The more mountains in the south, the Gongga Mountains are separated from the Sangliu Plain and the Lonely Mountain Range, although they are slightly inferior in absolute height, but the volume is almost the same. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe Sangliu Plain between the two mountains is long and narrow, like a slender willow leaf, between two fierce dragons.

Further south of Gongga Mountain is the vast and rich Minyue Plain. The Li Han River, which originates from the west of Gongga Mountain, after getting rid of the shackles of Gongga Mountain, flows for tens of thousands of miles, stretching its complex and huge water system network all over the Minyue Plain.

Changping City, the imperial capital of the Yue Kingdom, is located in the southeast of the Minyue Plain. There are a total of 26 large cities on the entire Minyue Plain, with a population of nearly 20 billion, which can be said to concentrate the essence of the Yue country.

The Sangliu Plain in the north is actually a plateau between two mountains, with narrow terrain and poor products. Only at the intersection of the Lihan River and the Gongga Mountain, there is a big city called Nanxiu.

Nanxiu is at the key point, it is an important military town in the north, and there are 20 million people stationed around the city of the northern army of the Yue country. Such an important place naturally needs to be taken care of by someone you trust.

Chen Siyi, the lord of Nanxiu City, is a member of the royal family of the Yue Kingdom, and is the uncle of Chen Chengyun, the current Yue Emperor. It's just that Chu Yue had the danger of falling into the mountains before, coupled with the threat of corpse demons, for hundreds of years, except for a very small amount of slight friction, the two countries have been safe. As a result, the strength of the Northern Army was reduced again and again, from 50 million to 20 million.

In addition, the Sangliu Plain is barren, and many children of rich families are under a name when they serve in the military, and the actual people are still pampered and pampered in the major towns of the Minyue Plain. So the actual strength of the Northern Army is about 14 million.

Compared with the Southern Legion, which has been fighting with the Wu Clan of 100,000 mountains all year round, the Southern Legion is close to 100 million, and the Northern Legion is simply weak.

Chen Siyi, the lord of the Southern Embroidery City and the overseer of the Northern Legion, didn't care either. Those who have empty names are either rich or expensive, and since people are not in the barracks, they naturally don't care about the military salary.

The empty salary of about six million was naturally divided among the overseers Chen Siyi, the generalissimo Xing Zekai, and a cadre of middle and senior officers. Chen Siyi got the lion's share, with hundreds of millions of income every year, and his natural life was extremely extravagant.

But even so, City Lord Chen still did not forget to open a few more financial routes, such as exploiting past business travel.

Chu Yue has been peaceful for a long time, and cross-border caravans are naturally endless. All caravans took the Friendship and Peace Bridges and crossed the road of Nanxiu.

Under the banner of "cracking down on the trade deficit and maintaining the stability of the Vietnamese currency", the city lord Chen gave relative preferential treatment to the caravans leaving the country, and imposed heavy taxes on the caravans entering the country.

In fact, no matter how caravan there is, unless it is destroyed by bandits halfway, it always has to come and go. Therefore, Chen Chengzhu's strategy can always maintain extremely high profits. And Nanxiu has become a "city that you don't want to come back if you leave." ”

But in the past few days, Chen Siyi has been a little annoyed, and for some reason, the caravan coming from the north has suddenly decreased. Even some of the big caravans that ran cross-border trade all year round were gone.

Occasionally, a caravan came, either the people were scarce and the goods were cheap, or the disabled and injured cars and horses were few, and the tariff income fell directly by ninety to five.

Chen Siyi was extremely distressed, and he didn't think about tea and dinner for several days, and he lost two or three taels. Although compared to the weight of more than 300 catties, this is really inconspicuous, Chen Siyi still feels that the loss is too great.

"Should offshore taxes be raised as well? The method of unilateral tax collection is a bit outdated. Chen Siyi lazily reclined on the super giant soft collapse of the council hall, his fat hand kept rubbing his triple flesh chin, and he thought carefully in his heart.

However, looking at the few crooked melon and cracked jujube vendors kneeling in the corner of the hall, Chen Siyi was a little interested: "Isn't it interesting? Just such a few poor bastards, if the offshore tax is increased, it is estimated that they will immediately turn around and run away." ”

Thinking of this, Chen Siyi sighed, barely squeezed out a little smile on his round face that could barely see his eyes, and asked in a soft voice:

"That's... Who, why do you only bring such cheap goods into the country? If it is peaceful today, it is a good time to do a lot of business and make a windfall, and with such a small throughput, low turnover rate, and high logistics costs, how can you make money?"

