The fire phoenix swept the sky, Bai Qi took Cao Shen and the two to trace the past, and near the square in the center of Caro City, they saw a huge red multi-faceted crystal.

"What is this?"

Standing on the outskirts of the square, I felt a heat wave blowing in my face. The surface of the crystal was covered with fire, and illusory firebirds flew around the crystal.

Sensing the movement, the garrisons in Caro City ran out to check. Seeing Bai Qi coming, the soldiers hurriedly greeted and saluted.

After Bai Qi calmed everyone, he ordered everyone to continue their work, and he personally took over the inspection of the crystals.

"Junhou, this thing looks like a fire jade?" Cao Shen turned around a few times, bypassed those firebirds, and knocked on the crystal: "Could this thing be a fire jade meteorite descending from the sky?"

"No, this flame is phoenix fire. Seeing the firebird on the surface of the fire jade, Bai Qi's expression changed.

Vaguely, some of his memories came to his mind.

In his memory, he stood in front of Huoyu with Ji Le, Shi Huang and others.

Emperor Shi: "The sky descends from the sky and gives birth to business." In my opinion, the next dynasty in the future can indeed use the name 'Shang'. ”

Ji Le: "It's just that the phoenix is giving away the divine jade." This is the jade seal of the country, what does it have to do with the Shang Dynasty? The 800 years of the Xia Guozuo have only just begun, so don't think about it so much. The top priority is to make this thing into a jade seal to suppress the national ...... Wu Anjun, this thing is very heavy, and the old man and I have no power to bind the chicken, so we can only hand it over to you. ”

"Junhou, Junhou?" Yang Shang woke up the contemplative Bai Qi: "Junhou, do you want to transport this thing back to Luodu?"

Staring at the fire jade, Bai Qi was about to speak, when suddenly a familiar clear voice came from beside him.

"Don't move this thing. ”

Bai Qi turned his head to look at Huo Quzhi, who suddenly appeared, and Huo Quzhi said, "Ji Le asked me to come." Yang Luan and Meng Tian are missing because of this thing, let's stay away for the time being and don't come close. ”

"Yang Luan?" Bai Qi closed his eyes and recalled his memories. Indeed, it seems that there is indeed a memory of this, and Yang Luan and Phoenix are related......

Inside the red jade fire crystal, many soldiers and Meng Tian fell in a space shrouded in red light, only the seven-year-old girl Yang Luan stood there quietly, staring at the six-foot divine bird in front of her.

The chicken head, swallow jaw, snake neck, turtle back, and fish tail are colorful, which is the phoenix in the legend of the Xia Kingdom.

"Are you the Phoenix?" the girl tilted her head, "Where is this?"

The phoenix chirped softly, and the sound was crisp and pleasant. But in Yang Luan's ears, it is automatically translated into human language.

"You mean, you're going to take me home?"

Phoenix nodded.

This phoenix is indeed kind, and heard that Yang Luan and Meng Tian discussed returning to China as soon as possible. So she used her divine power to send the two back to the Xia Kingdom.

But alas, Phoenix didn't control its power. Instead of sending them back to Lodu, they were sent to the city of Caro in the east.

But anyway, this is also the land of Xia Kingdom, isn't it?

The city of Carlo, which is one of the two cities in the east of our country, is also the place where the salt pond is located. Yang Luan recalled his father's documents and said secretly: If the phoenix falls here, it is indeed safe.

"Can I leave now?"

The phoenix shook her head and chirped again.

"You say, you want me to practice the Phoenix True Fa here and then go out?"

Phoenix nodded.

"Uncle Meng and the others are also going to stay together?"

The phoenix nodded again, and a five-colored feather fell into Yang Luan's hand.

took Ling Yu, and it contained a cultivation method. The method is divided into seven levels, and only after cultivating to the third level can you use the Phoenix True Flame to refine the fire jade outside and go out with the Phoenix.

"I see, at the moment, you are also trapped by this phoenix power and can't leave?"

Little Phoenix nodded, with a little helplessness in her eyes. The phoenix power in her body was not just her own, but her mother hastily injected it and sent her to take refuge.

After this power formed a protective fire jade, she couldn't break it alone, so she needed the help of Yang Luan, who had a phoenix vein.

