Mortal Immortal Gourd

General Donkey occupied Pingyuan County for just over a year, and the population under his rule reached 100,000.

As the population grows, the land will be relatively insufficient.

Er Gouzi set his sights on the neighboring Ba County, where the residents had long since fled, leaving a large area of ​​vacant land with no one to cultivate.

As a farmer, he was heartbroken to see so much land abandoned.

He arranged for his demons to dig out the boundary stones at the junction of the two counties and slowly move forward.

Today they moved three or five feet, tomorrow they moved ten feet, and the day after tomorrow they moved one or two miles.

Ba County originally had an army of more than 500 people guarding the border.

But the army needed to eat, drink, defecate, and transport food from the rear to supply the army, which required a large number of civilians to carry it.

Now there are hundreds of miles around, where can they recruit civilians!

They barely gathered a group of civilians from afar, and heard that there was a Pingyuan County here, and there was also a great Qingtian master.

These civilians took the opportunity to escape to Pingyuan County.

This army of 500 people has not been able to get food supplies from the rear, which is unbearable. If they don't withdraw, even the soldiers will flee.

Now the border of Ba County is undefended and there is not even a single resident.

Er Gouzi naturally took advantage of the situation and encroached forward step by step. His territory was expanding day by day, and the territory of Ba County was shrinking day by day.

He had moved forward more than 20 miles before the county magistrate of Ba County discovered this.

Then the Xia family sent another envoy to Pingyuan County to protest to General Donkey.

General Donkey still received them well and sent them back with kind words.

He said that he didn't have enough land to grow crops here, so he temporarily borrowed their wasteland to grow some food and would return it later.

The Xia family felt that it was not worthwhile to start a war with the monster for 20 miles of land.

After the protest, they also got the right step to retreat, and it was left unresolved.

Er Gouzi was quiet for a few days, and then began to slowly move the boundary marker forward again.

After the Xia family found out, they naturally protested, and then it was left unresolved.

Er Gouzi continued...

After many times, the Xia family was too lazy to even send envoys to protest.

As a result, Er Gouzi became even more unscrupulous, encroaching on the territory of Ba County step by step.

A year later, the county magistrate of Ba County stood on the city wall, watching the people outside the city live and work in peace and contentment, a scene of peace and prosperity.

Unfortunately, these hardworking people were no longer his people.

After this year, the entire Ba County was left with only an empty county town and a few bachelors in the county town.

The fields around the county town were all controlled by General Donkey.

From ancient times to the present, there has probably never been a county magistrate who has lived a more aggrieved life than him!

The county magistrate reported to the county and to Qingzhou Prefecture, but each time he only sent an envoy to negotiate with the demon, and nothing happened.

He could only watch his own territory being eaten away day by day, and finally only an empty frame of the county town was left.

Now it was the autumn harvest season again, and the county magistrate saw those unruly people on the city wall, pulling piles of golden grains back home.

What a waste, such good grains were all wasted by the unruly people.

These unruly people don't need to eat such good grains, they just eat bran and vegetables, and drink some wild vegetable porridge.

If the unruly people eat too much, they will become lazy and can't be driven.

Monsters are monsters, they don't know how to pasture people at all.

The county magistrate saw the unruly people harvesting grains under the city, and even he began to envy.

At present, one-third of the unruly people in Qingzhou have fled, no one is farming, and there is no new grain to harvest.

Qingzhou is not only short of people, but also food is beginning to be in short supply. It is so poor that it can't even support the army.

All the shops have run away, and many rich people have a lot of money hidden in their homes, but money alone can't buy food.

So that the grain prices in the whole Qingzhou are skyrocketing.

It can be predicted that as the population continues to flow away, this situation will become more and more serious.

The county magistrate sighed leisurely, turned around and asked one of his men to go out of the city to buy food from those unruly people.

He wanted to rob directly with force, but now the demons are powerful and protect those unruly people, so he dared not do it.

These unruly people, relying on the protection of the demons, even asked him for a sky-high price and sold the food at a very high price.

"Alas! The world is going downhill..."

...

On the other side, Er Gouzi has been in Pingyuan County for two years.

In these two years, he has gradually eroded more than one hegemonic county, and several surrounding counties have also been annexed by him.

He found that this trick is particularly useful for dealing with Xia Mingyuan, a particularly patient turtle.

Always testing the edge of the other party's patience, taking a little advantage every time, and then stopping when he sees the good.

The Xia family will not start a war with him for those dozens of acres of land.

Even if the Xia family really comes, he is not afraid.

He was not alone. Behind him, there were several demon golden elixirs and the bee ancestor in the Nascent Soul stage, which he was looking forward to.

He did not need to personally take action to erode the territory. Ma Ming led the soldiers to complete it.

Er Gouzi had been practicing alchemy in the past two years.

The more than ten acres of Xuanyuan grass planted in the early years had been irrigated with Linghu water. At a growth rate of 30 times, it finally matured.

Because he often made alchemy, his alchemy skills became more and more mature.

Now, using the big cauldron to refine Xuanyuan Dan, one furnace can produce seven normal pills and one mutant red pill.

With the improvement of strength, he could only refine one Xuanyuan Pill a day before, but now he can refine two a day.

After two years of accumulation, he finally raised his cultivation from the initial stage of foundation building to the middle stage again.

The improvement of strength has greatly improved his self-confidence.

Sometimes he even has the urge to fight with the Jindan cultivator.

At this time, he walked out of the practice room and saw Ma Ming holding a book and talking with saliva flying.

In front of him sat a row of monsters listening carefully, and each holding a pen and paper to take notes seriously.

"The general said: The world belongs to all people in the world. Those who benefit the world will be opened by the world, and those who harm the world will be closed by the world..."

He read a paragraph of the original words of the donkey general with the book, and then repeated his understanding and experience.

The monsters below, who had never read the books of sages, took notes very seriously at this moment.

Ma Ming has been with the donkey general for these years, holding a book and a pen every day, and taking notes of what he said.

At the beginning, of course, it was just to flatter him.

Later, after seeing the various methods of operation of General Donkey, he was completely convinced.

Fortunately, he recorded all the quotations of General Donkey, and studied with the handwritten book every day.

First, he memorized all the words that General Donkey said.

It was not enough to memorize them, he had to draw inferences from one example and study them repeatedly.

Gradually, he found that the knowledge here was profound and the more he studied, the more he was addicted to it.

It felt that every word that General Donkey said had a profound connotation.

Ma Ming called the study of General Donkey's knowledge Donkey Learning.

He also mobilized a large group of interested monsters to study with him and spread Donkey Learning.

Er Gouzi stood by and listened, and found that Ma Ming's understanding was deeper than his own.

He felt very ashamed. Why didn't he think so much when he spoke at the beginning?

So, sometimes he also liked to listen to Ma Ming's Donkey Learning secretly.

Many times, he suddenly realized that he was so smart.

Er Gouzi was listening with great interest, when a soldier came in from outside.

"General, I have information!"

"What is it?"

"General Chi Lin led 3,000 soldiers to attack Luoxi County."

The soldier said, and took out a detailed intelligence and handed it to Er Gouzi for review.

After a quick look, General Chi Lin led his troops yesterday and has now entered the territory of Luoxi County without encountering any decent resistance.

This General Chi Lin was deceived by Er Gouzi's kind words and then beaten up by Xia Qingshan.

General Chi Lin has always regarded this as a great shame and humiliation, and he has been obsessed with seeking revenge on the Xia family.

He was practicing well at home and did not provoke anyone, but was beaten up by the Xia family's name card, and even the scales on his body were pulled out.

If he does not take revenge, he is not a demon!

He has launched several wars against the Xia family before.

It's just that the teammates on the demon's side are too weak, and they are all afraid of death. He fought alone and didn't gain any advantage.

This time, seeing that General Donkey had suppressed the Xia family, General Chilin once again ignited the fire of revenge in his heart.

"General, Chilin is about to kill Luoxi County City. Should we send troops?"

"Of course, let General Chilin take the lead, and we will support and cover from behind."

In this kind of direct fight with the Xia family, Ergouzi will definitely not rush to the front. It's good enough for him to help wave the flag and shout from the back.

Anyway, he is still mainly focusing on encroaching on territory and attracting population, so he is not in a hurry.