Chapter 267: Abandoned Child of the Times

Lu Yao overlooks the world.

In Yao City, the steam furnace directly led to the birth of printing and dyeing and textile machines, giving the relatively stagnant economy of Yao City a new vitality.

Merchants from all over the country once again flocked to this ancient holy city. They lined up outside the printing and dyeing workshop and textile institute of the Temple. The merchants who got the goods smiled and happily ran to the place of sale with camels.

The merchants who were still waiting were impatient, and various thoughts kept appearing in their heads, worrying that they would not get the goods that day.

More intuitive is the streets in the city.

The residents of Yao City are no longer monotonous black, white and gray. They finally put on colorful red, yellow and green clothes, and the whole city has become much brighter.

At the dock, the moored ships also raised flags of different colors to show the different organizations they belong to, making it easier to identify.

The emergence of printing is a pleasant surprise.

Lu Yao checked the background and found that in fact, in the last era, Yaoshao had already ordered the Temple to try to mass-produce books, which was also the prototype of printing.

Yaoshao repeatedly emphasized that if books could be mass-produced, it would play a huge role in the continuity and dissemination of knowledge in the entire city and even the entire Yao clan.

But until her death, the research and development of printing was in the stage of pottery engraving, which was not only difficult to cast characters, but also extremely fragile and still in the stage of failure.

Later, when the era changed, the poisonous mosquito and disaster beasts were rampant again, and the Temple Society had to tighten manpower again.

Xinhui’s chief Birol did not forget this matter. He inherited Yaoshao’s legacy and continued to invest manpower and material resources in research. The emergence of the steam furnace allowed the scholars of the Temple Society to supplement the last link of printing.

Yaocheng printing uses metal molds and smoke ink as coating. The principle is similar to that of steam furnace textile machines and steam furnace forging. Steam drives reciprocating motion to complete printing on paper.

The birth of printing has made books a daily commodity like textiles. In the past, handwritten books were rare and expensive, which made it difficult for knowledge to circulate. It was basically in the hands of scholars and the wealthy class, and the monopoly of knowledge was completely ended.

Classic books such as "A Brief History of the Tribe", "Tribal Trade Code", "History of the Changes in Yancheng", "The Strange Adventures of Pava", "The Ladybug", as well as the latest epic "The Abyss Evil" and the biography "The Crystal Empire" were shipped from the Temple of Yaocheng's printing house to all parts of the world, and anyone could get them.

No matter how the eras and times change, Yaocheng still stands firmly at the cultural center of the entire world.

The brother city to the west is a different scene.

What Lu Yao noticed at first glance was the land boat road paved outside Yancheng.

This kind of road has simple stone piers and wooden poles on both sides, and the ground is paved with a lot of fine gravel. The road is not wide, but it is eye-catching enough. The boat road extends all the way to the south gate of Yaocheng in the east, and all the way to the south through the forest to the north entrance of Saniluo.

The land boat is traveling on the gravel road.

They floated up from underground to the surface, and shuttle-shaped or strip-shaped ground boats sailed on the canoe. They were much faster than the flower boats of Crystal City, but only as fast as horses, and they were more durable and stable.

The environment of the Western Continent is stable and safe, so the ground boats do not need to be equipped with rose turrets, which not only reduces the weight, but also makes it lighter when traveling on the special canoe.

The canoe and ground boats have accelerated the exchange of goods and communication between Yancheng and the outside world. Now it has become an important commodity concentration and transit station.

Whether it is the earthworms of the northern dragon nest, the ore of Wuda City, the glass of Crystal City, or the goods made by the elves of the southern continent, or even the specialties of many islands in the vast ocean, they can all be found in Yancheng.

Matching the ground boat is the steamship on the sea.

The steamship is a simple modified ship based on the prototype of the paddle boat, after installing a steam boiler. When the wind is favorable, the sails can be used to move forward, and when the wind is against the wind, the steam boiler can be used to drive the oars on both sides. It is far from the level of a steamship.

But even so, it also makes human beings move faster on the sea.

Yancheng is still the richest city and a weathervane for whether the economy and trade are active or not.

Lu Yao clicks on the conversion bathhouse and names it.

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[Yancheng Bathhouse]: A large bathhouse built on a steam furnace in Yancheng, which can accommodate 800 people for bathing. There are hot water, warm water, cold water, steam and salt water baths inside.

