Although Tongshan County is close to the 100,000 Demon Ridge and is threatened by monsters at any time, it also means opportunities in addition to risks.

Youkai worship nature, and they don't know how to make alchemy like humans, so youkai rarely do the destruction of the natural environment for their own living like humans.

Some monsters love to live in the beautiful environment of nature, so in the 100,000 demon mountains where the monsters are entrenched, it is likely that there are various elixirs for ten years, a hundred years, or even more than a thousand years, as well as other kinds of heavenly and earthly treasures.

According to the rumors of human adventurers, the various elixirs in the 100,000 Demon Mountains grow like weeds in the mountains, and are eaten by small beasts like rabbits, who usually make snacks.

It's all born money!

Every year, adventurers from Chong'an Kingdom and even the Central Jin Dynasty, as well as other feudal countries, will come to Tongshan County in groups.

Then use Tongshan County as the forward logistics supply base, and transfer to the 100,000 Demon Mountains for adventure.

Most of these adventurers were martial arts cultivators in the Shu clan's cold sect, and they also knew that if they took the initiative to go to the 100,000 Demon Mountains, they would probably be eaten by those monsters as food delivered to their doors.

As a martial arts cultivator, his body is full of essence and blood, and it is the favorite food of the monsters, and it is also a great supplement for the monsters.

But for the sake of those elixirs worth thousands of gold, they still went forward and ignored life and death.

Poor and rich in martial arts, it costs money to practice martial arts, not everyone is like Liu Ping, who was born in a poor martial arts family, and can attach himself to the scholar clan and have his own land to support his martial arts.

The vast majority of martial arts cultivators, most of whom have been made miserable by martial arts training, forcing them to risk their lives to get money.

There are even some powerful adventurers who directly hit those monsters, of course, the big demons dare not face it, but the little demons or something, with the wisdom of human beings, plus their martial arts sevenfold, eightfold and even ninefold realms, still dare to do it.

The monster's demon pill can be used to refine the elixir in human shijie, the effect is comparable to hundreds of thousands of years of elixir, the flesh and blood on the monster and so on, are also very valuable, especially catching a live monster, even if it is to get a monster's corpse, it is also a big fortune.

Of course, there are also some human merchants who will also directly deal with the monsters in the 100,000 Demon Mountains, using pills and charms, which are things that monsters will not refine, to exchange elixirs and other natural treasures.

However, this is also a risky business, and it may even be sold to the monster to make someone else's meal.

Therefore, most of the adventurers who go to the 100,000 Demon Mountains every year do not return, but the adventurers who come to Tongshan County every year can still more than double the population of Tongshan County.

In fact, before Chong'an officially built Tongshan County, with the special geographical location of this region, there was already a border market town spontaneously formed by adventurers.

Later, some people found various ore veins in the surrounding mountains, especially some gold, silver and jade veins, and it is said that there are also spirit stone mines that can only be used by immortal cultivators, which attracted many people to open mines here.

In this way, various business brigades were attracted, in addition to buying minerals, some also came here to purchase medicinal herbs, demon pills and other materials.

In addition to the men who carried and transported, most of the people brought by these business travelers would also bring hundreds of private guards, and every time the business travelers gathered, tens of thousands of people could gather here.

Whether it is the mine owner who opened the mine or the foreign business brigade, they are not ordinary goods, and most of them have the name of the gate lord of the scholar clan behind them.

In order to facilitate the management of this spontaneously formed town, many scholars with interests here played a role, so that the lord of Chong'an Kingdom waved his pen and built a county seat in the southwest border close to the 100,000 Demon Mountains, which was officially Tongshan County.

In order to meet the self-supply and demand of a county town, the lord of Chong'an also forcibly relocated more than 5,000 households from other places, including peasant households, artisan households, and other chaotic miscellaneous households, including 500 soldiers guarding the county seat, and the families of these soldiers.

Coupled with those adventurers who come and go in spring and winter, adventures for thousands of miles, and do not hesitate to bury their bones in a foreign land, the miners brought by the mine owners, and the men and guards brought by the caravanserais, as long as it is not winter, the population of Tongshan County can reach about 40,000 at most.

The population of 40,000 is comparable to the county seat of some wealthy and large prefectures in Chong'an, but the prosperity of Tongshan County is relatively deformed.

The main streets of the east and west markets of the county town are lined with different shops, most of which are shops that purchase various elixirs and other materials in the 100,000 Demon Mountains, and there are also shops that specialize in selling pills, weapons, and armor, all of which are dedicated to serving those adventurers.

It is common to see all kinds of adventurers with weapons, entering and exiting shops, either selling or buying, but it is also a one-stop service, saving them from going to other places to sell and purchase.

As for other places in the county, the most common ones are inns, restaurants and the like, even ordinary households, will pack out a few side rooms, for rental to earn some money, and they can live in seven or eight full on weekdays.

This is like the ancient town we often visit, almost all the people in the county have started the business of entertaining outsiders, except for farming and harvesting grain, all other income also comes from these outsiders.

Most of the foreign adventurers who came to Tongshan County did not know what was going on tomorrow today and took risks with their heads, so they were also bold in spending money.

As for public security, there are Shi Qi refiners like Zhu Junyan as the county magistrate, and there are Zhu's private soldiers, plus the county soldiers deployed by Chong'an State, which is quite stable.

Such an ancient county town, since Zhu Lingwu has now started to go shopping, he is naturally a little interested, this is a real ancient town, much more authentic than the Banlazi ancient town that he originally spent money to visit.

But if you want to say that the most lively place in Tongshan County, you have to say that there is a storytelling teahouse "Tiantang Pavilion" in front of the Chenghuang Temple in the north of the county.

In these years, the transmission of various news mainly depends on the mouth, and although many storytellers add fuel and vinegar to the storytellers, they can hear a lot of baggage about the fresh news in some book paragraphs from time to time.

So in this shijie, if you want to listen to the news and understand current affairs, you either have to inquire on your own, or you can only go to this kind of storytelling teahouse, in addition to drinking tea, you can hear the news from other people, and then you can listen to the book jokes told by the storyteller.

It is said that this shijie storyteller is also a special profession, they seem to know everything, and you can even buy a lot of secret information from them......