The urban structure of Willis City is like a multi-layered birthday cake, with the outermost and largest being the Lower Town, which is home to the city's largest and lowest number of poor and commoners.

The second layer of the cake is the so-called Upper Town, where the big merchants, small nobles, and some people with special resources live in it, and they can be called the elite of the whole city, and the whole city is also operated under their control.

The third layer of the cake is the castle of the lord of the entire city, the Count of Pothos, and the manor of a few large nobles, which is the real core of the whole city, and the most powerful armed force of Willis, the Knights of Pothos, which directly belongs to the earl, are also stationed in it.

Legend has it that Lord Pothos has the blood of the gods and has extraordinary power, and the Knights of Pothos also have the strength of one enemy and one hundred because of the blessing of Lord Earl, they are the most powerful army on the ground, and no enemy can stop them from a simple charge.

When he first heard these legends, Qi Lin thought that they were just rumors that the nobles could spread in order to maintain their rule, but after seeing Angel's power, Qi Lin had some different thoughts about it.

As the only religion in Willis City, the Holy Religion has its own churches in each urban area, and of course, for different urban areas and different classes, the churches built by the Holy Religion and the functions they have are also different.

Bildo's grain store is located in the lower city, and if you find a church in the lower city, you can arrange a funeral for him, but at most some probationary pastors will preside over the funeral, and Bilodo's body will be buried in the cemetery in the lower city.

The cemetery in the lower city is naturally not as standardized as the cemetery in the upper city, and there are often some poor and crazy people digging graves in order to get some funerary goods, especially in winter, and even foxes, weasels and other beasts dig through the grave and use the coffin as a nest.

Qi Lin naturally didn't want to be tortured more than Lodo's body after his death, but it would cost much more to be buried in an uptown cemetery with a grave keeper all year round than in the nearly free Downtown cemetery.

Of course, for Qi Lin at this moment, he didn't care too much about that cost, not to mention anything else, even if he took out a set of glass cups and sold them, he could buy a cemetery in Shangcheng District.

However, this time Qi Lin did not want to spend gold coins, in his opinion, this was an opportunity to test the Holy Church, and Qi Lin wanted to see what kind of attitude the Holy Church had towards some of the strange and useful items he provided.

After paying a few copper coins to enter the city, Qi Lin walked into the upper part of the city for the first time, and compared with the lower city with low and cluttered buildings, the construction of the upper city obviously had a clear plan.

The streets that could be crossed by four carriages at the same time were lined with buildings uniformly painted in pale gray, and although the New Year had not been long in coming, a few patrolmen in sheriff's uniforms flashed through the streets from time to time.

This alone is much better than the lower part of the city, where there are almost no sheriffs, and there is hardly much garbage on the streets of the entire upper city, and it is clear that someone will clean it up regularly, which is a rare cleanliness for a city without a perfect sewer system.

Since he had already spent the entrance fee to the city, and there was still plenty of time, Qi Lin did not go directly to the Holy Church in the center of the upper city, but wandered around the upper city.

The upper city is basically inhabited by the entire city's elite, and their spending power far exceeds that of the poor people living below the subsistence line in the lower city, so the business in the entire upper city is far more prosperous than in the lower city.

However, in Qi Lin's view, many of the goods in it are certainly more high-end than those in the lower city, but there is no big difference in type, or with the technological level of this world, the goods that can be provided to ordinary people so far are just able to maintain the needs of survival.

To take a very simple example, for the average poor, the only choice of clothing is linen, leather that is simply handled, and cotton cloth with very poor weaving techniques, which is basically all that a cloth shop in the lower city can encompass.

Although the cloth shops in the upper city are luxuriously decorated, but the goods in them are still difficult to escape these three categories, of course, whether it is linen or cotton cloth textile techniques are much stronger than those in the lower city, but that's all, the limitations of natural materials and technical level are destined to be far less comfortable and beautiful than ordinary textile products on the earth.

To put it simply, the level of development of the social productive forces is destined to the product structure and types of the whole society.

This also made Qi Lin understand why silk in ancient China would be so popular in the West, and the comfort and practicality of silk were naturally much better than ordinary linen and cotton products, but this alone was not enough to make those Western nobles so sought after, and even did not hesitate to wage war for it.

The most fundamental reason why silk has become an irresistible luxury for the Western ruling class is simply that it provides another possibility for the ruling class of Western society, a clothing material that can show its special status.

Due to the scarcity and high price of silk, only the aristocracy and even the great nobles could buy and wear it, which allowed them to have the possibility of transcending the ordinary class in appearance, and it was precisely because of this that silk could sell well in the West for thousands of years.

This is even more extreme in Huaxia, because it is the production area of silk, so it is impossible to stipulate that only the royal family can wear silk clothing.

Therefore, in order to maintain the special status of the ruling class, the emperors of China simply classified a certain color as a color unique to the ruling class, such as bright yellow that could only be used by the imperial family, and the image of a dragon that only the emperor could use.

When he thought of this, Qi Lin suddenly felt that his previous thinking was too broad, he had seen silk in the Wanjie supermarket, of course, there was a certain gap between the quality and appearance of the silk produced by those regular factories, but it was thousands of times better than these most ordinary cotton cloths, linen and the like.

"I remember that in the Roman period, the silk of China could be exchanged for the same weight of gold, even though Europe later mastered the technology of making silk, and still admired the silk imported from China, which shows how attractive silk is in a region with poor cloth types, so why can't I create a magical country rich in silk?!"

Qi Lin, who had been walking on the street for a long time, walked towards the church in the far side of the street while thinking.