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Chapter 179 Entering the city! A solution to the problem! (Two-in-one please subscribe!)

Nagaze County is located in the hinterland of Nagasawa County, in the southeastern plains. It is the least mountainous place in Nagasawa County.

Thousands and two hundred miles west of Changze County is the rolling Heishan Mountains. Although its city was only built five hundred years ago, it is not inferior to the thousand-year-old cities in other state capitals. Because when the Wu Dynasty regained Xiangzhou, the city of Changze County was It was originally used as a bridgehead to capture the entire Xiangzhou.

But now five hundred years have passed, and the Wu Dynasty has been in turmoil all over the country. The people are in dire straits. Xiangzhou has fallen into the control of evil demons. Gradually, this big city has lost its former charm.

The style is gone, but the prosperity remains.

Abnormal prosperity.

How can a land that absorbs the blood of a county and support a city not be prosperous?

There are two worlds outside Nagaze County and Nagasawa County.

Outside the city of Changze County, there are villages that have been burned to the ground, skeletons that have not been buried, wild dogs that eat human bones, crows that eat carrion, and even hungry people who are all skinny and bones, selling their sons and daughters, and exchanging children. Ordinary people who eat dirt and swallow stone.

In the eyes of the people of Changze County, Changze County City is a paradise-like life, the Kingdom of God mentioned by the Buddha. As long as they can obtain the right to live in Changze County City, they are willing to sacrifice everything.

As a result, more and more people gathered outside the city of Changze County and came to Changze County from all over Changze to seek survival.

Hearing this, Chen Yan nodded to express his understanding. In fact, if you want to enter Changze County, in addition to paying a large entrance fee, if you have a skill, you can also enter the city without paying, like the old man who pulls night scented flowers. Or other carpenters, bricklayers, etc.

"What can happen?"

Maybe I once felt sympathy and pity in my heart, but it is the same year after year, year after year, every year. No matter how much sympathy and pity you have, it will be exhausted. Instead, you will feel happy and happy for these people. The encounter did not happen to him.

Because on the city wall, the sharp and shimmering crossbow beds were facing these victims. Whenever the victims made any disturbance, they would be greeted by ruthless and cold crossbow arrows.

Hearing this, Chen Yan gestured towards the hungry people on both sides of the official road who were as skinny as wood, with empty and numb eyes, and asked:

Viewed from a high place, Changze County looks like a four-mouthed giant beast crawling on the plain.

The hot and bleak summer wind blew by, blowing the weeds and revealing the dense white bones under the weeds.

The old man's face looked like he was used to it. He glanced at the hungry people on both sides of the official road and said without changing his tone:

At the gate of the city, there were dozens of well-equipped and armored city guards standing, strictly collecting the entry fee from everyone who entered the city.

Chen Yan followed the voice and found that the speaker was an old man driving an oxcart. There were two large wooden barrels as tall as one person on the oxcart. There was still dirty yellow pickled dung juice on the edges of the barrels, and the air was There was a disgusting stench in it.

The poor do not deserve to live in the city of Nagaze County.

But they didn't dare to make the slightest move, let alone disturb the team entering the city.

"My father-in-law goes to the city every day?"

The others frowned and showed disgust, but the old man sat on the bullock cart and didn't mind being dirty. He leaned directly on the barrel, holding a stick of welding smoke in his hand, and took a deep breath, as if it was filled with smoke in the air. It's not a stench but a general fragrance.

Seeing Chen Yan's gaze, the old man grinned, showing his yellowed teeth, and his white hair swaying in the wind, like wild grass. He glanced at the young man and the Yimu spirit body in a black robe next to the young man, and then Repeated:

"Is this your first time coming to Changze County, my hometown?"

If they want to enter the city, they need to pay a large amount of silver. This is just the entry fee. If they want to live in the city, they need to pay sky-high taxes.

Chen Yan and Yimu Spirit were among the teams entering the city.

But the team entering the city seemed to be accustomed to this, even indifferent.

There were not many people queuing up to enter the city, as many as a thousand, but the number of victims of disaster and hunger outside the official road was even greater, and the area was so dark that it numbered no less than tens of thousands.

"Is this your first time coming to Nagasawa?"

Among these people entering the city, there are well-dressed businessmen, traders driving bullock carts, and civilians who have saved a large amount of money and want to go to the city to seek work and live the life of their dreams...

"How did my father-in-law find out?"

He has an unkempt face, sallow complexion, and skinny skin, but he has a huge belly. The belly is not filled with food, but with indigestion Guanyin soil and stones...

Whoosh!

The most chilling thing is that there are rows of fine tooth marks on the white bones...

Chen Yanzheng was silently looking at the hungry people on both sides of the road. Suddenly, an old voice came to his ears.

Poor?

From a distance, they look like ants, numb, empty, and desperate.

"Does my husband know what these... are going on?"

