"My boss is back!" "My boss is back!" At the foot of Shekou Mountain, a group of people who were working saw a giant goose flying in the distance and shouted excitedly to the sky. As soon as Er Gouzi landed on the ground riding the big goose, a group of children surrounded him, chattering. "Boss, we miss you!" "My boss..." Ergouzi touched the storage bag. Fortunately, he was prepared. He took out a large handful of pastries and candies from the storage bag and handed them out to the children. Those who got the candy ran away happily. These children were all bought at a very young age. They had no parents, so they all regarded Ergouzi as their parents and brothers. Every time Er Gouzi comes back from a long trip, he always brings them some snacks to comfort the children.
After all the children dispersed, Qiu Yue and Sun Wangcai walked up to Er Gouzi. "My boss, you are finally back." "Is there anything going on at home while I'm here?" Ergouzi has never left home so much before, and he actually feels quite homesick outside. "There is indeed something going on during the period when my boss is here." "It's a good thing." Qiuyue said with a smile. "What good thing?" Er Gouzi never thought that something good would happen to him one day. "During the time when the boss was here, many small landowners came to the door, wanting to sell their land to the boss at a low price, and then serve as tenants for the boss." "Why?" Ergouzi was stunned when he heard this. When he was poor, he always dreamed of becoming a small landowner. Planting your own land is better than being a tenant. "Because starting from today, the three-year tax exemption period given by the government has expired." "Small landowners have to pay taxes to the government every day, which costs at least two or three dollars. The land rent here is two 늅 for the best good farmland, and one 늅 for the thin farmland. " After Qiuyue calculated it, it seemed that this was really the case. Being a tenant to Ergouzi is better than being a small landowner. However, most people would give up their land for this price difference. After all, land is wealth that can be passed on to future generations.
"Also, there is a war going on in the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Demons on the border, and now we have to call for military rations. The officials responsible for urging food were arresting people in every village and town every day. I heard that in addition to paying an extra sum of money and grain, many strong men were also required to do corvee service. Most of this kind of corvee work is a dead end. " The Zhou Dynasty mainly relied on these small landowners to pay taxes and perform corvee services. The tenants didn't even have a piece of land, so they had to pay taxes for a few dollars. If the government cracks down hard on them, the tenants may even run away, and it will be even more troublesome for refugees or bandits. Only those landowners, who had homes, families, and land, ran away. As for people like Ergouzi, everyone is from the government, so how can they attack him? During the period when Ergouzi was here, many small landowners came to the door, wanting to dispose of their land cheaply and make it their tenants. "Because the boss is here, we dare to make arbitrary decisions." "Okay, if someone comes to the door again, you just have to deal with it." Acquiring land and accepting a few tenants are just trivial matters. If Ergouzi wants to worry about it, just leave it to Qiuyue. After Ergouzi gave the order, he rode the goose and flew up to Shekou Mountain. On the mountain, Yu Shan was sleeping soundly while hiding on a big piece of head, with crystal clear saliva flowing out for a long time. Seeing that Yushan Dabai was sleeping, Ergouzi looked at the ground out of habit. It is true that there is not much grass growing in the field, but for such a long time, the elixir in the field has not grown much. It should be because there is not much watering. The grass 껩놊 grows and the elixir 껩놊 grows. Remember to leave a lot of water before leaving. At this time, Yun Pool is almost bottoming out. Er Gouzi was planning to scare Yu Shan, but the geese on the mountain had already discovered their master's return. "Quack...quack..." A group of geese stretched their necks and spread their wings to welcome their master back. "Stupid goose! It's a shame, it's disturbing my sleep..." Hearing the cry of the geese, Yu Shan closed his eyes and cursed impatiently for a while. He opened his eyes slightly, only to find Er Gouzi. The guy was so frightened that he quickly got up from his head, picked up the hoe beside him and rushed to the field to pretend to work. "Master, you are finally back. I miss you so much." Er Gouzi glanced at Yushan. This time, this guy didn't escape for several months. The clothes on his body were clean, and it looked like he had never been beaten. It looked like he had gained some weight.
