() The journey at sea was quite boring, to be honest. If it's your first time at sea, it might be fun, but once you're used to seeing the scenery, it's not very interesting. Many people think of sailing as a very interesting trip, but in fact, one of the most boring trips in the world is sailing by boat!

The ocean is huge, so big that most people can imagine, so as long as you are on the sea, looking around, it is all blue water, and nothing else. If it takes a long time, people will naturally feel bored, and even feel anxious, nauseous, dizzy, and so on. Therefore, most of the sailors who have been running ships for a long time like to gamble and drink heavily, because only in this way can they resist the anxiety that has no reason.

Soram is basically in this state now, he has been sailing for almost two months not long ago, and he has not been repairing for a few days in Ascatra before starting to sail again, which makes Soram not very happy.

In fact, if you can choose, Soram actually prefers to travel on land, which is more interesting, because when you travel by land, you can meet a lot of people and things that you have never seen, so there is the meaning of travel. But there is no way, the continent is really chaotic now, if Soram plans to go to Waterdeep City by land, then he must pass through the green wilderness inhabited by various monsters and barbarians, as well as the territories of the feudal lords of West Hartland.

Now this place has become a mess, and all kinds of forces and races are waging bloody wars on such a previously inconspicuous territory. In short, it was already a land of four wars. In addition, it takes too long to reach Waterdeep by land. And along the way, in the end, you have to pass through the war zone, it is estimated that only God knows, the current continent is too chaotic, on the contrary, the sea is much more peaceful.

The land route was too cumbersome and time-consuming, so Soram chose to go to Waterdeep by sea.

Soram really didn't know how to spend his time on the ship, and in a shaky place like the ship, even the most basic magic experiments could not be carried out. So Soram can only play cards and drink with Kogan and them.

Fortunately, Askatra is not too far from Candlefort, which is about ten days away. In addition, the sea is really peaceful now, so Solam and they didn't have any trouble along the way, and they arrived at the Knowledge Islands off Candlecastle smoothly.

The so-called Knowledge Islands are actually a series of small islands off the coast of Candlefort. This is also the territory of Candle Castle, there are five or six harbor towns on it, although it is an island, but the environment here is very good, at least the natural scenery is quite good, if it is left in the previous life of Solam, it is definitely a holy place for tourism and vacation. In addition, the harbor here is in good condition, so there are many merchant ships stopping for transit, so even the people here are very rich.

Solam and his family went to the island and found that in addition to the excellent natural scenery and affluent life, the cultural atmosphere here is also quite strong. In the rest of the mainland, books are luxuries, except for a few developed cities, you can rarely see bookstores in other places, but on these small islands, bookstores are many, and even abound, to put it mildly, there are even more bookstores on these islands than bakeries!

Solam searched through several bookstores and found that the books were not very precious, but they were very varied. This is rare elsewhere. In Faerun, books were generally the exclusive preserve of the aristocracy and the wealthy, and in many places, it was important to look at a family's heritage by looking at their collections, which meant inheritance.

It is also because of this that in many places, books have become precious. Because those who have books are reluctant to take out books, and those who do not have books do not know where to find books. This creates an endless cycle, where there is a part of knowledge, and there is knowledge for generations, and those who do not have knowledge cannot learn if they want to.

This may be a manifestation and means of class solidification, as advocated in many countries, the aristocracy will always be the aristocracy, and the commoner will always be the commoner. The biggest difference during this period is the access to knowledge.

However, this is not the case in the Knowledge Islands, where Soram finds that most of the people here are very polite, even the old fruit seller speaks the aristocratic lingua franca fluently. (The aristocratic accent is Feren Mandarin, although the ordinary people also speak the lingua franca, most of them are mixed with slang and accents, but the aristocratic dialect does not have these)

From time to time, Solam could still see people holding books and watching from benches in the shade of trees.

Anyway, books are not uncommon here, many people have them, and in bookstores, the price of books is not expensive, from ten silver coins to ten gold coins, all kinds of price points. Soram took a few turns and found that he liked it here.

The people here are clean and clean, rich and poor, and the streets here are cleaner and cleaner than in Azcatra. These small towns are not large, so it is impossible to hire sanitation workers, and the streets here are cleaned by the residents themselves. Solam talked to a grandmother who sold fruit, and Solam was surprised to find that cleaning was not compulsory, but spontaneous.

In addition to the sanitation around the residents' own houses, they will organize people to clean those public areas, and they even have duty schedules, and they will hang them on the blackboard on the streets, and the days of the week will be assigned to those families to be responsible for the sanitation of the public areas, etc.

And garbage disposal, which they do quite well as well. They will pay for the occupants on duty to carry out the centralized processing.

In short, what Soram saw and heard here gave him a sense of time-traveling. It's like a normal residential community in the previous life, no, it should be said that it is better than the residential community in the previous life, at least there is no square dance here.

Anyway, Soram likes it here. The pace of life here is also slow, everyone is not in a hurry, but the work efficiency is very high. They are more aware of collaboration and division of labor, which makes everyone's workload less and more efficient.

Solam was intrigued by this phenomenon, so he deliberately stayed on the island for a few days, silently observing these people. In the end, Soram found that these people had one thing in common, and that was that the quality of these people was very high.

Soram suddenly felt that he seemed to underestimate the changes that knowledge could make to people.

With this in mind, Soram immediately approached the bookseller on the island.

Do?

Book ordering, of course!

Order a lot of books!

Don't forget, Soram has a territory in his hands, although Soram asks himself if he is a qualified lord, but if he bears this name, he must do a little responsibility, this is the truth that Soram taught him from childhood to adulthood, and men cannot evade their responsibilities.

Now seeing the state of life of the people in the Knowledge Islands, he felt that he had to do something for his people. So he's going to buy books! Buy lots of books so that your people can get the education they deserve!

Solam had never thought of such a thing before, he had forgotten that he had come from a world with a twelve-year compulsory education system, and he had never thought of his own people to be treated like this. Perhaps, because he never took his lordship seriously.

In short, since you have thought of it, you can't help but do it. Anyway, in Solam's opinion, these things don't cost a lot of money.