Chapter 10 First acquaintance with Jiuzhou

Through "Jiuzhou Chronicles", Hua Yanrong finally knew that the contrast between the strength and weakness of the continents of Jiuzhou was determined by the size of the continent, the geographical environment in which it was located, the thinness of the vitality of heaven and earth, and the level of the martial realm.

There is a significant difference between the strengths and weaknesses of countries on Earth.

On the earth, the strength of a country is determined by the comprehensive development and influence of the country's politics, economy, military, diplomacy and culture.

And Hua lost his face, he never expected the Jiuzhou Continent to be so big!

Even after closing the book for a long time, Hua Yanrong still couldn't help but sigh, unwilling to believe everything she had learned.

According to the "Chronicles of Jiuzhou", there are not only powerful demonic beasts on the land of Jiuzhou, but also powerful demonic beasts in the sea, which makes the communication between continents quite difficult.

If you want to travel across continents, unless you are strong, you can control the aircraft that cross the sea to travel between continents, if not, you have strong financial support and take the teleportation array established between continents.

Teleportation array?

Is there really such a thing?

Hua Yanrong knew about this magical thing from countless Xiuzhen novels, but she didn't expect it to really exist in this Jiuzhou Continent.

This must be the special means of transportation that you don't know, right?

Flower lost her face and thought to herself.

This makes sense why the thick book "Chronicles of Jiuzhou" was successfully compiled and used as a preliminary reference book for understanding this continent, which was widely published by the officials of various countries and distributed to various schools for students to read.

As a member of Feng Mingzhou, Hua Yanrong naturally pays more attention to it.

It is mentioned in the "Chronicles of Nine Continents" that Fengming Continent is the smallest of the four lower continents, and even so, the distance between the east and west is millions of miles.

Within Fengming Continent, there were three powerful empires, namely the Great Qin, the Great Yan, and the Murong Empire.

After the three empires completed the great cause of unification within their respective borders thousands of years ago, they formed a three-part world, and since then, Fengmingzhou has entered a period of peace that has lasted for thousands of years, and there has been no war between countries.

It is really too far between the three kingdoms, and between the countries, all of them are blocked by the boundless lofty mountains, peaks and valleys, and in this deep mountain and old forest, there are all kinds of powerful demonic beasts that are more powerful.

The Labor's expedition was clearly unpopular, and no ruler would do so, and the three kingdoms made the most of this long period of peace to steadily build their own country.

The content of "Phoenix City Chronicles" mainly introduces the situation of the three towns under the jurisdiction of Phoenix City, as well as the overview of the Great Qin Empire.

Hua Yanrong learned from this that the Great Qin Empire had one capital and eight counties, with a total of thirty-six prefectures. In the territory of the Great Qin Empire, one county governs three prefectures, one prefecture governs three cities, and one city governs three towns.

The exception was the imperial capital, which had exclusive jurisdiction over four provinces and twelve cities, all of which were controlled by the royal family.

In Hua Yan's cognition, counties and counties are almost the same size of regional or administrative units in the history of Huaxia, while in the Jiuzhou Continent, counties are the largest authority under the central group, second only to the imperial capital.

In the Great Qin management system, the officials of the county, prefecture, and city were appointed by the higher level, while the management at the town level relied on powerful forces such as sects and families to regularly contribute a lot of money and treasures to the superiors every year in exchange for the support of the superiors and the long-term jurisdiction of the party.

In order to rule for itself or to be sympathetic to the people's feelings, the Great Qin Empire will not only send permanent troops, but also send some important personnel to inspect from time to time to secretly understand the loyalty of these powerful forces to the empire.

Hua Wurong learned that in the thousands of years since the founding of the Great Qin Empire, there has never been a rebellion against the royal family, usurpation of power and seizure of power by county lords, mansion lords, and city lords.

According to the Chronicles of Phoenix, Yishui Town is located in a remote area in the southwest corner of the Great Qin Empire, and resting on the earth is synonymous with border, old, poor, and desolate.

Yishui Town is under the jurisdiction of Phoenix.

Looking down from the sky, Yishui Town is like a child who has lost his way after entering the dense forest, lonely and helpless in a narrow and empty plain with a north-south direction, thousands of miles long and three hundred miles wide, hesitating, wandering, and not daring to move, surrounded by green mountains, and unable to see the edge at a glance.

The city of Phoenix, which ruled over it, was thousands of miles away, cut off by the dense forests of mountains and barriers.

The mountains surrounding Yishui Town are the branches of the Qinling Mountains in the Great Qin Mountains------ the Yifeng Mountains. On the east and west sides, two peaks thousands of zhang high look at each other in the distance, acting as horns for each other, blocking the way out of Yishui Town.

The real land is vast and sparsely populated!

In this narrow plain, people grow a variety of crops necessary for human life, such as grains, fruits, and medicinal herbs, and these methods of work are carried out in the form of families.

In today's Jiuzhou Continent, human beings must live in groups in order to be able to protect themselves. The existence of powerful magical beasts forced people to build tall and strong walls around the perimeter of the living area.

