On June 4, 3rd year of the Falcon Empire calendar, on the evening, drizzling Fei Fei

A man stood on a small hill with his hands crossed, looking at the Falcon Collar in the dark night in the distance, the sky was very dark, and the drizzle drifted to the fat man's helmet, and then gathered into small droplets of water around the helmet and dripped into the armor.

The feeling of coolness seeps into the skin from there. This wet feeling reminded the fat man of the first years, as the family territory of His Majesty Falcon, it was obvious that the castle that had been repaired in the hazy rain and fog was fluttering on the mark of the Falcon family crest, although this family castle was no longer in use, but there were still some servants of the Dustan family living there

Along the lower part of the castle mound, the original village has become a small city of about tens of thousands of people, adjacent to neat spire houses, densely packed on the land below the castle, brightly lit, like a little star, the river that once let the fat man hang on to it, reflected in the light, like a silver belt bypassing the side of the small city, there is no trace left by time on it,

The woodland on the left has been turned into a farm, and on the right is the logging area, and at the foot of the mountain, you can also see the shadow of the commercial trading field, some horse-drawn carriages covered with tarpaulins, where you can go in and out.

The large concentration of the population has made such small and medium-sized cities of this model ubiquitous in the south of Vekia, and the roads that run through the entire south connect these new towns that have only emerged in recent years.

Goods landing from the southern coast only need three days to reach Zhivadin, the center of the south, and the goods of Zhivadin, from the southern seaport, will appear in the distant Dorok Mountains within a week, with great commercial advantages, convenient trade routes from north to south, even large caravans with more than thirty wagons, are the most common sight on the southern roads.

The dense towns along the way, the roads and waterways that extend in all directions, like a spider web covering the earth, unify the south into a whole,

Of the 40 million people of the empire, nearly 10 million are gathered in this most prosperous area, which is the cornerstone of the empire's solid state.

As the center of the first commercial activities, five years ago, the south of Vekia was in the wake of a series of integrations by the fat man. Quickly entered the golden period of the fastest development,

During the Samarish era, a large number of immigrants entered the south, and with the help of the established network of connected waters, dormant commerce flourished in this land for the first time.

During the Civil War, the warm climate and flat coastal wetlands provided the largest granary for the Falconry.

And the war, so that the Falcon soldiers, who were mainly southerners, were richly rewarded in the war, and a large amount of money flowed to the south.

Soldiers on the front line rushed to send bounties home, and families used the money to buy land, produce supplies, or put it into the Chamber of Commerce.

The military became the bellwether of the entire region, becoming the first to become rich in the middle class, and these people who got rich in the army by virtue of their military exploits. It also attracted more southerners to join the Falcon army, and the fat man never skimped on rewarding military merits, and the excellent and loyal professional military group became the main body of the Falcon Army

Because he knows that this money will eventually become the foundation of the empire, the only difference is that the money is spent by himself or by the soldiers, and only the unity of interests will tie these brave soldiers to their own fate

With the Falcon Army's successive victories at the front, a large amount of money flowed into the south of Vekia, like a river into the paddy fields, which greatly promoted the prosperity of commerce in the south, and commerce led to the large-scale expansion of the entire region.

The influence of the south from both military and commercial aspects, in just a few years, an invisible business empire, has revealed a jaw-dropping influence, the opening of the southern sea route, and finally let the south of Vekia in one fell swoop to establish the hegemony of the continental economic center,

The whole south is the beating heart of the empire, and now, new opportunities are once again in front of this vibrant land.

The Order of the Empire's Mercantile Cities was promulgated in May,

In the case of a city with a population of 50,000 or more, the mayor of the city can be elected through the voluntary vote of the citizens of the city.

The mayor is mainly responsible for the administrative affairs of the region, every three years, and for those who have made an important contribution to the city and the empire, the empire will confer the title of lord, which is not a real position, but only an honorary title.

If you want to become a mayor, you must first become a lord, the lord's conferring power comes from the empire, and the biggest reaction to the name of this commercial city Reiwa Lord is the emerging commercial aristocracy, which was driven by the tide of the times, and abandoned the family glory of the aristocratic elites, either actively, or passively became the lowly businessmen they once looked down on, although the wealth is growing day by day, but the sense of identity for themselves is still lacking,

The so-called mayoral and lord titles are undoubtedly the best way to fill this gap, although the power of the mayor is only the day-to-day management of the city itself, and even under the jurisdiction of the garrison in some places, although the lord has no practical significance, it still attracts many big businessmen.

