Time passed minute by minute, and in the blink of an eye, it was several days later, but even after several days, the Great Yan Imperial City did not return to its original appearance. After all, some time ago, the damage caused by Fan Wu's battle with the demon was too great, how could he recover his original appearance without several years or even more than ten years of effort?

The demon blood in those big pits has not dried up so far, not even half of it. The pools of blood, the increasingly permeated fishy smell, people don't dare to approach at all, because as soon as they get close, they will have a feeling of nausea, which is really unbearable.

What's even more terrifying is ...... The blood of the demons has penetrated into the deeper ground, so that it has spread to the groundwater, and almost half of the groundwater in the imperial city has been seriously polluted.

If it weren't for the fact that there was a big river that happened to run through the entire Great Yan Imperial City, such a river would still be a very clean freshwater river. I'm afraid that many people will die of thirst.

The land contaminated by the blood of demons does not know if it can continue to be planted.

If you can't even grow the plants......

I'm afraid I'll have to abandon this area.

To be honest, if you abandon this area, even the emperor of the Great Yan Dynasty will feel a little distressed, after all, this is the core area of the Great Yan Dynasty. If such a core area is abandoned, it will definitely be a huge loss for the imperial court. And once it is abandoned, it must find a new place and build a new palace, right?

Building a new palace from scratch would require much more manpower, material resources, and financial resources than building on the ruins of an existing palace. However, this is also something that can't be helped, the court of a dynasty can't even have a palace, right? What kind of system is that?

What the people of the Great Yan Dynasty need to do now is to try to plant some plants in the land that has been infiltrated by demonic blood, if the plants planted here can grow, and after people eat them, nothing will happen......

That means that this devastated land, as long as it is rebuilt a little, can still continue to be inhabited. As for the demon's remaining power, will it affect this area?

The people of the Great Yan Dynasty also have a way to do this, that is, to move all the city god temples and land temples everywhere.

Use a god to increase the demon's remaining power.

Over time, the power of the demon will dissipate.

And with the passage of time, some news also spread from the court of the Great Yan Dynasty, which seems to be the result of the Great Yan Emperor not covering it up. Or that Emperor Dayan acquiesced to that kind of news, which spread from the imperial court to the alleys outside. It was precisely because of such news that the entire imperial city was shaken!

From among the palaces...... There are many pieces of news that have been circulated, one of which is - some time ago, the existence of killing that demon was not some immortal, the other party was a Taoist, and he was not a Taoist priest of the Great Yan Dynasty, the other party was a Taoist priest of the Great Zhou Dynasty! The worst thing is that the other party is a wanted criminal!

The second piece of news is that the reason why the other party is wanted is because the court is confused by the villains below in this regard. There is also a vicious deed about the group of Sacred Fire Guards who were killed by Fan Wu, which was also spread with the tacit consent of the Great Yan Imperial Court.

After these two pieces of news came out, there was no one in the entire imperial city who was not shocked. Who would have thought that someone who fought so hard with demons was actually a mortal?

Even if the other party is a Taoist priest...... But the problem is that a Taoist priest is actually a mortal!

At most, it's just a cultivator who knows the way of cultivation!

It is 108,000 miles away from the immortal gods that many people imagined!

The key is...... The other party is not even from their Great Yan Dynasty, and he is even a wanted criminal in their Great Yan Dynasty! And the reason why the other party is wanted is that someone maliciously reversed black and white...... In other words, the Taoist priest of the Great Zhou Dynasty who killed the demon was wronged, and the other party should not have become a wanted criminal.

These two messages...... They all shocked the people of the Great Yan Dynasty, and they were a little confused. Many people's first reaction was that these two news were fake, but when they came back to their senses, they found that these two news came from the palace. Is the news coming out of the palace still fake?

