Outworld: Rise of an Industrial Empire

"Captain, the caravan of Su Xincheng is here!" On

a country road, hundreds of heavily armed knights formed a large phalanx and stopped in the middle of the road.

Not far away, dozens of ox carts full of bags are slowly approaching. The convoy consisted of only five cavalry guards, but the ox coachmen in each cart were armed with spears. Seeing that someone was blocking the way, everyone became nervous.

The cavalry leading the team was relieved to see a neat phalanx of knights blocking the way, as long as it was not a bandit, everything was easy to say.

The cavalry leading the group first stopped the ox convoy, and then ran towards the phalanx of knights with another knight.

"Sir, we are a caravan from Suxincheng, is there any situation?"

Coming to the phalanx, the cavalry captain reported to his home, and then pointed to the flag on the ox cart.

"What are you pulling?"

"It's grain, sir."

"Food weapons stay, people go. Hearing

this, the cavalry captain was stunned for a moment, and then shouted angrily:

"What? "Why?" "

That's it!"

The knight phalanx drew his sword one after another, and the cavalry captain looked at the phalanx in shock.

"You... What

do you want to do?" The leading knight snorted coldly, pointed his sword

at the cavalry captain and said, "Hmph, I also want to ask you what Su Xincheng wants to do, what is the purpose of you buying a large amount of grain and steel?" "I

don't need to tell you why, this is not the reason why you intercepted us! Get out of the way immediately!"

The cavalry captain was also angry and roared angrily at the leading knight.

The leading knight of the phalanx looked up and down the cavalry captain of the Su Xincheng caravan with contempt, patted the medal on his chest and sneered:

"You pariah, you can take a good look, I am a viscount knight, dare to talk to me like this, hurry up and kneel down for me!"

"You..."

The knight who led the team waved his hand, and the phalanx behind him moved, quickly surrounding the convoy.

Under the threat of the cavalry, the ox coachmen of the convoy laid down their spears one after another, and only five cavalrymen were resentful and unwilling to give in.

"Don't toast and don't eat and drink!Come on, drag him off my horse and make him kneel!" Receiving

the order of the leading knight, several knights immediately rushed up behind him, knocked off the weapon of the cavalry captain, and pulled him off his horse.

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City Lord's Mansion

Su Zheng rubbed his temples with his hands and came to the large balcony on the roof to relax his eyes.

Looking at his city-state, Su Zheng could see the city wall in front of him at a glance.

In the whole city, except for the castle lord's mansion, only the bell tower on the church square is the highest.

The architecture of Sioux New City is dominated by the style of medieval Europe, and there are some shadows of Chinese style, forming a unique architectural form.

The people on the streets also look a bit like the mixed Chinese and Western people of the earth.

Su Zheng wondered more than once, why this world is like this, but unfortunately, the "Encyclopedia of the Holy Continent", which is the only record of the origin of this world, is ambiguous about this.

"His Royal Highness the City Lord, it's rare to see.

A female voice sounded, Su Zheng looked at it, and the heavily armed He Jing was sitting on a bench in the shade by the wall drinking coffee, holding a book in his hand and a sword on the bench.

"I'm wondering what you're doing? The last time I saw you out of the room was three days ago, and I didn't see you dealing with government affairs... Why, isn't it Kanaya Zangjiao..."

"Aha, it's funny, I'm learning some knowledge, and sometimes I'm fascinated, and the whole day passes. Uh, I'm going to go outside the city for a walk, do you want to go with me?"

Su Zheng suddenly thought that he had to strengthen his relationship with this beautiful royal sister magic knight, otherwise it would be a big loss for her to run away.

"Of course, I'm your knight of the guard, so of course I'll follow you at all times.

"Okay, I'll go change my clothes, you go downstairs and wait for me first."

He Jing smiled slightly, put down the coffee and book, picked up the saber and jumped directly from the balcony, this operation directly made Su Zheng stunned in place, and after reacting, he hurriedly ran to the edge of the balcony and looked down.

The guards in the courtyard were all startled by He Jing who suddenly fell from the sky, but He Jing calmly turned to look at Su Zheng who was confused on the balcony.

"I rub ..."

...

When Su Zheng changed his clothes and came downstairs, the knight guards were ready, Su Zheng rode his horse and waved his hand to signal the team to leave.

Su Zheng walked towards the outside of the city with a beautiful team, and the crowd on the street stopped and bent down to salute.

"I'm surprised that you haven't seen a single beggar in your

city-state!" In He Jing's impression, even in a developed city-state, there are many beggars begging along the streets, and she passed the avenue from the city lord's mansion to the city gate twice, but she didn't see a single beggar.

Su Zheng glanced at He Jing and said slowly:

"This is simple, there are only two kinds of beggars, one is not working, the other is incapable, there is no job, can't you just help them find a job?

"What do you say?"

He Jing stared at Su Zheng with wide eyes and shocked, Su Zheng glanced at the shocked He Jing, was stunned for a moment, and then realized that he seemed to have made a mistake in expression, and hurriedly added:

"Ah... I mean to put them in place, just before you came, the orphanage was repaired, and it now houses more than 20 disabled people and elderly people who have lost their labor force, and in addition to regularly delivering some food to the disabled people who are unable to work in more than 40 households in the city-state. Hearing

this, He Jing glanced at Su Zheng and said,

"You... Can you be more accurate in your wording!

