Shi Tianci looked at the little phoenix and said, "Old man, I don't want to lie to you, this blood rotting disease is a terminal disease at all, and I really can't do anything about it." ”

The old lady shook her head and said, "I didn't ask you to save her, I asked you to help her when you could." ”

Shi Tianci hurriedly said: "Your granddaughter got this disease at a young age, it's really pitiful. Even if you don't give me the wooden box, I will definitely do my best to help her through this difficult time as long as I have the opportunity. ”

The old lady nodded in satisfaction and handed the wooden box to Shi Tianci.

Shi Tianci took the wooden box and looked at it, the hole on the wooden box was crescent-shaped this time. He put away the wooden box, took the old and the young, and returned to the fox clan. Shi Tianci had been delayed in the Demon Clan for more than half a year, and he was worried about Su Jingshan, the king of Zhennan, so he decided to leave immediately to return to Tianshui Kingdom.

Hu Yongqing refused to part with him, so Shi Tianci naturally wanted to take her with him. Originally, according to Shi Tianci's idea, he was going to marry her first in the fox clan before leaving, but Hu Duling was worried about his daughter's body and did not agree, but asked Shi Tianci to lift the ban on his daughter's cultivation first.

Hu Duling's opinion is not unreasonable, in the world of monks who eat the jungle, if there is not enough cultivation to defend themselves, it is bound to be difficult to have a foothold. Therefore, Shi Tianci did not refute, so he took Hu Yongqing and two phoenixes, an old man and a young one, bid farewell to Hu Duling, and embarked on the road back to China.

Shi Tianci can gallop with Hu Yongqing's sword, and the old demon phoenix can also flutter its wings and fly, but the sick little phoenix can't even walk, and it can't bear the pain of flying at all. Shi Tianci thought about it, and finally took out the demon phoenix collar, and wanted to put the old demon phoenix and the little phoenix into it together. The demon phoenix collar can store phoenix eggs, and naturally it can also be used as a shelter for the Feng clan.

The two demon phoenixes entered the collar, not only could they fly with Shi Tianci with the flying sword, but they could also hide their whereabouts. After all, they are phoenixes, they are treasures, and when they reach the Anthropocene realm, there will be countless people who will be red at them.

The old demon phoenix saw the demon phoenix collar, sighed and asked, "It turns out that you really killed the immortal demon phoenix." ”

Shi Tianci said: "Where can I kill him? It's just that he fell for my trick, accidentally ingested strong medicine, and lost all his memories." ”

The old demon phoenix said: "Don't worry, I won't leak your affairs, my granddaughter and I have long been driven out by the Feng clan, and we are no longer members of the Feng clan." ”

Shi Tianci said curiously: "Why did they drive you out?"

The old demon phoenix said: "The Feng clan has always paid attention to the fact that the whole clan is a soldier, and the whole clan cannot be dragged down because of any one person. Anyone who is old, weak, sick, disabled, or incapacitated will be sent to Luofeng Valley to die. Although I was in my last years, I could barely fight, but I couldn't bear to send my granddaughter to the cemetery to end her life, so I was kicked out together. ”

Shi Tianci sighed, the Feng Clan's approach may be conducive to maintaining the strength of the entire clan, but it is too cruel. The two demon phoenixes, one old and one young, entered the demon phoenix collar and stayed with the phoenix egg, the immortal demon phoenix, and the little phantom beast.

As soon as Shi Tianci returned to Gaoping City, Su Jingshan immediately sent someone to invite him. Su Jingshan saw Shi Tianci, exchanged a few words, and then went straight to the point and said: "You have been absent for half a year, and the situation in Tianshui has changed a lot. My father gave our three brothers and several uncles kings, divided fiefs, and handed over the fiefdoms to us. ”

When Shi Tianci heard this, he felt a little surprised, and hurriedly asked, "With so much power, what about the army?"

King Zhennan said: "The control of the army has been taken back by my father, and we, the feudal kings, can set up our own private army, but the military expenses must be completely taken care of." Although the various fiefs had great power, they also had a heavy burden of taxation. My fiefdom is located on the southern border, and not only do I have to resist the pressure of the Xuanyun Gate, but I also have to pay heavy taxes to the treasury every year, and I am too short of money now. ”

Shi Tianci suddenly realized, first changed the defense in another place, and then recovered the military power, and finally sealed the king, it seems that the Tianshui country is empty treasury, and it is necessary to increase taxes by means of the sub-feudal system. Although this would lead to the dispersion of imperial power, it would transfer the notoriety of heavy taxation to the various feudal kings.

