In the evening, after more than two weeks, the airship departing from Karur finally arrived in Yiyang City, Huaiyuan County, Jinyun Kingdom.
The hall name of the Huaiyuan Hall of the Zhang family is the name of the county, and the entire county is the clan land of the Zhang family.
For the first time, Zhang Tie felt what a family was.
In Zhang Zhitian's introduction on the airship, Zhang Tie knew that in the entire Huaiyuan County, there were more than 200,000 members of the Zhang family with the blood of the Huaiyuan Gong's lineage, and strictly speaking, among the several people surnamed Zhang on the airship, including the captain of the airship, the first mate, the technician of the engine room, Zhang Zhitian, an ordinary crew member and Zhang Tie, the five people are definitely relatives if they study the family tree, because everyone has the blood of Huaiyuan Gong, but they are from different branches of Huaiyuantang.
Huaiyuan Gong had eight wives and more than 40 children, and the clansmen in each of the eight wives gathered in a city, Yiyang City in the long room, Xince City in the second room, Stargazing City in the third room, Qihai City in the fourth room, Fubo City in the fifth room, Yunzhou City in the sixth room, Jinhai City in the seventh room, and Tai'an City in the eighth room.
Among these eight cities, Yiyang City is not only the county seat of Huaiyuan County, but also the political, economic and cultural center of the entire Huaiyuan Tang Zhang family.
Yiyang City is a city close to the sea, the prosperity and scale of the whole city, is more than ten times that of Heiyan City, the population living in the city and around the city has 21 million people, Yiyang Port is not only the largest port in Jinyun Country, but also in the entire Weiyi subcontinent, Yiyang Port's annual cargo throughput can also rank in the top three.
If Zhang Tie's impression of the Zhang family of Huaiyuantang was only in the introduction of others, then when the airship approached Yiyang City, the strength and heritage of the Zhang family of Huaiyuantang suddenly stood in front of Zhang Tie, making Zhang Tie feel his own insignificance and the strength of this family.
The dense steamships in the distant harbor and the sea and the various airships coming and going in the sky like crucians crossing the river are like the situation in a painting.
Many of the passengers on the deck who had come from Karur City had already exclaimed when they saw this, and many of the passengers shouted in Mandarin, which was not yet proficient, "Yiyang Yiyang" "Are you going to settle in Yiyang?"
asked Zhang Tie.
"I'm probably going to go back to Jinhai City first, and I don't know if I'm in Jinhai in the future," Zhang Tie thought about it and told Zhang Zhitian.
"This time I came back, my three years of internship points in the airship are enough, and I plan to sign up for the family's airship unit, become a real soldier, and become a captain in the future," Zhang Zhitian said with great ambition.
"Then I wish you all the best," Zhang Tie smiled.
During this time, Zhang Tie has roughly known some of the situation on the airship, on the airship, many young people under the age of eighteen like Zhang Zhitian are trainee crew members on the airship, this is the talent training mechanism of the Zhang family, for most of the teenagers in Huaiyuan County, 15 to 18 years old This is the most rebellious period of time, most people do not spend leisurely in school, but as interns, enter all walks of life to work hard, contact with society, accumulate qualifications and experience, and determine their future development direction.
After the crown ceremony at the age of 18, you can enjoy many social rights, and you can officially join the army and be appointed to a formal position, and have a formal job.
Compared with the talent education system like the factory assembly line in Heiyan City, the education system of the Chinese people in this era is more strict, and a weak-crowned boy like Zhang Tie, who only turned sixteen years old after the New Year, has no possibility of officially joining the army and joining the army in Huaiyuantang, let alone becoming an officer.
"I heard the first mate say that the first time you used the crossbow arrows on those ballistas to shoot those iron-beaked ibises, it seems to be an awakening of the ancestral bloodline related to throwing skills" Zhang Zhitian looked at Zhang Tie with burning eyes, his eyes were full of envy.
Zhang Tie smiled bitterly, this is the difference in the cultural background that he has been exposed to since he was a child, this problem that has plagued him for a long time, in Huaiyuantang, it seems that many people know the same, he only performed once, and he was guessed, "It should be, I didn't know what was going on at first, but suddenly, my throwing ability suddenly became very accurate, and it was also before returning to Huaiyuantang that I knew that this was the manifestation of the bloodline of the Chinese awakening ancestors, right, did any of your friends have the same as me?"
"There is one, that is a classmate in my class when I was in school, when the school held a sports day, his ancestral bloodline suddenly awakened, and he was originally mediocre in archery, but he became the archery champion in the school sports meeting that year" "His awakened ancestral bloodline is related to bows and arrows" "Yes" Zhang Zhitian glanced at Zhang Tie strangely, "Don't you know, one of the two strongest ancestral bloodlines of the Zhang family is the bloodline of the bow and arrow system" Zhang Tie smiled embarrassedly, "I really don't know yet" The airship finally landed at one of the airship bases of the Changfeng Merchant Order.
