Dongping City was a big city fifty years ago, but now, there are only tens of thousands of people in the city. Most of the people in the city have to farm their own crops to make a living.
A small number of merchants also rely on local mulberry raising and silkworm raising, weaving and making clothes, raising pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks, raising fish, growing vegetables, etc. They have to be busy all year round in order to live a moderately prosperous life. day.
Although the previous city lords fought for power, one wanted to train troops, and the other wanted to expand the mansion, recruit beauties, or appoint cronies on a large scale, replace the managers of all aspects of the city with their own people, and enjoy the power.
But everyone can still figure out what these people will do after they take power, or in other words, they are not forced to the point where they would rather take risks and escape into the wilderness.
However, this new city lord Chen Wanchuan is different.
After he became the city lord, he has been holding big banquets in the city lord's mansion for several months.
Three meals a day, enough food for hundreds of people to eat and drink. In addition to allowing his own men to enjoy it, he also gathered all the wealthy wealthy families in the city and had to accompany him to eat every day and was not allowed to leave.
After the former city lord’s original treasury was used up, the source of food and drink came from the homes of these wealthy families.
At the same time, Chen Wanchuan also ordered to summon young and strong laborers in the city to build eight pagodas and a high platform in the center of the city.
The City Lord's Mansion was originally located to the north of the city center, and the center of the city was where the market was.
In order to build this high pagoda, he first sent people to bulldoze a large area in the middle of the market, then excavated the earth to gather the platform and quarried and piled stones.
When the surrounding pagodas were built, the hard work of cutting, transporting, and repairing all kinds of wood day and night is self-evident.
With no time to look after the farmland for several months and unable to pull weeds and remove insects, this year’s harvest can be imagined.
The key is to do the work on the construction site, which is more tiring than the usual farm work. It increases people's appetite, and all this food has to be produced at home.
The young adults who were summoned were exhausted physically and mentally. They gathered several times to beg the supervisor to let them go back and do farm work for a few days, but all they got was whippings on their heads and faces. .
After Chen Wanchuan arrived at the scene, he also hanged all the leaders of the "looking like" people.
With a mere tens of thousands of people and inconvenient transportation to the outside world, how can they withstand such a torment and cannot carry out large-scale transportation?
Seeing that the rice grains at home were about to run out, the people in the city finally couldn't bear it any longer. People from their neighbors discussed it and fled together.
Fleeing outside means giving up this year's harvest in the fields, but it also frees up strong laborers, which is better than waiting to die in the city.
After hearing the descriptions of these people, Su Hanshan was filled with confusion.
Is there something wrong with Chen Wanchuan?
To squeeze the people's power and satisfy one's own enjoyment, one must first have a relatively stable foundation. This kind of extravagant behavior as soon as a place is laid is obviously the style of gangsters. If you can enjoy enough in one place, If you don't, just change a place.
But if it was the mentality of gangsters, who would think of gathering a large number of young people to build some kind of tower or platform in the center of the city?
After all, supervising so many strong laborers is a laborious and troublesome matter. Only a truly pure gangster would not be so idle that he would find such boring things for himself to do.
Su Hanshan was puzzled, so he brought the cavalry together and asked them what was going on with the new city lord.
The cavalry leader originally wanted to play tricks, but when Su Hanshan's muscles and bones were shattered by a score, he became honest.
According to what they said, Chen Wanchuan was not a gangster originally, but the leading general of Juma City.
In today's world, there are countless living corpses lurking in the wilderness on land, and traffic is almost cut off. However, the waterways are relatively safer.
Juma City is close to the river, well-informed, convenient for trade, has a large population, fertile land, and its scale can be said to be more than ten times more prosperous than Dongping City. It can be considered high in Kyushu today.
But precisely because of its large scale and good location, it has attracted the covetousness of many forces.
More than half a year ago, someone cooperated with others and launched a rebellion in Juma City. Chen Wanchuan and his group were on the losing side in the turmoil, so they escaped from the city and wandered around.
"...the general held a big banquet because he sympathized with the hard work of his brothers. As for building those high towers and platforms, we don't know why."
The cavalry leader is a wise man. Speaking of how after they captured Dongping City, some people persuaded Chen Wanchuan that it would be better to start over and settle down here in the future.
