Chapter 139: The Merchant Fleet

I only heard a pop, Guo Xun's whole person penetrated the body of the purple electric tuna, the purple electric tuna blood burst out, the purple light flashed, and the body swayed wildly, Guo Xun's blow just now had already injured its roots, this was its last struggle before death.

After a while, the bright red eyes of the purple electric tuna became dim, the whole body stopped shaking, the purple electric light on the body also disappeared, and the huge body began to slowly sink to the bottom of the river.

At this moment, the dragon beard golden scale fish Yuan Ying felt a wave of dizziness attack, it felt that it was about to die, and the color of the earthy yellow Yuan Ying became even darker, as if it was about to dissipate at any time.

The dragon's beard golden scale fish glanced at Guo Xun's soul lightly, and it quickly returned to Guo Xun's sea of qi, and then fell into a deep sleep.

Everything returned to calm again, Guo Xun floated up quietly, the charred skin began to fall off, showing the tender whiteness inside, and soon after, Guo Xun lay naked on his back and floated on the surface of the Biluo River.

Guo Xun fainted after being shocked by the purple lightning, and he didn't know anything about what happened after that.

Guo Xun's strong body and thunder beads absorbed most of the purple lightning, and now the aura in Guo Xun's body itself has purple electricity, and Guo Xun's survival depends on this.

After being unconscious, Guo Xun was drifting on the Biluo River, during which there were also some monsters and monsters who wanted to attack Guo Xun, and the realm of these little monsters was not high, just when those monsters and monsters were about to get close to Guo Xun, a golden light suddenly appeared on Guo Xun's body.

These little monsters who wanted to eat Guo Xun were taken aback, and they fled in a hurry and didn't dare to make a mistake.

Guo Xun is just a small human being, and it may be a breakfast for these little monsters, but it is not worth mentioning for those real big demons, and they don't even bother to look at a "floating corpse" like Guo Xun.

Guo Xun followed the Biluo River down the river until the next day, a group of mighty merchant ships passed by Guo Xun's side, each boat hung a dozen flags of all sizes, and a big business character was written on the flag.

The flotilla was noisy with gongs and drums and constant singing, which should have been something happy to celebrate, or just a show for a group of people to pass the time of boredom.

According to the words on the flags fluttering in the fleet, it is not difficult to see that the owner of this fleet should be surnamed Shang, and the fleet is a merchant from Shanghai City, the county seat of Luohe County, Nanding Guobi.

The merchant is one of the five major families of Shanghai City, although it is named one of the five families, but the people of Shanghai City know that the business has long been in decline.

Back then, when merchants dominated the city, even the city lord's mansion, the Nan family, had to retreat.

It's just that somehow, the merchant was shaken overnight, the courtyard withered, the family high-level all died, and the thriving merchant was like a halving.

Then the business was squeezed out again, the scenery was greatly reduced, the pomp was not as good as before, and then after a hundred years of ups and downs, it gradually declined, and now it has become the last stream.

Nowadays, when it comes to the merchants of Shanghai City, few people know that the merchants are the heads of the five major families of Shanghai City in the past.

The merchant fleet is beating gongs and drums at the moment, and it is full of joy along the way.

It stands to reason that a declining family should not have such an atmosphere, but now it is very different, because they are going to Bihai City, the county seat of Biluohe County, to participate in the Linlang Fair, which is held every ten years.

In order to participate in this event, the merchants have made a lot of money.

Merchants have not participated in the Linlang Business Fair for a long time, and the Linlang Business Fair is the grandest, richest, and most opportunities royal event in the entire Biluohe County.

This kind of grand event will even send people from the royal family of the southern peak country to participate, and some people from other countries will also come here to participate in this grand event.

It's just that among all the countries that came to participate this year, there was only no Tang Imperial State, and the reason was very simple, a year ago, the Nanding Kingdom started a full-scale war with the Tang Imperial Kingdom on the grounds that the Tang Imperial Kingdom used cultivators to participate in the war without authorization, and now the two countries are fighting happily, and countless mortals have participated in the war, and even the cultivators are going to the battlefield in large numbers.

After a year of fierce fighting, the Tang Imperial Kingdom gradually became a little powerless, and the front-line battlefield was defeated and retreated, with fewer victories and more defeats, and gradually the entire front was overshadowed.

Now that the undercurrents of the two countries are surging, it is naturally impossible for the Tang Emperor Kingdom to send people over to participate in the Linlang Business Fair in the southern peak country under such circumstances.

Compared with the tragedy of the front-line battlefield, the country in the south is peaceful and peaceful, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, and it seems that the war is not taken into account at all, and even many people do not know that their country is at war with the Tang Imperial State.

This year's Linlang Business Fair is said to be the largest in the past 100 years, and its purpose is self-evident.

This is not only a good opportunity to show the country's economic and social prosperity, but also to beat the side drum for other countries, so that they can realize how strong the southern peak country is, so the ten-year Linlang Business Expo will naturally be specially organized.

As a declining family, the merchant naturally has to seize such an opportunity, in case it is perfect to catch up with other big families, even if no family can afford to look up to the business, it is very good to make a big profit.

For this purpose, the merchant has been preparing for a long time, and the rise of the merchant is in this move.

In order to participate in this Linlang Business Expo, the merchants tried their best to use their family strength, and used the connections and relationships of all parties to gather enough materials and funds to meet the minimum entry standards for participating in the Linlang Business Expo.

Although it is only just crossing the threshold, it is also the result of decades of accumulation by merchants, how can this not make them happy? Therefore, it is logical to beat gongs, drums, play and sing.

The other big families in Shanghai City were powerful and wealthy, so they all took a spaceship to Bihai City, and the merchants chose river transportation because they were shy about their wallets.

In fact, river transportation is very safe, although there are many demons and monsters in the Biluo River, they generally do not take the initiative to attack human ships.

First, it is thankless, after all, this is not the ancient vein of Qingtian, and the Biluo River is also the territory of human beings.

The second is that it doesn't have much value yet, because since they choose to take a boat, most of these people are mortals, but whoever is a stronger cultivator will take such a risk.

Mortals are of no use other than to satisfy their hunger and stomachs, and they are not as delicious as the other monsters in the river.

Fleets like merchants are not uncommon in the Biluo River, but there are very few that really go wrong.

If these monsters attack the fleet, but don't do it too cleanly, it will attract the revenge of the high-ranking monks.

The safety of river transportation is a matter of Nanfeng State's management, so the monsters in the Biluo River are very conscious.

And most of their real dangers are not these demons and monsters in the water, but the real ones who can deal with humans are actually humans themselves.

Occupy the mountain as the king is a bandit, standing in the water to block the road is a thief, the Biluo River stretches for hundreds of thousands of miles, rich in products, merchant ships gather, there is no reason why there are no water thieves infested.

Therefore, the merchants who do business through the Biluo River are most afraid of those fierce and vicious water thieves.

Now the water thieves are very smart, they rarely do a hammer deal, since you are doing business and passing through my territory, you have to pay protection money, so as long as the merchants pay obediently, the water thieves generally will not embarrass them.

Nan Dingguo also turned a blind eye to this matter, after all, there are too many twists and turns, and the intertwined roots are too deep, and the government will not do such a thing as igniting the fire.

As long as the water thieves don't go too far, the government actually acquiesces in such a thing, and as for what role the government plays in this, it is unknown whether it collects the "tax" of the water thieves.