I don't know how long I slept, and several huge tongues licked hotly on my face, pulling Zhou Yu out of his sleep.

"Don't make a fuss, Xiaosha!" He pushed the huge dog's head away and sat up. Several maids next to him stumbled back a few steps, their eyes fixed on the ground, not daring to raise their heads.

"Who are you?" Zhou Yu yawned and put on a rhinoceros skin vest.

"The slaves and maids are palace maids, and they are here to serve the city lord." Obviously, the administrative operation in this palace is as usual, eating, drinking, playing, singing, pedicure, and massage, except for the change of leadership, dancing and dancing, and horses running.

"Come, come!" After a long time in the desert with the sergeants, he was not very used to this road, and it was easier to get along with men.

"Bong is here!" Sure enough, outside the door was the loyal Lu Bu. Only he can sleep so soundly and peacefully.

"Where's Nika? It's the tomboy with the cloak. Zhou Yu gestured on his head.

"Gone."

"Gone? Where did you go? ”

"I don't know."

Zhou Yu got up and walked out of the door, it was already sunrise outside, and the senior generals stood in a hall full of people, looking at him in unison.

"Capillary!" The Governor stretched out his hand to beckon, and the boy leaned over.

"Let's go!" Zhou Yu pulled him up and rode Xiaosha to the outside of the city.

He's going to collect the bodies of Dakuan and them.

But apart from the corpses, fragments of cannon barrels, and some blackened blood that had dried up, there was still a little bit of skin and bones that were large and wide.

"No, no." The hairy hair, who had been searching for a long time, said with red eyes.

Zhou Yu carried the wide boots and the belt that the two pillars were broken in half, and he was stunned in place.

If not, there will be none. I hope you will come and go naked. Even though it has only been a few months to eat well, may you be satisfied. On another day, we will meet again on the Huangquan Road, and I owe you a glass of send-off wine.

"Put these things away, and your buckwheat and leek leaf change of clothes. Take your brothers home! Zhou Yu said firmly.

"Pity those new clothes, they haven't had time to put them on yet." Capillary looked at the fragments on the ground.

The work of rectifying the wind-catching city was carried out rapidly. Zhou Yu had already sent scouts to the Cheche tribe to summon Huang Chao and the others who were guarding there to come over and rendezvous. Since this is the center of Kuzsia, it should also be the stronghold of the Heaven Shaking Alliance. It all starts here.

At the same time, he searched for Nika's footprints in and out of the city day and night, and the heartbreak of the day before made him too late to thank the girl, but there was still no trace of her. Zhou Yu touched his cheek from time to time, remembering the four slaps he received that day, and a rare smile climbed up.

The city is business as usual, the shops are restoring order, and some of the bold bosses have begun to do business; The priests went to the priesthood in fear, and the children of the wealthy families resumed their studies; Even those brothels, gambling houses, and bars have gone from disappearing to sneaking, and even began to solicit customers on the streets openly.

Zhou Yu stood at the top of the palace, looking at this desert capital of 100,000 people, and his heart was bored.

"Grand Governor, Miyagi's treasury has been taken over. There are countless preserved meats, gabas, and weapons, and it is estimated that it will take at least five days to completely clean them up. Lai Junchen walked behind him at some point.

"What's going on with those cannons?"

Lai Junchen is a native of the Tang Dynasty and knows a little about artillery and * things.

"According to the investigation, there are a total of ten cannons, in addition to the four that were blown up, there are also six, and they have now been taken over by the Einsatzgruppen. These firearms were purchased from Tsuchinotsuka at a great expense, and the shells used to make them were piled up in three dungeons. ”

"Okay, let Hugh Jack send some craftsmen to quickly adjust the artillery and make the shells. In the future, I will return these to Tuwangzuka as they are. ”

"That's right, Grand Duke. It is said that the person who poisoned the Cheche tribe was a henchman of the millennium, and was executed by General White this morning, along with other traitors. ”

"As I expected, it's another poison department. How to use viruses such as plague, smallpox, and cholera as weapons to kill people, the poison directors of Stormcatcher seem to be familiar with it. Zhou Yu said hatefully. Although he had avenged Samanda, he was not satisfied in the slightest.

"Junchen, Fengxian, what have you two seen and heard in the past few days in the Wind Catching City?"

"Back to the Grand Governor, Wind Catcher City is worthy of being a pearl on Kuzsia. In addition to wealth and prosperity, there are some differences between her and her. ”

"Oh? What's the difference? ”

"She's very developed, in your words, yes is developed."

