Ziyan led the horse and walked around the streets, trying to find something to do, but he didn't dare to take the initiative to ask.

Another few days passed, and Ziyan wandered on the streets, facing the sky as a quilt, leaning on the ground as a bed.

Most of the people didn't need him, because they all bought slaves as laborers and were unwilling to spend more money to hire someone.

Later, Zi Yan wandered around, bought a few steamed buns with the little money left on his body and went to the slave market, because he knew that the slave market needed its own work - thugs.

"You want to be a thug?" asked the bald owner of a slave shop with a fairly large shop, looking at Ziyan.

"Yes, I need money. Ziyan said.

"Can you fight?" The bald boss questioned Ziyan's strength a little, because he felt that the person in front of him didn't look very strong, and he was not very old.

"Yes. ”

"Is there an awakening?" the boss thought of this possibility.

"No ......"

"In that case, you go and smash the house opposite, I will directly give you ten taels of silver, and from today onwards, I will pay you ten taels of salary every month and hire you as a thug. The bald boss pointed across the street to the slave shop.

"Now?" Ziyan was a little surprised.

"Yes, right now, can you?"

Ziyan hesitated for a while, although he guessed that he would do something outrageous, but he didn't think it would be so outrageous.

Ziyan touched his empty pocket, hesitated for a while and went.

Ten minutes later.

Ziyan kicked the owner of the shop out of the door, and the bald boss clearly saw that the shop opposite was in chaos, the slaves were all cowering in the corner, and their thugs were all knocked to the ground.

"Yo he!" the bald head lit up: "Yes, at a young age, there is something." ”

Ziyan patted the ashes on his hands and came to the bald boss.

The bald head took out a bag and threw it on the table: "Okay, now these ten taels belong to you, and I will give you ten taels of silver every month in the future, and you will be my thug from now on." ”

Ziyan nodded and accepted the money bag, then looked back at the shop that had been smashed by himself.

In fact, Ziyan didn't make much heavy moves, mainly smashed some furniture and the like, after all, it was the first time to do this kind of thing.

"Alas......" Ziyan sighed, as long as he lasted until the day of the Royal Academy's exams.

At night, Ziyan followed the boss to a courtyard not far from the slave shop, and it can be seen that in this area, the boss is still relatively generous.

In the courtyard, Ziyan met the other thugs.

"Okay, you're one of them from now on, Xiao Wu, let's get familiar with Ziyan. After the boss finished speaking, he rubbed the two female slaves from the exotic land and left.

At night, Ziyan slept in the same room with everyone, and the smell of sweat was a little strong.

"Brother, I think you look like an empire, why did you come to be a thug?" asked Xiao Wu, who was sleeping on the same bed with Ziyan.

"No money. ”

"Ha, it's all about the money, I'm asking why don't you do something else?"

"Nobody wants it. ”

"Okay. ”

The next day, he got up early, Ziyan planned to go to the store with the thugs, but was stopped by the bald boss.

"Ziyan, you don't have to be with them, from now on you are my bodyguard, just protect me, understand?" said the bald head lazily.

"Hmmm......"

In the afternoon, Ziyan followed the bald boss to 'buy', rode a horse for about half an hour, and arrived at a house in the suburbs.

Ziyan saw a group of men with masked faces, holding swords and waiting.

"Boss Strong is finally here. A man in the lead greeted him.

"Where's the goods?" asked the bald head.

"Inside. The man came to the house with a few people.

Opening the door, Ziyan saw a room of slaves squatting or sitting on the ground, or leaning against the wall, both men and women, and most of them naked.

"Hmm. The bald boss nodded with satisfaction: "It's okay, then let's settle the account." ”

"Boss Qiang is still so refreshing, haha. ”

Ziyan didn't go to look at them to settle accounts, but looked at the slaves in the house, these slaves were all young, none of them looked more than twenty-five years old, the youngest should be a little boy, eight or nine years old, looking at Ziyan with big eyes.

"By the way, Boss Qiang, I heard that you smashed Boss Lei's shop. ”

"Hmph, who made him dare to steal business with me. ”

"But I heard that Boss Qiang didn't kill Boss Lei in the first place, so it couldn't be that he spent a lot of money to find a mercenary, right?" the man asked half-jokingly.

"Can I use it?" the bald boss counted the money and left with Zi Yan, as for the slaves, Zi Yan estimated that those people would be sent to the bald boss's shop.

Back at Slave Street, the bald boss is told by the thugs that the shop has been smashed.

