White Horse Castle is an extremely old city.

It's not so much a city as a fortress! a fortress to defend against orcs. White Horse City was originally founded to defend against the orcs who fought back frequently, and there were countless terrifying weapons on its walls facing the wilderness.

Each brick is made of the strongest rock, and the hundred-meter-high wall makes people who look up feel a burst of amazement, the black wall carries a heavy sense of history, and the majestic momentum is integrated with the surrounding mountains, and the city of white horse is like a beast armed to the teeth guarding the western gateway.

However, history is like a long river that never returns.

Originally designed to fend off fearsome enemies, Whitehorse is designed for the most brutal of wars. But with the changes of history, White Horse City is like a river that is not very wide, and for various reasons it began to change course.

It began its transformation from a war fortress to a trading city.

This transformation is not good or bad, but from the perspective of historical evolution, it is probably a good change, at least the city of white horse has changed from a war fortress specializing in consuming materials to a city of gold that creates wealth.

The transformation of the urban form will inevitably lead to a change in the internal ruling class.

Originally built for war, Whitehorse City has always been owned by war nobles, armed with the greatest resources of the entire principality. They consider themselves "born noble" and are the undisputed masters of Whitehorse City.

However, after the opening of the Great Wilderness Trade Route in White Horse City a few years ago, countless merchants began to flock to the city.

Merchants are a group of profit-chasing people in any historical period, and even when the interests are large enough, their attitude of not being afraid of death is not inferior to those adventurers who lick blood from the knife edge.

At the beginning, the merchants walked out of a great wilderness trade road with the adventurous spirit and fearless enterprising spirit that amazed the world. Countless merchants like Xiaoxi have all kinds of dreams, and they have merged into a great river that shocks everyone, and rushes to White Horse City, where business opportunities are endless.

Perhaps the original merchants were weak, they were scattered, there was no fixed division of territory, there was no overly strong alliance of chambers of commerce, they were just a group of lambs to the slaughter in the eyes of the nobles, and they were allowed to be exploited and squeezed by the nobles.

But history is progressing.

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and slowly, as the number of merchants increases, Hakuba City becomes prosperous. Later merchants could not fight the first generation of merchants, so the weaker formed the first alliance, and they combined their own materials and used the excellent resources they already had to compete with others.

After the establishment of the initial chamber of commerce, the individual naturally could not fight the collective, and these businessmen with amazing vision soon realized the importance of unity, so in this atmosphere of commercial war, a federation of chambers of commerce began to be established.

It was an era of competition that was hailed by Whitehorse City as the "Age of the Chamber of Commerce".

The era of the Chamber of Commerce was short-lived, and the big capitalists began to swallow up small merchants, discovering that joining forces with the aristocracy could suppress any of their rivals, and they only had to pay for some wealth.

The market means wealth, and money is nothing but immediate benefits.

So the time came when merchants and nobles joined forces!

It was the "age of capital".

The most strategically minded businessmen in the original chamber of commerce found some of the down-and-out nobles of the time, and they hired soldiers for these down-and-out nobles with a lot of money, and they used their countless wealth to build them the sharpest equipment. In the chaotic West, the nobles supported by these merchants are like the roaring wheel of the times, crushing one enemy after another.

"Dirty money and noble blood have combined, and surprisingly, in the eyes of those great nobles, these lowly combinations have burst out with unparalleled power......"

A scholar who lived through that era wrote in his memoirs.

Times are changing.

Today's White Horse City is probably ruled by the most powerful nobles, but in today's White Horse City, merchants control wealth and nobles control the army, and the two are entangled and indistinguishable.

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When Wang Xiaotian and his orcs swept through the strongholds built by merchants outside White Horse City, the ruling class of the entire White Horse City had a faint premonition.

None of the people who can rule such a western city are stupid.

On the contrary, White Horse is the city with the largest flow of people and goods in the west, and its bustling exterior is full of countless bloody struggles and disgusting intrigues.

According to incomplete statistics, in just a hundred years, there were originally more than 300 noble families in White Horse City, and any of these families had a large number of troops, and they also had a place in the history of the construction of White Horse City, and they were the most powerful military group in the entire west.

However, in just a hundred years.

More than fifty families began to wither, including many of the big ones.

After the decline of these families, those power gaps became the object of contention.

Some nobles gave up the glory of nobility and married their noble daughters to lowly-born fur merchants in exchange for enough money to impress other nobles.

Some nobles, in order to have sufficient benefits, did not hesitate to light up the butcher's knife in the hall where the guests were entertained......

The noble lady rejoices at the belly of the merchant, and the down-and-out fellow ascends the throne in a splendid robe...... A tragicomedy of the world is staged in White Horse City.

It is such a "city of conspiracy".

In the face of Wang Xiaotian's black and oppressive army in front of White Horse City, not only did they actively fight and prepare for war, but under the seemingly calm White Horse City, various noble merchants seemed to see a new opportunity, and one by one conspiracy and transactions began to be carried out under Wang Xiaotian's oppression.

This group of descendants of knights who once guarded the western gateway, when they faced a strong enemy, they did not think about war, but intrigued one by one to seek new interests, I have to say, this is the sorrow of history.

On the third day under Wang Xiaotian and Chen Bingcheng.

A messenger from White Horse City quietly walked into Wang Xiaotian's camp. This messenger brought a letter that Wang Xiaotian found incredible, and some high-ranking people in Whitehorse City were actually preparing to surrender to him!

In this letter, Wang Xiaotian is called "Baron Blackstone under the command of Viscount Dick", and it seems that some people in White Horse City are aware of the battle of "Nalai Canyon" in the Great Wilderness, and they know very well who their enemies are.

In the letter, they described in detail the oppression of Whitehorse by Earl Andy Adams, and the miserable situation in the west under the rule of Earl Andy. They saw the great situation in the southwest under the rule of Boer, and these people were willing to open the city and surrender, they were willing to pay allegiance to Viscount Dick, and they handed over the city of White Horse to Wang Xiaotian.

And all they need is a commitment.

They hoped that Wang Xiaotian would restrain his soldiers and ensure that their property would not be illegally infringed upon in this war.

"It's a very simple request, is this White Horse City really going to fall so easily?" Wang Xiaotian looked at the letter carefully, and had a very strange feeling in his heart, he was thinking, thinking about why these people couldn't wait to surrender to him so much, there must be something in it that Wang Xiaotian didn't see that was driving them.