Da Zaojun

Chapter 187 Man is the Leader of All Creatures
Aside from those things, the most valued item is the fragment of the Golden Body of Fortune.

Every temple has some, representing the fortune of Buddhism.

The 480 temples of the Southern Dynasties were all part of the Buddhist fortune.

However, these golden body fragments vary in size, some being small and only having the fortune of a hundred people, while others are of medium size and have the fortune of a thousand people. The golden body fragments that Tongtai Temple produced in one go, which had the fortune of a hundred thousand people, are, after all, rare.

In total, there are 400 small fragments, 60 medium-sized fragments, and 10 large fragments.

If we count by the number of people, there is already the fortune of 200,000 people here. Adding the previous ten fragments of the Great Golden Body, that's the fortune of 300,000 people.

But in reality, this entire secret realm for monks might not even have 300,000 people. Although Tongtai Temple alone has tens of thousands of tenants and monk servants, and with 480 temples, it is quite a large secret realm. However, most of the people have either starved to death, become monk slaves or servants, or become tenants.

"Perhaps these fragments of the golden body of fortune, when pieced together, could form a real golden body of a Bodhisattva," Song Wuji thought to himself.

However, they still restrained themselves. Firstly, as the City God said, bestowing titles upon local deities or night-roaming gods requires good fortune. Secondly, enforcing laws also requires good fortune to strengthen the legal system.

At least in terms of reclaiming farmland, it takes the luck of 10,000 people to reclaim 1,000 acres of land. The 5,000 acres of land previously cleared by the decree have been fully cleared and planted with blood rice.

With a current urban population of over 20,000, less than 30,000, even if each person were allocated two mu of land for food, it would still require 50,000 to 60,000 mu of land, more than ten times the current amount.

In other words, it would take the fortune of at least 500,000 people to reclaim 50,000 mu of land.

However, the fields created by this kind of fortune are not ordinary fields; they should be considered spiritual fields. Although they are low-level spiritual fields, with the help of the Five Elements Agriculture Department, they are sufficient to grow blood rice. It is better than gathering wild vegetables and fruits in the wilderness.

Moreover, these farmlands actually benefit the fortune, meaning that when the grain is harvested, they are able to recoup their costs within at least three to five years.

Song Wuji kept ten large fragments of the golden body for later use, and threw four hundred small fragments directly into the pool. He obtained the fortune of forty thousand people and immediately issued a decree to open up four thousand acres of new farmland, which were also cultivated three times a year. Evil spirits and deities were not allowed to cause trouble.

The previous five thousand acres of land were basically around the city wall, but Song Wuji divided up these four thousand acres slightly.

Firstly, two thousand acres of land were placed directly around the Cangzhongguo Secret Realm, where the Millet God Altar has been set up to worship the Grain God and to cultivate the Five Elements Agriculture Minister.

Another place is Cangzhong, which is only four or five miles away from Taichang. For ordinary people, it only takes a quarter of an hour to cross the border.

It was a "suburban vegetable garden" planned by Song Wuji.

There are also a thousand acres at the foot of Xiaoyao Mountain, where Luo Chuan trains his naval forces, Wan Jia migrates to establish villages, and there are several hundred disaster victims from Xiaoyao Mountain who do not want to go to the city. These thousand acres of land may not be enough for the time being, but we can only let them have it for now.

The remaining thousand acres were settled at Baliting, where there is Baliting Charity Estate, the entrance to the Zhaiseng Secret Realm, the Hungry Ghost Tree, and the boundary gate to Jianxin County. Song Wuji arranged for the Lü family, as well as the widow and relatives of Magistrate Tian, ​​to move there. Baliting is also very close to Li Family Village, the Soul-Calling Secret Realm, only two or three miles away.

As for the sixty medium-sized golden body fragments, Song Wuji thought for a moment and then added ten more, planning a thousand acres of land outside the secret realm of Qionghua Garden.

There is a servant boy in the family there, and there are flower fields in the secret realm, but it is still not enough. It can be expanded appropriately. Moreover, Song Wuji ordered the bees to collect various spiritual seeds in the wilderness. In the future, in addition to planting flowers and collecting honey, it can also be planned as a medicinal field, especially now that there are so many pill formulas, the demand for medicinal materials will definitely be considerable.

