【Ancient Country iQue】 Act 22 [Tianqiong]
Tianqiong City is located in the southernmost part of the Ji Dynasty. That area is known as the Abyssal Sea. The azure waters reflect the pristine sky, and the trenches grow deeper and deeper to the south, eventually converging into a huge swirl-like basin at its deepest point, which looks like an abyss when viewed from above. Hence the name Abyssal Sea.
Occasionally, the boats that sail the waters will hear a strange roar from the depths of the abyssal sea, and the unlucky ones will be swept into the waves set off by the roar, and there will be no bones left. Some say the voice came from a demon god whose name had long since been forgotten by the Terrans.
Legend has it that in the deepest part of this whirlpool, one of the "Twelve Demon Gods" of the primeval mythological era was sealed. All the trenches that converge into this basin contain a curse that the Emperor of Heaven bestowed on this demon god. These curses have become the shackles that have imprisoned the demon god in the deepest part of the world, and time has become the most eternal torment for it. The world-famous Tianqiong City was built on this mysterious abyssal sea, and it has been more than 600 years since the establishment of the end of the Ember Dynasty.
The Ji Dynasty was a dynasty in which the patriarchal system and the feudal system were parallel. As the two pillars of the political system of the Ji Dynasty, the relationship between the feudal system and the patriarchal systemThe feudal system is also known as the feudal system or feudal system, that is, "feudalism" in the narrow sense, and the co-lord or the central dynasty divides the territory to the in-laws of the clan and the children of meritorious officials, which belongs to the category of political system.
The patriarchal system is the basis of the feudal system, which is the patriarchal system in the family sphere and the feudal system in the national context. The two are interdependent and interdependent, and they are tools for maintaining the internal relations of the ruling class and strengthening the hereditary rule of the slave owners and aristocracy. The division of feudal layers formed a strict hierarchy, which ensured the monopoly and privileged position of the aristocracy in politics, and the patriarchal relationship was conducive to the cohesion of the clan, the prevention of internal strife, the strengthening of royal power, and the close integration of "country" and "family".
In the last years of the Ember Dynasty, the tyrant left Ember, indulged in wine, and gradually ignored the affairs of the court, and instead entrusted the world to twelve women dressed in black to take care of it. This was the first appearance of the Black Sky Sect in the Terran political arena. Subsequently, on the temple, the monarchs and ministers were separated, the government was not in order, the people of the world were in turmoil, and the righteous army and the princes rose together.
At this time, "Xi", who had been reincarnated as Emperor Mu Jing of Jiwu, with the help of the "Chiyan Warriors", killed "Shuo", who was reincarnated as Emperor Ember of the Ember Desolation, ending the era of the Black Heaven Sect's regent over the Terran Dynasty, and establishing the great Terran Dynasty "Ji" on the ruins of the Ember Dynasty.
Before that, in order to escape the war and persecution, the four giants of the world gathered all their belongings to buy and build 100,000 specially made merchant ships, broke through the turbulent waves, passed through the endless sea fog, and came to this mysterious and awe-inspiring abyss sea, and used iron cables and giant anchors to establish the world-famous sea pearl Tianqiong City.
Tianqiong City takes the abyssal sea as a natural danger, and takes advantage of the sea fog and huge waves to escape from the world. Neither surrender to anyone, nor contend with the world. When Tianqiong City was built, it was the day when the Ji Dynasty was established. As a maritime city that never sleeps independently of Tiannan, it can be said that it has it all.
In the early years, Tianqiong City was isolated from the world and did not interact with the outside world, until Bai Xian, the ancestor of the Bai family, accidentally broke in and brought greetings from the Ji Dynasty to this free sea city that never sleeps, although there were many ups and downs, misunderstandings, and conflicts in the process, but in the end, Bai Xian, the head of the Bai family, used his sincerity to open up the connection between Tianqiong City and the Ji Dynasty at that time. Since then, no land has become an island.
