The storm of early spring had not yet passed, and the storm was still raging outside the governor's palace of Suruo, and from time to time the sound of large trees being broken was heard, crushing all the houses nearby.

Salton put his hands behind his back and looked out the window at the street in silence,

The popping sound of the raindrops hitting the window, although the rain stars outside the window, but still the lights of the city, like the stars in the sky, the streets with a flow of people, the shouting of merchants on the street, the streamer of pedestrians walking leisurely, the lively girls in various clothes strolling through the streets in the rain, like flowers and butterflies flying up and down.

As the largest city in the south of Ruierdian, from east to west, the scale of the city can be described as magnificent, with a length and width of 30 miles of city walls, which is the first male city in the Ikadiva continent, which has a population of only about 30 million in the entire continent.

Located in the center of the tripartite border of Ruierdian, Dorok and Nord, the Suruo region has unique conditions to become a commercial center, and the new governor of Suo, Sulton, adopted an economic policy similar to a commercial alliance, and all trade in the Suruo region has abolished the traditional trade tax, and the actual transaction amount is subject to one-twentieth of the tax. ^//^

This policy has greatly alleviated the impact of regional turmoil.

The nobles are still drunk and dreaming of death in the wine banquet and singing, and the commoners live their own little lives plainly, and occasionally the silver bell-like laughter from the windowsill can be seen in a blink of an eye, a pure and lively face, Su

In order to build a logistics base that is enough to fight Nord, the people of Surdian consciously built Suruo as an economic center of the entire south, with Dvalin in the north and Suruo in the south.

Facts have also proved that because of the solid support of the Suruo region, the northward momentum of the southern Nords has been blocked several times, and these two places have been used as the focus of population migration, forming the largest resource area in the north, the three northern counties, and the largest logistics center in the south, Suruo.

It is in this context that countless peoples who were conquered by the Ruierdian were driven here, and under the power of the Ruierdian, after hundreds of years of integration and evolution, a regional race mixed with the blood of various ethnic groups was formed, the Suruo people,

They are different from the more orthodox blonde and blue-eyed people of Ruierdian, most of the Suruo people have a little black appearance, thicker lips, and their eyes are not the blue kind, but a bit of mixed silver-gray.

It may be the reason for the mixed blood, Su Ruo's women have always been known for their beauty and charm, while the men are handsome and chic, if you meet a real blonde hair and silver eyes, it is definitely just by looking at the eyes, it is enough to make most women feel excited.

Dozens of areas are separated from the inside and outside, from the innermost high-ranking aristocratic area, to the peripheral civilian residential area, densely packed and towering rooftops, countless densely intertwined streets divide the city, forming their own unique living area, and the 300,000 Su people living in it seem to be completely unaware of the war on the mainland and still living peacefully.

Since Salton became the master of Suruo, the thieves who put the security of the Suruo area in the first place and dared to do businessless business on the Suruo road have been severely attacked by this big man from the Ministry of Military Affairs, and the local garrison and the newly formed Suruo local legion have taken them as targets for practice, but it has only been 2 months, and the famous leaders of the Yulin at the beginning, except for those who are very knowledgeable about the current affairs and left Suruo, the rest of the people have obediently hung their heads on the gate of Suruo's city to warn them. ...,

With good public security, convenient transportation, and the most ideal passage for border trade, the roads are full of vehicles loaded with all kinds of goods every day, rolling into the vast market in the city, Suruo is becoming the largest and most prosperous city in the southeast.

It's a pity that Salton, who created this qiē, has a bad reputation in Suruo, because he is the governor of the powerful side of the Suruo region, not only has administrative power, but also has military power, and the newly formed Suruo First and Second Legions, in addition to undertaking the task of defending, also have an important task, that is, to inspect the goods to and from the trade, to see if there are any prohibited goods in the trade.

The definition of this prohibited goods is often changed, weapons, war horses, armor, etc. are naturally prohibited goods, but in the "Circulation Act" that Salton personally reviewed and issued, general daily necessities such as iron raw materials, food, and medicines suddenly became prohibited items, and the local military and political governors can also define and increase the list of prohibited items according to the actual situation.

Under these circumstances, Solton, as the supreme commander of the army in the Suruo region, had very great commanding authority, and he had the right to determine the prohibited items and types on his own according to the actual situation, and to organize the troops to scoop and seize them, which means that if he did not agree, it would be illegal for the merchants to transport even a bundle of firewood out of Suruo.

