"Hey, is this sturgeon really that powerful? The more I listened, the more it felt like fasting. ”

Although Sun Daqiao heard Yue Guanchao say so much, after all, he didn't see the appearance of the Baijiang sturgeon with his own eyes, and he couldn't understand the horror of the three of them when they saw the divine fish for the first time.

Song Siyuan continued: "Actually, this can also be explained, we also found this thing in the prayer rain pool, you can take a look." ”

After that, she took out the residual incense she found at the prayer platform and handed it to Sun Daqiao, he first pinched it in his hand and observed it carefully, and then, leaned closer to his nose to smell the residual fragrance, nodded to everyone and said: "This smell is similar to the incense stick we smelled in the Dragon King Temple, but the taste seems to be a little more mellow, as if it is fried grain or rice wheat." ”

Song Siyuan saw that Sun Daqiao also smelled this smell, and confirmed that it was not their subjective feelings, this strange aroma did exist objectively: "Yes, we also think that this smell is too strange, and it is indeed a little different from the smell we encountered when watching Luoyin, but we really can't smell anything." ”

"At present, the only thing that is known is that after Daoist Cui shook the bell, he lit these spices, and after that, the Baijiang sturgeon appeared in the pool as if it heard the summons."

She paused and looked at the old man: "It can be seen that this thing can summon a white sturgeon, if you compare this taste with the incense stick, you can also guess that at that time, Daoist Cui burned incense stick in front of us, most likely to draw out this white sturgeon." ”

"In short, everything is related to the white sturgeon, if we find the God Suppressor this time, we may be able to understand clearly, what the white sturgeon is, whether it is the fish god or the fish fairy, or what kind of fish with wisdom, they always have to tell us clearly."

After exploring the Dragon King Temple, Yue Guanchao and they had a bottom in their hearts, so they were a little more relieved about Heshi and his party, and they just waited for Tan Yanqiu and them to set off.

Early the next morning, Tan Yanqiu's car stopped downstairs at the Jianghan Hotel, and Yue Guanchao and his party also wanted to see what kind of strange boundary Heshi was, so they got into the car and drove out of Hankou to Heshi.

As mentioned earlier, Jianghan City is a city formed by the merger of the three towns of Hankou, Hanyang and Wuchang, Hankou is a prosperous foreign port, and Wuchang is an important official place, and most of the local people and the three religions and nine streams live in Hanyang.

It was the old county seat earlier, and most of the people living in Hanyang were locals, and the private houses and mansions were mainly single-storey, at most on the second floor, and there were few high-rise buildings, only the main street commercial road could still see three or four storey modern commercial buildings.

It was not until the opening of Hankou that all kinds of factories established by Chinese and foreign businessmen began to appear in Hanyang, such as steel, coal, textiles, smelting, military industry, shipbuilding, and papermaking, and there were nearly 100 of them.

At the same time that the foreigners vigorously built the foreign port boundary, they also began to carry out the Westernization Restoration, and the local officials who were in charge of Hu Province at that time continued to learn from the master skills to control the country, overhauled the railway, started the construction of factories, opened a new school, and formed a regiment to train a new army in Hanyang.

Although the purpose of these measures was not achieved, they promoted the development of Hanyang to a certain extent, making Hanyang gradually change from a riverside town to a large industrial and commercial town, until the previous dynasty was overturned, and Hanyang was already a large industrial and commercial town with a population of five or six hundred thousand.

Due to the different development directions of the three towns, if you look down at the mouth of the river from a high place, you can immediately see the difference.

Wuchang Town is an old official land, most of the bureaucratic yamen, departments and bureaus, Shitang School Department, and guild hall and book building are gathered here, and in the early years, there are buildings that must not exceed the rules of the Governor's Palace, and most of them are traditional houses based on single-storey courtyards, and they are also inhabited by the relatives of officials' families.

Hankou, on the north bank of the river, was opened to trade as early as 1860, and in today's era, nearly 70 years have passed since the opening of the port.

It is out of the foreign port boundary, to Hankou Chinatown, in addition to the signboard shop is Chinese, there is no trace of the old town, the lights are on, the lights are neon, by virtue of the east wind of Western economy and trade, the development of an extremely brilliant and brilliant commercial town.

Most of the people here are like Tan Yanqiu, seizing the tuyere of the times, and the trade nouveau riche who has been up and down in the commercial sea for many years, looking at the neat alleys, the magnificent western-style buildings, the bright neon commercial buildings, the endless flow of cars, horses and pedestrians, the prosperity of goods exported overseas, and the luxury of the new upstarts is like dirt.

Just as the saying goes, Hankou is played, Hankou's strong business atmosphere of seeking wealth has also created countless self-made business legends.

Hanyang, on the south bank of the river, is neither an important town nor an old money town, and it is closer to the industrial town described above.

Due to the basic investment of the government in Jianghan and Hanyang, Hanyang has a low land price and a railway, which is naturally suitable for being an industrial town, and Chinese and foreign businessmen have built no less than 100 factories here, so the industry has been integrated into the blood of Hanyang and has become an inseparable feature of Hanyang.

In the past 100 years since the opening of the port, most of the people want to live, either as employees in Hankow, or, as workers here, in the past few decades, with industry as a link, many low-level people have gathered, coupled with the low price of land here, it has also attracted more people to come here to beg for food.

Where there are many people, there are many rights and wrongs, the rivers and lakes are complex and inevitably the people are sinister, and the market culture of the dry wharf is the people at the bottom of Hanyang, in the final analysis, it is just the hard-working people who come and go from the south to the north to leave their hometowns, deal with each other, and run in with each other, which produces a set of rules and regulations for the market.

Market culture, market culture, the most important focus, but also in the three religions and nine popular in the market!

When the car arrives at the Hansu Bridge, you can overlook the whole city of Hanyang from afar.

There is basically no glamorous modern commercial buildings here, and nearly 100 factories are scattered all over the place, and the goods are transported to the railway, and then sent to the outside world by the railway.

The town is basically dotted with factories and then connected by a wide main road, like a delicate spider web, encompassing all the factories, and the streets and alleys and side branches are like capillaries, transporting ordinary people into the factories and producing all kinds of goods.

The most impressive thing here is the chimney towers that can be seen everywhere!

These towers are erected everywhere and can reach the sky, like the dry piles of the lotus pond rising in winter, and the smoke that rises from them is either gray or white, and after that, there are always poles and impulses, slightly chaotic houses, mansions, and apartment buildings, put together, forming a solemn, indifferent, busy and mechanical custom.