The war between the East and the West has stopped. It was not Tiddlelem who took the initiative to sue for peace because Zhou Shu disappeared on the battlefield, and thus raised a sense of awe for the war.

As a queen, Tiddlelem doesn't really want much, nothing more than to prove herself, like most kings, she wants to be a generation of kings.

As an emperor, the best of the people, naturally he will not be willing to be mediocre. If they want to stand out among the many emperors, it is naturally their pursuit to make some meritorious deeds.

If Zhou Shu really died, Tiddlelem felt that he would soon organize a full-scale attack on the enemy country. As far as the country as a whole is concerned, in fact, the country of the west is stronger than the country of the east. When the sea does not retreat that far, the West Country often welcomes the ocean-going trade fleets of the offshore island countries, while the East Country is relatively much smaller. After all, the two countries manage the eastern and western coastlines separately, and there are no too strong island countries on the side of the East Country, and there is a lack of trade and technological exchanges with overseas countries.

National strength has always been more open and closer to communication, the stronger it will be, so the country of the west is stronger than the old opponent in some technologies, but his god has always been much stronger than the country of the west.

The people of the East Country have more respect for the gods, and their worship of the gods is much more crazy than that of the people of the West Country, so the gods naturally have more power. But now this gap between the patron saints no longer exists.

The self-explosion before Zhou Shu was actually an explosion caused by Aleusha, which made the high-level guardian saint of the East Country die cleanly. The rest of the people who had no intention of continuing to participate in the war, they wanted to absorb the believers of their dead companions and make themselves stronger, so they announced their farewell to the war of humanity.

The situation on the west side of the country is actually similar, and the number of gods left is even smaller, so the two countries enter a state without the protection of gods.

After the absence of the gods to stir up incitement. The armies of the two countries also lost the heart of fighting. When Zhou Shu had just returned to the West Country, the East Country sent a letter of truce, which made Master Zhou feel a little ironic.

The White Moon Country has just resumed the war with the Forest Country, and although there is a small friction, there is no trend of a large-scale war, but it has finally moved from peace to war again. On the American side, it is a direct transition from war to peace. But it couldn't last long.

Tiddlelem has now seen that Zhou Shu is alive and well and has made great contributions, and she, as a woman, has also made her own reward without thinking. Zhou Shu's title has not changed, just an earl, but he is about to have his own fief, and it is not clear where he will be sealed.

Tiddlelem wanted to seal him off and keep him from managing the periphery. Keep it with you. As for what to do after leaving him and how to enhance the friendship between the two, she hasn't thought about it yet. Every time she misses this, she will give up thinking because she is over-hotheaded, to put it simply, shy.

Zhou Shu has now become a god-like figure in the Western Capital, and if he can also gain strength from his faith, his combat effectiveness will probably not be worse than that of the Moon God. At the time of his disappearance, the construction of his bronze statue had already begun. At present, the ten-meter-high stone statue in the central square is almost completed, and there are currently two master stonemasons riding on Zhou Shu's nose every day to carve his eyebrows.

As for the bronze statue. It is said that the queen was prepared to be gilded, using the huge gold ball that had been rolled before, and after it was done, it would be placed in the auditorium of the Palais de la Fiori.

There are currently two bronze statues in the auditorium, which are the two kings of the founding of the country, and they are brothers. Zhou Shu moved in naturally a little unreasonable, in order to solve this problem. Tiddlelem also made the bronze statue Zhou Shu kneel on one knee, similar to a marriage proposal, kneeling in front of the statue of the founding king, which is basically equivalent to swearing allegiance. It is conceivable that Tiddlerum would often stand in front of this bronze statue in the future.

Meanwhile. The bronze statues of the two poor kings were also re-approved with a layer of gold by the light of the Book of Zhou.

When a powerful and wealthy woman falls in love with a man, she has countless ways to show her affection. Tiddlelem hoped that Zhou Shu would like the statues of him erected all over the city in the name of a hero, which showed that she had no idea about Zhou Shu's temperament.

Zhou Shu didn't give this queen a chance to understand him at all, and kept his distance from him. In the last few days, he has come to understand what the word 'hero' means.

Bidding farewell to Aleusha who came over as a taxi, Zhou Shu wandered around the palace alone to find the old tailor and discuss his new dress. As a result, as soon as I went out, I didn't walk on the street for two minutes, and I was already surrounded by citizens. A lot of little girls screamed at him at the top of their throats, a lot of men shook their fists and cheered, Zhou Shu's ears were so good that he couldn't hear the number of people shouting, and he couldn't understand a word.

finally walked through the crowd to the tailor's shop, pulled out the old tailor, and scolded him with his head and face, so that he could listen to Xuan enter the palace in the future, but don't let yourself come all the way again, it's terrible.

