The longevity of the heavens begins with Mingyu Gong

Chapter 168 Daming, West Heaven Gate
Seeing that he was getting farther and farther away from the island, and Gu Shentong did not chase after him, Song Xing untied the acupuncture points of the second daughter.

"My lord, are you alright?"

Chad is free, Makoto Yuko looked at the blood on Song Xing's chest and asked anxiously.

Song Xing shook his head: "Small injuries are fine."

With his strong physique and physical body, and the half-broken brocade healing method, ordinary injuries really have no effect on him.

A trace of panic flashed in Andilo's eyes: "Who is that old man? Sister Shenzi and I didn't realize it, so he pointed at the acupuncture points and couldn't move."

Song Xing looked back at Dong Dao, who had already left, and said, "You should be thankful that Gu Shentong didn't intend to kill at the beginning, otherwise when I came out, I would have seen the bodies of both of you."

Song Xing shook his head, he didn't expect his trip to Dongyi to be so unsatisfactory.

First, he met Ye Fan's Hongyi warship on the East Island and had to abandon the ship to escape. Then he encountered a storm and accidentally drifted to the East Island. When he entered the wind cave, he was detected by Gu Shentong from the changes in the mountains and rivers with the Tianzi Wangqi technique. It is cut outside the wind hole.

If it wasn't for getting Gongyang Yu's refining sword intent this time, I'm afraid he won't be able to please Gu Shentong.

Andilo trembled in fright, and asked, "My lord, who is that old man, so powerful?"

Song Xing said leisurely: "The king of the East Island, the God of Valley is immortal, and the only person in the world who has entered the Void Refining Realm is certainly not a weak person."

Andilo looked behind him with lingering fear, and asked, "Then why did he just watch us leave without stopping?"

Song Xing said: "He is trapped in the oath, and he will never leave the East Island in his life. It must be because of this reason."

If it wasn't for Gu Shentong's hindrance to the oath, it would not be so easy for Song Xing to escape this time.

Arriving at Dongdao meant that they were not far from the land. Song Xing watched the stars and positioned them. The three of them drifted on the sea for another day and night. Finally, they saw people. They arrived in the Central Plains and disembarked from Ningbo.

The costumes of Andilo's second daughter were too eye-catching, so they changed into Tang costumes after landing, and the three of them traveled across the Central Plains and headed towards Kunlun Mountain.

Because it was the first time to come to the Central Plains, the two girls were amazed by everything they saw, and at the same time they were amazed by the prosperity of the Central Plains.

Although the Ming Dynasty at this moment has shown signs of decline, it is far from the scene of the country's subjugation a hundred years later, and is in the most prosperous situation before its demise.

Although Ningbo has been harassed by Japanese pirates for a long time, it is one of the most prosperous cities in the coastal cities because of its developed maritime trade.

Ningbo has an excellent geographical location. It is located at the southern end of the Grand Canal, with the Zhoushan Islands as a natural barrier to the east, Hangzhou Bay to the north, and Sanmen Bay to the south. It was an important port city in the Ming Dynasty.

The infestation of Japanese pirates caused Emperor Jiajing to shut down the Ningbo Shipping Department for a time, and no longer trade with Japan. Later, due to the tight treasury, it reopened.

Relying on the city ship trade, Ningbo has transformed itself into a prosperous commercial port attracting worldwide attention.

Those Japanese who came to Ningbo for trade brought their own products to Ningbo Port and made a fortune. For example, Japanese swords were sold in Japan, and a piece could only be sold for [-] Wen. They were transported to Ningbo and sold to the Ming Dynasty. It sold for [-] Wen.

When Japanese businessmen returned to China from Ningbo, they took away textiles, books, medicine, etc. from the Ming Dynasty, which promoted the development of Japan.

So much so that in the eyes of many Japanese at that time, Ningbo was the most prosperous city in the Ming Dynasty in the Central Plains.

