Tang Xiaohao was not interested in the dark chess that Su Mu said, but regarded it as a huge hidden danger.

What he was most interested in now was why the Yan clan withdrew without warning and retreated so suddenly.

Su Mu continued: "The imperial court has been collecting relevant information about Ruiyuan, although it is not too difficult to collect information, but it is even more difficult to send information, because intelligence focuses on timeliness, and sometimes when the imperial court receives information, the information has lost its meaning."

Tang Xiaohao grasped the key point in Su Mu's words: "You said that it is not difficult to gather intelligence, which means that Ruiyuan is not monolithic?"

Su Mu nodded and said, "Ruiyuan seems to be united, but in fact it is chaotic, it can be said that it is a group of rabble."

Tang Xiaohao was surprised when he heard this: "A rabble? I didn't hear my father say that before, the courts of all dynasties rarely had the upper hand in the wars with the Yan people, and basically they suffered big losses, and the Yan people fought very wildly, and they were completely a group of bloodthirsty madmen."

Su Mu nodded and said, "That's true, but you have to know that the ancestors of the Yan clan are all a group of exiles, and the Yan clan is not really a group, but is composed of people from all over the Jiuyuan, even after the Kunlun Dynasty, because of the relationship between the Jiang clan, the successive dynasties will never exile people to Ruiyuan again, but Ruiyuan is the only place of shelter and shelter on the land of Jiuyuan for those who have committed serious crimes."

As Su Mu said, although the Kunlun Dynasty gradually did not exile prisoners to Ruiyuan, there are still many people who try their best to go to Ruiyuan.

Among these fugitives, there are the remnants of the rebels who have failed to rebel in previous dynasties, as well as the imperial court, and there are countless people in the rivers and lakes and strangers.

These people, together with the descendants of the original exiles, finally formed the later feared Ruiyuan Yan clan.

After all, Ruiyuan is actually a natural prison in Jiuyuan, full of vicious criminals who yearn for freedom.

"I see," Tang Xiaohao nodded slightly, "I thought about the Ruiyuan Yan Clan too simply."

Su Mu said, "The biggest problem of the Ruiyuan Yan clan in the past few hundred years was the war between the Yan clan and the snow demon clan, which lasted for hundreds of years and ended with the Yan clan winning."

Tang Xiaohao was surprised: "There is still such a thing? The Yan Clan is so powerful, even the Snow Demon Clan can defeat it?"

After speaking, Tang Xiaohao remembered the little bell again: "Since the Snow Demon Clan is gone, there is no point in the little bell returning to Ruishan."

Little Bell left Ruiyuan almost 10,000 years ago, and even the memory of Ruishan when he was Xue Yao was very vague, not to mention what happened in the next 10,000 years.

Su Mu continued, "The little bell is a snow demon, and the whole court knows about it, and this matter can't be hidden. You know what that means, so even if the little bell is willing to follow you in the future, he must change his name and surname to hide his true identity."

Tang Xiaohao nodded and said, "I know."

Not to mention the Nanrong family, even Ji Chengying would not be down-to-earth, if he still knew that Tang Xiaohao hid the mandala flower elf in the harem and put it by his sister Tang Wangshu's side, he would definitely suspect Tang Xiaohao's motives.

This is also one of the important reasons why Tang Xiaohao is only nineteen years old, and at the beginning of his life, he wants to take the little bell to live a peaceful life somewhere.

Su Mu also knew that Tang Xiaohao was wandering, and tried to ask, "Why did the Yan Clan and the Snow Demon Clan start a war, do you want to know? Or are you going to find the little bell now?"

Tang Xiaohao came back to his senses: "Say it."

Su Mu hesitated for a moment and asked, "How are you and Little Bell doing now?"

So, Tang Xiaohao told Su Mu and Ji Chengying everything that happened after they left Rouyuan, especially about everything that happened to Xue Yao and Feng Heng ten thousand years ago.

Tang Xiaohao couldn't stop as soon as he said it, because he was desperate to find someone to talk to, and he couldn't tell others what was in his heart.

He couldn't tell Bao Meng, because Bao Meng was already the king of the clan, and his confiding would only distract Bao Meng. He couldn't tell the three spirits in the credit pot, for some reason, he just felt that they couldn't understand him.

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However, Su Mu almost never had an in-depth conversation with Tang Xiaohao about feelings, but Tang Xiaohao always felt that Su Mu should be able to understand himself.

In addition to nodding, Su Mu only had his eyes, and he didn't ask questions, nor did he interrupt Tang Xiaohao.

He knew that in addition to confiding, Tang Xiaohao was venting.

Tang Xiaohao didn't vent his emotions completely, suppressed his emotions when they were about to get out of control, and then sat there, looking at the ground and silent.

Seeing this, Su Mu finally spoke, "If you have anything to say, just say it, at least with me, you can say whatever you want."

Tang Xiaohao looked at Su Mu and said, "Actually, since the day I got married to Little Bell, I have a very bad premonition, that is, I can't stay with her for a long time, the more I go on, the stronger this feeling becomes, I don't know if this is a sense of fate, but I'm scared."

Su Mu said, "Do you believe in fate?"

Tang Xiaohao shook his head, and then nodded: "It should be regarded as believing, if you don't believe in fate, some things can't be explained, I have to at least give myself an explanation."

Su Mu hit the nail on the head and said, "You just think it's unfair, why is Xue Yao willing to leave with Feng Heng with all her heart, but Little Bell doesn't want to be with you, are you asking yourself, Little Bell is unwilling to be with you, is it really afraid that you will be frozen forever?" You don't want to believe her from the bottom of your heart."

