Lord of Kyushu

Chapter 7 Out of the City

Yuyang City is divided into an inner city and an outer city. As the name suggests, it is divided according to the inner and outer cities. Some ordinary people live in the outer city, as well as those who are homeless, beggars and the like, including the slums, are also in the outer city.

The inner city is not the case. Those who can live in the inner city have at least some status in Yuyang City, or they are powerful and rich.

Therefore, in the eyes of the people in the outer city, the inner city is a wealthy area, and there are some wealth that they cannot enjoy.

But not many people can live in the inner city, so the inner city is naturally smaller than the outer city. In Yuyang City, the outer city occupies [-]% of the area.

The entire Yuyang City is divided into four parts, east, west, north, south, and south. The Yang family is located in Nancheng. It is one of the most well-known families in Nancheng. Most of the Yang family's properties are also in Nancheng.

One end of Tairong Street is connected to various mansions in the wealthy district of Nancheng, and the other end gradually appeared in front of Yang Ze at this time.

The carriage drove along the bluestone street, and at the end of Tairong Street, a gray-white stone wall appeared in front of you. The tall gray stone wall was erected at the end of Tairong Street, extending along the left and right sides, forming a barrier, covering the entire The inner city and outer city are divided.

There is an exit in the gray-white stone wall, and there are four people guarding the exit. These four people are dispatched by various families in the inner city to guard the entrance and exit.

If you want to enter the inner city, you need to review it to prevent people from messing in, and all parties have contributed to rotate here.

With Lao Xie there, the censorship was nothing, and the carriage soon left Tairong Street.

Yang Ze, who was sitting in the carriage, felt the carriage shake for a while, and then heard the noisy voices of people on the street. He knew that he had already arrived in the outer city.

As the carriage kept moving forward, Yang Ze could hear the sound outside getting louder and louder.

Noisy voices, hawking voices, haggling voices, adults' voices, and children's voices, Yang Ze's eyes were a little bit different at this time.

After coming to this world for two months, he finally felt a different world.

The former Yang Ze only left the inner city many years ago, and all Yang Ze could feel was the memory in his mind.

Usually in the Yang Family Manor, although there are hundreds of people in the entire manor, the huge manor always seems a little lifeless and less popular.

Today, I finally saw another side of this world.

Opening the curtains, Yang Ze's eyes extended from the inside of the carriage. He saw the lively streets outside. On both sides of the street, there were hawkers with stalls and shops.

People came and went, some people walked into the store, some people walked quickly with their horses, and many more people shuttled through various small stalls to buy things.

The air in the outer city is completely different from that in the inner city. The air is full of various flavors, and Yang Ze greedily sucked several mouthfuls.

He didn't think that there was such a place in the outer city. It should look similar to the ancient dynasties in his hometown, but it was much better than he imagined.

"Second Young Master, how do you feel?" When Yang Ze was looking around, Lao Xie's voice came over.

"Yes, it seems to be quite popular, and there is nothing bad about it." Yang Ze's eyes just swept across a pancake stand.

"That's natural. The market here is one of the closest markets to the inner city, and it is under the jurisdiction of the Xu family. Those in Yuyang City who dare to make trouble here are really eye-opening."

Yang Ze's eyes flickered, no wonder it looks so peaceful here, it turns out that this place is under the jurisdiction of the Xu family.

Speaking of this Xu family, it was the No. [-] family in the entire Nancheng, and its momentum was still higher than that of the Yang family.

Nancheng is very big, and there are many markets like this, and these big forces in Nancheng have divided these markets. Some people want to occupy stalls and open shops in the market. They all need to get big forces. Agree, pay enough silver taels in advance to be eligible.

And every month in the future, the big forces that control the market will come to collect a certain amount of "protection fee". If someone can't pay the protection fee, then there is no need to do business here.

And this street market is very close to the inner city, so there are naturally fewer people who dare to make trouble, so the profits here will definitely be more than other places, and only the Xu family can swallow it all.

However, the situation in the city is not so simple. In addition to these families, there are also gangs.

These Jianghu gangs are not fuel-efficient lamps. They do all kinds of business. When they become ruthless, they directly compete with those families in the inner city for territory.

Outside the gangs, the families in Yuyang City often fight. This is a major factor in the chaos of the outer city. Once a battle occurs, the unlucky people are ordinary people.

