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Chapter 24: Shopping and Reading

The school was over at noon. Yue Shifeng and others came for a walk and then left. But the topic they left behind was enough for the students to discuss for the whole afternoon.

Perhaps it was because we were too excited during the lunch break, and the college's usual celebrities did not come to class, so the college seemed a little quiet in the afternoon, making people drowsy.

As a serious gentleman, Su Daoshan naturally sat upright and taught the class meticulously just like his original self did in the past before leaving school.

Su Daoshan let Wang Tong wait for him in the carriage and wandered around the market town. He grew up in Yishan City and was very familiar with it. But as a soul that traveled through time, the scenes in his memory were not as vivid as what he saw with his own eyes.

The market city is a very interesting place.

This slum version of the CBD is narrow and crowded. Apart from a few main roads that are crisscrossed, most of the roads are only two or three meters wide and meander along the terrain. It is so narrow that Su Daoshan feels that he can touch the signs of the shops on both sides with his hands outstretched.

There are all kinds of shops, selling ceramic pots, cloth and clothing, groceries, ironware, woodware... Most of the shops have workshops behind them. Along the way, the sounds of ironwork, sawing wood, chiseling stones, shouting, and bargaining are endless.

Following the path spiraling upwards, looking left and right, Su Daoshan found himself walking to the upper middle part of the market city without realizing it.

Standing on a wooden bridge connecting a cliff and a building, the bottom of the city looked like a deep valley, dark and damp. The middle and upper parts looked much better. Not only was the ventilation and drying conditions improved a lot, but most importantly, the light was much brighter.

The afternoon sun casts a golden glow on the crowded buildings in the market town, giving it a messy yet unique sense of beauty.

In the upper and middle parts of the market city, the quality of the shops and goods is much higher, and there are more logos of the six major families on the plaques.

For example, the blacksmith shop at the bottom of the market town is just a few dirty men working in an old iron furnace in the dim light. They sell common farm tools, kitchen knives, iron pots and other daily necessities.

The middle and upper-level blacksmith shops were decorated with the Zhu family's logo. They were spacious and bright, with goods neatly displayed. They mainly sold and customized various swords, weapons, and protective gear. At first glance, not to mention the decoration of the shop, the luster and texture of the metal were completely different.

Su Daoshan walked and looked at ceramics, jade, gold and silver wares, leather goods, saddles, car dealerships... 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, surprisingly, after experiencing the catastrophe of the destruction of the world and the discontinuity of civilization, the development of various industries in this era has not lagged behind much, and even many technologies are far beyond imagination.

For example, the weapons and equipment seen in the blacksmith shop showed extremely high steel smelting and casting technology. Another example is the four-wheeled carriage that Su Daoshan saw in the carriage shop. It not only has an independent bogie, but also has leaf spring shock absorbers on all four wheels. In addition, there is the fire gun in Fan Caiyi's hand, the majestic Yishan City wall and the Jicheng building in front of him...

If you think about it carefully, it is actually not difficult to understand.

No matter from which aspect, this world is like a replica of the original world. Just as Fan Caiyi said, since people are the same, they will be hungry and cold, so the laws of nature they follow are also the same, and the civilizations they develop are of course similar.

It's just that productivity in the original world only started to rise rapidly after the development of electricity and internal combustion engines. But in this world, there is a unique martial arts civilization.

This actually gave the world a greater advantage in the agricultural era.

A 9th-grade beginner warrior who is twelve years old can lift a weight of 200 kilograms. When he reaches the upper level of the 9th-grade, he can grab hundreds of kilograms with his fingers alone, and can lift up to 400 to 500 kilograms.

what does this mean?
This means that the beasts that humans dared not provoke in the original world are now pets and food in this world. This means that the tasks that were difficult and grand in the original world are much easier to complete in this world. This also means differences in efficiency and cost, and in economy, war and other aspects.

To put it bluntly, one giant may not 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 and has profoundly influenced 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 city.

This building was built on a small hill, in the center of the entire market city, like a sun surrounded by stars. There was a road leading directly to the entrance for carriages. There were three high walls and more than a dozen sentry towers around the building. There was also a city guard camp next to it. It was heavily guarded.

