Chapter 136: The City

Bluestone Beach, the location of the city chosen by Xia Zuo, the steep and steep valley of the Bison River, here it is as if someone has been smashed down with a hammer, forming a wide gap, and the snow and ice are gradually beginning to melt The murmuring river flows, the river is very shallow, but it can only reach the knees of people, but when spring really comes, it will become a most competent moat. Apex Novel xstxt

Xia Zuo instructed the men to dig as deep as they could, filling it with the most precious fresh water of the summer gravel wasteland.

Under the hard work of strong half-orc coolies and a large number of human battle uniforms, on the south bank of the Bison River Valley, the ten-mile-long city wall has appeared on the scale, and the city wall is more than ten meters high, although it is far from finished, but the huge buildings built of black boulders look like a hideous giant beast lying on the horizon in the distance.

At the suggestion of the craftsmen, the city walls, which were repeatedly thickened and width to 100 meters, were densely packed with figures toiling back and forth, and human craftsmen used giant logs to build winches, and hung huge ashlar stones with neat polishing stones to the top of the city walls and made them tightly connected in a special way.

There are two ten-meter-high gates in each direction, eight wide roads connecting all sides, each of which is extravagant and extravagant with steel plates two meters thick and inlaid with dense sharp barbs, which were the first products produced by the iron ore mines and smelters of Chazo.

A hundred blacksmiths and their orc apprentices worked tirelessly for more than half a month to complete these gates, which would definitely discourage the enemy.

Iron ore mines and smelters began production in a timely manner after the end of the war, and several towering chimneys on the site of the Saiyan tribe emitted billowing black smoke every day. In the expanded smelter, there is a dense sound of "clanging" every day, and after receiving a courtesy that the human empire does not have, these blacksmiths also sincerely work for Xia Zuo, each with a dozen apprentices, and the construction of the stomach city every day produces qualified products.

Compared to the smelter, the brewery caused some trouble for Xia Zuoyo, although there were recipes for brewing and complete workshops, and even Mira took someone to guide him personally, but the raw materials became a problem. The Munk people cultivated crops slightly. It was just some easy-to-care potatoes or sweet potatoes, and originally more of the food source of the tribes came from the daily hunting of the tribes.

There is no suitable wine with barley, sweet potatoes and potatoes grown by the Munch people themselves. Xia Zuo only sang one mouthful. He generously gave all the drinks to the hard-working orcs. However, it made the enthusiasm of the half-orcs to work soar, and it was also an unexpected gain.

As the only one in the city with a lot of experience in planting, Mira is approaching spring. He had already led the tribe's planting team to find a wasteland on the banks of the Bison River valley where they could dig pits and plant, and the task of plowing and turning the soil naturally fell on the warriors, in Xia Zuo's words, plowing and turning the soil was one of the most physical training.

The warm southeast wind blew, and Xia Zuo, who was standing at the head of the city, smiled familiarly, looking at the back of the first group of captives led by Meglol on the south bank of the Bison River Valley.

Meglor and Sidwar, who don't like each other, although they are also slaves of the Saiyan tribe, have only met three times in almost a month, and have spoken no more than ten words, and most of them are monosyllables spoken in the nose.

Meglor was apparently reluctant to live in the same house as Sidvar, and all the early messengers sent large ransoms to his retainers in exchange for his freedom.

"Boy, how does it feel to have money in your hands?" Old Griffin appeared behind Xia Zuo with a grin, the people of the Saiyan tribe Campas never took care of the accounts of the tribe, and the only people who knew the tribe's finances were Buman, Xia Zuo and the old Griffin who was now smiling.

"Cool" Xia Zuo held back for a long time before he spit out such a word, the heavy financial pressure for several days almost crushed the Saiyan tribe, but now it is finally salted fish turned over.

"Then do you want to be more cool!" Old Griffin smiled with a thief on his face, which was originally considered to have good facial features, but he gave people the feeling of being treacherous like a fox for no reason.

"Old man, what do you think?" Xia Zuo was suddenly surprised, he knew the old man's personality, and it must be a very profitable thing to be able to make him happy like this.

"What did you say? I didn't hear clearly?" said old Griffin, puffing out his chest and looking proud.

"Mr. Griffin, please don't hesitate to give me advice!" Xia Zuo hurriedly changed his words, using his own non-standard etiquette to ask for advice.

"That's pretty much it!" Old Griffin nodded, looking at the disappearing crowd in the distance, "Although you have gained a lot this time, you have also provoked a great enemy for this, you know?"

