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- Everything in the winter city in summer seems to be cherishing this short warm time. For such a cold city, summer is short and precious, and it is worth cherishing.
The most famous teahouse in Winter City, Li Ji Tea House, Liu Jin chose a seat by the window, ordered a pot of tea, and some snacks unique to Li Ji Tea House, while looking at the prosperous and lively Li Ji Tea House. Listen to the conversations of these tea patrons in the teahouse.
Winter City has always been the place where criminals were exiled by the Ming Empire. This city was originally the capital of the Siberian Khanate. It was later destroyed by the Ming Empire and included in the vast area ruled by the Ming Empire.
To the east is the vast Siberian region. The land is vast, but extremely cold and inaccessible. It is uninhabited for hundreds or thousands of miles, and only a handful of primitive fishing and hunting tribes live in it.
To the west is the Ural Mountains, the dividing line between Asia and Europe. Once you pass the Ural Mountains, you enter Europe.
In the past, the land in the west also belonged to several khanates formed after the split of the Golden Horde. Later, they were all destroyed one after another by the Ming Empire.
As a result, the vast land in the west is also uninhabited. The endless fertile land has turned into grassland and is covered by a large number of forests.
There were no human settlements for hundreds or thousands of miles. It was not until the Principality of Ryazan that villages and towns began to appear one after another, but the number was still very small and the population was very sparse.
To the north of Winter City is the Arctic Circle, which is extremely cold and desolate; to the south is the Central Asia Province of the Ming Empire, which was originally the Kazakh Khanate after it was included in the rule of the Ming Empire.
The Ming Empire established dozens of large and small immigration settlements here, and moved hundreds of thousands of people here. It is the direction with the largest population in the four directions of Winter City.
But even in the direction with the largest population, compared to the vast land area of ??Central Asia Province, it is still sparsely populated. There are only urban areas where immigrants are concentrated, and most of the areas are uninhabited grasslands and forests.
With such a location, Winter City is undoubtedly a place that no one wants to come to, and it is also an ideal place to exile criminals.
Exiled to Winter City, you have no place to escape even if you want to, and there is no need to arrest you. There are thousands of miles of no-man's land around you, which is enough for you to disappear forever.
A large number of criminals were exiled to Winter City. Over the years, the population of Winter City has already exceeded 300,000. This number is not a big deal to other cities in the Ming Dynasty, but here, it is definitely appropriate. It's a big city.
The scale of Winter City has continued to expand, and Yanran has already looked like a large county town in the future.
Perhaps because most of them were exiled to Winter City, the folk customs here are extremely tough. Liu Jin was just drinking a cup of tea at the teahouse when he saw two fights between people below and above. There was a fight.
There was not much quarrel between the two parties at all. If they didn't like it, they would roll up their sleeves and start fighting. The punches would hit the flesh and the nose would be bruised and the face would be swollen. Then they would go back to their respective homes and find their respective mothers.
The surrounding residents seemed not to be surprised by this. In Winter City, fighting is commonplace, and some conventions and rules have even been formed.
¡°For example, if it¡¯s a one-on-one fight, it¡¯s a one-on-one fight. Others can¡¯t interfere, otherwise it will turn into a group fight. Once it turns into a group fight, the government will arrest people, and they will inevitably be beaten by the official.
Another example is that a fight is a fight, but you can't use a knife. If you use a knife, someone will be killed, and that will be a big deal.
Generally speaking, those who are exiled here are all guilty. Not to mention heinous, at least they are not easy to bully. They can fight. If someone is killed, the other person's family may take revenge. No need. Doubt this. The most indispensable thing here in Winter City is ruthless people. Otherwise, they would not be exiled to Winter City.
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? away and the people drinking tea in Chaling seemed very vulgar, and spoke in a loud voice, for fear that the people around them might not hear.
People who drink tea in teahouses still need to pay attention to their quality.
In the Beijing-Tianjin area, wealthy people and scholars usually go to teahouses to drink tea. After all, consumption in teahouses is not cheap. The price of a pot of tea is enough to drink many pots of tea outside.
?????????????? Who among these people without any worth or leisure would go to a teahouse to drink tea? Wouldn¡¯t it be delicious to make a pot of tea at home?
¡°So those who drink tea in teahouses, especially those in some high-end teahouses, are all people with status, status and money.¡±When friends chat, they often talk about some sensitive topics, so the voice will naturally be kept as low as possible to avoid being heard.
But the teahouses here in Winter City are different. They are very coarse and vulgar. When drinking tea, they usually drink it in one gulp. A pot of tea is finished in three or two gulps, and the waiters have to keep drinking it. Add water.
