Rise of Nongmen

Lingjiu has only appeared in Huayang County recently, and the news has not spread completely. Even so, many people still come here admiringly.

Ye Chen didn't go there as soon as he got the news. When he arrived, Huayang County was already overcrowded, and there was a long queue at the gate of the city.He was a little surprised at first, but after thinking about it for a while, he understood what was going on.

The Chuan Gong Pagodas in various places are the focus of everyone, but until now, there are very few who can really enter it. Compared with it, although spirit wine is expensive, it is easy to get. Delicacy can also improve the body, prolong life, and improve self-cultivation. How can we prevent the rich and the rich from flocking to it?

Of course, the effect of spirit wine is limited, but it is enough for everyone to compete for it, especially those who are very old. .

When queuing up to enter the city, Ye Chen took a quick glance and found that the people entering the city were clearly divided into two categories. Most of the people in plain clothes were locals, who called for slaves and maidservants, accompanied by horses and chariots, and most of them were dressed in beautiful clothes. Coming from afar further confirmed that his guess was mostly correct.

In the past, there was no need to strictly check when entering the city. Even if there is no passing document such as a guide, as long as you are not stopped at the checkpoint and obviously seen as a foreigner, you can only pay an entry fee to enter the city.Now the situation has changed, not only the entry fee is higher, but also the identity checks are stricter, even people from this county have to be interrogated if they want to enter the city.

Ye Chen didn't want to attract too much attention, and when it was his turn, he directly issued a road guide instead of the school captain's identification.Under his deliberate concealment, he blended in the crowd, inconspicuous at all, but encountered a little trouble when he was looking for a foothold.

Nothing else, Huayang County is just a small county near the border, there are only so many inns, how can it accommodate such a large number of foreign guests?Moreover, most of these people are either rich or noble, with so many subordinates that they may not even be able to live in a single courtyard.

Ye Chen came late, not to mention the Jingya Courtyard, even the worst single room was fully booked.There are still a few Datong shops. The problem is that he can't move in, so he has to turn his target to residential buildings.

There are not a few people who think the same as him. When there were too many monks and too little porridge, Ye Chen almost searched the entire Huayang County, only to find a small single-door courtyard in a place where dragons and snakes were mixed, which was extremely dilapidated, otherwise it would not be possible. It was his turn as a latecomer.

Looking at the crumbling house, Ye Chen felt emotional. Fortunately, he had the foresight to bring a small tent, otherwise, after two years, he would really have to try the taste of being in the sky and sitting on the ground again.

To put it bluntly, Ye Chen is not renting a house, but land!

After settling in, Ye Chen didn't go directly to the shop where Lingjiu was sold - Zuixiaolou, but found a nearby teahouse to sit around.

There are no vacant rooms in the inn, and there is no room for tea shops. However, the advantage of tea houses is that they are very mobile. As long as you are patient, you can always wait for a seat.The inn can't wait like this, it's all calculated in days, if you really want to wait like this, I'm afraid you may not be lucky to meet a tenant who checks out until you miss the hotel.

This time is different from the past, if you want to pick a seat, you have to come early or come by coincidence, Ye Chen happened to be neither, so he had to sit in a corner of the lobby.

To inquire about news, obviously this position is not suitable, and it is not easy to close the voice.

But Ye Chen doesn't care, let alone him who has become a monk, even if he goes back a year and a half, when he lost all his abilities and didn't gain new power, when he was still an ordinary person, His perception is much sharper than that of ordinary people, and now that he has a higher level of cultivation, it is even easier. As long as he radiates his soul power, every move of everyone in the lobby seems to be right in front of his eyes, and he can even have a panoramic view of the private room upstairs. .

Ye Chen's soul power has always been strong, but it's not just like this now. In the past, there was an empty treasure mountain and he couldn't use it. It's not just a matter of skills, but the key is the lack of an environment to use soul power. Now he has both, not to mention using it on ordinary people It's hard to be noticed, even if the soul power sweeps through similar cultivators, it will be difficult to find out who makes Ye Chen uniquely blessed with soul power, far surpassing the people in this world.

Ye Chen didn't get carried away because of this, and thought that his soul power was the best in the world, and no one could surpass it.You must know that there are heaven and earth, and there are others. No matter how talented you are, if you don't work hard the day after tomorrow, you will be overtaken sooner or later.

