Back in the south courtyard, the butcher had almost settled the people, and Cheng Shanhu was busy counting the supplies.

This time when I came to Nanwu Prefecture, almost all the members of the Huaixian Pavilion were dispatched, Gu Zuo, Butcher, Cheng Shanhu, Li Gusheng, and Ding Jiugu were all there, only Su San and his family, and Wang Huoju were left in Gengjin Mountain to take care of the nest.

Liu Wu's family and Li Gusheng's family also followed, preparing to follow Gu Zuo to develop Southern Wuzhou. If Southern Wuzhou wants to develop greatly, it must be inseparable from ordinary people, they are people that Gu Zuo can trust, and they are also the backbone of managing ordinary people in the future.

In addition, through the relationship of Mr. Zhong Er, Gu Zuo hired a foundation building consummation monk in the county town of Montenegro, this person is named Gao Changjiang, who is good at creating Taoism, and has brought eight apprentices, all of whom are qi refiners, and they are very famous in the county town of Montenegro, and the county calls him Ziren Gao.

The so-called "Ziren", that is, the construction craftsmen, directly take the Ziren as the name of the high Yangtze River, which shows its ability in construction. Gu Zuo is ready to vigorously develop Nanwu Prefecture, such talents are the most lacking in Huaixian Pavilion, in order to hire him and his apprentices to come to Nanwu Prefecture, Gu Zuo paid a high salary of 1,600 yuan per year.

In fact, if it weren't for Mr. Zhong Er's help in pulling the strings, if it wasn't for Gu Zuo personally going to lobby, if it wasn't for the salary of 1,600 yuan, Master Gao might not have come. When the eight departments of Montenegro built the county seat, Gao Changjiang made a great effort in it, and after the county town was built, he has been in a state of semi-retirement in recent years. It can be said that it was the face of the Spirit Beast Department and Gu Zuo's plan for Nanwu Prefecture that gave him the idea of re-emerging from the mountain.

Of course, the current Nanwu Prefecture cannot enter the stage of Daxing construction for the time being, so Gu Zuo also made it clear to Gao Changjiang that he hoped that they could take the lead in helping in the mining and lay a good foundation for the accumulation of construction funds.

Gao Changjiang was very willing to help with mining, he and his apprentices had never been in contact with this kind of affairs, and they wanted to learn and understand, so he hit it off with Gu Zuo.

In addition to Gao Changjiang and his apprentices, Gu Zuo also recruited sixteen executioners through the door of Chengshan Tiger. These executioners come from various dart bureaus, and they are all martial artists who have not cultivated, which is also a valuable asset for today's Southern Wu Prefecture.

It was these people who followed Gu Zuo to Southern Wu Prefecture, including himself, a total of forty people, including fourteen monks—one Jin Dan, two Zhuji, and eleven Qi Refiners.

If we add the "aborigines" who are ready to stay in Nanwuzhou, the number of monks in Nanwuzhou will reach nineteen, a total of one hundred and three.

If you count the Lingyuan Dao Leader who is about to fly on his own and the deacon Shang who is temporarily staying, his salary burden will reach 3,000 guan a year, and the expenses such as eating, chewing, and clothing for people are also about 1,000 yuan.

Of course, there are 10,000 and 5,000 spirit stones in the front of the tax, there are 25,000 spirit stones to pay in the mining tax, and there are 25,000 yuan in debt to be repaid, so this mere three or four thousand guan is nothing.

Before coming, Gu Zuo suddenly spent money and bought fifty stone of grain, a large amount of cloth, pots and pans, pen, ink, paper, inkstone, sauce, vinegar and salt and other materials, and now there are more than sixty new aborigines, I am afraid that these things will not last for half a year, and I have to find a way to add them.

Therefore, he now only has more than 600 spirit stones and 800 flying tickets on his body, and he can't even hold on for three months, so he must open the mine immediately.