"What?" the bald boss smashed the table angrily: "Let's go, let's go teach the lesson to the one surnamed Lei." ”

"But... The thugs were a little scared. ”

"A bunch of rice buckets!What's the use of Lao Tzu raising you?!" The bald boss scolded angrily, and then looked at Ziyan: "Ziyan, I have to rely on you this time." ”

"Hmmm......"

When he came to the store, Ziyan saw a group of people with weapons waiting at the door, while another group of people seemed to be waiting to see a good show.

"Boss, it's the bald man here!" said Boss Lei's men.

"I saw it, let the brothers be ruthless later, and Lao Tzu will be responsible for what happened. ”

Ziyan was about to step forward, but was stopped by the bald boss: "I'll let you go up later." ”

"Oh. ”

Soon the bald boss came to Boss Lei with his thugs: "Isn't this Boss Lei?

"Isn't this here to give you a little gift in return, how about it, it's a surprise, right?" Boss Lei smiled, and he looked like a good person.

"This surprise is too big, I can't afford it, Xiao Wu, take a few brothers to go to Boss Lei's shop to return the gift. The bald head looked at Boss Lei and said.

When Xiao Wu heard this, he was a little troubled and didn't dare to do it.

"Xiao Wu?" turned his bald head and kicked him: "You waste, I don't listen to me?"

Seeing this, Boss Lei smiled and said: "Boss Qiang's subordinates are really the same as Boss Qiang, they are all kinder people, after all, I was whipped by a few of my ignorant subordinates last time, and they can't let go of farts." ”

"You!" The bald boss was so angry that his neck was thick/red: "Ziyan, teach him a hard lesson!!"

"Hmm. Ziyan shook his arm as he walked to warm himself up.

"Hmph. Boss Lei was kicked on the street by Ziyan yesterday, and he still remembers it, and he knows how powerful this person is: "Second brother, it's this young man, pay more attention, don't be too careless." ”

"Don't worry, big brother. A big man walked out of the crowd: "Isn't it just a little kid." ”

Three minutes later.

Ziyan stepped on the big man's back: "Is there anyone else? If there is no one, do you lie down by yourself or do it with me?"

Boss Lei was a little panicked, and hurriedly pulled out a few of the most capable thugs: "Hurry up, hurry up." ”

Two minutes later.

Ziyan patted the ash on his hand and looked at Boss Lei again.

Boss Lei was so frightened that he hurriedly begged for mercy, hoping to lose money and make peace.

After this incident, the bald boss happily gave Ziyan a reward, and promoted Ziyan to the captain of the thugs to manage some of the thugs.

Only then did Ziyan realize how simple it was to use force to get money.

But the matter was not over, and later Boss Lei found more helpers, and the bald boss realized that Boss Lei, who had been competing for business for many years, was not as simple as it seemed, he had dealings with the high-level of the Chamber of Commerce, and it was easy to find stronger mercenaries.

Ziyan saw that his opponent was too strong, so he found an opportunity to sneak away, Ziyan didn't feel that he needed to work for the bald boss, because after experiencing the scene of these merchants fighting each other, Ziyan had a new understanding of the empire.

Later, Ziyan learned that the bald boss ran away with the money, so in order not to be caught, Ziyan stayed away from Slave Street and ran to other places.

Two months later.

In the past, I only learned martial arts, but here, I have learned the way to survive again.

"Ziyan?!" In the mercenary market, Chen Dagou saw a familiar face.

Ziyan looked up, a little surprised.

"Ziyan, it's really you!"

"Dogs... Brother dog?!"

"Hahaha, finally we're here. Chen Dagou laughed and pulled Ziyan over: "When did you come to the Imperial City, and why are you in the mercenary market?"

"I've been here almost at the beginning of the year, a few months now...... What about you?"

"I arrived last year, and I've been here for half a year. ”

Ziyan learned that after Chen Dagou separated from everyone, he took his younger brother Chen Ergou and rushed to the imperial city with the money given by Qin Hua at that time to buy a fast horse, and he had been in the imperial city for half a year, so he took the money to open a forging shop to make armor and weapons, and the business was not bad, but when he came to the imperial city, he found that although his technology was good, he was a little backward, so he opened a shop with his younger brother while learning to update the technology.

Ziyan followed Chen Dagou out of the mercenary market and went to a restaurant.

"Ziyan, what's the situation with you these days? Why did you come alone? What about Yu Qianniao? Didn't the little girl from Qinhua go to look for you?"

"......" Ziyan took the wine bottle placed in front of Chen Dagou and poured himself a sip.

