After Shancheng Pass entered Fusang territory, the border town at the pass was slightly renovated, and the group embarked on the road eastward, in the broad sense of Fusang territory toward "Fusang" in the narrow sense.
Since there was no urgent mission to complete, they slowed down and spent two and a half days arriving near Fuso City in the evening when they could vaguely smell the salty sea breeze.
According to Aya, Fuso, which has lasted for thousands of years, is a land that gives the land doctors a lot of headaches.
Because this place is not as orderly as many other territories.
Many places in Xinjing itself have been renovated and reorganized, and even the state capital can tear down the areas within the directly-controlled prefectures and start over after issuing orders. But Fuso cannot, because it is in a very embarrassing position. The long history and importance in history make it possible to find ancient heritages that can be regarded as monuments and family heirlooms in other places.
The stone statue beside the waterway that was used by boatmen to tie ropes and has molded the face of the lake may date back to the first year of the founding of the People's Republic of China. The stone on the road bridge that has been made extremely smooth by thousands of years of wind, rain and walking friction is also said to have been the first emperor. Layed down by myself.
If you want to make major changes, you have to tear everything down and start over.
So what should we do with these ancient and monumental buildings? Even if they were all demolished and only bricks and tiles were left as memorials, they would still fill the entire warehouse. There are so many monuments that have been preserved for thousands of years in Fuso that if this territory is to be moved, how to choose to preserve it becomes a big problem.
In addition to cultural inheritance issues, the rectification in Fusang also had to face ethnic conflicts. Kazuto, Hayabusa and the Onishin clan are three pillars. If you want to change, you can't just change one territory. For Kazuto's part, you can just use the experience of other territories. However, several tribes within Hayato have slightly different lifestyles, and forcing them to follow Kazuto's way will only cause resistance. The ghosts and gods must live in special buildings due to physical reasons.
With such a complex and easily offending rectification, it is no wonder that doctors from the Bureau of Land and Resources have always been reluctant to take over work related to Fuso. Even those unlucky ones who were forced into this job during the political struggle of the Chinese group will try their best to make things better and never touch the parts that can easily go wrong.
This has been repeated over thousands of years, and unknowingly it has created a unique sense of beauty.
From stone buildings to imported bricks and tiles, from paper and wood structures to rammed earth walls. Square, round, flowers, birds, wind and moon hollow courtyard walls are lined up in rows. Architectural styles of various periods stand on an ancient foundation of four thousand years, forming a harmonious but different spectacular scene.
If we say that the city plan presented in Xinjing is like a neat and uniform farmland or orchard of amazing scale, everything is so orderly and neatly arranged, but because of its huge scale, it is enough to make any onlookers hold their breath and stop for a long time.
Then hibiscus is more like a naturally growing garden.
There is order in the chaos, not only uneven, but also rich in layers.
The damp alley is paved with smooth stones, and once you step out of it, there is a avenue paved with blue bricks. No two adjacent roads are made of the same material. Just like the grass under the shrubs under the big trees, the layers are rich and distinct at a glance.
This unique beauty is more or less like the city of Rigal. Those places that lack unified organization and planning have formed their own original balance over a long period of time.
So when they arrived at Fuso, although they couldn't explain the reason, both Mira and Kaleva felt that their breathing became easier.
The huge and neatly planned Xinjing is like the ultimate embodiment of the orderly side of the country. Everything needs to go according to plan, and nothing can violate it—except perhaps the planners themselves.
It is a manifestation of totalitarianism, a kind of orderliness under extreme order and rules.
It's certainly impressive for first-time visitors, but it can also be breathtaking. Because of its huge size and complicated rules, there are too many to learn, but if you make a mistake, it will be like the city itself is pressing on you.
What Fuso embodies is the historical sedimentation of the Moon Country.
Just like the ancient mountains, rivers and seas, they look unremarkable at first glance, but if you look closely, you seem to be able to look back through the years to those first days.
The names engraved on the mottled stone statues have been forgotten, and the people who paved the bridges that people now walk day and night may even have died out. But all traces they left behind remain here.
Horseshoes made a crisp sound on the green brick mountain road. Henry and others slowed down because it began to gradually go downhill.
Xinyuezhou is mountainous and the terrain has great ups and downs. It has not changed much even in Fusang.
