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Chapter 318 The Sensible God of Spring Water

An official road meanders through the mountains. Occasionally, two road guards can be seen directing dozens of young men to repair the road that was washed away by flash floods. In the mountains and forests on both sides of the official road, there are old Weak women and children are trimming the vegetation to ensure a wide field of vision within 30 meters on both sides of the official road.

This is the road administration led by Ye Youshen and supported by the local governments. Over the years, there have been refugees who have come due to wars. Some of them were relocated to the north to farm, and some were used to maintain and expand official roads.

Every [-] miles along the official road, there is a Highway Secretary, and each Highway Secretary arranges two hundred refugees. Among them, the competent and prestige are selected as the head of the Highway Secretary, and the rest of the refugees rely on the official road to set up refugee villages. food, but the most important task is to maintain officialdom, and at the same time, the government distributes wages and salaries.

As for the source of this salary and salary, it is the commercial tax paid by the caravan.

In this way, the caravan pays taxes, and the tax is used to improve people's livelihood, repair the city wall, and maintain the official road. If the official road is flat, it will be easier for the caravan to pass by, and a refugee village every fifty miles can also provide the caravan with accommodation, rest, Meals and other services are equivalent to a crude version of the service area.

From Pingshan County to the east, there are two waterways to choose from, but the reason why this official road to the south is still full of business travelers is because these two official roads are very comfortable to walk and connect more than a dozen counties in the south.

Of course, if you want to travel long distances, it is best to travel by water, going down the river, non-stop day and night, and you can travel two hundred miles a day.

On the official road, a large caravan equipped with a four-wheeled carriage can travel a hundred miles a day. For a small caravan, fifty miles a day is just right.

Li Si's caravan is equipped with four-wheeled carriages. This is a technological innovation made by Yu Datou and the others. With the use of bearings, shock absorption and other technologies, as long as the official road is flat and easy to walk, it is very easy to run a hundred miles a day.

And this is when the horses are not extraordinary.

Li Si's journey to the south is not so much a business, but an inspection. Every time he passes a road secretary along the way, he will stop, talk carefully with the people here, determine a general situation, and at the same time collect various materials. The price and output information are put together, and then compared with the information reported by Ye Youshen, it is almost possible to know which policies need to be maintained and which policies need to be adjusted.

After dinner, the sky was still dark. In the cart shop of the Highway Secretary, more than 200 men were shouting loudly, exchanging some business information, and some guys stared at the cart with squinting eyes. The red lantern next to the store, there is a faint sound of silk and bamboo, as if there is another kind of magic.

Although it is a bad habit, it is indispensable, so every car shop of the Secretary of Highways has more or less such arrangements.

In the other direction, there is a small temple dedicated to the God of Night Tour. Incense is always burning in front of the temple. An old man in his 50s or [-]s is doing temple blessings here. He has a red cloth bag full of incense ash tied around his waist. , scattered a handful of incense ash, and within a few breaths, the Night Traveling God would arrive.

This is not the magic power of night tour, but the incense network. Every night tour temple is a node of the incense network. With these incense nodes, the night tour god can appear in any crowded place in the whole county in a short time place.

Incense gathers beliefs, beliefs transform into extraordinary, extraordinary power protects people's livelihood, people live well, and believe that there are gods above their heads, a natural awe is formed, and incense will be more prosperous. This is also an ecological circle.

At this time, Li Si was strolling outside the big car shop, and when he came to the small temple of Yeyoushen, he suddenly said, "Bai Xiaoer, go and offer incense to Yeyoushen."

"Yes, Young Master."

Bai Xiaoer took the order to go, and the Bai family brothers are now his followers, not because of their outstanding ability, but because Bai Xiaoer has a spring god in him.

And when Bai Xiaoer was offering incense, Li Si also ordered the Yeyou God who came over to share some incense. Gods cannot resist these incenses of faith, just like destiny cannot get rid of the characteristics bestowed by civilization.

After burning incense, Li Si left as if nothing had happened. Next, it depends on whether the god of the spring is sensible.

That night, Wang Yuan, the chief officer of the Highway Department here, had a dream. In the dream, he heard the sound of a stream gurgling, and then vaguely saw a figure approaching him, clasping his hands and saluting, "I I am the god of spring water, thank you for your hospitality, I have a gift of a spiritual spring..."

As soon as the words fell, Wang Yuan woke up in a jerk, and found that he was not on the bed at all, but lying in a valley, only two or three miles away from the village of the Highway Secretary.

He was so frightened that he ran away, but when he ran back to the village, it was dawn. After thinking about it again, he quickly called a dozen young men, took shovels and picks, and went to dig in the valley. A group of people dug When we reached a depth of less than two meters, we saw water flowing up, and we continued to dig down, and the water flow was very strong.

Wang Yuan was overjoyed, the geographical location of their village is quite good, the terrain is open, and a lot of farmland has been reclaimed, especially this place is stuck in the middle of Pingshan County and Jingshan County, 150 miles to the north and 150 miles to the south. Business travelers like to rest here for one night, and then get up early and stay late to finish the journey of three days in two days.

It's just that there is a disadvantage in their place. There is no stream, and the dug well water is slightly bitter, and the water volume is still small. It is barely enough for hundreds of livestock to drink every day.

Now that there is one more spring, it is of course very good.

The news of Wang Yuanyemeng's god of spring water quickly spread in the big car shop. Many customers were dubious, but Li Si was very interested, and immediately said loudly: "Those who protect the people's livelihood are all good. Can you do obeisance, Xiao Er, and prepare the incense candles!"

A group of people cheered and went, and even more interested people followed, it was not far anyway, what if it was true?

When Li Si arrived, the young men stopped digging, because the spring was so strong that it had already filled half of the valley, and there would be no pressure to form a small river with it in the future.

The people from the Highway Department had already set up an incense table here, and the temple blessings of the God of Night Tour were also invited. After the master of the God of Night Tour was played, and after confirming that it was correct, the head of the Department of Road Affairs, Wang Yuan, even promised to build a temple for the God of Spring.

When Li Si came here, he just lit a stick of incense and did not pay homage, because it was enough.

In the induction, from the piece of bluestone in Bai Xiaoer's bag, a wisp of exquisite watery air fell into the spring, it was very sensible.

There is no need for Li Si to deal with the follow-up matters, there will be Ye Youshen coming to manage and pull him into the establishment.

With this god of spring water as an example, the situation can be rolled out in the future.

But just when Li Si was about to lead the caravan onward, he felt a chill between his brows, as if something wonderful happened.

At the same time, he also noticed that the entire caravan, including him, one by one, even the horses pulling the carts, was covered by a faint blue halo for a few seconds, and then everyone There is a faint cyan mark that only he can see.

"Ding, you have obtained the mark of pure heart, as long as you don't leave Bai Xiaoer's side for 500 meters, this mark of pure heart will exist, and the obtained effects are as follows, pure heart +10%, save 20% of Yin Qi, bad luck erosion, perception +5% , the chance of evil thoughts breeding -20%, continuous recovery of health, recovery of 0.24 points every day and night."

Good guy, you are really sensible.

Li Si applauded silently in his heart, that's right, with this mark of pure heart, even the old devil Zhuge and the old man Chu became brighter, and the effect of Yan Wangtie was being further weakened.

But now, the god of spring water is still very weak, and when it continues to grow stronger, the old man Chu's invitation to the king of hell will not be a worry.

(End of this chapter)