The first day of the sixth month: Baleful Intent lay in the east, and the Six Luminaries marked Red Mouth. Auspicious for marriage, betrothal, accepting gifts, sacrifices, prayers for blessings, placing the dead in coffins, breaking ground, and burial. Inauspicious for consecrations and opening markets.
Today was a grand day for Jianji Town. Town Commandant Liu Heluo's Golden Basin Retirement Ceremony would be held at noon.
After breakfast, Pan Long arrived at the Liu Residence. Banquet tables had already been set out. A vast area outside the gates was for guests from the Martial World whom the family had never met; the courtyard was for those with some standing or personal connection; and the main hall was reserved for honored guests.
He gave the place a quick look and reckoned there were at least four or five hundred tables.
Even with only two people to a table, they could host nearly a thousand guests. The only time he had seen a banquet on this scale was at a New Year's gala in his previous life. He had seen plenty of luxury and splendor in this life, but never a feast this large.
After all, the Nine Provinces World was nowhere near as prosperous overall as that other world.
No wonder Wen Chao complained that Zhao Sheng had "gone astray and stopped doing what mattered." If they had kept working together, perhaps they really could have raised Great Xia's level of technology and made society more prosperous. Then, a thousand years later, it might not look much the same as it had when they left the stage.
Pan Long knew that social development and technological progress both had a certain inertia. Without an outside stimulus, a society might remain much the same for thousands of years, with no obvious development in