I want to embrace the moon for nine days

Dongping City was a big city fifty years ago, but now, there are only tens of thousands of people in the city. Most of the people in the city have to farm their own crops to make a living.

A small number of businesses also rely on local mulberry raising and silkworm raising, weaving and making clothes, raising pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks, raising fish, growing vegetables and selling them, etc. They have to be busy all year round in order to live a moderately prosperous life.

Although the previous city lords fought for power, one wanted to train troops, and the other wanted to expand the mansion, recruit beauties, or appoint cronies on a large scale, replace the managers of all aspects of the city with their own people, and enjoy the power.

But everyone can still figure out what these people will do after they take power, or in other words, they are not forced to the point where they would rather take risks and escape into the wilderness.

However, this new city lord Chen Wanchuan is different.

After he became the city lord, he has been holding big banquets in the city lord's mansion for several months.

Three meals a day, enough to feed and drink hundreds of people. In addition to allowing his own men to enjoy it, he also gathered all the wealthy wealthy people in the city and had to accompany him to eat every day and was not allowed to leave.

After the former city lord's original treasury was used up, the source of food and drink came from the homes of these wealthy families.

At the same time, Chen Wanchuan also ordered to summon young and strong laborers in the city to build eight pagodas and a high platform in the center of the city.

The city lord's palace was originally located to the north of the city center, and the center of the city was where the market was.

In order to build this high pagoda, he first sent people to bulldoze a large area in the middle of the market, then excavated the earth to gather the platform and quarried and piled stones.

When the surrounding pagodas were built, the hard work of cutting, transporting, and repairing all kinds of wood, day and night, is self-evident.

I have no time to look after the farmland for several months, and cannot pull weeds and remove insects. This year’s harvest can be imagined.

The key is to do the work on the construction site, which is more tiring than the usual farm work. It increases people's appetite, and all this food has to be produced at home.

The young and middle-aged people who were summoned were physically exhausted and mentally tortured. They gathered several times to beg the supervisor to let them go back and do farm work for a few days, but all they got was whippings on their heads and faces.

After Chen Wanchuan arrived at the scene, he also hanged all the leaders of the "looking like" people.

With a mere tens of thousands of civilians and inconvenient transportation to the outside world, how could they withstand such a struggle?

The people in the city saw that their rice supplies were about to run out, and finally they couldn't bear it any longer. People in the neighbors discussed it and fled together.

Although fleeing outside means giving up this year's harvest in the fields, it also frees up strong laborers, which is better than waiting to die in the city.

Su Hanshan was puzzled after hearing the descriptions of these people.

Is there something wrong with Chen Wanchuan?

To squeeze people's power and satisfy one's own enjoyment, one must first have a relatively stable foundation. This kind of wasteful behavior as soon as a place is established is obviously the style of gangsters. After enjoying enough in one place, they will change to another place. .

But if it was the mentality of gangsters, who would think of gathering a large number of young people to build some kind of tower or platform in the center of the city?

After all, supervising so many strong laborers is a laborious and troublesome task. Only a truly pure gangster would not be so idle that he would find such boring things for himself to do.

Su Hanshan was puzzled, so he brought the cavalry together and asked them what was going on with the new city lord.

The cavalry leader originally wanted to play tricks, but when Su Hanshan's muscles and bones were shattered by a score, he became honest.

According to them, Chen Wanchuan was not a gangster originally, but the leading general of Juma City.

Today, there are countless living corpses lurking in the wilderness on land, and traffic is almost cut off. However, the waterways are relatively safer.

Juma City is close to the river, well-informed, has convenient trade, has a large population, and has fertile land. It can be said that its scale is more than ten times more prosperous than Dongping City. It can be considered high in Kyushu today.

But precisely because of its large scale and good location, it has attracted the covetousness of many forces.

More than half a year ago, someone cooperated with others and launched a rebellion in Juma City. Chen Wanchuan and his group were on the losing side in the turmoil, so they escaped from the city and wandered around.

"...the general held a big banquet because he sympathized with the hard work of his brothers. As for building those high towers and platforms, we don't know why."

The cavalry leader was a knowledgeable man. When he mentioned that after they captured Dongping City, some people persuaded Chen Wanchuan that it would be better to start over and settle down here in the future.

