Overlord's Road to Ancient Emperors

Lei Ming didn't expect King Shun to act so big when he came up. He thought that even if King Shun wanted to seize power, he would do it slowly, so he would be able to deal with it slowly. He never thought that he looked soft and kind, but he was also a Overlord, with General Kou cheering on, the Lei family may be doomed.

As soon as Li Xu left, the servants of Lei Mansion went back to report, "Patriarch, King Shun has left Minzhou City, and General Kou escorted him away."

Lei Ming was not surprised. Shun Wang said that he would visit Yantian, so it was a well-planned itinerary, but he didn't know when he would come back. Is Lei's mansion surrounded every day like this?The Lei family has no face to gain a foothold in South Vietnam.

He Lei Ming is also a majestic sheriff at any rate, although he is in name, but has never been so despised by others, what a king of Shun, this is going to trample their faces in the mud.

"The lord said that the Kou family army was sent to protect the Lei family. He said that a group of thieves came from the south of the Five Ridges, and they only targeted the rich. There have been several massacres in the south."

Lei Ming was silent for a long time after listening, and finally sighed, and asked people to gather the clan again to discuss the future of the Lei family.

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Li Xu and his party left Minzhou City and headed east all the way. Minzhou is not far from the sea, and they arrived at the seaside within half a day.

The sea breeze blows towards the face with a salty taste, which is a taste that people who are not familiar with the sea can't get used to. Looking at the vast and boundless sea, they only feel that the world is so big and people are as small as ants.

"This is the sea, it's really spectacular." Liu Shu sighed, grabbed He Zun's sleeve and asked, "Do you know where the end of this sea is?"

Of course He Zun didn't know, he felt dizzy after looking at the sea water a few more times, and he didn't have the heart to think about such a profound question.

Li Xu would not discuss with people of this era whether the earth is round, the end of the sea or the land. He himself is a scumbag, and the revolution and rotation can make his head dizzy.

Jia Ping also traveled together this time. After the Habayashi Army left, he lived in Xiyuan and became Li Xu's other bodyguard. He seldom went out on weekdays and stayed at home. He wanted to keep him at home to take care of the little princess, but considering that a little girl in the family was too lonely, he sent the little princess to the Kou Mansion, where Mrs. Kou took care of her personally.

Mrs. Kou was worried at first that King Shun would take the opportunity to give the little princess to Kou Xiao, and she was uneasy. Thinking of the age difference between the two, she couldn't accept it calmly.

But after spending a few days with the little princess, I fell in love with this little girl more and more. I wish my son would be born a few years later so that I could be more compatible with the little princess.

"I don't know which direction Changqing is going. The sea is vast, and there is no direction to look for." Jia Ping said worriedly.

Standing on the rock, Li Xu looked at the pure blue water, and his mind drifted far away. Because of seasickness, he rarely went out to sea by boat, but the magnificence of the sea was still fascinating.

"He knows that we are in Minzhou. If he goes ashore, he will go to Minzhou to find us. It is impossible to go to sea to find people. When he comes back, he must be taught a lesson."

After walking along the coastline for a long time, Li Xu didn't see a single family. Occasionally, he came across a fisherman going out to sea, and when he saw them, he hid far away.

People at this time could not resist typhoon invasion at all, so there were no people living near the sea, and only further away were small fishing villages inhabited by human beings. They lived in stone huts, which were strong but cramped.

A group of people look at the sea every day, no matter how beautiful the scenery is, they are tired of it. No wonder Kou Xiao and others have been indifferent to the sea from the beginning, and they frown even more when they eat paella.

"On this beach, there are shrimps and crabs besides fish, and you can't eat meat if you want." Liu Shu grabbed the seafood porridge in the bowl, but couldn't eat it.

Because they couldn't find a place to stay, they camped on the beach every day, and most of the food for hundreds of people was provided by the sea.

"It's not bad if you don't have to eat salted fish every day." Li Xu can still bear it, after all, the seafood at this time is really pure, natural and pollution-free, with first-class taste.

Kou Xiao raised his eyebrows, swallowed a mouthful of seafood porridge, sat beside Li Xu and said, "Speaking of salted fish, there is another joke, I wonder if the prince will remember it."

"Remember what?"

"It's still related to the tribute. You have been in South Vietnam for a while, and you have a general idea of ​​what South Vietnam produces. In the past, you paid tribute every year. In addition to pearls and corals, you can eat some tea, dried bamboo shoots, and salted fish. Tea As I said before, the dried bamboo shoots and salted fish also have stories."

Li Xu could guess the content before listening to it, and asked with a smile: "It's nothing more than the fate of being disgusted. The fishy smell of this sea fish is not something that ordinary people can bear, let alone after it has been dried in the sun, it has been transported to the capital after a long distance. It’s all turned into stinky dried fish.”

Kou Xiao sighed, and fiddled with the fish and shrimp in the bowl, "No, the stewards of the Ministry of Internal Affairs fainted a few times when they unpacked and inspected the goods, and naturally they were thrown away without seeing His Majesty. Except for wild cats, other animals dare not even approach them."

"What about the dried bamboo shoots? What can happen to this? Isn't it a good thing?"

Kou Xiao glanced at him faintly, and said: "Dried bamboo shoots that have been in close contact with Xianyu for several months, can they still be called dried bamboo shoots?"

