140, Heavenly Kingdom Tour

There were more and more people in the market. Wherever their four sedan chairs passed, everyone had to let the ceremony go, which seemed very crowded and inconvenient. Ding Qi signaled the marshal Xiao Bozhi, who was leading the way, to leave the market, and asked as he walked: "What are the two buildings next to him for?"

There are two two-story buildings on both sides of the open space, which are a bit like a townhouse outside, but without a yard, which is different from other buildings in the village. Chen Rong, the military advisor next to him, replied: "There is a school, one belongs to the primary school, the other belongs to the university, and the food and accommodation place for children."

Children here, regardless of male or female, must come to the primary school at the age of 12 or above, and the university at the age of 13, and the classrooms are the front and back halls of the shrine. Children from the main club can naturally go home, but children from the other three villages cannot go back and forth every day, so they built two school halls respectively.

During the "school" period, the "public family" is responsible for food, and the grain is produced by the Daying Public Deposit. However, if you want to improve your life and eat better, you have to send it to your children by yourself. Usually it is a small market or a large market every month. Because the arrival of several brothers Tian coincides with the small market, the children in the school are on holiday and temporarily suspended to avoid disturbing the rest of several brothers Tian.

Ding Qi ordered: "Don't continue to suspend classes. Don't disturb the daily life of each camp just because I'm waiting for it. Let's continue tomorrow. I also want to see what the primary and university here teaches children."

A few people left the market and came to the village alleys. The so-called alleys are roads naturally formed between the courtyards. There is no shortage of places here. The villages and communities are large in area, with only more than fifty families, so the courtyards of each household are very spacious.

Ding Qi had a feeling that if he had met the old village outside, just looking at the house, almost all the families here could be called wealthy families.

All of them are blue brick houses, which are very spacious and comfortable. Each building is exquisite. The threshold is made of stone, and the door lintels, window lintels and under the eaves are almost decorated with exquisite flower tiles. The contents of the flower tiles include birds and animals, plants, flowers, and various characters and stories from the historical legends here.

In a sense, the society here has developed to a level of great material richness, and people also pursue spiritual enjoyment. I know when I look at these decorations. Ding Qi deliberately got out of the sedan chair and walked into the houses of several families, visiting the details of people's daily lives inside the building. Ding Qi asked while looking, and several leaders answered.

Nowadays, the large materials used for building houses here are no longer logged in the mountains, but are taken from street trees planted on both sides of the road. Every time a certain age, the large materials are harvested and stored and planted. The storage method is to use stone strips to press them into the lake. If anyone needs large materials such as beams and pillars to repair a house, they can be taken out. Now there are sinking wood for hundreds of years and thousands of years.

Water sinking is a very good way to store wood. As the saying goes, "It has been dry for thousands of years, and it has been wet for thousands of years without drying or wet for a few years. It can completely sink in water to isolate the air and can also slowly crystallize and carbonize the structure of the wood. Snap the water sinking wood and put it in a dry place for a few years, which can also prevent deformation.

Local buildings are extremely durable. Once they are repaired, they will take at least a hundred years, so they will be so exquisitely and employed. Those exquisite tiles are not too labor-intensive, because most of the brick molds are ready-made and left by people from all generations. The real craftsmanship is carvings. When you walk into the house, you can also see carvings and painted buildings, even if they are just ordinary people.

It is not accurate to say that it is a hundred years. In fact, most of the houses here have been used for hundreds of years, and they are always inhabited, and they are constantly being repaired over the years. If someone builds or overhaulsed the house, the bricks and tiles and materials needed will be prepared several years in advance.

Almost every household here raises chickens, scattered in the yard during the day, and locks them in a chicken cage at night. Chicken is their main source of meat, and eggs can be exchanged in the market. There is also an advantage in raising chickens in the yard, which is that almost all kinds of insects will be eaten, including centipedes and cockroaches, and chicken feces can also be used as fertilizer.

Trees are planted in front and behind the house, including jujube trees, hawthorn trees, cherry trees, Chinese toon trees, mulberry trees, tung oil trees, and gum trees... These are all local cash crops, which can shade children and have snacks. Rows of sunflowers or hemp are planted in open spaces around the corners of the wall.

Hemp seeds can be squeezed oil, and more importantly, hemp fiber can be weaved. There are three types of fabrics here, linen, kudzu and silk, and the linen has the largest yield. There are wild silkworms here, which were captured by the ancients and raised by artificially and planted mulberry in the fields. The yield of silk is very low, but the population here is also small, and they cherish things very much.

