Chapter Thirty-Nine: Joseph McGee
readx;? Joseph kicked in the mud and made a noise when he stepped on the ground. Blake Glatheham, the www.biquge.info of the pen "Fun", followed behind him with a look of boredom, and shot a fierce look at the civilians who dared to make eye contact with him, so frightened that the passers-by silently avoided it. Blake's body is much larger than the average strong man, weighing nearly 200 kilograms, and he is full of muscles. It looks like a whimsical person who has made out of clay out of proportion to show this abnormal body shape.
The gray-green cloak covers each person's head.
"I haven't served many princes, but it's the first time I've met you like this. Blake said.
"What do you like, walking on the dirty streets?" said Joseph.
"It's not. Blake said, "I like to leave that white house...... You know, there's a reason why those in positions of power shut themselves up behind high walls. ”
"I know they don't like us, and we don't like them. "But for me, those walls don't mean much. ”
Blake didn't quite understand, and said perfunctorily: "As you wish, Your Highness." ”
When they walked into a tavern, the noise of singing and dancing rushed into their ears.
In the evening, the porters, carpenters, and clerks come here to party after their day's work. It's not going to be where they'll stay all night, they'll come here to try the signature dishes, and then they'll have fun one by one, and the brothel casino is where they'll visit.
The permanent population of the imperial capital was about 400,000, and almost all of them flocked to the city. Perhaps because of the imperial capital's unique symbolism of power and propaganda imagery, it may be that it really leads the policies of other cities in every way. Under the wave of urbanization, the impact of policies on people is becoming more and more significant. Not so long ago, one of the economic projects that made the surrounding farmers happy: a forced increase in the price of agricultural products. The peasants don't know what this initiative is about the foresight, but it does make life better for the poor.
400 years ago, the empire used to name cities in even the most famous places, but there has never been a definite conclusion. Some people say that according to the population, some people say that if there are walls, it is a city. The definition is vague, and the legal definition is even more confusing. Finally, according to the division of the aristocratic territory and the amount of taxes paid, what is a city is defined. At the time of the founding of the People's Republic of China, some people even paid taxes out of their pockets to make their hometown name the city.
At that time, many so-called cities were little more than bazaars of villages with a permanent population of no more than 2,000 people. At certain times of the week, people come to sell their crops and buy things that are difficult to produce in the countryside. It was a gathering place for scattered people, and although it collected taxes from each village and issued national decrees, it could not really be called a city.
In the past, people thought that cities were just settlements, villages and towns were small settlements, and cities were settlements of size and status. In fact, the city is not just a place to live, it is a safe haven for people to escape from the rule of the sunrise, and where art, philosophy, literature, and other poems can be derived that transcend the original life.
Accordingly, the method of the city in the empire was changed to such that in addition to being a market for the commodities of the surrounding villages and towns, the city could provide basic security to its inhabitants so that they could engage in work other than ordinary agricultural activities. It has a well-developed infrastructure, such as education, roads, squares, sanitation, which provides conditions for the exchange of culture and information.
Thinking of this definition, the existence of the imperial capital was in a political sense, rather than that of other small towns, which thrived in the trade of goods, in the same way that they all attracted large and scattered populations. This is the purpose of establishing the national capital, and the purpose of dividing the city is also here.
Cities have gradually deviated from the sociological definition and gradually become a sign of population cohesion. Let them become more social, institutionalized, with more stable taxation and rule. The intense social activity immediately revealed the polarization of the authorities and the common people, turning what should have been interdependent for production and consumption into a city-dominated vassal. Under the education of the whole world, they took away the ownership of the land, and washed away their desire to escape from the world and cultivate for self-sufficiency.
This is the opinion that Joseph saw in the books about Freemasonry, and now looking at these people who drink and sing, he does not know whether he should be sad.