Chapter 855: Jia Farnd
Trantor: WQL Editor: Aleem
Youzhou City covered 1,000 square miles, almost half of which were high-yielding farnds. Additionally, there were abundant water resources in the city. Under the protection of the high city walls, the farnds were forbidden to be developed formercial use.
Perhaps, only Hua people could build such a city.
Having just lit a new dragon scale on his knight’s crystal te, Zhang Tie was loitering in the city and enjoying the magnificent scenery of the only ss A city in Youzhou Province.
After leaving those crowdedmercial areas, Zhang Tie entered the neighborhood of those farnds.
Compared to those buildings with Hua characteristics and various strange ces, those farnds in the city attracted Zhang Tie the most.
In Taixia Country, farnds in ss A cities were specially called jia farnds.
ording to the Laws of Taixia Country , those who dared vite or destroy any farnd in Taixia Country would be punished to starve to death in the prison of court temples just as brutally as those corrupt officers were punished to swallow golds after being reported.
Jia farnd was an important symbol of a ss A city.
It could be said that Hua people used jia farnd to respond to holy wars.
In holy wars, the jia farnds which were divided into several pieces in Youzhou City could realize self-sufficiency for its 3 million people when this city was surrounded by demons and constantly fought demons until the end.
Actually, each ss A city in Taixia Country could be a self-sufficient fortress in dilemma. Even though being the toughest battle, as long as the city was not broken through, the millions of survivors inside the city would be able to sustain the bloodline of Hua people.
Besides containing the meaning "first", the word "jia" also meant armor and helmet.
As Zhang Tie’s family wanted to build Jinwu City, Zhang Tie gradually learned more about city nning.
Besides jia farnds, Youzhou City contained 6 strategic materials warehouses which were buried underground and were built together with this city as the basic allocations of a ss A city. Among those strategic materials warehouses, the first warehouse stored 30 million tons of standard coal; the second warehouse stored 3 million tons of various metals predominated by steel and iron; the third warehouse stored 10,000 whole sets of machinery equipment and tools; the fourth warehouse stored crops’ seeds and table salt; the fifth warehouse stored ordnance and weapons; the sixth warehouse stored other necessary or major strategic materials. These 6 warehouses were called Six Warehouses of a ss A city. Each ss A city should ensure the safety and sufficiency of the strategic materials in the six warehouses.
When a city was besieged by demons, it would enter a state of emergency. These strategic materials warehouses would be activated at once. With the help of the jia farnds in the city, this city would be a firm wartime fortress.
Without the extremely miserable historical lessons before the Catastrophe, Hua people would not pose such a strict requirement on their ss A cities. After experiencing the constant disasters before the Catastrophe, Hua people genuinely understood what were the most important resources that Hua people could survive on.
If a nation wanted to survive on, it must rely on its cultivatednds rather than its real properties being made of steel reinforced concrete. The genuine mineral resources were much more reliable than the colorful paper notes; with crops’ seeds in hand, they would feel much safer.
Cultivatednds, resources and crops’ seeds were the three basic elements that a nation survived on at the cost of countless blood and tears. If a nationcked any one of the 3 elements, it would deteriorate into the dust in the long course of history for sure.
Perhaps some small countries could still survive on if theycked one or two of the three basic elements. Even if theycked cultivatednds or crops’ seeds, they could also be traded for their demands with others. However, it didn’t fit Hua people. As Hua people was too powerful as the pir of humans, also the imcable foe of demons. If Hua peoplecked any of the 3 basic elements, the entire human race would not survive on.
Hua people almost deteriorated into dust before the Catastrophe.
Therefore, after the Catastrophe, when the first ss A city of Hua people appeared, they prioritized the protection of four elements, namely, Hua poption, cultivatednds, resources and corps’ seeds.
No matter how terrifying was the war, as long as there was a ss A city remaining in thisnd, Hua people would survive on.
When other continents or sub-continents were protecting rich people with high city walls, thergest cities of Hua people were protecting the most basic elements, also the hope of the rejuvenation of the nation with high city walls. This might be the reason why Hua people was the most powerful and awe-inspiring nation.
Only at this moment did Zhang Tie feel something familiar with this city when he watched the tidy aqueducts in the jia farnds of Youzhou City.
Rich people would not cultivatend themselves; however, jia farnd could not be left uncultivated; therefore, onlymon farmers would choose to cultivate farnds in the city. Because of this, if the city was besieged, many of these farmers would survive on due to their ownership of the jia farnds.
