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After fixing his own business agent, Xiao Xian’s trip to the capital was almost done. In the following days, he wandered around the two cities in a non-daily way to see the market of the capital. If he plans to go back and forth to Hangzhou, if he adjusts his business, he will visit his old friend, such as his own cheap brother and Dr. Ou Yangxun, who is expensive and valuable, but he still needs to get around more.
Ou Yangxun got a fortune in Xiao Xian carving and printing business in those days, and now his family is getting richer. He has set up several hectares of manor land on the Wei Waterfront outside Daxing City, and he has also got two shops in the West City, which gradually moistens Ou Yangxun’s early years. He also married his wife before his family fell, but later he was widowed in the mutiny. Later, I took refuge in Tiantai Mountain with Xiao Xian, and I didn’t marry the emperor again in those years because of gradual restoration. I went to Beijing for ten years to get a job as an official in Qingping Ganjike and got funding from Xiao Xian, which led to the butterfly effect. Ou Yangxun was lucky to remarry last year. Now when Xiao Xian went to visit, Ou Yangxun even had a son named Ouyang Tong.
When I heard the news of Ouyang Tong’s birth, Xiao Xian was also startled. He somehow managed to be arty in his previous life. For these anecdotes of legalists, I still know a little. Is it true that Ouyang Tong was born in Ou Yangxun’s later years and the early years of the founding of the Tang Dynasty? I can’t believe that I was born twenty years earlier for my own reasons, and I don’t know if this Ouyang Tong can grow into a generation of famous legalists in the future. If not, it would be my own sin to change history.
In addition to Ou Yangxun, others must meet with Shang Yangda, the former master craftsman and new official of Yuwen Kai.
Yuwen Kai, needless to say, is a technical bureaucrat, and he doesn’t stand on ceremony. There is quite a bit of technical house style for later generations. Seeing Xiao Xian visiting with a gift door is not to be praised and praised. Of course, he definitely didn’t look at Xiao Xian’s gift, but took Xiao Xian to ask some questions about canal dredging technology, especially when he studied Xiao Xian’s wheel Ge. He asked a penetrating question about technology, and he still praised Xiao Xian’s ingenuity in Xiao Xian. By the way, he begged to take the craftsmen to the prison and keep them in Yuwen Kai. He also promised without stint and approved some skilled craftsmen to hang up the Jiangnan River prison in the name
When he resigned from Yuwen Kai, it means that Xiao Xian will have no personnel, all the official threads will be transferred to the new staff department for the time being, because Xiao Xian, the foreign minister, is released outside, except Shang, assistant minister Shiro, and other Chinese and foreign colleagues don’t have to be too familiar with each other for the time being, and there is no business contact. Xiao Xian has also focused on finding a few people to befriend.
Shang Yangda of the Ministry of Industry was pulled back from the central government in the fifteenth year of the Emperor’s reign, and he was born in the imperial clan of the Great Sui Dynasty. He and his brother Yang Xiong are both nephews of today’s St. Emperor Wen of Sui clan. Yang Xiong, a distant cousin of Yang Guang, won the title of king of Guande County because of his military achievements in the early years of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, while Yang Da almost had Marquis Xiao Xian, regardless of so many. If he were an official, he would be a bunch of mountains to worship in the past. It would be nice not to leave anyone to talk.
So busy for many days, it’s almost time for the Lantern Festival to leave Beijing and return to Japan. With the title of Lantern Festival, Xiao Xian got the opportunity to visit her aunt Xiao Fei and her cousin, and by the way, Yang Jieying was very sad, but she had to fight back and warn Xiao Xian to take care of everything.
Seeing my cousin’s passion, Xiao Xian was also very moved at the moment. He couldn’t bear to leave a poem as a gift. "In January this year, the flower market lights were like a willow tree, and the moon lights were still not seen in January after dusk."
Yang Jieying saw that Xiao Xian said that he would not go back to Beijing to report on his work in the first month of the year, and he would have to wait until the repair of the gully department to get rid of it. He was more and more earned a tear and said goodbye.
Chapter X Base Areas
Xiao Xian’s aunt and cousin took Guang Shen and Du Gufeng’s bodyguards out of Beijing for a few days, and Luoyang waited for the disposal of Bing’s business industry, and then they would meet with Wu Shihuo and then go to Suzhou by land to change to Suzhou for accommodation, and then they would return to Jiangdong by swift wheel Ge.
