After staying in this space for four or five months, Qin Feng finally understood the reason for the lack of food here, because in this place, there is very little land that can be cultivated, and most of it is rolling mountains.
Qin Feng and others walked for three or four hours before they emerged from the mountains that surrounded Tianyun Town. After passing through a grand canyon, they finally saw a vast grassland in front of them.
"There should be a lot of minerals in a place like this, right?"
Qin Feng looked back at the mountains behind him and shook his head in confusion. Generally speaking, mountainous places have the highest chance of containing iron ore. Rare minerals such as gold and diamonds are extremely rare.
However, in this space, things seem to be exactly the opposite. There are very few iron ore veins, but gold mines can be found everywhere. Qin Feng has been walking in the mountains these days and picked up several high-purity horseshoe gold alone.
piece.
"Damn it, if this place is discovered by the outside world, I'm afraid the price of gold will plummet, right?"
A strange idea suddenly came to Qin Feng's mind. With the amount of gold in this space, if all was mined, the gold currency system that had been used for thousands of years would collapse in an instant.
"Senior, if we walk twenty miles further, we will reach Tianyun City."
Qin Shiliang, who was walking in front, saw Qin Feng stop, quickly turned around and walked back, and said: "I asked Wu Erbao Feige to pass the message. I guess the city is already making arrangements to receive you, senior..."
Being able to recruit a dark master for the family is a great achievement. Qin Shiliang met two of them at once this time. Naturally, he was overjoyed, for fear that Qin Feng would not go to Tianyun City.
"Flying pigeons delivering messages?"
Qin Feng was stunned for a moment when he heard this. Then he remembered that the homing pigeons raised outside today were used for communication and military purposes in ancient times.
Now in the courtyard area where Qin Feng lives, there are still people raising homing pigeons. Every morning and evening, homing pigeons can be seen flying across the sky, and the whistles on their feet make a unique sound.
"Flying pigeons to pass letters is a method of communication within the family..."
Qin Shiliang explained a few words to Qin Feng, and he became more and more convinced that Qin Feng came out of the mountains, and he was afraid that Qin Feng's family had been living in seclusion in the mountains for a long time. Because there are more than three hundred homing pigeons.
It was introduced from outside just a few years ago.
"Let's go, I also want to experience the wisdom of my ancestors and see what this Tianyun City is like..."
Qin Feng took a deep breath. As the saying goes, it is a blessing, not a curse, but a curse cannot be avoided. Some time ago, because of the Qian family, Qin Feng and others took a detour when they encountered the town. He had never seen this space before.
Larger human settlements.
"Tianyun City is the second largest city of our Qin family, and it is also the place with the most mixed surnames, but we still have the final say here..."
When Qin Shiliang spoke, there was a hint of arrogance on his face.
Back then, Tianyun City was not far from the Qin Dynasty, so it could be said to be a place where hundreds of families worshiped. Even after the Qin capital fell, Tianyun City still maintained its former prosperity and did not decline as a result.
"Jinxuan, are you tired?" Qin Feng looked back at the little girl following the mule and said, "Hold on a little longer. We will arrive at Tianyun City soon..."
Qin Feng and Zhang Xiaotian are both masters of dark strength, and Zhang Hu and Qin Shiliang are also masters of bright strength. Only Zhang Jinxuan's cultivation is worse, and she took several breaks along the way, all for the sake of the little girl.
"Master, I'm not tired, Xiao Hei is with me." Jinxuan shook her head, with a hint of excitement on her face, and said, "Master, are there any good-looking clothes in Tianyun City?"
Unlike the small town where Zhang Hu once visited Qian's family, this is the first time Jinxuan has been out of the mountains. When she was in the small town before, wearing linen clothes and coarse cloth, she would fall in love with the girls in the town.
Envy eyes.
"Yes, I can wear whatever clothes I want!" Before Qin Feng could answer, Qin Shiliang smiled and said: "Tianyun City has all kinds of brocade silks and satins. Sister Jinxuan, I will take you to buy them when the time comes..."
"Thank you, Brother Qin..."
Jinxuan smiled sweetly. Although the makeup on her face showed that she was in her early twenties, she still sounded like a girl of thirteen or fourteen when she spoke.
"These crops are well grown and will be ready for harvest in two months..."
After coming out of the mountain, almost everything you see is crop fields. There is a wooden house every five hundred meters. When Qin Feng and others pass by, people will come out of the wooden house to observe them.
"The crops in this area account for 40% of our Qin family's food rations."
Qin Shiliang sighed and said: "The mountains are not suitable for farming, and there are many wild animals. The Qin family's ability to eat enough next year depends entirely on these grains..."
"I'm afraid these problems were not problems at all in the past. As the population increases, these contradictions will become more prominent."
Qin Feng shook his head when he heard this. According to the history of this space that Uncle Zhang told, the earliest people who lived here were probably only tens of thousands of people similar to the Qin family.
But when the four major clans and people who were killed by the Yuan Dynasty came in, the population of this space almost doubled exponentially. Up to now, there are millions of people living here.
