While Guangping and his group were plotting, they were completely unaware that several sparrows had already crawled into their cave.

The sparrows remained silent, just watching them quietly. Once the group had finished discussing all their plans for occupying the barren mountain, they calmly flapped their wings and flew away.

In fact, these people had been watched since they arrived in the wilderness area. Not only did Lin Mo see them through the birds flying in the sky, but Liu Xin also heard their movements.

However, these people did not initially rob or plunder, nor did they harm the people of the desolate county. Instead, they stayed in the cave, so Yu Luo did not send anyone to cause trouble.

She planned to find an opportunity to wipe out this whole group.

Before anything could be done here, the bandits on the other side had already set their sights on the desolate mountains.

Of course, Lin Erluo and Lin Lian deserve a lot of credit for this. Those two really dared to cause trouble, which was quite a spectacle.

Yu Luo immediately ordered someone to send the message to the county government office in Huang County, so that Xu Rurong could also make preparations in advance.

Huangxian County Town.

Xu Rurong looked at the rows of houses in front of her and felt a little emotional. Who would have thought that just a month or two ago, this place was all empty?

These houses are now all built with bricks and stones, and you can even light a fire inside. When the cold winter officially arrives, people can move in!

Of course, he did not stop construction. After all, these workers also needed accommodation. Xu Rurong planned to build all the "employees'" accommodations as well, in preparation for attracting new refugees in the future.

"Magistrate Xu, Magistrate Xu, Madam Cui is here again!"

A childish voice came from behind.

The county government summoned another group of people. Xu Rurong originally planned to recruit a few capable old women, but unexpectedly, she encountered a pair of orphaned twins among the refugees.

The twins were young and unable to do heavy work, so he recruited them to work in the county government office, where they did some menial tasks.

The twins greatly admired the legendary Mountain Goddess, and every time Cui Ying came, they would eagerly run over to report to her.

Xu Rurong invited Cui Niangzi over, and after hearing what she said, she was greatly encouraged.

"They want to conquer the barren mountains?" he asked with a strange expression.

Of all the counties these bandits could have targeted, they had to come to their desolate county and set their sights on the barren mountains.

Even he, the county magistrate, held the barren mountain in great awe, fearing that he might incur the wrath of the mountain goddess if he mishandled matters between the two sides.

These bandits really dare to think big!

There is indeed plenty of food in the barren mountains, but there is also a group of powerful individuals with special abilities, and an even more powerful mountain goddess! Why would someone be so stubborn as to try the hellish difficulty?

“Okay, I will try to comfort them when the time comes.” Xu Rurong nodded.

Cui Ying: "..."

This county magistrate is different from ordinary officials; he's quite witty!

"At that time, we will have to trouble the county magistrate to take some of them back for reformation."

As for why it's only a portion of the population, it's because they don't intend to spare everyone's lives.

That group of people slaughtered several villages and killed so many people. How could they possibly let all of them go back unharmed?

"By the way, Your Excellency, we have grown a new type of grain on our barren mountain. This grain is called corn, and it is delicious whether roasted or steamed."

Cui Ying thought for a moment and then added.

Xu Rurong's eyes lit up again. She hadn't expected that Yumi would also appear. Huangshan was really fast!

How much of the barren mountain can we get?

"The fact that we were able to share 100 shi of corn is the same as before. This corn is the support that the barren mountain provides to the county town and the Mountain God Academy. Before eating the corn, everyone needs to express their gratitude to the Mountain Goddess."

Cui Ying gave her instructions.

"No problem! The Mountain God Academy is already built. I'll invite those students and scholars over another day to teach the children in the academy!" Xu Rurong was overjoyed. This was the benefit of having a powerful patron!

The barren mountain area has even prepared food for him, and there are so many powerful "henchmen" protecting the entire county. It seems he can just sit back and win from now on!

“We’re already compiling new teaching materials in this barren mountain area. You won’t be able to teach using ordinary methods; you’ll have to use our materials!” Cui Ying reminded her again.

"No problem, absolutely no problem!" Xu Rurong was now certain that there were fellow transmigrators in the desolate mountains as well.

Otherwise, how could there be such a thing as compiling textbooks?

He felt very confident that textbooks compiled by fellow villagers would be more in line with modern education and would not contain those outdated articles.