Oh, you know about this Suding? Lu G's face showed a hint of surprise.

Yes, not just me.

Any random citizen from the former Great Zhao would probably recognize this ding, Zhao replied.

Upon hearing this, Lu Gi became interested.

Tell me more about it.

As far as I know, it took a full 10 years to cast this Suding.

During these 10 years, Zhao Dong Nan summoned all the skilled craftsmen from across the great Zhao territory to the palace specifically for the casting of this Suding.

It is said that the sue ding was cast over a thousand times, but each time it was completed, Zhao Dongan would have the craftsman go back and melt it down to recast it.

It was not until a few months ago that it was finally completed, which brought great joy to Zhao Dongan.

And there was even a nationwide celebration.

When it came to the part about the nationwide celebration, there was a clear flash of sarcasm in Zhao Yi's eyes.

In his view, it was simply foolish to expend so much effort and resources to create such a thing.

Not to mention Joe E.

Even Lu OG initially did not realize that this item was a man-made wonder and one of nine provinces dings, the Suding.

Your majesty, please forgive my ignorance.

What is so special about this bronze ding? At this moment, Lu Ji's smile was almost reaching his ears.

And Zhao, he could hardly miss it.

Zhao Dongan was not the only one, but in Zhao Yi's eyes, Lu Ji was undoubtedly a good emperor who was diligent and loved his people.

The fact that Lu Gi also cherished this bronze ding made Zhao eer reconsider.

Upon closer inspection, the patterns on the bronze ding were indeed exquisite, and its grand and majestic shape was enough to elicit admiration.

However, considering that it took Zhao Dong Nan nearly 10 years and caused harm to the population and finances, Zhao Yi's gaze towards the bronze ding inevitably carried some bias and complexity.

While it was certainly undesirable to harm the people and waste resources to create it, one could not deny that it was a treasure.

As he spoke, Lu G was inwardly relieved that he hadn't foolishly decided to build the Great Wall.

Otherwise, he would probably have also ended up causing discontent among his people.

Observing Zhao E, who still looked puzzled, Lu Gi pondered for a moment, then modified the story of the nine provinces Ding and told it to Zhao E.

As long as he understood that this Sue ding was a divine artifact that could suppress the national fortune and allow the civilization under him to prosper, that was enough.

Ancient people often responded well to this kind of narrative.

The fact proved that he was indeed correct.

After hearing Lu Gi's story about the nine provinces ding, Zhoi's expression towards the Sue ding became significantly more solemn.

Returning to the main topic, as I mentioned before, there should be a total of nine nine provinces dings.

Aside from this Sue ding, do you have any leads on the whereabouts of the other eight bronze dings? This was the key point that Lu Gi wanted to know.

However, Zho Yi's response was somewhat disappointing.

He shook his head and said,"I only know about this suing.

However, my lord can try to gather the craftsmen who cast the suing for Dong Nan and ask them.

Perhaps they might have some useful information.

" "All right, then I'll leave this matter to you.

I will write an order for the Mingjing division to send someone to assist you.

" "Yes, I will obey.

" After Zhao e replied and withdrew, he postponed his inspection of the military camp.

Lu OG decisively decided to prioritize reviewing the bronze wares that had been transported over to avoid missing any valuable items due to carelessness.

He also took a look at a report on the spoils of war.

Although Zhao Dongan was a war fanatic, as a player who developed to this extent, the resources in his territory were undoubtedly abundant.

There was no need to mention the various crops.

Luog also discovered domestic pigs and water buffalo as well as farming horses suitable for transportation and agriculture.

This was undoubtedly a huge boost for the agricultural development of his territory.

In terms of daily life, he found resources for hemp cloth and silk.

Luog was not surprised by this.

Unlike him who had just entered the bronze age, Zhao Dong Nan was at least a genuine player who had properly entered the bronze age.

And with a modern mind, it would be strange if he didn't have these resources.

