After picking up the daughter of the lucky star, the whole village prospered

The bearded man was also ashamed by Wu Weng's words.

Because he is a low-level school officer, he is very familiar with the bad things in the barracks.

Usually the superiors oppress the subordinates, and the subordinates oppress the little shrimps below.

Anyone with a little bit of skill, or a dark heart, will go out to find ways to make money.

Within a radius of tens of miles, even the bandits did not come, because the gang in the barracks were themselves bandits.

Fortunately, they only collect money and do not harm the poor people around them.

It's not that rabbits don't eat grass around their nests, it's that there's no grass at all around their nests.

After they had dinner, old man Wu led Zhou Wuchang to wander around the village, and Zhou Wuchang even called Yingbao.

As they walked, they chatted about how to support their family.

Zhou Wuchang suddenly asked Yingbao: "Disciple, how do you think this village should develop?"

Ying Bao blinked, not understanding why the master asked her this.

She is a seven-and-a-half-year-old girl, can she handle this kind of heart?
Seeing that the apprentice didn't seem to understand, Zhou Wuchang said again: "I have been to Dongchen Village as a teacher. Their life is richer than the people in the county town. People in your village also said that they can build big tile houses and don't worry about food and clothing. All thanks to you."

Yingbao:·······

She suddenly doubted the real purpose of Master bringing her here to practice.

Zhou Wuchang sighed, and continued: "If you come up with a good idea, apprentice, tell me, I will thank you on behalf of the people here."

Ying Bao licked her skin and nodded: "Okay."

Old man Wu didn't understand what the master and apprentice said, and still talked to Zhou Wuchang about the past few years with a sad face.

Every household in the village is so poor that the imperial court not only does not reduce or exempt taxes, but also forcibly collects money and food again and again.

Those officials don't care about the life and death of the people at all. The only purpose of keeping the people alive is to grow food for the officials and provide free labor and soldiers for the powerful.

Compared with the prosperity of cities and Kyoto, people in remote villages basically have nothing to eat and no clothes to cover their bodies.

In order not to starve to death or freeze to death, people sold their children. Some feared that if there were too many children, they would not be able to pay the tax and poll tax, so they put the newborn babies into a basin of water and drowned them alive, or threw them directly into the ravine. .

The more old man Wu said, the more sad he became, and he kept wiping his eyes with his sleeve.

Zhou Wuchang has been silent, his face is getting uglier.

Seeing this, Ying Bao tried to look around and figure out how to make these people rich.

There is a lack of water here, and it seems that there are no paddy fields. From Wu Weng's words, people here only grow broomcorns, not even wheat.

How about letting them grow golden ears too?
But now there is frost, the weather is getting colder, and it might snow soon.

Yingbao scratched her head, she couldn't think of any way to make money in such a poor place.

At this time, Cuihua came carrying a basket, and there was a ball of pale yellow cloth in the basket.

Seeing Yingbao staring at her, Cuihua felt a little embarrassed, subconsciously protecting the contents of the basket with her arms.

But Yingbao still saw clearly that it was a piece of cotton cloth that she let the second senior brother throw away last night.

Ying Bao turned her face away, pretending to look into the distance.

I heard the master ask Wu Weng: "Hasn't the pond where you use your daily water been cleaned?"

"It's been cleaned up, it was cleaned up last year, and now the pond is twice as big as before." Wu Weng said.

Zhou Wuchang nodded.

He had some connections with this village, because he had been stationed here for several years, and the villagers had followed him to fight against the Jurchen attacks, and after that, he had been injured at Wu Weng's house for several months.

Wu Weng opened the chatterbox and talked about the drought from last year to this summer: "Fortunately, we have a mountain god cave here, otherwise, the people in the surrounding villages would all run away. Alas, there has been no rain for half a year, and the water in several villages The pond has bottomed out, and it was not until June that a few games were played, and the pond was filled."

As soon as Ying Bao heard the word "immortal", her eyes lit up, and she quickly asked, "Grandpa Wu, what is the immortal cave?"

"It's the cave in Shiquan Mountain. I heard from my grandfather that it is the spring of life given by the gods in the sky. It's called this name from the elders." Wu Weng said proudly.

Yingbao thought for a while and asked, "Whose family owns that cave?"

Wu Weng smiled: "No one else, not even a tree grows on that mountain, who wants that kind of place?"

You have to pay taxes when you buy land, whether it is mountain land or gravel land, as long as you buy it, you will definitely pay taxes to the government every year.

Therefore, the government does not want money to give away money, and no one dares to accept it.

Ying Bao tugged at Master's wide sleeve and whispered: "Master, I have thought of a way to make the people in the village rich."

"Oh?" Zhou Wuchang was also very curious about what the little apprentice could come up with: "What do you want them to do?"

Yingbao chuckled: "Since there is a fairy cave here, and there is a stone spring given by the gods in the cave, why don't the villagers buy that cave and sell the fairy water to the city people for a load of money."

Zhou Wuchang was stunned for a moment, then shook his head: "It costs a lot of money to buy a load of water? Who would be so stupid?"

On the other side of Fucheng, mountain spring water is carried into the city, and a load of water is only five or ten Wen, and when the water is most scarce, it does not exceed twenty Wen. My little apprentice always pays for a load of money, unless it is for buying water. People are crazy, otherwise this deal will never be done.

"We'll know if we're stupid or not." Yingbao was very optimistic about this business.

If it doesn’t work, I’ll take some flowers myself, plant them in that cave, and create a miracle, so that I won’t worry about those rich people in the city not coming to buy them.

Hehe, maybe this village became famous and became another wealthy village.

The most important thing now is to buy this mountain and make up a story so that the people in several surrounding villages will become the guardians of the Immortal Cave, so that others will not dare to move.

In this way, even if the rich and powerful snatch Shiquan away, they have to treat these villagers kindly.

Zhou Wuchang thought for a while, and finally nodded: "Okay, since you are so sure, let the villagers try it, but the villagers don't have to buy the cave, to save them from quarreling, so I bought it for the teacher, and then bought it with money. Build a Taoist temple over there."

The old man Wu was deaf, he didn't hear what the master and apprentice said, he just looked at them curiously.

Next, the two masters and apprentices deliberately went to Shiquan Mountain to investigate, and figured out where to build a Taoist temple.

After that, I went to Lizheng and talked about buying the mountain on the other side of Shiquan.

Li Zheng and Zhou Wuchang were old acquaintances, and immediately took them to the county government to estimate the price.

In the end, Zhou Wuchang spent more than 400 taels of silver to buy the entire top of Shiquan Mountain and the surrounding gravel land.

Zhang Min was stunned by his master's operation and asked him: "Master, do we want to practice Taoism here?"

"Being a teacher is to build a foothold here. If you want to stay and practice Taoism, it's not impossible." Zhou Wuchang said.

Zhang Min: "I don't want to stay." This place is not fun at all, there is no food or drink, not even a fruit tree.

Thank you Yan and Mie Baobao for rewarding [-] starting coins, I will definitely work hard.

Thank you for all the babies who have supported me for a long time, and thank you for the monthly tickets and recommended tickets. I wish you all good luck and good luck.