Shi Tianci asked, "Normally, can the tax of your fiefdom be completed?"

King Zhennan smiled bitterly: "Don't say it's all done, it's half of it is difficult." We were new to the city, and our foundation here was very weak, and there were not many rich people supporting us at all. Moreover, the second brother has been operating here for a long time, and many of them are his henchmen, and the noble relatives of the family headed by the Huang and Mei families often obstruct our tax strategy, and now it is really difficult to move an inch. ”

Shi Tianci nodded and said, "It's not difficult to make money, but on the one hand, we want to make money, and on the other hand, we have to hit the power of the second prince hard, which needs to be carefully considered." ”

When King Zhennan heard the words that it is not difficult to make money, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he hurriedly said: "As long as you can pass the difficulty of paying taxes first, everything else is easy to say." ”

Shi Tianci took out a strange-looking thing, handed it to the king of Zhennan and said, "If you want to make money, you and all the adults must lead the new fashion." ”

King Zhennan took the thing and looked at it for a long time, but he didn't see any doorway. He hurriedly asked, "What is this?"

Shi Tianci said: "This is called a pipe, and it is used for smoking. ”

After speaking, Shi Tianci added tobacco, lit it for King Zhennan, and taught him how to smoke. King Zhennan took a puff, choked and coughed, and asked with a bitter face: "What kind of fashion can this thing lead? It's just a small chimney!"

Shi Tianci smiled and said: "You will get used to smoking, not only you have to smoke, but all officials and officials have to smoking." Moreover, each person must smoke this bag of tobacco every day. As long as you can persevere, I will have no problem taking care of this year's taxes. ”

King Zhennan tried to take two more puffs and asked, "This is the tobacco you let that brute-faced barbarian woman grow?"

Shi Tianci nodded and said, "That's right." These were picked by me in Tianshuimen before, but it has been more than half a year since Xi Yulan returned to the homeless tribe, and it is estimated that the tobacco they planted will also be shipped soon. As long as you can make smoking fashionable, their tobacco will be rich as soon as it arrives. ”

As early as in the north, Shi Tianci asked Xi Yulan to return to the homeless tribe first, and asked her to guide the homeless people to plant tobacco on a large scale. In this way, he can control the supply of tobacco, and others will not be able to buy it even if they want to follow his example. Moreover, the displaced people can also obtain high income, and with money, they can naturally solve the problem of lack of food and herbs, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

When King Zhennan heard Shi Tianci's words, he immediately ordered someone to find craftsmen, imitate Shi Tianci's pipes in large quantities, and distribute ten to each official, not only to smoke, but also to their families.

As a result, the people of Gaoping soon discovered that a strange scene appeared in Gaoping City. All the officials, even the king of Zhennan, often carried a strange thing in their mouths, which contained grass silk in it, and when it was lit, it smoked, and they enjoyed it very much.

At first, some nobles and relatives who often dealt with officials began to imitate, and later, from high-ranking officials and nobles to the common people of Li, everyone smoked a pipe and smoked dry tobacco, and this spectacle became a common practice in Gaoping.

As Shi Tianci expected, in less than three months, not only Gaoping City, but also the entire Zhennan Wang's fiefdom, the number of smokers rose sharply, and everywhere Shi Tianci went, he saw young men, big girls, little daughters-in-law, and old ladies, all holding cigarette pouches, swallowing clouds and spitting fog.

When the monks saw this, they were stunned at first, thinking that these mortals were holding some new magic weapon. Later, many of them began to be good and became smokers.

More and more people are smoking, and the demand for tobacco is starting to grow. Many wealthy merchants and families saw this huge business opportunity and came to Zhennan Wang to ask for goods, and they wanted to do this big business of selling tobacco.

With such a lucrative business, Shi Tianci and King Zhennan naturally would not tell the source of goods and leave it alone. The third prince adopted the business strategy formulated by Shi Tianci, and he announced that the wholesale of tobacco was monopolized by the king of Zhennan!

Anyone who wants to do tobacco retail business must apply for the monopoly qualification approved by Zhennan Wang. Those with monopoly qualifications can only go to Zhennan Wangfu to purchase, and the purchase and shipment must be priced by Zhennan Wang. Although it is very troublesome to sell tobacco in this way, Su Jingshan still has a lot of profit margins.

