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The Li family and his party came out on the thirteenth day of the first month, delayed on the road for two days, and then stayed overnight as usual, and did not encounter any trouble, and finally came to the destination - Tieshan City on the twentieth day of the first month.

This city was the fiefdom of the ancestor of the Immortal Iron Family, the Qi Refiner in the Battle Weapon Gate, and it was originally just a small walled city built on a mountain bag. Because the Falling Star Lake on the edge of the city is rich in dark iron, it has reached it in these hundreds of years.

Dark iron is a strange mineral that is not only hard in texture, but also resistant to rust. Its biggest advantage is that it can pass true qi, and it is an important material for casting immortal weapons. Therefore, there is an endless stream of merchants who come and go from south to north here to purchase this thing for various immortal gates.

In addition, the sect from this iron family has now become one of the Eight Heavens Gate, and now it is the number one person in the south of Jingzhou.

As the name suggests, the Falling Star Lake is formed by the falling stars in the sky and hitting the ground. Indeed, three hundred years ago, the battle of heaven spread throughout the entire Middle Continent, and Jingzhou was naturally not spared. At first, all parties still had scruples, but when the battle was fierce, it was a death to stay a little, and the people in the war couldn't think about it so much.

This Falling Star Lake was formed by the demon god inducing a meteor in the sky to bombard the ground cultivation dojo.

Although this meteorite is not big, its whole body is made of the aggregation of raw ore, and the mass is terrifying. This black iron itself has a certain magnetism, and there is a huge high-quality iron ore buried deep underground at the landing point of the bombardment. So since then, a piece of Xianjia Cave has become an open-pit iron mine.

However, the collision also changed the local landscape, and several nearby rivers poured into the huge craters created by the impact, forming a vast lake, Falling Star Lake.

The ancestor of the Tie family was originally from the Battle Weapon Gate, and he was the best at refining weapons, especially killing weapons, so he chose this place as his fiefdom. Sure enough, after several generations of operation, it became an iron giant.

Today's Iron Mountain City is no longer a small walled city, but a real city.

This is also the first time Li Zisheng has come to a city from the countryside, but the closer he is to Natieshan City, the more sparse the trees become, and by the time he is still two days away from Natieshan City, the surrounding area is already bare, and only wild grass is buried in the residual snow on the ground.

After the snow stopped, black smoke began to waft from the sky where he was still present, and the air around him smelled faintly strange.

Of course, Li Zisheng asked curiously about others, it turned out that this was the result of the "industrialization" of Tieshan City.

The trees here were cut down a hundred or two hundred years earlier and burned into charcoal to make iron. Later, a few coal mines were built in the vicinity, and the logging was stopped. However, after switching to coal, the surrounding environment also deteriorated, and nothing could grow except for the tenacious weeds.

In particular, they came from the south, and were at the downwind, and what they saw was the most terrifying.

The group approached the city, and after reaching a distance where they could see directly with the naked eye, Li Zisheng really saw a gray mist enveloping the entire city from a distance, slowly drifting in his direction under the blowing of a gust of north wind.

Beneath this fog lies a jungle of chimneys that spew mist into the sky. Strangely, the boy did not feel that the scene in front of him was ugly, but had a sense of grandeur.

However, a foul smell in the air made it difficult for him to breathe, and Li Zisheng couldn't help but ask his father how to live in this environment.

Li Zhaochang replied to his son with a smile, all he saw was Nancheng, where there was only a blacksmith shop, and no one lived there except for the poor ghosts. Just like their family's grain store is opened in Beicheng, due to the wind direction, the environment there is not half a star.

In addition, with the popularization of immortal arts, the magic circle with the effect of filtering the air is not expensive, and the "average" people can afford it.

The boy nodded, and of course he immediately saw the "poor ghost" who couldn't afford the air circle and lived in the south.

On the south side of Iron Mountain City, on the shore of the Falling Star Lake, there is a dense cluster of low and simple houses, probably due to the lack of wood nearby, the shacks here are made of burnt cinders, with thatched roofs, and a few pieces of wood tied together are used as doors, and many houses do not even have windows. The cinders are black and yellow, and the two colors are mixed together, which looks dirty and ugly.

It's just that now these buildings, which are not called houses, are all staggered, and a large part of it has been bulldozed to the ground, and few of the rest of the buildings remain intact, and there are signs of smoke and fire everywhere. Now there is not even half a living person in it. There were only a few passers-by, and they also hurried through the place as if they were running away from something.

Without waiting for his son to ask, Li Zhaochang pointed and said. This shack is inhabited by nearby miners and coal workers, as well as the "iron fishermen" unique to Falling Star Lake.

The black iron produced in the Falling Star Lake is at the bottom of the lake, and at first it can be salvaged with a special iron net, but gradually the fragments of the black iron ore are all salvaged, and those larger ores are not something that the iron net can deal with.

Hence the emergence of the iron fisherman's trade. As long as you can swim, a fierce man plunges into the lake, goes to the bottom of the lake to pick up ore, and then sells it on the shore to those who specialize in collecting ore and iron, so he doesn't have to worry about two meals and one night. Therefore, empty-handed people come here without worrying about having no food, attracting many poor villagers to make a living here.

These miners and iron fishermen lived on the shores of the Falling Star Lake, and gradually formed such a large slum.

This year's rice riot was mainly attended by residents of the area, so it is now in tatters. However, Li Zhaochang confidently said to his son that as long as it takes a while, there will naturally be farmers looking for food to gather, especially after Yunmengze in the east has such a big "natural disaster".

