Ye Xing dressed up as a young warrior with a long sword on his back and a gentle scholar. One day later, he arrived at Tianjing City and entered the city from the second west gate. There was also no obstruction. When he entered the city, it was still early and he was not in a hurry to move in. After getting off, we went to Fangshi first.
The outer city of Tianjing City makes full use of natural space, with well-proportioned buildings and criss-crossing streets, forming a huge city. It is also divided according to social class and various functions, with commercial buildings and residential buildings in sharp contrast.
The inner and outer cities are separated by a surrounding river. There are only nine bridges in the middle. They are all guarded by experts and formations. Ordinary people cannot enter the inner city at all. Xiao Jingchen is already on the fourth level of King Wu and is not qualified to live there. Inside, no one is allowed to enter except by invitation.
The inner city is actually numerous manor-style buildings built around the foot of three peaks. They are all inhabited by high-ranking officials of the Tang Dynasty, monks with cultivation levels above the Jindan realm, and distant relatives of the royal family, that is, people with high status in the Tang Dynasty. .
The imperial city is on the three peaks, where the imperial palace is located. It is the place where the direct line of the royal family and the extremely important people of the Li family live. In addition to the imperial palace, it is the secret place for cultivation, because it is the most spiritual place. In the rich land, it is said that an extremely powerful formation has been deployed.
It is said that the two Yuan Ying ancestors of the Li family of the Tang Dynasty are on the mountain. For the safety of the Li family and the protection of the Tang Dynasty, only one of the ancestors is in seclusion and always stays awake. With his powerful spiritual power, Knowledge, always paying attention to the imperial city, and even the inner city.
As for the outer city, it is too big and there are too many people. Although the ancestors in the Nascent Soul stage can also cover it with their spiritual consciousness, scanning them one by one will consume too much spiritual consciousness. It is completely unnecessary and probably beyond their capabilities. Yes.
In addition to residences and gardens, the outer city is also a city. There are 108 cities in total. In the city, there are prosperous industries, temples and mansions, which are adjacent to each other. The streets are wide and crowded.
The so-called pharmacy market is actually an area where industries are concentrated. For example, when Ye Xing goes to the pharmacy market now, it is an area where thousands of pharmacies are concentrated. Of course, there are pharmacies in other places, but most of them are concentrated near the West Second Gate. , if a line makes a market, that’s what it means.
Ye Xing himself is a master of alchemy. Of course, he came to the medicine market not to buy elixirs. In fact, he came simply to inspect and see the level of alchemy in the Tang Empire.
After coming in and out of one large pharmacy after another, Ye Xing also recognized that the level of medicine in Datang was very high, and there were various grades of medicines, which were quite rich.
It just surprised Ye Xing that there are various conventional medicines produced in Tianxing Kingdom, such as finished packaged medicines for treating trauma, cold and so on. They are completely different from the jade bottles used in the Tang Dynasty. The plastic packaging uses very small fonts in Song and Tang characters to indicate the diseases to be treated, and the price is quite cheap.
Dozens of pharmaceutical companies in Tianxing Kingdom have industrialized and produced large quantities of daily medicines. It can be said that they have accounted for more than 99% of the medicines needed by ordinary people. In the medicine shops in Tianjing City, only The elixirs used by the monks were refined individually.
This is the extraordinary thing about industrial civilization. In just a few decades, the pharmaceutical industry in the Tang Dynasty has become aristocratic. All civilians use medicines produced by Tianxing Kingdom, and for common diseases, even nobles trust Tianxing more. Produced by the country.
In fact, it is inevitable, because the development of medical science and technology in Tianxing Kingdom has abandoned the tradition that has been passed down for tens of thousands of years, and has begun to understand the human body through empirical methods instead of imagination and reasoning. The conventional drugs produced are all directly symptomatic.
The most important thing is that the medicine of Tianxing Kingdom no longer uses traditional methods to make medicines, but pure targeted pharmacology after analyzing the active ingredients and refining them.
For ordinary people, immediate resolution of physical ailments is the most important thing, and they also accept the new ideas from Tianxing Kingdom, rather than some conditioning or some mysterious divine blessing.
Ye Xing also heard that countless small medicine shops in the Tang Dynasty have closed down, and there is no market for self-made medicines. Tianxing Kingdom's relatively cheap, rich varieties, and various medicines for symptomatic treatment are all sold by large medicine shops. It makes it impossible for small drug stores to survive.
