The world is very big. From the perspective of people in this world, it is so big that it has no boundaries.
And the places where civilization was born are even rarer.
On the land northwest of the river, between the mountains, there were adults walking out.
Ten years later, the merchants of the East China Sea adults reappeared.
.......
Likui is back. He remembers that back then, he experienced a boat capsizing accident from Bogu Mountain in the East China Sea, swam with his bare hands to the Middle Earth, walked along the seaside, and then headed to the south...
From the Huai River to Dahe, from Shangqiu to Taotang, from the Wei River to Kuanxi, from Kongtong to Zunyeze, from the Republic of China to the Queen Mother of the West, from the West Sea... to Mount Buzhou.
Finally, he left Buzhou Mountain, went out of Changliu Mountain, crossed Xuanyuan Qiu, and walked through Yuyuan Shimi Valley. He stepped on the huge plateau under his feet, and then arrived at a brand new land unknown to the world.
Now he is back, and when he comes back, he walks through the lands he experienced a few years ago, only to find that the living conditions in many places are very different from what he was back then.
The name of the land he heard most and frequently on the road was Hongzhou in the south.
Likui thought, maybe those people who were in rags, had no food to eat, and were so poor that they couldn't even make a sound have developed in a decent way?
He conceived a picture in his mind. He thought that maybe everyone in Hongzhou now lives in wooden houses, and a small number of people may live in earth houses.
In terms of agriculture, there should already be a surplus of grain. According to how stingy those people were back then, there should be a place to store grain.
For water conservancy, many canals should have been built; for commerce, there may have been market transactions with other places.
During the war and development, they should have had a small amount of bronze tools, and the tools for producing stone tools should have become abundant.
Regarding sacrifices and breeding, Likui estimated that their totems had almost been restored, and they should have a lot of cattle, sheep, and pigs. The south is hot and humid, the environment is not good, and large-scale animal husbandry is also difficult to develop...
Likui had conceived it clearly in his mind, and felt that the scenery he imagined was already the highest state of development in the south.
but……
Even though his imagination was full, he never thought that he would see a completely impossible miraculous scene...
When you step on the mountains, step on the river.
When he returns to follow the same trajectory as before.
Near the West Beach, they saw a new defense facility, earthen walls and some traces of war, and sentries were patrolling. They saw a swimming giant emerging from the river, and their eyes widened...
Likui crossed the river by swimming like a dog paddle, carrying his rucksack on his head to prevent him from being soaked by the river water. The big green snake cleared the way in front, and then the sentry fired a bow and arrow to warn him not to approach.
"I am a native of your country!"
Likui spoke in a loud voice. He swam to the shore and shouted to the sentinels, saying that he was a Chinese businessman and had been here ten years ago.
Someone soon recognized him. Likui swam ashore and looked at the land under construction around him, as well as many deserted areas and traces of war. After a brief inquiry, he learned that he had fought with the Jinyun clan before. , successfully protected their homeland by relying on the dangers of the river and nature.
"Really? You guys were able to repel the Jinyun clan. You were really powerful..."
"Repulse? We caught them all!"
The sentry's response surprised Likui. The Jinyun clan is an ancient tribe that survived the Yellow Emperor's era. It has a large population and elite warriors. Even if they rely on the natural dangers of the river, it is almost possible to defeat them. After all, the shipbuilding technology in the Central Plains is poor. , but if you want to say you caught them all...
Even if you catch tens of thousands of pigs, you won't be so efficient, right?
And isn't the Chifang clan in the south a descendant of the Jinyun clan? So why are you fighting with the Jinyun clan?
Is it because Taotie didn't pay for the meal?
Likui didn't quite believe it. He just muttered and nodded, with doubts in his heart.
Judging from the land development of this tidal flat, the south has indeed entered the formal development stage, and the situation should be similar to what I imagined. However, in this land with a relatively harsh environment, it is already possible to achieve what it is now. It's very good.
Those stone walls under construction are covered with stones on the outside and rammed earth as the inner core. The covering stones and masonry stones on the north and south sides overlap layer by layer. Where there is earth, the earth is built into the city. Where there is no earth, the walls are built. Stone is solid.
