After the fairy disappeared

Chapter 880
The team had already set foot on the Takigawa business road, and the journey was peaceful, with business travelers passing by from time to time, looking very relaxed.

Go back for half a day and arrive at a checkpoint.

Other caravans had to line up and pay to pass the customs; but He Lingchuan showed his badge and shook it at the soldiers, who said "Commander!" and bowed to welcome them through without a word of unnecessary nonsense.

Until night, the Gale Army passed through three checkpoints in total, and this scene was repeated three times.

After observing for a long time, Lu Xun still asked: "Commander He, the checkpoints on this commercial road seem to be set up quite frequently, and besides—the soldiers guarding the checkpoints are not the Gale Army?"

Although these soldiers are wearing uniforms and have tokens hanging on their waists, they are gangsters and have no posture. Only when they see the Gale Army will they subconsciously straighten their backs.

He heard that Panlong City is famous for its strict military discipline, how could there be such a team?

Of course, Lu Xun was a guest from afar, so he asked more reservedly.

"No. Mr. Lu's insight is really sharp." He Lingchuan knew exactly what he wanted to ask, "These were originally Takigawa water bandits. After being recruited by us, they still stay here to collect road tax. Every time you pass a checkpoint, leave Enter the original sphere of influence of this gang."

"This..." Lu Xun was stunned, but he didn't expect this answer.

After being recruited, the water bandits did not disperse and go elsewhere to practice, but instead stayed here to watch the road?Originally, they could only grab money by holding open fire, but now they are holding the official banner of Yuheng City. They no longer need to bleed and sweat, and they can get money by just sitting on the ground and stretching out their hands?
It can be called safe, efficient and painless.

How could Panlong City, which has always been rewarding and punishing, be so lenient to water bandits?

He Lingchuan explained: "The internal situation in Takikawa is complicated. The Xijiu army that was dispersed by us also hid in Takikawa and continued to deal with us. Moreover, they are also supported by external forces. Such internal and external collusion is very difficult to eliminate. Therefore, we divided the water Bandit, remove resistance."

He added: "Everything is given priority to the safety of commercial routes, and the rest of the issues can be resolved slowly."

"Before I came here, I heard that bandits were rampant on the trade route in Xilong. I didn't expect it to be well-organized now." Lu Xun didn't care what they did, the security on the trade route was much better anyway, "I still want to learn from it."

"I still want to" means that I wanted to but don't want to now.The method He Lingchuan used was originally tailor-made for the Takigawa water bandits, and it would be useless for others to learn it.

Everything has to start from reality.

"Bailie is also in trouble with bandits?"

"Oh, where isn't it? It just varies in severity." The horse was startled by the little wild boar jumping out of the roadside. Lu Xun patted the horse's neck to comfort it, "You are a bandit here, and we are pirates there."

"Oh?" He Lingchuan was curious, "I would like to hear the details."

Lu Xun didn't expect him to be interested in the bandits thousands of miles away, so he said, "The Yangshan Islands are located on the sea twenty miles southwest of Daofeng Port. They consist of 42 islands. The smallest can only accommodate dozens of people. The largest main island, Longji Island, covers an area of ​​more than 700 hectares, with mountains and hills, caves and canyons, and even plains and lakes on the island.”

He Lingchuan hissed lightly.More than 700 hectares is more than 110 square kilometers. This island is really not small.

"Although the Yangshan Islands are my family's territory, pirates have been haunting them all year round. Relying on the dotted islands, they play hide-and-seek with us." He Lingchuan pondered: "Will they go to the coast to plunder?"

"Basically not, they just rob merchant ships." Lu Xun explained, "The water area of ​​the Yangshan Islands is very wide, and it is on the only channel going west. If you want to bypass it completely, you have to walk more than two hundred miles. And There are many winds and waves in the open sea, passing through the archipelago, the water surface will be much more stable.”

"Are there any civilians on the island?"

"Very few, except for a few crossings dedicated to replenishing food and water."

He Lingchuan smacked the mosquito to death and murmured in his ear, which was annoying: "Can't we arrange for the troops to be concentrated for a few sweeps, and then the official troops will be stationed on the island?"

The reason why the Takigawa banditry is difficult to eliminate is that there are also a large number of civilians living in Shuibo. They have a close relationship with the water bandits, and sometimes the bandits and the people are even indistinguishable from each other.Whether it was Xiqiao before or Yuheng City later, it was easy to accidentally attack the bandits, and an accidental attack would lead to endless resistance, which was extremely difficult to do.

The leaders of Qianjinzhai and Qiuhua gang dared to come to negotiate with him, because they decided that the Yuhengcheng army would not dare to rush into Takikawa and kill randomly.

But the Yangshan Islands don't have this problem. Except for pirates, almost no one lives there, so why are the Bailie people being polite to them?
"It has indeed been done, but bandits are like weeds, and we will continue to grow if we relax a little bit. And it is indeed a bit difficult to garrison the Yangshan Islands."

"Why?" If nothing else, Yangshan's main island, Longji Island, is so large. Is there no food and fresh water?
Anyway, there's nothing else to do while on the road, so it's good to chat.Lu Xun sighed: "A long time ago, the ancestors of the Lu family purchased a large territory including Blade Port and the Yangshan Islands. At that time, they thought the price was a good deal, but after buying it, they realized that most of the islands in the Yangshan Islands could not retain people at all. "

"Hey? Why?"

"Every seven days, in the middle of the night, evil spirits will float out from the caves in the Yangshan Islands and permeate the whole island. This kind of breath is harmless to the vegetation, but has the ability to stimulate it, but humans and animals can't stand it. If you stay on the island for a few more hours, you will start to get sick, and if you don’t leave, you will die." Lu Xun shook his head, "It took us a lot of work to find out that there is a natural yin and turbid pulse below the Yangshan Islands!"

He Lingchuan thought thoughtfully: "Earth evil?"

"Yes, it's the Disha!"

There are two qi in the world, yin and yang. Yang qi is pure and spiritual, which can nourish all things; while yin is evil and turbid, which will wither all things. The two mutually restrain and generate each other.Yang Qi floats in the sky, and Yin Qi sinks in the ground.Since spiritual energy sinking into the ground can form mineral veins, so can evil spirit energy.It's just that such veins are quite rare, and even fewer can connect with the surface.

The Yuan Kingdom was destroyed, and the resentment of millions of people also formed the earth evil, making it impossible for any grass to grow in the old land.But the natural yin and evil earth veins are just the opposite, they don't hurt vegetation, only people and animals.

Disha and Disha are not the same.

"Couldn't Yuanli be able to withstand it?"

"I can't resist it, the evil spirit is too strong." Yuan power also has a limit, can the Yuan power of the Bailie people compare with the power of heaven and earth? "If you are near the exit of the turbid yin veins, a person can't live for more than two quarters of an hour."

"In addition, there is a kind of monster living on Longji Island, called the yin scorpion, which can enter water and eat people." Lu Xun shook his head, "They usually move within the range shrouded by yin evil. Travelers who stray into the depths of the archipelago, Sometimes instead of being killed by Yin Sha, they are eaten alive by these monsters."

(End of this chapter)