Ye Xing also found a few medicine-related books in the medicine market. Surprisingly, many of them were written in Song Dynasty and were exquisite books printed by Tianxing Kingdom. On the contrary, the books produced by Datang were extremely rough and vague, and the quality was high. The difference is huge.
After leaving the medicine market, he came to the grocery market nearby. Of course, Ye Xing did not come to buy anything, but just to browse. What surprised Ye Xing even more was that there were various items in the grocery market, including knives, farm tools, and household items The tableware is all produced by Tianxing Kingdom with the logo on it.
According to the introduction of a small grocery store owner, in fact, in all the big cities and towns of the Tang Dynasty, the various products produced by the Tianxing Kingdom are of high quality and low price, and have occupied all the markets. Only those items used by the nobles are the most popular products in the Tang Dynasty. Handmade by craftsmen from Tang Dynasty.
After Ye Xing inquired, he learned that more than 90% of the various daily utensils in the market, even the smallest fruit knives, tableware and plates, basically came from the Tianxing Kingdom. All the craftsmen in the Tang Dynasty were basically unemployed. It is said that a large number of such handicraft workers are secretly immigrating to Tianxing Kingdom to work as workers.
Nowadays, all the small items used by residents in daily life have basically been replaced by cheap products produced by Tianxing Kingdom, and these products are sold by large merchants. Countless civilians in the outer city can no longer survive and have all left Tianjing City.
Because land in Datang is privately owned, residents in outer cities do not have their own land, so many civilians cannot survive in small towns. They usually go to more remote places, or move their families to Tianxing Kingdom.
Nowadays, the private houses in the outer city of Tianjing City are no longer suitable for civilians to live in. They are all owned by businessmen. The market is indeed still lively, but they are all temporary outsiders. The huge outer city has all become a commercial place. , opened countless medium and large shops and markets of various kinds, and more than 90% of the products sold were products from Tianxing Kingdom.
Ye Xing also learned that the food produced in Tianxing Kingdom now occupies the dining tables of ordinary people, because Tianxing Kingdom was originally the most suitable place in the world for the growth of staple foods. Nowadays, with the use of scientific and technological agricultural methods, the output is huge, and now a large amount of it is exported. To dozens of neighboring countries, the quality is good and relatively cheap.
And the countless kinds of non-staple food produced in Tianxing Kingdom, such as preserved fruits, biscuits, etc., occupy all the markets. Because they have glass bottles or protective packaging boxes, they are clean and hygienic and delicious.
Of course, these are far away from ordinary people, and the price is still a bit high. I can only eat them occasionally, and I still have to think for a long time before making a decision.
Now, everyone in the middle and lower classes of the Tang Dynasty wants to enjoy the high-quality products of Tianxing Kingdom, but the poor civilians are more miserable, because the handicraft industry used to be their means of survival, and now it is all gone.
Ye Xing laughed in his heart. The senior officials of the Datang Empire had been indulging in the illusion of arrogance. They did not know that in fact, all the products of the Tang Dynasty had no room to survive under the dumping of industrialized and standardized Tianxing domestic products. Countless amounts of money flowed to the neighboring countries in the east like running water.
Of course, the senior officials and civilians of the Tang Empire still do not understand that the Tianxing Kingdom started an economic secret war many years ago, and now it has destroyed all the daily production of ordinary people in the Tang Dynasty, but the senior officials are happy to enjoy it There are all kinds of novel and high-priced products that are unparalleled in Tianxing Kingdom.
The Tang Dynasty is a country of cultivation. Most people are addicted to their own cultivation, including the ruling royal family, the Li family. They don't pay attention to the survival of ordinary people at all. They don't care about their life or death at all. For the upper echelons of the Tang Dynasty, whose hierarchies have been solidified for tens of thousands of years, power and resources are what need to be paid attention to.
The economic war formulated by Ye Xing back then was used extremely skillfully and secretly by the top management of Tianxing Kingdom. The most frightening thing is that in the outer city of Tianjing City, Tianxing coins are already widely circulated. Tickets are more trustworthy and reliable, and are no different from money.
However, no one in the upper echelons of the Tang Dynasty or among the people knew what this meant. A large number of high-ranking minds in the inner city and the imperial city who were separated from the ordinary people could not understand what this would be like.
The Tang Empire has always been powerful, and is still very powerful, but it is already extremely difficult for ordinary people, who account for more than 90% of the people, to survive. There are refugees everywhere, but the top officials turn a blind eye because no one dares to resist. A senior monk can take action. Thousands of ordinary people died in an instant.
