Chapter 4: Immutable

City of Dumiller.

Referred to as Du City, it is the third largest city in the Sacred Dragon Kingdom, after the royal capital Insonia and the heavy industrial city of Alfred. The light industry and tourism here are famous all over the world, supporting the economy of the entire city.

Light industry is the most developed here.

In the Holy Seven Kingdoms, light industry is the opposite of heavy industry, mainly producing daily means of life, such as: food, textiles, furniture, papermaking, printing, daily chemicals, stationery, stationery, sporting goods, etc.

Among them, textiles, food and furniture are the three most important sectors of the light industry in Dumille.

Light industry is the main source of living consumption materials for urban and rural residents, and can be divided into two categories according to the different raw materials used: light industry with agricultural products as raw materials and light industry with non-agricultural products as raw materials.

Industries that use agricultural products as raw materials, such as cotton, wool, linen, silk textiles and sewing, leather and their products, pulp and papermaking, food manufacturing, etc., and non-agricultural products as raw materials, such as daily metals, daily chemicals, daily glass, daily ceramics, chemical fibers and their fabrics, matches, household wood products and plastic products.

Most of the light industrial products are used in the production of consumer goods, and some are used as raw materials and semi-finished products in production, such as chemical fibers, industrial cloth, paper, salt, etc. Unlike heavy industry, light industry brought higher economic efficiency to Ducheng, and in less than a hundred years after the outbreak of the first spiritual revolution, Ducheng became the third largest city in the Dragon Kingdom.

This is followed by tourism.

There are different views on tourism in the league's ** sectors and academic institutions.

Economists: Mainly concerned with the contribution of tourism to the national economy and the economic development of the destination, focusing on supply and demand, foreign exchange earnings and balance of payments, employment and other monetary factors.

Sociologists and cultural anthropologists: mainly study the travel behavior of individuals and groups, and pay more attention to the customs, traditional culture and lifestyle of both the host and the guest.

Geographers: concerned with the spatial aspects of tourism, studying the flow and location of travel, the scope of development, land use, and changes in the physical environment.

The word tourism is derived from the ancient tree Chinese and ancient dragon Chinese, and its meaning is "the movement of a lathe or circle; around a central point or axis." This meaning has evolved into "order" in modern common language. Later, it was defined by the unified norm as "an action or process and a specific behavior or characteristic", and later evolved into "a person engaged in a specific activity", which refers to the movement according to a circular trajectory, so tourism refers to a reciprocating journey, that is, the activity of leaving and then returning to the starting point, and the person who completes this itinerary is also called a tourist.

This new industry flourished with the opening of the nine major routes of the Dragon Kingdom, and along with light industry, Dumille City immediately transformed from a second-tier city into an international first-tier city.

The streets of the city of Dumille are bustling. From Wan Street to 14th Avenue, it is the commercial center of Ducheng. In this area, every main street street is very wide, and it is also one of the best in the entire Holy Alliance.

Some people say that the streets here can pass an army of tens of thousands of people in 10 minutes, some say that running from one end of the road to the other end of the road will exhaust people, some say that children can play football on the street, and some even exaggerate that nearly 10,000 laborers are required to build this street.

In fact, Main Street is wide, but it is not as bizarre as it is portrayed. Objectively speaking, the main street can pass eight large carriages, not counting the space occupied by the stalls along the way. If you count it, it's even bigger. In that case, ten wagons would be able to pass by mistake.

The main street crosses Fifth Avenue in the heart of the commercial district, second only to Insonia's commercial boulevard known as Regent Road. Fifth Avenue is best described as luxurious. Tourists who come to this street for the first time often have no time to enjoy the elaborate whitewashed window scenery of those famous stores, and they have already been shocked by the names of the shops: 'Good Man Berg' designed by first-class designers, 'Strait' loved by quiet ladies, elegant 'Hoss', and countless jewelry ** stores and luxury flagship stores. This is a place for the rich to go, and the goods with a unit price of tens of thousands of yuan are definitely not rare items, where you can find the latest new products released in the world, but you want to buy discounted goods. When shopping here, you have to be determined to burn money. No matter where they come from, whether they are in the Tree Country or the Beast Country, they are sure to be able to buy their favorite luxury goods on Fifth Avenue and enjoy the most exclusive shopping experience. Some girls rarely go once, they will be stupid to experience what it's like to be a star, and the boy next to the girl should be a dutiful guardian.

However, this is only for a small number of people, and most people can only watch from afar and cannot play closely.

In addition to the grandeur of Fifth Avenue, if people stand on the mountains west of Du Cheng and look down on the whole city, the unique architecture of the Dragon Kingdom will come into view. The buildings in the whole city are low, all of them are less than three stories high, and even the houses in the city hall are only five stories high, which cannot be compared with the ten-story or even dozens of stories of high-rise buildings in Ningguo. In terms of building height, although the Longguo building is not as good as Ningguo, it is indeed much more clever in terms of design. Unlike the houses built by the people of Ningguo with magic, the house architecture of the people of Longguo is unique.

