The academy is not closed yet. Yue Shifeng and others came for a walk and then left. But the topics left behind were enough to keep the students talking for an entire noon.
Perhaps it was because he was too excited during the lunch break, and the usual celebrities in the academy did not come to class. Therefore, the academy seemed a bit quiet in the afternoon, which made people feel sleepy.
As a serious gentleman, Su Daoshan naturally sat upright, just like the original person before, he attended class meticulously before leaving school.
He asked Wang Tong to wait for him in the carriage, and Su Daoshan wandered around the market town without any rein. The original person grew up in Yishan City since childhood, and is naturally very familiar with this place in his memory. But as a soul who has traveled through time, the pictures in my memory are always not as intuitive and realistic as what I see with my own eyes.
Market City is a very interesting place.
This ghetto version of the CBD is cramped and crowded. Except for a few main roads that are in the shape of a tic-tac-toe inside and outside, most of them are small roads that are only two or three meters wide and wind along the terrain. It was so narrow that Su Daoshan felt that if he stretched out his hands, he could touch the signs hanging on the shops on both sides.
There are all kinds of shops, selling ceramic pots, cloth and clothing, groceries, ironware, woodware... Behind most of the shops is a workshop. Along the way, the sounds of forging iron, sawing wood, chiseling stones, shouting, and bargaining could be heard all the time.
Circling up the path, looking left and right. While walking around, Su Daoshan found that he had reached the middle and upper part of the market city without knowing it.
Looking down from the wooden bridge connecting a cliff and a building, the bottom of the city looks like a deep valley, dark and damp. The middle and upper parts look much better. Not only has the ventilation and drying situation improved a lot, but the most important thing is that the light has become much brighter.
The afternoon sun casts golden light on the crowded buildings of the market, giving it a messy but unique aesthetic.
In the middle and upper part of the market city, the quality of shops and goods has become much higher, and there are more signs of the six major families on the plaques.
For example, the blacksmith shop at the bottom of the market city is just a few dirty men, guarding the old iron furnace to make iron in the dim light. What is sold are ordinary farm tools, kitchen knives, iron pots and other daily necessities.
The blacksmith shop on the middle and upper floors bears the sign of the Zhu family of the city lord's palace. It is spacious and bright, with goods neatly arranged. It mainly sells and customizes various swords, weapons and protective gear. At first glance, not to mention the decoration of the store, just the luster and texture of the metal are completely different.
As Su Daoshan walked, he looked at ceramics, jade, gold and silverware, leather goods, saddles, car dealers... As he looked along, he made new discoveries and adjustments to his understanding of the world.
This world is roughly equivalent to the Ming Dynasty in the original world. However, what is surprising is that after experiencing the catastrophe of the world and the emergence of faults in civilization, the development of all walks of life in this era has not lagged far behind, and even many craftsmanship are far beyond imagination.
For example, the weapons and equipment seen in the blacksmith shop show extremely high steel smelting and casting techniques. Another example is that at a car dealership, Su Daoshan saw a four-wheeled carriage that not only had an independent bogie, but also had leaf springs for shock absorption on all four wheels. In addition to the firecracker in Fan Caiyi's hand that he saw before, the majestic Yishan City walls and the market buildings in front of him...
If you think about it carefully, it is actually not difficult to understand.
No matter from which aspect you look at it, this world looks like a replica of the original world. Just as Fan Caiyi said, since people are the same, they will all be hungry and cold, and the way of heaven they conform to is the same, so of course the civilizations that will develop will be similar.
It's just that in the original world, productivity began to increase at an accelerated pace after the development of electricity and internal combustion engines. But in this world, there is a unique martial arts civilization.
This makes this world actually have a greater advantage in the agricultural era.
A ninth-level martial artist who is over twelve years old can lift a weight of two hundred kilograms. And when you reach the upper level of the ninth level, you can pick up hundreds of kilograms with your fingers alone, and you can lift up to four to five hundred kilograms.
what does that mean?
This means that the beasts that humans did not dare to provoke in the original world are pets and food in this world. This means that grand tasks that were difficult to do in the original world are much easier to accomplish in this world. This also means efficiency and cost, which means differences in economics, war, and other aspects.
To put it bluntly, one giant may not be able to change anything, but what about thousands of giants?
This is the power of martial arts. Since ancient times, this power has penetrated into thousands of industries, profoundly affecting the ecology of different industries.
However, these are not the most important...
Su Daoshan stopped in front of a huge building on the upper level of the market city.
This building was built on a hilltop, located in the center of the entire market city, just like the stars shining over the sun. There was a road for carriages to pass directly to the door. Around this building, there are three high walls and more than a dozen guard towers. There is also a city guard camp next to it. It can be said to be heavily guarded.