The clothes they usually wear when they work in the fields do not pursue beauty, but are sturdy and durable. They are basically scrubbing clothes. They can be patched if worn, and they don’t feel bad if worn. The rag head can also be soaked in oil and tied torches or used as other fuel. However, the clothes worn by locals during festivals are very beautiful, and no one has carefully preserved a few sets of silk.

The main clothes for cold protection in winter are fur. Deer skin is the most precious. It can also be used as bedding, and more are bamboo rat skin. The clothes for bamboo rat skin are almost all sets of adults and children here.

There is no paint outside here. The anti-corrosion and sealing of wooden objects is made of tung oil. There is also a kind of gum tree in the local area. The resin extracted has the effect of anti-worm. Tung oil is not sycamore seed oil, but another plant. Tung oil tree was originally found in the mountains and fields here, and is now artificially planted.

Ding Qi and others once saw tung oil trees in the deep mountains. At that time, Bi Xuecheng recognized it as an unfamiliar little orange. In fact, it was tung oil fruit. Ding Qi had seen it when he was a child. They also saw citron fruit in the mountains. The fruits were also very similar to oranges, but the branches were thorny, and the fruits had a special fragrance that could be used to make spices or aromatics.

Almost every household raises chickens and spun linens. About one-quarter of the households raise pigs, and less than one-tenth of the households raise silkworms and process silk. Because people’s energy is limited after all, they can only choose a few side jobs based on basic self-sufficiency, and other things still rely on commodity exchange.

Bamboo rats are good at digging holes and have great teeth. They have to build brick circles that they cannot climb out of, and even lay bricks on the ground. Raising bamboo rats also means planting bamboo forests and sweet potatoes. The main thing used to feed bamboo rats here is sweet potatoes, and tender bamboos are often collected and fed.

Another type of handicraft that every household engages in is bamboo weaving. In Ding Qiyan, every household here may be regarded as a bamboo weaving master outside, but the difference is very big in the eyes of local people.

Adults and even many children are good bamboo craftsmen, but they use more energy and less efficiency, and the varieties of bamboo utensils are also different. Those who can process bamboo utensils and sell them as goods are the ones who make the most, the best and the fastest. The most bronze utensils here are broken bamboo, bamboo carving, and bamboo craftsmanship knives used to scrape bamboo.

The so-called material richness depends on how to understand it. For example, there are no computers and mobile phones here, and there are no dazzling array of products from the outside world. However, with the limited local activity space and resource varieties, the various things that people need for material life and spirit are indeed very rich.

There are two reasons for this. On the one hand, of course, the inhabitants here are hardworking and simple, and on the other hand, the world's tradition of transformation emphasizes the full use of things. If the outside world, especially Western consumerists, come here, they will definitely not like this habit.

A house must be lived in for a hundred or even hundreds of years, and a good piece of clothing must be worn for many years. Carefully preserve it and do not damage it. Try to repair it if it is broken. Pottery must not be damaged at will, or even if it is damaged, it will be punished, even if it is something from your own home.

Therefore, the durable goods here are often made very exquisitely because they must be used for a longer time, so of course they must be made more beautiful. Many daily necessities are like handicrafts. Consumables that are prone to damage are made as simple and solid as possible. Only by making the best use of the goods and constantly accumulating can they be so rich.

If a piece of furniture breaks in one year, thirty pieces of new furniture need to be replaced in thirty years. However, if it is carefully made with the best craftsmanship and the best materials, it can be used for thirty years, which means that the same product cannot be sold.

Locals will not agree with this consumerist view, nor is it the so-called thrift. They simply want to make the best use of things and try to make the best things.

People can devote more energy to producing other things. Even if they are still used to produce furniture, it means you can have thirty different pieces of furniture at the same time.

When visiting the village and community, Ding Qi understood the "New Ten Regulations" formulated by Tao Xin at that time. It not only represents the ten regulations, but also represents the local tradition of transformation, including the attitude towards the world and towards life.

Ding Qi signaled everyone to leave the village and leave the east gate to the field I walked yesterday. It was a straight road leading to the Second Society, and there were two forked roads not far away to the First Society and the Third Society. This is the main transportation road of the Kingdom of Heaven, which can be seen at a glance during the day, because neat street trees are planted on both sides of the road.

There are two types of street trees, ginkgo and spruce, both are trees with very straight trunks and are also large materials needed for construction. According to local regulations, each street tree is equally spaced 150 meters apart, and the materials are cut every sixty years. After the trees are harvested or fallen due to accidental death, they must be replanted in time. If the large materials stored in each camp are full, there is no need to cut every sixty years, and they will be cut every sixty years.

