Gou became a god or devil after splitting his body

"This is the county seat of Linjiang County, Linjiang City! It is indeed very different from other county towns."

Li Yan looked at the seven or eight zhang high city wall in front of him and couldn't help sighing in his heart.

These days, he has simply visited almost half of the county towns in Linjiang County.

Most of them are small cities, and the city walls of more than two zhang are considered high. There are also relatively large cities like Linshan City, and the city walls are only three or four zhang high, not even half the height of the city wall of Linjiang City in front of him.

After queuing at the door for about an incense stick of time, it was finally Li Yan's turn.

The gatekeepers were two very tall soldiers wearing leather armor and a heart-protecting mirror with inscriptions on their chests.

The inscriptions were in gold, indicating that they were the actual rulers of Linjiang City, the private army of the County Earl Jin family.

Of course, in name, they were also soldiers of the Ji family of the Great Zhou, soldiers of Linjiang City.

It's just that they would selectively listen to the words of the Ji family.

If it is beneficial to them, they will naturally prick up their ears and listen carefully.

As for the disadvantages, their hearing problems will relapse.

"Entry fee, ten cents."

This fee is not high, but considering that Linjiang City is the core of Linjiang County, the huge flow of people every day, it is also a considerable income after accumulating a little.

Li Yan honestly paid a large sum of money. He never brought copper coins. This large sum of money was given to him by the store owner when he ate.

Seeing that the soldiers had no intention of changing money, Li Yan could only think that he was unlucky.

Behind the city gate, there is a ten-meter-wide urn city, with thick brick walls on both sides and many shooting holes around.

Once an enemy breaks in, once the gate is closed, thousands of arrows will be fired at the same time. Even a congenital warrior cannot stop it when caught off guard.

This is the origin of the turtle in the urn.

Walking out of the urn city, the sound of prosperity comes to your face.

As far as the eye can see, there are people everywhere. Some people stop in front of the stalls, picking up the items they like; some people keep shouting, just to attract the attention of tourists; and some people are surrounded by people, and everyone is afraid, and finally enters a luxurious store.

Li Yan did not stay for too long. Only when he saw fresh food that he had never seen before would he pay money to buy some to try.

After asking several impatient locals in a row, Li Yan found an inconspicuous dental shop, [Wantong Dental Shop].

"I want to rent a quiet house for about a year. Do you have any here?"

"Yes, yes, we don't have any house in our dental shop. As long as you can afford the price, we have any house you want."

A middle-aged man who looks very shrewd habitually boasted.

"Take me to see the house first. If it suits my taste, I will sign the contract today."

"Okay, okay, I will take you to see the house right away."

"Xiao Fan, take care of the store. If there are guests, treat them well. Don't be like before, when the guests come, you don't even pour a glass of water."

"Okay, uncle, I will pour water now."

Li Yan looked at Xiao Fan, a somewhat honest young man.

It is obvious that he is not suitable for this job. Perhaps the two are relatives, otherwise, with the shrewdness of this middle-aged man, it is impossible to recruit Xiao Fan.

The two went out, and they walked around and talked.

It was mainly the broker who talked and Li Yan listened.

What the broker said were some common sense in Linjiang City, but for outsiders like Li Yan, it was enough for them to have a general understanding of Linjiang City.

In Linjiang City, there is a saying that there are one uncle, four families and eight halls.

The one uncle is referring to the Jin family of Linjiang County. The Jin family has five innates, dozens of internal organs, and hundreds of blood transfusions.

After all, it was supported by a county, so it was not unexpected for Li Yan to have such strength.

The four families were referring to the four great aristocratic families.

Those who dominated the county were called powerful, while those who were powerful in the county and had innate warriors in their families were called aristocratic families.

The four great aristocratic families were Zhao, Chen, Zhang, and Sun. Among them, the Sun family was the strongest, with three innate warriors, while the other three families had only one or two innate warriors.

However, what made Li Yan a little concerned was the Zhao family. He didn't know what their relationship was with the Zhao family in Linshan City.

After all, the Zhao family was not a local snake in Linshan City, but a powerful dragon that came across the river thirty years ago.

Unfortunately, this yamen was just an ordinary person with better information, so how could he know such secrets.

The last eight halls were referring to the eight most powerful martial arts halls in Linjiang City.

In the entire Linjiang City, gangs were almost nowhere to be seen, and instead, there were martial arts halls of all sizes.

The owners of these martial arts schools recruit disciples. Anyone with money can come in. Those with good qualifications can naturally successfully refine their bodies and become martial artists in a short time.

Those with poor qualifications need longer time, but most of these people do not have the money to continue.

What to do?

There was no way before, and they would be directly kicked out by the martial arts school.

