The new era of chaos begins in the Song Dynasty

Chapter 286 Walking Alone

Tiantai Mountain is a very important strategic location. It is located at the strategic point between Henan and Hebei. At the foot of the mountain is Huazhou, and to the north of Huazhou is Baimajin.

Baimajin was the strategic node of the Battle of Guandu where Yuan Cao fought for hegemony during the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Han Dynasty. It was here that the famous general Guan Yu in the late Han Dynasty suddenly killed the famous Hebei general Yan Liang.

During the Zhenzong period of the Song Dynasty, the Northern Liao Dynasty invaded the Southern Liao Dynasty. The Song army also defeated the Liao army in Huazhou, then reversed the situation of the war, and finally reached the Chanyuan Alliance with the Liao Kingdom.

Since the disappearance of Tiantai Mountain, Sitian Taoist Court has lost its foundation and had to turn from light to dark, and distributed its authority to various branches of Taoism.

Of course, this is also related to the current situation in the world.

Because the Song Dynasty failed to unify the world, the world's elite land was divided into several different countries. Among them, the Song Dynasty occupied the most sacred land, rich in culture and treasures, and attracted the attention of the world.

This also means that the Song Dynasty will definitely become the logistics base and resource base of the Demon Suppressors. However, Sitian Daoting, as the logistics manager of the Demon Suppressors, has to search for corresponding manpower and material resources in the Song Dynasty to supply the Demon Suppressors in surrounding countries. people.

This matter seems to be no problem from a transcendent level. Protecting the surrounding countries is equivalent to protecting the Song Dynasty itself.

But if you look at it from a secular point of view, especially the position of the Song Dynasty court, Sitian Daoting's plundering of the Song Dynasty's elite population and wealth and paying it to other countries is obviously staking the enemy! Once such a disloyal and treasonous organization is exposed, it will become a rat on the street and everyone will beat it up.

So when the human spokesperson of Qingbao Tianzun proposed to exchange the secret method of saving Haichanzi for the Tiantai Mountain Dojo of Sitian Daoting, the big bosses of Sitian Daoting took advantage of the situation and played the golden cicada escape shell.

The advantage of Sitian Daoting Shenyin is that it has removed itself from the constraints of the secular dynasty, allowing them to provide manpower and material support to the demon suppressors in the surrounding areas without any scruples.

However, the shortcomings of this matter are also obvious. Without the banner of Sitian Daoting to unite people's hearts, the cohesion of the Demon Suppressors has become loose, and organizational efficiency inevitably suffers from delays and delays.

Especially when the demon-suppressing people want to transport materials from the Jianghuai and even the south areas to the north, they must avoid the Tiantai Mountains and take a long detour.

It should be noted that the cost of long-distance transportation in ancient times was staggering.

The mere existence of Tiantai Mountain reduces the efficiency of the Demon Suppressor's resource transmission to the north by as much as 30%.

Although 30% may not seem like much, if the time and base scale are expanded, it will be an extremely terrible consumption and waste.

Tiantai Mountain is closely related to Ergou. If he wants to marry the young lady Qingzhao, there will also be troubles that cannot be avoided.

So in order to find a wife, Ergou formulated this plowing plan against the evil spirits in Tiantai Mountain.

The strangulation of Xuanfang Palace by Ergou and his party was undoubtedly extremely successful. The demons entrenched here were basically the elites of the Qingbao lineage, and their abilities and status were no less than those of Chen Nianyi, the original Tongyi master. , and the status is even greater than it.

Of course, this is also thanks to the first sight kill of the multi-barrel repeating crossbow with the thunderbolt.

Ever since Ergou started researching Thunder Bolts, this weapon has almost never been used in the real world. Ergou usually went to the steel giant ships in the subspace for actual combat verification, which resulted in the evil demons not knowing about it. The true power of thunder bolts, they only regard thunder bolts as ordinary crossbow arrows.

The lethality of ordinary crossbow arrows to evil spirits and monsters can basically be ignored.

Therefore, when faced with the attack from the Thunder Bolt Arrow, the casual cultivators were careless and did not hide! So they can only bear the tragic consequences of being attacked by surprise.

Monsters have many strange abilities, such as being invulnerable to arrows, being invulnerable to water and fire, body deformation (hands and feet turning into swords, tentacles, etc.), shape-shifting (similar to transfiguration), psychedelic illusions... and many more Countless.

But there's one thing they can't resist, and that's the close-range stabs, slashes and smashes of a determined person.

No matter how high a demon has been cultivated, as long as a person with a stronger will takes a sword and hits its vital points a few times, it can basically kill it.

This is a weakness that all fallen monsters who have not truly transformed into evil spirits can avoid.

Xuanfang Palace is not the only place on Tiantai Mountain where evil spirits gather. In fact, most of the temples and Taoist temples on this famous mountain are the dens of evildoers.

Maybe not all the hermits and monks on the mountain would die, but if every other one was killed, there would definitely be a lot of fish that would slip through the net.

