In the Blade

"The Mountain God is merciful! He is here to give porridge to everyone! The Mountain God is merciful! He is going to lead everyone to live a good life!"

When he arrived in Yiyang County, Du Chengfeng saw those young people shouting slogans. Different from the homeless refugees, these young people were tall and their clothes were clean and bright. They looked like they usually had enough to eat and drink. You are enough, you are living a good life, and now when you are shouting slogans, your energetic look seems quite convincing.

In the past, the living standards of the people in Yanzhou were not bad, and they would not think much about these people. But now, the people of Yanzhou have fled and left their hometowns. They were panicked along the way. How could they not feel yearned for it when they first saw such a scene?

Even Du Chengfeng himself became interested in this mountain temple.

"What kind of mountain god is this? Why haven't I heard of it?"

"You must have never heard of it. After all, we in Shanbei Dao don't believe this."

Old man Yang Xuanyang, who had been autistic for a while, spoke.

Du Chengfeng gradually understood the reason.

When he was on the road a few days ago, he listened to Old Man Yang talking about Dachen's administrative plan, and he knew that Jibei and Yanzhou were both part of Shanbei Road before. They were now on Shannan Road, and the difference between Shannan and Shanbei was The mountain is Taiyin Mountain where the mountain god resides.

"Why do you still use the word Yin?"

Du Chengfeng started scratching his head.

"Isn't it a bit unlucky?"

"Don't worry, just listen to what I have to say first."

Old Man Yang signaled to Du Chengfeng to calm down, and then continued.

It turns out that Taiyin Mountain was originally named Taiyin Mountain. It is said that there were once a hundred thousand evil spirits hiding in the mountain. The immortal happened to pass by here. After learning about Taiyin Mountain, he simply drew his magic sword and fought fiercely for several days, nailing the one hundred thousand evil ghosts to the mountain.

After that, according to the immortal's instructions, people near Taiyin Mountain built temples in the mountain to worship the immortal's magic sword, hoping to annihilate the hundred thousand evil ghosts as soon as possible. Of course, out of gratitude to the immortal, people also erected a statue of the immortal in the temple and called it the Taiyin Mountain God to bless peace.

After a long time, there was no more commotion in Taiyin Mountain, and there were even people who were entrusted by the evil ghost in the past. But this time, the evil ghost was no longer the ferocious and terrifying appearance before, but turned into a statue. The golden-armored god, who claimed to be a divine protector of the Taiyin Mountain God, came here specifically to apologize for the previous incident, and made it clear that these 100,000 divine protectors would guard the mountain from now on. As a ghost general, he would save all the lonely souls and wild ghosts in the world and protect this world. All the people in the world.

"Blow...you mean it's so big?"

Du Chengfeng was stunned for a moment.

"Then what? Did they really protect it?"

"Then Taiyin Mountain was renamed Taiyin Mountain, and Taiyin Mountain God became Taiyin Mountain God. It did not remove the word "yin" representing ghost generals, but also took the meaning of peace and prosperity for the country and the people."

Seeing that Du Chengfeng was still looking like "are they guaranteed or not", old man Yang Xuanyang finally couldn't stand it any longer.

"I have already said that only people in Shannan Province believe this. What I heard was just a story. Who in Shanbei Province believes this?"

It turned out that contrary to what Du Chengfeng thought, although the Taiyin Mountain God said something powerful, the scope of the spread of his belief was limited - at least no one in Jibei believed this. People on the border of the North are used to seeing life and death. Even if they really encounter a ghost, they will kill it with their own swords. Everyone only believes in the weapons in their hands, so how can they believe in mountain gods.

As for Yanzhou, on the one hand it is naturally because it is close to Jibei, and on the other hand... it is because Ruan Shantao lives in Yanzhou.

For Yanzhou people, Old Man Ruan talks more than any mountain god. If something happens, he will go to Ziyang Mountain. Who will care about Taiyin Mountain?

"But Old Ruan is gone."

Thinking of this, Du Chengfeng couldn't help but sigh.

Old Ruan, who was more spiritual than the mountain god, is gone, Yanzhou City has been destroyed, and the people who used to live and work in peace and contentment are now left homeless.

It's no wonder that the remaining people in Yanzhou are yearning for this mountain temple. After all, the people who have somewhere to go have already left. Of the tens of thousands of people who are left, except for some who really want to continue walking south, most of them But people are just like the folks from Jibei, they don't know where they are going.

"So what about the county government? Shouldn't the county government be responsible for resettling the refugees?"

"The county government can't handle it."

Liu Bolun, who was drinking on the side, had nothing to do and simply joined the discussion.

"Although according to the law, this is indeed the scope of responsibility of the county government, but in fact... Brother, you have also worked in the government office, you should know what is going on, right?"

"Well."

Hearing what Liu Bolun said, Du Chengfeng suddenly understood.

