Qingyang country, waterless city.

Bang Bang Bang!

On the streets of the city, a series of gongs suddenly sounded.

"Great news! Great news! ”

A high voice sounded in the street, accompanied by the sound of gongs, and instantly spread all over the streets: "Big guy, listen, the immortal master of Qingshan Pavilion has sent someone to our waterless city to recruit new disciples."

In the eldest family, if there are children under the age of fifteen who did not participate in the last selection, they can all bring them over and let the immortal master measure the root bones.

As long as you pass the selection, you will immediately step into the immortal gate.

The lord of the city will also give his family a mu of homestead land and a reward of 1,000 taels of silver.

Old and young folks, who have children at home, all brought them over.

Meet at the entrance of the government office in the center of the city, on the square.

Time is of the essence and opportunities are limited, so don't miss out! ”

Bang Bang Bang!

"Folks......"

Shouts over and over again rang out all over the city.

Shuiyue Restaurant, on the second floor on the window seat.

Yi Dancheng opened the window and looked at the proclaimed messenger walking outside, and couldn't help but be curious.

"Ten years so soon? It's been a round since the last time the immortal master came to choose the immortal seed. ”

"Last time we were in the waterless city, there were nearly a thousand teenagers and children, but not a single immortal seed was selected, which made the city lord lose a lot of face in front of the immortal master.

Even the taxes in the past ten years have been punitively increased by one percent.

If you can't choose another immortal seed this year, then according to the rules, you will have to add to the tax of thirty percent, which will really be implemented, and the big guy will be really sad in the past ten years.

Maybe starve to death.

The lord of the city was also forced to be in a hurry, so he offered such a heavy reward. ”

On the tea table next to him, the guests on several seats were talking.

"Who's to say it isn't?"

Someone was indignant and said with some jealousy: "Last time, there were only three hundred teenagers in the terracotta city next to us, and two immortal seeds were selected, which is really good luck."

Not only did there be two more immortal masters in the city, but even the taxes that should have been paid were directly exempted.

Even gave an additional subsidy of one percent, where did this money come from, and it didn't come from our waterless city?

Taking our money and raising them is really infuriating.

Over the years, when I met the people in their Terracotta City, none of us in Waterless City could raise their heads, and bowed their heads plainly.

If there is no immortal seed this time, we will really not be able to turn over completely. ”

"What nonsense?"

When someone next to him heard him say this, he immediately said dissatisfiedly: "In order to prepare for the immortal selection conference, the city lord not only mobilized the four thousand qualified teenagers in the city, but also called more than 10,000 teenagers and children from more than 100 villages and towns outside the city, totaling more than 10,000 people.

He even went to some surrounding towns and borrowed their village children to come over, and gathered thousands of people.

A total of more than 20,000 children and teenagers have been prepared, so many people, even if you pick one out of ten thousand, you can always choose two immortals, right?

So this time you will definitely be able to produce immortal seeds, if you don't understand, don't talk nonsense and be unlucky. ”

When the people nearby heard this, they also cast dissatisfied eyes.

The person who spoke before, seeing that he had caused everyone's dissatisfaction, hurriedly patted his mouth, and laughed again and again: "It's that I can't speak, look at my stinky mouth, fan, fan." ”

Seeing this, everyone nodded in satisfaction and ignored him no longer.

turned to discuss happily, it's just that so many young men, how many immortal seeds can be produced?

"If you want me to say, there are more than 20,000 people, how can they produce two or three immortal seeds, right?"

"What's the suffice of two or three? A minimum of 10 is sufficient. ”

"! According to the practice of previous years, if you are lucky, a thousand people can produce an immortal seed. We have been unlucky for ten years, and this time we will definitely not be able to come to Ji Tailai, and our luck will explode, and we will have to produce twenty or thirty immortal seeds. ”

"If we can really produce more than ten immortal seeds, I'm afraid that in the next hundred years, the taxes of our Waterless City will be exempted."

"Yes, yes, if there is no Xianmen tax, we will have a better life."

"More than that! With more immortal seeds, the probability of producing an immortal master will be greater. If we can have a few more immortal masters, we will be able to take care of the rain in Waterless City in the future.

You don't have to pay a lot of money every year, go to Qingshan Pavilion and invite other immortal masters to come to rain.

That is the true blessing of future generations. ”

As soon as these words came out, they immediately resonated with everyone around.

"Exactly! Yes, extremely! ”

The entire restaurant nodded their heads.

Waterless City, Waterless City, listen to the name of this city, you will know what kind of place it is.

That's right, it's a barren land, and no rain falls.

