The next few days were a smooth journey, and Su Qiran and Xingnuo finally crossed the Fallen Leaf Plains and arrived at a village outside the city of the Southern Governor.

The territory of the Xingzhu Empire is very simple, the entire kingdom is divided into four realms: east, west, north and south, and each realm has a governor's city as the main city of this realm.

Among the four Governor's Cities, the most famous is the Governor's City in the north, which is also the imperial capital of the Xingzhu Empire, Xingzhu City.

The Governor's City in the south is the Frostleaf City located near the Source River.

The administrative system of the empire is based on the [Castle Lord's Palace] of each city. The city lord's mansion has military power, and is responsible for managing the entire city, large and small, and all kinds of mistakes, construction, maintenance, law and order are under the control of the city lord's mansion.

Each city lord's mansion was subordinate to the governor's office of the territory, and this hierarchical management system greatly solved the problem of insufficient management of remote areas of the empire in the past.

Moreover, the imperial family directly sent members to manage the governor's palace, so as to avoid the consequences of the fall of imperial power to the greatest extent.

As for those small cities and some small villages that do not have a city lord's mansion, they follow the principle of proximity and belong to the city lord's mansion of the nearby big city.

Cracked carriages drove slowly along the paths of the fields, green dealers moved in the breeze, a few peasants toiled in the sky, and occasionally one or two raised their heads and looked curiously at the tattered carriage not far away.

This is a village where the villagers live by farming, and thanks to the revolution in magic technology, huge magical machines in the fields have replaced ploughing oxen, and farmers can afford to buy magic potions that can be mass-produced after simplification. The magic potion can shorten the time it takes for crops to grow and develop without side effects, and wheat can now be harvested three or four times instead of being harvested once a year.

"The Second Sage is truly an incredible person. Xingnuo leaned on the window of the carriage, looked at the huge machinery between heaven and earth, and sighed, "I don't know how many people's lives have been improved by these things he invented." ”

"Perhaps. Su Qiran, who was sitting in front of the carriage, said casually.

"Why do you say your king wants to execute the Second Sage?" Princess Xingnuo was a little puzzled, she grew up listening to the legend of the First Sage of mankind, and on her eightieth birthday... (Elves are immortal species, and their lifespan is not comparable to that of humans, and elves can only be considered adults when they are about two hundred years old)

Since that year, she has always heard her father mention the name of a human being, and gradually, her father's address to that person has been changed to "Second Sage".

Father said that the appearance of that person changed the history of mankind.

The Second Sage, a figure who suddenly appeared and became active fifty years ago, his life is full of legends and mysteries.

The Second Sage is not an ordinary person, but he amazes everyone in terms of the talent of the Demon Dao, although I don't know why the Second Sage can't cultivate, but this does not limit him.

Fifty years ago, the Second Sage wrote three books: [The Basis and Origin of Magic], [The Phenomenon and Application of Magic Resonance], and [The Simplified Design Theory of Magic Devices], and these three books set off a frenzy of changing the world!

On the basis of those three books, the Second Sage invented and created hundreds of simple and inexpensive magic devices, which truly changed the lives of the poor, so that people without extraordinary talents could enjoy the simplicity and magic of magic.

The next forty-five years were a golden period of development for the reform of magical technology, and under the leadership of the Second Sage and with the assistance of the [Great Sages] of various countries, magic technology continued to innovate...

[Starlight], [Portable Space Device], [Simplifying the Production Line of Mass Production of Magic Potions]... Countless inventions have changed the world.

Agriculture, military transport, living environment ... Mass-produced, simple but practical magic devices have been used in all walks of life to significantly increase social productivity, and the common people have begun to be entitled to enjoy life after being overworked—until then, the common people have lived a life of "working at sunrise and resting at sunset", and their lives are almost all work, otherwise they will not be able to support themselves... Those so-called entertainments were only the exclusive preserve of the aristocracy and the pros ...

The Second Sage brings magic to the people... Moreover, it can be said that ninety percent of all the magic devices used now are the work of the Second Sage!

It was an unrepeatable miracle, and even now, no matter how great the [Great Sage] was, in terms of [Magic Technology], it was not as good as the Second Sage.

The appearance of the Second Sage made an epic step forward in human civilization.

Therefore, the Second Sage is also known as the greatest person after the First Sage who led the rise of mankind in the first place.

That's why humans call him the Second Sage!

But

Five years ago, the previous Xingzhu Emperor suddenly announced that the Second Sage had committed corruption, adultery, bullying and other major crimes, and beheaded the Second Sage with lightning speed.

This became the heaviest loss of mankind in modern times, no one understood his theory better than the Second Sage, after the Second Sage was executed, the speed of reform of magic technology slowed down significantly, and the speed at which new inventions appeared became slower and slower... Even the development of magical technology has come to a standstill.

No one understood what the previous Star Bamboo Emperor thought, the death of the Second Sage was a loss for all mankind. Even at that time, top organizations such as Jianshan almost broke with the royal family.

Maybe it's retribution, the second year after the death of the Second Sage, the previous Xingzhu Emperor died, and countless rumors circulated among the people.

Some people say that the previous Xingzhu Emperor violated the will of heaven and was punished by heaven when he killed the second sage, and some people say that the previous Xingzhu Emperor felt guilty about the second sage and died of a heart disease...

Su Qiran didn't answer Xingnuo's question, but fortunately, the little girl didn't care, she asked some innocuous questions, such as when to start eating...

All right... Su Qiran was completely defeated by this snack goods, and his somewhat dull mood just now was swept away.

He sighed helplessly.

The carriage drove slowly into the fenced village, which was the season of farming, and there were not as many people in the village as there were in the fields.

Soon, however, someone noticed the ragged carriage that had suddenly arrived.

The villagers gathered curiously, mostly women and children.

Although this is only a small village, because it is located on the edge of Frostleaf City, many merchants from Frostleaf City will choose to come here to replenish dry food and other supplies. So the villagers are familiar with the merchants who come and go.

But they had never seen such a broken carriage.

Clearly broken, but forcibly glued together with an adhesive wooden frame. Broken decorations, asymmetrical windows...

Xingnuo, who had already been disguised, happily poked his head out of the window and looked at this small village full of the local customs and characteristics of the Xingzhu Empire.