Chapter 28 The place with the most rules
Taian City is the richest place outside the customs.
Even Zhenwu City, where Ling Huye, the commander of a hundred thousand troops outside the pass, is stationed, is far inferior to Tai'an City in terms of financial resources.
There are rumors that in the underground vault of Tai'an City, there are ten large silver balls, each weighing tens of thousands of kilograms.
Of course, no one has really seen it, and no one would dare to have the courage to find out quietly.
Tai'an City neither admits nor denies it.
This in turn makes everyone confirm the authenticity of this matter.
It is precisely because of this that countless merchants from outside the customs will transport their goods to Tai'an City for sale.
No matter what you are selling, as long as your goods arrive in Tai'an City, Tai'an City will guarantee that you will get a fair price and no one will buy or sell by force.
You sell goods here, and you don’t have to carry a large amount of property outside the customs. You only need to deposit the money in the bank in Tai’an City and obtain the bank note. Then with this note, you can buy it anywhere outside the customs. You can take out the corresponding amount of silver in any place. Now I heard that in Beiyuan, bills from Tai'an City are also smooth.
If you buy bulk goods in Tai'an City, you only need to insert the tiger flag sitting there waving in Tai'an City, and you will be able to travel unimpeded outside the customs and reach the place you want to go smoothly. No one dares to touch Tai'an. In the beginning, no one robbed the caravan with this flag. After the incident, Tai'an City immediately compensated the cargo owners for their losses, and then found the guys who robbed the cargo and used them to The tragic end proved Tai'an City's unparalleled credibility.
It has taken twenty years from the initial bleak business to its current reputation.
And this process is also the process of Tai'an City Lord Zhou Zhi's martial arts cultivation from the eighth level to the ninth level of Xuanyuan, and then to the sky in one step, breaking through the innate, and becoming a being that everyone looks up to.
Every time Zhou Zhi takes a step forward, the city of Tai'an will become more prosperous and his status will rise.
When Zhou Zhi reached the sky in one step, Tai'an City's transcendent status was also established outside the pass.
The citizens of Tai'an City also enjoy a special status outside the customs.
But becoming an official citizen of Tai'an City is not an easy task.
Once they become official city residents, the benefits they can enjoy are enviable and astonishing to everyone.
Not all of the 200,000 people currently considered by the outside world are citizens of Tai'an City.
Now if you want to become a citizen of Tai'an City, you must first apply to Tai'an City.
Those who are qualified to make this application must at least have a certain skill.
Whether you are a skilled craftsman, a farmer who is good at farming, or a hero who is accomplished in martial arts, or a scholar who has gained from reading, you can apply, but it is difficult to say whether it will be approved or not.
Taian City’s standards are very different from the world’s standards for measuring talents.
A gentry who had studied, worked as an official, and had a substantial family fortune applied at the same time as a farmer who only knew how to farm, but the one who was approved was actually the dark-faced, lean man with not much meat on his body. farmer.
After the application is initially approved, you will become a quasi-citizen of Tai'an City. At this stage, what you can enjoy is the protection of Tai'an City and the ability to govern in Tai'an City as a citizen of Tai'an City. life and work.
But at this time, you cannot enjoy other benefits of Tai'an City.
If you have no special opportunities and merits, then the inspection period is three years.
After three years, with approval, you will become an official citizen of Tai'an.
Official Tai'an citizens will arrange jobs suitable for you based on your expertise.
In fact, during the previous inspection period, suitable people already had suitable positions, and they just had to officially change their status. Everyone will also get a lucky tiger waist card that symbolizes the people of Tai'an.
As a citizen of Tai'an, your income will increase exponentially.
Every year at the end of the year, there will be a generous dividend based on your level.
Yes, the citizens of Tai'an have levels.
This level is determined based on your contribution to Tai'an City.
Jade medal, gold medal, silver medal, bronze medal, iron medal.
The five levels represent the five classes under the rule of Tai'an City.
Tiepai is the lowest level of the people. Except for those who have recently joined, they are basically the people who have lived here since the founding of Tai'an City.
They have no special skills, but they have unparalleled luck.
Because when Zhou Zhi brought a few people here, they were here.
Xuan Yuan, the leader of Baozhai at the seventh level, was already a great master, but he was still not enough in front of Zhou Zhi, who was at the peak of eighth level at that time.
In addition, the guy was too cruel and too harsh on his subordinates and people. So when he was killed by Zhou Zhi, not many people followed him. Instead, the original rulers swarmed up and killed the guy. The clan was destroyed.
Zhou Zhi became the new leader of the fort, and that small fort became the prototype of today's Tai'an City.
The indigenous residents back then had a leader who was more powerful and more considerate of them, and they really lived a happy life from then on.
Sometimes the world is so unfair. No matter how hard you try or how diligent you are, it will never be worth the correct reincarnation.
