In the early years of the Great Chu, he tried to build a navy to expedition overseas, because the founding emperor of the Great Chu country had extraordinary vision and ambitions.

However, for various reasons, the creation of the navy was delayed again and again and never implemented. In Chongwen Academy, a large number of design drawings are still accumulated.

After that, all the emperors of the Great Chu gradually lost their ambitions. For hundreds of years, few emperors have thought about expanding their territory.

The founding emperor's pride has not continued.

What's ridiculous is that Yang Jing's father, the current emperor, is the representative of the lazy emperor and has almost never attended court in his life. His grandfather is an incompetent person who thinks of great achievements and has a reputation in history.

Yang Jing's grandfather Yang Yongye has an incredible ego, so ordinary and so proud.

The northern expedition of the Black Martial Arts lost hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers of the Great Chu Palace, which made the Great Chu unable to recover.

This is not the end. I don’t know who I heard of, but said that he was one of Master Zhou’s eighteen disciples, the man named Yang Sheng, who later understood the secret of immortality.

He also said that Yang Sheng had lived for hundreds of years and lived in seclusion on an island, and Yang Yongye immediately became interested.

For emperors, the temptation of immortality is so great that there is no other temptation to compare with.

Just a word on the island made Yang Yongye crazy.

He immediately ordered the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Works to build more than 200 warships, most of which were the ones Li Chi and the others were now riding, about twenty feet of Wuwei.

The largest one is about 28 or 9 feet tall Tiger Fighting Battleship, and a total of three were built.

Yang Yongye issued an order to personally select and form a navy team of more than 8,000 people, and was responsible for finding Yang Sheng's whereabouts in various parts of the Great Chu country.

It sounds like this is not a big deal, but a few years later, the Ministry of Revenue wrote a letter to the emperor to stop this military expenditure. Yang Yongye asked after asking questions before he learned that in the past few years, this team, which he personally named the Huwei Army, had a higher military expenditure than his previous expedition to the Black Martial Arts.

The speed of money was consumed so quickly, and the amount of silver required before and after was so huge. The number made his scalp numb.

Yang Yongye felt that it was Di Chi, the general of the Huwei Army, who was furious and ordered Di Chi to be transferred back to Daxing City. Before Di Chi came back, he asked Di Chi, the general of the Ministry of Justice, to arrest him.

Perhaps because Di Chi got the news, he did not return to Daxing City but ran away, and disappeared without a trace since then.

The emperor issued an order to chop off Di Chi's family. After a few days, the emperor felt that he was not angry, and another order implicated the three tribes.

Since then, the Huwei Army has been disbanded, and more than 200 large and small warships have been dispatched to various places for river and water patrol.

However, such a large warship is of no use to the local area. Most of the soldiers who are not familiar with controlling warships and have not been trained by naval commanders were abandoned. After decades, 70 to 80% of them were damaged and unusable.

In Wei'an County, water bandits were rampant. All the merchants gathered together to discuss and they invested to form a team, which belonged to the Wei'an County Government.

However, the merchants obviously underestimated the greed of Wei'an County Magistrate and others. They gathered out the money to protect the county corps, as if they were thrown into a bottomless pit.

The people from the county government asked for this money today and that money tomorrow. Not long after, the merchants realized that the people in the county government were much darker than the water bandits.

The robbers robbed ships and lost at most one ship's cargo. However, if they kept the county magistrates, their family business would be swallowed up by the county magistrate and others.

Compared with the people from the Dachu government, what are the water bandits?

Later, in desperation, these merchants had to give up and instead hire more martial artists to accompany them to guard.

This Wuwei warship is the best preserved ship since the disbandment of the Huwei Army.

Li Chi stood at the bow of the boat and listened to the boatman explaining the origin of the ship clearly with his words and words. He felt that he had not smashed the Great Chu enough and was not shattered enough.

At this time, the people on the boat knew that the one standing in front of them was King Ning, so everyone was curious why King Ning wanted to take a adventure on the mysterious island in the middle of the lake.

If something happens, it will be a big loss.

Li Chi asked about the island again. None of these boatmen had been there before. What they heard was exactly the same as what the old man said to Li Chi yesterday, and he couldn't ask anything new.

It is said that it is the Hall of Yama, which is actually found in various places in Great Chu. It is hidden in places where people cannot see it and is responsible for the local extradition.

If some people dare to start such a story, some people can make this story mysterious and mysterious.

After the news of this island in the middle of the lake came out, someone immediately said that he had seen the same hall in a certain place, which was also on the lake.

What else would have said if it weren't for the strong wind blowing away the clouds and mist one day, the Soul Conquer Hall would not have revealed its true appearance.

Some people also say that the evil thing is the guard of the Soul Conjuring Hall and the envoy to guide the envoy.

The further you go, the heavier the fog, you can no longer see a few feet in front of the bow, nor can you see the surrounding boats.

Li Chi had made arrangements before and ordered the ship to use the horn sound as a sign to tell the ship around him where it is.

Ning Jun is well-trained, and although everyone is quite nervous, he can't say he is too scared.

