Yefutidaolu

Chapter 71: The Madman's Opinion
The next day, the red sun rose.

Gao Jian and Li Jun are both ready.

Li Jun was carrying a large bag containing documents and accounts that he had confiscated from the foremen yesterday.

With these things, we can clarify the operation of these docks and understand the flow of materials in the entire outer city.

"Let me take some of it," Gao Jian said.

Li Jun waved his hands quickly: "What are you talking about, boss? I can't help you with anything else, but at least I still have some strength. I've practiced carrying bags and moving things. How can I let you help me now?"

Gao Jianze smiled and said, "What do you mean you can't help me in other ways? You helped me a lot. I originally asked you to find a guide, but you helped me persuade all the dock workers to come down. This is a great achievement."

This is true.

The relationship between the laborers and their foremen is actually a deformed and distorted symbiotic relationship.

It is difficult for the laborers to unite themselves. They almost have to rely on the foreman to form a systematic labor system and carry out large-scale work on this basis to complete the employer's commission.

The foreman took advantage of this and made a fortune from it.

It is actually quite difficult to break this kind of relationship, because without a foreman, these laborers will inevitably be unable to find food for a period of time.

Because it is impossible for employers to find laborers one by one, they will only go to the foreman and ask the foreman to contact other people.

Without a foreman, the dock will definitely come to a halt and the laborers will definitely cause trouble. This is a dead end.

But with Li Jun, everything is different. Li Jun uses himself as a guarantee that nothing will happen to them in the future.

Li Jun's face was so great that the laborers stopped.

This made Gao Jian's actions much smoother.

This is all thanks to Li Jun.

However, after hearing Gao Jian's words, Li Jun did not answer, but just carried his bag and sat behind the dragon.

Seeing this, Gao Jian didn't try to grab it, but let him carry it.

After a while, the two of them arrived at the inner city.

Obviously, this is Li Jun's first time here.

The splendor and prosperity of the inner city made the young man's eyes widen in an instant.

Li Jun is a talented person, but he comes from a low-income family after all and has never seen such a scene.

The magnificent buildings, the double-eaved palaces, the railings and the beams were all gorgeous and intricate. Li Jun couldn't take his eyes off them, dumbfounded, as if he wanted to say something, but he couldn't utter a word.

All he could see were magnificent buildings, gorgeous carriages, floor tiles paved with large bluestones, and various magical powers operating, blocking out all the aura of the outer city.

In a sense, this is the real Cangzhou.

The outer city was nothing more than a bunch of mud-legged people building a pile of rubbish against the city wall. They surrounded Cangzhou City like beggars squatting outside the corner of a wealthy family's compound, and had never set foot in the real Cangzhou City.

"Is it beautiful?" Gao Jian asked.

Li Jun nodded, still speechless.

"You guys helped repair it." Gao Jian said.

"We? How can we practice this kind of thing?" Li Jun immediately shook his head: "These techniques... I have only heard of them from storytellers. This is the first time I have seen them."

"Indeed, you helped to repair it. To repair these things, people from outside the city came to repair the main trunk, and then they added embellishments such as formations." Gao Jian explained.

Li Jun shook his head: "Impossible, Boss, look at this pillar, it must be a hundred feet high, right? How can we repair something like this? How can we do this?"

"You didn't, so do you worship gods regularly? Did you pump a lot of water for the foreman before?" Gao Jian asked.

"Pray... It's normal to pump water for the foreman. Wait, are they the gods and the foreman who are here to repair it?" Li Jun seemed to understand and widened his eyes.

He thought... that the foreman and Baishen were of very high status.

"Isn't your foreman a man of accomplishment? The gods have also received your sacrifices. You work for a day, and the foreman takes half of the money without doing anything. You have to pay the remaining money to the gods, and when you die, you have to give your body to them as blood food."

"Then, your foremen, those gods, and those people with cultivation in the outer city, they will have to come to the city to repair these things." Gao Jian said.

It's a chain of events.

The common people use their blood and sweat to support the grassroots gods and grassroots practitioners, which makes it seem that these gods and practitioners can act tyrannically.

But in reality, they also have to come to the inner city and work like slaves for the masters.

Not all the masters in the inner city are real masters. Although they live a very good life and can live here, only a small number of them truly belong to aristocratic families.

They also have to work for the aristocratic families, using their own skills and techniques.

