Chapter 267: Abandoned Child of the Times

Lu Yao overlooks the world.

In Yaocheng, the steam furnace directly led to the birth of printing and dyeing and textile machine technologies, bringing new vitality to Yaocheng, which had a relatively stagnant economy.

Merchants from all over the world once again flocked to this ancient holy city. They lined up in long queues outside the temple's printing and dyeing workshops and textile factories. The merchants who received the goods smiled and happily ran to the place of sale, leading their camels.

The vendors who are still waiting are extremely anxious, with all kinds of thoughts constantly running through their heads, worrying that they will not be able to get the goods that day.

More intuitive is the streets in the city.

The residents of Yaocheng no longer wore the monotonous black, white and gray colors. They finally put on colorful red, yellow and green clothes, and the whole city became a lot brighter.

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

The advent of printing was a happy accident.

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

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

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

Later, as the era changed, poisonous Aedes mosquitoes and disaster beasts wreaked havoc again, and the temple was forced to tighten its manpower again.

Birol, the chief of Xinhui, did not forget this incident. 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 complete the last link of printing.

Yaocheng printing technology uses metal molds and smoke ink as coating. The principle is similar to that of steam furnace textile machines and steam furnace forging. It uses steam to drive 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, making it difficult for knowledge to circulate. Basically, it was 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 Trading Code", "History of Changes in Yancheng", "The Bizarre Adventures of Pava", and "The Ladybug Chronicles", as well as the latest epic "The Evildoers of the Abyss" and the biography "The Crystal Empire" were shipped from the Temple Printing House in Yaocheng and sent to all parts of the world. Anyone can get them.

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

The situation in the sister cities to the west is quite different.

What caught Lu Yao's attention at first glance was the land boat route 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 eastward to the south gate of Yaocheng, and southward through the forest to the northern entrance of Saniluo.

The land boat was traveling on the gravel road.

They floated up from underground to the surface, and shuttle-shaped or strip-shaped ground boats sailed on the boat channel. Their speed was much faster than the flower boats of Crystal City, but only equal to the speed of horses, and they won in terms of endurance and stability.

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

The waterways and land-based boats have accelerated the exchange of goods and communication between Yancheng and the outside world. It has now become an important commodity concentration center and transit station.

Whether it is the earthworms from the northern dragon's nest, the ores from Uda City, the glass from Crystal City, the goods made by the elves of the southern continent, or even the specialties of the many archipelagos in the vast ocean, they can all be found in Yancheng.

To complement the land-traveling boats are the sea-going steamboats.

The steamboat was a simple modified ship based on the prototype of a paddle boat, with a steam boiler installed. It could use the sails to move forward when the wind was favorable, and the steam boiler would drive the oars on both sides when the wind was against it. It was still far from a steamship.

But even so, it has made human beings' pace at sea faster.

Yancheng remains the richest city and a barometer of economic and trade activity.

Lu Yao clicked on the conversion bathhouse and gave it a name.

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[Yancheng Bathhouse]: A large bathhouse built on a steam furnace in Yancheng, it can accommodate 800 people. It has hot water, warm water, cold water, steam and salt water baths.

Bathhouses are a way for Yancheng people to negotiate cooperation, ease conflicts, and relax during banquets.

Yancheng bathhouse is located in the city, the pressure on urban residents has been slightly reduced, the transaction success rate has been slightly increased, and the external attractiveness has been improved.

…

The miracle made the people of Yancheng smile. They surrounded the bathing area, holding white sacred flowers and shouting the name of Yao God.

"God Yao likes our bathhouse!"

"We have the best baths in the world. Everyone needs a bath. This is Salt City!"

"The gods approve of bathing!"

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

Lu Yao clicked on the bathhouse.

It is located in the south of Yancheng, near the city gate. It 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 public baths, while those who discuss business do so in private baths. Since then, bathing culture has gradually become a local custom in Yancheng.

Led by the Twin Cities, cities have gained new vitality driven 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 has arrived.

Those who accepted and adapted to the new environment the fastest were scholars, craftsmen and businessmen.

The birth of the steam furnace had the most direct impact on the fields they were in. Many people immediately saw the opportunity and developed a variety of uses for the steam furnace to seize the initiative.

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

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Of course, there are also some people who cannot accept it.

Some scholars called it a "dangerous copper monster" and believed that the gas furnace itself was extremely dangerous. If used in large numbers, the explosion of many gas furnaces would engulf the entire city in flames and steam.

They made strong appeals to ban the use of gas stoves by the public.

Old-school craftsmen insist that utensils forged in steam furnaces are dull and monotonous, and only skilled craftsmen who make them purely by hand can give a piece of utensil a unique texture and feel.

Some businessmen have been promoting the theory that steam stoves are dangerous and calling for the protection of artisan traditions.

But these are just appearances.

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

The price of gas stoves must be raised! And it is best to limit the purchase! The ultimate goal is of course to increase business profits.

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

The steam furnace accelerated the development of almost all manual industries. Coupled with the continuous influx of Crystal City's all-purpose stones into the market, the number of sophisticated equipment skyrocketed, the prices continued to drop, and the popularity increased significantly.

The group of armored soldiers grew rapidly, and every city was filled with patrolling armored soldiers. The extraordinary people were also subject to strict order constraints in the city.

Data from the backend of Golden Field showed that the Yancheng Wuxiu Association was in a very bleak state. The number of registered Wuxiu practitioners continued to decline, which meant that many people had given up on this career and path, and parliamentary funding had been cut again and again.

Against this backdrop, a member of the Yao clan wearing tattered ghost armor came to the outside of the association.

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

Lu Yao took a look.

It turned out to be the ghost warrior farm.

Why didn't he work as a locust killer outside Crystal City, but came here to be a martial arts practitioner? Lu Yao checked and found that Nong Lei's level had reached LV22, which made him the Sword God of Shilipo in Crystal City.

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

Farmer's base called out again.

The association's door was closed, with only a guard dog lying at the door.

A hunter passing by told him: "The receptionist at the association is in the hospital today because of diarrhea. Please come back another day."

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

Nong Lei replied, "Since I was a child, I have been aiming to be Mr. Yanjiu and have always wanted to become a martial arts practitioner."

"Yaojiu is indeed remarkable, but he has disappeared for many years. Times have changed. This is no longer the time for martial arts practitioners."

Seeing that they could not persuade him, the passers-by shook their heads and left.

Nong Lei was still waiting outside the door.

(End of this chapter)