"Oh? What is the developed law? ”

"In the past few days, I have met with several other generals at the regular meeting. First, Hugh Jack discovers that the smelting technology of Windcatcher far surpasses that of the Carmans. Although the Kamans were skilled craftsmen, they were generally focused on building roads and cities. As for fire application, heat treatment, and quenching steel, the blacksmiths of Storm Catcher City are obviously more skilled. ”

"Secondly, General Blacktooth Tsuneyuki found that the combination and use of armor, weapons, troops, and tactics of the soldiers in Wind Catching City were also more elegant. Soldiers have a complete promotion system, and generals have a scientific training system, which is not the same as Tu Tu and Kankun people. ”

"The most important thing is that the priest Ellavera discovered that in the library of Miyagi, there are a large number of books that record ancient spells, poisons, and healing techniques. She said several incredible things in a row, and they were obviously all good things. However, the priests here indulge in pleasure all day long, and there are very few who like to delve into it. ”

Zhou Yu took a sip.

"It is said that the City of Storm Catchers is a city of falls." This is the first time that the Metropolitan Governor has heard of this statement.

"Oh? How? ”

"The city is said to be 100,000 people, but the power is in the hands of a very small number of people. Officials, nobles, priests, and wealthy merchants ruled the city, and most of the people were slaves, except for the soldiers and some of the self-supporting craftsmen and peddlers. "Lai Junchen, as a human spirit, has amazing insight.

"These are the people they got from the slave market or the war, and they sold themselves here to get something to eat. Engaged in the business of selling his soul and body, he traveled all over the city, full of brothels, gambling houses, restaurants, and incense pavilions run by priests. On the contrary, the medical hall, the school hall, and the martial arts hall are lackluster. ”

"What's that incense pavilion?"

"Gaba, do you know?"

"Fart, can you not know?"

"Well, that's it. Gaba is dissolved in a special liquid prepared by the priest and heated over a fire to produce an incense. Inhaling this incense will make people temporarily in a psychedelic state, and they can't help but feel happy and fluttering. Lai Junchen's eyebrows fluttered when he said it, obviously he had tried.

"Then the incense pavilion is the shop that smokes this thing?"

"Exactly!"

"Isn't that the Big Smoke House?" Zhou Yu's eyes widened, it turned out that the reason why this gaba was hard currency in Kuzsia was because it was a drug.

"And that's not all. The incense pavilion can also be exchanged for gaba. Those who smoke gaba can exchange things for anything valuable, and some people even sell their children to suck it. Ordinary people can also exchange things when they go there with Gaba. First of all, the appraisal grade of the shopkeeper is divided into high, medium and low, and can be exchanged for food, clothes, and daily necessities according to quality and quantity. Larger sellers could even exchange slaves, chariots, horses, and houses. ”

Good fellows, these priests are really profitable. They don't have a penny and take advantage of the people's drug addiction to make the difference. Extremely despicable, pigs and dogs are inferior, no wonder the soldiers of Wind Catching City are yellow and thin, languishing, such a fallen city, what kind of combat power can it produce?

"Pass me the order, Lu Bu!"

"In!"

"From now on, the incense pavilion in the city will be closed, and all gaba will be confiscated and destroyed on the spot. The priests were disqualified and reduced to commoners. If you run a school, subsidize their venue and monthly salary. Otherwise, leave them to fend for themselves. "If Zhou Yu wants to inject hope into the fallen city, he must first have a Humen cigarette sale.

"Also, I ordered Zhang Xianzhong to gather the shields and weapons of all the soldiers who died outside the city, and melt them for me by the blacksmiths I just mentioned and cast them into coins. Issued from now on, it is used as currency. ”

"What about the style of money?" Lai Junchen looked embarrassed.

"It's made like you had five baht coins back then."

"The word five baht is also engraved on it?" Lai Junchen asked cautiously.

"Well, I'll think about it." Zhou Yu fell into deep thought.

"There you have it, and these two words are engraved on it." After that, Zhou Yu wrote an F and a D on the palm of Lai Junchen's hand.

"What does this mean? The Metropolitan Governor, I don't know these two words. Lai Junchen scratched his scalp.

"You don't need to know them, you just tell them to seal it."

"Okay, then let's do it."

The highest point in Miyagi.

Library Cabinet.

Two delicate bodies were holding lanterns, reading hungrily.

"Is it pretty?"

"Good, good-looking. Why are you here, Grand Duke? ”

"I heard Tuda say that you haven't been out of here for two days."

Ellavera brushed her hair at the same time, each putting down a book in their hands.

"This book? How did the book come about? ”

"What do you mean, Grand Duke?"

"I mean, it's a complicated thing to do from the production of paper to the layout and printing. Looking at Kuzsia, even Windcatcher doesn't have the ability to make books, right? Most of the governors looked up at the shelves, and there were about a hundred or so books.

"Books are a precious thing. It is not known where it came from or by whom. Ella and Vera had only seen one in the possession of High Priest Gilly since they were children, but it had long since become dilapidated. Like there are hundreds of books here, which is really unheard of. That's why the two sisters can't put it down, and they don't want to leave. ”

"How do you know how you can read without books?" Zhou Yu wondered.