He has experienced the work of the Yanzhou government office. Except for him and Liu Bolun, who can mess around at will after completing their work easily because of their outstanding skills, most of the petty officials, and even Qi Qi, who is the commander-in-chief of the army, Jinshan himself, however, still has to work hard to handle large and small matters and maintain the normal operation of an administrative agency - in other words, their ability to handle their own duties well is the result of their hard work. If there are any emergencies such as war and refugees at this time, let them work overtime...

After all, people have their limits.

After all, the abilities of the officials have their limits, not to mention that Yiyang County is not as good as Yanzhou in terms of level. They may be able to take over some of the refugees, but they can take in as many as they want... What's the impact on these people? The requirements of officials are a bit too high.

However, no matter whether the officials in Yiyang County can control it or not, more refugees will eventually arrive here, and someone will always have to do the resettlement of the refugees.

"So, if the government can't do it, someone will come out to take its place."

Speaking of this, Liu Bolun spread his hands.

"Monk Temple, Mountain Temple, local powerful people, local wealthy families... they are willing and able to share this worry for the local county government, so the county government below simply turn a blind eye."

Having said so much, Du Chengfeng also knew that although the situation in Yiyang County was quite outrageous, it was not the county government but the Shanshen Temple that came to resettle the refugees, but the Shanshen Temple was relatively trustworthy—— To put it bluntly, even if this large group of people don't stay here, they can still go to the porridge restaurant owned by others to have a few hot meals.

When the number of people increases, the hard-earned food becomes apparent. At present, this team of tens of thousands of people is basically sitting on nothing, so naturally it can save a little bit.

But just when Du Chengfeng mentioned this matter, old man Yang Xuanyang patted the wheelchair.

"No! Absolutely not!"

"Um?"

Du Chengfeng frowned.

It's just a few meals, why can't this be done?

"This... really doesn't work."

Old Man Yang scratched his head in embarrassment, but continued talking.

Old Man Yang still has some say in this kind of thing. After all, when he was in Jibei, although his Jibei Yang family had declined to the point where there was only one Yangjiapu, it could at least be considered a local wealthy family in name - and this This means that the "sharing of worries" mentioned by Liu Bolun just now has also been experienced by the Yang family in Jibei.

To put it simply, the Yang family did it too.

But the Yang family is actually pretty good. They just recruit young people and enrich their manpower. Everyone is doing this kind of thing. After the refugees had stable jobs and income, they gradually took root and became local members, advancing and retreating together with the locals, and sharing weal and woe.

"But this time it's different."

After talking about himself, Old Man Yang started to talk about this mountain temple.

Unlike the local tycoons who just let people come and do the work, places like these temples gather people to do more than just work.

"The monks in those temples are the best at pretending to be gods and fooling the people. They are not so much resettling refugees as they are absorbing believers...The main and most troublesome part is that there are almost 10,000 refugees, but look With the posture of the Taiyin Mountain Temple, I am afraid that he wants to take them all over, what does he want to do? "

"hiss……"

Du Chengfeng started to pump air.

Listening to Old Man Yang's words, Du Chengfeng always felt that as a new rebel, he seemed to smell the scent of his peers.

Just like Old Man Yang said, a small mountain temple actually raised its hand to attract tens of thousands of people, and only looked at the young people of Yiyang County who were shouting slogans and preparing to welcome the refugees on the road. This Taiyin Mountain God The temple's organizational capabilities are probably not as good as those of Yanzhou City's regular army.

What is this for? What do you want to do?

"Let's go, go quickly."

The old Yang Xuan made the final judgment.

"We have to leave quickly. I'm afraid Yiyang County has become a place of right and wrong. I have a hunch that the person in charge of the Taiyin Mountain Temple will not be easy to talk to."

"Your hunch was right."

Du Chengfeng nodded.

"Besides, even if we want to leave now, the locals may not be willing to let us go."

Saying this, Du Chengfeng raised his hand and pointed at the young men of Yiyang County not far away.

Among the people in Yiyang County, a young monk carrying a sword on his back crossed the crowd and walked out.

"Everyone from Yanzhou, it's really hard for everyone to come all the way."

The young monk raised his hands and bowed, looking polite.

"If you don't mind, come and take a rest in my Taiyin Mountain Temple. The mountain god is merciful and has prepared a place for you... Don't worry, the Taiyin ghosts will protect you all the way. You will be safe and sound."

"No matter what I said, this kid opened his mouth and started to act weird."

Among the crowd, the old Yang Xuan sneered. He knew it would be like this, and he opened his mouth and said something like gods and ghosts.

It may be possible to deceive others with this trick, but to deceive someone like him who is so sophisticated...

"……ah?"

Yang Xuan opened his mouth wide for a moment, but he couldn't laugh anymore.

In front of the young monk, an illusory golden-armored god-general actually appeared, raising his hands and cupping his fists at the refugees.

The second update arrived, with only 3,000 words. The two updates cost less than 10,000. It was annoying, and the time was a bit ridiculously late. I went to take a nap and try to update faster next time.

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