After Mother's Day, the weather became hotter day by day, and the rain became more and more frequent.
The entire royal city has begun to enter the annual rainy season survival mode. Most outdoor projects have been suspended one after another. All tribes have also entered their off-farm time. Except for farmland weeding and drainage management, there is basically not much labor.
The royal city seems to be idle, but in fact it is not idle at all.
At the end of March, the school in the southwest of the royal city was officially completed. Xu Chen issued an order from the Witch King to select a group of male and female teenagers with relatively outstanding mental and flexible minds from the tribes near the royal city to study in the school. The main learning contents were literacy, writing, calculation, and measurement.
Weighing, management and other contents are mainly used to cultivate reserve talents for various imperial yamen.
Of course, in order to improve the abilities of all officials, all officials who have been appointed by the government have to go to school for a special class every day. The main learning content is literacy and calculation and handling various daily government affairs. Xu Chen personally teaches.
This kind of training is only a temporary measure at the moment. In the future, the main purpose of this school is to recruit younger children and teenagers from various tribes and provide more extensive education in batches and layers. The ultimate goal is to build a high-level royal city.
The school continuously cultivates management talents for the country.
According to Xu Chen's Dawu grading system and promotion plan, schools will be opened in all large ethnic groups and tribal gathering areas in the future.
If Pakistan is to truly get rid of barbarism and develop into a powerful civilized country, education is an indispensable and important link.
A group of witches alone won't do it.
It also requires a large number of doctors, craftsmen, officials, military officers and even tribal leaders with knowledge and culture.
Only by forming a universal knowledge education and improving the cultural level of the entire country can Pakistan become truly prosperous and strong, and can it continue to maintain a strong momentum of development.
If there is no profound cultural accumulation and knowledge to arm the mind, once His Majesty the Witch King, who is the core center of the brain, dies, the whole country of Pakistan may soon decline. After a few decades, the country of Pakistan, which is in disarray, may retreat again.
to the primitive tribal era.
However, educational development cannot be achieved overnight, and it will take a long time to complete the basic accumulation.
The first batch of teachers, the first batch of doctors, the first batch of craftsmen, the first batch of officials, the first batch of military officers, the first batch of tribal chiefs and chiefs with new culture and new knowledge.
These all need to be cultivated slowly by Xu Chen himself, without any opportunistic methods.
In April, as summer enters, the weather suddenly becomes violently hot.
However, with the arrival of summer, various fruits and vegetables begin to be on the market in large quantities.
The water in the Jicang River began to surge, and fish, shrimp and aquatic products quickly became the daily food of the people in the Royal City. The aquatic products and wild beasts and eggs trading market in the southeast market area of the Royal City was officially opened.
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Also opened at the same time is a comprehensive commercial street.
There are leather goods shops, weapons shops, salt shops, hotels, dyeing shops, copperware shops, tinware shops, jewelry shops, painted pottery shops, rain gear shops, grocery stores, etc. which are relatively mature and distinctive at the moment.
Commercial store.
Xu Chen even opened two restaurants here.
One is a noodle shop, which mainly sells steamed buns, noodles, pancakes and other daily foods.
The other restaurant is considered a more formal one, mainly selling multigrain porridge, rice and some simple stewed dishes.
Although they were two roadside stall-level fly restaurants in Xu Chen's eyes, the appearance of these two novel restaurants immediately aroused the interest of the entire royal city.
Neat dining tables and benches, clean pottery bowls, hot and delicious food, you only need a copper coin in your hand to have a full meal.
As the military camp purchases large amounts of firewood, fish, shrimp, vegetables and other living materials from the vicinity of the Royal City all year round, all the tribes near the Royal City have some income all year round. In addition, officials and military officers begin to receive dozens or hundreds of dollars every month.
With the salary of Wenqian and other sources of income for various tribes, the people near the royal city have begun to have a certain amount of wealth accumulation and consumption ability.
Food is the most important thing for people. Eating is always the most important thing at any time.
Although various tribes have gradually got rid of the state of hunger and cold in recent years, they have only just reached the level of food and clothing, and there is still a long way to go before they can eat well.
Even though it has been five or six years since Xu Chen invented the stone mill, there are very few tribes who can actually eat fine flour every day. Xu Chen has this condition, and most of them can only eat it every three to five or even ten days and a half.
A meal, and it is a very simple meal of pasta. Even tribes such as the Cicha Tribe, Youqing Tribe, and Pi Tribe, which have developed slightly slower, would be more luxurious if they wanted to eat a meal of pasta.
And it is impossible for a tribe to grind flour to make a meal of pasta specifically for one person's appetite.
In this state of living in groups and eating together, individual desires are infinitely suppressed and ignored.
And for those hunters, officers and officials who already have some money in their hands, there is no way to have a good meal occasionally without money.
But now, two novel restaurants have emerged that greatly satisfy their needs and desires.
Therefore, on the day when the commercial street opened, the two restaurants became the busiest places in the entire royal city.