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After Yun Fan left the kingdom of Shu, the first place he went to was Tianqiong City. At this moment, he needs money, people and materials the most. In fact, if the problem of money can be solved first, the rest of the problems will not be a problem.
Tianqiong City is located in the abyss sea of Jinan, although it faces each other across the sea from Luo and Yan, it mainly has close trade with Yanguo. And if Yun Fan wants to go to Tianqiong City, there are two routes to choose from, one is through the Luo Country, and the other is through the Yan Country.
At this time, because of the appearance of the Black Heaven Sect, the Yan Kingdom began to strictly check all the people who entered and exited the country, Yun Fan did not want people to find out that he had left the Shu Kingdom, so Yun Fan could only walk through the three cities of Qiyun, Fenghua and Shaoguang in the Luo Kingdom on foot, and after reaching its southernmost Guanlan City, he took the "White Luo Divine Turtle" to Tianqiong City located in the abyss sea.
Due to the advantage of geographical location, Tianqiong City only has spring and summer, and there is no autumn and winter. Therefore, every autumn and winter, many people will flock to Tianqiong City to spend the winter. Yun Fan didn't expect that there would be so many people in Guanlan City this year. In previous years, people would take a merchant ship called "Treading Waves" in the country of Yan and rush to Tianqiong City comfortably, but this year, due to the activities of the Black Heaven Sect, people have set off from Guanlan City to take the "White Turtle" that may be a little "willful".
It is the offspring of the mythical beast "Xuanluo Golden Turtle" and the Abyssal Sea Hawksbill Turtle, which is usually very docile, but once it meets the "three-legged bird" of Qiguo, it will become particularly irritable.
The "Treading Waves" merchant ship is the asset of the Bai clan of Yan Kingdom, a "Treading Waves" can carry about 800 passengers at a time, and the service and food on board are the most luxurious in the world. Normally, if you take a 15-day voyage by "treading waves", seven days is enough. The "White Turtle" of the Luo Kingdom is twice the size of the "Treading Waves" of the Wild Goose Country, so it is used as a vehicle to transport people by the Luo people, but because the journey from Tianqiong City to the land is really far, and this turtle cannot be restless all day, and sometimes it will hunt the flying fish that emerge from the deep sea when transporting people, resulting in the journey that originally took half a month to become a month or more... By then, winter is over, so it's not usually the first choice for most people.
Yun Fan may have been in Beilu for too long, so he forgot about this. Now he is standing at the Caiyun Wharf in Mission City, and his mood is very complicated. In the past, he had heard that there were usually not too many people taking boats here, but today he saw with his own eyes that there were a lot of people here, and Yun Fan wanted to beat him up violently by the son surnamed Wang, who told him that there were not many people here.
This time, Yun Fan went to Tianqiong City to find this son surnamed Wang, as long as he found it, then the problem of money would be solved. Do you still remember Yun Fan at the night banquet in Bright Moon City before, and told Gu Yina about the story of his childhood, that is, the past when he and a friend lost by peeing in Dian Star City. At that time, Yun Fan was the son who lost to the surname Wang. And now, if he wants to find this prince, he must first cross the crowd of people, and then think about the next abyss sea.
Guanlan City, Caiyun Wharf, bustling.
In order to avoid a stampede, some of the guards of Mission Hills City came here to maintain order at the scene. While everyone was lining up to ride the "White Turtle", a man with thin clothes and long brown hair was walking backwards in the sea of people.
The man looks very thin, but he is very capable. Looking at his plain clothes and sharp-beaked monkey cheeks, he didn't look like someone who could afford to sit on the ship to Tianqiong City.
The brown hair was messy in the wind, and the constant laughter along the way made Yun Fan, who was originally a little bored, curious about him, so he secretly followed his every move.
Maybe there are too many people, so it is inevitable that there will be some collisions when rubbing shoulders, and the man apologizes while going backwards, and his eyes wander in a trance as if he is looking for something.
Soon, there was a noise and quarrel at the front. A middle-aged man with a big belly asked the delicate woman who followed him, "Where did you spend all the money tickets of Lao Tzu?"
