Anping County.
This small county town, where you used to have to wade through mud even on rainy days, is now like a bustling construction site.
On the main road of the county town, a group of women dressed in uniform blue official robes, each with a different temperament, were directing the laborers.
The woman in the lead was named Su Yun. She had her hair neatly styled in a bun, wore her official robes impeccably, and held a booklet in her hand as she calmly directed the manpower.
Before she transmigrated, she was the HR director of a Fortune 500 company, and her greatest skill was putting the right people in the right positions.
Beside them, a tall woman with her official robe sleeves rolled up to her elbows, revealing her muscular forearms, was pointing at a huge blueprint.
Before transmigrating, Meng Yao was a top student in the civil engineering department. After transmigrating, she experienced various chaotic black qi and evil spirits, and is now officially incorporated into Tianyu Divine Mountain.
When she learned that the Liang Kingdom was the first to recruit female officials, she quickly packed her bags and set off. Sure enough, she successfully applied and became a new female official in the Liang Kingdom.
Moreover, these were official positions specially created for them by the Empress.
Meng Yao didn't understand those intricacies, but she knew that she was still a civil engineer, which was a good fit for her major!
At this moment, her brows were full of excitement as she instructed the people, "The sewage pipes over here must be dug three feet deep, and the bottom must be sealed with a mixture of lime and glutinous rice juice to ensure no leakage for ten years! And the public toilets over there, I've already designed them; they'll have flushing systems!"
"Mr. Meng, what is flushing?" A local old craftsman in charge of supervising the project came over, his face full of curiosity.
Just as Meng Yao was about to explain fluid mechanics, she was stopped by another charming and lively female official.
"Uncle Li, just flush it. When you're done, just pull the rope, and with a whoosh, the pure water bestowed by the Mountain Goddess will wash away the filth, leaving you clean and odorless!"
Xu Wei smiled, her eyes crinkling. She wore the same official robes as everyone else, with a pretty bow tied around her waist, making her look lively and adorable.
Before she transmigrated, she was a food vlogger with millions of followers, and her greatest skill was communication.
After transmigrating, she met all sorts of people, and many of them wouldn't listen to her explanations about how powerful they were!
But if you say "Mountain Goddess," these people will start fighting without saying a word!
Now she has completely figured out the routine. If she wants to continue the project, just mentioning the Mountain Goddess will make things a hundred times faster!
The reforms have proceeded exceptionally smoothly, but there have always been one or two tough challenges.
"I'm not moving! This shop was passed down from my father's father! Why should you demolish it just like that? I'd rather die than move!"
In the middle of the road, a fat shopkeeper dressed in a silk shirt was lying sprawled on the ground, slapping his thighs with both hands and wailing.
His grocery store was strategically located at a key point in the road widening project.
Su Yun stepped forward, his voice still calm: "Manager Qian, according to the New Urban and Rural Planning Law, your shop is within the demolition area. The imperial court will compensate you at three times the market price and reserve the best location for you in the newly planned commercial street."
"I won't listen! I won't move even if it's three times the price! That's ancestral property!" Manager Qian started acting like a rogue.
Meng Yao frowned deeply, cracked her knuckles as she tried to solve the problem physically.
Just then, Xu Wei walked over gracefully, squatted down, and smiled again: "Manager Qian, please get up, the ground is cold."
Manager Qian glanced at her sideways and snorted.
Xu Wei wasn't annoyed. Instead, she sighed softly, her voice not loud, but just loud enough for the onlookers to hear clearly: "Alas, it's really tough for us officials. Building roads, schools, and welfare homes isn't our own idea."
She paused, raised her head, and looked in the direction of Tianyu Divine Mountain, her face instantly filled with piety.
"All of this is to fulfill the Mountain Goddess's vision, so that what she sees in the divine realm is a clean, tidy, prosperous world where everyone has access to education and children are protected! It's nothing for us to suffer a little, but if... because we are inefficient and slow down the progress, and disappoint the Mountain Goddess..."
Before she could finish speaking, the atmosphere around her changed.
The whispering crowd fell silent instantly. Several elderly women instinctively clasped their hands together and bowed in the direction of Tianyu Mountain.
"Heavens above, we can't let the Mountain Goddess down!"
"That's right! Fatty Qian, you're hogging the latrine and delaying the Mountain Goddess's grand plan. Can you take responsibility for that?"
"This shop is your ancestral property, and our lives were saved by the Mountain Goddess! Can't you tell which is more important?"
The shopkeeper, lying on the ground, jiggled the fat on his face.
He felt the gazes coming from all directions, like knives scraping his face painfully.
Especially when he saw Wang Ermazi, the man who sold pancakes next door, this usually honest and simple man was now staring wide-eyed with his fists clenched tightly, as if he was about to rush up and attack him from both sides if he didn't get up.
Manager Qian jumped up from the ground with a start, moving faster than a monkey.
He forced a smile that looked more like a grimace at Su Yun and the others, and bowed repeatedly: "Ladies, it's a misunderstanding, all a misunderstanding! I was just thinking of my ancestors and got sad, so I lay down on the ground to mourn them! It's not that I didn't want to move!"
He abruptly changed the subject, patted his chest, and declared with righteous indignation, "For the glorious achievements of the Mountain Goddess, for our bright future! Even if you were to demolish my shop, or even take my life, I, Qian, would not flinch!"
With that, he turned and ran back into the shop, grabbed a sledgehammer, and slammed it against his own door frame.
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