Chapter 140: The Magic Empire
"Duke Dahl, do you mean we can go to eat in the castle floating in the sky?" When Dani heard in the house that there was a dinner party to enjoy, and it was still in the sky city, she couldn't suppress her excitement and rushed out. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
"Yes, Miss Dani, but it can only be eight members of your Meteor Mercenary Regiment" Although Duke Dahl couldn't see Dandan's body, the meaning of his words was very clear.
"Duke Dahl, I won't tell you the truth, our mercenary group now has a total of twelve members, Xiaohua and Dandan are both part of our team, since Her Majesty is hospitable, we can set off" Hearing Duke Dahl's words, Lin Lun also put his mind at ease, at least this can also ensure that Xiaohua and Dandan will not be bullied in the Yueluo Empire in the future.
"This..."Duke Dahl was also stunned when he heard it, it was obvious that Lin Lun was interceding for these two little girls, but he couldn't tell for a while whether he really joined the Meteor Mercenary Group, but in addition to these two little girls, who were the other two people? How is it not mentioned at all in the information.
"Your Royal Highness Kailin, our sisters have just come back, and we still have to take care of our mother at night, can we..." Dandan whispered as if he was afraid of this Duke of Dahl, and had been hiding behind Lin Lun.
"Yes, this is exactly what I want, Your Highness Kailin, Her Majesty is already waiting for your presence in Sky City, let's go" Hearing the refusal in Dandan's words, Duke Dahl immediately agreed categorically.
"Huh?" Dandan's refusal was also a bit of a surprise to Linlun, it seems that these two people have known each other before, and the relationship is not very good.
"Don't worry about Dandan, I will bring you all the delicious food back at night, and you can stay at home with your mother with peace of mind" Ye Danni patted Dandan's back comfortingly, and couldn't wait to be the first to rush out of the courtyard.
"Okay, Dandan, you just wait for us at home for a while" Lin Lun turned around and explained a few words, and then walked out of the small courtyard with the remaining eight people.
When Duke Dahl saw Mandy and Zelon, the two eagle eyebrows were upside down, and their sharp eyes stared at the two men as if they had turned into a physical attack. Mandy and Zelong were stunned at the same time, this sharp gaze was still the only one they had seen in their siblings' lives, but there was no murderous aura in it, it was just a deterrent.
"Come with me" After seeing Mandy and Zelon staring straight at him for a few seconds, Duke Dahl nodded with satisfaction, he doesn't have much ability, and he doesn't even have a high cultivation talent, but he is still a red person next to Her Majesty, an existence above 10,000 people under one person, relying on these sharp eyes, no matter who or anything, he always can't escape his magic eyes, and it is with this special skill that he really avoids many disasters in the empire and wins the trust of the queen.
A group of entourages opened the way in front of them, guarding Duke Dahl and Lin Lun and others in the middle. Except for Lin Lun, the others in the Meteor Mercenary Group really had never seen such a large array of escorts, and when they saw the envious eyes of the civilians squeezed on both sides of the road, their vanity was greatly satisfied.
"Duke Dahl, there is a question I don't know whether to ask or not..."Lin Lun, who was standing beside Duke Dahl, looked at the civilians nearby who were dressed in tatters, and his heart was more or less unbearable.
"Oh? Are you trying to ask why there are slums around the Magic City? Why don't the Empire pay for it?" said Duke Dahl with a smile.
"Yes..."I didn't expect this Duke Dahl to guess his thoughts at once.
"It's a long story, it's not that it doesn't cost governance, this magic city has no walls, so the management of outsiders is relatively lax, when the blueprint of the magic city was planned, it was to build the residential and commercial areas south of the central square, and a large number of materials were hoarded in the north of the square at that time, and a large number of materials were stolen almost every night, and Her Majesty took pity on these poor people, so she turned a blind eye to this matter and ignored it..."
"But later, things got worse, and after the poor people got a lot of supplies, they actually began to gang up and fight for undeveloped territory in the north, vaguely forming a force that even the empire could not be underestimated..."
"Her Majesty can't ignore this matter, right?"
"Of course it has to be managed, and it is strictly managed, this force has also given itself a name, called the Wanderer Gang, their boss is also a character, when he saw that the empire sent a large number of soldiers to suppress it, he directly occupied the material warehouse, and threatened Her Majesty the queen to exchange gold coins for materials to build the city, or set fire to all the warehouses..."