If the people in the city want to survive and cultivate here, the only way out is to invite the immortal master of Qingshan Pavilion to come over and use immortal magic to rain for them.

But this immortal rainfall is only a symptom but not a cure.

The next rain can last at most a month, and then the local area will run out of rain and fall into drought again.

At that time, not only will the vegetation and vegetation not survive, but the people living in the local area will also lack water and die of thirst.

Therefore, whether it is for survival or prosperity, the people around Waterless City must invite the immortal master to come to rain.

But this invites the immortal master to rain, how can it be so easy to invite?

This not only requires familiar immortal masters who are willing to take action for them.

Every time you invite an immortal master, you also need to spend a lot of money.

Every year, the people of the waterless city have to take out one-third of their harvest after a year of hard work to ask the immortal master to rain.

A third of the harvest, what a heavy expense.

In addition, the Qingshan Pavilion of the Xianmen, which shelters here, has to take almost one-fifth of the income in taxes every year, which is a huge burden.

They also faced penalties for the first 10 years, with an additional 10 percent in taxes.

On the side of the city lord's mansion, one-fifth of the tax will also be collected.

After being apportioned at all levels, more than eighty percent of the annual income of the local people must be handed over.

Less than 20% of what they can keep is left.

How is this enough to live?

Therefore, in the past ten years, the local people have lived extremely hard, everyone has vegetables, it is the norm to not have enough to eat, and it is common for people to starve to death.

All are already teetering on the brink of starvation.

That's why.

For this immortal seed selection, the people of this waterless city all regard it as the only hope of turning over.

Only by selecting more immortal seeds, the immortal gate will exempt them from the taxes they have to pay, and they will be subsidized.

Only when they are local can they have a chance to produce immortal masters.

After leaving the immortal master, there is no need to spend so much money to invite other immortal masters to rain, and the expenditure of the waterless city can be greatly reduced.

At that time, the burden that was on everyone will disappear at once.

Even the taxes paid to the city lord's mansion can be offset by subsidies from other cities.

Just like the terracotta city of the previous decade.

All the harvest of the local people can be kept in their own homes.

This is the good thing for the whole city of Zebei, and it is also the motivation for them to be so active in preparing for the Immortal Selection Conference.

Because it represents the hope of life.

Listening to the whispers in his ears and the discussions, Yidancheng drank a cup of the famous local bitter bamboo spirit, and his face showed a thoughtful expression.

"The Xianmen directly ruled over the mortals, divided them into various cities, and harvested resources by collecting taxes.

He also selects talents for himself by means of increasing or decreasing taxes, so that everyone in the ruling area can be used for his own use.

Is this the immortal gate on the side of Qingyang Kingdom, the means to control the country? ”

He said to himself in his heart, and he had a little more understanding of the business philosophy of Xianmen here.

To sum it up, in one word, cool.

Yes, it's cool.

The immortal gate here treats almost everyone as leeks, and then almost rootlessly, harvesting stubble after stubble, leaving no spare space.

The people living under this kind of rule can be called the people who were in turmoil when Lu Yuan first started in the Kyushu border.

Even worse than those people.

Because at that time, no matter how much the countries of Kyushu exploited the people, at most they would take away three-fifths or two-thirds of the people's harvest, and in the end they could still leave enough rations for them to survive.

After all, to fight a war is to fight the population, to fight money and food.

In such a chaotic world in Kyushu, all the princes, as long as there is a bit of climate, understand the truth of laying a solid foundation.

will not really force the people under his rule to death.

If you really don't know what to do, those who do that will eventually perish.

Such as the original Wei State.

But here in the Qingyang Kingdom, here in the Immortal Realm, the rules that the Kyushu Realm needed to follow at the beginning did not apply.

On the side of the immortal realm, the real foundation of the various immortal sect forces depends on is not those vast, inexhaustible, and inexhaustible mortals.

Rather, they cultivated one by one to become powerful monks in the Five Qi Dynasty Yuan and even immortals.

One is that he has the opportunity to become an immortal, and the other is that he has already become an immortal, only such a monk is valued by the major immortal sects, and it is also the strongest force of the immortal sect.

In comparison, even those in the Immortal Sect who are also monks, but who are under the Five Qi Dynasty Yuan, seem relatively insignificant.

The reason is also very simple.

A monk with five qi dynasties can fight more than a dozen monks who condense four qi, and fight hundreds of monks who condense three qi.

The rookie miscellaneous cultivators who condense below the three qi are even more of a threat to the monks of the five qi dynasties.

What a disparity of power this is?