Seeing this, Chen Dagou was silent, Ziyan originally didn't drink a drop of wine, and this sip of stuffy wine was poured down directly, I'm afraid there was something wrong.

"Chidori... And we are separated... Chin painted her, and I drove her away. ”

Chen Dagou was stunned when he heard it: "Drove away?"

"Because Chidori, the two of us didn't protect Chidori, so I got angry and drove her away. Ziyan smiled self-deprecatingly.

"It's not... Did I hear me right? Is it because you two are not protected, or is she not protected?"

"We both had problems, but at that time I thought it was her fault......"

Chen Dagou nodded, indicating that he understood: "Don't be sad, it's nothing, everyone has impulses, as for Chidori, you have to believe that she will be fine." ”

......

Time flies, during this time, Ziyan lived in Chen Dagou's shop, and then met the Chamber of Commerce with the help of Chen Dagou, and began to take on the tasks of the Chamber of Commerce to earn bounties, and occasionally helped take care of Chen Dagou's forge shop in his free time.

In the year 225 of the Gregorian calendar, the south of the imperial capital outside the city - the branch of the Chamber of Commerce, in the morning.

A one-meter-seven man in a black cloak and a mask looked at the announcement posted on the wall

Due to some changes, the Royal College admissions assessment was postponed for a month.

It's been postponed......

Ziyan straightened the mask on his face and found a place to sit down

These days Ziyan is also looking for Zifei them, but the size of the imperial city is beyond Ziyan's imagination, the imperial city is not so much a city, but rather a condensed version of the imperial city itself, which is completely different from other places, first of all, the imperial city is divided into the inner city and the outer city, the inner city is not much bigger than other cities, the focus is on the outer city, the outer city here is based on the inner city as the center, and it is created by expanding to the periphery, because countless people want to run to the imperial city, so it is extremely prosperous here, and the southwest directly expands to the sea, creating a harbor, so this is why the military is concentrated in the west of the empire, because the southwest is the sea, to the north is the Zhenbei Army, and further north is a place where the temperature is extremely low, and the barbarians can hardly cross the sea or cross the polar ice land, so when the barbarians appear in the south of the empire, the rulers of the empire also feel incredible.

"Lord Iron Sword, I'm here so early today. A beautiful woman in a maid's suit walked over and said with a smile.

"Hmm. Ziyan responded, 'Iron Sword' is his code name, because it is easy to offend people by receiving these bounty tasks, so the people who take the task generally use the code name and hide their identity.

"You've become a silver mercenary of our Chamber of Commerce in just one month. The woman said as she flipped through a notebook.

"Is there anything else to do today?" Ziyan looked at the woman, she was indeed a beauty, as the number one publisher of the chamber of commerce's bounty mission, some of the more secret big tasks were sent by her to the mercenaries.

"Yes, however, you have been doing a lot of work lately, and it seems that you have attracted the attention of the powerful, so it is better to rest for a while. ”

"Is that so?"

"Yes. The waitress smiled: "Because you are our silver mercenary, we will give you some compensation every month during your rest period, and we will let you know when you can take the task." ”

"Okay. Qin Hua stood up: "Wait for your notice." ”

"Then, see you next time~mua" The hostess gave Ziyan a flying kiss.

Ziyan cooperated and caught the flying kiss with his hand: "See you next time." ”

As he was leaving, another man with a mask walked into the store.

Ziyan walked through a long black corridor where he couldn't see his fingers, and when he reappeared under the light source, Ziyan had already changed into his normal outfit and carried a bag on his back.

"Yo, Brother Ziyan, why did you come back so early today?" Chen Ergou asked with a smile after seeing Ziyan.

"It's okay today, is your brother in there?" Ziyan asked.

"There, I'm looking for someone to deliver a batch of equipment. Chen Ergou said.

"Boss, how do you sell this?" asked a guest.

"Let's deal with the guests. Ziyan patted Chen Ergou on the shoulder, and then walked straight to the courtyard behind the store.

At this moment, Chen Dagou was talking to a person who looked like a mercenary.

"Brother, let's not make a big deal, just ship a batch of equipment, isn't this price a bit expensive?"

The mercenary shook his head: "Recently, we are very risky, so we will not do it below this price." ”

"Can it be cheaper?" Chen Dagou wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"Having said that, I won't do it below this price. ”

"Then please go back, and don't waste your time. Ziyan walked over.

"Ziyan, why did you come back so early today?"

"Idle today. ”

"Then this big brother, since my friend is back, then I won't bother you, because it's too expensive, let's talk about it next time I have business. ”

......

