Wow!

The boundless turbid current rolls in the Luoshui River, and from time to time you can see broken vegetation, worn-out straw mats, and even bloated corpses of humans and animals.

In this seemingly unstable wave, a small boat with a canopy was riding the waves all the way down the river.

You must know that in this world, traveling alone by water is a very dangerous thing.

Most people in this world have evil hearts. If you are alone without a companion and your money is exposed, the boatman will inevitably take advantage of the money and easily seek wealth and death on the boat.

When the time comes, the waters will be so vast that it will be impossible to even escape.

After the murder, the corpse was buried in the water, and no one could cry out for justice for this poor guy.

Because the cost of crime is too low and the profits from crime are too high, many people will take risks.

Cars, boats, shops, feet, and teeth should be killed even if they are innocent. In this world, it is not an alarmist statement.

The government did not allow those yachtsmen and Bai Shuilang to go ashore mainly because of this consideration.

Farmers will be firmly tied to the land, while yachts will come and go without a trace, making it impossible to manage them.

Simply ban them from going ashore to prevent these people from becoming water bandits who come and go, specifically to commit crimes.

However, this boat is obviously very different.

Standing on the bow of the boat was a young official with a figure as tall and tall as a towering green pine. The strong wind blew across the river, and his black official robes rustled fiercely.

Especially the [Qiuhu] with its fangs and claws on its body, which contains the power of wind, thunder and heaven, like a living creature.

It was Wang Yuan and Wang Qianshan who were on their way to take office.

Wearing the official robe of a forbidden curse school captain and the golden tiger-headed sword hanging on his waist, he added an air of majesty to the already heroic young man.

When other boats saw it, they all stayed away.

Obviously.

With such a frightening appearance, not to mention the boatman who is interested in making money, even if he is faced with those monsters with average abilities, the first thing he considers is how to save his own life.

Of course, when the majestic Yinshan Taoist master goes on a trip, Wang Yuan will naturally not recruit any mortal boatmen to board the boat.

Instead, they directly captured a few water ghosts and asked them to tread water under the boat and push the boat forward at high speed. Their skills were countless times superior to that of any human boatman.

At this time, a clear and sweet voice suddenly sounded from behind:

"We have just left Luoyang, and it will rain again soon. No wonder the water in the river has not slowed down much."

Wang Yuan turned around and saw Huang Wu and Tao Xianniang kneeling on soft cushions in the boat canopy, with a small clay stove in the middle making tea.

One of them is a phoenix flower, with gold and red skirts, bare feet like lotus, pretty and lovely; the other is in green and white skirt, quiet and elegant, with her ears shining in the night, and the gleam of light hanging down.

I couldn't help but sigh in my heart.

This pair of stunning girls, even if they just do nothing every day, they can still be happy physically and mentally, and they can live for two more years.

He explained to Huang Wu:

"There's no way around it.

The area covered by the 'Dragon Qi Law Ban' is now so large. Except for a few core towns, other places should look like they are still the same.

No, I'm afraid it will be even more miserable than before.

And this time we have to face not only floods, droughts, and locust plagues

After the "Dragon Qi Magical Forbidden" retreats, I am afraid that even the lowest wandering souls can openly run rampant in the countryside, and [weird] needless to say.

Many evil heretics may not realize this yet.

Only then did Yu Longzhi need to fill in the vacancy to prevent the situation from getting out of hand.

Otherwise, the transfer order from the Duwei Mansion would not be so urgent, and we should rush to the station within ten days."

Even without being in the center, Wang Yuan could easily make an inseparable judgment with the help of his own [Dique Golden Book]'s keen sense of the "Dragon Qi Dharma Restriction".

[Food Harvest] At least part of it was successful, but it was only concentrated in the fertile areas at the core of the entire dynasty, completely abandoning large areas of backcountry.

Travelers who have traveled long distances feel this situation most clearly.

Ever since Wang Yuan and his party left Luoyang City, the capital city, the rainy weather gradually showed its original power again.

Maybe the situation will be slightly better until the next county.