"So, can you help me contact the outside and try to report to my parents that they are safe?"

......

Outside, after Huo Qu's illness arrived, he circled around the fire crystal a few times like Cao Shen.

Bai Qi clasped his hands to his chest and said with a smile: "What, has the hussar general found anything?"

"It's a high-purity energy crystal. Well, it seems to be a ......" The silver snake in Huo Quzhi's sleeve moved, and Huo Quzhi jumped away from the topic: "Yang Luan and others should be inside." According to the intelligence, this fire crystal is related to the phoenix. Maybe ......" He looked up at Cao Shen and Yang Shang: "You two will see our country's divine dragon and phoenix in the future?"

Huh? Huo Quzhi also knows that we have crossed back?

Seeing the surprised expressions of the two, Huo Quzhi was unimpressed.

"Do you think it's good to hide your identity?" Huo Quzhi sneered, "My divine realm lies in time, and it is impossible for your identity to be hidden. ”

However, Bai Qi immediately dismantled the stage: "Don't listen to his nonsense." How could he have discovered your problem in the first place? It must have been Ji Le who told him. However, after being promoted to demigod, you will indeed notice the time weirdness in the two of you. ”

The time of Cao Shen and the others is incompatible with the current era. As long as Huo Quzhi is in close contact, he can detect the problems of the two. But initially, it was indeed Ji Le who told him.

At this time, the fire jade essence flashed, and the phoenix reported to several people outside.

"Huo Quai, this guy is a purebred phoenix. Hurry up, let Uncle Ben eat it!" the ancient snake immediately stirred.

The phoenix, and it is a purebred, phoenix from the direct bloodline of the creator god.

"This guy is also supposed to be an alien species, smuggled in by a descendant of some creator god. ”

Hearing Gu Snake's explanation, Huo Quzhi immediately contacted Ji Le and informed the other party of the situation.

......

A few days later, Nangong Qingyan hurriedly returned to China.

She didn't go back to the royal court, and came directly to the Spirit Palace to ask for peace and ask about Yang Luan's situation. After hearing that Yang Luan was fine, he was still not at ease.

"Your Highness, can you let me see Yang Luan's situation?"

Ji Le ordered someone to bring up the bronze mirror, and Nangong Qingyan personally stepped forward, using witchcraft to reflect the scene of Carlo City, and saw the fire jade standing in the square.

"According to the news that Bi Yao brought back. This is Yang Luan's chance, she met Phoenix and is cultivating. You should think of her as a retreat for a few months. ”

"Phoenix, where did my country come from?" Nangong Qingyan wondered, "Could it be that His Highness has used the power of faith to shape the phoenix again?"

If you believe, you will have, and if you don't believe, you will not.

This is the most essential embodiment of the Yuanmeng world. With the spread of homeland mythology, ancestral spirit worship rose, creating a large number of ancestral gods for the Xia Kingdom. And those spirits in the legends of the homeland also appear frequently in this world.

For example, the former mirage king of Nanyu Mountain is that the ancestors defined a spirit in the fog and transformed that spirit into the image of a mirage.

There are also snakes, nine-tailed foxes, etc., and it is said that some people have seen their traces in the mountains and forests in recent years.

As for the dragon and phoenix and other sacred beasts, the worship of the Xia Kingdom is more extensive. Ji Le set out to create the dragon ten years ago. But it's a pity that for various reasons, the dragon egg created by Ji Le has not been able to break the shell for a long time. And the phoenix sacred bird, since the ancestors crossed, has always regarded the phoenix as a sacred bird auspicious sacrifice, has been a hundred years ago, but has not had the opportunity to see.

When Nangong Qingyan heard the phoenix, she naturally mistook it for the accumulation of a hundred years of faith in the Xia Kingdom, which really gave birth to a divine bird, the phoenix.

"It doesn't seem to be from our side, it's an alien species. ”

As for the origin of the phoenix, Huo Qubing and the ancient snake have been studied.

That phoenix was forcibly sent to another universe after the destruction of a certain universe, and the creator god could not bear to let his child die in the sea of nothingness.

As for the fire jade wrapped around the periphery, it was the crystallization of the divine power of creation.