The next day, Gu Zuo asked the butcher to go to Pingtai Mountain Villa to deliver a letter to the original chief, asking him to come over and select the 1,000 acres of land to be given. Gu Zuo advised: "We must find a way to let them come, the land given to them cannot be wasted, whether their people are here to plant Yuanyang grass or not, they must send people over and occupy the place." If you don't come within half a year, I won't give you a thousand acres of land. ”

The butcher said: "Don't worry, I've heard your nagging so long ago that my ears are calloused, people are the most important, understand!"

There is no way, the butcher is the only Jin Dan that can be assigned by the Huaixian Pavilion, and for a long time, he will work hard in the position of external liaison.

On the afternoon after the butcher left, the Lingyuan Dao Commander made the flying sword rush to Nanwu Mountain, Gu Zuo was very worried about his flying level, but fortunately, until he landed, there was no major flying accident, only two branches were broken in the process of falling.

When the two sides met, it was a good greeting, Deacon Shang pouted, he didn't look very well at the Lingyuan Daoist, no wonder, the two had close contact in the air back then, and more than a month had passed, but I didn't expect the Lingyuan Daoist to still not fully master the proficient flying skills.

The old man couldn't help it, and immediately stood up and pointed out two sentences about the control of the flight attitude, and said that the Lingyuan Daoist nodded again and again, and pulled Deacon Shang to ask for guidance on the spot, so the two of them forgot about Gu Zuo and the Huaixian Pavilion and the group, and went around in circles in the sky of Nanwu Mountain.

Even if you are the owner of the pavilion, even if you are the owner of the salary, as long as you don't keep up, it's not easy to talk, Gu Zuo is helpless, as soon as the mine is opened, Lao Tzu will practice penance!

When his neck was sore, the two Jin Dan flew back and asked about the mine. So Gu Zuo regained his spirits and came to the South Second Peak with them, accompanied by Gao Changjiang.

The spirit stone vein is halfway up the South Second Peak, and the currently recognized known ore eye is under the cliff here, that is, in the cave that was pulled out by the Dongting Sect's junior uncle Guifeng mountain people.

The first pit that Gu Zuo prepared was here.

Deacon Shang, Gao Changjiang and Gu Zuo had no experience in mining and could only give a hand to the Lingyuan Dao Master. Lingyuan Dao Leader took out a compass and held it in his palm, and then took out three iron rods, and asked Gu Zuo and them to hold one in each of them, standing still in a three-legged position.

"Poor Dao is going to cast a spell to test the spiritual pressure, the spiritual pressure rod in your hands must stand steady, not shaking, if the dog head at the top of the pole spews out spiritual mist, immediately move the position, and the three of them move at the same time, keeping equal spacing until the dog head no longer spews spiritual mist. ”

Waiting for Gu Zuo and them to prepare, the Lingyuan Daoist began to pour mana into the compass, and after a while, the dog head on Deacon Shang's spiritual pressure rod spewed out a faint mist, so, in the Lingyuan Daoist's order, Gu Zuo and the other three began to move in circles.

In the process of translation, the spiritual pressure rod in the hands of Gu Zuo and Gao Changjiang also spewed out spiritual mist from time to time, and under the command of the Lingyuan Dao Chief, the triangle formed by the three of them sometimes forward, sometimes backward, and sometimes rotated, constantly changing positions in the cave.

After tossing two pillars of incense, he finally found a suitable position and no longer spewed out spiritual mist, so the Lingyuan Dao Leader recorded the number of azimuth techniques.

Then, the Lingyuan Daoist changed his position and stood still, and then opened the compass, so Gu Zuo and the others began to continue to circle around.

The Lingyuan Dao Leader changed his position a total of nine times, and it was clearly the position of the Nine Palaces, and Gu Zuo and the others kept moving, tired enough. It took two hours of busy work to record all the directions and data.

Gu Zuo asked, "What's wrong?"

The Spirit Source Dao Leader looked through the things he had written down, and said, "The spiritual pressure in the center is almost completed, and I will continue tomorrow to measure the entire South Second Peak before we can start arranging the formation." Well, it's too late now, continue tomorrow. ”