Chapter 21: The Old Capital of Gold

"The old capital of gold" is a city name that often appears in his ears, and Yu Youzi has always had a faint feeling in his heart that he will go to this city one day, but he didn't expect it to be so soon.

Because I always think about this city in my heart, when I have a lot of reading time at night in the amusement park, although there is no book dedicated to the city and geography, Yu Youzi has learned about the history of the city from the side through a large number of historical books-

The city has a history of at least 8,000 years, and was originally called "Golden Lane" because of its gold deposits. The Les and Nasola rivers provided easy water transportation, which allowed the town to develop and prosper rapidly, and the site of the old town is now the city of Vesk...... With the development of the times, although Jinli developed into a large city, the gold veins gradually dried up, so that the city's economy lost the support of mining, so the economic pillar began to transform to river transportation and farming, and the ancient period passed.

The arrival of a new turning point was the dawn of the Great Arcane Age about 2,000 years later, with the explosion of magical knowledge and the emergence of a mage kingdom like Wiezheim. It was during this era that magicians developed portal technology, and all existing cities began to explore whether there were waypoints around the city, and various countries also began to search the territory and even the surrounding areas to find waypoints and build them. It was during this period that the city of Willmüller was founded.

Luckily, the Golden Lane found a teleportation point not far to the south outside the city, and of course, the Golden Lane, which had become a city-state at the time, expanded to the south, established a portal, and then the city began to develop around the portal, and gradually became a commercial giant city. Thus is the time of the Great Arcane.

A thousand years later, in the classical period, known as the Age of Conquest, the already dominant heroic clan began a large-scale conquest of the land. As a large city-state, Jinjinli has participated in many wars of resistance against the heroes, and is also one of the main forces, but the strength of the heroes is obvious to all, and Jinjinli finally surrendered and became the land of the heroes. The era of conquest is coming to an end.

The new development appeared 1,500 years later, there was a generation of heroic emperors who chose Jinli as the capital, and Jinli became the capital of the empire for the first time, so that this thousand-year-old city glowed with new brilliance, and in the following years, although the dynasties of this land have changed, but those are all actions within the hero clan, the name of the country and the dynasty have changed from time to time, but people have become accustomed to the hero clan as the emperor, and this land also has a common name of the hero country, during which the gold has become the capital of a dynasty for 19 times.

Years passed, and five hundred years ago, the royal family withered in the war against the Black Wilderness, and the royal daughter who had married abroad returned to power, and his son was the ancestor of the current emperor's lineage, and the hero country was led by Gonzalez, who selected the golden lane as the capital of the empire for the nineteenth time, and it was not until the current emperor Ikera Gonzalez changed the capital, that the title of "old capital" was added to the golden capital again......

Even if it is no longer the imperial capital, the population of the city is still about five million, and it continues to grow, and the huge city has more than 100 urban train lines, of which 63 lines pass through the portal, making the portal the central passenger station, the transportation core of the whole city.

Yu Youzi led Tahi Yuan to stand in the endless flow of people, and the two had just walked out of the portal, standing in front of a stone tablet in a very dazed state. When they left Karelian, the two had just had breakfast, and when they teleported to the old capital of Gold, it was just dawn, and the last trace of night was still in the air, but the portal was already full of people.

The one-man tall stone monument in front of the two of them is actually a street sign with a simple map of the area pointing to the direction of each urban area.

Tahidi: "There are so many people, and there are not as many people in the whole city of Kakral as there are here......"

The girl's words were obviously exaggerated, but it took a lot of effort for both of them to squeeze in front of the stone monument.

Yu Youzi asked loudly, "You are also here for the first time?" The surroundings were noisy, and the voice was so low that you might not be able to hear it if you stood close.

"Yes, why do you think that since I have lived in the Hero Country, I should have come to the old capital of Jinli?"

"Indeed, I have thought so...... But it immediately felt wrong, so I basically memorized the map and let's go. ”

"Remember it for a while?"

"It's just a simple diagram, much easier than memorizing those magical geometric arrays. ”

Yu Youzi and Tahi left the front of the stone monument with their suitcases and blended into the flow of people in one direction.

