Chapter 16:
Looking at Ding Ning who casually threw the coarse porcelain bowl into the water basin, Changsun Shaxue who was dividing the newly brewed wine into small altars frowned and said unhappily, "Even this kind of marketplace jianghu matter, does it also make you annoyed?"
Ding Ning naturally knew that with Changsun Shaxue's perception, the conversation between himself and the man in front must have been heard clearly, he also frowned and said, "This isn't an ordinary marketplace jianghu thing, the two storey building is only taking up a small piece of our rental business in the southern part of the city on the surface, but I've heard that most of the dark kilns and flower houses and gambling dens in Changling, they're taking up several percent of the total and they've already been doing it for a dozen or so years. I've never heard of Jinlin Tang before. Jinlin Tang I hadn't paid much attention to before, it seems like on the surface they just do some horse gangs and portering business, and all of a sudden they jumped out to grab the two-story land, so I don't know what's going on behind the scenes."
"So what?"
Changsun Shaxue coldly glanced at him and indifferently said, "Whether it's the two-story building or what Jinlin Tang, it's still not a dog raised by those big shots in the temple, around the same time, it's just that some of the gatekeepers in the dynasty are not dividing the spoils evenly, and re-dividing them a bit."
"It may be so in other places, but the capital cities of the dynasties are not so simple."
Ding Ning understands what is in her mind, he gently shook his head, patiently explained: "the scale of the dynasty capital city than the rest of the big city is too much difference, take Changling as an example, as early as the previous dynasty population has reached millions, especially in the destruction of the Han, Zhao, Wei, rolled a large number of women and children to Changling for slavery, and since then not limited to move in, until today, the long live in the population is afraid that it has doubled! Not to mention the travelers and caravans. This is only a dozen years of things ... ... the power of the former dynasty of those valves in this short period of more than ten years has not been so disintegrated, and now even those marquis, marrying concubines marrying a daughter is still to pick those valves marriage, with the help of some power. Changling is too complex, intertwined roots, no one's hand can be inserted too deep, even if it is Yan and Li phase is the same. Otherwise, according to those two's abilities and ideas, where would Changling have so many jianghu clans right now, at most there would only be a few branches left to do their bidding for them."
"Time is too short, inside the dynasty to manage too many things, but also to cherish their own party, Changling's city wells and rivers and lakes hidden unknown how many scaly dragons, to fight with the other dynasty these scaly dragons can contribute, but really want to make these scaly dragons to worship, it may be their own folded a few arms, and even the position of the dynasty can not be kept."
After a pause, Ding Ning continued, "In addition, the capital city of each dynasty is not very different. Although the dynasty has been in existence for a long time, the emperor has too many sons, the feudalized nobles' fields are not recovered, and the power of the gatekeepers and princes can even shake the decisions inside the palace. Which emperor's son is able to succeed and which woman is able to become the empress all depends on which woman's mother's family had the absolute upper hand during that period of time."
Changsun Shaxue understood Ding Ning's meaning, and as these words reminded her of past events about herself, a layer of frost slowly enveloped her face.
While at this moment, Ding Ning did not notice her expression, he thought of the hunched old man with the black bamboo staff in the fish market, and when he thought of the price he had paid many years ago in order to get those gate nobles to make concessions, and in order to make the Great Qin Dynasty different from the rest of the dynasties, his heart became a little heavy, and he unconsciously hung his head.
"Same as what you said, if the marketplace jianghu sects were just dogs raised by someone, then the deaths and injuries would be a little smaller, but most of the marketplace jianghu sects in Changling are mostly just giving benefits to some bigwigs and using each other in their relationship, the biggest fear is that which bigwig now has ambitions, and secretly manages to push for it, wanting to reorganize the pattern of some places. This would then be rather bloody, and I don't know how many people would have to die."
"I'm not afraid of killing people, but I'm afraid of the extra trouble. It would take a lot more effort to sort out some of the clues when it's too chaotic, and we can't even reveal our identities as practitioners right now, and I'm not even in the third realm, so if I get caught up in it, I don't know what kind of consequences it would bring." As Ding Ning hung his head and said this, what he was worried about in his heart was whether the rickety old man from the fish market and the people behind him would also be involved in this storm.
Changsun Shaxue's eyes were cold, she finally had no interest in what Ding Ning had said, because as far as she was concerned, Ding Ning's plans had been disrupted, his cultivation was still too low, and whether or not even his scheming could be accomplished, that was all his business.
She only had one thing on her mind in Changling, and that was to catch up and surpass all the cultivators who had gone ahead of her.
The only thing she had to think about was her sword, her cultivation, she could even stay out of this wine store every day, she was the simplest.
She used to be just as simple.
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What that yellow-shirted master Xu Nian had said was exactly right, despite being extremely uninterested in making wine, this wine store of Changsun Shaxue and Ding Ning was indeed the store with the best business in the Wutong Drop area.
Near noon, the tables inside the store were almost full, and most of the diners had brought their own food and meals over to match the wine.
Ding Ning dozed off breathlessly on the counter, but his ears were sensitively catching every word in the air.
A light carriage drove into Sycamore Falls and stopped under the banner of a green-colored wine, and the passengers on the carriage nimbly jumped down and walked through the front door of the wine store.
This was a young man dressed in an eggplant-colored python satin garment, his freshly shined black hair coiled on top of his head with two green-colored ties.
This was something that only foreigners in Changling would do.