After being seated, Ye Chen ordered a pot of tea and a few dishes of melon and fruit snacks. While enjoying it comfortably, he listened to the tea guests chatting with his soul power.

In the past, it was not so easy to inquire about something, but now, you don't need to find someone to ask, just stop at a crowded place, and you are guaranteed to fill an ear with information about spirit wine, even if you want to listen.

This is exactly the case at the moment, except for some old local customers who chat too much and get over their excitement, at least six or seven out of ten foreigners will talk about the spirit wine sold in Zuixiaolou.

In this way, after only sitting for half an afternoon, Ye Chen had already inquired about the situation before he did anything, and it was almost the same as what Xu Yanqing said, but after a few days, things changed again.

Under the shortage of supply, the price of spirit wine keeps rising. Needless to say, the best seller is the lowest-priced small jar spirit wine. It only has one-tenth of the volume of the big jar, but the price has already risen to one-fifth of the big jar. .If it's just like this, it's fine. What's cheating is that the price of Datan spirit wine is also rising.Under the influence of the two phases, in the past few days, the retail price of the small altar has reached nearly 250 taels.

And this is just the beginning, as long as Prince Yu's Mansion is in charge of the source of spirit wine and no one is competing with it, the price of spirit wine will only rise step by step until the supply and demand are balanced.But by that time, the price of spirit wine may be so high that ordinary wealthy people can't afford it, and ordinary people will only have to watch it.

Ye Chen also learned from it that what Xu Yanqing said was correct, that Ye Weiting's family and Yu Wang really had a relationship, and the entanglement might be quite deep.

Who is Ye Weiting's family, and who is Yu Wang? It is clear at a glance. Putting the two together, there is no comparison at all. Why does Yu Wang cooperate with his family and share part of the profit from selling spirit wine with them?There must be something to say here.

If this is not the fiefdom of King Yu's Mansion, King Yu's sphere of influence does not cover it, and it is barely reasonable to use Ye Shuo's energy in Huayang County, but Ye Chen doesn't believe it at all.

No matter how the world changes, at least the imperial power is still above anyone at the moment. The intertwined and powerful families may be afraid of the royal family and dare not take action easily. There is no private transaction, I am afraid that people with a little insight will not believe it.

Zuixiaolou has just opened recently, so it wasn't that Ye Shuo's family owned it from the very beginning. This can be confirmed, it only recently came into Ye Shuo's hands.However, there is one thing worth noting. The signboard of Zuixiaolou is very resounding. It is a chain of restaurants under the Yuwang Mansion. It is spread all over the prosperous state capital of Dayue Dynasty. Small counties like Huayang County naturally look down on it, which is even more eye-catching. .

It is impossible for Ye Chen to be the only one who thought of such an obvious truth.

Money touches people's hearts. Here in Huayang County, the sky is high and the emperor is far away. Even today, there are many constraints, and there is insufficient control over remote areas, let alone a mere prince.

This was not the case. Many people thought that King Zhunyu would be beyond his reach and could not do anything to them. They secretly thought about it, but after finding suspicious places, they all returned home. No matter how hard they tried, they still couldn't get in.

After realizing that there might be an expert sitting in the town, everyone had to give up, and could only obediently spend money to buy spirit wine.It's not that they didn't have the idea of ​​robbing the spirit wine transport team, but they all gave up in the end.It's okay to scrape some oil in secret, but to act so blatantly and despise the imperial power, they will definitely be hit by Yu Wangnai's thunder, and they can't afford to take this risk.

Of course, the robbers are an exception, but so far, no unsightly gangster has traveled all the way to Huayang County to show off his prestige.

Don't forget that Jinmin County is adjacent to Zhenbei Prefecture, and Huayang County is adjacent to Jinmin County. It is difficult to say during the war, but now the world is at peace. The situation is uncertain, with the Zhenbei Army intimidating, the big and small people dare not act blatantly around.

You know, Ye Shuo has many local officers and soldiers under his command. They are not vegetarians. In addition to the manpower sent here by the Yu Palace, as well as the hidden experts, no one dares to take the risk of destroying the whole family. In exchange for hiding the secrets, at least for now they don't think it's worth it.

Naturally, it is impossible to talk about this kind of matter in public. Ye Chen learned about it from the private room upstairs, which saved him the trouble of confirming and investigating in private.

