Before coming to Santan Province and to Misty Town, Donner had been planning his next steps. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info But when things actually come to an eye, there is still a feeling that I don't know where to start.

It was a reasonable thing, he had never managed so much land and so many people before.

It takes only one day to ride a horse from Cohenas to the border of the province of Santan, while it takes two full days to cross the province of Santan. The fiefdom document signed by His Majesty the Emperor stated that the province of Santan alone had 110,000 square kilometers, and the three northern provinces together had 230,000 square kilometers. Although it was the most inhospitable and least cultivated land in the entire empire, the three provinces were home to nearly a million people.

The contrast between the land area of the United Kingdom, which is close to the size of the whole of England, and the Downer, who almost never owned land, is very different.

Downer knew that to manage such a large tract of land required a considerable number of petty nobles and technical officials, and that there were simply not so many men under his command - in fact there was none of them under his command.

But in two months' time it will be the autumn harvest season, and someone will have to go and collect the taxes, right?

It seemed a bit of a happy annoyance, and for Donner, there was no feeling of happiness at all.

He had so much to do that he couldn't focus on these day-to-day things.

Fortunately, he had already thought of some ways in advance, for example, before leaving Coenas, he sent a letter to Mr. Merkel, asking him to give up his position as president of the Knight Tris Academy and come to Santan Province to help him.

Merkel's father was a sizable merchant in Dorne, and they should know how to collect their taxes, Downer thought.

Although he was a little dissatisfied with the nobles here for taking away all the affairs officials, big and small, Donner also knew that those people belonged to those nobles in the first place, just like their servants. This rule is not only true in the Hulse continent, but probably in the whole of Middle-earth.

It's only to blame Donner for rising too fast.

Thinking of this, he was suddenly a little reluctant to let go of the guy who was called the miser's name, although Donner didn't look at him very well, but after all, he had been managing Fog City for more than ten years.

"Forget it, I don't want to think so much, just wait for Wesley to come back and leave all these troubles to him, at least he has always been a nobleman. ”

After making this decision, Donner was in a much better mood.

Then he called out Moenuna and the others.

......

The entrance to Foggy City is just north of Misty Town, and the steps at the entrance are only one-third of the entrance, and the other two-thirds is a gentle slope.

As Donner and his party descended the stone steps, laborers dragged heavy loads up and down the gentle slope. The laborers looked visibly nervous at the sight of Donner and the others dressed in aristocratic attire, and most of them would stop against the rock wall on one side, bow their heads, and wait for Donner and the others to pass before continuing their work, although the paths of the two groups did not interfere with each other.

The stone steps originally went east-west, but as they continued to descend, they slowly bent in an arc, slightly to the north, and after bypassing this arc, they could see that the end of the stone steps suddenly opened up, and outside a row of low stone railings, there was an endless sky.

The stone stairs of the entire entrance are hollowed out, and there is no sense of oppression in the process, but it is a bit like walking at the entrance of a huge gymnasium.

But once you get to the end of the stone steps, the situation is completely different.

Attached to the railing on the north side is a street, yes, it's not very open, but it's a street.

It's just that, unlike ordinary streets, the street in front of everyone at this moment is a shop made of hollowed-out stone walls on one side, and a cliff on the other. On this side of the cliff, in addition to the low stone railings, there are huge stone pillars every few meters that support the stone wall overhead.

As long as you pay a little attention, you can find that these so-called stone pillars are basically used to support the rock mass above and prevent landslides when the city was built and the stone wall was excavated.

Everyone was stunned as they looked at the street carved out of the cliff rock, even Donner.

How much manpower does it take to do this!

Donner looked down from the railing.

However, there is no sign of excavation beneath the almost vertical rock wall. That's not right, Fog City is obviously a city connecting the north and south, how can it only build such a layer?

While he was wondering, he suddenly saw a winding line stretching from the direction of Ball Falls to the east.

I see—Donner sighed a little.

The entire fog city is not built vertically up and down, but from here in Misty Town, all the way down to the east, a passage built, it seems that every other road, there will be a vertical up and down tunnel, connecting the upper and lower streets, just like this all the way to the east, through Ball Falls, and finally to the Knight Federation.

He quickly figured out why it was built this way in the first place. On the one hand, if the whole city were built on the same vertical line, the hollowed-out rock mass would inevitably form a collapse due to the accumulation of forces, and on the other hand, if it was built in the shape of an east-west staircase, it would also prevent the top from being thrown to the bottom - it is conceivable that the Knight Federation at the bottom of the Fog City should also have a small town for the distribution of goods.

As he thought about it, Donner suddenly heard a scream.

Looking towards the scream, I saw Layla standing not far from the railing, constantly caressing her chest. Not only her, but everyone looked nervous.

"Young Master," Layla's voice was still a little panicked, "you, aren't you afraid?"

Donner remembered that he was indeed a little scared when he looked out of the railing just now. But this instinct for fear heights is not strong. It was completely different from the situation when he first came to the North Fall Cliff a few years ago, and he didn't even dare to approach the cliff face.

The reason is easy to explain, he once climbed thousands of meters below the cliff of desperation, and there were still a large group of demonic beasts waiting for him at that time.

Although the North Fall Cliff does not have as much vegetation to climb as the Desperate Cliff, and the magic element here is far from strong enough to support Donner's long-distance flight, his instinctive fear of altitude has diminished a lot since he mastered flying.

Donner smiled, not answering Layla's question, but instead pointed to a flatbed trailer in the distance, "You see, they're scared too." ”

Everyone looked in the direction of his finger, and saw that not only the trailer, but all the people walking or dragging the goods were walking on the side of the merchant on the inner wall, and no one approached the third near the railing.

"I was just going to ask why we don't have to rely on human power here...... Luna said to herself, "probably because the animals are going crazy and rushing off the cliff......

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