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Chapter 672 The Crumbling Byzantium and Doraemon (I)

"Dear guest, do you like this book?" Wang Binshu leaned over and asked.

Sel seemed to realize that it would be very impolite to just look at books in someone else's store without buying anything.

So, she nodded, with an apologetic look on her face, and asked Wang Binshu, "Ah, ah! Sorry, sorry, I want to buy this book and its sequel. How much is it in total?"

"It only costs fifteen copper coins." Wang Binshu said with a smile.

It is natural that books in this world are generally expensive, and Wang Binshu, as a time traveler, is also aware of this, although he has not yet been to the human society of this world.

However, according to his understanding of ancient society, books should be very expensive. Of course, it depends on what kind of books they are. Generally speaking, books like essays, novels, and stories are always much cheaper than educational and academic books, so cheap that ordinary people can afford them.

Even if he was a peasant in the Byzantine Empire, his annual income was enough to support him to buy a magazine or novel to read occasionally.

Of course, if it is a valuable academic book related to knowledge, ordinary farmers definitely cannot afford it.

The Ming Dynasty was more advanced than the Byzantine Empire in this regard. Basic textbooks such as the Four Books and Five Classics were very cheap, or not that expensive, at least ordinary people could afford them.

And those "tutorial materials", such as versions with annotations by famous authors, are often not that expensive and are still within the affordable range for ordinary people.

However, in Byzantium, the situation was not so good. However, Byzantium was much more advanced than the European barbarians. After all, it was a universal empire of that period.

Before the 11th century, Byzantium and Seres of the same period were the only two universal empires on the planet that allowed ordinary people to realize the ideal of life of "being a farmer in the morning and ascending to the emperor's palace in the evening". They can be said to be the light of human civilization.

Even relatively speaking, Byzantium was even more universal in this respect than the Seric dynasty. After all, no matter how much an ordinary person in the Seric dynasty studied, he could not become an emperor, but in Byzantium, ordinary people could ascend to the throne through merit.

The position of Roman emperor would not be monopolized by a single family. People from the Claudius family could become emperor, such as Octavian; people from the Flavian family could also become emperor, such as Titus.

Similarly, the emperors of the Roman Empire would not monopolize a certain region. The Italians did it, and the Spanish did it too.

At the same time, soldiers can become emperors, such as Trajan; literati can also become emperors.

Of course, aristocratic elders can also become emperors.

During the Tang Dynasty, Charlemagne of Byzantium, a peasant, was able to become a great ruler. Meanwhile, Wu Zetian, who was not from an aristocratic family, almost failed to become the empress, even though her family was a founding father.

Of course, Wu Zetian did become emperor in the end, but not because the system of the Seres Dynasty allowed it, but because of her own efforts, or "painstaking research".

Although Wu Zetian's governing ability as an emperor was not very good, it could even be described as terrible, not as good as Empress Dowager Xiao, and probably only slightly better than an old woman whose grave was blown up.

But no matter what, she is indeed the only female emperor in the thousands of years of history of the Seris Dynasty.

By this point in time, Byzantium had become increasingly weak, and it was no longer easy for ordinary people to move up in social class, which could basically be considered as class solidification.

The glory of the old empire has passed, and the Byzantine Empire today is not far from complete collapse.

Although compared to the Byzantium of the same period in another universe, the Byzantium here still controls a considerable sphere of influence, but this does not mean anything.

With internal and external troubles, Byzantium was already on the verge of collapse. But even at this time, for the vast majority of poor peasant brothers in the world, Byzantium was still better than many other countries.

The old farmers in Europe are at least better than them.

As for the peasants of the Ming Dynasty, if they were willing to be confined to one place for their entire lives and be branded with a stigma like caste, then they could accept it.

After all, the caste system established by Zhuge Liang was basically in name only by the middle and late period of the dynasty.

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Back to the business in the store, Corey left with his two box guns contentedly, and Sel also left after buying several books from Wang Bin's bookstore.

Wang Binshu not only completed his novice task, but also made an extra deal, which made him feel very happy.

After seeing off the two guests, Wang Binshu's shop fell into silence again. The sun was about to set outside, and the orange sunlight was shining through the gaps between the leaves in the forest.

[Congratulations! You have successfully completed the novice mission! Now you have officially become a member of the Multiverse Business Alliance! ]

As the two guests left, a hint appeared in Wang Binshu's mind.

"What the hell? Wasn't I considered an official member before?" Wang Binshu muttered as he sat down in front of the computer.

After completing the novice mission, the store is upgraded from level 0 to level 1, and a large number of permissions are also opened up, although there are no rewards.

With more supplies available, Wang Binshu can now purchase weapons before the 20s.

At the same time, other non-weapon products have also moved forward a lot. He can now purchase non-weapon products from the 20s and 7s.

However, these are not the most important things. To be honest, Wang Binshu doesn’t really want to sell these things. What he really wants to sell are some cultural products.

For example, products of his era such as personal computers, laptops, iPads, smartphones, and game consoles.

It’s just that those things can only be sold later, at least the various network settings are a big problem.

In fact, after entering the first-level store, Wang Binshu no longer has to stay in the store all day. Before that, his range of movements was limited to the department store and a small area nearby.

But now these restrictions are gone, he can go wherever he wants, but the store still has to be open.

He has to open the store at least three days a week. If he tries to deliberately delay opening the store, his body will be taken over and the store opening process will be forced to go through until the end of the weekly rated business hours.

But for Wang Binshu at the moment, all this is not the most important thing.

Now, the most important thing for him is undoubtedly——

How do you get through this damn novice level? ? ? ?

(End of this chapter)