During the month of road construction, Zhao Ran clearly felt the rapid growth of merit power in his body.

This growth comes from two aspects, one is the increase in the total amount of absorption per day, and the growth is equivalent to nearly 20% of the original. Zhao Ran believes that this should be an increase brought about by the inclusion of more than 1,000 people along the road into the road network.

The second is that the merit power originally absorbed is more condensed and mellow, and the growth of this part is very large, which is equivalent to nearly fifty percent more than the original.

Through careful comparison, Zhao Ran had a clear understanding of the cultivation of merit power in his heart. When this kind of exercise can't gain merit power, it doesn't enter the realm at all, and no matter how good the spiritual spring spiritual eye is put next to you, it won't have half an effect on cultivation. However, once a huge amount of merit power is harvested, the refining speed is simply fast, and it cannot be measured by common sense.

There are two feasible ways to harvest merit, one is to expand the coverage and strive to allow more people to contribute merit to themselves, and the other is to dig deep and let the people who have contributed merit continue to contribute more merit.

The breakthrough of the northwest line provided Zhao Ran with a total of six or seven percent merit power bonuses, allowing his cultivation speed to further accelerate, which showed that building roads and bridges was indeed a good way to cultivate.

Since it is so effective, Zhao Ran will definitely not stop there, and he turned his attention to the Eastern Front project.

The northwest line started in May and ended in early June, nearly two months ahead of the original expected completion date, and the Minfu team recruited by Junshan Temple is far from fatigue.

So Zhao Ran took advantage of the completion ceremony of the Northwest Line Project to propose his own plan to Kong County Commander - to open a road from the Junshan area to the east and connect the Qingkouji.

Qingkouji is the easternmost market town in Guyang County, adjacent to Jianzhou in Boryeong Province. There are two small rivers nearby, one is Zitong water and the other is Xiaotong water. If you take a boat to go south, you can reach Tongchuan Province, and if you take a boat to go to Xiaotong Water, you can reach Boryeong Province.

Although the two small rivers are not suitable for large boats, in a mountainous area such as northern Sichuan, it is quite difficult for a river to pass small boats, so Qingkouji has also become an important market town in the eastern part of Guyang County.

In the past, if you want to go from Junshan to Qingkou Town, you must walk fifty or sixty miles of mountain roads, turn onto the official road and arrive at Guyang County, and then go east from Guyang County to Qingkou along the official road. The journey takes about three days.

If the route from Junshan Temple to Qingkou Town can be opened, the road distance is about 70 miles, and Qingkou Town can be reached in one day.

The construction of this road was called the Eastern Route Project by Zhao Ran, which could be built from the northeast or from the southeast, with the aim of bypassing Cointreau Mountain and extending to Qingkou Town on the east side of Cointreau Mountain.

Zhao Ran chose the northeast direction, and after crossing the Chongma River Bridge, he built a fifty-mile-long arc road to the northeast, bypassed Cointreau Mountain, and then turned east to reach Qingkou Town. The reason is simple, after bypassing Cointreau Mountain, the terrain is slightly gentle, which is not only conducive to construction, but most importantly, the villages in this area.

The closer you get to the direction of Qingkou Town, the more villages there are, and there are nine villages with a population of 2,000 on the entire route. For Zhao Ran, these populations were his cultivation resources, his merit power, how could he give it up?

The biggest question now is whether the road can be completed in more than two months. The more than 20,000 acres of paddy fields in the Junshan area are planted with single late rice, and the rice harvest is about mid-September, but before the end of August, the people must be withdrawn no matter what, so as to prepare for the autumn harvest.

The key factor affecting the construction of the road is not the problem of manpower, Zhao Ran can also continue to carry out the second round of recruitment in the Junshan area by throwing money, expanding the ranks of the people to more than 2,000 people. Anyway, the meat is rotten in the pot, and the silver is scattered in the Junshan area, and Zhao Ran can also reap a lot of merit.

The problem is that the 30 miles of road near Qingkou Town involve the occupation of land by five large families, which will take time to discuss. If we wait until everything is negotiated before starting work, I'm afraid the time will be delayed.

Zhao Ran weighed it for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth and made a decision, repair! First repair the fifty miles in the direction of Junshan, which will take more than a month, use this time to go door to door to negotiate in the direction of Qingkou Town, if you can't negotiate, you will smash the silver, if you can't negotiate, don't blame Zhao Ran for coming up with the "immortal master" means!