The facilities that can be seen are also very simple...a bonfire platform for conveying information. There are equipment on the platform to watch houses and light smoke and set fires. Under the platform, there are houses where sentries live and guard, pigsties, warehouses, etc. Water towers, shipyards, lumber mills... However, these facilities are still under construction, and they are all built on high places. The low places have been swallowed up by the river.
According to the sentry, there was a major flood here a month ago, so now that the flood tide has receded, they came here to work again.
Likui asked about a large building he had never seen before, and the sentry told him that it was a processing plant. After the harvest, the grain was sent there for processing.
Li Kui understood.
Public cafeteria, it sounds so high-end.
Likui had a basic assessment of the living standards in the south, but when he was about to leave, the sentries told him that the land of Hongzhou could be reached directly from the giant canal.
Only then did Likui see a huge water channel guiding the river water through the mountains and fields into the distance.
So he followed this canal from the west tidal flat to Mangman Wilderness, and then to the outside of the Great Flood Control City...
The first thing that caught his eye was the tall and majestic flood control facilities!
What it is?
It's hills, it's a giant canal, it's... a raised stone city? !
Likui looked at everything in front of him blankly. He came to the giant city. A stream of water flowed directly from the river to here. Even if he was as tall as him, he could only stick out half of his head from the front of the giant city.
On that day, people in the flood control city were reminded of the pitfalls of selling goods in the Giant Country...
The people on duty at the flood control city saw Likui from a distance, so they prepared defensive measures. However, someone recognized Likui as the Bogushan man who came to sell goods ten years ago, and immediately stood on the city to say hello.
Li Kui wanted to go in from the Great Flood Control City to have a look, but his body was too big. If he climbed the flood dam, the structure of the dam might be damaged. After all, his tonnage was too heavy. In desperation, Li Kui stepped on it. The water moves towards the flood diversion area, and can only be entered through the Irizawa waterway from Ojiang into Oze.
There is a lot of undeveloped land in the flood diversion area, and large tracts of desolate open space are in sharp contrast with the huge water conservancy city in the distance that symbolizes civilization. The difference is just a flood dam. There are two worlds inside and outside the dam. .
He pinched his face and thought he was dreaming, so he stepped into the water and passed the flood diversion area. Likui was shocked and speechless again!
There were many places under construction on the edge of this large flood control city, which could be seen at a glance, but the materials and methods of construction were something he had never seen before.
Moreover, he saw the water network extending in all directions. Countless water channels spread out on the ground like spider webs. In the middle of these grids, there were all fertile and harvested farmland!
The ridges of the fields are high, the fields are sunken, and the water flows through the land, nourishing the land. The world outside the flood control city is wild and wild, with mud, fireworks, and dust. However, the world inside the flood control city is like a paradise, with farmland, water conservancy, and livestock. Cattle and sheep...
The appearance of a giant certainly attracted the attention of many people. They looked at this shirtless giant with all kinds of things hanging on his body. They knew he was selling goods at a glance.
Someone soon stopped him for questioning, and then took him to a registration place. Likui followed him stupidly. After a simple registration, someone recognized him and said in surprise:
"Wow, are you the adult from ten years ago? Your name is... Likui!"
"Li Kui?"
Someone nearby heard the words coming out of the registrant's mouth and automatically made up two words in his mind.
Likui told him that he had come back from far to the west this time, bought and sold a lot of good things, and also imported a batch of goods...
"That's just right. You can go to the farmer's market to sell. I'll inform the leaders here. If the leaders of the old oil mill know that you are back, they will be very happy!"
"Hmm... um... the leader you are talking about is the great witch of the Xunshan clan?"
"Yes, the big leader of Xunshan is..."
"Do you know the little wizard from the Akakata clan?"
Likui asked him, and the registrant was stunned and laughed: "Don't dare to talk nonsense, you are a little wizard, Azai is our big leader!"
Big boss? Likui was startled and thought of Azai back then...
Wearing a tattered leather skirt and carrying a dull brass axe, he bought two packs of salt and bargained for it. Although he was a very poor man, he had rich knowledge of water conservancy and was full of vigor. At that time, Likui thought, This guy is bound to become a great person in the future...
But I didn't expect that he would actually become the leader of the entire Hongzhou area!
Likui left here, and someone took him to the market.
The fertile fields are thousands of miles away, and the market is bustling. Likui saw the places where people gathered, first of all, some dense villages, and secondly, the large meteorological observatory. The huge thing like a raised hill had exceeded Likui's imagination.