As a result, merchants naturally flock to it. The third prince specially selected those merchants who had close contacts with him to do business, and as for the second prince, if they wanted to sell tobacco, there was no door.

What Shi Tianci said was true, with tobacco, in just a few months, the king of Zhennan made a fortune. Not only him, but also those merchants who have obtained monopoly qualifications have also made a lot of money. Moreover, the habit of smoking has long been not limited to Su Jingshan's fiefdom, and the number of smokers in various parts of Tianshui Country has increased exponentially.

King Zhennan not only sold tobacco in his own fiefdom, but also earned a lot of money from smokers in the fiefs of the second prince, the third prince and others. The second prince's henchmen were so red that someone had already reported the situation here to the second prince Su Jingshui, and even the eldest prince Su Jingfeng had also received the information.

Su Jingshui and Su Jingfeng were also having a headache for the heavy taxes of the fiefdom, and when they learned that the third prince had used tobacco to get through the difficulties, they naturally moved their minds. Especially the second eldest Su Jingshui, the fief of King Zhennan is full of his henchmen, and he knows everything about Su Jingshan's every move.

He originally wanted to buy tobacco directly from the Three Princes for retail, but the Three Princes' strict monopoly qualification approval system made it impossible for him to get a star at all. However, this also did not bother Su Jingshui, and within a few days, his eyeliner made the purchase channels of the third prince clear.

When he learned that tobacco was a specialty of the homeless tribe, he was taken aback. The homeless tribe is far away from Tianshui Country, and most importantly, it is very unsafe on this road, with groups of monsters and bandits. However, the huge profits from tobacco still made Su Jing work hard to organize people to go to the homeless tribe at any cost.

When his subordinate, Huang Yuanbing, the second eldest of the Huang family, finally returned from the homeless tribe with people, Su Jingshui was completely dumbfounded. Huang Yuanbing brought two or three hundred people, with countless gold and silver, and he didn't bring back a single tobacco in the Wandering Empire!

Su Jingshui scolded Huang Yuanbing for being incompetent, and Huang Yuanbing had to explain helplessly: "I can't complain about this, there is a female doctor named Xi Yulan, who practices medicine everywhere in the homeless tribe and delivers medicine, and is known as the king of medicine." When it comes to the medicine king, the homeless people all bow down and worship, and they simply regard her as a god. ”

Su Jingshui scolded: "Damn, what does this have to do with tobacco?"

Huang Yuanbing said: "It was this medicine king who asked the homeless people to grow tobacco, she said that this thing was specially used by her to change medicine to cure diseases, and those homeless people were like oracles to the words of the medicine king, so they refused to sell a single one." I even paid several times the price, but they ignored me. ”

Su Jingshui said strangely: "If the female medicine king treats the homeless people, can she buy their hearts?"

Huang Yuanbing said: "Not only to cure diseases, she buys tobacco from the homeless people at a high price, and then sells food, medicinal materials and daily necessities to the homeless people, and also helps the homeless people build houses and reclaim land. ”

Su Jingshui hated the root of his teeth, and he said viciously: "The third child is a muddy and unenterprising guy, but I didn't expect him to find such a way to make money, I'm really fucking angry." ”

Huang Yuanbing said: "It is said that this idea was not the king of Zhennan, but was conceived by a Shi Tianci politician. ”

Su Jingshui said: "Shi Tianci, I can't imagine that there are such a talented person who can make money under the command of the third child. Lao Tzu hated to cut him with a thousand knives!Hey, wait, why is the name Shi Tianci so familiar?"

Huang Yuanbing lowered his voice and said: "Last time, Elder Ling Yi of Xuanyun Sect led people to Jiafeng City to assassinate, it is said that he was about to succeed, but because of this Shi Tianci's intervention, he actually failed in the end and ended up in a fiasco. ”

Su Jingshui suddenly realized: "I said, it turns out that this kid broke my ...... last time No, it's a good thing for Xuanyunmen. ”

Huang Yuanbing said: "Lord Wang, if you want to get rid of him, borrowing the hand of Xuanyunmen is a good way. ”

Su Jingshui hurriedly asked, "What are your plans?"

Huang Yuanbing whispered a few words in his ear, Su Jingshui was overjoyed, and hurriedly said, "That's it!"

A poisonous plan to murder Shi Tianci was brewed in this way.