Cultivation of Immortals Begins with Drilling Wood To Make Fire

  Chapter 236 [Sanchakou]

  After leaving Nanping Mountain, Fang Chang and Sang Ziping headed northwest.

  The road was uneventful, nothing major happened, although the catastrophe intensified, but because the world is vast enough, most areas have not been affected too much. Although the situation has changed a lot, the common people can still live, but it is more difficult.

  The two of them neither took a car nor a boat, but just relied on their feet and walked along the ancient and wide road.

  The scenery beside the road changes gradually.

  From a water town full of rice fields, it gradually becomes dry, but the color of the plants on both sides of the road is still dark green, and the lush vegetation and farmland cover almost every piece of land. There are more and more mountains, and the terrain becomes broken. On both sides, you can see vast foothills and scattered peaks. There are fewer and fewer inhabited places, and there are often only a few flat areas between the two mountains.

  Because the main roads are all taken, there are many pedestrians and vehicles on the road. However, unlike the Central Plains, some road sections here are in disrepair for a long time and are prone to congestion.

  The place I just came from is such a place. The road surface is covered with falling rocks, causing a long line of carriages and mule carts to pass through the gap that only one car can pass through. The pedestrians behind were also blocked, and the two followed the queue and waited for a long time before crossing.

  Sang Ziping, like Fang Chang, carried a package behind his back, but instead of carrying the obvious sharp edge like Fang Chang carried the Lingquan Sword, he put the ruler on his belt.

  He walked on the road and said to Fang Chang:

"A hundred miles further ahead, the road will be easy to go. The terrain there is much flatter, and the sides are no longer so steep. And as we approach the Western Region, the number of people less and less, pedestrians and vehicles will start to thin out, and there will be no more congestion. In addition, the precipitation is also Less, the ground will be drier, there will be less mud or flash floods, and although the maintenance is the same, the road will be longer."

  Fang Chang stopped slightly, looked forward, and said, "The front seems to be a prosperous place."

  Sang Ziping nodded:

   "Well, that's one of the most prosperous places on this road. The official road forks in front, one continues to go northwest, the other turns southwest, and enters Shu via the plank road."

   "Oh, the legendary plank road?"

  Fang Chang looked up, but the towering mountain wall blocked everything, and he couldn't see anything from here.

  Sang Ziping also stopped and said:

"Yes, according to old legends, this plank road was built three thousand years ago. But there are only a few stories left, and the details are no longer available. But Shuzhong is very strict about this road, and special people are organized every year Come fix it."

"It must take a lot of energy to open up this plank road. Although I have never been to Sichuan, I have seen the appearance of the plank road. It is on the cliff, digging holes, inserting logs into them, and then laying on them. Good board."

   "In some places, it is estimated that it is inconvenient to dig, so we simply drilled holes on the rocky cliffs. The plank road is very narrow, it is difficult to turn around, and it is impossible to enter the carriages and horses, so the goods in and out have to be carried by people."

  He pointed to several passers-by on the road to Fang Chang.

  Those passers-by carrying huge packages and walking straight forward, many of them will enter Shu through the plank road.

Then Sang Ziping continued to tell Fang Chang: "There is a large bustling area at the three-way intersection ahead. Many of the vehicles on the road set their final destination there. Then change the manpower to enter Shu. Of course, some will stop there for a while, and then Going to the northwest, there is a big city on the road, which is also well-developed in all kinds of industries."

   The two of them quickened their pace and walked forward.

They have been moving forward at the maximum speed that pedestrians can walk. Occasionally, the people next to them will look curiously, and then they will look away in a strange way, and after sighing that the two walk so briskly, they will either hurry on the road, or talk to the people next to them. Talking with fellow travelers who dressed improvisedly.

   "Is there a name here?"

  Fang Chang looked at the bustling scene in front of him and asked.

  I didn’t feel it in the distance, but I could only see the beautiful clouds above. After getting closer, he found that the economy here was indeed active enough, and a large number of buildings were full of places, squeezing this mountain open space to nothing. As far as the eye can see, even the farmland can't be seen, only a few vegetable beds can be vaguely seen.

  It seems that the food here must be purchased from outsiders. Only fast-moving goods such as vegetables, which are difficult to transport long distances, will have a living space locally. This is a distinctive feature of commercial places that only have pure exchange activities and are sufficiently developed.

  Sang Ziping pointed to the prosperous town ahead, and Fang Chang said:

"In the beginning there were only three or two families here. I don't know how many years ago it happened. Later, the place became more and more prosperous, but the name of the village established by those families has been retained. It is called Sanjia Village—although it is different from the current one. The picture is completely inconsistent, but no one has the heart to change it, after all, the name is just a name."

Fang Chang nodded in agreement: "That's true, as long as the speaker and the listener know who the name refers to, then the name is valid, and this is also the meaning of the name - used to identify and refer to Mr. Sang, why don't we take a rest in these three villages and see the atmosphere here."

"OK."

  Sang Ziping's practice is also a major focus on the taste of human affairs.

  According to the theory he told Fang Chang when he first rented Xianqiya, Sang Ziping is a worldly school, which is different from Fang Chang's worldly school, but it is not uncommon to have similar paths. Moreover, the sect of the world and the sect of the world only have difficulty and difficulty, and there is a distinction between whether the method is subtle or not, and there is no distinction between superior and inferior as a whole. They all choose a certain aspect of the way of heaven to practice.

   "The weather looks like it's going to be foggy, let's find a place to live, and then go to the fork to have a look." Fang Chang said.

  Sang Ziping immediately tightened the wrap around his back, and quickly followed,

  There are many shops in Sanjia Village, and many businesses will open branches here to handle various things to facilitate their own actions. At the same time, the large number of people and goods staying here gave birth to many trading markets, and a large number of shops and personnel who survived to provide them with lower-level services.

   If one day the trade routes here are suddenly cut off, Sanjia Village will probably decline at an unimaginable speed. However, the probability of this is almost zero. After all, no matter who the world belongs to, no matter whether it is a peaceful time or not, there is a way to communicate-even the monsters who caused a catastrophe.

  Looking at the row upon row of buildings on both sides, Sang Ziping said with a smile:

"It's common sense that all important places of transportation are very prosperous. However, I have read a few feng shui books in the mortal world, and there is an interesting statement in it. It said in the book that roads lead to water, and water is wealth. But carefully Thinking about it, it’s actually not mysterious, it’s just a simple truth.”

"One of the great functions of water such as rivers is also to transport goods by boat and communicate upstream and downstream. From this point of view, it is the same thing as roads used for transportation. With convenient transportation, people are naturally prosperous, and there is wealth of goods. Traveling, as long as there is still demand for people traveling, many industries will naturally be born, and places with convenient transportation will naturally become prosperous quickly."

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  (end of this chapter)