Just in the Middle, You Told Me This is Journey to the West

From a personal point of view, he still prefers to settle in Qingzhou Prefecture.

It's not that Qingyang County is not good.

It was because he really felt insecure staying in Qingyang County.

This is a very dangerous world.

Maybe one day a big monster will appear. When flying over Qingyang County, he was suddenly hungry and wanted to find something to eat.

Then look down.

Yell, this Qingyang County is pretty good, a hundred thousand people can just eat half full.

In this way, he, Chen Qi, died young not long ago, is he completely cold?

Or, some sorcerer wants to sacrifice blood to improve his cultivation, practice magic weapons or something.

A county with a population of [-] people is not too big or too small, a perfectly suitable target.

So, wouldn't he, Chen Qi, be cool again?

Don't say it's impossible.

In fact, in this fairy world, such things happen a lot.

According to an unreliable former supervisor of the Qintian Supervisor of the Tang Dynasty, the number of people who died at the hands of demons and goblins in the Tang Dynasty exceeded one million every year.

Well, this is what Datang officials can count, and it is within the territory of Datang Shenzhou protected by Kyushu Ding.

If some remote locations are counted, or local officials concealed reports for the sake of Wu Shamao, this number will be multiplied by at least three times.

Three million people.

That is equivalent to thirty counties.

From this, you can know how dangerous this world is. Maybe when you are sleeping, you will run into the belly of the monster with your bed.

The most important thing is that this kind of monster attack is an irregular event.

So even if you want to prevent it in advance, you can't do it.

It can only be said goodbye to tricks when things come to an end.

In this way, it is no wonder that there were not many casualties.

Compared with ordinary county towns, county towns are much safer.

Not to mention that there is an imperial army stationed outside the county city, just the strong men and the strong kingly dragon spirit in the county city are enough to make most of the monsters stay away.

In addition, in Qingzhou City, there is not only the big tree of the Yang family in Qingzhou, but also Bai Yuer, an immortal powerhouse from the Great Han God Court.

It can be said that in the entire Tang Dynasty, except for Chang'an City, there are really few places that are safer than this place.

It's just that it's not easy for Chen Qi to settle in Qingzhou Prefecture.

Since he has inherited all the causes and effects of this body, it is impossible to only consider himself, he must consider Chen's father and Chen's mother.

You can't say that you are afraid of being swallowed by passing monsters, so you want to move to live in the county, right?

If this reason is said, it will be strange not to be laughed to death.

After all, the Chen family lived in Qingyang City during their time, and it took a hundred years to accumulate a family property with great difficulty.

If they really moved to Qingzhou Prefecture, would this business still exist?

With the price of goods in Qingzhou City so high, how can the members of the Chen family make a living?

These are things that need to be considered, and cannot be decided in a few words.

Therefore, Chen Qi could only take one step at a time.

I plan to wait until I return to Qingyang County, and then make a decision based on the actual situation. .

Chapter 120

Declined the kindness of the members of the Yang family to send escorts.

On the morning of the third day of the Furong Poetry Club, Chen Qi, the little book boy Chen An, and the nurse Zhou Chong left Qingzhou County together, heading towards Qingyang County, which is more than [-] miles away.

Among the sixteen prefectures in Henan Province, Qingzhou is located in the northeast corner, bordering the Bohai Sea in the north, and is similar to Laizhou, Dizhou, and Qizhou.

Of course, it is said to be similar, but it is actually seven to eight thousand miles away.

If you ride a fast horse, it will take at least four or five days to reach -.

In fact, the Great Tang in this world is not at all the same as the historical Great Tang in Chen Qi's memory.

Especially when it comes to map terrain.

It is not enlarged according to the proportion at all, but some places are infinitely enlarged, and some places are reduced. The map of Huaxia in later generations is completely inaccurate here.

For example, the Bohai Sea has been magnified more than a hundred times, and the three roads of Henan, Hebei, and Hedong can't surround it at all. Instead, it has become the eastern coast of the Bohai Sea.

In Shuzhou, there is a mountain of [-] mountains, with mountains and rivers stretching for hundreds of thousands of miles. There are remnants of the Wu clan and wild beasts entrenched in it. It is definitely a forbidden area for human beings.

In Lingnan Road, the southernmost part of the Tang Dynasty, there are more than [-] miles of Nansha Islands, with tens of thousands of islands dotted between the Tang Dynasty and the South China Sea.

In addition, there are thousands of miles of desert in the northwest, the black mountains and waters in the northeast, the Turkic grasslands in the north, the East China Sea and so on.

These places are nominally part of Datang territory, and occupy a very large area.

