Chapter 160: The Luxury of the Imperial Capital (Part II)

After traveling along the way to Hoxter, a port only more than twenty or thirty miles away from the imperial capital, Tang Jie finally understood why Emperor Kriza insisted on letting them take the waterway.

This old guy is showing off to them, **naked showing off the luxury and strength of the empire!

This more than 200 miles of artificial canal is the most magnificent and wide artificial river Tang Jie has ever seen, it is so spacious that it can run side by side ten four-masted giant ships or even five-masted super fortress boats, on this spacious river, the river is calm and tranquil, and the river is next to a wide and smooth road, the road is lined with lush trees and towering statues of gods.

Tang Jie couldn't imagine how much time it would take to build such an astonishing artificial canal, and how much manpower and material resources would be needed.

Although there was not much wind power, Tang Jie and the others could use artificial oars to drive the battleship forward.

He brought in a full fifteen thousand slaves, and then dragged them up the canal with a dense rope like a hair, most of these slaves were black slaves from the Southern Continent, but there were also many dwarves, elves, orcs and even giant slaves of the ancient gods in between!

These slaves dragged the rope numbly under the drive of leather whips and swords, their heads were lowered, and their smooth backs were branded with one slave scar after another, what shocked Tang Jie the most was that he could not see the slightest sign of resistance in the eyes of these slaves, as if they had surrendered to the fate in front of them, as if they had been conquered by the strength and prosperity of this empire.

If you want to enslave a group of people on the **, it is not difficult, but the difficulty is to completely enslave them spiritually, so that they do not have the heart to resist.

Tang Jie never understood, and even looked down on these slaves, but when he arrived in Hoxter, he suddenly realized.

What a luxury, what a luxury!

The first thing that catches your eye is two rows of huge statues, on both sides of Hoxter Harbor stand the statues of every emperor of the Pound Empire for more than 500 years, they are of different heights, the tallest statue of Kriza I is more than 100 meters high!

The statue is like a high mountain, towering into the sky, making people feel terrified and look up.

When the giant ship came to its feet, it was like a little mouse passing by an adult, so small that it was almost speechless!

The statue of Kriza I wore a crown with golden and jeweled gold, and Agatha pointed to this crown and said to Tang Jie, who was stunned: "This is a huge crown made of twenty tons of gold, and it is adorned with thirty-six thousand one hundred and twenty-eight rubies of the same size, and the dazzling light it emits can be seen from dozens of miles away on a gloomy and dark night! It is like a beacon of the Empire, it is like the pride of the Empire!" Every time the Pound people saw this statue, a sense of pride and pride came from the heart. ”

This statue of the god is draped in a heavy red tweed cloak, he stands with a sword in both hands, his eyes are looking straight ahead, looking into the distance and looking forward to Shenfei's expression is lifelike, a powerful momentum that cannot be beaten!

Tang Jie keenly spotted the ramp near the ankle of this statue and the entrance to the door frame with various reliefs beautifully decorated, and he asked, "What is this?"

"This is the ......entrance to the tomb of the Founding Emperor," Agatha explained in a low voice as she stood next to Tang Jie.

"Tomb?" Tang Jie turned his head in surprise when he heard Agatha's words, and asked, "How could the emperor bury himself in the statue?

Tang Jie was so shocked that his scalp was numb!

The amount of manpower and material resources spent on building such a statue is already astronomical, but it is necessary to dig a burial passage inside such a statue?

This...... That's an exaggeration, isn't it?

Agatha looked up at the statue of Chryza I and said, "The Emperor of the Empire firmly believes that if their souls can be buried in their own idols, their heroic spirits will live forever like this idol, standing forever on the left and right sides of the imperial capital, guarding their empire and their homeland." They believe that they are here, among these gods, and that they will eventually one day become heavenly gods. ”

Agatha pointed to the entrance of the tomb and said, "As you can see, this is the entrance to the Emperor's tomb, and inside is a labyrinthine tomb with an incomparably complex structure, and the Emperor has not only set up heavy guards here to patrol day and night in order to prevent tomb robbers, but also has a large number of magic traps and murder traps in it. It has been more than 400 years since the statue was built and has never been stolen. ”

Tang Jie secretly said in his heart: I want to steal, how can I steal this? The valuable things are more than 100 meters high, and I will die of exhaustion when I climb up! This statue is worth a lot of money, but I can't carry it away! Who can carry a stone statue more than 100 meters high and tens of thousands of tons to run around? The giant Antai can't do it either!

