Marquis of Shang

Chapter 37
For Chen Qingxiang, who had no relationship with his predecessor Lao Tzu, it didn't matter if he handed Huangshi Xiaoyi over to his temporary management before he found evidence that Chen Fang, the town witch, had murdered his predecessor Lao Tzu.

Anyway, it was just an excuse for Chen Qingxiang to pay tribute to Qinghe Dayi this time.

Going to Qinghe Dayi, in front of Gaozu Qinghe scholar-bureaucrat Chen Weiyao, revealing his totemic cultivation level, and with his help, his main purpose is to obtain the position of "eldest son" of the Qinghe scholar-bureaucrat's first successor.

As long as he can get the title of "Eldest Son", then Huangshi Xiaoyi is no longer the foundation for him to settle down, but just an important bargaining chip in his hand.

……

Chen Da led a group of cavalry on horses to lead the way. Dozens of Huangshi warriors rode dozens of rough horses, followed by dozens of rough carts.

After more than an hour, the group of people left Huangshi Xiaoyi for fifty miles, and left the protection range of the guardian spirit totem.

Amidst the rising sun, the group of people completely left the area of ​​Huangshi Xiaoyi and headed for the distance.

……

This world is really vast and sparsely populated. Chen Qingxiang and his party traveled for dozens of miles, and there were only scattered traces of barren people and savages.

Chen Qingxiang knew that this should be the trace of the barren people in those two despicable places outside Huangshi Xiaoyi.

At around [-]:[-] noon, a team found a small forest and rested for half an hour.

Eating and drinking, meeting physiological needs, etc.

Then started on the road again.

After leaving the small city of Huangshi for a hundred miles, there is no human habitation. Except for the rough road, all kinds of wild animals and beasts are rampant.

Even during the daytime, there are ghosts wandering in the secluded forest.

However, with Chen Da, a late Mortal Realm leader, leading a group of cavalry to open the way, and Chen Qingxiang, a totem from the Ominous Realm, who was in charge of the team, there were no beasts without eyes, wild beasts who came to die.

Until half past one in the afternoon.

It was around six o'clock in the afternoon before Chen Qingxiang crossed.

A team began to set up camp.

Dozens of horse-drawn carriages formed several circles in an orderly manner.

at night.

Chen Qingxiang revealed a layer of Xuanxiang's natal totem disguised as a spiritual elephant.

The natal totem uttered an image sound, and a layer of totem dharma realm appeared.

Cover the area with a radius of one hundred feet.

Immediately, all the hidden beasts and ferocious beasts within the range of one hundred feet left this area directly.

All kinds of ghosts that began to appear at night were turned into fly ash in the sound of the imagery, and were absorbed by the mysterious space.

……

After cleaning up the surrounding Baizhang area, Chen Qingxiang could still sense many lurking auras in the wilderness beyond Baizhang.

Chen Qingxiang sensed these auras, and also knew why this world, the human race, has been sparsely populated for a long time.

For ordinary people who have never practiced, if there is no totem protection, it is too dangerous in life.

All kinds of accidents may happen at any time.

It's just that unless every gathering place is guarded day and night by a totem ominous realm.

Otherwise, it needs to have the power to expel and deter all kinds of wild animals, fierce beasts and ghosts.

In Chen Qingxiang's understanding, the power to expel and frighten all kinds of wild beasts, fierce beasts, and ghosts is at least at the level of the totem ominous environment.

This level of power is relatively rare.

According to the information obtained by Chen Qingxiang from those bamboo slips like myths and legends.

Even in the big business center that surpassed the scope of "city", "capital", and even "country", where Yin Tian is located, the power of the totem's evil environment has not been fully popularized.

As for the guardian totem, not to mention the separation of the guardian totem has various restrictions.

It is said that if the guardian spirit totem of Huangshi Xiaoyi is supported, it needs to be in a place with strong vitality, and it needs to maintain a certain vitality to support it in order to exist normally.

This kind of strong vitality is relatively rare.

Silent all night.

The team started to set off again at Mao o'clock the next day.

The sun rises and the moon sets.

