Yang Ming and Tang Er's follower, Sally, walked into the alley of the slum, although it was only separated by a wall from the Nakappa Great Monastery.

However, it is as if there are two worlds.

A disgusting emotion rose from Yang Ming's heart, and everything in this slum seemed to be a satire of the glamorous Kappa Great Monastery.

The civilians living here are basically old people and crippled middle-aged people.

Those young laborers at home all went to work on the commercial street to earn money, looking at these people with gloomy eyes, Yang Ming felt a strong sense of discomfort in his heart.

Although the private city of Yunjing is not as prosperous as the official city, everything in this private city seems to be thriving.

After all, in the Cloud Empire, the emphasis is on the old being supported and the young being learned.

Here, the slums are a mess, the houses are in disrepair, and the humid air is filled with bad smells.

There was no hopeful glint in the eyes of these people, like a group of hollowed-out walking dead.

"Is this the people of Tianzhu Kingdom?"

Tang Er shook his head, he was really a little overwhelmed.

"What was your first instinct when you saw them?"

"Angry, puzzled, or sympathetic?"

Sally asked, by this time they had come out of the ghetto.

Standing in the ridges on the edge of the slums, Yang Ming looked thoughtfully at the farmers who were cultivating the fields.

Kappa has no walls, only streets and houses, and this large temple was built on the outskirts of the city, and walking through the slums next to the big temple is a field.

"Slums like this, there are a dozen of them in Kappa. ”

"Which one we went to was the one that wasn't too low in the slums. ”

"In the slums on the northern outskirts of Kappa, thousands of people die every year from malaria. ”

Malaria is a disease that has not appeared in the Cloud Empire for decades.

Although the Rebellion of the Five Kings caused a great loss of national strength, the primary medical care of the Cloud Empire has always been particularly good.

The number of doctors and pharmacists in the Cloud Empire is very large, and even many cultivators know a little bit about medical skills.

Moreover, the safety of water and food can now be well guaranteed, but these things are simply a luxury for the low-level civilians of Tianzhu Kingdom.

"I ...... I don't know what kind of emotion I have. ”

"In short, I don't want the Cloud Empire to become like the Tianzhu Kingdom. ”

Yang Ming now sees the bottom society of Tianzhu Kingdom, and he will inexplicably substitute him into the Cloud Empire.

What a terrible sight it would be if the civilians of the Cloud Empire were also reduced to the civilians of the Tianzhu Kingdom.

"Don't show that expression, the civilians of Tianzhu don't need your sympathy. ”

Sally smiled, patted Yang Ming's shoulder and said:

"It's just a part of the lives of the poor, and you can't just look at the bad side, you have to see the good side. ”

"Let's go, I'll take you to the business district, the business district is very different. ”

After saying that, Sally took Yang Ming and them through the field and walked towards Kappa's commercial street.

Kapa's commercial street is not far from the pier, so Yang Ming definitely can't take off his mask casually.

These two people followed Sally's side, it was really like a noble lady going out with two bodyguards, and Sally's complexion was indeed the complexion of the nobles of Tianzhu Kingdom.

When you come to the shopping street, the prosperity here is not comparable to that of the slum.

The Tianzhu people seem to have an almost obsessive pursuit of architecture, and their buildings are basically the kind of buildings with strong religious overtones, even if they are commercial street buildings.

The buildings on both sides of the road have a strong Buddhist color, and in the center of the shopping street, there is a huge square.

In the very center of this square is a four-meter-tall stone statue of the Buddha.

The Buddha with kind eyebrows and kind eyes looked at the passers-by with a smile, and the passers-by cast their eyes to worship the stone statue of the Buddha, and bowed reverently to the stone statue with their hands folded.

The pedestrians were all very well-dressed, and although they were all civilians, they were all smiling.

Completely different from the slums, the civilians on this commercial street can live so happily.

Moreover, they all hold bamboo tubes in their hands, and the bamboo tubes contain very refreshing drinks.

This season is still a little cold in the Cloud Empire, but it is already in full swing in the Tianzhu Kingdom.

Buddhist culture has been widely promoted here, even if it was once invaded by the Foggy Moon Empire, they still did not give up their Buddhist culture.

This can be said to be a kind of spontaneous belief of the Tianzhu people, and they have always had a very sincere pursuit of Buddhism.

The emperor of the Misty Moon Empire saw that this Tianzhu people had such a deep belief in Buddhism, and he actually gave up the idea of exterminating Buddhism.

For the Tianzhu people, wanting to eliminate Buddhism is equivalent to exterminating all the Tianzhu people.

However, this is simply something that is not realistic.

"I really didn't expect that Tianzhu would have such a prosperous place. ”

After Tang Er finished speaking, Sally directly turned around and smiled at Tang Ke.

"Although there are many poor people in Tianzhu Kingdom, there are also many merchants. ”

"The country's businessmen should make up at least sixty percent of the total number of citizens. ”

"More than half of the people are in business. ”

This kind of business percentage is very high!

You must know that there are not so many merchants in the Cloud Empire, in addition to the merchants in the east, more people in the Cloud Empire are farmers.

In the Cloud Empire, farming is definitely a very good job, because every year Yunjing will give very high subsidies to farmers in various places.

Regardless of the harvest, as long as you plant according to the requirements of the respective state capitals, you will definitely not lose money.

In addition to the developed agriculture, the rest is the reading of Cheedo.

However, in Tianzhu Kingdom, the number of scholars is pitifully small.

It seems that, apart from the acolytes of those temples, there are basically no people who can study knowledge.