The Kazu people used the relatively flat areas for farming, so roads and houses needed to be placed in places with high and low levels.
The concept of roads in Fuso City is not simply straight and flat roads, but an enlarged version of steps. The roads, which are about four to five meters wide and ranging from ten to twenty meters in length, are paved with bricks and stones. There are drainage channels on both sides of the road, and further inside there are residences or shops.
Commoners, including Kazuto and Hayato, live here together.
Yellow lanterns, somewhat faded by years of moisture, with ink running down their surfaces and leaving traces of flow, hang in front of many homes. Most of them are painted with all kinds of emblems of flowers, birds, wind and moon, and some are the family inscriptions of noble families.
Although the luminous stone pillars left by the elves are scattered in many areas, they are still not all in Fuso. In areas where there is no convenient night-light beam lighting, people traveling at night will carry lanterns like other places in the Moon Kingdom. The semi-transparent wax paper has exquisite family inscriptions on it, so that in the dark night, there is no need to see the passers-by on the other side. You can tell if you are an acquaintance by looking at their face.
One by one, passing by green farmland and passing through rows of residential houses, the group walked on the mountain path along the cliffs.
The wind suddenly picked up, which made Ling nervously grab her clothes. At the same time, she couldn't help but curiously poked her head towards the beach, which was about tens of meters below the mountain path.
The white hair of the Luoan girl was fluttering in the wind. She held the reins tightly, and her bright eyes reflected the outline of the intersection between the sky and the sea.
The setting sun slowly sank into the mountains to the west behind me, and the orange afterglow it cast was reflected on the sparkling sea in the distance. This is a calm and abundant ocean. Looking down from the national highway at the top of the hillside, the fishermen along the coast are returning with full loads at this moment. The seagulls are circling in the sky and the caught fish are still trying to jump back to the water.
The sound of "clinking" of gold and iron can be vaguely heard. There are many gold and iron workshops in Fuso, which is rich in high-quality iron ore. However, because of the risk of disturbing the residents, they were placed a little further away.
The chimney of the blacksmith shop, which stood as straight as a pine tree, emitted billowing smoke, while carts of ore pulled by oxen and pushed by people from the mine farther away were continuously transported into it.
Dozens of cone-shaped straw piles taller than a person in some farmland in the distance that have not yet been plowed emit bursts of white smoke, and the burning smell with a slight aroma of rice drifts along the wind from thousands of meters away.
This is using the stewing method to make charcoal. The demand for charcoal in such a huge ironware making industry is also staggering.
The lacquer trees neatly arranged on the more distant hillside; the waterwheel located along the lower edge of the river. After thousands of years of development, this territory has already become a self-contained and efficient metal products production base in Xinjing.
When the farmers in Rigal could only use wooden shovels and add iron patches to strengthen them after they were worn out, the farmers in Crescent Continent were already using metal tools.
Rigal actually has more high-quality minerals than Crescent.
The land of Crescent Continent is filled with abundant green, abundant water vapor and a relatively mild climate with four distinct seasons, suitable for the growth of various vegetation. It was sufficient to support a large population, but fell short in metal deposits.
However, the more efficient production capacity brought about by unified national planning, as well as the transportation system formed by the national highway system and waterways extending in all directions, enable the supply of metal products in one area of Fuso to the entire Moon Country.
Innovation always comes from poverty rather than abundance. In Rigar, where high-quality iron ore is better obtained, the level of metal smelting technology in the world varies. The largest empires have the ability to stably mass-produce plate armor, but if a poor craftsman from a small country wants to knock off an iron helmet, he is afraid that it will crack and break due to too many impurities before it is molded.
The Kingdom of the Moon, where materials are even scarcer, has developed many different ways to use it. There are many ways to polish the blade alone. This spirit of research comes from the emphasis on the preciousness of materials. They have no squandering costs. Once wasted, it will be a huge loss.
The people of Rigar, especially the people on the west coast, are richer in resources, but due to the secession and civil strife in most areas, the nobles are self-respecting and use their iron tools for military purposes. They have not been able to realize the potential of the mineral deposits.
Xinyuezhou, on the other hand, worked hard despite unfavorable congenital conditions and relied on the centralized labor force and the crystallization of thinking and wisdom brought by the unified country to achieve the scale and popularity of iron production that would be coveted by those who are congenitally wealthy.
