I Use Idle Books To Become Saint

Walking out of the City Lord's Mansion, a desolate and dilapidated atmosphere rushed over Chen Luo.

At the beginning of Dongcang City's establishment, the court at that time had high expectations. According to historical records, at that time there were two great Confucians, thirty-six masters, 300 Confucian scholars, and a total of 200,000 civilian husbands and prisoners were recruited. It took half a year to build this Dongcang in this barren land. city.

"Guang Ya" says: the color is blue; "Erya·Shi Tian" note: the east is called Cang Tian.

Therefore, the city is named "Dongcang".

"Kao Gong Ji" records: Great Confucianism camps Cang, accommodates millions of people, Fang Erjiu, three side gates, nine longitudes and nine latitudes, and nine tracks of Jingtu.

It means that when Daru designed the city of Dongcang, he planned to accommodate a million people in the city. Each city wall was eighteen miles long, and each city wall had three gates. There were nine roads in the city and nine special carts. rail.

In fact, at the beginning of the construction of Dongcang City, there was indeed a short period of glory, but because of the obstruction of sea transportation, it soon became lonely.

The ground is paved with blue rocks, but now it is full of potholes and overgrown with weeds on the side of the road. Looking around, except for the official mansion built in advance, the rest are wooden houses and thatched huts built randomly, without any layout at all.

Along the way, the streets are empty, there are people in those wooden houses, women, children, or old people, everyone is looking out through the cracks in the doors and windows at Chen Luo and Yun Siyao who are walking all the way. , Chen Luo sensed the gaze, and looked towards the other party's gaze. The gaze immediately dodged, and then blocked the gap between the door and the window.

After walking for a while, he walked out of the street in front of the City Lord's Mansion, and suddenly there was a foul smell. The ground was full of dry black filth, Yun Siyao couldn't help raising his hands to cover his mouth and nose, Chen Luo was not in the mood to continue walking, and suddenly there was a burst of crying in his ears.

Looking along the prestige, it is a thatched hut on the left hand side. Chen Luo walked over with Yun Siyao, opened the door, and saw a four or five-year-old boy sitting on the ground crying loudly. A chain was tied to the boy's feet, and the other end of the chain was fixed to a stone pillar. . The little boy was holding half a blackened baked bun in his hand, and there were a few broken pieces of porcelain on the ground.

Presumably the child accidentally smashed the porcelain bowl, which made him cry in distress.

Chen Luo frowned slightly, and was about to take a few steps up the mountain when the little boy saw Chen Luo and Yun Siyao, and immediately backed away in fear, covering his mouth tightly with his hands, his eyes full of anxiety.

Yun Siyao grabbed Chen Luo and patted the small Calabash pendant hanging on his earlobe. The pendant trembled and fell to the ground, turning into Xiao Qi.

This is a new spell that Xiao Qi comprehends at some point, which can transform herself into a small Calabash pendant. Among the handles of the grandfather and the earrings of the beautiful sister, Xiaoqi still chose the latter.

The little boy had never seen Xiao Qi, a little girl who was carved in powder and jade, gathering the Spiritual Qi of heaven and earth, his eyes were stunned for a moment, and he subconsciously wanted to pull down his pants to cover the iron chains on his feet.

Xiao Qi glanced at Chen Luo, and immediately understood what Chen Luo meant. He hopped up and down in front of the little boy, took out a piece of wrapped sugar cake from his purse, and handed it to the little boy.

The little boy hid back with some low self-esteem, but soon smelled the sweet smell from the candy cake again, and swallowed his saliva. Xiaoqi skillfully removed the candy wrapper and handed it to the little boy. The little boy hesitated, took the candy, just licked it with his tongue, with a satisfied expression on his face, and then carefully handed the candy back to Xiaoqi .

Xiao Qi took out a handkerchief from her purse, wiped the little boy's dirty face, and shook her head to indicate that she didn't need to return it to herself.

The little boy dodged slightly, worried that he would dirty the beautiful-looking handkerchief, but he didn't dodge, thanked him in a low voice, carefully wrapped the sugar cake in sugar paper, and put it in his arms.

