the title of a tribute official in order to obtain some benefits.
And Baron Lisheng didn't know that because of his low status in the clan, he always couldn't get a good tribute position, and the counties he was responsible for collecting tribute were the most remote and poor areas in Lixian. It was not easy for these counties to complete the heavy tribute tasks, and there were not many private benefits to give him, which made him extremely dissatisfied, and he could hardly raise his head in front of several other colleagues who were in charge of other tribute tasks. But since last year, everything has been different, although these counties are still shouting poverty in front of him, hoping to reduce some Wang Gong, but the benefits given to him personally have suddenly increased, especially Xiaoyu County, the benefits given to him last year have increased several times, which makes him have a good impression of Xiaoyu County. What's more, because of the increase in this kind of private benefits, he can also get more benefits from the elders of the Bajie clan, which also makes his status in Lijun improve a lot, and suppresses those few fellow Nagong officials again.
"Hehe, I don't know what kind of surprise there is in Xiaoyu County this time? It's really strange, this place somehow, has undergone such a change, how did it suddenly become rich? Could it be that some spiritual cave spirit vein suddenly appeared, making the mortals there smarter? It's not right, how can there be a spiritual vein in that kind of remote place where the spiritual energy is thin!" Baron Li Sheng sat comfortably in the carriage and enjoyed the services of several sexy young mortal women, while constantly guessing.
At this time, the tribute team slowly walked on the road outside Xiaoyu County. This road, which was originally muddy and narrow last year, was actually changed into a stone road at this time, and the carriage of the tribute team walked smoothly and vigorously, which also made the Li Sheng inside extremely comfortable.
Soon, the tribute team came to the gate of Xiaoyu County, and the county elders waited here early as before. For more than a year, there have been a few new faces in the Presbyterian Church, and the heads of several Blue Star Autonomous Groups such as Grant and Linda are also impressively listed.
"Shen Wen, the magistrate of Xiaoyu County, is here to wait for Lord Lisheng!"
Shen Wen stepped forward and said loudly. Compared with the nervous and uneasy appearance of Wei Wei Shinuo when he saw the nobles of Lijun before, Shen Wen now has more confidence and confidence, and his attitude towards Li Sheng is not too humble. The reason for this is naturally that Xiaoyu County privately sent a huge amount of silver to Lisheng last year. In the face of wealth, even cultivators are not exempt from vulgarity. With such a premise, Shen Wen naturally did not have the same concerns as before.
"Hahaha! Brother Shen doesn't need to be polite, please hurry up!" Li Sheng actually had a very friendly attitude, and called the mortal who was still very despised more than a year ago a brother.
After greeting Shen Wen, he saw Shen Hao next to Shen Wen again, and couldn't help but say in surprise: "It turned out to be Shen Daoyou! I didn't expect that in less than a year, Brother Shen had also entered the realm of cultivation, which is really gratifying!"
"Don't dare! It's just a fluke to break through the realm under the ground, and besides, Lord Li praises it!" Shen Hao hurriedly said. Although he is at the same level as Li Sheng in the cultivation realm, Li Sheng has stayed in this realm for an unknown number of years, and he knows a lot of various exercises and spells, which is naturally not comparable to him.
"Hehe, seeing that I have another Realm Monk in Lijun, as a person from Lifu, of course I'm happy!" Li Shengpi said with a smile, he glanced at the people of the County Elders' Church, and immediately stopped his gaze on the two new faces, it was Grant and Linda, and said strangely: "Are these two also new members of the County Elders' Council? Hey, isn't this the one who killed the pirate monk before? It turns out that you have also become an elder." ”
Hearing Li Sheng mention himself, Lin Da hurriedly surrendered his hand to him. Shen Wen called Linda and Grant up, specially introduced Li Sheng, and greatly praised their actions in Xiaoyu County over the past year. Although Li Sheng was a little surprised, as a cultivator, he didn't pay much attention to this change in mortals, and just asked in passing.
Seeing that Li Sheng looked a little absent-minded, Shen Wen hurriedly turned his words to the topic: "Lord Li, we have already prepared the tribute this time, a total of 20,000 catties of rice, 300 cattle and sheep, a number of other miscellaneous items, 8,000 taels of silver, and 32 pieces of demon cores, demon skins and other materials...... Please be a list of tributes, please take a look at it. With that, he respectfully handed over a piece of parchment, which was densely enumerated with tributes to be handed over this season.
"No need, Brother Shen does things, I've always been at ease! This official came all the way, he was a little sleepy, and he wanted to rest first, these things, let's talk about them later!" Li Sheng waved his hand and said casually.
"Don't worry, Lord Li, we have already prepared the room and banquet, just waiting for Lord Li to come, please come with me!" Shen Wen said with a smile, and hurriedly brought this noble monk into the city.