As for the government in Yuyang City, the government can indeed be regarded as the strongest force in Yuyang City, but the combined strength of so many gangs and aristocratic families is far superior to the government, so the government can only occasionally disrupt the situation. Including secretly sharing the soup, it cannot stop this chaos.

But the premise is that the number of masters assembled by the big forces in Yuyang City can make the government fearful, otherwise, the garrison in Yuyang City is enough to clean up these forces.

Some of these things are in Yang Ze's memory, and some are researched by him during this period of time. Otherwise, he really doesn't know anything.

About the time he saw a cup of tea, he withdrew his gaze. Compared with the bustling city scenery in his previous life, it still seemed a lot monotonous, and he was not interested in watching it.

Lao Xie didn't speak either, just drove the carriage all the way out of the city.

Silent on the road, Yang Ze only occasionally probed out to see, and he finally saw the warriors other than the Yang family.

These warriors are from the rivers and lakes, as well as from some martial arts halls in the outer city, as well as from other families, but no matter who they are, it seems that their skills are very ordinary, and there is not a single Qi-enhancing warrior.

He also specifically asked Lao Xie about this.

"Second Young Master, how easy is it to practice martial arts? You need strong qi and blood to practice martial arts. The easiest way to cultivate qi and blood is to have enough food. Many ordinary people outside have enough food to feed themselves. , If there is no surplus grain to eat, where there is strong Qi and blood to practice the exercises, the realm will naturally not be able to go up.”

This is Lao Xie's explanation. When Yang Ze heard it, he felt that it was reasonable. If it was really easy to practice martial arts, the number of Yang family's qi-entraining players would have already increased, not just a few.

It seems that his status is not too bad, at least he can cultivate to the Qi-entraining realm when he is a teenager, which is considered excellent in the entire Yuyang City.

However, he has only just stepped into the first realm of martial arts, and there is still a long way to go.

It took a full two hours for the carriage to arrive at the South City Gate. Yang Ze in the carriage felt a little bored. Roughly calculated, he had walked a distance of dozens of miles.

The carriage was going through the main entrance lane in the center of the South City Gate. When the officers guarding the city saw that it was the carriage of the Yang family, they ignored it and continued chatting with the soldiers guarding the city.

"How about it, have you heard about the latest weird thing?"

"What's the strange thing, hurry up and say, we are here every day to watch the door, how can we have good news from you."

"You don't need to tell me about this, you will know sooner or later. There is a distant relative of my family who lives in Qinjialing, a hundred miles away. Many villages in a radius of hundreds of miles have already died."

"Well, this person won't be talking nonsense. We have had a lot of rain this year, and there is still the Chuiyu River rolling outside. How could there be a drought and people will die."

"Otherwise, why would I say that this is a strange thing? If he said it alone, I still don't believe it, but the fact is that there have been a lot of people from various villages in the city recently, and they all look like they are fleeing. It's all about drought, the wells in the village are dry, some people want to go to the Chuiyu River to get water, but they all drown in the Chuiyu River, you say this is evil."

"Then this is really too evil. Does the above know that this happened underneath?"

"I already know, it is said that Yuan Zhaotou in the city took the order of the Lord of the City and brought people to investigate.

During this period of time, I have been energized. If something really happened outside, many people would definitely rush into the city. Don’t forget that there are thieves hiding in those hills outside. These thieves are not Fuel-efficient lamps, if the chaos rushes into the city, we're all doomed. "

When the soldiers at the South City Gate were chatting, all these words were heard by Yang Ze in the carriage.

Yang Ze didn't know what happened to this kind of evil, so he could only ask Lao Xie, but he didn't expect Lao Xie to be very serious this time and asked him not to ask more, so Yang Ze stopped asking.

After reaching the official road outside the city, the carriage stopped.

"Second Young Master, do you know where we are now?"

"According to the original plan, just look around in a radius of thirty miles."

Old Xie immediately drove the carriage along the northwest trail. Yang Ze didn't dare to take too many risks. The outside of the city was not like the inside of the city. There were wild beasts and bandits outside the city.

If you are far away from Yuyang City and go to any valley, you will not know what will happen.

It's just that the world seems to be really uneasy. After the carriage traveled [-] miles along the trail, seventy or eighty robbers suddenly appeared on both sides of the trail and surrounded the carriage driven by Lao Xie.

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