It was midsummer, and the scorching sun was scorching the air, as if you could feel your lungs burning with every breath you took, but this still couldn't stop the crowd surrounding Nagasawa County.

The old man grinned and took a puff of welding smoke, with a look of satisfaction on his face:

"Old man, I come to this county every day. What kind of people have I not seen? It's your first time to come to Changze County, an outsider like you, old man. I can spot them right away."

Chen Yan fell silent when he heard this. He thought of the Taiping Village he went to when he first arrived in Xiangzhou.

"When you are hungry, people eat each other."

Chen Yan asked back.

Standing in the queue entering the city, Chen Yan suddenly recalled six words in his mind:

"This is a drought and a flood, and there is no harvest in the fields. If you can't grow food, you can't pay the food tax. If you can't pay the food, the village will be destroyed and the family will be destroyed. In addition, there are many monsters and ghosts in these times. If a person drinks blood and wants to survive, where else can he go but to this county?"

As if he heard what Chen Yan said, the old man smiled:

"Then no matter how powerful the big shots in the city are, they still have to poop and pee, right? The poop and urine must be cleaned up, right?"

"It's time to give out porridge! The master of the Rebirth Cult is opening his tent to give out porridge!"

At this moment, there was a sudden commotion in the crowd.

If he had not appeared, there is a high probability that the remaining villagers of Taiping Village would have become hungry people on both sides of the official road, right?

Then, Chen Yan saw that the hungry people on both sides of the official road suddenly moved and swarmed in a certain direction.

Chen Yanyun looked around and saw five shabby-looking straw huts in the distance.

In the thatched huts, the deceased believers in white linen clothes beat, scolded or scolded the hungry people to line up. Under the control of the deceased believers, the hungry people held broken bowls in their hands and gradually formed a long queue in front of the five thatched huts. .

A white-haired old man with a kind face stood in front of the hut, smiling and serving a bowl of gruel to every hungry person who came forward.

It was really gruel, with almost no grains of rice visible except for the white soup.

But every hungry person who received the gruel seemed to regard the gruel in the broken bowl as the most delicious delicacy in the world. They drank the gruel in the bowl with an almost pious expression. After drinking, , and even carefully licked the few grains of rice in the broken bowl clean, leaving a lingering taste in the noodles.

Later, under the leadership of the kind-faced old man from the Rebirth Cult, and organized by hundreds of Rebirth Cultists, the hungry people sat on the ground one by one, clasped their hands together, and chanted in a low voice with piety:

"Be kind to my mother, and my hometown is empty; I love the world, and I will be reborn in the filthy land..."

Chen Yan watched silently without speaking. In his field of vision, wisps of invisible energy overflowed from the bodies of these victims, then gathered together and disappeared in a certain direction.

Chen Yan wanted to stop it, but in the end he did nothing and just watched silently.

If you don't drink this bowl of gruel, you may starve to death tomorrow; if you believe in the Rebirth Religion, you may die in the future, but at least you won't die now.

How do you let the hungry people choose?

At the city wall, the county soldiers guarding the city gate just looked at it with cold eyes, as if they had long been accustomed to this.

Obviously, this is not the first time that the Rebirth Cult has taught among hungry people. Even the teams entering the city were not surprised. Some people who were queuing up to enter the city even went to the grass hut to receive porridge, and then sat on the ground and began to chant the teachings of the Rebirth Cult.

Behind Chen Yan, the old man pulling the tuberose glanced at the porridge shed in the distance with interest. He smashed it, then hesitantly glanced at the oxcart under him, and finally shook his head and sighed, and did not pass. .

This world is not how it should be.

When there is a natural disaster and drought, the government should reduce rents and taxes to help the people tide over the difficulties; when there are many monsters and ghosts, the Supervisor should kill them and protect the countryside; when the village is destroyed and the family is destroyed, the court should provide porridge, provide disaster relief and protect the environment. Anmin...

If we do this, how can we give the deceased the opportunity to teach?

The inaction of the Changze County government and even intensified exploitation and cruelty of the people were the main culprits that caused the loss of life and starvation in Changze County.

"Since it doesn't do anything, then it shouldn't exist."

Chen Yan glanced in the direction of the city gate. Through the towering city walls, Chen Yan seemed to see the 'adults' who were well-fed and full of food and drinks. Deep in his eyes, a cold light flashed. Pass away.

The old man holding Tuberose behind him felt cold for no reason, shivered, muttered, looked up at the scorching sun above his head, and tightened his tight clothes.

The subsequent journey into the city was uneventful and quite smooth.

Nothing happened during the process, and there was no scene of the second-generation officials oppressing the hungry people. In the eyes of the officials, the hungry people outside the city were not even as good as a dog in the city.

Oppression?

This will only make them feel lose face.

I paid an entry fee of one tael of silver, which was definitely the most expensive entry fee Chen Yan had ever seen.