Only the children of aristocratic families are the rulers who occupy the top of these layers of corpses.

"The nobleman sent workers to carry out the construction work. After dredging the river, he repaired the city.

He carries the load and works day and night, and his unemployed wife and children sigh.

The two cloth shirts were freezing cold, and the half-bowl of steamed rice was cold without any broth.

When will I have a day off and have nothing to do, and just plow the fields in the spring rain? "

Gao Jian sighed softly.

This poem was not written by him, he just wrote it out of inspiration.

I wonder how much money and food were spent on the splendor and prosperity of the inner city, and how many innocent souls were trapped in it.

"The common people have worked hard and suffered a lot, which is why we have achieved such prosperity. Have any of your brothers ever died of exhaustion?" Gao Jian asked Li Jun.

Li Jun was silent, stopped talking and didn't look around.

In the outer city, who doesn't have a few relatives and friends who have died? Many people die every day, but... there is a constant stream of people coming from other places in Cangzhou to fill the vacancies.

As he was speaking, Zoulong had already arrived at the bottom of the Bazhen Food Building, where Shui Cangcang was already standing there.

At the same time, he also brought paper and pen, which were carried by a servant boy.

Gao Jian walked closer. Although the ink block had not been ground yet, he could already smell a faint fragrance.

"It's a waste to use such good ink, Mr. Shui." Gao Jian stopped talking to Li Jun and joked to Shui Cangcang with a smile.

Shui Cangcang smiled and said, "It's okay. I'm used to using this kind. Besides, it's not expensive. I know I have to do a lot of paperwork today, so I definitely can't use too expensive pens and ink."

"Sir, your writing and painting have always been simple." At this time, the book boy next to him said, "This bag of mine is only ten gold coins, enough for two months."

Li Jun opened his eyes wide, dumbfounded.

This bag is only ten gold coins?
He couldn't even earn ten gold coins in twenty years!

Gao Jian, however, looked calm and said, "If that's the case, where do you plan to work?"

"Ah? Didn't you say you were here to look for me?" Shui Cangcang had a subtle expression.

"The place I found is outside the city. I was afraid that you would not be used to it, so I brought all the documents to you." Gao Jian pointed to the big bag behind Li Jun.

Then he took the big bag, untied the tie and revealed the contents.

The big bag was more than one meter high on the ground, and it was filled with account books, documents, and all the data from hundreds of docks over the years were all here.

Shui Cangcang was silent for a moment.

He glanced at the documents. "Captain Gao, what are these?" he asked.

"Both." Gao Jian said with a smile.

Shui Cangcang stared at Gao Jian.

Is this person trying to intimidate me? Or is he trying to test me?
The Shui family should not have offended him.

However, his upbringing and connotation from an aristocratic family still prevented him from questioning Gao Jian in person. Instead, he said, "Ahem... In this case, I'll just follow the host's wishes. I'll stay in the outer city. It won't be a problem."

"That's good. Do you have a horse? Or should we walk over there?"

"Let's go ahead, just keep it simple, no need to be extravagant." Shui Cangcang said, then showed a gentle and natural smile, looking unpretentious.

Gao Jian nodded, so he said, "Let's go, then."

Shui Cangcang's smile was a little stiff, but due to the arrangement of his ancestors, he and Gao Jian still came to the dock of the outer city.

Along the way, Shui Cangcang's expression first turned black, then green, then purple, and finally red. In the end, it returned to its original fair face, but the whiteness was a little scary.

Before, his skin was as white as a jade-faced gentleman with a hint of red, but now it is just pale and awful.

There was nothing else to say. He was almost splashed with cow dung along the way, but fortunately he had some skills and was able to dodge quickly.

He met a group of people who were dredging the river. They cleared the river that was blocked by manure. The river was open again, and the black water splashed up to two or three meters high. He used magic to push the water back.

Perhaps he felt that his hands were dirty from casting spells, so he asked his servant to get water for washing his hands.

There were drunkards lying on the street, drinking endlessly until they burped and vomited. They lay belly up in the streets, which were littered with garbage and feces, and with crazy dogs and wild cats running around. The streets were muddy even without rain.

The air was filled with stench, filth, and all kinds of shouting.

Moreover, because the gods were destroyed recently, all kinds of dead bodies had nowhere to go. They were usually used as blood food, but now they have to be buried, so you can see corpse collectors pulling trailers, transporting corpses out one by one.