"It's still in my pocket just now!, why is it gone!" The woman cried anxiously and put on makeup, and the servant who was responsible for arranging for the passengers to board the turtles looked at them impatiently: "Please go to the side and look for it slowly, there are still so many people waiting behind." ”
There was a urging voice behind the middle-aged man, he looked behind him viciously, and then at the servant who was in charge of arranging, the servant felt that the person who came was not good, so he motioned to the middle-aged man with his eyes to look around, they were all soldiers responsible for maintaining order, it was better to be honest.
The middle-aged man was furious, and gave the woman who was traveling with him a slap: "Slut!" and walked away.
Yun Fan, who saw this scene from afar, sneered.
As the people in front of him moved forward one after another, Yun Fan's pace was also slowly moving forward. At this time, the brown-haired man rubbed shoulders with Yun Fan and accidentally stepped on Yun Fan's foot.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry to borrow it!"
Yun Fan didn't feel anything after being stepped on, if it wasn't for this person apologizing to him, he wouldn't have known that he had been stepped on, but when this person was about to leave, Yun Fan grabbed his arm: "Your hands are faster than your feet." ”
"This boy ......" The brown-haired man looked at Yun Fan in surprise, "What do you mean..."
At this time, there were one after another quarrels about people losing their money. Yun Fan looked at the man in front of him and said coldly: "Do you need me to shout it out in front of so many people, or do you honestly follow me?"
Yun Fan thought to himself, when it came to this, this kid is really capable of pretending. But it doesn't matter, what Yun Fan has is patience. He wanted to see how long the man could pretend.
"Go... Where are you going?" stammered the man.
"If you don't come with me, I'll send you to the government. Yun Fan threatened in the man's ear: "Don't struggle, once the person I am targeting, unless he dies, he will not be able to escape at all." ”
"I don't understand what Childe is talking about?"
"I'll give you some time to figure it out. ”
At this time, people began to move forward, and Yun Fan took the man's arm and moved forward together. In fact, Yun Fan didn't grasp the man's arm very hard, but the man couldn't break free of Yun Fan's hand.
When the man saw this, he knew that he had encountered a roadblock. The dagger that had been hidden in the man's left palm immediately stabbed towards Yun Fan's waist under the cover of the crowd in silence.
No one had ever been able to dodge a man's stab at such a close distance, this dagger was aimed at the vital point, the dagger was smeared with poison that could paralyze people's whole body in an instant, if it was really stabbed, the stabbed person would die alone in silence.
Yun Fan didn't panic, grabbed his wrist, only to hear a crisp dislocation sound, and the dagger landed. The people queuing up around gave up a certain amount of space for Yun Fan, and then watched the two of them.
The man then shouted, "It hurts, it hurts!"
"Now you know what I mean, right?"
Man: "Yes, yes, yes!"
As soon as the words fell, Yun Fan picked him up again.
Facing Yun Fan's question, the man's face became very ugly. After thinking for a moment, he whispered in Yun Fan's ear: "Forgive the little one who has eyes and no beads, and he doesn't know the depth, he really has no intention of offending, he is here to run the rivers and lakes, life is not easy, can the son let go." ”
Yun Fan: "Come with me, I'll act as if I don't know anything." ”
Man: "Where does Childe want to take the little one to?"
Yun Fan: "Go to a place full of gold and bones." ”
Man: "Why does Childe have to pick a small one to accompany him?" ”
Yun Fan: "I see that you are good and want to take you to make a fortune." ”
Man: "Childe, this is a nobleman who wants to be a little noble?"
"You can't talk about it, but. Yun Fan touched the palm of the man's right arm and retrieved the piece of jade that had just been taken away from him by the man, which was the treasure jade given to Yun Fan by the old lord Yun Chen: "Don't beat my idea, otherwise I will help you unload which hand is not clean next time." ”
"Don't dare, there won't be a next time. The man's eyes were a little flustered, and he whispered to Yun Fan: "Then, what does the son need to let the little one do." ”
"In the richest place in the world, show what you are best at. Yun Fan let go of the hand that grabbed the brown-haired man, and the man didn't immediately turn around and run, Yun Fan thought to himself that this kid seemed to be a little interested in what he had just said.