Li Xu couldn't help laughing out loud, "Hahaha, that's true. Thinking about the smell, I have to spit out the overnight meal. Wouldn't the tea you sent be packed together?"

"That's not true. After all, tea is a more expensive tribute, and the treatment is better. It is packed in a box."

"It's a long journey, I'm afraid it will get moldy."

"Yeah, the only surviving box was also thrown away in disgust."

Li Xu bit his chopsticks and thought for a while, then asked Liu Shu beside him, "Is it on His Majesty's birthday to pay tribute every year?"

Liu Shu nodded, "Yes, His Majesty's birthday is in October, and we missed it on the way last year. You can't go back without being summoned by His Majesty. You can only send some gifts to express your affection."

Li Xu thinks about it too, anyway, the poverty of South Vietnam is well known, and there are things in the sea and mountains in other places, and the emperor is naturally not rare, so why not find a piece of wood and carve it yourself, maybe it will be even more brilliant.

Putting this matter aside, Li Xu told everyone a story about "The Daughter of the Sea" as an after-dinner snack.

After walking several hundred miles to the south, Li Xu and the others saw a small port with a few boats parked on the shore. Not far from the shore were rows of bamboo poles with strings of salted fish hanging on them. .

Li Xu asked the soldiers to stay where they were, and led others to question him. Liu Shu covered his nose and followed Li Xu, thinking that he might never want to eat salted fish in his life.

Li Xu grabbed an old man who was sorting and sorting the harvest and asked, "Old man, did you get anything good today?"

The old man looked up at Li Xu, and immediately knelt on the ground in shock, babbling a series of words that Li Xu couldn't understand.

Li Xu hadn't met the people for a long time, and he forgot that the local language of Nanyue was different in every village, and the two sides couldn't communicate at all.

Fortunately, Kou Xiao is a local and can act as an interpreter, explaining to Li Xu: "He said that today he went out to sea and gained a lot. He got a net of fish and a basket of shrimp."

Li Xu wandered back and forth between several wooden barrels, he couldn't recognize the fish here, there were big and small, live and dead, and there was indeed a basket of sea prawns in the bamboo basket beside him , very big, bigger than the ones they usually catch at the seaside, and there are a few big lobsters waving their pincers trying to escape from prison.

He spent money to buy this crate of shrimp, and looked at Kou Xiao happily, "I can finally change the taste."

Kou Xiao didn't particularly like seafood, and he didn't think the shrimp was any different from what he usually ate. He looked at the seabirds on the sea and said, "I want to eat roasted bird meat in the end."

Li Xu licked his lips, and his stomach resonated, "But we can't catch those birds." In fact, it's not that we can't catch them, but even if we shoot them down, we can't pick them up, and they all fell into the sea. without a trace.

Li Xu looked back, and found that there was half a barrel of various shellfish beside him, and he bought them without even picking one. The old man saw that he was generous, and gave him a basket of crabs.

This little thing is definitely not enough for more than a hundred people to eat. Li Xu went around and bought all the shrimps, crabs and shellfish that can be bought on this small pier. To his surprise, he saw a large Baskets of oysters, each as big as a palm, can definitely make people's eyebrows fly.

After shopping, Li Xu offered to go to the boat to take a look. Of course, the fishermen would not object after receiving the money, so Li Xu chose the biggest boat to go on and stood on the deck to look into the distance.

Kou Xiao followed step by step, seeing that he was staring at the sea water without speaking, he reminded: "My lord can't stare at the sea water for too long, it's easy to get dizzy."

Li Xu understood this truth, he was just thinking, if such a boat goes out to sea, what is the farthest place that can be reached by sea.

He roughly speculates that the current space-time is similar to that of the earth, and the terrain and climate are very similar. It may be a parallel space. In this way, there is Japan Island in the north, Hainan Island in the south, and Southeast Asia as far away as possible. Great place.

Of course, he didn't dare to think about these places for the time being, but the opposite island of Taiwan, or going north to Yangzhou Prefecture, is actually not too far away.

He called the boatman and asked him a few questions carefully, "How far can a boat like this go to sea?"

The owner of this boat is a man about 30 years old, with rough and dark skin. He looks like a person who lives on the sea. He told the truth: "I don't know how far it is. I only know that the boat traveled in a straight line for five days and five nights." , had to return due to bad weather.”

"It's only been five days." Li Xu was a little disappointed. With the speed of modern boats, five days and five nights can go a long way, but the wooden boat under his feet has limited power, so it can't go very far.

"Have you seen other inhabited islands?"

The man replied: "The villain has never seen it before, but I heard from the villain's father that he once went to an island with people, but he thought it was a place where pirates were entrenched, so he didn't dare to go ashore to investigate."

"Pirates." Li Xu touched his forehead, looked into the distance and said, "Pirates usually live at sea, haven't you ever been intercepted by pirates when you travel?"

The man said nervously: "I haven't encountered it before. Pirates are brutal. Once you encounter them, you will definitely die. Many of the villain's fellow villagers died in the hands of pirates. Going south, I heard that many villages and towns have been destroyed by pirates." It was very scary after the blood was washed away."

Li Xu glanced back at Kou Xiao, and seeing that he hadn't spoken, he asked, "General Kou, have you ever gone out to sea to suppress pirates?"

Kou Xiao pursed his lips into a line, and said in a cold voice: "The Kou family army has no money, so they can't afford to build a big ship, so what a fart sea."

Tsk, resentment abounds.