Evergreen Immortal..

Chapter 208: Southern Border Witch Kingdom
Li Rui on the side listened quietly, his eyes slightly narrowed.

Opening up the trade.
He instantly understood why so many big companies wanted to settle in a small place like Qinghe.

It turns out that the court had other intentions.

Suppressing the Ghost Cult was a lie; the real purpose was to lay a solid foundation in advance and trade with the Witch Kingdom in southern Xinjiang.

The Witch Kingdom in southern Xinjiang is a place where humans and demons live together.

This is the evaluation given by the smugglers before.

"It is rumored that monsters can be seen everywhere in Wuguo City. The Wu people use monsters as slaves and soldiers, which is unimaginable for the Yu people."

He was the overlord entrenched in the south of the State of Yu.

Yunzhou is adjacent to the northeast side of southern Xinjiang.

Anning Prefecture is three hundred miles away from southern Xinjiang, which is not close, but not far either, and there has always been a tradition of trade there.

It just hasn't been put on the table yet.

For example, the tea that Li Rui gave to Fu Huan of the Imperial Observatory was smuggled from southern Xinjiang.

Even some officials from neighboring southern Xinjiang would specially collect treasures from southern Xinjiang and send them to the imperial city as tribute.

The bigwigs in the court must have been planning this secretly for a long time. Taking advantage of the trouble caused by the Ghost Cult, they first expanded the new city in Qinghe and set up the An Ning Guard to protect it, laying a solid foundation. Then, after the Yu State and the Wu State began to trade, they would make plans to profit from it.

If you ask them why they didn’t just choose Anning Prefecture or even Yunzhou City.

Of course, it is because the local forces in those places are too stubborn and have backers behind them.

They have almost been controlled.

The backers behind these people are extremely powerful, and many of them are even high-ranking officials in the court. It is extremely difficult to break the existing situation.

Since I can’t win, I might as well start a new game.

Just choose Qinghe, which has no background. This way, it will be convenient for everyone to place their subordinates and gain benefits.

I can also give an explanation to the emperor.

Liu Tong grinned and said, "I heard that Wu Kingdom was in turmoil, and His Majesty ordered Governor Yuan to lead troops to help. To thank His Majesty, the new emperor of Wu Kingdom married the princess to the sixth prince of our Yu Kingdom, opened up trade, and promised eternal friendship."

Li Rui had also heard about this matter.

The Wu State was established even earlier than the Yu State and had a profound heritage.

It is said that it can be traced back tens of thousands of years.

When the Xuan Dynasty was destroyed, the Emperor of Wu and the Emperor Taizu of Yu even joined forces.

later.

When something major happened in the Wu Kingdom, it announced a closure of the country.

Although the two countries did not fight to the death like the barbarians in the north, there was very little communication between them.

The so-called national foundation.

Naturally, it refers to the issue of succession. According to legend, the old emperor of Wu State died suddenly of illness and did not even leave a will, which led to several sons fighting for the throne.

As for the State of Yu's assistance
Just listen to it. Governor Yuan went to the Wu Kingdom for a few months and almost became a killing god when he came back.

The State of Yu helped the new emperor of the State of Wu to seize power, so of course the new emperor had to give something in return, and opening up trade was an important part of this.

A behemoth like the Witch Kingdom cannot be compared to a cult like the Ghost Cult.

Especially in the eyes of those big shots.

All their hard work was actually for the trade between the two countries, which was a huge piece of fat meat.

therefore.

The imperial court had imposed extremely strict controls on large numbers of people entering Qinghe, and has only relaxed them now.

These are the results of bargaining among all parties.

Liu Tong: "My father-in-law thought I was good at business, so he asked me to come to Qinghe and promised that if I did well, he would let me marry his daughter."

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Liang He and Zhou Shulin had strange expressions.

It turned out that before the fate was even decided, Liu Tong started calling him "father-in-law" so fluently.

As expected, being shameless is the first requirement of being a gigolo.

Liu Tong's eyes were half-drunk, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised, as if he had already imagined the wonderful life in the future.

Living off others, especially the elders of the sect.

It's not enough to just please women, you also have to be able to get things done.

Pleasing a woman is just a means. The key is to gain the recognition of the father-in-law and become his own.

This step requires meritorious performance.

This trade between the two countries is a great opportunity for him to gain credit and demonstrate his abilities.

It was said to be an opportunity, but in fact it was also a test of Liu Tong from the elder of Huaqing Sect.

"Master, I'll trouble you to take care of me in Qinghe from now on."

Liu Tong said solemnly to Li Rui.

Li Rui smiled slightly: "We are all family, why are we talking about different things?"

Hear Li Rui's answer.

Liu Tong sighed inwardly instead.

He came to Qinghe with a mission.

Although Qinghe is his hometown, as a local, he has no support when he returns to Qinghe.

Although my brother-in-law Zhang Yang is a leader of some importance in the Qinghe branch of the Tiandi Alliance.

But for him now, it is almost of no help.

Among the people he knew, the only one who might be able to help him was Li Rui.

But Li Rui's words just now apparently seemed to bring the two closer together.

In fact, I didn't give him an answer at all.

'I was too hasty.'

Liu Tong quickly calmed down and smiled: "Master, this cup is for you. Thank you for your care during my time at Tianyi Hall."

after that.

