The basic administrative structure of the Dawning Realm is that the Acropolis Council is the supreme center of power. The Speaker of the Parliament and the twelve elders of the www.biquge.infoElder Council, who hold the authority of the kingdom, are the highest leaders of the country.

Under the Senate, there was the highest management body of the state, that is, various ministerial units, such as the Ministry of Magic, such as the Ministry of Communication and Commuting (also known as the Ministry of Transportation). These departments are responsible for the concrete implementation of the programmes established by the Kingdom.

The next is the city-level department, for example, the city lord of Moondew City belongs to the city-level leader. The lord of Moondew City is under the supervision of the Officials' Examination Department.

And at the bottom, there are deputy city-level leaders, such as the deputy city lord, such as the director of the first magic affairs management department in Moondew City, who belongs to this class.

At the same level is the Captain of the Moondew City Patrol Team, Captain Tom, who manages 3,000 patrol members.

Of course, these people are unattainable beings for Arrizo, he is just a patrolman, and there is still a big gap between him and the real management class of this kingdom.

It's like a squad leader's position, although a secondary school diploma is definitely required to hold it, but if you want to get this position, you must make a relative contribution.

There is no such thing as just relying on seniority to get to the top in the Dawn Realm. This is a place where strength and merit speak. It is difficult for people who do not have skills to go further in this society.

If you want to say that Arrizo wants to be promoted? You must know that Arrizo's current salary is only ten pounds and fifteen shillings a month.

In terms of the basic exchange value of money, a pound is worth twenty shillings, and one shilling is worth a hundred pence. Arrizo's most popular form of amusement was to read the Dawning Monthly, a weekly magazine of about 120 pages and sold for five shillings.

To put it simply, Arrizo spends one-twentieth of her monthly salary on reading. But reading books is inherently expensive. Dawning is one of the most approachable publications. Of course, if you don't care about timeliness, you can go to a second-hand book stall and buy last year's publications. The price is only one-third of the original price.

In terms of food, Arrizo's usual meal is as follows: a stewed black bean, a multigrain bread, a small portion of smoked chicken, and a vegetarian soup. It costs about fifty pence.

Because the patrol members exercise a lot, Arrizo has to eat four meals a day to ensure that he does not go hungry. The cost of a day is two shillings. The cost of food for a month is close to sixty shillings. That's six pounds.

Combined with the other groceries, and the monthly Dawn magazine, Arrizo had to spend at least seven pounds and fifteen shillings a month. You can only save about three pounds a month.

Of course, this income is actually higher than that of most of the kingdom's citizens, and if you work as a waiter or an ordinary worker, your monthly income will probably be one to two pounds less. In that case, you can't eat meat at every meal, like Arrizo.

Rather, there may be only one meal a day with meaty food.

In fact, in the civilian area where Arrizo lives, many people are very envious of Arrizo's work. The boys, in particular, looked majestic when they saw Arrizo wearing a black leatherette tight-fitting uniform, with a sword and gun pinned to it, and a bow and arrow on his shoulder.

There are even a lot of girls in Arrizo, and there are many people who kiss him. But Arrizo has been single until now.

This makes many people scratch their heads, a good income and a stable job. Not to mention that he looks very handsome, but at least why doesn't a tall and good-looking man take a wife?

Some people deduce that Arrizo wants to climb up, and if he climbs to the position of squad leader or even detachment leader, then he will not be a simple civilian girl to marry a wife in the future. Rather, it is the daughter of some merchant family with a small price, or the daughter of some small official family. This will be helpful for his future career.

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"I've saved about three hundred pounds this year, Penny. The money was soon enough. Arrizo had a crude unfiltered glass of beer in her hand, and the beer was a little cloudy and not a nice transparent golden yellow. The bubbles are also not delicate, and this beer has nothing to offer other than being cheap.

But across from Arrizo, who was drinking such a shoddy beer, sat a beautiful lady. Her complexion was a healthy and beautiful wheat color, and she had beautiful green eyes, which were as transparent as the finest emeralds.

The plump apple muscles and the pear vortex hanging when she smiles add to her charm. But now the beautiful lady frowned slightly, and between her eyebrows became a Sichuan character: "Arrizo, I said it." You don't need to worry about me, you should have married and had children a long time ago. Instead of wasting time with me. ”

"I said it a long time ago, Penny. You are the only lady I want to marry in this life, and I want you to be my wife. Arrizo stared into Penny's eyes and said seriously.

But Penny dodged Arrizo's fiery eyes and said in a low tone, "Is it really good to marry a prostitute?"