Even if you like high towers and platforms, there is no need to rush to build them. After three to five years of operation, you can save more food and materials, and the construction will be smoother.
But Chen Wanchuan turned a deaf ear to these words, and the few people who persuaded him did not dare to mention it again.
Su Hanshan couldn't figure it out, so he didn't bother to continue to figure out this kind of person's mentality. Anyway, the fact was that he had already done these things.
Just ask this Chen Wanchuan how strong he is and what kind of performance he has had in the past?
When nothing more could be dug out from the mouths of these cavalrymen, Su Hanshan asked everyone to take them back to the back of the hillside and wait for a while.
"I'll go into the city to have a look. Maybe you don't have to leave the city."
Su Hanshan just said this and walked towards the city.
He knew that these people might not have much trust in his abilities, and they might take advantage of this period to try to escape again.
However, with how exhausted they are, if things go well, by the time Su Hanshan finishes the work, they probably won't be able to get very far.
If things go wrong, it would be even wiser for them to escape.
The walls of Dongping City are not high and the guards are sparse.
When Su Hanshan flew in, he almost thought he had entered an empty city.
The sun was shining brightly in the sky, but the city below was silent.
This city still has the same scale as it did fifty years ago. The current population cannot fill all the houses. Many old houses are dilapidated and no one has repaired them.
So the outer areas of the city all look like grass growing on the roofs and old walls with broken tiles.
Su Hanshan stopped for a moment on a rooftop and jumped as high as he could, reaching a height more than twice as high as the city wall, and his vision expanded.
It was only then that I saw that there were indeed a large number of people in the central area of the city.
To the north, there is a magnificent mansion with smoke rising from the kitchen.
The courtyards in the mansion were filled with large wooden tables, and it was time for lunch again.
The wine in the city has long been exhausted, and the food is boring.
The faces of the wealthy families who were under house arrest here were green and white. They were obviously very uncomfortable these days and had no appetite.
Chen Wanchuan's men all ate happily.
Chen Wanchuan was sitting at the door of the lobby. He had a tall body and broad hands, filling the entire Taishi chair. His bald head was shining in the sun. His eyes slowly scanned the crowd. His messy beard trembled as he chewed in his mouth. shake. His eyes were a little yellow, and on other people, they should be a sign of illness and weakness, but on him, they were like the eyes of a half-starved and half-full animal, revealing a cruel majesty that made people's hearts tremble.
"What, today's food is not delicious?"
Chen Wanchuan's simple words woke up many people who were pressing their stomachs and had no appetite. , hurriedly picked up the bowls and chopsticks and took a big mouthful of rice.
“I, the general, am enjoying myself with the people, but you don’t seem to be very happy, which makes even my general feel bad.”
Chen Wanchuan looked at his subordinates, "Why are you eating so happily? Do you have any secrets? Teach them!"
A subordinate selected by his sight quickly swallowed the food in his mouth and wiped it. Wiped the oil from his mouth.
"I think they have never been hungry. The general is too kind to them."
The subordinate said in a loud voice, "Those who built the pagoda and dug the soil now eat pig food every day Duxiang, if you leave them to do the work, you won't be so hypocritical."
"That's right, everyone's wealth is exhausted, so there is no point in keeping them."
Chen Wanchuan patted his bald head and seemed to agree, but then asked, "But you didn't work, why are you eating happily?"
The subordinate thought for a while, and chuckled: "We are the supervisors. Even if you are a worker, it takes a lot of energy to whip people out. When you are not on duty as a supervisor, it will take even more energy to find a few girls to play with. How can you do it if you don't have enough food?"
Chen Wanchuan? He snorted coldly: "Low You guys have no other fun."
The subordinate was speechless for a moment, but someone next to him shouted: "Yes."
"The number of slaves who escaped from the city at night has increased. There are more and more of them. When we go to catch those slaves, we gallop and shoot a few to death. When we bring them back, we see how fast they can run with the horses and make a few bets. It is really comfortable. "< br>
Chen Wanchuan felt bored: "Those escaped slaves, no matter how fast they can run, they might as well shoot rabbits."
The man was beaming: "General, people are different from rabbits. Although people may not necessarily run fast, each group of Among those who dare to escape, there are always a few special ones."