Those acolytes only account for 10% of the population of Tianzhu Kingdom, and ordinary ordinary Tianzhu people are just simply learning to read and settle accounts.

Here, only business can have a future.

"In Tianzhu Kingdom, civilians can only be civilians forever, and no matter how hard a person works, he can only become a rich civilian. ”

"However, if you become a rich commoner, you can live with dignity in Tianzhu Country. ”

"Some small nobles are very willing to marry those rich commoners, after all, the small nobles are not necessarily richer than these big merchants and commoners. ”

"So, although some people can only be commoners in this life, if they work hard, their children and grandchildren may be able to become nobles. ”

After Sally finished speaking, she felt a little helpless.

I can't imagine a country with such a large market, a country with such a glorious Buddhist culture.

The fate of an individual can never be changed, and what can be changed is only the future of one's own descendants.

Moreover, those who marry with the little nobles are equivalent to paying their own life's efforts, so that their children can have the opportunity to stand with the nobles.

Those children, if they don't have the strength or knowledge, will also be looked down upon in aristocratic circles.

Therefore, the rich civilians of Tianzhu Kingdom basically occupy seventy percent of Tianzhu Kingdom's educational resources!

They were willing to pay a lot of money to marry, and then spend a lot of money to raise their own children, and to hire respected monks to teach them.

It is so that their children can become human beings.

"I don't know what to say, but it's definitely not a good society. ”

Yang Ming frowned and looked at everything in this bustling world.

Although there are smiling faces here, there is a market with a high degree of freedom.

It's a great place to be able to trade hard work and resourcefulness for money.

It is also a place of extreme deformity.

For the poor, it is difficult to guarantee even basic livelihood.

Commoners, who are trying to make more money, try their best to marry the nobles.

And the aristocracy was born with generous resources and an admirable identity.

Such an obvious class differentiation made Yang Ming feel that this Tianzhu Kingdom was like a towering pagoda.

The upper floors of the stupa are radiant aristocrats.

At the bottom of the stupa were grieving and desperate civilians and slaves.

"In any case, Tianzhu is indeed a very influential Buddhist culture. ”

Tang Ke thought for a while and said:

"The Buddhist culture of the Tianzhu Kingdom was not only introduced to the Cloud Empire, but also sought after by some people in the Southern Continent and the Western Continent. ”

"Even, Buddhism has taken root in the Mabo continent and has become a special sect. ”

"However, the culture of the cloud empire does not have such great influence. ”

Tang Er's master seemed to know these things very well, and no matter what, he was also a big celebrity who roamed the four seas and nine states of the Cloud Empire.

His knowledge will definitely not be less, and he will definitely not be less in contact with people.

When he said that, he naturally had a reason.

"That's right, the Buddhist culture is very splendid, and even more convincing than the creationism of those gods on the Western continent!"

"However, the Cloud Empire does not have that much influence in this regard. ”

Sally shook her head, her eyes lit up when she talked about Buddhist culture, but when she mentioned the culture of the Cloud Empire, she felt a little regretful.

It's not that the culture of the Cloud Empire is not large enough, or that the culture of the Cloud Empire is inferior to the Buddhist culture.

Rather, the Cloud Empire has maintained a self-sufficient situation for so many years, and the outside world knows very little about the Cloud Empire.

Even, in the West, they thought that the mysterious Cloud Empire was still a group of barbarians dressed in linen and dancing on fire.

In addition to the barbaric nomads of the Red Eagle Federation, the one who really has contact with the Cloud Empire is the Tianzhu Kingdom.

The Tianzhu Kingdom's knowledge of the Cloud Empire only stopped at the province of Nanyue......

Because, they have never officially entered other provinces, and even a big port like Jiangzhou Prefecture, only a few merchants have ever visited.

It can be said that this world knows very little about the cloud empire.

Yang Ming seemed to suddenly understand why Lao Lu wanted to revitalize the Cloud Empire.

This vast empire has been dormant on the Eastern Continent for too long.

In addition to the war with the nomads, there was civil unrest and commotion.

Moreover, basically, practitioners from their own country do not go abroad to visit at all.

When he was in Tianheng Mountain, if it wasn't for Lao Lu telling him how huge this world was, Yang Ming would never know so many things in Tianheng Mountain for the rest of his life.

So, the Cloud Empire, has been silent for too long.

Lu Cheng's ideal is to let this giant dragon soar directly into the air.

Let the dragon soar in the sky and revitalize in the nine heavens.

This is not only Lu Cheng's idea, it seems that the Zong family also has such an idea.

Yang Ming understood, Lu Cheng's ideal is indeed very ambitious.

However, he doesn't seem to want to make Lao Lu's ideals his own.

Because, his experience is different from Lao Lu's, Lao Lu definitely came up with such thoughts after what he experienced outside.

Therefore, he Yang Ming still has to find his own ideals, but he can also learn from them.

While thinking about his ideals, a person suddenly appeared in his mind.

Zuo Gong......

"Boy, what are you thinking?"

"I seem to know what I'm going to pursue. ”

Yang Ming looked at Tang Er's master, but he didn't tell Tang Er's master.

At this time, a Tianzhu girl passed by Yang Ming, holding a rice ball wrapped in lotus leaves in her hand.

"Zuo Gong originally hoped that I would learn from the strengths of other families and become a unique faction. ”

"That's what I'm hoping for now. ”

"It's still vague, but I already know where I'm going. ”

"Sally, are there any famous restaurants in Tianzhu Country?"

Seemingly intrigued by Yang Ming's question, Sally pointed to a restaurant with a little interest.

Floating Ceylon Tianzhu dishes may be very interesting.