After staying in Sford City for five days, taking out clothes and a batch of supplies purchased, the three returned to the Nora Tree Sea of ​​Kiev.

This time they came back, not to continue living a carefree life in the forest, but to pack their luggage and prepare for a journey to the northeast of the empire.

...

The Empire is a feudal power that lasted for thousands of years and flourished for thousands of years.

In this thousand years, without any change of imperial power, the royal family is still the royal family from its glorious period.

Large-scale wars have been carried out, but under the oppression of Emperor Gu, the imperial family has been resting at ease.

In Li Wei's history, no country can last for such a long time. Chinese civilization has continued to this day and has undergone many dynasties.

The deformed empire holds the force to suppress all reactionary forces. If you want to overthrow the empire's rule, you must first solve the idea that has been deeply rooted for thousands of years!

...

The border cities in the northeast of the empire had a cold climate, and most crops could not be planted, so they would not have become the empire's prosperous business circle. However, after a large number of iron ore and coal mines were discovered at the border, the northeast of the empire became a frontier base for industrialization.

The special electric lights and some items used by the empire for the entertainment of the nobles were all from industrial cities in the northeast, and the headquarters of the wealthy merchants of the empire were also in industrial cities in the northeast.

Blackstone City in the northeast is the second largest prosperous city in the empire, and its luxury is no less than that in the imperial capital.

In the Blackstone City, where a large amount of haze is floating above, there are more than six million people living. This urban agglomeration of such a large scale should not have appeared on the northern permafrost soil that lacks food.

However, the extremely high economic value brought by industry allowed the big merchants to support the operation of Blackstone City by relying on large amounts of grain transportation.

At the same time, the grain merchants who control the food also control all the laborers in Blackstone, who are forced to work for sixteen hours a day in exchange for money to support the family.

Because Blackstone City is far away from the warmth of the empire, all the workers in Blackstone City can only die of being trapped in the Blackstone City for the rest of their lives, and are subject to endless exploitation and utilization.

...

The Blackstone City of the Empire was controlled by capital and also enjoyed funding from capital.

Next to the Blackstone Tower in the center of Blackstone City, there is a huge academy, which is open to the children of all Blackstone residents. Anyone who reaches age can pass the assessment and pay a certain amount of money every month to enter the school to learn writing and technology. These new technologies can help these people find a high-paying job in Blackstone City.

But...that's all.

Workers save money every month to send their children to Blackstone. What they learn is simple spellings and words, and the remaining knowledge is unless you are excellent enough to be attracted by your tutor.

Otherwise, students who successfully graduated will only repeat the old path of their parents. Those who are a little smarter will become a young skilled worker, earning more salary than others, and with the title of being a superior person, fantasizing about buying an expensive house in Blackstone City.

Dongdong!

The giant pendulum bell rang the long bell at 12 noon, and the mechanical sounds that roared in Black Rock seemed to disappear at this moment.

In Heiyao Academy, students who had been cumulating and educating for the whole morning rushed to the canteen, and only the teacher walked slowly towards the canteen for teachers.

They were not wearing cloth clothes and silk like ordinary poor people in the imperial capital, but were wearing straight suits. Some male teachers also wore gold-rimmed glasses symbolizing cultural people on their faces.

When they meet colleagues, they will smile and signal each other, appearing polite.

After George finished his half-day teaching and greeted his half-baked colleagues, he served a lunch that could barely fill his stomach with the help of the canteen's shaking aunt.

A spoonful of mashed potatoes, a spoonful of curry, two pieces of bread, and a small piece of meat patty.

Such lunch has not changed for a long time. George doesn’t like mashed potatoes because he always feels that the sleepiness in the afternoon teaching is caused by mashed potatoes!

But if he wanted to have the strength to teach, he had no choice but to eat mashed potatoes.

George came to the corner of the cafeteria, sat down at his favorite corner seat, and then poked out a novel from his shirt on his chest and started reading it.

In Blackstone, people have few entertainment activities and need to work in various positions for 16 hours every day. Every six days, people can rest for a day.

This is not the generosity of the wealthy businessmen. Without the workers' rest, Blackstone City will have no population and the wealth of the wealthy businessmen will be lost.

The only entertainment activities of workers are basically done by sex, but George believes that he is not a worker, but an intellectual, so his entertainment is to buy novels produced from the Imperial Center.

I don’t know if it’s the influence of the unpalatable mashed potatoes or the novel is not good.

George kept looking through the books in his hand, and the originally exciting novels became boring, so he shook his head and put down the novels in his hand, and focused on picking up the food on the basin.

"Hey, George, why don't you read books today?"

While George was cooking rice, a disgusting voice came from the next table.

George ignored it, but the man who spoke was not going to let him go.

A man in a denim work shirt and a funny brown cotton hat came to his table and placed the empty dining plate on the table.

George looked up and saw that the other party had rough skin and beard unique to the worker, and there was still unwashed oil on his arms and clothes.

He is a person he looked down upon. His name is Ball. He is a mechanical repairman. Because of his excellent skills and good educational talent, he was selected as a maintenance teacher in the past two years of application for technicians, and was used to teach those children who do not have any talent how to become a qualified repairman.

George looked down on him very much, not only because the other party was often sloppy and liked to shout at the top of his voice, but also because Ball often came to harass him.

"Don't do this guy. We have known each other for several years. Let me tell you, I taught a good student. I won the first place in the last skill assessment, and I also entered the top three in the design competition. I even got the reward of twenty silver coins, hehe!"

"If you are just a student who shows off yours, I already know that it's amazing, you can leave." George swallowed the food, and after a perfunctory sentence, he speeded up his eating, trying to get rid of Ball's harassment.

Ball nodded suddenly and said, "I understand, I understand, you educated people love to read, you must be back to study again, right?"

George ignored him.

Suddenly, Ball took out a small book the size of a palm from his work suit pocket, bent his majestic body, approached George, and lowered his voice, "My student gave me a small book, and told me not to hand it over to others easily, it would be better to burn it after reading it. He was very nervous, but you know me. Even if I know words, I will read the book one by one or two. I will give this book to you. I think it seems that it is the same after you burn it after reading it."

When Ball came over, George shrank his neck, and then he heard his words and looked at the little book he handed over in confusion. There was no word on the cover of the book.

"What book is this?"

"I haven't read it before, but Nat is very serious, but I really don't like reading. When I get home, I will knit Lisa's sweater. I'll give it to you. I remember to burn it after reading it!"

After taking the small book handed over from the rough hand, George had to admit that his interest was aroused, but in front of Ball, whom he looked down upon, he was not very good to start reading immediately, and just nodded casually.

"Let's talk about it when I read it, but not that kind of book."

Ball smiled heartily, stood up and said heartily: "If it were that kind of book, you might not be willing to burn it. I will leave first and have to go back to prepare for the course!"
Chapter completed!