This is the grain station. It is also the core place of the entire market city.
In this era, the currencies of various countries are linked to food. One Xiguo gold dollar can be exchanged for one stone of first-class grain. Therefore it is called gold stone. One silver dollar can be exchanged for one dou of second-grade grain, so it is also called silver dou. There are silver horns under the silver bucket, and the twelve silver horns combine into one silver bucket.
The value of these currencies was determined by the royal families of each country relying on their powerful military force, food reserve capabilities, and resource exchange system in their hands. Although there are differences in exchange between good years and disaster years, hard payment of food can basically be guaranteed.
Therefore, all countries implement the policy of imperial monopoly, transportation and storage. Ordinary people, whoever touches this red line will die.
Trafficking and hoarding food without permission are both serious crimes!
Of course, as members of the imperial court's ruling system, sects and aristocratic families in major cities have special authority. For example, this time the Su family went to Chongguang City, the capital of Xiazhou, to buy grain. Although it was for Sujiabao's own winter storage, it was part of Yishan City's winter grain storage work.
And once he loses his position in the aristocratic family... everything disappears.
If the Su family wants to buy food, they can only buy it at Yishan City Food Station. How much you buy depends on the share the family has set, or how much is left after other families have allocated it.
This is the cruelty of this world. When the Su family collapsed, not only the direct descendants but also more than a thousand people in the Su Family Fort suffered.
After shopping around, Su Daoshan went to look at the Su family's properties and found that the Su family's properties were the least among the six major aristocratic families in the city. And it seems that business is generally not very good. Several of the fabric shops and ready-made clothing stores have even closed.
However, Mi's cloth shop is doing a booming business.
After buying some peach boards, yellow paper and cinnabar, Su Daoshan took a carriage back to Sujiapu. I stayed in the small courtyard in the afternoon, drinking tea and reading.
The book is the Book of Strange Sects Jianghu given by Fan Caiyi.
"The origin of the inheritance of different sects can be traced back to the creation of Lanzhuo. At the beginning of creation, Lanzhuo used his divine power to open up the world..." Su Daoshan threw a candied fruit in his mouth. When he looked up, he saw Sister Xing'er twisting her waist seductively. He came with spring in his eyes and a flute in his hand.
"Don't disturb my peace." Su Daoshan waved his hand and continued reading.
Sister Xing'er pouted and squirmed back to the room. After a while, he came out again, got some flower juice, moved a small stool and sat next to Su Daoshan, painting his nails.
"Fox spirit!" Pingting snorted in the open west wing, looked at Huamei who was doing embroidery, curled her lips, and then continued to work on her knot. A green sachet in his hand has gradually taken shape.
Su Daoshan was fascinated.
Much of what is described in the book is well-known mainland history and matches the original memory.
Legend has it that this world was created by the creator god Lanzhuo. This is also the origin of the name of this world. Almost every household enshrines a statue of Lanzhuo.
The idols have different appearances. Some are old men, some are middle-aged, some are elegant figures dressed as scholars, and some are naked-chested burly men holding up the sun and moon in their hands. The only thing they have in common is that they all have a triangular spiral mark on their foreheads.
This is the symbol of Lanzhuo, and it is also the symbol of Fengyuan Temple, the largest religious religion in the mainland today.
After the creation of the world, Lanzhuo seemed to disappear. Just like Pangu in the Chinese mythology of the original world. He was clearly the God of Creation, but in the end there was almost no trace of him and he became a symbol-like existence. Unlike the God in Western mythology, He is everywhere.
Because of this, it is said that in the old era, almost no one worshiped Landro.
The mainland has many religions and countless gods. Believers worship this and ask for that, but I have never heard of anyone who built a temple for Lanzhuo and burned a few sticks of incense.
Until the catastrophe of destruction came more than a hundred years ago. Just when the continent's time and space fractured, falling apart piece by piece, and dispersed into the tide of fractured time and space, a miracle came.
That is a hidden miracle left by Lanzhuo on the top of Fengyuan Mountain. The outbreak of miracles saved the continent and ended the catastrophe. Later, the exorcism array created by Fengyuan Temple based on the miracle became the mainstay of mankind's resistance to the invasion of the You tribe.
This is how the New Era has survived for more than a hundred years.
The Tao seed derived from the original power left by Lanzhuo, as part of the heavenly rules of this world, appeared when the catastrophe came and time and space were broken.
"It's only been a hundred years since the alien sect has been passed down to this day?!" Su Daoshan was stunned.