"Do you want to hold hands? It's easy to get squeezed apart when you walk like this. Yu Youzi proposed.

Tahi looked at him, changed her hand to twist the box, and then took Yu Youzi's hand...... There are not only passers-by around, but also a variety of vendors, a kind of boiling pot stall that mentions the stick stick chicken and braised skewers all the way to meet no less than ten, it seems to be a very characteristic roadside snack here, listen to their shouting, it seems to be called to cook goods, passing by the stall, the clay pot boiled by the small stove exudes full of marinated incense, very appetizing.

Do you want to have a taste, how can you say that the funds are very sufficient now, I glanced at Tahi Yuan, and saw that the girl seemed to be attracted by the fragrance, and was looking at the roadside stall.

"Would you like to try it, we seem to have a stall like this in the amusement park, right?" asked Yu Youzi.

"But we've just had breakfast...... Tahidi's tone was a little hesitant, and it seemed that he didn't want to have one.

So Yu Youzi stopped in front of the next cooking stall and asked the boss for one, and while the boss was preparing food, Yu Youzi put down his suitcase and looked around. The stall is about the size of a square table, a half-person high wooden frame structure, a small stove and a cooking pot are placed on the left, a shelf is placed on the right, fresh ingredients and seasonings, and some other cooking and sales tools, behind the boss is a flatbed trailer, on which some other things and charcoal are placed, because this piece of ground is often placed with cooking stalls, the slate floor has been made out of a brownish-black black mark, this paving is not clean and hygienic, but think about the world that has not been polluted by industry, no matter how dirty it is, it will not be toxic, although it will make some people with a slight cleanliness uncomfortable......

The middle-aged uncle's boss handed Yu Youzi the oiled paper bowl containing the cooking food, and the portion was still very large...... But when he was in trouble paying, the quotation was fifteen pa, which was not very expensive, but the problem was that the boss did not accept foreign currency, and Yu Youzi also realized that the face value of one livr was too large, and the boss's entire stall was not worth one livrel......

Looking at Tahi from the side, he sighed, put down his suitcase, took out his small purse, and paid for the cooking. Yu Youzi twisted up the suitcases of the two of them and asked Tahi to taste the oil-paper bowl first—that was his purpose. Both of them are twisting their suitcases, they are bound to only buy one, one eats, and the other person helps twist the salute, with a female companion by their side, how can they enjoy it by themselves if they have snacks, which can be regarded as being affected by the machismo of "me" in the previous life, but I am not disgusted with this influence.

With a twist of his brain, he passed the currency issue so that Tahi could enjoy the food, and Yu Youzi thought that although he couldn't help Winsmo, his wisdom still did not regress.

"How it tasted. Yu Youzi asked as he walked.

Tahi Xue Xue exhaled hot air and used a wooden skewer to pick up the boiled pieces, and she didn't have time to pay attention to Yu Youzi for a while, and after eating it herself, she picked up a small red boiled block, but the wooden skewer stretched out and picked it up in front of Yu Youzi's mouth: "You taste it-"

Isn't there a taboo for men and women in this world to eat the same bowl and use the same utensils? Thinking of all kinds of rude and embarrassing things that I once did not know about the waist customs of Aaron Biramah...... Is it better to ask a question here?

However, in the face of Tahi Xi's bright and expectant eyes, Yu Youzi finally did not ask, but swallowed the fragrant boiled cube into his mouth with one mouth...... The spicy and sweet flavor of the ingredients spread in the mouth, and this ingredient must be a very common vegetable, whether it is in the stew I ate with Winsmo yesterday, or in the special soup eaten in Bark Village. If you want to say it, it's a bit like the carrots in the spicy beef brisket stew on the earth, except that it doesn't smell meaty, it's all filled with spicy, and the taste is okay, it's really a cheap flavor to eat.

Nodding and smiling at Tahidi, "It's delicious." ”

Tahi became happy: "Then I'll keep you half." ”

Yesterday, Hygilia called Yu Youzi over and told him about the new arrangements, so that he could put aside the matter of the Winsmer Raiders and come to the Hero Country to meet the armored warrior pilots who had been sent here to study in the early stage. The negotiation meeting of the International Tour of the Tower Competition has long been over, but Sanfret has not returned to China, just for the sake of the armored warrior pilot. Yu Youzi must come to join his subordinates now, now it is just a weaving of a "brigade", and the drivers are only seven or eight people, with the national strength of Karelian, it is impossible to develop to the level of a legion.