Nothing is unachievable.

Although Ye Chen didn't find out the specific location, it didn't bother him. He used to be good at tracking, and now he is better than before. He followed the clues and found the place in less than a day.

Then Ye Chen ran into a problem. A large area in front of him was a private land. Even in the last days, it would be immoral to break into other people's land and seize the owner's property. Although as long as they have the ability, many people don't mind. He did this, but he still condemned it on the surface, even if the person who said it had done it before.

This is true in the last days, let alone the Great Viet Dynasty.Now that the old order has not been broken and the new order has not been established, although the situation is showing signs of turmoil, people's hearts are far from as cruel as the end of the world. Even if someone has thought about it, they will quickly retreat when they see that things cannot be done. .

Ye Chen didn't think these people were timid, he had similar plans at the moment.It's not that he doesn't dare, but that everything should be done in a timely manner, and one should do what one should do in any environment. Obviously, it is inappropriate to break into private houses right now.

Avoiding the patrolling personnel, Ye Chen walked around the source of the spirit wine, and took advantage of the night to get a closer look. The result was no different from what he saw from a distance during the day. All he saw was the ordinary field, only the center of the field A manor stood, blending in with the surrounding scene without any difference.

This is obviously impossible. It would be a strange thing if the car came empty and came out with a full load.However, it is clear that the Yu Palace is quite confident in the protection power of this place, and has never even tried to cover it up.

Ye Chen didn't personally experience the mystery of this private manor, but based on the experience of other people, after entering at night, he returned to the original place after three turns and two turns, and he preliminarily concluded that there is a restriction here.As expected, just now he approached the edge and used his soul power to investigate, and vaguely sensed a large building inside, but found nothing else.

Even so, his previous speculation has been confirmed.

Ye Chen is at least one step ahead of everyone in the formation. He can be sure that there are two main restrictions in it, which are disorienting and blocking soul power exploration. It is not too difficult to break through with his current ability. Give him enough time. The hard part is how to get rid of it without disturbing anyone.

Ye Chen asked himself that he could not do this.

And there is a premise, the reason why Ye Chen was able to break the formation was not due to acquired hard work - his comprehension of formations, but innate talent - superhuman soul power.It can be seen from this that the level of the protective formation here is really not low. If it wasn't for Ye Chen's special situation and his inherently strong soul power, he might not even be able to see the doorway, let alone break the formation. If it is broken, it may not be able to crack it in a year or so.

Sure enough, it is impossible for him to be lucky alone in the world, and others can also benefit.

Ye Chen will not underestimate others, but he will not underestimate himself too much. He believes that unless someone's luck is against the sky, he directly inherits the legacy of his ancestors, and obtains magical powers such as empowerment without learning, otherwise he doesn't think that the other party is right now. The most likely reason for being able to refine formations of this level is that someone entered the formation by chance and obtained the restraint and control formula. Needless to say, this person must be from Ye Weiting's family.

That makes sense.

Ye Weiting's family is single and weak, even if they are sitting on Baoshan, they are unable to digest it, so it is a very wise move for Ye Weiting's family to take this opportunity to build a relationship with King Yu, pay the price and take the opportunity to strengthen themselves.

As for how King Yu's forces appeared here, and Ye Weiting and the others happened to meet him, Ye Chen didn't know, and he didn't have to get to the bottom of this, as long as he knew the result.

Originally, Ye Chen was planning to give up and look for opportunities elsewhere. Unexpectedly, just as he was about to leave, he heard the news that Zuixiaolou banned the sale of spirit wine to the Xu family's industrial partners. When will it be terminated with the Xu family? The cooperative relationship, when will the normal supply resume, the Ye family happens to be on the list.

Ye Chen suspected that if it wasn't for the coincidence that he was on the list, maybe Zuixiaolou would add another article and list his family separately. After all, the Ye family had several frictions with the head of the Ye family in Suifeng Village. Although it didn't fall on the bright side, this enmity was finally forged.

The thing is really ridiculous, Ye Chen hasn't taken any action yet, I'm afraid he's already guilty, otherwise how could it be a coincidence to find King Yu who has a good relationship with King Shou?That is the son of the former emperor, the brother of the present, a member of the royal family, who is innately opposed to the Qing'an Hou Mansion, which is part of the aristocratic family.

