Chapter 16: Taking over as Lord of the City
After the people of the major families left, Chu Feng said to Chu Shan, "I didn't expect that the few major families that have been in the limelight for hundreds of years will decline like this, and sure enough, there are no predecessors in the foundation building period to sit in charge, and the family will not be long-lasting!"
"Brother, what are your plans now?" asked Chu Shan. Since there is less entanglement with the interests of the family now, the relationship between the brothers is also much better, and the words are much closer.
& I want to resign from the position of city lord to Taixuanmen and return to the family to concentrate on cultivation. Chu Feng sighed and said, "There are ants below the foundation! ”
>> That's a mistake!" Chu Shan persuaded and said, "Taixuanmen also needs secular mortal forces, otherwise how will it develop in the future?"
& It's because my brother really doesn't want to delay the cultivation time because of this, after all, it's still the sixth layer of the Qi cultivation period. Chu Feng said lonely. In fact, except for Chu Shan, almost all of the rest of the brothers were above the seventh layer of qi refining, which made this big brother embarrassed.
Chu Shan could see that this time the eldest brother was determined to return to the family. Chu Shan walked back and forth in the living room, as if thinking about something. In the end, Chu Shan seemed to have made up his mind, and said with a straight face, "If the eldest brother can trust the younger brother, why don't the younger brother take over the position of the city lord?"
&7," Chu Feng said, "The eldest brother is a person who has come over, and the wealth of the mortal world is always empty, so it is better to take this opportunity to go back to the family with the eldest brother." ”
"Brother Xie!" Chu Shan also knew that the eldest brother was thinking about himself, "But the younger brother has his own plans, besides, didn't the eldest brother give the first three layers of the Taixuan True Scripture to the younger brother, and he will not delay his cultivation." The worst, if not, the younger brother will return to the family in the end, how about it?"
Chu Feng couldn't bear Chu Shan's request, so he had to compromise in the end.
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Chu Feng's efficiency was very high, and the news that Chu Shan had taken over as the city lord had been spread within three days, and the handover had been completed. Three days later, the pavilion in the east of the city.
"Brother, let's go to Taixuanmen to be a qiē shun lì!" Chu Shan poured a glass of wine, and personally filled it with Chu Feng, and said, "Little brother may still rely on the eldest brother in the future!"
& Seven, it's a joke!" Chu Feng said solemnly, "Although you only have the first layer of the Qi cultivation period now, I don't feel that it will be so simple, to tell you the truth, Brother Sù, did you do the things of the four major families in the city?"
Chu Shan smiled mysteriously, neither admitting nor explaining.
>> It's you!" Chu Feng was taken aback, knowing that the strength of the four major families was not small, and they could disintegrate it in a few days, how powerful it was. Although Chu Feng had doubts before, he was not very sure until now. After getting Chu Shan's acquiescence, he had a higher evaluation of this seventh brother.
& However, Lao Qi already has a plan, so the eldest brother is no longer verbose. Chu Feng is not a person who drags mud and water, and he is not hypocritical when he sees this, and finally instructs, "Our Chu family is within the influence of Taixuanmen, and my father has established a small family and is attached to Taixuanmen. ”
It's only a few years here, and I'll go to Taixuanmen, and it's a common thing to go back to the family when the time comes. ”
& Brother have a good trip!" Chu Shan shouted loudly as he watched his eldest brother go all the way away.
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The first thing Chu Shan did when he returned to Qinghe City was to reorganize the army. There are about 2,000 troops in Qinghe City, most of whom are mortals, and only the captain and above are monks. Its establishment is five people and one team, there is a captain, ten people are a tithe, there is a chief, fifty people a team, there is a captain, one hundred people a tun, there is a tun chief, two hundred people a song, there are military marquis, one thousand people, and there is a captain for the main Sima as the deputy. At present, there are two schools in the army, and the captains are Li Ze and Ma Rong. Chu Shan's reception of the army was very smooth, and Chu Feng attached great importance to the purity of the army when he was in power, so these two thousand people were subordinates, otherwise they would not be able to fight against the major families for so long. Now that Chu Feng has given up the position of city lord to Chu Shan, although the army cannot be like an arm, at least it will not disobey the yang and the yin. Coupled with Chu Shan's deliberate friendship and the strong strength that was inadvertently revealed, in less than three days, all the soldiers had returned to their hearts.
