Only when you cross Dongshan City can you truly enter Jiyun Kingdom.

Jiyun's territory has many plains and few mountains, and there are many towns and villages. Along the way to Yunji, what you see is a lot of prosperity.

However, behind the prosperity, there is deep-rooted decay, and culture rejuvenates the country.

The Jiyun Kingdom is divided among princes. Every big city and important town is controlled by a city lord. The city lord can command the garrison, which is equivalent to supporting the army and supporting oneself.

The enfeoffment of princes was actually a helpless move by the country's ruler.

In the beginning, the Jiyun family was conquered with the help of the Yu family. The Yu family was so outstanding that it became the first Jiyun family. When the Yu family was at its peak, the Jiyun family could hardly suppress it regardless of financial or military power.

How can the leader of the country sleep peacefully when he has the power to overwhelm the country at his hands?

As the saying goes, there is no room for others to snore and sleep on the side of the bed. With such a giant as the Yu family, the king of the country is naturally always wary and worried about him.

In order to check and balance the Yu family, the first king came up with a way to divide the world and formed Jiyun into a vassal state. The king only commanded the most powerful frontier army, and the rest of the power was the responsibility of the princes.

In this way, the situation that the Yu family faces is no longer a high-ranking ruler, but countless princes each occupying one side. The Yu family and the princes are rubbing against each other and consuming each other, which is what the country leader likes to see.

Phenomenon.

The plan was implemented perfectly, and the results achieved satisfied the king.

The princes who occupy each side are eyeing the behemoth Yu family and want to replace it, just like a group of wild dogs secretly coveting the aloof lion.

As time goes by, the Yu family gradually declines.

The first king's goal of consuming the Yu family was achieved, but a new crisis ushered in.

The various city lords recruited more and more unscrupulously, armed with heavy troops, and began to obey and disobey orders from the imperial city. These city lords formed a new cancer in Jiyun Kingdom.

When the second king discovered the crisis and planned to eliminate the princes, he found that the power he had given away could no longer be taken back.

If power is forcibly taken over, the princes will surely rebel, and Jiyun will face a crisis of national annihilation.

The Yu family gradually fell, and the princes gradually became stronger. The consequences of this were more difficult than the previous phenomenon.

In order to check and weaken the power of various city lords, the second king adopted the method of boiling frogs in warm water and began to emphasize civility over military affairs. The number and status of civil servants increased year by year. He vigorously promoted cultural heritage to rejuvenate the country, claiming that Jiyun's national destiny was closely related to cultural heritage.

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For a time, scholars all over the world sprung up like bamboo shoots after a rain, and beautiful articles were like the waves of the sea, endless.

The strategy of rejuvenating the country through culture was successful.

A good Jiyun Kingdom has also been ruined.

The Yu family fell, and the ambitions of the various city lords were wiped out by drunkenness and wealth. There was no dispute in the Central Plains. The soldiers who had nowhere to train had already entered Kuma and sent them to Nanshan with swords and guns. The scholars who recited poems and wrote poems became the pillars of the country and wanted to rule the world with their articles.

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But the scholars have forgotten the second half of that sentence.

Wen rules the world and Wu determines the country.

After walking through several towns and seeing the prosperity of Jiyun, Yunji finally understood this huge and decadent country.

Thousands of miles of ice cannot be frozen in a day. Even if Yunji has all kinds of abilities, he can only do nothing in the face of Jiyun who is rotten to the core.

Walking and stopping along the way, eating and drinking delicious food, we headed towards the imperial city like a sightseeing tour.

Do as the Romans do. If you want to have a smooth journey in Jiyun Kingdom, the best way is to dress yourself up like a scholar.

Wearing a green shirt with a jade hanging from his waist, he is very elegant and well-mannered. This is the standard appearance of a Jiyun student.

Two days after arriving in Jiyun, Yunji arrived at the Jingshui River.

This great river that runs through Jiyun is ten miles wide, and the other side cannot be seen at a glance. The river is so turbulent that only large ships can travel on it.

ferry.

People shouting "horse neigh", it's very lively.