Even if you like high towers and platforms, you don't have to rush to build them. After three to five years of operation, you can save more food and materials, and the construction will go more smoothly.

But Chen Wanchuan turned a deaf ear to these words, and the few people who persuaded him did not dare to mention it again.

Su Hanshan couldn't figure it out, so he didn't bother to continue to figure out this kind of person's mentality. Anyway, the fact was that he had already done these things.

Let's just ask Chen Wanchuan how strong he is and what kind of performance he has had in the past?

When nothing more could be dug out from the mouths of these cavalrymen, Su Hanshan asked everyone to take them back to the back of the hillside and wait for a while.

"I'll go into the city to have a look. Maybe you don't have to leave the city."

Su Hanshan only said one sentence and walked away to the city.

He knew that these people might not have much trust in his abilities, and they might take advantage of this period to try to escape again.

However, given their exhausted appearance, if things go well, they probably won't be able to get very far by the time Su Hanshan finishes his work.

If things go wrong, it would be even wiser for them to run away.

The walls of Dongping City are not high and the guards are sparse.

When Su Hanshan flew in, he almost thought he had entered an empty city.

The sun was shining brightly in the sky, but the city below was silent.

This city still has the same scale as it did fifty years ago. The current population cannot fill all the houses. Many old houses are dilapidated and no one has repaired them.

Therefore, the outer areas of the city all look like grass growing on the roofs and old walls with broken tiles.

Su Hanshan stopped for a moment on a rooftop and jumped as high as he could, reaching a height that was more than twice as high as the city wall, and his vision expanded.

Only then did he see that there were indeed a large number of people in the central area of ​​the city.

To the north, there is a magnificent mansion with smoke rising from the kitchen.

The courtyards in the mansion were filled with large wooden tables, and it was time for lunch again.

The wine in the city has long since been exhausted, and the food is dull.

The faces of those wealthy families who were under house arrest here were green and white. They were obviously very uncomfortable these days and had no appetite.

Chen Wanchuan's men all ate happily.

Chen Wanchuan was sitting at the door of the lobby. He had a tall body and broad hands, filling the entire Taishi chair. His bald head was shining in the sun. His eyes slowly scanned the crowd. His messy beard trembled as he chewed in his mouth. shake. His eyes were a little yellow, and on other people, they should be a sign of illness and weakness, but on him, they were like the eyes of a half-starved and half-full animal, revealing a cruel majesty that made people's hearts tremble.

"What, today's food is not delicious?"

Chen Wanchuan's simple words woke up many people who were holding their stomachs and had no appetite. They hurriedly picked up the bowls and chopsticks and took big gulps of rice.

"The general is enjoying himself with the people, but you don't seem to be very happy, which makes even the general feel bad."

Chen Wanchuan looked at his men, "Why are you so happy eating? Do you have any secrets? Please teach them!"

A subordinate selected by his gaze quickly swallowed the food in his mouth and wiped the grease from his mouth.

"I think they are never hungry. The general is too kind to them."

The subordinate said in a loud voice, "Those who built the pagoda and dug the soil now enjoy eating pig food every day. If we throw them over to do the work, they won't be so pretentious."

"That's right. Every family's wealth is depleted, so there's no point in keeping them."

Chen Wanchuan patted his bald head and seemed to agree, but then asked, "But you didn't work, why are you eating happily?"

The subordinate thought for a while, then chuckled and said: "We are supervisors, and it takes a lot of energy to whip people out. When it is not our turn to be supervisors, it will take even more energy to find a few girls to play with. If you don't eat How can I do it when I’m full?”

Chen Wanchuan snorted coldly: "It's vulgar, and you won't have any other fun."

The subordinate was speechless for a moment, but someone next to him shouted: "Yes."

"Recently, more and more slaves have escaped from the city at night. When we go to catch those slaves, we gallop on horseback and shoot a few to death. When we bring them back, let's see how fast they can run with the horses. , it’s really comfortable to make a few bets.”

Chen Wanchuan felt bored: "Those escaped slaves, no matter how fast they can run, they might as well shoot rabbits."

The man beamed with joy: "General, humans are different from rabbits. Although humans may not necessarily run fast, there are always a few special ones among every group of people who dare to escape."

