Peerless Taoist

The mountain pass was ten thousand miles wide and tall.    

This was the barrier of the East Victory Galaxy, and it was like a giant that stood above the starry sky.    

Lu Yu had once fought back the Tang Dynasty army here, and had successfully bought a chance for the East Victory Star River to rest and recuperate. The city bricks were still soaked in blood. The traces of swords and sabers falling on them were still visible. It was as if they were talking about the tragic battle that had happened here in the past.    

The flag on top of the high wall was fluttering in the wind, but it was no longer the flag of Crimson Flame Dragon, but the flag of San He in the Qi Kingdom.    

The soldiers guarding the city wall were no longer the defending soldiers of the Heavenly Charging Pass, but the soldiers of the Qi Army.    

King Qi, Zhao Tong, privately drafted a decree to lure the defending soldiers into the Heaven Charging Pass, and then sent experts to detain Wen Xing Hou and force him to hand over his military power.    

The original Tian Chong Army swiftly collapsed, and all the soldiers were split up and distributed to the other armies. Some people were unwilling to follow the Qi Dynasty and had already fled halfway. In the end, less than a tenth of the Tian Chong Army remained, and only a few people were pulled into the Qi Dynasty.    

Later on, when the Qi Dynasty was established, the remaining troops of the Tian Chong Army were filled with righteous indignation, but they had already lost the strength to resist. Even if they were furious in their hearts, it was of no use.    

Since then, the four great borders had fallen into the hands of the Qi Dynasty.    

On the long street, shops stood like trees in a forest.    

Ever since the Qi Dynasty occupied this place, they had dismantled most of the defensive equipment, opened up the market, and allowed merchants from the Tang Dynasty to come here to do business.    

As a military city, the Tianchong Pass had now become a commercial border town. Businessmen and merchants from all over the world were constantly coming and going, and this city was flourishing at a visible rate.    

However, behind the prosperity, the lives of the residents of Tichong Pass became more and more difficult.    

The Qi Dynasty had forcibly chased away the people who had originally lived in the center of the city and then built shops that had been opened by the Tang.    

The residents of Tiandong Pass who had lost their homes had been forced to work for the Tang shops in exchange for a meager salary.    

The Tang Dynasty had extremely high authority here. They did not need to pay taxes to the Qi Dynasty and could set their own prices and sales.    

As for the merchants who had originally been here, they were charged with high taxes by the Qi Dynasty. They could not make ends meet, and they could not bear the burden and left.    

The entire Tiandong Pass was almost occupied by the Tang people.    

Especially the local medicinal herbs of the East Victory Galaxy, and the place where they needed to produce the medicinal herbs had already been occupied by the Tang Dynasty.    

Thus, the monopoly began.    

The merchants of Great Yu and Qi Dynasty had to buy these medicinal herbs at a price dozens of times higher than usual. Because of this, many of the pharmaceutical trade alliances went bankrupt and were forcibly bought and annexed by the Tang Dynasty.    

The Tang army had millions of soldiers in the galaxy. Not only did they stop the attack of the Qianlong Army, but they also intimidated the armies of Great Yu.    

Not only the medicinal materials, but the Tang army had also extended their hands toward spirit stone mines, iron mines, and other industries. Even many so-called princes and ministers of the Qi Dynasty were not spared.    

However, the Qi Dynasty endured all of this and turned a blind eye to it.    

The Tang army was the lifesaver of the Qi Dynasty, and they had to tightly grasp onto it. This was only a necessary method to curry favor with the Tang Dynasty.    

"I heard that the boss is in debt again. If he can't pay any more money, the wife and children at home will probably starve."    

"Why don't we go and ask for money? If he doesn't give us money, we'll go to the authorities to settle accounts with him!"    

"Forget it. The boss is the real Master of the Tang Dynasty. Last time, the Tang Dynasty people raped Fifth Zhang's wife. He went to the government to file a complaint, but in the end, he was beaten into a false charge. He was sent to the iron mine as a slave. A few days ago, his wife took his child and jumped into the well. "