Chapter 100: The Teacher Returns to the Mountain
Since he was characterized as a "dove" by the people, Abbot Zhao wanted to respond to the public opinion, so he openly met with Bao Zhong and more than a dozen party members in front of the White Horse Courtyard, and solemnly promised that he would never implement the policy of "compulsory land acquisition", promised to respect history and reality, fully consider the interests of the party members, and treat the party members as the people of the Ming Dynasty.
On April 1, Zhao Ran issued an abbot's order to replace the cultivated land held by the party.
According to the quality of cultivated land, the replacement ratio is 20 mu, 30 mu and 40 mu respectively. As a supporting policy, measures such as the replacement of houses in and out of the city and the purchase of cattle and sheep by charity funds have been launched at the same time.
As soon as the abbot's order was announced, the party members of the entire Hongyuan City were beaming and rushed to tell each other, and many people spontaneously came to the gate of the White Horse Courtyard, knelt down and kowtowed to the courtyard, and thanked Zhao Qingtian. As a result, Zhao Qingtian's already abundant merit power reaped a large sum of money again.
Because the replacement period was only ten days, a large team suddenly lined up in front of the White Horse Courtyard, and the party members took out their own land deeds and rushed to replace the grassland. Party members from various villages outside the city also poured into the city when they heard the news, and there was a lot of traffic in front of the White Horse Courtyard.
As of 10 April, all the cultivated land outside the city had been put into the hands of the White Horse Courtyard, and the White Horse Courtyard had sold 760,000 mu of grassland to the party members, and half of the party members were willing to move out of the red plain and replace the courtyards near Geyong Village with houses in the city.
From March to April, the charity fund issued more than 50,000 taels of small loans, partly from Han farmers to buy seeds and farm tools, and partly from party members to buy cattle and sheep.
Fifty thousand taels of silver rushed into Hongyuan in a short period of time, and a new problem caused by this was that the Jinji shops tried their best to sell seeds, farm tools, lambs and other things, but they were completely unable to meet their needs.
Such a huge demand was soon noticed by the merchants who were active in various parts of the Song Domain, first more than a dozen local merchants in Hongyuan City were busy expanding their shops and transporting materials, and then merchants from Songzhou, Fanzhou, Yongzhen, Xiaohe and other places rushed to sell the goods, most of them booked shops in the White Horse Courtyard No. 1 room, some rented for one year, some rented for two years, and some rented for three years.
So, Meng Dengke, the welcome guest in the room who had just straightened out the account books, began to get busy. His next task was to tear down dilapidated houses, recruit laborers to build new streets and shops, and negotiate leases, rents, and so on.
The general direction has been smoothed, and the specific practice does not need Zhao Ran to get started in person, and after Yuan Hao and others in the prison have recovered from illness one after another, Zhao Ran handed over the affairs at hand and rushed back to Dajun Mountain.
The teacher returned to the mountain, and he accompanied Xu Zhenren to settle on Wudang Mountain for three months, and when he came back, he had a faint sadness on his forehead. For a monk of his realm, the impact of Chen Zhenren's immortal death was huge.
Sun Biyun's master and apprentice worked hard in the Dajun Cave for nine months, and it was finally completed, Zhao Ran really didn't know how to thank Sun Zhenren for his hard work, and he couldn't repay it after thinking about it.
After placing the Sword Pavilion under the main peak, Jiang Tenghe could only invite Sun Zhenren's apprentices, the Fu brothers and several apprentices to try the sword.
The meaning of the sword test is to let him choose the right flying sword to take away, and the cultivation of the Fu brothers is no worse than Jiang Tenghe, so he smiled and resigned, just let a few apprentices go in and choose.
These three generations of disciples of the Great Sage Nanyan Palace, whose cultivation was all above the Golden Pill, stayed for a long time after entering the fourth layer of the Sword Pavilion, and walked out one by one with joy, each choosing a flying sword.
Zhao Ran didn't feel distressed by these flying swords at all, on the contrary, he felt that it was far from enough. After thinking about it, there was nothing to do, so I had to find a place to call Bai Shanjun over, begging grandpa to tell grandma to collect a basket of various spiritual fruits, estimated that it was worth about 30,000 taels of silver, and took out another 20,000 silver tickets to make up for it, barely scraped together 50,000 yuan, and handed it over to Fu Jiufang.
Fu Jiufang didn't say anything, just said, "Thank you, uncle." ”
Zhao Ran hurriedly said: "It's just a small courtesy, it's not a tribute, it's just that I can't take out anything worthy of your master and apprentice, I'm ashamed......"
When Fu Sihai heard this, he smiled and said: "Why did Uncle Shi say this? My teacher said that day, this trip is to help your faction, Uncle Shi is busy with the matter of my ancestor's ascension, my Wudang Mountain is not the same, there is no half in return? Besides, to have the opportunity to refine the mountain gate for your sect, such an opportunity is also a rare opportunity, and several disciples under my sect have made progress in their own cultivation, wouldn't it be the other way around to thank your sect?"
As soon as he said this, Zhao Ran felt much more comfortable in his heart, and he was relieved.
Over there, Sun Zhenren and Jiang Tenghe had already finished talking, and turned to Zhao Ran and said: "You have also worked hard, and you will have the opportunity to go to Wudang more in the future, and my Wudang Mountain Gate will always be open to you." ”
Seeing Sun Zhenren and his entourage fly into the sky on a cloud ladder, Zhao Ran asked, "Teacher, are you familiar with Chen Zhenren?"
Jiang Tenghe sighed: "Tuo Yunxuan's blessing of the real person, I have seen it a few times, although I am not familiar with him, but I admire him very much, he was originally the most outstanding person in my Dao Sect in recent years, but I didn't expect ......"
Zhao Ran said: "Teacher, don't be too sad, the deceased is gone, and those of us who are alive still have to work hard to live, so don't disturb the Dao heart for this." ”
Jiang Tenghe was silent for a moment, and said: "You have to be busy these days, Zhizhen is in retreat, from today on, I will also enter the back mountain to meditate and prepare for the retreat of breaking the realm, there are still many things to deal with in the mountain gate, all of them will be handed over to you." ”
Zhao Ran said happily: "Then I wish the teacher a smooth breakthrough!"
Jiang Tenghe shook his head: "How can it be so easy, this month you first call Longyang Patriarch and Master Lin to stay in the cave, it should be faster, so that I can still come out to meet them, if it is delayed until May or June, I am afraid that I will start to retreat with all my strength to impact the Great Refining Master Realm." ”
"Disciple understands!"
After Jiang Tenghe entered the small world of the main peak and began to prepare for the retreat, Zhao Ran sent a flying charm to Uncle Lin Zhijiao, who asked the love sect, and officially asked her to lead the children of the sect to stay in Dajun Mountain.
After the flying talisman was issued, Zhao Ran went to look for Bai Shanjun, but he didn't find it for a while, and he couldn't help but wonder a little, this white crane was still there just now, but he didn't know where to go at the moment.
In desperation, he had to summon the Nangui Daoist, and said with a smile: "Daoyou are invited, everyone is performing their duties seriously, shouldn't Daoyou also enter the role?"
The Nangui Daoist blinked: "......"
Zhao Ran clasped his fists and saluted: "Respectfully invite Director Nangui to join the company!"