The Ferry of the Heavens: Hong Kong Comprehensive Start

The son of the mayor of Jiuquan Town specially invited Brother Wu from the Vatican back, certainly not to promote Catholicism, and certainly not to bathe the citizens of Jiuquan Town in the glory of God.

They just want to use the church in Jiuquan Town to do the opium transport business.

Yes.

The mayor of Jiuquan Town and his son are actually engaged in the opium business.

This unscrupulous business is hugely profitable.

The mayor of Jiuquan Town has accumulated a lot of wealth through this business.

But that was a few years ago.

Ever since Ling Yaodong, the city god, rose up in the Xiangshan realm.

The mayor of Jiuquan Town's opium business is not easy to run.

Because this City God has his feet in both worlds of yin and yang, he manages both ghosts and people.

He relied on the existence of the [hundred-fold increase], a great weapon that defied the heavens, so he could do this and become the only one among the earthly gods.

when hot.

Ling Yaodong cannot manage everyone in every detail like the government does.

He can only choose some things that he thinks are important to [take care of].

You must know that he is an earth god and belongs to Shinto. If Shinto interferes with humanity, there will be backlash.

Before the great changes in Shinto, ordinary earth gods would not be able to withstand this kind of backlash.

What's more, now that Shinto has undergone great changes.

The gods cannot protect themselves, let alone interfere in human affairs.

But the existence of gods is to satisfy certain desires of believers.

Once a god fails to do this, the god will be abandoned by his followers.

What manifests itself is the loss of faith.

The gods cannot receive enough incense and wish power.

And without the power of incense and wishes, it would be difficult for gods to survive.

This is a vicious circle.

Shinto changed greatly, and the backlash from the gods' interference in human affairs became serious.

If the gods are unable to fulfill their vows and fulfill their duties, they will be abandoned by believers. The power of incense vows will become less, that is, the divine power will be weaker, and they will become less able to intervene in human affairs, and eventually develop to an irreversible point.

When Ling Yaodong traveled over, many animals had already fallen asleep or simply died.

This is what happens.

Ling Yaodong has [[-]-fold increase], which means that his endurance is much stronger than that of ordinary earth monsters.

So he can take care of human affairs.

But don’t be too broad.

The control is too broad and the backlash is too severe. God's punishment can kill Ling Yaodong.

The last time Ling Yaodong killed such a group of people, he was almost killed by God's punishment.

Fortunately, the merits were received and Ling Yaodong was promoted to City God on the spot, which allowed him to survive.

Ling Yaodong had [hundred-fold increase], a hundred-fold merit, and a hundred-fold divine power, but he couldn't withstand this huge backlash.

Therefore, we can only choose some things that Ling Yaodong thinks are important to take care of.

For example, opium.

No one is allowed to buy or sell opium within the scope of Ling Yaodong's divine light.

In the underworld, there are security groups under the City God's Temple attacking everywhere.

In the underworld, there are Yin soldiers under Ling Yaodong's seat looking around.

The opium merchants in Guangzhou Prefecture and Huizhou Prefecture were hit hard.

of course.

Ling Yaodong cannot do it if he wants to cut it off completely.

After all, Ling Yaodong is not an omniscient and omnipotent god.

And not all of those Yin soldiers are ghost kings.

There are evil sorcerers in the world who are colluding with the opium dealers. They can cast spells to avoid the detection of the evil soldiers, and they can also find ways to assist the opium merchants in transporting opium.

Ling Yaodong's power alone was unable to completely cut it off.

But this is not a wasted effort.

What Ling Yaodong did had a heavy blow to the opium trade between the two prefectures.

Many opium dens were forced to operate secretly.

Well, just like some entertainment venues during the epidemic.

Apparently it's closed.

But regular customers can use the [back door].

Dance as much as you like, drink as much as you like.

The same goes for opium dens.

On the surface, it may be a tavern or a small hotel.

But only acquaintances know that this is a black shop, or wrongly, this is an ecstasy shop.

The Chenghuang Temple cracks down on many of these shops every year.

But no one does the business of losing money, and there are indeed people who do the business of beheading.

Opium dens are hugely profitable, so opium is always banned in opium dens.

Ling Yaodong knew.

This is because his strength is not enough.

His brilliance is only enough to radiate to the two palaces.

Outside the two prefectures, Ling Yaodong's influence was relatively weak, and opium was still prevalent.

There is no way, this thing is related to the life and death of many warlords.

Ok.

Many people don't know this and think that after the Opium War, the Chinese people's opium came from abroad.

It started like this.