The prosperity of Ningbo was not only aimed at Japan. At this time, the trade along the southeast coast was extremely prosperous, and even Europe and the United States had trade with Ming Dynasty.

Ships of embroidery, silk, gold and silver, musk, pearls, refined ivory products, small crafts, lacquerware, and porcelain set sail from Ningbo and transported back to Europe via the Cape of Good Hope and the Sunda Strait.

In the eyes of Europeans, works of art such as gold, embroidery, and ivory belong to luxury goods and are especially respected, because their materials are quite precious, and they are often used to decorate altars, relics of saints, or the covers of valuable books.

All kinds of exquisite utensils dazzled the eyes of the two women, and they finally understood why Japan has longed for this vast land across the sea since ancient times.

Only Song Xing, under this prosperous scene, could see a trace of corruption under the prosperity.

Because what Song Xing saw the most was gambling.

According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, in the early Ming Dynasty, when people gambled lightly, they would lose their hands if they gambled. Officials who gambled would be dismissed from their posts. For 200 years, people in the Ming Dynasty trembled when they heard the word gamble.

In the later period of Emperor Jiajing, he was obsessed with alchemy and wanted to live forever, and he was not in the mood to go to court, so he naturally didn't bother to do gambling.

When the emperor opened his eyes and closed his eyes, the folk gambling style in the Ming Dynasty became popular again. Along the way, Song Xing saw various gambling scenes.

There is a new gambling method in Ningbo called Leaf Game. The cards are dealt according to the gambling capital. The cards with tens of thousands of matches are named "Hubaoyi Songjiang", the cards with millions of matches are named "Xingzhe Wusong", and so on. Eight cards, the cheapest Wanguan card, named 'Prodigal Yanqing'.

With the platform of Liangshan Heroes, this gambling method is naturally popular, and everyone from gentry to business travelers here is fascinated.After playing a few cards, tens of thousands of money were gambled away.

Going up Ningbo, Nanjing, Hangzhou and other big cities, gambling is even more popular among all walks of life.

There are at least 6000 to [-] beggars in Nanjing every year.

Even scholars who don't hear what's going on outside the window have thrown down the sage books to gamble.

Jinshi in the south of the Yangtze River, the first thing to do after enrolling is to gather people to gamble, and there is even a strange culture of being ashamed of not working for gambling.

Officials don't know how to gamble?When you go out, you have no face to meet people.

Many senior officials in the dynasty also opened casinos after retirement, making money while developing contacts. In the chaotic coastal areas, such as running for officials and buying officials, it is all a gamble.

The intensified gambling trend is like a rapidly falling iron ball, pulling the social atmosphere of Ming Dynasty and falling rapidly every year.

In the prosperous land of Central Plains, Song Xing did not have any nostalgia. He traveled day and night from Ningbo across the Central Plains. Along the way, he climbed mountains and waded in water.

In order to facilitate the journey, Song Xing also taught him several light skills that he had integrated into the world of Tianlong, such as the ape strike technique, eight-step driving cicadas, and stepping on the snow without a trace, and re-created a body technique that gathered all the great achievements of light skills and taught it to Andilo. And Makino Miko.

In addition to changing body skills, this light skill is also good at long-distance running. The two of them are very talented, and they quickly comprehended it, and quickly mastered the essence during the running, barely able to keep up with Song Xing's pace.

In less than five days, he crossed the Yellow River, went north to Hetao, turned west, and stepped out of the territory of Ming Dynasty.

For Song Xing, the scenery outside the Great Wall is particularly beautiful, with high sky and vast land, vast wilderness, white snow flying, and a flat river. It seems to have returned to the happy life of singing and drinking with Qiao Feng.

Song Xing was not short of money at the moment, so he simply bought a few BMWs from horse dealers, braved the wind and snow, did not hesitate to ride them in turns, and finally arrived at the first checkpoint in Xicheng after seven days ——West Heaven Gate.

(End of this chapter)