Yin Shi.
It's the transition between day and night before dawn.
It was already Yinshi time when Jin'an and the abbot of Bailong Temple returned to Fucheng.
There is only one hour left before sunrise at Mao hour.
The Taoist Priest Yuanshen and the old monk Faxiang were walking and chatting about Wang Long. It was still an hour before dawn and it was still early.
After saying goodbye to the host at the gate of Bailong Temple, Jin An continued to return to the Five Zang Taoist Temple.
When passing by the Jia family, the lively banquet of the Jia family was still going on. Jin An was surprised to see that the Jia family actually held a flowing banquet all night long.
As expected, the Jia family is indeed a big family and a big business.
Jin An paid attention for a while and saw that there was nothing unusual about Jia's family. He looked deep in thought and his soul drifted away.
Oh oh oh
At this time, in Fucheng, the loud crow of a rooster can be heard from time to time. The rooster is the ancient red bird in mythology, and the rooster's crow means that it is almost dawn.
Because of this, there are rumors among the people that the crowing of roosters can ward off evil spirits and scare away evil spirits.
Jin'an has the Yang God Yellow Talisman to protect the soul path, so now his soul can still wander outside and is not afraid of the rooster's crow.
As the rooster crows, people in the city get up early and start another busy day.
The sound of a scholar reading aloud...
The proprietress of the tofu shop opens the door and prepares to sell tofu...
The owner of the wonton stall carried a load and carried a bamboo stick and started walking around the streets selling wontons...
The fishermen at the mouth of the river began another day of fishing and casting their nets...
The dock porters whose business had plummeted came to the dock with half-full stomachs to look for work...
Everything in the world is painted in front of this sunrise picture.
"drink!"
When Jin An's soul floated near a wealthy family, he heard the sounds of two people fighting, mixed with the sounds of women practicing martial arts.
Jin An raised his head and looked curiously towards the direction where the sound of martial arts training was coming from. It was coming from that wealthy family.
"Jiang Mansion?"
"I remember that there is one of the largest chambers of commerce in Fucheng named Jiang Lai, who controls most of the merchant ship trade and shipyards in Fucheng."
"This mansion is so grandly built. The two stone sculptures of the dominators in front of the door alone are one story high. Looking at the whole city, it is difficult to find a more domineering mansion than the Jiang family. Even the He Mansion and the Xue Mansion
, the Jia family is a little bit less interested. It seems that this Jiang family should be the Jiang family, the largest chamber of commerce in the city."
According to what Jin An has heard about the Jiang family, it seems that the Jiang family has only become more prosperous in the past ten years or so.
From a small wealthy businessman, it only took a decade or so to annex all the large and small ship merchants, ship gangs, wharves, shipyards, wharf gangs... and expand into the largest chamber of commerce in Cheng Fucheng.
And the Jiang family seems to be more than just a business in Wuzhou Prefecture. As the business grows bigger and bigger, there have been rumors in recent years that the Jiang family's fleet has begun to intend to develop into HNA and has been working hard to find
Golden Channel.
If the Jiang family is really allowed to find the golden waterway, in another ten years, the Jiang family will be able to develop into a wealthy country.
In fact, this is not alarmist at all.
The merchant ship is on the endless ocean, as vast as a grain of dust, stretching as far as the eye can see and seemingly thousands of miles away.
If there is no safe channel, merchant ships will either capsize in the ever-changing storms at sea; or they will get lost in the ocean, wandering for more than ten years without encountering a ship.
But the most terrifying thing is that people died of thirst at sea before even carrying it for a few days.
In the boundless ocean, in addition to getting lost, reefs, storms, and waves, the most feared thing is not being able to find an island in time to replenish fresh water.
Therefore, whoever masters a safe golden waterway will be able to accumulate wealth that rivals other countries. The vast ocean in this world is vast, and people live in a corner. The major continents are separated by the endless ocean. This world will eventually become
The world of Golden Passage.