Xia Zuo nodded, he naturally understood what the old man meant, the expeditionary force that Sidwar stopped was just a drop in the ocean of the Rodman Empire, this time the defeat was not big or small, although the nobles who saved their lives with ransom money would definitely keep their mouths shut, but paper could not keep the fire, the bloodlines of the two big families were captured as slaves by the Kampas, how could such a humiliation and that kind of wealthy family give up?

"Old man, do you have any good suggestions?" Xia Zuo, who was worried about this matter recently, asked softly, the Savani family is in charge of the imperial finances, and the Primel family is also a wealthy army, and the two families who want to save face hit it off, and when the time comes, the army will be overwhelmed, and his situation will be embarrassing.

The warriors under his command can fight five or ten at a time, but they can't be a hundred, a thousand, not to mention, the strict blocking and discipline of humans can give them the upper hand in large-scale group battles, and as the number of people fighting on both sides continues to increase, the individual differences between orcs and humans that are difficult to manage once they are on the battlefield will gradually shrink until they disappear or even be overtaken.

Ten Munk orcs can easily defeat fifty human warriors of the same rank, and even the rest of the strong races of Kampas, this proportion will further increase, but once on the battlefield, 50,000 orc warriors may even be defeated by a hundred thousand human army.

"The solution to this problem lies with Sidvar!" said Old Griffin with a soft voice and a grin.

"Sidwar?" Xia Zuo frowned slightly, and began to understand the meaning of the old man's words.

Sidwar had been depressed as dead wood lately, and there was nothing he could do, and after such a humiliating defeat, he was almost certain to become the heir to the Savani family.

"For a nobleman, superficial glory and face are sometimes far more important than gold coins, and now you have exactly what he desperately wants to push him back from the gates of hell to the top, and with such a thing in hand, no matter what conditions you make, the other party will agree to you!" said old Griffin in an unfathomable way.

Xia Zuo's eyes suddenly lit up, what did Sidwar want most now?

Of course, it is to keep his position as the heir of the Savani family, but how can he keep this position?

What he needed was a victory, one that would bring tangible benefits to the Savani family and allow the members of the family, especially his father, who was a proponent of the empire's finances, to see what he was capable of.

"Old man, you're such a bad person!" Xia Zuo, like old Griffin, laughed sheepishly.

Swiftly jumping off the city wall, Xia Zuo cried out loudly, "Gollum, Gollum, where are you? Come quickly! We are going back to the tribe, and the noble Count Sidwar is still waiting for our rescue!"

Old Griffin looked at Xia Zuo's disappearing back with a smile, and nodded slowly, he only mentioned it slightly, Xia Zuo already understood that this understanding made him love it very much.

Chazzo warmly invited Count Sidwar from the shed where he "lived" to the hall, and served him fragrant barbecue and wine.

After Xia Zuo put forward his idea, it was just an instant that this noble son, whose face was full of ashes and shaped like rotten wood, saw the sun in an instant, and the blonde hair on his head was slightly messy, and once again exuded a luster like a sun god.

Under the warm and friendly negotiation between the two anti-

His Highness Sidwar was a hero, leading his army out of a desperate situation, saving the lives of countless soldiers and knights, and under his heroic and fearless leadership, he also dealt a heavy blow to the Campas, and finally signed a seemingly glorious agreement with Lord Shazo, a powerful Saiyan tribe on the border of Campas.

His Excellency Count Sidvar finally forced the Kampas to reopen the trade routes of the Gravel Wasteland, and imposed a three-year tax halving on the caravans under the Savani family, and of course, in order to show his nobility, the brave and fearless Sidwar also gave the same policy to the Kampas caravans.

The exact details of the agreement are still up for debate, but this agreement will undoubtedly greatly increase the reputation and prestige of Count Sidwar in the Rodman Empire, and as the lord of the border city of Sarnia near the Rubble Wasteland, this agreement will undoubtedly bring Count Sidval a lot of wealth as well.

What is the ransom money, for this agreement, even if it is doubled, Count Sidwar does not care, especially for the Savani family, which has a large number of caravans, this somewhat rough parchment, is the supreme gospel, Sidwar is completely sure that as the signatory of this agreement, he will forever completely get rid of his damn brother, and finally succeed in becoming the next noble head of the Savani family, and one of the most powerful people in the empire.

Every time he thought of this, Sidwar suddenly felt that the hideous and hateful Xia Zuo in front of him suddenly became so kind and lovely in an instant. (To be continued......)