In normal times, after the wastes in the sewers and the domestic garbage were fermented and dried in the sun in a concentrated way, they would be the fertilizers of the jia farnds. In this way, the urban resources were gradually recycled.
As thepetition for the provincial governor of Youzhou Province had juste to an end a month ago, the greater part of jia farnds in Youzhou City had not been sold out yet.
All the jia farnds in Youzhou City were high-yielding farnds. Additionally, the irrigation engineering in the jia farnds had been established. The price of such farnds was as same as that outside the city walls. Additionally, they were in city walls, which meant that the grains produced from such farnds could be sold directly in the city. Given so many benefits, they should have been in urgent demand; however, they had not been sold out yet over the past 3 months. Because Taixia Country posed very strict requirements on the qualification of the purchasers.
As the dean of the provincial court of Youzhou Province, even though Zhang Tie could buy hundreds of thousands of square miles on the border of Yanghe Prefecture, he was not qualified to buy any jia farnd in Youzhou City.
ording to the Laws of Taixia Country , the purchasers of jia farnds had to be farmers who had cultivatednds for over 10 years with adroit farming skills; besides, they had to have the preliminary farming gentry qualification certificate. Each preliminary farming gentry could purchase 10,000 square meters’ jia farnds; farmers with medium farming gentry qualification certificates could buy 20,000 square meters’ jia farnds; farmers with senior farming gentry qualification certificate could purchase 30,000 square meters’ jia farnds. Farming masters who were one level higher than senior farming gentry could purchase 150,000 square meters’ jia farnds.
In Taixia, if farmers could cultivatends well, they could promote to farming gentries. After purchasing jia farnds, farming gentries would be townspeople and enjoy a lot of benefits. After promoting to halfndlords, they would win a sharp increase in honor, social status and wealth. In wartime, farmers who had jia farnds could be real farming gentries as long as the city walls were not broken through. For most of themon farmers in Taixia Country, they could win higher social status by owning jia farnds.
Although it was snowing, some ces near the jia farnds were still pretty boisterous. A lot of purchasers were converging there from all the other prefectures of Youzhou Province. They were checking the topography and fertility of the farnds before purchasing them. Zhang Tie also swarmed up and gained more knowledge about that.
After joining in the fun, Zhang Tie suddenly thought of his No. 1 earthworm, ’I wonder how many grains could be increased across Taixia Country if I ced several kgs of No. 1 earthworms in each piece of Jia farnd?’
After Zhang Tie took a walk around Youzhou City in a leisure way, it was 10 minutes away from 12 am. Zhang Tie came to White Tiger Complex on time with high spirit.
As the new year wasing, the outside of White Tiger Complex had also been faintly decorated with rednterns, which represented a festive atmosphere.
ording to the appointment, Zhang Taixuan and Zhang Tie would meet at the lunchtime. It felt both genial and important to talk about it at lunchtime.
To tell the truth, Zhang Tie really felt a bit hungry after exploring around the city for an entire morning.
Less than 10 people could be qualified to be invited by the provincial governor across Youzhou Province. When he thought that his father-inw was going to invite him for a lunch, Zhang Tie felt especially strange.
After putting off his hood, Zhang Tie had been recognized by some fighters from Huaiyuan Pce who were standing outside the White Tiger Complex. Therefore, he was invited into the Provincial Governor’s Mansion respectfully.
After over 2 months, Count Long Wind looked more dignified as the provincial governor of Taixia Country.
In a tranquil ce of the Provincial Governor’s Mansion which was full of plum blossoms, Zhang Tie and Zhang Taixuan were talking about the affairs in Youzhou Province while drinking and enjoying the beautiful scenery.
"How do you feel about Huaiyuan Pce’s position in Youzhou Province now?" After proposing toasts to each other for three rounds, Zhang Taixuan put down the ss and suddenly watched Zhang Tie with a solemn look.
Zhang Tie murmured inside, ’Here it is...’
"After taking a round in Youzhou City, I learned that Huaiyuan Pce is growing increasingly vigorous in Youzhou day after day!" Zhang Tie replied leisurely.
However, Zhang Taixuan suddenly let out a sigh, "Although Huaiyuan Pce looks vigorous in Youzhou Province, it’s actually treading as if on thin ice. It might be at stake at any time!"
After hearing this answer, Zhang Tie became stunned at once...