Chapter 0287 The Dividing Line between Ignorance and Civilization
After observing for a few days, Ye Qing was about to leave after seeing that there was no problem with the operation of the stronghold.
It took more than a month to stay in this stronghold.
He was preparing to go to the Kingdom of Dayu.
The great witch requested to accompany him.
This period of contact made him fully realize Ye Qing's magic. Beside Ye Qing's side, he felt that new knowledge could be learned at all times, which deeply attracted him.
After all, he is still a witch.
He is a qualified witch.
It is his job to learn knowledge and inherit knowledge.
The current prosperity of the country of Youlu is inseparable from its ability.
When they set out, two wooden boats of the Great Witch, loaded with stones, joined the fleet.
These stones are jade.
Most of them were collected from the Youlu people, and a small part was newly mined by slaves of the Great Witch.
Ye Qing doesn't understand jade, so he can't tell whether these jade raw stones are good or bad.
The witch happily pointed at a small pile of jade rough stones and said:
"This is mined by my slaves recently in a new jade mine. Don't look at it, these jades are all the most beautiful and best jades. If you count the value, this small pile is comparable to that ship of jade!"
Ye Qing asked curiously:
"How much is the value of so much jade? How much can I exchange for?"
"If you change it, you can exchange a ship of jade over there for another ship of salt!"
The witch is very excited.
He collected that boat of unsatisfactory jade from the Chinese people and spent a lot of money. After the transaction, he did not actually gain much benefit.
The jade mined by that small pile of slaves was of the same value as it was, and all of them belonged to him, which of course made him very excited.
Ye Qing evaluated silently.
He couldn't say whether he had made a profit or a loss when changing jade to the same heavy salt.
The times are different, the productivity is different, and the difficulty of obtaining raw materials is different, so there is no way to compare them.
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On the Tiao River, the fleet is vast.
The rowing tribe members went back and forth several times and were already very familiar with this waterway.
Therefore, the fleet was moving much faster than the first time, and in less than a day, it arrived outside the city of Dayu Kingdom.
Looking at the city walls that were endless after seeing the pile of earth, Ye Qing sighed:
“Spectacular! Great!”
The great witch also sighed:
"Yes! It's so spectacular!"
There is no city wall built in the country of Lu.
The great witch once wanted to build a city wall, but after calculation, it was found that it would take at least a hundred years to build the city wall.
This suddenly lost interest for the great witch who valued immediate interests.
If you can't see it yourself, why do you build it?
Not long after, the fleet approached the city wall.
The outer edge of the city wall is surrounded by rivers, and there are many water networks here. The entire city of Dayu Kingdom is built on the water network. Not only does the rivers outside the city connect the rivers, but even in the city, there are water channels crisscrossing.
A water gate is a distance along the city wall.
Therefore, the fleet needs to continue driving for a while when approaching the city wall.
However, the great witch arrived at her destination.
There is a pier here, which is directly connected to the city wall.
This city wall is actually more suitable to be considered a platform.
This city wall is very wide, with a width of 100 meters at its widest point.
On the city wall, large areas of thatched huts were built. The huts were distributed along the city wall and stretched out hundreds of meters.
Based on the number of this hut, it can be estimated that the number of people living in it will never be less than 100.
This is a settlement.
And further afield, there are many settlements built on the city walls.
There are even more people coming and going on the city walls, busy.
Of course, it is more about people sitting on the ground or on stones, grinding and cutting stones.
If you look closely, you will find that the stone they are processing is jade.
This is a jade workshop!
The great witch was about to say goodbye to Ye Qing, but Ye Qing said:
"I'll go up and take a look."
He was very curious about the most cutting-edge jade processing technology of this era. He wanted to see how far he had reached.
The two abandoned the boat and landed on the shore.
The great witch led Ye Qing directly to the thatched hut area on the city wall.
The jade on the ship was naturally accompanied by a confidant servant brought by the great witch to direct the slaves to carry it, and he did not need to ask about it personally.
When you come to the top of the city wall, you will see a hut that stretches out and cannot see the end. Not only are there many thatched huts on the city wall, but there are more dense huts inside the city wall, and there are also more dense huts connected to each other.
Inside and outside the city wall, there are two different worlds.
Outside, there are swamps and reeds, which are extremely desolate.
Inside, it is densely populated, with pedestrians, and it is extremely prosperous.
The city wall is a dividing line, the dividing line between wilderness and civilization.
Standing on this dividing line, an inexplicable emotion filled Ye Qing's heart.
He was stunned for a moment.
Seeing Ye Qing stopping, Da Wu also watched the scene with him.
Although he had seen this scene countless times, he was not bored at all.
On the one hand, he was accompanying Ye Qing, and on the other hand, he never got tired of watching such a scene, and no matter how many times he was, he never got tired of watching it.
Every time I see this scene, he is obsessed with it.
He had also fantasized about building the Lu Kingdom into such prosperity, but when he learned in depth the extremely complicated and time-consuming specific matters that needed to be done, he gave up.
How many generations, more than ten generations, have they only done one thing?
He can't do it!
This is the case, which makes him admire the ancestors of the Dayu Kingdom even more.
So great!
It took a long time for Ye Qing to come to his senses.
He felt mixed feelings in his heart.
This is a great civilization.
However, it eventually disappeared in the long river of history.
So there was no mention of Him in later history books.
This has to be sad.
His glory is so ancient that it has reached this world early, and most places are human beings, and they have not yet stepped into the threshold of civilization, and are still out of ignorance.
In the world, He is lonely.
This is the tragedy of the forerunners.
He has no reference, no reference, and no companion. He can only use his sweat, tears and blood, his own diligence, his wisdom, to explore and accumulate little by little.
He is also proud.
Looking around the world, only He opened his eyes, observed the world truly, and transformed it.
He made a hole in this ignorant and wild world, a hole in which he could exude the light of civilization.
Since then, this world has truly started the process of civilization and entered the fast lane of civilization development.
Ye Qing felt extremely honored that he could witness this history with his own eyes.
How did He die in the end?
No one knows anymore.
His demise is regrettable.
His demise is different from the changing of history. When the dynasty changes, the legacy of the previous dynasty will be inherited by the latter dynasty, and civilization will continue to be carried forward on the same basis.
But He died too strangely.
Later generations could only discover from the exquisite creations buried deep in the soil that there was such a highly developed civilization in history.
So, can you change something with your arrival?
Chapter completed!