Even though each house has similarities, it also has a different flavor. There are pointed castle-like buildings, domed buildings, buildings with withered branches and old vines surrounding the west wall, and simple and simple traditional buildings. The pink house belongs to the caring young girl, revealing the beautiful figure and showing the beauty of youth and ignorance; the warm color is the home of those who are full of passion for life in their hearts, exuding the heat of life, just like the first rays of sunlight every morning sprinkled into the windowsill; green is the love of life, is the call of nature, is the shallow veins under the green leaves; black and white gray is a symbol of simplicity, like the ink on the white paper records the past and the present, and does not change for the world.

Ethereal, slender, towering, and sharp are the similarities. The sharp form is the crystallization of the pointed coupon and pointed arch technology, and the towering wall contains the merits of the diagonal bracing technology and buttress technology. The ethereal artistic conception and vertical upward form are the most accurate expression of the spiritual connotation of the world's largest religion, Sevanism. The tall and straight, ethereal, and illusory image seems to point directly to the heavens, inspiring people to get out of this world of suffering and sin, and go to the "paradise of heaven", without losing the obsession of the dragon people with the pursuit of distant places.

The basic characteristic of the appearance is moderation. The typical composition is a pair of low minarets, sandwiched between the gables of the atrium, and a row of alcoves with statues are set on the balustrade and the gate opening at the eaves of the gable, connecting the entire façade horizontally, and between the central balustrade and the alcove is a circular rose window symbolizing paradise. At the entrance, there are three doorways, each with several layers of threads carved with strings of icons. All walls are unified by vertical lines, all modeling parts and decorative details are composed of pointed arches, pointed coupons and spires, all arches are pointed, all the mountain flowers on the door openings, canopies on the alcoves, and ridges on the buttresses are pointed, and all towers, buttresses and wall walls are crowned with small spires that pierce the sky. At the same time, the façade of the building becomes more and more delicate as it is divided, and the shape and decoration become more exquisite.

This beautiful building is neatly arranged, like fish scales in the sun, shining with the pride of the people of Longguo.

Some people say that Dumille City is the pearl of the northwestern part of the Dragon Kingdom, exuding her unique charm in the vast ocean. Some people say that Du Cheng is the second Insonia of the Dragon Kingdom, a miracle of the years. Some people also say that Du Cheng is the dust of the sea and the tears of the sea god. The city of Dumille, the legacy of the Second Age of the End of France, in that crazy years, the flames of war filled all corners of the world: the collapse of the First Holy Alliance, the rampant destruction of corpses and monsters, and the fall of spiritual powerhouses one after another in that era...... Hundreds of years ago, the palatial palace was reduced to a sea of fire overnight, and the once beautiful city was wiped out in a brief moment.

Ducheng is one of the few places that has not been devastated by the war. The tranquility that followed the era of peace has been maintained for more than 400 years now, and people live and work in peace and contentment, living their own happy lives. Most people pay more attention to the present and care about tomorrow's food, clothing, housing and transportation, or next year's performance appraisal. When asked about the past, they only see it as the subject of a conversation and a joke about dessert after a meal, and say in a profound tone, "The past is really cruel...... Well...... So we're going to talk about it......" and then they went back to their lives.

There are also people who want to look for the history of the past, but in the end they are all in vain. There are no reliable historical sources, no records, nothing. In the beginning, there were many explorers who sought memories of the past. But gradually, enthusiasm turned into indifference, and indifference turned into disappointment. People began to accept all of this, just as the beginning of the world was four hundred and seventy-eight years ago on Friday, the establishment of the Second Holy Alliance.

The ordinary world has ordinary benefits: the students at the quiet desks listen to the lectures with a satisfied look, they don't put on heavy armor and go to the front to face the cruel parting;** The teacher on the pulpit teaches with a sense of responsibility, rather than being born and dying on the battlefield and fighting to the death for a fortress; the coachmen in the streets come and go, working hard for a meager wage, always living a hopeful life for their families; the street vendors neatly line up their wares and wait for the guests who come to visit, even though none of them come in the morning; the kind old man watches the children fly kites on the hill to the west of the city; the master of the iron strikes the iron, and the heat by the stove rolls in, sometimes showing off that the sword he has made is a famous sword of antiquityThe flower seller stopped at the intersection with the wooden cart selling flowers, and laid out the night flowers picked from the hill west of the city, she bowed her head shyly, rarely called for the sale, but waited quietly for the people who came to buy the flowers. The vendors in the shops shouted, the children chased and beat me in front of the adults, and the couple of lovers in love held hands and smiled.

A quiet and tranquil life is what people yearn for, but I don't know how many ancestors have exchanged their happiness and life for it.