"Could it be that Childe is going to take the little one with you..."The brown-haired man seemed to have guessed where he was going, but he was not sure. Yun Fan cleared his throat and said solemnly: "Tianqiong City." ”
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The full name of the prince of Tianqiongcheng is Wang Miaozhou,
His friendship with Yun Fan is not ordinary.
The two once peed together in Dianxing City and robbed the bride, but in the end, when they were surrounded by the bride's family at the same time, Wang Miaozhou gave Yun Fan a kick and ran away. If Yun Ji hadn't arrived in time with someone at that time, it is estimated that Yun Fan would have been beaten to death with a stick, and there would be no stories from now to later.
Despite this, Yun Fan still thinks that Wang Miaozhou is a good brother, and Wang Miaozhou is naturally too. When he and Yun Fan grabbed the bride, Wang Miaozhou didn't know that this kid who peed and lost to him was actually the prince of the country, and he regretted it afterwards, so the two fought.
In that fight, Yun Fan won.
Wang Miaozhou, who lost, also re-acquainted with Yun Fan in this fight, and then the two became brothers with different surnames. Since then, Wang Miaozhou has not pit Yun Fan again, although sometimes Wang Gongzi is not very reliable, but the shrewd Wang Gongzi is still very righteous towards his brother.
A few years ago, in order to find out the truth about his life experience, Yun Fan went to Beilu without saying goodbye. Wang Miaozhou was very angry about this, feeling that Yun Fan didn't treat him as a brother and didn't say a word when he left, so he left the country before the "Heavenly Fire Tribulation".
After leaving the kingdom of Shu, Wang Miaozhou met a woman surnamed Shui and came to Tianqiong City with her. With the help of this woman surnamed Shui, Wang Miaozhou, who was born in a merchant family, soon became a famous "prince" in Qiongcheng on this day.
It was also on the day he became the "prince prince" of Tianqiong City that Wang Miaozhou realized that he was just a pawn in the game between this woman surnamed Shui and the Tianqiong City Chamber of Commerce. Wang Miaozhou, who has always disliked being manipulated by others, parted ways with the woman in a fit of anger.
With the money he has earned and the reputation he has established in Tianqiong City over the years, the frustrated prince has also lived a drunken life since that day.
At first, he planned to spend all the money on his body and leave this Tianqiong City, which was full of gold and bones. But the city that never sleeps, located on the abyssal sea, is also a City of Desire. How could it let go of such an interesting and valuable soul.
There is no end to desire. When the door of desire is opened, no one can send the beast of desire back to its original small heart.
After breaking up with a woman surnamed Shui, Wang Miaozhou lingered in Fireworks Willow Lane all day long. Gradually, he had forgotten what he was like in the first place. Perhaps, he doesn't care at all, after all, people always have to look forward.
When Mingyue City, known as the Pearl of Jibei, ushered in the first new snow of this year, Yun Fan, who took the "Bailuo Divine Turtle", bathed in abundant sunshine and boarded the Tianqiong City, a pearl on the sea located in Jinan.
Before coming, Yun Fan had already ordered someone to find out the general situation in this city, as well as the current situation of this "prince". In order to make everything go smoothly according to Yun Fan's plan in his heart, Yun Fan carefully calculated every step.
He plans to surprise this good brother he hasn't seen for many years, and then smoothly let him pay the money willingly, and then take him out of this drunken city of lust and return to his dream country to do great things.
A few years later, according to Wang Miaozhou and Meng Jian's recollection of this past, he emphasized to Meng Jian more than once that he had reunited with Yun Fan when he was drinking flower wine. At that time, Meng Jian was preparing to write a story about himself and the era he experienced, and in Meng Jian's pen, the reunion of Wang Gongzi and Yun Fan was naturally indispensable.
