Beyond the Noisy World: The Long Lost Eight Sects: 140, Heavenly Kingdom Tour

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There were more and more people in the market. Everyone had to let them salute where the four sedan chairs passed. It seemed very crowded and inconvenient. Ding Qi motioned to the marshal Xiao Bozhi who led the way to leave. At the market, he asked as he walked: "What are the two buildings next to here?"

On the east and west sides of the open space, there are two two-story small buildings on each side, a bit like the townhouse outside, but without a yard, it is not the same as other buildings in the village. Chen Rong, the military instructor next to him, replied: "There is a school, one belongs to the elementary school, and the other belongs to the university. It is a place for children to board and stay."

Children here, regardless of male or female, come to the main office to go to elementary school at the age of twelve, and go to college at the age of thirteen. The classrooms are the front and back rooms of the shrine. The children from the main community can naturally go home to live, but the children from the other three villages cannot go back and forth every day, so they have built two schools.

Children during the "school" period, the "public family" is in charge of the food, and the food is provided by the Daying Public Treasury. However, if you want to improve your life and eat something better, you have to give it to the children from the adults. , Usually every month when the market is small or big. Because the arrival of the elder brothers coincided with the small market, the children in the school were on vacation, and classes were temporarily suspended so as not to disturb the rest of the elder brothers.

Ding Qi commanded: "You don't have to continue to suspend classes. Don't disturb the daily life of the camps just because I wait for my arrival. Let's continue tomorrow. I also want to see what the elementary schools and universities here teach children."

Several people left the market and came to the alleys of the village. The so-called alleys are the naturally formed roads between the courtyards. There is no shortage of places here. The area of ​​the village is relatively large, with only more than 50 households. Therefore, the courtyard of each family is very spacious.

Ding Qi has a feeling that, if compared with the old villages outside, just by looking at the houses, almost everyone here can be called a big family.

They are all blue brick and tiled houses, which are very spacious and comfortable, and each building is very delicate. The threshold is made of stone, and the lintels, window lintels and under the eaves are almost all decorated with exquisite tiles. The content of the tiles includes birds and beasts, plants and flowers, as well as various character stories from the historical legends of this place.

In a sense, the society here has developed to a level of material abundance, and people are also pursuing spiritual enjoyment. Just look at these decorations. Ding Qi deliberately got off the sedan chair and walked into the houses of several families to see the details of people's daily life inside the building. Ding Qi asked while watching, and several leaders answered.

Nowadays, the large materials used to build houses here have long been harvested from the mountains. Instead, they are taken from the sidewalk trees planted on both sides of the road. The large materials are harvested and stored for a certain number of years before planting new ones. The storage method is to use stone bars to hold the sink in the lake. If someone needs beams and pillars and other large materials to build a house, they can be taken out. Nowadays, there are sinking woods that have been stored for hundreds of years and thousands of years.

Water sinking is a very good way to store wood. As the saying goes, "Dry for thousands of years, wet for thousands of years, not dry or wet for a few years. Completely submerged in water can isolate the air, but also make the structure of the wood slow Crystallization and carbonization. Picking up the sinking wood and putting it in a dry place for several years can also prevent deformation.

The local buildings are extremely durable. Once they are repaired, it will take at least a hundred years, so they can be repaired with such exquisite workmanship. Those exquisite tiles are not too laborious, because most of the brick molds are ready-made, and they have been processed by the past generations. It is carpentry who really spends time in craftsmanship. When you walk into the house, it can be regarded as carving beams and paintings, even if it is just ordinary people.

It is not accurate to say that it is hundreds of years. In fact, most of the houses here have been used for hundreds of years. They are always inhabited and popular, and they have been constantly being repaired over the years. If someone builds or overhauls a house, the necessary bricks and tiles and aniseed materials will be prepared years in advance.

Almost every family here raises chickens. They are scattered in the yard during the day and locked in chicken coops at night. Chicken is their main source of meat, and eggs can be exchanged at the market. And the advantage of raising chickens in the yard is that almost all kinds of insects will be pecked, including centipedes and cockroaches, and chicken feces can also be used as fertilizer.

Trees are planted in the front and back of the house, including in the yard, including jujube trees, hawthorn trees, cherry trees, toon trees, mulberry trees, tung oil trees, gum trees...These are all local economic crops, which can provide shade The children also have snacks, and rows of sunflowers or hemp are planted on the open space by the corner.

Hemp seeds can squeeze oil, and more importantly, hemp fibers can be woven. There are three types of fabrics here, hemp cloth, goose cloth and silk, of which hemp cloth has the largest output. There are wild silkworms here, which were raised artificially after capture by the ancients, and mulberries were planted in the fields. The output of silk is very low, but the population here is also small, and things are very cherished.

