"The security commander outside the waiting city has met all the officers!" Facing the two most powerful generals of the empire and the concurrently serving as the top military judge, the dwarf commander on duty did not dare to neglect at all: "Everyone has entered the waiting city.
From here onwards, the supply of the officers will be entirely handled by the Guards, as well as specially equipped guides and liaison officers."
"Don't be nervous, Colonel, this is your jurisdiction, and we will cooperate with you." Jack acted like a military judge and returned a standard military salute: "How far is it from here to the city? I have traveled a long way.
I want to take a hot bath early."
"There's still half a day's journey!" Every officer of the Guards has received orthodox studies and training, including how to deal with others, so although he is a dwarf, the commander has no obstacle in understanding Jack's intention: "Don't disturb me.
Sirs!"
"Thank you, Colonel." Jack returned the military salute again.
The equipped guides and liaison officers opened the way, and a large cavalry composed of three high-ranking Sibiya guards was slowly advancing. In such a high-security area, except for His Majesty the Emperor and one or two special departments, there was no one.
Anyone can run a horse and gallop. The vigilant Guardsmen did not grow up on a vegetarian diet.
However, walking slowly also has its advantages. His Majesty Cohen left a confidential document to each high-ranking official who was summoned, as well as information introducing the city. The two generals originally planned to read it after entering the city, but Jack asked them to
Let’s look at it now. The reason is that there are many acquaintances in the city. If you don’t take this opportunity to familiarize yourself with all aspects of the city you are visiting, you will be ridiculed by others for not knowing anything after entering the city.
Everyone has different personalities, but they are all people who want to save face, so they read through it on horseback. The documents are actually not important and can be read in a few glances, but the information introducing the city is a thick pile, and there are also
The illustrations are very interesting.
"It's hard to imagine that such a big city with so much construction has only taken more than two years to build." Jack looked at the city map in a daze: "Is this really the imperial capital? Whose imperial city has it?
On this scale?”
"You are right, the scale is relatively large." Haiert measured it on the scale of the map with his little finger and guessed the approximate area in his mind: "The main city is within the city wall. The area is about the size of Foxburg in the Demon Alliance.
Four times. However, this hexagonal city wall is really strangely built."
"Isn't this explained above? The new emperor will have a new look. The hexagonal city wall looks beautiful, can maximize the use of space, and is more convenient in terms of defense." Moya flipped through page after page.
I didn't seem to find anything particularly interesting: "The other defense facilities are basically copied from the Dark City. Well, two flying units' camps and take-off fields have been added. However, they seem to lack defensive magic arrays.
introduce……"
"The alderman is Colter again. This guy is truly the first alderman!" Jack found an acquaintance in the official directory: "Look who the guarding military general is... It's Major General Rock in name, but I think in reality
The defense tasks should still be carried out by this command under his name... But this arrangement is too strange. It is like the main city of the lord, and the military and civil affairs are all the people around His Majesty Cohen. Even the number of officials and generals of various ethnic groups
They are all upgraded in proportion, but there is no share in the internal affairs system."
"You are right." Haiert, a big mouth, did not dare to say anything: "Rather than saying that this is the capital of the Sibia Empire, it is better to say that this is the capital of His Majesty and us!"
Moya coughed dryly and changed the topic: "Speaking of which, fortunately we withdrew from the Divine Alliance before the imperial capital was made public, and the temple was also invited out. Otherwise, this beautiful city is destined to have a place for the priests.
They occupy it, it makes me feel very depressed just thinking about it... By the way, Jack, the priest thing is no trouble, right?"
"There is some trouble, but it's not that big. That's why I walk at night." Jack closed the document in his hand: "Actually, it's easy to understand. Which priest would be willing to give up this fat piece of Sibia? Looking at the contractor
The regiment has been established, and now we are seeing the war compensation arriving. We can just sit there and collect the money without doing anything. At this time, asking them to get out is even more uncomfortable than killing them."
"So, someone is causing trouble?"
"I didn't have the chance to get in touch before, but this time it opened my eyes. In order to stay, the priests spent a lot of money." Jack laughed: "Do you know how much I collected? It's equivalent to one-fifth of Sibia's tax last year.
One. Do you know how many secret weapons I dug out of the temple? Forty-seven thousand people! Do you know how many people I chopped off their heads during this period? Almost a thousand."
