|->Chapter 458 Ominous Dream? According to the incomplete statistics of New World naturalists, the average life expectancy of the human race is about forty-five years old, and the nobles with fine clothes and food can enjoy better life and medical conditions, and the average life expectancy usually does not exceed 70 years.

Half-elves are cross-ethnic hybrids that perfectly inherit the advantages of their parents of different races, and the growth rate of half-elves is as rapid as that of short-born humans, unlike pure-blooded elves, which are slow and slow down until the end of puberty, and half-elves can maintain their youthful vitality and vigorous vitality for a long time, which makes them look more like a member of the mesozoic species. Although the average lifespan of a half-elf is not longer than that of a pure-blooded human, they maintain their youth much longer than that of a pure-blooded human, and it can be said that they reach the end of their life without the aging process, and the concept of aging itself is very foreign to the half-elves.

At first, it may be harmonious and happy, but as time goes by, the human spouse who is aging in appearance and body lives with the other half of the half-elf in his prime, and the story of a pear flower pressing a begonia may seem funny to others, but once it becomes the protagonist of this story, it is not funny, and the resulting family tragedy is really not one or two. This is also the reason for the general lack of belonging among half-elves, whether they choose to live with humans or elves, they will eventually feel like an alien. The relatively small number of the half-elf group is not enough to form an independent society, and this kind of rootless wandering loneliness is difficult for outsiders to understand without personal experience.

Vina Dubov had already realized that she would not be so stupid as to ask her husband what secrets she couldn't tell herself, but she put her arms around Luo Zhengdao from behind and whispered in his ear:

"My dear, Tido and I will always be with you."

Hearing the voice, while being moved, Luo Zhengdao was not carried away by the warmth, and said:

"Vina, we are mortal, don't expect too much, otherwise the cruel fate will let you and me know that everything we have is actually much more than what we have lost."

Just as Luo Zhengdao was sharing a rare warm time with the half-elf beauty, an attendant officer ran in from the direction of the main gate and shouted loudly:

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! ”

Seeing this, Xiao had an urgent matter, Luo Zhengdao patted Vina Dubov's arm with his hand, then sorted out his appearance, and asked:

"Don't panic, what's going on?"

"Your Majesty, Xiangjiang has been occupied by goblins, and the merchant group union is finished."

The existence value of Xiangjiang, the entrepot of the main continent, lies in the fact that the great powers have a real demand for it, and the Second Goblin Empire needs to import stone pine powder from the Sea of Storms controlled by Yaling and the elves, and at the same time export the filament and magic cloth that are special products of the main continent as a tacit exchange. Due to the scarcity of these strategic goods and their irreplaceable special role, although the parties involved in the transaction are not too reluctant, the real needs also force them to come together. This kind of grey trade is not to be celebrated in public, but in private through an entrepot operated by a third party, and everyone can safely claim that this is an illegal business carried out by a small group of profit-seeking guys, and it does not involve their respective positions.

Now, the fall of the main continent is already a recognized trend, and it will become a reality one day in the future, and it will no longer be a nonsense rumor on the streets.

With Luo Zhengdao signing a ten-year truce with the goblins on behalf of the human camp, the multi-front combat dilemma that had long plagued the Goblin Second Empire has been temporarily resolved, and they are free to deal with certain issues.

Watching the situation unfold with a cold eye, knowing that the goblins had no strength left to threaten themselves, although the attitude of Yaling and the elves towards this matter was still ambiguous, the hostility was indeed not as strong as before, and the trade blockade against the main continent also showed signs of easing.

At this moment, the value of Xiangjiang's existence was swept away, and there was no need for the goblins who had always lacked patience and tolerance to continue to keep this puppet ornament, they did not hesitate to choose the strategy of killing fat pigs for the New Year, and it was time for Xiangjiang to contribute to the master. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Xiangjiang Business Group Union was originally a fat pig raised by goblins, although the pigs will struggle twice when it comes to killing the pig, the business group union does not even have the courage to die and struggle. The bigwigs of those merchant groups directly gave up resistance and tried to escape to the sea with their own family resources, how could the goblins who had been laid out in advance early in the morning give them a chance to slip away, and it took a little effort to wipe them out.

The prepared goblins easily swallowed the merchant group, and then the goblin army ransacked the entire port of Xiangjiang, considering the sensitive relationship with the human camp at this time, the goblin army did not follow the routine of killing the human civilians in Xiangjiang.

