Chapter 313 The people's opinion, casting a knife
That was a notice from the kids to purchase war materials from the people.
If there were similar notices issued in Dayu in the past, most people would look at them or listen to them and shake their heads and sigh and walk away.
Because countless facts in the past told them that whether it was a purchase or a collection of people in the Dayu court, the people would be stripped of a layer of skin by corrupt officials, and some people would even be destroyed because of their family.
Today, the purchase notices posted by the people around the kids were too surprising.
"This scholar, you just read it. This kid is half a pound of pig bristles more expensive than on the market. Is it true?" an old man asked the scholar who was reading the notice next to him.
"Xiao Ke is just a child and dare not be called a scholar. As for what we just read, the notice was written in black and white, and it was indeed written like this, but......"
"But what?" the old man asked.
"The government has always taken advantage of the people in doing things, so where can it be taken advantage of the people in turn? Therefore, Xiaoke guessed that there are many tricks in this helper when actually purchasing these supplies."
As soon as the scholar finished speaking, a loud shout came from the side: "Who is talking bad about the gang here? I just sold a few wolf skins in the place where I gangs were charitable for shopping supplies in the city. Each skin costs one more cent than on the market. What's wrong with it?"
"This brother is serious?" A few mountain people who were preparing to go to the city to sell mountain goods immediately asked.
The man who scolded the scholar took out a handful of silver and said, "Of course it's true. Can this white silver be fake? If you don't believe it, go and ask yourself. It's different from what was said in the notice, so don't sell it to them."
What the man said was very reasonable, so several mountain people who were hesitating before the notice rushed into the city.
After the notice, there were fewer people watching, and someone looked at the soldiers guarding the city gates and sighed: "I think this gang is still good. I have occupied Yufu County for so long, but I have never bullied us ordinary people. Instead, those corrupt officials, bandits, and tyrants who had ruined their consciences were beheaded by them and killed."
At this time, another scholar said, "If you want to talk about this gang, it is much better for us ordinary people than the government before, but the situation is smaller and it is still a gang now. I see, maybe someone will destroy it one day."
"That's it." Someone immediately came from a certain family to agree, "I heard that Zhang Mazi, who occupied Wanchuan County in the south, dared to call himself the King of Wanchuan. The day before yesterday, I didn't believe it. If the Kan Gang really had such a large territory, why would the leader of the Kan Gang not be called king?"
"The rafters that come out rot first, maybe they want to become king later?" Someone guessed.
The person who spoke before was disdainful and said, "Bad, he just dares not be the king, he is timid. In my opinion, the leader of the gang is not as broad as Zhang Mazi."
Many people around him nodded slightly when they heard this. Although some people disagree, they were very few.
Seeing this, Ouyang Ye couldn't help but look thoughtful.
The big strategy of "building high walls, accumulating grain, and becoming king slowly" cannot be said to be wrong, but it may be well-known.
If it is too late to be called king, it is probably not only that these ignorant people will have no confidence in the gang, or even make any comments, even the gang members within the gang will be disappointed.
It should be noted that if Ouyang Ye was just a gang leader, then the gangs would have been nominally people in the world and gangs - even if they were already doing the job of officials and soldiers.
If Ouyang Ye calls himself king, the nominal identities of the people below will immediately become different, and they even feel that they are expected to become a founding hero, and they will inevitably be full of energy.
The people below will return to their hearts earlier, instead of lacking trust in the Gangang, for fear that the Gangang will be destroyed by other forces one day.
Thinking of this, Ouyang Ye had no idea of going to Yufucheng to take a closer look. He just went in and took a casual look. He didn't see any major problems and left.
In the following days, Ouyang Ye visited several counties around Wu County in a private manner, and then returned to the Longjiling Main Route.
At this time, Jiang Bai, Yang Erqing and Liu Sheng also responded to his previous letter to reform the government agency, and the three of them still agreed.
Moreover, in his reply, Jiang Bai asked in a vague way when he would become the king.
Liu Sheng also mentioned this in his reply, and it was more straightforward.
In his letter, he said that now the soldiers in the army often discuss privately about helping the future. Some even doubted whether the gang leader would never be king, and wanted to wait until anyone could win the world and then surrender to others and be a minister.
Secondly, after each time the Gangang army seizes a land, they often feel like "the name is not right and the words are not right."
The "gang members" responsible for managing local governments have done a lot for the people, but it is quite difficult to gain the trust of the people.
Local people often ask which king or emperor the governor is under the jurisdiction of the Gangang. Similar questions always make the Gangang members unable to answer.
After Ouyang Ye's private visit, he had the idea of putting the king's establishment on the agenda. Now, seeing that the three people's reply also reflected the matter, he immediately made a decision and prepared to carry out the king's establishment and government affairs reform after conquering the three passes of Yiyang!
Of course, we must inform Yang Erqing and others in advance. One is to make them prepare, and the other is to let them release the wind first and soothe the hearts of the people below.
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On the second day after returning to Longji Ridge, Ouyang Ye received a report from the foundry at the foot of the mountain. The divine weapon-level big knife he wanted was to be cast into an embryo, so he asked him to go down the mountain to prepare to drop blood for the embryo.
Although Ouyang Ye has now had many magical powers such as star-sucking and cloud-sucking hands, sky Buddha subduing demon clutches, colorless body without form, supreme body, etc., he is still full of expectations for the power of "Sword Raising" and has been looking forward to this diseased magic weapon-level big sword for a long time.
So, after he got the news, he immediately went down the mountain to the foundry workshop.
"Please look at the boss. We are using the most exquisite iron molding method nowadays, so gold and water will be injected into the iron mold later."
The temperature should be at least ten degrees higher than the furnace outside, and the foundry manager personally explained to Ouyang Ye.
Ouyang Ye nodded when he heard this - the knife mold was indeed very attentive, even an outsider could see this.
Then, an old craftsman next to him said to the head, "The time is up", and the head nodded.
Then a strong shirtless middle-aged craftsman shouted: "The golden water is out-!"
With this shout, gold water like slurry was soon poured into the large knife-shaped iron mold along the groove.
When the gold and water were about to end, the head of the head led the surrounding managers. The craftsmen bowed together and said, "Please let the head of the head to recognize the knife!"
Ouyang Ye looked at the head and everyone in surprise - not because they did this ceremony, but because they wondered why they used the word "recognition of the knife".
But Ouyang Ye did not hesitate.
He cut his wrist with his nails, sprinkled a row of blood beads, and landed on the newly formed knife embryo.
The blood and fire touched each other, making a squeaking sound.
At this time, it was three months since Ouyang Ye officially became innate. With the lack of elixirs and medicinal food, he had already trained his body to the point of refining marrow, and was only half a step away from the state of "qi and blood to form qi" that "element of qi and blood".
Therefore, his blood is extremely viscous and cohesive because it is like lead and mercury.
After the blood bead fell on the fire-gold knife embryo, it rolled back and forth for several times before gradually dissolved into the knife embryo.
And as all the blood beads disappeared, the sword embryo, which was originally mainly dark gold, suddenly turned scarlet!
It's like blood is burning!
【First update.】
Chapter completed!