Like the old Egu in the city of Spath, the rulers of the city were also relatives of the pharaohs. It's just that in terms of blood, this consul named Emir is a little further than the old Egu and the Pharaoh. However, in terms of reputation, the Emir family, who have been in Tuka for three generations, surpasses the Egu family by a lot.

In addition to being known for selling refined lake salt and running the Colosseum, generations of emirs (nobles of the Ash World, who could only use their family name as their own after inheriting the head of their family) were keen collectors of all kinds of treasures. This generation of Emir consuls was even more passionate about collecting than even his own fathers.

After the gathering in the Holy Land of Voshugu, Brach killed the Wandering Desert Elf mercenary leader and snatched the "Elven Golden Sword" from him. Originally, he wanted to directly destroy this weapon that might bring disaster to the desert elves, but after communicating with Queth, the young blue dragon found a better home for the golden sword.

A month before the Leviathan's maiden voyage, the Desert Elf Sycamancer was sent to the city of Taka by Quest to give the golden sword as a gift to befriend the Emir Archon, who loved to collect.

Compared to riding the Leviathan, the journey up the Niro River on camel riding is neither comfortable nor convenient.

The only thing worth mentioning is that with the seal issued by the dragon Pasha, he can get plenty of free supplies in all the cities along the way—Brach has to admit that this is much better than the samurai he once led with his warriors to guard the Salem tribe as they migrated.

Of course, even so, the envoy was only a few days before the Leviathan set sail before they could reach the city of Taka in the south of Medica.

"This is really a salt lake city!" Blatch exclaimed as he waited to enter the city.

After a night's journey, the envoys arrived at the gates of Tuka at dawn. The same was true of many caravans from all over Medici, who spontaneously formed long queues waiting for the gates to open.

The walls of Tuka City were covered with a layer of salted mortar, which shone like diamonds in the light of the rising sun. There are many buildings with boxy towers inside the city, and even outside the city you can see flags fluttering from their towering spires.

Among the envoys was a Nome merchant who had been to Tuka before, and he was eagerly introducing the desert elves who led the group: "The banners represent the various guilds of Tuka—merchants of different trades come together to protect the interests of their trades in the city. The hammer is the flag of the blacksmith's guild, the red and black ring represents the Colosseum, the leather pennant represents the fur and cloth merchants' guild, and the blue and white square flag is the symbol of the largest and most powerful salt guild in Tuka.......

As he spoke, the merchant made a gesture of weighing the money bag.

Bradch wasn't disgusted by this - in the past, when he was in the Salem tribe, merchants wanted to exchange more desert elf specialties from the tribe, and they would also befriend the tribal elders by "giving gifts".

"His Excellency Pasha has instructed that at least one hundred and fifty wide wagons of refined lake salt must be prepared at the salt pan before the Leviathan arrives. Although the voice was not loud, Bradch's words were accurately conveyed to the ears of everyone in the envoys due to the effect of the phonetic spell, "Filtered more than three times, and boiled with dead halophilic bacteria, the pink refined salt can be sold for a good price in the central region and even in the northern part of Medici, which is our priority purchase." ”

Everyone in the envoys nodded in agreement. Most of them were wealthy businessmen in Nome, and they were quite familiar with the work of commercial procurement, so they were confident that they would be able to serve the dragon Pasha well.

As the blazing sun climbed from the horizon to the sky, the gates of the city, which had been closed all night, finally opened to the long-awaited queues. With the seal issued by Quest, the City Watch did not dare to delay, and after informing the Emir Archon, they directly let the envoys out of the queue and entered the gate of Tuka in advance.

Unlike the desolate saline-alkali Gobi outside the city, the city of Tuka is full of life. The streets here are radial and stretch outward, with small intersections on each floor of the street with man-made flower beds and lush flowers and shrubs.

This is due to an initiative of the Tuka Salt Industry Guild – when the salt is boiled, the brine drawn from the salt lake is not wasted after evaporation, but is converted into distilled water for drinking and irrigation, thanks to a special distillation and condensation facility. Each neighborhood in Tuka City has pipes through which distilled water from the homemade salt mills is transported to specific tanks.

For a few copper debens, the city's residents could buy enough water for a family for a day from the merchants who operated the water storage facilities. The drought-tolerant and salt-tolerant landscape plants in the middle of the street only need one or two pots of water from the nearby merchants to survive every day.

"The city is a city of contradictions. Walking on the road to the consul's residence, the merchants of the envoy kept introducing Brač to the various customs and customs of the Čaī, "The city is full of life all year round in the saline Gobi, the people of the city are simple and industrious, and hospitable, but the arena is full of bloody battles, and the family of the consuls who rule the city has always been generous, and rarely compete with the people except for the sale of salt and the operation of the Colosseum, but the three generations of emirs have been 'greedy' to collect all kinds of novelties." ”

While listening to the introduction of the merchants, I observed the bits and pieces of the city. Taking advantage of the lack of pedestrians on the streets, the envoys rode camel beasts through the streets that had not yet woken up, and after a few moments came to the consul's mansion in the city of Taka.

In terms of rank, Quest's Pasha title is second only to the Great Vishur, and one level higher than that of the Archons. However, due to its location in the Gobi Desert, it was not under the rule of any Pasha, and its taxes were directly accountable to the Pharaoh and belonged to the autonomous city of the Emir family. Therefore, Brach's delegation needed to come to "pay a visit" rather than a "note".

However, out of respect, the lord of the city of Tuka, accompanied by the steward and guards, walked out of the consul's mansion to welcome the arrival of the dragon Pasha's envoys.

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