In the immortal realm where Weili returns to itself, it is a real enemy country, and an enemy country.

And on this kind of power, coupled with the long, which can reach hundreds or thousands of years of life, there is a terrible reaction that one plus one is greater than two.

Because of the long longevity, this means that for those powerful monks, the monks at the bottom are actually the same as leeks, and they are not very valuable.

In the past hundred years, the disciple has died cleanly, although it is heart-wrenching, but it is nothing.

As long as he is still alive, as long as the territory of the sect is still there, as long as those mortals are still there, re-select a batch of disciples, cultivate and teach for a hundred years, and the framework of a sect will be set up again.

A hundred years, for the immortals, it is just a retreat.

For the monks of the Five Qi Dynasty, it is only two or three more retreats.

With their lifespan of 800 years or 3,000 years, a hundred years is in a hurry, which is really nothing remarkable.

And so it goes.

Even those disciples under the Five Qi Dynasty have become leeks that can be replaced at any time, let alone those mortals who are not even monks, let alone what their actual status is.

Don't look at people as people, here, it's not just an adjective, it's something that's happening.

The princes of Kyushu have driven people to a desperate position, and the people at least know and have the ability to rise up and fight to the death.

But the immortal gate of the fairy world has driven mortals to a desperate place, that is true, even the power to resist, and even the idea of resisting, cannot rise.

The gap is too big.

In the face of a person who insists on crushing himself to death, what can a small ant do?

On the side of Qingyang Kingdom, there is such a relationship between the immortal gate and mortals.

In this year's Immortal Selection Conference, if it is really impossible to produce immortal seeds, then Qingshan Pavilion really doesn't mind, and directly extracts more than ten percent of the taxes, directly forcing tens of thousands of people in the city to death.

Anyway, these mortals can't resist, and they can't pose any threat.

Even if he is forced to die, he is just a person who dies in a city.

In the entire Qingyang country, there are thousands of similar cities, and Qingshan Pavilion controls more than a thousand, and he doesn't care about a waterless city at all.

All the people here died, and another group of people moved from other places, and after a few years, it was a new city again.

Hundreds of thousands of ants, without waiting for more than ten years, under the huge base of hundreds of millions of people under the rule of Qingyang State, they will recover in one or two years, or even a few months.

It's not a loss.

Maybe it will also reduce the pressure on the local population to be overcrowded.

There is no need to doubt that Qingshan Pavilion, an immortal sect, can do such a thing.

Just look at the Evergreen Domain, which began to gradually collapse after the death of the Great True Man, the various immortal sects fought openly and secretly with each other, and for the sake of profit, they played out the dog's brain, and even disregarded the discipline and cooperated with the demons.

This sign of the collapse of etiquette has already illustrated the darkness and cruelty of the immortal gate here.

Otherwise, those demon kingdoms were openly erected, and there was a demon disaster that had been in turmoil in the Xin country for hundreds of years, how did they appear in the southern region of the Evergreen Domain of the Immortal Gate?

It wasn't the indulgence and support of those local immortal sects that caused the situation to collapse to such an extent.

"Compared to the Dongyang Domain, which is under the rule of Dongyang Mountain, which is orderly and has good morals, the Evergreen Domain, which has become a chaotic world, is really much worse."

Yi Dancheng couldn't help but think of the Dongyang disciple who was separated not long ago.

Compared with the major immortal sects here, where the gods are like demons, Li Ruoqing, a monk who adheres to the right path and is dedicated to subduing demons and eliminating demons, is really a clear stream in the world of cultivating immortals.

Fellowship with this kind of person is really like drinking a sweet spring, and the heart is happy.

Obviously, they are two adjacent domains, but the monks who can come out are very different, just like the two species.

"The immortal cultivation realm on this side of the Evergreen Domain is already sick, lacking the suppression of the Great True People, countless careerists have risen, the order has been destroyed, and the Immortal Gate has begun to become like a demon gate.

The mortals of this realm also began to live less than livestock.

This kind of world is not right.

Those monks are also wrong and need to be corrected. ”

Yi Dancheng took a deep breath and made up his mind in his heart: "That's why we need the deity, and we need doppelgangers to put this world back on track."

This is also the meaning of my being.

Moreover, the local immortal sect of Qingyang Country acted so perversely, like a demonic way, abusing the people under its rule.

Such acts are outraged by the whole world!

If I crusade against them, I only need to raise the banner of righteousness, which is to hang the people and fight crimes, obey the way of heaven, punish them, restore the rites and music, and live in peace.

