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In the afternoon when the sun was not so poisonous, they continued on the road and continued to go in the direction of Wuling Mountain.

Originally, I thought that before going to Wuling Mountain, if I could meet a slightly larger county.

Like Jiayin suggested, buy some local specialties and send Qingzhu back to Fangjia Village together with the family letter.

Of course, Qingzhu helped them take some of the special products they bought on the way home, even if they were New Year's goods made in advance.

Unexpectedly, when they were about to reach the foot of Wuling Mountain, they hadn't encountered a single county town, not even a town, only a few scattered small fishing villages.

Yes, it is a small fishing village.

As I said before, they have been walking along the road near the sea. After leaving Wuling City, there are mountains on the left side of the road, and the sea is not far from the right side.

Those near the sea are basically small fishing villages that rely on fishing for a living, and there is no so-called county town at all.

Of course, Jiayin used his spiritual sense to scan, and there is still a county seat, but only after Wuling Mountain is passed, because Wuling Mountain is closer to Wuling City, there is no county seat.

Wuling City was actually a county seat before, and it was called Wuling County. Later, because of the Temple of Heaven on Wuling Mountain in the previous dynasty, more and more people came to settle here, and it developed into a city.

It is even second only to Guanhai City, the county seat of Hainan County.

The reason why it is called Guanhai City is because pirates often came to harass the local people before, and the imperial court sent heavy troops to guard it, which made it better.

After that, the soldiers stationed at the border all settled here. With the defenders here, they lived and worked in peace and contentment. There were more and more people, and gradually it became the largest city in Hainan County.

The imperial court named the city Guanhai City. This name implies that all dangers are kept overseas, which is also kept outside Dayan.

The previous county town was Qingyuan City, which was close to the inland location. However, Guanhai City was built and heavily guarded. It became a foreign trade port, and its importance is self-evident.

Naturally, the county city changed hands.

Dayan State owns the maritime trade routes, and the merchants are all small countries around it.

Because of the development of maritime commerce, a profession, pirates, came into being.

It is said to be pirates, but it is actually an army of a small maritime country.

There is a small island country called Banyue Kingdom on the ocean, which is separated from Dayan Kingdom by three small countries.

The overall area of ​​Banyue Kingdom is not as large as a county in Dayan Kingdom. There are no minerals on the island, and there are only a few fields where food can be grown.

The food grown was not even enough, and the nobles were full and could only live by eating fish, shrimps and crabs in the sea.

It will definitely not work in the long run, and the country will only become poorer and weaker.

Later, I don't know which bastard it was, and gave the king of Banyue Kingdom an idea to let the army pretend to be pirates and rob passing merchant ships!

You must know that the supplies on a merchant ship that can travel across the ocean are by no means a star.

After Banyue Kingdom successfully tasted the sweetness for the first time, it was out of control.

Afterwards, the kings and nobles of Banyue personally led the team to the sea to rob.

With the looted property, many durable ships were rebuilt, and then continued to rob.

Later, the team became bigger and bigger, and even developed into pirates all over the country!
They are usually nobles and ordinary people in the country, but once on board they are ferocious pirates.

In particular, the islands near the Dayan Kingdom all have the eyes of the Banyue Kingdom, and the fishermen at sea are their sentinels.

I usually fish for a living, and as soon as I find a merchant ship passing by, I immediately go back and report the news.

A large pirate force will be dispatched, usually a dozen pirate ships, surrounding the merchant ships.

After so many years, Banyue Country is obviously much richer than other island countries, and everyone discovered the clue.

A poor and weak island country suddenly became rich, and I knew it was due to this kind of costless business.

Although they are rich, there are also disadvantages, that is, as I said before, their country is too small, and there is no place to grow at all.

Food and vegetables basically rely on buying from other countries, most of which are the Star Mang Country and Dayan Country.

If it is a normal trade, it is actually okay, one hand pays and the other hand delivers goods, there must be brave men under heavy profits, and there will still be merchants who trade with Ban Yueguo.

It can only be said that Banyue Kingdom is a bandit by nature, even if it is a merchant ship that goes to Banyue Kingdom for business, they will rob.

But in this way, their livelihood is tantamount to extinction. The food is not enough for the princes and nobles on the island, and the common people cannot all starve to death.

