If I fail to overcome the tribulation, I can only return to the Ming Dynasty and become a prince.

Chapter 320

Shen Lian walked on the streets of Fugang with a somewhat curious expression, followed by his two sworn brothers and one of his sworn brothers.

Among the four of them, Shen Lian and his two sworn brothers are both Jin Yiwei.

However, they are not the Jinyiwei in Nanjing city, but the Jinyiwei who were sent to the local areas after their misfortunes. They used to be mainly responsible for small things such as monitoring local officials and collecting information and intelligence for the court.

Although their existence is quite important, they are just unknown persons to the imperial court.

If it weren't for the Emperor's Northern Expedition, Shen Lian and his two sworn brothers would have been transferred to the front line of the army because they were in northern Xinjiang. Afterwards, they made some contributions on the battlefield and Shen Lian was promoted to the general banner, along with the two sworn brothers. My brothers have also been promoted. They may still be eating sand in Northern Xinjiang now.

However, precisely because they were all minor roles, Ji Gang's previous case almost caused the entire Jinyiwei to be disbanded, but it did not implicate pawns like them, who were usually disliked and whose father did not love their mother.

This time the emperor wanted to re-establish the Jin Yiwei and mobilized suitable personnel from all over the country. Shen Lian and his two sworn brothers had made meritorious service in northern Xinjiang, were former Jin Yiwei, and were innocent, so they were not involved in Ji Gang's case. The three of them Naturally, it was chosen.

Shen Lianxiao was promoted by half a level and is now a deputy [-] households. The two sworn brothers are also very lucky. The eldest brother Lu Jianxing is now a principal [-] households, while the other brother Jin Yichuan has been promoted to the general banner.

After they were promoted, they were also selected and sent to Zheng Fan with others to receive training from Zhu Zhanchun.

As for Jin Yichuan's senior brother Ding Xiu, he simply owed gambling debts in the capital and followed his junior brother to Zheng Fan to hide from the debt.

Of course, he also heard that there was gold and silver everywhere in the Japanese country. The imperial court had to dig up mountains of gold and silver and transport them back every year. Making money was even easier than picking them up from the ground. He came here to make a fortune.

"Hey, wasn't it said that there is gold everywhere in Fugang? We have been walking around for a long time, but we still don't realize how rich this place is?" Ding Xiu carried his long knife and chewed a grass root in his mouth. With a somewhat impatient tone, he complained to the junior brother beside him.

There was no reason why Ding Xiu thought so. After all, Fugang was not very prosperous before. It was even at the level of a slightly affluent county in the Ming Dynasty. The wealthy were still very limited.

After all, there was basically not much trade between the Ming Dynasty and the Japanese state at that time. As for North Korea and the Japanese state?Even if there is no war, you still want to engage in trade?

Although there is still some smuggling and merchant shipping, the scale is not that big.

It wasn't until Zhu Zhanchen launched the Conquest of Japan, captured Kyushu Island as his own fiefdom, and set Fugang as the seat of the royal palace, that this place gradually developed due to the transfer of a large amount of ordnance and supplies, as well as the commercial exchanges between the two places. prosper.

But this development and prosperity has its limits. After all, it only took Zhu Zhanqi two or three years to build this place. Even if we vigorously develop construction, it will take time to build this house, and it will also take time for the population to grow.

So it seems that Fugang is not much better than the ordinary state capital of Ming Dynasty, and it is not as prosperous as Tongdu Dayi.

For Ding Xiu, who had just witnessed the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, Fugang did not seem so prosperous.

But in the eyes of the three Jin Yiwei, things were completely different.

They had just walked around the streets in a large circle, basically walking through the most prosperous areas of Fugang.

As Lao Jinyiwei, they all gained a lot of information and had a general understanding of Zheng Fan and Fugang.

Fugang has a large number of newly built buildings, accounting for almost one-third of the entire urban area. It can be seen that this is the result of urban expansion.

Akira and Japanese people walking on the street mixed together, but there was no clear distinction between the two parties. Instead, they mixed together. It cannot be said that they got along very harmoniously, but there was no contradiction or opposition.

Not only that, the city is full of shops, wine shops and hotels. The four of them walked through several streets and saw the flow of people and streets lined with shops.

So when faced with Ding Xiu's comments, Shen Lian said: "You can't say that. The streets in Fugang are still very lively. If you really want to make a fortune here and use your martial arts to be a bodyguard or a guardian for others, It shouldn’t be a problem.”

"In the restaurant where we had dinner just now, quite a few of them were eating on the knife edge." As the eldest brother of the three brothers, Lu Jianxing is the most experienced one among the three. He also said at this time: "I can see that They are very generous, and although they are waiting to be hired, they do not appear to be embarrassed. It is obvious that they earn a lot and have no worries about finding work."

When Ding Xiu heard what the two said, he touched his chin and asked hesitantly: "Listen to what you said, is this place rich in money? Those three-legged cats are so wealthy, wouldn't I be able to make money with my ability? To more?”

