After Ye Xiaochuan beat Baili Yuan's five strong men with bruises and swollen faces and threw them into the Yangtze River, no other sailor guards on the ship dared to look at Baili Yuan again, because this little lady who loved to laugh said
, let his capable brother dig out the eyes of anyone who is looking at her.
The next day, Ye Xiaochuan had already secured his position as the number one expert on the ship.
Ye Xiaochuan didn't care much about this false reputation. He was one of the top three young masters in Cangyun Sect's martial arts. He didn't look down upon five fat men, not even fifty or five hundred.
There is an insurmountable gap between mortals and cultivators. Whoever's fist is as big as a sandbag is not powerful.
The fat shopkeeper changed Bailiyuan to a clean and spacious cabin, which made Bailiyuan very satisfied, especially after she had two more eggs than others for breakfast the next morning, Bailiyuan wished she could die of old age forever.
On this merchant ship.
It has been ten years, ten years since she left Liubo Mountain, ten years since she left the East China Sea. It has been so long that she has almost forgotten the feeling of riding a boat and breaking through the waves.
She was originally a pearl diver in the East China Sea, and her love for the ocean was unimaginable. In the past ten years, she had been practicing in the Central Plains. She had dreamed back countless times at midnight, dreaming of driving a small boat to catch a huge shark at sea.
The ocean is her home.
She is far away from the ocean now, so rafting down the Yangtze River can alleviate some of her homesickness.
At dawn, the merchant ship weighed anchor from Fengling Ferry. The four black-skinned men returned to the water again and rode on the nanmu under the water. Because the nanmu was underwater, these guys could only be seen riding on the nanmu.
Running down the giant underwater beast is very exciting.
Ye Xiaochuan doesn't aspire to it. Their job of riding down trees should be one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. He will never try any job that may be harmful to his life.
He lay on the deck, looked at the four people below, and said: "Isn't it just a few pieces of wood? As for the labor and labor required to transport it thousands of miles from the center of Sichuan to the capital?"
Baili Yuan said: "What do you know? Do you know how much silver that piece of nanmu is worth? This kind of golden nanmu is exclusively used by the royal family and is used to build palaces. Even nobles cannot use golden nanmu to make beams when building their houses. They can only use golden nanmu to make beams."
Used to make coffins, a nanmu coffin has been sold at a sky-high price, and even if you have money, you may not be able to buy it. These forty nanmu coffins are worth at least 5,000 taels of silver each when they are shipped to the capital, making the coffin worth at least twice as much.
ten times."
Ye Xiaochuan took a breath of cold air, slapped his thigh, and said: "Yes, we can do the timber business. We have golden nanmu in Sichuan. We can form a felling team to specifically cut the golden nanmu in Shu."
Transport it out and make huge profits from it!"
Baili Yuan snorted and said: "You are a cultivator, not a businessman, so why do you only think about how to make a fortune? If it weren't for the trouble of transporting it out, the golden nanmu in Sichuan would have been cut down thousands of years ago.
It's all gone. Now it's for the exclusive use of the royal family. You can only cut a few hundred pieces at most every year. You'd better not think about the golden nanmu. Yesterday I paid attention to it at the Xifeng City dock. These forty golden nanmu were used by the court of Xifeng City.
The officials checked several times before approving the transportation. If this merchant ship does not belong to Princess Jinyang's family, do you think it can be transported out of Shu?"
Ye Xiaochuan curled his lips and said: "So what? Zhao Shilin is still a prince, why don't you still call me boss? I heard that there is a cultivation academy in the royal family, and the gentleman who teaches courses is not as good as me. Who dares to stop me?
If you get rich, I will hit anyone! Even the emperor will not be looked down upon by me."
Now Ye Xiaochuan is very poor. He is really thinking about the idea of golden nanmu in the water. He is thinking about finding an opportunity to steal one. In this way, he does not have to sneak in the door and pick the lock with Baili Yuan to steal things.
For the next six months, I enjoyed drinking spicy food.
The boss of the boat shouted loudly: "We are entering the Grand Canyon ahead, everyone, be careful."
The Grand Gorge is what the poet calls Wu Gorge. The river channel has become narrower, the water flow has become faster, and the mountains on both sides of the Yangtze River are stacked with mountains. Countless strange pines, cypresses and old trees grow like roots on the steep rocks. It is very spectacular and beautiful.
Sure enough, there were apes singing and tigers roaring.
The cries of apes, like a woman losing her son, came from the mountains on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, which was very sad.
Often at this time, the overbearing tiger in the mountains is not happy, and roars to frighten the sad apes into stopping their cries, but soon there will be new ape calls, and then there will be another tiger roar in the forest.
As the river narrowed, the huge merchant ship lowered its sails. The boss of the ship nervously controlled the rudder for fear of colliding with the oncoming ship.
There is a river between two mountains, twists and turns. Ye Xiaochuan watched a large five-tooth ship approaching, which was larger than a merchant ship. Because the five-tooth ship was going upstream, and the river in the Grand Gorge was very fast,
Hundreds of trackers on the cliff plank road pulled huge ropes on their backs, pulling the five-toothed ship upstream. Because the river was rolling under the stone path, every step of these trackers pulling the boat was very powerful.
Ye Xiaochuan felt fresh and jumped up and said to Bailiyuan: "Look, someone is pulling the boat!"
The fat shopkeeper didn't know when he walked out of the cabin. It was obvious that when passing the Baili Grand Canyon, the shopkeeper couldn't sit still.
When he heard Ye Xiaochuan's cheers, his solemn expression softened a little, and he said: "The Grand Canyon is narrow and rugged, and the current is very fast. Small boats can rely on oars and sails to go upstream. It is difficult for big boats to go up, so they can only rely on these trackers.
The rope pulls.”
Ye Xiaochuan said: "Shopkeeper, it looks like it's dangerous to pull the boat."
The fat shopkeeper smiled slightly and said: "This is not dangerous. Look carefully, young hero. They are in a group of ten people. They are connected to each other at the waist with ropes. There are hooks and iron chains on the stone walls of the plank road. The person in the front will
The rope around the waist is hung from the iron chain on the stone wall, and there are wooden railings on the edge of the plank road. Generally, accidents rarely happen. The most dangerous stretch of water in the Yangtze River is the Wolaiye Reef, which lies in the middle of the narrow waterway. It suddenly happened hundreds of years ago.
It protrudes less than five feet from the water, and every year countless ships are lost under that reef."
Ye Xiaochuan was a little surprised. When he saw the fat shopkeeper leaving, he said to Baili Yuan: "Senior Sister Baili, there is a big rock on the Yangtze River that blocks the river transportation. Why don't you take it away? We cultivators see injustice on the road.
It’s time to shovel it down and save some land and water. This reef has been there for hundreds of years, so why don’t we see cultivators cutting it into pieces?”
Bailiyuan looked at Ye Xiaochuan in surprise and said, "Don't you know the origin of the Wo Lai Ye reef?"