The old tailor was actually a little lazy, he now knew that he regretted it, the crowd of onlookers had trampled on all the flower beds in front of his shop, and the trees around the store were full of people, constantly looking into the store, and he didn't know what he wanted to see, and the branches were broken to pieces.

After getting the size and style of the dress, Zhou Shu borrowed an ordinary plain robe, flew out of the window, flew directly to the suburbs, found a place where no one landed, and covered his head and face with a robe, and then prepared to go to the city.

He wasn't ready to go back to the palace yet, he and Natie had a little date, and they agreed to go to eat ice together today. The climate in the southwest of the Americas in August has made ice a rare delicacy, and Zhou Shu promised to let Natty sleep on the ice, and today is the day to fulfill this promise. For this reason, he specially borrowed a magic array from Turrell to make air conditioning, and there are more advanced things on Aleusha's side, but unfortunately Zhou Shu is like an old man with a smartphone, and he can't use it at all.

As soon as he walked from the wasteland in the suburbs to the main road, Master Zhou saw a group of soldiers riding horses to escort a prisoner cart.

That's a full forty-two horsemen, three teams of cavalry. The establishment of the country of the west, a team of cavalry and twelve combat units, men and horses wearing heavy armor. Two additional unarmored scouts, fourteen in total.

The three cavalry teams were escorting only one prisoner cart, which meant that the people in the prisoner cart were quite dangerous. Or quite important.

Out of curiosity, Zhou Shu walked behind the group. The team walked slowly, not in a hurry, probably because they arrived at the foot of this incomparably safe royal city.

A dozen people were held in the prison car, half male and half female, half old and half young. It looks like a complete family, with a relatively symmetrical demographic structure.

This car of people are all brown skin and blond hair, and there is no godless and dazed feeling in the eyes of the civilians of this country, and they are still relatively temperamental, and at worst, they should be an intellectual family who has been imprisoned by words.

Zhou Shu fell in love with a girl in someone's prison car, about early twenties, with long hair draped over the tattered prison clothes, which naturally covered the skin exposed by the torn clothes.

Judging from her tattered appearance, it is estimated that these three teams of cavalry have used her beautiful and lovely as a pastime along the way. I guess I've been bullied.

Generally speaking, the non-commissioned officer class in the country of the west is still relatively sophisticated, and the soldier is the same all over the world, strictly speaking, all uneducated people are almost the same, and they are more likely to be instinctively tended, and human instinct and morality are usually contrary to each other. If military discipline is not strict, ordinary soldiers will do basically the same thing. As a cavalryman, this is considered a non-commissioned officer class in the country of the west, although it is still a soldier. As long as you don't die for a few years, you can still be a petty official.

It stands to reason that these people should not do anything excessive to the prisoners in custody. Unless the prisoner girl is pretty enough.

Just as Zhou Shu was admiring the beautiful girl, the convoy stopped. As they were about to enter the city, they needed to tidy up, polish their vests, and tidy up the prisoners' appearances to eliminate the traces of wolves on the journey.

Zhou Shu didn't know that they still had this habit before they entered the city. Seeing that the beautiful girl was forcibly dragged out of the prison car, I thought there was a good show to watch, so I hid from a distance and stared intently at the team, and knocked two jelly beans to strengthen my hearing and eyesight.

The beautiful brown-skinned girl was sitting in the car with a loss, pained and helpless expression, which was very capable of seducing a man's desire to protect. One was dragged by soldiers. She shouted, "You lackeys of the western savages, let me go!"

"Uh......"

When Zhou Shu heard her words, he immediately figured out the identities of these prisoners, it was estimated that they were the landless lords of the East Country, who stuck to their homes during the war and were taken away.

Since it is a nobleman of an enemy country, it makes more sense to be escorted back to the capital by three teams of cavalry. After they were imprisoned, they would be tortured and forced to tell them where the gold treasures were buried, or they would be helped to find relatives and friends in the East Country to ransom them.

If there is no money, then basically the old ones are waiting to die, and the young ones are going to become slaves.

These prisoners were usually supposed to be the private property of some front-line officer, not the prisoners of the Western Country, and the money squeezed out of them also belonged to the officers.

Being able to mobilize three teams of cavalry and escort these people from the front-line battlefield back to the capital is enough to prove that the officers are of high enough rank and are ready to make a fortune from these people.

Zhou Shu, who watched it in a group, thought that there would be some favorite plots, but it turned out to disappoint him. A group of cavalrymen rode off their armoured horses and went to the nearby village to borrow water, forced the prisoners to wash their faces and hair, and took out a bunch of noble costumes of the East Country for them to dress neatly.

The girl who looked very pleasing to the eye in that Zhou Shu had been struggling, and people other than her were more deferential, but they did not react to the girl's resistance.

The cavalrymen seemed to have gotten used to dealing with the woman, and two men pressed her head and poured water on her head to wash her. In the process, the girl's tattered clothes were torn out several times.