Although the reproductive capacity of human beings is not as high as that of some animals, it is still terrifying. Now the number of humans on the earth has exceeded the six billion mark. Perhaps in a few hundred years, this kind of food shortage will also appear in the outer space.
As the journey continued, there were gradually more and more people on the road. Most of these people were in groups of three or five, with tough expressions and carrying weapons made of iron wood.
However, after seeing Qin Shiliang, these people would stand on one side of the road and bow, and wait until Qin Feng and others passed by before continuing on their way.
"Qin Shiliang, what do these people do?" Qin Feng asked with some confusion.
"Senior, they are all hunters from Tianyun City!"
Qin Shiliang said: "Tianyun City's food output is limited and needs to be supplied to several other cities, so many people go into the mountains to hunt and exchange the meat and furs of wild beasts for food..."
The clothes Qin Shiliang wore were the standard uniforms of the Qin clan's guards. As the managers of the Qin clan's town, the hunters naturally had to be more respectful towards him.
Not to mention the power in the hands of the guards. Even in terms of cultivation, Qin Shiliang was much higher than them.
Because among these people who make a living by hunting, once they break through to Ming Jin, they will choose to join the guards. There are very few Ming Jin masters among hunters who are still doing their job.
"We're here, Tianyun City is ahead..." After walking for more than two hours, just as the sun was about to set, a Noda city appeared in everyone's sight.
"This... is Tianyun City?" Looking at Tianyun City, which was about five or six hundred meters away from him, Qin Feng was really shocked.
The entire city is about twenty meters high, standing out of thin air in front of Qin Feng and others. The huge city wall gives people a heavy feeling. It is more powerful than the first level in the world that Qin Feng has ever seen.
Majestic.
Qin Feng's feeling became stronger the closer he got to the city wall. The city wall made of huge stone blocks showed the vicissitudes and weight of history.
"So... so big..." Looking up at Tianyun City in the distance, Zhang Hu felt as if an egg had been stuffed into his mouth and he could no longer close it.
"This is actually not a big deal."
Qin Shiliang sighed and said: "I heard from the elders that the Qin capital back then was taller than it. The city gate was thirty meters high, and the inner wall of the city wall could run five carriages side by side..."
As radicals among the Qin family of this generation, people like Qin Shiliang always want to restore the glory of the Qin family in the past. Even if the Qin family was a vassal of the royal family at that time, its status was much higher than it is now.
"A thirty-meter-high city wall?"
Qin Feng was also surprised when he heard this. This is equivalent to a ten-story building in the outside world, but looking at the city wall about twenty meters high in front of him, Qin Shiliang must be telling no lies.
"Hmm? This is a structure with stone and brick walls?"
A distance of five to six hundred meters, which was only a few minutes, when he reached the foot of Tianyun City, Qin Feng couldn't help but was stunned, because he found that the structure of these city walls was very similar to the Great Wall he had seen.
"Qin Shiliang, when was Tianyun City built?" Qin Feng looked back at Qin Shiliang and asked.
"According to the genealogy records, it should be during the Qin Dynasty."
Qin Shiliang said: "My Qin family originally had the surname Ying. After the First Emperor unified the world, he gathered all the efforts of the whole country to build the Great Wall and the four cities here. It was more than two thousand years ago, right?"
"What? Qin...Qin Shihuang? Was this place built by Qin Shihuang?"
After hearing Qin Shiliang's words, Qin Feng was really stunned this time. Although he had guessed before, Qin Shihuang's surname was Ying instead of Qin. He never thought that the Qin family here was really a descendant of Qin Shihuang.
However, Qin Feng couldn't help but not believe this, because in ancient times, there was no one other than the one emperor who could be so generous.
"It's the First Emperor..." Qin Shiliang frowned and corrected Qin Feng's words. Qin Shihuang was the ancestor to them and no one could tolerate any blasphemy.
"Okay, it's the First Emperor, but...but what on earth is going on?" Qin Feng's brain was a little confused, and he turned to look at Zhang Xiaotian. It seemed that he had never heard Uncle Zhang mention this matter.
"I don't know the specific origin of the Qin family either..." Uncle Zhang smiled bitterly and shook his head. He really didn't know these things.
Qin Shihuang has a history of more than 2,000 years. In addition, after the Qin capital royal family was destroyed, very few people from the five major clans talked about these events. Now, except for members of the Qin clan, I am afraid that not many people with other surnames know these past events.
"Have you never heard your elders talk about our ancestor?"
Qin Shiliang glanced at Qin Feng with some suspicion. According to the tradition of the Qin family, annual ancestor worship is essential. Is it possible that Qin Feng is pretending to be a member of the Qin family?
Since the Qin family is not living a very satisfactory life among the other four major clans, and the Qin family has its own way of identifying clan members, Qin Shiliang has never doubted Qin Feng's identity before.
But now that Qin Feng didn't know the history of the Qin family, Qin Shi's conscience had a trace of doubt, and the look on his face was no longer so respectful.
