Chapter 2 Zhao Family
Chenjiacheng has nearly 20,000 households and more than 120,000 people. It is one of the top towns hundreds of miles away from the city. The city has two walls and two moats, and the people call it the inner city and the outer city. Fifty years ago, Chenjiacheng expanded its area and doubled its area. The outer city was paid by the prefecture, and Chenjiacheng used craftsmen and laborers. According to the standard of resisting the tide of beasts for a century, it took nine years to build it. The walls are tall, the moat is wide and deep, and there are four thick city gates, east, west, south and north.
Military camps, yamen, inns, granaries, schools, martial arts courtyards, shops, wine shops, inns, brothels and theaters are all available. More than 100,000 people will have no worries about food and clothing even if they don’t leave the city for five years.
There are 10,000 elite state troops in the city, and the city general Wu Meng is guarding the four levels of bone tempering.
In addition to the giant Chen family, there are six major families in the city, including Wu family, Ye family, Li family, Huang family, Wan family and Xu family. Over the past few hundred years, through marriage between children, the seven major families have relatives. Although there is competition, they will not break up. There has been no civil strife for hundreds of years and are unanimous to the outside world.
In Zhao Neng's memory, the martial arts of this era are divided into four realms: Qi training, essence skin, pure bone and marrow melting. What will happen after marrow melting? He asked his grandmother at the sixth level of Qi training, but she didn't know it. Each realm is divided into nine small levels. In addition to diligence, meat and medicinal baths are essential. You also need to take precious medicinal materials such as ginseng, Ganoderma lucidum, bird's nest, Cordyceps sinensis, pearls, snow lotus, Polygonum multiflorum, ambergris, amber, benzoin and Suhexiang, which replenishes qi, promotes blood circulation, promotes blood circulation, removes blood stasis and other precious medicinal materials.
To break through to the great realm, you also need Qi Practice Pill, Essence Pill, Bone Tempering Pill and Marrow Furning Pill. People with poor qualifications cannot break through even if they take two pills.
If you practice Qi, you can live a hundred years old. The first to third levels are low, the fourth to sixth levels are intermediate, and the seventh to ninth levels are advanced. If you are a martial artist, you can live a hundred and fifty years old, and you can live a low, middle and high, and you can live a low, middle and high. If you are a general, you can live a 200 years old, and you can live a nine-level and three-level. If you are a martial artist, you can live a three-level and three-level. If you are a martial artist, you can live a three-level and three-level. If you are a martial artist, you can live a three-level and three-level. If you are a martial artist, you can live a three-level. If you are a nine-level and three-level.
Chenjiacheng is an important border trade center. In Zhao Neng's memory, there is a largest business in the city, not founded by the Chen family. It is said that it has great influence. There are business names in the five major dynasties in the Middle-earth continent. They do not participate in the battles between countries, nor are they controlled by any country. They have a very grand and heroic name, Tianditong.
There are the best Qi training pills in the Tianditong store, such as the skin essence pills and bone quenching pills for sale. The marrow dissolving pills require a lot of money to be booked and the goods will be received after one year.
A Qi training pill costs 5,000 gold, a skin pill costs 5,000 gold, and a bone tempering pill costs 200,000 gold, and a Marrow-resolving pill doesn’t know how much gold is? It can only be afforded by seven major families (Note: Two units of gold and silver are used; for the convenience of reading, we use the modern twenty-four-hour system, ruler, zhang, li, etc.)!
Elixirs are divided into low-grade, medium-grade, high-grade and best-grade.
In general shops in Chenjiacheng, only low-grade elixirs are sold, and only high-grade elixirs can be found in Tiandi.
In this era, border trade was traded in gold, and domestic trading used silver and copper coins (the ratio of gold to silver is one to ten, and the ratio of silver to copper coins is one to one hundred).
Paper certificates equivalent to checks are circulated in the market. Tianditong not only sells the best pills, but also sells the most exquisite weapons and armor. The paper certificates issued can be used in Middle-earth mainland, and can be exchanged for gold or silver in any Tianditong business.
Zhao Neng has seen his paper certificate of 10,000 taels of gold (called gold banknotes by merchants), golden and sized by adult palms. In addition to the seal of the Chenjiacheng Tianditong semicolon, it is also covered with the seal of the Tianditong headquarters, which contains anti-counterfeiting watermarks and can be folded. Generally, swords are scratched continuously, and they are not afraid of fire or water.
Large customers deposit thousands of gold and silver into Tianditong Gold Bank and exchange it for gold banknotes. Not only does it have no interest, but it also has to pay two-thousandth of handling fees and labor costs. Merchants generally do not change unless they go to a long distance to do big business. Generally, people still feel that it is more at ease to put gold, silver and copper coins at home.
Ordinary families can maintain a basic life by spending 200 taels of silver a year.
For a warrior, 500 taels of silver can only be guaranteed to have pork or mutton for three meals a day, and they cannot be fully fed. Using medicinal baths and precious medicinal materials, 10,000 taels of silver a year cannot be beaten.
In order to obtain resources and experience opportunities, intermediate warriors with poor family conditions had to carry swords and arrows to follow the generals to hunt, collect herbs and mine. Every year, no less than 200 warriors were unfortunately swallowed by beasts.
The vast Hengshan Mountains are a huge treasure house that is inexhaustible!
Ores, medicinal materials, skin, fur, bones, blood, internal organs, etc. are all valuable resources, and the Immortal Gate is hidden on the top of the mountains and ridges.
As long as you are strong enough, you can find resources of several million taels of silver a year.
Good fortune is the basis of misfortune, and the Hengshan Mountains are also a place of death!
Generally, hunters only dare to hunt on the edge, and even masters in the bone tempering stage dare not go deep into the hinterland alone. Every year, there are no corpses of generals.
If you are promoted to a high-level warrior, you can join the state army. You don’t have to pay for dressing and eating. There is still a thousand taels of silver in a year, so it’s okay to support an ordinary family. The martial arts can become a centurion with tens of thousands of taels of military salary. If you join a caravan, you can earn tens of thousands of taels of military salary. If you join a caravan, you can earn tens of thousands of taels of military salary in a year. The generals serve as a thousand taels of military salary in a year. You can also form a team to go deep into the Hengshan Mountains, and you can earn hundreds of thousands of taels of military salary in one trip.
In addition to talent and mind, practicing martial arts is about resources!
Poor literature and wealthy martial arts!
The stronger you are, the more status you have, respected, the longer you live, and get more resources you will be stronger. This is why people are keen on practicing martial arts.
Most of the teenagers in the town who are about the same age as Zhao Neng have become intermediate or advanced samurai.
At the age of fourteen, he reached the seventh level of Qi training and at the age of twenty, he reached the stage of eloquence and skin. Regardless of whether he was born in the legitimate or illegitimate, he entered the inner door of the family's martial arts courtyard to practice. As a family elite training, he was allowed to marry after the age of thirty.
If you cannot break through the ninth level of Qi training after you are twenty years old, you will be ruthlessly eliminated by the family, get married, have children, and reproduce offspring. You will be arranged to earn resources for the family in the family's shops or patrol the city to maintain order.
Those who study, manage accounts, do business and become urban management are all eliminated by the family and are called waste!
The Zhao family is also the sixth generation in Chenjiacheng. The first four generations have passed on their own. Two hundred years have passed and the population is sparse. Zhao Neng and his grandfather. Although his father is tall, his chest will be stuffy and painful as soon as he practices Qi. His two aunts cannot practice Qi. Although his cousins can practice Qi, it takes two or three times as long as others' promotion. Although his grandfather is not seriously ill, he only lived to be 61 years old. He heard from his father that his grandfather's father only lived to be 58 years old. It seems that the bloodline of the Zhao family has been banned.
Where did the Zhao family come from? Zhao Neng’s grandfather didn’t know.
The Zhao family is very low-key in Chenjiacheng and is kind. They run a shop in the town that purchases medicinal materials, and the business is good.
Zhao Neng's father's generation, God blessed him, and his family became prosperous, his sister-in-law became harmonious, and his generation accumulated, and his family was well-off.
The Zhao family owns a yard with a radius of more than 20 meters in the east of the inner city. The family has a small population.
Only one maid, Xiaoxiang, hired to assist the hostess in the housework.
The shop hired a shopkeeper and three friends.
Chapter completed!