He never asked for help again.

The four of them drank until late at night.

Only then did Li Rui take Liang He back to Anningwei drunkenly.

Liang He spoke at this time: "Master, why don't you agree to help Liu Tong? He may be a good help to us."

He is no longer the naive boy he was back then.

Zhou Shulin couldn't see it, but he saw it clearly.

Liu Tong hosted the banquet to reminisce about the past, but more importantly, he wanted to win over Li Rui.

Li Rui looked at Liang He with satisfaction:

"That's right." "Liu Tong is indeed capable, but there are so many important people watching the trade between the two countries. We can't act too hastily, otherwise we will fall into an irreparable situation."

"Liu Tong is very smart, but he has no patience. If you cooperate with him, you may get into trouble."

Liang He thought seriously about Li Rui's words.

"Master, why don't you remind Liu Tong? After all, he is an acquaintance."

Although he was secretly competing with Liu Tong, he didn't want anything to happen to him.

Li Rui looked at Liang He with even more relief.

He values ​​Liang He because Liang He is sophisticated but not worldly, and he has always maintained a kind heart.

This is very important.

Especially for him as a master.

No master wants to end up being stabbed in the back by his or her apprentice one day.

"The relationship has faded. If we talk too much, Liu Tong will think we look down on him. It's better to do it with actions than with words."

Li Rui said lightly.

"Master, I understand."

Liang He was still as humble as ever.

Li Rui habitually carried it behind his back:

"Come on, go home."

As a sect of Anning Prefecture, Huaqing Sect did not need any procedures to set up a branch in Qinghe.

And because of Jiang Linxian.

There were almost no obstacles.

period.

Liu Tong had come to Anningwei several times, but as he had more and more affairs to deal with, he rarely came here.

The Li residence is still as peaceful as ever.

Not disturbed by external things.

Li Rui continued to practice martial arts and read books, that was all.

"If you follow the will, you will be a human being; if you go against the will, you will be an immortal. The practice of Qigong depends entirely on going against the will."

A green lamp and a yellowed ancient scroll in hand.

Li Rui was focused.

Previously, Fu Huan from the Imperial Observatory had promised that he would send the notes of his predecessors from the Imperial Observatory to Qinghe after returning to the capital.

this morning.

He just received these notes from the express horse at the post station.

“When a person is born, sex and life are one. After leaving the mother’s body, sex and life are separated. Then, one goes from youth to adulthood, adulthood to old age, old age to illness, and illness to death. Sex and life go further and further apart. Therefore, one should nourish qi and train the body, reverse yin and yang, and return to the original body.”

"This is the innate realm."

According to the book, a warrior must train his sexuality and life to the same level as in the mother's womb, which is considered to be the innate level.

Li Rui was originally exploring the way to cultivate both sex and life.

These notes are like a treasure trove.

Being able to create based on the experience of predecessors is undoubtedly much easier than figuring things out on your own.

"Wonderful!"

The more Li Rui read, the more fascinated he became.

At this time, the benefits of high comprehension are reflected. Ordinary warriors practice strictly according to the instructions of the exercises step by step, and dare not make any mistakes.

But Li Rui is different.

Not only was he able to integrate the ideas in these notes, he was even able to turn some of these seemingly crazy ideas into reality.

In other words.

Other warriors are at most followers, but he is a fellow traveler like his predecessors from the Imperial Observatory.

Not only that.

Although it is a note, it still contains a lot of discussions about martial arts.

To others, it is just useless jumbled words, but in Li Rui's eyes, it is almost the same as martial arts.

That was the time when he created the martial arts.

There are six moves in the Six Slashes of the Wandering Dragon. You cannot accomplish them just by imagining them.

But if you want to obtain other skills, and they must be high-grade skills, the cost will be extremely high.

For an average warrior, just one book of martial arts techniques is enough to bankrupt him.

Not to mention Li Rui's self-created martial arts, which required thousands of books of exercises to refer to.

This may not be a problem for those martial arts masters, but for Li Rui, it is a huge problem.

So far, he has only created one style.

It will only get harder in the future.

Now with these notes, the problem is easily solved.

Li Rui read until late at night.

Then, at the hour of Hai, I would complete the daily required Qi movement, then crawl into bed and fall asleep.

When consciousness returns.

He has already appeared on the dream platform.

A thought came to my mind.

The Imperial Observatory Notes, which he had just finished reading today, appeared in Li Rui's hands.

"Sure enough, anything that is recorded can be simulated by the Great Dream Wandering Immortal."

Li Rui sat on top of the cloud.

Continue to flip through the notebook files carefully.

In his dreams, his thinking speed was even faster than that in the outside world, and his ideas for creating his own martial arts flowed like a flood.

Li Rui flipped through the files faster and faster.

All I could hear was the rustling sound of flipping pages. If the dogmatic old teachers in the academy saw this, they would definitely be heartbroken.

At such a fast speed, I can't even see the words on the files clearly, so it's useless to flip through them faster.

But Li Rui is an exception.

At this moment, he entered into a mysterious state. Every time he turned a page of the file, the words on it would automatically enter his brain. It was extraordinary and magical.

Enlightenment in a dream!

(End of this chapter)