"Ziyan, I'm sorry for you this time, the asking price of their mercenaries has been too high recently. ”

"Well, then I'll go find a few laborers. ”

"No, the labor has been found, the goods have been loaded, and there is a send-off. ”

"Well, then I'm leaving. "Zi Yan left the forging shop, Chen Dagou's batch of goods is a hundred sets of armor, to be transported to a harbor town in the south, which is only ten days away from here, but recently the imperial regime seems to have a very serious problem, riots are frequent, robbers are also wandering around, there were people in charge before, and now they are allowed to do whatever they want.

Ziyan held an iron sword and walked behind the transport team.

In fact, the ignorance of the empire is not the root cause of the problem, because the bandits are not a day or two, but the reason for the winter has become less, and now the weather is better, and it is gradually becoming active, and before that, many big chambers of commerce spent money to recruit people to encircle and suppress bandits, but after encircling and suppressing a batch, new ones will appear, and the root cause of the problem is the system itself.

Ziyan learned in these days that in addition to the homelessness caused by the war, a large part of the reason is that a large number of slaves poured into the empire, and these cheap labor are deeply loved by the merchants, and the new imperial people who are already low in status and have no blood of the original empire are in a state of being abandoned by society, but the magnates don't care.

Because those new imperialists, who were originally slaves and vanquished, had to be more valuable than the original imperials if they wanted to compete with the original imperialists.

Therefore, many people hate the original imperial people, but they have to submit to the force of the original imperial people.

Therefore, riots are inevitable, but if this problem is to be solved, then before the top of the empire can solve the problem of their own power struggle.

These days, Ziyan has received bounty tasks for assassinating each other between many regimes, maybe today Ziyan received a commission from A to assassinate B, and the next day's task is to assassinate A by force B.

"I really don't understand these people. Ziyan held a leaf in his mouth and rode a horse leisurely to follow the back of the convoy.

Is this the way it was now, is this the life before Qin painting......

Tsk, why do you think of him again, it's so annoying.

Suddenly, the figures in the jungle on both sides moved, and more than a dozen masked bandits with knives appeared at once.

"I opened this road, I planted this tree, and I want to ......"

"Get out!" Ziyan said coldly with a ball of fire in his hand.

"Okay, if you go, we won't send it. After saying that, he quickly slipped away.

The strong men of the transport team continued to move forward as if nothing had happened, because there were no less than ten encounters with bandits on the road, everyone was used to it, and Ziyan was also annoyed, so he simply showed his hole cards directly before playing and told them to get out, and as soon as they saw that he could control the flames, they obediently withdrew.

Soon the convoy arrived at its destination.

This is a place that doesn't seem to be very developed, which is beyond Ziyan's expectations, a port city by the sea and only half a month away from the imperial capital, is still so backward.

"Hello, Lord Muxmu, your goods are all here. Ziyan said to a woman who was dressed quite luxuriously, he didn't expect this prince to be a woman.

"Oh my God, the shipment was too fast this time. The Queen looked at the shipment.

Ziyan took advantage of the queen's inspection of the goods, and looked at her guards for a while, to be honest, the iron armor worn by these guards looked quite powerful, but Ziyan saw that this was equipment made of very heavy ordinary steel, which was not only bulky to wear, but also not very good in the face of the weapons that the empire could forge now,

Ziyan was looking at the weapons in their hands, which could only be described by two words: bulky, and even the long sword in his hand that he bought at a low price in a random blacksmith shop on the side of the road was better than theirs.

"Well, why is your armor so light, can't it be inferior?" questioned the Queen.

"You haven't bought much of an Imperial product in recent years, have you? This kind of very light steel was already available in Imperial weapons a few years ago. Zi Yan said and glanced at the guard's armor: "But it's not too late to buy it, because this is also the equipment created by the senior forging master of our empire." Zi Yan said this with an indifferent face, and it took Zi Yan a few weeks to learn about bragging about goods.

"Is that so? Queen Muxmu blushed slightly when she heard this: "Is that so?"

"Of course, you can use your strongest weapon to try it, and you don't have to pay for it. ”

Ziyan didn't say this to blow, Chen Dagou is indeed level, he used the ancestral secret forging method combined with the latest popular forging method in the current empire, learning from each other's strengths, and it was unexpectedly easy to use, which is also the reason why Chen Dagou has only been in the imperial city for a few months.

However, the materials used in forging are also the credit of the alchemists, and it has to be said that the alchemists are indeed a small number, but a very important profession, and they have quickly promoted the development of the empire with the support of the Chamber of Commerce.

