Chapter 105: A Different Copper City Official
In private, people will call the city of metal or the city of wealth.
The City of Metal is not difficult to understand, but anyone who knows the name of the City of Wealth will know the smell of blood in the name.
The currency of the alliance has always been made of red copper, and when the copper currency first circulated, it was not smooth.
People who are accustomed to bartering do not find this thing of any use.
The implementation of currency was also in a desperate situation, and the final solution began with the popularization of the official system.
Fifth, Xuan forced the order that all officials' salaries should no longer be paid in the form of yellow millet or meat, but in the form of red and copper coins.
Since then, the circulation of money has opened a channel, and then with the prosperity of commerce, the monetary system has become more and more perfect, and the monetary system has been slowly established.
However, just like the appearance of Blackwater, there are always opportunistic people who will focus on these unearned means.
As a result, black gold merchants appeared, and they bribed the people of the Copper City to buy raw ore or copper, and smelt it into coins privately.
This incident caused chaos in the currency market of the entire alliance for a time, leading to currency collapse crises several times.
In the end, the high-level of the alliance intervened strongly, killing all the way from the capital to the red copper city, and I don't know how many black gold merchants died.
It was during this time that people privately called the Red Copper City the city of wealth, and after that, the title was also submerged in history.
It was also after this riot that the mother money totem was born.
This chaos not only removed the title of the rich city of the red copper city, but also created the mother money totem, but also greatly affected the political pattern of the red copper city.
Due to the importance of the Bronze City, the Coalition outlawed the Hammer Tribe's control of the city early on.
Many years ago, the position of the city lord of Copper City had been directly designated by the top of the alliance.
It stands to reason that the person who is directly designated is more likely to have problems, because the subject of his power comes from the headquarters of the alliance and is not here.
But this time, there was a problem here, which made everyone baffled, and then the four generations of ancestors decided to take a look for themselves.
When a man and a god came to the Red Copper City, they immediately attracted the attention of the guards and clansmen in front of the city, and many people even knelt down and bowed.
The four generations of ancestral witches waved their hands to get everyone up, and then led the god of gold to fly over the city wall and enter the city.
It seems that the god of gold is still influential here...... Four generations of ancestral witches pondered, their eyes scanning the busy mines in the city.
The mines of the Copper City are all located in the city, and this custom has been preserved since the first construction of the walls of the Copper City.
When the Red Copper City was first established, the Fire Tribe had not yet gone south, and later the Fire Tribe went south, and the Red Copper Stone Knife was powerful, and many people came to the Red Copper City to grab the red copper.
At that time, the Red Copper City did not have a city wall, so even some small tribes could grab some red copper as long as they found the right time.
This situation did not improve until the walls were built, and after that, the Red Copper City developed the habit of expanding the walls before mining.
It is much easier for the red copper city to form a city wall than other cities, because there are a large number of red copper and totems here, and the totems can directly forge the city walls by using totem fire, which is very fast.
This is also the reason why the copper city can realize that the mining area is within the city walls, and of course, it is also a means for them to save red copper.
In the eyes of the alliance's top leaders, the red copper city wall was dismantled and smelted into currency, which is more than the total amount of currency currently circulating in the market.
In this way, it can be seen how big the walls of the red copper city are, and how vast the red copper city is.
However, although the Red Copper City is vast, it is not as prosperous as the capital, because a large part of the interior of the city is full of mining areas.
The speed of the four generations of ancestral witches and the god of gold is not fast, and the four generations of ancestral witches are also coming to the Red Copper City for the first time, but he wants to see the difference here.
In the left and right mining areas, there are a large number of machines in operation, compared to the simple machine that can only pound the ground established by the Fifth Xuan back then, the machines at this time are much more complicated.
There are stone crushers that are specifically responsible for smashing large pieces of ore, excavators that are specialized in excavation, and crawlers that are specialized in transportation, and so on.
These machines didn't appear for a long time, because the power plants of these machines only appeared after the Fifth Xuan became a god.
These machines are also very clumsy because they don't have too much technology.
For example, the bucket of the excavator does not use hydraulic pressure, but adds iron chains before and after the bucket, and pulls the iron chains through the power in the excavator to achieve excavation work.
This, of course, will cause a lot of inconvenience, but with the current technical capabilities of the alliance, it can only go so far.
This makes these machines more difficult to operate, more prone to problems, and particularly bulky.
But these machine pestles still looked quite spectacular there, and the leaders of the four generations who saw this scene for the first time couldn't help but feel proud in their hearts.
The four generations of ancestral witches and the god of gold held gold did not go far, and the city lord came out with a group of officials.
"Zhu Tong, the lord of the Red Copper City, welcomes the four generations of ancestors and the god of gold. ”
In the distance, the city lord Zhu Tong bowed down with the officials.
"The amount of red copper sent to the capital by the Red Copper City has decreased again this year, why?"
The four generations of ancestral witches retracted their gaze, slowly lowered their figures, and did not let them get up, and asked directly.
