When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

Chapter 943: Holy Union Village in 1453 (3)

"Gloyev, Gloev!"

Alexei shook Gloev's shoulders hard, but the Duke did not move.

He lay on the table, his eyes blurry from drunkenness. His eyelids seemed to weigh a thousand pounds and he kept blinking but couldn't open them.

After a while, he started snoring like thunder.

Looking back at the table, there were six sticks of fried bread, two corners of soft crust cake, a large bowl of meat wrapped in white flour, a pot of mutton soup, and a pot of "spoiled sour plum water" that had been swept clean.

Alexei was a little stunned. Is this spoiled plum juice so strong?
After checking and confirming that Gloev was not poisoned, he felt relieved.

I don't know why, but he also felt a little sleepy.

But he was not going to take a nap with Gloev here.

Alexei came here with a mission. He has to travel all over Leia and Fran within five years. Time is running out.

The reason why he chose the Holy Union's Thousand River Valley as his first stop was because he had heard a lot about the Holy Union's "miracles" from his Leia language teacher, Busak, the Holy Union's ambassador to Fat Beef Castle.

Military miracle, economic miracle, religious miracle...

Of course he has to use his own eyes to see and a pen to record, otherwise wouldn't it be a waste of time?

"You come to look after the Duke. You, follow me."

After arranging two guards, Alexei walked out of the restaurant and strolled across Xinmin Square, ignoring Gloev who was sleeping soundly on the table.

Alexei walked around the square several times while passing through the sparse crowds at noon, and finally determined the structure of the entire square.

Compared with the common irregular rectangular squares, the Xinmin Square in Lafu Town is a standard square square.

According to the Holy Union metric system, Alexei estimated that the length and width were about sixty meters.

The ground is made of a layer of gravel and a layer of large stone bricks, with mortar used to glue and fill the gaps.

In the middle of the square is a five-meter-high stone clock tower, which contains standard weights and measures.

Surrounding the clock tower is a circle of canvas tents and shops.

On the north and east sides of the Xinmin Square near the cross carriageway, you can see two thin rows of roofs.

It was a place dedicated to selling goods to merchants, including county-level merchants, rural vendors and farmers who sold goods on their own.

Some sell sour plums, some sell honey, some sell fish from their own ponds, and some sell butter from their own cows.

This kind of scene is not uncommon at Beef Burger.

But Alexei always felt something was wrong. After walking two more rounds, he slapped his forehead and suddenly realized it.

In the past, and also in his hometown, most of the people who sold these products were housekeepers and village chiefs.

But most of the people selling goods are ordinary farmers, and there is no housekeeper or village chief following behind to do the accounting and supervise.

And if you look closely, you can see that there are more in quantity and variety than in the beef burger market.

He was curious about why this happened, but halfway through he understood.

Why else?
The nobles and clergy were driven away, and all the natural resources in the countryside that were being used without any use were distributed to the common people.

The time saved through various measures will naturally be used to develop various side businesses.

Just looking around the town, there is a sawmill, an oil mill, and a quarry and cutting plant.

The nobles must be forced to give up the natural resources they are wasting!

After noting this in his notebook, Alexei waved to the guards: "Okay, I've seen enough of Xinmin Square. Let's go to the Enqing Market."

It was almost afternoon, and Alexei was indeed tired, so he decided to take one last look at what the Favor Market was like.

When you walk to the westernmost end of Xinmin Square, you can see the sign of Enqing Market erected on a road sign.

This Enqing Market consists of two parts: a row of shops in the front and a large wooden warehouse in the back.

In a row of shops, the one in the center is the only three-story brick building with a sign that reads “Enqing Department Store”.

Alexei scratched his head as he looked at the new word composed of "enqing", "one hundred" and "commodity". He could understand other stores, but what on earth was this Enqing Department Store?

After walking around the door for a while, he couldn't resist his curiosity and walked in.

As soon as you enter, you will see two L-shaped cedar counters. Behind the counters is an aisle, and behind the aisle is a circle of shelves.

Alexei looked around, but there were few people in the department store. There were only some farmers in simple clothes holding a few dinars and asking questions.

As for the sales clerks behind the counter who were explaining things to them, they were actually two women.

Alexei looked at it several times before he dared to confirm it.

I knew that the Holy League had an open-minded atmosphere, but I didn't expect it to be this open.

Aren't you pure holy warriors of fundamentalism?

"How are you?" The lame old man at the gate knocked on his pipe and took the initiative to talk, "Don't look down on them just because they are women. These two are nuns."

"Let nuns be vendors?"

"Well, you haven't seen him before? He is an employee of Enqing Department Store. Do you know what that means? Enqing Market, Enqing Department Store, Shengyou Commercial Department, that is the crown of Shenglian Commercial."

Alexei ignored the familiar old man and didn't understand what he said.

But he understood that this inconspicuous Enqing Department Store was actually the "Crown of Business"?
The young bear master immediately took out his notebook and quill.

With such a mood, he walked around the grocery store twice, but the more he looked, the tighter his brows furrowed, and the more depressed and confused he felt.

In the entire Grace Department Store, the only ones who surprised Alexi the most were these two nuns.

The whole department store sounds nice, but it's just a grocery store, at most it just has a few more things.

On the left side of the cabinet on the first floor are placed basic foods such as flour, rapeseed oil, and salt.

Under the cabinet, there are rows of simple processed products such as sauerkraut, sausages, beer, etc., stored in wooden barrels or ceramic jars.

On the counter on the right, there are daily necessities such as oil lamps, burlap, tweed, as well as cheap cleaning agents and small farm implements and tools such as sickles, hoes and hammers.

Greasy and dirty, this can be called a crown?
Alexei went up to the second floor by walking up the new wooden stairs.

There are three counters on the second floor because there is also a counter at the entrance to the first floor.

Directly opposite are iron farm tools (plowshares, shovels) and repair tools (nails, hemp ropes, and wooden barrel accessories).

On the left are verdigris, red lead paint, and spinning wheel parts.

There is even less to say about the right side, just seeds, pottery jars, wooden basins, belts, saddles, frying pans, etc.

Going up one floor, paper, pens, and ink are sold, as well as the loan counter of the Saint's Bank and the convenience counter for letter writing.

When he walked out of the Enqing Department Store, Alexei was still muttering, "…What Enqing Department Store? It's just a grocery store."

"Hey, young man, I don't like what you say." The lame old man shouted immediately, "This is not a grocery store."

Alexei is a man of his own ideas and he is also a stubborn person. You can't tell at ordinary times, but once he has made up his mind about something, nothing can change his mind.

"If this isn't a grocery store, what is it?"

"Humph." The lame old man sneered, "Do you think what you saw is all?
If you go outside and look, you will see the farm implement store selling spinning wheels and horse-drawn seed drills.

Farming stores that order livestock, tree seedlings, fish fry, etc.

There are specialty purchasing stations that purchase local specialties and animal skins, agricultural surplus purchasing stations that purchase grains and agricultural and sideline products, and raw material purchasing stations that purchase various raw materials such as wood and wool.

These various shops and purchasing stations, together with Enqing Department Store, as well as the warehouse and wholesale market behind Enqing Department Store, form the complete picture of the entire Enqing market.

You think you are looking at a rural Enqing Department Store as the Enqing Market? If you go to Gaobao City, you will be shocked to see what the Enqing Department Store there is like! "

The lame gatekeeper spoke with saliva flying all over his body and was even more rude.

However, what he heard aroused Alexei's curiosity. With the examples of towns and roads before him, he was a little skeptical that the Grace Market could be that simple.

"What do you think?"

(End of this chapter)