"Mother...... The imperial court actually put a reward of 1,000 taels of silver on the life-saving benefactor of our Great Yan Dynasty and wanted it? Grandma's, don't those dog officers know who they want? ”

"If they knew who they wanted, they wouldn't be a bunch of dog officers! What if that Imprisoned Dragon Guan Fan Martial Daoist is annoyed, and people don't save us? ”

"Yes! And it is obvious that the holy flame in that county town is guarding people's money, and even wants to destroy people. Then that Fan Martial Daoist saved people, and killed those holy fire guards who did evil, this is obviously that Fan Martial Daoist, righteous and brave! As a result, he was added to the vinegar by the surviving Flame Guard, but Fan Wudao became the villain and a wanted criminal! ”

"Is it just the surviving Flame Guards who have a problem? The dog officer who gave Fan Wudao a reward of 1,000 taels of silver is also problematic! Whatever the people below say, that guy believes. If this guy hadn't taken the money from the people below, I wouldn't have believed it anyway! ”

"Even if you don't accept any shadows, it must be that dog official is too wasteful, just a bastard! Such a guy...... almost caused our Great Yan Dynasty to suffer heavy casualties, in my opinion, this kind of dog official should be sentenced to capital punishment! ”

"Fortunately, a Taoist from the Great Zhou Dynasty came to the rescue of us, otherwise, who would survive if such a demon was making trouble in the imperial city?"

"Damn the demons! My house was shattered by that demon, alas...... Now I have to stay overnight at a relative's house. ”

"It's good to be able to pick up a small life, and the house can be rebuilt!"

"Yes, this time, but a lot of people died."

"I heard...... The corpses were pulled out by carriage after carriage, and many of the corpses were already mutilated, not even the whole corpse, they were all rotten meat! It is said that the most of them are the corpses of the Situ family. ”

"The Situ family? Is that the top family? This time, they're out of luck! ”

"It's not just bad luck, it's almost going to be wiped out!"

“……”

If it weren't for the Situ family, some of the clansmen were outside the imperial city, I'm afraid the entire family would really be cut off. However, the current Situ family, even if it is not cut off, is actually not much worse. Because with those clansmen outside, there was no way to reinvigorate the Situ family.

After all, the most core group of people in the family have all become, corpses one after another. And the Situ family clansmen outside, are there half of the Situ family blood on their bodies...... Actually, it's not clear. And these ordinary people are happy to see that these families are unlucky.

After all, they ...... on weekdays But I was very annoyed by the exploitation of these big families. But at that time, it was useless to be annoyed, after all, you can't rely on a group of people to confront the big family, right? The people don't fight with the officials!

Now watching a big family exist in name only, it's all fake to say that you're unhappy. If it weren't for the vibes, they couldn't wait to cheer!

The main thing is...... Because the place where Fan Wu fights with demons is very special, there are many residences of the big families there.

The unlucky family is not just one Situ family.

There are quite a few big families whose family residences are in shambles!

After all, the palaces of the Great Yan Dynasty are all in tatters like this, can the residences of their great families survive?

And for the shaking caused in the imperial city......

Fan Wu and the others didn't know.

……

At this time, Fan Wu and the others had already left the imperial city of the Great Yan Dynasty, and had been on the road for nearly three days. Three days was enough time to reach the frontier of the Great Yan Dynasty, and they had already arrived in a frontier county!

Liu Feng did not follow Fan Wu and them, but in the Great Yan Dynasty, the two sides separated. Because there are too many things happening in the imperial city, their Liu family also needs someone to help.

For a while, Liu Feng had no way to get out of the Great Yan Imperial City, so he could only sincerely apologize to Fan Wu and the others.

In this regard, Fan Wu and the others actually didn't feel anything, after all, both sides were just on the way.

Now Fan Wu and others are in a small frontier city called Linhai County, which is a county town that seems to be prosperous at first glance. The reason why it is called this is because it is a county town near the sea, with a coastline that is tens or hundreds of miles long.

"So this is the sea!" Although Yun Jiuqing has been wandering around, she has really never been to the beach once. Her impression of the sea...... It is limited to descriptions in a few books.

Now, when she sees the magnificent sea with her own eyes, her eyes are still full of shock. It's much bigger than the biggest lake I've ever seen!

"As long as you cross this sea, you will be able to reach the Shangwu Dynasty." Xingfengzi next to him said with emotion: "It seems that you are going to come once, do you want to travel across the sea?" ”

Yun Jiuqing had never seen the sea, let alone Xingfengzi, a Taoist priest who had just come down the mountain for a long time.

