Time flies, time flies. Suddenly, since the return of the three ancestors of the Long family, a year has passed.

During the year, many new things happened in the East City.

First, in the East City, in a manor in the Dragon Mansion, a majestic monument was erected, called the "Monument to the Heroes of the East City". The stele body of the monument is carved with a whole piece of white marble, which is majestic and magnificent, and it is even more noble. On the front of the monument, there are seven big characters engraved with "Dongcheng Heroes Monument". On the back of the monument, there are eight characters engraved with "Heroes of Dongcheng, Immortal". These 7815 big characters, according to Longzheng, specially invited an old gentleman with the best calligraphy in the house of the lord of the Fucheng Tangtai Mansion to write it, and then the craftsman engraved it on the monument one by one according to the character shadow.

The monument's huge base is made of dozens of huge white marble stones. On the pedestal, which is more than ten zhang wide and more than ten zhang high, there is not a single word, only the names of all the soldiers who have died fighting to resist the demon beasts in the eastern city since the demon beasts began to attack the Sifang City.

Around the pedestal, there are identical white basins. Planted in pots are a variety of yellow and white flowers that symbolize mourning. At the four corners of the pedestal, four lush cypress trees are planted.

The entire Longfu Manor, where the monument is located, was leveled into a large square by the Long family. The ground of the square is paved with carefully polished green bricks. This square was named "Dongcheng Heroes Memorial Square" by the City Lord's Mansion.

On the day of the unveiling of this monument, the whole city shook in the square city.

Since ancient times, everyone has believed that it is the duty of a soldier to eat food and receive pay, and to go into battle to kill the enemy. If there is an unfortunate death or injury, the government also has its own bereavement benefits. Like Dongcheng, a solemn monument was erected for the soldiers who died in battle, and everyone's name was engraved on it, which was really groundbreaking.

But that's not all.

Before the unveiling of the monument, a notice was posted in the entire city of Dongcheng, informing the people of Dongcheng that the City Lord's Mansion would hold a public sacrifice in front of the monument on the day of the unveiling of the monument to commemorate and mourn the soldiers who died in battle to defend Dongcheng.

On that day, all over the East City, there were thousands of empty alleys. The memorial square, which can accommodate more than 100,000 people, is crowded. Even the miles around the square were crowded with people who came to attend the festival or watch the ceremony.

In addition to the people of the mortal world, there are also many Xianmen disciples who have come to Sifang City to try inside and outside the Sifang City because of the exercises of the Dongsheng Divine Palace and the Jade Sword Gate, and they also appeared in the memorial square in the air to see the Western scenery.

When Long Chuan first arrived at the scene, his first feeling was that this scene could definitely kill any railway station during the domestic Spring Festival in another time and space.

In the first half hour after the start of the festival, Long Chuan swore that he would never want to experience it again in his life. When Long Zheng recited the sentence "Woohoo! Mourn my Dongcheng son! Sorrow! Marvel at my Dongcheng hero!" The cries of millions of people are superimposed, and it is not an exaggeration to describe them as earth-shattering ghosts and gods.

After the public sacrifice ceremony, Long Zheng struck while the iron was hot, and announced several things that the City Lord's Mansion would do for the soldiers of Dongcheng.

First, military merit medals will be awarded to all meritorious soldiers who bravely killed the enemy in resisting the attack of demon beasts. For those soldiers who have died in battle, their military medals will be received by their descendants. All soldiers who have won the military merit medal and their immediate family members can enjoy a variety of benefits from the city lord's office, including tax reduction and exemption (original tap), no worship when seeing officials, and no kneeling when entering the government.

Second, all those who have enlisted in the army in their families will hang a glorious plaque of "Soldiers' Families" on their portals. All families with honor cards can enjoy a variety of benefits from the city lord's office, including tax reductions and exemptions.

Third, as long as all the soldiers in the eastern city are not removed from the army because they have violated military discipline, whether they are forced to retire due to injury or because they are discharged from the army because of old age, the city lord's palace will continue to pay them a certain amount of food and salary, called "retirement money". Retirement pay is paid until the death of the veteran.

Fourth, the generals in Dongcheng immediately set up a yamen dedicated to administering justice to soldiers and their families, called the "Department of Military Justice." Whether it is a serving or retired soldier, or their family members, if they have grievances or other demands against the government, they can directly go to the Military Judge Advocate Advocate General for help. At the same time, the Judge Advocate General's Department will organize commissioners to conduct open and covert visits to the military and the families of the officers and soldiers at any time, so as to prevent the soldiers or their families from being wronged and not being redressed in time.