They passed by the slums, but instead of entering the smoky southern city, they made a big circle to the east of the city. From this time on, some clansmen kept saying goodbye and leaving, and Li Zhaochang and them made an appointment for three days to have dinner together in the hotel in the city, to thank everyone for their hard work along the way, and to fulfill their promises by the way.

The father and son and their hired hands came to a river. This river originates from the Falling Star Lake and winds to the northwest, and is named the Xuanhe River because of the relationship between the Xuaniron ore in the lake. The Xuan River flows through the city, dividing the Iron Mountain City in two.

The name does fit the river, where slag and all kinds of dirt float on the surface, and the black water emits an unpleasant stench. On both sides of the eastern section of Xuanhe City, there are many tall buildings that are used as cabins. These buildings are not made of wood, but are made of iron beams and columns. Many of the iron frame houses do not even have walls, and most of them are filled with iron ingots and ore.

It turned out that this was the storage area of Iron Mountain City, and next to it were two empty docks in the north and south.

In front of these reservoir areas there is a row of shops, most of which are grain shops. The shops now look like they have been burned by smoke and fire. Some of the doors were smashed and broken in two, and they were just leaning against the wall and no one was repairing them, and even the roofs of several shops were burned through, and a few bricklayers were repairing them.

The boy didn't need to ask to know that this was the result of the "rice commotion" a few days ago. And now from time to time, you can see a few soldiers walking lazily here.

Li Zhaochang led everyone to his shop familiarly, and the Li family's shop was fine, not even a piece of the door panel was broken.

knocked on the door, and the next door panel was the shopkeeper of the Li family's grain store, Du Jianghang.

Speaking of which, this person is still the executioner under Li Zhaochang when he was dart before, and the relationship between the two has always been good. Later, this Master Du was injured and broke one leg and couldn't do the dart business. Seeing that he was loyal and honest, and that he could write and calculate, Lord Li summoned him to the store to take charge of the grain shop's transactions.

Naturally, the shopkeeper Du who had this encounter was also extremely loyal to the boss.

He dragged a lame leg forward a few steps, and arched his hand, "Proprietor, you are back." Oh, even the eldest young master is here! I haven't seen you for a few days, the young master is so tall, and the more he grows, the more energetic he becomes. ”

Li Zhaochang chatted with him for a few words, and then entered the store together. The boy also followed into his own shop, which cannot be said to be simple, but it can definitely be said to be simple. This is a three-bay shop with a long counter that divides the shop into two sections. There is a scale on the left hand side in front of it, and a table and two chairs on the right hand side, and a teapot and teacup on the table. Except for a walkway in the back is a large open space, and now there are empty sacks.

His father didn't go to the back to rest, but directly asked people to move the counter and pile up all the food he brought behind the counter. Then he turned around his shop and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that there was no major damage.

Then, Li Zhaochang sat on the chair on the right, drinking tea and watching his men carry grain, while asking about the turmoil in his account office in the past few days and the business situation in the past few days.

The impact of the turmoil on the Li family was not great, and the shopkeeper Du was also an old and sophisticated figure, and he handled it very appropriately, so he simply dismissed a few guards and opened the store to expose the little grain in front of the thieves, and he cleaned up the surplus money in the account and hid softly. When he returned, in addition to the furniture, it was not even smashed, but there was more garbage and "yellow and white things", which can be said to be undamaged.

Li Zhaochang praised a few words from the bottom of his heart and began to ask about the grain market.

When he said this, he heard Du Jianghang say excitedly: "Now in this city, the price of rice is soaring. I heard that a few groups of water thieves came out of Yunmengze in the east and cut off the waterway. ”

Originally, Jingzhou and Yangzhou had a big river to figure out, but this section of the river was turbulent, and it was convenient to sail along the river, but it was difficult to sail against the current, so the boat from Yangzhou first detoured to Yunmengze, where the water surface was calm, and then pulled the boat to Tieshan City with animal power.

"How much has it gone up now?" asked Li Zhaochang.

The shopkeeper Du stretched out a slap: "It's five times higher than a year ago." ”

Boss Li was also taken aback: "It's so high?!。 He secretly calculated in his heart that he had come out this time to bring 40,000 catties of high-quality refined white rice, but he lost a little on the way, and now it is about 37,000 catties. In the past, the market price was only 400 catties, and at most it was sold for five baht of a Xuantie, which was equivalent to one-tenth of a square yuan stone.

This year has been affected by natural disasters and ...... A little "immortal disaster"; a few years ago, the price of rice in the city could only be bought for 100 catties for a 5 baht, but now it has risen fivefold, so can you only buy 20 catties? Then you can sell these rice for 185 yuan stones, and the cost is a little more expensive than in previous years, and even if you count the labor expenses, it is only a little more than 20 yuan stones! In this way, the net profit is as high as ...... One hundred and sixty-five square yuan stones!

(Note: This has already been mentioned above.) You can bring in the current price and calculate it...... For the sake of convenience, the current price of Yuanshi is set at a price equivalent to 10,000 yuan on this plane. ）

Earn big this time!

At least my son's tuition fees have been settled in the past few years, not to mention the gifts and support of the two families.

Before Boss Li could smile, he heard the shopkeeper Du say again and again: "It's just ......"

"Just what?" Li Zhaochang asked as he put down the teacup in his hand.