Chapter 1568: Mysterious Power

In this regard, the Yao King still maintained his sanity and still did not allow his own regular army to enter the field directly. The second message was that the Miaozhan Heavenly God Temple began to contact the Allied leader, the Boss Situ family.

This was not good news, and He Lingchuan frowned for a long time.

From his perspective, this belongs to a two-way rush. Miaozhan Tian wants to extend his influence to the Allied territory, which must be done through the Boss Situ family, just like the Yao Nation monarch who led the whole people to change to Miaozhan Tian as the main god more than a hundred years ago.

The war between the Allied Forces and Bixia now seems to have the upper hand. Miaozhan Tian may have seen the potential of the Allied Forces and believes that it is worth investing in.

And for Boss Situ He, by relying on Miaozhan Tian's powerful influence on the Glittering Gold Plain, the Boss Situ family's leadership of the Allied Forces after the war will be more stable.

Boss Situ He has expressed to He Lingchuan more than once that he and his father hope to rely on the power of Beijia. And isn't the ultimate power of Beijia the Heavenly God? If they can hook up with this powerful righteous god, Miaozhan Tian, the Allied Forces will have confidence in their actions on the Glittering Gold Plain in the future, especially in dealing with the Yao Nation.

He Lingchuan also remembers the struggle goal of the Boss Situ father and son, which is to end the Yao Nation's rule over the entire Glittering Gold Plain and completely wipe out the influence of the Yao Nation. To achieve this goal, Boss Situ He should at least not offend Miaozhan Tian.

The problem is that He Lingchuan knows very well what the Heavenly God is like. Once the Allied Forces agree to Miaozhan Tian's request, they will eventually put a lock on their own necks.

The Soul-Sucking Mirror saw him holding the note and not saying a word for a long time, so he couldn't help but ask: "Are there any incredible inside stories about these two things?"

"Most people think that the source of the disaster on the Glittering Gold Plain is the Yao Nation; before I came to the Glittering Gold Plain, I also thought that the biggest obstacle to our development would be the Yao Nation." He Lingchuan shook the note. "Wrong."

The Soul-Sucking Mirror played its role well: "Then what is it?"

"It's the Heavenly God." He Lingchuan said lightly, "To be more specific, it's Miaozhan Tian."

"The Heavenly God's wishful thinking is that no matter how these forces on the Glittering Gold Plain fight, they must eventually believe in them." He sighed lightly, "For the past few hundred years, this has indeed been the case. So many heroes and powerful people have come and gone, and the Glittering Gold Plain is still that Glittering Gold Plain, using flesh and blood to satisfy the needs of the Heavenly God."

"Therefore, if you want to truly take down the Glittering Gold Plain, besides the Yao Nation, the real stumbling block in front of us is Miaozhan Tian!" He Lingchuan said shocking words in a plain tone, "We must weaken the influence of the Heavenly God on this land, otherwise our actions will just be another cycle on the Glittering Gold Plain."

The true rise of the Great Emperor of the Nine Netherworlds must be directly proportional to the decline of the gods on the Glittering Gold Plain.

"Hey, don't add difficulty to yourself casually." The Soul-Sucking Mirror protested, "The things you have to do right now are already very difficult."

"The things I want to do have basically been done." He Lingchuan smiled, "What to consider next is how to safely retreat from the rapids."

"The Yao King will not let you go." The mirror also saw it very clearly at this time, "Even if you give him all the money."

The Yao Nation situation has developed to this point today, and He Lingchuan has made a great contribution. The relationship between the Yao King and Qingyang can no longer go back, just like the relationship between the Yao Nation and Beijia can no longer go back to that year. Once the Yao King reacts, he will definitely not let He Lingchuan go.

"So, timing is very important." He Lingchuan didn't intend to give away the money he earned with his own ability, "The Yao Nation is already crazy, and it is moving toward the endgame."

"Also, I always feel that there is something strange about Miaozhan Tian's forces wanting to infiltrate the Allied territory."

The mirror didn't understand: "Don't all Heavenly Gods do this, competing for faith?"

"There is something wrong somewhere." He Lingchuan stroked his chin, "Miaozhan Tian is not one of those small wild gods on the Glittering Gold Plain. It is not only one of the righteous gods but also a heavy-weight deity among the Lingxu gods. Look at how hard the Yao Nation has been building temples and offering incense to it for more than a hundred years, and it is still very dissatisfied, which shows how arrogant and greedy this god is."

"Such a righteous god, enjoying the offerings and incense of the whole Yao Nation, would never have looked at the Allied Forces in the past? Not to mention, ordering its own temple to take the initiative to contact them."

The mirror assumed: "Perhaps it is because the conflict in the divine world is becoming more intense, and the gods attach more importance to the competition for faith?"

"Not impossible. But the conflict in the divine world will mostly lead to turmoil in the human world. Don't forget that the Yao Nation is supporting Bixia in the war, but its soul master is actively extending an olive branch to Boss Situ He, which sounds a bit split. I guess the Yao King may not know about this yet."

"Olive branch?" The mirror didn't understand what this meant.

"It means taking the initiative to show favor." He Lingchuan pondered, "Boss Situ He can enter Miaozhan Tian's eyes, besides the Allied Forces' status becoming more stable, I suspect, is Miaozhan Tian planning something else, such as supporting another force?"

