Becoming a Saint by Leisure Reading - Chapter 213
[Chapter 210 Sixth Senior Sister, What’s Your Strength?]
Walking out of the City Lord’s Mansion, a desolate and dilapidated atmosphere flooded Chen Luo.
At the beginning of Dongcang City’s establishment, the court at that time had high expectations. According to historical records, at that time there were two great Confucians, thirty-six masters, 300 Confucian scholars, and a total of 200,000 civilian husbands and prisoners were recruited. It took half a year to build this Dongcang in this barren land. city.
“Guang Ya” says: the color is blue; “Erya·Shi Tian” note: the east is called Cang Tian.
Therefore, the city is named “Dongcang”.
“Kao Gong Ji” records: Great Confucianism camps Cang, accommodates millions of people, Fang Erjiu, three side gates, nine longitudes and nine latitudes, and nine tracks of Jingtu.
It means that when Daru designed the city of Dongcang, he planned to accommodate a million people in the city. Each city wall was eighteen miles long, and each city wall had three gates. There were nine roads in the city and nine special carts. rail.
In fact, at the beginning of the construction of Dongcang City, there was indeed a short period of glory, but because of the obstruction of sea transportation, it soon became lonely.
The ground is paved with blue rocks, but now it is full of potholes and overgrown with weeds on the side of the road. Looking around, except for the official mansion built in advance, the rest are wooden houses and thatched huts built randomly, without any layout at all.
Along the way, the street was empty, there were people in those wooden houses, women, children, or old people, everyone looked out through the cracks in the doors and windows at Chen Luo and Yun Siyao who were walking all the way , Chen Luo sensed the gaze, and looked towards the other party’s line of sight, that line of sight immediately dodged, and then blocked the gap between the door and the window.
After walking for a while, he walked out of the street in front of the City Lord’s Mansion, and suddenly there was a foul smell. The ground was full of dry black filth, Yun Siyao couldn’t help raising his hands to cover his mouth and nose, Chen Luo was not in the mood to continue walking, and suddenly there was a burst of crying in his ears.
Looking along the prestige, it is a thatched hut on the left hand side. Chen Luo walked over with Yun Siyao, opened the door, and saw a four or five-year-old boy sitting on the ground and crying loudly. A chain was tied to the boy’s feet, and the other end of the chain was fixed to a stone pillar. . The little boy was holding half a blackened baked bun in his hand, and there were a few broken pieces of porcelain on the ground.
Presumably the child accidentally smashed the porcelain bowl, which made him cry in distress.
Chen Luo frowned slightly, and just as he was about to take a few steps up the mountain, the little boy saw Chen Luo and Yun Siyao, and immediately backed away in fear, covering his mouth tightly with his hands, his eyes full of anxiety.
Yun Siyao grabbed Chen Luo and patted the small gourd pendant hanging on his earlobe. The pendant trembled and fell to the ground, turning into Xiao Qi.
This is a new spell that Xiao Qi comprehended at some point, which can transform herself into a small gourd pendant. Among the handles of the grandfather and the earrings of the beautiful sister, Xiaoqi still chose the latter.
The little boy had never seen Xiao Qi, a little girl who was carved in powder and jade, gathering the spiritual energy of the world, his eyes were dumbfounded for a moment, and he subconsciously wanted to pull down his pants to cover the iron chains on his feet.
Xiao Qi glanced at Chen Luo, and immediately understood what Chen Luo meant. He hopped up and down in front of the little boy, took out a piece of wrapped sugar cake from his purse, and handed it to the little boy.
The little boy hid back with some low self-esteem, but soon smelled the sweet smell from the candy cake again, and swallowed his saliva. Xiaoqi skillfully removed the candy wrapper and handed it to the little boy. The little boy hesitated, took the candy, just licked it with his tongue, with a satisfied expression on his face, and then carefully handed the candy back to Xiaoqi .
Xiao Qi took out a handkerchief from her purse, wiped the little boy’s dirty face, and shook her head to indicate that she didn’t need to return it to herself.
The little boy dodged slightly, worried that he would dirty the beautiful-looking handkerchief, but he didn’t dodge, thanked him in a low voice, carefully wrapped the sugar cake in sugar paper, and put it in his arms.