This is the grain station, and it is also the core of the entire market city.

In this era, the currencies of various countries were linked to grain. One Xiguo gold yuan could be exchanged for one stone of first-grade grain. Therefore, it was called a gold stone. One silver yuan could be exchanged for one dou of second-grade grain, so it was also called a silver dou. Under the silver dou, there was a silver jiao, and twelve silver jiao made up a silver dou.

The value of these currencies was determined by the royal families of each country relying on their powerful military force, food storage capacity and resource exchange system. Although there were differences in exchange between good years and bad years, the hard payment of food could basically be guaranteed. Therefore, each country implemented the court's monopoly, transportation and storage policy. Ordinary people who touched this red line would die.

Privately transporting and hoarding food without permission is a felony!

Of course, as a member of the imperial court ruling system, the clans and the noble families in major cities have special privileges. For example, this time the Su family went to Chongguang City, the capital of Xiazhou, to buy grain. Although it was for the Su Family Castle to store for the winter, it was part of Yishan City's winter grain storage work.

And once you lose your position in the aristocratic family…everything will disappear.

If the Su family wants to buy grain, they can only buy it at the Yishan City grain station. How much to buy depends on how much the noble family has agreed to give, or how much is left after other noble families have distributed their grain.

This is the cruelty of this world. When the Su family collapsed, it was not only the eldest son who suffered, but also more than a thousand people in the Su Family Castle.

After a walk, Su Daoshan went to the Su family's business and found that the Su family had the least business among the six great families in the market city. And it seemed that the business was generally not very good. Some of the cloth shops and clothing stores had even closed down.

However, the Mi family's cloth shop is doing a booming business.

After buying some mahogany boards, yellow paper and cinnabar, Su Daoshan took a carriage back to Sujiabao. He stayed in the courtyard in the afternoon, drinking tea and reading.

The book is the record of strange sects and martial arts given by Fan Caiyi.

"The inheritance of the strange sect can be traced back to the creation of the world by Lanzhuo. At the beginning of the creation, Lanzhuo opened up the world with divine power..." Su Daoshan threw a candied fruit into his mouth, and when he looked up, he saw Sister Xing'er walking towards him seductively, twisting her waist, with spring in her eyes and a flute in her hand.

"Don't disturb my peace." Su Daoshan waved his hand and continued reading.

Sister Xing Er pouted and went back to her room. After a while, she came out again, took the flower juice, moved a small stool and sat next to Su Daoshan to paint her nails.

"Fox spirit!" In the open west wing, Pingting snorted, looked at Huamei who was embroidering, curled her lips, and then continued to embroider. A green scent bag in her hand was gradually taking shape.

Su Daoshan was fascinated by the scene.

Much of what is described in the book is well-known history of the continent, and it matches the original body's memories.

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 worships Lanzhuo's statue.

The statues have different appearances. Some are old men, some are middle-aged men, some are elegant scholars, and some are shirtless men holding the sun and the moon. 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 first religious cult on the continent today.

After the creation of the world, Lanzhuo seemed to have disappeared. 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 symbolic existence. Unlike the God in Western mythology, he is everywhere.

Because of this, it is said that in the old era, almost no one worshipped Lanzhu.

There are many religions on the mainland, with countless gods, and believers worship this and pray to that, but I have never heard of anyone building a temple for Lanzhuo or burning a few incense sticks.

Until the catastrophe of annihilation came more than a hundred years ago. Just when the continent's time and space were broken, and it fell apart piece by piece and scattered into the tide of broken time and space, a miracle came.

That was a secret miracle left by Lan Zhuo on the top of Fengyuan Mountain. The outbreak of the miracle saved the continent and ended the catastrophe of world destruction. Afterwards, the exorcism array created by Fengyuan Temple based on the miracle became the mainstay of mankind to withstand the invasion of the You Clan.

This is why the New Era has been able to survive for more than a hundred years.

The Tao seeds derived from the original power left by Lan Zhuo, as part of the natural rules of this world, appeared when the catastrophe came and time and space were broken.

"It has only been less than a hundred years since the strange sect was passed down to this day?!" Su Daoshan was stunned.

(End of this chapter)