At the beginning, when you enter the fog, there is a faint pungent smell. The more you go inside, the heavier the smell will be.

Li Chi and the others covered their mouths and noses with scarves, only worried that the fog was not water vapor, but miasma. Fortunately, they had been walking for a long time and didn't feel any discomfort.

Just as Li Chi was talking to Dan Tai, the hull suddenly shook, as if it had hit something, and everyone on the boat was shaken to the point of being shaken. Fortunately, no one fell down.

But there was nothing in front of me, nor was it a scratch from my own ship.

Li Chi and the others held the boat and looked into the water. The fog was filled with it, and nothing was seen in the water.

"Before!"

Someone exclaimed at this time.

Li Chi and the others quickly looked up and saw that at the bow of the boat, something could be seen standing up through the fog.

It appeared like a pillar, about three or four feet in front of the ship. There was nothing there just now, and the sudden black shadow made everyone hold their breath.

"arrow!"

Dan Tai immediately gave an order.

That thing is too big.

It was vaguely visible that it could be as thick as a pair of arms, with a slightly larger top, becoming thinner down, and thicker downwards.

It looked more than one meter high above the water surface, and the giant python in the water was actually looking up at them.

"Shoot the arrow!"

Dan Tai gave an order.

The Ning army soldiers on the Wuwei warship immediately released all the bows, arrows, crossbows, and in an instant, countless arrows flew towards the thing.

But after a moment, there was a tinging sound, and Mars could be vaguely splashed everywhere, and that thing was unbreakable.

At this time, the boatmen were so scared that their legs were weak that they fell and could not even stand up.

The height of the thing that emerges from the water is more than meter high, and the thin area below the snake's head is also the size of a bucket. How big would it be if it was exposed?

Some boatmen were already begging Ning Jun not to shoot arrows anymore, which angered the fierce things. If they hit them directly, the ship would not be able to stand it. The bow of the Wuwei warship had a device to launch water spears. Li Chi personally adjusted the direction and knocked out the water spear as thick as his arm. With a crisp sound, sparks splashed everywhere.

"Pillar?"

Li Chi frowned slightly: "Get close!"

With his order, the ship slowly leaned over and found it nearby that it turned out to be just a pillar.

However, the carving of this pillar is indeed a giant python, with a triangular head high. The eyes do not seem to be carved directly, but two round stone balls are stuffed into the eye socket.

Although it is dull, no matter who looks at those eyes, they feel that they are looking at themselves.

The scales on the giant python are all very finely carved, especially the fine scales on the abdomen. The more you look at them, the more you feel oppressed and boundless fear.

Li Chi ordered the horn to be blown, reminding the surrounding ships to be careful of the pillar.

After the warship passed, someone was afraid but couldn't help looking back. In the fog, it seemed as if the stone python was slowly looking back at them.

After moving forward about dozens of feet away, the fog gradually became smaller and the vision became much better.

I encountered several such pillars, and I could see more in the distance.

"there."

Dan Tai’s wing pointed to a pillar with a relatively far distance: “It’s not much the same as what I saw just now.”

Li Chi followed his instructions and found that the pillar was more bizarre. Two giant pythons were entangled together. There was a slightly smaller snake head carved on the triangular snake head at the top of the pillar, creeping on the larger one.

This carving style is somewhat like the dragon-surrounding pillar in the main hall of Shiyuan Palace in Daxing City.

The further you go, the thinner the fog. After walking dozens of feet, the fog has almost dissipated, and the ships have also appeared in front of each other.

Li Chi told everyone to be careful and they should go to the dock.

He looked back at the double python stone pillar, and his expression changed.

There was no difference between the pillar, exactly the same as what I saw before. There were no smaller snake heads on the snake head at the top of the pillar.

Li Chi called out Dantai and pointed at the pillar. After looking at Dantai, he rubbed his eyes. He didn't see the python's heads. He rubbed his eyes again and then saw the second snake head appeared again.

Li Chi also saw it when he looked at it again. The two of them looked at each other and felt that this place was evil.

However, it was probably because my eyes were already blurred after passing through such thick fog, and the water vapor was so heavy that it was confusing.

Not far ahead, I saw the shore of the island in the middle of the lake, and there was a large white and flawless beach.

This kind of sand is different from river sand. The river sand is golden and the sand is white like shells ground into powder.

The big ship could not approach the shore, so Li Chi ordered the anchor to be thrown down and then the small boats hanging on both sides of the warship were lowered.

A small boat can carry more than a dozen soldiers, so it requires multiple round trips.

Li Chi and the others got on the shore first. When they stepped on the beach, the soles of their feet were not soft. If it was really a beach, there would be footprints when they stepped on it, but if they stepped on it, the sand would not sink at all.

The boat carried the soldiers over. In addition to the soldiers who left behind the large ship, there were 700 soldiers who landed on the island.

The island is lush and the climate is a little warm, and the skin feels wet and greasy soon.

Li Chi looked up and saw that the roof of a hall could be vaguely visible from the high place on the island, halfway up the mountain.

From that distance, you can see something coiled in the hall, which is extremely huge.
Chapter completed!