But later, the Qing Dynasty saw the serious outflow of silver every year, so it cleverly ordered the planting of opium poppies in its own territory.

At that time.

The number of people smoking cigarettes has reached as high as 1200 million, which is an astonishing number.

Opium prices are firm.

A box of opium contains 80 opium balls, each weighing 1.4 kilograms. The cost of manufacturing in India is 2.5 taels of silver.

However, when sold in the Qing Dynasty, each ball cost as much as 25 taels of silver, almost 10 times the cost.

Drug addicts have different addictions, but they will smoke more than half of an opium ball or one opium ball at least every year. People who have been taking drugs for a long time may even need 5 balls.

Calculated based on the average addict smoking one opium ball per year, the annual cost is at least 25 taels of silver.

But there are 1200 million addicts. One can imagine how terrifying the silver outflow was every year at that time.

Because the speed of silver outflow was too terrifying, when the Qing Dynasty failed to ban smoking, it chose to plant opium poppies in various places, hoping to replace the expensive "foreign cigarettes" with cheap "local cigarettes".

There are many opium-growing provinces across the country, such as Rehe, Shaanxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan, which are all major opium-growing provinces.

Some provinces were so exaggerated that by the middle of the Republic of China, poppies were everywhere in the province, and opium became the mainstay of the province's economy.

Opium taxes were high and became an important source of finance for the government, and its cultivation was widely indulged in various places.

As early as the late Qing Dynasty, the government could collect taxes as high as more than 100 taels of silver from a load of opium. In 1887, the Qing government's opium tax was as high as 1000 million taels, which could buy a Beiyang navy.

And after poppies are planted on a large scale across the country - you must know that China is a country that started with agriculture, and planting this area is full of skill points. After China started planting, there was no foreign matter.

Soon, [Foreign Yan] was defeated by [Tu Yan].

[Tuyan] not only meets the domestic market demand, but also has a large margin to supply to foreign countries.

Many people don’t know it.

The number one export item during the Republic of China was opium.

After Bald Chiang came to power, opium exports tripled compared with those during the Beiyang regime.

Domestic sales are even more astronomical.

And these profits from the Flower of Sin have become the resources for warlords in various places to maintain their rule.

Many warlords didn't even pretend, and went straight to growing poppies and buying and selling opium.

Many movies during the Republic of China included plots of opium smuggling.

It’s not that in the era of the Republic of China, buying and selling opium was illegal.

In fact, these smugglers just want to avoid the high opium taxes imposed by warlords everywhere, so that the profits of opium smugglers can be higher.

Opium smuggling is strictly investigated in various places - after all, opium is related to the life and death of warlords in various places, so it is normal to attach such importance to it.

However, there are policies above and countermeasures below.

Opium smugglers are like the Eight Immortals crossing the sea, each showing his or her own magical powers, and using all kinds of smuggling methods.

There are naturally ways to hide poison in corpses.

Of course it is not the kind of corpses that hide poisons in later generations and the human body transports poisons.

The medical level in this era was not that high yet.

The medical level in China at this time is even worse.

These days, opium smugglers use local methods.

For example, people pretend to be corpses, and in the name of "driving corpses", they go out day and night to transport opium out.

Because it is very taboo these days to [remove corpses] and it is considered unlucky, so the soldiers guarding them will quickly ask the [removal of corpses] to leave.

Unless you meet a few serious ones.

For example, in the movie "The Seven Ghosts", the opium smugglers in the film used this method to smuggle opium.

For example, in the movie "Taoist Exorcist", the dragon-slaying Taoist priest also used corpse exorcism to smuggle opium.

Back to the topic.

Because Ling Yaodong, the Xiangshan City God who does not belong to the human world, forcefully banned smoking in the two palaces - the City God's Temple offended many local powerful forces, and they clashed countless times. In the craziest time, Ling Yaodong even released a hundred invulnerable guardians. The divine general finally defeated the greed of some people, and many people died. Of course, the price Ling Yaodong paid was absolutely heavy. Not only was the huge amount of merit he had accumulated used up to offset the backlash of humanity, but he himself was also inevitably struck by lightning. However, Ling Yaodong felt that it was all worth it, because Ling Yaodong told the local careerists who had the final say in this place. Including some people in the spiritual world, some thoughts disappeared after seeing Ling Yaodong standing up to the human forces and winning the battle. This god is so powerful! It really doesn’t look like a land creature! At that moment, Ling Yaodong regained the high spirits of the previous Hong Kong TV series.