Tang Jie looked at the glittering gems on the crown of Kriza I, and his heart drooled, grandpa, I am so poor now, this emperor who has been dead for hundreds of years still occupies so much wealth, it is too exciting for me!

But he thought about it: the treasure of the pirate king Athos is known as the first treasure in the world, if it is only the treasure of Alcatraz, then the first in the world is too unworthy of the name, not to mention anything else, just compare it with the statue in front of him, it is a world of difference, and it is not on the same level at all.

And the clues of the Pirate King's treasure map were cut off in the Mozambique Sol Mountains, which made Tang Jie think that all the treasures of the Pirate King had been found by him, but at a glance, Tang Jie once again doubted the treasure of Athos.

According to logic, the treasure of Athos should not be just a little bit, not to mention, there are also the seven artifacts of the sea god Tira buried by Athos!

Tang Jie has only found two now!

Does this mean that there are five more?

Tang Jie was cranky for a while, his expression was a little stupid, and Agatha on the side thought that he was stupidly shocked by the scene in front of him, and secretly laughed in his heart: When he saw these gods for the first time, his expression was not much better than him!

She continued: "Opposite Kriza I is the idol of Kriza II, the son of the founding emperor, who was also a great and wise emperor who defeated the three great powers around him in succession and established the basic map of the empire, and his meritorious achievements were not under Kriza I. But Kriza II believed that his idol tomb should not surpass that of his great father. ”

Therefore, he deliberately had his craftsmen make his idol ten meters shorter than his father's. Agatha said.

Tang Jie tilted his head, his neck was a little sore, and muttered, "Why didn't I see where there are ten meters missing, they are all so tall!"

Agatha pursed her lips and smiled, and she continued: "Although the idol of Kriza II is shorter than his father's, this idol is completely superior to his father in terms of carving workmanship and intricate internal structure. ”

Although the statue of Kriza I that Tang Jie saw was tall and extraordinary, his demeanor and movements were slightly dull, while the idol of Kriza II was holding a long sword in one hand and pointing to the distance with the other, his face was mighty and passionate, as if he was opening his mouth to shout, and the roar in his throat seemed to be erupting at any time, shaking all directions.

"It's really an incomparable carving art...... Tang Jie shook his head and sighed, secretly shocked by the ancient history and powerful civilization of this empire.

"They are legends of the Empire, heroes of the Empire!" Agatha sighed in a reminiscent tone, "the image of Kriza II is modeled after the appearance of Kriza II when he commanded his men to charge into battle at the most glorious battle of Woolning's life." ”

At this time, Tang Jie found that there was also a golden and bejeweled crown on the top of the emperor's stone statue, his eyes widened, and he cursed in his heart: Damn, how many people and people have been looted by these emperors? Could it be that all the emperors here have such a giant golden crown inlaid with gems?

When he looked around, he saw that these giant stone statues had a huge crown of different appearances on the top of their heads, and these stone statues had different mannerisms and expressions, and the gems on their crowns were also very different in color.

Where is this a port, this is clearly a giant stone statue mausoleum!!

Tang Jie smiled bitterly, he knew that Kriza XVI had successfully shocked their group of people, not only him, but the rest of the Eagle were all stunned, their expressions were sluggish, and they couldn't say a word.

Even Angel, the frosty princess of these days, looked a little moved.

When Tang Jie's eyes looked at Angel, Her Royal Highness the princess seemed to notice this gaze, and also looked at him, the two of them looked at each other, and soon they flashed away, their expressions were very unnatural.

The two of them are in a state of cold war, and no one can solve the tangles and knots in their hearts except themselves.

As the ship entered the port, the huge procession of people who had been waiting in the port began to boil.