But Ergou doesn't have time to stay in Tiantai Mountain as a scavenger. He just needs to make a start for everyone, and the rest have to be those Taoist priests who want to re-establish the Sitian Taoist Court, as well as Xiangzhou The wedding team came from the south to complete the cleansing of Tiantai Mountain.

Of course, another reason why Ergou was in a hurry to leave was that he ran into a little trouble.

The animated statue he was waiting to destroy in Xuanfang Palace cursed Ergou before it was completely smashed.

Then Ergou discovered that something was wrong with him, and his luck was getting worse.

Of course, it's not completely bad luck, but every few hours, there will be a window of bad luck.

This window period is very short, lasting no more than a cup of tea, and then it will return to normal.

How did Ergou notice it, you ask?

Of course he really had bad luck twice.

The first time was when cleaning up the seizures from Xuanfang Palace. Among them was an extremely sharp dagger, which could cut gold and jade as easily as cutting tofu. Ergou saw that the dagger was good, and was playing with it in his hand. Unexpectedly, he accidentally missed it and let it fall. It hit his instep and disappeared into the handle.

The second time was when he was standing under the porch of Xuanfang Palace. The cracked roof above his head suddenly collapsed. If he hadn't been wearing a suit of plastic armor at the time, he would have been smashed to death.

The two accidents were about three hours apart. For Ergou, the injury was secondary. He could repair some flesh injuries with just a few psychic powers. Even if it was a fatal injury, he still had nine lives guaranteed.

The key is the cause of the accident. This is the more fatal part. If the root cause is not found, let alone nine lives, even nine hundred lives will not be able to withstand it.

In order to stay away from those fatal dangers, Ergou chose to go down the mountain.

He rushed to the plain area as quickly as possible, preparing to find an open and safe place to study the mechanism and causes of bad luck.

Three hours after being hit by the roof of the gallery, the third bad luck came as expected.

A crow flew overhead and performed a very unethical bowel cleansing exercise, and then the two dogs had something sour and smelly on their foreheads.

After several days of practical verification, Ergou finally concluded some rules. The cursed bad luck would basically happen every three hours, three times a day, and then for the rest of the day, he would Become more lucky, such as picking up some copper coins, broken silver, etc. while walking.

Three times of bad luck every day will basically bring about a fatal crisis, a bloody crisis, and an innocuous face crisis.

These crises caused by bad luck are generally easier to resist, but not easy to avoid.

For example, Ergou hid in a flat farmland the next day, preparing for the upcoming bad luck. There was no shelter in the farmland, and the calm Ergou around him didn't think anything could threaten him.

Who would have thought that a venomous snake could emerge from the crop field.

Ergou wanted to rely on his quick eyesight and quick hands to reach out and grab the poisonous snake's seven inches. However, he made a mistake and actually put his finger into the poisonous snake's mouth.

After some hurried detoxification, Ergou discovered that there was something wrong with one of the bloodline talents brought by his trump card [Tenth Life Reincarnation Chapter]. [Shi Lai Tian Di], the gift of good luck from his "loyal friends" once brought Ergou many benefits. He even used it to create an invincible archery skill called [Xia Ji Ba She], which was very annoying. Attention.

But now the manifestation of this [Time to Heaven and Earth] talent in [Ten Life Reincarnation Chapter] has undergone some changes.

[Curse of Heaven and Earth] - Bad luck is also good luck. When bad luck comes, do not refuse it. You should know that life is the same, fate is impermanent, and all living beings suffer.

After discovering such a change in talent, Ergou was horrified. It turned out that even if he was pregnant with a treasure, he couldn't sleep peacefully.

After experiencing several more unlucky moments, Ergou suddenly came up with some tricks to deal with bad luck.

For example, at an unlucky moment when bleeding is inevitable, Ergou can choose to take the initiative to "mutilate himself."

That’s right! Just be positive and give yourself a knife, and then you will find that the unlucky moment can be easily overcome.

Fatal bad luck is also relatively easy to solve. If you face an attack or injury that can kill you, whether you resist, defend or dodge, as long as you can survive the time of a cup of tea, everything will be easy.

The most troublesome thing is the face crisis. Whether it is "bird poop bombs" from bombing the birds, or "dog poop mines" on the ground, or some other small accidents, it must be the kind of two-dog self-consciousness. It’s the embarrassingly unlucky moments that count.

For example, if Ergou deliberately stepped on dog poop and did not feel ashamed of his behavior, then the bad luck curse would not be lifted.

Therefore, after encountering several embarrassing moments that made people speechless, Ergou directly abandoned all his followers, including Chaogu, the second and fifth son, and went south alone.

The wealth and prosperity of the Song Dynasty were somewhat beyond Ergou's imagination. Especially as he went further and further south, he discovered many amazing things.

This is not to say how advanced those crude factories and creations are, but in the humanities textbooks of Ergou's previous life, these things should have appeared hundreds of years later during the so-called "Industrial Revolution" period.

But now they appear openly in some prosperous cities in the Song Dynasty.

Clockwork clocks with an obvious oriental style, large teapots that boil water, bicycles, unicycles, four-wheeled carriages...

