Chapter 372 – Beginning (continued)

In fact, just as Yang Junshan had expected, after Shi Nansheng decided to lead the entire Shi Family to leave the Wangqiu Town with the Shi Family, he only took up to two-thirds of the Shi Family’s household. About two hundred over thousand Shi Family clansmen chose to leave.

According to the news sent back by the clan, after the Shi family began their migration, the cultivators of the Heaven Shaking Courtyard openly appeared among the Shi family members, assisting and escorting the Shi family members to Wangqiu Town.

After Yang Junshan received the news, he could only sneer. With the start of the Shi family, there would probably be others in the village who would not be able to sit still, even if they did not want to leave.

Although he had already expected this, Yang Junshan did not expect that on the night that the Shi family began to move away, there would already be people knocking on his door, and two of them at that!

“Uncle Li, Brother Xu, the two of you are planning to move away from Xishan Village?”

Xu Lei and Li Shaoqun looked at each other and laughed, then Xu Lei said: “We do indeed plan to move, but the Xu and Li Families do not plan to go to Wangqiu Town, but want to rebuild our village there.”

This thought was out of his expectations, so Yang Junshan asked curiously: “This makes me a little confused, the imperial court, in order to absorb more Spiritual Farmero cultivate the Ling Tian, had set extremely kind conditions, but since the Xu and Li Families do not plan to go to the Wasteland Town, why did they move their families to rebuild the new village?”

Xu Lei laughed, as if he was considering what to say, and Yang Junshan was not in a hurry either, patiently waiting. A moment later, Xu Lei said: “I don’t know if the Young Patriarch has ever noticed, the conditions under which the county magistrate used the bear and two other Ling Tian s from the other two families to recruit and cultivate the Spiritual Farmers, the truth is that the ownership of the Ling Tian is still in the hands of the county magistrate. That is to say, no matter how long the Spiritual Farmers cultivates on a piece of Ling Tian, as long as the Heaven-Shaken Sect wishes, the piece of the Ling Tian will always be taken back from the Spiritual Farmers’s hands!”

Yang Junshan was startled, but he did not expect that.

Li Shaoqun laughed from the side: “Us country cultivators, our ancestors are mostly from the Spiritual Farmers, as long as we own a piece of Ling Tian, even if it haigher food tax and lower production, we can accept it as long as we own it, but it will be more difficult for us, as for the Wasteland Town’s Ling Tian, even if we handed it over to you for a hundred years, once we thought about it, we would have no choice but to hand over the Ling Tian in our hands. How can we not have peace of mind when we see a Ling Tian like that?”

Yang Junshan seemed to have understood something, and nodded his head, then said: “But the Shi family has also moved their Ling Tian to the northern part of the Wasteland Town, near the Wangqiu Town, and these Ling Tian are still theirs, even if the county magistrate takes back these Ling Tian, they can continue living off of their own family’s Ling Tian!”

“But when the time comes, will they still have a village to stay in? When the time comes, will the Yang Family allow them to rebuild their village in Wasteland Town, or would they be magnanimous enough to allow them to return to Xishan Village? ”

Xu Lei had a mocking smile on his face, the young patriarch of the Xu family had become more and more gloomy these few years, and his shrewdness was growing deeper and deeper. It was unknown if it was because of the stimulation of his mother’s death, or because of the humiliation and shock that Xu Jing brought to him by rejecting the marriage, but Yang Junshan secretly thought that it was more likely to be the latter.

“One day, if the Heaven-Shaken Sect were to take back the Ling Tian that they cultivated, without the support of the Ling Tian, the villages they built in the Wangqiu Town would definitely not exist, and the entire Shi family would probably be reduced to landless tenants!”

“What do you mean?”

Xu Lei’s expression shook, and took out a map of the Wasteland Town from his bosom. He pointed to a location southwest on the map and said: “Here, originally there iiece of the Yu Family’s Ling Tian, and near this piece of the Ling Tian, there are also two wild Ling Tian, and these three should all be under the control of the Yang Family. The Xu Family is willing to take out all of the Xishan Village’s Ling Tian, in exchange for the three Ling Tian here.

Yang Junshan had a general idea of the quality and area of all the Ling Tian under the control of the Yang Family. With just a glance at the map, he could tell the quality and area of these three Ling Tian, and he could not help but say with a bit of surprise: “Although the size of these three Ling Tian s is not small, but as far as I know, it is still a little inferior to the size of the Ling Tian that the two families have in Xishan Village, right?”

Xu Lei laughed: “Although we are lacking a little, but our village cannot be built without the help of the Yang family, not to mention that the Young Patriarch is able to send a stone of the spiritual valley to every household of the Shi family that has moved away, there is no reason for him to be so biased against us right?”

“What’s more,” Xu Lei restrained the smile on his face, and his expression turned serious: “We are still within the boundaries of the Wasteland Town, and our two families can still be regarded as the subordinate families of the Madame Yang!”

Yang Junshan looked deeply at Xu Lei, and suddenly laughed: “Looks like I don’t have any reason to reject!”

After sending off Xu Lei and Li Shaoqun, he came back to find Yang Tianlei and Han Xiusheng waiting for him.

“What, are the two families leaving again?” Yang Tianlei had clearly heard the conversation between Yang Junshan and Yang Junshan earlier.