As a result, it later developed that several caravans that regularly trade with the Banyue Kingdom will hang the flag given by the Banyue Kingdom, and symbols will also be painted on the merchant ships.

As long as there are these flags and symbols, those pirate ships will avoid them far away and will not rob such merchant ships.

In fact, other countries also know that it is tricky, but they just tacitly know it.

The only thing that can be justified is that although they robbed the property on the merchant ship, they never hurt anyone's life.

Of course, it doesn't mean that they are kind, but every time they rob a merchant ship, they ask the people on board to contact their families and come to redeem them.

This is another way to make money, and of course they won't kill people.

After all, there is nothing left after killing, and it will not do them any good, and there may be a death feud.

It is also because of this that the countries did not make any effort to encircle and suppress this island.

However, I heard that the Banyue Kingdom changed its king a year ago, and this king is very cruel!

Recently, it was even ordered that after the merchant ship was robbed, only those with status on the merchant ship would be kept in exchange for ransom.

The rest of the servants or civilians were directly taken back to Banyue Kingdom as slaves.

If being a slave is just serving people, it's okay to work, it's not.

The reason why this king is said to be cruel is because these so-called slaves are the food that the king of the Ban Yue Kingdom used to feed his pets!
That's right, these people are king pet food.

The so-called pet kept by the head of the Banyue Kingdom was actually a sea snake.

The sea snake is more than ten meters long, and it can swallow a person in one bite!

It was raised by the lord of the Banyue Kingdom when he was still the prince. At that time, he led a team of pirate ships to rob. On an uninhabited island, he met this sea snake.

At that time, the sea snake was still young, and was captured and brought back by the leader of the Banyue Kingdom, and was raised in the palace.

At the beginning, it was every day, feeding some raw meat or sea fish. Although the sea snake looked scary, it was okay.

Later, after the king succeeded to the throne, the whole country was under his control, so he changed the half-moon flag of Banyue Kingdom and replaced it with a sea snake totem with a big mouth open.

The sea snake has also become the equivalent of a dragon in the Banyue Kingdom.

As the body of the sea snake became bigger and bigger, the king became more and more addicted to the sea snake. It was an addiction to power.

Later, some palace servants even made mistakes and angered the king, who threw them to the sea snake as food.

The sea snake has become addicted since the first person it ate, and now if it doesn't feed it a person every day, it will forcefully hit the iron pillar that traps it.

Once, an iron pillar was bent, and the snake's head stuck out, directly eating a palace man who was feeding the sea snake!
Fortunately, because the sea snake ate too much fat, the position of the snake's back was stuck inside.

If the sea snake was allowed to escape, the entire palace would probably suffer.

The Banyue King felt very happy, and felt that this was in line with its status.

Afterwards, not only did they randomly find reasons to throw the palace servants in to feed the sea snakes, but they also often sent people out to secretly catch some homeless civilians.

But there are only so many civilians, and there are even fewer homeless ones. In order to complete the task, those servants even developed into a situation where they would randomly grab one on the road and go back to work.

Because people are often missing, many people are afraid to go out at night.

It wasn't until the arrest of a minister's son who was drinking outside in the middle of the night that this matter broke out.

The minister, together with some colleagues, knelt outside the palace, begging the king to make the decision and give him an explanation.

It is impossible to be the master. After all, it is the order that I gave, and the explanation is given.

The king was quite daring, and directly admitted that this was his order.

When the ministers heard this, it was not bad, and they advised the king not to play with things, especially the beasts in the sea, and it was better to deal with them quickly.

As a result, the minister who persuaded him became the dinner of the sea snake that day...

As a result, the reputation of the Banyue Kingdom's ruler's brutality was also spread, and all the ministers united to persuade, even deadly, that the Banyue Kingdom's ruler calmed down a bit.

At this time, another bastard appeared and suggested to the king that since the king must feed the giant snake, it is better to use the captured civilians.

In this way, it is better to kill people from other countries than to kill people from one's own country.

Anyway, there was no money to redeem them in those common people's homes. It was when the rich families redeemed people before that they were sent back along with them.

Rich people with kind hearts will also let them pretend to be their own subordinates and take them away.

In fact, those civilians were really unable to eat, so they boarded the ship as crew members, helped with coolies or paddled.

After all, to sail a boat on the sea, sails alone are not enough, and there must be oars underneath.