Xingfengzi continued: "Poor Dao heard some elders in the Taoist temple say that the sea is very dangerous. Because the imperial power of the dynasty cannot control the sea. There are many terrifying monsters in the sea, and there are many powerful demons. The rumored Penglai Demon Island is located in the depths of the sea. ”

"Nowadays...... One of the biggest problems before us is, who would be willing to take us to the Shangwu Dynasty? Especially the closer to the deep sea, the greater the danger...... Would you be willing to take that risk? ”

"Although there is only one strait between the two dynasties, the distance between this strait is not short. Even if there is a bridge on the sea, it will take days to walk through it. ”

"What's more, on this magnificent sea, who has the ability to build a bridge?"

"That's right!" Yun Jiuqing suddenly realized: "Ordinary fishermen must not dare to take us over, right?" After all, the deep sea is so dangerous that those fishermen only dare to fish inshore. Maybe we can find those merchant ships, after all, there will always be merchant ships going back and forth between the two dynasties, right? ”

Xingfengzi nodded: "It's indeed a good idea to find a merchant ship that is willing to take us there." I just don't know where such a merchant ship is. There seems to be only these tiny fishing boats near this pier. ”

Fan Wu and the others are located at a wharf in this Linhai County, but there are indeed no merchant ships in their vicinity, and there are some small fishing boats as far as the eye can see.

For three or four people on such a small fishing boat, it is already the limit, and this kind of small fishing boat cannot be driven to the deep sea at all.

Is this kind of small boat board not to fall apart when driven to the deep sea?

Maybe any wave can overturn the boat directly!

In the middle of the ocean, if the ship capsizes.

Hiss!

Just by making up for such a situation in their minds, Yun Jiuqing and Xing Fengzi shuddered in unison. Being in the middle of the ocean, with no food, and having to stay in the icy waters, even if they were all cultivators, there was no way they could withstand a few hours.

Either you drowned, or you were bitten to death by a monster in the sea, or you were frozen to death by the icy sea...... Even if you can grab a plank and float on the surface of the sea, you will most likely starve to death because you don't have food.

The sea is no match for the land, and you can find a random place on the land to shelter from the wind and rain. If you are really hungry, you can even catch some random bugs on land to satisfy your hunger.

But in the middle of the sea...... Where to find shelter? In the sea, how to find food? Catch fish? The question is whether the fish are flexible in the sea, or are you flexible when you are hungry?

Just when a group of people were looking at the vast sea and falling into deep thought, suddenly Yun Jiuqing caught a glimpse of a few people out of the corner of his eyes.

She immediately cast her gaze in that direction.

"Huh? Fan Daochang! They don't look like fishermen! Yun Jiuqing reminded Fan Wu next to him: "These guys have big bellies, and they look like a few rich people when they are dressed. Maybe they're local maritime merchants, so it's right to ask them! ”

And then...... Fan Wu and the others walked in that direction. Go straight to those few who look like businessmen. And those people who looked like businessmen also noticed Fan Wu and the others, and they were walking in the direction where they were.

There were about seven or eight people in the group, and three of them were dressed unusually. The others were dressed as martial artists, and they were armed with weapons.

Obviously, these people dressed as martial artists should be the personal guards of the other people.

These personal guards were startled when they saw Fan Wu and others coming over, and then immediately stopped in front of them. They had already touched their hands on the long knife they were carrying at their waists, and their vigilant eyes were staring at Fan Wu and the others tightly. Once Fan Wu and the others make any changes, they will make a decisive move.

Seeing the posture of these personal guards, Yun Jiuqing squinted her eyes, because she felt a murderous aura from these people. Obviously, these personal guards have human lives in their hands, and they are good hands in the rivers and lakes at a glance.

This kind of charlatan...... In melee combat, you might even be able to kill a cultivator! After all, some cultivators are not really good at hand-to-hand combat.

There are such good hands in the rivers and lakes to protect them...... These guys, who look like businessmen, look even more difficult.

