Great Mang Dynasty’s King City had a population of seventy thousand. The residences of the common people were normally made from clay bricks or volcanic rock.

Even though the weight of bricks made from volcanic ash wouldn’t be very heavy, convenient for transport, moreover the bricks filled with fine holes, naturally warm during the winter and cool during the summer, they would normally either be an earth yellow or grayish black color, only emphasizing practicality, not really all that elegant. This was especially the case with the volcanic ash that gets swept over from the northern monsoon season. If we were talking about a clean and beautiful magnificent city, there was naturally no way this could compare to Yunqin’s Central Continent City.

Only, Great Mang’s late emperor attached great importance to etiquette and education. If we exaggerated a bit, we could say that he founded the country through scholarly culture, almost entirely different from Yunqin Empire’s style.

That was why Great Mang King City’s total private schools and academies, despite not being as numerous as Central Continent City, the concentration density might not be much different. Central Continent City was also a city filled with the disciples and heirs of officials and rich merchants, a place where civil...