Beizhou, a village

This is a village with only a few hundred people. When Lin's flying boat landed, Lin Batian only showed a little pressure, and the villagers knelt on the ground and expressed their submission.

Then someone sent a beautiful woman, food, and baskets of minerals, saying that these things would buy their lives.

Lin Batian didn't want those things, but just occupied a few crude houses to rest. It was already very cold here at night, and the cold was not a threat to them. They just didn't want to move.

On the second day, Lin Batian sent people to leave the village and asked them to go to various places in Beizhou to explore the news. Although he knew the general situation, the information was not detailed enough.

"I've checked. This village is very poor. There's not a single spirit stone in the whole village. There are only some tools at the magic weapon level. The whole village relies on mining for food to barely make a living. The mine outside the village is black iron ore, which is of good quality."

"The people in this village don't know how to practice immortal arts, but they have a strong demon bloodline. They are all strong and powerful. In terms of individual strength, they are not inferior to those in the middle stage of Qi training, and some can reach the foundation building stage."

"It's equivalent to physical cultivation through martial arts..."

"They are used to being poor and weak. If a powerful immortal cultivation force comes, they will send women and minerals as a means of saving their lives. There are several gangs of bandits nearby who will come to collect money on time, which is equivalent to protection fees, or taxes."

"From a glimpse of the whole picture, there should be many such small villages in Beizhou."

Several senior members of the Lin family gathered together to discuss. In one day, they found out the details of this village. Their goal was to get a piece of the pie in this chaotic Beizhou.

"Master, the Northern Province is in great chaos, and there are no powerful forces. Why don't we become bandits and rob them?"

"I think it's feasible. The Lin family has run out of money. It's also good to build this place into the permanent base of the Lin family."

"But the old, weak, women and children of the Lin family cannot move here. The environment here is too bad. If you don't practice well enough, you will die young."

"If you don't have enough talent, you can't practice fast enough. Half of your spiritual power will be used to keep warm."

Several people said again, and Lin Batian still didn't express his opinion. Then he asked Lin Die to speak.

"I don't know, don't ask me."

Lin Die continued to be bad. When Lin Batian asked her to do something, she did it, but she no longer took the initiative to take those responsibilities.

"Third brother, it's almost done."

"I don't understand what Dad is saying."

"You..."

Lin Batian was so angry. Both daughters rebelled. One ran away from home and now no one knows where she is, and the other came to irritate him.

Lin Die looked at her nose with her eyes and her heart with her nose. She didn't say anything or pay attention to him. She was not afraid of Lin Batian getting angry. The cold war method made Lin Batian helpless.

"Lin Wu, you tell me something too."

"Master, I..."

"If you dare to say you don't know, don't ask me. I will break your legs and throw you out."

"..."

Lin Jiang took a deep breath. Damn it, why? You can't do anything to your daughter, why are you taking your anger out on me?

"Speak."

"Okay, does the head of the family want to make a quick buck and leave, or to run the business for a long time?"

"Of course it's a long-term business. You know what the Lin family's situation is now. We must find a way to make money for the Lin family."

"Then defeat all other bandits and become a thief king."

"Speak carefully."

"Treat Beizhou as your own territory. We want to be bandits too, but not ordinary bandits. We must first defeat and recruit other bandits so that we will be the only bandits in Beizhou. Then we will monopolize the trade routes, and then money will naturally come rolling in."

"This is not a low requirement. The bandits in Beizhou are very strong. The main reason is that there are hidden dragons and crouching tigers here. You don't know how many monsters are hiding here, and the forces in Youzhou must have huge interests here. Once we do this, the forces in Youzhou will not let us go."

"It doesn't matter. If there are really powerful monsters, we can win them over. If we give enough money, I believe no one will refuse. As for those businesses in Youzhou, we don't want to cut off their financial resources, but cooperate with them and do business as usual, but we want to make a share. As long as we are strong enough, everything can be discussed."

Lin Jiang said that only those who have the strength to monopolize the trade route are qualified to do these things. Without this strength, everything is empty talk.

"Give you three days to give me a detailed report"

"Yes"

Lin Jiang replied. The plan is random, as long as you can do it. If you can't do it by then, you can't blame him.

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Three days passed in the blink of an eye, and the people sent by Lin Batian also came back one after another. They brought more detailed information, such as how exaggerated the number of bandits in this Beizhou was.

"There is almost no order in the world of immortal cultivators in Beizhou. Everyone can be said to be a bandit. For example, in our village now, we are strong now, and they are extremely humble and respectful. If we are not as strong as them, they will turn into jackals and eat us up. The same is true for other villages. They can be poor people, untouchables, or bandits."

"Beizhou is divided into two parts: human immortal cultivators and human-demons. The immortal cultivators have no orthodox forces and are all ruthless. Here, either you kill others or others kill you." "

The contradiction between immortal cultivators and human-demons is very deep. Some human-demon characteristics are very obvious. For example, their hands are sharp claws. These claws, like real monsters, are also materials in the eyes of immortal cultivators. Therefore, many immortal cultivators will hunt human-demons to make a profit. Similarly, there are also human-demons who devour immortal cultivators to strengthen themselves..."

"The power of the trading companies here is extremely terrifying. These trading companies have the shadow of some forces in Youzhou or northern Zhongzhou. They use some inferior resources to exchange for the specialties of Beizhou from some villages to make huge profits.

Some cultivators are ambitious and want to unify Beizhou, but they have all failed. It was all because of those trading companies. The large-scale bandits in Beizhou are also supported by the trading companies, but at the same time, they are also restricting the power of the bandits..."

The disciples of the Lin family who followed Lin Batian were all elites. After a few days of investigation, they had almost sorted out the situation in Beizhou and their abilities were extremely powerful.

"You did a good job, Lin Wu, you said it, everyone listen to Lin Wu"

"Yes, Patriarch, my idea is this, the Lin family members disguised as bandits, we defeated all other bandits in Beizhou, subdued them, cut off the entire Beizhou trade route, and monopolized it.

We don't have to spend time and energy to manage Beizhou, those villages, immortal cultivators, human demons, etc., but all transactions must be done by us. When the time comes, we go to the aborigines to collect the goods and resell them to the business, or we build a city and serve as a transit station for the business, all are OK..."

Lin Jiang was not afraid, and immediately said his idea. In fact, there is nothing new. The Arabs in the history of Blue Star did this, and there are many ready-made examples in the world of immortal cultivation.

To put it bluntly, the Lin family used their own power to interfere in Beizhou and use their own power to seek benefits.

"Master, according to this plan, we have to fight the war. We have to fight the aborigines, bandits, and merchants. If we don't defeat them, they won't listen to us."

"In a place like Beizhou, if you don't show your strength and defeat them, it's impossible to do anything. Anyway, we have to fight, so it's better to defeat them all at once. Of course, this is not urgent. We can plan and lay out the plan for ten or twenty years."

"After all, I like Lin Wu's plan. It's okay to collect the goods and sell them by ourselves. This requires too many people, and the money earned is hard work. We just earn protection fees. According to the model of Xiuxian City, you will continue to inquire tomorrow to see where it is suitable to build a city. Let's take down a territory first."

Lin Batian has already decided that the environment in Beizhou is too bad, and all the Lin family members cannot migrate here. Without enough reliable people, it is impossible to do big things.

So he can only operate according to the model of Xiuxian City, and this will be very rough, but it doesn't matter. He is here to make money.

Lin Batian asked people to prepare while mobilizing manpower. It was simply wishful thinking for them to control the entire Beizhou with such a small number of people. However, he still had many capable people under his command, such as the remnants of the four major sects, and it was time for them to contribute.