Chapter 993: Telling Stories

In the third month of the third year of Hongjing, Little Wei Yuan secretly returned from the Desolate Realm, and the major case known to later generations as the "Lacquer Box Case" officially began.

This case eventually involved more than 100,000 people, including more than 3,000 officials of various sizes, 8,330 people with titles above Licentiate, and the rest were the implicated clansmen. Thus, the officialdom of the eight southern counties of Jin was uprooted, few clerks remained, and the literary world was swept clean.

On the land of the eight counties, Qingming soldiers like wolves and tigers were everywhere, catching people all over the world.

Any fish that slipped through the net had to pass through the sieve of mountain bandits and horse thieves. Only a very few people with seeds of hatred changed their names and fled outside the eight counties.

Countless people who were still laughing at Little Wei Yuan yesterday were today either sitting in dark prisons that saw no sun or stepping on bone-chilling mud, walking difficultly step by step toward the northwest place of exile.

On Little Wei Yuan's final list, there would be 4,000 beheadings, extermination of ten clans, and 100,000 people exiled. The place of exile was the desolate area near the northwest edge of Qingming, close to the million-mountain range of the north, a journey of 100,000 miles.

The final list was formed, and Little Wei Yuan handed the matter over to his subordinates for execution. He himself, together with the old Daoist Chuhe, spent several days flying around the entire eight southwestern counties, jointly surveying the trend of the earth's energy and mountain ranges, and determining the places to reclaim land.

This time it was not as simple as reclaiming land; the important thing was to pull up some boundary stones and replant them, and some boundary stones needed to be moved. Many boundary stones had not been moved since they were planted thousands of years ago. When they were planted back then, there were many expedient measures, and after a long time, various drawbacks would be revealed.

Just like the position established by Qingming, it was less than ten thousand miles away from Hanyang Pass, and if it covered it in the near future, it would cause the overlapping of realms. Although overlapping had the benefits of overlapping, it was still a waste.

This time, the old Daoist Chuhe intended to readjust the boundary stones of the eight southwestern counties, separate the boundary stones with mismatched attributes, and put the boundary stones with special attributes into the corresponding environment. For example, some boundary stones could gather earth energy and catalyze metal mineral veins, but they were planted in plains and fertile fields, resulting in no mineral veins being produced, and also lowering the rank of the farmland.

Re-arranging the boundary stones would cause the boundary stones to lose most of their nourishment, and the national strength of the entire southwest would decline in the short term. But in the long run, after ten years, the output of earth energy in the southwest would return to its peak, after thirty years, the initial nourishment of each boundary stone would be completed, the eight counties would become a prosperous land, the output of various resources would at least double, and after fifty years of nourishment, the southwest would be a land of abundance.

This matter was of great importance. When the True Person Chuhe proposed it, Little Wei Yuan was startled, but after looking at it carefully, he greatly agreed, so he took advantage of this opportunity to sweep the eight counties and did it in one go.

If he didn't take action now, various arguments and debates would be endless, and there would definitely be many literati who had never worked in the fields and had never been hungry, mourning the spring and pitying the autumn, pitying the environment of a few litters of small beasts, and not allowing the migration of boundary stones.

Regardless of whether this matter was truly reasonable, anyway, as long as it was what they said, it could not be opposed, could not be criticized, and they would never admit their mistakes, and the only ones who were wrong would be the ignorant masses.

Now Little Wei Yuan took action directly, and by the time those who wanted to stop it did, everything was already too late. Boundary stones could not be pulled a second time in a short period, otherwise, they would be damaged. Destroying a boundary stone easily invited the backlash of human luck, and even immortals were not willing to do so easily.

Little Wei Yuan flew with the True Person Chuhe and saw the old Daoist glowing with health, the fine lines on his face had long since disappeared, and now these wrinkles were added by him with Daoist methods later. Otherwise, the old Daoist would suddenly become a young Daoist, and Chuhe had thin skin and couldn't handle the enthusiasm of beautiful male and female disciples.

The two flew county by county, incomparably detailed. And at this time, the wind of heaven and earth became gentle, and the old Daoist Chuhe was like a fish in water between heaven and earth, moving forward and backward as he pleased, needing only a thought to flash several miles away, and his every move already faintly had the demeanor of Master Yu Jing.

And standing beside Chuhe, Little Wei Yuan also felt clear-minded and his Dao heart transparent, knowing that this was Chuhe being favored by heaven and earth, and then he shared a bit of the benefits.

Little Wei Yuan was also filled with emotion; when Chuhe first arrived in Qingming, he was still a rare high-rank Dharma Form cultivator, known as a fierce man who could compete with Fenhai, and the eight immortal swords were extremely bluffing. If they really fought, even the cat and snake rarely had opponents.

At that time, the Qingming medicine garden was planted in a mess by Little Wei Yuan, but after having Chuhe, it had now become a huge spirit field of hundreds of miles in radius. Not to mention anything else, the five-element spirit ginseng produced every year was enough for the daily elixir needs of millions of Body Forging and tens of thousands of Dao Foundation in Qingming, and there was still a large surplus, which could continue to be planted in the fields as a strategic reserve.

In terms of years, at present, in the medicine garden, there were dozens of tons of five-element spirit ginseng that were over a hundred years old and could be used as raw materials for Dharma Form elixirs.

Reclaiming land, breeding seeds, raising chickens, every item was a path to the sky, and all had great merit to heaven and earth. ===== CHAPTER 994 =====