Chen Luo raised his eyebrows: "Why don't you eat?"

The little boy looked at Chen Luo, and boldly replied, "Leave it to Daddy."

Chen Luo wanted to ask again, but Luo Hongnu's voice came from the door: "My lord..."

Chen Luo turned around, Luo Hongnu had already walked in, Master Qin followed behind him. Luo Hongnu handed the storage order to Chen Luo and said, "Young Master, everything is settled."

Chen Luo nodded and looked at Master Qin again. Master Qin quickly saluted and said, "The medicinal herbs have been arranged. I think uncle should want to know the current situation of Dongcang City, so I came here to listen to the order."

"That's right." Chen Luo said, pointing to the iron chain on the little boy's feet, "What's going on here?"

Qin Dangguo knew the situation of this household as soon as he entered the door, and replied: "Uncle Hui, the head of this household is Zeng Wannian. He was injured when the blood beast attacked the city, and his wife was by his side to take care of him. It must be because he was worried about the child running away. , was taken away by the wild blood beast, and that's why he decided to tie up the child."

Chen Luo nodded. He probably had the same guess, so he stopped looking into it and said, "Let's go back to the City Lord's Mansion. There are some things that I need Master Qin to explain to me."

After finishing speaking, he pointed to the little boy again: "Take this child with you."

"Here!"

...

"Uncle, right now in Qingcang City, there are a total of 4,642 households with a total of 16,336 people. This is the household register."

In the city lord's mansion, Qin Dangguo handed a volume of records to Chen Luo. Chen Luo took it casually, put it aside, and asked, "Are there so many people?"

Qin Dangguo sighed: "Dongcang City had the largest population when it was first built. Because a large number of civilians were stranded, it used to have a scale of 100,000 people."

"The number of people who increased or decreased after that basically fluctuated around 20,000 people."

"Dong Cang City is said to be a big city, but in fact, except for the official residence and some pre-built constructions, it is equivalent to building four walls on the flat ground and surrounding it."

"It's nothing more than leveling the ground and laying stone bricks."

"Residents are generally gathered in three areas, one is to expand outward around the city lord's mansion, where officials and Confucian scholars are the main ones."

"Then there is the east of the city, which is the closest to the Qushui River and is convenient for planting. There are a group of people reclaiming wasteland there."

"Then to the north of the city, twenty miles away from the north of the city is Daye Ridge. They live on Daye Ridge."

"Although it is said that they are all in the same city, Dongcang City is vast and sparsely populated, and there are not many people going to and from it on weekdays. It looks like three tribes of barbarians."

Speaking of this, Qin Dangguo realized that the wording was inappropriate, and quickly apologized: "The wording is inappropriate, Wan Anbo forgive me."

"It's okay." Chen Luo waved his hand and asked again, "Tell me about the attack on the city this time. I remember that wild beasts hate Heavenly Dao, so they won't take the initiative to attack Heavenly Dao's territory, right?"

Qin Dangguo quickly explained: "Uncle is right. However, some of the wild beasts will be impregnated by Heavenly Dao's power for various reasons, so they will give birth to offspring with impure Innate. Such offspring are brutal blood beasts. Savage blood Beasts don't have intelligence, and the highest rank doesn't exceed the fourth rank Realm, but they can travel between Heavenly Dao and Mantian."

"The closest contact between Manyuan and Dongcang is Manhou Valley, which is one of the nine gathering places of wild beasts on the Barbarian. Naturally, the chances of wild blood beasts appearing are very high."

"Savage beasts don't like the breath of savage blood beasts, so they often abandon them after they are born. The savage blood beasts that survive do not dare to approach the savage roar valley, and most of them live in Daye Ridge."

"The ones who invaded Dongcang City this time are the Dayeling Savage Blood Beasts."

"Dayeling?" Chen Luo glanced at the specific map in the City Lord's Mansion, and quickly found the specific location of this place on it.

Twenty miles northeast of Dongcang City, there is a north-south mountain range. According to the map, it is about 500 miles wide and more than 2,000 miles long. Down.