"Damn it!" Haiert was startled: "This is not a war. Your position is fundamentally related to people's livelihood. You can't kill people indiscriminately!"
"Iron case, irrefutable evidence." Jack spread his hands: "You don't know, even I didn't know before, that there are many temples that have connections with pirates and bandits from all over the world. If we drive them away, all dirty things will be exposed.
Yes. They killed people and swindled goods, so I can’t blame them. They will be recorded in record and reported to His Majesty before notifying Paradise Island, and then kaka kaka kaka... Oh, we are in company!"
The two generals looked back and saw a horse team running quickly on the road in the distance. Judging from the flying dust, they thought there were two to three hundred people.
"You are even more arrogant than I am, and you actually rode your horse within the city." Haiert looked at it and made a preliminary judgment: "Although the guard is tight, the formation is not strict. It is not His Majesty's guard, and Your Majesty should not start from this."
Directions out."
"It's okay if they're not His Majesty's guards." Seeing that the knights were in uniform from a distance, Jack adjusted his clothes and prepared to show off his power: "Is prison food really so delicious? Well, no matter which one it is
Lords of tribes or provinces, since these people really hope to be punished by military law, I have to give them a chance..."
The opponent's cavalry came very quickly and caught up with them in a short time. The officer in the escort group gave an order, and the guards surrounded the three senior officials. The others moved their horses to make way for one-third of the road.
The guards slowly came forward, with their hands holding weapons - a few horses rushed out from the chasing cavalry, and made signs to this direction before the large group of people met.
"It seems that you, the military judge, can't do anything about him." Haiert chuckled: "This bastard disappeared for a while and actually learned to show off his authority. Let's find a place to deal with him later. What do you think?"
"Bah, bah, bah, you two go take care of him. I don't have the temper to offend him." Jack looked bored: "Last time, he arrested his adjutant, and he was released before he could register, and then he returned
He came here to demand compensation and extorted a carriage of red wine from me!"
"Among the few of us, you have the most good things, so who can I knock if I don't knock you?" Moya raised his hand and said hello to a knight who rushed up, with a rare smile on his face.
The knight was about the same age as the three of them. He wore a black cloak and a straight military uniform wrapped around his thin body. He had a stern face and sharp eyes.
The horse rushed in front of the three men and whirled around with a long neigh. The young knight nodded to the three men respectively, but had no other expression on his face. He only took off his cloak and threw it to his subordinates, revealing the special black military uniform underneath.
There is a sixteen-pointed star embroidered with silver thread in front of it - it is actually the mysterious commander of the Imperial Liaison Department, Major General Mafa.
"Running so fast, is something wrong?" Moya asked softly.
"It's okay." Mafa grinned, which was considered a smile: "When you see someone in front of you, just run a few steps to have fun."
"Now that we are here, let's go together. Now it's different from the past. When we are in the city, we are at the door of our own house. No one will accuse us brothers of forming a clique anymore, hahahahahahaha!" Haiert made a big move to let Mafa
The guards merged into the team, turned to look at the general liaison officer and said: "We are from all over the world, it is not easy to gather enough people. Your face is a bit pale, don't tell me that there are many things. I heard that you were on an errand last time
I met two beautiful girls...get away from each other, you are so close, do you want to listen to the corner?"
Seeing their immediate superiors starting to talk about meat and vegetables, of course the guards hid as far away as possible, and those who couldn't hide had to spread out. Who doesn't know that these four powerful people grew up together?
I started hanging out with His Majesty the Emperor at that time, forgetting their ordinary gossip, if I accidentally heard some secrets, it would be a big trouble!
"Do you know something happened?" While the guards were redistributing their positions, Jack approached Mafa and asked, "Who is it?"
"I know." Mafa glanced at Jack's saddle, reached over and pulled out a small wine bottle, put it under her nose, smelled it, and put it in her arms: "It's all ready."
Marfa's words were normal and her tone did not fluctuate, but it didn't sound that way to Jack. The first half of his sentence "know" meant that he had understood the whole story; the second half of his sentence "ready" meant
It's even more shocking; and the word "full" can even be considered terrifying - according to the usual work style of the Liaison Department, those old faction officials must be under Mafa's control, just waiting for someone to nod.
