Chapter 167: Da Ming, West Heavenly Gate
Seeing that he was getting farther and farther away from the island, Gu Shentong did not chase after him, and Song Xing unlocked the acupuncture points of the second daughter.
"Lord, are you alright?"
Chad is free, and the Imperial Divine Son looked at the blood stains on Song Xing's chest and asked anxiously.
Song Xing shook his head: "A little injury is not in the way. ”
With his powerful physique and body, as well as the half-broken brocade's healing method, ordinary injuries really didn't affect him.
A trace of horror flashed in Antiro's eyes: "Who is that old man, I and Sister Shenzi didn't react, so he pointed at the acupuncture point in the air and couldn't move." ”
Song Xing looked back at Dongdao, who was already far away, and said, "You should be glad that Gu Shentong didn't have the intention of killing at first, otherwise I would have seen the corpses of the two of you when I came out." ”
Song Xing shook his head, he didn't expect that leaving Dongyi this time would be so unsmooth.
First encountered Ye Fan's Hongyi warship on the East Island, and had to abandon the ship to escape, and then encountered a storm and accidentally drifted to the East Island, entering the wind cave was detected by the Ceres God Tong with the Son of Heaven Wangqi Technique from the changes in the topography of the mountains and rivers, and intercepted it outside the wind cave.
If it weren't for the Ram Feather's refining sword intent this time, I am afraid that it would not be good in the hands of Gu Shentong.
Antilo shuddered and asked, "Lord, who is that old man, so powerful?" ”
Song Xingyou said: "The king of the East Island, the god of grains is immortal, and the only two people in the world today who have entered the realm of refining the void are certainly not weak. ”
Antiro looked behind him and asked, "Then why did he just watch us leave and not stop us?" ”
Song Xing said: "He is trapped in his oath and will not leave Dongdao in this life, I think it is because of this reason." ”
If it weren't for the fact that Gu Shentong was hindered by the oath, it would not be so easy for Song Xing to get out this time.
Arriving at the East Island, it means that it is not far from the land, Song Xing stargazing positioning, the three of them floated on the sea for another day and night, and finally saw the people, arrived in the Central Plains, and went ashore from Ningbo.
The costumes of the two daughters of Antilo were too eye-catching, and after they went ashore, they changed into Tang costumes, and the three of them crossed the Central Plains and rushed towards Kunlun Mountain.
Because it was the first time to come to the Central Plains, the second daughter was amazed by everything she saw, and at the same time she was amazed by the prosperity of the Central Plains.
At this moment, although the Ming Dynasty has shown a decline, it is far from the scene when the country died a hundred years later, and it is in the most prosperous situation before its demise.
Although Ningbo has been harassed by the Japanese for a long time, it is one of the most prosperous coastal cities because of its developed maritime trade.
Ningbo has an excellent geographical location, located at the southern end of the Grand Canal at the mouth of the sea, with Zhoushan Islands as a natural barrier in the east, Hangzhou Bay in the north and Sanmen Bay in the south, and is an important port city in the Ming Dynasty.
The plague caused Emperor Jiajing to shut down Ningbo for a time, and no longer trade with Japan, and then reopened it due to the shortage of the national treasury.
With the trade of city ships, Ningbo has become a prosperous commercial port that attracts the attention of the world.
Those Japanese who came to Ningbo to trade, with their own goods to Ningbo Port, made a windfall, such as a Japanese sword sold in Japan, a can only be sold for 1,000 Wen, transported to Ningbo to sell to the Ming Dynasty, can be sold for 5,000 Wen.
When Japanese merchants returned from Ningbo, they took with them textiles, books, medicines, etc., which promoted the development of Japan.
So much so that in the eyes of many Japanese at that time, Ningbo was the most prosperous city in the Central Plains.
Ningbo's prosperity was not only for Japan, at this time the southeast coastal trade was already extremely prosperous, and even Europe and the United States also had trade with the Ming Dynasty.
Shiploads of embroidery, silk, gold and silver, musk, pearls, ivory fine products, fine crafts, lacquerware, and porcelain set sail from Ningbo and were shipped back to Europe via the Cape of Good Hope and the Sundy Strait route.
In Europeans, works of art such as gold, embroidery, and ivory were considered luxuries and were particularly revered because of their precious materials, which were often used to decorate altars, relics of saints, or covers of valuable books.
The two women's eyes were filled with exquisite utensils, and they finally understood why Japan had longed for the vast land across the sea since ancient times.
Only Song Xing, under this prosperous scene, saw a trace of corruption under the prosperity.
It's just because Song Xing saw the most in this place along the way, which turned out to be gambling.
According to the Ming law, in the early Ming Dynasty, the people gambling with a rod and a severed hand, and the officials who gambled were dismissed from their official positions, so that in two hundred years, the people of the Ming Dynasty trembled when they heard the word gambling.
In the later period of Emperor Jiajing, he was obsessed with alchemy and wanted to live forever, but he was not in the mood in the previous dynasty, and he was naturally too lazy to make a bet.
Under the emperor's eyes and closed his eyes, the gambling style of the Ming Dynasty folk prevailed again, and along the way, Song Xing saw all kinds of gambling scenes.
Ningbo has a new gambling method leaf play, according to the gambling money to deal cards, Wan Wan Guan cards, named 'Hu Baoyi Song Jiang', millions of cards, named 'Xing Wu Song', and so on one hundred and eight, the cheapest Wan Guan cards, named 'Prodigal Yanqing'.
There is a platform for Liangshan heroes, and this gambling method is naturally hot, and everyone from the gentry to the business travelers here is fascinated. After a few cards are played, thousands of dollars are gambled out.
Along Ningbo, Nanjing, Hangzhou and other big cities, gambling is popular among all classes.
There are at least five or six thousand beggars in Nanjing every year who make a living in gambling.
Even the readers, who didn't listen to what was going on outside the window, threw down the sage books one after another to gamble.
The Jinshi in Jiangnan, the first thing after ascending to the top is to gather people to gamble, and there is even a strange atmosphere of being ashamed of gambling without work.
Officials don't know how to gamble? I don't have a face to see people when I go out.
Many high-ranking officials in the DPRK also opened casinos after retirement, making money while developing contacts, and in the chaotic coastal areas, such as running for official positions and buying officials, it is a matter of gambling.
The increasingly fierce gambling wind is like a rapidly falling iron ball, leading the social atmosphere of the Ming Dynasty, falling rapidly year after year.
In the prosperous Central Plains, Song Xing did not have any nostalgia, day and night, traveling from Ningbo through the Central Plains, along the way, climbing mountains and wading in water.
In order to facilitate the journey, Song Xing also taught himself several light skills such as integrating ape strikes, chasing cicadas in eight steps, and stepping on snow without a trace in the Tianlong world, and re-created a body method that integrates all light skills and taught them to Andilo and Maki Yushenzi.
In addition to the change of body technique, this light skill is also good at long-distance running, the two of them are talented, they quickly comprehended, and quickly mastered the essence in the way of running, barely able to keep up with the pace of Song Xing.
In less than five days, they crossed the Yellow River, went north to the Hetao, turned west, and stepped out of the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
The scenery outside the plug is particularly beautiful for Song Xing, the sky is high and the earth is wide, the vast wilderness, the snow is flying, and the horses are flat, as if he has returned to the happy life of indulging in singing and drinking with Qiao Feng.
Song Xing was not short of money at the moment, so he simply bought a few horses in the hands of the horse dealer, braved the wind and snow, and rode in turns at the expense of his true anger, and finally arrived at the first checkpoint of Xicheng - Xitianmen seven days later.
Let's try it soon, everyone. 】