Chapter 312： Immortal Cave

The bearded man was also embarrassed by Wu Weng's words.

Because as a low-level military officer, he was very familiar with the bad things in the military camp.

Usually, the superiors oppress the subordinates, and the subordinates oppress the little shrimps below.

Anyone who has some ability or a dark heart will go out and look for ways to make money.

In this area of ​​dozens of miles, even bandits are not coming, because the group of people in the military camp are bandits themselves.

Fortunately, they only make money and do not harm the poor people around them.

It’s not that rabbits don’t eat grass around their nests, it’s that there is no grass at all around their nests.

After several people had dinner, Old Man Wu led Zhou Wuchang around the village, and Zhou Wuchang even called Yingbao up.

As they walked, they talked about how to support their family.

Zhou Wuchang suddenly asked Yingbao: "Disciple, how do you think this village should be developed?"

Ying Bao blinked, not understanding why the master asked her this.

She is just a seven-and-a-half-year-old girl, how can she handle this?

Seeing that his apprentice didn't seem to understand, Zhou Wuchang added: "My teacher once went to Dongchen Village. Their lives are richer than those in the county. People in your village also say that they can afford to build big tile-roofed houses and have no worries about food and clothing. All thanks to you.”

ˆ Yingbao:········

She suddenly doubted the real purpose of her master bringing her here for training.

Zhou Wuchang sighed and continued: "If you come up with any good ideas, apprentice, please tell me. I will thank you on behalf of the people here."

Ying Bao licked his face and nodded: "Okay."

Old man Wu didn't understand what the master and apprentice were saying, and he still talked to Zhou Wuchang about the past few years with a frown on his face.

Every household in the village was so impoverished that the court not only refused to reduce or reduce taxes, but also forcibly collected money and grain again and again.

Those officials don't care about the life and death of the people at all. The only purpose of keeping the people alive is to make money for the officials to grow food and provide free labor and soldiers for the powerful.

Compared with the prosperity of cities and Kyoto, people in remote villages basically do not have enough food to eat and no clothing to cover their bodies.

In order to avoid starving to death and freezing to death, people sold their children and daughters. Some were afraid that they would have too many children and could not afford the taxes and poll tax, so they would push their newborn babies into basins of water and drown them alive, or throw them directly into the ravine. .

Old man Wu became more and more sad as he talked and kept wiping his eyes with his sleeves.

Zhou Wuchang remained silent, his expression getting increasingly ugly.

Upon seeing this, Ying Bao looked around hard, trying to figure out how to make these people rich.

There is a lack of water here, and there seems to be no paddy fields. According to what Wu Weng said, the people here only grow millet, not even wheat.

How about letting them grow golden ears?

But now there is frost, the weather is getting colder, and it might snow soon.

Yingbao scratched his head and couldn't think of any way to make money in such a poor place.

At this time, Cuihua came over carrying a basket with a ball of light yellow cloth in it.

 Seeing Ying Bao staring at her, Cuihua was a little stunned and subconsciously protected the things in the basket with her arms.

But Yingbao still saw clearly that it was a piece of cotton cloth that he asked his second senior brother to throw away last night.

Ying Bao turned away and pretended to look into the distance.

I heard Master ask Wu Weng: "Hasn't the pond you use for daily water been cleaned yet?"

"It's been cleaned up. It was cleaned up last year. Now the pond is twice as big as before." Wu Weng said. Zhou Wuchang nodded.

He has some connections with this village, because he once stationed here for several years, and the villagers fought with him against Jurchen attacks, and then stayed at Wu Weng's house to recover from his injuries for several months.

Wu Weng started talking and talked about the drought that occurred from last year to this summer: "Fortunately we have a mountain **** cave here, otherwise, all the people in the surrounding villages would have fled. Alas, it hasn't rained for half a year, and the water in several villages has The ponds all bottomed out, and it wasn’t until June that there were a few rains, and then the ponds were filled to the brim.”

As soon as Ying Bao heard the word "god", his eyes lit up and he quickly asked: "Grandpa Wu, what is the fairy cave?"

"It's the cave in Shiquan Mountain. I heard from my grandfather that it is the life-saving spring given by the gods in the sky. It is called this cave from the elders." Wu Weng said proudly.

Yingbao thought for a while and asked, "Whose cave does it belong to?"

Wu Weng smiled: "No one. There isn't even a tree growing on that mountain. Who wants a place like that?"

When you buy land, you have to pay taxes. Whether it is mountainous land or gravel land, as long as you buy it, you will definitely pay taxes to the government every year.

So even if the government doesn’t want money to give it away, no one dares to accept it.

Ying Bao tugged at Master's wide sleeves and whispered: "Master, I have thought of a way to make the people in the village rich."

“Oh?” Zhou Wuchang was also curious about what the young apprentice could come up with: “What do you want them to do?”

Ying Bao chuckled: "Since there is a fairy cave here, and there is a stone spring given by the gods in the cave, why not let the villagers buy the cave and sell the fairy water to the city people for a penny."

Zhou Wuchang was stunned for a moment and shook his head: "It costs a lot of money to buy a load of water? Who would be so stupid?"

Even in Fucheng, the mountain spring water was brought into the city at a cost of only five cents and ten cents per load. When the water was most scarce, it did not exceed twenty cents. As soon as he opened his mouth, his little apprentice always paid for one load, unless he bought water. People are crazy, otherwise this deal will never be done.

"We'll find out if we're stupid or not." Yingbao is very optimistic about this business.

If that doesn’t work, just take some flowers and plant them in the cave to create a miracle. Don’t worry about the rich people in the city not coming to buy them.

Hehe, maybe this village will become famous from now on and become another wealthy village.

The first thing now is to buy this hilltop and make up a story so that people from several surrounding villages become the guardians of the Fairy Cave, so that no one else dares to touch it.

In this way, even if the rich and powerful rob Shiquan, they must treat these villagers well.

Zhou Wuchang thought for a while and finally nodded: "Okay, since you are so sure, let the villagers try it. However, there is no need for the villagers to buy the cave. This will save them from getting into discord, so the teacher will pay for it, and then Build a Taoist temple over there.”

Old man Wu was deaf and didn't hear clearly what the master and apprentice said. He only looked at them curiously.

Next, the master and the apprentice went to Shiquan Mountain to investigate and decide where to build a Taoist temple.

After that, I went to see Li Zheng and talked about buying the hilltop on the other side of Shiquan.

Li Zheng and Zhou Wuchang were old acquaintances, so he immediately took them to the county government office to estimate the price.

In the end, Zhou Wuchang spent more than four hundred taels of silver to buy the entire top of Shiquan Mountain and the surrounding sand and gravel land.

Zhang Min was stunned by what his master was doing and asked him repeatedly: "Master, do we want to practice Taoism here?"

“Being a teacher means establishing a foothold here. If you want to stay and practice Taoism, it’s not impossible.” Zhou Wuchang said.

Zhang Min: "I don't want to stay." This place is not fun at all. There is no food or drink, not even a fruit tree.

Thanks to Yan and Mie Baobao for the reward of 10,000 starting coins. I will definitely work hard.

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