Chapter 32 - 30: Past and Future, Martial Arts and Civilization
At the establishment of High Willow City, strong Martial Artists were required to be stationed, as well as a large number of city guards, and martial fellows to maintain order.
Even today, Martial Artists guarding the city remain crucial!
However, various mundane tasks within the city, including calculations, record-keeping, registration, communication, organizing, and more, require literate individuals.
It is said that atop the Observatory Tower in the inner city, there are nearly three hundred literate individuals, but mainly from within the inner city.
For the common people of the outer city, reading and writing are seen as a waste of time, idly sitting at home; it is better to work more, earn Silver Tael, and eat well.
The slightly better-off families believe that practicing martial arts to strengthen the body and protect the family and business is the most solid skill in these chaotic times.
This is the view that has been passed down through generations over many years.
"But my elder brother broke this fixed notion early on, before being transferred to Qifeng Prefecture City, he had spent money to hire an old clerk from the Outer South Government Office to teach me and my second brother to read and write."
Lin Yan thought to himself, "In fact, historically, not all who have achieved in martial arts are completely illiterate."
The first level of martial arts, skin, flesh, tendons, bones.
One might rely on one's own physical strength, endure hardship, train oneself, aided by medicinal baths and Elixir Pills, to achieve it.