On the side of the Dongting faction, a deacon pinched his fingers to count the piles of flying tickets, and handed them to the next one after counting, and the next one was reviewed.

On the side of the Longquan Taoist Temple, all the spirit stones were poured into a large vat, and a Taoist priest took out a board of strange material, which was square and round, and the board was covered with hollows the size of fingernails. The Taoist priest inserted the board into the wooden barrel, and after pulling it out, all the hollows were filled with spirit stones, which were a hundred.

Then stuff this board into the half-person-high wooden box card slot, take out the next wooden board and repeat the amount just now, fill a wooden box and then change it to a wooden box, after loading two and a half wooden boxes, 25,000 spirit stones are handed over, and there are still two spirit stones left in the barrel. This was a miscalculation by the Huaixian Pavilion, and the butcher hurriedly put it away.

Gu Zuo asked curiously, "What kind of treasure is this, is it expensive, can you sell it to me?"

Lingyuan Daoist smiled and personally went out to get two wooden boxes and came back: "The spirit stone box has been given to the Huaixian Pavilion." ”

On the Dongting faction's side, the 75,000 tickets were also counted clearly, and Elder Jiang took out a land deed, stamped it directly with a seal, marked the time of delivery, and handed it to Gu Zuo. Gu Zuo also stamped the seal of Huaixian Pavilion on the title deed and signed it, indicating the time of receipt.

The Longquan Taoist Institute sent a mining permit, allowing Huaixian Pavilion to mine on all the land in Nanwu Prefecture, and the remaining minerals were allocated by themselves in addition to being handed over to the Chongxuan Department according to the agreement.

With the title deed, mining permit, bidding agreement, and payment delivery receipt, Nanwu Prefecture officially became the industry of Huaixian Pavilion.

As a military state directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, Nanwu Prefecture is 60 miles long from east to west and 50 miles wide from north to south, with 12 mountains, 2 rivers, and 6 small lakes, totaling 1.1 million acres of land.

The imperial court divides the world into fifteen provinces, but the Tao is not a place of governance, usually there is a supervision such as an observer, and the real place of governance is the county and state set up under the road, some of the upper states and large states are also called counties, and the county guards have higher ranks and greater powers and responsibilities, such as the Huiji County where Gu Zuo started, and the county guards have the power to guide the surrounding states.

Nanwu Prefecture belongs to the military state, because it faces the southern Xinjiang, so it is more special, the governor is led by the prince of the court, but the officials such as Changshi, Sima, and other officials can be appointed by the Huaixian Pavilion themselves, and they only need to report to the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Officials for the record.

It can be said that as long as Gu Zuo sends a document to Chang'an, his identity will be added to one more: the history of the governor of Nanwu!

A deacon sent by Dongting to carry a wooden box, and when it was opened, there were large and small seals inside. Gu Zuo looked through them one by one, and the water was brand new, and the Dongting faction had never used it.

The deacon pinched the list and handed over to Gu Zuo one by one: "When Nanwu Prefecture was established, it was analogous to the Inner Underground State, which was the seal of the history of the governor of Nanwu, and it was ...... under the six grades."

"The seal of Sima, the leader of the army, ...... from the six products"

"Don't drive the seal, Zuo Changshi exercises power, and ...... from the six products"

"These are the six Cao of Si Gong, Judicial, Si Hu, Si Bing, Si Cang, and Si Tian to participate in the military, the first three Cao are under the positive seven grades, and the last three Cao are from the seven ......grades."

"These three are the seals of the record, and they are on the ninth grade, and they are assigned by the long history to ......"

"These three are the seals of the doctor, from the nine grades, they are also assigned by the long history......"

Fifteen seals, this is the officialdom of Nanwu Prefecture, of course, so far, everything is empty, the Dongting faction has not done Nanwu Prefecture, these official positions are useless - the official is to Nanwu Prefecture itself, nothing to get a group of people to eat their own empty salary, what's the point?

Putting everything solemnly into the storage wrench, Gu Zuo let out a long breath and looked at the people around him, infinitely emotional.

After tossing back and forth for nearly half a year, this spiritual stone vein of Nanwu Mountain finally belonged to the Huaixian Pavilion, and for this reason, Gu Zuo was burdened with a heavy debt of nearly 25,000 yuan.