Furthermore, Song Wuji would prioritize bestowing titles upon local deities in places with secret realms.

The Rakshasa Karma Market allows trading in shrines. The four local earth gods within the city definitely need to be replaced; currently, only one has been replaced. Outside, the earth gods from the original three towns and four villages have all been killed by demons and need to be re-appointed.

As for who will take office, with so many names on this monument of heroes, even if their merits are insufficient, Song Wuji will still help them by depleting his luck. Moreover, there will definitely be warriors who died fighting against demons and monsters, who will be deified after death and protect the people, benefit agriculture, and drive away evil spirits within the laws of Taichang.

Song Wuji estimated that the cost of planning farmland and clearing out wilderness would be similar. If the luck of a thousand people was enough to grant land to a village of a hundred people, then it would be worth doing.

Moreover, villages with land should be able to gradually reclaim wasteland and turn it into farmland on their own.

Once the legal network is established within Taichang and all the secret realms are under control, even in some desolate areas, powerful wild demons will not breed.

Subsequently, Song Wuji planned a thousand acres of land in the secret realm of the Tiger Kingdom in the Western Mountains. This place was where Chen Xiu trained his troops. Moreover, there were copper mines in the secret realm, which could be used to make military equipment. In the future, when the temple of the God of Wealth was built, it would be able to enshrine the treasure basin and the copper coins of wealth, and even be able to mint copper coins.

Another thousand acres of land were placed in the secret realm of the Wild Boar Slope Salted Corpse Forest in Songjia Village. There is a salt mine here, which can be used to make salt. At present, the salt mine is still very important. More than 20,000 people need a lot of salt for food and drink.

Salt mines are toxic, and to make edible salt, soybean milk is needed to detoxify it, which requires the cultivation of large quantities of soybeans.

Moreover, even after the great changes in the demons, wild boars still roam Wild Boar Slope. Song Wuji hopes to develop a pig farm here to provide the city's residents with at least some stable meat.

As a result, only ten fragments of the Golden Body of Ten Thousand People and thirty fragments of the Golden Body of One Thousand People remained; the rest were all used up. Moreover, there wasn't enough labor and food for the second round of land reclamation and cultivation. They would only have enough food and labor for land reclamation once the food from the first round of reclamation was harvested.

After the decrees were applied, the overall fortune of the city improved slightly. Once the second round of land reclamation was completed, there would be 12,000 mu of land. This would certainly not be enough to support more than 20,000 people, but with the grain production from Cangzhongguo and Zhaiseng Secret Realm, as well as the people's spontaneous hunting and gathering, it would be sufficient.

If all else fails, there will be a third and fourth round of land reclamation. At least since ancient times, the people's enthusiasm for land reclamation and farming has never waned. Of course, this requires a relaxed environment with low taxes and light corvée labor.

For now, these farmlands still belong to the Taichang County collective. However, in the future, when people can cultivate wasteland into farmland on their own without consuming any luck or fortune, they can be encouraged to do so. At that time, they will need to pay taxes and perform corvée labor.

The land that has been developed is essentially developed by Song Wuji, the realm lord, by expending his own fortune. It belongs to public property, so naturally there is no need to collect taxes again. Even if the people work in these fields, without being paid work points, and if these work points can be exchanged for food, cultivation materials, or even houses, it is actually a form of corvée labor.

If the Huang family compound could be subdued, the land there could be developed for growing hemp and kudzu, thus solving the people's clothing problem. However, the Weaver Girl advised Song Wuji to wait until he reached the seventh rank before exploring the area. Song Wuji, being a person who listens to advice, would not act rashly.

Are there any other laws or regulations to be applied? To be honest, Song Wuji couldn't think of any at the moment.

Regarding the Wu Zu order, five hundred regular soldiers had been planned, but now only two hundred have been added, so Song Wuji did not increase the number.

Of the remaining tokens, one is a criminal decree, specifically the Rakshasa Ghost Market Secret Realm Token. However, Song Wuji has always been very cautious about decrees involving punishments and needs to consult professionals to add rules to the city. Currently, Cat Constable is quite useful and has a good system for maintaining city security.

