Yang Ming and Tang Er's follower Sally walked into the alley in the slum area, although there was only a wall between it and the Nakapa Temple.

However, these seem to be two worlds.

A disgusting emotion arose in Yang Ming's heart. Everything in this slum seemed to be mocking the glorious Kapa Temple.

The civilians living here are basically the elderly and disabled middle-aged people.

The young workers in those families went to work in the commercial street to earn money. Looking at these people with dim eyes, Yang Ming felt a strong sense of discomfort in his heart.

Although the civilian city in Yunjing is not as prosperous as the official city, everything in this civilian city seems to be prosperous.

After all, in the Cloud Empire, the emphasis is on providing for the elderly and educating the young.

But here, the slums are in disarray, the houses are in disrepair, and the humid air is filled with an unpleasant smell.

There was no hope in these people's eyes, like a group of hollowed-out zombies.

"Are these the people of Tianzhu?"

Master Tang Er shook his head, he really couldn't stand it.

"What was your first feeling when you saw them?"

"Angry? Puzzled? Or sympathetic?"

Sally asked as they emerged from the ghetto.

Standing in the fields on the edge of the slums, Yang Ming looked thoughtfully at the farmers cultivating in the fields.

Kapa has no city walls, only streets and houses. This large temple was built on the outskirts of the city. Walking through the slums next to the large temple, there is a field.

"There are more than a dozen slums like this in Kappa."

"The one we went to was considered to be one of the slums that was not too low-income."

“In the slums on the northern outskirts of Kapa, ​​thousands of people die from malaria every year.”

Malaria is a disease that has not appeared in the Cloud Empire for decades.

Although the Five Kings Rebellion caused a huge loss of national power, the primary medical care of the Cloud Empire has always been very good.

The number of doctors and pharmacists in the Cloud Empire is very large, and many practitioners even have some knowledge of medical skills.

Moreover, the safety of water sources and food can now be well guaranteed, but these things are simply a luxury for the lower-class civilians in Tianzhu.

"I... don't know what kind of emotion I am feeling."

"In short, I don't want the Cloud Empire to become like Tianzhu Kingdom."

Now that Yang Ming saw the low-level society in Tianzhu, he was inexplicably substituted into the Cloud Empire.

What a terrible sight it would be if the civilians of the Cloud Empire were reduced to the same level as the civilians of Tianzhu.

"Don't show that expression. The civilians of Tianzhu don't need your sympathy."

Sally smiled, patted Yang Ming on the shoulder and said:

"This is just the life of some poor people. You can't just look at the bad side, you also have to see the good side."

"Come on, I'll take you to visit the business district. The business district is very different."

After saying that, Sally led Yang Ming and the others through the fields and towards Kapa's commercial street.

Kappa's commercial street is not far from the pier, so Yang Ming definitely cannot take off his mask casually.

The two people following Sally really looked like an aristocratic lady going out with two bodyguards. Moreover, Sally's skin color was indeed that of a Tianzhu noble.

After arriving at the commercial street, the prosperity here is not comparable to that of the slums.

The Tianzhu people seem to have an almost obsessive pursuit of architecture. Their buildings are basically the kind of buildings with strong religious overtones, even the buildings in commercial streets.

The buildings on both sides of the road have a strong Buddhist flavor. In the center of the commercial street is a huge square.

In the very center of the square is a four-meter-high stone statue of Buddha.

The kind-faced Buddha looked at the passers-by with a smile. The passers-by cast their worshipful eyes towards the stone statue of Buddha, clasped their hands and bowed devoutly towards the stone statue.

All the passers-by were dressed very exquisitely. Although they were all civilians, they were all smiling.

Completely different from the slums, the common people in this commercial street can actually live so happily.

Moreover, they all held bamboo tubes in their hands, which contained very refreshing drinks.

This season is still a little cold in the Cloud Empire, but it is already in full swing in Tianzhu Kingdom.

Buddhist culture has been very widely promoted here. Even though they were invaded by the Wuyue Empire, they still did not give up their Buddhist culture.

This can be said to be a spontaneous belief of the Tianzhu people, who have always had a very sincere pursuit of Buddhism.

The emperor of the Wrigley Moon Empire saw that the Tianzhu people had such deep faith in Buddhism, and actually gave up the idea of ​​​​exterminating Buddhism.

For the people of Tianzhu, wanting to eliminate Buddhism is equivalent to eradicating all the people of Tianzhu.

However, this is simply unrealistic.

"I never expected that Tianzhu could have such a prosperous place."

After Master Tang Er finished speaking, Sally turned back and smiled at Tang Ke.

"Although there are many poor people in Tianzhu, there are also many businessmen."

"Businessmen in this country must account for at least 60% of the total number of citizens."

"More than half of the people are engaged in business."

This kind of business ratio is very high!

You must know that there are not so many merchants in the Cloud Empire. In addition to the many merchants along the east coast, more of the Cloud Empire's people are farmers.

In the Cloud Empire, farming is definitely a very good job, because every year Yunjing will issue very high subsidies to farmers in various places.

No matter what the harvest is, as long as you plant according to the requirements of each state, you will never lose money.

Apart from the developed agriculture, there are also a lot of scholars.

However, in Tianzhu, the number of scholars is pitifully small.

It seems that except for the acolytes of those temples, basically no one knows how to study knowledge.

Those acolytes only accounted for 10% of Tianzhu's population. Ordinary ordinary Tianzhu people simply learned to read and calculate accounts.

Here, only doing business can have a future.

"In Tianzhu, civilians can only be civilians forever. No matter how hard a person works, he can only become a wealthy civilian."

"But by becoming a wealthy commoner, you can live with dignity in Tianzhu."

"Some small nobles are very willing to marry those wealthy commoners. After all, small nobles may not be richer than these big merchants and commoners."

"So, although some people can only be commoners in this life, if they work hard, their descendants may become nobles."

After Sally finished speaking, she felt a little helpless.

I can’t believe that a country has such a large market and such a brilliant Buddhist culture.

An individual's destiny can never be changed. What can be changed is the future of one's own descendants.

Moreover, those who marry small nobles are equivalent to putting in their own lifetime efforts so that their children can have the opportunity to stand with the nobles.

Those children, if they have no strength or knowledge, will be looked down upon in the aristocratic circle.

Therefore, the wealthy civilians of Tianzhu basically occupy 70% of Tianzhu’s educational resources!

They are willing to spend a lot of money to get married, and then spend even more money to educate their children, and hire respected acolytes to teach them knowledge.

Just so that their children can become masters.

"Although I don't know what to say, this kind of society is definitely not a good society."

Yang Ming frowned and looked at this bustling scene.

Although there are smiling faces here and a market with a high degree of freedom.

This is a great place where you can earn money through hard work and resourcefulness.

This is also a place with extremely deformed development.

For the poor, even basic life cannot be guaranteed.

Common people, trying hard to make more money, tried every means to curry favor with nobles and enter into marriages.

Nobles, on the other hand, are born with generous resources and respected status.

Such obvious class differentiation makes

Yang Ming felt that the country of Tianzhu was like a towering Buddhist pagoda.

The upper level of the pagoda is filled with radiant nobles.

The bottom floor of the pagoda is filled with miserable and desperate civilians and slaves.

"In any case, Tianzhu does have a very influential Buddhist culture."

Tang Ke thought for a while and said:
To be continued...