Windy City is five days away from the Imperial City.

The four of them silently urged the horses to hurry, after all, they felt reluctant to go out for the first time.

In order to liven up the atmosphere, Jiang Kong told everyone a joke.

Jiang Kong was an otaku who mixed up with the Internet in his previous life, and there were a lot of yellow-level jokes in his stomach, and soon Jiang Yuanba laughed, Jiang Jingyi's face was flushed, and she was coquettish.

Jiang Chen looked adoring, "The young master understands a lot." ”

In Jiang Chen's heart, the young master is omnipotent.

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Four days later, it was not far from the imperial city.

In the evening, Jiang Kong and several people rushed to the outside of a city, and the three big characters of "Baoning City" were prominently engraved on the city wall.

Baoning City, it seems that the scale is not small, from the appearance it is more than ten times larger than Gale City, and it is the largest city that Jiangkong and several people have seen along the way.

Jiang Kong saw that it was getting late, so he decided to rest here, and then said: "Let's go, go in and have a look, rest here today, and hurry again tomorrow morning, just to visit this Baoning City." ”

Several men marched towards the gate of the city on horseback, but were stopped by the city guards.

Jiang Kong frowned, "What are you doing?" ”

A squad leader of the city guards who seemed to be the leader stepped forward, "According to the regulations, if any outsider wants to enter Baoning City, everyone needs to pay an entrance fee of five gold coins. ”

When Jiang Yuanba heard this, his eyes widened: "Damn, you are robbing, I haven't heard that you have to charge for entering a city, and you have to pay five, which is enough for half a year's living expenses for an ordinary person." ”

The captain of the city guard team was not annoyed when he heard this, and said in a flat tone: "This is our city lord's rule, if you want to enter, you have to pay the fee, if you don't enter, you will leave, no one will stop you." ”

"Well, I don't believe it yet. ”

Jiang Yuanba jumped up, and was trying to have a good fight with these city guards.

Jiang Kong hurriedly stopped him and said, "Forget it, just twenty gold coins, don't cause trouble and delay the trip." ”

After speaking, he took out twenty gold coins and gave them to the captain of the city guard.

The squad leader also breathed a sigh of relief, and he also saw that Jiang Kong and the others were not small characters.

When I entered the city, I saw a crowd of people on the street dozens of meters wide, and there were many shops on both sides of the street.

This Baoning City is really extraordinary.

A few people came to an inn called "Family Kiss".

A shopkeeper with a pockmarked face stepped forward to greet him warmly.

Jiang Chen handed the horses to the shopkeeper who came to entertain him, and then ordered: "Little Er, arrange a few rooms for a few of us, and then serve some wine and food." ”

"Okay, a few guest officers, please. ”

When he came to the private room on the second floor, Jiang Kong took out ten gold coins and said to the shopkeeper: "Man, ask you something, answer well, this is yours." ”

When Xiao Er saw it, his eyes were straight, ten gold coins were equivalent to half a year's salary, and now he could get it by answering only a few questions, and Xiao Er rarely met such a generous guest.

"Uncle, may I ask, in this Baoning City, there is nothing that my Wang Er Mazi doesn't know. ”

It's good to be rich, and the title has been changed to uncle.

"You first carefully introduce Baoning City, and why do you want to collect city fees. ”

"Hey, it seems that the uncles are not locals, it's like this," then Xiao Er said slowly.

It turns out that this Baoning City can be said to be the gateway to the east of the Water and Fire Empire, and it only takes three hundred miles to reach the Imperial City directly after Baoning City, so the geographical location is very important, and the Emperor of the Water and Fire Empire not only sent heavy troops to garrison here, but also sent a high-level city lord of the Martial King to sit in the town.

Not only that, because Baoning City is the only way to enter the imperial city, after hundreds of years of development, it has also formed a complete economic system.

In addition to the City Lord's Mansion, there are also two major forces in the city.

They are the Dongfang family, which focuses on alchemy, and the Sima family, which focuses on refining weapons, and in terms of pills and weapons, these two families basically monopolize nearly half of the market in the Water and Fire Empire.

As a result, various chambers of commerce have established branches here, and gradually become the largest city in the Water and Fire Empire except for the Imperial City, and the two families often cooperate with several chambers of commerce to hold various auctions, which has also accelerated the pace of development of Baoning City.

Of course, as the second largest city after the Imperial City, Baoning City has an economic system headed by two major families in the city, and the city is prosperous and lively, and it is a good place for ordinary people to live, while the area of the city is limited, which causes an overcrowded situation.

Therefore, the city lord of Baoning City came up with a way to charge fees for entering the city, first, it can generate income; Second, the threshold for entering the city can be set to control the dilemma of rapid population growth in Baoning City.

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After the introduction of the shopkeeper, a few people had a preliminary understanding of this Baoning City.

The shopkeeper was about to leave, and suddenly remembered something, "Oh, a few uncles and young ladies, there is an auction at eight o'clock tonight, which is jointly organized by the Water Moon Chamber of Commerce and the Oriental Family, if you are interested, you can go and have a look." ”

Jiang Kong was overjoyed to hear this, he was a human being in his past and present lives, and he had heard the word auction from various channels, and he heard that it was a place where some rich people spent a lot of money, and he didn't expect that he would have the opportunity to see it today.

After being full of wine and food, Jiang Kong waved his hand, "Let's go, let's go and see what good things are in this auction, so that you can also see the world." ”

"Okay, okay!" Jiang Jingyi had never left Windy City since she was a child, and she had never seen such a strange thing, so she applauded happily when she heard this.

