What a majestic and magnificent big city! No matter whether it is the county seat or county town that Liu Kongya has seen, there is no such tall city wall, yes, the wall of Xuantian Palace should be more than ten zhang high, in front of Xuantian Palace, Liu Kongya feels that he has a feeling of being an ant.

But what shocked Liu Kongya even more was the grandeur of the big city of Xuantian Palace, which was the largest big city Liu Kongya had ever seen!

This should be one of the largest cities in Tuzhou, at least a dozen Yunjian counties are as big! No, there are definitely more than a dozen Yunjian county seats, Liu Kongya feels that there are at least 20 Yunjian counties as big, you must know that many county towns are built by mountains and rivers, but the core area in the middle of the Xuankong Palace is actually the mountains looming, and this mountain alone is at least a few county seats.

And Jiang Yanyun told Liu Kongya that he was indeed right: "That's right, the Xuantian Sword Sect, the Xuantian Palace and the Xuantian City are the same thing, there are 6,000 monks and quasi-monks in the entire Xuantian City, and 600,000 mortals who serve the monks and quasi-monks, and it can even be said to be the largest city in Tuzhou!"

Liu Kongya still didn't understand: "Then why is it called Xuantian Palace, and it also has the name of Xuantian Sword Sect?"

Jin Niang in Liu Kongya's arms looked at the Xuanyan Heavenly Palace and interjected: "There is a palace city inside the Xuantian Palace, that is the real Xuantian Sword Sect, and the thousands of monks and 600,000 mortals outside are all serving this real Xuantian Palace......"

Liu Kongya was taken aback when he looked at the mountains: "The real Xuantian Palace? It's not that people and immortals are isolated, so why are there so many mortals in Xuantian Palace?"

Jiang Yanyun thought for a while before coming up with a more reasonable explanation: "The normal operation of the Xuantian Sword Sect is actually inseparable from these mortals in Xuantian City, and at least one-tenth of the immortal tribute collected by the Xuantian Sword Sect from the thirteen counties of Tuzhou is used in Xuantian City!"

Tenth?

This proportion does not seem to be large, but Liu Kongya knows that the biggest advantage of Liukongzhuang a few years ago is that the public in the county never dared to mention the matter of Xiangong, and in the past two years, because Chen Niangniang was hit hard in the thunderstorm, the Zhuang family in Liujiazhuang not only has to pay a lot of money and grain to the official village every year, but also every time the public is full of wine and food, they will specifically mention the matter of Xiangong, and Liujiazhuang is also privately angry, and the money and grain can be paid more, but no matter what, the example of solving Xiangong must not be opened.

In the past two years, he has read a lot of books and met a lot of people, so he also knows more things, and knows that the taxes collected by the government of the Great Yan Dynasty can be divided into taxes and immortal tribute, and the tax is the money and grain collected.

A few years ago, the Jintao grass in the township is a typical Xiangong, for this Jintao grass county promised to exempt the township from money and grain for three whole years, although this promise was not implemented in the end, but this Jin Tao grass is still exempted from the township's money and grain for almost a year, and according to Chen Niangniang and Jin Niang, under normal circumstances, the county must be exempted from at least five years of money and grain in the township.

But no matter what, for ordinary Shengdou small people, the immortal tribute is a heavy burden in addition to taxes, especially sometimes if you can't get the local products and natural materials and earth treasures required by the immortals, the only way is to spend a lot of money to buy them on the black market, and this heavy money is finally distributed to the heads of each Shengdou small people, which is often a few percent more than the normal taxes paid.

It's just that unlike the money and grain that are directly shipped to Jiejing, the immortal tributes of the entire thirteen counties of Tuzhou will be sent to the Xuantian Sword Sect for further processing, so Liu Kongya quickly came up with a key question: "How much of the immortal tribute collected by the Xuantian Sword Sect every year will be retained and how much will be shipped?"

Jiang Yanyun felt that Liu Kongya's question was to the point, and her eyes couldn't help but light up: "This question is well asked, our Xiangong in Tuzhou has always been seven to Yujing, and three points to be stored in Xuantian Palace!"

Liu Kongya immediately understood why there were so many mortals and monks in Xuantian City, there were more than three hundred counties in thirteen counties in the entire Tuzhou, and the actual number of people was not less than 100 million, and the immortal tribute of 100 million liters of Dou Xiaomin was definitely an astronomical amount, even if one percent was taken out, it was enough to feed hundreds of thousands of people, not to mention that the Xuantian Sword Sect used one-third of all the immortal tributes that it could use in this Xuantian City.

Liu Kongya couldn't help but sigh: "One-third of the immortal tribute in Tu Prefecture, no wonder it can feed 600,000 people!"

Jiang Yanyun continued to popularize the basic knowledge of this area with Liu Kongya: "In fact, Xuantian Palace doesn't want to raise too many people, otherwise the mortals in Xuantian City would have already exceeded one million, and the number of monks would definitely exceed ten thousand!"

Now Xuantian City is getting closer and closer, but the closer he gets to Xuantian City, Liu Kongya can feel the majestic aura of Xuantian City, he pointed to the towering immortal mountains in Xuantian City and asked, "Aunt Yanyun, that is Xuantian Palace, right?"

Jiang Yanyun gave a very clear answer: "That's right, that's the real Xuantian Sword Sect, the Xuantian Sword Sect has three Yuanying monks, and there are three thousand monks! Remember, when you enter Xuantian City, you have to call me Sister Yanyun!"

Usually, as long as this topic is mentioned, Jin Niang will definitely protest angrily, but now she can only temporarily bow her head to reality: "You can only call Sister Yanyun when you enter the city, and you can only call Sister Yanyun in the city, and when you come out, you will still be Aunt Yanyun." ”

Liu Kongya nodded and continued to stare at this immortal mountain representing the Xuantian Sword Sect, there are 600,000 mortals and 6,000 monks and quasi-monks in Xuantian City, but everything in the lives of all these people revolves around the three thousand people of the Xuantian Sword Sect, Liu Kongya suddenly sighed: "I understand what an immortal is?"

Jin Niang asked curiously, "Brother Kongya, how do you say this?"

Liu Kongya replied very solemnly: "Immortals are real people!"

Jiang Yanyun felt that she and her eldest sister really didn't misunderstand people: "Well said, Xiao Ya said this very well! Immortals are such things! Immortals are people on people, and our Xiao Ya will definitely become the best existence among the three thousand monks of the Xuantian Sword Sect, and he is the best person among the people in the world!"

As he was saying that he had arrived at the gate of Xuantian City, the guards guarding the gate were shouting: "Take out all the letter cards and check them, if there is no letter card, you will hand over one broken spirit to each person in the city immortal tribute, and if there is no broken spirit, you can take ten taels of gold out!"

And hundreds of mortals are now queuing up for inspection, some people have to take out broken spirits and gold as immortal tribute to enter the city because they don't have the letter plate of Xuantian City, and Liu Kongya also understands that Xuantian City is indeed not welcome ordinary mortals to enter, otherwise the immortal tribute entering the city will not reach the point of one in ten taels of gold.