Compared with the sudden appearance of "black technology", a normally developed technology tree has a chain to follow, such as a large teapot that boils water and a bicycle wheel ship. If the two are combined, it will be the first generation of paddle steamers in later generations.

But those Song people who made big teapots that boil water and turn them obviously didn't think about this yet. They just wanted to get this thing into the weaving workshop and replace the irritable and difficult weavers.

What sprouts of capitalism?

Factory owners who like to engage in exploitation have long been spread all over Jiangnan.

What is sadder is that the fighting spirit of the pseudo-working class in the Song Dynasty was relatively strong. If you, the factory owner, dared to exploit and oppress the weavers wantonly, the weavers would dare to go on strike, destroy the looms, and then go to the corresponding organizations. I'll tell you in the industry.

If Yaxing does not provide justice, the weavers will go to the government to complain.

According to the Song Dynasty's general practice of favoring and capable officials, unless the weavers deliberately caused trouble (for example, they wanted to blackmail the owner's family), the unlucky ones must be the wealthy factory owners.

It must be noted that traditional Confucian scholar-bureaucrats have no favorable impressions of factory owners, businessmen, and the like.

If the behavior of these guys who are classified as merchants deviates from the values ​​of "benevolence and righteousness", then it will be in vain for the Oritos to beat them and smash their equipment. Of course, stealing property and killing people are not allowed.

This is not only done by officials and scholar-bureaucrats with good reputations such as Fan Zhongyan and Bao Zheng, but also by most scholar-officials such as Ding Wei and Cai Jing who were criticized as traitors.

Of course, it is not ruled out that some officials who are greedy for money and bribes may collude with factory owners, and this type of situation was more common when great calligraphers were in power.

Once this happens, there is a high chance that the Oroto Uprising will break out.

Once the Orito riot broke out, the damage would not be just one factory owner, but would affect the entire industry in the region and even more industries with similar structures.

Therefore, most of the time, once there is a conflict between factory owners and workers, the guilds in the relevant fields will try to settle the dispute as much as possible in a way that favors the workers.

As the saying goes, those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes.

Anyone with some status and wealth doesn't want to be rushed into their home by a group of bastards who can't afford to eat, burn, kill, and loot.

What, you think they don't dare?

idiot! The five surnames and seven families in the former Tang Dynasty also thought so, and then Huang Xiucai taught them to re-live their lives.

"The streets of heaven have trampled all the bones of the noble ministers, and the inner treasury has been burned to ashes." Yin Jian is not far away. How many years has it passed? Have you forgotten how many good meals you had? !

If the Jin and Mongolian Yuan Dynasties in the north had not interrupted the historical process of the Song Dynasty, perhaps this land would have hatched a more gentle capital-industrial era with a Confucian humanistic temperament. At least it would not be like the later generations. The barbarians in the West are so cruel, tyrannical, and greedy.

Ergou was very interested in the evolving atmosphere of Jiangnan's handicraft industry, and he greedily observed and appreciated it all.

If it weren't for some bad luck, Ergou would have done something like the ancestors of later generations, conducting some social surveys and compiling investigation reports.

The two dogs wandered around the south of the Yangtze River, intending to go deep into the masses and serve as personal observers.

However, fate did not give him a chance and allowed him to become a comedy performer. He used his misfortune to provide many people with a lot of jokes. He really entertained everyone with his sadness.

In this regard, he had no choice but to accept his fate for the time being. After all, his arms could not twist his thighs, so it was better to do something more consistent with his status first.

The density of demon-suppressing people in the Jiangnan area is higher than that in Henan, Hebei and other places, because the population density here is higher. For example, in the Hebei area before the emergence of Ergou, one demon-suppressing person protected an area of ​​more than a dozen villages, towns or even a county. This situation is basically rarely seen in Jiangnan.

There are one or two demon-suppressors here in a relatively prosperous town (the old master and apprentice lead the new ones), while in the countryside, there is a goddess or something like this in four or five villages.

If you were in a super city like Suhangyang with a population of hundreds of thousands or even millions, there would be ten or eight demon suppressors.

It's not that the land of Jiangnan is a terrifying demon cave, but the population density here is too high and the frequency of evil events is extremely high. If the number of demon suppressors is small, they will be overwhelmed.

There are few big problems and countless small problems. The demon suppressor is either dealing with evil spirits, or on his way to deal with evil spirits.

Just two dogs entered Hangzhou and encountered three evil incidents in one day, two evil changes, and one incident of a child being possessed by an evil person due to random names.

Ergou, who happened to be present, easily eliminated the two villains. As for the possessed child, Ergou left it to the local demon suppressor to deal with.

As the future capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, Hangzhou is definitely not inferior to Tokyo in terms of prosperity, and the fireworks here are even better. The living standards of the people here are higher, and even the ordinary lower-class people live a quite comfortable life, and of course they are more luxurious.

The Qiantang River is full of flower boats and pedestrians.

Of course, Ergou came here not to visit the flower boats, but to go to the local Demon Suppressor's home base - Liangjiayuan.

(End of this chapter)