"Stop!" One of the personal guards had already pulled out half of the knife at his waist.

shouted at Fan Wu and the others: "Who are you? ”

"Lay people, we are not wicked people." Xing Fengzi showed a hint of a kind smile, and the whole person looked very harmless: "We are from the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the reason why we came to the Great Yan Dynasty is only on the way to the Shangwu Dynasty, passing through here. I just want to ask about something. ”

"Ah Biao, take the knife back." At this time, a middle-aged man who was rich and luxuriously dressed opened his mouth and reprimanded: "Didn't I remind you not to pull out the knife at every turn?" Harmony makes money, do you understand harmony and wealth? ”

After saying such a sentence, this rich and lovely middle-aged man arched his hand at Fan Wu and the others, with a little surprise in his tone: "How many are you from the Great Zhou Dynasty?" ”

He looked Fan Wu and the others up and down, and then thought back to the accent in which Xing Fengzi spoke just now.

It was clear to me at once.

The middle-aged man who was rich and cute introduced himself quite enthusiastically: "Below, it is the owner of Huo's Haixing in Linhai County, Huo Zhijin. The one on my left is the second brother in the family, the second owner of Huo's Haixing, Huo Zhiyin. The one on the right is the third brother in the family, and he is the third owner of Huo's Haixing, Huo Zhitong. My father didn't study for a few years, so he gave us three brothers these three names. ”

"Xingfengzi, Great Zhou Dynasty, Dizu Guan Taoist." Seeing each other, they were so warm and polite, and they also exposed their own home.

Yun Jiuqing said: "The Great Zhou Dynasty, the daughter of the Yun family, Yun Jiuqing." ”

Let's talk about it.

Yun Jiuqing took the initiative to help Fan Wu introduce himself: "This is the Great Zhou Dynasty's Imprisoned Dragon View Fan Martial Daoist!" ”

As for the old green cow and the heavenly coffin, Yun Jiuqing felt that there should be no need to introduce them. Anyway, the old green cow can't speak, and the Tianji coffin often lies in the coffin, and in broad daylight, the Tianji coffin rarely comes out.

"It turns out that there are two Taoist masters from the Great Zhou Dynasty, and a daughter of a family." The expression on Huo Zhijin's face became even more eager, because, the Taoist priest ...... Basically, it means a cultivator!

As an ordinary person, if you are not polite to a few cultivators, God knows if you will be overshadowed by the cultivators? At that time, I will suffer a dark loss, and I am afraid I don't know who did it!

"Huo Jushi, Xiaodao wants to ask, why doesn't there even a merchant ship on the dock in Linhai County?"

Xing Fengzi's tone was rather curious and asked.

"Merchant ships?" Huo Zhijin was stunned for a moment, a wry smile appeared on his face, which was instinctively revealed, and he said helplessly: "In these years, how can there be ordinary merchant ships that dare to go to sea?" If the merchant ships do not rely on the family, there is no chance of going to sea at all. ”

"Why?" Xing Fengzi was stunned and said: "Could it be that in such a remote border county, there are also those big families who control it?" Isn't it true that they don't let them go to sea? ”

"The big family, there's it everywhere." Huo Zhijin opened his mouth to explain: "Moreover, they did not prevent us from going to sea. ”

"But ......"

When he said this, Huo Zhijin couldn't help but sigh: "On a route from the dock of Linhai County to the Shangwu Dynasty, a lot of strange sea beasts appeared for some reason. Those sea beasts are terrifying, just like youkai. I once went to sea with my own fleet, but because of my bad luck, I encountered a terrifying sea beast. ”

"That sea beast easily broke through the bottom of one of our merchant ships. The water poured in, and I watched as the whole ship sank into the sea. The sailors on board were all sucked into the bottom of the sea by the whirlpool. ”

"Moreover, that sea area is still the deepest sea area, and if you venture to go down to catch people, you will only catch more people. We are just a local sea tour, and there are only three or four ships in the whole sea line, and sinking one of them is a huge blow. ”

After speaking, Huo Zhijin smiled bitterly: "I don't think I need to continue, you also know the little Taoist, why don't we rely on the family family, there is no way to sail to the sea, right?" ”

Xingfengzi is probably clear, even if the other party doesn't say everything. He can also understand this, after all, the losses are so heavy, and he almost died in the sea......