Chen Qingxiang and his party traveled at a speed of about a hundred miles a day.

On March 25th, there were only five days until the payment of tribute.

After 2000 days of hard work, Chen Qingxiang and his party traveled more than [-] miles, and finally came to the Qinghe Chen Clan, the center of Qinghe scholar-bureaucrat fiefdom, Qinghe Dayi.

If you don't count other conditions, simply look at the size of the Great Shang Dynasty and the gathering place of the human race based on the family of the people.

Five families compare to one, five compare to one Lu.

There are four villages and one small town, five small towns and one middle town.

There are five middle towns and one big town, and four big towns are the capitals.

In the entire Qinghe city, not counting the slaves and the homes of hundreds of people, there are nearly ten thousand homes of the people alone.

This has reached a scale comparable to ordinary capitals.

If counting the number of slaves ten times the number of people, then the entire Qinghe City has a population of several million.

And such a huge Qinghe city relies on its guardian spirit totem to protect the area with a radius of thousands of miles, and it can maintain the existence of this Qinghe city with a radius of thousands of miles of manpower and material resources.

……

When it was still a few miles away from Qinghe Dayi.

Chen Qingxiang and his party stayed on the side of the road for two quarters of an hour.

Chen Qingxiang put on a new set of fine clothes for the lord of the town, and a bronze crown of the spirit elephant on his head.

Get into a luxurious carriage.

The four girls of spring, summer, autumn and winter, each wearing a pure color dress, serve on the side.

Seventy Huangshi warriors were all wearing armor and armed with weapons, guarding Chen Qingxiang's surroundings full of evil spirits.

The two middle-stage Huangshi elders held a spiritual elephant banner representing Huangshi Xiaoyi together.

After getting ready, the group set off again.

In the eyes of many slaves and even the people of the country.

Chen Qingxiang and his party entered the bustling Qinghe Dayi.

Looking at the scene of Qinghe Dayi, Chen Qingxiang felt as if he had traveled to a prosperous city in the Ming and Song Dynasties.

The entire Qinghe Dayi is roughly divided into four areas of different sizes.

It is somewhat similar to the ancient times before Chen Qingxiang traveled. The four regions are roughly the rich in the east, the noble in the west, the cheap in the south, and the poor in the north.

The eastern area is roughly outside the Qinghe fiefdom, where many merchants from the Xuanxiang Fang Kingdom gather.

In the west area, Qinghe Dayi is the home of hundreds of people from all over the country, where they gather and live.

In the southern area, the Qinghe Chen Clan is home to countless slaves.

The northern area is where most of the people's homes live.

……

Entering Qinghe Dayi, Chen Qingxiang and his party went directly to the residential area of ​​the western Chinese.

Came to a compound covering an area of ​​several acres.

This compound is the residence of Chen Qingxiang's lineage, a fixed property in Qinghe Dayi, when paying tribute every three years.

Comparing five companies.

Greeted by Yibiren's Home, which guards the left-behind compound, Chen Qingxiang and his party moved into it.

……

The next day.

Halfway through Mao, Chen Qingxiang entered Zongbo's mansion, met with the Chen clan of Qinghe, Da Zongbo, and handed over the tribute of 180 pieces of yellowstone jade.

In Dashang, there are six senses of heaven, earth, spring, summer, autumn and winter.

The same is true for many nobles, nobles, and scholar-bureaucrats in the eight hundred princes and kingdoms.

Also set up six officials.

Among them, Chunguan Zongbo, "is handsome and in charge of state rites, and assists the king and the state."

This Chunguan is divided into Da Zong Bo and Xiao Zong Bo.

And the head of Chunguan is Da Zongbo, "in charge of the ceremony of gods, humans and ghosts showing (only) the gods and ghosts of the state, and assisting the king to build and protect the state."

Xiao Zongbo is "the god in charge of the founding of the country."

Speaking of Chunguan alone, it generally refers to Da Zongbo, and the Qinghe scholar-bureaucrat fief is no exception.

As for Huangshi Xiaoyi, why is there no six officials?
A total of one or two hundred people's families do not need it at all, nor can they afford it.

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