Jack nodded silently, not surprised in his heart, because this is one of the functions of the Liaison Department. They are a hidden blade of His Majesty the Emperor. No matter whether the enemy comes from outside or inside, their attacks are fatal. Speaking of which, Mafa
Is it because you have to arrange this matter that you are late?
"Look, the building over there seems to be very tall. Is it from the city?" Now that the matter was like this, Jack didn't say much. He pointed into the distance with his hand: "We just talked about the layout of the city. You
He's from the Liaison Department. He should know more than us. Come on, come on and be our tour guide. If you do well, I will reward you."
Seeing Jack tossing a wine bottle up and down, the guards of the General Liaison Officer were secretly stunned. They had been in the Liaison Department for two or three years, and they had never seen anyone dare to entertain their superiors like this. You know, Major General Mafa,
Give him the nickname Blood Lord!
"That is the only mountain in this basin. It is located directly behind the imperial palace in Dacheng. The emperor personally designed the buildings on it, but nothing has been done yet."
What surprised the guards even more was that the major general actually acted as a tour guide with a calm face: "What we can see now is a platform, which is very large and was built by flattening the top of the mountain. There is also a bridge that goes over the city wall.
This mountain is connected to the palace..."
Everyone marveled together.
The three senior officials and their subordinates were marveling at the emperor's grand gesture, thinking that the bridge connecting the palace and the outside of the city must be very spectacular. But the subordinates of the general liaison officer were marveling at the chief's eloquence... What is this? Does the chief want to
Are you going to finish what you have been saying for a year today? Your Majesty is not usually of this temper. He won’t use his hands when he can nod his head, and he will never speak when he can stop talking!
Even last year, a prince's sister-in-law went directly to a princess and stuffed a love letter into a document that required Major General Mafa's personal review. Major General Mafa didn't even raise an eyebrow and wrote two words on it.
Words - Read.
If I hadn't met these three people today, even if I beat them to death, they wouldn't have believed that their immediate superiors still had such a eloquent side.
"But I'm a little surprised. When all the facilities in the city are complete and the area is so large, how can it be built in two or three years?" Jack asked doubtfully: "Let's not talk about what is needed to build the city.
Funds and materials, let’s just talk about the most basic labor, is it possible that we still have millions of unregistered workers?”
"Where are you thinking? You know the troops we left behind on the dividing line in a certain year, right? But after you become a judge, you don't know about this aspect." Mafa explained: "After that, these troops left behind
The army began to cultivate wasteland, and because it produced more food, it began to accept a large number of leftover people from the tribe, and eventually the scale became larger and larger. And they could not see the light, so they always lived on the dividing line in a legion system.
"
"A large number?" Jack was stunned: "How many people are there?"
"I don't know the detailed number. Anyway, the roads, logistics bases, etc. on the dividing line were all built by them. This section of the dividing line in the empire is the focus of construction. In other places, only necessary security forces are retained, although they cannot be said to be versatile.
Fighting, but you are still competent when doing other things." Looking at Jack's expression, Mafa smiled stiffly: "I know what you want to ask, it means that the empire has a very small number of security troops, right?"
"Yes, the empire is only equipped with one legion, no matter how dissatisfied it is with the dividing line."
"It's very simple. Just use one number for multiple troops. Anyway, they are self-sufficient and don't have to wait for the empire to feed them." Mafa said: "So, we have to build a waiting city. Except for a hundred thousand people, everything else is
They did it. Even though these people are not good at fighting, they are very good at building cities. They know exactly where the raw materials are and how they can be transported."
"I see, I'm still wondering, where did the supplies come from during the war? That stupid boy Layton Lorenzo couldn't even pack them in time. So that's what happened." Jack sighed: "In this way,
There is no need for residents near the city to move from other places, it is enough to have them."
"You are wrong about this. Cohen has no plans to relocate residents in large numbers, and after the city is built, these people will return to their place of origin." At this point, Mafa also had some doubts in her eyes: "It seems that Cohen hasn't decided yet.
Who should be allowed to live in the city?"
"So, the city is empty now?" Jack's eyes widened.
"There are troops, there are laborers, and there are many people." Mafa shook his head again: "There are still many buildings in the city that have not been completed, and there are not enough docks... Look, that is the city wall, the style of the dark city, both inside and outside
layer."
"It's really spectacular." Jack looked up and saw an extremely majestic city at the end of the trade road finally revealed.
Looking from afar, on this endless green land, rolling gray-white figures lie quietly prone.
