Infrastructure Throne

Shen Qingze's ingenious "blessing words" immersed everyone in the square in a relaxed and joyful atmosphere.

No matter how envious and jealous the messengers in the VIP area were, they couldn't say any sarcasm at this moment. The facts were in front of them, and they could only remain silent.

After intuitively feeling the strong rise of Yuanliu City, the sense of urgency lingering in Tia's heart became heavier, and he doubted more and more whether he could pry Shen Qingze's corner, what can Pearl City give him?

On the contrary, Shelley benefited a lot from tonight's exhibition. He has already decided that no matter what, he must persuade Shen Qingze to let the Blue Sky Merchant Alliance open a branch in Yuanliu City, and even allow Yuanliu Ginza to settle in the Blue Sky King City.

Hearing this, the elven girl beside him opened her mouth wide, her face full of surprise. Azure King City has never allowed companies from other countries to enter, let alone the Northland, which is not a shit.

The girl pouted: "Master Shelley, there are few villains in Yuanliu City, and the population of Bikong King City is five times that of this place. This kind of exchange is unfair. Wouldn't Yuanliu City take advantage of it?"

Shelley shook his head slightly, and his eyes fell on the lamp post under the booth. Interestingly, there were not only lighting lamps on the lamp post, but also advertisement posters hanging on both sides.

He secretly observed these details and smiled: "If you want the ethnic group to prosper for generations, you can't just focus on the immediate interests. Our focus should be on the future."

On the other side of the VIP area, Fang Yu felt like he was sitting on pins and needles amidst the lively cheers around him.

It was a pair of grandparents and grandchildren who came to the stage to present the tribute. In order to avoid being abrupt and arousing Shen Qingze's suspicion, Fang Yu specially ordered someone to decorate the forbidden magic bracelet with flowers, and paired it with a wreath made of flowers and branches. , together in front of Shen Qingze.

The grandparents and grandchildren were homeless beggars that Fang Yu found from outside the city, and after giving them a few bites of food, Fang Yu was grateful and expressed his willingness to do anything, not to mention such an honorable thing as offering tribute to the chief priest.

Because of this awe and ignorance, when the grandparents and grandchildren came to the stage tremblingly carrying a tray containing wreaths and garlands, none of the audience noticed that there was anything wrong.

Fang Yu stared at the footsteps of the grandfather and grandson, watching them step up the steps step by step.

Shen Qingze was dressed in a plain white sacrificial robe, standing tall at the top of the booth, with deep eyes, taking the entire square into his eyes.

The tray finally appeared in front of Shen Qingze, Fang Yu winked to the left and right, and Nei Ying, who had already been placed under the stage, started booing with the crowd, hoping that the officiant would wear the gifts presented to him by the people and accept everyone's wishes.

The voices from the audience became louder and louder, and people who didn't know the truth began to join in the fun.

Shen Qingze seemed to be persuaded by everyone, and slowly walked down the high platform, and came to the grandparents and grandchildren, first took a sip of the fine wine in the ritual vessel, then picked up the garlands and bracelets in the tray, and put them on one by one. .

The structure of the anti-magic bracelet is very unique. On the surface, it looks like a pair of ordinary buckle bracelets, with exquisite patterns carved on it.Once worn, it must be opened with a special key.

When most people were relaxing and celebrating, Yan Zui and Fang Yu on the stage, Xiao Meng in the audience, and the killer in the dark all focused on Shen Qingze's movement of wearing the bracelet.

The killer held the barrel of the gun tightly with both hands, and a piece of cold sweat leaked from his palms. He didn't dare to breathe, and kept swallowing to relieve his anxiety.

He was a child of a poor family. When he was a child, his family could not support him, so he had no choice but to sell him to the nobles. Later, because of his strong physique, he became the personal guard of the city lord of Nanji.

He was instilled with the concept of hierarchy since he was a child, and he devoted himself to serving the city lord.After he was no longer suffering from food and clothing, he secretly returned home to visit his family, but the poor family had already been crushed by heavy taxes.

He tried to ask the city lord for help, but all he got was a whip.The guard commander told him that he was too greedy and should not do anything other than his duty.

After Nanji City was annexed, he lost the object of allegiance. As a personal guard, he seemed to have lost the meaning of existence, until some noble servants found him and asked him to stand up to repay the kindness of the city lord and avenge him.

The killer agreed without even thinking about it, even though the end result is likely to be death, he thought, this is probably his duty.

It was obviously a critical moment when he should concentrate, but he thought of another thing for no reason.

It was the autumn harvest festival in Nanji City. The sallow and emaciated farmers pushed the largest and most plentiful crops in their fields to the altar one by one and dedicated them to the nobles in the city.

But they don't bother to eat these rough foods at all, even though so many vegetables and fruits are rotten in the warehouse, they will not distribute even a little bit to the poor who are about to starve to death.

