Chapter 1066 Exploration

All the dishes on a large table went down to the stomachs of Shen Hao and Feilong, and the pot was cleaned up.

"Burp" Shen Hao rarely burped, and eating with people who can also eat can always eat more happily.

Feilong could indeed eat, but it was not as good as Shen Hao's. Now he was half paralyzed on the chair, with a bulging stomach, which seemed to be full.

"Let's go, take a walk in the lotus pond at the back to digest food."

"Good sir."

Feilong barely stood up after hearing the words, and followed Shen Hao to the backyard.

Now in late November, winter has already entered Haocheng. Although it is not as cold as in the north, the lotus pond has withered, and the ruined stems and some gray-yellow leaves on the water surface look very depressed.

Shen Hao walked in front, Feilong took a step behind and followed behind with a slightly bent waist.

"Do you have any clues about the things that caught your attention last time?"

"My lord, the list in the black market has grown rapidly recently. Whether it is medicinal materials or elixirs, the import and export channels have turned upside down. The import and export channels we control can no longer account for the majority. Many of them disappeared during the strict investigation two years ago. Both ends of supply and collection have reappeared, these people are very capable, and it will take some time to figure out the context."

Shen Hao nodded. Although he did not get a satisfactory answer, he was not dissatisfied, because things were indeed as Feilong said. The new harvesting strategy revealed by the Jingjiu Dynasty to the barbarians this time made the country more peaceful. All aspects are recovering and developing rapidly, and the black market is also rejuvenated.

If it hadn't been for taking advantage of the vacancy period before the payment, coupled with Xuan Qingwei's deliberate help, Feilong would not have been able to snare the black market of Jing Jiu Dynasty in his hands without a single hand. Among them are the reasons why many black market bosses have avoided disasters and concealed themselves.

Today, the volume of entry and exit of the black market has more than doubled compared to last year, which shows that it has revived.

Although Feilong didn't say anything about this situation, Shen Hao also knew that the entire black market was being greatly impacted, and the previously hidden forces of all parties were emerging at this time, which was bound to form a new and huge challenge to Feilong's black market territory.

As soon as Feilong came in before, Shen Hao could smell the golden sore medicine on the opponent's body. He also heard from Wang Jian that Feilong had been attacked and killed many times during this period. If it weren't for the many desperate brothers in his hand, Feilong would have died up.

Therefore, it is reasonable and acceptable for the tasks assigned to be hindered.

"It doesn't matter, as long as you know what's in your heart."

Shen Hao hopes to find out the external context of the evil monks through the entry and exit of black market medicinal materials and elixirs. You can't always be led by the other party, and you can't always see them when something goes wrong. You have to be proactive, so that you don't cut off the follow-up investigation every time the other party cuts off their own arm, and put yourself again. hide.

"Don't worry, my lord, the little one will definitely sort out the chores in hand as soon as possible, and then dig out the news that my lord needs.

In fact, some of the newly emerging forces are very strange in themselves. They only produce elixirs but rarely buy medicinal materials from the black market, which shows that they have stable and cheap sources of medicinal materials and do not need to rely on the black market. But now there are only a few kinds of medicinal materials in Guochao, most of them go to the big government-run medicine shops, some rare ones go to auction houses, and the rest go to the yamen's inventory. The medicinal materials in the black market also come in through unclean ways.

Unless there is a direct connection with the south, otherwise, according to the amount of pills paid by those people, they will definitely not be able to afford it. "

Shen Hao paused, turned his head and asked, "Are there many cases like this?"

"At present, it seems that the five factions are all like this. Although they have covered up and used false means of collecting medicinal materials, in fact, those medicinal materials were taken in by their left hand and left by their right hand, and they did not actually keep them.

But my lord, I can't say for sure whether these five families belong to them or not. And it's not sure if there are similar forces hiding in the dark. "

Feilong didn't dare to talk too much. Although he already had some ideas about this matter in his heart, he only dared to mention it like this. Everything had to wait until the new round of competition in the black market was over.

However, this news still has certain reference value for Shen Hao.

Before, Heishui speculated from the "Grey Worm Juice" in the Reverse Pill that the base camp of the evil cultivator should be in the City of Death, and speculated that it was probably hidden in the "Longevity Gate", one of the three leaders of the City of Death. Because medicinal materials such as "gray worm juice" are special products in the barbarian land, and "Longevity Gate" is the biggest recipient of this medicinal material.

Now that medicinal materials can be collected, it is natural that they will no longer collect high-priced medicinal materials from the black market. However, even if it is cheaper to collect medicinal materials from the barbarians, it also requires expenses. Where did the money come from?

Even if Heishui's conjecture is true, and the evil cultivators hide in the Longevity Gate, it is possible to share some of the benefits of the Longevity Gate, but these benefits are not as huge as imagined, not enough for the evil cultivators to be within the scope of the Jingjiu Dynasty Set up so many strongholds to do things.

After all, Wushicheng is just a city, no matter how many masters there are in it, its consumption of resources is as much as its output, and it cannot be compared with Jingjiu Dynasty. As the third leader of Changshengmen, the manpower under his command also consumes a lot of resources, and even if it is distributed to the evil monks, it is very limited.

Therefore, in Shen Hao's speculation, the funds for the evil cultivators must be obtained from the huge market in the Jingjiu Dynasty. It is unlikely on the surface, but there must be a black market, and there are definitely not many.

There is another point involved in this, that is, there are definitely a lot of alchemists among the evil cultivators. And this is what Shen Hao estimated that the cultivators of the evil sect could make the most money in the Jingjiu Dynasty. After all, fast-consumable items such as pills are in short supply all year round no matter in the market, pill shops or auction houses, and it is not easy to leave flaws.

Judging from what Feilong said just now, Shen Hao's guess is not wrong. As long as you find out those forces that produce pills in the black market but don't buy medicinal materials, and follow the vines, you can grasp this important channel for evil monks to raise funds. Once you start to attack later, directly cutting off the opponent's financial resources is definitely a heavy blow to the evil cultivator.

"Well, that's what you have in mind.

And what about the news from Jingbei? How is the collection going? "

Feilong took out a copper bar from the storage bag in his arms, offered it with both hands, and said, "My lord, it's all in here. From the time you let me pay attention to the end of last month, all the people in the Jingbei black market who have anything to do with the Qin family They have figured out all the relationships. They thought they could distract themselves and hide themselves by going the way of those small intermediaries, but they didn’t know that 80% of the small and medium intermediaries were my people, and it was too easy to figure out their tricks.”