Walking on such a road makes Shui Cangcang's expression look like a rainbow roulette.

This nobleman had obviously never walked through the outer city of Cangzhou like this before. In the end, he could only say with a pale face: "Pigsty..."

Gao Jian heard this and replied, "Yes, the outer city is the pigsty, and these drunkards lying on the ground are the pigs raised by the masters in the inner city. I am your pig herder, Mr. Shui."

"Now you have been sent down by Master Shui to learn the secrets of breeding." Gao Jian said with a smile.

Shui Cangcang took a deep breath.

Then I started coughing because of the stench.

He fanned himself, covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief, and then managed to breathe in, then continued: "Captain Gao... Oh, forget it, when are you going to establish another god?"

"After we deal with the dock issues, we'll establish a deity," Gao Jian said.

"What kind of god are you going to establish?"

"To establish a human god, we can use the original resentful ghosts in Cangzhou. Most of them are at the first level, no worse than the original hundred gods."

"In this case, the Zuo family should make concessions, but how do you plan to use these resentful ghosts to secure your position? The work of a god is not easy." Shui Cangcang was a little confused.

"They will work harder than any other gods, and they will do better than any other gods." Gao Jian said firmly.

Shui Cangcang didn't quite understand Gao Jian's confidence.

but……

never mind.

Since Gao Jian is preparing to re-establish the gods, then the establishment of grassroots gods must be done by him.

In this way, the Shui family and other noble families will be able to obtain this incense method, and will be able to establish their own gods in the future. This will be a very important bargaining chip in the struggle between the various noble families and the Zuo family.

For this bargaining chip, it is nothing to let Gao Jian control the outer city.

The outer city...is of no value in itself.

Especially since he came here in person, he could definitely tell that this place was really worthless.

After walking for a while, the group finally arrived at the pier.

Shui Cangcang found a relatively clean inn nearby and worked there.

Although the floor of that inn creaked and there were all kinds of smells, at least there didn't seem to be much dust, and the bedding had been washed.

Then he took a look at the document, which weighed probably about a thousand pounds.

Ugh.

"Help me grind the ink." He said with a straight face.

The book boy immediately stepped forward and began to grind ink.

The scent of ink wafts around, making the air around it much fresher.

Shui Cangcang took a deep breath.

This is getting used to it.

Gao Jianze and Li Junze came outside.

"So many things, and you give them to one person? Boss, aren't you making things difficult for others?" Li Jun scratched his head.

"Why is it so difficult? He opened Jiang Palace and Baihui. He is quick-witted and energetic. It's just right for work. Let's find him a job. There are still many docks in Cangzhou!"

The Jianggong acupoint is where "heart power" is located. When it is opened, the heart power will be abundant, the essence will not be scattered, and the spirit will not be tired. It is an acupoint of the essence gate.

Baihuiqiao can improve thinking speed, make people quick-witted, and process various perceptions more quickly.

Gao Jian has already figured out that Shui Cangcang is at the second level, and these two acupoints just happened to be opened, so he is born to work in an office.

Then let him take care of these matters.

Gao Jian himself and Li Jun continued to deal with the dock matters.

He had to try to completely stabilize the outer city of Cangzhou during this time, so that he could proceed with the next plan.

The Zuo family and the Baishanjiang tribe have suffered a loss and will never let it go. Gao Jian doesn't have much time left.

He has gained a firm foothold, but that doesn't mean everything is worry-free.

Moreover...what Gao Jian has to do is not limited to the outer city of Cangzhou.

The matter of blood sacrifices to ghosts and gods is not just a concern for this city. Judging from the look on the face of Sima of the Demon Suppression Division, this is probably happening everywhere in Cangzhou.

The source of all this was that the Zuo family abused the authority to confer gods for their own power, and conferred a large number of the Baishanjiang water tribe as gods, allowing them to enjoy blood food openly.

What Gao Jian really wants to do is to overthrow the blood sacrifice system composed of the Zuo family and the Baishanjiang water tribe.

Maybe it's risky...

But as the celestial being from the heaven of Bliss and Love said.

Gao Jian is a madman who will use the most rational means to do the most irrational things.

And...the most important thing is that Gao Jian himself doesn't think there is anything wrong with this.

(End of this chapter)