Tang Xiaohao was silent for a long time before nodding and said, "Yes, even if she is the incarnation of the Snow Demon Hades Ruins, she will always remember Feng Heng in her heart, but the damage that Feng Heng caused to her is too great."

Su Mu said: "I don't know what to say, since you said before that you are willing to believe in fate, then don't be entangled, everything that happens next will be subject to the arrangement of fate."

Fate is never up to man, everything is doomed in the dark.

People's determined desire to change at some point is not because they are willing to change, but because their fate has been modified.

Tang Xiaohao said with a smile, "Continuing with the previous topic, why did a war break out between the Yan Clan and the Snow Demon Clan?"

Su Mu said: "The Snow Demon Clan has no hostility towards the Yan Clan, even if the Yan Clan entered Ruishan to dig for cold food, the Snow Demon Clan did not intervene, because the Snow Demon Clan knew the necessity of survival, but after the Yan Clan discovered that there was a gem like Snow Stone hidden in Ruiyuan Mountain, everything changed."

When the snow stone was discovered, the Yan clan didn't take this kind of stone seriously at all, because Ruiyuan was too cold, and it was not uncommon for them to have such a difficult to melt gem in an extremely cold place.

Later, a merchant from Huayuan accidentally found this kind of stone, so he asked for a few from the Yan people to bring back to Huayuan, and then found that in the hot summer, this snow stone can be used to cool off, and immediately found out where the business opportunity is.

When the merchant came to Ruiyuan again, he hoped to ask for more of these snow stones.

After all, the people of Ruiyuan are not stupid, because those merchants are unprofitable people, and the reason why they are so interested in one thing is self-evident.

The Ruiyuan people took advantage of the situation and no longer regarded the snow stone as a gift, and began to sell it, or let the merchants exchange it for something.

Although the merchant pursued profits, he could only do ordinary business and did not understand the essence of business, so he nodded at whatever the Yan people said at that time.

This made those Yan people realize that there was a great business opportunity here, so they no longer only traded with this trader, but began to sell this snow stone to other traders.

When other traders learned about the stone, they began to buy it, and the price continued to rise.

The sharp rise in the price of snow stone has led to countless Ruiyuan Yan people pouring into the mountains to mine snow stone.

One mountain after another was hollowed out, until one day someone discovered that there were snow and stone mines in Ruishan, so the Yan people began to pour into Ruishan despite the severe cold. It's as if instead of risking their lives to dig up snow rocks, they're swarming to rob the treasures that are everywhere.

Naturally, this matter was also known to the rulers of the Yan clan, that is, the five banners of the Yan clan.

The Five Banners of the Yan Clan knew that if ordinary people were allowed to dig like this, the rulers of the Yan Clan, who claimed to be the masters, would not be able to reap the slightest benefit. But he

We can't stop the Yan people from mining, because Ruiyuan, a barren and bitter cold place, is not easy to survive in the first place, and it is easy to cause large-scale civil uprisings.

Therefore, the five banners of the Yan clan began to extract snow and stone taxes.

The so-called snow stone tax means that every time Ruiyuan makes a single snow stone transaction, both the buyer and the seller need to pay a certain tax.

This naturally leads to the price of snow stone continuing to rise, and the more valuable the snow stone is, the more people will take the risk of mining.

Ruishan was originally the home of the Snow Demon Clan, in the past, the Yan people went to Ruishan to dig cold food for survival, and the Snow Demons chose to ignore it, but after a large number of snow stones existed in Ruishan, the Snow Demon Clan had no peaceful day.

The Snow Demon Clan began to warn the miners to stay away from Seosan. But under the temptation of huge interests, how can the Yan people be willing to listen? There are even some Yan people who start to fight the idea of snow demons.

Since Snow Stone can be sold for such a high price, then the Snow Demon will definitely sell better.

You must know that there are also many aliens who have escaped from other origins among the Yan people, and they naturally know how to capture monsters.

Many Yan aliens who thought it was too troublesome to mine snow stones began to set up an inner array enchantment to capture the snow demons, and then found that the price of the snow demons was far higher than that of the snow stones.

Snow Stone is just not easy to melt, but sooner or later it will melt, but the Snow Demon must have existed much longer than Snow Stone, and most of the Snow Demon Clan are women.

At this time, in order to avoid an outbreak with the Yan clan, the Snow Demon Clan directly sent an envoy to the summer capital to negotiate with Wenchang Banner, and asked the Yan Clan's five flags to stop the excavation of Ruishan and the encroachment on the Snow Demon, otherwise, the Snow Demon Clan would attack the Yan Clan.

Instead of ordering it to stop, the Five Banners of the Yan Clan captured the mission sent by the Snow Demon Clan on the spot and sold it to a big merchant from Huayuan.

At the same time, the Five Banners of the Yan Nationality also imitated the imperial court at that time and promulgated the "Commercial Tax Law", which for the first time explicitly allowed Ruiyuan to trade with other original merchants, but all transactions must be taxed proportionally.

Ruiyuan's "Commercial Tax Law" also specifically stated that there are two kinds of trading: snow stone and snow demon, which are divided into two types: self-sale and official sale.

Ruiyuan Five Banners' approach completely angered the Ruishan Snow Demon Clan, who originally wanted to settle it through negotiations.

Then, the Snow Demon Clan launched a protracted war against the Yan Clan.