Among Xiao Xian’s party, Wu Shihuo is a northerner and a newly joined Xiao Xian messenger. Naturally, it was the first time I saw a clipper sailing in still water like Wheelge. I was surprised to see that it was feasible for this ship to change people day and night to pedal for more than 300 miles. Unfortunately, compared with human consumption, the traffic volume is not large. Otherwise, if you come to do business, you will definitely get huge profits.
On the third day of February, all the people returned to Hangzhou-although Xiao Xian now got a new life, Cao Zuoshi, a water official in Yangzhou, was supposed to go to Yangzhou for delivery, but because he needed to leave his post first, he could go back to Hangzhou for a new magistrate to deliver all the money, food and personnel accounts clearly.
The new Qiantang county magistrate is also an old acquaintance. Last year, he called Xiao Xian’s deputy, Xiancheng Liu Hongming. Many officials in Hangzhou got the performance appraisal in the official department examination at the end of the year. Xiancheng Liu Hongming was turned into a county magistrate because of the auxiliary work, which was equivalent to skipping from seven to seven. Liu Hongming was really grateful to Xiao Xian in his heart
If it weren’t for Xiao Xian’s coming down to make room for the original Qiantang county magistrate, it wouldn’t be necessary to leave the result for many years-of course, it can’t be regarded as a real gold-plating for the second generation of officials. After all, Xiao Xian also made a real contribution-the position of Qiantang county magistrate was made free for Xiao Xian to sit for a year, but it was cheaper for Liu Hongming to be promoted after one year.
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Lu Hongming, the official banquet in Qiantang County, held a lamp to persuade the wine, and the Chinese words kept coming. All kinds of maiko were invited to entertain and do their best.
"Alas, a high rank in Hangzhou from Cao Zuo to the main book, from Xiancheng to the county magistrate, I have seen it for more than ten years. I have never seen an official as good as Xiao’s adult-not that I said that when Xiao’s adult came to pick it up the year before last, I also recognized two thousand stones. I said that if Xiao’s adult also left such accounts according to the routine, Liu would recognize it in the future, but Xiao’s adult just didn’t get promoted and left, and it was unprecedented that the grain account adjustment was not bad at all.
Before this, we didn’t have clean hands and didn’t do anything for the people. What should it be like in Hangzhou for more than ten years? It’s like Xiao’s adult’s just less than a year and a half, and the people didn’t give it, but the West Lake dredging, canals and people’s drinking water irrigation were all bitter. "
Liu Hongming accompanied Xiao Xian for a drink while feeling that he didn’t win the favor with him at the scene when he said these words. On the other hand, he also gave Xiao Xian gold.
"Lu county magistrate doesn’t have to be so ignorant of Han Fei’s saying that the ancient people had fewer people but more money than they had, so the people didn’t argue for a generous reward, and the people ruled without heavy punishment." "Gu Yi’s wealth was not benevolent but also rich; Today, it is not contemptible to compete for wealth and wealth, but also to say that the sky is not high and the situation is thin; It is also important to fight for the land.’ Xiao Mou does not dispute that it is not Xiao Mou’s noble nature, but he is rich and disdainful of these corrupt names.’
"according to! Xiao’s adult is really an ancient man today. "Liu Hongming’s carefree longing is not false, but today he feels that he has seen the noble bearing of the world-old hairpin poem ceremony.
Ladies and gentlemen, please don’t underestimate this praise. In the era of Confucianism, Confucius seems that the more the last days, the more the ritual collapses and the worst days are. The best time is that the "three generations of governance" praises a person as "the ancients of today", which is equivalent to praise and comparable to the ancient sages.
Xiao Xian accepted Liu Hongming’s praise and waited for him to finish before taking advantage of the opportunity. "I am afraid that the magistrate of Lu will be disappointed. Xiao Mou just said that he disdained to search for money from the people, but didn’t say that he didn’t intend to run some industries in and outside Hangzhou in the future without giving it to the people and taking private wealth. If that day comes, I don’t know if the magistrate of Lu will think Xiao Mou disgusting."