Of course, this was not the case before. This was a natural formation that only appeared after the original power system in this world began to recover.

How can there be so many coincidences in the world, Ye Chen still can't believe it, Ye Weiting's family needs to climb up, and Yu Wang, whose power is thousands of miles away, can hand over the ladder, this can only be because Ye Weiting and the others have identified the right candidate in advance.

This is really a way to heaven if you don't go, but if you don't have a way to hell, you can cast your own way.

Ye Chen didn't want to get involved, but now he couldn't leave if he wanted to. His heart didn't allow him, and the situation didn't allow him to back down.

Don't underestimate the role of spiritual wine. Now everyone can really get it. This is the only cultivation resource. Even if there are many people fighting for it, you can buy it with hard work. If you can't touch it, let alone other things, it's hard to even see it.

After all, there are only a few people who are ambitious, and most people are very pragmatic, only grasping what can be grasped in front of them, and looking forward to the future for the rest.

As a result, once Zuixiaolou issued an injunction, several Xu family partners responded. They would rather pay liquidated damages and bear the taint of reputation to obtain the right to purchase spirit wine.

This is just the beginning. Zuixiaolou launched this policy. Naturally, it is impossible to rely on only one kind of spirit wine. After that, they launched two kinds of spirit wine in a row. One is also grain spirit wine, called Flame Wine, and the other is It's spirit fruit wine.

The appearance of these two kinds of wine directly impacted the high-end wine market in the surrounding counties and towns of Huayang County, especially the highly targeted flame wine. The flame wine obtained by Ye Chen through technical improvement was completely incomparable to it.

Flame wine, flame wine, you can imagine how similar these two wines are from the names, and they are actually so.The flame wine is strong because of its high alcohol content, but the flame wine is not. It is brewed from a kind of spiritual grain called flame fruit. It is not without benefits for people to drink it, of course, except for those with rare special constitutions.

The advantage was overshadowed by others, and the weakness was that they could not catch up with the other party. Yanjiu was compared to nothing. In just a few days, the market around Huayang County shrank by half. signs.

During this period, Ye Chen was not deaf to what was going on outside the window. Apart from avoiding people and thinking about how not to disturb the formation controller to enter the formation, he also paid attention to the situation outside. Seeing that the situation was getting worse, he asked someone to deliver a letter to Xu Yanqing The brief letter, there is nothing to avoid in it, it just informs the other party to let him stay calm.

In addition, Ye Chen also sent a message to Xiao Jinyan, asking him to be ready to send troops at any time.Naturally, this letter cannot be expressed in this way, he used code words.

As the strategist of Zhenbei Army who can come and go freely, Ye Chen can't just eat, can't he?He has to know some necessary military methods. How to transmit information secretly is among the skills he needs to master, and there are more than one. There are those with the lowest level of secrecy, which can be used by all generals of the Zhenbei Army, and some that only work on a single person. code word.

Ye Chen was Xiao Jinyan's sure marriage partner, and the two had their own separate method of information transmission, but they had never used it before, and they didn't expect it to come in handy in this situation.

When he received the letter, Xiao Jinyan was on his way to inspect the Zhenbei Army guarding the pass. Originally, he thought that Ye Chen couldn't wait for the letter to urge him to go there, so he didn't take it seriously. When he tore open the seal and saw the contents of the letter clearly, he couldn't help but Slightly shocked, but his face remained calm, only a slight change in the itinerary, a temporary stop and dispatch of messengers to issue several secret orders, the recipients are all Shanyuguan generals.

There is no way, Xiao Jinyan has the strongest control over the northern army in Shanyuguan Town, and the northern army in the other pass towns will be weaker.Fortunately, the situation has improved a lot now, and Shanyuguan has become the most desirable place for the entire Zhenbei Army. Every once in a while, Xiao Jinyan will transfer some soldiers from other passes to Shanyuguan to change defenses. The pass has already made a plan for changing defenses, and there is only one last thing left.

After arranging these, Xiao Jinyan continued his previous itinerary. When the last pass inspection was completed, he immediately issued a secret order. Anyone who opposed the Qing'an Hou Mansion would not be welcome at the Gonggong Pagoda of Yuanhe County. Take it from the Chuangong Pagoda.

The reason why the secret order is a secret order is that there is no indication on the surface that it has a direct relationship with the Qing'an Hou Mansion. The above contents are all summed up by everyone in private. It's prevarication.

