Because of the smooth sailing, there was an accident such as the Sea Shadow Beast attack on the way, and the ferry voyage time was shortened by five days.

Three days later, in the early morning, under the sound of a loud horn, the ferry slowly docked at the largest pier in the southern port of the Southern Ming Empire.

Compared with the Yu Dynasty, which had developed maritime trade, the Southern Ming Empire was a little backward.

There are very few merchant ships in the huge wharf, and most of the fishing boats are docked on the shore, and as far as the eye can see, the ferry ship of the Maritime Chamber of Commerce is almost the largest of the wharf.

Therefore, as soon as the ship docked on the shore, many people stopped what they were doing and came to see it.

All the merchants disembarked slowly and orderly, and dozens of sturdy men surrounded the ship, and after negotiating the price with those merchants, they began to help them get on the ship and carry the goods.

Xue Jian, Du Xiaoqing and Li Can and their entourage, when they got off the boat, were also blocked by a group of men and asked them if they needed to move the goods.

This time, Li Can came to discuss business, so he didn't bring the goods to sell, so he took out five silver coins, rewarded those people, and left.

Du Xiaoqing blinked and asked with some curiosity.

"Li Gongzi, we obviously don't need their help, how can you pay them back?"

Li Can smiled faintly and explained.

"These people are all members of the dock gang, whether there are goods or not, we, the foreign merchants, have to pay tolls, not more, not less, otherwise it will cause trouble. ”

Du Xiaoqing pursed his lips and muttered a little resentfully.

"It's too overbearing, no wonder this dock is so depressed, if I come here to do business, I will definitely come once, and I won't want to come a second time. ”

Xue Jian shook his head with a smile and explained carefully for her.

"You don't understand this, because the Southern Ming Empire is mostly swampy wetlands and primeval jungles, most of the civilians are in the stage of hunting and reclamation, and the people in the coastal areas can only rely on fishing for a living.

As a result, the country's economy is very backward.

Those who have the strength and strength to eat a bite of food have to come to the docks to do things.

These people, everyone has to eat, and if they don't make money from those out-of-town merchants, are they all hungry?

Besides, who cares about those five silver coins who have traveled thousands of miles across the ocean to do business here. ”

Du Xiaoqing's face suddenly showed a sudden look and nodded.

After that, a group of them walked into the largest port in the south of the Southern Ming Empire, Wanghai City.

The city is relatively prosperous, after all, there are many foreign businessmen here, which drives the local economic development, and it is much richer than those closed areas in the interior.

Li Can had come here with the elders of the family to run a few times before, and he was familiar with the road, so he directly took Xue Jian and Du Xiaoqing and lived in an inn opened by foreign merchants first.

In this kind of place, everything must be cautious, Nanming people are not good people, as early as when he was in Haibo City, Li Desheng said this Nanming people many times.

Insidious, cunning, vicious, and very backward in thinking, they believe in witch gods, practice witchcraft, and are best at poisoning Gu.

If a foreign merchant who doesn't know anything goes to the Southern Ming Empire to do business, the final outcome will definitely be to be left with no hardships left.

After a little rest, Li Can came to Xue Jian's room.

He held a map in his hand, and spread it out, which was the territory map of the entire Southern Ming Empire.

The territory of the Southern Ming Empire is not large, and it seems that it is only half of the Dayu Dynasty, but the military strength of this country should not be underestimated.

All this is because most of the people of Nanming are wizards, and they practice witchcraft, whether it is poisoning Gu or all kinds of weird witchcraft, it is impossible to guard against it.

In the desert to the north of the country, there was once rumored to have had an extremely powerful empire.

At his peak, the Emperor of the Empire had reached the Eight Realms of Martial Arts, and he was an extremely powerful Grand Master.

With the power of one man, he can destroy a small country.

This emperor of the empire spent most of his life on the road of conquest in the south and the north, destroying more than ten surrounding countries, large and small, and the territory expanded so much that it was once comparable to the northern empire of the mainland.

It's just that when they expanded southward and met a group of primitive people living in seclusion in the dense forest swamps, they encountered unprecedented setbacks.

Countless soldiers left and died, and some high-level generals also turned into blood overnight.

Enraged, the Emperor of the Empire personally led a million troops, vowing to level the jungle and exterminate those strange primitives.

As a result, under the leadership of a witch king jointly elected by those primitive people, the emperor of the empire was cursed to death at the cost of sacrificial sacrifices at the cost of the lives of tens of thousands of clansmen.

The army of millions, almost all of whom died in the dense forest swamps, became food for those poisonous insects and poisonous snakes.

This once powerful desert empire fell apart overnight, splitting into more than a dozen small countries, and no one dared to set foot in the land of that group of primitive people.

Later, this group of primitive people learned the way of the alien races in the northern desert and established the Southern Ming Empire, with an emperor and a minister of civil and military affairs.

But in this country, the real ruler is the witch king, who is revered and worshiped by everyone.

The power of the Witch King was so great that he could remove the emperor with a single word and elect anyone to become the new emperor.

Li Can pointed to the map and explained these things to Xue Jian and Du Xiaoqing in detail.

After hearing this, both of them couldn't help but be surprised.

Especially Xue Jian, when he heard that the Witch King actually killed a great master of the Eight Realms of Martial Arts with a curse technique, he felt incredible.

At the same time, he also remembered the Blood Moon Clan's innate technique, the Moon Worship Curse.

I have to say that thinking of those weird witchcraft poison Gu and sacrificial curses, Xue Jian felt a little numb on his scalp.

Then, Li Can pointed to a shore area at the bottom of the map and said.

"This is where the vein is, and at the moment, it is only controlled by a local gang and is not in the hands of the wizards, which is good news for us. ”

Xue Jian looked at it, and the ore vein was not far from this Wanghai City, about two or three hundred miles away.

That being the case, let's go and see the ore vein first, and go to the Xue family to find the remnants of the Nine Dragons, and don't worry.

Xue Jian only knew that the entire Xue family had fled to the Southern Ming Empire, but he didn't know where they had settled.

He told Li Can about this on the boat, and when he just stayed in the inn, Li Can's servants had already gone out to inquire about the news.

The three of them chatted about the customs and customs of the Nanming Empire again, and until noon, Li Can's two servants had not returned, which made him sink his face.

It stands to reason that even if they can't find out about it, they should be back at this time.

"General Xue, something may have happened to my two subordinates, I'll go out and take a look first. ”

Li Can immediately got up and walked towards the door.

Xue Jian also stood up, followed, and told Du Xiaoqing to rest in the room and not go out when he left.