When he came here ten years ago, he was sure that he had never seen this thing, but now, it was not just this thing. When Likui looked around, what he saw was no longer a shabby wooden house, a leather shed, or a mud house. The stone nest...but the earthen houses and wooden buildings were juxtaposed, the courtyards were intertwined with the farmland, and there were taller and strange residences with square stones that Li Kei had never seen before.
Some houses are also covered with a kind of semi-circular pottery shards. I saw the bricks and tiles, but I didn’t know their function. I just thought they looked good at first glance. They were much better-looking than those wooden houses and stone houses. .
He climbed up and looked far away, and saw the most prosperous place, full of people, connected houses, huge buildings made of square stones, not far away, with a livestock station on the hillside, outside There was also a production area surrounded by low walls. Li Kei came down the hillside and ran towards the land.
He confirmed again and again that he shouldn't have gone to the wrong place.
It’s only been ten years, hasn’t the change been so big?
Likui was running around in the area within the third ring road of Hongzhou. His huge body was filled with a sense of oppression, and people avoided him one after another. When people from other countries and tribes saw him, they pointed and pointed, as if they understood him. He is a native of the country.
"People from the country of Yanhuo, people from the country Junzi, people from Rongyushan, people from the country of Immortality, people from Boyu, people from Yumin..."
Likui saw more other people from all over, arriving from all corners of the Southern Wilderness to sell their things in the market.
"How did this place become like this? When I came here, most of it was a wild area!"
"Isn't it better than ten years ago?"
The guide looked at Likui strangely, and Likui shook his head: "No, I'm just... too surprised."
"I mean...how did this place become like this? What force or person led you in construction and production?"
Likui looked at the guide, who said that it was naturally the leader Azai who led the way. Likui didn't say anything for a while, just thinking about the poor young boy who couldn't make any tinkling and didn't have two dollars in his pocket. To be able to turn this world into this...
"There is no city more prosperous and greater than this in the world."
Likui said that he has traveled to many places, and no tribe in any country is as prosperous and great as Hongzhou. In the lands further to the west, the people of the tribes are still living in the Paleolithic Age, and there has been no change after hundreds of years. .
Perhaps the land under Hongzhou Circle is not the largest, but the development here has surpassed people's thinking and imagination in this era...
It has only been ten years. In Likui's evaluation at this time, he expressed emotion:
"In ten years, we have traveled a road that would take others a thousand years to complete... Time flies so fast that it makes people overwhelmed."
"Production teams, agricultural and livestock stations, trading stations, flood control cities, meteorological observatories, farmers' markets, second-hand markets, handicraft streets... those large buildings, do you think they are factories?"
"What is a factory?"
Likui was very interested in these facilities. He watched from a distance, and then saw the roof of the explosion factory flying up. After a violent flash, there was a huge roar, followed by thick smoke...
A factory is a gathering of a large group of handicraft workers to produce together. This approach makes the process easier to manage and the raw materials can be distributed more efficiently.
Likui had never heard of this production method, and the guide told him that the existence of the factory represented the most advanced group of producers and production facilities in Hongzhou. Large-scale manufacturing and individual handicraft operations had been separated. Likui heard He was confused and had no idea why.
But he felt that this thing must be a very high-end thing.
He saw the sundial placed in the market. The elusive years can also be seen intuitively in Hongzhou. In other places, there are only standard watches, and this sundial is something Likui has never seen before...
Of course, there seem to be some strange people in the market discussing strange issues...
"It is known that it takes half a moment for the sun's rays to reach the earth. How did Yi know whether he hit the sun when he shot it?"
"I need to establish a formula to establish a coordinate system for Dayi's shooting of the sun..."
The alchemists who had been enlightened by mathematics were discussing strange topics, and at this time, Yu Zai arrived. He arrived here after receiving the news of Li Kui's return. When he heard someone talking about these topics, Yu Zai Zai asked them to discuss elsewhere, and also said:
"Basic attack is locked."
Before those Qi refiners could react, Yu Zai had already arrived in front of Li Kui:
"Long time no see! Isn't this Li Kui (Li Kui)! Did you bring anything this time? I mean, the goods from the west...? Don't worry, this time, I have money, I can buy it From the corals of the South China Sea!”