The merchant who was called "that who" was an ordinary-looking middle-aged man, his face was full of gloom, and he said aggrievedly: "Lord of the city, where is the peace in this world? There are more bandits on the Sangliu Plain than there are ants in the nest. Everything of value has been snatched up. The rest are not looked down upon by the bandits. ”

Chen Siyi's hand stopped on the triple chin and said in surprise: "Bandits, what is there to be afraid of a few little thieves? What about the mercenaries invited by your caravan?"

"Mercenary?" The one pointed to a companion with a demented face hanging his arms next to him and said, "This grandfather is the dart master who invited the Longhu Dart Bureau, and he is one of the best dart players in the world." ”

"But it didn't happen, the dart master, the executioner, the mercenaut, the bodyguard, and the Sun family, more than 200 taels of thousands of people, met the first group of 'little thieves', and all of them were lost. ”

"Grandpa also broke an arm because he resisted too fiercely to make an example. ”

Chen Siyi was furious: "How can this be reasonable! The thieves are so rampant, dare to break ground on Tai Sui's head?" immediately summoned the heralds, threw down the golden skin order and called to the barracks, and asked Xing Zekai to mobilize people and horses to quickly go to suppress the bandits, and be sure to rescue the goods that were robbed by the bandits.

Calling here, Chen Siyi's face twitched, and he squeezed out a weird grimace.

The herald had long been trained to be thorough, and naturally understood that this Chen City Lord wanted to snatch back all the goods looted by the bandits, but he didn't want to return them to this group of unlucky merchants, but to pocket them himself.

Logically speaking, if a bandit robs a businessman, the goods go to the bandits, and if the officials and soldiers rob the bandits, the things naturally go to the overseers and other votes.

As for the merchant who loses his goods, I will let him die. The Northern Legion was a professional soldier, not a policeman.

The herald understood and ran away with the arrow in hand.

Chen Siyi's heart was a little relieved, and then he noticed that unlucky grandfather.

This negative typical grandfather seems to have suffered a great impact on his sanity, his IQ is completely in arrears, and he stands stupidly, still whispering words in his mouth.

"That's... Who, what's that old guy messing up with?"

"Who" replied: "Lord of the city, grandpa is talking about Qingyun people, Qingyun people. ”

"Qingyun people?" Chen Siyi frowned: "What do you mean, aren't we all from the Qingyun Continent?"

"Lord Gao Jian, we are indeed all from the Qingyun Continent. The one replied respectfully: "This Qingyun person has recently come out of the Chu State from somewhere. ”

It means that no matter whether it is the Yue Chu and Song Dynasties, the Western Gobi Alliance, or the Wu people of the 100,000 mountains, or the Huns of the northwest grasslands, they are all one family, called Qingyun people. ”

"It started with a rumor. It is said that two months ago, the State of Chu salvaged a strangely dressed strange person in Linhai City. ”

Later, after the research of the Royal Research Institute of the Chu State, this strange person turned out to be from another continent, and he didn't know how to drift to the Qingyun Continent. ”

According to this strange man, several other continents are now undergoing great changes, and the four empires of Tang, Ming, Qin, and Han have risen to unify their own continents and even begun to conquer other continents. ”

"This kind of great empire sits on an entire continent or even multiple continents, and its military strength is at its peak, and everywhere it passes, there is only conquest. All the conquered faith, the subjects of the state, will be reduced to the third and fourth class, and they will be enslaved. ”

"Therefore, some scholars of Chu and Song Yue jointly introduced the concept of 'Qingyun' people, which means that if they do not want to be enslaved, all the human races in Qingyun Continent should break the boundaries of country, race, and class, let go of hatred, and form a close, united, equal and mutually helpful group, so as to ensure the independence, prosperity and prosperity of Qingyun Continent. ”

Chen Siyi laughed dumbly when he heard this, shook his head and said, "It's ridiculous! Back then, the human race was plagued by corpse demons, and there were no Qingyun people who united to fight against corpse demons. ”

"Now that the corpse demon has been destroyed, for the sake of an ethereal threat from another continent, what kind of 'Qingyun people' is talked about, his heart can be punished. ”

Speaking of this, Chen Siyi felt that he had worked for too long and was already hungry, so he hurriedly grabbed a roasted camel leg on the table in front of him, clicked and gnawed violently, and said vaguely in his mouth:

"Besides, my Dayue royal family is so noble, and only the royal families of Chu and Song can barely match us. ”

"It's a ridiculous thing to imagine that the most noble royal family such as me can coexist on an equal footing with the grass people, and even with the barbarian witches who feed on people in the 100,000 mountains. ”

"Imagine one day a nobleman of the Yue Kingdom ran to shake hands with the barbarians of the 100,000 mountains, saying that we should coexist peacefully and unite with the outside world. Guess what's going to happen?"

"Who's that" joked, "What was the result?"

"The barbarian swallowed the Yue nobles into his stomach with a single bite, and this time the two of them are truly one, hahaha..." )