Seeing that Chu Chen's intention to go had been decided, Qin Xing was no longer reluctant, and immediately issued a holy decree to give Chu Chen the mountain of Dongtian, in addition, he also rewarded Chu Chen with one million taels of gold and ten million taels of silver, and fifty followers were waiting for him to send.

Regarding the matter of his entourage, Chu Chen did not refuse, although Qin Xing is so ambitious, his eyes are high, his eyes are low, and he has no strategy, but it does not mean that he Qin Xing is stupid, he put some people by his side to monitor himself, otherwise how could Qin Xing let him go with peace of mind?

For this point, Chu Chen could see Qin Xing's purpose at a glance, if he didn't agree to follow these fifty entourage, he was afraid that today he would have to hide all the birds and hide the rabbits, and the dogs would be cooked.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Chu Chen thanked Qin Xing, in order to stabilize Qin Xing, Chu Chen promised Qin Xing that if there was any danger in the Qin State in the future, he would definitely go out of the mountain to assist Qin Xing again.

On the same day, Chu Chen left Yong'an City with fifty followers, one million taels of gold, and ten million taels of silver, and headed for Dongtian Mountain.

Huzhou County, bordering Chixia County, is separated by the Chixia Mountains, leading many people to think that the two counties are far apart.

If Chu Chen hadn't personally entered the Tiantian Mountain, he wouldn't have thought of the two counties together.

The Tianshan Mountain and the Chixia Mountain are connected together, stretching for more than 200 miles, even if there are millions of soldiers here, there is no problem, and another important reason why Chu Chen chose the Tianshan Mountain is that there are many natural karst caves in the Tianshan Mountain, and the entrance is very small, but the inside is really big to surprise him.

Along the way, Chu Chen led his entourage and did not rest much, and stayed day and night, and it took him about a month to come to Huzhou County, where Dongtian Mountain is located. When I arrived at Huzhou County, it was not far from the Tianshan Mountain, only more than 20 miles.

Entering Huzhou County, Chu Chen took the holy decree and went straight to the Huzhou County Guard's Mansion, the content of the Holy Decree is to order the Huzhou County Guard, but whenever Chu Chen has any needs in Huzhou County, Chu Chen's needs must be met, and there must be no slightest neglect, otherwise it will be severely punished.

"Sir, if you have any orders, please let Mr. inform the lower officials, and the lower officials will do their best to do it. After receiving the holy decree, Huzhou County Guard Hu Changshun said to Chu Chen respectfully.

"Since Lord Hu said so, then you are not welcome, you need to build a Taoist palace on the top of the mountain to pray for our emperor, this is the drawing, please Lord Hu will start to gather people today to build the Taoist palace as soon as possible. Chu Chen smiled. The drawings were drawn slowly by him on the way here, and the Daogong was also suddenly thought of by him halfway through.

"Sir, don't worry, the lower official will order someone to start gathering people. Hu Changshun took the drawings, looked at them for a while, and then replied, and then ordered someone to immediately post a notice to gather people from the whole county to build a Taoist palace on the mountain.

Because the Dao Palace was not built, Hu Changshun wanted Chu Chen to live in his mansion, but Chu Chen refused, lived in his mansion, and was annoyed to death by him, and in the end, Chu Chen chose to live in the post house in Huzhou County.

In the following days, Chu Chen stayed in Huzhou County, and during the day, he would entertain the officials of Huzhou or go to Dongtian Mountain to see the construction of the Dao Palace, or walk around the city, and walk outside the city, except for two people who left him to serve by his side, everyone else was rushed to Dongtian Mountain to help, and at night he cultivated.

The money for the construction of the Dao Palace was paid by Huzhou County, so Chu Chen basically didn't have to take out one or two pieces of silver, but also received a lot of silver from officials at all levels.

In the blink of an eye, Chu Chen had been in Huzhou City for two months, and most of the construction of the Dao Palace had been completed.