"When capturing those escaped slaves, if you shoot a few special ones accurately, you can stop them from running away. If you fail to shoot accurately, they will become more scattered as they run away, making it much more troublesome to catch them. We are betting on who owns it. Good eyesight.”

Chen Wanchuan became a little more interested and was about to ask again when his eyes suddenly changed slightly and his figure suddenly disappeared.

The four legs of the Grand Master's chair were still in place, but the back of the chair was shattered and difficult to distinguish.

Chen Wanchuan's figure appeared directly deep in the lobby at the back.

Just as he dodged away, a golden light lit up in the sky, illuminating the entire courtyard in a golden color. Everyone's movements were frozen in this golden light.

Su Hanshan landed with a crash, shattering the Grand Master's chair, but missed the target.

The other party actually sensed it the moment before he emitted the golden light and dodged in advance.

But when he knew that martial arts in this world started with mental training, he had some vague guesses, but he wasn't too surprised.

The golden light was released and then retracted. Before anyone could react, Su Hanshan struck back with a palm.

The palm force penetrated the air, blasting the person who just spoke to pieces. Bloody water splashed on several soldiers and bandits at the table, causing them to scream in shock and jump away.

The entire courtyard was in chaos, and it quickly spread to the entire city lord's palace. The sounds of people running around with swords drawn and people jumping over the wall could be heard all the time.

"You were not frightened enough to give up resistance and surrender. It seems you are not one of the special people."

Su Hanshan's voice was cold. He spoke to the corpses, but kept looking at Chen Wanchuan.

According to other people's descriptions, Chen Wanchuan's combat power should only be similar to that of someone who has just reached the lumbar level of the ladder realm.

It can be used to measure the martial arts characteristics of this world.

Chen Wanchuan also stared at him without saying a word. Sensing Su Hanshan's murderous intent, he didn't even ask about the other person's origins. He kept flexing and stretching his ten fingers, and made an inexplicable sound like boiling hot water in his body.

It's not an ordinary iron pot that boils water, but the feeling that after the water in the sealed large iron stove is boiled, the fierce fire is burning, and the whole iron stove is humming and shaking.

Just as the two of them were staring at each other, some of the soldiers and bandits, who had no idea how big their brains were, witnessed the scene just now. They didn't think about the difference in strength at all, and just swung their swords with dirty words. Come towards Su Hanshan and kill him.

Su Hanshan turned his back to them, without even looking, as a wave of air burst out from his back, shattering all the steel knives they swung at.

A large number of steel fragments were reflected back and stuck on them.

Chen Wanchuan took action at this moment when blood was everywhere and before the screams could be heard.

When he pounced forward and raised his hand to punch, the entire city lord's palace, including hundreds of people inside and outside, even those who were not in the courtyard, felt their eyes go dark.

Because the martial arts in this world have not developed internal strength and vitality, they are inferior in terms of large-scale physical destruction, and there are also some deficiencies in the agility of body movements.

But when it comes to living creatures, the methods of local warriors are more efficient.

Tens of thousands of people in the city would rather abandon the city and flee, but never thought of gathering together to resist the new city lord, not just because he had hundreds of soldiers under his command.

It was even more because on the day he broke into Dongping City, he showed amazing strength.

At that time, the battle between Chen Wanchuan and City Master Liu was only three punches, and City Master Liu was killed on the spot.

The strong fluctuations caused by the fist's intention shocked everyone in the nearby streets. They were dizzy, their ears were ringing, they wanted to vomit, and they couldn't get over it for a long time.

But that was just a deliberate move to establish his power. When Chen Wanchuan really struck with all his strength, his fist power would not be wasted on others.

Therefore, these hundreds of people only felt that their eyes were slightly darkened, and they did not have any more negative feelings.

But at this moment, Su Hanshan felt that the entire lobby was plummeting without weight. Cracks appeared on the roof, walls, and floor. What poured in from the cracks was not light, but darkness that was extremely intense and faster than light.

In the terrifying darkness, an invisible monster packed with heavy power crashed down on him.

The first realm of martial arts is the inner refining of the soul, and the second realm is the channeling of fists.

When a person who has concentrated the psychic fist attacks an enemy, his five senses may be blasted before his body is destroyed, and his soul is knocked and scattered, resulting in absurd intuitions that go against common sense.

(End of this chapter)