Later, about twenty years ago, the emergence of a martial arts school changed this situation.

The owner of the martial arts school did not drive away those disciples who had no money to pay tuition, but gave them a choice to collect protection fees.

Grab this piece of cake from the gangs at that time.

Only by successfully receiving enough protection fees can you not only continue to learn martial arts in the martial arts school, but also get more martial arts resources.

Moreover, there is no need to worry about retaliation by the gangs. As long as they are in the martial arts school, they will be protected by the martial arts school.

Of course, 80% of the collected protection fees must be handed over to the martial arts hall and cannot be kept privately.

If anyone dares to keep it privately, the martial arts hall will not take action directly, but will just drive that person out of the martial arts hall.

It can be imagined how those who are driven out of the martial arts hall will be tortured by those angry gangs.

According to the agent, from beginning to end, only one person kept the protection fee privately and was driven out.

In the end, not only him, but also his family were driven out of the martial arts hall, and then several tortured bodies that had no human form were thrown at the door of the martial arts hall.

During that period, people died every day in Linjiang City, either apprentices of the martial arts hall or people in the gangs.

Only three years later, the gangs around the martial arts hall were either wiped out by the apprentices of the martial arts hall or left on their own.

And those martial arts hall apprentices who survived were as ferocious as ghosts, and their cultivation might only be flesh refining, but ordinary flesh refining realms did not even dare to raise weapons in front of them.

The owner of the martial arts hall enjoyed 80% of the protection fee for that area alone. The huge resources directly pushed him to the Xiantian realm.

He was also the first Xiantian realm warrior to open a martial arts hall.

After that, the owners of other martial arts halls went crazy when they saw this scene, and followed this model to obtain more resources for themselves.

In this way, in the past 20 years, gangs of all sizes either died out or fled Linjiang City.

At the same time, eight Xiantian realm martial arts hall owners appeared in Linjiang City in succession.

Of course, the most powerful hall owner is still the first one to break through the Xiantian realm.

The owner's name is Shangguan Xuesha, and his martial arts hall is called [Xuesha Martial Arts Hall], which is also the first martial arts hall in Linjiang City.

"They fight so fiercely, doesn't the Jin family care?"

When Li Yan heard this, he asked in confusion.

"Of course, of course, Shangguan Xuesha is too cunning. The guards of the Jin family caught a martial arts disciple who killed someone, so they invited him over, intending to let him take good care of his own disciples."

"But he said that this was not his disciple, but his disciple's disciple, and it was not his responsibility. He could kill or chop him up as he pleased."

"Of course, the Jin family was a little dumbfounded, but the Jin family was not reasonable. When they saw that the soft approach didn't work, they wanted to use force later."

"However, in the end, it was left unresolved. Shangguan Xuesha gave 30% of the protection fee he received to the Jin family, just to make them turn a blind eye."

"It was just a few deaths, and the Jin family agreed without even thinking about it."

The broker looked happy after sharing the secret.

"How do you know so much, as if you were there at the time."

Li Yan asked suspiciously.

"Hey, this happened 20 years ago, and some of the secrets of that time have been dug out. If you ask that 34-year-old local of Linjiang City, they can even tell you more details than me."

"That's really detailed, as if they are the real people."

Hearing this, Li Yan couldn't help but smile bitterly. Sure enough, in an era of scarce entertainment, a hot topic can last for 20 years, and people still enjoy it.

"We're here. Take a look. Does this place suit your taste? If you don't like it, we'll change it."

As soon as the broker finished speaking, Li Yan said, "Change it. There are no trees here."

Li Yan was used to living in the courtyard of Linshan City. After coming to Linjiang City, he also wanted to live in a house with trees.

"You want trees, right? Tell me earlier. I'll take you to a house with trees."

The broker continued to lead the way.

"Change one, the tree is not big enough."

"Change one, the residents around have children, I don't like noisy children."

"Change one, I don't like this house."

Finally, when the sunset was all over the horizon, Li Yan finally found a satisfactory house.

"Okay, this is it, you've worked hard."

The brothel was so tired that he couldn't speak. If he didn't remember that Li Yan was his client, he would have rolled his eyes at him.

"Prepare the contract for this house, I'll come to you tomorrow."

"This is the deposit."

Li Yan handed over ten taels of silver notes, patted the brothel on the shoulder and left.

"Next, it's time to join the [Blood Killing Martial Arts School]."

"If I hadn't heard from a senior brother that the [Blood Killing Martial Arts School] actually had that kind of thing, I'm afraid I would still stay in Linshan City."

Li Yan sighed.

Afterwards, he came to a busy street in Linjiang City and stayed in the chain inn - [Yue Lai Inn].

Li Yan, who is not short of money, will not treat himself badly.