Chapter 34: Oh God! (Above)
Now that he has decided to go to Josh's territory to see this little guy, Blake moves very quickly.
He summoned Nicholas directly and told him what he was going to do. Although opposed by Nicholas, who is Black? Even if his best friend objected, it was nothing to him, and in the end, this guy still succeeded.
Nicholas could only smile wryly, because he knew that his hard days were coming again.
Not only do you have to deal with the people of the House who come to Blake every day for advice, but you also have to deal with all kinds of nobles. He's used to it, but it's clearly beyond his scope of work.
Regardless of what Nicholas was thinking, Blake directly took Liszt and William and Kane, who was forcibly dragged back, and set off early the next morning.
Several of them were in a good mood, except for Kane, who was a little depressed, because he really didn't plan to go with this guy, but there was no way.
Blake was his dad after all, and it was his own brother who ran to pull him out, and he wouldn't say anything about Kane even if he was really uncomfortable. And if you think about it, it makes sense to go to see his younger brother Josh anyway.
Of course, there is also the fact that he is not an important official in the army, so even if he leaves, it is not a big deal.
The speed of their group was very fast, mainly because Blake's identity was placed there, even if he didn't reveal his identity just to go to play, but the officials of the teleportation array all knew him, or his three sons.
All of them used the teleportation array all the way unhindered, and finally came to the nearest city to Josh's territory.
Josh's territory is called Constantinople, and the previous lord named the entire territory after his castle, and it has never changed (it has changed now, but it has not been reported).
Of course, that place is also relatively poor, mainly surrounded by forests, there are only a few routes in and out, and all merchants rarely enter, so there is no teleportation array there.
"Looks like we're going to fly over."
Blake looked at the road ahead and shrugged indifferently.
He knew about his son's place, and he didn't care if there was such a thing as a teleportation array, after all, the teleportation array was not available in every city, not to mention the cost, even the technology was very difficult to handle.
And flying or something, for ordinary people or people with low strength, is a test, but for Blake it is almost like instinct.
His strength, even if he flew out with a legion, it would not be a problem, let alone three sons of his own.
"Josh's territory seems to be a bit far away, we've all been in the teleportation array several times, do we still want to fly over it now?" Liszt complained a little, in his opinion, Josh Joshi's territory was too far away.
"Do you think your clever and mischievous brother will settle down if you don't go a little farther? And this is also a tempering for him, the environment is almost better. ”
Blake glared at Liszt, and then without saying a word, a majestic battle aura emerged, enveloping all of them, and then they slowly rose into the air, but in an instant they had turned into a streamer and disappeared in place.
When they reappeared, they were already on the outskirts of Josh's domain.
As the top powerhouse of the Muya Continent who has not yet gone to the Land of the Gods, Blake's strength is absolutely undoubted, and the speed of this flight alone can make countless people stunned.
And they stopped because they found out what was being built, only to see that all the people who were working were divided into two groups, one group was ordinary people, and Blake could see at a glance, and the other group made Blake a little puzzled.
Because those who look like ordinary people, but are so much stronger, don't look like human beings at all.
Blake didn't feel the breath of life in their bodies, not even living beings, they didn't even talk to each other, they just worked silently.
William visibly felt Blake's strange gaze, and then asked curiously. "What's wrong, Father?"
"Nothing, those people, no, those should be puppets, right?"
Following the direction Blake was pointing, William and the others looked over, but quickly withdrew their gaze.
Although they could feel something strange, they couldn't be like Blake, who could see the difference just at a glance.
Blake didn't say anything, and the puppet wasn't anything illegal anyway.
The puppets made by the alchemists are even more exotic and can be used in battle. Josh's puppets, though they seem to be better, don't have the characteristics of professionals, and all Blake quickly retracts their gaze.
They slowly walked all the way into Josh's newly created territory, and to be honest, they thought it should be dilapidated and sparsely populated at first, and they were even going to use war gas to isolate the smell in order to prevent the smell.
After all, they are not Josh, Josh was both smart and mischievous when he was a child, but this guy rarely runs to places outside the palace to play, and seems to be not very interested, and even if he goes, he rarely runs far.
They are different, they have been to some remote corners when they were young, and they know what those places are really like.
Of course, Josh's territory made them feel incredible, although there were still some busy workers on the road from time to time, but the sanitary situation here was as good as they were in the imperial capital, and in addition to those workers, many women and children were talking and laughing and doing their own things.
This made them very surprised, although Josh can improve the living standards and quality of life of these ordinary residents by doing this, but compared to Josh to carry out such a big project, the human and material resources used are unimaginable.
