Among the Taoist missionaries in Broken Leaf City are about a hundred astrologers and prophets.Their food and clothing were provided by the Great Khan, just as the Great Khan did with poor families.And they can continue to study spells as a result.They had their own telescopes with the symbols of the stars, the time, and their directions throughout the year.Taoist astrologers examine their respective charts each year in order to determine the orbits of the celestial bodies and their positions in relation to each other.Here they discover changes in the weather from the trajectories of various symbols, which are used to foresee the special phenomena of the month.For example, they prophesied thunder, storms, and earthquakes in a certain month.
There will be lightning and torrential rain in a given month; There will be sickness, death, war, conflict, and intrigue in a given month.When astrologers find signs of an event in their telescopes, they announce that the event is about to occur; But at the same time, God is free to change the events they write down to a greater or lesser extent.They wrote down the events they predicted during the year on a square wooden plaque and sold it to those who wanted to get a glimpse of the future, one silver coin.Those who guess more accurately are regarded as masters of this path and are respected for it.In the Jiankun people, if someone wants to know what their future success or failure will be because they have the ambition to do great things, or they want to do business far away, or they want to start another business, or they want to become an official, they will come to these astrologers, tell them what they are going to do, and ask what the will of heaven will be.The astrologer then told him that before answering this question, he should first state the year, month, day, and hour of his birth, and when the astrologer or fortune teller knew these details, he would further examine whether his nakshatra corresponded to the celestial orientation of the time asked.Based on this comparison, it is possible to judge whether the business in question is going well.One thing that must be paid special attention to is that the Jiankun people use a 12-year cycle to calculate time; The first year was named after the mouse, the second year was the cow, the third year was the dragon, the fourth year was the dog, and so on until the twelfth year was named after the pig, and the twelve animals represented the twelve years.So when a person is asked what year he was born, he always says that he was born in a certain month, a certain day, a certain time, a certain moment of a certain year that belongs to a certain animal.All this was recorded in detail by his parents.At the end of the twelve-year cycle, they go back to the first year, and so on and so forth.The people of Jiankun were idolaters, and each of them had an image of a deity that was attached high to the wall of his house.There is a cute old man named Taishang Ancestor on the picture, and they believe that this old man created the world.They burned incense to this deity every day.They arched their hands forward and then knelt down and prostrated three times, asking the gods to grant them wisdom and health, but they asked for nothing else from their gods.Under this god, they also set up a god on the floor that was obviously modeled after the Great Khan, and they called this god Daozi.They believed that He was the god who ruled over everything on earth, or over what was produced from the land.They matched Daozi with wives and children, and likewise burned incense, bowed their hands, and kowtowed to him, praying to him for good weather and good weather, abundant crops, raising children, and so on.They believe in the immortality of the soul.They believe that when a person dies, his soul burrows into another object, and determines whether his future will be good or bad according to what he did in life.If he is a pauper, and his deeds are noble, then he will be reincarnated for the first time in a decent woman, and when he is reborn, he will become a decent person; the second time he went to the house of a noble lady and became a nobleman; Thus ascending the ladder of life until they become one with God.If, on the other hand, he is the son of a decent man and behaves badly, then in the next life he will become a villager, or even a dog, and he will continue to descend and descend, and in the end, if he still refuses to repent, then his soul will no longer be reincarnated and will be imprisoned in hell forever.They spoke in a very humble manner, they greeted each other, they were smiling, they were polite, and they were very cultured.They also pay special attention to cleanliness when it comes to eating.They show great respect for their parents.If a son is rude to his parents, or does not take responsibility for supporting his parents when necessary, then a court of justice is to punish this unfilial sin.Bad people who have committed various sins are first arrested and imprisoned, and then sentenced to be hanged.Those who had been imprisoned for three years (the ordinary period of imprisonment prescribed by the Great Khan) would have a mark on his forehead when he was released from prison in order to distinguish him from the rest of the law-abiding and good people.If I were to be asked what impressed me the most in Kengkun, it would be the strength of the country and the prosperity of its people.On my return to Constantine, I passed through a city of orifice that was not inferior to Shattered Leaf, an oasis of many splendid buildings, vineyards, and fertile land, and where the inhabitants of the city were mostly mercantile and handicrafts, and they were able to make gold silk fabrics and one of the finest forms of thin silk.There are also a number of large hotels for decent travellers.All the inhabitants of this area have frequent exchanges with countless nearby towns, so it is possible to spread civilization and knowledge among the inhabitants.Merchants were constantly going back and forth between these towns, and they carried their goods from one city to another during the regular fairs of each town.Some merchants have also trafficked their goods to broken leaves, and I've even found mosaics of mosaics from my hometown of Troy, oh, which the locals call mosaics, a very interesting name.Stone City is a city of many, many high-rise buildings, the ground floor of which is a shop that sells all kinds of goods, spices, medicinal herbs, trinkets and pearls.Some shops don't sell anything other than wine, they keep making wine, at the right price, fresh goods to customers, they make a lot of wine, some wines are even better than our Roman Dacia wines, the most curious thing is that they can make a colorless and transparent, but very spicy, after drinking a lot of aftertaste spirits, I heard that this wine was invented by the Great Khan, well, I spent 40 gold coins of Solitus to buy a few bottles of spirits that are said to be produced in the winery of the royal family of Jiankun.I heard that this wine can make a donkey drunk, oh, when I go back, I will definitely persuade my family to monopolize the trade of importing this spirit from Jiankun, as long as this thing can be done, then my status in the family will become higher and higher, thank God, you have guided me to Jiankun and found a new source of wealth.The streets connected to the square market are numerous, and there are many bathhouses on the streets, and there are male and female servants serving and bathing.From an early age, the male and female patrons here have been bathing in cold showers all year round, which they consider to be good for their health.However, there is also warm water in these bathrooms, which is reserved for those who are not used to using cold water.All people are accustomed to bathing once a day, especially before eating.I don't think that's as good as us Romans, who have a lot of public baths, but these Cenkun people, on the contrary, built their baths in rooms and made a distinction between men and women, which was too conservative......
In Stone City, prostitutes.
The number of women is simply inconvenient.Not only are they gathered near the square market, but they also had their places to stay all over the city.It is worth mentioning these prostitutes.
None of the women are Jiankun natives, they are all from Tianzhu or Persia, it is said that the Jiankun people would rather starve to death than sell their daughters, and there is their Great Khan, strictly prohibiting their own people from engaging in this industry, once found, they will be deprived of their Jiankun identity, the wife of the Great Khan also set up a special organization, responsible for the relief of those Jiankun women who have lost their way to live, so that prostitutes.
Females can only be made by foreigners.Their dwellings were richly furnished, they were dressed in fancy clothes, they were scented, and they were accompanied by many maids.These women are very good at courtesy and can use all kinds of means to cater to all kinds of prostitutes.
The psychology of the guest.As long as the tourists kiss Fangze, they will fall into the ecstasy array, at her mercy, and they will lose their souls and forget to return.When they returned home, they always said that they had traveled to heaven and hoped to have the opportunity to return to heaven.In the Taoist churches at the ends of some streets live Taoist doctors and astrologers.They teach people to read and write and many other techniques.They also have residences in the streets surrounding the square field.Opposite each square of the market were two grand dukes, which were staffed by officials appointed by the Great Khan, who were responsible for settling disputes between foreign merchants and the local residents, and monitoring the city's guards for their duty and punishing them for any failure in their duties.Oh, if you don't consider this to be a pagan city, this is the kingdom of heaven on earth!!