The first among the heavens begins with martial arts

Chapter 23 The Income of Heroes
Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the Western Regions have never been regained, and now they have been trapped in the east of JYG.

The Chagatai Khanate, which occupied the Western Regions, began to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty after it broke away from the control of the Timur Khanate, and is now called Yilibali by the court.

There are three major sects prevalent in Yilibali. Among them, the most powerful and oldest sect is the Devil's Cult, which retreated from the Central Plains, and the weakest is the Poison Sect, but the most arrogant and arrogant one in the past ten years is the one known as the number one expert in the Western Regions. The Rakshasa religion created by Yu Luocha.

Ximen Chuuxue is his only son, and he is also his chosen successor after a hundred years.

Qian Heng didn't know if Ximen Chuuxue knew the truth, but he guessed that even if no one told him, he should have a certain guess.

There must be Yu Luocha's confidants who are always watching Ximen Chuuxue, and Qian Heng, who is not planning to provoke too many foreign enemies for the time being, does not plan to get too close to Wanmei Villa.

Judging from various indications, Yu Luocha is a demigod, but has not yet publicly fought against the same level of masters, so he is often underestimated by the Central Plains martial arts, and has not become the fourth best.

After a long calculation, only Hua Manlou was left among Lu Xiaofeng's four people who were truly innocent and risk-free. This also made him close his lips tightly, not revealing his big plan at all.

Just let a few people treat themselves as ordinary gangsters, and when the general situation is established, he can find Lu Xiaofeng and the others, let them take care of the overall situation, make a living for the world, and persuade their backers to surrender.

The five of them got drunk for a day and a night. They basically met all the famous performers in Suzhou city. They also consumed table after table of seafood and mountain delicacies, and even hundreds of jars of good wine were wiped out. Ten thousand taels, this price is enough to find a silver medal killer in Tsing Yi Building.

Among the five people, Lu Xiaofeng and Qian Heng are not afraid of having fun, no matter beauties or good wine, they will always come to them, especially Qian Heng, who can't be underestimated by the ancients, and all kinds of dirty jokes of later generations make others dumbfounded.

As a landlord, Huamanlou is also quite open, except for women, eating and drinking is no different from Lu Xiaofeng, Hua Wuque is too burdened by idols, and just drinks blindly, while Ximen Chuixue practices ruthless swordsmanship, does not drink at all, and the beauty is even more serious. Don't look at it, just eat a little food, it can be called an air-conditioning machine.

They talked about everything from the imperial court to the rivers and lakes, from the Central Plains to overseas, and unintentionally solved a problem of Qian Heng.

The currency problem of the Ming Dynasty.

Speaking of which, this ancient dragon's comprehensive martial arts is still far from the real history, and the amount of silver stored and circulated in the Central Plains is extremely scary.

In the past history, the total amount of silver that flowed into the Central Plains from overseas from 1567 to 1644 was about 3 million taels, which was equivalent to one-third of the total silver in the world at that time. However, there was a shortage of precious metals in the middle and early Ming Dynasty. Daming banknotes were issued instead of circulation.

However, in the seventh year of Zhengde, which is 1513 A.D., the folks have never been short of silver. In big cities, copper coins have even become the unit used by the lower class. In Qian Heng’s view, there is a trace of silver inflation in this situation. spearhead.

The purchasing power of silver has always been kept at a low price. Even if it is a town-level gang, the salary of the quack gang who has only learned the crop handle style is as high as 50 taels a year, and there will only be more serious occupations.

The financial revenue of the imperial court is also very rich, and there is no obvious appearance at all. If it is not for the same name, there is no similarity to the Ming Dynasty in the previous history.

The reason for the change, Qian Heng guessed, has a lot to do with martial arts. Master masters traveled the wilderness to practice martial arts, and discovered many large gold and silver mines that were discovered later. This situation was very common in the Song Dynasty, and it is even more common today. Inside and outside, it is said that the hero Shen Lang went to sea to find gold and silver mines.

Many veins have been mined since the Song Dynasty and have not been exhausted hundreds of years later. It is no wonder that the silver and gold in the Central Plains are flooded.

If there are too many silver taels, there will naturally be transportation problems, so two industries are unprecedentedly prosperous, the first is the escort agency, and the second is the bank.

The Escorts of Daming are everywhere, and together with gangs and martial arts halls constitute the three bottom layers of the Jianghu. More than [-]% of martial artists are employed in these three industries, so the competition is very fierce.

The gangs tend to operate illegally, the martial arts halls charge tuition fees neutrally, and the bodyguard bureaus tend to charge bodyguards and deliver bodyguards for nothing, but all three of them charge fees from merchants within the scope, which is called security fees.

Most of the income of the three is paid to sects, aristocratic families, and high-level gangs, and a small part is intercepted by the middle-level, and it is only a drop in the bucket for the low-level warriors, but even this is quite considerable.

The Tianzun organization can obtain tens of millions of taels of income through the tribute from the lower levels every year, plus the income of various directly-operated banks, mining, and handicraft industries, and there will be more than 700 million taels left after deducting expenses. It can be called a rich country .

In Qian Heng's previous life, the total annual fiscal revenue of Daming was only more than 2000 million taels, and this still included all taxes, food and rice.

