Yongzhou Prefecture is located in the middle of the Turtle-Back Heaven and Earth. Its area is very large. Compared with the size of the pastoral city, it is approximately equal to the total area of ​​the thirty pastoral cities.??

Although the city of Zhoufu covers a large area, the number of people living here cannot be compared with other cities, with only more than 10,000 people.

The reason why the population is so sparse is mainly because most of the people living here are large and small families in Yongzhou. These families have long divided the land within the city walls according to the size of the aristocratic families, just like cutting cakes. Then they built inner city manors with huge area but very small population on the divided land for family children and servants to live in.

Even if someone lives in the city, most of those people are subordinates sent by other cities and families to stay here, or officials of the prefect of the prefecture, etc. Few ordinary people can live here all year round.

Outside the city of Zhoufu is a dense forest called the Demon Realm Forest. This forest is also the largest and most abundant forest in Yongzhou. There are tens of thousands of strange beast communities in this forest. Although most of these strange beast communities are common in other forests, for some reason, the strength and ferociousness of these strange beasts are far greater than that of other forests.

These strange beast communities stay in the forest most of the time and rarely leave the forest, but sometimes they become extremely manic, setting off beast tides and attacking the prefectures in the central area of ​​the forest. In the past, there was an ambitious prefect of Yongzhou who wanted to eliminate the strange beasts in the forest. For this reason, they even sent a large number of people to build strongholds outside the city, and even cut down a large number of trees close to the city walls and created a circle of isolation belts. However, in the end, these methods were flooded by the beast tides and no one had this idea again over time.

In order to better protect the population safety of the prefecture in the beast tide, the prefect of Yongzhou began to build a circle of high walls on the edge of the forest a long time ago, and the prefects of all generations would continuously accumulate and strengthen the circle of high walls, and finally formed a majestic city wall that is as high as a hundred feet high, even thousands of miles away.

Xu Changqing saw that the high wall was located at the top of a mountain more than 1,300 miles away from the high wall. Next, they could not pass through the forest, but needed to take a special floating boat similar to an airship to pass through the forest from the air and reach the city of Zhoufu.

At that time, everyone was shocked by the towering walls in the distance, but only Xu Changqing was puzzled. After boarding the floating boat, he asked Bo Ji: "Since the Demon Realm Forest around the Zhoufu City is so dangerous and it is so troublesome to enter and exit the Zhoufu City, why not move the Zhoufu City to other places?"

When Bo Ji heard Xu Changqing's inquiry, he was stunned. He didn't know how to answer for a moment, and his face showed a thoughtful look. Although he had lived in this huge city for a long time, he had never thought about this question. Now when he heard Xu Changqing's inquiry, he realized that this matter was indeed a bit abnormal. As far as he knew, in order to build a high wall that could withstand the tide of strange beasts, not only did Li Tian Palace pay a lot of manpower and material resources, but even the Prefect's Mansion also invested a lot of funds and manpower. In order to maintain this huge wall every year, the Prefect's Mansion also invested nearly half of the taxes, which made people feel that it was not worth the effort.

"Why has no one ever considered such an obvious problem before?" Bo Ji, who looked puzzled, couldn't help but mutter to himself.

"Because most people don't care about this problem like you, they all think it's a matter of course to enjoy the stability brought by the giant wall." Just then, Ji Mingshu suddenly appeared and inserted into the conversation between the two, saying as if they knew it: "And people who really care about this problem know what the answer is, so there is no need to consider these impossible solutions."

Bo Ji looked at Ji Mingshu helplessly, sighed slightly, and rebuked: "Miss Ji, eavesdropping is not a good habit."

"I didn't eavesdrop," Ji Mingshu smiled indifferently. Relying on his tall figure, he looked down at Bo Ji with a pressure, and said with confidence: "I listened openly, but you didn't notice me."

"You..." Bo Ji rarely deals with women, let alone a special woman like Ji Mingshu. Faced with such an almost rogue response, he didn't know how to deal with it.

At this time, Xu Changqing did not stand aside and watch the show as quietly as last time. Instead, he seemed to be helping Bo Ji and asked Ji Mingshu: "I guess Miss Ji should know why the Yongzhou Prefecture City did not move to another place, right?"

Hearing Xu Changqing's inquiry, Ji Mingshu turned his head and looked up and down, with a scrutiny look in his eyes.

