A group of more than 200 people, riding war horses, galloped rapidly, which had already alarmed the villagers, and many people came out of their homes one after another, looking curiously at the group of elite cavalry who suddenly patronized.

There had been no fighting for a long time, and the state capital was relatively close to the capital, and the villagers did not feel too frightened except for the curiosity of these strange visitors, and they all watched with interest as the brightly armored cavalry marched into the village!

Du Long gathered his war horse and led the team to stop, came to the place where the group of villagers was most dense, and said loudly: "Which of you is the village chief here?!"

In the crowd, a spirited old man came out of the crowd and smiled at Du Long: "Lao Su is the village chief of Chenjiazhuang, I don't know if there is anything that Gongzi needs our help with?!"

"Old man, we are rushing to Xiguzhou, I never want to miss the last main city where we can rest, seeing that it is about to get dark, I want to borrow your village to rest for the night, I wonder if it is convenient?" Du Long said politely to the old village chief.

"This ......" The old village chief looked at this team of more than 200 people with a little embarrassment, to be honest, their entire village did not have so many people, where could they make so many places for more than 200 people to live.

"Old man, we have a marching tent, we just want to trouble you to help make a dinner, of course, we will pay for it!" Du Long explained, apparently seeing what the old village chief was worried about.

This time, in order to speed up the march, they didn't carry too many things, everyone only brought some emergency dry food, if they can have a delicious dinner, who wants to nibble on those cold dry food!

"Okay! If that's the case, there will be no problem, I'll go and gather people, it just so happens that our village ancestral hall has tables and chairs for banquets, and it should be no problem to greet more than 200 people!" the old village chief smiled enthusiastically, and then began to ask a few young people around him to gather people.

At this moment, Du Long led the team into the village with the old village chief, and came to an ancestral hall that occupied a large area, and when he looked up and saw the plaque of the Chen clan ancestral hall hanging on the gate, Du Long asked curiously: "Old man! Are all the people in your village surnamed Chen? This ancestral hall is not small!"

"Hehe! The men in this village are all surnamed Chen, as for the women, some people who marry in other villages are not surnamed Chen, and most of the others are also surnamed Chen!" The old village chief explained with a smile: "My Chenjiazhuang used to be a famous general, and then he came back to spend money to build this ancestral hall, every New Year's holiday, we in the village people like to gather here to drink and feast, there is no shortage of anything here, and every family will be asked to produce some food and meat dishes, and ensure that a delicious dinner is prepared for the son!"

"Trouble the old man! This bag of money is our dinner fee, please be sure to accept it, and you will distribute it to the villagers who have contributed money and efforts!" Du Long turned his hand and took out a bag of gold coins, he knew that if you want to give money tickets in a small village like this, people are really afraid of receiving fake tickets, and it is not easy to divide them!

"This ...... It's just an ordinary dinner, how can you use so many gold coins? Son, this money Lao Suo really can't accept it!" "The money bag in his hand sank suddenly, and the old village chief was dumbfounded when he opened the bag and saw the golden gold coins, not to mention thirty or fifty gold coins, if they saved some flowers, it would be enough for their whole village to eat for a year!

"It shouldn't be bothered suddenly, and we bother the people in the village to give us so many people to eat and drink, if you don't accept it, we have to leave this place immediately, even if we are sleeping outside, we are embarrassed to disturb you!" Du Long naturally couldn't take back the gold coins that were sent out.

In the end, it was Princess Huofeng and others who came forward to persuade the simple old village chief to accept the bag of gold coins, but the hand of the person who received it was soft, and he immediately began to arrange for someone to kill the pig and slaughter the cow, and slaughtered a cow in the village that was usually lazy and lazy.

So, a pretty sumptuous dinner was fiddled out, there was a chef in charge of the banquet in the village, and the dishes made tasted really good, Du Long also specially invited a few older people in the village to sit together, of course, the purpose was not to respect the old and love the young!

At the beginning of being a lord, Du Long wanted to know what the people below thought of the noble lords, and wanted to know how to be a lord to be qualified, and the information he got from these commoners was naturally the most practical.

Taking out a few jars of fine wine from the capital from the space ring, and a few glasses of wine, these simple villagers took out all the words in their hearts, and Du Long nodded secretly when he heard it.

Under the whole world, it is not the king's land, as long as it is the king's land, you have to pay taxes!

The villagers who depend on the land for food pay half of the total harvest of the year, one quarter of which goes to the state treasury and the other quarter to the local lords!

In the end, this tax is very heavy, and many villagers have to find ways to raise some cattle, sheep, chickens and poultry, or go to the mountains to hunt to earn some extra money to supplement their families, otherwise the family will definitely go hungry.

Of course, it is better to be hungry than to starve to death without food for a family, as long as it is not a year when the harvest is too bad, the average farmer can still be fed and clothed!

After learning that Du Long was the lord who went to Xigu Prefecture to receive the fiefdom of Fengli County, the old village chief actually shook his head and sighed: "Son! I didn't expect to be the lord of a county at a young age! But it's a pity, Lao Suo, I also went to Fengli County when I was young, and I still have some understanding of the situation there, compared with the ordinary villages under the rule of Fengli County, the villagers of our Chenjiazhuang can at least have food and clothing every year, and the villagers under the rule of Fengli County have a hard time!"