Look at the face of His Majesty King Will Needham, who is not easy to mess with, the goblins have chosen to raise their noble hands as long as the money does not die, and the once prosperous port of Hong Kong has become a thing of the past, and the former rulers and the people at the bottom have been reduced to the streets and become a new class of abject poverty, not to mention that they are dying of starvation, and the actual situation is not much better.

After reading the summary of information at hand, Luo Zhengdao couldn't help grinning, sighed and said:

"Goblins are quick enough."

"Your Majesty, how are we going to deal with it?"

Operationally, the attendants were not required to participate in the discussion of the country's major policies, but they were also the reserve army of the entire ruling group, and the next step was to transfer the information to the General Staff, and the attendants were eager to know what the king's disposition was.

In front of his own people, Luo Zhengdao didn't hide his true thoughts, first, there was no need for this, and second, he couldn't hide it, and said with a smile:

"Ignore the Merchant Alliance, these guys are supported by goblins, and we are not obligated to claim rights for them."

"Yes, Your Majesty. So are we going to send warships to relieve the refugees in Xiangjiang? ”。

Hearing this, Luo Zhengdao thought for a while, and thought that it was indeed not suitable to smash the golden sign of the human co-master, no matter how innocent the business group alliance was, you can't say that all the human beings in Xiangjiang deserve to die, right? So, he nodded and said:

"Well, notify the General Staff to prepare for rescue, send someone to negotiate with the goblins, and the Navy will send a ship to Xiangjiang to transport those humans who are willing to go with us to Qiongzhou, and the guys from the merchant group will die with them!"

"Yes, Your Majesty. I'm going to inform the General Staff and the Admiralty. ”

Different from the family model of the Chinese dynasty in the old world, under the institutional system of the new world, although the kings also have small coffers, the treasury is really not at his disposal, and the private and public property of the nobles in the new world are clearly divided, which is more similar to the feudal way in Europe.

During the development of Wake Reef and Qiongzhou, Luo Zhengdao's private property was used, so those places were the property of the Count Fu Lu family, and not long ago they recaptured part of the land and cities of the main continent from the goblins, so those places can be regarded as the state-owned assets of the Kingdom of Light.

Assuming that Luo Zhengdao immediately kicked his legs now, then the heir to the title of Earl of Fulu can take Weike Reef and Qiongzhou as his fiefdoms, and if the successor king is not the same person as Count Fulu, then he can only claim the rights of the feudal lord as a feudal lord, require vassals to pay annuities and tributes, and bear the obligation to send troops to war, and there is no need to fantasize about interfering in other affairs. System. There is the so-called wind can enter, rain can enter, and the king cannot enter, that is not the broken thatched houses of the mud legs, but the fiefs of these large and small nobles.

Under this clear distribution of power, the energy spent on smoothing out internal relations is more tiring than a fight between Luo Zhengdao and the goblin army.

Before the crossing, I heard a lot of official clichés such as what kind of organization construction often grasped unremittingly, Luo Zhengdao actually didn't go to his heart, and he never thought that he would be as tired as a dead dog when he held power, which is called the book to be hated less when it is used! Of course, first of all, I have to admit that Luo Zhengdao did catch up with a good time to produce heroes in troubled times, and it is also inseparable from his own values of striving for perfection

"What is this place?"

As soon as he regained consciousness, Luo Zhengdao opened his eyes and realized that something was wrong, the place he was in was different from the oppressive and solemn atmosphere displayed by the Eternal Library. Although it was the same hazy sky shrouded in dark clouds, there were no huge bookshelves like buildings in the far eye, only the empty barren and cracked land and the dry and blackened bare branches of the trees, which was an authentic dead silence. Stopping and looking around in this strange place, Luo Zhengdao's heart was both surprised and confused, he clearly remembered that he was in the office, and then felt a little tired......

"It's ...... Dreams? ”。

Luo Zhengdao, who was muttering to himself, felt a chill, the magic card master's legalized body process, to put it simply, extended from ** to the spirit, until the soul also underwent a wonderful transformation. Luo Zhengdao, who knows it and doesn't know why, walks on this road, and it is rare to have a dream once a year, you tell him to believe that this strange and terrifying dream in front of him is an accidental phenomenon, so it is better to ask him to feed himself a bag of salt.

At this time, Luo Zhengdao, who narrowed his eyes, had a murderous intent looming in his eyes, and muttered:

“…… Will it be a nightmare? Or maybe it's some god who has mastered the priesthood of dreams? ”

"Quack-quack-quack-"

A strange cry sounded, and the faint mist around him like a thin veil quietly became thicker, and a monster with a bird's head and black feathers appeared out of nowhere, staring at Luo Zhengdao with greedy eyes, with a murderous posture of wanting to choose people and devour.