The road leading to the other three villages is seven or eight kilometers each. The number of street trees is more than the local people, so many of them have grown into towering trees, probably hundreds of years old. This is planted by many generations since ancient times and present, and is also a reserve resource for the local large materials needed.

Large materials are not only beam and column materials required for construction, but are more used in the local area to build ships. Dongdaying has many rivers and lakes, so the ship is an important means of transportation, especially during the harvest season. However, the ship is slow and cannot get back when walking too far in the waterway at night. It is necessary to place a cylinder at both ends of the ship to ignite.

Looking from the field, the three roads look like three spectacular green dragons. The function of the street trees can also guide the direction. The trees on one side of the road are all drawn with paint to point to the nearest village community.

If local residents go to work far away from the villages, they often keep torches with them to prevent them from coming back in the dark. Even if they ignite the torch, they cannot see the distance and find the direction, but as long as they can return to the main road and walk along the arrows of the street trees.

People still came over the three main roads, holding the elderly and the young, carrying frames and holding children. They set off after breakfast after dawn. Because the road was far away, they arrived now. Everyone smiled excitedly and were happy like a festival. Today is indeed a festival.

Dongying 1, 2 and 3 are about seven or eight kilometers away from the main club. This road is not short, and most people come directly. There are cars pulled by elk, but the cars are basically loaded with things, and some children sit in front of them.

Elks are domesticated livestock that locals have, but they are not cattle and horses after all, and they are very brave and easily frightened. The speed and endurance of running from a distance are far inferior to those of cattle, and the ability to carry weights is almost the same as that of a human walking. In order to prevent them from being frightened, the elks that pull the cart here are castrated, and the horns of the male deer have been sawed off.

People living outside the city rarely walk eight kilometers, but people from the three local villages and communities have all come here today. Many people arrive in less than two hours, and they are carrying baskets! It can be seen that the people here have good physical strength and endurance. Many elderly people who are older, and many young people Ding Qi knows need to be healthy.

Not only were these people going to come over long ago, but they also had to walk back before dark. They were at least fifteen kilometers back and forth, but they looked at their expressions very relaxed and happy.

The largest daily consumables in the local area are shoes, including cloth shoes and hemp shoes. The best are soft boots made of deer leather and deer tendons. Good shoes are usually worn when you need to travel long distances during the holidays.

When everyone saw the four brothers sitting in sedan chairs, they knelt down on both sides of the road to salute. Ding Qi ordered everyone to get up and continue to go to the market, but this was not a problem. He ordered people to put the sedan chair down and took three disciples away from the road and walked into the field. As long as the marshal, military advisor and Sima accompanied him.

He looked while walking and asked various questions. The fields here are divided into public fields and retention fields. The so-called public fields are owned by the villages and communities, mainly planting grain and oil crops. Retention fields are equivalent to the reserved land in the rural areas outside, and are owned by each family. What they want to plant is based on their needs and expertise.

Therefore, the things we cultivate are all kinds of, and are basically staggered from the working time of public fields. There is no tax revenue in the local area, but there is a corvee service system similar to the ancient times, and there must be a prescribed time for public fields every year. The so-called public fields work not only planting farmland, but also operating mountains, forests and lakes, but also processing various utensils for the entire village.

The wilderness where Dongdaying is located is intertwined with the plains and hills. The plains are basically located near the villages, and there are many trees planted in the fields. If there are many mulberry trees on the ground, this family may be raising silkworms and spinning silk. If there are more soybeans in the ground, then this family may be crafting tofu.

They are getting further and further away, Ding Qi is thinking about a question: What kind of social system is there?

The original tribal system is a bit similar, but not exactly. The local production level is very developed, and under limited resources, it has almost reached a great material abundance. What Lao Tzu said about small countries and few people? Some places are also a bit similar, but there are also big differences.

A self-sufficient farming society? It is also plausible. On the basis of public ownership, there are obviously large-scale collaborative production activities here, and the social organization is very high, and public services and public management are very complete. Of course, being able to achieve these is also related to the small size of the village, which is a bit like a textbook classic socialism.

But this generalization is not accurate. In short, it cannot be given a known definition. After a long and ten thousand years of history, after too many disasters, it has come back from the brink of extinction several times, and today's world has emerged. People live a peaceful and peaceful life. One of the things that happened outside more than 100 or 50 years ago, this place is more like the real Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Ding Qi couldn't help but think about another question: What or what impact will these outsiders come here and be regarded as brother Tian by the locals?
Chapter completed!