"Hou Tu is also concerned about this, don't worry, Yang Luan is fine. ”

Hearing Ji Le's promise and moving out the Earth Mother God again, Nangong Qingyan was finally relieved. She then asked about the current Souri Singapore dollar.

"It's hard to say about the other kingdoms, but the eastern kingdoms are our own lands. You look at Yi Gong and Zhao Gao's operations. ”

When the eastern countries were short of grain at home, and other kingdoms were not allowed to export, they had to exchange cloth and grain.

Drink to quench your thirst, but that's it. Even if you know that there will be trouble in winter. But under the threat of starvation, the countries of the East honestly compromised.

However, in terms of coinage, in the end, they have an agreement with the god of wealth, or maintain the final bottom line, and do not give it all out, but only give an agency. That is, when countries mint low-denomination currency, it must be made by Xia Guo's agent, and Xia Guo is allowed to come to various countries to mine copper.

However, the pattern and denomination, as well as the exchange rate with the silver coin, were still determined by mutual agreement between the nations and the god of wealth.

According to the secret covenant of the god of wealth in advance, there is no worry about countries dragging themselves down through the exchange of silver coins and copper coins, because the exchange of copper coins has its upper limit, and it can only exchange a part of silver coins, which cannot lead to the bankruptcy of the god of wealth at all.

So, Xia Guo immediately launched another set of plans.

After the Xuanfeng Divine Monarch's Divine Domain covered the earth, and the cold wind covered the world with a layer of plain white, Xia Guo once again made a request.

Not only did they demand that the eastern countries use spring farm tools and iron tools, but they also hoped to take this opportunity to exchange slaves from other countries.

Similarly, the people in charge of the Oriental transaction are Zhao Gao and Huo Quzhi.

Zhao Gao smiled and looked at the envoys of the five countries in front of him: "Autumn has passed, everyone has already understood, right? This year, except for our Xia country, which did not use new coins and was not cursed, other countries have reduced their production because of the curse." ”

"That's not a curse at all, it's clearly a means of the gods of agriculture!" said one of the messengers angrily, "This is a conspiracy of your Xia Kingdom and the gods of agriculture. ”

Hearing this, Zhao Gao immediately put away the scroll: "Then, this can't be discussed." If your country is stubborn and insists on thinking that this matter is the conspiracy initiated by our Xia Kingdom, then invite all countries to go to war, and we will take it all!"

Winter war?

No kidding.

In the bitter cold, even an elite like the Bado Kingdom could not easily invade other realms.

Seeing that Zhao Gao and Huo Qubing were waiting for the envoys of the Xia Kingdom to leave, an envoy from another country next to them hurriedly stepped forward to dissuade them.

Zhao Gao gave Huo Quzhi a look, and Huo Quzhi shouted: "Get out of the way!"

The time realm unfolded, and the movements of everyone present stopped, only Xia Guo and his party left calmly.

Leaving the conference hall, Zhao Gao and others walked on the streets of the eastern city-state.

In the snow, you can vaguely see the human figure rising on the snow. But these weren't snowmen, they were slaves who had frozen to death.

Huo Quzhi's face changed: "How many things did you ask for in the autumn to force them to be like this?"

"It's nothing, it's just to take away seventy percent of the cloth and animal skins and other things in their country to keep out the cold. It's only 70 percent, and I'm still 30 percent. ”

But what is 30% enough for? I'm afraid it's only enough for the country's magnates and official citizens to keep warm, and no one can take care of these slaves, right?

Huo Quai's mood was a little heavy, Zhao Gao felt it, and comforted: "So didn't Your Highness let us come over?" Adhering to the principle of humanitarianism, our Xia Kingdom is willing to accept their slaves and buy the lives and souls of these slaves with grain. Isn't that a double win?"

"But most of the productive forces of the countries of the East consisted of slaves. Without slaves, their economy would have suffered in the coming year. ”

"Yes, then we will be able to use slaves to sell labor at a low price, and control the production and economy of all countries. Zhao Gao looked as he should be: "Who told them to plan to launch an economic war? Then they will be completely crippled by the economy." Our ultimate goal is not cloth, iron, or slavery. Rather, it is to destroy their state system, force these countries to lose their sovereignty, become our vassals, and accept Xiaization. Let the national spirits of these countries honestly kneel in front of our highness. ”