"Does it matter?" Arrizo said indifferently, "I like you just like you, and it has nothing to do with who you are." Nor will it be an obstacle to our relationship. ”

Penny smiled weakly, for there was a huge obstacle between her and Arrizo, and it was real. Her father was a small grain merchant who went bankrupt five years ago. And thousands of pounds of debt were incurred.

The cowardly father chose to die, but his death did not stop the creditors from collecting the debt. And such a debt can only fall on Penny's.

Penny, who has no ability to resist, is forced to work in the Burning Phoenix to pay off his debts. To this day, Penny had paid off most of her debts, and she was free with five hundred pounds of debt.

If Arrizo really wanted to give three hundred pounds, she would actually be able to get out of this damn place in a few months.

But Penny is helpless, because she knows that she can't get out of it until her last value is squeezed dry.

She had known Arrizo many years ago, had been a playmate on the street as a child, and the relationship between the two had always been good. When her family was still well-off, Arrizo once came to the door to ask for a kiss. But his snobbish father looked down on Arrizo as an ordinary patrolman.

At that time, Penny's father still thought that his business would become bigger and bigger in the future and become a big grain merchant. So get to know the big people everywhere that he finds useful. He wanted to use the beautiful Penny as his promotion.

But when his father owed a huge amount of money and his family was ruined, the only thing he still remembered was his childhood playmate Arrizo. And the so-called big man who was acquainted with his snobbish father back then was just watching from the wall when his family was broken, watching his family ruin like a play.

Thinking of this, Penny turned his head to look at Arrizo, this man was not handsome, he could only say that he was good-looking. Because of the long-term work of the patrol team, his edges and corners are almost smoothed, so he does not have any outstanding temperament.

Arrizo was like the most ordinary of the people, but for Penny, perhaps this man was the only one who could make her feel warm in this cold world.

So Penny looked at Arrizo's eyes with some tenderness, she reached out and grabbed one of Arrizo's hands and said, "Arrizo, there are some things we can't resist. You know the big boss behind the Burning Phoenix. If they don't want to, then I can't get away with it. ”

"It's not about money, Arrizo. It's a problem that can't even be solved with money. You and I are just commoners, not officials, not nobles, and have no power. There are many things in this world that we can't call the shots. ”

Penny's eyes were a little red and he said, "So let it go." Three hundred pounds, you can give a dowry to the daughter of a very good family. You have your life, so let it go. ”

Arrizo's hand gripping the handle of the wine glass clenched tightly, and the muscles flare. He's just a patrolman, and now he's just an acting squad leader. In this vast dawn, he can't even count as a fart, even in this Moon Dew City with a population of 350,000, he has no strength to speak of.

Arrizo just didn't want to think about the worst. But today, Penny shattered Arrizo's last illusions.

Arrizo didn't know how he got out of Penny's room, but he remembered a guy he ran into when he was out the door.

A guy who used to pursue Penny was the young master of a large cloth shop in Xicheng District. A man with a heavy smell of fat powder, Penny didn't look down on him back then, and Arrizo didn't look down on this guy either. Back then, he was deflated in front of Penny and Arrizo.

And this Second Ancestor was obviously a grudge-holding guy, he looked at Arrizo and felt a little familiar, and then quickly remembered something.

"Yo, isn't this our Arrizo Captain?" said Nishizu, laughing a little sarcastically, an acting squad leader he didn't look at.

"What's the matter, you've come to the Fire Phoenix to find a good match? The Second Ancestor deliberately stopped in front of Arrizo, blocking his way: "You see I'm also here to find the old man, do you remember that Penny?"

"It's the one who looked down on me back then, I remember how many times did you help her fight?" Listening to the words of the Second Ancestor, Arrizo looked at him with an unkind face.

But the second ancestor continued unconcernedly: "You see that she can't refuse me now, I wanted to marry her back home as a wife." As for now, hehe. Second Ancestor Yin laughed a few times.

"Now as long as you have money, you can be a groom every day, do you say that this world is not interesting. Hahahaha!" Second Ancestor smiled heartily, looking at Arrizo's iron-blue complexion, he had a feeling of revenge.

Looking at Arrizo's tightly clenched, fingertips almost white, Nishizu continued, "What? You're here for Penny, too? I remember you always liked to be a little bitch behind this bitch. I wanted to marry her back then, but I didn't get it. It doesn't matter, now you can be a groom just as long as you pay for it!"

