Cultivation Starts From Planting Sweet Potatoes

Ever since Young Master Su's special envoy left, the entire Dehua County immediately became insane.

The City Lord's Mansion has dispatched the White Armored Army to collect money and food from house to house.

Residents in the city pay 20 copper coins per person, and everyone has a share. Even beggars on the street have to hand in 20 copper coins. If the whole city collects them, they can get 1,000 taels of silver.

Then along each street, door tax is collected, which is charged in proportion according to the width of the door.

Because those who can have a facade are all small and well-to-do households, and the tax amount is relatively high, and they collect 20,000 taels of silver in total.

Then go to measure the homesteads of each household, and collect another 10,000 taels of silver.

After several consecutive rounds of combined blows, most of the property in Dehua City, rich or poor, was wiped away.

This is only the situation in the city. As for the collection of money and food in each township, it is apportioned to the landlords in each township.

Just send the army to collect directly from these landlords. As for how the landlords apportion the distribution, it has nothing to do with the city lord's mansion.

At this time, a white armor army of 50 people also came to Heishui Town.

The leader is a recently promoted school lieutenant named Wei Yin, who is on the second level of Qi training.

As an immortal cultivator and lieutenant of the Baijia Army, he represents the Guliang family on this trip, and has already visited several towns along the way.

These township landowners had to be cautious when they saw him. Although everyone was heartbroken about the 3,000 taels of silver collected by the City Lord's Mansion, none of them dared to refuse, and they could only honestly hand over the taels of silver.

The process of collecting taxes these few days gave Wei Yin a great sense of accomplishment in his young heart.

Wei Yin was still thinking about it right away, everyone had already arrived in Heishui Town, Dehua City was more than 70 miles away from Heishui Town, this was Wei Yin's first visit.

Before entering the gate, he was attracted by the city wall. Although it was only one foot high, it was the first time he had heard that a town could build its own wall.

When he was leading the White Armored Army to enter Heishui Town from the city gate, he was suddenly taken aback, feeling like his hairs were standing on end.

In front of the city gate, a young man with a pair of canine teeth was leading a dozen people to block their way.

This tiger-toothed boy was already a master of the fourth level of Qi training, two realms higher than him.

Wei Yin has always been proud of his identity as an immortal cultivator, and complacent about his cultivation of the second level of Qi training.

But the person in front of him seemed to be about his age, but he was already a master of the fourth level of Qi training.

"who?"

Huya stood at the gate of the city and asked loudly.

Originally, Heishui Town could enter and exit at will, and he naturally knew the famous White Armored Army, but this team of 50 people entered the city with open swords and spears, so he naturally had to ask about it.

"We are the White Armored Army, following the order of the city lord, we are here to collect money and food."

If it was in other villages and towns, anyone who dared to block his way would have been blown away, but right now standing in front of him is a master of Qi training at the fourth level.

It is better to maintain a humble gentleman style.

"Wait a moment, I will report."

In the eyes of Huya and other guards, there is only Mr. Zhang, but no city lord.

Huya only gave an explanation, then threw the Baijiajun at the door, and went to the town hall alone.

Zhang He happened to be here today, so he immediately went out to greet him.

Although he has reached the foundation building stage now, he no longer has any fear of the Guliang family.

As long as the other party is not too much, he doesn't want to turn against the Guliang family for the time being, and he is happy to stay in Heishui Town as his landlord.

Zhang He asked Huya to politely lead Wei Yin and his party into Heishui Town.

After entering Heishui Town, Wei Yin and his party discovered that the town is now peaceful and peaceful, with people coming and going in an orderly manner.

It is completely different from the fluctuation of people's hearts after disasters in other villages and towns.

Wei Yin was led into the City Lord's Mansion, and tea was served immediately.

Seeing Zhang He for the first time, he found that Mr. Zhang turned out to be an expert in the late stage of Qi training, and he was so frightened that he saluted quickly.

However, Zhang He's gentle attitude reassured Wei Yin, who had been underwhelmed at the beginning, and then he showed the city lord's warrant to explain his intention.

"Mr. Zhang, this time the City Lord's Mansion asked to pay 3000 taels of silver, or three spirit stones. Every village and town is the same. I have received several orders on the way here. I hope Mr. Zhang will not make things difficult for me.

In addition, each town needs to dispatch a hundred soldiers, bring their own food and grass, and assemble within ten days.

I hope Mr. Zhang will not forget it by then. "

Wei Yin managed to put on airs to finish these words, feeling extremely nervous in his heart.

Mr. Zhang in front of him is already at the eighth level of Qi training, and he can be destroyed with a single slap.

What if the other party commits a crime and slaps him to death?

Fortunately, Zhang He was very reasonable, he only smiled slightly when he heard the words, and happily ordered someone to take 3000 taels of silver and hand it over to him.

Moreover, Zhang He took out thousands of taels of silver all of a sudden, so calm and calm, completely different from the local rich man he had seen before.

Wei Yin picked up the money and left Heishui Town as if fleeing, for fear that Zhang He would regret it.

In fact, 3,000 taels of silver is indeed similar to cutting flesh for an ordinary landlord.

When Zhang He took over Wanjiazhuang, the total property of Wanjiazhuang was only about five or six thousand taels of silver.

It's just that for today's Zhang He, a few thousand taels of silver is really not much. He raided a city in Jishui County last time, and the silver he got has not been spent yet.

However, he has to be cautious about the next thing that needs to send troops to join the war.

Heishui Town is now under the rule of Young Master Su, it is almost impossible to be alone, and it will affect them sooner or later.

It's just that sending troops to fight is not enough to send a hundred people, and you have to bring your own dry food. Logistical support is more troublesome than fighting in front of the battle.

Even if each person has one catty of grain per day, he will get one hundred catties of grain a day, and 3,000 catties in one month.

In fact, the guards have a lot of food, each person has at least two catties a day, and the time for the expedition cannot be settled in a month.

If you bring war horses, a horse has to eat dozens of catties of grain and grass every day, which is even more difficult.

It was impossible for him to let the soldiers each carry a load of baskets when they went into battle. In this way, they would have to recruit civilian husbands, and these civilian husbands would also have to eat and drink on the way.

Calculated in this way, on the premise of not bringing war horses, at least 10,000 catties of grain must be prepared.

These grains are not too big a burden for the current Heishui Town, but the main reason is that transportation is difficult.

Zhang He thought for a while, then called Wei Peng and Ma Gan, explained to them, and asked them to prepare separately.

Ten days later, thousands of people had already gathered in a wasteland outside Dehua city.

In the center stood a large flag with the word Guliang embroidered with gold thread, which looked extremely dazzling in the sun.

The Gu Liang family dispatched 300 Baijia troops this time, and it is said that they are taking on the role of supervising the battle team.

In addition, 700 Feiyu troops were dispatched, this is the official combat force.

The Guliang family dispatched a total of 1,000 soldiers and 500 civilian husbands.

There are also 20 messy flags standing on the wasteland, which are crooked, and there are barely 2,000 people.

Among the 20 township miscellaneous soldiers, only one army is very unique.

One side was embroidered with the banner of Heishui Town, and a hundred guards were lined up neatly with serious expressions.

These 100 people all have good martial arts cultivation, wear black armor, and are divided into sword and shield soldiers, spearmen, and archers.

Even the 100 porters behind this team look well-trained.

The appearance of this team had already overwhelmed the White Armored Army, and attracted many people to look here curiously from time to time.