In addition to debts, he also carried heavier taxes on his shoulders: the ore vein paid 25,000 spirit stones every year, and Nanwu Prefecture paid 10,000 guan taxes and 5,000 fast spirit stones every year.

Huaixian Pavilion is among the few sects in the world that have spirit stone veins, which is indeed a leap, but the thought of the burden on their shoulders makes people sweat all the time, and they can't be at peace for a moment.

Wu Shanjing congratulated Gu Zuo: "Congratulations to the Huaixian Pavilion, you can rest assured to go back to Gengjin Mountain to prepare, I have already said hello to several sects, and they are not allowed to plot because the Huaixian Pavilion is lonely." ”

Gu Zuo respectfully replied: "Thank you Daochang Wu, so I can start prospecting?"

Wu Shanjing nodded: "Of course." ”

Gu Zuo turned to the Lingyuan Daoist: "I don't know when you will be free?" Huaixian Pavilion has been looking forward to hiring you to go to Nanwu Mountain to guide and open mines. ”

Lingyuan Dao Elder smiled and said, "When do you leave, I'll go over together." ”

Wu Shanjing interjected on the side: "Senior Brother Lingyuan is going in his personal capacity, and it does not represent the Chongxuan Department. ”

Lingyuan Dao Elder haha: "Yes, that's what it means, I almost forgot." ”

Gu Zuo agreed: "Then I will build a Taoist hall in Nanwu Mountain and wait for the Taoist chief to move in." I wonder if you have any instructions?"

Lingyuan Dao Leader scratched his head: "Hmm...... Take a name...... Let's call it the Metaphysical Museum. ”

Gu Zuo asked, "Is there anything else?"

Lingyuan Dao Chang shook his head: "It's nothing, you look at it." ”

The Dongting faction also congratulated Gu Zuo, and Gu Zuo expressed his gratitude: "The last time I saw the people of Guifeng Mountain, Gu was very admired, and I regret that I couldn't meet him today, so I ask Elder Jiang to thank the people of Guifeng Mountain on behalf of Gu." ”

Elder Jiang said: "Uncle Xiao has been cultivating hard recently, and even we can't easily see it, so I ask the owner of the Gu Pavilion to forgive me, and my intention is to convey it." ”

In fact, this Dongting faction's Guifeng Mountain man is a chatter, he likes to complain the most, and he doesn't know how many people he has offended in his words on weekdays, so what is the matter, the Dongting faction rarely lets him show up, and only invites him out when he needs to fight, of course Gu Zuo can't see it easily.

Huaixian Pavilion and Dongting sent everyone to bid farewell to the Lulong Hall together, and when the two sides were about to separate, Elder Jiang turned to Gu Zuo and said: "Master Gu, you and Wu'er are friends of life and death, and I wanted to invite you to get together, but we are going to go back to Jiangnan tomorrow, I am afraid that there will be no chance to see each other. ”

Gu Zuo took it, bowed down and said, "Little Pig is my lifelong friend, you are his father, I will call you uncle in the future." In the future, if he has time, the little nephew will go to Wuzhou to meet his uncle. ”

After the Dongting faction left, Gu Zuo opened the letter and scribbled a few sentences inside. The first is to congratulate Gu Zuo on becoming the lord of Southern Wu Prefecture, which is nothing to say, and the second is to remind him that there was a large-scale beast tide in Southern Xinjiang six years ago, and it also happened once three years ago, but the scale is not too large, only in the mountains and dense forests of Southern Xinjiang, and it has not even affected Southern Wu Prefecture. It's three years now, and we must be doubly vigilant about this.

The butcher and Cheng Shanhu saw him pondering and asked what was going on, Gu Zuo smiled, didn't say anything about it, and asked, "How much money do we have in our hands?"

The butcher said, "More than six hundred and eighty spirit stones, one thousand two hundred." ”

Gu Zuo looked up at the setting sun, and a sense of pride arose: "Tomorrow the army will send to Southern Wuzhou!"

Cheng Shanhu frowned and said: "I'm afraid it's too late tomorrow, dozens of people have to buy a lot of things." ”

Gu Zuo coughed dryly, and announced again: "Three days later, the troops will be sent to Southern Wuzhou!"

The butcher asked, "Aren't you going to recruit anyone?"

Gu Zuo glared at the butcher, the butcher blinked, Gu Zuo let out a breath, and said weakly: "Then seven days later, it can't be too late." ”