Your end is the starting point for another group of people.
While many people are working hard to become citizens of Tai'an, some people are given an iron plate as soon as they are born, with a cute little tiger on it with hands raised.
Aside from these people, there are several other types of people living in Tai'an City. businessman.
Anyone who wants to make his business bigger and stronger outside the customs must have a store in Tai'an City.
The rent of each shop here is incomparable to the shops on both sides of Chang'an Zhuque Street, and these shops are definitely only for rent and not for sale.
The contract is signed once a year, whether you like it or not, the rent will increase by 10% every year, and it is unchangeable.
Even so, the supply of shops here is still in short supply.
The second large group is the people who took refuge in Tai'an City.
Because there is an iron law in Tai'an City. When you enter the territory governed by Tai'an City, no matter what hatred you have between you, you are not allowed to kill each other.
It is taboo to kill someone in Tai'an City. Once you kill someone and the people in Tai'an City know about it, even if you go to the end of the world, Tai'an City will send people to kill the murderer.
In the words of the city lord Zhou Zhi, Tai'an City is a place where harmony brings wealth and blood is taboo.
This rule is very unreasonable and has been used rationally by many people, thus becoming a refuge for many people.
As long as you escape here, you can survive.
However, the price of living is also very high.
Because the cost of Tai'an City is really beyond the reach of ordinary people.
After a year, no matter what, there will be expenses of thousands of taels of silver.
Poor people in other places outside the customs can live well with just a few dozen taels of silver a year.
Comparing the two, it is not wrong at all to say that Tai'an City is a gold-selling cave.
Once you have no money, you will be miserable.
Because Tai'an City will not take in a very poor person.
At that time, the most likely possibility for you is to be expelled from Tai'an City.
It is very possible that your enemy is waiting for you outside Tai'an City!
Taian City is a very reasonable and well-behaved place.
But Tai'an City is the most ruthless place.
In the eyes of the big shots in the city lord's palace, down to the lowest-level officials who manage the city, and the military officers who patrol the city, they only recognize rules and regulations.
Nowadays, in Tai'an City, there are more and more rules and they are becoming more and more detailed.
Now it has come to a point where anyone who dares to spit on the street will be caught and fined.
Those guys wearing red sleeves who are hiding somewhere are peeping at everything in the dark. Once they find a guy who violates such rules, they will immediately rush out like a cat with its tail stepped on and grab him. You're fined.
Even if the person who comes out and screams for a fine is a frail old man and old woman, the person who is caught will be fined honestly, because these people usually have a bronze medal hanging on their waist. , at worst, it’s still an iron plate.
The older generation of aborigines can no longer do the work,
They have no special skills and are illiterate. They have already reached the age of just eating and waiting to die. However, the city lord's palace has created these positions for them so that they can be productive in their old age. Not only can they add a lot of people to Tai'an City, Financial income can also bring you good rewards.
Under the constraints of countless rules and regulations that outsiders find unbelievable and unreasonable, the sanitary conditions in Tai'an City are incomparable even within the palace.
For people who have lived here for a long time, when they go out to other places, the sanitary conditions alone will be unbearable.
Zhang Qingyun, who had just stepped into Tai'an City, was truly shocked.
The prosperity of Tai'an City makes this person who was born and raised in Chang'an, the capital of Great Qin, feel overwhelmed.
On the street that was more than ten feet wide, people of all kinds were passing by in front of her eyes. The shops facing the street were filled with a variety of products, and all kinds of signboards were fluttering in the wind. What made her unable to take her eyes away was the The houses are all exactly the same, with two floors, red bricks, green tiles and white walls. Broad avenues divide the house into square areas.
In Tai'an City, it seems that even the house must abide by the rules.
"Miss Qingyun, there are no private houses in Tai'an City." Fatty Li Kaixin said with a happy smile on his face: "All houses are built by the city lord's palace and then rented out or allocated . Those who can own a house in the city are either the heroes of Tai'an City, the aborigines of the city, or some who don't care about money at all."
"All?" Zhang. Qingyun found it really unimaginable.
“Of course!” Li happily smiled. "Now there are about 200,000 people living in the entire city. Among them, no more than 50,000 are citizens of Tai'an City. The rest are outsiders. The young master is ambitious and plans to build a new city in the next ten years. Within a few days, the city will be doubled again, so that 500,000 people can live in this majestic city and its surrounding areas.”
Five hundred thousand people!
Zhang Qingyun breathed a sigh of relief.
Chang'an only has one million people!
But that is the capital of Great Qin!
It is the political, economic and cultural center city of the entire world.
Even Danyang City in Nanchu cannot compare with it!
It is hard to imagine that such a majestic city would be born in such a barren land outside the Pass!
(End of this chapter)