Humans, who claim to be the spirits of all things on the earth, have to compete with powerful and ferocious demonic beasts for survival space on the Jiuzhou Continent.

Through "Phoenix City Chronicles", Hua Yanrong learned that Yishui Town has been built for tens of thousands of years, which can be described as a long history. It is impossible to verify who the original builder was.

But Hua Shame knows that he must be a great power.

Because only a powerful person with a thousand hearts can plan such a magnificent layout as Yishui Town.

Yishui Town is built according to the water, and it is less than three miles to the west, which is the Yishui River with a width of 100 zhang.

The surging river rushed out of the Wanxia Ridge from the peak on the west side, rushed down all the way to the east, but came to a 180-degree turn in Yishui Town, turned the road to the north gate, and then made a big turn, flowing from the east gate, sticking to the foot of the east peak Bolang Peak to run into the mountains.

The Great Plains of thousands of miles was divided into two by the Yishui River.

Fifteen miles from the east gate of Yishui Town, people used the land shape to build a stone arch bridge to facilitate people to travel and go to the opposite bank for farming.

The city wall of Yishui Town is 30 zhang high, five zhang thick, all of which are made of boulders, which are strong and abnormal, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Two straight bluestone avenues with a width of ten zhang pass through the city, connecting the four city gates of east and west, north and south, and intersecting in the center of the town.

These two intersecting crossroads divide Yishui Town into four neat areas: southeast, northeast, southwest, and northwest.

Yishui Town is 40 miles long from north to south and 20 miles from east to west, with a population of nearly one million. There are hundreds or thousands of families, and it is quite difficult to govern.

Within the Great Qin Empire, the government was completely delegated to the governance of remote areas at the town level, and all of them were under the jurisdiction of powerful local families and sects.

As for how to manage it, the city-level officials never asked, it only stipulated a fixed amount of annual tribute, and if it was not reached, the town's management and metallurgical power would be transposed.

This is the case in Yishui Town.

It is under the unified jurisdiction of the strongest Ling family.

However, due to their limited strength, the Ling family only completely controlled the most wealthy regions in the northwest and northeast, and then distributed the southeast and southwest regions and handed them over to a number of powerful families who were good friends with the Ling family.

Of course, these families will give a part of their interests to the Ling family.

Such a reasonable balance of interests not only maximizes the interests of the strongest family, but also binds other powerful families to the interests of the Ling family, making them profitable.

This alliance of interests is also the most tight and long-lasting.

The greatest advantage of this is that no other family dares to challenge their authority and achieve the goal of managing the town together!

As far as Hua Yanrong knows, in the past hundred years, there has been no other family challenge in Yishui Town, and it seems to be quite harmonious on the surface.

And a small family like the Hua family is not qualified to get involved in the management of Yishui Town at all.

In this continent where martial arts are respected, the strength of strength determines people's wealth and honor and disgrace.

Several major families carved up the wealth of Yishui Town, which will only make these families more and more powerful and wealthy, while other families can only open their eyes.

What changed all this was the cultivation of martial arts, which is also one of the reasons why the cultivation of martial arts penetrated into the marrow of people's bones.

Located in the northwest district, Yishui School is the area with the highest concentration of wealthy families and the most active commercial activities. Yanyun Street, where it is located, is not far from the square in the center of the town.

Although it is a school, it occupies a very large area.

Yishui School was built by strict order of the Imperial Dynasty, which can be said to be beyond the family and not under the jurisdiction of local towns. Although the Ling family governs the Northwest Region, there is no way to take the academy.

Of course, apart from teaching, the school has no right to interfere in local affairs.

The flower is disgraced and sighs!

The predecessor does not seem to be a hard-working student, not to mention the low realm, and the understanding of this world can be said to be blank.

It's good that he can barely mix from beginner to intermediate, but if he wants to reach the advanced level, it is a bit difficult for a strong person.

Hua Yanrong finally knew from "Phoenix Chronicles" why the two skills of medicine and refining were not taken seriously.

Learning these two skills requires a lot of time and money to support, and extraordinary wealthy families cannot support the growth of a pharmacist or appraiser.

It is no wonder that in the academy, the vast majority of the students are not very interested in medicine and refining, and only a few of them are studying seriously because of their talent.

Hua Lost is one of the vast majority of these students.

The instructors of the academy also knew that in a remote town like Yishui Town, it was unrealistic to expect these poor students to invest more time in medicine and refining equipment, so they would not force it in practice.

Hua was disgraced and walked out of the library, and couldn't help but sigh, two different worlds, the same thing is that wealth determines the starting point!

At this time, it was already the beginning of the curtain, and the library in the night seemed so quiet and comfortable, the bright moon hung high in the starry sky, and the clear light was sprinkled, covering the school under the night with a hazy veil, which was both bright and psychedelic.

Even after leaving the library, Hua Fa's mind was still immersed in what she knew.

As the more detailed the understanding of this continent, the greater the impact on Hua Yin's heart, the more shocking it became!

Through reading "Jiuzhou Chronicles" and "Phoenix City Chronicles", although I have a preliminary understanding of the general situation of this continent, I also have a further understanding of the environment I am in.

You have to be strong!