Polontesa is destined for a day of restlessness, or more than one day, at least until the prisoner is caught.

And the prisoner they wanted to catch was at least twenty or thirty years away from Polontaisha at the moment.

Ao Zongheng believed Bao Lin's answer - she had no reason to lie to herself. He decided not to venture into the imperial capital to find out the genealogy of the Shernarshak family, but instead split up with the Bao Lin soldiers and went to the other two Schernasak families to find out the news of Lance Keitel Lepodandu Norio du Schernasak.

Of course, he was going north, but Bao Lin was going east, where there was another Shernashak nobleman she knew.

Yes, what Bao Lin suddenly remembered at that time was that in the eastern part of the empire, there was another nobleman with the same family name of Shernashak.

Of course, Aoheng didn't mind someone helping him find news about Lance Keitel Lepodandu Norio Du Schernašak, as long as he didn't let too many people know, let alone know his purpose. But he was reluctant to let Bao Lin do it—it was too dangerous for a fugitive.

It stands to reason that even if he rescued Bao Lin and fulfilled his promise to her father, her life or death has nothing to do with him, but his impression of these two fathers and daughters is okay, and he doesn't want others to take too much risk for his own affairs.

However, Bao Lin insisted on doing this, and her reasons were also very strong, and now she was dangerous wherever she went - the imperial capital and the northern ancestral realm were searched tightly, and the west was at war, and the southerners were always wary and hostile to the central and northern people, that is, the east, where the peaceful life had been lived for a long time, was relatively safe.

Of course, Ao Zongheng is not as familiar with the local situation as Bao Lin, but Bao Lin's words gave him a reminder, so he agreed with Bao Lin: You go east to investigate, no matter whether there is a result or not, never reveal your identity, and then you go to Geng Laoyuan in the southern Jalio Sakai Fugan Village, and find an old man named Pi Genbo in the circle, and say that I asked you to find him, settle down there, and I will meet you there.

That's right, Proud intends to temporarily resettle Bao Lin there, although this will increase some risks, but with the blood clan of Diodori there, there shouldn't be any problems. As for where Bao Lin will go in the future, this matter is still up to her to decide, Ao Zongheng has no intention of taking care of one more person, not to mention that this is still a woman.

More than 100 years north from Polongtaisha is the Futai Ridge, which is generally regarded as the dividing line between the central and northern parts of the empire, and at the end of the year, there are far more snowfall days in the north than in Lingnan, and the amount of snowfall is naturally very different.

When Ao Zongheng crossed the Futai Ridge, it was snowing in the north of the ridge.

This is the largest snow that Ao Zongheng has ever encountered in the world of Pleuz, no matter how good your eyesight is, you can only lift your eyes to a hundred whips, but fortunately you don't rely on your eyes to walk, and the motle feeds on qi, and its light weight is not in harmony with its size, and it is much easier to walk on the thick snow than ordinary horses.

In the sense of qi, there is no trace of man and beast, this is only the central and northern parts, and there are about four hundred people from the ancestral realm of the empire, such a bad weather, no wonder the empire wants to move the imperial capital to the south.

When it comes to the ancestral realm of the empire, of course, it refers to the place where the ancestors of the empire started their fortunes, but within the empire, there are actually ancestral realms in the legal sense and ancestral realms in traditional cognition.

True Ancestral Realm, refers to the northernmost Zupol realm of the empire, pay attention to its name, it is the realm and not Sakai, the realm is in Sakai first, this is one of the special treatment of the ancestral realm. This is the territory that the ancestors of the Great Bogar Empire originally controlled when they founded the country, so they are called True Ancestors.

As for the Fazu Realm, it includes the other two realms adjacent to the True Ancestor Realm, the Kol Realm and the Gover Gang Realm, which were the first lands conquered by the Empire, and in the first three hundred years of the Empire's history, these three lands were the entire territory of the Empire.

It is precisely because of the relatively special historical significance of these two lands that the empire's territory expanded greatly, and even after the capital was moved to Polongtaisha, the then Emperor Shalin also designated them as ancestral land. Unexpectedly, this move caused an uproar, from the courtiers, relatives and nobles to the royal family of Zupol Realm, all of them strongly opposed this move to dilute the status of Zupol Realm. In terms of the general situation in the history of the Tambro Continent, with such a large area of strong opposition, the average king and emperor will shrink, or find a step to retract their will, but at that time, this Emperor Brake was a famous male monarch in the history of the empire - Yi Tai Qinbadi, known as the tough emperor, you will know from the nickname, this person's neck and wrists are as hard, he cut the hats of the three courtiers who danced the most fiercely at once, and then locked a few relatives and nobles in the quiet courtyard to recuperate and think, and even threatened to put the biggest backstage of the opposition- Lan Dai Zan's Di (the official title of the successor of Emperor Chalin, equivalent to the crown prince) was put under house arrest, and as soon as these three moves came out, the opposition was completely defeated. The fight ended the first round with a victory for Yitai Pro-Bati.

