Stargazing City is located in the northwest of Huaiyuan County, where the slave trading market of the entire Huaiyuan County is located.
The scale of the slave market in Stargazing City can not only rank first in Huaiyuan County, but also in the entire Weiyi subcontinent, it is also famous, for no other reason, because in addition to the slaves in the Weiyi subcontinent, slaves from other continents and some scattered human settlements will also be transported to Huaiyuan County by sea through overseas trade, and then transferred here from Yiyang Port and other ports in Huaiyuan County.
The slave trade is the fourth largest trade commodity in the human world in this era, and in the mouths of those slave traders, the slave trade is an important way to optimize the overall allocation of human resources of the human race, maintain the survival of the fittest within the human race, and keep human beings alive and enterprising.
Although the slave trade is not noble, it has the inevitability and rationality of its existence, after all, not to mention slaves, everyone in this era lives under the threat of the giant wheel and the demon race of the times.
The name of Stargazing City is very poetic, but the city is not poetic at all, in addition to the large-scale slave trade, here, there are the largest casinos in Huaiyuan County, the largest number of brothels and the bloodiest and most brutal underground gladiatorial arena.
The Zhang family of Huaiyuantang shows another image of this family here.
Many people can imagine what the place with the most slaves, prostitutes, and gamblers is like, if Stargazing City is in another place, then this city is estimated to be chaotic, but because it is in Huaiyuan County, because in addition to slaves, prostitutes and gamblers stationed in this city, there is also the most terrifying hurricane army in Huaiyuan Hall, so the order of this city is surprisingly good.
The crime rate in this city is even lower than that of Yiyang City, and the security level of the entire city can be ranked in the top three among the eight cities under the command of Huaiyuan County.
The Hurricane Legion is an iron fist of Huaiyuantang, the entire legion has 420,000 people, more than two-thirds of these people are slaves from various continents and countries, and after completing the established service period or obtaining corresponding military merits, Huaiyuantang will give these slaves the status of freemen.
The Hurricane Legion has existed for more than 300 years, and in these 300 years, Huaiyuantang has developed an efficient and stable system for managing this hybrid corps.
Under this system, the combat effectiveness and loyalty of each member of the legion to the family are tapped to the maximum.
There are many senior brothers in Qianlong Hall, who have served in the Hurricane Regiments after leaving Qianlong Hall, serving as officers at all levels.
The general information of these stargazing cities was learned by Zhang Tie when he was at home in the past two days.
Zhang Tie, who had been at home for two days, left Jinhai City on the 25th, after having breakfast at home, and went to Stargazing City alone.
At this moment, Zhang Tie is wearing a pair of sunglasses against the sun on his head, driving a Xianlongza T9 sports car that he has just bought less than an hour ago, and is speeding on the highway from Jinhai City to Stargazing City.
In the past hour, Zhang Tie understood a few things.
The first thing is that the cars in Black Flame City that used to cost thousands of gold coins were very expensive.
Most of the ordinary steam-powered cars of this era can actually be bought for between 100 and 200 gold.
The biggest reason why the cars in Heiyan City are so expensive is that Heiyan City itself does not produce cars, and the cars transported to Heiyan City from outside are sold at sky-high prices after going through the heavy tax checkpoints in various places and the exploitation policy of the car monopoly in Heiyan City.
Because Huaiyuan County has its own automobile industry, the price of buying an ordinary steam-powered car in Gimhae City is only more than a hundred gold coins.
The price of the Xianlongzuo T9 sports car that Zhang Tie is driving now is a little more than 500 gold coins, which is already a high-end product in the car.
This is the first thing Zhang Tie understands, and the second thing Zhang Tie just understands is that although the cars of this era are all steam-powered, the power effects brought by different steam power units that can be installed on the car are completely different.
The Centrax T9 is equipped with a turbine steam heat recovery external combustion engine, which is an engine between an internal combustion engine and an ordinary steam boiler engine, which has a higher heat utilization efficiency than an ordinary steam engine, and the fuel used in this engine is not coal, but is n times more expensive than coal, but the combustion value is not as high as coal's anhydrous alcohol.
This turbine vapor heat recovery external combustion engine has 9 parallel pistons, the piston is installed obliquely to the chassis, under the action of the piston, its power output is not transmitted by rotation but by swing, with the help of the tilt shaft from swing to rotation, and transmitted to the axle through the angular transmission device, driving the car forward.
