Ruins of the past

"The people in the city are the people, and the monsters are the monsters in the mountains. This has been the case in Shuzhou since ancient times."

Listening to Ning Chigong's explanation, Chu Qiguang said lightly: "It must be right since ancient times?"

Ning Chigong was stunned for a moment, then heard Chu Qiguang continue: "From now on, not only the people in Ba Mansion must be under our control, but also the demons."

"You do as I say."

Ning Chigong sighed and left.

Chu Qiguang gave the bone box to Chen Gang, then gave him control of the monster, and told him how to use the monster escape technique.

After all, he couldn't personally take action every time to clean up the demons.

Except for some demons who are too powerful, the rest will of course be left to Chen Gang, Zhang Jitian, Liu Yao and Ning Chigong.

This bone box was given to Chen Gang just in case.

So starting from the next day, a vigorous demon-sweeping campaign started in Ba Mansion.

The aristocratic families of the Ba Mansion were still busy fighting for power because several young men and young men died at the banquet.

The prefect of the government office was hiding out of town because of the Jie Cult's attack, and he has not returned yet.

Zhang Fengyun from the Tianshi Sect applauded Chu Qiguang's decision and supported him in wiping out the demons.

Suddenly, in this huge land, no white power could stop the actions of the Demon Suppressor.

At the same time, many people gradually realized that Ning Chigong was actually following Chu Qiguang's advice, and they didn't know how this new hundred households subdued this local snake.

The Demon Suppression Division was divided into two groups.

One team is led by Ning Chigong, and his subordinates are all servants he has carefully trained over the years.

The other team was led by Zhang Jitian, Liu Yao, and Chen Gang, with 32 soldiers newly trained by Chu Qiguang.

Finally, there is a hidden cat demon team led by Qiao Zhi and Bai Mi. Apart from Qiao Zhi and Bai Mi, most of the backbone members are cat demons transported by Chongmingniao from Yaoyin Village.

These cat demons who have experienced the learning and practice of Yaoyin Village especially believe in the concept of Old Demon Tongtian leading the demons to build the demon village and break the feudal class.

After they arrived in Shuzhou, they dispersed and blended into the group of monsters in Ba Mansion.

This time the Demon Suppression Department launched a sweep mission, which was to carry out targeted sweeps based on the intelligence of the cat monsters. The primary target was those extremely vicious monsters.

By this time, Ning Chigong also understood that Tongtian and Chu Qiguang were already on the same team.

With the advantage of intelligence, the two groups can rely on the strong to bully the weak every time, using more to defeat the less.

As for the most powerful demons, Chu Qiguang would naturally deal with them himself.

Except for the few times when Chu Qiguang personally took action, he always appeared and disappeared these days, summoning a group of demons as the old demon Tongtian, preparing to lead them to open up wasteland and build villages.

In terms of site selection, Chu Qiguang was well prepared. During this period, he took advantage of the Chongming Bird to visit the ten counties of Ba Prefecture and the surrounding mountains.

Among them, the Lan River Valley in the south of Ba Mansion was the most valued by him. The mountains on the left and right sides are gentle slopes. The Lan River running through the middle has rich water resources and abundant sunshine every day.

This place is suitable for monsters to farm food along the river, and the gentle slopes on both sides can be used to plant various medicinal materials, tea trees, fruits and other cash crops in the future.

Of course, Chu Qiguang didn't know much about farming, so Jinji, the farming rat from Yaoyin Village, was also called over by him, ready to guide these monsters step by step in farming.

However, this river valley is currently occupied by a large group of monsters, and Zhang Jitian, Liu Yao, and Chen Gang need to clear out the monsters first.

But whether it is the seeds, farm tools, and grain that the monsters need for farming, or the money and food that the Demon Suppressor needs to clean up the monsters.

As long as you want the monsters to farm hard and the soldiers to fight with all their heart, you need enough supplies and incentives.

It costs money, and it’s still a lot of money.

Qiao Zhi asked: "We are almost running out of money and food. I calculated that we still need at least 5,000 taels of silver. Why don't we ask Liu Yao and Zhang Jitian for some more money?"

Chu Qiguang said: "Their silver is my silver."

Qiao Zhi said: "Then I'll go find them and ask for it."

Chu Qiguang said: "What I mean is... I can't spend my money carelessly."

Qiao Zhi said: "Where did the money come from?"

Chu Qiguang said: "What are we doing to suppress demons, open up wasteland, and farm fields? Isn't it to protect the safety of Ba Mansion? Only when there is a good investment environment can we get rich first and then get rich later?"

Qiao Zhi turned around: "That's right."

Chu Qiguang said: "Should the wealthy families here provide money to help us destroy the demons?"

Qiao Zhi asked again: "It should be. But what if they don't want to pay?"

Chu Qiguang: "If they are decent, we will make them decent. If they are not decent, we will help them be decent."

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In the next few days, Ning Chigong, under Chu Qiguang's order, visited the four wealthy families in Ba's house one by one to discuss the matter of paying for the demons.

"The current situation is turbulent and demons are raging. If we don't clean up the demons in the house, I'm afraid there will be chaos..."

After Ning Chigong's persuasion, the four major families indeed contributed money, totaling five hundred taels of silver.

In the next few days, incidents of monsters attacking people began to appear frequently around Ba Mansion.

If some of their tenants or farmers in the county were attacked by monsters and died, these wealthy families would at best complain.

But this time, the two great families, Cao and Miao, became anxious one by one.

Just because one of the places attacked by monsters in the past few days was the Cao family's copper mine, and the other was the Miao family's caravan.

They even stopped their internal struggle for power and went to the Tianshi Sect for help.

But Taoist Temple refused directly because his vitality had not yet recovered from the serious injury in the last battle.

So the two aristocratic families looked for the Demon Suppressor and asked Chu Qiguang to destroy the monsters.

Seeing the angry expressions of the representatives of the two families, Chu Qiguang said slowly and calmly: "These demons are so arrogant that they even bullied your two families. How can this be done?"

As he spoke, he slapped the table: "Ning Baihu! Why don't you lead the troops to wipe out these monsters?"

Ning Baihu lowered his head and said: "Master Chu, during this period of time, we have been cleaning up the demons and fighting bloody battles day and night. My brothers are already exhausted. Moreover, the money and food in the fort are always insufficient. I am afraid that we will not be able to send troops this year."

"What? We can't send out troops this year?" Chu Qiguang said helplessly: "Then there is nothing we can do."

The representatives of the two families looked at each other and said helplessly: "How much money do you need before you are willing to send troops?"

Ning Chigong said: "Ten thousand taels of silver, or you can pay it with grain."

The Cao family and the Miao family finally came together to provide the money and food, and Chu Qiguang's great cause of suppressing demons and farming was finally able to continue.

In addition to this batch of money and food, in the invisible darkness, the Heavenly Demon Foundation Building Technique was used on people from the four major families in Ba Mansion.

The huge silver cat demon looked at the people kneeling on the ground in front of him.

These people were all specially selected by him. They were the heirs who had been repeatedly excluded and not taken seriously in the four major families. They were all full of resentment towards the family, which was perfect for him to use to infiltrate the four major families.

The cat demon slowly said: "I will help you ascend to the position of clan leader, but from now on, you..."

Several people raised their heads and said quickly: "Our lives will belong to you from now on!"

"Who wants your lives?" The cat demon said calmly: "I just want to do business with the four major families."