As for the judgment of the contribution of the merchants to the empire, after careful study by the Ministry of the Interior of the empire, as many as 28 detailed rules were formulated, mainly focusing on the construction of local infrastructure, the support of army logistics, and the evaluation of the local people.

In order to obtain these judgments, the merchants began to voluntarily pay for the rest of the city's roads, build some wandering houses for the common people, and occasionally bring some food to the local garrison.

The list of the first lords has been approved by the fat man, and handing over the city to the real city manager is the only way to break through the current bottleneck of development, although this may lead the merchant class closer to the core of power,

Even after hundreds of years, it becomes the enemy that shakes the empire, but so what? Even if there are no merchants, there will still be other classes that will rise, and the fat man never thought that his dynasty would last for generations, it was just the self-amusement of some arrogant people, and the feudal system would inevitably be replaced by a new system, and he would create the world of the empire, and naturally there would be times of decay and decline.

It was under this consciousness that the fat man quietly returned to his base camp, Zhivadin

Finally, when he arrived at a large bedroom, the fat man saw his son who had been thinking about him for a long time, several maids in yellow palace skirts, who were carefully waiting on the rocking bed, and a little fat man who was only full-term was squinting and sleeping.

The fat man tiptoed over, the nervous atmosphere did not dare to breathe, his fingers gently slid over the extremely tender skin, stretched out his fingertips trembling and just touched the body of the little fat man, a strange induction flowed over, the fat man who had killed millions of people and had never felt excited to cry, for the first time, tears could not help but roll in his eyes, what a second, the most direct impulse in the fat man's heart was to shout to everyone, "Look, this is my son!

This is his own son, not a delicate face, vaguely showing the same fat face as himself, looking at the little guy's closed eyes and slightly trembling eyelashes, the fat man can imagine that it is a pair of bright and transparent eyes, eyes that can guide the direction of the empire

Leaving the room, the fat man looked left and right, and found no signs of other princesses, not even Mao Mona Qing, and couldn't help frowning slightly and asked the maid on duty, "Where is Princess Mao Mona Qing?" "I went to Khan Li Palace this morning!" The waitress on duty replied nervously, "Khan Li Palace?"

The fat man was a little surprised, although the base camp of the empire was in Zhivading, and the offices of various institutions had been built, but as the center of the fat man's imperial master's orders, the new palace called the "Khan Li Palace" had just completed the construction of thousands of acres of lawns and gardens in front of him.

Because of the large-scale war that spread across the continent last year, the empire's finances were almost in deficit, so that the progress of this palace, which had been stored on the drawings for two years, had to slow down again.

The construction work in other aspects of the empire was very fast, like infrastructure such as roads, which were generally required to be completed within three months.

Only the construction of this palace is always intermittent for various reasons, so that the Khan Li Palace project has become a barometer of the empire's finances, when to see the Khan Li Palace start, it means that the empire has money, when the construction is stopped, it means that the pockets of the Falcon Majesty are shriveled up and can starve to death of rats,

Although it is embarrassing that the monarch of a large empire has even built his own dormitory for a few years, the people of Wiki like such kings because they know that the taxes they pay are really used where they need them.

Someone once secretly calculated that only the empire's war of conquest against the Nords used more than 120,000 troops, the war lasted for 2 months, shaking countless materials, and the amount of bounty issued after the war was as high as 15 million gold coins, benefiting more than 90,000 officers and soldiers on the front line.

This huge amount of money was enough to build more than 20 palaces of the size of Khan Li Palace, but that month, Khan Li Palace stopped work,

And the soldier's bounty was not in arrears, plus the ensuing battle of Dorok, the Khan Li Palace has been stopped for half a year, so there are also poets who say that "the Khan Li Palace represents the heart and measure of a king!"

The maid on duty said, "This morning, I heard that Princess Rui Tangtina suddenly rushed back, and also brought several tribal leaders from the northern steppes, it seems that something urgent has happened, and in a cautious manner, Princess Maomo has decided to meet these people in person in the Khanli Palace!" (To be continued.) )