The gap between the two was explained by Henry on the way forward, which more or less triggered some thinking of others.
"Even Kazuto's nobles may not understand this truth." Aya's expression was a little melancholy when she said this. She probably remembered the fact that she had been arrogantly rejected and rejected when she warned in Xinjing.
Wisdom and knowledge should have no distinction between origin and boundaries, but the reality is that even if the wisdom he possesses is indeed reliable, and he can even see it more clearly than those who have lived in the local area for generations, he will still be affected by the so-called "Southern Barbarians". ” was met with resistance from high-level officials.
Just like the Kazuto civilians of Fuso are proud of the Elf Stone Pillar as a local culture but have no idea about its builders and operating principles.
When those noble nobles regard themselves as heavenly beings and despise all other people as "barbarians" and think that they are all inferior to themselves. Do they know that the prosperity of the Moon Country was actually built brick by brick by their ancestors with their blood, sweat and hard work?
Crescent Continent does not have such abundant capital. Everything is obtained from the hard work of the people and the untold hardships of a unified country.
But today, those who stand on the shoulders of giants have forgotten humility and hard work, taking all this for granted, as "this has always been the case", and think that it is capital that can be squandered without any problems, and they are high and mighty " Look at other people with the eyes of a noble from a four-thousand-year-old country.
I don’t know the sufferings of the people, and I don’t know the plight of the refugees.
They are not as clear as the Southern Barbarians whom they despise, but if she reveals this, she will definitely be accused by those people of being a heretical doctrine "interfered with Southern Barbarian ideas".
"Those who stand above all people should humble themselves and remember that the foundation of their standing is the hard work and dedication of millions of people below them."
“If there were no farmers, how would the warriors get food?”
"If there are no craftsmen, how can a warrior have a sharp edge?"
"The so-called honor and disgrace of the Wu family is just empty talk if it loses its people and has no food to eat, no sword to wipe, and no armor to wear."
The sound of gold and iron knocking was getting closer and closer, and Henry said this.
The others looked at him, and the sage shrugged.
"It is said to be the instructions of the earliest emperor of the Kingdom of the Moon."
"But from the looks of it, it's probably been forgotten."
The correct things and the great achievements that were once admirable have gradually disappeared in the passage of time.
People become lazy and pursue superficial things, those ritualistic styles, those gorgeous clothes, scabbards, and bright retro-toned armor.
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Kazuto's samurai are still obsessed with their own honor, so obsessed that they even fall into the devil's way, fighting to the death for verbal honor.
But he doesn't know where this honor comes from.
It seems that as long as he is born as a warrior, he has his own honor, and he has only lived to maintain honor throughout his life.
Civilians respected samurai not because they effectively governed territories, resolved disputes, defended lives and property, made fair decisions, and became coveted and powerful leaders.
Commoners feared samurai simply because they were samurai.
Just because it's always been like this.
So what if one day they feel they don’t have to?
Turmoil is not coming, it is already here.
After arriving in Fuso and hearing about the arson incident by refugees in Xinjing, Henry judged that there would probably be more and more similar incidents.
Crisis and stress can expose problems that existed in the past.
And he is considered a sage.
All you can do is provide some of your own wisdom when others ask for help.
Turbulence and disasters are not the most terrible things. People are always afraid of the moment when some seemingly eternal behemoth collapses, thinking that from now on the world will be dark and there will be no more sun and moon.
But people will always get over it.
Even if destruction and death are inevitable, people will try their best to leave their own inheritance, leave traces of their lives, and leave behind fire in the hope that it will ignite into a raging flame one day.
In addition to giving wisdom, all he can do is find ways to control the scale of the disaster to a smaller size.
The fight between people can only be left to Kazuto himself. The Moon Country is huge and has complex national conditions. In addition, he is excluded as a southern barbarian. He is far from able to buy time or change the situation by just making suggestions as before.
But for those forces other than humans, those eternal enemies, pure destruction itself.
If we don't pay attention to it, I'm afraid the appearance of this land will be greatly changed.
To this end, he sent a message for help to the Rigar continent through the Laman merchants living in Xinjing, and he may receive a response in the near future.
Just hope.
The arrival of the old gods who were exiled from this continent.
It won't cause too many unnecessary disputes.