" Then he looked at Su Zheng with interest and said,

"But the Disabled Hospital.... It's the first time I've heard of it, and I'm afraid I won't be able to find a second one in the entire Holy Continent. "

In this cruel world, the emperors and lords are benevolent kings if they do not collect harsh taxes, and the monarchs and nobles do not fish the common people, even if they are of high moral character, no nobles will sympathize with the commoners, and no nobles will take out their own interests to help the weak.

"These people who have lost their labor force actually don't consume much food, and they can fill their stomachs with thick porridge cooked from corn and some wild vegetables. In fact, since the opening of the house, except for the initial appropriation for the construction of the house, the rest has been the assistance of the church and the people, including the food that has been provided to them all along.

Seeing that Su Zheng was not proud of his merits, and pushed the credit out, He Jing cast an approving look at Su Zheng:

"I didn't expect that there would be a lord like you in this world! The people who can live in your territory have really received great favor from the Holy Lord Goddess..."

"It's impossible! It's good now, you can be your city lord well, I can't let this piece of rare clean land be ....." "

His Royal Highness the City Lord! His Royal Highness the City Lord!"

Before He Jing's words were finished, a shout suddenly came from the distance.

The guards immediately raised their spears to stand on guard, only to see a man covered in tattered clothes, beaten with a blue nose and swollen face, and blood still bleeding from his forehead, crying and running towards Su Zheng, followed by a group of people.

The knight guards immediately blocked in front of Su Zheng and stopped them.

"Hey, isn't this Wang Wei?" Su

Zheng looked at the person who came a little familiarly, and suddenly remembered that this person seemed to be one of his knight guards, so he pointed at him and looked at Li Zhen, the former knight captain and the current vice captain, and asked.

Li Zhen nodded and replied

, "Yes, Your Highness, he is Wang Wei." "

He... Why is he like this? Let him come here. "

The subordinates are derelict in their duties..."

Wang Wei came to Su Zheng, and knelt on the ground with both legs, seeing this, Su Zheng and He Jing were stunned, and under normal circumstances, even if they made a big salute, they only knelt down on one knee.

"You get up first and speak slowly.

But Wang Wei didn't stand up, but kowtowed directly, and cried with a handful of snot and tears:

"Your Highness... Subordinates damn it... The subordinates put the grain...

"What??

", "Lord Chris, ordered me to escort food back from Notting, but I was intercepted by the Knights of Teide on the way... Our weapons and horses have been seized..."

"What!!!"

After listening to Wang Wei's words, Su Zheng was stunned for a moment, and then couldn't help but burst into a foul mouth.

Su Zheng angrily pulled the reins and turned the horse's head, and said to Li Zhen

: "Send him to be treated first, and send someone outside the city to inform Chris and Lei Ming to come to the City Lord's Mansion to see me

!"

"Yes" Su Zheng looked at He Jing and spread his hand:

"I didn't want to fight, it seems that I have to fight now!"

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City Lord's Mansion, Council Hall

Chris was still directing the construction of artillery in the workshop, but after learning that the food was robbed, he immediately ran back to the City Lord's Mansion from the workshop, patting his head all the way.

"Your Highness, this is my responsibility, I am careless, I should send heavy troops to protect the grain and grass...."

This time, there are a total of 30,000 catties of wheat and other grains, as well as 35 cattle pulling carts, which is enough for the army of Su Xincheng to eat with an open stomach for more than a month.

"It's not your fault, they won't let us pass by sending heavy troops, and besides, we can't ignore training for the sake of food... I was careless, I knew that I would have taken a detour a little more, and I came back from Merlin City. "

Shall we play ....."

Speaking of this, Chris himself shook his head, how could an empire or a kingdom care about such a thing.

"What's the use of playing? It takes a few months to go and go, and it takes a few months for the empire to send people to find out the situation. Even if the people in Tide City directly admit to stealing the grain, the empire will give him a condemnation order at most, ordering them to return the grain to us, but will they pay it back? "

When there is a conflict in a territory with autonomy, most of them issue a reprimand, and a scoundrel like Ted City is never afraid of such a reprimand.

It is inevitable that there will be friction between the various territories, and even if the city is breached, at most a person with the title of duke will be sent to mediate, saying that it is mediation, that is, a process, of course, it is not completely useless, as much as possible to ensure that the nobles are not killed, in order to ensure the noble status of the nobles.

"That's... Your Highness, what should we do?"

"We have to let him spit out this batch of grain for me tenfold and hundredfold. I originally wanted to settle accounts with him after developing for a while, since they provoked us first, then fight! dignity, only above the blade and sword shadow, immediately contacted Merlin City, and said that we were willing to cooperate with them to deal with Ted City together. Hearing

Su Zheng's cruel words, He Jing stepped forward and said:

"I can help you deter them......."

Then He Jing waved his hand, and the saber on his waist flew out of the scabbard by himself, and with the swing of He Jing's hand, the sword also flew out of thin air in the air, Su Zheng and Chris turned around He Jing in shocked eyes, and then returned to the scabbard on He Jing's waist.

After reacting, Su Zheng put his hands on his waist, looked at He Jing with bright eyes and said

, "Good guy, I didn't expect you to have such an ability."

Then Su Zheng looked at the map, took a deep breath, and continued:

"But I haven't wasted enough to rely on women.

Hearing this, He Jing was stunned for a moment, and looked at the high-spirited young man in front of him.

However, she knew that there were only four or five thousand people in Su Zheng's territory, but the other side seemed to be very strong, so she asked

, "Oh, are you very confident, how is the strength on the other side?"