Chapter Twenty-Three: The Dragon Enters Nanyang
If you want to say that the most desolate place in the world is inside and outside the Yellow River embankment.
Since the Yuan Dynasty Dingdu Jingshi, the Yellow River water transport gradually abandoned, now the middle and lower reaches of the famine year after year, the Yellow River water transport is even more abruptly stopped, except for those ancient ferries along the river and the Grand Canal interface, there are few ships to come and go.
The bright moon was in the sky, listening to the sound of the rushing water on the embankment, Liu kept watch all night, and it was really safe.
When they woke up in the morning, Xia Zhongyong and Zhang Huanghe felt a splitting headache, looked at the tent above their heads, and couldn't help but ask Liu.
"Yulian, where did this tent come from? I don't remember setting up a tent and this bedding?"
Liu said angrily: "You still have the face to ask!" Last night, the two of you kept saying that the amount of alcohol was unparalleled in the world, but the two of them went into battle together, but they were poured down by the master, and the master was afraid that you would catch a cold, so he went back to Xianfu with a drunken spirit to get these things! Especially you, Xiao San'er, you are dead, my master and I barely moved you, sister-in-law, my old waist still hurts! ”
As soon as Liu said this, the two old men blushed with shame, and the two of them didn't work together to lay down the lord, what kind of combat power is the lord? I'm afraid that a thousand cups are not drunk, right? is even more because he is drunk, and he has to serve himself, how can he be this way!
The two were ashamed, so they could only hurriedly dismantle the tent to cover their shame.
When Zhang Zhen came out, the tarpaulin and bedding had been folded neatly.
Zhang Zhen left a bed quilt for Liu to rest on the boat, collected his things, beckoned the three of them to get on the boat, and drove to the center of the river.
On the smooth water, Zhang Zhen taught the two to drive the boat, and the two thought it was a fairy method, where did they dare to learn? was used by Zhang Zhen to use it in future wars, and then scolded a few words, and the two had no choice but to study obediently.
In fact, driving a boat is simpler than driving, the two of them were already surprised, and they were instilled by Zhang Zhen with a heavy responsibility, the responsibility is in the body, and the natural learning is extremely serious, and they quickly got started, and the two men took turns to fight, and the excitement was like two children shouting on the Yellow River.
drove out for more than 100 miles in one go, estimated that it was going to the Grand Canal, and under the command of Zhang Zhen, he carefully landed on the shore, and Zhang Zhen brought the fiberglass assault boat back to the industrial park.
The four of them went ashore, because they took care of Liu's sleepless night, and the gold-headed general found it, so there was no need to go in such a hurry.
At night, it was amazing, Zhang Zhen estimated that the ancients did not dare to sail at night, he was really bold, he got the boat out again at night, turned on the headlights, and the three of them took turns to drive the boat on the canal, and rushed to the Nanyang Lake of Weishan Lake in only one night, rested on the boat for an hour, and only landed at dawn to collect the boat.
What the four people didn't know was that when Zhang Zhen was in Jiaxiang, he used a forklift to run over the wheel prints of eight chasing soldiers, which had been discovered yesterday.
The man reported to the government, and after the people from the yamen went, the horse corpse had been robbed by the hungry people, leaving only seven bloody horse bones, and the corpses of eight dead people were still there.
The corpse is naturally not afraid of the official work, the key is that it is a bit unbelievable with the tire print, and with the huge slap marks of the big bucket that can hold three tons, this case is a big one.
In the face of the unknown, the ancients instinctively carried fear, and did not want to or dare to dig into the bottom of the matter.
The officials of a county argued for a long time, and finally decided that the tire mark was from the dragon's plate, and the beat mark was the dragon's claw print.
This news was too shocking, and it was decided by the government, and it immediately spread as quickly as wings.
And Zhang Zhen's bold boat was also seen by the boatmen moored on both sides of the canal.
The money and grain in the south are all thanks to the Grand Canal to be transported to Beijing, the Grand Canal is like the railway and highway of later generations, the water conditions operated by the Ming Dynasty are good, Zhang Zhen and the three of them are also bold, the speed of the boat is 20 knots, all the way to the wind and waves, the consequence is that the boatmen think that the two hernia searchlights on the bow of the ship are the eyes of the water monster, and the black shadow behind the eyes is the head of the water monster, even if someone sees that it is a human figure through the moonlight, where can they dare to believe it?
In this way, another legend also spread rapidly the next day, saying that a big water monster came out of the Yellow River and swam into the canal, not only roaring like thunder, but also the two eyes were the size of a human head, and the river surface of the eyes was as bright as day, and the head of the water monster was two or three feet, the length was unknown, and the water splash brought out was several miles long.
These two legends soon spread together, and then it was assimilation, fusion, and soon became the Jiaxiang people's anger to the Yellow River Dragon God, the Dragon God flew for hundreds of miles and killed more than ten people, and after flying back to the Yellow River, the next night monster screamed, narrow and supreme might, along the line of the Grand Canal, swam into Nanyang Lake.
Of course, because of ignorance, coupled with the fact that some people add fuel and vinegar, it is also more and more outrageous, and the number of people killed has gone from a dozen to dozens, then to hundreds, then to hundreds, and then to thousands.... In short, how bizarre and how to spread.
Once the water monster is characterized as a dragon god, the size is no longer important, but the light of the eyes and the water waves, what eyes are like electricity shining for ten miles, what water waves are dozens of miles long, and the waves wash away the boats and wash away the river embankment, these two things are also exaggerated and outrageous word of mouth, more and more full of mythology.
And this legend also caused all kinds of chain reactions, and it was deliberately promoted, which eventually led to the early demise of the Ming Dynasty, of course, this is also a later story.
When Zhang Zhen and the four of them arrived in Nanyang, except for the water monster entering Nanyang Lake, the legend of Jiaxiang had not yet been transmitted.
Zhang Zhen's purpose is only three, and it is very simple.
The first is that you want to buy a shop to earn money, and you want to make a lot of gold and silver.
The second is to buy a remote place, study how to apply the science of later generations simply, it must be secretive, it is best to be easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is best not to be afraid of the height of the Yellow River break.
In the end, it is to see if there is a water coarse, and if you can solicit it, you can recruit it, otherwise you will destroy the house.
Silver is the most basic, Zhang Zhen decided to buy the store first, and with this decision, the four of them quickly stepped into the ground of Nanyang Town.
This Nanyang is known as the ancient town, the legend has a history of thousands of years, and it is frequently close to the canal, there is Nanyang Gudu, which is known as one of the four famous towns of the canal.
As soon as you enter Nanyang, there is no trace of the troubled times, and the prosperity of the whole town is much richer than the two county towns you have seen along the way.
Think about it, the more natural and man-made disasters in the north fail, the more dependent the supply of the Jingshi is on the canal, and the prosperity of Nanyang is precisely because of this.
Now in this barren year of land, the cheapest one will give out the title deed for food, and he can't even exchange the silver, plus the fact that a big living person in front of him sold it for five taels of silver, in Zhang Zhen's opinion, the house should also be very cheap.
After asking the price, Zhang Zhen realized that he was wrong, and it was outrageously wrong.
Nanyang's house is sold and leased less, but the price is still very outrageous, the first shop is fifteen taels of silver per month, and it is only rented and not sold.
Do you think it's the Yanjing of the later generations and the city center of the magic capital!
You can buy three or four maids for a month's rent, and it's still your own kind of life and death.
The monthly rent is fifteen taels, and you only rent and don't sell? I'll rent you uncle!
Dude, buy the most remote store! Earn the most money! Kill you black-hearted real estate developers!