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Jinan, Abyssal Sea, Tianqiong City.
According to the plan, Yun Fan has stepped into this Sex and the City full of gold and white bones. Not long after he came out of the boat house on the back of the "White Turtle", he was hungry. After leaving the dock, Yun Fan and the brown-haired man found a random restaurant, but the bench came out before it was hot.
The currency that circulated between the nations and the "silver tickets" of the Ji Dynasty were not accepted here, only gold and the "golden tickets" that could be used all over the world. The "Golden Ticket" was first invented by Tianqiongcheng. The depositor delivers the cash to the shopkeeper, who temporarily fills in the amount of gold deposited by the depositor on a roll made of silver thread paper, and then returns it to the depositor, and when the depositor withdraws the gold, the interest paid to the shopkeeper for each brick is three gold as a custodian fee.
This kind of silver paper coupon that temporarily fills in the deposit amount is called a "golden ticket". Later, Emperor Jiwu Mu Jing concocted and invented the "silver ticket" in accordance with the law, but Tianqiong City did not accept the "silver ticket". The "Golden Ticket", like the "Silver Ticket", is a proof of deposit and withdrawal, not a currency.
The high prices in Tianqiong City are beyond the reach of the people in the world! So how high are the prices in Tianqiong City today? The minimum consumption here is calculated in gold.
I've long heard that every inch of land is expensive here, and people never use copper and silver ingots. Seeing it today, Yun Fan was not surprised, but was directly stupid. He didn't expect that when he came here today, Tianqiong City's first impression on him was not wealth, but magic!
In other places, it may only cost five copper plates to eat a bowl of noodles or rice, but here it costs five gold coins! Even if you buy a pot of water, you have to pay gold coins! Although Yun Fan understands how precious it is to be able to drink edible water at sea, it is too expensive.
Legend has it that the financial resources of any of the twenty-seven presidents of the twenty-seven trading houses in Tianqiong City could easily support the high armament expenditures of any of the princes of the Dongji or Xiji dynasties for several years.
Therefore, Yan Feng, as the president of the twenty-seven chambers of commerce, stipulated that all the presidents of the chambers of commerce and registered businessmen in Tianqiong City were strictly forbidden to participate in the political game between the countries of Tianqiong. Although Yan Feng had funded the revitalization of the Yan Kingdom in the early years, he was not the president of the Tianqiong City Chamber of Commerce at that time.
Considering that once Tianqiong City participated in politics, it would have a subversive impact on the Tianxia Kingdom, and later Yan Feng did not fund another penny to the Yan Kingdom after becoming the president of the twenty-seven commercial houses in Tianqiong City, and formulated the above-mentioned explicit order.
Yun Fan and the brown-haired man stood on the street of Tianqiong City, looking at the people coming and going, a little melancholy, the person in charge of answering would not contact him until night, before that he had to wander around here first.
I have to admit that there is the cleanest air in the world, the most luxurious architecture, the most convenient travel, and the best service, and everything is the most expensive!
Bathed in the most charming sea breeze, you can see the clearest stars and moon in the whole world here, and immerse yourself in the never-ending prosperity in the laughter and songs.
Free seagulls skim over the City of Desire, a city of more than 100,000 giant ships, and the cold iron chains bind the ship to the ship, so that it will not be washed away by the waves of the abyssal sea. Here, no ship will become an island, but this does not mean that there is no island in the hearts of every person in Tianqiong City.
Mercury Moon is Wang Miaozhou's island.
He thought he had her.
But the cruel truth told him.
Those are just plays.
When Wang Miaozhou won a place in this city divided by 27 chambers of commerce in the appearance of "Wang Gongzi", Mercury Xingyue also confessed her ambition to Wang Miaozhou on that day, what Mercury Xingyue did not expect was that her "sincerity" and "invitation" did not impress Wang Miaozhou.
After learning that he was used as a chess piece, Wang Miaozhou, in order to stimulate Mercury and Yue, began to indulge in fireworks and willow lane, and gradually forgot what he used to be like.