"Returning to the four generations of ancestral witches, it is because of the newly forged section of the city wall, and the need to forge the divine body for the palm gold totem, so the supply has been reduced again. ”
City Lord Zhu Tong obediently lowered his head and replied without getting up.
The brows of the four generations of ancestral witches furrowed, this answer is not flawed, but it is really difficult to distinguish.
"Get up, and show me the accounts. ”
Four generations of ancestors.
His behavior like this almost directly pointed to the distrust of the top level of the alliance towards the city lord Zhu Tong, but that Zhu Tong did not quibble about anything, nor did he show the slightest dissatisfaction, and immediately got up and took him to check the accounts.
His performance made the four generations of ancestors wonder, and they wondered if they were preconceived.
But this thought was almost instantly eliminated from his mind, and whether there was a problem in it or not, he had to picket it clearly.
Having an early judgment of innocence or guilt in one's mind will affect one's judgment.
Follow Zhu Tong to the City Lord's Mansion, and naturally few people came to bow down to the four generations of ancestors along the way.
Now the alliance implements mixed living, although the Hammer tribe is still the main people in the Red Copper City, but the number of people only accounts for three or four percent, and the rest are mixed with other tribesmen.
Among them, there are naturally people from the Fire Tribe, and they know that the four generations of ancestral witches are coming, so they naturally want to come and worship.
Fortunately, the status of the four generations of ancestors is too high, and the people who know him have long since died, otherwise some people will come up to talk.
Without these obstacles, the four generations of ancestral witches soon came to the City Lord's Mansion, and he sat directly on the throne, and the god of gold held beside him without sitting down.
It's not that he is not allowed to sit next to the four generations of ancestors, but he can't control his strength well, he doesn't know how many chairs he has broken, and he has a B number in his heart, so he didn't find a chair to sit on.
"Bring me the ledger, I'll take a look. ”
The four generations of ancestors did not talk nonsense with the city lord Zhu Tong, and directly put on a business-like appearance.
Zhu Tong was also well-behaved, and immediately asked people to send the account book.
The ledger has half a box, all paper, bound into a book, which looks convenient.
The fourth generation of ancestral witches frowned, although he had also participated in the study of accounting, but his ability in this area was not strong, and this box of ledgers made him a little big.
"Take out the ledger and I'll take a look. ”
He frowned and said with some dissatisfaction.
Zhu Tong responded, immediately stepped forward in person, obediently took out a general ledger, and bowed down to hand it to the eyes of the four generations of ancestors.
The four generations of ancestors watched Zhu Tong's every move, only in terms of behavior, it didn't look like he had a different heart.
After taking the account book, four generations of ancestors read it.
Even though there is only one volume, there are quite a lot of contents, and this time it was dark when I saw it, and Zhu Tong and a group of officials were always by his side.
"Go down to eat, I guess I'll watch for a while, and I'll call you when I'm optimistic." ”
Four generations of ancestral witches waved their hands and let them go.
Zhu Tong and a group of officials should leave, and they all left respectfully, leaving the four generations of ancestral witches and the god of gold here, and some waiters waiting to be used.
After these people left, the four generations of ancestral witches looked at the god of gold and asked, "Do you think there are any problems here?"
The reason for this question is because the shadow of the god of gold has always been in the totem stone in the red copper city, and he should know the situation here better than himself.
Since entering the city, he has always felt that there is a problem, but he has not found the problem for a while, even when he looks at the account book, he is always distracted, so he has this question.
"I don't think there's anything wrong with that. ”
The god of gold shook his head and said innocently.
When he speaks and looks at people, he either gives people the feeling of being a fool, or he is a dumbfounder.
The four generations of ancestors also felt that asking Him by themselves was tantamount to asking in vain, and there was really no result.
Just as the four generations of ancestral witches were about to bow their heads and continue to look at the account book, the god of gold suddenly spoke.
"They have always been very respectful to me. ”
There was nothing wrong with saying this, but just such a sentence that made the four generations of ancestors suddenly stunned.
"Respectfully?"
Four generations of ancestral witches finally knew what the problem was, that is, these people were too respectful to him.
It's not that it's respectful, but it's also necessary to divide people.
When he left the alliance, the principal of the elementary school attached to the alliance university he saw, the person with a high character, did not dare to use a respectful attitude when he saw him.
That attitude is extremely groveling, and it is the ultimate worship of him, but what about these people?
If it is only the city lord Zhu Tong who has a respectful attitude, the four generations of ancestors can still explain it with the large pattern in this person's heart, but most of the high-ranking officials are like this, there is something wrong.
It's not that he boasts, his four generations of ancestors came out, who saw that he didn't kneel and kowtow, with Lu worship in his eyes.
However, the officials of this red copper city bowed and saluted, and their eyes were solemn and serious, and there must be something wrong with this.
Especially compared with the guards outside the city, the clansmen, and the clansmen who rushed to pay their respects in the city, these officials of the Red Copper City were too restrained.
It's just that...... What's the problem?
The four generations of ancestors thought about it, and they were very confused in their hearts, and they couldn't find a clue for a while.