Not to mention anything else, the inland river journey alone takes a month and two months. If it were a maritime trader, it might take half a month with a favorable wind.
Moreover, sea-going ships can be built larger, have deeper drafts, and can carry more than several times the cargo at one time as inland ships.
One goes down and the other goes down.
The gap is getting wider and wider, as maritime merchants have larger fleets and build larger ships.
In the future, it would not be surprising to occupy a large island and establish himself as king.
For details, please refer to Jizi, Siam, Xingzhou, Luzon, etc.
Jin An quickly found the direction from which the sound of the martial arts competition came at Nuo Dajiang's house. The main reason was that the opponent was too obvious under the night sky. His body was as strong as a furnace and his blood was strong. In the eyes of the soul, it was like seeing a ball of flames.
Burning.
She was a clean-looking woman about eighteen or nineteen years old.
Despite her young age, this girl looks like a little female leopard, with a strong and fierce personality, and she is competing with others in the open space of a martial arts hall.
The two fought fiercely.
The energy and blood in a man and a woman are burning like a ball of fire. Ordinary Xiao Xie Sui would be driven to death by the masculine blood energy without being able to get close to the two of them.
The man who competed with the little female leopard was an old man in his fifties or sixties.
His palms were as red as a hot soldering iron, and he seemed to be a master of palm skills.
"What a strong spirit. Both of them are among the first-class masters, especially the woman. She is still so young and another generation of geniuses has risen. If they can grow up safely and do not die prematurely, they will be one of the best in the martial arts world.
He’s a rising star in martial arts.”
"It's a pity that the outcome of this competition was doomed from the beginning. The old man is afraid of the young. Even though the old man is also a first-class master, his old age and weak body, and lack of energy and blood burst, doomed his defeat from the beginning."
puff!
Jin An had just finished his thoughts. Sure enough, the old man knew that he had insufficient physical strength and was eager to seek credit. The woman deliberately sold him a flaw and got close to him. He didn't react enough and was continuously pursued by the opponent. His body fell back again and again, his breath was disordered, and finally he struck with a caring palm.
On the old man's chest.
The old man immediately vomited blood and fell to the ground.
Lost the ability to fight.
Jin An thought that the contest was over at this point, but unexpectedly, after the old man lost his ability to resist, the woman did not stop and continued to strike.
She had the wind in her ears, her fists were packed with the force of a tiger's attack, and she slapped the old man's temples hard.
"puff!"
The old man spat out blood again, his face was red, his eyes were bloodshot, he fell to the ground and died suddenly.
His cerebral blood vessels were blown out by the woman.
After the woman killed the old man mercilessly, a servant of the Jiang family immediately handed the woman a handkerchief to wipe the blood on her hands.
Jin An frowned.
This woman is a little cruel.
However, before understanding the actual situation, Jin An would not easily criticize the right or wrong of the Jiang family woman. If the old man was an assassin who broke into the Jiang family at night, it would be understandable for the Jiang family to kill him.
Next, the Jiang Family Nursing Home began to come forward to clean up the blood stains and corpses.
Looking at the Jiang family nursing staff's skillful cleaning of corpses, it seems that they have become accustomed to this kind of situation. They have cleaned the corpses of their own ladies in the martial arts hall more than once...
Jin An's originally frowning frown became even tighter.
Then his spirit drifted away.
Return to the Five Zang Taoist Temple.
Not long after Jin An left, he didn't see that in a dark courtyard of the Jiang family's residence, the door opened from the inside and a trembling old man came out.
The old man was wearing a yin-yang robe, and his face and hands were covered with blue-gray age spots. The spots were so densely packed that he looked like a corpse covered in spots after a long death.
The aura on his body was gloomy and gloomy.
It has the cold aura of a dead coffin.
After he walked out of the house, he raised his head and glanced in a certain direction above Jiang's house.
To be continued...