"So that's ......" Zhou Shu felt bored on the side, and got out of hiding to leave.

Passing by the group of soldiers fifty meters away, the cavalry decisively became vigilant, as if they were watching out for him, the man in the robe, who was passing by.

Master Zhou listened to the girls shouting at the cavalry in their throats, 'scum, animals!', and sighed that the girls had a good family education, and the swear words were so written, and Lu Xiaoshuang didn't know what ugly words popped out for a long time.

I couldn't help but glance in the direction of the girl, who was already drenched by the cavalry, and barely washed her face. When the soldier grabbed a clean cloth to wipe her water stains, the girl threw herself headlong on the wet ground, instantly turned herself into a clay figure, and shouted at the cavalry in front of her. "You scumbags from the west, don't try to sway me!"

'Sword Blade?!' Zhou Shu was sure it was a name. 'I feel so handsome......

Zhou Shu has now determined the way in which ordinary citizens in the East and West are named, usually by adding the name of the region to the name of the guardian deity. Turrell of Apple Island does not have a Patronus, so the naming rules are different. The Tiddlerum royal family is an outsider, and the naming rules are different.

Sword blade, when Secretary Zhou reached into the enemy country to fight, there was a plain called the 'Sword Blade Plain', which seems to be because of the abundance of horses and iron ore. It is an important military production town in the east country, so it is called so.

As for the hundred tongues, Zhou Shu would have carried a translator, he remembered that it was a bird's name, and the translator should have automatically chosen a paraphrase instead of a transliteration.

Thinking back to that kind of bird, it seems to be called a blackbird, and Zhou Shu has only one kind of black sparrow-like small bird in his impression. In terms of color, the hundred-tongued girl at this time is somewhat commensurate with the name, and they are all black.

The cavalrymen were not too good-tempered either. They were not knights, just cavalrymen, and for disobedient women they were accustomed to punching and kicking. After the poor Miss Hundred Tongues deliberately soiled herself, she also triggered the 'broken window theory', which is simply 'broken drums and ten thousand pounds'.

Zhou Shu predicted in advance that this girl was estimated to be pressed to the ground and kicked hard by these soldiers, and sure enough, the prophecy soon came true. If she's clean and spotless. It is estimated that he will be slapped twice. Since they were all dirty like this, the soldiers naturally couldn't bear to do it. That would stain herself, so go straight to her feet and educate her with boots.

The poor hundred tongues curled up in a ball under the riding boots of several men, crying loudly at the top of their voices, and constantly scolding "livestock" in their mouths.

Her fellow prisoners couldn't bear to watch, and a few of them seemed to want to do something, but were stopped by several horsemen with swords crossed.

Zhou Shu looked at this girl a little pleasing to the eye. But that's all, it belongs to the kind of Cheng dù who stands on the road and sees a beautiful girl taking a few more looks.

Ignoring these troubles, Master Zhou wandered back to the city and went to find Nati to eat ice. He plans to fool his stupid Nati with juice and shaved ice today, and then come back from his hometown the day after tomorrow. Then use the car freezer to bring her some really goodies.

In the past few months, Nattie has been quite miserable, and she is naturally no problem in her material life, but because Zhou Shu didn't accompany her much, she thought about some things when she was alone, which made her depressed. In order to make this guy cheerful, Zhou Shu is also ready to treat her differently. So he didn't think of bringing gifts to the others, but only gave one to Natty, and told her about it, which would make her feel better-

Ice cream, a dispensable thing for Zhou Shu, he won't think about it if he doesn't eat it for the rest of his life, he doesn't like the combination of ice and milk very much, but he doesn't feel unpalatable.

He didn't do anything when he went home this time, and after saying hello to Yu Feiniao and Yang Xi, he went directly to play with Lu Xiaoshuang. She is now preparing to open a store, although the family has a little money, she can't be idle all the time, because her father's illness needs to be taken care of.

Before leaving, Master Zhou filled a treasure chest of ice cubes and stuffed some Xiaoice boxes into it......

As a man, there are some things that you have to do when you think about them. He was sure that his way of loading it would probably allow the little cones he bought in the supermarket to be stored for a few more days.

It was already evening when he returned to the West Country, and Zhou Shu yawned and ran back to the guest room in his palace, only to find Tiddlelime waiting in the room, without even a maid by his side.

Tiddlelime was an unappetizing girl, wearing a skirt long enough to mop the floor, and her bare skin was only her face and fingers, and she wanted to hide her neck. Usually there is some boring words and deeds, although she is very beautiful, and her cowardly personality is also very cute, but the identity of the queen makes her herself sincerely afraid and does not dare to do anything out of line. But strictly speaking, she is a hunger striker, a queen who fell into the lake, and is a queen who hugs her courtiers and cries, so there is really no need to make that kind of shelf.

