Chapter 458 Road Repair (2)
This road is over 130,000 li long, divided into 266 sections of 500 li each.
The construction of this road was done in stages. Starting from Kushui Lake, the east-west road was built first, followed by the north-south road.
Shan Zhongfeng dispatched forty disciples of the Blood Pill Sect to form two teams, each team responsible for five hundred li each time, with one team supervising the quality of the roads and the other responsible for distributing money and food.
For every 500 li of repair completed, the mountain peak would give each of the two responsible disciples 1,000 spirit crystals. After each section was completed and the mountain peak inspected the quality, the disciples could take over the next section. The more they repaired, the more they earned.
Because the cultivators who came to work had varying levels of cultivation, the mountain peak stipulated that each person who felled a tree would be given one spirit crystal;
Twenty spirit crystals will be given to anyone who paves a mile of road;
Those who pave a mile with stones will also receive twenty spirit crystals;
In addition, those who cut down ten logs and lay wood and stones for one mile each day can obtain two spirit grain buns the size of a tiger's paw. These buns are made with solid ingredients and are very filling. The more they do, the more they can earn.
If you don't work hard enough to get an extra cornbread, you can compromise and get some broken cornbread pieces.
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Due to the rapid decline of the blood and flesh trade in the Great Empty City, many mountain people in the Buzhou region who relied on the mountains for their livelihood lost their channels for transporting blood and flesh, so they joined the road construction team.
As a result, the road construction in Buzhou progressed much faster than Ji Rong had anticipated.
Because the mountains of Buzhou are cold and high, and the local people are not yet educated, Ji Rong and Shan Zhongfeng originally planned that it would take at least a year and a half to build a 500-mile stretch of road;
However, with the addition of many mid-to-high-level cultivators, the fastest-working team completed a qualified section of the path in just six months.
Seeing that the road-building team often included minor cultivators at the Mortal Demon Realm and cultivators at the Profound Spirit Realm, Ji Rong had the idea of building a stone road again for a moment, but she quickly abandoned the idea.
Stone roads are difficult to repair, taking a lot of time and labor, and require less maintenance in the future. Unlike wooden and stone roads, which need to be repaired every year or two.
The continent is too barren and lacks any resources. If the creatures have no way to make money, they will try every means to survive. At that time, there will be constant fighting, and even the best stone road will be destroyed.
Why not establish patrol generals and regularly spend a few spirit crystals to give the creatures of the continent some work to do? This would alleviate the pressure on some of the lower-class tribes and give them hope for a better life.
After all, only when you're full can you sit down and talk about the future and dream about the future.
The noble aspirations of the people at the bottom of Buzhou will be realized in Buzhou's future!
Thanks to the skillful management of grain and supplies by the mountain peak, the journey of over 130,000 li (approximately 65,000 kilometers) to the prefecture was completed in just eleven years.
With waterways dredged and roads built, the slender spiritual veins extended along the rivers to various parts of the continent, and the spiritual herbs in the mountains gradually became more abundant;
Ji Rong then instructed Shan Zhongfeng to open a market on the shore of Bitter Water Lake and start a business selling pills. These pills were cheap, filling, and full of spiritual energy, and were very popular among the junior cultivators.
Then, Wu Yue invited the various prefects of the Canglan Mountains and waterways to come and be guests at the Shuanglong River.
From then on, Wu Yue's branch started a business of buying and selling mountain products on the Shuanglong River. Five years later, they built a large house called the Barter Pavilion on the riverbank.
All living beings in the continent who have something in their hands can go to the barter shop and exchange money or goods for anything they like.
Although this barter shop doesn't offer credit, it does allow you to keep track of your purchases. This means that if you don't have enough treasure to exchange for the item you want, you can keep track of your purchases in multiple transactions, and come back to collect your item whenever you have enough.
If you change your mind and no longer want it, you only need to pay some depreciation fees and you can take back the spirit crystals that were originally there.
Of course, the Exchange Pavilion will not charge a depreciation fee for items valued at less than ten spirit crystals.
To help the junior repairmen understand the conversion standards for items, Wu Yue followed Ji Rong's advice and compiled many wooden books that recorded the value of various spiritual items.
He also specially built a room next to the barter pavilion and set up a literacy center in it, which was used to teach the junior cultivators who rarely came out to learn the common language of the demon race and the items that could be exchanged for money.
Convenient waterways and mountain roads provided the mountain people and aquatic communities with a way to travel and communicate. Every three years, when the Jade Void Palace held lectures, the officials in charge of the mountains and rivers of the continent would gather aspiring cultivators to seek the Dao and travel with the Blood Pill Sect disciples to the Jade Void Mountains to seek the Dao.
The flexible methods of bartering and exchanging goods for wealth increased the wealth in the cultivator's hands;
Free learning has led to the passive acceptance of many foreign cultures by the people in the mountains and countryside;
Year after year, they gradually stopped being unruly and began to learn how to farm to earn money;
They gradually stopped drinking blood and started drinking spirit fruit wine, eating spirit pills, and chewing spirit herbs.
As they gradually stopped going hungry, they were able to smile at each other when they met.
They gradually stopped fighting each other and were able to stay in their caves and cultivate in peace.
The more astute junior cultivators also knew to learn to do some small business, such as buying some pills from the Blood Pill Sect by the Bitter Water Lake or setting up a stall next to the Exchange Pavilion.
Thus, in just eight years, many minor repairmen spontaneously moved stones and timber to build two simple markets around the barter pavilion.
With the establishment of the Shuanglong River Literacy Center, Green Waist opened the Hundred Weapons Pavilion, which specializes in teaching junior cultivators how to make weapons. Those with good talent are taken in as disciples.
If their talent is average, they will be taught to identify materials, forge iron, and make ordinary tools.
Following Ji Rong's suggestion, Yu Cang opened a pharmacy called "Ji Xuan Tang" to teach junior cultivators how to identify medicinal herbs for free.
Zepeng, on the other hand, goes wherever he is needed. Over the years, he has farmed, managed waterways, repaired roads, killed road monsters, taught literacy classes, and managed the finances of the prefecture... He has done almost everything in the prefecture, and has become a capable assistant to Shan Zhongfeng.
Seeing that he was learning well, Ji Rong had Qing Pingzi send over the second batch of apprentices so that they could learn from Ze Peng.
In just a few decades, the state has improved day by day, and the people have begun to know who led them out of poverty and towards prosperity.
The fame of Lady Ji and the Demon Emperor Youdan resounded throughout every corner of the continent.
After many years of hard work, both moving cultivators and repairing spiritual veins, Ji Rong was finally able to sit comfortably in the Guardian Palace once again and peruse her great shamans.
Sweep away the dust, repair the inscriptions. The outside world is undergoing earth-shattering changes, while the body of the Great Shaman in the Guardian Palace has only withered by half with the passage of time.
She no longer accepted visits from the officials in charge of the mountains and waterways of the various states, but instead sent them all to the Blood Pill Sect to find Shan Zhongfeng.
Because she's leaving.
Before departing, Ji Rong, having packed her bags, said to Shan Zhongfeng, "Father, half of the hundred-year period has passed. If you wish to return to Yuxu Palace, you must cultivate a successor."
Shan Zhongfeng nodded and said, "Ze Peng is very good. He is still your disciple. I will return after he reaches the Emperor Realm."
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