However, Chu Shan was not satisfied with the current situation of the army, so he had to start training himself, taking out the way of training special forces in his previous life, combining the cultivation system of the current world, and taking out the various martial arts cheats he had captured before as a reward.
After the affairs of the army were settled, it had been more than three months. At this time, Qinghe City gradually regained its calm. The families also gave the spirit stone to Chu Mountain. Chu Shan did not break his promise, but sent a team of fifty people to each family to garrison to prevent any chaos, after all, at this time, Chu Shan also hoped that the city would be stable and not make trouble.
One day after April, Chushan issued a decree abolishing a series of exorbitant taxes, such as the city gate tax and the poll tax. It is stipulated that the people only need to pay a tax once for farming, which is reduced from the previous five taxes to 15 taxes. This is because Chushan has already obtained a lot of wealth and no longer needs to rely on taxes to maintain the operation of the city lord's mansion, so he simply reduces the burden on the people and allows the people to live a good life. Taking a step back, although Qinghe City is vast, with a radius of 30 miles, including an entire Yunwu Mountain, it is sparsely populated, only 100,000 people, even if it collects heavy taxes, it will not play a role, therefore, Chushan relaxed the policy and implemented a new policy for the first time in the Qianzhou mainland. The Qianzhou continent is vast and boundless, and a small city can control dozens of miles around it, and there are big cities, county towns, royal cities and imperial capitals, etc., and its scope is even larger. Since Chu Shan had completely controlled Qinghe City, the first decree was implemented very well, firstly, because there was no conflict with others, and secondly, because Chu Shan controlled the army and had absolute strength.
In the following month, Chushan successively promulgated a series of decrees to encourage business, kill people to pay for their lives, a total of fifteen articles, involving various fields such as people's livelihood, army, economy and cultivation, and the entire Qinghe City seemed to be thriving. During this period, the major families in the city have moved out due to the unbearable exploitation of Chu Mountain. Therefore, it can be said that the implementation of these policies has not been hindered in the slightest, and it has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people within a month. After seeing this, Chu Shan couldn't help but be very pleased, it took half a year before and after, and finally built Qinghe City into a relatively fair world, where people can communicate with each other relatively equally, and they will not worry about the safety of life and property.
After doing this, Chu Shan's prestige was very high, and people often spontaneously sent some things to the City Lord's Mansion to express their gratitude. There are even many families who worship Chu Mountain, hoping that Chu Mountain will live forever. Of course, Chu Shan didn't care about these, and bought the people's things according to the market price, and never took advantage of others. And Chushan promulgated a stern decree: once corruption, fraud, or forced buying and selling are discovered, they will be severely punished, all property will be confiscated, Xiuwei will be abolished, and Qinghe City will be driven out. After arresting several people in a row, there is no such thing as deception in Qinghe City now.
After Chu Shan cleaned up the environment of Qinghe City, he handed over all government affairs to Tian Yuan, the chief bookkeeper of the City Lord's Mansion, who was not a great talent, but he did things in a decent manner and would not make any mistakes. As for the affairs of the army, they were all handed over to the two lieutenants, and I believe they can handle them properly. Since Chu Shan's cultivation relied heavily on essence blood, he released the purchase of medicinal materials and various animals, demon beasts, and spirit beasts to supplement essence blood in the city. After that, I began to focus on cultivation.
Although Chu Shan didn't care about anything in the city after that, Qinghe City was still developing rapidly, and it gradually began to realize the strategy that Chu Shan had formulated before. The first is the expansion of the city, Qinghe City was originally only three miles in radius, and now the old city is regarded as an inner city, and an outer city is built outside, with a radius of ten miles. The plan was to be completed in ten years, with a tenth of the annual construction, financed by the city's tax revenues, and secondly, by the resettlement of outsiders. Due to the preferential policies of Qinghe City, the people in the vicinity continued to move here, so the number of nearby villages continued to increase, and the population of the city gradually increased. All warriors who defect need to register with the City Lord's Mansion, and there is a small free residence in the city. Finally, army building. The army must go to the Cloud Mountain every month to cultivate, fight with fierce beasts, demon beasts and spirit beasts, increase their actual combat ability, and improve their cultivation.
In this way, in less than three years, Qinghe City has a population of more than 500,000 and has become a good place for people to live and work in peace and contentment. Chu Shan didn't know about this, and he was still repeating his cultivation day after day in the City Lord's Mansion.