After saying goodbye to a few friends he met on the airship, Zhang Tie took a simple luggage and walked off the airship like those passengers who came to Yiyang City for the first time, and when Zhang Tie was thinking about whether to leave the airship base and buy a train ticket to go back to Jinhai City first, Zhang Tie had already seen the old brother, and with Zhang Tie's brother, there were two men in black uniforms, and there was a car behind the three of them.
"Brother" Zhang Tie was excited in his heart, and hurriedly walked up in three steps and two steps, the two brothers hugged him hard, Zhang Yang was also a little excited, the two brothers were separated this time, although it was only a few months, but it felt like a reunion after life and death, whether it was Zhang Tie or Zhang Tie's family, during this time, too many things have happened, and too many twists and turns and turmoil have been experienced.
"How is Dad, is Mom's illness cured" As soon as the two separated, Zhang Tie asked two questions at once.
Zhang Yang Xianzai carefully looked at Zhang Tie from the beginning, and then smiled, "Dad has come back, I know the news that you will come back safely, and my mother's illness is also cured."
Zhang Tie was overjoyed, but he didn't expect that in the days he was on the airship, this thing that worried him the most was solved, this is the real happy event worth celebrating, "Dad is back" "Well, let's go home and talk about it specifically" Zhang Yang gave Zhang Tie a look, and then introduced him to the two uniformed men beside him, "These two are the officials of the Huaiyuan Hall Sect Pavilion" The two men nodded calmly to Zhang Tie.
After Zhang Zhitian's introduction on the airship, Zhang Tie already knew what Zongren Pavilion was probably doing, and when he came back this time, on the Zhang family's side, he must first clear his identity and determine it, otherwise, his identity when he came to Jin Yunguo was definitely the murderer wanted by the Norman Empire's secret police.
After introducing a few words here, the four of them got into the car, Zhang Tie and Zhang Yang sat in the back of the car, and the two officials of the Zongren Pavilion sat in front, and the car drove all the way out of the airship base.
Zhang Tie sat in the car, while briefly talking to his brother about the various things that happened in the Karur War Zone after he left Black Flame City, he stared at the things outside the car with wide eyes, and sighed at the prosperity and prosperity of the city.
The road is full of traffic, the pedestrians on the street are rubbing shoulders one after another, the high-rise buildings on the side of the road are jagged next to each other, looking at the whole road, the Chinese billboards on both sides of the road are everywhere, and among the pedestrians on the road, although there are people of all colors, more than 95% of them are black-haired and black-eyed Chinese, and the jokes and conversations of the roadside shops and children are all Chinese, such a scene makes Zhang Tie, who has lived in Heiyan City since he was a child, suddenly inexplicably relaxed.
A sense of belonging that comes from the blood.
The so-called Zongren Pavilion, of course, is not as simple as an attic, the headquarters of the clan management organization of the Zhang family of Huaiyuan Hall is actually a square building with more than 20 floors high, and there are strict guards at the door of the building, and the reason why the people of Zongren Hall brought Zhang Tie here is to complete the final confirmation of Zhang Tie's identity, and this confirmation process is simple beyond Zhang Tie's expectations.
Zhang Tie was taken to a room in the building, and on the table in the middle of that room there was a strange black crystal, which was inlaid on a silver-white pedestal with strange runes, and then under the supervision of several people, the official of the Zongren Pavilion who brought Zhang Tie back poked Zhang Tie's finger with a needle, and asked Zhang Tie to drip the blood on his finger onto the crystal, and the black crystal began to light up, and the whole identification process was completed.
After completing this process, Zhang Tie took another photo here, filled out two forms, and after sitting in the lounge with his brother for less than ten minutes, an officer who brought Zhang Tie to take a rectangular plaque carved with intricate patterns to Zhang Tie.
Most of this card is metal, but the front of the card is inlaid with a transparent crystal, under the crystal is a head that Zhang Tie has just illuminated, under the crystal head, there is also engraved Zhang Tie's name, the workmanship is very exquisite and special.
On the back of the plaque, it is engraved with the four words of Huaiyuan Zhang.
"This thing is your identification, you have to put it away, if you lose it, the consequences will be serious" "How serious" "A fine of 100 gold coins, half a year of hard labor, and 20 family contribution points will be deducted" Zhang Tie took a slight breath of cold air, one hundred gold coins, that is 2,500 grams of gold, needless to say half a year of hard labor, even those 20 family contribution points seem to be quite rare.
"Could it be that this thing is more valuable than gold?"
asked Zhang Tie.
The officer who took the card to Zhang Tie smiled faintly, "There are seven kinds of precious alloys used on your identity card, among which the value of Hailan iron and peacock copper is more than ten times that of gold, and the manufacturing process of this card has several secret skills, which can not be manufactured by the Zhang family, this card is extremely difficult to damage, and it cannot be restored after damage, at least in the Weiyi subcontinent, no one can counterfeit it, and the secret pattern on the card contains the metal two-dimensional identification code generated for you by the steam analyzer in the Zongren Pavilion, It's your unique identity and authority in the family, and you say it's important."
These words frightened Zhang Tie for a moment, "Then ask again, what is the family's contribution point?"
: