Gao Wunan's Legend of Wushuang

Three days later, a peace agreement between Xinyuri and the nine free trade federations was signed in the Dothraki Sea, a hundred miles away from Liberty Bay.

The two parties who signed the agreement were Brian, Minister of Sinyuri, and Ma Enli, the commander of the coalition forces and the son of the patriarch of the Gemeran family of Volantis.

This agreement stipulates:

[-]. The nine free trade city-states recognize Xinyuri's ownership of Astapor, Yunkai, and Meereen, and recognize the legitimacy and legitimacy of King Sauron's rule of the Free Bay (formerly Slave Bay) area.

Two, never violate the treaty.The nine free trade city-states and Xin Yuli agreed that the two sides shall not go to war at any time, any place, and for any reason.

[-]. Treaty on Mutual Assistance in Commerce and Trade.The two sides promised to allow trade, open ports for trade, allow legal businessmen to engage in legal business activities in each other's regions (excluding slave trade), and uniformly stipulate commercial taxes.

Fourth, the agreement on the right of the person of citizens.Except for objective factors such as crimes, the two parties shall not infringe on the personal safety of each other's citizens in any form, and the relevant judicial power shall belong to the place of origin.

[-]. Freedom of cultural exchanges between the two sides is allowed, and cultural dissemination must be obstructed in any form as a last resort.

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In this agreement, a total of five major treaties and [-] small clauses were signed in detail, and they were agreed on political, military, commercial, cultural, and humanistic aspects. Peace (a year later, war broke out again between the Free Trade City-State and Xinyuri), which was called the "First Free Trade Agreement" by later historians.

On the low mound, several knights stood on horseback, except for the leader, the rest were lined up one body behind.

Not far below them, an agreement related to the future situation in the Dothraki Sea was being signed.

"Kayo, why should we let them go, as long as it takes a while, we can keep them all." Doro finally couldn't help asking.

It was already obvious at this point in the war that the opponent was just a giant beast of empty size. Without any supplements, the final end was nothing more than biting and devouring bit by bit by the wolves.

"The opponent has 15 people. Even if we win, we will be seriously injured. This is not good for the newborn Xin Yuli. And victory is not only through war, sometimes other methods can achieve the goal." King Sauron's words conveyed to the generals In their ears, let them show a thoughtful expression.

"Let's go! This time is enough, next time, it won't be just like this..." Wang turned around, and the wind in the grassland blew the cloak behind him, raising it high, and his back under the sunlight was extremely stalwart.

The generals were silent. They pulled the reins and followed the king's footsteps, galloping wildly across the vast Dothraki Sea.

After more than a month of more than a dozen encounters, the coalition forces of the nine free trade city-states ended in an anticlimactic manner. Tens of thousands of people remained in the Dothraki Sea forever, and the supplies lost were countless. What was left to the people of the city-state was a humiliating so-called peace agreement and a brand new business environment.

Merchants from major free trade cities suddenly discovered that slaves were no longer the hottest commodity in Slave Bay. The hemp paper, spirits, dried meat, machetes, and woolen sweaters from Freedom Bay became the favorites of the people of the city-state. Horse-drawn carriages, crystal glass bottles of perfume, and magical breathable silk stockings have become the guests of dignitaries and giant businessmen, and a strong crossbow from Liberty Bay can often make a samurai spend all his money to buy.

Every day, countless merchant ships from major trading city-states come from afar. The captains of the merchant ships bring lace from Myr, crates of saffron from Yidi, amber and dragon crystal from Asshai, wine, zebra skin, Spices, a large amount of gold, and slaves are exchanged for the latest products of Freedom Bay. As long as they go back and forth, they can make huge profits several times that of the past. Merchants are almost madly chasing everything here.

Because of the activity of the caravans, the surrounding businesses prospered. Taverns, brothels, hotels, casinos, and weapons shops were successively built on the wharf.

The wharf area is a big market, which is bought and sold day and night. It sells goods from all over Dongdalu, but only through the official big market one league away from the wharf can you buy the latest Xinyuri products. The cost of accommodation is astonishingly expensive, but it still can't stop the desire of businessmen to take the lead.

Yellow-faced men hunched over like cattle. They carefully avoided the search of the port guards, using strange pronunciation of Valyrian and gestures to trade, selling court goods that were left in the market.The price is far cheaper than the official one, and of course nine out of ten are fakes.

In the tavern, merchants and sailors, mercenaries and farmers, dock workers and troubadours can often be seen drinking at the same table. While telling anecdotes about the major city-states, they are discussing what happened to the "Research Institute" New products, they discussed with such enthusiasm that the air seemed to be filled with the aroma of coins and food.

Here, ten gold marks can be exchanged for a bottle of hardcover perfume, which can be sold at a high price of twenty gold marks when brought to a city-state, but a slave blacksmith with blacksmithing skills may only be worth five gold marks in a free city-state, but can Here you can exchange for goods worth fifty gold marks.

This happened because of a decree issued by the great King Sauron that any trader who could send slaves with skills would be rewarded tenfold.

The merchants were crazy about this. They disregarded the governor's ban, bought all the high-level slaves they could buy by all means, and worked tirelessly to operate the merchant ships and send them to Xinyuli in Liberty Bay.

For the former slaves, Xinyuri gave them freedom, gave them a new identity and enough food for a month.Of course, after a month, they need to obtain food and wealth with their own hands.

Young children or old people (few slaves can live to old age) are different. They will be sent to special places to receive Xinyuri's education.

When such news came back, for the slaves who were still wearing shackles, Xinyuri was a legendary holy land. Every day, slaves tried to escape. Although most of them failed, it still made the slave owners feel extremely angry and panicked. , They cursed, threatened, and even killed, but they couldn't stop yearning for a free heart.

For this reason, the Free Trade City-State sent envoys to visit Xinyuri several times, asking King Sauron to take back his order, but the king refused every time, and even the envoys did not even see him in the end.

In addition to the king’s emphasis on technical talents, in his country, those with outstanding military strength and wisdom are equally respected. The arena left by the former slave owner lasted all night, and the citizens were extremely keen on the competition. Countless warriors from all over the world gathered here , they won honors and bounties through jousting.

King Sauron ordered the establishment of a Kingdom Library in each of the three city-states, which contained books from various city-states and different nations. Although the number was only a few hundred volumes, all of which were copied on hemp paper, the number of them was always at the same level. process of rapid growth.

At the same time, the king also issued a decree that any child over the age of four in the country must receive education until the age of ten, and all expenses during this period will be borne by Xinyuli.

Such a regulation was inconceivable at the time, and no unified dynasty could achieve it.

King Sauron relied on his supreme prestige to enforce this decree. The people of Xinyuli worshiped the king as a god, and they voluntarily sent their children to study. Anyway, there is no need to worry about food and drink, and the kingdom still has subsidies.

This time, even polymaths who have always felt that Wang's administration was harsh also sang praises.

"What a benevolent and far-sighted king!"

Chapter 36 The Faceless

The fog receded in front of him, and the bow of the ship divided the ragged gray curtain.Merchant ships cleave the gray-green water, their sails billowing like purple wings.

A row of rocky ridges rises abruptly from the sea. The steep slope is covered with soldier pine and black spruce, but there is a gap directly in front of it. There is a stone statue of a hundred-meter-high Titan standing here, with shining eyes, wearing a bronze battle skirt and Armor, a crowned half-helm on the head, green dyed hemp rope for the flowing hair, and two caves for the eyes, in which the fire burns.

This is Braavos, the northwesternmost city-state of Essos, a chain of islands where the Narrow Sea and the Shivering Sea meet.

The visitors did not appreciate this miracle much. They passed by the isthmus below. The double-layer paddles paddled steadily, and the sea water was stirred into white foam. After passing through a vast turquoise water, the urban area stood in the middle of the water. , with magnificent vaults, towers and bridges stretching in all directions, in grey, gold and red.

The merchant ship passed quickly like a silent ghost, and a small boat was lowered from above. With the sliding of the oars, the merchant ship became smaller and smaller, and the city became larger and larger.

At the entrance was a port, a motley crowd of quays and dockyards, not only the pot-bellied whalers from Ibben, the swan-boats from the Summer Isles, and many native galleys.

Across the harbour, the gray stone houses lined the streets, and the houses were built very close together, leaning on each other.Tall and burly stone statues are lined up on both sides. They look solemn and wear brass robes, which are speckled with seabird droppings.Some stone statues hold books, some hold daggers, and some hold hammers.One of them held aloft a star made of gold, and the other tipped down the stone flagon so that the water would flow continuously into the aqueduct.

They went on, past the Temple of the Moonsinger, the Temple of the Light of Light, and the sanctuaries of many a lesser forgotten god, and at last they came to a small rocky hill.

At the top of the hill was a windowless temple of dark gray stone, with rock steps leading from the doorway to the covered pier below.

Go up to the top, and in front of you are a pair of carved wooden doors twelve feet high, the left one made of weirwood white as bone, the right one of ebony with a faint glow.There was a moon carved in between the two doors, but the weirwood had ebony inlay and the ebony had weirwood inlay.

The visitor knocked on the wooden door with the hilt of his sword, making a dull low sound, "The promised ones come, and everyone is mortal."

The door opens from the inside.

Inside the temple is a wide hall, a few candles burn along the wall, emitting a faint light, and occasionally people pass by in the temple, their faces are expressionless, their steps are light, they whisper to each other and whisper.

In the center is a pool ten feet in diameter, which is as black as ink under the dim light of red candles.

A group of old women knelt in front of the pool. They murmured prayers, scooped up the water from the pool with stones, drank it calmly, and then walked into the nearby hole.

Those who come know that the old man will soon return to the arms of the god of death.

Sitting by the pool was a tall man wearing a hood. He was wearing a robe with the right half black and the left half white. His face could not be seen clearly, only the slightly reddish candlelight under the hood.

The visitor straightened his chest and saluted with his right hand, "Your Excellency, I am here at the command of my master to seek the favor of the God of Thousand Faces."

"This is the resting place." Under the hood was a man's voice, his tone was gentle, "God's favor is only given to those whose destiny comes."

"My lord wishes his enemies to return to the arms of the Many-Faced God."

"In Braavos, people worship whatever god they please...but every road ends with the God of Many Faces. Just be patient, and your enemies will die."

The visitor was impatient with the fabled words, "Life is valuable, and my master is willing to pay the price for it, taking that man's life as a sacrifice to the God of Many Faces."

The hooded man was silent for a moment, then he asked, "That person's name."

"King Sauron of Freedom Bay."

The surroundings seem to calm down suddenly, only the sound of the flames burning on the torch is "crackling", and there seems to be something indescribable whispering in the shadows, coming and leaving suddenly in this world.

The visitor shook his body, and he suddenly felt that the air around him seemed to become colder than before, and the sticky dampness lingered around him, penetrating into the bone marrow.

Silence, this time the silence was longer, so long that the visitor could hardly feel the passage of time, but he seemed to hear an answer, but also seemed to hear nothing.

It was a murmured whisper, and it seemed to be some kind of prayer, "That is a realm that is untouchable by mortals. It is the immortal, the transcendent, and the life-breaker. Thousands of people shed blood and tears, and the realm of the dead is desecrated. Death is no longer the end."

"You..." The visitor took a step forward hesitantly, and he suddenly asked. There was an almond-like fragrance in the air.

The visitor felt a splitting headache, as if someone had hit him on the head with a hammer, and the pain was so severe that he yelled, "Shut up!"

With a sound of "clang", the well-maintained long sword was pulled out by him, and he stabbed out with the sword, the sword body went straight into the robe under the hood, but there was no blood or the feeling of piercing into the flesh, and there was a "tear" The robe was torn, and a yellowed skeleton spilled from it.

"Everyone is mortal." The skull was facing the direction of the person, and the mouth opened and closed to make a dry and hoarse sound, and a white worm writhed out from the empty eye socket.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..." The long sword fell to the ground, and the visitor choked his throat suddenly. White foam kept gushing from the corners of his mouth, blue veins popped out, and his face showed the same purple color as crystals. The fire of life keeps decaying until it goes out.

Heavy objects fall to the ground.

"He heard things he shouldn't have heard..."

"Death is a merciful release..."

"Everyone is mortal..."

"Everyone needs to serve..."

One after another, figures came out of the shadows. They wore black and white robes, their faces were hidden in the hoods, their footsteps were silent, and the shadows followed them. The only light source in the field was a candle in their hands.

"Mistakes must be corrected..."

"The domain of the God of Many Faces should not be desecrated..."

"The price has been charged..."

"The nameless man must obey the will of the God of Many Faces..."

As the candlelight was extinguished bit by bit, the shadow turned into quicksand and disappeared from the spot, and the field returned to calm again, leaving only a pool and the corpse beside the pool.

The clothes on the surface of the corpse were all elegant, revealing a white skeleton with crystal-like purple on it, as if it had been dead for a long time, beside his hand was a rusted long sword.

"Valar Morghulis" (Mortal Mortal)...

"Valar Dohaeris" (Mortals Must Serve)...

Chapter 37

Meereen, once the northernmost city-state of Slaver's Bay, stands on the banks of the Skahadhan River and is famous for its slave trade.

To the east of Meereen was a series of hills, and beyond that was a mountain range of sandstone.To reach Raza, one must pass through the Kaiser Pass.

After King Sauron came to the Dorask Sea, all the Lazarin people fell under the protection of the king, and Razar became the place where he started. The Kesai Pass reached the city of Meereen and conquered it in one fell swoop.

The city wall of Meereen was made of bricks, and was mostly damaged during the last conquest campaign. Although it has been repaired afterward, damage marks and dark red blood spots can still be seen on the wall.

The bones of the great lord had been removed from the city wall long ago, and in fact they were only white bones left over from the leftovers eaten by birds and beasts. They were no longer buried in the cellar according to the tradition of the Ghis people, because their Most of the family members joined the realm of the dead, so they were burned intensively.

Except for the tallest pyramid, the twenty smaller pyramids in the city were all demolished. These were once the residences of the wealthiest people in Meereen, and they were all crushed with the footsteps of King Sauron's conquest.

Some of the women who narrowly escaped were thrown out of the pyramids because their families had participated in the rebellion, they were not allowed to carry any property, and they were moved to slums they used to not even look at

, earn a living by themselves.

Every day, there is an endless stream of people coming here, groans and shouts of resentment reverberate in the alleyway, like the curse of a resentful woman who is dying.

The largest pyramid has been transformed into a scenic spot for tourists to visit. You only need one silver coin to visit the luxurious bedroom of the great master for a whole day. This has attracted the attention of many curious people, and you can get ten coins of gold marks every day. , was used in the repair of the city.

There were also several wise families who were pardoned by King Sauron. They bowed their noble knees, accepted the king's rule, and assisted King Sauron in ruling the city.