During the meal just now, Ding Xiu also observed the swordsmen who were waiting to find work. It could be seen that their lives were not very good in the past. Their clothes were not made of good materials, and most of them were shabby and had signs of mending.

As for their skills, they can only be said to be very average. They are just a group of martial artists who know some basic boxing and kicking skills.

He is not even close to a master like Ding Xiu who has practiced Qi into the body. He is not even comparable to Lu Jianxing, who is the weakest among the four and has only developed the sense of Qi.

Although the Ming Dynasty accelerated the depletion of spiritual energy due to Liu Bowen's cutting of the dragon veins, resulting in the current mysterious situation of the entire Ming Dynasty, this does not mean that there are no practitioners in the Ming Dynasty.It was just because of Liu Bowen's practice of cutting off everyone's path to spiritual practice that all the practitioners in the Ming Dynasty hated the imperial court and were unwilling to serve the imperial court.

After all, you have an attitude that you want to cut off the world's practitioners, and you still expect these practitioners who can still breathe a sigh of relief to help you, which is somewhat disrespectful.

This is also the reason why there are no practitioners in the Ming Dynasty.

However, there are no practitioners, but there are still some martial arts practitioners who know how to get started.

Most of the skills they master are prerequisites for real practitioners to embark on the path of spiritual practice, which is to achieve the purpose of cultivating Qi into the body through physical exercise.

Cultivation relies on refining Qi. If you don’t even have Qi in your body, don’t even know what Qi is, and can’t feel Qi, then why are you practicing?

If you want to have Qi in your body, the simplest way is to exercise. Once your body is strong and your Qi and blood are strong, you can use various techniques to convert the food you eat into Qi.

This is the first step in true cultivation, refining Qi, which involves converting the food you eat into essence through absorption by the body, and then refining the essence into purer Qi.

As for practicing Qi into the body, it is the preliminary introduction to this step. The main purpose is to cultivate the sense of Qi, let practitioners know what Qi is, and cultivate the most basic Qi in the body.

Those who can reach the stage of practicing Qi into the body are enough to make a name for themselves in the world, and they can open a gym in a smaller place to recruit disciples, and then establish a sect and create a famous brand.

The two brothers, Ding Xiu and Jin Yichuan, came from a sect that knew how to practice Qi into the body. Both of them have completed the practice of Qi into the body, but they are not disciples of any famous sect. This is what their master taught them. too much.

For the two of them who want to further refine and refine Qi, they have never been taught by their master, so they can only explore on their own bit by bit.

Jin Yichuan joined Jinyiwei by chance, and he still had some ambition to improve himself. Over the years, he had explored a few ways to gradually cultivate and strengthen the Qi in his body.

However, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth has declined and dried up. It can only be said that it is better than nothing to rely solely on the little energy transformed through food.

Therefore, Ding Xiu behaves more casually, or to put it another way, he does not strive for advancement.

He is good at eating, drinking, prostitution and gambling, and he is considered a good player in the martial arts world thanks to his physical training. He can have a famous name, but he often loses everything in the casino and has to borrow money from his junior brother to live.

And this has also developed Ding Xiu's character of liking money. Fortunately, he is still very good at martial arts, even better than his junior brother, so his ability to make money...

Anyway, if Ding Xiu really has no money in his pocket and his dear junior brother can't squeeze much money out of him, he will do some business without capital to earn some expenses for himself.

However, Ding Xiu is quite principled and rarely does anything that violates a person's moral bottom line and conscience. Therefore, even if Lu Jianxing and Shen Lian know what kind of business he does and he is carrying several murder cases, they still Too lazy to catch him and bring him to justice.

On the one hand, the case is not big, and the manpower and cost required to catch a martial arts master who has mastered Qi skills are too high.

They used to be just small flag officers. This kind of thing was not their responsibility and was reported to their superiors. The superiors were too lazy to find such trouble for some small cases.

As for now, Ding Xiu offered to cooperate with Jin Yiwei and followed them to Japan. Naturally, Shen Lian and Lu Jianxing were even less bothered to care about him.

And Jin Yichuan has long been numb to this shameless senior brother, and he doesn't even bother to care about him.

On the contrary, Lu Jianxing was very interested in Ding Xiu. After being promoted to Baihu, he began to try to persuade Ding Xiu to join Jinyiwei.

After all, Ding Xiu's skills are here. Lu Jianxing is now an official of hundreds of households, but he was just an unpopular general banner before. Apart from two sworn brothers, he didn't have any outstanding players under his command.

Even the small flag officers under his chief flag bearer were not matched with him before.

Under such circumstances, if a master like Ding Xiu could join Jin Yiwei and become his subordinate, it would undoubtedly greatly enhance the strength of his newly promoted Baihu.

Shen Lian and Jin Yichuan also knew this, so they tried to persuade Ding Xiu more or less along the way.

However, Ding Xiu seemed to be a bastard and refused to let go. He was determined after eating the weight and had no intention of joining the Jin Yiwei, so the persuasion by Lu Jianxing and others had no effect.

(End of this chapter)