The streets in Xundu don't look like streets, but rather like a square. They are a bit too wide. Most of the streets in the city are made of mud bricks and covered with thatched roofs.
Only when you go deeper can you see some courtyards with brick walls and black tiles on the outside and wooden structures on the inside. Most of them are merchants of status or wealthy families. The large courtyards surrounding the central palace are for the nobles and shamans of the Dahuan Dynasty.
There are almost no shops on the streets. Even in Xundu, most people still rely on the market to exchange goods. However, the equivalent exchange has eliminated the pottery coins previously issued by the Xun Kingdom. After the establishment of the Dahuan Dynasty, bronze coins were used instead, which were in the shape of swords.
Groups of slaves were tied up like cattle and sheep and driven to the market by slave owners. The most common things you can see in the market are various pottery, painted pottery, and luxurious porcelain. In addition, you can also see farm tools,
The streets were dirty and smelly, with human and animal feces everywhere. Fang Xiu grabbed his hat and fanned himself with it. It was summer in the Mountain and Sea Realm, and the weather was extremely hot.
Four men carried a sedan chair through the street, and immediately saw a large number of people kneeling on the street, as if there was some noble person on board.
On the sedan chair was a kneeling woman in a silk robe, carrying a quiver and bow and arrow on her back with a heroic look. She looked as if she had just returned from hunting in the suburbs. In the Dahuan Dynasty, there was not much difference in the status of men and women. There were even many officials, princes, and garrison commanders who were women.
On both sides, there were many soldiers wearing leather armor, carrying quivers and long swords on their backs, and holding longbows, marching through the streets in a mighty manner.
Afterwards, he saw an official riding in an ox cart passing by the road. Inside was an old man with tattoos on his face. He looked similar to those shamans and sorcerers, but he had no special skills.
"Have the social classes become so strict? There are even rules about what kind of sedan chair one can ride according to one's status!"
"The calendar appeared in agricultural civilization, which allowed people to farm according to the calendar. The market seemed to be insufficient, and the demand for commercial trade began to increase."
Fang Xiu observed everything that happened in Xundu. Only by experiencing it personally could he truly understand everything that happened in the Mountain and Sea Realm. Similarly, Fang Xiu observed the changes in the Mountain and Sea Realm with his own eyes.
At the same time, based on this change and the situation in the mountain and sea world, he also makes plans according to his own needs, whether to interfere or let it develop, but in the end Fang Xiu must achieve the goal he needs.
After all, this is not a game of house. This is an interference with the entire supernatural system of the world. At the same time, it will also affect the billions of sentient beings in the Mountain and Sea Realm. It is the life and death of hundreds of millions of people. If something goes wrong, it may not only lead to the destruction of the Mountain and Sea Realm, but even lead to the collapse of the entire world.
Fang Xiu set up such a big plan, there must be a purpose that must be accomplished, instead of playing some god game, sitting on it like a Bodhisattva, or fiddling with them like a child playing with ants. Once there is a violation of the plan or an unexpected situation, Fang Xiu must intervene and correct it.
The last time he entered the Mountain and Sea Realm, Fang Xiu's plan was to establish the throne of humanity. This time, he naturally had a different plan.
The fire of humanity has been ignited, and the population has begun to grow explosively. The next step is naturally to welcome the arrival of the era of cultivation. Thousands of practitioners will emerge, compete with each other in this era, and open up a great path for cultivation.
In Fang Xiu's vision, this should be an era like a hundred schools of thought, where various sects and forces of practice will emerge in line with the trend of human civilization, and generations of practitioners will continue to move forward, exploring and discovering the way forward.
Then find the true path to immortality and longevity.
Fang Xiu walked through the streets and alleys of Xundu, saw the magnificent palace built on the ruins, and was also thinking about what he should do next
Traditional shaman priests and sorcerers are passed down from father to son, and the practice methods and techniques between them are extremely taboo and will never be passed on to outsiders.
Not only shaman priests and sorcerers, but also many noble official positions and craftsmen and artists were passed down from father to son and from son to grandson. Even reading and writing were almost always taught by elders.
As for the spiritual text commonly used in the Mountain and Sea Realm, only cultivators can know its meaning by just using their spiritual sense without having to study it. Similarly, only cultivators know how to describe it in a standard way. However, for ordinary people, they still have to study it in order to understand its meaning.
It is even difficult to learn because it is too complicated. If the strokes are slightly wrong, the spiritual text will lose its mysterious spiritual power. When ordinary people write, it is difficult to find that they have deviated from the strokes.
