Chapter 416: Meow's Site Meow is the Master (Part 1)
Putting aside the legend of Raven's ability to blow up the sky, in the hearts of ordinary people, Phantom Knight City is a very weird place. △↗,
To a certain extent, Phantom Knight City is very successful. It only took less than a year from the city's founding to its current glory.
In just 10 months, they defeated several waves of powerful enemies, opened up the southern maritime trade route, and established the status of the economic center of southern mainland China from south to north. Due to the implementation of low transit tax, flat city entry fee, but levy of transaction tax,
The tax revenue derived from business activities alone is as high as one million gold coins every month. The only special thing is that they prefer to use god's gold coins as the trading currency. Caravans that use god's gold coins to pay taxes will receive considerable discounts.
Militarily, the Phantom Knights have established a standing army of over 10,000 people, a winged elf mercenary escort of 4,000 people, a local garrison of 20,000 people, and a reserve militia of 30,000 people.
Five thousand people. In addition, there are countless mysterious bee troops and golem troops.
What is blinding is that there is also an ancient red dragon raised in the city.
It was recently announced that this place will become the new capital of the Kingdom of Corianpas.
Stimulated by the news, the population of Phantom Knight City surged, exceeding 200,000 in early October 1315. The population of the entire Phantom Knights Kingdom exceeded 600,000. This number is still increasing rapidly. It will only be a matter of time before it surpasses the old Kingdom of Colombes.
problem.
Judging from the literal data, Phantom Knight City is definitely one of the best metropolises on the continent of Ultron, and the Phantom Knights Territory is the prototype of an empire.
In fact, no empire sincerely admits that the Phantom Knights is a new empire or something.
Without it, in politics, Raven's approach simply subverted tradition and ran counter to the aristocratic system that had been circulating on the mainland for countless thousands of years.
Ever since Raven became the Duke of Phantom Knights, he has never really granted a single knight, let alone a low-level noble. The rewards granted are often symbolic, such as giving Bai Mao and Wallis a landless title.
Viscount.
Let an orc and a pure elf be the nobles of the human kingdom!?
Well, originally it was unreliable for a half-elf to be a high-ranking noble like a Duke.
Before Raven revealed his power of shadow, the noble goddess Shinworth came to protest. Later, when she saw that Raven's approach was obviously to go straight to the gods, Shinworth stopped saying anything.
If it weren't for the fact that the two goddesses had placed their base in the Phantom Knight, Raven's behavior of treating nobles as if they were nothing would have attracted the siege of the seven empires.
Religiously, the Phantom Knights are also extremely exclusive.
Although there is no ban on priests from the good and neutral alignments coming to preach, religions other than designated sects are expressly prohibited from establishing any religious gathering places in the territory, let alone temples.
Designated denomination?
Of course, the first choice is the Church of Phantom and the Church of Strategy.
Next is the Church of Love and Goodness and the Church of Fighting.
In addition, wing elves and sea elves are allowed to build medium-sized prayer places near the city.
In order to plan for future godhood, Raven even acquiesced to those rogue and assassin organizations to set up supervised gatherings within the territory. This is a newly established loosely structured organization, the Federation of Shadows.
The only real exception is that the sprout goddess Xionlia was allowed to build a small temple in the city. The shameless and practical Raven took a fancy to the priest's ability to make the holy water of life, and he did not hesitate to let Ai Deli work as a lobbyist and agreed to build a small temple in the south.
The wilderness was planted with artificial trees and agreed to Xionlia's spread of faith in the territory. Only then did she recruit the priest of the neutral and good goddess to serve as a pharmacist.
But Xionlia is not like Raven.
In terms of cultural life, the Phantom Knights Territory is relatively poor, completely unworthy of its wealthy status. It is strictly forbidden to use wheat, rye and other grains to brew wine privately in the territory, and the penalty may be exiled or executed. There are only a few officially-operated restaurants.
The winery brews grain wine on a limited basis and only supplies it in limited quantities during major festivals. The only exceptions are those dwarf craftsmen.
All excess grain will be purchased by the government, and any form of takeaway and destruction is prohibited.
There are no restrictions on handicrafts and daily necessities for the middle and lower classes, but extremely high taxes are levied on luxury goods commonly used by high-ranking nobles, and the caravans are considered undesirable.
The result of a series of measures is that among the population of other countries, the more widely recognized name is [Yunfield Divine Kingdom]!
Yes, the Kingdom of God!
A highly centralized, highly militarized Kingdom of God!
Among the seven empires, except for the kneeling Erwin and the relatively friendly Mosha, the other five empires would not give the people of Corian Pais a good look at all.
At the same time, because it has been in a state of war preparedness for a long time, everyone in the country has not been forced to believe in Laila and the Red Knight. Therefore, among the majority of the unbelievers, the mentality of the people has undergone subtle changes. They are all too nervous. However, they lack sufficient channels to vent.
This caused various rumors to spread, and the situation got out of hand.
Some are reliable and some are unreliable.
"The orc army of 300,000 is about to counterattack!"
