Chapter 49: A Visit to the Dungeon

Walk down the bazaar until you reach the end, where there is a small river with a stone bridge over it. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info across the bridge, it is a natural garden. There are 100 kinds of flowers in the garden, and there are also bees and butterflies flying. On the other side of the garden are a number of two-story houses, a wealthy area, and I kept asking Aisha all the way, while Changfeng watched quietly. Such a building is indeed a rich area, and Aisha said that this is an official area, a place where officials live. The area of the official district is very large, the place where Aisha lives is ten households and one house, a total of thirty houses, and the official area is also adjacent, but it is five households and one house, there are ten houses, but these ten buildings are slightly larger than the thirty houses.

It wasn't until I walked around the city that I realized that there were nearly ten such official districts in the city, and there were the same number of civilian areas. Because we were walking in different directions, we walked all morning until we came to the gate where we came out yesterday, and Aisha told us that this was where the lord of the city lived.

Yesterday I didn't have time to take a closer look, now I look carefully, this place is very similar to the ancient palace, there is a plaque above the main entrance, on which are four big gilded block letters: "Free City", below is a line of Uyghur language, although I don't know Uyghur language, with my toes can also think that it is the meaning of the city of freedom. How can this dungeon, which is mostly Uyghur, be bilingual, and is the city lord a Han Chinese? Aisha said something even more surprising, he said that the city lord is more than 300 years old and is an all-powerful prophet.

There was a large area outside the city gate that was no man's land, and Aisha said that it was forbidden land and that the people were not allowed to approach it. Beyond the no-man's land is a river. This river is not the same as the one I saw before, this river is wider, the water is clearer, and it is so clear that you can see the bottom. The bridge over the river was wide enough to walk two cars side by side, and I later realized that it was the river that divided the dungeon into two parts.

Across the bridge, there is a long stone road, and on both sides of the road is an agricultural area, and it is amazing to see the crops growing one after another: rice, corn, wheat, adzuki beans, soybeans, sugar beets...... I didn't expect there to be so many crops here, and I felt that my eyes were not enough.

What surprised me even more was that I saw four-wheeled vehicles running on the road from time to time, but they were more than half a foot above the ground, and sometimes even higher than the ground. The speed is quite fast, it can catch up with the 60 miles of the car, and there is no exhaust. Changfeng, who had never spoken, asked Aisha: "Can I sit in that car?

Aisha said, "What is a car? It's called a flywheel, of course you can sit on it, two copper coins per person, and you can sit in half the city." So he stopped a flywheel that came by leisurely and went up and sat down.

There are two rows of passenger seats inside the flywheel, and the seats are comfortable, with two people sitting in each row loosely. The driver himself is in the middle of the front, there is no steering wheel, and it looks like he is just using the button to control, semi-automatic. The flywheel has a metal lattice frame on all sides, and there is no glass, so I just feel a slight upward force when I run, and then I go all the way steadily. Occasionally, other flywheels pass by, and they can be well avoided from each other. Sitting in the flywheel with the breeze blowing gently is very pleasant. This made me very interested, but after watching it for a long time, I couldn't understand whether it was burning gasoline or diesel, or using electricity. When I saw Aisha's house yesterday, I thought it was backward and poor, but along the way, it seems that there are abundant products, advanced means of transportation, there are no fights and quarrels, everyone is warm, polite, smiling, and showing a peaceful atmosphere.

After a day of observation and questioning Rahman's father, I had a basic understanding of the free city.

If this is an underground city, then it is about a hundred square kilometers. It is divided into two parts, the east and west of the city.

The eastern part of the city includes the place where the lord of the city lives, three special districts (I asked Father Reheman, in fact, the so-called official district is not only the residence of the government, but also includes some contributors, people of high moral standing and large merchants) and three ordinary districts. There is a bazaar between each special district and the ordinary district, and there are several villa-like buildings in the special district, which are inhabited by special people. From a distance, they are all independent courtyards, very magnificent, this is the real residence of high-ranking officials. In addition to the residences, most of them are agricultural areas. The yield of crops is extremely high, and they do not use chemical fertilizers, but just ordinary farm fertilizers. But I felt that the yield was higher than that of using fertilizer on the ground, so I asked Changfeng and sure enough, it was so. The crops grown in Taoyuan Village do not use chemical fertilizers at all, but they can't compare with here, and even Changfeng feels strange. Not only that, but the crops produced here taste excellent, and I don't know if it's better water, better soil, or both!