Many people also think that this kind of spiritual text is too complicated, and they intentionally simplified it or copied it incorrectly. Therefore, the text used in the Dahuan Dynasty has also undergone some changes. Those who truly understand the spiritual text cannot understand it.
A type of writing belonging to the Dahuan Dynasty was also gradually emerging.
Perhaps in the future spiritual writing will become exclusive to cultivators.
In this Xun Capital, most of the nobles don’t even know how to read. During the Xun Kingdom period decades ago, or even before, their grandfathers and fathers were no different from the savages in the wild and barbaric lands.
Only those officials who serve the royal family, shamans, and sorcerers, such as historians, imperial clerks, and engineers, need to be literate. Most people do not need to be literate. It is neither useful nor necessary for them.
Therefore, even if we had the technology to make paper, it would not be of much use in this era. It was not much different from bamboo slips, and the demand and usage rate were extremely low.
Papermaking, a great creation that almost changed the entire human society and civilization, has become an insignificant thing in the Dahuan Dynasty in this mountain and sea world, and almost no one takes it seriously.
When Fang Xiu discovered this situation, he couldn't help but burst out laughing.
Fang Xiu bought a piece of land in the north of Xundu City, and then went to the south of the city to hire craftsmen and bricklayers. On this land, he built a square building and named it Xundu Academy.
Behind the academy, Fang Xiu built a large library. Although it was empty at the moment, Fang Xiu felt that one day he would be able to fill it up completely. This would become the origin of everything and the beginning of the burst of thought in the Mountain and Sea Realm.
This should be the first academy in the Mountain and Sea Realm, and Fang Xiu is also the first teacher, master, and sir in the Mountain and Sea Realm
Thinking of this, Fang Xiu couldn't help but find it quite interesting.
The academy was established, but there were no students or textbooks. Fang Xiu went to visit the keeper of Xundu, the official in charge of managing records of history books, sacrifices, divinations, etc.
This is a man named Bo, who comes from a family of shaman priests. However, he has no talent and likes reading, so he was assigned to the position of treasury keeper, and has been doing this for more than 20 years.
Fang Xiu didn't spend much effort, just two jars of wine, and demonstrated his magic and so-called profound knowledge. Then Bo took Fang Xiu to browse the treasury of Xundu and even took a tour of the outer palace of the royal palace.
The restrictions and precautions were not as strict as Fang Xiu had imagined. In other words, for civilians or slaves, their entry and exit were strictly restricted, but the precautions for others were very relaxed.
After Fang Xiu was finally ready, he announced that Xundu Academy would begin recruiting students.
For common people, they simply don't understand what a school is used for. Fang Xiu hung a wooden signboard of Xundu School outside, along with a short article recruiting students, but found that no one paid attention to it because no one could understand what was written on it.
Moreover, the common people do not have the financial resources to support them to study, even if the education is free. They have to work hard every day, and if they stop, the whole family may starve to death. Moreover, most people have no concept of learning and reading and literacy.
As a result, half a month had passed and still no one came. Fang Xiu sat in the Xundu Academy and waited in vain for half a month.
Perhaps because of his position as the keeper of the treasury, he recommended many sons of merchants, officials and noble families to come. Many people knew that Fang Xiu was a "witch priest" and came here because of his reputation.
Finally, half a month later, people began to come to study, and in Fang Xiu's Xundu Academy, the sounds of reading aloud and recognizing words finally began to be heard.
However, most of those who came here were those who had no qualifications to practice. After all, those who were qualified to become shaman priests were naturally kept back for intensive training. In the future, they would become formal shaman priests and take up official positions such as fortune-telling, ceremonial planning, incantation, and diviner. They would not come to study in his Xundu Academy.
Fang Xiu then worked as a teacher in Xundu, where he spent his days teaching people how to read and copy, and tutoring some naughty children and teenagers.
At the same time, he was also waiting for the opportunity for a big change to happen in the entire Xundu. According to the time, someone would soon arrive in Xundu, or the Dahuan Dynasty would have already begun.
At the same time, drastic changes will also occur within the Dahuan Dynasty.
Fang Xiu was the first one to enter Xundu at this moment. At this moment, except for some people who fell in other continents or at sea, all the others who entered the Mountain and Sea Realm from the present world and fell in Dongzhou were also rushing towards Xundu.
After all, this is the center of the Dahuan Dynasty and also the core of Dongzhou. As long as we can control this place, we can influence and control the human race in the entire mountain and sea world.
The third time entering the mountains and seas, this will be the center of everything and the core point where the most intense conflicts will break out.