"Brutal blood beasts generally haunt the depths of Daye Ridge. According to previous years, every winter, when there is a shortage of food in Daye Ridge, there will indeed be blood beasts rushing out of Daye Ridge and attacking Dongcang City. But the whole winter , at most seven or eight, more than a dozen, but I didn't expect that there were hundreds of blood beasts rushing out this time."

"Among them, the hunter group in the northern part of the city suffered the most casualties. Seventy-eight out of ten of the seriously injured people so far are from that part."

"Fortunately, the city is big enough, and you can hide if you can't beat it. After the gang of blood beasts made a fuss, they retreated to Daye Ridge."

Chen Luo frowned slightly: "Then will they come out again?"

Master Qin hesitated for a moment, then said hesitantly, "Should...not be?"

At this moment, Yun Siyao said calmly: "If something goes wrong, there must be a monster. This time, hundreds of wild beasts rushed out, and there must be something wrong in Daye Ridge. If it happens again, it may not be impossible."

Both Chen Luo and Master Qin were silent for a moment, and Chen Luo suddenly asked, "Don't we have a city gate?"

Master Qin smiled wryly and said: "Dongcang City was established for logistics trade, and there was no danger in the judgment at that time, so the city gates are just arranged hastily, unlike other cities that are generally equipped with formation."

"I don't know when, that city gate was dismantled and sold privately by the people here..."

Chen Luo scratched his head with some headaches, and remembered another thing.

"Before Wu Peizhi said that the residents of this city were sacrifices, what happened?" To be honest, he was more concerned about this matter than the brutal blood beast attacking the city.

Qin Dangguo hesitated for a moment, and after pondering for a moment, he said, "Wu Peizhi was wrong."

"Uncle, when you chose Dongcang City, you must have known that Dongcang City would be infiltrated by wild power?"

Chen Luo and Yun Siyao looked at each other and nodded.

"Actually, this is a struggle between Mantian and Heavenly Dao."

"A semi-sage once came here to deduce it for seven days and seven nights, and finally concluded that if no means are used, this area will slowly turn into a barbaric sky."

"This is the beginning of Dongcang's construction of the city."

"That's why the luck of the human race is needed to neutralize the infiltrating savage power, so Dongcang City will not be abandoned even though it is abandoned. That's why the previous dynasty forced the civilians to stay in the city, but none of the saints objected."

"That's why my subordinates said, this is a city of heroes!"

"It's just that this matter is recorded in the secret file!"

"I'm afraid the barbarians don't know about it either!"

Chen Luo's heart sank, and he thought of the people hiding in the house one by one, the child who was chained up and carefully treasured the candy cake after he licked it.

Along the way, everyone mentioned Dongcang with sympathy, contempt, or ridicule and incomprehension.

It's just a ruined city.

Little did they know there was such a task.

At this time, Chen Luo recalled that when he decided to choose Dongcang, his senior sister wrote to Zhulin, and the teacher quickly replied with one word - wonderful!

At this time, Chen Luo understood why the Prime Minister and the Law Minister looked at own with meaningful eyes when he said in the court that he would choose Dongcang!

They believed in themselves and could bring the city back to life.

Perhaps it was just like this that there was a send-off eight hundred miles away from Zhongjing.

...

"Mr. Qin, I brought some food, grass and cloth this time, and I trouble you to discuss with Hong Nu to distribute these. But it's not free, it needs to be paid for by work."

"Sweep the streets, take care of the wounded, prepare for the defense... In short, everyone needs to move."

"I want to see this city alive, not as lifeless as it is today."

"Hang Wu Peizhi's head in the most conspicuous place, and say that he embezzled supplies from Tianbo City, and I beheaded him."

"Then, issue a recruiting order!"

Chen Luo said his own orders one by one, Qin Dangguo recorded them one by one, cupped hands took the order, turned and left.

At this moment, Chen Luo looked at Yun Siyao who had been sitting beside him: "Sixth Senior Sister, what Cultivation Base are you?"

Yun Siyao seemed to have been prepared for a long time, and smiled slightly, and phantoms of five mountains and five seas appeared behind him.

"The words of Confucian Cultivation Base..."

"Second rank Great Confucian!"