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

Because Chen Xu came here incognito, he did not want to contact local county officials to expose his identity, so he placed the carriage and cargo in a newly built foot house in Langya County. Every day, he brought a group of guards and Xiao He, Liu Bang, Jiang Chuxing, brothers and sisters out early and returned late to find out the whereabouts of Hou Sheng and Lu Sheng, who were looking for the Immortal Island of Shenshan.

Langya Terrace is located in Langya Town, Huangdao District, Qingdao City in later generations.

Before Chen Xu traveled through time, he had visited this place with his classmates during the summer vacation, but now it was the Qin Dynasty two thousand years ago. It was definitely different from the situation in later generations where the transportation was full of tall buildings. This place was not a prosperous and prosperous place, but also a barren land by the sea. Apart from some rolling mountains, there was a vast sea of ​​turbulent waves.

Moreover, it is midsummer. There are often strong winds and huge waves on the sea, tropical storms are coming in a rush, dark clouds rolling and thunder are coming, and heavy rains are coming at the right time. Therefore, standing on Langya Mountain, you can only see the waves of the sea and the almost empty and uninhabited coast.

Only after the storm has stopped, can we occasionally see fishing boats going out to sea, but we only fish for sea shells and shrimps in the area of ​​the quiet sea for several miles. It is completely incomparable to the busy situation of later generations where cruise ships and fishing boats are constantly shuttled through the sea. The sight of the eyes is the absolutely primitive sea scenery.

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

There are ten huge tower ships here that are being built day and night, even if the strong winds and waves have not stopped. The ten trenches dug out are used as docks, and a large number of logs are piled up around the construction site like mountains. A few miles away can be heard the sound of civilians and prisoners shouting horns and dragging wood. In the dock, the jingling sounds never stopped.

Five of these ten sea boats have been completed. The busy civilians and ship workers are transporting goods on the ship like ants. There are also countless soldiers wearing leather armor and whips constantly patrolling and scolding loudly. From time to time, they will wave their whips and talk about the slow-moving prisoners who are beating them to cry and cry.

Chen Xu and others rode their horses to the near the shipyard. When they were about to go in and inquire, they were stopped by a group of soldiers.

"Stop, this is a forbidden place. Idle people are not allowed to enter. Retreat quickly. Those who violate the order will be killed!" A burly Tunchang shouted loudly, pressing the long sword on his waist.

"This general, we came here to see the name, not to want to go in and spy!" Chen Xu flipped his hand and showed two golden cakes and stuffed them into the hands of the gate chief and whispered, "We went to Langya. We heard that the emperor built a large ship here to summon alchemists to go out to sea to find the immortal island of the sacred mountain. Therefore, he came here to see the name. I wonder if he could go in and visit the alchemists of the immortals!"

The governor calmly put two golden cakes in his bag. 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 we are indeed in military affairs. This place has been marked as a forbidden area by the county magistrate and the county magistrate. No one can enter. If you want to visit those alchemists, you can go to the near Laoshan opposite the bay to inquire. They are not here!"

"Thank you, thank you, General! " Chen Xu turned around and left quickly with a group of people.

"Marty, these soldiers should not be lying. We have been watching near Langya for several days and have not seen any alchemists appear!" Xiao He said with his horse.

"Well, it seems that we were looking for the wrong place, but the East China Sea coast is so long, but I don't know where the group of alchemists are hiding in Laoshan!" Chen Xu nodded.

He has been to Laoshan before, but the environment is completely different now than two thousand years later. The coastline near Qingdao alone is hundreds of kilometers long, and there are only wild animals besides some fishermen on the beach. Sometimes, riding horses and running for more than ten miles can’t be seen. It is like finding a hidden group of alchemists near such a long and lush and road-free coast. It is like looking for a needle in a haystack. What’s more, there are many large and small islands in the sea. You can vaguely see the islands that appeared and disappeared in the sea with the naked eye. If these people were hiding on the island, he would have no way to do it.

However, according to the process of Xu Fu going to sea in later generations and the statement of the garrison leader just now, there is at least 80% chance that Hou Sheng and others will hide near Laoshan.

It is said that in another time and space, Xu Fu had failed to cross the sea several times. He hid in Laoshan most of his time, fearing that he would be caught by the emperor and chopped his head.

From Langya Mountain to Laoshan, you have to bypass a huge bay, which was later called Jiaozhou Bay, but it has no name yet. It took Chen Xu and others a whole day to bypass this bay. It was still riding a horse. If you walk with your feet, it would be better to row directly from Langya.

After rushing, around the next day, Chen Xu and others finally arrived near Laoshan, but looking at the vast mountains with mountains covered with vast trees, Chen Xu and others could only stare at them.

"Marty, this mountain with few people is probably not found in ten days or half a month!" Jiang Chuxing said with a twitching face.