With such a great deal of power in the hands of one person, it goes without saying that the fullness of Salton's oil and water is the most enviable even in the Nord military world.

In fact, Salton belongs to the kind of person who has been in office for three months and has a net worth of more than 10 million, and as for where this money is used, not many people know.

In the last week, Salton had gathered all his subordinates who had not yet sat hot in their chairs, and had a big slap before speaking

"Recently, the customs and regulations have been relaxed, and many unscrupulous businessmen have smuggled contraband items on a large scale, which is very rampant, and has damaged the normal economic order of Suruo. You must not remain indifferent to this phenomenon! Starting today, all units will launch a three-month campaign to severely crack down on cross-border smuggling, and you must strictly enforce it! If you dare to slack off, don't blame my subordinates for showing no mercy!

"Yes!" the Nord generals replied in unison

Salton laughed and scooped out the catalogue book, and the Nord generals were immediately stunned. Almost out of breath, I saw the list of prohibited items. It is 20 centimeters thick and weighs 10 pounds.

"Your Excellency...... This ......"

Someone trembled and opened it and hurriedly read it, and immediately gasped in fright, the richness of the catalog is simply staggering, you can make up another big encyclopedia, the list of items is varied, from toothpicks, lipstick, nail clippers, donkeys, cloth clothes, wood, iron needs, war horses are all in it.

In the next three days, all checkpoints and border patrol units throughout the territory of Suluo received a thick catalog, and the commanders of the troops didn't even bother to look at it, instead of remembering what was on the catalog, it was better to remember what was not on the catalog.

Suruo's taxes have doubled in the last month, and some people have even heard that this guy has used this money to set up an independent combat department in his governor's palace, but at least the garrison of the two integrated regiments and the full amount of 300,000 gold coins per month are enough to silence many people in the Nord leadership.

Because everyone knows that now the king's greatest lack is the army, and then money, Nord, which has just experienced a fiasco, urgently needs to absorb the lost nutrients from various places, this battle of the south, more than 70,000 people to compensate for the war damage, has made the entire Nord finances almost bankrupt, and the accumulated treasury of several years is empty.

Even the Minister of Finance has been ill for 18 days and has not participated in the court meeting, there is no way, it is said that there are 17 or 8 generals who are blocked by the Ministry of Finance every day to ask for compensation for war damages, these short-tempered guys, if it were not for the fact that the Minister of Finance is also from the Ministry of Military Affairs, would have directly ordered the soldiers to break the door of the Ministry of Finance,...,

This time, the two reorganized corps were crippled in order to break through, and the crimson legion was directly recognized as the annihilation of the entire army, coupled with the mutiny of tens of thousands of people in the southern army, this battle is definitely a shame that is rare in a hundred years in the kingdom of Vode!

If it weren't for the Falcon Army's final stupid move, so that the Nord army found an outlet to return to the sea, I was afraid that the 150,000 Nord elite troops would all be buried in the mountains south of Vekia, but the days of running back were not easy, losing more than 20,000 people, and they were attacked by the Falcon Navy at sea, and lost more than 20,000 people, and finally 80,000 troops who got on the ship and returned home, less than 50,000 were able to reach Yard safely,

Then there is to appease the southern army whose homes were destroyed, and the treasury has allocated nearly half a year's income in advance for this, and what worries the Nord Kingdom is still behind, the southern coastal areas of the kingdom are still in the hands of the Falcon Dynasty, if you want to recover, the money you need to spend is also incalculable, and some ministers have to wonder if Soldton's move is also a secret order of His Majesty!

The change in Suruo's attitude has the greatest impact on the business alliance, because there are too many embargoed goods, many caravans have to stop trading activities, but the impact is also huge, because of the shortage of materials, the state of Suruo, the southern center, will undoubtedly have an impact on the entire Nord,

The report of Su Ruo's anomaly was first sent to the headquarters of the business alliance closely related to Su Ruo in late March, and Sokutus Deran, who scooped up the letter, immediately drove to the Boansdo Manor outside the city of Zhivading after carefully reviewing the recent commodity trading projects of Su Ruo.

No one will know that this manor with the early spring breeze letter will be the fat man's current temporary residence.

Because of the temporary stay from Žvadington guò, the fat man is only temporarily stationed here for one night, which is a beautiful place

Dense farmsteads, verdant fields, a river running in front of the manor, winding east to the horizon beyond,

The golden light and shadow float on the great plains, the breeze rides the scent of weeds and mint in from the window,

Here reminds the fat man of his falcon territory, calm and calm