"oh? What did Lord Xiao see for a living? Is it to make some silk tea and grange? If you don’t mind, Liu would like to inquire about a thing or two. "
"Xiao has now been chartered by the court, Yangzhou Shuicao can supervise the operation of grain transportation, thinking that the value of Jiangnan silk tea in the north is quite rich, so he wants to buy some wasteland outside the city to reclaim land and operate the grange."
This words listen to Liu Hongming ears is quite or persuade Xiao Xian "how to waste field? Silk tea business is not as good as grain and rice. It will take some years to start from wasteland reclamation-rice and wheat and other things will be harvested the next year when they are cultivated, and silk tea business needs mulberry trees and tea trees to grow trees for three or five years, not even if the fields are ripe. If it is better to seek wealth, it is better to buy cooked fields from people. The prestige of Qiantang County is that you want to come to all places, and the gentry are also willing to give up some fertile fields and beautiful houses. "
Xiao Xian insisted that "Xiao said that he didn’t want the people to compete for profits and think about how much they earned, which was untrue. He hoped that if there was money and food in the south of the Yangtze River and the north of the Yangtze River, private property could help one or two. If Lu County magistrate found it inconvenient, Xiao didn’t force him to handle it."
"No trouble, no trouble! It’s very convenient for Xiao’s adult. It’s really upright and upright that the court presides over the river administration, and even thinking about how to help the turnover officer with private money when the court is short of money and food. I really don’t know if it’s good to be revered. Xiao’s adult can do it even though he has seen which place. "
"Come and get the county map" Xiao Xian proudly waved his hand and took the atlas as Cao Zuo’s conditioned reflex did. Although it is said that when drinking this wine, Xiao Xian Qiantang County post has been unloaded, but he can’t hold his prestige. After the beadle got used to the exhibition map, Xiao Xian pointed out the mountains and rivers.
"Here and here, from the general mountain in the northwest of the West Lake to the west and north to the Xixi River, the East Tiaoxi River and the South Tiaoxi River, Xiao Mou saw the original marshes and wetlands when he was controlling water last year. Later, he found a source of living water for the West Lake to let the county civilian workers control those swamps and fill ditches and dredge the river. There is only a slight amount. Xiao Mou means to cultivate mulberry fields in those places and pay the adjustment to the court in accordance with the law in the future.
Besides planting mulberry and sericulture, Xiao also saw the barren hills along Longjing Mountain in the southwest of the West Lake, which leads directly to Jiuxi and Fuchun River. According to the county register, there are no people in Tian Xiao. He learned from Taitai that the imperial court has made great efforts to promote the tea-drinking custom of Dihu people in northern Turkey, and it has achieved little success. In the future, the trade of tea sold by our big Suibian to Turks, Koryo and Tuguhun will surely surge. Although those mountains along Fuchun River are not suitable for growing rice and grain, tea can also be grown. The court is willing to treat these in the future.
Liu Hongming’s eyes were almost transfixed with Xiao Xian’s fingers. This is the first time he saw someone buying land for enclosure. It is a direct big map with lively gesticulations-ordinary people’s enclosure, even if it is a landlord’s township assistant, holds the local cadastre and Cao beadle at most. How can they get a big map of the county town?
"This, this, this … from Xixi River to Dongtiaoxi, this thing is scared to have 40 miles. There are also more than ten miles wide in the north and south, and the total number is afraid of … more than 20,000 mu, right? Longjing Mountain and Wuyun Mountain in the south are difficult to count, but they are not afraid of this scale. This is too big. "
"How can Lu County make this reluctant?" Xiao Xian picked up a plum face and pretended to smile.
"Then how can it be? Since it is a large population of Xiao and it is a wasteland, I don’t want to part with a certain one. I feel that if I really circle so much and I can’t actually plant the tax in the future, wouldn’t it be compensated instead?"
Xiao Xian motioning with his hand to hinder is emphasized a bargaining tax area "since eating a must surely complete the imperial taxes in these places, others’ eyes need to invest a lot of manpower and wasteland, but there is a way to make profits as soon as possible-but Xixi River is surrounded by swamps that have been dredged, treated and drained, and half of them are water surfaces. These water surfaces should not be included in the imperial tax books, right? In the south, Longjing Mountain and Wuyunshan Mountain know that Jiuxi is really just a place where tea fields can be opened by Jiuxi River. Is it really steep in the deep mountains? It is good to ask the court to truthfully enter the book. "
Liu Hongming wiped his sweat and rushed to promise, "That’s natural. That’s natural. These aspects naturally won’t take advantage of Xiao’s adult. According to the imperial court’s laws and regulations, Xiao’s adult is also familiar with the people’s land reclamation. If the field is taught and the field is exposed for three years, it will be taxed for the next two and a half years; If the wasteland reclaims mulberry fields, the tax year will be increased by five years, and then two and a half years’ tax will be paid in accordance with the five-year taxable total amount-this deed tax is unique to Xintian whether it is necessary to register Xintian or buy other people’s fields … "
"All these people know that if they can, then estimate the price."
