Chapter 721

Midnight.

The fat catfish volunteered, carried the assembled ship model newly built by the big beaver, and ran to find Frog King to exchange for treasure fish.

Not long after.

Frog webbed claws reached out.

The old toad climbed onto the pond stone, turned over to the shore, shook off the water stains, opened its mouth, and spat out a wooden board with words.

"Frog Duke!"

Liang Qu, who was waiting for the treasure fish, stood up. He didn't expect the old toad to come so quickly.

"Liang Qing!" The old toad picked up the wooden board on the ground. "Take it, I've calculated everything!"

Lowered his head and scanned.

The crooked handwriting was soaked with water, blurring like fog, hazy.

"Twelve portions of Great Medicines of Creation, forty-eight portions of Great Medicines..." Liang Qu was shocked by the content at the beginning and continued to look down. "Rare minerals, utensils... three hundred and eighty high-grade treasure fish, medium-grade... Frog Duke, how are the high-grade, medium-grade, and low-grade treasure fish divided?"

"I divided them according to Liang Qing's method, combined with the grades of human martial arts." The old toad was proud of itself. "High-grade treasure fish are useful to demons, medium-grade treasure fish are useful to big spirit monsters, and low-grade treasure fish are useful to spirit monsters. How about it?"

Liang Qu gave a high thumbs up.

"Wonderful! Frog Duke draws inferences from one instance, knows ten from one, is the depth of a scholar's hard work, and the familiarity of exhausting principles, then can integrate them, reaching this point. Worthy of being born divine, you have set this treasure fish grade. From now on, when the water tribe trades, it will be very convenient, benefiting thousands of generations!"

The old toad raised its frog head high.

It could hear that Liang Qu was sincere and every word was true!

"No time to lose, I will go and promote Frog Duke's wonderful method!"

"Wait a minute!"

The old toad called Liang Qu and whispered a few words.

Liang Qu was slightly surprised, didn't hesitate, and agreed.

In the spiritual connection, he let the fat catfish take the treasure fish and not come back first. Red Mountain spread its four hooves and rolled into a red wind, floating to the government office.

Approaching May, there were many important matters in the Heposuo, including but not limited to investigating floods, repairing water conservancy, cleaning up the aftermath of the Ghost Mother Sect, reporting military merit, and most importantly, preparing materials for the arrival of sea merchants this year. So even though it was dark, many officials still lit candles and read through the scrolls all night.

Su Guishan had to prepare for the big battle two months later and was even more busy.

Liang Qu entered the study and presented the old toad's wooden board.

"This... is the Flood Dragon really willing to give it?"

Su Guishan looked at Liang Qu.

The numbers on the wooden board were exact, looking like they had gone through a groundless "bargaining," and the number of Great Medicines of Creation at the beginning was even more "shocking."

According to the agreement, the frog tribe made a big profit!

"It shouldn't be wrong."

If it weren't for the experience with General Peng Ze, Liang Qu wouldn't believe that the old toad could reach this point.

It seems that everyone underestimated the Flood Dragon's tolerance and the Long Gong's wealth value.

Liang Qu suddenly suspected why the old toad shouted all day about letting Frog King fight into the Long Gong.

On the surface, Frog King shouldn't be the Flood Dragon's opponent.

It wouldn't be that the Flood Dragon could tolerate other Demon Kings fighting into the Long Gong without counterattacking, right?

"Wait a moment."

Su Guishan sent someone to call Xu Wenzhu.

Xu Wenzhu came to Pingyang not only for escorting but also to represent the imperial court with the power to act according to circumstances.

The candlelight was dim.

The floor that could reflect people reflected a large group of orange-yellow.

Xu Wenzhu rubbed the wooden board, frowned for a long time, suddenly looked up at Liang Qu, and asked with a smile: "What is the bottom price given by our Record-keeping Advisor?"

"The imperial court takes two more portions."

Xu Wenzhu laughed loudly, copied the content, raised his hand to hand over the wooden board: "Okay, let's divide it like this."

Done!

Liang Qu took the wooden board and sighed again at Frog Duke's great ability.