In fact, before that, Ji Mingshu had only Bo Ji's eyes. Xu Changqing, who was with Bo Ji, was only regarded as a friend of Bo Ji, and believed that he was as ordinary as most other people. However, when she heard Xu Changqing's inquiry about Bo Ji just now, she felt that Xu Changqing was not as simple as it seemed, because she knew very well that there were only a handful of people in the entire Yongzhou who could think of and ask this question without any preparation in advance, and those people were all special people who controlled the direction of the situation in Yongzhou.

"I haven't asked you yet..." Although Ji Mingshu did not feel any power aura from Xu Changqing, it made her feel that the power of the person in front of her might be unfathomable. After all, even the most ordinary civilians have a power aura after years of cultivation. There are only two possibilities for the person in front of her. One is that the other party's power is so powerful that she cannot perceive, and the other is that the other party deliberately restrains the power in her body. No matter what, the strength of the person in front of her is not simple.

Xu Changqing naturally felt the other party's abnormal vision and could also infer what the other party was thinking, but he didn't care, but said calmly: "Changqing, Miss Ji can just call me Changqing like Bo Ji."

"Mingshu has met Brother Changqing." Ji Mingshu greeted Xu Changqing very appropriately, and then responded to Xu Changqing's inquiry just now, saying: "Brother Changqing's question just now should have been a taboo in Yongzhou and cannot be known to others. However, this taboo has been considered semi-public over the years, so there will be no major problems when I say it. In fact, the prefects of all dynasties have never had the idea of ​​moving the city, because Li Tian Palace once mentioned that a treasure was buried under this city to stabilize the entire Yongzhou world. If it is moved, the treasure may be abnormal, and the entire Yongzhou world will be completely destroyed."

"Is there such a thing?" Bo Ji forgot about the embarrassment when facing Ji Mingshu, and was attracted by what he said, and asked, "What kind of treasure is it?"

"No one knows what treasure it is." Ji Mingshu shook his head and said.

Bo Ji asked again: "How is this possible? Isn't anyone looking for this treasure?"

"Of course I have searched for it. Even though some people are still searching for it now, they can't find it all." Ji Mingshu said, pointing to the top of his head, and said with a little disdainful tone: "I guess there is actually no such treasure at all. This is a lie that Li Tiangong deliberately made up in order to trap the most important people in Yongzhou here."

Although Ji Mingshu seemed indignant when he said this, and his attention seemed to be shifting to other places, the careful Xu Changqing still showed up easily. Ji Mingshu was actually secretly observing the reactions of Xu Changqing and Bo Ji, as if he wanted to see from the subtle expression changes on their faces how they were about Li Tiangong.

However, what disappointed her was that neither of them showed any valuable reaction. Bo Ji was thinking about the problem and not thinking about anything else. Xu Changqing had noticed it for a long time and always had a smile on his face that he could not see any thoughts.

"No!" At this moment, Bo Ji, who had been pondering for a moment, suddenly said affirmatively: "No, you said it wrong! That treasure is not a lie, but should be real."

As soon as Bo Ji said this, Ji Mingshu frowned and waited for the following text, while Xu Changqing looked at Bo Ji with a little surprise.

Although Xu Changqing could not express his affirmation about the treasure hidden in Yongzhou Prefecture like Bo Ji, he could still vaguely feel that the vitality power in the Demon Realm Forest was unusual, which was very likely related to the treasure.

"Why are you so sure there are treasures hidden here?" Ji Mingshu asked a question that Xu Changqing also wanted to know the answer.

"Because the self-reflection book written by Mr. Muye recorded the construction of the Yongzhou Prefecture City, and one sentence mentioned that the God of Litian Palace buried a ball of light under the cornerstone." Bo Ji said with great affirmation: "Miye's ancestors had directly participated in the construction of the Yongzhou Prefecture City, and his family must have left some notes of his ancestors, so his text should be very reliable."

Ji Mingshu still frowned and questioned: "Did Mr. Muye's self-reflection book? I have also read Mr. Muye's self-reflection book, so why don't I remember seeing this passage?"

Bo Ji said with great confidence: "This passage is recorded in the eighth section of the Yongzhou Ancient Calendar in the 19th volume. This passage is only available on the earliest version of Gu Yuexuan and Liang Ming's handwritten versions of this book. Other versions have been deleted and modified."

After hearing this, Ji Mingshu frowned even more, and she fell into deep thought. It seemed that she had believed Bo Ji's words. After a while, she recovered and claimed to sue Bo Ji and Xu Changqing, saying that she would go to find them after they arrived in Yongzhou Prefecture and settled down.
Chapter completed!