Three days later.

Hokkaido.

The last time I was here was three years ago...... After three years of development, it seems that the pain of the past has been forgotten, and the current urban development is even faster.

High-rise buildings have risen from the ground, and compared to the three-mile city behind the Huangquan front line three years ago, it can now be called a ten-mile city.

It has expanded to more than three times the original area.

Every time after the Yellow Springs Cleansing, in fact, Hokkaido's economy will usher in some rapid development.

Because the number of demons and ghosts in Huangquan has dropped significantly, many mines and resources in Huangquan will be exposed, and many special products unique to the Shadow World Settlement Area will become sought-after goods in the market, and naturally various caravans will enter it.

Merchants are an important part of economic activity, and their presence naturally brings about the vitality of a city.

Of course, this is not only because a large number of merchants pounced on the fertile land of Huangquan after the Yellow Springs were purified.

More importantly, the shogunate's policy of management has changed, and its attitude towards foreign companies has changed.

In the last Huangquan Purification, the Chinese side suffered heavy losses, and the shogunate samurai also suffered a lot of losses.

Both sides were wounded, but in general, the shogunate was less affected than the Chinese.

The shogun took the opportunity to promote a series of reforms in economic strategy.

The core of its operation is to attract investment mainly in Edo and Sanlijo.

In just three years, Edo's overall growth rate has leaped forward, and average GDP has tripled in three years.

Sanlicheng has tripled, with 70 percent of its real estate projects coming from foreign investment.

As a military base controlled by the shogunate, the Huangquan Front was theoretically not allowed to involve foreign capital.

But Huangquan is very special, it is not only a military base, but also inseparable from businessmen who come for profit.

After the restrictions in Sanli City were opened, foreign companies set up a large number of offices here, and at one time the total proportion of foreign enterprises exceeded 70%.

You can see a large number of Bactrian people, Tianzhu people, Siamese people and so on here......

For investment, the most interested here are, naturally, the Daxia merchants and Tianzhu curry guys.

The former is well-known, after all, everyone understands that the Great Xia people and the Qi Shengcai Toad rank copper understand, and the latter is also well-known in terms of pitting people.

Therefore, for a long time, the competition between the Tianzhu Merchant Gang and the Great Xia Merchant Gang has been common, and even intensified.

Interestingly, in this city you can even see the church of the Holy Church.

This did not mean that the shogunate allowed the Holy Church to carry out missionary activities, but that it had taken advantage of the rules.

The shogunate acquiesced in the economic activities and investments of the Holy Church here, and as for what the house was built, it was up to them to please.

Today's Shili City has a permanent population of 200,000, a floating population of nearly 500,000, and perhaps a total population of more than 1 million in the next few years.

In the same way, the shogunate built such a city after the Yellow Springs front, acquiescing in the arrival of a large number of foreign merchants, and it must have been with the intention of pulling people into the water to avoid a repeat of the tragedy of the Yellow Springs three years ago.

Bai Yu was sitting in the carriage of a caravan at this time, waiting for the customs inspection to enter Huangquan.

Why use such animal power as a horse-drawn cart?

It's very simple, because once you enter the shadow world, all kinds of electronic devices will fail, and you can't use them at all.

The explanation given for this is that the phenomenon of overlapping time and space leads to the natural loss of energy, and the energy of non-living organisms will naturally flow from high to low, and the loss rate of energy is usually thousands of times that of normal operation, so a battery brought in, even if it is added with a gathering ring, will stop within a few seconds.

Although the fuel engine, steam engine, etc. can be operated, its huge movement is not suitable for use in the shadow world at all.

So if you want to carry things inside the shadow world, you have to return to the simple animal power in the end.

A good horse with a certain amount of alien bloodline has become the first choice of many caravans, and each horse here has a market price of hundreds of thousands of Daxia coins.

Bai Yu held a piece of grass in his mouth, looked at the endless flow of caravans, and thought that this was also the result of historical changes.

Before he carried out the weaving of fate, there were only a few Great Xia caravans that had been running merchants here for a long time; His fate was woven into history, and the shogunate took a more radical step towards economic reform as the shogunate reduced the losses of the younger generation.

This is why Hokkaido and the Yellow Springs area are now in full swing.

Although the first few teams encountered the same dilemma, it was clear that the business environment was much better.

Too many Great Xia merchants poured here.

Just like the caravan that Bai Yu took by the way, it came from Great Xia.

This caravan with the name of 'Shantai' is not famous in Daxia, at most it is the level of a third-rate family, with a history of about 500 years, and it is still famous in the south of the Yangtze River, it is said that the ancestors walked through the Silk Road, and the ancestors of the Shantai family relied on camels as a means of transport, and traveled thousands of miles of long roads and earned hundreds of years of hard-earned money.

Later, after the subsidence area of the film world swallowed up the ancestral grave of the Tantai family, the family moved to Jiangnan, picked up the past again, and began to run transportation, the Tantai family has been businessmen for several generations, and they have not been able to complete the transformation, it is considered to be a way to make money, three or four generations have worked hard to create a not thin family business, but the good times are not long, the various industries within Daxia are too volatile, the Tantai family is not a big family, although there are extraordinary people in the family, but the foundation is too thin, I heard that Yingzhou policy changes, so I came to Hokkaido to try a new way.