Fifth, the city lord's mansion has set aside a large vacant land in the city to build the Dongcheng Martyrs Cemetery. From now on, all soldiers who have made meritorious contributions in the defense of Dongcheng, whether they have died in battle, died of illness, or died at home, can enter the Dongcheng Martyrs Cemetery and be remembered by the people of Dongcheng for eternity.

As soon as these decrees were promulgated at the public memorial meeting, a frenzy of joining the army was immediately set off in the eastern city. Countless poor families rushed to express their stance on the spot, wanting to send their school-age men into the army to serve Dongcheng and the benevolent and righteous Long family. And those who used to pay others to serve in the military for their children are full of regret. There are so many bold and high-ranking families who want to deceive the City Lord's Mansion and turn those hired people into their own children, but they are exposed by the City Lord's Mansion in person.

After those high-ranking families were exposed on the spot, the Long family had not yet punished them, and the millions of angry Dongcheng people inside and outside the memorial square almost drowned those people with saliva. Even those people in the Xianmen who came to watch the excitement also scolded those who tried to deceive the high-ranking families of the Long family, and some even threatened to eliminate the traitors and clarify Yuyu.

Second, the Long family funded a large-scale comprehensive transformation of the entire Xihe area. The renovation includes repairing the road surface, cleaning the river, repairing the drainage ditch, etc. Just a few months later, all the people who came to visit Xihe were shocked. After the transformation, where does Xihe still look like a slum? Its overall environment is much better than that of those places where high-ranking families live together.

After visiting, many people, especially those with high families, went to the City Lord's Mansion to petition, asking the Long family to renovate their respective areas as well. When the people of the Long family were embarrassed to reveal the economic pressure of the Long family, those who went to petition said that they were willing to help with money, materials, and efforts, as long as the Long family was willing to take the lead in the transformation and repair of the area where they lived.

Third, well-informed sources revealed that the two ancestors of the Long family "contracted" the land property of the two of them and the land property of the son who spoke after the age of seven to the poor family, in order to pray for the return of the three ancestors of the Long family and the son's ability to speak. As soon as this move came out, it caused a stronger vibration in the East City than the earth dragon turned over.

Land and land have always been regarded as the foundation of a family. The two ancestors of the Long family want to pray for the blessings of the three ancestors of the Long family and the son, everyone can understand it, and they are fully supported from the heart. But to "contract" one's own land to others, and one contract is ten years, this is too, too, too what, right?

Fourth, the city lord's mansion rebuilt the Long family's manor in an excellent location in the city, and established two institutions in it, one called the "nursing home" and the other called the "orphanage".

Anyone over the age of 100 in the city, regardless of whether they have children or not, can apply to live in a nursing home. For those widows and widows who have no children and no daughters, as long as they are willing to go to the nursing home to care for the elderly, the nursing home will not take a penny.

All orphans in the city can live in the orphanage. In the orphanage, the Long family not only provided the orphans with basic daily necessities such as three meals a day and clothes, but also specially arranged a lot of civil and military teachers or teachers to teach the orphans the way of civil and martial arts.

The first to move into nursing homes and orphanages were the elderly and orphans from the Xihe area. Because nursing homes and orphanages are completely open to the public, many people have visited nursing homes and orphanages, and the environment there is better than that of many food and clothing homes.

Fifth, the city lord's palace will filter the excess rainwater and some domestic sewage in the city, and lead it to some low-lying places outside the eastern city wall, forming a lot of depressions outside the city. A few months after the formation of these depressions, various birds, insects, fish and other creatures gradually began to appear on the depressions, and they began to become a new scenery outside the eastern city.

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For these new things in the East City, there was a lot of discussion in the entire Quartet City. Most people believe that these are some of the methods that the three returning ancestors of the Long Family brought back from the Immortal Gate. Only those city lords and the Jade Sword Sect disciples in the various city lords' mansions knew that these things that the Long family had done had nothing to do with the Jade Sword Sect's half a dime.

Only in this way, in addition to Long Zheng and Xia Yuqiu, several city lords were even more shocked. Several city lords, especially Huang Yihao and Cheng Liming, who had seen the scene of Long Chuan making Jin Yicheng and others deflated on the day of the return of the three ancestors of the Long family, were not without guesses, and these thoughts were likely to come from the mouth of the ghost head of Long Chuan. However, what the two of them guessed was that there must be other masters behind the Dragon Chuan, referring to the Long family through the mouth of the Dragon Chuan. After all, Long Chuan is only seven years old this year. No matter how genius he was, it was impossible for him to come up with something that no one in the Quartet had ever done before.