This is a godsend for righteousness. ”

Originally, before coming to Qingyang Kingdom, Yidan City was still a little worried, whether he would directly destroy the three immortal sects and monopolize this country, whether it would be in terms of reputation, it was very unreasonable.

But along the way, after seeing too much of the current life of ordinary mortals in these mortal cities such as Waterless City, his worries were gone.

Although the various immortal sects provided the most basic security for the local people in this troubled world, they did not become blood animals raised by demons like the big eyes country next door.

But the people on the side of Qingyang Country are only slightly better off than the people of Damu Country.

Even if you remove the mortals of the Great Eye Country, you will be treated as livestock by the demons and directly eaten this one.

Because his own food, as well as cultivation resources, have been provided by mortals.

The demons of the Great Eye Country look down on the materials needed for mortals to survive and will not exploit them.

The demons over there, on the contrary, prefer to let their free-range mortals eat fat and fat, so that it tastes more delicious.

Therefore, in terms of quality of life, the mortals of the Damu Country, because of the harvest they cultivate, can monopolize all of them by themselves, and they are stronger than the mortals on the side of the Qingyang Kingdom.

Because the monks on the side of the Immortal Gate can't carry out the valley before condensing the three qi.

Monks who condense one qi and two qi still need a large amount of mortal offerings when cultivating, and they need to absorb a large amount of mortal wealth for their own cultivation.

When a newcomer monk gathers his qi, he needs at least a thousand mortals to cultivate and make offerings.

When the two qi were condensed, the number climbed to 10,000.

And with the improvement of cultivation, the number of people will continue to increase before reaching the condensation of the three qis, and finally it is necessary to provide 350,000 people, which is also very common.

In this case, if an immortal sect recruits disciples, three or five hundred people are okay, and there is no need to overexploit the people under its rule.

You don't even need to exploit it, just use a few means, such as raining for mortals, and you can collect enough materials for your disciples to cultivate.

But this number of people, if it is increased to one or two thousand, but it takes at least twenty million mortals to meet the needs of the operation of an immortal gate.

If the number of people is increased to 10,000, without 100 million mortals, they will not be able to support a single immortal sect.

Because in an immortal gate, there are very few people who can achieve the five qi dynasties.

Those who can become immortals are hard to find for thousands of years.

Even the condensation of the three qi is one in a thousand.

The ones who really occupy the mainstream and the vast majority are still those ordinary disciples who condense one qi and two qi, this kind of non-listed true tradition, which is simply used as cannon fodder, and the low-level miscellaneous cultivation that is strong is the most common status quo in the immortal cultivation world.

It is precisely because of them that the mortals on the side of Qingyang Kingdom have such a hard time.

"The three local immortal sects, and the three neighboring countries, all have immortals, which can be called a strong enemy.

The three immortal sects themselves are also full of contradictions, and in the past years, I don't know how many grudges they have accumulated, and they can't be resolved at all.

There are strong enemies outside, and blood feuds inside, under such circumstances, they force the three immortal sects to do everything to improve their strength as much as possible.

Even if there is one more disciple who is united, he does not hesitate to exploit those ordinary people who have no power to resist and force them to death.

This too many monks is also a disaster for Qingyang Kingdom.

When I live in this country in the future, I must begin to reduce the number of these deformed and inflated monks, and reduce the burden on mortals, so that I can live in peace for a long time. ”

After an in-depth analysis, Yi Dancheng has a better understanding of the shortcomings of Qingyang Kingdom.

"But these can be saved for later and solved slowly.

Now that I have traveled all the way, I have only seen the situation under the rule of the Qingshan Pavilion and the Xianmen.

On the side of Qingyang Country, there is also the Yang family of Wind Thunder Fort in the south of the country, this immortal cultivation family.

and another scattered cultivation main, occupying the Beidou Gate in the north.

Let's take a look at the situation of these two families first, whether they are like Qingshan Pavilion, they are both tyrannical and perverse.

If this is the case, it will be justified in the future crusade, and there is no need to worry too much. ”

With such a thought in his heart, Yidancheng drank the last glass of wine, left the food money, and turned around and walked out of the inn.

An immortal selection conference was being held in the city, and he had heard of this kind of event for a long time.

On the side of the Evergreen Domain, the Immortal Selection Conference is almost the most mainstream disciple selection method for all immortal sect forces.

Do as the Romans do.

Since Taiping Dao has been established, it is inevitable that disciples will be recruited in the future.

As the head of the sect, of course, he has to see how the local immortal sect recruits disciples.

It doesn't have to be copied, but it's always okay to learn from one or two.