The clothes they usually wear when working on the ground are not glamorous, but they are strong and durable. They are basically linen. They can be patched if they are worn out. They don’t feel distressed if they are worn out. The rag head can also be soaked in oil and used as a torch. Fuel. But the clothes the locals wear during the festival are very beautiful. Whose family didn't meticulously keep a few sets of silk.

In winter, the warm clothing is mainly fur. Elk skin is the most precious. It can also be used to make bedding. Most of it is bamboo rat skin. Almost all adults and children here have several sets of clothes made of bamboo rat skin.

There is no paint like that on the outside. Tung oil is used for the anticorrosion and sealing of wooden utensils. There is also a kind of gum tree in the local area, and the refined resin has the effect of preventing insects. Tung oil is not sycamore seed oil, but another plant. The tung oil tree was originally found in the mountains and fields here, and is now also artificially planted.

Ding Qi and others once saw a tung oil tree in the mountains. At that time, Bi Xuecheng thought that he was not familiar with a small orange. In fact, it was a tung oil tree. Ding Qi had seen it when he was a child. They also saw citron fruit in the mountains. The fruit is also very similar to oranges, but the branches are thorny, and the fruit has a peculiar fragrance, which can be used to make spices or fragrances.

Almost every household raises chickens and spins linen cloth. About a quarter of the households raise pigs, and less than one-tenth of the households raise silkworms and process silk. After all, people’s energy is limited. On the basis of basic self-sufficiency, one can only choose a few side jobs, and other things still depend on commodity exchange.

Bamboo rats are good at digging holes and have very powerful teeth. They must be kept in brick enclosures that they can't climb out, and even the ground must be covered with bricks. Raising bamboo rats also means planting bamboo forests and sweet potatoes. The main things used to feed bamboo rats here are sweet potatoes, and young bamboos are often collected and fed.

Another handicraft industry that every household will be engaged in is bamboo weaving. In the eyes of Ding Qi, every family here may be regarded as a master of bamboo weaving outside, but in the eyes of the locals, there is a big difference.

Adults and even many children are good bamboo craftsmen, but they use more or less energy, have high or low efficiency, and produce different types of bamboo utensils. Those who can process bamboo ware and sell them in the market are the people who make the most, best, and fastest bamboo ware. The most common bronze artifacts here are bamboo knives for breaking bamboo, carving bamboo, and scraping bamboo.

The so-called material is extremely rich, and it depends on how to understand it. For example, there are no computers and mobile phones, and there are no countless products from the outside world. However, with the limited space for activities and the variety of resources in the local area, the various things that people need for material and spiritual life are indeed very abundant.

There are two reasons for this. On the one hand, of course, the residents here are hardworking and simple. On the other hand, the cultural traditions of this world are about making the best use of everything. If the outside world, especially Western consumerists, come here, they will definitely not like this habit.

A house needs to live for hundreds or even hundreds of years, and a good piece of clothing needs to be worn for many years. Carefully preserve it so that it is not damaged. Even if it is broken, try to repair it as much as possible. Pottery must not be damaged at will, and even if it is damaged, it will be punished, even if it is personal belongings.

So the durable goods here are often made very delicate, because they have to be used for a longer period of time. Of course, they must be made more beautiful. Many daily utensils are like handicrafts. The consumables that are easily damaged are made as simple and strong as possible. Only on the basis of making the best use of everything possible and accumulating, can we achieve such abundance.

If a piece of furniture is broken after one year, 30 new pieces of furniture need to be replaced in 30 years, but if it is made with the best craftsmanship and materials, it can be used for 30 years, which also means The same goods cannot be sold.

The local people will not approve of this consumerist view, and it is not the so-called diligence and thrift. They are simply trying to make the best use of what they can.

People can put more energy into producing other things. Even if it is still used to produce furniture, it means that you can own thirty different pieces of furniture at the same time.

Visit the people in the village, Ding Qi has a deeper understanding of the "New Ten Tian Tiao" formulated by Tao Xin that year. It is not only the ten rules, but also the cultural traditions of this place, including the treatment of the world and Attitude to life.

Ding Qi again signaled everyone to leave the village and went out of the east gate to the wilderness that they had walked through yesterday. There was a straight road leading to the second community, and not far away there were two bifurcated roads leading to the first and third communities. society. This is the main traffic road of heaven, and it can be seen at a glance during the day, because there are neat street trees planted on both sides of the road.

There are two types of street trees, ginkgo and spruce, both of which have very straight trunks and are also needed for construction. According to local regulations, every street tree is equally spaced by five feet or five feet per sixty years. After the trees have been felled or fell down due to accidental death, they must be replanted in time. If the large stocks in the camps are full, there is no need to cut every sixty years.