Once the Allied Forces defeat Bixia, they will be a new force rising in the middle of the Glittering Gold Plain. Can this enter Miaozhan Tian's eyes? If other small gods took the initiative to contact the Allied Forces, He Lingchuan wouldn't feel strange. But for Miaozhan Tian to do this, is it a bit condescending? It is the main god of the Yao Nation, enjoying the offerings of the first powerful country on the Glittering Gold Plain, does it still need to take the initiative to hook up with the emerging forces on the plain? Hmm, unless...

The next day, Wang Fubao, who was serving as a personal guard for Gu Lin of Tonglin Ji, sent back a message: Tonglin Ji went to purchase grain in the four southwestern regions, but was told that there was no stock.

The new grain from this year's autumn harvest has been listed one after another. Except for the few large grain warehouses in Mangzhou and Taoshui, the grain in other places has also been harvested and sold by farmers to grain merchants, thus entering normal sales channels.

What He Lingchuan wants Tonglin Ji to do in a race against time is to snatch grain from grain merchants.

This step is easier than buying grain from official warehouses and buying grain from Lu Yuanzheng and others. Large and small grain merchants fight on their own, and at most they are managed by the guild. As long as the price is right, there is no reason for them not to sell.

But Tonglin Ji found that the grain in several southwestern regions had been bought one step ahead.

That was grain starting at tens of millions of jin.

Who bought it?

Don't know.

At this level, He Lingchuan is ashamed of himself. He is just a foreign merchant, and Tonglin Ji is not an organization of that level.

The other party is truly capable of reaching the sky.

Gu Lin attaches great importance to it and mobilized his connections to inquire, but the result was like a stone sinking into the sea, and no news was obtained.

These people who secretly collect grain are not simple.

He Lingchuan pondered for a long time after getting this information and only said: "Observe and observe."

In the following days, Tonglin Ji fed back several messages. The sources and production of several materials He Lingchuan asked to collect were sharply reduced. When asked, they all said that someone was collecting them.

He Lingchuan is anxious to turn money into materials and then transport the materials to fill those fifty-plus storage points. What is the other party's purpose?

Hmm, I don't know how many forces are acting in the dark.

He Lingchuan has always paid attention to market prices. In the previous two months, although the price of residential land in the new city soared, the food, clothing, and daily use of civilians did not rise much, and the market has always been prosperous in supply and demand.

This is not strange at all. The upper-class dignitaries, middle-class merchants, and lower-class civilians are all anxious to exchange the materials and goods in their hands for money, so as to get a piece of land in the new city of Tianshui, or to repay the debts owed.

Everyone is selling, even selling things that don't belong to them, so the materials on the market are extremely rich in a short time, and they are cheap and good.

He Lingchuan knows that if a country's production capacity is extremely powerful, playing like this is not a bad thing, but rather promotes commodity circulation.

Money, only when it circulates does it have value.

But the problem is, can the Yao Nation's materials be endless?

It is a powerful country on the Glittering Gold Plain, but in terms of size and national strength, compared with the Mou Nation and Beijia, it is a child in front of an adult.

The means are too advanced, which is not necessarily a good thing.

"The good things have been collected almost, and if you continue to do this, it will inevitably attract the attention of the official or the other party." He Lingchuan decided to see good and close, "All material acquisitions are suspended, let Gu Lin collect Xuan crystals for me, the more the better."

Xuan crystals are hard currency, often starting at ten thousand taels, and are also suitable for his realization. And the price of Xuan crystals on the black market has dropped a bit recently. He Lingchuan knows that this may be because a new round of Emperor Flowing Pulp outbreak is about to come, and it is said to be "unprecedented." The upper-class officials and nobles got the news and took the opportunity to sell a part of Xuan crystals, otherwise the price would be lower when the time comes.

Since it is a commodity, the price has its own laws.

Soon, Gu Lin found clues: those who collect a lot of grain are generally empty-bag merchants. Obviously, the tricks used by Tonglin Ji are also very proficient by the forces in the dark.

However, one of them still showed its feet, using a group of people Gu Lin knew.

The forces behind them don't sound very eye-catching, at least He Lingchuan hasn't heard of them, just a small clan in the locality, surnamed Shi. But Gu Lin was unusually solemn: "The Shi family has produced two generals in the past twenty years, both of whom have been on the battlefield. You know, whose subordinates were they at the time?"

"Whose?" He Lingchuan's curiosity was also hooked.

"Bai Tan, known as General Bai." Gu Lin also said, "We in the industry all know that the Shi family is actually working for General Bai."

Bai Tan no longer fights, but still maintains past relationships with old subordinates in the military camp.

This made even He Lingchuan a little surprised: "How could it be General Bai?"

He thought it would be Qingyang.

Isn't it good for Bai Tan to take his salary honestly, occasionally indulge his subordinates to take a little, and then filial to him, and honestly follow the routine of the Tianshui City officialdom?

He instructed old subordinates to collect materials everywhere, what does he want to do? Gu Lin also said: "But they didn't collect much, at least not much that I found, and it doesn't exclude self-use?"

"That means there are more forces doing this in the dark." He Lingchuan was relieved that he was not the only one digging the Yao Nation's wall, and it was fast and fierce, "You also said just now that you can't find their background."

"The hands and feet are very clean, and things are done without leaking."

"Many people have great strength, interesting." He Lingchuan stroked his chin, "Able to be caught by you, the Shi family is just an outsider. The real big crocodile is still lurking under the water."

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