Martial Cultivator

Perhaps the news sent back from the Northern Frontier was fast enough, and with the Divine Capital continuously promoting it vigorously, therefore the people of the Great Liang prefectures and regions southward, including Changping Prefecture, had been relatively optimistic about the war in the north these days.

Although the imperial court had levied taxes once more some days ago, the greater part was still on those wealthy households, the lives of ordinary common people had not been affected by anything.

Just from this point alone, the Great Liang Dynasty was different from the imperial courts of all previous dynasties, the treasuries of the imperial courts of all previous dynasties were empty, either they set their sights on merchants, or they set their sights on the common people. But judging from the actions of the current imperial court, whether merchants or common people, the imperial court had no intention of exploiting them much.

Actually, this could also be considered giving the common people reassurance. If at this moment the imperial court were to put on an appearance of a dog backed into a corner, then to them, it would be no different from clearly telling them, the great building was about to collapse, this dynasty of more than two hundred years was about to become history.

However, the common people were still nervous for a period of time, and that was during the time when the demon race began knocking at the passes. Although not many messages were passed down, scattered bits and pieces of them, when listened to, were all unfavorable messages for the imperial court.

Quite a few common people, hearing these messages, were going to head north. Fortunately, after the local officials appeased them, these hot-blooded common people temporarily gave up this idea.

But in reality, whether the local officials, or those other common people and cultivators who were closely watching the news from the north, all had their hearts in their throats. Afterwardm it was the news that the Northern Frontier had been held that came back, only then did the officials and common people breathe a sigh of relief.

Although there had been great battles with the demon race from time to time, in these more than two hundred years there had also never been an incident of the demon race army breaking through the Northern Frontier Great Wall. But this victory still caused quite a few common people in many places to celebrate.

Qingshan Prefecture had many daoist temples, along with this, the customs of the common people here were also closer to Daoism. Apart from those traditional festivals, the common people here also had some extended festivals, before the Mid-Autumn Festival, there was a Kuchai Festival, legend had it that Dao Ancestor was born back then in a mountain named Kuchai, and afterward, after he established the Daoist sect, the daoist cultivators set Dao Ancestor’s birthday as an extremely important day in Daoism. At first it was only within Daoism, and afterward it gradually spread out. Throughout Qingshan Prefecture, the common people all began celebrating this Kuchai Festival.