Chapter 132: Fragrance City
Chapter 132 Fragrance City (Second Watch Asking for Votes)
The city of Coron was full of dead leaves and grass, and there were already tender green grass buds peeking out of the cracks in the city wall, and the city guards looked at the new lord who had said that he had come to the city wall early in the morning to inspect it.
Lear stroked the huge cyan stones on the city wall, and with a slight effort, the weathered, weathered, weathered stones that had been eroded by wind and rain for many years shattered like powder.
"It's a ruined city...... Lear sighed, its grandeur and its thick foundations still speak of its glory, but the years and wars have completely destroyed it. Restoring such a city would be extremely costly, even more than building a new city!
"Then build a new city!" said Lear, who was ambitious enough to say that he was not satisfied with the city's location, and that it was too close to the northwestern edge of the Drifting Plains to be the first to be hit in the event of renewed fighting.
"Your Excellency......" Kane and Russell rushed up to the city, followed by the panting old butler, "The corruption of the officers and magistrates in the city has been ascertained, that Abidine is really not a thing, he actually embezzled eighty percent of the salaries of his soldiers, he was trying to get away these two days, but he didn't expect us to come so quickly......"
"Well, confiscate his property for public use! Hang Abidine and the other embezzlers at the head of the city, that's what will happen to corrupt officials!" Lear said with hatred, and what he hated most was those inkmen who stretched their hands too long and sucked the blood of the common people!
"Yes, my lord!" Kane and Russell looked excited.
The mass execution of corrupt officials caused another sensation in the city of Cologne, and countless civilians and soldiers crowded the streets to celebrate, throwing rotten eggs and sludge at Abidin and his party, who were lifted high......
They didn't expect that the new lord would be such a thunderbolt guy, and when he came to Byron City, he arrested all the officials without saying a word, and selected and screened them one by one, but in fact, there was no need for too much interrogation, these officials were as rotten as the stones and walls at the head of the city......
Maybe you can still find one or two honest people in it, but it's just maybe......
Hundreds of officials, large and small, were lined up, all hanging from the head of the city of Cologne, shivering in the cold wind, and Lear's cold face made them tremble from the depths of their hearts.
"Dry them!" Lear said.
As a result, hundreds of officials will become pieces of bacon in the early spring has begun, and the winter is still cold.
The move was so delightful that hundreds of people poured into the streets, chanting Lear, the name of their new lord, the name of Duke Piaoxiang, who spread throughout the province of Cologne, and his thunderous means made the common people cheer......
"My territory, my lords......" Lear shouted his own slogan.
The site of the new city was chosen on the bank of the Piaoxiang River 100 kilometers away, which is located in the main traffic artery, with an endless stream of merchants coming and going, backed by the Piaoxiang Plain and facing the Xizaro Pass.
A huge military camp quickly settled down against the junction, and the magicians used the great material and financial resources they brought to recruit a large number of civilians and even goblins to build a magnificent wizard's tower. The Temple of Light was not far behind, the Holy Knights even took off their armor and put down their weapons to build what they considered to be the Holy Temple of Light, and groups of ascetics and clergy began to preach among civilians and even slaves like industrious bees......
Lear's own name for the "City of Fragrance" is gradually taking shape......
One day, the old butler angrily broke into Lear's retreat, a simple wooden house, and only after being burned like a roast duck by lightning and lightning did Lear take him in.
"Your Excellency, Your Excellency...... Now that the money has been spent, we will have to drink the northwest wind if we continue like this......" Botunas, the former slave gladiatorial master, said anxiously.
"Well," Lear had expected this day to come, it was only spring ploughing season, and it would be some time before the taxes were paid, and it was a time when the city was in full swing, and the cost of building the city was huge. "Rocky, who is also in charge of internal affairs, has no money, of course you have to find a way to ......"
Lear smiled innocently.
The old butler was angry, he wanted to punch him hard in that seemingly honest face, but he didn't dare, Lear was the real lord, but this lord didn't have the consciousness of being a lord at all, after executing that group of corrupt officials, this lord threw all the affairs to him and Ace and others, as for the military, it was dominated by Russell, Duke and others......
The honorable Duke Piaoxiang didn't care about anything, and he was stuffed in this small house all day long, and the surrounding hundreds of meters were even designated as a forbidden area, which was closely guarded by twelve black-cloaked "magicians" and a team of "death camp" soldiers.
"My lord, we're going bankrupt......" Rocky was about to cry, his obscene face showing indescribable exhaustion.
"Lord Rocky, my butler," Lear said with a slight smile, "why don't you take the money?"
Rocky's eyes widened in surprise, didn't he oversleep his adult, or was he talking in his sleep?
"We are in a position right at the crossroads of the trade routes, and it is not too much to collect some tolls from the merchants and merchants!"
The old butler patted his head and shouted: "Damn, how did I forget this ballast, not excessively, absolutely not excessively, even if there is a city entry tax, not to mention that it has to pass through our territory! My lord, how many gold coins do you charge for each person......" Rocky suddenly smiled.
"Well, why are you pressing 'people'? and that's your business, it's up to you, hehe, let the Dark Devils and the Death Camp do it......" Lear laughed.
"Remember, don't bother me if there's no urgency, or next time I'll not turn you into a roast chicken, I'll just roast you......" Lear said as he looked at the old butler's half-burnt hair and beard. Lear is now concentrating on refining "Tsukidan" and the legendary "Fighting Weapon" in this world, and if he is not careful, he will lose all his efforts.
"Yes, sir......" Rocky ran away, his agility was by no means commensurate with his age, and it seemed that the old butler was frightened by Lear's mysterious magic array.
"Hehe......" Lear smiled innocently, and his mind was once again focused on the blue-gray furnace in front of him, which was more than one meter high, "Jianmu Wang Ding"!
A huge six-colored flame is burning in the ding, the flame is crystal clear, and each of the chrysanthemum-like fireworks is not the same as the other colors, which is extremely weird.
In the center of the flame hung a spear as red as blood, and the shape of the spear was extremely peculiar, like an axe but not an axe, like a gun but not a gun......
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