A group of people followed Chen Xu from Wuzhong to Langya, but they didn't know why Chen Xu came to find those alchemists, but they didn't dare to ask too much, because Chen Xu's reputation and aura were too strong. Except for the calmer surprise of Jiang Chuxing's mood, Xiao He and Cao Shen did not dare to speak very much. Liu Bang was expressed in Sheyang by Chen Xu, and the way was even more like a silence. Chen Xu would never speak without asking. He would even unconsciously stay away from Chen Xu and dare not approach him. He was always worried. Once this sentence was spread, the emperor might catch him and fry it in the oil pan, and fry it, making the evil man with such thoughts so fry it, so as to warn the heroes and heroes who have the same thoughts in the world.

"Marty, there is a path ahead, I don't know where to go?" A guard who was exploring the way forward rode back and reported.

"Let's go and search along the path, and pay attention to hiding whereabouts!"

"Here~" the guards shouted a few times, and the guards who were exploring the way around gathered, protecting a group of people to walk into the mountains along a small path hidden in the dense forest at the foot of the mountain.

Half an hour later, there was a canyon ahead, and the road became narrower and steeper. Just when Chen Xu felt that he had taken the wrong path, suddenly there was a faint cry of a woman behind him, and it was mixed with the scolding and laughter of these men.

"Hidden~" Chen Xu waved his hand, and the group immediately jumped off the horse's back and led the horse into the dense forest on both sides, and also put the horse on it and was frightened to prevent the horse from neighing and revealing its whereabouts.

After waiting for nearly twenty minutes, a group of people appeared in the path, led by three alchemists wearing Taoist robes and buns, and behind them were a group of men in various outfits and carrying weapons. Among them, there were seven or eight young girls, all of whom were about fifteen or sixteen years old. However, these girls were trapped in their arms by ropes and had linen stuffed in their mouths. They were pushed by a group of men and walked along the path and soon disappeared into the valley.

"Marty, this leader of the alchemist may have something to do with the person the Marquis is looking for." Xiao He whispered.

"Not necessarily, there are many Taoist wise men in Langya County, but it is undoubtedly a bad person depending on the situation!" Cao Shen shook his head.

"Leave some people to take care of the horses, and the rest follow me to see. No matter what, you can't let these girls fall into the devil's claws!"

Chen Xu waved his hands with a gloomy face, and a group of people emerged from the woods on both sides. Under the arrangement of the guard leader, five guards were left to lead horses to find a place to hide. The rest followed Chen Xu and followed the group of people who had just now to slowly touch the valley.

The valley is about three or four miles, but it is actually a canyon that runs through both ends. After walking out of the canyon, my eyes suddenly lit up, and a bay full of reefs appeared in front of me.

Although the sea in the distance is still rolling and surging, the bay is calm and quiet. Three huge sea boats with mottled and old appearances docked in the bay and swayed slightly with the wind and waves.

The beaches in the bay were messy and were covered with darkness. In addition to some wooden sheds and docks built with random trees, there were also many alchemists with road buns, black and thin boatmen and fishermen carrying things on the boat. The seven or eight girls caught by a group of people in front were towed directly onto the boat.

"What are these black things? What do you do when you put them on the boat?"

A group of people hid behind the reef and observed it all over and were puzzled.

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

These three large ships were almost the same as the sea ships I saw at the Langya Shipyard yesterday. They looked old and tattered. He could almost conclude that these three ships were the fleets of Hou Sheng, Lu Sheng and others going to sea to find the emperor's fairy grass for the sacred mountain.

Moreover, after investigating Langya in the past few days, he also figured out something. According to the locals, Hou Sheng and Lu Sheng and others did present an overseas catalog after the emperor was parade to Langya, which contained the words Hu, the deceased Qin. This situation is almost exactly the same as the historical records of later generations.

In other words, although he was constantly changing the development trajectory of Daqin, some major things did not change much, at most some changes in the process and time.

According to the news obtained in Langya County, the emperor originally planned to use a large tripod to cook Hou Sheng and Lu Sheng and others to death, but this catalog changed the emperor's mind.

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

In other words, Hou Sheng and Lu Sheng may go to sea this time like Xu Fu, because there is only a dead end when they come back again.

If they are lucky enough, they may arrive in Japan.

In fact, they were not very interested in Hou Sheng and Chen Xu. These alchemists were all liars, or they just deceived the emperor to help them build a big ship in order to achieve their own goal of going to sea to find the Immortal Island of the Divine Mountains.

After all, the sea is vast, and it takes half a year to go out to sea at a time. It’s okay to say that food and clothing are food and clothing, but it’s not something that ordinary people can do. Even if Chen Xu is rich and powerful, he cannot be able to build ten large ships at one time. This is no longer something that money can solve, but requires hundreds of thousands of people to cooperate. Just cutting down those giant trees with a diameter of at least one meter to Langya is an almost impossible task, which has exceeded the limit of the ability of merchants in this era.

Just like building the Great Wall, only the state machinery can be completed.

The biggest hope of Chen Xu looking for Hou Sheng is to find the person behind the scenes who instructed him to frame him.
Chapter completed!