728. The two sides of prosperity and celebration
In the city of Night Qi, Uffi led the knights through the streets and low walls, until now nearly 70% of the area in the city wall is closed, and the open area is divided into several urban districts, and the students of the Galloping Horse Academy are constantly patrolling between the urban areas to maintain the security of the city.
"Everyone, let's take advantage of the end of the day shift to inspect the commercial district again!" Uffy suggested loudly, then turned left and entered a six-meter-high gate.
"Okay, Captain." The knight cadets behind her all agreed, and followed Uffy into the city gates.
Behind the city gate is the most prosperous area in Yeqi Castle, a commercial district surrounded by relatively low walls on all sides.
There are 3 main commercial streets and an independent square, in addition to hundreds of shops, taverns, restaurants, but also have independent commercial shrines and warehouses, regardless of the demon owner, the non-demon, the people and foreign tourists, can directly spend gold coins in the commercial street, without exchanging the local work vouchers.
Looking at the bustling crowd around him, Uffi felt that he had to protect the order of the city and not let the evil spirit of the priests defile the entire city.
"Lord Rand's order is right, you can't let these Fengyue places in the name of religion go around, in my opinion, they should be completely banned!" Ufi's understanding of the world is quite pure, and she completely despises those messy so-called priests.
"The captain is right, these guys are using the gods as an excuse to use gold coins and debauchery to kill the atmosphere of Night Qi City!" Another student from the Barbarian said loudly, and almost all the Barbarian and Native Terran students in the team agreed with this sentence.
Willis sat silently behind Uffy, the girl who grew up in the black market knows best, and most of the many tourists around her are probably coming for the black market and the Fengyue place here, and the prosperity guarded by the knights is built on the gray industry they despise.
"I'm afraid it can't be completely banned, since ancient times, hallucination and obscenity are the methods of priests to communicate with the gods, there was an oracle in the ancient empire, located near the volcano in the imperial capital, and the sulfur gas gushing from inside can give the priests hallucinations."
The young man from the Imperial Capital of the Cleland family interrupted Uffy's words, and he who had come from the Imperial Capital not only understood the true source of the prosperity in front of him, but also understood that all this was the intention of the lord.
More precisely, by exempting some of the temples from the absurdity of the temple, Rand created a characteristic red-light district, where the priests and nobles of the empire who had been holding back for hundreds of years contributed a lot of gold coins to the rand.
At the same time, in order to prevent these tourists from affecting the people, Rand limited the scope of the red light district through the city walls and the knights who constantly patrolled, and even isolated the entire barbarian tribe to the north of the city, which can be said to have struck a balance between prosperity and stability.
However, these tricks that belong to the great lord are by no means understandable to a knight from a commoner like Uffi, so the young man can choose some conceptual explanations that Uffi understands:
"The reason why the Temple Alliance banned these methods back then was because the Temple Alliance monopolized the way to communicate with the gods in the empire, but these methods were not suitable for the Galloping Horse Plain, so the Temple Alliance could only acquiesce to the various sects in Night Qi City."
"Lord Rand is inconvenient, doesn't the Temple Alliance take care of it?" Willis turned to look at the boy and asked with some concern.
"You'd better not overestimate the moral standards of those priests in the Temple Alliance," the young man said with a smile, "Several of those people just now are members of the demigod family, and they just went to Night Qi City to have fun!" ”
The sound of banging sounded behind the knights, and as night gradually fell, fireworks gradually lit up in the air near the business district, and the brilliant light looked at Uffy and Willis with some fascination.
"It's really expensive!" The Cleland boy sighed, "At least such a magic was unleashed by a magister. ”
"The city gate of the block is closing, let's go back to the academy!" Only then did Uffy remember, and led the knights to close the team.
When night falls, the low-walled gates near the teleportation hall, the temple area, and the commercial district will be completely closed, making it a true kingdom within a state, with the children of the great nobles from the Imperial Capital and Dragon's Tooth City taking over the security of the area.
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In the temple area, where the knights had already left, more people wore thicker clothes due to the cold, and stopped in the streets to enjoy the fireworks.
Suddenly, from a temple, a woman dressed in revealing clothes, her eyes narrowed like a line, and two curved horns on her head, ran out of the street with great anticipation to the street where Hughes and the others had tossed just now.
Fireworks, crowds, bustling streets, the scene that this Hughes priest depicted while praying in the temple is somewhat close, but fundamentally different.
"Huh? Didn't they say that today's big celebration was special? I came here on purpose! His Majesty Lukoa said with regret.
Not long after, another god also turned into a demon bearer, running over in scantily clad clothes, and soon asked the same question:
"Your Majesty Lukoa? Have your tastes changed? A new oracle to mortals? ”
"How so? I'm dressed like this! The god of life looked depressed, "For today, I also sent Hughes a sum of gold coins to ask him to find Halkala to buy mushroom soup!" ”
Soon she reacted: "Could it be that Hughes and they were stirred up?" ”
As soon as he finished speaking, the wheel of time in Lucoa's left eye suddenly turned in reverse, and after only a few seconds, he received the answer:
"No, I'm going to let Tartara talk to Rand about it, there's finally a place where no one cares, don't be so boring again!"
"Your Majesty, this human nobleman is too disrespectful of tradition," the god next to him said regretfully, "Our rituals are tens of thousands of years old, but in the last few hundred years, they have been restricted by that temple alliance. ”
Lukoa also nodded in agreement: "Yes, I also want to let that group of children from Red Dragon Rock come around, maybe I can take this opportunity to let them put down the crystal ball and get to know each other!" ”
"You mean, don't you want them to go on a blind date?" The companion understood the thoughts of the god of life, and asked with some surprise, "Let the dragons come over?" With mortals? ”
"Of course it's with other dragons, don't you know, the new generation of dragons are very homely, in addition to the crystal ball, occasionally have to go out to pretend to be an adult. These children barely communicate with the other dragons, and none of them have the desire to conquer the skies, and the last time I saw Heryalena, I was so frazed that she was. ”