Not everyone can say it calmly, and being able to say this step can be regarded as relatively open-minded.

Strange sea beasts appeared in the sea, and the sea beasts were like youkai and took the initiative to attack passing merchant ships.

There is no way for ordinary merchant ships to resist this sea beast, and when they encounter this sea beast, there is only one way to die. Because on an ordinary merchant ship, there is a group of ordinary sailors.

Even if these are more capable of fighting, the problem is that their ability to fight is limited to comparisons with people. Once compared to that unknown sea beast, it was nothing.

Lacking the means to make enemies with sea beasts, in this case, continuing to go to sea will only make the losses more serious.

Or, find a way to open a new route, but the problem is to open a route, which is not a trivial matter. The manpower, material resources, financial resources, and time required to be consumed are not something that one or a few ordinary sea travelers can afford.

And those big families are different, and the families that can be called big families must have a family tradition of cultivation. Moreover, the family is still synonymous with wealth.

Having a family tradition of cultivation means that they have a large number of cultivators who can compete with the sea beasts in the sea. Even if you can't kill the sea beast, you can still force the sea beast back.

And the big families who don't want to take risks can also spend money to open up a channel that belongs only to their family. This new way of doing business will certainly not be shared with outsiders.

What's more, the scale of the family's maritime merchant fleet must be very large, I'm afraid there must be at least dozens or hundreds of ships, right?

For a family like this, even if they lose one or two merchant ships, it will not hurt them.

In this case......

Unless they are ordinary little sea travelers, who are willing to sacrifice a lot of interests and merge into the family.

But it is better to be the head of the chicken than the tail of the phoenix.

It works well wherever you put it.

"But if you don't go to sea all the time, won't the two remaining merchant ships of your sea trip be idle there?" Yun Jiuqing next to him asked curiously: "Like you maritime merchants, if the merchant ship is idle, it also needs silver maintenance, right?" Otherwise, the merchant ships will be exposed to the sun and soaked over time, and sooner or later, they will not be able to use them, right? ”

Huo Zhijin sighed and said, "Our three brothers are discussing how to arrange the remaining two merchant ships and those sailors in the sea line during this time. It is impossible for a merchant ship to be sold to a family member, because it is also a relic left to us by our father. ”

"And many of the sailors in the sea travel have been in the sea for more than ten years, or even most of their lives. If they are resigned, the hearts of the people who will run for the New Year will be scattered. His face was full of sorrow: "Merchant ships cannot be idle casually, and sailors cannot resign casually. ”

"Helpless...... We can only convert those two merchant ships into fishing boats for the time being. Let the sailors in the sea line take two merchant ships to the offshore waters to fish. ”

"The catch was almost all from the sailors. In this way, it can be regarded as arranging a job for them. ”

"At the same time...... The two merchant ships will not be left at the dock and will not move. ”

"I see!" After listening to his narration, Yun Jiuqing suddenly realized, she said: "No wonder when we came over, we found that there was not a single merchant ship at this wharf, it turned out that your merchant ships had all gone to sea to fish!" ”

As soon as this sentence came out of his mouth, Yun Jiuqing realized that he seemed to have said the wrong thing, and accidentally opened the wounds of others.

She coughed lightly: "I think your merchant ships can still go to sea." ”

Huo Zhijin was stunned: "Huh? ”

Yun Jiuqing asked, "If you are a merchant ship, if you go to sea, how much silver can you probably earn?" ”

"Hmm......"

Huo Zhijin was a little hesitant, after all, it seemed a little inappropriate to talk to a few people who had just met about the revenue of their Huo's Haixing. However, these people seem to be cultivators. If I don't follow their wishes, will I be retaliated against?

It's not that he maliciously speculates about Fan Wu and the others, but there are too many cultivators who like to play tricks! Especially in recent years, many of the big families in the Great Yan Dynasty have been eyeing sea trade.

And those big families, when competing with ordinary maritime merchants, will use some special means.

For example, through a cultivator, in the home of a maritime merchant, throw a ghost.

