Anna looked at the dazzling array of goods and couldn't help but exclaim, "Dear, Great Xia is truly so prosperous!"

Qin Deguang had a subtle expression: "Prosperous?"

He promptly said, "Before the Age of Calamity, even a random large supermarket had way more variety of goods than here."

Anna laughed: "You know I live in a small town within the Arctic Circle, where resources are naturally scarce. Even before the Age of Calamity, the goods here were more than in our town."

She paused and added: "After the Age of Calamity arrived, the vast majority of cities in the Bering Kingdom couldn't match this business center in terms of variety of goods supplied."

Qin Deguang nodded: "That's true."

Anna sighed: "What impresses me the most is that almost all cities in Great Xia have roughly the same variety of goods supplied.

"The range of supplies in this small city isn't much less than that in the Great Xia Capital; Great Xia People have truly achieved fairness and justice.

"Unlike the Bering Kingdom, where the Capital has the most ample supplies, and the smaller the city, the fewer the supplies.

"In some remote areas, like our small town, we can't even guarantee the most basic living supplies."

Qin Deguang had a proud look: "Great Xia is the country that has responded to calamities the best on Canglan Star!"

In fact.

Over time, Great Xia Business Communication completely integrated domestic resources and also sourced massive resources from abroad, offering more and more goods to the public.

For example.

Initially, the Great Xia Business Communication platform offered only one type of noodle — dried noodles.

The main ingredient was wheat flour, with a certain amount of sweet potato flour added.

The nationwide unified price was five yuan for a 500-gram package.

Now, the types of noodles have increased to six.

There are thin and wide dried noodles, lye noodles, and even ramen.

The Great Xia Business Communication didn't forget the many southerners and introduced several types of rice noodles.

Apart from various goods.

To improve the living standards of the public, Great Xia Business Communication also provided various services.

For instance — haircuts.

Anna saw a quick haircut service point, where three stylists in uniform were busily cutting customers' hair.

The price for this quick cut was quite affordable, ten yuan per head, similar to the pre-Age of Calamity times.

It was clear that the skill of the stylists was quite proficient, shaving and snipping efficiently to produce a decent hairstyle.

Anna stood for a while and then sighed, "You Great Xia People's lives are truly happy."

Qin Deguang was a bit puzzled: "It's just a haircut, does that count as happiness?"

Anna said, "You probably don't know, now 99% of Bering People have their family or neighbors cut their hair.

"Ordinary people's skills are not very good, so most people's hairstyles are pretty ugly."

She seemed to recall something and couldn't help but laugh: "I saw a lot of people's hair online, looking like it's been unevenly gnawed by dogs."

Qin Deguang still found it hard to understand: "But at least it's a free haircut, while here you have to pay ten yuan."

Anna gently explained: "No, what I mean is, in this world of constant disasters, where many people die every day, the Great Xia official still provides very comprehensive services to the public."

Qin Deguang just uttered an "Oh."

In his heart, he felt that since the state had taken over everything, offering various services to the people and meeting their needs was simply a matter of course, wasn't it?

And this was worth exclaiming over, foreigners are indeed strange!

Even though this place is called a "business center," the area isn't very large, at most only about a third of an ordinary commercial complex.

The newlyweds, after shopping for a while, had pretty much covered it.

Anna stood outside a bakery, watching customers continuously come and go, taking away bag after bag of bread.

Compared to the floral variety of goods sold in pre-Age of Calamity bakeries, this store offers a meager five or six types of pastry.

However, bread can be eaten straight out of the bag, making it even more convenient than dried noodles, so even though it's pricier than noodles, many people still buy it.

Qin Deguang said: "Last month, Great Xia Business Communication held a voting event, asking people to vote for products the platform should offer, about 60 million people voted for bread.

"I recall that by last week, several bakeries had been established in each province in Great Xia, and the number of bakeries had surpassed thirty thousand."

Anna was very impressed: "The efficiency of Great Xia People is so high."

Qin Deguang smiled: "It's just a normal speed."

But Anna didn't think so: "If it were in the Bering Kingdom, it might take several years to achieve the same thing."

Qin Deguang smiled slightly, saying nothing.

Anna then asked: "Do so many Great Xia People like eating bread?"

Qin Deguang nodded with a "Hmm" and suggested: "Your staple food is also bread, why don't we buy some for you to try Great Xia bread?"

Anna nodded: "Okay."

The two entered the store and bought one bag of each kind of bread.

All these breads were industrial-style, each one being a large piece about a pound in weight, which had to be sliced by the customer, clearly a product of an extreme pursuit of speed.

Anna tasted each one and shook her head: "Our Bering People's khleb is very hard; these breads are too soft!"

From her expression, it was clear that she was more accustomed to the hard khleb.

Qin Deguang glanced at his wife and said, "Then we won't buy it in the future."

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