Now he is crouching in the cold cargo box, holding a firearm exclusively produced in Yuanliu City, and hearing the joyful cries of ordinary people, what he sees is a bustling city, people living in peace, and nobles The figure is much less.

The killer was illiterate and couldn't understand what was written in the bar chart on the canvas, but he could hear the sincere gratitude and joy from the laughter and applause of the people.

What is wrong with this world?Is this Priest of Abyss City really a bad guy?

On the booth, Shen Qingze had already put on the anti-magic bracelet, and all the plans went smoothly beyond imagination. He should have lost his strength at this time, even if it was temporary, like an ordinary person who has no power to resist. A lead bullet is enough to kill the opponent.

The killer stared blankly at Shen Qingze, put his finger on the trigger of the matchlock gun, and raised it tremblingly——

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Not far from the Exchange Square in the east of the city, there is an old shop. It used to be a blacksmith shop. The owner has changed round after round. The secret underground room under the courtyard has always been preserved.

Since Earl Yan En and other nobles fell one after another, the remaining nobles walked on eggshells all day under the coercion of Shen Qingze and Yan Zui.

The former luxurious and decent life is gone forever, deprived of the glamorous shell of privilege, and become like ordinary civilians, life is becoming more and more unbearable.

Nanji City and Beiji City were annexed one after another, Shen Qingze did not kill all the remaining nobles in line with the idea of ​​making the best use of everything.

Some enlightened elements among them gradually accepted the status quo and lived the lives of ordinary people, even more nourishing than ordinary people.

A small number of diehards still live in the past, and cannot bear to be oppressed by Shen Qingze.

They connected together in private, tried every means to get rid of Shen Qingze, turn over from the bottom, and regain their former glory.

However, Shen Qingze's strength is too strong, let alone Yan Zui, who controls the guards.

Ever since Yan Zui revealed his intention to eradicate Shen Qingze, the diehard nobles were ecstatic.They seized the opportunity and launched the autumn harvest festival assassination recklessly.

If this good opportunity is missed, they will have to wait for the next time, and they don't want to endure it any longer.

Tonight is probably the closest they are to success.

In the dark secret room, everyone sat around the stone table.

What they wore was no longer gorgeous and expensive silk and brocade robes, but cotton and linen clothes of ordinary people, and the tea on the table was nothing more than ordinary goods.

"Tonight, the one surnamed Shen will definitely die!" One of them said bitterly, "A mere humble blacksmith is worthy of riding on our heads?"

"He is simply a robber. Why should we confiscate the land that our ancestors worked so hard to confiscate? And give it to those mud legs!"

"And what about the bureaucrat exam, which makes craftsmen, farmers, and businessmen compete with us on an equal footing? It's ridiculous! Isn't he afraid to spread the word and make people laugh?"

"No matter how strong you are, don't you want to die under the weapon you invented?"

"The downfall of the surname Shen, all the wealth he saved will go back to our nobles. Speaking of which, we should thank him for making wedding dresses for us!"

All the nobles raised their glasses as if they had heard some joke, replaced the wine with tea, and laughed at each other.

Suddenly, the stone door of the secret room was blasted open by something!

The splashed gravel mixed with the choking plaster filled the stone room crazily. The nobles suddenly changed color and jumped up from their seats.

However, it was too late, the door of the secret room was tightly surrounded by a guard, and the muzzle of the black hole was aimed at the nobles. If there was any movement, the volley of lead bullets could shoot them into a sieve!

The faces of the nobles were pale and their lips were trembling: "You... how dare you trespass into a private house! Do you know who we are?"

With their last hope in mind, they shouted fiercely, "We have a deal with the city lord! The city lord wants to cross the river and demolish the bridge. Tonight, everyone will know about his plot to murder the chief priest!"

The leading guard sneered disdainfully: "My lord and the chief priest are doing well! You are the ones who murdered the chief priest!"

A wave of fooled anger rushed straight to Tianling Gai, and the nobles yelled out of composure: "We are sitting here, why did we murder the priest? Are you arresting the nobles without evidence?"

The guard couldn't help but rolled his eyes: "Evidence? Evidence is on the way."

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Exhibition Square.

Fang Yu's expected gunshots never sounded.

He looked around anxiously, and in his heart scolded the guy who did the assassination bloody.

Why didn't you shoot!Put on the bracelets, if you drag them on, what if Shen Qingze finds out!

He stole a glance in the direction of Yan Zui, who was still sitting calmly on the high-back chair, showing no signs of irritation or impatience.

Just at this time, there was a sudden commotion outside the square.

what happened? !Fang Yu's heart tightened, and he suddenly turned around, only to see the brigade of fire commanders trotting towards the booth along the left and right entrances, and the guards had already blocked all the surrounding arteries.

Fang Yu was a little dazed, could it be that the assassination failed, and the city lord was going to be tough?