Afterwards, he took another look at the geese, and quickly figured out that these 30 or so geese were all at the spirit beast level. Yushan wanted to escape, but he didn't have the ability. "Yu Shan, don't be in a hurry, plant all these elixirs." Ergouzi bought a lot of elixirs on the black market in Qingzhou City this time, as well as five ironwood plants. "So many!" Yushan was a little desperate when he saw Ergouzi taking out a lot of elixirs, which meant that more wasteland would be reclaimed. "Forget it, just because you didn't run away this time, I'll shovel out a piece of the original ginseng." The ginseng on the mountain occupies several acres of land. Now that he has grown so much, he has freed up the land to plant elixirs. "I am your most loyal servant, how could I run away? If I stay with my master for the rest of my life, I will be beaten away." Yushan flattered him and went back to work. Er Gouzi returned to the mountain, reinstalled the jade floor first, and put the snake back into the snake cave. A big snake was seriously injured in the Daoxuan secret collection before, and it has not recovered yet. I fed it a pill two days ago, and it really worked. The effect was too obvious, so I could only let it recuperate slowly. After Er Gouzi came back this time, he took care of some chores and hid on the top of the mountain to practice every day. Now he has a practice method in his hand, and there are spiritual medicines on the mountain. Even if he is given a high official, he wants to be one. Although Xu Feng's "Hongmeng Refining God" method is mainly based on spiritual consciousness, it is much stronger than the previous method given by Jiuxing in terms of cultivating mana. It took 5 days to refine a Xuanyuan pill before, but now it only takes two days to completely refine the medicine. Unfortunately, the Xuanyuan Sutra he got in the secret room was almost finished, and he was reluctant to eat the remaining few pills for the time being. After refining these medicines, he practiced the "Nine-Layer Foundation Building" again, and his Sea of Field Sutra was expanded to one foot and six inches, almost two feet wide. His current foundation is so strong that he stands out among most foundation-building cultivators. Although he has not yet broken through to the middle stage of foundation building, if he encounters a middle stage cultivator at the level of Jiuxing Taoist, he will be able to fight. Er Gouzi did not feel complacent about this. A mere two feet wide is still far from his goal. Like Brother Ji, he waved his hand lightly and killed three foundation-building cultivators in seconds. This is his goal. I heard from Chang Ling'er that Chang Ling'er in his previous life had a sea of fields several feet wide. In the future, he must at least make it ten feet wide so that he can hold his head up in front of Chang Ling'er. After the Xuanyuan was finished, he could only take a little Qi Jue. This medicine taken by Qi Refining cultivators was only slightly better than nothing for him, and the speed of cultivation became very slow again. This speed is better than holding a piece of spirit in his hand and absorbing the spiritual energy in the spirit to cultivate, which is more efficient.
Moreover, his spirit is almost exhausted when it is put into the gourd to replenish the spiritual energy. In addition to the cultivation of mana, the biggest progress now is the spiritual consciousness. Hongmeng Shen Lian can only increase the strength of the spiritual consciousness, as well as the purity of the spiritual consciousness and the ability to control the spiritual consciousness. When he first opened up the upper sea of consciousness at the fourth level of Qi training, his upper sea of consciousness was only one inch wide, and his consciousness could only cover about ten feet. After building the foundation, his consciousness was greatly enhanced, and it could only cover a few feet. During this period, he hid in the gourd to practice, and he had practiced his consciousness to cover 20 feet, which was beyond the ordinary cultivators in the early stage of foundation building. When fighting with the lower-level cultivators, he can have a great advantage, which is equivalent to me being able to hit you from 20 feet away, but you can't hit me. And there is another advantage of strong consciousness. For example, when he uses his consciousness to spy on others, if the consciousness is weaker than his, he can't detect it. When Er Gouzi was practicing this technique, he even had some bold ideas in his mind. If he hides in the gourd later and steals things with his consciousness, as long as his consciousness is strong enough, he can still steal as he pleases. Er Gouzi's mind was filled with beautiful pictures, and he chuckled for a while. Xu Feng's inheritance was really suitable for him, it was tailor-made for him. But he quickly realized that he seemed to have sworn something, that if he stole anything again, his hands would be chopped off. Thinking of this, Er Gouzi lifted the sleeping black dog on his shoulder. If I steal anything again, my hands will be like the black dog's paws. As he said that, he chopped the black dog's paws with a knife, and the black dog continued to sleep soundly, completely asleep.