It's a new year.

Liu Qing spent the New Year in Gumu County and did not return to Liuzhen.

Compared with Liuzhen, Gumu County is larger, has a larger population, and Xu Qingfeng, an increasingly authoritarian magistrate, is here, so it is more convenient to promote the belief in incense.

There is even greater potential for development here.

Liuzhen's side has developed well, and there are thousands of believers in one town, and no matter how deep you dig deeper, there is not much potential.

At most, the expansion can only be expanded in the area of the museum county, and if it radiates outside the museum county, it may cause trouble.

It is better to develop Gumu County into a second base area.

After all, this side is the border, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, the imperial court is in a free-range state on this side, and the influence of the Dao Palace on this side is negligible, and it is a good place worth developing.

After the bandits were cleared, the law and order situation in Gumu County improved, and there were slowly began to be individual pedestrians on the road, and there were no attacks.

The sinners here, each of them can get twenty or thirty acres of land, and they are very tired, and most of the grain they grow has to be handed over to the government.

However, as long as you work hard, as long as there are no major natural disasters, you can completely fill your stomach and have a slight surplus.

This kind of life seems to be quite hard and tiring, but compared with most ordinary people in the mainland, it is even better than their lives.

There are bandits, and they live cautiously, and they do have some resentment about life, but the main thing is not to complain about the government, but to complain about those bandits.

The complaints against the government are also complaining about why they didn't exterminate those bandits.

Now that the bandits have really been destroyed, they are only grateful to the government.

It seems ironic that they are grateful to those who have harvested two-thirds of their harvest, to those who have made them serve more than 100 days of forced labor a year, and in good faith.

But that's exactly what it is.

In their hearts, it is natural that they must pay grain for planting.

This land was given to them by the government.

Turning over two-thirds of the harvest is indeed a bit high, but for those landlords to farm the land, some will also harvest seventy percent of the harvest.

Conscription has always existed before.

What existed before they were born, in their opinion, was justified and reasonable.

And the newly arrived magistrate led the officers and soldiers to exterminate the bandits, which in their opinion, was a great kindness.

The previous magistrate had a good record in governing the county, and he was promoted to become the prefect.

But that's just the opinion of the imperial court.

In the minds of the people of this county, that magistrate is not so good.

Because the rent is collected too much.

encountered the invasion of a strong enemy, and was able to complete the grain task issued by the imperial court, not because the magistrate had special farming skills, but because he found other reasons to collect more grain from the homes of those criminals.

Some bandits just couldn't bear that kind of looting so they chose to go into the mountains to become bandits.

In the minds of those criminals, the previous magistrate was too harsh on them.

He is a good official in the eyes of the imperial court, but he is not a good official in their eyes.

However, the newcomer did not collect much more of their grain, and did not even go to the countryside to collect grain, so they handed it over by themselves.

For them, it's too generous.

Moreover, it also cleared out bandits, so that they could go out to produce with peace of mind.

Compared with the before and after, the people here feel very good about the new magistrate county.

The most grateful is the new Chenghuang.

There are many stories about how the city god manifested himself during the anti-bandit operation.

Some stories have been exaggerated to the point that they can't be done, as if all the bandits were destroyed by the city god.

These ordinary people have basically never read any books, and they can't understand the teachings of the saints when they talk to them, but when they talk to them about ghosts, ghosts, gods, and gods, it is easy for them to believe it.

Xu Qingfeng ordered every village to build a temple of the city god, telling them that in this way they could be protected by the city god.

They all believed such reasons.

They carried out such an order very well, and after receiving the order, they opened the whole order, and it only took a day or two to build the Chenghuang Temple.

It's not the kind of Chenghuang Temple in the county, it doesn't have such a big size, it is to take some bricks and stones to build a small temple covering an area of two or three square meters, and paste the statue of the god from the Chenghuang Temple, put a wooden case in front of the statue, and put a vessel that can insert incense, that is a temple.

Such temples are spread to all the villages in Gumu County, which has increased the number of people in Liu Qing's incense burners a lot.

It also made his believers burn more incense, and their divine power increased faster.

Another unexpected benefit is that the incense stick workshop opened by the Liu family here has exploded, and the product is in short supply.

In desperation, the Liu family expanded the scale of the workshop and invited more female workers to join.

- Some time ago, because of the bandits, I rescued a lot of women, and those women stayed in Gumu County, and most of them married farmers in Gumu County.

The women, children, and elderly people of the Great Qianguo do not have to serve forced labor, and the land is still those lands, and they do not have to serve forced labor, and those women have more free time, which is just the right way to make a living, support themselves, and subsidize their families.

This can be regarded as an opportunity for those families to work to get rich, and it is quite popular.

In the mainland, it is not very acceptable to accept women's workshops, thinking that those women will do things that are offensive when they work outside all day.

But it's a different story.

The women here were either sold by the previous caravans, or robbed by the bandits, and they had been with the bandits for a while, and some even gave birth to children.

For the issue of honor, it is indeed not so important, and it is more important for them to be able to better solve the dilemma in life.

Only a month or two after the establishment of the Liu family's incense workshop, two batches of female workers were recruited, and a total of two or three hundred women's employment problems were solved.

Their incense sticks were sold cheaper, after all, they were mainly to provide incense for Liu Qing rather than to make money.

However, every batch sold, you can make a little money.

The sales volume is bigger, the scale is bigger, and the more money you make.

Liu Qing's incense is getting more and more, and he doesn't know how many people have burned incense now, but he estimates that after each village builds his own City God Temple, the number of people who have given him incense should add up to more than two or three hundred thousand.

As for the believers, there are already eight or nine thousand.

However, those believers were mainly acquired during the suppression of banditry.

After the suppression of bandits, there were no new stimulus points, and the number of believers that could be increased every day was very small.

At the current rate of growth of a few believers a day, it will take a few months to break through the 10,000 mark.

Liu Qing decided that he had to hold a big manifestation event to make his followers suddenly reach the 10,000 mark.

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