According to Zhao Ran's arrangement, Jin Jiu began to launch the second round of recruitment in the entire Junshan area: Zhuangding each person includes two meals a day, plus ten literary and labor salaries, women, children, and teenagers, etc., but anyone who can help can also apply, and they also include two meals a day, plus three yuan.

As soon as this policy was announced, the entire Junshan area was a sensation, anyway, being idle is also idle, going to have food, not to mention paying wages, why not?

Even after the big wedding banquet of the Wang family in the village, the groom official came to sign up, and by the way, he also dragged his new daughter-in-law over.

"Isn't this Simu, why don't you enjoy the bride and spend a few days on a new day?" Zhao Ran asked with a smile.

Wang Simu rolled up his sleeves and said in a rough voice: "The immortal master wants to build the road, and the villain has nothing to serve, only this strength, and the immortal master doesn't dislike it." My woman is also a capable person, helping with laundry and cooking, she is a good hand!"

Zhao Ran nodded and asked the bride: "Where is the little lady?"

The bride hurriedly bowed her head and said, "The little woman's house is in the mussel gathering." ”

Zhao Ran said: "Marrying into our Junshan, the future will become more and more prosperous, and in the future, he will be harmonious and beautiful, and he must respond to the call of the temple and have more children!"

Wang Simuhan agreed with a smile, but the bride was so ashamed that her face was flushed.

Zhao Ran turned around and said to Qu Fenghe: "Newlywed Yan'er, it deserves to be commended, write it down, and the salary will be doubled!"

In just three days, Jin Jiu and others recruited more than 2,000 people, making the total number of people in the entire project exceed 4,000 Daguan - half of the people in the Junshan area came.

It was nearly evening, Qu Fenghe sat on the table in front of the temple, pulling the abacus with his left hand, collecting the bamboo chips handed by the villagers with his right hand, and there was a long queue of people in front of his table. The golden shopkeeper of the Golden Kee shop stood behind him, correcting his fingering of the abacus from time to time.

After a crackling sound of the abacus rolling, Qu Feng and lazy voices sounded: "Aunt Niu, your family has one long chip, two short chips, and sixteen yuan, and you will not admit it when you leave the counter." A small servant in the Jin Ji shop next to him ordered sixteen cents and stuffed it into the hands of Aunt Niu in front of the table, and the woman's tired eyes showed a hint of joy, and she carefully held the money and left.

"Uncle Zhang, your family has three long chips and nine short chips...... Why, I remember there were only three people in your house...... Oh, I saved up for three days to get it together, that's okay, a total of thirty-seven Wen!"

“...... Hey? Liu Dazhuang, are you bullying me for being young and fooling me? What kind of ghost are these two short chips? Could you please draw like some of them the next time you draw them yourself? Teach you to be good, this is the Gen Fire Talisman, and the two strokes in the middle are bent to the left...... Okay, I'll spare you today, and next time, I'll confiscate your wages for three days!

The progress of the project is very fast, in seven days, the road will be repaired ten miles, and it is expected that in another month, it will enter the direction of Qingkou Town. But in the past seven days, Zhao Ran only negotiated one, smashed two hundred taels of silver, and simply bought the barren mountain directly to solve the problem.

As for the other four households, although they greeted each other with a smile on their faces and were polite, when it came to opening the road, they just didn't agree.

Although Kong County's order also issued an official document, it was only a persuasive admonition, and it was not compulsory—he had neither the power nor the strength.

So Zhao Ran has been very worried in the past two days. Just as he was scribbling on the paper with a pen to see if he could change the route, Zhong Saburo trotted in all the way, panting and said, "Temple Zhu! Immortal Master! There is a Taoist priest outside the door who wants to see Temple Zhu ......."

Zhao Ran was unhappy in his heart, and reprimanded: "I told you a long time ago, we are people in the Taoist sect, everything is indifferent and natural, don't be impetuous, look at your hurried and panicked appearance, how can you have half of the Taoist style? Straighten out your breath and then say! Remember it in the future, try not to talk when walking, it hurts your vitality...... Okay, let's go, who's going to see me?"

"Hey...... The Taoist priest said that it was a walking door, and said that it was the senior brother of the temple ......"

"Ouch! Why didn't you say it earlier!" Zhao Ran threw down his pen and hurriedly ran out, shouting as he ran: "Senior brother, you want to kill me!"

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