Chapter 136
For several days, Shen Hao was familiar with the process of this mission in the camp outside Pingjiang City.
Chen Tianwen answered every question, but knocked away two altars of Wuliangye from Shen Hao.
For example, Chen Tianwen told Shen Hao that during the time when the Guishan Seminary opened the gate, some bulk merchants similar to traveling merchants would gather in Pingjiang City and hold some small auctions.
Another example is the "Yueyinglou" that appeared in the brochure introducing the profile of the aristocratic family. In fact, it is a non-government gray organization that has always existed indistinctly for a long time. On the bright side, Yueying Studio has a business, and it's not small, but it also has various activities in the dark, anyway, it's not clean.
The most important thing is that Yueyinglou is still the largest intelligence dealer in the private sector, and sometimes cooperates with officials.
That booklet is a tool for Yueying Studio to demonstrate its intelligence capabilities to the outside world, and it will be updated every year. It can be bought at major auction houses by spending money.
Anyway, what Shen Hao is most curious about is how did such a weird organization like Yueyinglou not be wiped out by the Kingdom?
Chen Tianwen, who has always been able to talk about everything, shook his head and didn't know about Yueyinglou. In his words: Yueyinglou is very strange and mysterious, and he doesn't know what to rely on.
In addition, Shen Hao has learned about the situation of Guishan Seminary these days, and also met some monks in it.
Guishan Seminary is divided into two parts, the inner door and the outer door.
The outer door is mainly the hall that has frequent contact with the world, such as the Miscellaneous Hall responsible for purchasing supplies and managing the servants and slaves in the mountain gate, and the Young Eagle Hall responsible for the unified acceptance of new disciples. These are all outer doors.
The inner door is mainly the core hall, such as the Chuanfa Hall, the Pill Hall, the Arsenal, the Criminal Hall, and so on.
Yang Qingyun, who I met at the foot of Guishan Mountain before, is the deacon of the Inner Sect Chuanfa Hall, and the Chuanfa Hall is a very high-status hall in the Inner Sect, and all disciples need to practice under the guidance of the Chuanfa Hall. Of course, the outstanding ones can be taken in by the elders of the sect and taught individually.
In addition to Yang Qingyun, there were also two inner sect deacons and three inner sect disciples participating in this grand event.
Leaving aside the deacon of the inner sect, Shen Hao was a little confused by the cultivation of the inner sect disciples. The three inner disciples are said to be less than twenty years old, and all of them are at the fifth level of the God-gathering state.
This... Shen Hao suddenly realized that the gap between geniuses and ordinary people can be so big.
Shen Hao doesn't compare himself. He is an outsider, and he has only cultivated for more than eight years. He also has a strange tattoo that cannot be explained, which is not a reliable reference. Let's compare it with Chen Tianwen. Chen Tianwen has been able to become the chief banner officer all the way, and his cultivation level can only reach the eighth level of Qi refining, and Chen Tianwen is already fifty years old this year.
Looking at Tang Qingyuan again, this hundred-household official at the eighth level of God-gathering Realm was an abandoned disciple of Guishan Seminary 40 years ago, but he has been able to sit in command in Licheng for so many years.
In the past, he only knew that the sect was strong, very powerful, but Shen Hao didn't know exactly how strong it was, but now it's a little tricky.
In Pingjiang City, the Black Flag Battalion is now a mobile force, free to patrol, much more free than the other six General Banner Battalions, and there are much fewer things to do.
But I also came into contact with several disputes, which were basically caused by restlessness.
Pingjiang City was originally small, and there were not many inns and restaurants in it, so it couldn't accommodate hundreds of thousands of people from all walks of life. But the people who came to participate in the grand event at the gate of Mount Guishan Seminary were not ordinary people, many of them were from aristocratic families, where would they normally go? After arriving in Pingjiang City, can you give up three points? Impossible.
So, grab it.
You can fight for a room in an inn, and you can fight for a table in a restaurant. Even bumps and bumps on the road can fight.
What are you looking at? What are you doing? Then bang bang bang dry.
Don't think that monks can't do this kind of nonsense. They have done even more absurd things to save face. Especially when aristocratic families meet with each other, some aristocratic families have had friction for a long time.
Now these things are under the control of Xuanqing guards, because if the guards and yamen servants go up, they will be kicked back, so they can't control it at all. The local yamen is not as stubborn as Xuan Qingwei, and they often choose to avoid it first when facing big aristocratic families.
But Xuan Qingwei would not cut these people down for fighting, arrest them and put them in a dungeon.
The defense measures of the yamen's dungeons are far inferior to those of the Xuanqing Guardhouse, but the people inside don't dare to escape from the prison. But it’s not okay to stay inside. If you miss the time for the opening of the mountain gate of Guishan Seminary, there will be no place to cry. So the high-quality bamboo pole was in Xuan Qingwei's hands.
Knock, knock, snowflakes, 10,000 to 20,000 is not too little.
You don't need to do anything, just send the monk who caused trouble into the dungeon, and then release the money after fines, over and over again, as long as you have a spar mine at home, then you can build it vigorously. Otherwise, you will lose all your underpants.
Shen Hao didn't know exactly how much snowflake silver he knocked on these days, anyway, the monks all over the street are much more honest now than in the first few days.
"Lucky Auction!"
Shen Hao was dressed in normal clothes, handed over a sign, and walked into a chamber of commerce swaggeringly.
It is said that this place was originally a carriage and horse dealership, because the grand event of Guishan Xiuyuan's mountain gate was specially used as an auction site temporarily. This is for living.
"Let's go, I also want to see if there is a suitable magic weapon."
"A magic weapon? Don't you have one?"
"Bought it for my son, he has already reached the second level of Qi refining, and he is more competitive than me."
Also coming was Chen Tianwen, who was also dressed in ordinary clothes. As they walked in, they looked at the catalog given by the attendant when they entered the door. On it were the things that were photographed at today's meeting.
Shen Hao has nothing urgently needed. Besides, it would be scary enough to wait for the rewards from the higher-ups to come down, plus the part that was deducted from the previous house raids would be in his hands. Not only pills and magic tools, there are many exercises and techniques in the Wen family's collection, and these things can be used if they are rubbed.
Shen Hao came here mainly to increase his knowledge.
"Gentlemen, this way please!"
The attendant nodded and walked in front of the side, leading the two to sit down at the front of the hall. It can be regarded as a good location except for the private room.
"What's the price of the box here?"
"One thousand and two hurdles, it's written at the back of the list." Chen Tianwen leaned back on the chair, and continued to think about today's goal without raising his head. There was a good low-grade magic weapon, a short knife, and a medium-grade soft armor on the list, which he thought was suitable for his son.
"Well, President Shen, can you help me if I'm not able to do it later?"
"Within 50,000 taels, you can write an IOU."
"Then thank you in advance."
One hundred to two hundred thousand taels of taels of Chen Tianwen is not a sum that Chen Tianwen can't get out of, and he asked Shen Hao to borrow it temporarily, but he didn't expect to meet a middle-grade soft armor, and he didn't bring much money.