Exploring new markets and new businesses has always been hard work and can only be handed over to the most capable people.

The Tantai family was quite well prepared for this, and sent two people from the Tantai family who were both literate and martial.

The only one of the third-order transcendental, the arch of the platform; There is also the eldest lady of the Tantai family, Tantaiyin.

The former is the responsibility of force, and the latter is the pillar of the new generation in the family.

The two uncles and nieces came to Huangquan Land with the expectations of everyone in the family, just to confirm with their own eyes whether the rumors of gold everywhere in Huangquan were true or false.

In fact, most of the caravans did not choose to enter the Yellow Springs directly, but stayed in the city outside, waiting for the people who entered the Yellow Springs to bring things out.

These people are usually called gold diggers, entering the Yellow Spring is almost nine deaths, most of the gold diggers have some strength and luck, before they dare to enter the Yellow Spring to dig gold.

Usually most of the proceeds from the items brought back from the Yellow Springs also go into the pockets of these people.

After all, the supply of goods exceeds demand, and the number of chambers of commerce is too large, and the market will naturally rise, and the benefits of the chamber of commerce will decrease.

So some chambers of commerce decided to enter the Yellow Springs to dig for gold by themselves, which was a gold digging caravan, and they usually configured their own guards and digging tools...... It takes a lot of investment in the early stage, but the return is also quite a lot.

The shogunate did not interfere with this, and both teams and individuals were required to pay a tax of 20% of the total income at the time of departure.

The shogunate enjoyed it because it was not only about monetary gains, but also about the economic benefits and the return of money brought about by the liberalization of the market.

Bai Yu saw this clearly, and could only sigh that the shogunate's business was bright and straightforward.

The Shadow World is a treasure that cannot be hollowed out, and as long as the Yellow Springs do not continue to expand and cause Hokkaido to sink completely, the shogunate will definitely not do anything to it.

As for why there is no shortage of things in the shadow world, Bai Yu has been in it for a while, and he thinks that this is probably equivalent to a parallel world.

Readers who know Shizuki must have heard of the Jewel Man and the Second Method, this second method is to travel through parallel worlds, and he has a short knife called the Jewel Sword, which can grab an infinite amount of magic from the parallel world.

The principle is the same.

If there is no upper limit to the number of parallel worlds, then when you have a drop of water, you have an infinite amount of water; Either 0 or positive infinity.

There must be some kind of special refresh mechanism in the shadow world, which will be refreshed after a period of time, just like the Teyvat continent, no matter how you can't finish it.

It is precisely because the shadow world has this mechanism, which is both an enemy and a resource production point, that the earth does not break out in large-scale wars and continuous civil strife.

Back to the point.

At this time, Huangquan's inspection had already reached the door.

After recording, the gates of the blockade opened, and the caravan entered the Yellow Springs realm.

After three years, I stepped into this field again.

The young man looked in a certain direction and cast a distant look.

This caravan is fully prepared, and it will probably go to the middle area of Huangquan, and he can continue to take a hitchhike for a while.

At the front of the caravan, an uncle and nephew on horseback were talking.

"This trip is still too rushed." Yu Taiyin said softly: "Life is not familiar, and we can't judge where to go. ”

"Entering Huangquan is a matter of luck, and no one knows what will happen to you." After many years of traveling south and north, he looked more open: "Let's go forward, I hope the information I bought before can be useful." ”

"I don't like this place." Yu Taiyin shook his head: "It's too gloomy, and I don't know how many bones are buried here." ”

"There are too few stable subsidence areas in Daxia, and almost all of them are covered by local heroes." Tang Taigong sighed: "I know you're in a bad mood, but in this world, there is nothing rich and rich, you have to exchange your life; For hundreds of years, the ancestors of the Tangtai family were not willing to go to the Silk Road, not all for the sake of future generations, if we can open up this trade route, we can connect the precious capital chain and renew the breath for the family. ”

Yu Taiyin nodded: "Second uncle, the ...... of our province It's not that I'm saying anything depressing, but I'm always in a little unstable, and I always feel that those Tianzhu people are not so kind. ”

"Well, the intelligence of several parties is aimed at one place, even if it is wrong, it doesn't matter, I will send some gold diggers to take a look first, and then walk for half an hour to find a place to camp and wait."

After a few conversations, Tan Taiyin put his mind at ease, the second uncle is still a conservative faction.

She slowed down on her horse, and was about to instruct the people behind her not to get out of touch.

As he rode through the center of the caravan, he caught a glimpse of a young man sitting in a carriage.

The young man was halfway to the car and said that he was going to Huangquan for a walk, and the second uncle took him with him because he was kind and kind, he didn't take the initiative to find trouble, and naturally no one in the convoy was looking for his bad luck, but he noticed that the young man was carrying a sword, so he curiously asked the second uncle how he was.

The Tai Gong said that he couldn't see the height, and the Tai Yin was also relieved, thinking that he was not like a master at a young age, and he was just brave with a sword.

Their eyes met for a moment.

He smiled back.

Tan Taiyin turned his head, as if he didn't see it.

(End of chapter)

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