——So the prices of the land between the two prefectures, especially the smoke and soil on the border of Xiangshan, have skyrocketed!
  When the capital has a profit of [-]%, even the rope to hang oneself can be sold.

What's more, in Xiangshan County, the profit from tobacco has reached [-]%.

Under such circumstances, the mayor of Jiuquan Town and his son finally couldn't bear the temptation and wanted to restart the opium trade.

The people who transport opium, the mayor of Jiuquan Town and his son, have already been selected.

But the problem is, this kind of thing is difficult to avoid by Uncle Jiu in Jiuquan Town.

After all, they planned to smuggle opium in the name of [causing corpses].

But in this case, after [Corpse Exorcism] arrives in Jiuquan Town, they have to go to the [Yin Yang Inn] opened by Uncle Jiu Lin Fengjiao to rest.

And Lin Fengjiao is such a shrewd person.

Would he not be able to tell the difference between a real corpse and a fake corpse?
  Besides, the person they were looking for had a criminal record before and was discovered by Lin Fengjiao.

Lin Fengjiao is firmly against opium, whether it is smuggled or officially stamped.

It's just that these days, opium trading is innocent, so Lin Fengjiao can't do anything to that person. Of course, all the smoke was burned by the ruthless Ninth Uncle Lin Fengjiao.

If we do it again, we won’t be like this.

After all, to the mayor of Jiuquan Town and his son, these are not soot, but white money.

This is equivalent to cutting off their flesh!
  Jiu Shu Lin Fengjiao’s problem must be solved.

Sure enough, it was not about getting rid of Jiu Shu Lin Fengjiao.

Jiu Shu Lin Fengjiao's prestige in Jiuquan Town was very high. Before the rise of the City God's Temple, Jiu Shu Lin Fengjiao, who knew the yin and yang rituals, had a higher prestige than the town mayor.

After all, people will respect those who understand Yin and Yang rituals.

Respect is the kind that is marked.

Like in ancient times, the goddess could even ask the people of a village to sacrifice boys and girls to the river god.

You can see how much power this goddess has in speaking.

In a sense, Lin Fengjiao is not much different from the goddess.

Because of the weight of Lin Fengjiao's words and her strong abilities, the mayor of Jiuquan Town and his son were not sure of getting rid of Lin Fengjiao.

So I thought of a way to avoid Lin Fengjiao.

This method is to restart the church.

Yes.

Your place is the Yin Yang Inn. It is unreasonable to drive the corpse there and not send it to you.

But if there are other options in the town, then Lin Fengjiao's [Yin Yang Inn] is not necessary.

This is the fundamental reason why the mayor of Jiuquan Town and his son want to restart the church.

The church was just a cover. The drunkard didn't want to drink. He wanted to use the church as a cover to avoid Lin Fengjiao's detection.

It was originally planned that as soon as the church reopened, the person they were looking for would be able to transport the smoke and soil.

They have already contacted their next family and are waiting to make a fortune.

But did not expect.

The church is not allowed to reopen.

If it were just Jiu Shu Lin Fengjiao's objection, the mayor of Jiuquan Town and his son would not be worried and would have already thought of countermeasures.

But the problem is.

The City God's Temple suddenly came to kill them.

To be honest, the mayor and his son of Jiuquan Town were very worried at first, thinking that their plan was leaked.

Fortunately, I found out in the end that there was none.

It’s just that the location of the church is special.

So both the Chenghuang Temple and Lin Fengjiao were opposed to it.

After figuring this problem out, the mayor of Jiuquan Town and his son felt much more relaxed.

Although he was forced to spend a huge sum of money to rebuild the church, it was better than if the matter was revealed, then the matter would be serious.

The government does not arrest people, but the City God's Temple does "reform through labor".

This matter has come to an end for now.

The mayor of Jiuquan Town first spent some money and started looking for a new site to build a church in the town.

The people from the Chenghuang Temple left, including Annie.

On the other hand, Jiu Shu Lin Fengjiao, after explaining to his two apprentices, took some magic weapons and left Jiuquan Town, heading to the place called Uncle Fang in western Hunan.

suddenly.

David, the son of the mayor of Jiuquan Town, discovered that there was no one he needed to worry about in the entire town.

This is a godsend opportunity!
  He discussed it with his father, the mayor--it shouldn't be said to be a discussion, it should be said to be an order.

David ordered his father, the mayor, to ask the man to bring the smoke and soil over immediately.

He had to take advantage of this vacuum to make a lot of money, otherwise he would not be able to make up for the losses in building the church this time!
  "Damn it!" When he thought of this, David couldn't help but curse in his heart. (End of chapter)