The team has set foot on the Takigawa trade route, and the journey is too peaceful, and there are often business travelers who staggered by, and their expressions seem to be very relaxed.

After half a day, I arrived at a checkpoint.

The other caravans had to queue up to pay money to get through here; And He Lingchuan showed his waist card and shook it at the soldiers, and the other party said, "Great Commander!" Then he dodged and greeted them through, without a word of superfluous nonsense.

Until the night, the Gale Army team passed through a total of three levels, and this scene was repeated three times.

Lu Xun observed for most of the day, and still asked: "Commander He, the checkpoints on this trade route seem to be set up a little frequently, and in addition, the soldiers guarding the checkpoints are not the Gale Army, right?" ”

Although these soldiers are dressed in uniforms and have tokens on their waists, they are gangsters and have no standing appearance, only after seeing the Gale Army, they will subconsciously straighten their waists.

He heard that Panlong City was known for its strict military discipline, how could there be such a team?

Of course, Lu Xun was a guest from afar, and he asked more subtly.

"It's not. Mr. Deer's insight is really keen. He Lingchuan knew very well what he wanted to ask, "These were originally Takigawa bandits, and after being recruited by us, they still stayed here to collect road tax." Every time you pass a level, you enter the original sphere of influence of this gang. ”

"This ......" Lu Xun was stunned, but he didn't expect this answer.

After the bandits were recruited, they didn't disperse and practice elsewhere, but stayed here to watch the road? Originally, they could only grab money by fighting with open fire, but now with the official banner of Yuheng City, they don't need to shed blood and sweat anymore, and they can get money by sitting on the ground and reaching out?

It is safe, efficient and painless.

Panlong City, which has always had clear rewards and punishments, how could it be so lenient to the water bandits?

He Lingchuan explained: "The internal situation in Takigawa is complicated, and the Xiqi army that was scattered by us also hid in Takigawa and continued to deal with us. And they are also supported by external forces, and such internal and external collusion is very difficult to eliminate. Therefore, we divide the water bandits and remove the resistance. ”

He added: "Everything is prioritized by the safety of trade routes, and the rest of the problems can be solved slowly." ”

"Before I came, I heard that the trade route of Xiqi was rampant, and I don't want it to be in order now." Lu Xun doesn't care how they do it, anyway, the security on the business road is much better, "I still want to learn from it." ”

"Still wanting" means that I originally wanted to, but now I don't want to. This method used by He Lingchuan was originally tailor-made for the Takigawa bandits, and it was useless for others to learn it.

Everything has to be realistic.

"Bailie also has banditry?"

"Alas, where is it? It's just a matter of severity. The mount was startled by the little boar that jumped out of the roadside, and Lu Xun patted the horse's neck to reassure it, "You are a water bandit here, and we are pirates there." ”

"Oh?" He Lingchuan was curious, "I would like to hear about it." ”

Lu Xun didn't expect him to be interested in bandits thousands of miles away, so he said: "The Yangshan Islands are twenty miles southwest of Blade Harbor and are composed of forty-two islands. The smallest one can only accommodate a few dozen people, while the largest main island, Longji Island, covers an area of more than 1,700 hectares, with mountains and hills, karst caves and canyons, and even plains and lakes on the island. ”

He Lingchuan sizzled lightly. More than 1,700 hectares is more than 110 square kilometers, and this island is really not small.

"Although this Yangshan Islands is my family's territory, they have been infested with pirates for many years. They relied on the dotted islands to play hide and seek with us. ”

He Lingchuan muttered: "Will they go to the coast to plunder?" ”

"Basically, they won't, they will rob merchant ships." Lu Xun explained, "The waters of the Yangshan Islands are very wide, and they are on the only way to go west. If you want to get around it completely, you have to walk more than 200 miles. In addition, there are many winds and waves in the open sea, and the water surface will be much smoother when passing through the archipelago. ”

"Are there civilians on the island?"

"Very few, except for a few ports dedicated to replenishing food and water."

He Lingchuan snapped and killed a mosquito, and muttered in his ear: "Arrange for the troops to concentrate a few sweeps, and then the official garrison on the island, isn't it?" ”

The reason why it is difficult to get rid of the Takigawa bandits is that there are also a large number of civilians living in Shuibo, and they have a close relationship with the water bandits, and sometimes even the bandits are inseparable from each other. Whether it was Xirui before or Yuhengcheng later, it was easy to be injured by mistake if they wanted to suppress bandits, and once they were injured by mistake, they would resist endlessly, and it would be difficult to die.

The leaders of Qianjinzhai and Qiuhua Gang dared to come over to negotiate with him, but they also decided that the Yuheng City army did not dare to rush into Takichuan and kill indiscriminately.

But there is no such problem in the Yangshan Islands, except for pirates, almost no one lives, so why are the Bailie people polite to them?

"Yes, but bandits are like weeds, and if we slack off, they will continue to grow. And to garrison troops in the Yangshan Islands, it is indeed a bit difficult. ”

"Why?" If nothing else, the area of Longji Island, the main island of Yangshan, is so large, is there no food and fresh water?

Anyway, there's nothing else to do when you're on the road, so it's good to have a chat. Lu Xun sighed: "A long time ago, the ancestor of the Lu family purchased a large territory including Blade Harbor and Yangshan Islands, and thought that the price was cost-effective, but after buying it, I realized that most of the islands in Yangshan Islands could not keep people at all. ”

"Huh? Why? ”

"Every seven days, at night, a gloomy aura wafts out from the caves of the Yangshan Islands and fills the island. This kind of breath is harmless to plants and trees, but it has the ability to induce, but people and animals can't stand it, and they start to get sick after staying on the island for a few more hours, and if they don't leave, they will die. Lu Xun shook his head, "It took us a lot of work to find out that there is a natural yin and turbid vein under the Yangshan Islands!" ”

He Lingchuan thought thoughtfully: "Earth Evil? ”

"Yes, it's the Hell!"

Heaven and earth have yin and yang, yang is pure energy, is the aura, can nourish all things; The yin qi is evil qi and turbid qi, which will wither all things, and the two restrain and grow together. Yang energy floats in the sky, and yin energy sinks to the ground. Since the aura can sink into the ground and become a vein, so can the yin qi. It's just that this kind of leyline is quite rare, and even fewer can communicate with the surface.

The Yuan Kingdom was destroyed, and the resentment of millions of people also formed a land evil, making the old land no grass. However, the natural yin and evil leylines are the opposite, which does not harm plants and trees, but only humans and animals.

The earth is not the same as the earth evil.

"Can't Yuan Li resist it?"

"I can't resist it, the yin evil is too strong." There is also a limit to the power of the Yuan, can the Yuanli of the Bailie people be comparable to the power of heaven and earth? "If you are near the exit of the Yin Evil Vein, you will not live more than two quarters of an hour."

"And there is also a monster living on Longji Island, called the Yin Snake, which can go into the water and eat people." Lu Xun shook his head, "They usually move in a gloomy area. Travelers who strayed into the depths of the archipelago were sometimes eaten alive by these monsters instead of being killed by the demons. ”

(End of chapter)