Chen Luo raised his eyebrows: “Why don’t you eat it?” The
little boy looked at Chen Luo, and boldly replied: “Leave it to Daddy.”
Chen Luo wanted to ask again, but Luo Hongnu’s voice came from the door: “Master…”
Chen Luo turned around, Luo Hongnu had already walked in, Master Qin followed behind him. Luo Hongnu handed the storage order to Chen Luo, and said, “Master, everything is done.”
Chen Luo nodded, then looked at Master Qin, who quickly saluted, and said, “The medicinal herbs have been arranged. I thought uncle should want to know the current situation of Dongcang City, so I came here to listen to the order.”
“That’s right.” Chen Luo said, pointing to the iron chain on the little boy’s feet, “What’s going on?”
Qin Dang Guo knew the situation of this household as soon as he entered the door, and replied: “Uncle Hui, the head of this household is Zeng Wannian. He was injured when the blood beast attacked the city, and his wife was by his side to take care of him. It must be because he was worried about the child running around and being killed. The wild blood beast was taken away, and that’s why he came up with the bad idea to tie up the child.”
Chen Luo nodded, he probably guessed the same way, so he didn’t investigate further, and said, “Let’s go back to the city lord’s mansion. I need Mrs. Qin to help me understand the matter.”
After finishing speaking, he pointed to the little boy: “Take this child with you.”
“Here!”
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“Uncle, there are a total of four thousand children in Qingcang City right now. Six hundred and forty-two households, a total of 16,336 people. This is the household register.” In the
city lord’s mansion, Qin Dangguo handed a volume of records to Chen Luo, who took it casually and put it aside, Asked: “There are only so few people?”
Qin Dangguo sighed: “Dongcang City had the largest population when it was first built, because a large number of civilians stayed, so it used to have a scale of 100,000 people.”
” Later, the increase and decrease basically fluctuated around 20,000 people.”
“Dongcang City is said to be a big city, but in fact, except for the official residence and some pre-built constructions, it is equivalent to building four walls on the flat ground. It’s just fenced.”
“It’s nothing more than leveling the ground and laying stone bricks.”
“Residents generally gather in three areas. One is to expand outwards around the City Lord’s Mansion, where officials and Confucian scholars are mainly.
” The wasteland is reclaimed there.”
“Then to the north of the city, twenty miles away from the north of the city is Daye Ridge, and they live on Daye Ridge.”
“Although they are all in the same city, Dongcang City has a large area and few people. They don’t communicate much, and they seem to be three tribes of barbarians.”
Speaking of this, Qin Dangguo realized that the wording was inappropriate, and quickly apologized: “The wording is inappropriate, Wan Anbo forgive me.”
“It’s okay.” Chen Luo waved his hand , and asked again, “Tell me about the attack on the city this time. I remember that wild beasts hate the way of heaven, so they won’t take the initiative to attack the territory of the way of heaven, right?”
Qin Dangguo quickly explained: “Uncle is right. But the wild beasts always Some will be impregnated by the power of heaven for various reasons, so they will give birth to impure offspring. Such offspring are savage blood beasts. Brutal blood beasts have no intelligence, and the highest level does not exceed the fourth-rank realm, but they can communicate with heaven and savages. Between the sky.”
“The closest contact between Manyuan and my Dongcang is Manhou Valley, which is one of the nine gathering places of wild beasts on the Barbarian, so the chances of wild blood beasts appearing naturally are very high.”
“Brutal beasts They don’t like the breath of the blood beasts, so they often abandon the blood beasts after they are born. The blood beasts that can survive do not dare to approach the roaring valley, and most of them live in Daye Ridge.”
“This time they invaded Dongcang The one in the city is the Dayeling Savage Blood Beast.”
“Dayeling?” Chen Luo glanced at the specific map in the city lord’s mansion, and quickly found the exact location of this place on it.
Twenty miles northeast of Dongcang City, there is a north-south mountain range. According to the map, it is about 500 miles wide and more than 2,000 miles long. .
“Brutal blood beasts generally haunt the depths of Daye Ridge. According to previous years, every winter, when there is a shortage of food in Daye Ridge, there will indeed be blood beasts rushing out of Daye Ridge and attacking Dongcang City. But the whole winter , at most seven or eight, more than a dozen, but I didn’t expect that hundreds of blood beasts rushed out this time.”
