Ming Dynasty: I am truly not the Emperor of Longevity

wrong!

After the car accident, it was only natural that the two people sitting in the front of the hearse broke down the car door and escaped.

But what reason did they have to open the coffin and take the body away?

This is the heart of a primeval forest stretching for hundreds of kilometers, where many wild animals roam at night. To get out alive, you not only need wilderness survival experience, but also a lot of luck.

The hearse, which had already overturned in the small ravine, could be considered a ready-made tomb.

If those two people still wanted to respect the deceased under these circumstances, wouldn't it have been better to just bury the car?

"Zheng Liu".

The woman in green turned to look at the first hanger-on who had noticed something amiss.

"When you noticed something was wrong here, did the branches and soil covering it seem like a natural accumulation, or was it deliberately placed there?"

"Miss Wang, when I first noticed something was wrong here, the entire large iron box was completely hidden, except for the hole. Everything else was completely covered up."

Zheng Liu pointed to the rusty bread cart.

"The small ones hunt in the mountains all year round, so it's impossible for them to be buried so tightly in nature. It must have been deliberately buried by someone."

The hole was surrounded by weeds, and at first glance it looked like a wild animal's hiding place.

Miss Wang just mentioned that the wooden box inside was a coffin, and this large iron box certainly looks like a tomb.

"I'll go in and see for myself!"

The woman in green grew increasingly suspicious. She lit a candle, climbed into the carriage, and examined the empty coffin.

This is?!

There were some things that shouldn't be there scattered inside the coffin.

She had seen some of them in a temple in a Southeast Asian country; they were ritual implements used to suppress evil spirits!

"Someone, bring that coffin out!"

After getting out of the car, the woman in green immediately gave an order.

The already rotten side door of the car was quickly removed by the crowd, and the coffin was also carried out of the car.

After all the moss and dirt on the surface were cleaned off, the coffin finally returned to its original state.

Every side of the coffin was densely covered with various runes, some of which she recognized—legends used to seal away evil spirits.

This is no ordinary coffin!

It's uncertain whether there was a body inside when the car accident happened!

One by one, the ritual implements inside the coffin were cleaned. The vast majority of them were intact, except for one copper pot.

The surface of this bronze jar, like the coffin, was covered with densely packed runes, but at this moment, there was already a huge crack in the jar.

What happened?!

She had seen this kind of jar before in a Southeast Asian country; it was called a "soul-sealing jar."

Legend has it that the sorcerers of the Ghost King Sect would seal captured evil spirits in jars to prevent them from causing trouble.

Of course, some people also say that this is actually a magic tool used by sorcerers to raise ghosts.

This thing is made of copper, so it's very sturdy.

Although the hearse overturned after the time travel, the wooden coffin was not damaged; only the lid was shaken open.

The bronze jar was still inside the coffin, how could it have cracked?

A chill ran through the woman in green.

Was a real evil spirit once sealed inside this soul-sealing jar?

There was no corpse in the coffin at all; it was covered with runes, simply to reinforce the seal on the soul-sealing jar!

However, these seals cannot defy the laws of physics.

After the hearse overturned, the coffin lid was shaken open, and the seal on the coffin was actually broken.

The seal on the Soul-Sealing Jar alone may no longer be enough to keep the evil spirit inside.

Finally, one day, the evil spirit who had traveled to this plane just like himself tore open the Soul-Sealing Jar and broke free.

The woman in green reached out and picked up the Soul-Sealing Jar. Sure enough, the crack was not caused by an external impact.

The copper foil at the crack shows obvious outward turning, indicating that it was torn from the inside!

The woman in green trembled, and the Soul-Sealing Jar fell to the ground!

When the car crashed, he clearly saw that there was someone in the passenger seat of the hearse, but there was no body inside the car, and there was obvious evidence that someone had broken the car window to escape.

Whether they will have the same good fortune as Zhao Xixian and survive to leave this primeval forest is still uncertain, but at least at the beginning of their journey, the two people in the car should have survived.

Having discovered that someone was producing glassware and mirrors within the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and having confirmed in Taiyuan that this matter had nothing to do with Zhao Xixian, it is clear that there is at least one other transmigrator in this world.

The two people in the hearse likely also made it out alive; at least one of them survived.

It has been five years since I transmigrated to this world. Although I and Zhao Xixian parted ways long ago and chose different paths.

But the two had at least gone through thick and thin together, and although they were secretly wary of each other, they hadn't gone so far as to fight each other.

This third party, however, is not necessarily the case.

He, or they, had no connection whatsoever with himself and Zhao Xixian.

This person has managed to build his business to this level in just five years!

Jian Gong Fang produces glassware and glass mirrors, which is nothing special.

These two things don't have much of a technical barrier. Whether it's myself or Zhao Xixian, as long as they're willing to spend some time, they can figure them out.

I've seen glassware from Venice in Hangzhou before; it's very expensive, with each piece costing hundreds of taels of silver.

As for the glass mirror, he had never seen it in this world before Xu Mingshan gave it to him.

In that era, glass mirrors were monopolized by the Venetians, and a single glass mirror could easily sell for the equivalent of tens of thousands of taels of silver in Europe.

Actually, I had considered producing glass mirrors to make huge profits.

However, doing this without sufficient protection is tantamount to courting death.

This business is incredibly profitable; selling to Portuguese merchants can easily bring in hundreds of thousands of taels of silver every year.

The revenue from sales within the Ming Dynasty should also be quite considerable.

The profit margin for glassware is lower than that for glass mirrors, but it's still considerable. According to Xu Mingshan's uncle, the Lin family can earn more than 100,000 taels of silver annually from the amount they sell to Xu Dong in Shuangyu Port.

This person was willing to lower the price to ensure that Xu Dong would not sell the product within the Ming Dynasty, indicating that there were domestic sales channels available.

Combined, the annual income is at least over one million taels of silver, a terrifying sum that is equivalent to the tax revenue of a wealthy province.

This is enough to attract the covetous eyes of countless powerful and wealthy people.

This is the Ming Dynasty in the 16th century. A wealthy merchant without any background is like a child walking through a bustling market with gold in his hand; he has no chance of protecting his wealth.

However, this person not only kept his job, but his business also grew bigger and bigger.

After learning about the "Lin family" from Xu Mingshan, he also sent people to Ningbo to investigate.

It was discovered that the Lin family not only built a trading post in Shuangyu Port, but even more outrageous, they had acquired several shipyards in the Ningbo area.

They also hired a large number of skilled shipbuilders from Guangdong and Fujian, spending a huge amount of money to build a large number of large ships suitable for ocean voyages.

At the same time, they also bought dozens of second-hand ships and recruited a large number of sailors.

There are many people in the Ningbo area who are privately involved in maritime trade, but I have never seen anyone do it so openly.

However, the officials of Ningbo Prefecture acted as if they were blind, completely ignoring this.

This is not something an ordinary person can do!