"Let me tell you, we have discovered another large coal mine here in Winter City!"
A tall, muscular man with a thick face and tattoos picked up the teapot, took a sip, and then broke the news.
"Have you discovered a large coal mine again?"
When the people next to him heard this, their ears immediately pricked up.
At the beginning, Winter City's main industry was Siberian fur. The animal resources here were extremely rich, such as mink skins, deer skins, bear skins, tiger skins, wolf skins, fox skins, etc. The output was very large. It's big and the quality is very good.
The fur trade is still one of the main industries here in Winter City, and nine out of ten residents here are engaged in this fur business.
Later, the slave trade rose again. By then, the Ming Empire would also attack the khanates west of the Ural Mountains. The steppe people of these khanates often robbed the Slavs in Eastern Europe and sold them to Winter City.
Winter City quickly became an important slave trading point during that period. The slave trade was very popular. A large number of Eastern European women were sold here, but a large part of them were bought by people here.
Therefore, in Winter City, Liu Jin could see many Slavic women and a large number of mixed-race descendants. This may be another reason why the folk customs here are strong.
Later, as the Ming Empire advanced westward and wiped out all these khanates, the slave trade in Winter City seemed to have lost a pool of living water. It quickly withered and could not develop.
But a few years later, the Ming Empire started to craze for oil again. At that time, some people said that the vast Siberian Plain contained a large amount of oil resources.
This attracted waves of people to come here to explore and find oil, and also attracted a large number of Ming Dynasty dignitaries to come here to buy land and explore for resources.
Since then, resource-based industries have rapidly emerged in Winter City.
Coal resources, oil resources, and iron ore resources are extremely abundant here, and this is how the resource mining industry of Winter City started.
Coupled with the existing timber industry, the current main industries of Winter City are mining industry, timber industry and fur industry.
However, various resources are not in the hands of the exiled criminals in Winter City, but in the hands of the powerful people in the Ming capital thousands of miles away.
There are large and small businesses here, and these businesses control almost all the industries and transactions here, and the main job of these local exiled criminals in Winter City is to work for these businesses.
??Mining, lumberjacking, purchasing fur, etc. As exiled criminals, they have no way of owning their own industry.
But fortunately, this is Winter City. It is really cold in winter, which can reach more than 30 degrees below zero. In extreme cases, it can even reach 40 or 50 degrees below zero. Moreover, the winter here is very long and can last for several days. month's time.
Therefore, there are very few people who are willing to voluntarily immigrate to Winter City, so these large and small businesses and mines can only recruit employees from these exiled criminals.
Because the mineral resources are rich, a lot of workers are needed, but the population here is very small. Therefore, the wages of workers here in Winter City are still very good, no worse than the wages in the capital area.
And in the coldest time, they can not work at all and just rest at home, and their days are still very comfortable.
After most of the criminals were exiled here, they actually lived a stable life here.
As long as you are willing to work, you will have a good income. It is absolutely no problem to support your family in Hukou. You can even live a well-off life. You can even sell women. Every year, slave traders sell a large number of female slaves to the cold winter. These exiled criminals in the city.
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????So among the population of Winter City, almost all the men are from the Ming Dynasty, and the women are female slaves bought from Europe.
With stable jobs, good income, and women and children, these criminals are quite comfortable here, but they have also become stable and gradually taken root here.
In fact, fights and fights are very common here in Winter City. It looks like a city of crime. But in fact, the crime rate in Winter City is very low, and there are few big incidents.
"Is this still false?"
"If you don't believe it, just ask around and you will know. The coal mine discovered this time is very large and will require a lot of manpower. Everyone's wages will probably increase again."
"This Winter City is rich in resources, either oil or coal, and sometimes large iron ore can be found!"
¡°That¡¯s right, it¡¯s good to have resources, otherwise what will we people eat!¡±
"That's right, that's right~ The mine belongs to the powerful people in the capital, but without us, they can't open the mine!" (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com)??, it seems like a city of crime, but in fact, the crime rate in Winter City is very low, and there are few big incidents.
"Is this still false?"
"If you don't believe it, just ask around and you will know. The coal mine discovered this time is very large and will require a lot of manpower. Everyone's wages will probably increase again."
"This Winter City is rich in resources, either oil or coal, and sometimes large iron ore can be found!"
¡°That¡¯s right, it¡¯s good to have resources, otherwise what will we people eat!¡±
"That's right, that's right~ The mine belongs to the powerful people in Beijing, but without us, they can't open the mine!" (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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