Chapter 45 Guandi Temple

With sufficient manpower and sophisticated tools, and most importantly, the red ghost with the power to uproot weeping willows, the progress of the project at Guiwan Mountain is not slow. Basically, the red ghost holding two felling axes is leading the way in the front, and the farmers behind are busy clearing broken wood, repairing and paving the path, so the progress can't be fast.

The main reason is that Yan Xu did not plan to build a road that is too wide. A mountain path that can accommodate two or three people walking side by side is enough, and at most it can be paved with stone slabs for easy walking.

The main reason for doing this is that Yan Xu built the mountain city on Guiwan Mountain because of its defensive advantages. How could he fill it up by himself? Would he let the attacking enemies enjoy the smoothness of the flat land?

Moreover, this kind of stone staircase not only has nowhere to hide, but also allows rolling logs and rocks to exert their maximum lethality. At least after Yan Xu brought himself into it, he found that the only way to do so was to sacrifice his life except to climb up from other places.

While building the mountain city, a large amount of timber was also produced.

The branches, leaves and scraps can be used as firewood as a fuel reserve for the winter. The straight tree trunks are placed in the shade to dry, and Yan Xu prepares to take them away.

Even the tree roots will not be wasted. Those with good shapes can be taken away to make root carvings. Those with bad shapes are also fine. The system is not picky and will collect all of them as system wood resources and as materials for system buildings.

However, the first thing built was not the mountain city, but the Guandi Temple.

There have been a lot of strange rumors recently, for example, ghosts and spirits appeared on the battlefield between the two families, the shadow of the Neti Bride also appeared in Komizu Town, and someone picked up a snake belt on the road.

The mess of rumors, both true and false, made Yan Xu feel uneasy. During this period, he had to sleep on the floor at Guandi's place, so the construction of Guandi Temple was given top priority, and he even used gold to speed up the construction.

The construction of the temple changes according to the deity enshrined. Because it is dedicated to Guandi, the systematically built temple has a strong Central Plains style. In addition to the main hall in the middle and the secondary halls on both sides, the front yard is wide and flat, and there are also many houses in the backyard for living. It occupies a large area and does not look so petty.

This style looked very familiar to Yan Xu. Sen Yu and the people in the territory were indeed shocked and terrified, because the Guandi Temple appeared in an instant, which was undoubtedly a miracle.

Yan Xu couldn't wait to walk into the main hall. A full-length statue of Guandi was placed on a high platform, and next to it was the Green Dragon Crescent Blade weighing 82 kilograms. When people looked up, they couldn't help but feel awe.

However, although the Guandi Temple was completed, there was no temple priest, so Sen Yu was tempted.

Mori Yu didn't want to be the one herself, she no longer had the qualifications. Only girls with pure body and mind could serve as the shrine maiden. As the leader of the Forest Ninja, her heart was not to be mentioned, and her body was only new at the seventh level, so she had long lost the qualifications.

As for why there are seven new floors, it is mainly because Mori Yu is a plump type that is rare in Japan, and Japanese men are famous for their exquisiteness, so at most they can linger and spy in front of the porch, and the inside is still virgin land that no one has set foot on and developed.

But this still makes Mori Yu disqualified from becoming a shrine maiden, but her sister is qualified.

The temple in front of us enshrines the god that the owner values, and it also performs miracles. If I let my sister come, the benefits will naturally be self-evident.

Sen Yu did not act on his own in this matter, but reported it to Yan Xu, who of course would not disagree with it.

First of all, he couldn't find a temple priest from the Central Plains, and secondly, he was very curious about Sen Yu's sister. Without mentioning that Sen Yu wrote a letter to ask his sister to come, Yan Xu first sent ten recruited flag bearers to guard the Guandi Temple to prevent anyone from destroying it, and then personally took the lead in burning incense.

No matter what kind of achievements he will make in the future with the golden finger, he still has to rely on Guan Erye's protection now, so Yan Xu burned this incense with sincerity.

After Yan Xu finished lighting the first incense stick, it was the turn of the people in the territory.

Although the people of the territory did not know which god this was, his majestic appearance and domineering sword were enough to make them kneel willingly.

As incense was burned and offerings were being made, Yan Xu, who had been paying close attention, was surprised to find that the statue of Guandi had undergone slight changes, but he could not explain why.

Change is a good thing, which proves that Yan Xu's idea is correct. This world is indeed different. It is not like the modern world where the world has long been desolate and there are no more supernatural beings. Here, gods really exist.

Next, Yan Xu followed Sen Yu's advice and respectfully enshrined his Mo Dao in the Guandi Temple. Over time, it would be imbued with some divine power and could be used for self-defense.

The autumn harvest was over at this time. As expected, the production in the territories of the Shimazu and Sagara families dropped sharply, and the harvest was one-third less than in previous years. However, the tax revenue increased instead of decreased. Ferocious warriors could be seen everywhere forcibly collecting the newly harvested grain, and killing people to establish authority was common. After all, collecting such high taxes was already disregarding the lives of the people in the territory. Even if the people were docile, they would still struggle.

In the end, between starving to death in the future and being hacked to death now, they chose the former. Although both are death, it is better than being hacked to death on the spot.

Of course, both the Shimazu family and the Sagara family knew what the consequences of doing so would be, but they could not care less about it now because this was no longer a problem between the two families.

According to the intelligence gathered by the ninja, there is a high probability that the Fukushima family will declare war on the two families tomorrow when spring comes, and at least seize Komizu Town. If they are not prepared to deal with it by then, there will be no future, so they can only let the people suffer first.

Although heavy taxes were levied on the territories of the two families, at least they could still survive. However, in order to survive the cold winter, many people chose to go out to see if they could find a short-term job in exchange for food. Some people came to Yan Xu's territory.

Yan Xu's territory is not large, but he does not have these problems. With the addition of strong laborers such as farmers, the autumn harvest is not greatly affected. In addition, the low taxes are enough to sustain it.

Although the Forest Village did not have time to cultivate, as a ninja organization, Yan Xu paid them salaries, so there was no problem in maintaining it, so it was a bit peaceful. However, there was no shortage of manpower here, and there was really not much work for them.

However, Yan Xu saw an opportunity and prepared to increase the population of the territory, so through word of mouth, many people around married their daughters to him, allowing the farmers to pair up and start families, and the population of the territory doubled in a very short time.

This kind of thing cannot be done too excessively, so they stopped after recruiting more than a hundred people, most of whom were young women and widows.

Both the Sagara family and the Shimazu family knew about this, but they were happy to see it happen because a lot of people would definitely starve to death in their territories this year, and besides the elderly and the weak, the people who would starve to death would be these girls and widows.

Now that these people have gone to the territory of the Moroboshi family, they have not only done a favor to the other party, but also reduced the territory's food consumption, killing two birds with one stone.

(End of this chapter)