Chapter 4 Changling Town

It used to be said that the family had only four walls.

But at least there is a home.

But now, Cui Hongjian's home was basically destroyed in the fight just now.

Especially inside thatched houses, there are still some cold ghost spirits remaining in some places. These ghost spirits will corrode the vitality of the human body. If they stay for a long time, it is not a good thing.

If it is an ordinary person who continues to live in it without realizing it, and is corroded by the ghost energy, he will at least get sick.

But Wu Siyuan is not an ordinary person.

Although his strength was at its lowest after time travel, these ghostly auras could not affect him.

He used the energy of [Shennong's Corner Space] to disperse these ghost spirits and walked back into the house.

Although the wind and rain stopped outside, due to the fight just now, even the roof was almost gone and the pillars were broken.

The whole house was in a mess.

The articles and calligraphy treasures regarded as treasures by the predecessor Cui Hongjian are flying everywhere.

Looking at this scene, Wu Siyuan couldn't help but shake his head.

He thought for a moment, waved his hand, and summoned several production-type [Transformers] from [Shennongjiao Space].

Several [Transformers] cooperated with each other, and in just over half an hour, the house on the verge of collapse was renovated, and several more rooms were built on the original basis to prevent the original space from being destroyed. It seems so narrow.

Wu Siyuan then put the [Transformers] back into the [Shennongjiao Space], and Shi Shiran took a good sleep in the room.

It has to be said that with the [Shennongjiao Space], his journey through the heavens is really much more convenient.

If there was no [Shennongjiao Space], he would be in a lot of trouble when encountering this situation.

Wu Siyuan had a good sleep and didn't wake up until the next day when the sun shone through the window onto the bed.

After washing and eating, he followed the route in his memory and headed to Changling Town.

Most of Cui Hongjian's memories are useless, but he is a scholar after all, so he still knows some information about geographical location.

Changling Town, where Wu Siyuan is going to now, belongs to Tangxi County.

Tangxi County was a county that was separated from the four counties of Jinhua, Lanxi, Longyou and Suichang during the seventh year of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty.

In terms of administrative organization, Tangxi County belongs to Jinhua Prefecture.

When people here go out, they either call themselves Zhejiang people or Jinhua people.

"Jinhua..." Wu Siyuan murmured to himself in a low voice, with thoughtful eyes. At first, he was not interested in the place [Jinhua]. He had no feeling for it. It was just a place name, but since he knew that he was The world he lived in was the world of "Fairy in Painting". After a swordsman like Yan Chixia existed, Wu Siyuan took it seriously.

Because Jinhua Mansion not only has Tangxi County, but also Guobei County. There is Lanruo Temple on the outskirts of Guobei County, and there is a thousand-year-old tree demon in Lanruo Temple...

"I should go and check it out if I have the chance..." Wu Siyuan thought to himself, "But before that, I'd better settle down first, and then improve my strength. Once I have enough ability, I can go over and open a dungeon. I don't know if Grandma Dryad is here. Is Nie Xiaoqian here..."

Wu Siyuan was thinking about it, and suddenly looked up into the distance, where the imperial capital of the Ming Dynasty was located, and the [Detection Technique] formed by the fusion of [Detection of Spiritual Light] and [Qi-Wang Technique] was activated.

I saw a crumbling pillar standing between the sky and the earth. On the pillar was a dying five-clawed golden dragon, lifeless, and above the five-clawed golden dragon, a thousand-legged centipede was stuck on it, sucking madly. Addicted to the luck of the golden dragon.

Because the dragon energy of the dynasty is weak, the extended French net is also riddled with holes. In some places, even the French net cannot cover it. The world is filled with strong evil energy, and the place with the strongest evil energy is in the imperial capital.

"People say that when a country is about to perish, evildoers will be born! This Dragon Qi Dharma Network is so weak, no wonder the demons are dancing around the world and ghosts are rampant!" Wu Siyuan thought to himself.

In addition to discovering that the imperial capital was full of evil spirits and seriously suspecting that it was the villain who appeared in the second part of "A Chinese Ghost Story" - the Centipede Imperial Master, he also discovered that a certain area around him was also surrounded by evil spirits.

"Is this the territory of the nine-tailed fox, the ghost king in the movie [The Fairy in the Painting]?" Wu Siyuan thought with a thought.

He is just a mortal now, and having turned on the [Exploration Technique] for a long time has caused damage to his eyes and body.

Wu Siyuan turned it off.

Just at this time, he also arrived in Changling Town.

Ancient towns are completely incomparable to modern towns, and they are even worse than the most backward villages in modern times.

In the concept of ordinary people, a town is just another name for a township, just a relatively large market.

But in fact, as the earliest "town" in the sense of jurisdictional division, it began at the beginning of the Northern Wei Dynasty. After Tuoba Gui, a Xianbei man, occupied the north, he also followed the example of the Han people and became emperor. In order to defend against the intrusion of nomads further north, Tuoba Gui ordered the construction of a certain section of the Great Wall and set up defense towns at six passes, namely Huaishuo Town, Wuchuan Town, Fuming Town, Rouxuan Town, Huaihuang Town, Woye Town was called [Six Towns] at that time.

At that time, [town] was an administrative division unit that used military control to manage the military and civilians. The person in charge was called the town general, who coordinated all civil and military affairs within the jurisdiction and held a high position of power.

Compared with the modern military system, [town] is somewhat similar to the current large military region, but the power of the town general is much greater than that of the commander, because the commander is only responsible for military affairs, while the town general is under the sole control of the military power within the jurisdiction. .

In the early Tang Dynasty, there were more such purely military towns, but they were all small towns, called "square towns" at that time. The town generals had very little authority and their moral character was not high.

It was only in the middle of the Tang Dynasty that the status of the town began to rise, and the power of the town general became stronger and stronger. At that time, the town general was called the Jiedushi, and the Jieduzhi completely controlled the military and political power of one party. It was precisely because of the excessive power in the hands of the Jiedushi that it laid the foundation for the subsequent chaos in the feudal towns.

After the establishment of the Song Dynasty, Taizu Zhao Kuangyin realized the dangers caused by excessive power of the generals. In order to nip the danger in the bud, he resolutely implemented the national policy of advocating culture and restraining military force. Even military towns on the border were brought under the jurisdiction of local governments.

In other words, by the Song Dynasty, the "town" in the purely military sense no longer existed, and it began to emerge as a market town in the sense of commodity trading.

Since the Song Dynasty, any taxable place with a population that cannot form a county but has a large amount of commodity transactions is called a town, so it is called a town. This has continued until the Ming and Qing Dynasties and now.

Changling Town, where Wu Siyuan is currently going, is a market place of this nature.

Of course, in the late Qing Dynasty and Beiyang, "town" became an organizational unit of the army, just like the current "division" or "army", but its meaning was completely different from that of the Northern Wei and Tang Dynasties.

In the early years of the Republic of China, towns and townships were bundled together. This is the origin of the word "township".