The Principality of Tyros straddles the hub between the Mark Red Empire and the island nation of Elan.
This country is in a pretty good location, but the whole country seems particularly desolate.
From the moment they entered the territory of the Tairuosi Principality, Jia Zhengjin and others only saw endless wilderness on the road. Except for the pedestrians and merchants traveling along the road like them, it was difficult to see the cities in the Tairuosi Principality, let alone the civilians.
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The wilderness is full of weeds up to the calf level, but even the weeds are withered and yellow, as if they are malnourished.
Not a single tree could be seen within a thousand miles, not even a sapling.
Except for the layer of withered yellow weeds, this place seems to be no different from the desert.
Can people really live in such a desolate land and establish a country? What do they think about survival?
Walking in the wilderness is very tiring, as you can see from the queues of pedestrians on the road. Especially the road is winding, even uneven, and not smooth at all. When encountering an uphill slope, the horse-drawn carriage has a very hard time walking.
Fortunately, Jia Zhengjin and his party all rode flying mounts, which was much more comfortable than others.
After flying along the road for a long time in the wilderness, we finally saw a huge city in the distance.
It is said to be a city, but in fact, apart from the high stone walls on the outside, it is almost a collection of countless backward villages.
Compared with several countries and regional cities along the way, this so-called principality should be considered a poor area, right?
I don’t know if there is only this city in the entire country, or if there are other cities scattered in other places.
Jia Zhengjin led the team, everyone riding a tiger bee, and quickly approached the city.
After leaving Domasan Junction City, he found a remote mountainous area and built a tiger bee nest. Then he asked Ruruto to return to Holy Dragon City on his own, and the team instead recruited tiger bees as flying mounts, making the journey easier.
quick.
When we arrived near the city gate, we found that the civilians in the city were holding clay pots, lining up and passing by the gate guards for questioning, coming in and out.
People who went out brought empty jars with them, but came back with full bottles of water. Although they were struggling, they looked very happy.
Surprisingly, after entering the city, they found that these civilians put the water brought back from outside the city on the roadside and sold it directly to passers-by and merchants.
What's even more strange is that they don't want money, but hope to exchange water for food, clothing and other living resources.
Of course, there are also some weirder ones mixed in. They display some huge insect carcasses that they got from who knows where. Most of them are larvae with little fighting power. They even barbecued them on the street and cooked them into weird foods. They also brought them with them.
Those passing by can be exchanged for various resources.
"It seems that this country is not very rich in resources!" After entering the city, the team came down and walked. Tina looked at the surrounding scenery and couldn't help but said to Jia Zhengjin.
"It should be said that there are no resources in sight, right?" Jia Zhengjin also kept looking around, "Probably water resources are relatively scarce, otherwise they would not be exchanged for supplies."
"Are those insects their food? I don't know where they came from. Can they be eaten?" Tina felt a little nauseous.
Jia Zhengjin thinks it’s nothing, after all, he was born in a country where everything can be turned into delicacies before traveling through time: “Maybe it was dug out of the underground nests of some giant insects in the wasteland. Most insects are used to laying their eggs underneath.
, let the larvae grow to a certain extent and then come out on their own."
"Looking at it this way, it's really desolate!" Christina said softly from the side.
"This road is really difficult!" Palin said expressionlessly as she looked down at the bumpy city roads.
"Well! When cement roads are built in the future, this problem will not exist!" Jia Zhengjin said with a smile.
"Concrete road? Are you talking about the cement road that Lord Keen, the Lord of Holy Dragon City, requested to be built across the continent?" The conversation between their husband and wife was overheard by a civilian setting up a stall next to him, so he asked curiously.
"Oh?" Jia Zhengjin turned around and looked at the other person. He was a bearded man about forty or fifty years old, "You know?"
"Of course!" The bearded man nodded, "However, we in the Principality of Teros will not build cement roads."
"Why?" Jia Zhengjin asked in confusion, "This road is very inconvenient. If we build a cement road, the traffic will be much smoother, and the exchanges with neighboring countries will be closer, which will help get rid of your current economic situation, right?"
"Communications with surrounding countries?" The bearded man shook his head with a dull expression, "Our country has no resources. As you can see, even the capital city of Faling has this kind of virtue, and everyone can only live hand to mouth without any capital at all.
Do business with other countries. Because of this, a country as weak as ours has never been annexed by other countries. The reason is that such a barren and useless land will not get any benefits after occupying it. Instead, we have to pay to feed the people.
Huge funds. There is no need to talk about the economic situation here, because there are really no resources! There are no trees, no ores, scarce water sources, barren land, and rare animals that are difficult to feed..."
"Then why do you still stay in this country?" Tina asked curiously, "It sounds like there is nothing, why don't you go elsewhere to find a way out?"
"Although the Principality of Teros is like this, the people are at least free and not enslaved by the rulers. Life is a little harder, but they can barely survive. Moreover, the royal family gives the people a certain degree of autonomy and dignity. As long as there is
Dignity, as long as they can barely survive, the people of Tairuosi will be satisfied."
"The requirements are really low." Perrin looked at him expressionlessly.
"Haha~" the bearded man opened his mouth and said with a smile, "It's always happy to be content with what you have! Are you going to the island country of Elan?"
"How do you know?" Tina asked.
"Most of the people who pass by here are going to the island country of Yilan, and there are almost no people who come specifically to visit the Principality of Tyros! After all, except for the endless wasteland, there is really nothing to see here." The bearded uncle said with a smile, "But, Yi
Although the island country of Lanhai is beautiful, it is also very short of water resources. Even though it is an island country, it is surrounded by the sea, but there is really very little fresh water that can be drank. Sometimes, people there even have to go to our Faling City to buy it.
Water. So if you guys want to continue on your way, you might as well buy some clean fresh water to prepare."
"Oh? Is there such a thing?" Jia Zhengjin was very surprised, "Is there also a water shortage in the Yilan Island Country?"
"No! Look at the pedestrians and merchants, who is not in a hurry to buy water?" The bearded man pointed around.
Jia Zhengjin turned around and looked, and sure enough he found that the line of pedestrians and merchants following him had stopped one after another, and they were all bargaining with the water seller.
"Guest, if you don't prepare some fresh water now, you will definitely regret it!" The bearded man patted the clay pot in front of him with a smile, "My price is not high, I only need three days' rations!"
"This little water needs to be replaced with three days of food rations?"
"Guest, water is very precious!" (To be continued)
