Chapter 581 I'm so sleepy, I'm sleepy, I'm sleepy, so I don't want to name the chapter, so let's just watch it first
As one of the southernmost cities, the pace of life in Trivia is quite slow, and the city dwellers walking on the streets give people a sense of slowness. As dried fish and seafood from the south began to sell well in the north, the standard of living in the whole south increased. The vast majority of the locals in Trivia are fishermen, and each large family has a fishing boat, which only needs to go to the sea for two or three days a week, which is enough for the family to live on.
Most of the commoners in the north eat wheat and meat, and of course the same is true in the south, but the proportion of wheat used is relatively small, and more minced sea fish and some vegetable leaves are mixed with a little wheat to make a hodgepodge. In the south, the common people's three-meal-a-day meal is pronounced "Naha", which means fish wrapped in leaves in the Desi language. It's likely that many years ago, Southerners did wrap fish in leaves for food, but the way they cooked it was definitely not to cook it together, and it was more likely to be grilled.
However, over the years, the common people in the south, especially near the sea, have become accustomed to this way of eating, and instead of the original real meaning behind the word Naha.
But to be honest, in fact, Naha is good, and the taste is also very good, fresh and delicious, which can indeed increase people's appetite. Sea fish often have no spines, their own meat is good, and there is a lot of fat, after cutting into minced meat, the taste of the ingredients itself is all exuded, and the special taste brought by some local vegetables and leaves reduces some of the fishy smell that does not exist in the fish, which is completely a cheap civilian food.
Even some rich people or young aristocrats from the north will try to eat some.
The lack of stress made life slow in most cities in the South, and the aristocracy increased their investment in shipping, and the whole South was filled with an "idealized" living environment. This is also one of the reasons why the northern aristocracy will laugh at the southern aristocracy as dirt buns, because they feel that the southern Yankees do not want to make progress as soon as they have a little money, which is simply a shame for the aristocratic class.
However, it was these southern Yankees who repeatedly made meritorious contributions in the Northern Expedition, and the old northern nobles who fought had no power to fight back.
The city of Trivia is transparent from north to south, and a straight sunny avenue runs straight from the north gate to the south gate. If there are no pedestrians on the street to obstruct the view, you can clearly see the south gate from the north gate.
Outside the south gate, the three soldiers yawned against the base of the city wall, their eyes closed and they pretended to sleep, and the spears they held in their hands stood on the ground, supporting their bodies. No way, after the arrival of spring, the temperature in the south warmed up rapidly, at this time it was already twenty-one or twelve degrees, plus the sea breeze was blowing in the face, basking in the warm sun, everyone could not lift much energy in this afternoon. If it weren't for the fear that they would be whipped when they slept while standing guard, these people would have found a place to lie down and sleep.
On the one hand, it is related to the improvement of living standards, and on the other hand, it is because most of the production mode in the south is based on the family as a whole, and the social unity is close, and there is not much room for robbers and bandits to survive. And even if it was looting, there was nothing to grab except piles of dried fish and all kinds of seafood.
It's not cost-effective to risk being beheaded to grab something that can be caught casually in the sea.
It is precisely because the security environment is much better than that in other places, and it has also caused the slackening of the garrison in the southern coastal areas, and some nobles even have only 500 guards in their territories, responsible for maintaining the daily order of the city.
"What's that?", a soldier who had opened his eyes from a drowsiness barely opened his eyelids, looked at the huge ships on the shoreline, and shouted loudly.
The ships slowly turned sideways, and the hull on the side suddenly opened a number of black holes, and in the next second, countless crossbow arrows as thick as buckets shot out in an instant. Before the shouting soldier could react, he was nailed to the wall with a thud. He looked at the crossbow bolt and the wound that almost burst his chest, and blood spurted out of his mouth and nose.
The walls around him were filled with the bolts of huge crossbows of long and short ships, and in some places they were even cracked!
Enemy attack!
The next moment, a warning bell rang in the city, and the gates were quickly closed.
With a snap, Empress Pars slapped her palm on the table with a blue face, and the news that the Byron Empire had attacked the coast and had landed reached the imperial capital in a very short time through the magic sound box. A large number of orc races and half-orc armies quickly conquered three adjacent small cities, and based on this, the official undeclared war kicked off the invasion.
It seems that since she ascended the throne, the entire empire has not had a moment of peace, and there are always people who want to find something for her to do. The Empress of Pars herself even wondered whether the words of the scholars who were unwilling to submit to her pomegranate skirt were really in line with something that could not be guessed by man. Some old-school scholars believe that the Orlando Empire would have become troubled since Empress Pars ascended the throne.
The reason is ridiculous - because Empress Pars is an empress, not a man, she does not have the might and bravery of a man, she cannot suppress the forces from within and outside, and the entire empire will fall because of her ascension, and become a battlefield for foreign cavalry.
She has always been conscientious, trying her best not to let her impulses sway her reason, and to make herself a virtuous emperor. But even so, the continuous troubles always brought her difficult situations.
The invasion of the Byronic Empire was indeed in her consideration, but it was more of an assumption. In the absence of the Weimar Corridor, the invasion of an empire by transporting those insignificant forces by warships is simply a fool's big talk, and the ghost will not believe it. After all, the first problem that this invasion needs to face is the supply line.
War on land can be carried out step by step to ensure the smooth flow of supply lines, but how can this method of landing from the sea with a sword taking a biased approach ensure the supply of these landing soldiers? How can we form an advantage and not be encircled and annihilated?
This kind of obvious is to send people to death, and they will inevitably have a backhand!
This backhand didn't make Empress Pars wait long, and it was transmitted through the magic sound box, and of course it also made Empress Pars's face even more difficult to look at, for only one reason, that is, the Byron Empire knocked on the gate!
According to observation, one of the most elite legions of the Byron Empire, the Giant Legion, appeared in the Weimar corridor, and the purpose of their appearance here is self-evident, that is, to cooperate with the landing in the south, to flank the Orlando Empire from two directions at the same time!
Immediately afterwards, the full moon officially declared war on the Orlando Empire, and this time the full moon seemed to be ruthless, insisting on biting off a piece of meat from the Orlando Empire, taking out the troops of ten royal tents in one go, and began to squeeze the defensive circle on the Western Front.
A huge crisis hangs over the heads of all citizens of the Orlando Empire!
War!