Otherwise, the merchant ship with sails can only drift away with the wind, and the direction cannot be grasped at all.

The head of the Banyue Kingdom also knew that he couldn't let his own country go wild, so he readily agreed.

Later he discovered that this was indeed a good method, not to mention the loss of his own people, and the rich merchants paid more ransom.

There is no way, if you don't give it before, there may be a way to survive, but if you don't give it now, your family will have to feed the sea snake directly.

They don't know the good news yet, after all, they are still wandering around Wuling Mountain, and have not gone to Guanhai City.

Moreover, these news are only spread among Guanhai City or a few nearby island countries. After all, there are no merchant ships going to sea in other places, so the impact is not big.

Ever since there were pirates plundering at sea, there were very few merchant ships from Dayan Kingdom.

The same thing is to earn money, it is so dangerous to go by sea, it is better to do business directly on land.

Anyway, Dayan Kingdom has a vast land and abundant resources, so it is not impossible to move the things here to the other three directions, there is no need to fight here.

In this way, in fact, the loss of the Great Yan Dynasty is not big, except for those merchants who have been redeemed at the beginning, none of them died in the mouth of the sea snake in Banyue Kingdom.

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Jiayin and his team walked all the way to the foot of Wuling Mountain. Seeing that they were about to enter the mountain, they planned to buy some seafood in the nearby village and send them back to Fangjia Village.

There happened to be a village at the foot of the mountain.

What about the village?You say it is a fishing village, it is built by the mountains, you say it is a mountain village, and it lives by the sea.

Anyway, it is a village that can both hunt and fish.

And this village has a lot of seafood and a lot of prey, so Jiayin and the others don't go to any county towns at all.

Anyway, where to buy, most of them are some seafood, and it is the same to buy directly from fishermen.

I stopped the local villagers to inquire, and went directly to the village chief's house.

When the village head heard it, of course he warmly welcomed it!

This is the God of Wealth!No outsider has come to their village for a long time.

The village is called Mitsui Village. The reason for this name is that there are three wells in the village.

The water in two of the wells, no different from other places, is astringent.

But the water from the third well was very sweet.

This well is next to the foot of Wuling Mountain, on the only way to enter Wuling Mountain.

Mitsui Village existed in the previous dynasty. At that time, the Master of Tianzun Temple was still a national teacher, and many people came to see him every day.

Passing through this Mitsui Village, you will stop to rest your feet, fetch some water from this well, and drink it later on the mountain or on the way back.

After all, along the way, the well water I drank was astringent, and suddenly there was a mouthful of sweet well water, which was of course very sought-after.

At that time, Mitsui Village earned a lot of money from this well.

In the beginning, the villagers let others fetch water casually, and only earned some silver taels for staying overnight.

Later, there were too many people, and the water level in this well was beaten down a lot, so they began to collect money in a limited amount.

It's not too much, five copper coins make a bucket, and it's no problem to fill a bucket of water with several bamboo tubes.

And it is said that the water is not only sweet, but also has the effect of prolonging life.

People in Mijing Village live a long life by relying on this well, unlike other places where people die at the age of 50 or [-].

Here, it is very common for people to live to the age of seven or eighty.

There was even a [-]-year-old man.

Some people may say, since there is this sweet well water, why not dig a few more beside it, and dig another two wells of bitter water?
That's because before this well was drilled, other wells were drilled next to it. Either there was no water, or the water that was dug out was still very astringent. Only the water in this well was sweet.

The reason why the other two wells are kept is not to say that they are useless. One is that they are close to the center of the village, and the other is that they can at least be used for washing.

And this sweet water well is purely for drinking, and there are special people guarding it every day, so that they are afraid that ignorant children will come here to play and throw something into the well to pollute the well water.

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In fact, I felt the good news as soon as I entered the village.

The reason why the sweet water well is different from other wells is that it is closest to Wuling Mountain.

Before the father set up a formation in Wuling Mountain, at least half of this well was inside the formation.

The water that comes out is also the groundwater that flows down from Wuling Mountain, so it is so sweet.

When the father built the Tianzun temple here, he set up a feng shui formation. Because there is no spiritual energy, the father did not set up any spirit-gathering formation, which is useless, so basically it is a feng shui formation.

This feng shui formation coupled with the cornucopia, Wuling Mountain is nourished by outstanding people, not only this well, but also the streams on the mountain are sweet...