Chapter 397: Entering Chutian

After a group of people arrived at the city gate, they handed in the customs clearance documents issued by Xiang Junfei, and to everyone's expectations, the officers guarding the gate not only did not have any difficulties, but were extremely respectful, and also very politely arranged for a subordinate to lead the way and guide Liu Wuyi and others to the post station. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

Chutian City is really not ordinarily big, just the streets that enter the city gate are unusually wide, looking at the width of the left and right is not fifty meters, it is about the same, and there are tall walls directly on both sides of the road, with Liu Wuyi's height, standing on a horse is still quite far from the upper edge of the wall.

What made Liu Wuyi curious was that the streets in this area were not lined with shops or vendors, except for the occasional few itinerant vendors selling something to pedestrians entering and exiting the city gate.

Anyway, being idle is boring, Liu Wuyi asked the soldier who led the way about the situation in Chu Tiancheng, thinking that this would make this warrior embarrassed, but he didn't expect that this warrior would not reserve himself and tell everything he knew.

It turns out that this is not a secret, in human society, in order to resist foreign invasion, since ancient times, the country has been established by force, almost all the big cities of the country are this pattern, especially the first city like Chutian City, there are a large number of troops stationed, in case of war can be mobilized at the first time.

Therefore, the reason why there are no shops and vendors on the periphery of Chutian City is because this area belongs to the military area, and all the troops stationed within a kilometer are troops, after all, the scope of Chutian City is still very large, and it takes considerable manpower to maintain law and order every day.

Hearing this soldier say this, Liu Wuyi immediately understood, in a country with this kind of military system, it is estimated that in addition to taxes, there is no so-called police, patrol, security, armed police, urban management and other auxiliary systems, everything is all in the army, which can not only unify command, but also play the role of training, and also reduce a lot of nonsense.

It's just that this kind of thing can only be implemented in countries of this model, if there is no interference from external factors, no country will have so many troops, after all, it is not a good thing for all people to be soldiers!

After walking a little further, the number of pedestrians gradually increased, and some shops on both sides of the road appeared in Liu Wuyi's line of sight, looking left and right, Liu Wuyi found that these shops were mainly handicraft workshops, and most of the people on the road were also some farmers who transported materials, or the guys of the shops who came to pick up the goods.

"Unless the price is three to five times higher, the average person still goes to the front business district to buy goods. The soldier who led the way saw Liu Wuyi looking at these handicraft workshops intently, and explained on the side.

Liu Wuyi thought about it and understood that in order to pay taxes, the peasants sold the materials for planting, gathering, and hunting to these handicraft workshops, and in order to pay taxes, the handicraft workshops transferred the goods produced to the merchant shops after processing the materials, and the merchant shops paid the profits as taxes according to the percentage, and the state used these taxes to arm the army, and so on!

In other words, the state needs to pay taxes to arm the army, so it has to go down to collect taxes, and in order to pay taxes, merchants and shops have to buy products in handicraft workshops to sell, and handicraft workshops need raw materials to produce in order to pay taxes and produce products, and for handicraftsmen, the task of collecting raw materials has to be handed over to farmers living outside the city or in the mountains.

In this way, in order to pay taxes, the peasants sold the raw materials for planting, gathering, and hunting to handicraft workshops, and the goods produced by the handicraft workshops were transferred to merchants' stores, which in turn sold the goods.

In this way, the state can collect taxes that can be used to arm the army, and those who work to pay the taxes can also complete the task of paying the taxes.

Then, Liu Wuyi didn't think about it, this thing is easy to say, the relationship here is too complicated, and it will give people a headache if they think about it again, anyway, it's none of their business, Liu Wuyi immediately put this idea aside and continued to walk towards the city.

Further forward is the commercial area dominated by merchants and shops and the economic zone dominated by catering and entertainment, these two places Liu Wuyi did not see much, the former one did not look at it because they were afraid that Xiaoshuang would be happy and went to go shopping, the latter one was mainly afraid of setting fire to the body, what economic zone, it is clear that it is the red light district!

Another one again, in terms of the evolution of the population on this planet, Liu Wuyi and others always have a feeling of being in the rainforest, and the so-called beauties here don't look at it, so as to save people from thinking that they have a pet plot and like to play with humans and beasts!

As soon as I got out of the red light district, oh no, it was the economic zone, and a group of people ran past me, and at the front was a rather skinny-looking teenager, dressed in tatters, with a dirty face that couldn't be seen clearly, and looked back as he ran.

The people chasing behind are all some strong men, the clothes are uniform, all of them are tall and strong, and they are vigorous, but that's it, no one can catch up with the thin and withered teenager, but the teenager is not easy to get rid of the pursuit of the strong men.

Maybe it was because the appearance of Liu Wuyi and the others was too sudden, the young man just looked back, he didn't expect that there would be a horse team on this road, and when he found out, the young man had already walked face to face with Liu Wuyi's horse who was walking in front.

"Walk!" Liu Wuyi didn't want the young man to be hurt, so he clamped the war horse between his legs and forcibly led the war horse to jump to the side, and at the same time tightened the reins to avoid the war horse being frightened.

Unexpectedly, the young man's reaction was also very fast, at the same moment when Liu Wuyi jumped out, the young man shook his head, rolled on the spot and rolled to the side, and suddenly arrived under Chen Nianyi's horse's belly, and then regardless of Chen Nianyi's horse being frightened, it raised its front hooves high, changed direction and rolled again, and then came under the horse of the wind.