Jiang Yuanba also rubbed his hands, nodded his head, and strongly agreed.

"Alright, the auction is about to start, let's go!"

A pro-inn is not far from the Water Moon Chamber of Commerce, where the auction is held, just around the corner.

The Water Moon Chamber of Commerce is one of the three major chambers of commerce in the Water and Fire Empire, second only to the Heavenly Spirit Chamber of Commerce in the Water and Fire Empire, and its headquarters is located in the Imperial City of the Empire, and the slightly larger cities of the empire have its branches.

Several people came to the auction site, which was crowded with people, many of whom still had an invitation card in their hands.

After a little inquiry, it turned out that this auction was not just a matter of entering the auction as soon as you wanted to, and it also required the presentation of the invitation card issued by the organizer.

"What should I do, we don't have an invitation! It's not that we can't get in," Jiang Jingyi said with a frown.

Jiang Kong thought for a moment, smiled slightly, and said, "Don't worry, there is nothing in this world that your brother Jiang Kong can't do." ”

Jiang Kong's head turned, he read so many online novels in his previous life, and when he encountered this situation, he usually took out a little good thing to participate in the auction, and when he got the money to buy things, he might even get a VIP room location.

As for the auction approaching and allowing no more items to be auctioned, Jiang Kong didn't think about it at all, who would refuse if there was something good, unless he was stupid B.

"You, come here," Jiang Kong walked directly in front of a guy who looked like a little steward.

"I don't know what you're doing, boy," the fellow* replied. ”

"Show this to your manager," he said, throwing a pill to the fellow.

Seeing Jiang Kong's attitude, the guy was about to get angry, and suddenly found that the pill in his hand was not simple, after all, as the leader of the Water Moon Chamber of Commerce, he still had some eyesight, so he immediately took the pill and quickly reported it.

Soon I saw a half-hundred-year-old man walking out quickly, the guy was leading the way in front, and when he saw Jiang Kong, he immediately said, "Lord Steward, it's him." ”

The head of the Water Moon Chamber of Commerce immediately showed a smile and said, "This son, whose surname is Gu, is now added as the head of the Water Moon Chamber of Commerce, and I don't know the name of the son." ”

"Hehe, Ben Shaojiangkong. ”

"It turned out to be Gongzi Jiang, I have been looking up for a long time, and I am in Gongzi Jiang, please. ”

Several people walked into the inner hall with the head of the Water Moon Chamber of Commerce.

The guy served the fragrant tea, and the chief manager Gu immediately couldn't help it, took out the pill that Jiang Kong had just given to the leader of the guy and asked, "Gongzi Jiang, forgive the old man for being clumsy, I don't know what is so particular about this elixir, and I also ask Gongzi Gaozhi." ”

Jiang Kong looked at Chief Manager Gu and said: "Chief Manager Gu, this pill is called Broken General Pill, the so-called Broken General means the pill that breaks through the generals, after any grade of martial artists take it, they can instantly break through the generals without any side effects." ”

Chief Gu froze, there is still this elixir? Isn't this an upgraded version of the Realm Breaking Pill? It is rumored that this elixir has long been lost, but I didn't expect that there are still some that have been passed down in the world.

Seeing the expression of the Gu manager, Jiang Kong immediately knew the preciousness of this Broken General Pill, and was secretly shocked in his heart, fortunately he didn't take out the Broken Commander Pill, otherwise it would cause a bigger sensation.

This broken general pill was exchanged by Jiang Kong in the system mall, 8000 exchange points, with Jiang Kong's current financial resources, he can only buy a dozen of them, which shows its preciousness.

Manager Gu came back to his senses and became more respectful, the identity of a person who can have such a treasure must not be simple.

"Jiang Gongzi, you handed over such a precious elixir to the old man, didn't you want to auction it here. ”

"Of course, I still have a few more of this elixir, I hope to cooperate with the Water Moon Chamber of Commerce to see if there is anything I need in the auction house, and then exchange it for some heavenly treasures," After speaking, Jiang Kong exchanged four more Broken General Pills and handed them over to Chief Gu together.

"No problem. ”

Chief Gu stood up and took the four Broken General Pills, and said in his heart, "The auction is about to start, I'll arrange it now, and someone will bring a few people into the auction site later." ”

After saying that, he hurried down.

After a while, a middle-aged man in his forties walked over and said respectfully to Jiang Kong, "Young Master Jiang, the auction is about to start, and the Contemptible Chamber of Commerce has prepared a private room for you, please come with me." ”

"Hehe", Jiang Kong thought secretly: "Sure enough, there is a box, and today I Jiangkong also want to enjoy the feeling of a rich man spending money." ”

The auction was set up on the top floor of the Chamber of Commerce and was jointly organized by the Water Moon Chamber of Commerce and the Oriental Family.

The entire venue is half the size of a football field, with a total of 12 private rooms inside, and about 200 ordinary seats outside.

The middle-aged man respectfully took Jiang Kong and the others to the No. 10 private room, and said apologetically: "I'm sorry, Jiang Gongzi, the private room in front has already been booked, so I can only wronged a few people." ”

Jiang Kong lay on the sofa, stretched comfortably, waved his hand, and said: It's okay, it's not bad here. ”

"Then I wish a few sons a good time and take pictures of their favorite treasures. ”

After saying that, he left the private room.