In the early morning of the ten days before the New Year, a rather luxurious carriage drove on the official road outside the imperial capital.

Lin Xia is in this carriage, this is a carriage newly built by Lin Xia, there is a lot of space in the car, and the horses that drive the carriage are also carefully selected from the horse market. Because of seeing Cook's carriage, Lin Xia also thought of the Wizards Guild to customize one, but unfortunately Lin Xia went to the Wizards Guild to inquire about the price and gave up. Or Cook's good fortune was that His Majesty could reward one.

This carriage was bought by Lin Xia himself, when he just drove this carriage to the Viscount's Mansion, Antonio's eyes were straight, he didn't expect Lin Xia to be so rich, although this carriage is still a little different from the carriage of high-ranking nobles, but it is already the most luxurious carriage that Antonio has ever ridden. The night before departure, Lin Xia left Antonio 1,000 gold coins and told him to spend it as he pleased, leaving Antonio dumbfounded.

Lin Xia was finally driven to the family territory by Antonio, and the imperial capital was about eight to nine days away from the Xilin family's territory, so Lin Xia set off ten days before the New Year, planning to arrive before the New Year, and officially began a one-year "exile".

Just a few days ago, the various forces in the Jiangnan region had been integrated, and the bosses were also honest, Lin Xia was worried that they had other thoughts, so he deliberately knocked them before leaving.

After the integration of the Jiangnan region was completed, Hongxing held a general meeting, and the position of the boss in Hong Xingming was held by Xavier, and at the same time, the Council of Elders was established in Hongxing, and the Council of Elders had all the decision-making powers, and the Council of Elders currently has only two people, namely Lin Xia and Sean. In fact, Lin Xia was ready to hide behind the scenes to manage Hong Xing.

At the same time, Hongxing set up a hall called Eagle Hall, which was in charge of Troy and was mainly responsible for intelligence gathering.

After the end of Hongxing's conference, Lin Xia held a small meeting with Hongxing's higher-ups, proposing that Hongxing expand to the mainland of the empire, and the first place of expansion was the Valen Province, where the Xilin family's territory was located. In addition to the expansion of power, the business must also be diversified and not limited to entertainment venues.

Lin Xia took time to go into the palace to see Robben again, but the mastermind behind the assassination had not yet been found, and told Roben to be careful.

It is worth mentioning that Lin Xia saw Keith again, Keith's face was a little pale, but he was obviously very excited mentally, and he was very grateful to Lin Xia. Although he hesitated for a long time, in the end he listened to Lin Xia's advice, and sure enough, he entered the harem, and he was also waiting for the noble imperial empress, so Emperor Charlie didn't mind at all. Yes, how can an emperor mind a eunuch waiting for the empress.

So Lin Xia arranged for Troy and Keith to meet, mainly to collect information in the palace, because Keith was grateful to Lin Xia, although he was a little worried, but he agreed.

Lin Xia sat in distress in this carriage, because the world of family tradition was highly valued by people, so he had to leave Hongxing, which was developing rapidly, and go to the family territory. Although he was reluctant, he also had some expectations in his heart, and he also wanted to take this opportunity to learn about the situation on the mainland, and there were also the southwestern alien races mentioned in Tang's letter waiting for him to explore.

The carriage was heading towards the territory, the province of Valen, where the Xilin family's domain was located, in the north-north center of the empire, the birthplace of Charlemagne's empire and the place where the Tang dynasty first appeared. It was extremely meaningful to the empire, so this most meaningful land was allocated to the Xilin family, but the Xilin family did not keep it, and in the end only a small town-sized land was left as a territory, the official name of this town is the town of Arielde, but people prefer to call it the town of Xilin.

The driver of the car was a middle-aged man in his forties, named Delan, who had been working in Xilin's house for almost the same years as Lin Xia's age, anyway, in Lin Xia's impression, he had been at Xilan's house.

In addition to the coachman, Lin Xia also had three Hong Xing's brothers, and the leader was named Carlos, a young man in his early twenties. Carlos's martial arts talent is good, according to Sean, Carlos can officially become a first-level martial artist in half a year at most. Although Carlos is not very old, he is very stable and has won Xavier's trust, so he arranged for Carlos to start the first stop of Hongxing's expansion of the continent.