The main road leading to the other three villages is seven or eight kilometers long. There are more street trees than the locals, so many of them have grown into towering trees, probably hundreds of years old. This has been planted by many generations since ancient times, and it is also a reserve resource for the local needs.

Big material is not only the beam and column material required for construction, but also shipbuilding in the local area. There are many rivers and lakes in Dongdaying, so boats are an important means of transportation, especially in the harvest season. However, the boat travels at a slower speed, and if you walk too far in the waterway and can't come back at night, you need to put the cylinders on both ends of the boat to ignite.

Looking from the wilderness, the three roads are like three magnificent green dragons. The role of street trees can also guide the direction. Toward the tree on the side of the road, arrows are painted with paint, pointing to the nearest village.

If local residents go to work far away from the village, they will often carry torches with them to prevent them from coming back in the dark. Even if you light a torch, you can't see the distance and the direction is difficult, but as long as you can go back to the main road, follow the arrow on the street tree.

There are still people coming on those three roads one after another, helping the old and the young, carrying frames and holding children. They set off after breakfast after daybreak, because the road is far, so they arrived now. Everyone smiled with excitement, beaming like a holiday, and today is indeed a holiday.

Dongying No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3 clubs are about seven or eight kilometers away from the main club. This is not a short road. Most people walked here directly. There are also carts pulled by elk in the team, but the carts are basically filled with things, and some children sit on them.

The elk is a domestic animal domesticated by the locals, but it is not a cow or a horse after all. It has little courage and is easily frightened. The speed and endurance of long-distance running are far behind that of a horse, and its load-bearing capacity is far less than that of a cow. It is almost equivalent to pulling a cart. It's easy for people to walk. In order to prevent it from being frightened and hurting people, the elk that is being driven and polished here are all castrated, and the male deer have their horns cut off.

People living in the city outside rarely walk the eight-kilometer road, but all the people from the three local villages came here today. Many people arrived in less than two hours, and they were still carrying baskets. Woolen cloth! It can be seen that the physical strength and endurance of the people here are very good. Many elderly people who have reached the age are lighter than many young people Ding Qi knows.

These people not only walked over in the morning, but also walked back before dark. They were at least fifteen kilometers back and forth, but their expressions were very relaxed and happy.

The largest daily consumables in the area are shoes, cloth shoes and hemp shoes, and the best ones are soft boots made of deerskin and deer tendons. Good shoes are usually worn when you need to travel long distances during the festival.

Everyone saw the four heavenly brothers sitting on the sedan chair, and they knelt down on both sides of the road to salute. Ding Qi ordered everyone to get up and continue rushing to the rally, but it’s not a problem anyway. He ordered people to put down the sedan chair and bring The three disciples left the main road and walked into the wilderness, as long as the marshal, military division and Sima were accompanied.

He walked and watched and asked various questions. The fields here are divided into two types: public land and reserved land. The so-called public land is owned by the village community and mainly grows grain and oil crops. The reserved land is equivalent to the reserved land in the countryside outside, which is owned by each family, and what they want to grow depends on their needs and expertise.

So everyone cultivates a variety of things, basically staggered with the working hours of Gong Tianzhong. There is no taxation in the local area, but there is a corvee system similar to that in ancient times. Every year, there must be a prescribed time to work on the public fields. The so-called public field work is not only planting and plowing land, but also the management of mountains and forests and lakes, as well as the processing of various utensils for the entire village.

The wilderness where Dongdaying is located is interlaced with plains and hills. The plains are basically close to the village, and there are many trees planted in the fields. If there are more mulberry trees in the field, maybe this family is raising silkworms and spinning silk; if there are more soybeans in the field, then this family may be making tofu.

They went further and further, Ding Qi thought of a question in his mind, what kind of social system is here?

Primitive tribal system? It's a bit like, but not quite. The local production level is very developed, and it has almost reached an extremely rich material under limited resource conditions. What Lao Tzu said is a small country with few people? Some places are a bit similar, but there are also big differences.

A self-sufficient farming society? The same is specious. On the basis of public ownership, there are obviously large-scale collaborative production activities here, and the degree of social organization is very high, and public services and public management are perfect. Of course, the ability to do this is also related to the small size of the village, which is a bit like classic socialism like a textbook.

But this kind of generalization is not very accurate. In short, it is impossible to give it a known definition. In the long history of 10,000 years, after too many disasters, several times re-emerged from the edge of extinction. To the world today. People live too peacefully, more like the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the true sense than what happened to the outside world more than 150 years ago.

Ding Qi couldn't help thinking about another question: What kind of impact will they bring to the world after these outsiders come here and are regarded as heavenly brothers by the locals?