This is the work of the priests. The so-called priests are not all like the gods and the boys in your eyes. In Borderlands, priests had many functions besides chanting incantations and making poison. For example, disseminating knowledge, saving lives, predicting hazards, defusing wars, relieving displaced people, and so on. The first skill of every priest from elementary school is literacy, which is conditionally taught by books; If there is no condition, write on the ground with a stick. ”

"Oh, I see!"

"Ella was taught by High Priest Gilly to read and write. I learned it secretly, hee-hee! Vera said with a smile on her face.

"Yes, you can't succeed if you don't steal it. I can't bring you a hood every day, can I? The Governor said with a smile.

"Governor, the two of us sisters have simply flipped through the books here. Most of them are about the use of poison medicines, smelting buildings, and agricultural calendars, which are extremely valuable historical treasures. There is a lot of content that my sisters have never heard of and are breathtaking. ”

"So amazing? Two points can be seen from this. ”

"Which two?"

"First, the reason why Stormcatcher is more advanced than the other city-states and tribes of Kuzsia is because they are at a higher stage of civilization. Like me, of course, from the top down, you have to be advanced. The Governor said and stood on tiptoe.

"Second, I made a bold guess, and I didn't guess. I said that you sisters don't understand flowers, so let's go and eat. Just now I instructed the capillary to make a fire in the front hall. I'm going to give you a barbecue today, ahhh ”

In the old days, Wang Xie was roasted in front of the hall, and most of the governors could do it alone.

"Dadu, your barbecue technique is very pure. I don't think it's worse than Wanyan and Yelu! Zhang Xianzhong came over and snatched a chicken wing while he was talking.

"Damn, are you praising me? You're making a noise! That's what I roasted for Ella Vera, how many have you eaten? The Governor pulled out the fire tongs and pointed at Lao Zhang and scolded.

"Oh, what yours and mine, aren't they all family! Yo, hot, hot, hot on my teeth! ”

"Metropolitan Governor, the scouts have come to report that the Heavenly Alliance has all been mobilized and entered the Wind Catching City, and they will arrive soon. What do you think about after that? Bai Qi sat cross-legged beside him, as if he had a match.

"Consider? There's nothing to think about, right? Zhou Yu didn't raise his head, and continued to stare at the crackling charcoal fire, he had just added new firewood.

"What's next for Windcatcher?"

"I plan to hand it over to Ran Min, and I can rest assured that Lao Ran will do things. Although this city is not big, it has recently changed its lord, abolished the currency, and exempted the priests, and I am afraid that ordinary people will not be able to control it. Moreover, Lao Ran has experience in ruling foreign races. ”

(Note: Although Ran Min is a Han Chinese, he has been a member of the Qiang tribe since he was a child, and the adopted grandson of Emperor Shi Hu of Later Zhao Wu, who has led the Qiang tribe for many years and is called the King of Martial Mourning.) ）

"What about us?" Bai Qi sprinkled a handful of salt and pepper on the oily donkey's legs.

"We? After a few days of adjustment, I want to go to the end of the earth to have a look. ”

"What?" Bai Qi was stunned.

"The end of the earth. On my map, a short distance west from here, is the western end of the continent of Kuzsia. I want to see what's there, if there's a way in. ”

"Why don't you choose to break through from Carman City and take the central passage to Slaughter Dream City?" Bai Qi made strategic proposals.

"This is not an advisable. As soon as the earth king is concerned, he will concentrate his superior forces in the central passage in an attempt to rob us and others. The general was assassinated, the city of the wind catcher was lost, and the old thief was on top of his head. Confronting him head-on, I'm afraid that if I can't take advantage of it, it's small, and the annihilation of the whole army is big! Zhou Yu said, tear a piece of meat and taste the saltiness.

"Second, I feel that there are still too many secrets on the Kuzsia continent, and there are many problems and phenomena that we know about and don't know why. Knowing ourselves and knowing that we have won all battles, now we still know very little about the land under our feet and the environment we are in, and we have no capital to fight against the king of earth and the king of destruction. ”

"I see, what the governor said is very true, Bai has been taught." Bai Qi said, and actually stood up and bowed to Zhou Yu.

"It's all your own people, why are you so polite?" Zhou Yu grabbed him, picked up the wine jug and poured him a bottle before others saw it, and said, "Come, drink!" ”

"Smack!" A pebble hits the fire, stirring up a cluster of sparks.

Zhou Yu thought it was the sand in the firewood bursting, but he didn't care.

"Smack!" It's another mass of sparks.

"Who?" Zhang Xianzhong, Lan Yu, and Xue Rengui Canglang pulled out their swords, put on a battle formation, and surrounded Zhou Yu in the middle.

"What a pleasure!" A woman's voice came from overhead.

The person squatting on the beam of the house, who else could it be if it wasn't Nika with a straw stick in her mouth?