There are five special districts and five ordinary districts in the west of the city, all of which are located in the center, but the special area in the west of the city is only a larger building, not very magnificent, and when asked about his father, he said that the special area in the west of the city lives in ordinary families with more than ten people, not the so-called official residence.

What separates the east and west of the city is a river. The river is completely a standard dividing line, with large pastures planted on both sides of the river in the south and grazing horses, cattle and sheep, and the river in the north on both sides of the river being a medicinal area and an industrial area. The industrial zone and the medicinal herb zone are forbidden places and are not allowed to enter casually. Therefore the people will go far away from the two lands. After walking a little further after the industrial area, you will see the city lord's mansion.

The City Lord's Mansion is not a forbidden place, and the gate is usually open. Ordinary people can also enter the City Lord's Mansion, but there must be something to do, and the guards will report it. It's not impossible to even want to see the lord of the city, if the lord of the castle happens to have nothing to do, he can receive it, and if the lord of the castle is not convenient to meet, an official will also receive it, and basically the matter will be resolved. That's a good rule, and it seems that the Free City lives up to its name. If in the end, even if we can't find Sun Daming, we can go directly to the City Lord's Mansion, but I don't know if the two of us who sneaked in will be arrested.

There is no local government outside the city lord's mansion, but there will be a head of household in each residential area who does things for everyone, and he is a seven-rank official. Minor misunderstandings and minor disputes between neighbors are resolved by the head of the household. He is also responsible for distributing the benefits of the government to the people, although the officials are small, there are many things, and those who can take on this important task are those who are highly respected and willing to do things for the people.

There are no restaurants or anything like that in the city, let alone entertainment venues. This kind of life is inevitably boring, but Dad said: "We have been like this for generations, and we are busy every day, and in our spare time we are happy to eat and chat with our families, and sometimes we go out for a walk, or talk and laugh with friends, isn't it wonderful? The admonition of dogs and horses and playthings is discouraged, and this kind of admonition was learned when I was in school. ”

I was a little uncomfortable when his old man said this, as if I was not as good as the people in the dungeon. It's just that...... Alas, I can't seem to be so perfect......

Let's talk about the academy. There are a total of eight schools here, which are divided into two categories: Mongolian learning and enrollment. I feel that Mongolian school is equivalent to primary school, and enrollment is equivalent to secondary school. Both men and women are required to go to school, and I still have to give a thumbs up to the lord of the castle. You must know that if the city lord was really a person from three hundred years ago, he was still patriarchal at that time, and it was his wisdom to let women go to school.

There are four schools in Mongolia and four in the school, which are located in the east and west of the city, far away from the downtown area, and are relatively large buildings. Students go to school nearby, and there is no good or bad class. The paper and pens used in the school are brought from the outside world, and they are distributed in the school and used for free.

The school is not only a place to study, but also a place to play and exercise, and I even saw a football field, which I felt should be modeled after the school outside. I guess this has only been built in recent decades, and I see things outside, and I want to learn from the good ones. Being able to accept new things, I am even more impressed with the city lord.

The only means of transportation here is the flywheel, which is powered by a fist-sized glittering stone. Of course, this stone is embedded in the flywheel, and it can only be seen by Changfeng's perspective eye, I don't know what it looks like, I can only listen to his description. As for the material of the flywheel, Changfeng didn't see what kind of metal it was. I looked at it and thought it had silver ingredients, but Changfeng said that it had nothing to do with silver dime.

Changfeng was more interested in the glitter stone, knowing that it was something we hadn't seen before. And with such a great amount of energy, if we developed it and built a flywheel on the ground, wouldn't we become the richest man in the country? But when I say this, Changfeng doesn't think so. He told me that some things are better not to be discovered, and that human desires are endless, and that this may lead to negative results. I also felt the same way when he reminded me of this, and it seems that the secret of the dungeon has always been a secret.

It is worth mentioning that the fuel for the people's cooking is petroleum mixture, and the lighting is also oil lamps made of petroleum mixture, which is distributed by the government. This petroleum mixture burns with only a slight amount of smoke and does not constitute air pollution at all. This kind of thing is extracted from an oil field. The oil field is in the northwest corner of the city, and dozens of men appointed by the government to extract it. Because this kind of thing cannot be bought and sold, the government also distributes it according to the needs of each family, and there is no oil used as an industrial product, so no one will steal it.

This mysterious, open, traditional, and advanced dungeon is surprising, amazing, and amazed. And a city lord who is more than three hundred years old makes us have a strong curiosity about him. I just don't know if we'll get a chance to meet him, so let's make a decision when we get to know him better.