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It has been five days since I arrived in Langya County.

Because Chen Xu came incognito, he didn't want to contact the local county officials to reveal his identity, so he settled the accompanying carriage and goods in a newly repaired foothouse in Langya County, and then took a group of guards and Xiao He, Liu Bangjiang, and Chu Xing brothers and sisters to go out early and return late every day to find out the whereabouts of Hou Sheng Lu Sheng and a group of Fang Shi who went to sea to find Shenshan Xiandao.

Langya Terrace is in Langya Town, Huangdao District, Qingdao City.

Here Chen Xu and his classmates had come to play once in the summer vacation before he crossed over, but now it is the Qin Dynasty two thousand years ago, and the situation of high-rise buildings extending in all directions is completely different from the situation in later generations, this is not a prosperous and rich place, the sea is still a barren land, except for some rolling mountains, it is a rough sea.

And it is the height of summer, the sea is often stormy and stormy, tropical storms are coming, dark clouds rolling thunder and downpours are coming, so standing on Langya Mountain, you can only see the rough sea and the almost empty coast.

Only after the storm has subsided, can you occasionally see fishing boats going out to sea, but only fishing for seashells and fish and shrimp in an area of the still sea for miles is completely different from the busy situation of cruise ships and fishing boats shuttling one after another on the sea in later times, and the absolute pristine sea scenery is everywhere you look.

After several days of observation near Langya, Chen Xu finally focused his attention on the shipbuilding site outside Langya County.

Ten huge ships were being built day and night, even the wind and waves did not stop, and the ten trenches dug out used as docks, and a large number of logs were piled up around the construction site, and the sound of men and prisoners shouting to haul the wood could be heard for miles, and the clanging sound of the dock never stopped.

Five of the ten ships have been completed, and busy men and shipwrights are carrying goods like ants, and countless soldiers in leather armor and whips are constantly patrolling back and forth and shouting loudly, and occasionally waving leather whips to tell the slow convicts to beat their fathers and mothers.

Chen Xu and the others rode to the vicinity of the shipyard, and when they were about to go in to investigate, they were stopped by a group of soldiers.

"Stop, this is a forbidden place, idle people are not allowed to enter, retreat quickly, and those who violate the order will be killed!" A burly tun commander pressed the long sword at his waist and shouted loudly.

"This general, we are here to admire, not to go in and snoop!" Chen Xu flipped out his hand and put two golden cakes into the hands of the tun chief, and whispered, "We traveled to Langya, and I heard that the emperor built a big ship here to summon the monks to go to sea to find the sacred mountain and immortal island, so I came here, I don't know if I can go in and visit those immortal monks!" ”

The tun chief quietly pocketed the two gold cakes, and although his face was much calmer, he still shook his head and said: "It's not that I don't want you to go in, but I am indeed in military affairs, this place has been designated as a forbidden place by the county guard and the county lieutenant, and no one can enter, you want to visit those monks, you can go to the vicinity of Laoshan on the other side of the bay to inquire, they are not here!" ”

"Thank you, thank you, General Lao told me!" Chen Xu turned around and got on the horse and quickly left with a group of people.

"Master Hou, these soldiers shouldn't be lying, I have been observing near Langya for a few days, and I haven't seen any Fang Shi appear!" Xiao He Zema followed and said.

"Well, it seems that we are in the wrong place, but the coast of the East China Sea is so long, I don't know where those Fang Shi are hiding in Laoshan Mountain!" Chen Xu nodded.

He has been to Laoshan before, but the current environment is completely different from two thousand years later, the coastline near Qingdao alone is hundreds of kilometers long, and the seaside is only wild beasts except for some fishermen, sometimes riding a horse for more than ten miles can not see a single human hair, to find such a long and wooded and no road near the rugged coast, it is like looking for a needle in a haystack, not to mention that there are many large and small islands in the sea, just by the naked eye can faintly see the islands hidden in the rough sea, If these people were hiding on the island, he would have no choice at all.

However, judging from the process of Xu Fu's going to sea in later generations and the statement of Fang Caitun Chang, there is at least 80 percent probability that Hou Sheng and others hid near Laoshan Mountain.

It is rumored that in another time and space, Xu Fudong failed to cross the sea several times, and most of the time he hid in Laoshan on weekdays, afraid of being caught by the emperor and cut off his head.

From Langya Mountain to Laoshan Mountain, it is necessary to bypass a huge bay, which is called Jiaozhou Bay in later generations, but there is no name at the moment, and around this bay, Chen Xu and others spent a full day, this is still the case of horseback riding, if you walk with your feet, it is better to row directly from Langya.

In a hurry, around the next hour, Chen Xu and the others finally arrived near Laoshan Mountain, but looking at the mountains with mountains and trees, Chen Xu and the others could only stare dryly.

"Master Hou, this inaccessible mountain, it is estimated that you will not be able to find those monks in ten days and half a month!" Jiang Chuxing said with a twitch of cheeks.

A group of people followed Chen Xu all the way from Wuzhong to Langya, but they didn't know why Chen Xu came to find those monks, but they didn't dare to ask more, because Chen Xu's reputation and aura were too sufficient, except for some accidents when Jiang Chuxing's mood calmed down, Xiao He and Cao Shen didn't dare to speak, Liu Bang was told by Chen Xu in Sheyang, this way was like a stuffy gourd, Chen Xu didn't ask him and never spoke, and even the road would unconsciously stay away from Chen Xu and dare not get closer, and his heart was always uneasy, once this sentence was spread, Maybe the emperor will catch him and fry him in an oil pot, and fry the unscrupulous people who have the idea of having a big husband and a wife in their hearts, so as to warn the world that there are heroes and heroes with the same thoughts.