So... is there anything else we can do with the household registration document? These fragments of the Golden Body of Fortune should be used up sooner rather than later.

If Song Wuji wanted to resolve the issue of ownership of the population drawn out of the secret realm, and if consuming luck could be directly converted into effective luck, then Song Wuji would definitely do so.

Thinking back to the household registration system in my previous life, it was a dual system between urban and rural areas, but it is definitely not suitable here.

In addition, since Lü Han did bring out some talents from the secret realm, and people may be continuously absorbed from the secret realm in the future, Song Wuji thought to himself, "It definitely needs to be recorded separately, into the secret realm population register and the local population register."

Song Wuji then raised the household decree high, and the next moment, the seven-colored lotus flower and the remnant of the Human Dao Tai Chang Grid shone brightly, rapidly consuming the fortune of 10,000 people.

Seemingly sensing Song Wuji's long-standing concern about the population issue, the Humanity Taichang Remnant Grid responded after receiving the household decree.

Any creature from the secret realm that enters this realm will be registered as a citizen. If it does not return to the secret realm within seven days, it will obtain temporary citizenship. After obtaining temporary citizenship, if it does not violate any rules or laws within three months, it can directly obtain local household registration and be no different from the local population.

There are no such things as "secret realm population" or "local population," nor are there any instances of people being unable to reproduce or become demons after killing others. These secret realms are essentially fragments of the Three Realms and Six Paths.

As far as the Human Realm is concerned, anyone who is "human" can be incorporated into the Human Realm. In fact, the Human Realm is not limited to humans. As long as sentient beings in the Three Realms and Six Paths cultivate to the point of taking human form, they can transform into a true "human" and join the Human Realm to strengthen it.

Even if they are not human, cats and dogs can be tamed. For example, the six domestic animals belong to the human realm, and the twelve zodiac animals also belong to the human realm. As long as you want to tame them, all kinds of races can be tamed into the human realm. After all, the title of "human is the leader of all spirits" is not given lightly.

There is no issue of a monster emerging from a secret realm, being tamed for a period of time, then killing people and becoming an enlightened demon.

Song Wuji sensed the feedback from the human realm and thus gained an understanding of this "seven days".

It is rumored that a person may be resurrected within seven days after death, but after seven days, they will become a ghost in the underworld.

In this light, the secret realm and our own world are, in a sense, another kind of "separation of yin and yang".

Song Wuji was relieved. The consumption of the fortune of ten thousand people could resolve this hidden danger that had been on everyone's mind, including Tian Chenghuang's. So it was not a waste.

Furthermore, the current household registration system only has the issues of temporary household registration (three months) and formal household registration (renewed every ten years).

After emerging from the Humanity's Great Prosperity Spiritual Mansion, Song Wuji informed Lü Han of the news: "From now on, we can be a little more at ease and start bringing people out of the secret realm. We'll have them do three months of hard labor. During those three months, we'll provide them with food, a fixed place to live, and teach them some laws and regulations so they won't break them. After three months, they'll regain their freedom and obtain official household registration. There won't be any more questions about whether they're Chinese or savages."

Lu Han nodded: "I knew it. Why are there so many concerns? Is the human path so narrow? However, we still need to educate the people in the secret realm, just like we educate wild people, so that they can become qualified citizens of the realm."

"For example, the ordinary people in the Blessing Monk Secret Realm are even worse off than the ordinary people before the Great Cataclysm. Their lives are really too hard, and they don't understand anything. There are no wilderness or demons there. If they come out, even a small bush demon can kill several of them."

"It's definitely not feasible to put them directly into the city. Therefore, we still need a temporary settlement for the people from the secret realm. Once they have a basic understanding of our situation, or once their plagues or diseases have been cured by doctors, we can then accept them as citizens of our territory and include them in the official household registration."

“Then let’s prioritize finding young women and children,” Song Wuji decided. “There are currently 80% men in the city, and there are too many people of marriageable age. In addition, children are more likely to absorb knowledge and be more easily educated by you. Let’s see if we can improve your Confucian ethics.”

(End of this chapter)