"These people are too arrogant, aren't they? This is also the imperial capital of the Yueluo Empire," Ye Danni interjected angrily, she couldn't see this kind of trick that couldn't beat the other party and used despicable means to coerce.
"Her Majesty was very angry about this incident, and directly sent two of her own guards to join forces to kill the gang leader..."
"Her Majesty is also very neat in her work," Yifei said.
"The Wanderer Gang without a leader has no leader, and after knowing the strength of Her Majesty's personal guards, no one dares to make another attempt, and even the materials that were stolen before have been obediently sent back, but what they did made Her Majesty relent, and directly stopped the construction of the city in the south, and repaired the slums in the north first," Duke Dahl said here, and let out a long sigh.
"Isn't that nice? Her Majesty is so kind," Ye Dani was also a little moved when she heard this.
"After building a large slum, a considerable amount of time was wasted, and many caravans and countries that came and went with the empire were very dissatisfied, so that the Yueluo Empire had begun to decline economically, and the situation was getting worse..."
"And what about the end? I think the current magic city is very well built, and the area is quite large..."
"That's the help of the Chamber of Commerce, I am dissatisfied with you, three-quarters of the magic city you see now is money from the Chamber of Commerce, and it is their great help that has solved the economic crisis of the Yueluo Empire."
"No wonder, it is said that the Faith Chamber of Commerce is rich and rivals the country, it seems that this is true, it really helped the Yueluo Empire to build such a big city" Lin Lun sighed a little.
"Not only are they rich and rival countries, I don't know if you have heard of the Four Shadow Powers, each of these four organizations is not inferior to first-class countries such as the Yueluo Empire, and the soft power is even stronger, they..."
"Duke Dahl, are you a little off topic?" Seeing that Duke Dahl was more and more excited, Dani went straight from discussing the slums to talking about the Four Shadow Kingdoms.
"Oh, yes, yes, haha, I was excited for a while and said that I was off track, what was your first feeling when you looked at a slum?" Duke Dahl turned around and looked at the filthy and messy slum behind him.
"The houses here are uneven, and the roads are also quite unreasonable, as if they built their own houses at will" This is also the first intuitive feeling of Lin Lun when he came here.
"His Highness Kailin is absolutely right, you are looking there," Duke Dahl smiled, and pointed up to another neat white house in the distance.
"That's the empire," Lin Lun nodded.
"To tell you the truth, it's actually the third ghetto of the Empire, and it was built at the expense of the Empire."
"Thirdly... Slum? ā
"Yes, in fact, everyone is inert, including the hungry wanderers, at the beginning when the empire established the northern slums, it took in a large number of wanderers, and when they got such good and completely free housing, they were moved to tears, swearing to serve the empire for the rest of their lives, and they really did it, the first batch of wanderers to take in are now basically living a rich life, but it is precisely with this that the mainland began to spread rumors that the Yueluo Empire took in wanderers..."
"At that time, the war of annihilation had just ended, dozens of countries collapsed and fell, and the wanderers were almost all over the continent, and after hearing such a bombshell news, it attracted countless wanderers to come crazy, and the houses in the slums were basically ownerless, and gradually began to rob the house, and after Her Majesty went down to inspect it several times, she saw some half-grown children living a hungry day and a day of hunger and a day of hunger, and ordered to start building the second slum again."
"No wonder, it seems that we should be in the fourth ghetto now?" Lin Lun frowned, Her Majesty's approach is really unwise, if you are too merciful to the wanderers, you will not get any benefits, this is completely to raise wild beasts with meat, but one day the beast will start to eat the people who raised it when they have nothing to eat.
"It will not be built anymore, the quality of the second batch of wanderers is obviously not as good as the first batch, and although the third group of people has superior accommodation conditions, they are still idle one by one, and they don't care about or respond to the affairs of the empire at all..."
"This situation has been going on for hundreds of years, until later the imperial capital was almost built, and the population began to be counted, and all the idle people were removed from the list of imperial personnel, and after a lot of politics, the name was changed from the slum to the civilian area, and the people who were excluded saw that there was no sweetness, and refused to leave here, so they had to build their own residences in the area we just had."
"Duke Dahl, there's one more thing I don't understand, it feels like you've known Dandan before..."
"Of course I do, because the sisters' grandfather is the leader of the Wanderer Gang"
"Ah!?h
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