He received a business trip from the quartermaster, which was fifty livres, which could be regarded as alleviating the recent economic crisis, and Her Majesty also gave Yu Youzi a scroll of correspondence, so that he could get in touch with Her Majesty at any time. He didn't say the specific time of the meeting, but Yu Youzi felt that it was better to meet as soon as possible.

So she immediately came out and found Tahi and asked her to quit the rental house, but she had already cleared the salute into the cupboard, and it would take a lot of time to clean it up, so the final plan was to let her rent it here for one night, and set off for the old capital of Jinjinli early the next morning.

When leaving, Tahi was very reluctant to go, because she had already agreed to rent for a quarter, but she left in only one day, which made the girl very embarrassed, and the landlady didn't care, but her daughter was a little sorry, and there were very few tenants of the same age.

After the airport is gone, if you want to save travel expenses, you can only take the portal. This time it was to go to the old capital of Jinli, and the cost was actually more expensive than teleporting to Kakral City, and there was no difference in the consumption of teleportation, and the difference in price was definitely a commercial act......

After getting on the train to Roderick's City, the two of them saluted and looked around.

This kind of city train, needless to say, Yu Youzi, and Tahi Yuan are also seeing it for the first time. The carriage was the size of a half-carriage, with a narrow walkway large enough for one person in the middle, and double seats on either side, all facing forward. There are only eight cars in a train, and if you think that there are too many cars, the train will be underpowered and unable to move, but even if there are only eight cars, the speed will not be fast.

Another curiosity of Yu Youzi is the wheels and tracks, this world metal is a scarce and valuable item, it is impossible to use it to build railroad tracks, the tracks are stone pits, two parallel ravines like drainage ditches, and the wheels of the train are embedded in this ravine. Stone should be a special mixed material, just like stone crystal, the hardness and wear resistance can be guaranteed. The wheels and bearings of the train are made of steel, and all the other structures in the carriage are made of hardwood.

Along the way, both of them looked out the window curiously, the red, green and green city. While watching, Yu Youzi popularized the history of the city to Tahidi.

“...... In this way, the gold lane has now become the old capital of the gold lane. ”

Tahi retracted her vision to look out the window, and said curiously, "So how did it come when it was the imperial capital?

"Well, that's what it's called. ”

"It's troublesome for a city to change its name......"

"Don't bother, it's just the official name, you casually say 'the imperial capital in gold' or 'the old capital in gold' among the people, and people know where you are talking about. ”

"It's the same as 'Hero Country', right, people don't care what it's called, I know that. ”

"It's good to call along with everyone, otherwise you will be regarded as a foreigner by the locals of the hero country. ”

Tahi glanced at Yu Youzi, with black hair and soft facial curves, it was difficult not to be regarded as a foreigner in the crowd...... When it comes to appearance, he is not a local at first glance, after all, he was born in the distant Tianmu Empire.

"At this speed of the train, it will probably be lunch time when it arrives in the Roderick College district...... Would you like something to drink?"

The front door of the train was opened, and a conductor came over with a half-person high and one-man wide service trolley, a water cart with all kinds of drinks on it, and a glass in the middle compartment of the trolley.

Tahiya shook her head, "No, I want to go to the toilet." ”

"Then you can go to the next station, I'll stay and look at the luggage. Although Yu Youzi was a little thirsty, he didn't buy water to drink. There seems to be no awareness of infectious disease prevention in this world, water cups are shared, even if it is a cup on a cart that specializes in selling water, you have to drink a water cup used by a guest, and the conductor will use a towel on the trolley at most, wipe the handprints left by the guests on the cup, and then use it for the next guest, no one cares about the position of the mouth on the inside of the cup, let alone a disposable paper cup...... This is the difference in the degree of civilization between the worlds, not to mention the Yu Youzi who is a little clean, any modern earthling, will not be able to stand it when he comes here, this kind of thing to drink water from a cup with a mouth print that I don't know whose mouth is printed.