Chapter 842 The First Rural Martial Arts Hall Opens

The third village chief's vanity was satisfied, and he gave her a few household registrations to play with.

Duke of Yan: “…”

It’s no wonder that the Dongmo spy could become a veteran in the mountains. The mountain brothers were too naive.

This was also the fault of the Wei Dynasty. For so many years, they had neglected the defense line in the mountains, allowing the spies to set up, infiltrate, and leave seeds in the mountains first.

"An Neijian." Duke Yan called.

An Neijian took out another small box, placed it on the long table and opened it.

He smiled and said, "Chief Alan, Third Chief, these are the house deeds and land deeds given to you by the Duke. There are all of them in Baofu County, Dongming Prefecture, and the capital. You can open a shop and specialize in your mountain products."

"There are even shops in the capital city... Miss Li Yuling of Wei pays tribute to the Duke." Yuling was really afraid that the three village chiefs did not understand the value of the shops in the capital city, so she performed it in a responsible manner for them to see!

Bazi, Aweng, Shanhuai, Ateng and others rushed towards the box and tried to snatch the house deeds and land deeds inside.

Unfortunately, a strong wind blew and they saw that Jian An had already taken the box away. He took the box and walked towards Aunt Alan and handed it to her: "Village Master Alan, keep it."

Bazi and the others were shocked... This androgynous person was actually a martial artist, and his skills were even better than theirs.

And the person with such skills is just a servant of Duke Yan!

Bazi is not stupid. After this incident, his fear of Duke Yan intensified.

But the prosperity of the city outside the mountain attracted him.

The mountains were damp, the roads were muddy, and the thatched houses would get moldy and overgrown with weeds. Thinking about it now, the pungent smell of dirt and mold still made him frown.

No, he doesn't want to stay in the mountains all his life. He wants to use the power of the mountains to live a good life outside the mountains!

Bazi was firm in his choice, his eyes full of greed.

The Duke of Yan didn't mind his greed, but he was afraid that they were not greedy.

Today's show of goodwill and solicitation had a very good effect. All the mountain people agreed to accept this goodwill and went to the provincial government office to record their fingerprints and make various registrations.

After the registration was completed, Lord Shi took them to Donglin Street in the east of the city to see the shops and houses that the Duke had given to them as mountain people.

The shop is in the downtown area. On the same street are restaurants, silver shops, and government banks...

The location of the house is also very good, quiet in a bustling city, with three entrances and three exits, and each room is large enough for thirty people to sleep on the floor together.

After seeing the shop and the house, Bazi and his friends didn't want to go back to the mountains even more. Bazi even thought of taking the property he got today for himself!

Unfortunately, Bazi’s status is too low.

However, it is not impossible for him to have these houses and shops if he wants them.

If he switches sides and helps Jiang Dalang and his men to raid the ancestors' village and eliminate those ancestors who are suspected to be spies, Bazi will be rewarded.

Aunt Alan, Mengzi, Baiai, Shandeng, Wenyang and others were also greatly impacted by the Zhaipu, but what they wanted was to deepen the cooperation with the court outside the mountain so that their brothers and sisters in the mountain could live such a good life.

In the evening, Aunt Alan and her family returned to Wuyuan Street.

Today, outside Wuyuan Street, there are still many people queuing up to donate money to set up the local martial arts hall.

"The Chen family, a prominent agricultural and grain-producing family in Jumen Prefecture, donated 10,000 catties of new wheat, 10,000 catties of cotton, 20 mules, and 20 servants to help set up the Township Martial Hall and increase our Great Wei's ability to resist the enemy!"

"Taizhou Mansion..."

That’s right, many of those who come to donate money now are from other prefectures. They all came specially after the news spread, just to curry favor with the Duke of Yan.

After all, they donated money in their hometown, how could Duke Yan know who you are?

But if we donate money at the gate of Wuyuan, then we will be on the list of Duke Yan, and there is a high possibility that Duke Yan and His Majesty will know about it!