An ordinary farmer in the Wu Dynasty might not be able to earn one tael of silver from farming for a month, but now, this is just a fee for entering the city.

After entering Changze County City, they said goodbye to the old man who was holding the tuberose. Chen Yan and Yimu Spirit Body stood on the street full of pedestrians. The pedestrians on the street were all brightly dressed, and everyone had a smile on their face. They were separated by a wall. , and the hungry and cold victims outside the city are like two different worlds.

This time when he comes to Changze County, Chen Yan will not only take the incarnation of Yimu Lingshuo, but also a hundred Dragon Bird Army who will sneak into Changze County City.

These one hundred Dragon Bird Army are all good players in the Dragon Bird Army. The most important thing is that the one hundred forged [Blood Thunder Cursed Bird Guns] are in the hands of these one hundred Dragon Bird Army.

What kind of combat power can the one hundred Dragon Bird Army armed with blood-thunder-cursed bird cannons unleash, and what kind of results can they achieve?

To be honest, Chen Yan is also looking forward to it.

There was no rush to go to the Tian family or the Deng family.

There is no doubt that if you want to destroy the Tian family or the Deng family, you must first find out how many people Laoshan Dao and the ghost governor have arranged in Changze County, and what their strength is?

Chen Yan is equivalent to the middle stage of refining Qi. Yi Mu's spiritual body can display the late stage of refining Qi. Not to mention a hundred Dragon Bird Army holding [Blood Thunder Cursed Bird Gun], they can kill at least one Refining Qi. An enemy in the early stages of transformation, right?

Looking at it this way, Chen Yan and the others do not seem to be weak in strength, but if they are separated into two families, they will be somewhat powerless.

Therefore, Chen Yan must concentrate his efforts to eliminate one of them first.

Which one to eliminate depends on the manpower and strength arranged by Laoshan Road and Qianzhong County in Changze County.

Pick out the soft persimmons and pinch them.

First, use the power of thunder to quickly eliminate one of them, so that Chen Yan can deal with the other one more calmly, instead of falling into the siege of two families.

If you want to find out clearly about the arrangements of Laoshan Dao and the ghost governor in Changze County, it is not advisable to rush straight to the Tian family or the Deng family, as it is easy to alert the enemy.

Moreover, it is probably impossible for people other than the absolute top leaders of the Tian family and Deng family to know the strength of the manpower arranged by Laoshan Dao and Ghost Governor in Changze County.

Then besides the Tian and Deng families, who else in Changze County would know about this matter?

If you really want to say one.

Then there must be only Zejun Zhenfu, the Chief Supervisor of Heaven, left!

Chen Yan learned from Li Taibai that Changze County was controlled by the powerful Tian and Deng families, and as the governor of Changze County, he had already joined the two families and became the weakling of the powerful family.

Although he is a dog-legger, it is impossible for the governor of Changze County to know nothing about the situation of the two families.

Thinking of this, Chen Yan recalled the conversation with Li Taibai that day...

"There is also a governor in Changze County?"

Chen Yan was surprised.

Li Taibai nodded and replied:

"Yes, it's just that the governor of Changze County has already joined the Tian and Deng families, and the Supervisor of Changze County has long been reduced to the plaything of the two families."

"So what is the name of the governor of Changze County?"

"Zhao Bingkun."
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This is a rather simple yet exquisite and elegant building.

A plaque hangs high on the door of the building, with three powerful characters written on it - Jian Tiansi.

Pedestrians passing by on the street snorted with disdain when they saw these three characters.

Standing at the door were two yawning 'Feiyu Guards' wearing Feiyu uniforms.

The strength of these two Feiyu guards was so low that they were not even Qi and blood martial arts masters, they were just two ordinary people.

Walking into the Changze County Supervisor Tiansi, at the main seat of the main hall, there was a middle-aged man wearing the official robe of the governor, hugging two charming women with bare breasts in his arms, flirting and laughing. .

The middle-aged man's face is narrow and long, like a donkey's face, with a yellowish complexion. His two slender eyes are inlaid with a pair of small yellow eyeballs, faintly flashing with a cunning weasel-like gaze.

This person is none other than Zhao Bingkun, the Supervisory Secretary of Ze County and the Town Governor!

"Sir, are you good or bad~"

"Hehehe, I can be even worse..."

Zhao Bingkun smiled obscenely and was interrupted by the servant outside the door just as he was about to make a move.

"master!"

Zhao Bingkun frowned and said dissatisfied:

"what's up?"

"Outside...there is someone visiting you outside."

"Who is it? Tell him to get out! Didn't you see that I am busy?!"

Zhao Bingkun's impatient voice had just fallen, and then there was a cold voice.

"The governor of Xiangxi counties and towns, Chen Yan."

As soon as the words were spoken, the whole hall fell silent!

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(End of this chapter)