Hundreds of years ago, a famous poet from the mainland of Ceylon once stood in front of the imperial capital and exclaimed with emotion:

When you stand in this majestic city years ago, you can hardly find any adjectives to describe the city. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Any flowery rhetoric pales in the face of such powerlessness at this moment, and if I had to use any word to describe it, I think there is only "miracle"!

The first time Jose saw the city, he was already deeply shocked:

The city of Gilliat sits on the plains of the eastern region, and on the back of it, it is as far as the eye can see...... Sea?!

The city was built almost on a peninsula, and according to Gould, the sea behind the imperial capital was not really an ocean, but a huge inland sea in the eastern part of the empire, which was also a major feature of the imperial capital!

From a distance, the behemoth towers like a mountain peak above the plain, with a flat and expansive artery road in front and a vast inland sea in the background. The huge long walls stand here and surround the outskirts of the city like an iron barrel.

The city of Liat is fronted by an endless plain road, and it was also the hub of direct north-south communication of the empire. The flat, vast plains allowed caravans to travel from all directions of the empire, and the inland sea behind the city could accommodate a large number of ships. As you can imagine, this superior terrain is enough to create a thriving commercial circulation in this city.

In a military sense, the city is even more impregnable. The geographical advantage of being surrounded by water on three sides has protected the imperial capital in the center, and an artificial canal dozens of miles long has even been dug on the periphery of the huge city, which not only connects the maritime trade of the inland sea, but also adds an insurmountable moat to the city!

What shocked José the most was that the east and west sides of the city of Gilliat were canals dug by the population, and the water surface was not as wide as the inland sea behind the city. I am afraid that for security reasons, the ruler even built more than a dozen huge suspension bridge fortresses on the canals on both sides!

Looking at the architectural style that looks like the Middle Ages, as well as the huge and complex structure, the suspension bridges like water bunkers are full of people and cars and horses at this moment. But Jose knew that once war broke out, these outermost drawbridges would become a solid line of defense for the imperial capital!

Not to mention the fact that on the outskirts of the city on the peninsula, there is such a long huge wall that is ten meters high. Almost every 100 meters on the city wall, there was a corner tower, and from a distance, it seemed that there were still army flags, and there should be soldiers stationed on patrol.

The inland sea behind the imperial capital is even safer, and the entire city seems to be built on a mountain peak, but the back is neatly flattened by a knife. The waves crashed against the back of the peninsula, creating a drop of dozens of meters above the sea, and it was a cliff.

Such urban buildings and scenes have never been seen in reality by Joseph, and I am afraid that they have only been seen in a magical movie like The Lord of the Rings!

As a person in modern society, Joseph has also seen many metropolises in the Celestial Empire, and buildings such as high-rise buildings are not uncommon. But as a civilization in this era of cold weapons, this Gilliat city made him sigh in a low voice.

Such a majestic city is not only a miracle of architectural history, but also the best proof of a country's strength and long history!

It is conceivable that if it were not for a strong and prosperous country that could remain standing for hundreds of years, I am afraid that it would not have such huge financial and material resources to run such a majestic capital.

As the capital of the Empire of Light, Gilliat is also recognized as the first heroic city in the human world, and it is undoubtedly ranked first in terms of architectural history, floor area, and investment and energy.

Su Ya didn't know when she had come to the carriage at this moment, and she looked at Jose's surprised look with a smile:

"Isn't it shocking? Even though I've lived here since I was a child, I can't help but feel a little excited every time I see the city of Giliath. ”

José squinted at the majestic capital, and couldn't help but nod and said, "That's true...... Sure enough, it is Gilliat, known as the city of miracles, I used to only think how majestic a city can be, but now when I see it, I feel a bit like a frog at the bottom of a well!"

When Su Ya heard him say this, she couldn't help but smile and said:

"The frog at the bottom of the well? But then again, the Bright Empire was founded a hundred years ago, and the population was not more than tens of millions?

How can such a capital city not be majestic and magnificent?!"

"How long has it been?" Qiao Se was slightly surprised, he didn't expect his guess to be confirmed by Su Ya.

Su Ya nodded, looked at the capital of the empire, and said quite proudly:

"That's natural, the city of Gilliat was the beginning of the founding of the Empire of Light, and His Majesty the Founding Emperor Maud I was the capital here.

Previously, the city was originally the capital of a small country, but because of its proximity to the north of the mainland, and at that time, only the alien races in the north still occupied a large area of land in the north of Lingbei, His Majesty Maud I decided to have his capital here for the sake of war. Soon after, the Northern Expedition was launched, and finally succeeded in breaking through the foreign capital and unifying the entire human world.

Because the city of Gilliat connects the north and south of the empire, and the terrain is quite superior, His Majesty the Founding Emperor did not move the capital, but burned the original old capital and ordered the capital to be built here. However, at that time, when the war was first settled and the people were at peace, many conservative ministers advocated that the capital should be located in the rich provinces in the southern part of the empire.

However, Emperor Maude was far-sighted and discerning, and knew that the northern injustice of the empire was uneasy, so he insisted on building the capital here. However, at that time, as the founding emperor, Maude the Great had a very high prestige, and even the Pope of the Temple at that time could not interfere in the affairs of the empire, so he suppressed the opposition and it took thirty years to complete the rudimentary construction of the city of Gilliat.

And because the imperial capital was set in the north, the political and military center of the empire inevitably shifted to the north, and Emperor Maude the Great set up a central fortress in the central province not far from the land to defend Gyeonggi.

In the following thirty years, as expected by Emperor Maude, the conquered barbarians in the north rebelled several times. However, because of the fortified cities and central fortresses such as the imperial capital, the rebels were never able to move south, and were eventually pacified by the empire.

The southern provinces were not affected by the war, but were recuperated, providing financial and material resources for the empire, and finally laying the foundation for the empire's victory in the war.

After the death of Maude the Great, later generations all admired the founding emperor's martial arts, and the successor emperor renamed the imperial capital 'Gilliat' according to the favorite title of the imperial capital during his lifetime, and it has been used to this day.

The word 'Gilliat' is not the surviving language of the Empire of Light, but is said to be an ancient language of the country where Maude the Great lived, meaning 'never fall'. Presumably, Emperor Maude called the imperial capital like this, and it was also a kind of confidence in the great capital he left to future generations......" (To be continued.) )