Liu Hongming immediately asked Cao Zuo to estimate it first. If the actual measurement is clear, it will be a big project. We must not just estimate it casually according to the terrain, but also try our best to calculate the tax in a small amount. After a few meals, Cao Zuocai of Qiantang County stuttered and reported that
"Two adults have counted Nantiaoxi, Dongtiaoxi, Xixihe and other blocks around the riverside. The longest thing is 46 miles, the longest thing is 43 miles, and the widest place in the north and south is 21 miles. The total area is 314,000 mu, and 50% of the water surface is odd. In addition to buildings, ridges and hills, 140,000 mu of whole water, salty soil and alkali are used as fields.
The mountains in Longjing Mountain, Wuyun Mountain and Jiuxi have a total area of 255,000 mu, and it is impossible to cultivate tens of thousands of mu of land for irrigation in the valley and peak ridge. Moreover, there are some troubles that adults delimit some plots near Tiaoxi River in the east, which is considered as the jurisdiction of Yuhang County. The southernmost edge of Longjing Mountain and Wuyun Mountain plots has also entered Fuyang County … "
Liu Hongming, a timid beadle who dare not do all the work, is trying to please the old company. Naturally, he will not be hindered by these small things and immediately reprimanded, "Why do these small things also mean that there are counties in Yuhang County and Fuyang County to let people go to negotiate the agency procedures? That is, you can report the deed tax to Xiao’s adult as much as possible."
Chapter 11 Sangji Fish Pond
Although the imperial court set a certain limit for each "Ding" to occupy or divide the land equally, it doesn’t mean that the quality of the land can’t be completely reflected by the government. Tian, Nakata and Tian Ji have always been limited by the imperial court, which is actually an equivalent total amount of land.
For example, Zhengding is allowed to occupy 40 mu of class fields and 20 mu of mulberry fields, that is to say, it can occupy 40 mu of grain fields, and according to this tax, if there are remote and barren counties with vast land and sparse population and poor land quality, it can also be equivalent to one mu of farmland of one and a half acres or two acres. For example, it is also possible to pay taxes according to 40 mu of farmland if it actually occupies 10 mu of farmland.
Xiao Xian asked Liu Hongming to delimit the original swamp and forest. Even if it is reclaimed, it is reasonable to stop farming. However, these procedures are not discounted when the court collects the survey zhangs. The final result is equivalent. So Xiao Xian is required to pay taxes to the court according to the standards of mulberry fields such as 110,000 mu from the next year, and at the same time pay a one-time deed tax equivalent to 220,000 mu of mulberry fields. The proportion of deed tax for survey zhangs is three percent of the total tax paid for five years, while that for survey zhangs is five percent.
There are 20 mu of mulberry fields and three pieces of silk cloth, or three Jin of raw silk and 220 mu of mulberry fields in Sui Dynasty, which is equivalent to 11,000 pieces of silk cloth every year, which is 165,000 pieces in five years. This total is about 13,000 pieces.
That is to say, Xiao Xian has to pay more than 13,000 silks or equivalent money, and the vast wasteland, which is equivalent to two thirds of the total number of ripe fields in Qiantang County today, will be owned by Xiao Xian. It will be paid to the court according to the amount of more than 16,000 silks per year in the next two years, and it will be increased to 33,000 silks per year.
Of course, according to the imperial court system, the original farmland or open-field mulberry fields must be tied up. If there is no position of power, the common people will never want to plant economic things but not grow food. This point has to be said that Xiao Xian’s official position has played a role. If this official patent is not blocking today’s things, it is absolutely impossible to spare. So Xiao Xian was finally forced to draw an extra long and narrow area in the east of Xixi River block, promising to organize the people to level the accounts slightly according to the farmland planting food and paying the grain tax. It is not included in the tax.
