"Because the Xiong family is the most powerful in Mengyu County, they are only one step away from becoming a new famous family in Yu County!"
Yang Tiangang said quietly: "As long as his Xiong family can become a famous family in Yu County, it will be one of the first-class forces below the entire Yu County Shaking Heaven Sect! What does Mengyu County's life and death have to do with them!"
The domineering Xiong family was like a mountain that overwhelmed the four martial arts realm monks in the hall to breathe, and there was another moment of silence, and Zhang Blacksmith said: "What about the other two powerful people in this county, what do the people of the Ning family and the Yu family say?"
This time there was no need for Yang Tiangang to answer, Xu Sanniang on the side guessed: "I'm afraid that the people of the Ning family and the Yu family will not be in trouble with the Xiong family at this time!"
Blacksmith Zhang was puzzled: "Why, aren't you afraid that the Xiong family will suppress them after they become famous in Yu County? Besides, the county's Linggu production has been reduced, and what the Xiong family has done, won't the Ning and Yu families suffer losses?"
Xu Sanniang smiled bitterly: "It is precisely because the Xiong family is at the juncture of being promoted to a famous family, whoever wants to make things difficult with them at this time, the Xiong family will definitely play with their lives, so the other two families are only throwing rat taboos, and the Ning and Yu families are both powerful in a county with real realm monks, and the losses caused by the giant locust plague to them will only reduce production by three or four percent at best.
Yang Junshan listened to the words of several martial realm cultivators in the hall, contrary to what they thought, why did the Shaking Heaven Sect agree to the Xiong family's approach so easily?
It can be seen that the fundamental reason is not that the Shake Heaven Sect is greedy for this little spiritual valley in Mengyu County, but because the Shaking Heaven Sect really has an extremely urgent need for this spiritual valley!
From the red rust rough incident to the current grain tax incident, Yang Junshan seemed to see a behemoth standing on the edge of a cliff, trying to grab every straw to save his life, and he didn't even estimate whether the thin straw could carry its huge weight.
This was originally expected by everyone, but this was not the case in other villages.
Although the spirit farmers were reluctant, they did not have the courage to provoke the authority of the Shaotian Sect, and finally gritted their teeth and paid the full grain tax, not to mention that in the process of collecting the grain tax, there were also the upper monks of the Shaking Heaven Sect who kept coming down to urge the review, especially the people of the Xiong family because this matter was related to the fate of the family, so they patrolled the large and small villages and towns in Mengyu County under the banner of Shaking the Heaven Sect.
And in Huangtu Town, it was Tuyuan Village that paid the full grain tax after Tuqiu Village, and the predecessor of this Tuyuan Village was Qian Chunlai.
Although Qian Chunlai squeezed out his biggest competitor Yang Tiangang this time, he wanted to get a recommendation from Liu Zhenshou from the outer disciples of the Shaking Heaven Sect, and this time collecting grain tax was undoubtedly his best opportunity to perform.
It is rumored that an old spiritual farmer in Tuyuan Village was forced to death by Qian Chunlai's brothers because he was unwilling to pay the grain tax, and even within the Qian family, there was a lot of criticism because of Qian Chunlai's actions.
However, it was related to whether he could become a disciple of the Shaotian Sect, Qian Chunlai obviously didn't care about the negative impact of this grain levy on him, and under the suppression of the Qian brothers, the voices of criticism within the Qian family were finally suppressed.
It is said that he also received the support of a direct descendant of the Xiong family, and that Xiong family child was also an outer disciple of the Shaking Heaven Sect.
Therefore, whether it is spiritual grain, spiritual wheat, or spiritual rice, crops that can produce large scales with high yields and short cycles have become the most commonly used by the vast majority of low-level monks to assist in cultivation and improve their cultivation.
After the spiritual cultivator cultivates to a certain level, the cultivation of the spiritual valley itself is not for food and clothing, but at least to be able to maintain that his cultivation will not decline when cultivation resources are limited, so almost all spiritual cultivators will be so persistent in having a spiritual field of their own.
As far as one stone of Spirit Valley is concerned, it is only the value of a few jade coins, but using a few jade coins to cultivate will exhaust the spiritual power contained in it in just a few days at most. Because it is impossible to replenish enough spiritual power for a long time, the cultivation of the monk will begin to decline, and even decline all the way to the point where it is not as good as the original cultivation.
But if these jade coins were exchanged for a stone of spiritual valley, perhaps the monk's cultivation would not be significantly improved by eating the spiritual valley, but at least for two or three months before the spiritual valley was consumed, the monk could maintain his cultivation without deteriorating!
This is the reason why ordinary monks often attach more importance to Spirit Valley than jade coins!
As for the old spiritual farmer who was forced to death in Tuyuan Village, after passing the peak of his prime, not only had his cultivation lose the possibility of going further, but because his body began to decline, if he wanted to keep his cultivation from declining, then the amount of spiritual valley he needed to supplement might be more than that of an adult.