Compared with cars that use coal and ordinary steam engines as power units, the biggest advantage of this kind of burning alcohol, which uses turbine steam heat recovery external combustion engines, is that it starts quickly, which can greatly shorten the warm-up start time of steam-powered cars.
However, the disadvantage is also obvious, which is that it is extremely expensive to use.
One kilogram of anhydrous alcohol needs about ten kilograms of grain raw materials to be fermented, ten kilograms of grain, in the coal-producing area of Heiyan City, can almost buy a ton of coal, even in other places can buy hundreds of kilograms of coal, plus the combustion value of the same weight of alcohol is far lower than coal, the cost of using the same combustion value, alcohol exceeds the price of coal fuel nearly a thousand times.
These many factors have made alcohol-fueled cars in this era truly an expensive toy that only a few people can enjoy.
Before the cataclysm, human beings could also obtain alcohol through the chemical industry, and with the depletion of resources such as oil and the advent of the cataclysm, the only way for people in this era to obtain alcohol was the traditional grain fermentation method.
However, there are also strange countries, such as the mad emperor Haige VII of the Holy Golden Orchid Empire, who once fantasized about building a powerful alcohol internal combustion engine to realize his dream of flying.
It is said that before the cataclysm, alcohol could indeed be used as a fuel for the internal combustion engines of automobiles and airplanes, but after the cataclysm, just as the state and properties of many things changed, the combustion value of alcohol became significantly lower, so it could not meet the requirements of being a fuel for efficient internal combustion engines.
The Fairy Dragon T9 is speeding on the highway at a speed of more than 100 kilometers per hour at the moment, and at this speed, the convertible sports car is very enjoyable because of the comfortable feeling brought by the speed.
After leaving Qianlong Island, Zhang Tie had a feeling that the money he earned had finally become money.
On Qianlong Island, as soon as the upper lip touched the lower lip, hundreds of thousands of gold coins were spent, and it became a castle under construction, and dozens or hundreds of gold coins were put into the account every day to sell a little potion, which made Zhang Tie almost stop taking the gold coins seriously.
And at this moment, driving this Lafeng sports car, which was not as valuable as a high-grade recovery potion he used for his brother, looking at the people and the various envious and jealous eyes projected from the people and vehicles he met along the way, Zhang Tie only felt that it was good to be rich After leaving Qianlong Island, a few hundred gold coins can buy a sports car to play with, two or three gold coins can make yourself stay comfortably in a city without doing anything for a month, a few hundred gold coins can buy a good house, thousands of gold coins can buy a villa, more than ten silver coins can enjoy a feast of delicacies from the mountains and seas, and dozens of silver coins can hire an ordinary worker All of this made Zhang Tie re-appreciate the magic of money.
The stargazing city that I am going to go to at this moment is a place where the magic of money is vividly interpreted, where money can even buy people, and the value of a person here ranges from dozens of gold coins to hundreds of gold coins.
Zhang Tie was carrying a golden ticket worth 20,000 gold coins that Zhang Taibai handed him after buying his can of all-effect elixir, this time he came to Stargazing City to buy people.
After experiencing a crisis, for Zhang Tie, it's time to slowly turn his money into a strength that can deter others, otherwise he will have a bird to use for money, and he can chase himself like a dog if he encounters a few pieces of garbage, and if there is such a thing in the future, he will use his money to kill those garbage.
After driving for more than an hour, there were more billboards on both sides of the road, and those billboards were either all kinds of beautiful women dressed in sexy and sexy poses, or, all kinds of gambling equipment in casinos, and there were billboards in hotels, casinos, and brothels in Stargazing City every few hundred meters.
And, of course, there's the advertisement for Stargazing's largest slave trading market, and the one on the background of a special building silhouette is just one sentence Paradise Lost, everything you need here.
A pleasant roar of the engine came from behind, and in just two or three seconds, a red sports car drove onto the driving lane on the left side of Zhang Tiexian Dragon T9, and the two sports cars drove side by side.
Compared with the sharp edges and corners, full of masculinity and sharpness, the lines of the red red rabbit sports car are more elegant and slender, which makes people know at a glance that it is a suitable car for women, and the sports car is also driven by a young beauty in her twenties with short hair.
Zhang Tie and the beautiful woman glanced at each other.
What Zhang Tie didn't expect was that the woman looked at him with disdain, and finally raised her chin at him and made a provocative look: