19. Storytelling Tea House Tiantang Pavilion
Although Tongshan County is adjacent to the 100,000 demon ridge and is threatened by monsters at any time, the risk also means opportunities.
Monsters advocate nature and do not know how to refine elixirs and make medicines like humans, so monsters rarely destroy the natural environment like humans.
Some monsters like to live in nature with beautiful environments, so the 100,000 monster ridges occupied by monsters may exist in various spiritual medicines for ten, hundred, or even thousand years, as well as other kinds of heavenly and earth treasures.
According to the rumors of human adventurers, various spiritual medicines in the Hundred Thousand Demon Ridge grew in the mountains like weeds, and were eaten by little beasts like rabbits.
This is all money born from birth!
Every year, adventurers from Chong'an State, even the Central Jin Dynasty, and other places who are banished will come to Tongshan County in groups.
Then, Tongshan County is used as the front logistics supply base and transfer to the 100,000 Yaoling to adventure.
Most of these adventurers are martial arts practitioners among the poor commoners. They also know that they will take the initiative to go to the Hundred Thousand Demon Ridge and will probably be eaten by those monsters as food delivered to them.
As a martial arts practitioner, the body is full of essence and blood, and it is the favorite food for monsters, which is also a great nourishment for monsters.
But for those spiritual medicines worth thousands of gold, they continued to ignore life and death.
It is a poor and rich martial arts man, and practicing martial arts is also costly. Not everyone is like Liu Ping. He comes from a poor martial arts family and can rely on the gentry and have his own land to support his martial arts practice.
Most martial arts practitioners are suffering from martial arts practice, forcing them to sacrifice their lives to get money.
There are also some powerful adventurers who directly target those monsters. Of course, the big monsters dare not face them, but the little monsters, relying on human wisdom, coupled with their seventh, eighth or even nineth level of martial arts, still dare to take action.
The monster's demon pill can be used to refine pills in the human world, and the effect is comparable to the spiritual medicines that have been around for hundreds of thousands of years, the flesh and blood on monsters, etc., and are also very valuable. Especially catching a living monster, even if it is a corpse of a monster, it will be a fortune.
Of course, there are also some human merchants who will directly deal with monsters in the 100,000 demon ridge, using elixirs and talismans that monsters cannot refine, and exchange spiritual medicines and other treasures.
However, this is also an adventure business, and you may even sell yourself to monsters to make some other people's on-the-trade meal.
Therefore, most of the adventurers who go to the 100,000 Demon Ridge every year go to eight or nine out of ten, but the adventurers who come to Tongshan County every year can more than double the population of Tongshan County.
In fact, before Chong'anguo officially built Tongshan County, with the special geographical location of this region, there was already a border town spontaneously formed by adventurers.
Later, some people discovered various mineral veins in the surrounding mountains, especially some mineral veins of gold, silver and jade. It is said that there are spiritual stone mines that only immortals can use, which attracted many people to open mines here.
This has attracted various business and travel brigades, not only to purchase minerals, but also to buy medicinal materials, demon elixirs and other materials.
In addition to the transporting and transporting staff, most of the people brought by these business travelers will also bring hundreds of private soldiers to escort them. Every time the business travelers gather, tens of thousands of people can gather here.
Whether it is the mine owner who opened a mine or the foreign business brigade, they are not ordinary people. Most of them have the names of gentry clans behind them.
In order to facilitate the management of this spontaneously formed town, many gentry members who had interest here played a role, which made the king of Chong'an Kingdom build a county town on the southwestern border next to the 100,000 evil ridge, which was officially established.
In order to meet the self-supply and demand of a county town, Chong'an Guozhu also forced to move more than 5,000 households from other places, including farmers, craftsmen and other messy households, including 500 soldiers guarding the county town and the families of these soldiers.
In addition, those adventurers who have gone through spring and winter, who have been adventurers who have been willing to bury their bones in a foreign land, miners brought by miners, and business teams brought by escorts. As long as it is not winter, the population of Tongshan County can reach about 40,000.
The population of 40,000 is comparable to the county seats of some wealthy prefectures in Chong'an, but the prosperity of Tongshan County is relatively deformed.
The main streets of the county town and the west city are lined with different shops, mostly purchase shops of various spiritual medicines and other materials in the Hundred Thousand Demon Ridge. There are also shops that specialize in selling elixirs, weapons, and armor, which are specially designed to serve those adventurers.
You can often see adventurers holding weapons entering and leaving the shop, selling or buying them, which is a one-stop service, which saves them from selling and purchasing in other places.
As for other parts of the county town, the most common places are inns, restaurants, etc. Even ordinary households will pack up several wing rooms to make money for renting, and they can live in 70% or 80% of them on weekdays.
This is like the ancient town we often visit. Almost all the people in the county start to entertain foreign households. In addition to farming and harvesting grain, all other income also comes from these foreign households.
Most of the outside adventurers who came to Tongshan County did not know what to do tomorrow and came to take risks with their heads on their heads, so they were generous in spending money.
As for public security, there are gentry Qi-refining men like Zhu Junyan as magistrates, and the Zhu family's private military department below. In addition, the county soldiers assigned by Chong'an State were still stable.
Since Zhu Lingwu has now become more interested in shopping in such an ancient county town, he is naturally a little interested. This is a real ancient town, much more authentic than the Banlazi ancient town he used to spend money to visit.
But if you want to talk about this most lively place in Tongshan County, you still have to say that you have a teahouse called "Tiantang Pavilion" in front of Chenghuang Temple in the north of the county.
The transmission of various news in these years mainly depends on the mouth. Although many of the storytellers' storytellers are addicted to the fire, they can occasionally hear many new news about the world in some books.
So in this world, if you want to listen to news and understand current affairs, you either rely on yourself to inquire, or you can only go to this kind of teahouse. In addition to hearing the news from other people while drinking tea, you can also hear the jokes told by the storytellers.
Chapter completed!