The rainy season continues, but the bustling Thunder Cliffs have not stopped because of the rain, since the last rainy season affected the trade of Thunder Cliffs. In order to be able to keep Thunder Cliff alive in the rainy season, it can still maintain the vitality of a bustling city. At the end of the last rainy season, the main road of Thunder Cliff began a fairly large project, with slender concrete pillars erected on every bustling street.

Because the production of steel has not yet been rich enough to be used as a building material, the center of these columns is still a specially treated bamboo-like slender plant, although their toughness and solidity are not comparable to steel, but they are enough to support the not very high cement columns, and the three plants as the main body with the assistance of a small amount of iron wire can make a perfect cement frame.

Now that the rainy season has arrived, these unique concrete columns, which have been repaired for a long time, have been added to the large green canopies that have been spent in the warehouses for months. Nearly the entire Thunder Cliff is connected by these rain corridors, and a few savvy vendors have taken up some spacious enough places to sell all sorts of snacks or odds and ends that are often used.

These vendors, who did not have any funds to open their stores, were all certified in the specialized institutions of Thunder Cliff, not only the small carts used were all of a uniform design style, but even the professional clothing was distributed free of charge by the institutions. There is no such thing as a rat crossing in Thunder Bluff, where the hawkers are a profession that provides convenient services.

Occasionally, of course, the agency will send out personnel to conduct random checks to see if the vendors who have obtained the documents are doing what they have learned earlier. If there are some violations, the license will be deducted just like a driver's license. However, if the points are deducted, the license will be revoked, and the hawker who has been revoked will need to go to the institution again for assessment.

The construction and use of the rain corridor makes it impossible for passers-by in the middle of Thunder Cliff to walk in the rain with an umbrella or a greasy raincoat all the time. All the shops on the main road are operating as usual, and this is exactly what Mo Yan wants to see when he builds the rain corridor, and only by constantly stimulating consumption can he make more money.

In the White House, Emily is still reviewing the documents, and now the situation of some institutions in Thunder Cliff has become so serious that it cannot be ignored, and Emily is having a headache about how to deal with these people. [***] Appeared when Mo Yan began to use humans and gray dwarves as officials in his administrative body.

And Mo Yan also knew that all this was happening, but he was powerless to stop [***]. After all, although Mo Yan is very smart, there is nothing wrong with it, but he can't completely eliminate the problem of the inferior roots of intelligent creatures. As long as there are human beings, there will be [***], no matter how holy a person is before he becomes a high official, after he has grasped the power, he will gradually be corrupted, just like the sun will rise in the east and set in the west, just like the existence of the laws of nature.

What happens in Thunder Bluff is hundreds of times faster than in other places, because it is hundreds of times more prosperous than other cities. The development of a country's commerce brings not only prosperity, but also a huge test of the overall quality of the people. The onslaught of materialism can easily make people lose themselves for money, and businessmen want to be able to obtain greater benefits. Ultimately, what must be done is to seek political asylum.

They are accustomed to measuring everything by money, and the most basic method is of course bribery, and this is one of the roots of the [***] that created officials. There is no need to discuss the question of who comes first, the bribe giver and the bribe-taker, because it is as boring as the chicken-and-egg question.

Mo Yan knew that with the development of Thunder Cliff business, the officials he appointed would definitely [***], so at the very beginning, he also set up some laws and necessary anti-corruption agencies. But those only pushed the [***] time out a little bit, and did not completely solve the problem fundamentally, and Mo Yan actually couldn't solve the problem fundamentally.

He had wanted to appoint the big merchants as necessary officials, as in neighboring Carthage. But after thinking about it carefully, Mo Yan still gave up this unrealistic idea, the Carthaginians had very sound laws that stipulated what those merchant nobles could and could not do, and almost all the officials were composed of merchants, if any one broke the law, the others could immediately see from his performance in business.