Yes, it's just the first round, although this Yitai Qinbadi has a hard neck and a hard wrist, his life is not too hard. Two years later, he was injured in an accident, and the trauma that he thought was not a big problem killed him, and the successor was the Lan Daizan who "knew that mistakes could be corrected".

Those opposition factions of that year, less than half a month after Yitai's burial, respectfully petitioned the upper resolution to cancel the ancestral realm of Kolxian and Godergang. They thought that this proposal would definitely be approved by Emperor Landaizan, and some even thought that they would get more benefits by "welcoming the emperor's will first". But the result was not as they expected - after all these years, Emperor Landezan had already changed his mind, and he was unwilling to overturn the decision of the first emperor, so he decreed that the Zu Bo realm would be raised by half a level, called the True Ancestor Realm, and the other two would be relatively renamed the Fazu Realm, which is the origin of the True Ancestor Realm and the Fazu Realm.

In fact, this was all nearly a hundred years ago, but Ao Zongheng traveled all the way north, and found that there were really many people who talked about it. The reason why they like to talk about this is not because of how legendary and interesting it is, but because what is revealed in their words is all kinds of envy, jealousy and hatred of the ancestral realm.

This imperial capital territory, a total of sixty realms of Sakai plus an imperial capital territory, to say where is the best place to live, businessmen and nobles may be inclined to the imperial capital territory, but if it is an ordinary person, then the most desire is definitely the ancestral realm, rushing is an advantage - in addition to military service, the residents of the ancestral realm are exempt from light taxes.

According to those people, in most places outside the ancestral realm, the various taxes of the imperial subjects accounted for at least three to forty percent of the total income, and this is still when there is no special tax, and under the same conditions, the taxes of the inhabitants of the ancestral territory are only about one to one and a half percent of the income, which is a big enough difference, right? But this preferential treatment cannot be enjoyed by others. The Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Empire stipulates that only the clansmen of the upper and two clans can become household residents in the ancestral realm, and these people can enjoy the preferential treatment of light tax exemption.

Seeing that they gritted their teeth as they spoke, Ao Zongheng didn't look too disapproving, so he had to buy two more glasses of wine to express his relief.

This northbound road, lonely and calm, entering the Vicious Divine Month, it is already deep winter for the central and northern regions, all agricultural work has stopped, and the caravan has finished the winter trade as early as last month. The Sakai Road is covered in a thick layer of snow, and it is impossible to see the original width and narrowness, that is, there are people maintaining the boundary markers at the roadmark, so that outsiders do not get lost in the snow covering the mountains.

Along the way, the people who have seen the most are hunters - not full-time, and the farmers here will come out to hunt every winter break to relieve boredom, improve nutrition, and enrich taste. The farmland in the northern part of the empire is far worse than the rest of the empire in terms of the length of time it can be cultivated, the area of the land, and the fertility of the land, but it can still support so many Boju people, and a large part of the credit is due to the abundance of livestock in the wild.

The more populated the place, the smaller the number of types of livestock, so the northern part of the empire, which is itself a great wasteland, is naturally rich in livestock resources, and every winter, a large number of various livestock will come from the extremely cold north of the continent, through the mountains of the Gengguyi Mountains to the northern territory of the empire to avoid the cold, and these poultry and livestock have naturally become the source of food for the northern inhabitants in winter.

Some of these animals are similar to those in Middle-earth, but most of them are different, but they are all very delicious, anyway, I saw the poultry flying by along the way, as long as I haven't seen it, I will get one, take it to the store, let the store stew or simply make his own fire to roast and eat, anyway, the cold is not a threat to him at all, this clean day of eating and drinking, coupled with the spirits brewed in all parts of the north, makes him a little reluctant to hurry.

On the ninth day of the month of the god of calamity, the fifth day of the wind.

It snowed again, and it snowed again.

Somewhere on a hillside in the northeast of the mountain, Ao Zongheng drank wine and roasted an shearwater that had been hunted at noon.

Finally, I am almost at the edge of the ancestral realm, and after sleeping this night, I will be able to enter the Kol Frontier early tomorrow morning.

Belonging to Hapu Yigang, the northernmost part of the Sakai region, and not many inhabitants, Ao Zongheng made up some wine from there, and went to the hillside to build a bonfire - in this undisturbed ice and snow, it is much more comfortable to sleep in the wilderness than in the guesthouse.

Ao Zongheng is drinking, and the Evil Beast is lying down and resting boredly by the campfire - the evolved Zodiac can survive only on energy, as long as it follows Ao Zongheng, even in this cold and snowy land, the Evil Beast will not worry about eating and drinking.

The shearwater is baked.

This bird is considered a first-class ingredient in the winter menu of the northern inhabitants - it is large and meaty, and a full-grown shearwater is enough to feed a family of six or seven. And although this one is small, with only two pots of spirits, it is enough to enjoy a night.

The wind and snow are rushing and the snow shows no signs of stopping, masking all kinds of other noises, creating a different kind of "tranquility".

But in this "tranquility", arrogant and faintly heard in the distance, and there was a very poignant and short scream.