The bathhouse is a way for Yancheng people to negotiate cooperation, ease conflicts and relax banquets.

Yancheng Bathhouse is located in the city, the pressure on urban residents is slightly reduced, the transaction success rate is slightly increased, and the external attraction is increased.

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The birth of the wonder makes the people of Yancheng smile one by one. They surrounded the bathhouse, holding white holy flowers and shouting the name of God Yao.

"God Yao likes our bathhouse!"

"We have the best bathhouse in the world, everyone needs to bathe, this is Yancheng!"

"The gods approve of bathing!"

"Life is not only about making money, but also taking a bath!"

Lu Yao clicks on the bathhouse.

It is located in the south of Yancheng, close to the city gate. This is a large square building, comparable in size to the Colosseum of the past.

The largest area in the bathhouse is a public bath, surrounded by many small compartments.

Most people bathe and chat in the public bath, while those who discuss business are in the individual baths. Thus, the bathhouse culture has gradually become a local characteristic custom in Yancheng.

Led by Shuangcheng, the city has been revitalized by new technologies, but for individuals, the new era is more like a strange banquet that cannot be refused.

The era of fire and steam is coming.

The scholars, craftsmen and businessmen were the fastest to accept and adapt to the new environment.

The birth of the fire and steam furnace had the most direct impact on their fields. Many people immediately saw the opportunity and developed multiple uses for the fire and steam furnace to gain the upper hand.

This device has a wide range of applications, including smelting, forging, tool making, textiles, ships, etc., covering most of the manual manufacturing industries.

Of course, some people cannot accept it.

Some scholars call it a "dangerous copper monster" and believe that the fire and steam furnace itself is extremely risky. If used in large quantities, once many fire and steam furnaces explode, the entire city will be surrounded by flames and steam.

They made every effort to call for a ban on the use of fire and steam furnaces by the people.

Old-school craftsmen insisted that the utensils forged by the fire and steam furnace were dull and stereotyped, and only skilled craftsmen who made them purely by hand could give a piece of equipment a unique texture and texture.

Among the businessmen, some people have been promoting the theory that the fire and steam furnace is dangerous and calling for the protection of the craftsman tradition.

But these are all superficial.

What these merchants want to say is that this kind of device, which is dangerous and threatens the work of craftsmen, must be expensive to match its identity and positioning.

The price of the fire and gas furnace must be raised! And it is best to limit the purchase in a centralized manner!

The ultimate goal is of course to increase commercial profits.

But compared to these people, the ones who are actually hit the hardest are the martial monks, or in other words, the practitioners who take the path of challenging their personal limits.

The fire and gas furnace has accelerated almost all manual industries, and the almighty stones of Crystal City continue to flow into the market, causing the number of sophisticated equipment to soar, the price to continue to fall, and the popularity to increase significantly.

The group of armored warriors has grown wildly, and every city is full of patrolling armored warriors. The extraordinary people are also subject to strict order constraints in the city.

The background data of the Golden Field shows that the Yancheng Wuxiu Association is very bleak. The number of registered martial monks is continuing to decline, which means that many people have given up this profession and route, and the parliamentary funding has been cut again and again.

And in this context, a Yao clan member wearing a broken ghost armor came to the outside of the association.

"I want to apply to become a martial monk."

Lu Yao took a look.

It turned out to be a ghost warrior farm.

He didn't work as a locust killer outside Crystal City, but came here to be a martial monk?

Lu Yao checked and found that Nong Lei's level had reached LV22, which could be called the Sword God of Shili Slope in Crystal City.

"Is anyone there? I want to apply to become a martial monk."

Nong Lei shouted again.

The door of the association was closed, and only a guard dog was lying at the door.

A passing hunter told him: "The front desk receptionist of the association is in the hospital today because of diarrhea. You can come back another day."

The other party said: "Many martial monks have withdrawn from the association and turned to armored warriors. Now martial monks have no future and no money... Why are you so depressed and want to apply to join? You look like an armored warrior too."

Nong Lei replied: "I have been aiming at Mr. Yan Jiu since I was a child, and I have always wanted to become a martial monk."

"Yan Jiu is indeed amazing, but he has disappeared for many years. Times have changed, and this is no longer the time for martial monks."

The passerby shook his head and left when he saw that he could not persuade him.

Nong Lei was still waiting outside the door.