"Catch. When those escaped slaves are shot, if they shoot a few special ones accurately, they will not dare to run again. If they are not shot accurately, they will become more scattered as they run away, making it much more troublesome to catch them. What we are betting on is who has the better eyesight. "
Chen Wanchuan became a little more interested and was about to ask again when his eyes suddenly changed slightly and his figure suddenly disappeared.
The four legs of the Taishi chair are still in place, but the back of the chair is shattered and difficult to distinguish.
Chen Wanchuan's figure appeared directly deep in the lobby at the back.
Just as he dodged away, a golden light lit up in the sky, illuminating the entire courtyard in a golden color. Everyone's movements were frozen in this golden light.
Su Hanshan landed with a crash, shattering the Taishi chair, but missed the target.
The other party actually sensed it the moment before he emitted the golden light and avoided it in advance.
But when he knew that martial arts in this world started with spiritual training, he had some vague guesses, but he was not too surprised.
The golden light was released and then retracted. Before anyone could react, Su Hanshan struck back with a palm.
The power of his palm penetrated the air, and the person who just spoke was blown to pieces. Bloody water splashed on several soldiers and bandits at the same table, causing them to scream and jump away.
The whole courtyard was in chaos, and it quickly spread to the entire city lord's palace. The sounds of people running around with swords drawn and jumping over the wall could be heard endlessly.
“You were not so frightened that everyone gave up resistance and surrendered. It seems that you are not one of the special people.”
Su Hanshan’s voice was cold, and his words were directed at the pieces. The corpse said, but kept looking at Chen Wanchuan.
According to other people's descriptions, Chen Wanchuan's combat power should only be similar to that of someone who has just reached the lumbar level of the ladder realm.
It can be used to measure the martial arts characteristics of this world.
Chen Wanchuan also stared at him without saying a word. Feeling Su Hanshan's murderous intention, he didn't even ask about the other person's origins. He kept flexing and stretching his ten fingers, and his body emitted an inexplicable, like heat. The sound of water rolling.
It is not an ordinary iron pot that boils water, but the feeling that after the water in the sealed large iron stove is boiled, the fierce fire is burning, and the whole iron stove is humming and shaking.
While the two of them were staring at each other, some of the soldiers and bandits had no idea how big their brains were. After witnessing the scene just now, they didn’t even think about the difference in strength. If he is clean, he will swing his sword towards Su Hanshan to kill him.
Su Hanshan turned his back to them, without even looking, as a wave of air burst out from his back, shattering all the steel knives they swung at.
A large number of steel fragments reflected back and stuck into them.
Chen Wanchuan took action at this moment when blood was everywhere and before the screams could be heard.
When he pounced forward and raised his hand to punch, the entire city lord's palace, including hundreds of people inside and outside, even those who were not in the courtyard, felt their eyes go dark.
The martial arts in this world, because they have not developed internal strength and vitality, are inferior in terms of large-scale physical destruction, and there are also some deficiencies in the agility of body techniques.
But when it comes to living creatures, the methods of local warriors are more efficient.
The tens of thousands of people in the city would rather abandon the city and flee, but have never thought of gathering together to resist the new city lord, not just because he has hundreds of soldiers and horses under his command.
It was even more because on the day he broke into Dongping City, he showed amazing strength.
At that time, the battle between Chen Wanchuan and City Master Liu was only three punches, and City Master Liu was killed on the spot.
The strong fluctuations caused by the fist spirit shocked the entire nearby streets, causing dizziness, ringing in the ears, and wanting to vomit. It took a long time to recover.
But that was just a deliberate move to establish his power. When Chen Wanchuan really struck with all his strength, his fist power would not be wasted on others.
So these hundreds of people only felt that their eyes were slightly darkened, and there were no more negative feelings.
But at this moment, Su Hanshan felt that the entire lobby was weightless and plummeting. Cracks appeared on the roof, walls, and floor. What poured in from the cracks was not light, but extremely strong and intense. Light is faster than darkness.
In the terrifying darkness, an invisible monster packed with heavy power crashed down on him.
The first realm of martial arts is to refine the soul internally, and the second realm is to channel the spirit of the fist.
When a person who has concentrated the psychic fist attacks an enemy, his five senses may be blasted before his body is destroyed, and his soul is knocked and scattered, resulting in absurd intuitions that go against common sense.
(End of this chapter)