The reason why Immortal County was called this was because the climate of the mountains was suitable for ginseng and other medicinal herbs to grow. Every year, many supreme-grade ginsengs would be discovered. They looked like fat babies, so it was named Immortal County.
Ginseng was expensive and extremely profitable.
The local people relied on the mountain to pick herbs every year. They earned quite a bit and their lives were quite comfortable.
It was not until last year that the county magistrate of Immortal County, Zhang Jiayan, married a concubine. The brother of the concubine, Xu Baisheng, used his power to specially send people to intercept the villagers who had entered the mountain to pick herbs and forced them to hand over all the herbs they had picked.
If someone was unwilling, he would snatch it. If he didn't like a person who wanted to resist, he would break the other party's tendons.