In this way, the young man rolled three times and two rolls to make Liu Wuyi and the others' horse team lively, blocking the way of the strong men behind, while the young man himself rolled under the carriage that Xiaoshuang and the others were riding, and after a short pause to look back, he got out of the carriage from under the bottom and continued to run forward.

"Shuang'er, are you all right?" Liu Wuyi, who turned the horse's head, looked at the carriage parked in the middle of the road and asked with concern.

Then he looked at the back of the young man who was about to disappear and scolded: "MLGBD, after all, this little rabbit cub still has a little conscience, if he startles the carriage for the old man, Lao Tzu will have to peel off his skin!"

As he spoke, Liu Wuyi came to the side of the carriage, suddenly fluted slightly, and while approaching the carriage, he quietly felt something from under the carriage, and quietly put it into his storage space while others were not paying attention.

"Brother Wingless, that little beggar was a little strange just now!" Xiao Shuang and the others poked their heads out of the carriage and said meaningfully.

"It's a little weird, it's just weird. Liu Wuyi lowered his voice and replied, while squeezing his eyes at Xiaoshuang: "It's not strange that a parkour boy suddenly appeared on the street like this!"

"Parkour?" Xiaoshuang first blinked a little inexplicably, and the corners of her mouth curled: "Are your hands a little itchy?" Or do you remember some unbearable past?"

"Get out of the way, get out of the way, you still don't get out of the way!" At this time, the strong men who were blocked by the horse team squeezed over, looking at Liu Wuyi and the others with horizontal eyebrows, looking like they might burst out at any time.

"Wait. The warrior who led the way also squeezed over at this time, glanced at the clothes of the strong men, first took out a waist card for the strong men to take a look, and then pulled a strong man who looked like a leader to the side, the two of them muttered a few words, the strong man raised his head in disbelief and glanced at Liu Wuyi and the others, nodded to the warrior who led the way with a smile on his face, and thanked the warrior who led the way with both hands in fists.

"Misunderstanding, misunderstanding. Ladies and gentlemen, please continue on your way, and the head of the family will visit you in person. The strong man who took the lead came to Liu Wuyi's horse with a smile on his face, clasped his hands into fists and bowed, nodded apologetically to Liu Wuyi and the others, and bowed down.

"yes, it's all a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding. The warriors who led the way also crowded over, exonerating the strong men.

"Since it's a misunderstanding, forget it, isn't it, Brother Wuyi!" Xiaoshuang took Liu Wuyi's hand and strained slightly.

"Forget it, there is nothing to do, I have been on the road for a day, and I want to find a place to rest early!" Liu Wuyi snorted, pretending that nothing had happened, and waved his hand at the strong men: "You are busy with yours, and you are in a hurry." ”

"Thank you, thank you, my lords. The strong man who took the lead quietly wiped the sweat from his forehead, sighed lightly, and hurriedly saluted Liu Wuyi and the others, and secretly gave the soldier who led the way a grateful look, and then took the other strong men to chase in the direction where the young man disappeared.

Seeing that the strong men had disappeared, the warrior who led the way also sighed lightly, also wiped the cold sweat on his head, and said with a smile to Liu Wuyi and the others: "That, my lord, let's continue on our way, shall we?"

"Let's go, go to the station. Liu Wuyi glanced at the soldier leading the way meaningfully, and asked seemingly casually, "Do you know those people just now?"

"Praetorian Guard, it's my former comrades-in-arms who take the lead, otherwise I can't afford to mess with these people. The warrior who led the way did not think about it and replied directly.

"Oh, Praetorian Guard!" Liu Wuyi didn't ask much, just turned his head to look at Xiao Shuang, who directly threw Liu Wuyi a sanitary eye.

Further ahead is the residential area, also called the civilian area, where more than 70% of the population of the whole Chutian City is inhabited, and it is also the largest district in the whole Chutian City, covering an area of about half of the Chutian City, and the entire Chutian City below the rank of the brave and people outside the army all live here.

A rich man on this planet is nothing, has no military merits, does not experience battles, does not serve in the military, and is at best just a rich taxpayer, no matter how much money he has, his status is still a civilian, at most he only lives in a relatively large house in a residential area, and there can be a family and servants in the house.

No one on this planet dares to exchange money for military merits, no matter how rich people are, if there is no real person who learns, let alone dare to buy the brave, even if he is a junior powerhouse, he will not dare to say it, once the outside world knows, then you can congratulate him, and at the beginning of the next war, he will be the first choice.

If you really die in battle, you can be regarded as loyal to the country, but I am afraid that this kind of person who has no real knowledge will not get in the way of his own death, and will affect the entire war situation because of his own mistakes, then the responsibility is unforgivable, so as long as the country finds that there are people who have secretly changed their military merits and changed their identities without permission, they are generally executed on the spot, and the whole family is reduced to slavery.

Just like the Jin Santang in Qiushui City that Liu Wuyi and others ransacked last time, it is already very rich in the local area, and it has a posture of covering the sky with one hand, but in the final analysis, it is still a civilian, and it is still necessary to be so arrogant through the protection of the military, once the military leaves it alone, Jin Santang's fate will be as miserable as possible.

Walking out of the residential area and moving forward, a short interval appeared in the middle, which was already close to the edge of the central area of Chutian City, and when Liu Wuyi looked up again, a house more than ten times more magnificent than the residential area appeared in front of him.