"Oh yes, you shouldn't be able to afford it. Penny costs twenty pounds a night, how much do you make in a month? How about it, we still have a relationship, brother, I invite you once, let's be the groom together tonight?" The words of the Second Ancestor made Arrizo's anger reach its peak.

He could only squeeze one sentence out of his teeth: "Get out!"

Looking at Arrizo's eyes that wanted to kill, the second ancestor was not afraid at all. Because he also has two bodyguards with him. The strong ones are much better than Arrizo in terms of kung fu.

The Second Ancestor was not brainless, and he could see clearly that Arrizo was not carrying a musket on his body. Such Arrizo is not much of a threat. That's why he dared to provoke the other party unscrupulously.

And after Arrizo said the words to let him go, the smile that was originally pretending to be was immediately put away by the second ancestor, and he snorted: "I don't know what to lift." Since you don't want to be the groom, then today I will give some extra money and let my two brothers have a groom's hiding!"

"Thank you, young master!" the two strong men who had been following the Second Ancestor immediately returned with a smile. Beauties like Penny are worth a lot of money, and they can't afford to spend it.

The Second Ancestor snorted and walked past Arrizo, and said in a low voice as he walked by, "I'm not happy with me, your fists are so clenched, you want to kill me, come on, kill me." Did you kill me?

Arrizo watched as Nishizu walked into the door of the Flame Phoenix with two bodyguards, and a heart-rending pain struck his body. It was as if every capillary in the body was about to explode, every nerve was stimulated by an electric current, and blood oozed from every pore.

He only went out with a short knife, and his right hand was now on the hilt, calculating how to kill the second ancestor with a single sword.

But as if there was a sense, the two bodyguards beside Nishizu turned around at the same time to face Arrizo's direction.

Their hands were on their waists, and each of them carried two short knives. Looking at the calluses on their tiger mouths, it is obvious that they are all veterans with knives.

The two bald men looked at Arrizo with a smile. They weren't afraid of Arrizo's move, and as long as Arrizo dared to draw his knife, they could chop him up. Because these people are just legitimate defense. You don't even have to eat a lawsuit.

The second ancestor was standing behind the two bodyguards, looking like he was watching a good show. He had said so much before to provoke Arrizo's anger. Then let him lose his mind and do it, so that it doesn't matter if you kill him yourself.

Nisezu was not a fool, or his father would not have entrusted him with a cloth shop that generated 8,000 pounds a year.

The confrontation between the four attracted onlookers from passers-by, and Arrizo had already drawn half of his dagger, dressed like a wolf about to attack.

And at this time, a girl rushed out of the fire phoenix, and the girl was Penny. After glancing at the situation at the scene, she immediately ran to the side of the second ancestor, and said something to him with low eyebrows.

The Second Ancestor ignored him, and Penny continued to persuade him softly. Finally, the Second Ancestor seemed to say something loosely, and a look of hesitation flashed on Penny's face. But after one last glance at Arrizo, Penny nodded at Nishizu, as if he had promised something.

The battle didn't take place in the end, and ten of the security guards of the Flame Phoenix came, and he restrained Arrizo. Arrizo could only see Penny in the distance through the gaps in the crowd.

And the lip gesture she made when she turned back to herself: Let it go, none of us can fight.

When everyone dispersed, when six or seven security guards threw Arrizo into the back alley like a dead dog, when Arrizo lay on the cold pavement with a dead heart.

The ghostly voice reappeared: "Are you willing?"

"Are you really willing to accept what you have now compared to the price?" the man in the gray hood suddenly appeared from the air, as if out of nothing, and he stood in front of Arrizo. Condescendingly, he looked at Arrizo lying on the road. At the same time, he also looked at Arrizo's scars from the security guards of the Flame Phoenix.

"That girl is nice, but she can protect you once, but she can't protect you every time. If you need to fight for everything on your own in this world, why do you get such a girl?" the hooded man's voice was calm, not sarcastic.

Arrizo lay on the cold floor and looked at the faceless hooded man, his tone colder than the winter stone pavement: "So I still have to sell my soul to the devil in the end?"

"Please don't compare me to those birdmen with bat wings. At least what you give to me will get what you get. So, tell me your answer. The hooded man continued to ask calmly.

Arrizo got up from the cold road in severe pain, and there was a fire burning in his eyes, a flame called Unwilling was burning: "Then I promise your terms, but please also keep your promise." ”

"Of course, Mr. Arrizo. Start with a drink at a lively bar. I can give you a little gift in a moment. The hooded man had a smile in his tone.

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