Huangyuecheng is only a medium-sized county seat, but because it is surrounded by mountains, it is not conducive to farming, and the food and clothing inside and outside the county are extremely dependent on foreign commercial banks.

Once, because of its backing on Hongcheng, the central city of Caoyun, Huangyuecheng had never worried about food and other things.

However, more than two years ago, I heard that there was a plague in Hongcheng, and the transportation was naturally affected.

If only that were it.

Most of the people of Huangyue City live on the skin and meat of prey and herbs from the surrounding mountains.

Food can't come in, and it's hard for their fur and herbs to get out.

If it weren't for the foresight of a county magistrate in Huangyuecheng who built several large granaries under pressure and stored enough grain for the people of Huangyuecheng for two or three years, I am afraid that the price of grain in Huangyuecheng would have risen to the sky.

This time, the imperial court issued another holy decree, asking the cities to raise grain and grass, and the grain that Huangyue City was not rich in suddenly became overstretched.

Many grain merchants even raised prices on a large scale, and the magistrate of Huangyuecheng had no choice but to continue to distribute the grain in the granary to balance the prices, while mobilizing grain from other grain-rich places to offset the military rations.

This is not to say that the magistrate of Huangyue City loves the people like a son, but most of the people in Huangyue City are hunters, but they are not the old farmers who can't beat a fart with a stick. If they don't have enough to eat, they won't starve to death by themselves, they promise themselves, and neither do the hunting bows and hunting knives in their hands.

delayed the collection of military rations for the imperial court, and he, the magistrate of Huangyue City, was dismissed at most, but he could change his reputation at best, so that the people of Huangyue City could remember his goodness.

But if the officials forced the people to rebel, at that time, not only the people would kill him, but the court above would not let him go.

He knew which was more important.

Mi's firm actually wants to take the opportunity to make a fortune in a national disaster, but the magistrate of Huangyue City is a member of the Mi clan, so his family naturally can't pit his own officials.

This is the strange thing of a merchant escorting military rations.

Thinking about it, the people of Huangyue City had a great time trying to buy some food, and it was even more difficult for the surrounding mountain bandits to buy food.

Because of Li Chengjing's righteous action, the shopkeeper Liao told Huang Yuecheng about the current situation of Huangyue City before arriving at it.

It's just that in the mouth of Liao's shopkeeper, his own county magistrate is a man who loves the people like a son, is sympathetic to the people's feelings, and so on.

Li Chengjing naturally ignored it directly.

As the so-called upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, the Daqing court looks like a bird, and you can meet a blue sky lord if you walk around casually.

Don't be funny.

If this official is really so honest and loves the people, Mi's Commercial Bank can have a family business today.

It's not a trading house, and they all have the ability to do business in several nearby cities.

However, what makes Li Chengjing more concerned is not the problem of Huang Yuecheng's current lack of food, nor the problem of whether Huang Yuecheng's county is honest or not.

But since the imperial court began to collect military rations, this meant that it was going to provoke a war again.

Huangyue City is located in the southeast of Daqing, and is close to the Lujiang River, along the water, you can go to the north and central direction.

In that case, the Daqing Kingdom is about to go to war with the Great Yan Kingdom in the north again.

It has only been a few years since the armistice, and it has only been five years since the full battle.

Five years is not long, but it is not short.

Whether he can restore his national strength, Li Chengjing is not clear, but his heart is moved.

At the beginning of the war, the most beneficial point for Li Chengjing was the emergence of soldiers.

Unlike the other eight Origin Evil Qi, the Soldier Demon is the most unique and is generated from the battlefield.

Although not many people have yet been able to grasp the conditions for this, the people in the court know that if they want to use weapons, they must start war.

It has to be said that this is also one of the reasons why successive dynasties have constantly provoked wars.

Li Chengjing read the history books, no matter which dynasty, even in the most peaceful period, the imperial court will launch a battlefield against the surrounding countries every two or three years, regardless of the scale, but the strange thing is that there are many times, obviously the army has come under the opponent's capital, but directly returned home.

It can be as short as three years, as long as ten years, and a new round of crusade will be launched again.

It's child's play.

What is the purpose of the war, some people say that it is Xuanhe Wanghe, and some people say that it is to seize profits, but Li Chengjing keenly discovered that there is another possibility, that is, to use this war to constantly create weapons of war.

In this world where Xuanmen monks can move mountains and seas, mortals are as fragile as ants, in front of Xuanmen monks, even if they are emperors, what can they do.

The other party can take his life with a wave of his hand.

Not to mention whether the weapon can kill those who move mountains and seas, but the weapon can at least break the law.

A group of guards dressed in weapons always sheltered on the emperor's side, so that there was no need to worry about the emperor being controlled by the Xuanmen monks, and finally the country was wiped out.

It can be said that every Xuan Xiu is actually burdened with the sins of those who died because of the war and the separation of their wives.

But this is something that the Xuanmen monks will not admit.