"The underground we are standing on has been completely opened up by the races of the underground kingdom. The dark drow and gray dwarves will attack the ground at any time and kill us all."
"Actually, Raven does not believe in shadows. He is actually a lich hiding in the human kingdom! He is planning to sacrifice millions of people across the region to become his skeleton soldiers and death knights."
For those who were too outrageous, Karin ordered them to be arrested and hanged immediately.
In this incident, Karin even smelled the scent of Cyric, the god of murder. Cyric, who also has the priesthood of lies, is also a leader in using lies and rumors to destroy enemies.
Karin and Effiin have always been a little helpless about the rumors. In the final analysis, it is because Phantom Knight City has always been in a state of local war, and the people's tension has not been relieved. The war under their feet is far worse than the border area thousands of miles away.
The war makes people nervous.
If there weren't occasional big festivals like Suni's Green Grass Festival in the territory to provide relief, the people would probably fall into panic.
In fact, due to Raven's recent absence and the news that he had been kidnapped by Rose, the people were even more frightened every day, fearing that hearing the news of Raven's death at any time would lead to the collapse of the entire territory.
That's right! There are two goddesses sitting in the territory.
It is a pity that neither Leila nor the Red Knight are good at internal affairs. They can influence their own believers, but they cannot influence the vast majority of unfaithful new immigrants.
On the same day that Laila learned that Raven was safe, there was a very, very beautiful Persian cat on the eaves of the building next to the central square of Phantom Knight City.
The whole cat was almost pure gold, and its beautiful hair was like satin, sparkling in the sun. People almost thought it was a mythical beast or something. Only when they took a closer look did they realize that it was the most ordinary Persian cat, only with its appearance.
Very beautiful.
As if tired of watching the clumsy performances of the inferior minstrels in the square, the Persian cat arched its back, straightened its limbs, stretched deeply, and yawned.
"Meow, the entertainment here is terrible, but luckily there are a lot of handsome guys." The hawker under the eaves suddenly heard a very nice female voice. After listening to this voice, the hawker felt as if he was being tickled, and his whole body became numb.
I couldn't help but look up several times, only to find that there was only one Persian cat.
I felt itchy in my heart, but I couldn't see anyone, so I could only assume that I heard wrongly.
The Persian cat glanced at the handsome guys in the square lazily. Since the Phantom Knights Territory is a typical mixed-race community, except for the absence of elves, tall and handsome winged elves and half-elves can be seen everywhere.
Cats make chirping sounds, are they grading the looks of handsome guys?
Before you know it, dusk arrives and the charm of the night begins to appear.
The citizens who had worked hard for a day went home, and after finishing their meal, they started their nightlife. It was also good to go to the bar and drink a few glasses of fruit wine. The land in the territory was very strange, or it was extremely productive fertile soil, so it was only allowed to
To produce food, the land is either barren and can at most be planted with fruit trees.
It seems that there was a handiwork by a certain god. There is a large fruit forest in the south of Phantom Knight City. It is legal to make wine from the fruits of the fruit trees. The half-elves and winged elves who are responsible for taking care of the fruit trees are also willing to exchange the ripe fruits for gold coins.
There was wine, but the slightly sour fruit wine and the bad entertainment as a certain existence commented, obviously could not keep the citizens happy.
City center, Maoyu Bar.
As a reward for the old man Jacob, the former president of the Adventurer's Guild, who pledged his allegiance to Raven, Raven gave the open space reserved in the center of the city to the old man's grandson, Allen Jacob, with a stroke of his pen.
Hence this bar with a booming business.
The light in the bar is not very bright, and more than thirty tables are full. Most of them are officers who have a lot of spare money in their pockets but have nowhere to spend it, and young girls who hope to find a rich husband. Because this is not a golden city.
In a gold-selling shop that allows you to do anything, how to legally get money out of customers' pockets is a science.
Allen does not have his grandfather's talent for casting spells, but he has inherited his grandfather's shrewdness.
The bar is always filled with light-paced music, with melodies that can easily make people feel excited, lingering in the spacious space.
The perfect rise and turn of the piano sound can be heard as a superb skill comparable to that of a court musician.
In the middle of the bar is an oval dance floor, with a stage nearly one and a half meters high behind the dance floor.
Under the swaying and flickering magic lights, several half-elf girls in hot and sexy clothes danced nimblely and swayed their delicate bodies wantonly amid the heart-tugging piano sounds. They ranged between miniskirts and midi skirts.
The short skirt fluttered and flipped up during the hot dance, revealing her hot white thighs, which caused a burst of applause from the officers.
Guys who are impatient like this just throw silver coins up as a reward, hoping to win the favor of the girl and have a pleasant night after the dance.
The rules of the dance floor are that as long as female guests are interested, they can go down and dance.
But the stage is different. If guests want to get on, they have to dance. If they don’t have enough looks and dancing skills, they are not qualified to get on.
And tonight, a mysterious female guest appeared on the stage.
Just the graceful steps when they took the stage made the girls on the stage think that their dancing skills were not enough and gave up without a fight.
That is a woman as elegant as a cat! (To be continued.)