“Among them, the hunter group in the north of the city suffered the most casualties. So far, ten of the seriously injured Seven or eight of them are from that area.”
“Fortunately, the city is big enough, and you can hide if you can’t afford it. After the gang of blood beasts made a fuss, they retreated to Daye Ridge.”
Chen Luo frowned slightly: “Then will they come out again?”
Master Qin hesitated for a moment, then said hesitantly, “Should…not?”
At this moment, Yun Siyao said lightly: “If things go wrong, there must be demons. There are hundreds of them this time. The barbarian rushing out must be due to an accident in Daye Ridge. If it happens again, it may not be impossible.”
Both Chen Luo and Master Qin were silent for a moment, and Chen Luo suddenly asked: “Don’t we have a city gate?”
Master Qin smiled wryly and said: “Dongcang City was established for logistics trade, and there was no danger in the judgment at that time, so the city gates were only arranged hastily, unlike other cities that are equipped with formations.”
“I don’t know when, That city gate was dismantled and sold privately by the local people…”
Chen Luo scratched his head with some headaches, and remembered another thing.
“Before Wu Peizhi said that the residents of this city were sacrifices, what happened?” To be honest, he was more concerned about this matter than the brutal blood beast attacking the city.
Qin Dangguo hesitated for a moment, and after pondering for a moment, he said, “Wu Peizhi is wrong.”
“Uncle, when you chose Dongcang City, you must have known that Dongcang City would be infiltrated by wild power?”
Chen Luohe Yun Siyao looked at each other and nodded.
“Actually, this is a wrestling between Mantian and Heaven.”
“A half-sage once came here to deduce it for seven days and seven nights, and finally concluded that if no means are used, this area will gradually become under the Mantian.”
“This is the beginning of Dongcang city building.”
“This place needs the luck of the human race to eliminate this infiltrating barbarian power, so Dongcang City will not be abandoned even though it is abandoned. It is also because of this that the previous dynasty forced the people to stay. Stationed in this city, and none of the saints objected.”
“In the eyes of my subordinates, this is a city of heroes!”
“It’s just that this matter is recorded in the secret file!”
“I’m afraid the barbarians don’t know about it either!”
Chen Luo’s heart sank, and he thought of the people hiding in the house one by one, the child who was chained up and carefully treasured the candy cake after he licked it.
Along the way, everyone mentioned Dongcang with sympathy, contempt, or ridicule and incomprehension.
It’s just a ruined city.
Little did they know there was such a task.
At this time, Chen Luo recalled that when he decided to choose Dongcang, the senior sister wrote to Zhulin, and the teacher quickly replied with one word – Miao!
Only then did Chen Luo understand why the Prime Minister and the Law Minister looked at him with meaningful eyes when he said in the court that he would choose Dong Cang!
They believed in themselves and could bring the city back to life.
Perhaps it was just like this that there was a send-off eight hundred miles away from Zhongjing.
…
“Mr. Qin, I brought some grain, grass and cloth this time. Please discuss with the red slaves and distribute these. But it is not free, but work for relief.”
“Clean the streets, take care of the wounded, and prepare for defense… In short, everyone should move.”
“I want to see this city alive, not as lifeless as it is today.”
“Hang Wu Peizhi’s head in the most conspicuous place, and say that he withheld Tianbo City’s gift I beheaded the supplies that came.”
“Then, issue a recruiting order!”
Chen Luo said his orders one after another, and Qin Dangguo recorded them one by one, accepted the order, and turned to leave.
At this moment, Chen Luo looked at Yun Siyao who had been sitting beside him all the time: “Sixth senior sister, what is your cultivation level?”
Yun Siyao seemed to have been prepared for a long time, smiled slightly, and phantoms of five mountains and five seas appeared behind him.
“If the Confucian school is cultivated…”
“Second rank great Confucianism!”
Hey. . In the early morning, the national football team lost in a mess.
In the morning, I saw that the monthly ticket fell in a mess.
Hoarsely begging for a monthly pass, rush forward.
Continue to code…
(End of this chapter)
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