Get the final settlement. Wen Xiaoxi winked and asked Wu Shihuo to handle Wu Shihuo with a bite of his teeth. According to the value of more than 13,000 pieces of silk cloth, all the preparatory money was paid out. Some of them were silver collars and other brocade, while others were all kinds of cargo documents. After all, it is impossible for people to run with such a large fortune.
Of course, this sum of money is not the fact that Wu Shihuo paid for it. Xiao Xian still contributed a considerable part of his own shares for Wu Shihuo to fill, and then accounted for 20% of the small shares. By the way, he helped Xiao Xian to run the business. In the past few years, Xiao Xian made a lot of money by carving and printing business. Later, he also made more than 20,000 investments and income. After Wu Shihuo sold all the businesses in Bingzhou, it once expanded to 30,000 to 40,000. On the industrial theory, the wealth was more than half that of Xiao Xian, but Wu Shihuo dared not try to take a large share in front of Xiao
In the Sui Dynasty, the textile technology was still relatively backward compared with that of the Song Dynasty, even if it was even more backward than that of the silk weaving industry. Therefore, gold and silver were in short supply, and the price of silk weaving was still not low. A silk cloth cost two yuan according to the official price of the imperial court. If the actual market is better in texture (regardless of special materials such as brocade/weaving system), it is also common that it can’t be bought for four yuan, and it is also common for silk cloth in the south of the Yangtze River to be sold to the north. As a result, more than 13,000 horses account for nearly half of the total
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Painfully handed over all the money in exchange for a pile of deed coupons. Wu Shihuo didn’t feel so depressed when he just got it. After all, the future seems to be quite good. He also fantasized that Xiao Xian officials would definitely leave some of them for Xiao Xian’s "Tian" …
But after the signing, when Xiao Xian took Wu Shihuo out of the city and toured the fields, Wu Shihuo’s unrealistic fantasy was shattered-Xiao Xian was really a wasteland that didn’t take advantage of the people!
"My Lord … how can you return to these places when they are so isolated and it is not easy to pay annual taxes if you want to cultivate cheap refugees today?"
Wu Shihuo was so anxious that he stamped his feet. There was still a word in his heart that I didn’t say it. If I had known this adult Xiao was a cow, but doing business so foolishly might as well stay in Shanxi and continue to do the business of stealing and selling big trees! No, this is the last time to teach adults what business to do. We must advise them!
"Mr. Wu, don’t underestimate Zhong Xuanji-this land is not a pure wasteland. Last year, when Xixi River and Nantiao River were dredged, two thousand civilian workers spent the whole winter trimming this place. In name, it was to help clean up the water source of the West Lake, but a considerable part of it was actually a private job of Xiao Mou. After that, Xiao Mou also took the opportunity to adjust and repair the river, cultivate the soil and cultivate bamboo cane, turnips and green beans. In addition, he found another mulberry seedling planting base and transplanted it.
"So … Xiao’s adult is premeditated. Wu Mou has some confidence. I don’t know if I can make it clear-it’s not that Wu Mou wants to spy on adults’ means …"
"Don’t worry, I know that Mr. Wu wants to relieve his worries. Since we are sincere and close together, Xiao Mou is not afraid that Mr. Wu knows these means." Xiao Xian had a delicious meal and looked directly at Wu Shihuo. He actually looked at Wu Shihuo with some panic eyes and some evasive eyes. Xiao Xian was very satisfied with this effect. He just wanted Wu Shihuo to know that he was a royal family with a big future, and you Wu Shihuo was a businessman. Even if I were you, you wouldn’t give birth to any infidelity.
See Wu Shihuo’s look withering, Xiao Xian continued, "This improved field method is called’ Sangji Fish Pond’ or’ Sugarcane Fish Pond’-don’t try to find out that the ancient book was written in Qi Min Yao Shu decades ago, and there is no such method. When Qi Min Yao Shu was edited and printed, this secret method was not written in. The essence of this method is to control the low wetland blocks with miraculous water pools everywhere, but the average water depth is only one or two feet.

The speed of carrying HarmonyOS purple gas by the 33-year-old Emperor Method is getting faster and faster.
Su Yingxiu also seems to limit growth!
Great Sage comes first.