In short, these wealthy gentlemen fought hard to become famous and to seek protection.

The students also worked hard...working hard to register materials and calculate material accounts.

After working hard for nearly half a month, a large number of students finally figured out the material accounts.

……

On May 20th, Ying Zilin brought his students, carrying boxes of account books, to present a summary of the accounts to Duke Yan.

When old man Xun first saw Ying Zilin, he was shocked... The poor child's cheeks were sunken due to fatigue, and his dark circles under his eyes were like ink, he looked like he was terminally ill.

The old man felt a little guilty and looked at Mr. Jing in reproach: "Poor kid, you are going too far."

I asked you to teach your child to be pragmatic, not to abuse him.

Xun Lao added: "However, you are right to punish Zilin in this way. This is the way for performance-based officials. After all, if Zilin encounters a disaster while in office in the future, he will have to go to the disaster relief in person, which is much more tiring than doing the accounting."

Master Jing was about to make a few remarks to defend himself, but he stopped when he heard this. He said happily, "Thank you for the compliment, Master. I will continue to work hard to train Zilin."

Qin Xiaogu, Xiao Jiang Erlang, Xue Mingyi, Yan Ji, Kang Rong (Kang Liwen's boastful son), Kang Lang, Luo Min, Shao Wei, Xie Nian and other teenagers looked at Ying Zilin with sympathy.

Ying Zilin: “…”

What are you looking at? How much better are you than me? Aren't you just a bunch of coolies?

but……

Ying Zilin's gaze turned to Uncle Qin and Huang Yanglong... Not only did the two bastards not lose weight, but they got a little fatter, all because they were very lazy and acted like big shots. Their grandmaster and master asked them to help with the accounting, but they regarded themselves as supervisors.

Eat and drink while lying down, and urge them to work!

"Boy, what are you looking at? Hurry up and report to Duke Yan. What's the matter? Have you become stupid from calculating accounts? Then let Xiaobai do it?" Uncle Qin said angrily.

Ahhh, Ying Zilin roared in his heart and wanted to strangle Uncle Qin to death... How could there be someone in the world more disgusting than Huang Yanglong!

Duke Yan laughed when he saw this, and felt a little sympathetic towards Ying Zilin, and said, "Zilin, you students have worked hard. If you are too tired, you can take a day off and do the summary tomorrow."

"I thank Duke Yan for his sympathy. My fellow disciples and I can hold on." It's the final push, only a fool would take a break at this time.

Soon, Ying Zilin began to summarize: "My Lord, in May of the third year of Wuxing, we received donations from all walks of life as follows... Gold and silver: 18,690 taels of gold; 124,784 taels of silver."

"Livestock: horses, 461; mules..."

"Rice and grain: 100,000 catties of wheat and 37,500 catties of rice."

There is not much rice here, so the amount of rice donated is not much, but there are a lot of soybeans, and nearly 300,000 kilograms of soybeans were donated!

The children of Qin Sheng, Qin Mao, Zhou, Lu and Han were also present... They were so overwhelmed by the counting that they almost couldn't recognize money or weight.

Zhou Bantou and other uncles were also present and were also terrified, but they were afraid that the children would faint from the shock, so they bit their tongues to wake themselves up, and then quickly held their children's shoulders to help them calm down.

Because the donations were so large, it took most of the day to summarize, and the report was not finished until mid-afternoon.

However, this is not over yet.

Duke Yan ordered, "Lord Shi, Deputy General Zhen, ask Lord Yan, Prefect Fei, Lord Gu, and General Liang to send a team of men each to check the accounts with the students."

Later, the public will be asked to supervise the accounts, so people from the second division of the official army must be invited to participate and verify the general ledger.

Only after the general ledger is calculated correctly can these materials be officially used to open the village martial arts hall.

"Yes." Lord Shi and Deputy General Zhen took the order and went to do it.