Running down from the top floor, passing through the scroll room, the lights were bright, and the clerks spread out large yellow paper maps, drawing the direction of the river. Seeing this, Liang Qu stopped, scanned his eyes, found the Registrar Li Shoufu, and shared the old toad's treasure fish division method.

"What does the lord mean by this..." Li Shoufu didn't quite understand.

"Registrar Li, please help to perfect it. According to the strength of those who exchange treasure fish on weekdays, set these three grades, and starting tomorrow, promote this grading method in the Pingyang Prefecture Heposuo. Mark it additionally on all merit exchange books."

Although the requirements were quite strange and the method of distinguishing treasure fish was very simple, since it was an order, Li Shoufu didn't ask much and agreed, adding it to the schedule.

The official position is different after all.

In the past, he did things for others, but now he finds things for others to do.

As a Water Balance Lieutenant of the fifth rank, Liang Qu has enough power to directly require setting a treasure fish grade.

Two months is not long, and it is not short.

The brownish fields were covered with a layer of sparse green, and the water waves reflected the sky light.

Except for the Tianbo Chamber of Commerce delaying the annual June 18th auction to August 18th, and Frog King and Turtle King agreeing to help intercept the Iron-headed Fish King, nothing important happened.

Oh, not just the Tianbo Chamber of Commerce auction.

The River God Festival on June 6th in Yixing Town was also moved to late June by Liang Qu claiming illness.

Although it was unreasonable, since it concerned Liang Qu, the villagers of Yixing Town had no objection.

Just wait for the meat to eat.

June 16th.

Clouds and mist surged, and the waterfall fell.

Liang Qu, Long Eying, and Long Binglin felt the world spinning and woke up one after another.

The gray light shone through the gauze paper.

Liang Qu held his forehead, still dizzy.

Ever since the Mirage Tiger was eliminated, the entire Xiangong on the Cloud Xiandao had changed.

One could enter the Cloud Xiandao to temper True Steel, but the gate at the top of the mountain was closed until the beginning of June, when the Xiangong gate reopened.

He didn't dare to approach rashly, so he waited ten days and called Long Eying and Long Binglin to explore together.

Who would have thought they would enter the palace.

Empty.

The room was full of thick fog, no one could be seen in front, no door could be seen behind, and when the time came, they automatically exited.

"What's the situation?"

Liang Qu was depressed.

It was already strange that the Xiangong gate was closed. He just thought it was some mechanism set by the Xiao Xiao Shenlong, and every "level" had a cooldown time to prevent the younger generation of the tribe from being greedy for merit and suffering heavy injuries.

As a result, there was nothing inside?

The Cloud Xiandao is a big treasure. Defeating the Mirage Beast, Liang Qu obtained Water Ze essence, and the small Xiao Shenlong obtained Mirage Qi, both of which were perfect.

The small Xiao Shenlong was originally quite poor in strength, but after absorbing three wisps of Mirage Qi, especially the Mirage Tiger, its strength immediately jumped to become a good hand among Demon Beasts.

Suddenly there was no benefit, and his heart felt empty.

Long Binglin showed hesitation.

Liang Qu keenly perceived: "If you have thoughts, just say them."

"Elder, could it be that we helped the Third Prince 'substitute fight', and the Xiangong discovered it?"

Liang Qu was stunned.

Is it possible?

And let it be discovered... who discovered it?

Before he could figure out the situation.

Noisy clamor came from outside the house.

The light outside the window was hazy.

It was a cloudy and rainy day.

It's the plum rain season soon, what excitement is worth the villagers going out in the rain to see?

Liang Qu passed through the veranda and stopped at the house gate.

The drizzling rain washed the tiles, stringing them into silver chains. Pedestrians on the street ran to the pier with bamboo hats, and straw sandals stepped on the stone slabs, splashing yellow water foam mixed with mud and sand.

Stopped a villager.

"Master Liang? Ships, so many ships! They are connected like land!"

The surrounding villagers saw it was Liang Qu and took off their bamboo hats to respond one after another.

"Yes, I've never seen such a big ship, the mast is higher than the mountain!"

"More than that, I see it's more than a hundred zhang! Do we have such high piles of dirt here?"

"Eh, doesn't Master Liang know? You are a big official in the Heposuo!"

(End of this chapter)