Xiao Jinyan was really angry this time. As Ye Chen judged before, if he just sold spirit wine normally and didn't specifically target flame wine, he wouldn't have such a big reaction. After all, this is the trend of the times.No matter how powerful Qing'an Hou's Mansion is in Zhenbei Mansion, he will not easily touch the royal family's bad luck, but if he is treated like this, even if Qing'an Hou's Mansion is only implicated, he may not necessarily buy spirit wine from Zuixiaolou, Qing'an The majesty of the Hou Mansion cannot be easily provoked, even by the royal family.

In fact, both sides are a little wary. Xiao Jinyan is afraid that something will happen to the Xijing family, and the royal family is the same. They dare not easily manipulate the family that holds the military power. They are afraid that a chain reaction will occur once the war starts. It's too big and not worth it.

Zuixiaolou's series of measures to suppress Xu's family, incidentally brought to the Qing'an Hou Mansion, just gave Xiao Jinyan an excuse to fight back openly, but in the end he still did not do so, and decided to follow Ye Chen's suggestion and act secretly.In this way, even if big troubles are really caused because of this, there can be a buffer. After all, the matter has not been put on the table, and it is easy to be vague.

Xiao Jinyan only felt that the majesty of the Qing'an Marquis Mansion was being challenged, and he didn't respond much to the sharp drop in the sales of flame wine. Who put him in the military camp, news of some unimportant matters inevitably lagged behind, not to mention that the hardest hit area was not on his side.

Xu Yanqing felt the deep pressure. He had already ordered Xu's winery to reduce the production of various wines, especially high-end wines, but he did not expect the other party to be so aggressive. At first, it was only the Yanjiu market in the surrounding counties of Jinmin County that he was in charge of. They were wiped out, not because no one bought them, but because there were no wine shops willing to sell them. Later, all the properties of the Xu family suffered a comprehensive impact.

This time, Xu Yanqing couldn't say anything to the breaching partner. Cutting people's fortunes is like killing their parents. This time the situation is even more serious. How can he speak it?

Thinking in another way, Xu Yanqing asked himself that he might not be able to withstand the pressure.Therefore, with a normal relationship, he agreed to terminate the contract without saying a word. With a good relationship, he really can't do anything except send blessings.

After sending a group of people away, Xu Yanqing was exhausted, and thought to himself: How much the West Mansion hates the East Mansion, and will bite at every opportunity, and will never stop until the East Mansion is wiped out, right? Let's just walk voila.

Now it is no different than before, no longer whoever has more soldiers will surely win. In the past, Xu Yanqing had no choice. The people did not fight with officials, and competing with royal family members was like hitting a stone with an egg. Now it is different. To see who is more skilled, he will wait and see.

Just when Xu Yanqing was in a state of desperation, he received a letter from Huayang County with no signature but only a flame emblem.Looking at the few words on the letter paper, combined with the above factors, he had a rough guess in his heart that this letter was probably written by Ye Chen, and his anxiety became more and more inexplicably.

Naturally, Xu Yanqing would not pin all his hopes on Ye Chen. Although he was very optimistic about the other party, this was not a long-term solution. He needed to be hardworking himself. If the Xu family wanted to really rise, they had to have the ability to stand in the world.

In the past, they relied on their family background and talents, but now they are fighting for cultivation resources. The most urgent task right now is to get started as soon as possible.However, sharpening a knife is not a mistake in chopping firewood. Xu Yanqing decided to follow Ye Chen's vague suggestion and push back the time for entering the Chuan Gong Pagoda. Not on Ye Chen's head, after all, there is nothing that can be done 100% in the world, the right time, place and people are indispensable.

When it comes to cultivation resources, Xu Yanqing is going to pick up the jade raw material purchase plan that has come to an end.There is no large-scale jade mine in Jinmin County. He plans to wait until the business matters are almost handled, so he will take most of his family business to Hetian jade mine in western Xinjiang to buy jade and exchange it with Ye Chen for yuan jade. For home use, or to sell at a high price, there is a lot to do.

Ordinary goods such as flame wine are easy to be suppressed by others, Xu Yanqing still doesn't believe that no one even wants Yuanyu, which is a must for entering the Chuangong Pagoda.

At the same time, Ye Chen studied the method of breaking the formation for many days, and finally got some clues.