On this day, Chu Chen rode out of the city with two retinues. In the past two months, Qin Xing has made several decrees, cleverly set up a tax increase to the people, and also carried out the matter of auditioning beauties, selecting tens of thousands of beauties from all over the Qin State to enter the palace, and when he went out of the city today, Chu Chen just wanted to see what role Qin Xing's actions played among the people.

Huzhou County is relatively speaking, it is not a rich county in Qin, and the people in the county almost all rely on farming to make a living, although they do not have to worry about food and clothing, but they can't withstand Qin Xing's repeated tax increases, no, Chu Chen entered a village called Zhaojia Village ten miles away from Huzhou County, and saw that the villagers here did not eat big white steamed buns for lunch, but ate miscellaneous grains, Chu Chen came here once two months ago, at that time, the people here ate not miscellaneous grains, and Chu Chen found that the livestock in the village were less than half or more, and every household originally raised chickens, ducks, sheep, pigs, cattle or something, and now, the pen is almost empty。

"Uncle, do you remember me, I came to your house once two months ago, and today I happened to pass by here, so I came to talk to you, and asked my uncle to prepare a table of wine and food for me. Chu Chen came to the door of a villager, and after dismounting, he said to an old man sitting at the door smoking a dry cigarette.

"It turned out to be Mr. Chu. Seeing Chu Chen's appearance clearly, the old man quickly recognized Chu Chen, but he was not as enthusiastic as last time, but said in a somewhat depressed mood: "Today, I am only afraid that I will be wronged Mr., the chickens and ducks at home have been sold, and the best food is only steamed buns." ”

"Could it be that the imperial court has raised taxes again?" Chu Chen asked.

"Yes, the tenant tax and household tax were just increased last month, and the goods tax and the Ding tax were added this month, and if this continues, we tenants will have no way to live!" said the old man with a sad face.

Before Qin Xing, although the Qin State paid a lot of taxes, the people could still have no worries about food and clothing, and their livelihoods could still be maintained smoothly, but after Qin Xing took the throne, in less than four months, four taxes had already been added, with Chu Chen's understanding of him, this tax was only afraid that he would have to increase it, if it was added again, the tenants of the Qin State were afraid that there was really no way to live, after all, most of the income of the tenants was collected by the owners of the land.

"Uncle, don't be discouraged, maybe Your Majesty will not accept it just once. Chu Chen comforted.

"I hope that as Mr. said, His Majesty will only accept it once today, otherwise we will really have no way to survive in the coming year. The old man said.

Chu Chen didn't stay in the village for long, there was no food in the house, how could he be embarrassed to eat again, even if he counted them as silver after eating, he couldn't let them support them for long, it was better not to trouble them.

Out of Zhaojia Village, Chu Chen visited several more villages, and the situation was similar to Zhaojia Village.

When he returned to the city, it was almost dark, so after dinner, Chu Chen went back to his room to "sleep".

It was completely dark that day, Chu Chen went away with his sword, flew into the Tianshan Mountain, and then went all the way to the west, half an hour later, he entered the Chixia Mountain, and about the time when the sword flew a stick of incense, Chu Chen fell into a valley.

"What person?!" As soon as Chu Chen fell from the sky, a loud shout came from not far away, and the figure surrounded him in the blink of an eye.

"It seems that you haven't been lazy in the past few months, not bad. Chu Chen looked at the people around him and smiled, very satisfied.

"Childe, you are Childe, Thirteen to meet Childe!!" Hearing Chu Chen's voice, Yang Thirteen was immediately excited, and came forward, and after seeing Chu Chen's appearance clearly by the moonlight, he hurriedly knelt down and saluted Chu Chen. The others also saluted Chu Chen one after another.

"Get up, no need to be polite. Chu Chen flicked his sleeves, and a buoyancy suddenly appeared out of thin air under everyone's knees, holding everyone up.

(End of chapter)