Of course, our great magician Bacon is indispensable among the people who follow Lin Xia, Lin Xia is curious about Bacon's "special ability" that he can't control the magic element, and he is in a one-year "exile", so that Bacon can also study it well, of course, it can help Bacon the best.

It's a pity that Sean didn't follow Lin Xia to the family territory this time, because Hong Xing had just integrated Jiangnan, the situation was not very stable, and he needed the deterrence of high-end combat power, so Lin Xia had to leave Sean in the empire, which made Lin Xia feel very regretful.

At noon, Lin Xia saw that there was still some distance from the next town, so he asked the coachman Delan to stop and rest, after all, only Lin Xia was in a carriage, and the others mainly relied on foot.

As soon as Lin Xia got out of the carriage, Bacon pounced, and regardless of the eyes of the others, he hugged Lin Xia's thigh and cried: "Great Master Lin Xia, can you bear to let your most loyal servant continue walking? After speaking, he was going to slip his slippers to show Lin Xia's feet.

Lin Xia hurriedly kicked Bacon aside to prevent Bacon from continuing to slipper.

In fact, Lin Xia also wanted these people to ride in the carriage together, after all, this new carriage was quite spacious and could sit on these people. But Carlos strongly refused, on the grounds that because of the difference in status, the subordinates could not ride in the same carriage with the nobles, which made Lin Xia feel vomiting blood, and bad habits killed people. But since Carlos and the three of them didn't take the carriage, Lin Xia couldn't just let Bacon take the carriage, so Bacon had to walk as well.

But although Bacon is a fake magician, he has all the problems of the magician, especially his physical weakness. Lin Xia can also see that half a day's journey has already made Bacon lose half of his life, and if he lets Bacon walk for another half a day, it is estimated that the whole life will be scrapped.

Lin Xia called Delan over: "Let Bacon sit next to you in a moment." "After the arrangement, let the people rest on the side of the road, use some dry food, and then continue on the road.

Delan took out the dry food and distributed it to everyone, then reported to Lin Xia: "Young Master, if it is at the current speed, I am afraid that I will not be able to reach Xilin Town in ten days." ”

"Wait until the next town and hire a carriage so it can be faster. Lin Xia also didn't want his brothers to continue to walk and suffer.

After resting for a while, they continued on their way, and at last they entered the province of Nova Scot when it was dark, and Deland arranged food and lodging like a housekeeper, and went to the carriage to hire a carriage that could accommodate them, and of course there was a coachman appointed by the carriage dealer.

The driver was very talkative, and the next day he introduced the province of Nova Sco, which is said to be one of the most prosperous and fertile provinces in the Empire.

Of course, Lin Xia knew, because Nova Sco Province was in the middle of the imperial capital and the Valen Province, the birthplace of Charlemagne's Empire, and it was difficult to think of such good commercial conditions. But what Lin Xia didn't expect was that a small half of Nova Sco's province was the territory of Mars, the Imperial Minister of War. Mars had the title of Mars, and although this title and domain were not hereditary, it was enough to make Mars rich. Thinking of Mars's butler actually returning the matter of Rodney in order to be able to invite Mandy to sing at a cheap price, Lin Xia despised Mars even more.

After another six days, the crowd had crossed Nova Sco's province and entered Valen's province. Along the way, although it seems that Nova Sco's province is very rich on the surface, but I have seen a lot of homeless people, and at the beginning Lin Xia also gave them some food help, but the more I walked, the colder my heart became, there were too many homeless, especially after entering Mars's territory, there were more homeless people.

Although Lin Xia replenished food while walking, it was not enough to share, so he could only close the curtain of the carriage so that he could not see it, and he could only use this self-deceptive method to make his heart feel better.

It seems that Wright is right, the superficial prosperity of the imperial capital cannot hide the poverty of the common people.

After entering the province of Valen, you can travel for two more days to reach the territory of the Xilin family, the small town of Xilin. But what made Lin Xia feel incredible was that so many homeless people, he walked safely for six days without encountering robbers, could it be that his character exploded or Charlemagne's people were really too simple.

But the facts told Lin Xia that character was the most unreliable, and Charlemagne's people were not as good as he thought, because he heard a voice: "Robbery." ”