Longevity starts with learning

Chapter 24
After lunch, Chu Mu walked out of Fengyue Tower.

Standing in front of Fengyue Tower again, Chu Mu seemed to be preoccupied.

It's not that he didn't play hard enough, but just now in Fengyue Tower, he listened to the legend of gods and ghosts again.

This time the protagonist is the Fengyue Building... It should be said that it was a former Fengyue place in Nanshan Town, a singer from Tinglangfang.

To put it simply, it is the story of a prostitute and a poor scholar.

The scholar was poor, so naturally he couldn't afford the ransom money, and then he ran away with the old-fashioned agreement.

As a result, the news of the elopement was reported by the prostitute's boudoir friend. On the day of the elopement, the scholar was beaten to death on the spot, and the woman was arrested and tortured to death in Fengyue Tower.

Then that night, a sudden fire broke out and completely burned Fengyue Tower to ashes.

Some passers-by heard the wailing in the building, and some evil ghosts could be seen faintly in the fire.

There are inspections, passers-by put out the fire, but the fire is poured with cold water, but it is like adding fuel to the fire, and it is getting more and more prosperous.

A singer wanted to escape, but was directly dragged into the fire by the evil spirit.

In one night, the lives of 78 people, including the guests, were reduced to ashes.

The current Fengyue Tower only appeared in this small town after listening to Langfang being reduced to ashes.

The former site of Tinglangfang was abandoned for a long time because of the uproar. It was not until a few years ago that the government requisitioned it and built a warehouse to store mineral materials.

Chu Mu looked towards the end of the street. Every day when he was on duty from the mine, he would naturally pass by that warehouse, but he didn't expect that there was such a reason for it.

In just one morning, after hearing these so-called stories of ghosts and gods one after another, even though Chu Mu didn't really believe in ghosts and gods, he couldn't help feeling a chill down his spine for no reason at this moment.

"It's evil, didn't I come to listen to the music, why did I hear another ghost story!"

Chu Mu secretly cursed in his heart, put his arms around his clothes, didn't stay long, and hurriedly walked towards the direction of his home.

Perhaps it was a psychological effect, but after entering the home that Chu Mu felt peaceful in the past, he was inexplicably terrified.

"Woooooooo..."

Walking into the room, the dog whimpered and rubbed Chu Mu's trousers, Chu Mu squatted down, and rubbed the dog. At this moment, the inexplicable panic dissipated a lot.

After lighting the fire, changing into clean clothes, and picking up a book, Chu Mu slowly leaned against the bed.

As soon as the book was opened, the originally agitated heart gradually calmed down, and naturally, it completely focused on the book.

The alcohol is still there, and the fire is flickering, which adds a bit of warmth, and the whole body is warm, not too comfortable.

Time passed bit by bit, and I don't know how long it took before I finally finished reading a book.

Chu Mu closed the book, closed his eyes slightly, recalled it carefully in his mind, and then slowly put down the book.

Different from the previous history book, although this book is also a kind of history, it belongs to local tales.

That is... the Qinghe County Chronicle where he is now located in Qinghe County.

In the 700 years of Dachu, Qinghe County has been established for nearly 700 years. Naturally, it is impossible for the county annals to have only this thin volume.

Of course, the volume in his hand is not the real county annals.

After all, the county annals were compiled by the county government and stored in the county government. At least, they were not accessible to his little inspector.

Strictly speaking, the volume in his hand can be said to be wild records, also known as unofficial history, which is Nanshan wild records compiled by folk scholars.

The so-called Nanshan is naturally the Nanshan Town where he is now.

According to the Nanshan Unofficial Records, Nanshan Iron Mine was officially mined about 60 years ago, and Nanshan Town was slowly formed with the mining of Nanshan Iron Mine.

Before the iron ore was mined, this place was just a barren mountain with no human habitation.

In this volume of Nanshan Chronicles, it can be said that the major events that have happened in Nanshan Town in recent years are recorded in detail.

What surprised Chu Mu was that the ghosts and gods that he heard in Fengyue Tower today were also recorded in the Nanshan Chronicle.

It's just that the person who recorded it has obviously processed it artistically. What kind of reincarnation of heaven and retribution is not good, it can be viewed as a ghost story, and the writer's personal opinion is very obvious.

And in this Nanshan Wild Chronicle, what Chu Mu cares most about is the record about Nanshan Iron Mine.

That's what Chu Mu has been worried about...rebellion...

After all, the severity of the corvee in Qinghe County is hard to describe.

For decades of corvée, if there was no rebellion, Chu Mu would find it inconceivable.

Although it seems to be stable at the moment, there is no telling when it will be the one-eyed mine stone man who provokes Nanshan Qi to rebel!
And this record of Nanshan Yezhi just proved Chu Mu's conjecture.

According to the records of Nanshan Unofficial Records, Nanshan Iron Mine has been mined for more than [-] years, and there have been three civil uprisings!

In the most serious one, the civil uprising even swept across the entire Nanshan Town, and it was the county that sent troops to suppress the uprising.

In 60 years, three civil uprisings...

Chu Mu let out a long breath, combined with his experience in the inspection station for nearly a month, in fact, it is not difficult to see the reasons for many things.

In the final analysis, it is nothing more than human greed at work.

As far as he knows, the county city assigns mining tasks to Nanshan Iron Mine every year.

In other words, every year, Qinghe County must complete the mining tasks assigned by the county.

It's done, everything is easy to talk about, if it can't be done, then those who should lose their hats will lose their hats, and those who should be beheaded will be beheaded.

For the sake of Wu Shamao, the gentlemen in the county must do whatever it takes to complete the mining tasks assigned by the county.

But the reality is that, for the people of Qinghe County, what they have to accomplish is not only the amount of mining tasks assigned by the county...

After all, people are not saints, who can guard the treasure mountain without the slightest smell of money?
This is undoubtedly a complete vicious circle.

The county town needs mineral materials, and the gentlemen in the county also need mineral materials to make money. More than a thousand officials in Qinghe County also stretched out their hands to this treasure mountain.

Those who eat meat eat meat, those who drink soup drink soup.

This chain of links has formed the big net of interests that Chu Mu guessed.

Even if anyone wants to improve the treatment of corvees and lighten the burden on the people of Qinghe County, it is impossible to achieve it.

"The most recent civil uprising was six years ago..."

"It was the year when the original owner's father was transferred to Nanshan Town..."

Chu Mu was a little stunned, no wonder the original owner's father had done a good job in the county and was suddenly transferred to Nanshan Town.

"What the original owner has been doing for so many years, why doesn't he know anything!"

Chu Mu tried his best to recall, but he couldn't find any news about the civil uprising in the memory of the original owner. The most in his memory seemed to be staying in this yard and playing with that Xu Yuan...

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(End of this chapter)