There was a boatman who was trying to attract customers, yelling at the top of his lungs, his voice hoarse.

There are small traders and hawkers all around, especially the business of buying and selling food is the most prosperous.

The tea shed was packed with people waiting to cross the river to have a pot of cheap herbal tea to relieve the heat.

Departure will have to wait until noon.

If it's too early, you won't be able to attract enough customers, and if it's too late, there will be fewer people crossing the river, so noon is the time for each fleet to set off.

There are many boats parked at the ferry, more than ten in total, among which a two-story building boat is the most eye-catching. It is decorated with splendor and splendor. From a distance, the boat looks noble.

There were guards stationed on the ship. They looked like regular soldiers, holding long guns and wearing light armor, and they looked majestic.

"What kind of ship is that? It's so majestic." Yunji sat in the tea shed, drinking tea and chatting with the people next to him.

"How can a royal building not be majestic?"

"It turns out it belongs to the royal family. Which royal relative is this ship?" Yunji inquired.

"King Ji's ship. It is said that the third prince personally went out of the imperial city to buy an alchemy furnace for the king and is preparing to transport it to the capital."

"Prince Ji is a filial son. The king of the country has been in bed for many years. Prince Ji searched the world for the elixir furnace. He spent a lot of time to refine a furnace of immortality elixir."

"Not only the alchemy furnace, but also copper, silver paste, crane red, cinnabar, these expensive alchemy materials are all what His Highness Prince Ji is looking for, and he spends a lot of money to buy them. As a result, the price of these materials has skyrocketed year after year, and there is no market."

"Filial piety is the first of all good deeds. King Ji's filial piety is famous in Jiyun."

All the tea drinkers nodded frequently, and all of them respected King Ji when he came.

"What a filial son!" Yunji raised his thumb, thinking that the third prince thought that the old emperor died too slowly. None of the copper, silver paste, and crane red cinnabar were used in elixirs, and they were almost all poisons.

I don’t know if the third prince did this intentionally, or if he was completely ignorant of the art of alchemy and was being taken advantage of.

Not long after, there was a commotion in the distance, and a group of people came. In front were soldiers holding swords, guarding a young man in a python robe.

The young man is less than thirty years old. He has long eyebrows and bright eyes. He is handsome, but a bit feminine and not too masculine. He is the third prince of Jiyun Kingdom.

King Ji, Yun Guang.

Yunji sat in the tea shed and looked at Ji Wang, his third brother, and said to himself that no one in the royal family was ugly. The emperor's concubines were all first-class beauties, and the children they gave birth to were uglier than ordinary people.

My nephew is much prettier.

Watching the royal family board the boat, Yunji continued to drink herbal tea unhurriedly.

As noon approached, tea drinkers began to choose their boats.

Most people choose the cheaper passenger ship, which is a flat boat.

Although the passenger ship is spacious, it has a simple structure and is completely wooden. It is okay in calm seas, but it is easy to sink if it encounters strong winds and waves.

Some wealthy people will choose the more expensive sand boat, which is a large flat-bottomed boat with a square head. This kind of boat has a very flat keel, integrated vertically and horizontally, and is very tough. It can ride the wind and waves and is more resistant to sinking.

Yunji took a fancy to a sand boat. It was clean and tidy, with the word "Du Wen" written on the sail. The man at the helm was a neat woman in her early thirties, known as Liu Sanniang.

Liu Sanniang's boat fare is not cheap. It costs thirty cents per person to cross the river. Her sand boat is the most expensive one at the ferry.

Although it is expensive, there are quite a lot of people boarding the boat. In a short time, more than a dozen people boarded the boat.

Yunji came under the boat. He was not afraid of the price, but he had to choose the strongest boat.

The rapid flow of the Jingshui River is one of the reasons. The ghost king tide that occurs only once in more than ten years is the trouble. Although Yunji feels that he will not encounter the ghost king tide based on his luck, it is better to be safe.

It's only thirty cents, and he has tens of thousands of taels of banknotes in hand. The most indispensable thing now is money.
Chapter completed!