Yang Junshan nodded, and said: “Sooner or later, we will have to leave. Rather than forcing them out of the Xishan Village using some methods, it would be better for us to split up now, as we still have a favor to do in the future!”

Han Xiusheng changed the topic and said: “Let’s first talk about the situation of the caravan. I still feel that the situation in Yuxian is not looking good!”

Yang Junshan’s expression turned solemn as he said, “What, did Second Uncle and Uncle get any bad news this time?”

Yang Tianlei said snappily: “Didn’t I hear your instructions, brat, and went to the Great Yu County to look for that strong and powerful district’s family. That Zou Feng did find them, and the business deal was also successful, but once the Zou family rebelled, our caravan was almost detained on the charge of colluding with the enemy. We only managed to get away with a fluke after earning a few Jade Coins from the Zhai clan.”

“The Qu family is rebelling?”

Yang Junshan was startled at first, but then his expression became serious.

Han Xiusheng hurriedly said from the side: “Even if you say that you’re rebelling, it’s not impossible. In short, the Prefectural Cultivators’ true essence cultivators had a falling out with the county magistrate of the elite Yu County, causing the relationship between the county magistrate and the prefectural family to become tense. However, I heard that the local forces of the elite Yu County are already stepping up their mediation efforts, and our caravan just coincidentally made it in time, making things difficult for the county magistrate!”

Yang Junshan’s expression was somewhat unsatisfied, and looked at Second Uncle Yang Tianlei.

Yang Tianlei obviously did not notice as he said loudly: “Now we can’t do this anymore, in just a year’s time, why is it that everywhere we go is unstable, it’s either internal or external border conflicts, can’t this Heaven-Shaken Sect have a day of peace? Where does the face of the number one sect in Yuzhou exist! ”

Ever since last year, when Spiritual Master Chen Ji took the initiative to exterminate the Mengyu County’s powerful Yu Family, expel the powerful Xiong Family, and personally facilitate the integration of the powerful Ning Family into the Heaven-Shaken Sect, it seemed like he had broken the peace of the Yuxian for three to four years.

First, there were the Sirius Gate’s provocations at the borders, and then, the people who had escaped into the Opening Spirit School began to frequently attack the borders in the name of revenge.

Soon after, they were affected by the Mengyu County. Aside from the Jinyu County who did not have any powerful families, all the other four counties, including Chenyu County’s Spiritual Master Wang Qian, had no choice but to take hard measures to suppress the strong and powerful within their own counties.

However, this time was obviously not a unified operation coordinated by the Heaven-Shaken Sect, the various counties’ decrees’ methods to suppress the local tyrants varied in priority, and this also gave the local tyrants a breather. Some of them had fled to the neighboring counties to seek help from other sect forces, some had launched their good offices over hundreds of years in the network, some had openly rebelled themselves, and some had even chosen to temporarily swallow their anger.

However, regardless of what kind of countermeasures these powerful forces were taking, they were all secretly trying to save up resources. Perhaps they were not trying to rebel, but from their point of view, this was more like preparing for the final battle after they ran out of options.

From what Yang Junshan knew, Spiritual Master Chen Ji, who was the first person to instigate a suppression against the strong within the, was now being targeted by a large number of people and was under enormous pressure. Not only were there criticism from the strong experts within the, there were even criticism from within the Heaven-Shaken Sect.

However, things often went both ways. Just when the people of Heaven-Shaken Sect were still debating about whether or not to suppress the strong in each county in a short period of time, the borders of the six counties of the Yuxian were being harassed by the small scale trial takers of the neighboring sects.

This time, the Heaven-Shaken Sect was once again unable to take unified measures to deal with the small scale border conflicts between the different counties. The various counties would take their own actions, and on the Mengyu County’s side, Spiritual Master Chen Ji cooperated with the Adept Qing Yi and continued to resolutely fight back.

The Tan Xi Sect had even sent people directly across the border of Yuan Cheng Mountain to seize a few mines that were of good quality. However, it was said that a group of Tan Xi Sect cultivators had attempted to ambush a warehouse in the opposite Chenyu County’s Stone Village through the Nanxuan swamp, but in the end, they disappeared in the swamp. At that time, the Tan Xi Sect had denied this fact, but the truth was still unknown.

The powerful forces within the county had yet to be settled, and the Five Elements Sect had also invaded the exterior of the county. He had actually invited the cultivators of the Haoqiang District and Bi Family to join hands and resist, and it was said that the Bi Family and the Five Elements Sect had secretly made use of this chance to escape. However, they sent the people of the county magistrate and the Prefectural Court into an ambush, and were defeated and returned back to their families.

As for Yu County Sigh and Yu County Huai, they were also worried about internal and external troubles. Their situation was not any better than that of the two counties, Cheng Yu and Jia Yu.

“It looks like it’s about to begin!” Yang Junshan muttered to himself.

“What’s starting?” Yang Tianlei interjected.

Yang Junshan did not answer and instead instructed: “From tomorrow onwards, our family’s caravan will bring the Jade Coins and the spiritual valley s as well as the spirit mines we have mined from the Sunset Ridge mines during this period of time. We will immediately head out to purchase as many medicinal pellets as possible, regardless of whether it is pellets or pellets, whether it is used to supplement our cultivation or to heal our wounds, we will try our best to buy them even if the price is slightly higher!”