"Master Hou, there is a trail ahead, I don't know where it leads?" A guard who was exploring the way ahead rode back to report it.

"Let's go, follow the trail and search for it, pay attention to the hidden whereabouts!"

"Huh~" The guards shouted a few times, and the guards who were exploring the path around gathered and escorted a group of people to walk along a sheep's intestine path hidden in the dense forest at the foot of the mountain.

Half an hour later, there was already a canyon in front of him, and the road was getting narrower and steeper, just when Chen Xu felt that he was taking the wrong road, suddenly there was a faint cry of a woman behind him with the wind, and it was also mixed with the scolding and laughter of these men.

"Concealment~" With a wave of Chen Xu's hand, a group of people immediately jumped off the horse and led the horse into the dense forest on both sides, and also put the horse on the frightened to prevent the horse from neighing and revealing their whereabouts.

After waiting for nearly twenty minutes, a group of people appeared in the path, led by three monks wearing Taoist robes and wearing Taoist buns, followed by a group of men in various costumes and carrying weapons, and among this group of people were seven or eight young girls, all of whom were only fifteen or sixteen years old, but these girls were all trapped in their arms by ropes, and their mouths were still stuffed with sackcloth, and they were pushed along the path by a group of men, and soon disappeared into the valley.

"Master Hou, this Fang Shi may be related to the person Hou Ye is looking for." Xiao He whispered.

"Not necessarily, there are a lot of Fangdao warlocks in Langya County, but judging by the situation, there is no doubt that they are evildoers!" Cao Shen shook his head.

"Leave some people to take care of the horses, and the rest follow Benhou to take a look, no matter what, these girls can't fall into the clutches of the devil!"

Chen Xu waved his hand with a gloomy face, and a group of people came out of the woods on both sides, and under the arrangement of the head of the guards, five guards were left to lead the horses to find a place to hide, and the rest all followed Chen Xu to follow a group of people to the valley and slowly touched in.

The valley is about three or four miles, in fact, it is a canyon with two ends, and when you get out of the canyon, your eyes suddenly brighten, and a reef-covered bay is presented in front of you.

Although the sea in the distance is still rolling and the tide is surging, the bay is calm, and three huge ships with a mottled and old appearance are docked in the bay and sway with the wind and waves.

The beach in the bay was messy and dark, and in addition to some wooden huts and docks made of trees indiscriminately, there were many monks in buns, black and thin boatmen and fishermen carrying things to the boats, and the seven or eight girls who had been caught by a group of people in front of them were directly dragged to the boats.

"What are these black things, and what are they doing on the boat?"

A group of people hid behind the reef and looked at it for a while, all puzzled.

"If you guessed correctly, these should be coal and iron!" Chen Xu's face became more and more cold.

These three big ships are almost the same as the sea ships he saw at the Langya Shipyard yesterday, but they are old and dilapidated in appearance, and he can almost conclude that these three ships are the fleets of Hou Sheng, Lu Sheng and others who went to sea to find the fairy grass of the sacred mountain for the emperor.

And he has also figured out one thing under Langya's investigation in the past few days, according to the understanding of the locals, Hou Sheng, Lu Sheng and others did present an overseas catalogue after the emperor paraded to the wolf's tooth, with the words Hu of the dead Qin on it, which is almost exactly the same as the historical records of later generations.

In other words, although he is constantly changing the development trajectory of Great Qin, some major things have not changed much, at most, there have been some changes in the process and time.

According to the news obtained in Langya County, the emperor was originally going to use Dading to cook Hou Sheng, Lu Sheng and others to death in Langya Terrace, but because of this catalogue, the emperor's mind was changed.

Chen Xu didn't know what the emperor thought after reading the catalogue and the tips he left behind, but Hou Sheng, Lu Sheng and others must have deceived the emperor with an overseas catalogue of inexplicable origin or even forgery.

In other words, Hou Sheng, Lu Sheng and others may go to sea this time and never return like Xu Fu at the beginning, because there is only a dead end when they come back again.

If they're lucky, they might end up in Japan.

In fact, he didn't have much interest in Hou Sheng Chen Xu, these monks were all liars, or they were just to deceive the emperor and help them build a big ship in order to achieve their goal of going to sea to find Shenshan Immortal Island.

After all, the sea is vast, a trip to sea is half a year and a year, food and clothing are okay, but building this kind of big ship that can sail is not something that ordinary people can do, even if Chen Xu himself is rich, it is impossible to have the ability to build ten big ships at one time, this is no longer a matter that money can solve, but it requires the cooperation of hundreds of thousands of people, just cutting down and transporting those giant trees with a diameter of at least one meter to Langya is an almost impossible task, which is beyond the limit of Shangjia's ability in this era.

Just like the construction of the Great Wall, it can only be done if the state apparatus operates.

The reason why Chen Xu came to look for Hou Sheng was to find out the person behind him who framed him.

He and Hou Sheng don't know each other, and they can't fight with eight poles, so Hou Sheng has no reason to let Zheng Boqiao use poison to harm him. ()

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