Volume 3 Chapter 157: First Arrival in Yingzhou
At the northernmost tip of Yingzhou West Island, there is a Pingquan City, located in Xiying Bay, which is a natural harbor.
Although Yingzhou is ruled by the demon clan, but those demon kings and demon generals, do not prohibit the human beings under their rule from trading with Buyeo and Dashang on the other side of the East China Sea, in fact, although the land of Yingzhou is fertile, but the relatively small area, so that in agriculture, it cannot feed more than a billion people, and Yingzhou's rich mineral deposits, as well as various products in the East China Sea, can be used to exchange food and other living materials with the mainland, and some discerning demon generals will even use means to encourage human merchants under their rule to do business with the mainland。
Hiraizumi was the main seaport for trade between Buyeo and Yingzhou, and every day at least ten cargo ships loaded with grain and cloth would sail from Buyeo, unload their goods, and then anchor in the harbor, waiting for the Buyeo merchants to buy snow silver ore, sea blue, silk, and female slaves from the market of Pingquan Castle, and then return home.
This time and again, a cargo ship that can carry 1,000 tons can make a profit of more than 50,000 gold coins, so although Yingzhou has the notoriety of being a country of ten thousand demons, there is still an endless stream of Fuyu people and big businessmen who come to Yingzhou to do business, and there are even merchant ships from the country of poison and the country of Pars, who will leave their hometowns for hundreds of thousands of miles to participate in this trade route.
Hideyoshi is a young man from Yingzhou Middle Island, sixteen years old this year, don't look at his young age, he is an old man who has been in this country of ten thousand demons for seven or eight years.
When he was five years old, Hideyoshi's father was killed during a hunt by a demon commander on the coast of the Nakajima Tokai Sea, and soon after, his mother found him a stepfather, and a year later, gave birth to a younger brother.
It can't be said that his stepfather is not a good person, but in this country ruled by demons, the survival of human beings is very difficult, since he has a younger brother, then his oil bottle has become a thorn in the side of his stepfather, although there is no blatant abuse, but many inexplicable beatings and scolding, are indispensable.
So when he was eight years old, Hideyoshi stole half of the food and money left in the family and took it with him, ran out, and ran to Mingtang Mountain with a bandit leader named Xiaoliu, and cleaned up for Xiaoliu's minions, but a few months later, Hideyoshi felt that there was no future for these people with Xiaoliu, so he began to wander alone.
He worked as a needle seller and a hired farmer for a large family, and he went all the way from the middle island to the north island, miraculously not becoming the prey of the youkai who ruled the world. For the past two months, he has been working on the docks of Hiraizumi City, carrying bags for the merchants who have come from Fuyu.
In all fairness, Hideyoshi had a lot of strength, and he was no worse than those adult men who did this kind of bag-carrying work, but there were still very few customers who came to him to work, because of malnutrition, Hideyoshi's appearance was short and thin, and he didn't look like a qualified coolie at all.
Today, Hideyoshi has not found something to do, and if he does not find something, he will have no income, which means starvation.
However, Hideyoshi has a good thing about this child, he never complains about his situation, he only looks for a solution.
Soon after arriving at the docks of Hiraizumi Castle, Hideyoshi found a solution to his hunger, which was the main reason why he stayed in Hiraizumi Castle for two months without leaving.
Seeing that he would not be able to find work today, Hideyoshi left the dock and walked about two miles northeast, where there was a sandy beach that was not suitable as a port due to the terrain, so no one would come here, and it became a place where turtles and crabs laid their eggs.
Hideyoshi walked out to the beach, expertly dug through a mediocre-looking pile of sand, and took out the six white round things underneath, the skin was tough, but Hideyoshi was prepared, took out a sharp dagger, pierced a hole in each round surface, and then drank the sticky stuff inside, as if drinking.
After eating six, I burped.
Turtle eggs are delicious all over the world.
However, in Yingzhou, Hideyoshi's behavior, if it is discovered by a certain patrolling demon general, it will be chopped into mashed meat on the spot.
Humans in Yingzhou can only eat grains and vegetables, and the rest, whether it is plants that are more than 100 years old or all animals, including animal eggs and cubs, even ants and gnats, humans must not harm them.
Those are the reserve army of the demon clan.
Hideyoshi doesn't care, this world has made him fed up, even if he honestly abides by all the laws and regulations formulated by the demon clan, human beings are still the food of the demon clan, just like his biological father, who has been a little unable to remember his appearance, he has been honest and diligent all his life, but when the demon will use big tongs to clamp him and send it to his mouth, there is no hesitation.
Hideyoshi rubbed his eyes with his dirty sleeves, then wiped his mouth, found a sunny place, and prepared to sleep beautifully, when suddenly, the scene on the sea made his eyes widen.
A man covered in blood walked step by step from the surface of the sea, as if the surface of the sea was not made of water, but a solid bluestone ground.
Behind this man, in the midst of the turbulent waves and stormy waves, a giant in black armor, holding an iron fork, swooped towards the man in white, this giant was four or five meters tall, with a human-like body, but with the head of a shark.
"Demon general!" Hideyoshi felt that his breathing was about to stop, and quickly found a stone to hide.
"I hope that after the demon general kills the seriously injured man in white, he will leave quickly, otherwise, this stone will not be able to block its gaze. Hideyoshi shuddered and thought that despite his disappointment in the world, when death was imminent, Hideyoshi hoped that he would be able to avoid it.
But the next scene made him dumbfounded.
Seeing that the shark-headed demon general's steel fork was about to be inserted into the back of the man in white, suddenly there was a thunderclap, and a lightning bolt hit the demon general's front door, and the demon general screamed and fell from the air, and then saw the man in white wave his left hand, and the huge demon general disappeared, and the sea was still turbulent just now, and it calmed down instantly.
"Twelve true immortal steps in one breath, it's really a bit of a struggle, and I almost capsized in the gutter. After killing the shark head demon general, Yun Zhong breathed a sigh of relief, and began to recover seven or eight injuries of different depths on his body, and suddenly his heart was aware.
Looking up, a skinny teenage child stood next to a boulder not far away, looking at him with a stunned expression in his big clear eyes.
"Are you an immortal who has come to save us?"