Datang's three million miles of land, the eastern and southern seas, the Nansha Islands, and the [-] mountains alone accounted for more than half.

If you add other forbidden areas and restricted areas, then only about one-tenth of what is really left for Datang.

This is not counting the famous mountains and rivers occupied by the Xiandao sect and Buddhist monasteries, and the mountains and rivers occupied by the martial arts sect.

If you count all of these, it's even less.

Qingyang County is located in the north east of Qingzhou County, about [-] miles away, and belongs to the junction of Qingzhou Prefecture and Laizhou Prefecture.

Backed by the Bohai Sea, it is famous for its salt and sea treasures.

In the words of later generations, it is a county-level city with industrial pillars.

The three of Chen Qi left Qingzhou County, Zhou Nuyuan drove, traveled during the day, and slept in the mountains or in private houses at night.

In one or two days like this, the carriage traveled seven or eight hundred miles along the official road, which can be regarded as gradually moving away from the Qingzhou County.

So far, Chen Qi has truly seen the situation of the people at the bottom of the Tang Dynasty.

The farther the carriage was from Qingzhou County, the more desolate Chen Qi felt.

After leaving the boundary of Qingzhou County, it took only a day to pass two uninhabited deserted villages.

The village has long been overgrown with trees, and the ruined walls have turned moss green.

When Chen Qi was passing by, he could occasionally see the bones left by the beast from the corner of the wall.

"Perhaps, this is the true appearance of the Tang Dynasty. An emperor doesn't know, and the court officials don't care about it."

"Chang'an is prosperous, the counties and cities are rich, but the people in the villages and towns at the bottom are precarious."

"Demons and goblins, horse thieves and bandits, wild beasts and wolves... maybe just one accident can make a village disappear without a trace."

Although Chen Qi already knew from the original "Journey to the Immortal World" that the people at the bottom are not easy, now that he saw it with his own eyes, he still couldn't help being silent.

This is just a village close to the official road, and there are occasional inspections by soldiers from the county and city.

If it was really a remote village, the situation would probably be even more serious.

Chen Qi's heart was heavy. Sitting in the carriage, looking through the window at the scene of barren mountains and wild forests passing by on both sides of the road, he was silent. He always felt a breath of depression hovering in his chest and abdomen, and it was difficult to spit out.

Rumbling--

Suddenly, dark clouds gathered in the sky, and a mountain rain came very quickly. In a short time, the bright sun turned into heavy rain.

The huge thunder made the horned horse pulling the cart pause, and also woke Chen Qi up from his depression.

"Get out of the rain!"

With a soft drink, he used his finger to write, and wrote the two big characters "shelter from the rain" in the void.

Immediately, an invisible force appeared out of thin air, like an invisible big umbrella, wrapping the entire carriage and keeping the rain out.

"Let's find a place to shelter from the rain first!"

Outside the carriage, Zhou Chong, who was shocked by Chen Qi's mysterious means, immediately replied after hearing Chen Qi's order: "Okay, young master!"

After a few miles of mountain road.

Through the rain curtain, Zhou Chong vaguely saw a small building not far in front of the official road, so he drove his horse to take shelter from the rain.

It was only when we got closer that we could see that it was a post station, but the appearance was slightly dilapidated.

The wind blew by, and on the flagpole outside the post station, a gray-white flag with "post" written on it was buzzing.

Obviously a folk post.

The Datang post station is divided into folk and court.

The private post station is mainly responsible for the transportation of goods and letters at the civilian level, temporary accommodation, etc.

For example, if you are doing business in the north and want to send a letter from home or local specialties to your home, you can do it through the post station.

Generally, there is a gray and white flag with the word "post" on it, and the name of the post station is written on the house number.

Only those with official positions can use the court station, which is usually used to transmit military information, or the memorials that local officials want to submit to the emperor for correction, etc., and also provide officials with board and lodging, horse exchange and other functions.

There will be a yellow flag with the word "post" hanging at the gate, and there is a golden dragon on the side of the flag, so it is called the yellow dragon flag.

The gray and white flag outside the inn in front of me represents the folk inn.

"Tiger station!"

When Chen Qi's carriage arrived at this private station, there were already many pedestrians and business travelers sheltering from the rain.

The waiter at the post station was also a smart person. After seeing the horned-horned horse-drawn carriage Chen Qi was riding in, he trotted out and greeted him, "Is the guest taking shelter from the rain temporarily, or staying here?"

"Accommodation, three upper rooms!"

Chen Qi first glanced at the plaque of Tiger Station, and then calculated silently.

The hexagrams showed that the heavy rain outside would last until late at night, so he decided to stay overnight in the tiger station.