From this point of view, it's no wonder that Gu Long's heroes are all spending money like water, because the entire upper echelon of the world is extremely wealthy, and the masters can get high-ranking gang positions and a lot of money by just showing their hands, especially at the top of the world. How many people fawn on.

What do warriors do after earning a high income?
If it is an investment to buy land, it will go all the way to the landlord family, but in fact only a few people choose this road. After all, there are only a few people who think about the long-term. It is really hard to say whether the future generations can become masters.

Therefore, most of the warriors still chose to live a life of drinking and drinking today, advocating extravagance and crazy consumption, which also made the whole Ming Dynasty full of glitz and glamour.

Generations of warriors have been enjoying themselves in luxury and gold, no wonder the characters in Gu Long value wealth and fame so much.

Martial arts create fame, fame builds power, power brings wealth, and wealth attracts beauties.

So if the martial arts is high enough, you can have everything.

But there is a prerequisite for this, the number of warriors cannot be too large.

When there are more people who know martial arts, the value of martial arts will be depreciated, and the wealth absorbed from the people will not be distributed enough. No one will be satisfied with this situation.

It is not feasible to continue to oppress the common people, because the gangs are always greedy, they have already suppressed the people to the limit, and any more will only make the people smash their tanks, and in the end, the fish will not be worth the money.

What happens in this situation?
Obviously, the only way to expand outward is to seize more shares from the forces that originally occupied a large amount of interests, just like the three virtues of the two wars in Europe, only by breaking the shackles can they gain new life.

The fight for hegemony in the rivers and lakes is still about profit.

It is also in this situation that careerists can gather a crowd to respond with a little instigation, breaking the original pattern of the arena.

The battle between old and new forces will inevitably be bloody and bloody, and no force is sure to survive.

What Qian Heng wants to do will inevitably greatly increase the number of warriors. This is also an irreconcilable contradiction between him and the conservative forces in the world.

No matter the good or the evil or the aristocratic court, he can't tolerate his actions.

Even if he deliberately throws out the formula of longevity that can double the lifespan of a person, trying to weaken the determination of the old-fashioned warriors, it will be difficult to reduce the intensity of the war before showing victory.

Everything can only be spoken with a sword.

Winner takes all, loser for Kou.

Now his biggest advantage is that he hides in the dark. What he is going to do has not been revealed. He knows that his real plans are all trustworthy people. Even Xie Xiaofeng who did not join is definitely not a whistleblower.

But the biggest disadvantage is that there are too few trustworthy people, and it is impossible to teach high-level martial arts with great fanfare. Once he really unfolds, the level of a hundred people will not attract attention, and a thousand people will cause strong reactions from both good and evil. I am afraid that the Ming army will be dispatched above, and the good and the evil will abandon their previous suspicions and join forces to attack.

The Order of the Phoenix is ​​now just a Tianzun organization with a different name. Most people are simply for the sake of prosperity and wealth, and have no loyalty at all. They can still order them when they are not subjected to high-intensity struggles, but once there are too many casualties, they will inevitably collapse.

Qian Heng didn't want to control his subordinates with poison such as the Three Corpse Brain Pill. Even if this method is very effective, it will cause endless troubles.

Poison can control greedy villains, but it can't control hot-blooded people. There are not a few warriors who give up their lives in a fit of anger. He doesn't want to be stabbed in the back at a critical moment.

Qian Heng has always been clear that his goal is not to fight for hegemony.

Therefore, methods such as poison must be cautious.

His subordinates are unreliable, let alone act recklessly with his own martial arts. He is far from being invincible.

Even the divine move of killing miscellaneous soldiers is not a panacea. The vitality plague in the realm of six qi phases is extremely unstable. It can be sent out but not received. An uncontrollable catastrophe, when the time comes, the painting style of the whole world will become a biohazard survival mode.

Only when he has truly reached the realm of yin and yang metamorphosis, can his vitality plague be sent and received freely without harming innocent people.

Fortunately, as long as he has enough patience and hides his plans, everything will be different in a few years.

After annexing Bat Island, he will be able to control the Asahi route, then occupy Jeju Island, secretly send people to practice martial arts, and overseas far away from Daming, the news will be perfectly blocked.

When one hundred thousand third-rate masters are cultivated, it is not impossible for the country to change color.

Thinking of the happy place, Qian Heng couldn't help laughing, seeing Lu Xiaofeng and the others were speechless, and he didn't know why he was going crazy.

While eating and drinking, while prevaricating Lu Xiaofeng, on the second night, Hu Tiehua and He came with Jin Lingzhi and brought news of Yuan Suiyun.

The news brought by Hu Tiehua did not exceed his expectations. Yuan Suiyun very cooperatively explained the personnel list and treasure location of Bat Island, and answered all other secrets without hiding anything.

Qian Heng couldn't help admiring: "Master Bat is really a smart man, he can bend and stretch, I can't find a reason to kill him."

After chatting with Hu Tiehua for a few more words, Qian Heng decided to have a chat with this blind hero himself.

Saying goodbye to Lu Xiaofeng and the others, he was about to perform lightness kung fu and go to the Suzhou resident of the Order of the Phoenix, when a voice made him stop.

"You promised me to let him see the light again!" Jin Lingzhi held Hu Tiehua's arm tightly and stared at Qian Heng.

"Of course I remember!"

(End of this chapter)