But Thunder Cliff does not have such conditions, because except for Mo Yan himself, almost no one is considered a big businessman, and everyone is picking up Mo Yan's leftovers to eat, and they can only develop industries that Mo Yan looks down on. Although those businesses have also developed a lot, they are not really able to make a lot of money, and they who can eat more than one bite is a mouthful, and they will immediately be [***] a mess when they are appointed as high-ranking officials.

Rubbing her temples that were aching, Emily decided to let these people go first, giving them a warning or something to restrain them a bit. The specific situation still has to wait until Mo Yan comes back before he can really make a decision, after all, they are all appointed by Mo Yan personally, and he should know about such a situation. Thinking of the minotaur who had gone to hell, Emily suddenly felt a sense of panic in her heart.

She got up and walked to the window, looked at the rain falling from the glass, and prayed to the goddess, whose name she didn't even know, to protect her husband from hell. At this moment, there was a knock on the office door, and Emily packed up her clothes and sat back at her desk before calling the people outside the door in.

"Lady Emily. Entering the door was Regel, who was in charge of the SS, and he bowed slightly to Emily and handed over a document and said, "Here are some of the progress of the SS work last month, and some necessary budget approvals. Of course...... This is not the main purpose of my visit, I want to report to you about an anomaly in the castle. In the past month or so, Shi Ruiz's behavior has been a little strange, and he seems to be paying attention to the goddess temple in the city. ”

Ruiz had also visited the temple when it was being built, but after seeing a lot of things that Mo Yan had come up with, he also thought that it was just a special hobby of the Minotaurs, or something that he had made to gain a foothold in religion in the future. But the teleportation shattered his thoughts, and the goddess didn't seem to be something made up by the Minotaurs, so it meant that the god was either real or impersonated by some powerful demon from hell.

And after Ruiz's observation for nearly a month or so, the latter's possible surname is very small, because there is no trace of blood sacrifice in the temple. In most cases where demons impersonate new gods to deceive souls, the humble temples built by ignorant peasants all reveal some kind of evil emanating from blood sacrifices, while this one in Thunder Cliff is holy in addition to sacred.

Ruiz has been to many historical sites, and has heard about some of the things that happened in ancient times. Legend has it that there is also an evil goddess who invaded the world with a large number of monsters and killed many gods, although the gods defeated her, but did not completely destroy her. And in most temples, there are warnings about the appearance of the evil goddess and how to deal with it, and the evil goddess is like the Last Judgment.

If the evil goddess were to rise again that day, the whole world would be plunged into endless suffering. Reze was eager to find out if the goddess who could send the minotaurs to hell was the evil goddess recorded in the ruins and temples, but if it was, it would be too bad for him to find a way to get the news out, otherwise it would be too late.

"Do you want to pay attention to the temple?" Emily said with some surprise when she heard Regel's words, "Does he also want to believe in that god?" So far, no one other than monsters has believed in that god, but if he can make such a start, maybe he will encourage others to choose to believe in it, which is a good thing. ”

"If that's the case, I don't need to worry. Regel shook his head and said, "He seems to have discovered something terrible, but he doesn't reveal anything about my side knocks. And his eyes are very familiar to me, they are hovering between betrayal and non-betrayal, and he may want to do something unfavorable to the lord of the city. ”

"Is that so?" This sudden news caught Emily off guard, she thought for a moment and drafted an order to Legel and said, "Then send more people to monitor him, of course you must make sure that he will not find out about your surveillance, otherwise I would rather you not do it." ”

"I see, ma'am. Regel looked at the order with the signature and the official bull's head seal, confirmed the contents, nodded and said, "I will arrange this operation, and if anything happens, I will deal with it specially." If we might not have been able to do anything to a mage before, but now that we have the emp he invented, then I can guarantee that he won't actually do any major damage. ”

It may be ironic that the forbidden bullet EMP made by Ruiz will be used on himself. But Emily couldn't take care of these things, she thought about it and added with some unease: "Wait a minute, you go and inform Ellie and Jones to come here, I will arrange for them to assist you, there are too many things that a ** teacher can do." ”

(To be continued)