The hexagonal city wall is both sharp-edged and slightly curved, with a height of thirty arms. The watchtowers and gate towers are tall and straight next to each other. Coupled with the towering spiers in the city, the first impression given is that it is majestic without losing sight of it.
Handsome. If you get closer, you can see the dignified city gate. If you get closer, the waving flags come into view.
The wind slowly passing overhead brought the sound of trombones from the city wall. Looking up, groups of flying soldiers crossed the sky in a neat formation. The width of the trade road more than doubled unknowingly.
The trees on the roadside were neatly trimmed, and a row of large blood-red characters written on a two-person-high stone tablet - Where the country is, where the home is!
"Okay!" Standing in front of the stone monument, the first person to roar out was Moya, who had always been shy. Perhaps in the heart of this lieutenant general, the words country and family hold the most weight.
"Hey." Haiert shook his head and sighed, pointing to the signature of the emperor of the empire next to him and said: "The gap between me and this person has widened again. I am really unwilling to accept it... I will have to ask my wife to make up for me later."
Approaching the city gate, the accompanying guards adjusted their positions and surrounded the four superiors in an almost too strict formation. The four flags indicating their identities were raised high, facing the spectacle built with stone bars.
Go, the sound of horse hooves is loud and everyone holds their breath.
A group of people came out of the city gate, apparently to greet them.
Both sides stopped at the same time, Haiert nodded slightly, the adjutant dismounted, and trotted to stand in the middle of the road.
"Lieutenant General Helter, commander of the Imperial Guards, Lieutenant General Moya, commander of the Northern Army of the Empire, Jack, the supreme military judge of the Empire, Major General Marfa, commander of the Imperial Liaison Department, and members of their respective guards have been ordered to report to the city. Please check the order documents.
!”
An officer on the opposite side also trotted out of the queue and replied loudly: "By order of His Majesty the Emperor, the city administrator Colter and the city defense commander on duty are here to inspect the order documents of the officers!"
The two adjutants walked to one place, took the order from the other party, opened their own code books and compared them carefully. After finishing, they each left their copies, then they saluted each other and left. During the whole process, everyone involved was meticulous.
Expressionless - The transfer of officials at this level is something that needs to be treated with caution.
"Come on, come on, bring up the thirst-quenching drinks for everyone!" As soon as the formalities were completed, Colter ran over with a smile: "Thank you for your hard work, you have been eating and sleeping all the way."
"Who is like you? You are a well-rounded person. Even when you are an official, you are only an official in the imperial capital." Jack dismounted first and hugged Colter: "I said, even though you came here, I will be informed."
You are guilty of corruption..."
Being said like this to Jack's face, other officials would have been shaking like chaff, but Colter was not an ordinary official. He was the emperor's first personal aide, and he was very familiar with the Cohen brothers, and Jack was always there all year round.
Shengdu is even more familiar with him.
"Unjust!" Colter shouted in an extremely exaggerated tone: "All the money I collected was turned over to the treasury, and there is a receipt!"
"Ah!" Jack pushed him away: "Wen cried to me last time, saying that you robbed his family heirloom!"
"Wen - you bastard, get out of here!" Colt turned back and shouted: "You actually sued me!"
"It's not me!" A voice on the wall replied: "It's Wadi!"
"Wadi - get out of here!"
"Your mother, you actually listened to that bastard Wen's nonsense, Mogadi can testify for me!"
A dwarf rushed out from the city gate, dragging a sandman in his hand. Then, a group of people surrounded the city gate and began to fight, spitting flying everywhere.
"As expected, they are all gathered together." Moya took the drink from the guard and handed it to Helter and Marfa with a smile on his face: "They are all very energetic!"
"I don't want to drink this stuff, it's tasteless!" Haiert strode forward and said, "Wadi, bring me the wine!"
Mafa dipped her finger in the bowl of drink, took it back and looked at it before saying to Moya: "No problem, drink it!"
"Report……"
As soon as Moya raised the bowl to his mouth, he rode a fast horse and rushed towards the city. The knight on the horse shouted loudly: "Reporting to all officers - His Majesty the Emperor has arrived outside the West City Gate, only ten miles away!"
There was silence under the city gate.
"Have you calculated the time accurately?" Mafa was stunned.
"Let's go." Moya put down the bowl and said, "Welcome to you." (To be continued)