Qin people in Changling usually simply wore their hair in a cape or tied it behind their heads, and even those nobles were only accustomed to hooping their emanations with jade rings or coiling their hair with jade hairpins.
This foreigner picked a table that still had an empty seat and sat down, waving his hand at Ding Ning, whose chin was knocking on the counter, and shouted, "Xiao Er, come to the wine."
All of the store's drinkers glanced at him and smiled wistfully.
Ding Ning raised his head and drank lazily, "Take your own wine if you want it, the rules of this store."
Such a big rack?
With such a big rack and such good business, is the wine in this small liquor store really that good?
This youth wearing eggplant-colored python satin clothes froze, finally reacted to why the surrounding drinkers looked at him like a mallet.
He stood up somewhat huffily and walked over to Ding Ning.
"Twenty copper coins for a pot. Saltwater peanuts five copper coins a plate." Without waiting for him to open his mouth, Ding Ning nodded at one of the jugs of wine and the saucer of peanuts laid out on the counter, signaling him to help himself.
The youth's brows furrowed slightly, but he couldn't say anything, throwing out twenty copper coins and just taking a jug of wine.
Returning to his own table, this young man's drinking appearance is a bit bold, unlike ordinary drinkers who take small cups to drink slowly, but directly open the lid of the pot, towards the mouth to pour a mouthful.
However, in the next instant, this young man's face became ugly to the extreme, the throat seems to be who suddenly pinched as if, "pff" sound, has come to the throat of a mouthful of wine, directly from his mouth sprayed out.
"So sour, it's like rice water mixed with rancid rice, can this still be considered wine!"
He glanced towards the cups of the surrounding drinkers, and then towards his own jug, so angry that his fingers trembled, and he couldn't help but shout out loudly, "To think that the lees aren't even filtered out, and such a thing is still worthy of being called wine! How can such a thing still be called wine! How can it still have such a great reputation?"
Looking at his sad and angry appearance, all the surrounding drinkers looked at each other, knowing that this person must really love wine, yet at the same time a mocking smile surfaced on all their faces.
Could it be that you rushed to this wine store and really came here to taste wine ah?
Are you stupid?
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Amidst the angry shouts of this stranger, Ding Ning's expression remained calm as he nodded seriously and replied, "All of the wine in this store tastes like this."
"There was a shattering sound.
The angry youth shattered the wine jug on the ground, he was obviously really furious and shouted again, "Can this be considered wine!"
"If it's not wine, what is it?"
"This is how our Qin people's wine is; if you can drink it, you can drink it; if you can't, it's your own problem."
"You're from Chu, do you still want to spread your wildness in Changling?"
The people of Changling did not have a good feeling towards strangers, and this stranger was obviously a Chu Yin, and should not even be from the Great Qin Dynasty. With several heavy slaps on the table, most of the people in the wine store stood up.
"So what if it's a Chu person?"
The young man looked at the surrounding figures, a hint of mockery and pride surfaced on his angry face instead, "Your Yangshan County was still allocated to my dynasty as usual?"
With these words, there was no sound in the wine store, all the drinkers, however, had their eyes burned red.
This is no longer a matter of arguing and fighting.
In the third year of Yuanwu, the Qin Dynasty, which had consecutively annihilated the three dynasties of Zhao, Han, and Wei, had had a great battle with the Chu Dynasty, in which the Qin army had been wiped out by 200,000 people, lost countless chariots, and suffered such a great defeat that they had to cede their land and beg for peace.
So far, the ceded Yangshan County could not be recovered.
The Great Chu Dynasty only sent an unloved prince to stay in Changling as a hostage according to the covenant at that time.
The matter of a son exchanging six hundred miles of land for a son who was not loved by the king of Chu in exchange for six hundred miles of fertile land and hundreds of thousands of Qin people was a disgrace to all the Qin people.
Seeing that the wine breath was burned into a killing breath, and there would be blood spilled on the slightly cool ground, just at this moment, a cold voice suddenly pierced out from the inside of the wine store, "Marching and fighting, that's a matter for soldiers and cultivators, if you guys don't drink properly and want to theorize about these things with people, then go out and don't make a mess here in my place."
With this icy voice, the cloth curtain leading to the backyard lifted, and the cold as ice frost Changsun Shaxue had an expelling face.
The fire and murderous aura in the eyes of all the drinkers once again dissolved into dryness and heat.
The number of people who first stood up first sat down with a sarcastic smile.
The youth with a mocking face was also suddenly petrified.
He had never thought that he would see such a magnificent beauty in such a wine shop.
Looking at Changsun Shallow Snow's stunningly beautiful brows, while his breathing was a little irregular, he finally understood why so many drinkers would come to this wine store from time to time to drink wine.
Wine should warm the heart.
Wine that can warm the heart is good wine.
Although the wine from this wine store was sour and difficult to consume, however, as long as one sees her, I'm afraid that not only is it the heart that is warmed, but these ordinary marketplace men, I don't know how long their bodies will be paralyzed with heat.
"This is the kind of beauty that one person can compare to a county..."
For a moment, this foreign youth also looked a little infatuated, his heart was on fire, and he straight away wanted to ask this woman's name.
"Hey, you have to pay for the broken wine pot."
However, just at this moment, Ding Ning, who had raised his head on the counter, was rushing at him and lazily called out, "And when you're leaving, by the way, clear the debris on the ground, lest it tie up people's feet."
