Liu Qing had a general understanding of the situation of the Lin family and Changshengguo, and there was nothing else to do in the mountains, so he returned to Gumu County.

In this place, there are the most believers in him, and it is currently his biggest source of divine power, of course, he must manage it well.

When I returned to Gumu County, it was already March.

By this time, he had more than 10,000 more believers.

Most of these newly added believers were brainwashed by reciting the "Earth Induction Sutra" and became his followers.

Among them is Xu Qingfeng.

At this time, Xu Qingfeng really became his own family in Liu Qing's eyes, rather than a partner.

Xu Qingfeng was demoted here to be the magistrate, and he still had a grudge in his heart, and the biggest idea of being an official at that time was to get more money and go home to retire as soon as possible.

But after being the magistrate of the county for more than half a year, with the help of Liu Qing, he managed the bandits, and was rewarded at the state and provincial levels.

In addition, when the bandits were suppressed, a lot of gold and silver treasures were seized from the bandits' dens, and the accounts could be turned into their own personal property, and there was no need to expropriate from the common people to fill their pockets.

For more than half a year in office, he honestly did not levy anything from the people here.

The grain task has been completed, the grain of the border army has been delivered, the grain in the official warehouse has also been filled, and there is still a lot of surplus grain, which has been sold and turned into money in the public treasury.

At Liu Qing's suggestion, he also took out some money to build a school in the county seat, and found a few people from the common people who knew how to read and write to teach the children in the city to read and write.

This school is the first school in Gumu County.

After the completion of the school, Liu Qing's progress in system tasks rose to more than 90 percent.

It has brought him a lot of merit.

Moreover, Xu Qingfeng also promised the township chiefs of the county that during his three-year tenure, every township would have a school, so that the children here would also have the opportunity to study and get rid of their status as criminals.

This is a good thing that those sinners could never have dreamed of.

In the past, the government only knew how to ask them for things and let them work.

After this magistrate came, he solved the problem of bandits, let them live in a safe environment, did not levy arbitrarily, paid all kinds of taxes as usual, and promised to build schools for them, so that they felt that this was a big man in the sky, and brought them a good future.

In the minds of these criminals, Xu Qingfeng is an official who is too good to be good.

If they could, they hoped that this Qingtian Lord could be their magistrate for the rest of his life.

- Of course, Xu Qingfeng wouldn't think so, he still wanted to leave this place earlier and go to a better place to be a bigger official.

The public security environment in Gumu County has improved, and there is no government to expropriate and expropriate, and the lives of the common people here have been greatly improved.

The most obvious is that there are more caravans coming here.

In the past, there were always bandits, and the caravans that came here had to bring one or twenty guards, otherwise they would not dare to leave.

This increases their transportation costs.

And this cost is inevitably reflected in the price of goods.

Those who have the conditions to organize caravans to come here are all trading houses with a certain strength, and they are basically monopolized by a few large trading houses.

The small trading houses did not dare to come at all, for fear of being destroyed by the bandits.

As we all know, monopoly represents windfall profits.

In addition, the cost is already higher than that of the mainland, so that the price of goods here is several times higher than that of the mainland.

Now there is no safety problem, the cost of transportation is smaller, there are more caravans involved, and the prices of many goods are lower, which also enriches the material life of the people.

When the Liu family came here, they opened a shop and built two other workshops, rooted in the local area, and further lowered the price.

One workshop is making incense sticks, and after the scale of their incense stick workshop expanded, the selling price of incense sticks was only about one-tenth of the previous price of this place.

This also raised Liu Qing's incense here.

Another workshop is the winemaking workshop.

More than half of the surplus grain in the public warehouse of Gumu County was sold to their workshops at a very favorable price.

Distilled spirits are also very popular here.

Basically, the common people can't afford to drink it, but it can be sold to the officers and soldiers on the border, to the wealthy people in various counties, and some can even be exported to the state and provincial capitals.

Their caravans would also bring some goods from the mainland, and then transport some goods from here to the mainland, making a difference.

In the process, a lot of profit is obtained.

Although most of the people in Gumu County are poor, the poor also have the need to consume, and they can still make a lot of money by making this market bigger.

Liu Qing has tens of thousands of believers here, and his roots here are deep, and the Liu family also regards this side as the focus of future development.

Each of the common people here has twenty or thirty acres of land, which is something that other rural areas in the interior cannot do.

As long as the officials in the back do not mess around, the life of the common people here will get better and better, and the market will become bigger and bigger.

The Liu family has already said that within a year, they will open a shop in every township in Gumu County to bring greater convenience to the people and greater profits to themselves.

Xu Qingfeng's official reputation here is very good, and he is supported by the people here.

And Liu Qing is in the minds of the people here, and it is a savior-like existence.

Most of them are not his followers, but many people are used to going to the temple every day to put a stick of incense on him.

Anyway, every village has its temple, and it's easy to make incense.

Not only in Gumu County, but also in some surrounding counties, those who have heard of his deeds will also come over to offer incense and pray for blessings.

Especially those who have illnesses in their bodies, they hope that this City God will be cured of their diseases.

The number of incense people in Liuqing is rising every day.

His divine power is also getting stronger and stronger.

What he was most looking forward to now was that the Immortal Kingdom's administrative order to worship him would reach every village in the country, and his temples and statues would reach every village.

The number of believers will not necessarily increase, at least not in the short term.

However, the number of pilgrims exceeded one million, which is indeed worth looking forward to.

It's just that there are too many villages scattered all over the Immortal Kingdom, and there are not enough statues of his gods, and Lin Qixian has only taken a few hundred in total, which can't meet the requirements of many temples.

The number of incense sticks is not enough, even if so many are purchased and distributed, there are not many of them.

It will take some time to become widespread.

After staying in Gumu County for more than a month, and dealing with some things, seeing that there was nothing else to do, Liu Qing returned to Liuzhen.

It's almost the second day of May.

Liu Qing promised last year that on this day this year, he would treat all the patients who used to make incense at the Land Temple in Liuzhen.