Great Sage II
The Great Sage is the third heaviest.
Su Yingxiu has been the fifth master of the Great Sage since the Ministry of Mana lost in 39,000 years!
This rising speed is simply horrible!
Even at the beginning, Hao Tianzun Emperor did not have this unparalleled speed.
From the sixth place in heaven to the eleventh realm overnight, it reached the fifth place in Great Sage.
If you go out, I wonder how many people will be scared to death!
Sue should slowly open her eyes and feel that she has exhausted strength and will never run out of mana.
This is the secret of the Great Sage.
The magic edge is magical.
Since then, Su Ying has inexhaustible magic power even without the world tree and the pure Yang vein of day order.
"The Great Sage also wants Du Jie. It seems that the thunder robbery is coming?"
Su Ying walked out of the hall to see the emptiness and gathered in Lei Yun again. This time, Lei Yun was a hundred times stronger than the previous two times.
His mind moved very slightly, and the realm of heaven suddenly entered the sea of his knowledge, and then he bloomed a divine light to envelop him and completely isolate the cat from the cat.
Then Lei Yun, who gathered in the sky, seemed to feel that Su Ying had slowly dispersed.
Chapter nine hundred and seventy Trading a holy soldier
The next morning, after being immersed in it for a few days, Sanzong became lively again.
A huge ship shuttled back and forth in the virtual space, and an old man with a hurried and eager look kept walking from it.
These people come from various gates in the primitive mainland, ranging from three to five people to dozens.
"Yi zhang old ghost you also come? Did you receive that same message as me? " A mysterious robe old man looked at another old man and asked strangely.
The old man surnamed Zhang is also a powerful Great Sage. Seeing his inquiry, he immediately sighed, "A few days ago, when I received the news, I didn’t know if Su Shengzhu was fooling me. That’s a holy soldier. Can he sell it when he says so?"
"Well, who knows? Let’s go and have a look first. It won’t delay anyway."
"Let’s go, let’s go. Lord Su has looted several treasure houses, and maybe there are holy soldiers selling them."
Said the two of them, and then walked together towards the holy case.
Not them, he came here, and many holy ministries were puzzled.
A few days ago, a news spread all over the original continent, saying that it was the Sect of Monty, and some people sold holy soldiers. Some people still don’t believe in joking. What is a holy soldier? This level of magic weapon is also to sell?
However, it was not long before an unknown ore, the founder of the second-rate Sect named Dayanmen, was directly exchanged for a holy sword from the Monty Sect of the Eternal Age.
This is a complete explosion. After being strongly affirmed and recommended by the patriarch of Dayan Sect, everyone came to Monty Sect for ages without saying anything. Some people took ten complete pure yang veins in day order, while others rummaged through their ancestral treasure house to see if there were any celestial gods and irons.
On this day, the holy land of the whole primitive continent came to the holy case.
Su Ying, the main hall of the altar, should look at the many masters of the holy land. These people have different smells and dresses, and there are three kinds of demons and demons.
Everyone is a master, and he never dreamed that a casual sentence would attract so many people.
Of course, Sue should not know that it is nothing to him, but it is a great treasure to those who have no holy soldiers.
If you can have a holy soldier, the strength of your own sect will rise rapidly and you will have enough self-protection when the disaster comes.
Holy soldiers are qualified to forge magic weapons only if they have the great emperor’s complete forbidden law. It is different for a clan to have holy soldiers than to have a great emperor sitting in two places at once.
Even if it can exert 20% to 30% power, it is enough for some weak sects.
"Lord Su, did you send out news to lead us to come to you to sell holy soldiers?" A holy land elder asked, his eyes full of impatience.
"Yes, I hope that Su Shengzhu will not wait for me!"
Everyone holding a word I don’t believe Sue should attitude, but although these masters mouth say so, but still looked at him one by one.
Sue should raise my hand slightly, and all the people were quiet at once.
A moment later, he smiled gently and affirmed, "I do have holy soldiers, and you know that the treasure house of the first demon clan has been looted. To tell you the truth, there are four or five hundred holy soldiers alone."
His words are naturally made up, but as soon as they came out, people were buzzing, and all the people stared at him with incredible eyes.
Four or five hundred pieces?
This is simply the richest man in the primitive mainland!
However, although they think so, no one dares to rob them because it is to die.