So where does Josh get this stuff from?
Obviously, these ordinary people should be his best targets for exploitation, this situation is the most common in this world, after all, it is common for all upper classes to oppress lower classes with different classes, and there is nothing Blake can do about this kind of thing, after all, he himself is still the biggest leader of these nobles.
Unclear, Blake walked over and asked the local residents what was going on.
And his three sons, after looking at each other, also chose to follow, not only Blake, they were also very curious.
"Sorry to bother you, we're foreigners, because we're going to Kagiano and I'm passing through here, and I'm curious how much has changed here, what's going on in Constantinople?"
As the eldest son, Kane was also the oldest and most experienced of their brothers, not to mention that he had been in the army for so many years, but he knew very well what Constantinople was like before, so he replaced Blake and asked directly to the woman who was chatting.
These women also noticed the people in front of them, and they also recognized these absolute nobles for the first time, all of them stood up and saluted before slowly saying: "This noble lord, because of the arrival of His Royal Highness Josh, everything has changed now. ”
"His Royal Highness? It seems that Constantinople has been turned upside down by him, don't you all have any complaints? ”
"I'm sorry this noble lord, I don't really understand what you mean. Also, it's been renamed Rivendell. ”
Well, after all, the knowledge gap is here, and Kane wanted to ask very implicitly if Josh had made it difficult for them to live like this, but it was clear that these women didn't understand these things very well.
"Rivendell? Well it doesn't matter, I mean, it's like the men here are all pulled to work, don't you have anything"
"What's there? We would have liked to have more men in the family who can work, and to be honest, if it weren't for my father, who needs to take care of the farmland, I would have liked him to follow my husband to work. ”
"What?"
This answer was completely beyond their expectations, reasoning that such a large engineering project labor force is the most in demand, and generally such a labor force will not have any income.
Because this is the order of the lord, the average civilian is most afraid of this, but it seems that the situation is different here, right?
"Why?"
"Because His Royal Highness Josh is hired, well, I don't really understand this, this is what Sir Frank said. That is, we labor, and then they will pay us, and that's it. ”
"Will you pay? Employment? ”
William was stunned, this was the first time he had heard this kind of novelty, wasn't it equal to those mercenaries?
So he directly preemptively asked: "Will all the laborers pay?" His Royal Highness Josh, he didn't use the Lord's Order? ”
"Yes, all laborers will have money, and His Royal Highness Josh has never used a lord's order, he is really a good highness, a good lord!"
The woman said with a smile on her face, and at the same time showed her support for Josh.
The lord's order actually contains a lot of things, to put it bluntly, it is the lord's absolute dominance of this territory, which includes the right of the first night and the power of forced labor, but Josh has not used any of them.
"And what do you eat? The men were basically dragged to work by him, leaving only the old man to take care of the farmland, even if this year's harvest was good, plus the food you usually get from hunting, but I don't think it seems to be enough for you to survive the winter, right? ”
At this time, Blake suddenly asked, it is true that almost all the young men have gone to build their territories, and after a tiring day, you can imagine how much food they consume when they return home.
And Blake doesn't think that these ordinary people still have the energy to go to the farmland after a busy day, to put it bluntly, they don't plant much, and how much they can harvest.
"Meat, of course."
However, the woman's answer directly made Blake stunned for a moment: "Eat meat? Where does the meat come from? Could it be that His Highness Josh is still leading you to hunt and kill demonic beasts in the forest? ”
"No, it's a chamber of commerce called Jurassic that made an agreement with His Highness Josh to come and sell meat products to us. Although the price is relatively high, the salary given by His Royal Highness Josh is fully sufficient for us to buy, and there is still some surplus. ”
"Jurassic Chamber of Commerce?"
Blake and his party began to think carefully about this chamber of commerce that sold meat products, but unfortunately they didn't come up with it.
After all, in the Muya Continent, there are enough in the Augustus Imperial Chamber of Commerce, and it is normal not to think of it, of course, they would never have thought that this is completely the name that Josh was lazy and directly took casually.
"Hello Excellencies, I take the liberty of intruding, if you have any questions, it would be better for you to ask."
Just as they were about to continue asking the woman something, a voice came from behind them. To be honest, this voice may still be somewhat familiar to the others except Kane, so they turned their heads directly and looked over, and sure enough, it was an acquaintance.
"Indeed, I think we should be looking for you, right, Frank?"
Blake smiled and said to the visitor, the guy who came over was Frank, Josh's butler. And now the butler looked at the few people in front of him as if he had been spelled, and finally shouted tremblingly:
"Oh my God!"