Huang Wu still retained the innocence of a young girl. After listening to Wang Yuan's analysis of the current situation, she couldn't help but feel angry for the people who had been abandoned:

"How could the imperial court do this? This retreat is not only about ceding territory to the natural disasters and evil spirits to seek peace, but also forcing the people living in those places to die!"

Wang Yuan sat next to her and gently patted her slender shoulder.

"Have you forgotten? We have discussed a similar issue in the past.

Why is the Central Dynasty never keen on expanding its territory?

This is because, for the ruler of an agricultural empire, the land that can have a surplus in addition to supporting the population is the foundation of the country. Otherwise, it is all "barren land"!

But now, those places are barren lands in another sense."

As people of Yanhan, many people have a stereotyped impression that the central dynasty was too weak and that the entire national history was a history of large-scale invasions.

However.

We must know that in the beginning, this was just a small tribe located in the turbid current basin.

But after being "beaten" for thousands of years, the area of ​​​​this land has been getting bigger and bigger.

Starting from the plateau in the west, to the desert in the north, to the sea in the east, and to Qiongzhou in the south, this territory has expanded hundreds of times?

In fact, the people of Yanhan have been expanding their territories to other countries since the beginning of their civilization.

It's just that they are used to being picky, and only those lands that are most suitable for farming and can produce value will have the desire to be included in the territory.

If the output is not abundant, it will only result in a reverse blood transfusion from the central dynasty to the local areas. Unless it has significant military value, the gain will not be worth the loss.

In fact, to this day.

The Central Dynasty almost completely occupied all the farming areas suitable for farming in Chi County, the most fertile land, and the most livable cities in China.

Outside the territory of the Celestial Empire, there are either tropical rainforests prone to disease, bitter cold deserts, high mountains, vast seas, or insurmountable plateaus.

The cost of conquering such an area is too high, but the gains are very limited.

Only then did the monarchs and ministers' ambition to open up new territories gradually die down.

By this point, it had already become the pinnacle of the agricultural empire.

Probably only after the arrival of industrial civilization will those seemingly worthless lands become valuable again.

Modern people use the perspective of industrial civilization to accuse their ancestors in the agricultural civilization era of prodigality, but they do not know that at that time, this was the most beneficial choice for the survival of the nation.

As for now, the rulers have obviously started another round of "picking and choosing."

The Dragon Qi problem, the weird problem, and the evil problem are all put together, and they are essentially an economic problem, at least at the dynasty level.

"But this kind of governance method that treats people as numbers and is based entirely on utilitarianism is too cold-blooded.

Monsters and monsters eat people, and the rulers don't treat the people as human beings.

The 'Dragon Qi Law Ban' is rooted in people's willpower, and those who have been protected are obviously the emperor and those powerful people!

Is there no way to solve this problem?"

Huang Wu has been influenced by Wang Yuan's thoughts since she was a child, and she has the most cognitive resonance. In some aspects, her knowledge even far exceeds those of the so-called pavilion elders in the center.

She understood what Wang Yuan said, but she found it emotionally difficult to accept it for a while.

Essentially, he is still a child.

Next to her, Tao Xianniang, who had heard of this "fat and thin" theory for the first time, had a lot of brilliance in her eyes.

She has a deep grasp of people's hearts, although she has never heard of such a theory that completely abandons magical methods and only explains the facts from the perspective of gains and losses.

But I feel that after removing all appearances, the essence of the matter is most likely like this!

My heart was even more shocked.

In addition to worshiping him as her lord and god, Tao Xianniang is still the original witch in essence, with no shortage of scheming, means, and ambition.

I couldn’t help but secretly thought:

"With the [Tianbu Dao Dharma] in hand, coupled with this vision and insight, maybe the Dharma Master can really establish some unparalleled achievements in troubled times!"

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At this moment, Lao Hei, who was lying at the stern of the boat, suddenly started barking at the turbid water.

The three of them turned around and saw a large number of male corpses floating on the river in the distance.

And looking at the tattered armor on their bodies, Wang Yuan immediately recognized their identities.

"Are these the [White Tiger Warriors] who left the city yesterday?!

How could they all die here?"

Wang Yuan immediately took out three sticks of incense sticks and a bowl of uncooked rice from the [Wanhe Treasure Bag].
To be continued...