Groups of officials, officers, hunters and even a lot of idlers surrounded the two restaurants. They all paid to go in and have a meal. The excitement naturally attracted more people from the royal city to watch, which directly caused
The first traffic jam in the royal city.
Xu Chen never expected that this would happen.
Originally, he also brought Ye, the little witch and others to come and enjoy the show, but he didn't expect it would cause such a sensation, so he had to send someone to notify the imperial army to come and maintain order.
For a long time in the future, these two restaurants have always been crowded with guests. Every day at noon and evening, a large number of people come here to eat. At the same time, they also attract a large number of people from the royal city to watch. Although they cannot afford to eat, they can enjoy the food.
Drool and smell the taste.
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The bows and arrows weapons, salt, wine, leather goods, dyed cloth, tools, painted pottery, bamboo hats and other special commodities here have always been eagerly sought after by all tribes.
Compared with the comprehensive trading market near the Gonghuo tribe on the other side of the river, the commercial street is more distinctive, and the products are more exquisite and attractive.
The opening of the commercial street also heralds the complete completion of the planning and construction of the entire royal city.
The military camp in the northeast, the warehouse in the northwest, the living area in the southwest, and the commercial area in the southeast are bounded by four royal city avenues, dividing the royal city into four different areas with distinctive characteristics. Together with the core area of the royal palace in the center, they form
The entire main city of the royal city.
The area around the Imperial City is bounded by four radiating Imperial City Avenues, each extending for three to five miles, and then forming suburban settlements and large areas of farmland.
The most prosperous and lively place is undoubtedly the main road with the North Gate Avenue of the Palace as the central axis and the cross-river bridge that leads directly to the gathering area of the Gonghuo people on the north bank of the Jicang River.
At Gonghuo River Beach, Beimen Avenue and Bagong Avenue are connected.
Then, together with the newly built river embankments, docks, shipyards, etc., a brand new pattern was formed.
With wide and straight avenues, neat street trees, towering embankments, flying bridges, and busy shipyards all day long, the original river beach appearance on both sides of the Jicang River is almost no longer visible.
If someone had been here a year ago and came back now, they would definitely feel like they were in a dream, as if they had suddenly entered a completely different parallel world.
Just like when a great witch from a poor tribe didn't come for two years and suddenly saw the royal city rising in the Gonghuo Basin.
But the changes this year seem to be even greater.
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The shipyard began to enter crazy mode.
Several wooden boats started at the same time were built at completely different speeds because of their different sizes.
In mid-April, the three boats were completed one after another.
There are two single-hull wooden boats and one catamaran wooden boat.
Basically, small boats can only be used as fishing boats, so the requirements are not high. However, in order to allow craftsmen and apprentices to better learn the craftsmanship of wooden boats, all links are still very strict, especially leak-proof and waterproof treatments, which must be done.
Very strict.
These three boats were carefully painted three times inside and out with tung oil, and were put into the water together after they were completely dry.
The people of the Royal City have not seen new ships for several years, so the completion of these three boats still caused quite a stir. Countless people rushed to the riverside pier near the shipyard to watch the launching ceremony of the three boats, cheering and celebrating that they were finally available again.
New ship.
These three small boats were just appetizers and were quickly sold to the Gonghuo Tribe, Yu Gong Tribe and Wu Tribe for two hundred cents each. At the same time, Xu Chen announced that the shipyard had begun accepting orders for fishing boats from various tribes.
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Compared with the wooden boats used for transportation, fishing boats used for fishing and maintaining food sources are obviously more practical.
Two hundred pennies is equivalent to the price of buying a cart. Although it is not cheap, it is definitely not expensive.
In fact, according to Xu Chen, most tribes can only afford small boats.
The price of a medium-sized wooden boat with more than ten people will be tripled at least. As for a large boat with twenty or thirty people, it basically excludes the Uzbek, Ba, and Cicha tribes that have mining, resources, and technology.
Except for this, other tribes simply cannot afford it.
Therefore, for a long time in the future, large and medium-sized wooden boats can actually only be built in the name of the country and then put into use for public welfare, or they can be rented or given away, otherwise they cannot be promoted.
However, Xu Chen's large-scale increase in shipbuilding scale was not just to improve the transportation conditions and exchange of goods and personnel among various tribes in Pakistan, but also to explore longer distances.
At the end of April, the construction of two medium-sized wooden boats was completed and successfully launched.
This is a medium-sized wooden boat with a capacity of fifteen to twenty people. After it was successfully launched and made seaworthy, one of the boats was given to the Yu Gong clan by Xu Chen. This was something he had promised at the beginning, and the other one was given to Cicha.
clan.
Because the Great Lakes environment where the Cicha people live is complex, there is an urgent need for ships to strengthen the connections and exchanges between the tribes along the Great Lakes.
The putting into use of these two boats will greatly alleviate the huge pressure on daily waterway transportation by the Yugong and Cicha tribes.
Especially for the Yu Gong clan, they have to cross the Wulong River to and from the royal city. The raft cannot meet the needs at all. Both in terms of safety and practicality, it is too low-level and crude.