Outworld: Rise of an Industrial Empire

Su Xincheng, the City Lord's Mansion Council "

It seems that I am too worried, it has been more than half a month, and the surrounding city-states have not even had any gossip news about Lingfeng City."

Su Zheng sat on the main seat of the conference table, drank coffee, looked at the report in his hand and said.

Chris sat aside and looked at the report, and when he heard Su Zheng's words, he raised his head, took a sip of coffee, and then looked at Su Zheng and said

, "Yes, in fact, the spread of news is slow, and if there is no special spies to collect information in a targeted manner, you can only rely on caravans to spread news, and these news are not enough to be... Belch... Hot gossip..."

Su Zheng put down the coffee cup and smiled:

"Just like our steam engine, it is said that the surrounding city-states did not have much reaction, but they had a very good opinion of our textile machine!

"Indeed, they don't care about the changes in the city, they don't understand the steam engine workshop, and they will only talk about it if the loom and loom really bring them a change...... Huh?"

Chris was saying, when one of his men handed him a piece of information, which Chris immediately opened and read.

"What's wrong?"

"Hey, Your Highness, regarding the information about Huang Qi City, they seem to have been invaded!" Hearing

this, Su Zheng was stunned for a moment, took the information from Chris, and immediately stood up after reading it, and came to the map hanging on the wall behind, and Chris also followed.

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Huang Qi City?" "Your Highness, the terrain of this Huang Qi City is very special, less than 8 kilometers longitudinally, but 40 kilometers long horizontally, the territory forms a strip, bordering multiple territories, and the city is at the westernmost end of the territory, which makes it difficult for them to react in a short time once they are harassed in the east. "

Shhh I have the impression that they were also attacked by the surrounding city-states the year before last!

" "Yes, they have a total population of about 10,000, but less than 3,000 people in towns and towns, and the rest are all rural, so they are often frequented by the surrounding city-states... This time it is estimated that it is also Shuer City and Stur City, and two years ago, they united to plunder the villages in the east of Huangqi City, of course, they definitely did not dare to openly unite and forcibly occupy them.

Su Zheng nodded, indicating that he knew the reason.

Once these feudal city-states have the intention of uniting or merging, they will naturally threaten the nearby Clal Kingdom, and the Clal Kingdom will definitely intervene, and similarly, once the Clal Kingdom has any moves, these more than twenty city-states can also unite with other cities against Clair, so that they can check and balance each other, which is the wisdom of the empire's partition.

"Your Highness, it seems that even the central part has been attacked this time, should we react?"

"Heh, let them fight, sooner or later it will be mine, no hurry, by the way, it is better to strengthen the patrol of the border villages of Tide City, this Fortress City is not far from us, it is better to prevent it, lest they harass us, and let the army help the border villages speed up the autumn harvest, and if it is harvested as soon as possible, it will not be too many nights." "

Yes!".

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On the post road above the plain, three horses walked slowly.

The middle-aged duke rode in front, and the two daughters behind him were talking.

"Okay, don't be angry...."

I'm not angry... Hearing

this, the middle-aged duke turned around and interjected

, "It feels like this world is different from what you think, right! It's cruel and dark than you think!" But the world is like this, children, commoners are noble dogs, just like mortals are magicians' dogs!"

Noelle lowered her head when she heard this, and was silent, and another woman approached her, stretched out her hand and touched her head.

At this time, the middle-aged duke found a stone tablet next to the road, with words engraved on both sides.

Huang Qi City is written below, and Tide City is written on top.

"We have arrived at the territory of Count Su Zheng!" Hearing

this, the two women looked at the boundary monument, and then looked ahead, and one of the women pointed to the house in the distance and said

, "Father, there is a village ahead, let's go and rest."

"Hmm!"

the middle-aged duke nodded, waved the reins twice with both hands, and sped up the ride, and the two women hurriedly followed, and the three of them ran quickly towards the village.

Soon the three of them arrived at the entrance of the village, and the middle-aged duke touched his beard, always feeling that there was an indescribable feeling here.

It was early in the morning, when the shops in the village were open, there were restaurants and stalls selling all kinds of food, and the main street, although dirt roads, was spacious and clean, and there were many pedestrians on the road.

When the owner of the tea shop at the entrance of the village saw someone entering the village, he hurriedly shouted:

"We have coffee that northerners love to drink, and tea that southerners love to drink! There are also dumplings and dumplings invented by our city lord himself, and there are also ......."

When the father and daughter heard the shouting of the tea shop owner, their curiosity was aroused.

The middle-aged duke looked at the two women behind him, glanced slightly at the pantry, and asked the opinions of the two daughters, who looked at each other and nodded.

Seeing that his daughters agreed, the middle-aged duke got off his horse, walked to the pantry, and asked the owner of the pantry

, "Shopkeeper, what did you just say... Dumplings? What else, what is it?"

Seeing the guests coming, the owner of the tea shop hurriedly lifted the lid of the bamboo basket on the shop, pointed to the contents and introduced:

"These are all delicacies invented by our city lord, this is called dumplings, with meat filling, corn and cabbage filling, and this is called tangyuan.... Eating these things during the Chinese New Year symbolizes reunion! There are also spring rolls, rice cakes, and steamed buns..."

Listening to the teary's owner's gushing introduction, the middle-aged duke smiled with some surprise:

"Haha, the delicacies invented by your city lord are interesting! It's really interesting! Then let's give us all a little taste." The

owner of the pantry looked at the middle-aged duke, then at the two women behind him, and hurriedly replied:

"Okay, we, we have a family bucket set specially prepared for you outsiders, and the amount of the three of you is only 66 yuan!" "Okay

! You can add some more! The

middle-aged duke directly took out a copper coin, threw it on the pantry and said.

The owner of the tea shop saw the copper coin, his eyes lit up, and he served more enthusiastically, and led the three of them to the table on the side, took out a burlap from his pocket and wiped the stool.

After the three of them sat down, they began to observe the village.

"Father, the people here seem to be very happy

!" "Yes, you see this village is not big, but there are so many shops!"

the two women said looking at the scene in the village, and the middle-aged duke nodded and said

, "Indeed, I also found out, when I first arrived here, I felt that this village was full of vitality! "

Look how happy those kids are!" Noelle

smiled as he looked at the group of children on the road, laughing and running around the street with little toys like little windmills.

At this time, the eyes of the three people were attracted by two people wearing leather armor and black wooden sticks hanging from their waists.

The two of them looked left and right on the street, wandering aimlessly, coupled with the standard equipment at first glance, they were obviously not ordinary civilians.

But in terms of equipment, it doesn't look like a soldier, even if it is a poor city-state, a soldier must always be equipped with an iron sword.