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Early the next morning, Luthor sent someone to the mercenary union to deliver an invitation to Weifeng, inviting Weifeng to his home as a guest, and his words were quite polite.

Weifeng neither refused nor agreed, but just said that he knew, and sent the messenger away. After that, Weifeng asked Elsa from Cole and left the mercenary guild directly.

These days, Weifeng is always wandering around Norvi City, often leaving early in the morning and returning late at night, and spending very little time with Elsa. He also agreed to Cole's proposal. It's a bit reluctant, but leaving Norvi City for a while will make Elsa safer.

The two walked aimlessly along the streets of Norvi City for more than ten minutes, and Weifeng seemed to subconsciously walk to a place with few people, and before they knew it, the two came to a somewhat dilapidated old town. The street is paved with uneven gray rocks and is probably less than two meters wide. The houses on both sides of the road are also made of stones, and the cold-looking rocks seem to be the warmest and most comfortable homes for the inhabitants here.

This is the time when the residents here go out to work, and the streets are a little deserted, with only three or five children playing on the corner, staring at Weifeng and Elsa with some curiosity.

"Where are you taking me?" Elsa asked softly.

"Uh......"

As if he had just come back to his senses, he looked around, and wondered how he could have come to such a place.

"I just wanted to find a quiet place. ”

Elsa gave a white look, crossed the wind, and took a few steps forward.

"This is the largest civilian area in Norvi City, where nearly 100,000 people live, most of whom work in the main city. You can guess how much an adult male here earns per year?"

These days, Elsa has been reading through various archival materials on Cole's side every day, and her understanding of Norvi City has become more and more sophisticated. The dark side hidden under the glossy exterior made her feel an indescribable sense of depression.

"A thousand gold coins?"

Weifeng gave a figure that he thought was relatively reasonable.

"Oh, a hundred and ten gold coins. For women, it was only seventy gold coins. ”

This answer made Weifeng's chest feel a little stuffy, one hundred and seventy gold coins could only barely feed a family of three, and the premise was that the children in the family gave up all their unrealistic dreams and honestly found a shop to be an apprentice.

"Why is this ......happening?"

"Most of what you know about Fasenel comes from Her Majesty Serena. It's no wonder that you're familiar with Fassener fifteen years ago. The changes that have taken place in Fasener in the past ten years are unimaginable. ”

"Did Kyle do it?"

"In the past ten years, Emperor Kyle has used very brutal means to greatly improve Fasener's national strength. But the corresponding price is also something we have to bear. The more than three-fold increase in taxes forced the merchants to repeatedly reduce the salaries of their employees, and the local city lords and tax officials turned a blind eye to this, and even encouraged the merchants to reduce their costs and expenses as much as possible in order to collect more taxes. In this way, the income of ordinary people in Fasener has shrunk nearly tenfold in the past ten years. ”

"What you said earlier, the slave girl trafficking. I don't believe the lord of Norvi and the officials in those places would know about this. But when they get what they think they deserve, they become a bunch of blind and deaf people, unable to hear or see. This is the current Fasener ......"

Weifeng listened silently on the side, endless bitterness in his heart, and a deep sense of powerlessness swept over.

"No wind. Elsa walked up to a plainly dressed little girl and gently stroked her somewhat dull hair, with a rare tenderness in her voice.

The girl's cry was like a drop of crystal dew, waking the wind from the darkness.

"Go ahead, go change that. ”

The girl was too shy to avoid Elsa's touch, turned and ran to her companion. A cheerful smile echoed in the somewhat narrow alleys.

"Well, good. ”

Southern of the Empire, Iron Coast, where the First Army was stationed.

Serena had just returned to her room, looking tired.

Since arriving in Steel City half a month ago, Serena has begun to negotiate with several major generals in the First Legion. The unique position of the First and Fifth Legions in the Fassener Empire forced her to pay attention to the attitude of the generals towards her. She also had to consider her relationship with the Lord of Minglan, as well as the existence of Weifeng, whether the two legions would have a grudge against her.

To Serena's surprise, the commander of the First Legion, Taize, reacted rather indifferently to the arrival of the new empress. After a symbolic welcoming ceremony, he placed himself in the current house. In the past few months, if they hadn't taken the initiative to visit the generals in the various legions, I am afraid that no one would have taken care of them.

Similar to the other legions, the First Legion consisted of four brigades, each numbering about 30,000 men. Of the four brigades, there are three brigades of presidential leaders, which Serena has already visited. Serena made it very clear that she would give the First Legion the greatest support within her ability. The only second brigade that is not in Steel City is stationed at the forefront of the Steel Coast, always on guard against the invasion of the Sea Clan.

A month ago, the Sea Tribes began congregating on the Iron Coast for an unknown purpose. The First Legion, just in case, arranged for four brigades to take turns to garrison the Iron Coast, and once they found that the Sea Clan showed signs of war, they would make a counterattack as soon as possible.

However, a month passed, and more and more sea tribes gathered here, but they still did not attack the First Legion stationed on the shore. Legion Commander Taize has ordered the alert level of the First Legion to be raised to S level, and a steady stream of ordnance and supplies have been transported from the interior to Steel City. It can be said that once this war breaks out, it will be the most ferocious attack of the Sea Clan in the past ten years.

Just as Serena was worried about the Sea Clan's affairs, a female officer hurriedly walked in.

"Your Majesty, there is a situation over there in Norvi City. ”

The female officer said as she handed Serena two papers.

Serena opened one of the documents, which gave an account of their current situation, including plans for the upstart faction. After reading it, Serena was quite satisfied with Cole and Weifeng's plan. But when Serena opened another document, her expression suddenly became solemn.

"Albert Andrea...... How could he go to Norvi City......"