Jiaheluo is located on the main transportation line. It is said to be a small city-state, but that is a relative term. In fact, the entire city-state has a population of more than 100,000. The suburbs and villages covered by Jiaheluo city have a population of 30,000 to 40,000. The rest of the population is located in small towns.
Towns, each small town is centered on the castle of a local small lord, with a population of thousands or hundreds. The entire city-states in the Western Regions almost have this model.
In the past few days, Lu Ming lived and ate on a special train, and also saw many nearby city-state lords coming to see him.
There has been no news from the Independent Commission Against Corruption at the "Wang's Residence", so there is no time to pay attention to it for the time being.
The war in the south was unfavorable for Hun Huo Luo and they gradually retreated.
But in Nicolo City, there is an additional mercenary force from the punk trade, including several armed helicopters.
Apparently, Punk Trade discovered the changes in the Montenegrins and even provided support for bombers from the southern city-states. Therefore, Punk Trade also increased its involvement.
The mercenaries of the Punk Trade are all natives, coming from its armed training base located in the eastern part of the Mixed Fire City-State Alliance, but it seems that there is an elite firepower company and the pilots of the armed helicopters are all Sonia.
To a certain extent, similar to the Principality of Montenegro, it still wants to control the war at the agent stage.
For the Sonia Kingdom, the real opponent is naturally the Grifenni Kingdom where the eldest prince ascends the throne.
But the oil fields in the Western Region are so important that they would not hesitate to break out a full-scale war with the Principality of Montenegro for this reason.
But it is not imminent, because the oil fields controlled by the Kingdom of Sonia, such as Fila Oil, etc., can fully meet its needs, at least at this stage there is no problem.
What's more, the two oil fields in Thoroston are still transporting oil to the Luxon Heavy Industrial Zone in the Kingdom of Sonia in accordance with the old agreement.
The agreement payment by the middle of this year has already been paid. After the middle of the year, the question will be whether the Kingdom of Sonia will continue to pay. If it fails to pay, whether Thoroston will still send oil to it.
In June, before all the dust settled, Lu Ming judged that the Sonia people would not trigger a full-scale war to expel the Montenegrins in the Western Region.
However, he also had many activities in the imperial capital.
Although the eldest prince has a lot of dissatisfaction with himself, from the perspective of the interests of the Kingdom of Grifenni, the existence of the Principality of Montenegro in the Western Region is beneficial to it. Even if the eldest prince is short-sighted, there are many powerful figures in the Kingdom of Grifenni, and it is not
The eldest prince spoke his mind.
The mobilization of the Kingdom of Grifenni on the border will also prevent the Kingdom of Sonia from having the energy to launch a full-scale war in the Western Region.
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The city of Jiaheluo is bustling with people and is very lively. It is the month of the big market after the traditional New Year in Jiaheluo, which is called the month of Daluozha. It is similar to the Zhongzhou people's temple fair, but its "Daluozha" will last for more than a month.
Basically, people will take advantage of their free time after the New Year to prepare daily necessities for almost a year, especially in remote city-states.
At many stalls, you can also barter. If you use currency, gold and silver coins are acceptable, and imperial coins are also hard currency.
Lu Ming walked among them and bought a lot of interesting or rare things he encountered.
There were several female guards from the country behind them, and they quickly picked up a bunch of large and small bags.
A female guard came in a hurry, came to Mrs. Sanjin and whispered a few words.
Mrs. Sanjin took two steps and whispered: "Master, Miss Lashmi and Miss Fatima of Nicolo are here. They came by train. They didn't inform their guards in Xiheishan Fort, secretly
Just buy a ticket and come.”
In West Montenegro, there were many refugees who had been evacuated from Nikolo, including Rashmi, Fatima and their two uncles and aunts. As an exiled royal family, they quickly gathered a large number of fans around them.
Mrs. Sanjin added: "It seems that the two sisters know what happened to their mother."
Their mother and fifth sister both died tragically because of their stubbornness and unyielding, and suffered inhuman torture and humiliation before their deaths.
"You go meet them, I'll take a look around." Lu Ming waved his hand.
Mrs. Sanjin had more or less sensed her master's pulse, and knew that many outsiders might think that he was ruthless, even a warmonger, and that he bled thousands of miles and changed the color of mountains and rivers wherever he went, but in reality he was a very soft-hearted person who could not bear to see the tragedies in the world.
"Yes!" She bowed her knees gently and Mrs. Sanjin led the people to turn around.
…
Lu Ming waited for a long time before returning to the special train.
After boarding the command carriage, there is the reception room. As soon as Lu Ming came in, two figures bowed down, it was Rashmi and Fatima.
"Master, please avenge my mother. My sister and I are willing to be the master's Subamai..." Lashmi begged with tears in her face. Fatima, who was only seven or eight years old, followed her sister.
Wipe away tears.
In the city-states of the Western Regions, Subamai was an animal-like being whose status was worse than that of a slave. It was said that they were prisoners of war who were slaughtered for food thousands of years ago. Nowadays, there are only other words, and this class no longer exists.
There are only legends about the cruel city lords in remote areas who secretly raised Subamai for meat.
Lu Ming looked at Mrs. Sanjin and thought to himself, "You have been trying to solve it for a long time. What is the result?" Mrs. Sanjin just stood aside with her head lowered, not daring to look at Lu Ming.
Lu Ming could also see the sadness, anger, despair and hatred in the eyes of La Shimi, a girl who was only twelve or thirteen years old.
It was obvious that he had lost his mind with deep-seated hatred.
"Lashmi, Fatima, come on, come with me to rest first," Mrs. Sanjin said from the side.
Rashmi and Fatima obviously listened to Mrs. Sanjin's words, so they both got up obediently and followed Mrs. Sanjin to the small bathroom in the carriage. It seemed that they really had the consciousness to be "subamai"
, was locked in a narrow bathroom, and as long as he was not allowed, he would obediently stay there forever.
Lu Ming sat down on the sofa and Papaya made tea. Lu Ming glanced at Mrs. Sanjin and said, "What did you tell them?"
Mrs. Sanjin whispered: "The slave told the truth. If they want to truly take revenge, only the master can do it."
It is true that if they want to take revenge thoroughly, they will almost kill all the senior officials of Hunhuo Luo, because before the mother and sister of the little princess were brutally tortured to death, they were given some kind of banquet by the nobles of Hunhuo Luo, which was actually a collective banquet.
Fornication, at that banquet, many women were tortured, most of them were disobedient. The little princess and her daughter, because they were the most beautiful and had an unusual status, were tortured the most and died the most miserably.
"Actually, the slave also wants to kill them all..." Mrs. Sanjin whispered, "But the master has the world in mind, so it is not conceivable to be a slave."
Lu Ming waved his hand and asked, "Is there any pattern? No matter how the military and political situation here changes, a country with cruel customs like Huoluo will never take it under its control, but there is no need to promise anyone this."
"What happened to their collective statement?" Lu Ming asked.
The city-states of more than a dozen tax districts including Jiahe Luo will jointly issue a statement that they will no longer pay taxes to Huo Luo.
"They thought about the Moon of Da Luo Zha..." Mrs. Sanjin was a little helpless, "They have their own customs. On some days, even if they are invaded by foreign enemies, they don't want to use weapons."
Lu Ming nodded: "As the Romans do, let's cooperate with them."