One guard brought a great axe, while the other brought a great sword, and the slamming slam was left with only a few scratches.

The queen picked up the armor in surprise and put it on her body, but she didn't expect it to be light and easy to use.

"Great, let the armor be sent down. The Queen said to the captain of the guard.

"If you like it, it's fine. Ziyan smiled.

"Come with me and take your reward with you. The Queen said.

"What?" Ziyan was a little puzzled: "Isn't it just some silver, you can just give it to me." ”

"Huh?" the queen looked at Ziyan, "No, we don't have silver to pay...... Didn't you say that you would replace it with a throne?"

"Throne?" Ziyan was stunned, what's the use of that thing? Is Chen Dagou stupid? This batch of equipment costs at least hundreds of silver taels, what do you want to break the throne?

However, Ziyan still followed the queen, walked around the dilapidated castle and walked around the ladder built on the wall, and in the warehouse on the third floor, he saw the 'throne'.

Ziyan stepped forward to take a look, this 'throne' is not the throne he imagined, but a throne that is a circle smaller, and there is a standing golden man on the throne, it seems to be a king wearing armor, the entire throne is one meter high, half a meter long, and seven decimeters wide, and the whole is made of gold, and there is a crown inlaid with gems on the head of the golden man.

Ziyan couldn't believe that it was actually this kind of throne, so he stepped forward to take a closer look and hugged it, it was not fake.

"Are you sure you give this to us?" Ziyan asked back.

"Yes, it was agreed. The queen frowned slightly, and seemed to be reluctant.

Ziyan looked at the queen again, the queen is not very old, she looks less than twenty, she is very beautiful, and she has some royal temperament, but this is relatively ordinary people, if you compare it with the nobles of the empire, it is much worse.

The queen noticed that Ziyan was looking at herself, and she was a little uncomfortable: "Move away quickly." ”

Ziyan nodded, he was really ready to let people move, but he noticed that the boots on the queen's feet were very old, if her clothes were barely noble, but the shoes did not match the status of the nobleman at all.

"I'm sorry, Your Palace...... Uh, what should I call you?" Zi Yan knew that these alien people were called all kinds of strange names, like this queen, in the south, they were called lords, and if the lords were to call the lords directly, but if it was this kind of royal blood, Ziyan didn't quite understand.

"My name is Muxmubai. The Queen touched her tall nose and said.

"Well, anyway, I want to ask, why is your port city so desolate in its strategic location? ”

"It's not your business, let's go. The Queen said.

"Well, goodbye. "Ziyan made people move away from the golden 'throne'

On the road.

"Oh my God, such a big throne made of gold, and this gem, it looks like it's worth a lot, it's a lot of money. The brawns exclaimed.

"Why can't Boss Chen give us more rewards this time?" the strong men looked at Ziyan with a smile.

"Definitely. Ziyan smiled, and he was also happy in his heart, thinking that Chen Dagou was a fool, but he didn't expect that this queen was a fool, such a big throne, boasting about the collection value and then selling it to those powerful people with a lot of money, I'm afraid it will be worth 10,000 taels of silver.

At night, Ziyan found the best green building in the city.

Why are you looking for a green building? Because there is no inn at all, Ziyan doesn't understand what is going on in this city, is it completely closed to trade? There is not even an inn, but fortunately there is a green building, and it is the same everywhere.

In the Qinglou, watching these exotic women wander around him, he just drove them away, but the strong men under his command were excited.

"I'll tell you first, don't make it too late, we'll have to rush back early tomorrow morning, understand?" Ziyan commanded the strong men.

After speaking, Ziyan asked for some food, and then took a hot bath to wash off all the dust accumulated for more than ten days.

Next

Ziyan was the first to get up, and after breakfast, the strong men were still asleep.

Ziyan shook his head, and regarded his orders as the wind in his ears.

When he came to the street, Ziyan saw that there was still a population here, and many people were busy early in the morning, and although it was dilapidated, it was still clean everywhere, and the whole city was well maintained.

At this time, a woman came to Ziyan's side: "Childe, why are you bored here early in the morning?" ”

"Don't you do business with outsiders here?" Ziyan didn't answer, but asked directly.

"You don't know this, we are here, trade, but only with the backward areas in the south. ”

"Why?"

"Because our queen is at odds with several princes in the east, we have been united to deal with them. ”

"What does this have to do with whether or not the Empire can trade? ”

"It's... I don't know, Childe, you see that you are idle and idle, why don't we ......"

"Tip, go down. Ziyan took out some broken silver and gave it to her.

"Ah, thank you, Childe. ”