"Oh! What do you mean by that?!" For Du Long, Fengli County can be described as a mountain high emperor, and even his grandfather, an old general who has traveled all over the country, doesn't know much about it, and no one will run to such a remote and backward county town when he is fine!

"When I was a young man, like many young people, I fantasized about wandering the rivers and lakes and becoming a ranger admired by everyone, during which I traveled to the area of Fengli County, where the villages had to pay heavy taxes and face the monsters that ran out of the monster forest from time to time every day, and the life was miserable!"

Only then did Du Long and the others discover that the old village chief was still a ranger when he was young, no wonder the energy fluctuation level on his body faintly reached the extreme level of the cyclone level, this is still a martial arts master, no wonder he looks energetic when he is so old.

It's a pity that these remote villages don't have superior cultivation techniques, and many people are able to reach the cyclone level consummation throughout their lives!

In this world, the control of martial arts exercises is extremely strict, and most of the relatively superior martial arts exercises are concentrated in the hands of those big families, even so, big families like the Du family don't even have the exercises to break through the spirit level!

"So, is that place in Fengli County useless?!" Du Long said with a look of discouragement.

"No!" the old village chief's eyes flashed: "More than half of Fengli County is in the Demon Beast Forest, and that is a treasure land! It's just that the resources of that treasure land, either no one has the strength to exploit them, or they are secretly controlled by some people, plus the corruption of the county guards, and collusion between inside and outside, this has created the poor and predicament of Fengli County!"

Du Long's eyes lit up suddenly, obviously the old village chief's answer gave him hope again, and finally said viciously: "His grandmother's! Who dares to touch Lao Tzu's things without permission, see that I don't kill him!"

Burst!

Du Long's vicious appearance made everyone laugh, and Princess Huofeng laughed with a trembling smile: "Hahaha, husband, I used to feel that classmate Su Huobao was like falling into the eyes of money, but now it seems that I still look down on him, compared to you, he can only be regarded as a small wealth fan at most, you are the real big money fan!"

"Hahaha......" Everyone laughed even more happily after listening to Princess Huofeng's ridicule.

"Fei Ye, Fei Ye!" Su Jinbao replied with a smile: "I don't think there is anything wrong with losing money, in this world, there is the strength of martial arts cultivation to the extreme, the strength to dominate the world, and there is another strength that is common to the world, that is, money! A man, money, martial arts cultivation, and the world only need one of them to be regarded as a real good man! Otherwise, how can he protect his beloved from harm?!"

"Yes! What this boy said is very reasonable!" the old village chief replied with a smile on his head.

"Old man, can you continue to talk about the good resources that Fengli County has?! If you have those resources, why can't you get rid of the name of the poor county?!" Du Long was obviously still concerned about the affairs of his fiefdom.

"Hehe, then Lao Suo will talk about his understanding of Fengli County! Since it has been many years, if there is any ominous point, please forgive me!" said the old village chief modestly.

"It doesn't matter! As long as you can learn from it, it's better than a blind man touching an elephant!" Du Long waved his hand disappreciably.

"If you want to talk about the resources of Fengli County, it is abundant! There is a small town in Fengli County called Jinshan Town, that town is obviously located on the edge of the Demon Beast Forest, but it can attract hundreds of outsiders to visit every day!"

"Jinshan Town is really the town as its name suggests, I heard that starting from the town to the forest of demon beasts, as long as you go more than a hundred miles, there are several gold mines, that is really the place where the day is making money, but there are many powerful demon beasts along the way, so the government can't send a large number of soldiers to mine!"

"After all, there are many people in the Forest of Demon Beasts, and once a certain powerful Demon Beast is attracted, even if thousands of people are concentrated, it will not be enough to die!"

"So, many adventurers formed a small team to enter the Demon Beast Forest from Jinshan Town, and there were constantly lucky people who successfully arrived at the location of the gold mine, and then mined a large amount of gold, and many people became rich overnight!"

"In this way, Jinshan Town will gather a large number of teams that want to enter the Demon Beast Forest every day to venture into the Demon Beast Forest to pan for gold, of course, many teams died in the Demon Beast Forest, but there are also a small number of lucky people who successfully find gold mines and become rich!"

Hearing this, Du Long couldn't help but interject: "Isn't there anyone who cares? Mining gold mines without permission is a serious crime!"

"Hehe, that's why I was going to say just now that the local county guards are corrupt, and they support those people, who will care about that?" the old village chief replied with a smile.

"I understand!" Du Long nodded, and then continued to ask: "By the way, in addition to the gold mine, does Fengli County have any other resources?!"

"Haha! There are a lot of resources in the Forest of Demon Beasts! For example, all kinds of precious elixir materials, that is no worse than a gold mine, and if you are lucky enough to encounter some precious elixirs for refining elixirs, it is definitely much easier than panning for gold! Of course, the more valuable these elixirs are, the more powerful the demon beasts will guard, and it depends on luck and strength to get them!"

"In addition to the elixir, the demon pills in the body of the various demon beasts in the Demon Beast Forest are all good things, in addition to being able to refine the elixir to improve their strength, they can also be used to refine some powerful weapons!"

"Most of the demon beasts are mixed into treasures, some furs are worth ten thousand gold, and some bones, blood, etc. can be sold for a good price!