And Brother Qian Chunlai forcibly took away the only remaining spiritual valley in his hand, which would only speed up the aging of his body, the faster decline of his cultivation, and the time for death to arrive would naturally be greatly shortened, so he would eventually find a short-sightedness.
A few days after the grain tax was paid, Yang Tiangang's mood still did not improve, and he had a gloomy face all day long, which frightened Yang Junping and Yang Junxin brothers and sisters to hide when they saw their father.
Yang Junshan found Han Xiumei and asked: "Mother, Dad is still worried about shaking the disciples of the Heavenly Sect?"
In Yang Junshan's view, it is a good thing that Yang Tiangang did not become an outer disciple of the Shaking Heaven Sect, although the Shaking Heaven Sect is powerful, but it is just a giant ship that is about to sink on the sea.
Han Xiumei sighed and said: "Some words are just for outsiders, with your father's original merits, there is no need to consider things like collecting grain tax at all, the reason why your father can't become an inner disciple is because of your uncle!"
Since the Yang family has already produced an inner disciple this time, whether it is the Shaking Heaven Sect itself, or the various forces in Yu County that are striving to become disciples of the Shaking Heaven Sect, they do not want the Yang family to occupy another place for an outer disciple, and there may be opposition within the Yang family!"
When Yang Junshan saw his father, Yang Tiangang was half-lying on a rattan chair smoking and reading a book, Yang Junshan walked over to take a look and found that Yang Tiangang was looking at a map about low-level spiritual grasses, which not only drew extremely realistic patterns, but also had more detailed instructions on it.
Yang Junshan thought for a while and said, "Dad, our middle-grade spiritual field hasn't decided what to plant yet?"
Yang Tiangang said with a "hmm" and said: "I have already obtained the seeds of the golden saffron, which is enough to plant a spiritual field; your uncle also promised to help get a batch of red flame grass seeds, and you can almost plant a spiritual field; now there is only the last piece of spiritual field left, I don't know what to plant, it just so happens that the low-grade fairy elm wood heart you brought back from Baique Mountain, and the three inferior fairies you got from hunting the giant locust king this time in exchange for a jade coin, I was thinking about whether to use the jade coins to buy a batch of spiritual grass seeds, but I haven't thought about what seeds to buy."
Yang Junshan flipped through the spiritual grass map on the table, found a map, and said, "How about planting this?"
Yang Tiangang glanced down and wondered: "Qiwei Fruit? This kind of seed is not difficult to find, but what's the use of planting this thing? Although this thing can be regarded as a spiritual herb of the lower grade of the Dharma level, the fruit that can be picked up is rarely used, and only some partial elixirs are used when refining, and they can't be sold for a big price even if they are grown!"
Yang Junshan smiled and said: "Maybe it will suddenly be useful in the future!"
Seeing Yang Tiangang's suspicious eyes, Yang Junshan casually lied and said: "I saw the monks of Sirius Gate collecting this spiritual herb wantonly in Quwu Mountain, it seems that a large amount of strange fruit is needed because of the refining of some new elixir.
Yang Tiangang waved his hand and said: "That's not good, it's Sirius Sect that is buying this kind of thing, not Shao Tianzong asking for this thing, who will I grow it and sell it to?"
"Isn't there a secret passage of Quwu Mountain, Dad, you can take a look at Zhang County, it's not too far anyway, it's not easy to enter and exit Zhang County with your martial arts cultivation level!"
Yang Tiangang waved his hand impatiently and said, "Let's talk about it later, anyway, it's not a hurry now!"
Yang Junshan seemed to think of something at this time, and said: "By the way, Dad, speaking of Quwu Mountain, I think of one more thing, do you remember the valley where I encountered the locust swarm that I mentioned to you? There seems to be a source of evil energy in that valley!"
"What?" Yang Tiangang suddenly jumped up from the rattan chair, which couldn't stand his strength and suddenly fell apart, but Yang Tiangang didn't even look at it, stared at Yang Junshan and said: "What are you talking about, the source of evil energy? You know the source of the evil energy of a fart!"
Yang Junshan smiled "hehe", describing the scene where the locust swarms competed for food when the source of evil energy appeared in the valley, and also guessed that the source of the evil energy seemed to be intermittent.
Yang Tian was already overjoyed, where could he still sit still, and said as he walked: "I want to go to Quwu Mountain, if it is really like what you said, I will definitely be rewarded when I come back!"
Yang Junshan hurriedly followed and said, "Dad, there is actually something I didn't tell you!"
Seven days after Yang Tian rushed to Quwu Mountain, the sky of the entire wasteland town darkened, and then the pouring rain poured down, and this time it was another five or six days, and several creeks in the western mountains had become flash flood sloping channels, and the Qinshui also surged all the way, almost reaching the edge of the flood embankment.
Yang Junshan looked at the rain outside the house worriedly, if this continued, there would be another flood immediately after this giant locust plague!
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This chapter is used to make up for the original third watch on Monday.