Such behavior abounds!

Recalling the unlucky bastards who were tortured by the cultivators of the family, Huo Zhijin took a deep breath. He knew that he had no other choice, so he could only say frankly: "In addition to the food and fresh water that must be prepared during the voyage, the wages of the sailors, the maintenance of merchant ships, the wear and tear of goods, and the sea tax of the imperial court...... Our Huo's sea trip, a boat down, probably, can earn five hundred taels of silver. ”

After speaking, he also added: "From the Great Yan Dynasty to the Shangwu Dynasty, although there is only one strait separated by it, this strait is very wide. And above the sea...... If you encounter extreme weather, or sea beasts, you may not move forward for several days. This back and forth...... It will take about 20 days. ”

"It didn't go well, it was close to the twentieth. If it goes well, it may only take ten days, or even ten days. ”

Isn't that equivalent to ...... From the Great Yan Dynasty to the Shangwu Dynasty, it takes about five to ten days to travel?

How long do you need to be adrift at sea!

Yun Jiuqing thought that she could take a boat quickly, after all, she heard that those big ships on the sea all rely on the wind. As a result, the speed of the ship seems to be inferior to that of the horses.

Other words......

When the Huo family had three merchant ships at its peak, it could earn close to 2,000 taels of silver a month by sea trade after excluding the cost. It's not even close, but it can earn two thousand taels of silver.

In such a remote small frontier county, a sea trip can earn 24,000 taels of wealth in a year! Of course, this is only the family wealth that the other party can earn at the peak, and it is impossible to be at the peak all the time.

But on average, such a sea bank, at least a year, can earn 10,000 taels of silver, right? Obediently, this sea trade is really profitable, no wonder the Situ family wants to join forces with the Xiang family.

It's a pity that those people in the Situ family don't know until they die, the Xiang family is just using them to do things for the Faxiang Demon Venerable!

This kind of huge profit is even a little cautious for a master like Yun Jiuqing, who is not bad for money, but it is a pity that their Yun family is not close to the sea in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Otherwise, when she returns to the Great Zhou Dynasty one day, she can't wait to ask her father directly to get her a few merchant ships.

What a pity!

Yun Jiuqing slurred his lips, and then said to Huo Zhijin in front of him: "If I give you Huo's Haixing a thousand taels of silver, and let you take us across the sea to the Shangwu Dynasty, can you Huo's Haixing do such a business?" ”

Huo Zhijin was stunned, and the two younger brothers beside him were also stunned, and the three of them looked at Yun Jiuqing in astonishment.

Huo Zhijin hurriedly said: "Girl, this is not a matter of silver or not, there will be very dangerous and terrifying sea beasts on this route." If you are not careful, even the boat and people will become a sea beast plate Chinese food! ”

"Two thousand taels of silver." Yun Jiuqing directly doubled the silver, and then said with a smile: "You Haixing should have not opened for a long time, right?" As for sea beasts or something, do you think a few of us seem to be afraid? ”

"This ......"

I have to say that Huo Zhijin's heart was moved, and two thousand taels of silver is not a small amount. In addition to a series of costs, they Huo's Sea Travel at least, can get a profit of 1,500 taels from it.

Yun Jiuqing was right, they hadn't opened for a long time.

Every day, I can only watch the inventory of silver in the sea line continue to decrease.

But I feel powerless.

And......

These three people from the Great Zhou Dynasty should all be cultivators, maybe they have the ability to deal with sea beasts? If they don't have that ability, why are they so confident? Why don't you take the sea beasts of the sea into account?

……

Two days later.

Early morning.

When standing on the deck of the ship, Huo Zhijin felt that he was blinded by two thousand taels of silver, two days ago he actually agreed to the girl named Yun Jiuqing, and also accepted two thousand taels of silver from the other party.

Looking at the coastline of the Great Yan Dynasty behind him that was gradually moving away from his sight, Huo Zhijin had a sad look on his face: "I hope that halfway, there won't be any accidents!" ”

Yes!

Fan Wu and the others are already on a merchant ship, and such an ocean-going merchant ship has set sail.

Ride the waves!

……

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(End of chapter)