And Li Chengjing, in the past two years of precipitation, not only practiced, but also studied intensively, and made a certain plan for his future path.

It is impossible to enter the Xuanmen as a serious Xuanxiu.

Not to mention that most of the Xuan cultivators had to be offered to the gods, even if they didn't make offerings, no one dared to supply the cultivation materials that Li Chengjing needed, except for the Demon Dao Sect.

And the demon gate Li Chengjing is despised in his heart, a group of fools who have forgotten who they are for the sake of power.

Then there is not much left for Li Chengjing.

In Hongcheng, Li Chengjing deeply realized the convenience of relying on the imperial court, and the imperial court still had a large number of weapons in the hands of Li Chengjing that were most needed and difficult to obtain.

Therefore, Li Chengjing has already thought about it, and he has to think of ways to really enter the court system.

After all, if you don't join the imperial court and want to get a weapon, you can only steal and rob it.

Li Chengjing would not be naïve to think that all the people in the court could let themselves do whatever they wanted, even if the court agreed, those Xuanmen Zhengxiu who shouted every day to eliminate demons would not agree.

Weapons are the most fatal thing for Xuan Xiu, what does Li Chengjing want to do with so much?

I'm afraid that in the end, even the several ancestral courts of Xuanmen will not be able to sit still.

Only by entering the imperial court can Li Chengjing unknowingly use legitimate means and the most unnoticeable method to obtain weapons for cultivation.

When he was in Hongcheng, Li Chengjing found that there were many broken weapons warehouses in the yamen of the county government, and they were extremely loosely guarded, and even Song Zhaoguan dared to do business with him in a grand manner.

This simply made Li Chengjing overjoyed.

If he can enter a local government office and hold an official position that is not up or down, doesn't that mean that he will be able to have a steady stream of weapons at his disposal?

As for the verification of the imperial court, there is no need to worry, after all, the weapons of soldiers, after all, were originally just ordinary soldiers, and they were bred in the war for unknown reasons, but over time, these soldiers will slowly disperse.

Otherwise, the imperial court would not have to wage war often and create new weapons for war.

Li Chengjing pretended to be a mortal martial artist, in addition to hiding his identity, he also wanted to get more and more real information about the city through the mouths of these dart masters who traveled north and south, so as to choose a place suitable for him and implement the plan.

Now listening to what Shopkeeper Liao said, Li Chengjing knows that Huang Yuecheng is not a suitable place for him.

It's so unstable here.

There is a possibility of civil unrest at any time.

But Li Chengjing was not discouraged, time was the most meaningless thing for the Nine Evil Society Yuan Gong cultivators, and he had time that others could not reach to achieve his goal.

If there is no suitable place in Daqing, there will be Dayan, and there will be Dayuan. If not, then there are overseas countries, or other smaller countries.

As long as there is war, there will be weapons of war, and that will be able to meet Li Chengjing's needs.

In addition to this, Li Chengjing came to Huangyue City for another purpose.

It's about finding someone.

That's one thing that Gu Hou Bird Ugly Niang begged him to do, find her husband, and let Li Chengjing take care of one or two within the scope of his ability.

Although Gu Huoniao is a ghost and has killed a lot of people, the motherhood and humanity that ordinary people are not as good as the other party still shocked Li Chengjing.

Li Chengjing felt that there was no reason not to agree to this request.

After arriving in Huangyue City, Li Chengjing was personally arranged by the enthusiastic shopkeeper Liao to arrange a good inn, and then left with the information given by Li Chengjing, and said that there would be news in three days at most.

Li Chengjing believes this.

Mi's Commercial Bank, after all, has the heaven of Huangyue City behind it, the county master.

It's so easy to look up an ordinary person.

If it weren't for the address given by the ugly lady, it would have been the address of almost twenty years ago, and the shopkeeper Liao would have dared to pat his chest and promise that he would be able to find someone in the afternoon.

In the evening, Li Chengjing did not wait for the news, but waited for an invitation.

At first glance, it turned out to be the magistrate of Huangyue City, who wanted to feast himself at home.

The person who sent the invitation was a servant, very humble and humble, for fear that one of his words would make Li Chengjing unhappy.

Looking at this way, we know that this person was given a particularly severe order before he came.

Li Chengjing thought about it and agreed.

In the evening, a sedan chair driver waited at the door of the inn and sent Li Chengjing directly to the county office.

The official who delivered the invitation was already waiting at the yamen, and directly led Li Chengjing to the inner house of the yamen.

As soon as I arrived at the garden in front of the living room, I saw an old Confucian dressed in brocade clothes, standing outside the living room with a few middle-aged people, while the shopkeeper Liao changed into the clothes of a housekeeper and stood at the end.

Seeing Li Chengjing coming, he hurriedly stepped forward and whispered something to the old man in front.

The old man nodded, and said to the oncoming Li Chengjing: "Old man Mi Qing, a three-way layman, has seen Mr. Li!" ”

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