Reckless Through The New World

"King Zion wants to kill a large number of people." In the chat channel, Prett said, "the same group of people who shouted, 'The north has prospered, and it is time to cancel the pioneering privilege'."

"I agree!" Loma said immediately, "If he needs an executioner, I can make a cameo appearance. I'm quite skilled at using a guillotine axe."

"Me too!" Atlas said. "I could also be the hangman, and I'd have an advantage."

"What advantage?" Laisha asked curiously.

"Ugly!" Atlas himself doesn't really care about this topic, he just hates others to bring it up, "As an executioner, I am ugly than Loma at least as tall as a castle."

He made the word "high" bold in red, which seemed very spiritual.

Sure enough, Loma immediately went into a frenzy.

All dwarves - including traversers, are taboo "dwarf". Although they occasionally make a joke about their shortness, if someone else mentions this, they are basically going to get angry - much more taboo than the "ugly" of Atlas.

As for the confrontation between Loma and Atlas, to be honest, it's not nutritious. It's just that one criticizes each other for all kinds of ugliness, and the other criticizes each other for all kinds of shortness. It's a downright personal attack. of.

Ugly people and dwarves don't have that quality. They only start by greeting each other, and then develop into the next three, relatives... and even each other's houses, pets, household items... Anyway, in a word, tight Grab the center without relaxing.

Not long after waking up, Panda, who was eating and didn't know whether it should be dinner or breakfast, naturally saw this chat record, he was stunned for a moment, contacted Prett through private chat, and asked, "Zion wants to kill people. ?why?"

"According to Princess Fishna, these people used the name of business to pressure the royal family to attack the old king, which made the old king sicker. Zion has long held a grudge against this, and he wanted to kill more than once when discussing state affairs with his father and sister. The last batch. Now that he is the king, he will definitely kill people to establish his prestige, and most of them will kill this group of people."

Panda thought for a while and asked, "How many people are there?"

"There are two counts at the noble meeting. The viscount is not clear... If you want to know, I will ask Jenny to ask Feisina tomorrow?"

"No, no need." Panda smiled and said, "I'm just curious. The political struggle at the top of the Terrera Kingdom, no matter who kills who, has nothing to do with me."

"You're right! Zion wants to kill people to stand up for power, and the ones who kill are to trouble him. It's none of our business! As for the 'resumption of tax collection on goods in the north' and so on... Taxes are collected. Anyway, we have no shortage of this money!"

The traversers are very rich. They already have money. After controlling several small worlds, their wealth has greatly increased. Now they don't have anything else, and they really don't lack gold, silver, and gems. Especially in the world of Vortex and Archipelago, more than one island has open-pit gold mines. Now, the only thing that limits their speed of making money is manpower - everyone feels that it is not worth wasting manpower for these things that can neither eat nor drink.

When they want to do business, they are not really greedy for the money they can make in business, but want to strengthen exchanges with other territories through business and trade means and promote their influence among the people.

For the traversers, every caravan that comes to the north is a potential propagandist about the prosperity and stability of the north; every businessman who goes out from the north is to expand the influence of propaganda in the north. messenger.

This is what they care about the most.

As for the question of money... they really don't care, it's just a big deal to give subsidies to the merchants in the north.

In fact, Locke had put forward such a suggestion at the beginning. He felt that there were too few businessmen coming to the north, and the propaganda force was not enough, so he planned to attract more businessmen by paying subsidies from his own pocket. But after discussion, his proposal was rejected. It's not that they are afraid of "shooting the first bird", but everyone thinks that this will easily cause trouble to those northern businessmen.

Travelers themselves are not afraid of trouble, but they are not willing to add trouble to their subordinates or friendly units.

Even if you don't get subsidies, you can solve problems slowly with time, and it's not worth causing trouble to others.

Locke was not an unreasonable person, and this matter was put on hold.

If it is true that the merchants in the north will be taxed by the lords along the way, then Locke's proposal will definitely be put forward again. This time, it probably won't be denied again.

Of course Panda knew these things, and he was the one who persuaded Locke in the first place. So he really didn't take the matter that the noble lords had to collect taxes on the caravans in the north to heart—the issue of money was nothing to worry about.

For the traversers, the only "money issue" worth caring about is probably a plan proposed by Liu Daoqing some time ago.

He planned to build a huge shrine on the outskirts of the "splendid New Island", the capital of the Kingdom of Ireland.

The main building of this temple is a four-sided pyramidal altar. The base is 9,999 feet long and 3,650 feet high. The top and bottom are divided into three layers. The first layer is various heroes and historical events. The second layer is the branch of the major churches, and the third layer is the top layer, which is purely paved with yellow stone, without any equipment, to symbolize the mighty yellow sky.

How much human and material resources will this huge altar consume? Anyway, Locke, who was dragged by Liu Daoqing to do a project estimate, was not optimistic about this. He said, "I am afraid that this project will not be completed until the generation of your grandson."

Liu Daoqing didn't care, he said that even if it took longer, it would be fine, just take it slowly.

These words naturally attracted a lot of criticism, such as "Wonders ruin your life", "Wonders attract thieves", "Wu that bird and fish dare to secretly create wonders", but Liu Daoqing also didn't care.

Anyway, he has already planned the place, and is currently leveling the land to prepare for the construction of the first floor.

Compared with the spectacle that Liu Daoqing was going to mobilize the whole country to build, what was the big deal that King Trera wanted to kill some nobles who were looking for trouble with his father?

A few days later, things happened as expected.

At the noble meeting, the king presented evidence that several small and medium nobles privately transported dangerous weapons such as heavy crossbows to the capital.

The nobles were horrified. Some people tried to persuade them, but they were stopped by their friends.

In the end, only Her Royal Highness Princess Feishna was the one who really spoke up.

Seeing the face of his sister, His Majesty the King spared the families of some nobles with relatively minor circumstances, but all the main culprits, as well as most of the family members of the nobles with serious circumstances, were finally sent to the guillotine.

At that time, Loma, who was eliminated because of his short stature, took Pret to visit from a distance in a hotel where he could see the execution ground. After watching for a long time, he shook his head and said, "You all say that Zion is cruel, but in fact Forget it--even if the whole family was on the street, he let go of a few of them. Those guys provoked the king and almost angered the old king to death. In the end, at least not a single account was killed, which should be considered a blessing. He is right!"

For this statement, Pratt can only smile bitterly.

"Yeah, after all, not a single account book died..."