However, regarding cultural development, Lu Gi was somewhat surprised and also speechless.

Zhao Dongan had surprisingly managed to produce the four treasures of the study, namely brush, ink, paper, and inkstone.

But it turned out that aside from paper, the other three items had not been widely promoted.

Lu G had an expression of course.

Zha Donand might have thought it was a good idea at the time.

Or he might have just wanted to casually earn some cultural points, but honestly going through all that trouble to produce brushes and inkstones just for a pitiful few cultural points had an extremely low cost effectiveness.

In contrast, Luog had from the very beginning not intended to produce brushes and inkstones.

Was it because he couldn't make them? No.

He had the materials needed to make these things, but he simply didn't plan to do so because the cost effectiveness was too low.

Even now, Lu G found it hard to see the point in making these two items.

The reason was simple.

How could he, a modern person, right, with a brush? He knew very well how his brush writing skills were.

Using a more convenient charcoal pencil instead of trying to show off with a brush was just silly.

Luog found it ridiculous that a modern person would engage in such foolishness.

To promote anything, the first requirement is that it should be easy to use.

In fact, the charcoal pencils that Lu G produced early on quickly became popular.

While brushes were destined to remain a niche hobby in his case.

After all, why was a modern person here where he could take shortcuts to lead his people, why stick to the old historical paths? The difference would be negligible whether he was present or not.

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opportunities to spend money as he quickly confirmed each of the resources.

Some additional materials were indeed precious.

But what made Lu G happiest were the other four items, silk, spices, tea, and wine.

These four resources, which seemed to have relatively low practicality, brought joy to Lu G for a simple reason.

He realized that his current civilization needed some luxury resources.

To put it bluntly, he had to provide an opportunity for the particularly wealthy segment of the population to spend their money.

Otherwise, wealth would mean little to them, such as that Kigua.

However, in this era, the only one capable of managing these things and having the money was probably Emperor Luo Gi himself.

In response, Lu Gi was quite decisive.

With the mindset of doing things thoroughly, he waved his hand and directly opened several shops in Mingjing City.

One was a fabric store selling silk, linen, and other materials.

And right next to it was a clothing store selling clothes, pants, and shoes.

These two shops were adjacent to each other.

On the other side, there were two more adjacent shops, a tea house, and a tea shop.

It is worth mentioning that the current sources of tea in Luog civilization mainly came from two places.

High mountain tea provided by Yiqing Shien and Sanghan Tea from the mountain behind sanghan city.

These were two varieties.

And under this premise, Lu G further categorized the tea into several grades targeting different income groups.

The highest grade tea was priced as a luxury item while the ordinary grade tea was more affordable.

Lu G planned to promote tea as a beverage throughout his civilization.

As for the wine house, spice shop and restaurant, Lu G opened them in another location to avoid the strong spice and oil smoke smells interfering with the tea shop.

It turned out that once these shops opened, business was indeed booming with long lines forming outside almost every shop.

This also made many originally wealthy and comfortable people start to feel a bit financially strained.

For example, Goa spent quite a bit of his savings on two jars of top quality tea and exquisite tea sets from the tea house, indirectly motivating this group of people to work harder to earn money.

However, if we were to say which shop had the best business, the restaurant became the biggest money-making hub in Mingjing City.

Once again, proving the saying food is the heaven for the people to be very true.

Of course, this was mainly due to Lu OG's ruthless marketing strategy.

He had a barbecue grill set up at the entrance of the restaurant grilling lamb skewers, and with a sprinkle of cumin, the aroma was enough to stop passers by in their tracks.

Then upon entering the restaurant, faced with the even richer variety of dishes, one meal would surely lighten their wallets significantly.

Surprisingly, the second best performing shop was the Wine House.

Lu Gi initially thought it would be the clothing store or fabric store that ranked second, but unexpectedly it was the Wine House.

Lu Yi, being someone who does not drink, naturally couldn't understand the drinking crowd, but the Wine House's good business was undeniable.