Chapter 50: First Visit to Dragon and Tiger Temple

"Hengshan City has arrived!"

The river breeze blew slowly, and Li Yuan opened the window and saw that the river here was getting wider and wider, enough to accommodate dozens of boats traveling side by side. The river channel was tall and smooth.

There are endless fields on both sides of the bank. It is the time of early spring farming, and countless farmers are holding oxen and helping plows.

"finally reached!"

"Is that Hengshan Daocheng? It is said that there are millions of households in one city, and it is one of the top ten famous cities in the world! I want to buy a house and settle in Daocheng!"

"Wow, are those monks from Longhu Temple?"

Li Yuan opened the door, and a crowd of people rushed onto the deck, looking around, with excitement and excitement on their faces.

The boats on the river, large and small, all had the same general scene. There was a bustle of people with various accents, almost overwhelming the sound of the surging river tide.

"It is worthy of being the intersection of eight rivers and the center of Hengshan Mountain!"

The deck was filled with all kinds of chatter.

Li Yuan leaned on the railing and looked around. Along both sides of the river, there were many residential houses and even towns. On the extremely wide river in front, hundreds of ships were docked. This was an ordinary dock in Hengshan Daocheng.

Looking from a distance, the outline of Hengshan Daocheng can already be seen.

On the side of the mountains and by the seaside, a majestic city is located here. It is as majestic as a crawling dragon and as powerful as a huge mountain.

The tall city wall stretches out for an unknown distance from east to west, with no end as far as the eye can see.

The city is open on four sides and faces water on three sides. Two Pingjiang Grand Canals, which run through six states and twenty-one prefectures, meet here, pass through the Hengshan City Gate, and go straight to the estuary into the sea.

"How much manpower does it take to build this city?"

Feng Zhong was already sighing. It was his first time to come to Hengshan City. Seeing the outline of the giant city, he was shocked.

The Zhelong Mansion occupies a large area, but the city is more than ten times larger. Moreover, outside the city, various towns and cities stand in clusters, surrounding the giant city.

"Ye Xianglang has tens of thousands of people, right?"

Liu Zheng murmured, his heart shaking.

"No wonder some people say that the Pingjiang Grand Canal is the greatest achievement of the Universiade in the millennium."

Li Yuan clicked his tongue in surprise.

A big city with a population of more than 10 million requires a huge amount of resources, not to mention the difficulty of construction. Just maintaining it requires a huge amount of resources. Among other things, firewood is a huge problem.

Without coal and the Grand Canal, a city of this level would have been impossible to exist.

In fact, this is also true. Hengshan Daocheng has existed for more than three thousand years, but most of its dozens of expansions were after the construction of the canal during the Universiade. Before that, it only had a population of one million.

"The prosperity of the Universiade is unparalleled in all generations, and Taizu's achievements are unprecedented!"

On the boat not far away, there was an old scholar with tears in his eyes.

"It's not easy to live in Daocheng."

Li Yuan murmured in his mind. In the short time it took for the ship to enter the dock from the relatively narrow river, he had noticed at least a dozen high-grade artifacts!

High-grade famous weapons, in the Zhelong and Dechang mansions, only an elder of at least one sect, a Tongmai master-level figure is qualified to hold them.

"Are houses in Daocheng expensive?"

Before getting off the boat, Li Yuan heard a lot of people talking. After arriving in Daocheng, most people had the idea of ​​settling down.

"Expensive, very expensive!"

The ship docked, and sailors came up to carry the goods. The wind glanced at the disciples:

"Hengshan City is divided into two inner and outer cities, each with sixteen urban areas. An ordinary two-story courtyard in the outer city costs at least two hundred taels of gold. I'm afraid it's even more expensive in the inner city."

"Is this expensive?"

All the disciples were a little stunned.

"Two hundred taels of gold... Well, the second brother's income from collecting firewood would cost two hundred years without eating or drinking. The price is really expensive..."

Li Yuan went back to the house to pack his luggage, but he didn't have much, mainly small mice and tiger cubs.

One is in his pocket, the other is squatting on his shoulder.

Wrapping the python skin rope around his hand, Li Yuan picked up the heavy hammer and followed everyone off the boat. He glanced around but did not find Lao Han.

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I didn't notice the light of high-level weapons either.

"give up?"

Li Yuan was cautious in his heart, as the heavy hammer and boots were shining brightly in the weapon jar. He thought that even if a master of marrow refining made a surprise attack, he would be able to retreat calmly.

"Unless you are a master who is good at stealth assassination and does not carry any weapons..."

Li Yuan tightened his grip on the hammer.

Coming out of the pier, what comes into view is a wide and straight official road and a huge wooden arch bridge in the distance.

This is a city gate in Hengshan City. There are as many as eight gate openings. The soldiers on duty are strong and capable, wearing armor and armed with sharp weapons. There are quite a few of them, and there are also experts on patrol.

Li Yuan only glanced at them. Without fighting, he couldn't tell the state of these soldiers, but he could tell something about them from the armor on their bodies and their movements when walking.

"Change and walk all over the place..."

The wooden arch bridge is nearly eight feet long, and horses are not allowed on it. Below it is another water vein of the Pingjiang Grand Canal, leading to Dingzhou.

Li Yuan was very vigilant. He glanced at it with his peripheral vision. Within eighty meters, there were many top-quality sharp blades, and occasionally there was the light of famous weapons.

But he walked all the way to the city gate, registered, and entered the city, but he didn't notice anything strange.

"Old Han made a mistake in his calculation?"

Li Yuan's mind changed. He noticed that the light of Feng Lei Ruyi Pestle flashed past, and Lao Han did not enter the city.

"Those who use weapons without permission in the city will die!"

"The murderer, die!"

"Those who hurt others will die!"

Behind the long city gate, on both sides of the road, there are twenty or thirty huge stone tablets, each one ten feet high, with many words densely written on them.

Several yamen runners held up gongs and spoke loudly about the rules to be followed after entering the city.

"The rules are so strict!"

Feng Zhong had stopped and received a booklet from the yamen runners. It contained various rules, which were distributed for free.

Li Yuan and others looked at the stone tablets on both sides.

"These stone tablets list all the martial arts masters who did not follow the rules and were killed by Longhu Temple for thousands of years..."

All kinds of sects, martial arts wanderers, court officials, and even masters? !

"Changhong Sword Sect, Yunzhen Taoist..."

Li Yuan was slightly surprised. Changhong Sword Sect was the sect of Yunmeng Dao, and its power was no less than that of Longhu Temple. The master of the sect was killed and was hung on this stone tablet?

What about these two families...

Li Yuan changed his mind. The area was very lively. Passers-by passing by this Beilin Street would stop and look in fear and awe.

"We must abide by the rules."

The disciples of Shenbing Valley looked at each other and felt relieved. The strict rules were naturally a great thing for them.

Especially Liu Zheng, Wang Peiyao and others. They were considered masters in Gaoliu County after they had achieved the Great Body Tempering. In Hengshan City, Jian

Chapter 50: First time entering the Dragon and Tiger Temple.