As a somewhat smart woman, she also felt some reasons why she was not liked by men, so she wore quite personal clothes today and came alone to find her sweetheart. Seeing Zhou Shu walking in the door, she also said a rare and willful sentence, "Zhou Shu, change the color of your eyes back for me to see." ”

Master Zhou pulled out the contact lenses. Throw it away. What he has on his side is a replacement. Then he walked over to Tiddle Lime and moved a chair and sat down. "Tead, have you had dinner? He extended an invitation to the Queen.

Tiddlelem had eaten, and she had eaten a lot, because she was nervous, but since Zhou Shu had been invited. She had to eat another meal if she broke her belly. Today, she persuaded some ministers at the court meeting to determine Zhou Shu's fiefdom, and she would come privately to tell him the good news.

It seemed to her that all those who received the fief would be happy for a few months. Some usually solemn and calm courtiers will also become happy after obtaining the fief, and even take the initiative to show off to others and promote their lordship status everywhere.

Tiddlelime believed that Zhou Shu would be happy about the territory she had won, and looked forward to her praising herself while being happy.

The little queen's mind was disappointed, and Master Zhou was a man who looked at the whole world. Naturally, I will not be happy because of a piece of land and a lordship, even if that land is half the size of Heilongjiang.

A new version of the map of the West Country is currently being drawn, and in the past six months, the land area of each kingdom has increased by one-fifth. Most of them are new land that has been exposed after the tide has receded, and some of them have been looted from the East Country.

The country of the east took the initiative to ask for a truce, and on the issue of territory, the actual control of the two countries on the day of the truce shall prevail. That is, the area occupied by the West ** team. All of them were incorporated into the territory of Nishinokuni.

The fiefdom of Zhou Shu was the most prosperous of these, producing horses and iron ore. Although it is located at the junction of the two countries, it is considered to be the front line of the war, but the area is still very large, and the shape on the map is like a date pit.

This area is not only the fiefdom of Zhou Shu, but also a pilot of friendship and harmony between the East and the West.

Tiddlelem had heard a story about a defeated nation that had been split in half. People should not be occupied by different enemies, and the two occupiers themselves are in a hostile relationship. As a result, the same country, the same people, because of the different occupiers, produced great differences in living standards and development processes, leading the population of one side to flood into the other at risk.

Zhou Shu himself forgot exactly when he chatted with Tiddlelime about East and West. But it seems to be the case.

Tiddlelem, as a king, was quite concerned about this kind of thing, and after hearing it, he also told the story in the court meeting, and as a result, the ministers made a small plan to let the two countries end the war.

The people of the West Country have always thought that their country is better than the East Country, and that that country is inhabited by a group of poor madmen. Tiddlerum's story also gave some inspiration to the ministers, and if their country was really good enough, they might be able to use this to attract the people of the East Country to the country.

The East and the West have never treated population as a burden, even if it is difficult for them to feed themselves, and still consider population to be a resource.

In the truce, Tiddlerum added such a clause, dividing the Plains of the Sword as an open city, and the people of the two countries could enter the region for trade at will.

As for whether they are willing to go back after entering, it depends on the ordinary people themselves, with the administrative capacity of the two countries, no one really can control them, and there is no household registration system on this continent. As long as you have a pair of legs, you can go wherever you want, as long as there is no fence to block it.

Zhou Shu knew that he was a genius who would often be found in trouble, until Tiddle Lime excitedly told him that the Sword Blade Plain was the location of his fiefdom, and he confirmed that some troubles were the foreshadowing he had inadvertently planted, and it was no wonder that God was annoying.

"Why,, why did you give me that piece of land?"

Zhou Shu put on an unhappy look, and directly made the excited heart of Tiddlelem sink into the ice lake with a pop.

Faced with Zhou Shu's inconsiderate words, she bit her two lips and lowered her head, trembling and wrapping her fingers, enduring her sour nose and stumbling to ask, "Why is this so...... You, aren't you happy?"

"Happy ......"

Zhou Shu's observation ability is still there, and he knows that he has lived up to the expectations of the little queen. He couldn't see a girl performing so many such complicated small actions at the same time to show that she was 'very wronged', so he decisively accommodated.

In fact, he still appreciated the idea after hearing it. The conquest of the world is not an overnight thing, and it is impossible for Zhou Shu to completely gnaw the American continent before dealing with Asian affairs, but he plans to go there next year to make initial contact, so the West Country needs to make something to buy people's hearts after the war, so that people in fifty years will not reject outsiders like magicians.

To do this, you really need a pilot area like the Sword Plain. Develop well, spread some first-world values, and then spread them to the whole continent. Tiddlelem, who hasn't been very helpful all along, has inadvertently helped Zhou Shu. (To be continued......)