Just when he was wondering and apprehensive, one of the fire commanders came towards him!

Seeing that the Huo Commander was getting closer, Fang Yu's expression changed drastically, and he couldn't bear it any longer. He got up from his seat and wanted to slip away from the crowd, but he was so pampered and pampered by the young master, how could he be an opponent of the guards?

In two or three strokes, the guards caught up and held him down, and pushed him in front of Yan Zui and Shen Qingze.

The autumn festival was full of accidents, and people inside and outside the square didn't understand what happened, and there were discussions one after another.

In the VIP area, envoys and nobles from all over the world looked at each other in blank dismay. Some people even mistakenly thought that Yuanliu City was going to wipe them all out and take the opportunity to dominate the Northland!

Everyone was scared for a while.

"Are you crazy? How dare you catch me!" Fang Yu struggled with his neck stuck, his veins showing, "Master City Lord, you want to make the decision for me!"

Shen Qingze looked down at him, and said lightly: "You still don't give up?"

He nodded to Jin Da, who immediately greeted the guards and brought up the assassin who attempted to assassinate the priest, as well as the confiscated matchlock gun.

The man knelt down in front of everyone silently, but his expression was very calm, as if he had been relieved. He didn't fire the lead bullet from the beginning to the end.

It wasn't until this moment that Fang Yu really panicked. He knelt on the ground excitedly, his voice trembling: "My lord, I don't know this person! What he wants has nothing to do with me."

"Oh?" Jin Da looked at him sarcastically, "Then what about the grandparents? They admitted that you found them, and you prepared the gift for the priest."

Shen Qingze walked in front of him slowly, and looked down at him: "Your plot to assassinate me has been revealed, and everyone has stolen money, do you still want to argue?"

Fang Yu gritted his teeth, and looked at him with knife-like eyes from bottom to top, only to see that the other party was still wearing the magic-forbidden bracelets on his wrists!

Fang Yu knew that any more excuses at this time would be useless, only by really getting rid of Shen Qingze, would there be a glimmer of hope for turning things around!

Behind him stood the Fang family, and there were so many nobles who secretly supported him!

Fang Yu, who was looking for life in a desperate situation, suddenly burst out with courage that he had never had in his life. He broke free from the guards on the left and right with all his strength, and casually pulled out the sword from the waist of one of them, and stabbed at Shen Qingze who was close at hand. past--

In a trance, Fang Yu seemed to hear a "tsk", full of regret and pity.

"Resist the halo."

Then he flew—

With a bang, Fang Yu lay on his back in a big shape, all the bones in his body fell apart, he was so dizzy that he barely supported his upper body, stared at Shen Qingze in disbelief, his whole body almost collapsed:

"You... how do you still have strength?!"

"Are you talking about this?" A deep and lazy voice sounded at the right time.

Fang Yu turned his head with difficulty, only to see that Yan Zui Shi Shiran took out a pair of dark gold bracelets from his bosom, which was exactly the same as the one on Shen Qingze's wrist!

cheated!They turned out to be a gang!

Fang Yu's eyes turned dizzy for a while, and he shouted hysterically at Yanzui: "Are you crazy? Shen Qingze's prestige is already greater than that of you, the city lord, and you still want to defend him?"

"He is not a nobleman at all, how could he have one heart with us? Our Fang family and the nobles are really on your side!"

"Just wait and see, Yan Zui! Sooner or later, you will regret your stupid choice today!"

Fang Yu desperately exposed the "rift" between the city lord and the priest to everyone.

At the VIP table, Tia, Shelley and other guests had already understood that Yuanliu City's move was not aimed at them, but to arrest the rebels.

Fang Yu's last "truth" made Tia and Shelley's eyes shine. Is the "contradictory" between Yan Zui and Shen Qingze finally coming to the surface?

The envoys from all the cities were secretly delighted to see a good show. It turns out that a city as strong as Yuanliu also has a weakness, and this weakness is quite fatal.

The people in the audience have already begun to become confused, and the buzzing voice spread uncontrollably.

Yan Zui's face darkened, he didn't stop Fang Yu's mouth immediately, it was really a mistake, he should have just dragged him away or killed him with a sword!

According to Yan Zui's heart, he wanted to disclose his lover relationship with Shen Qingze a long time ago, wishing that the whole world would know that he was his!

But since the two of them lead Yuanliu City, they must be cautious in every word and deed. If Shen Qingze is concerned about fame and is unwilling to make it public for the time being, Yan Zui can endure it and continue to be a pair of underground lovers.

Yan Zui pursed her lips, and secretly aimed at Shen Qingze, but unexpectedly met the other's gaze.

Shen Qingze's eyes were calm, tolerant, and even faintly encouraging.

Yan Zui's heart skipped a beat, and he couldn't help mentioning a little bit of secret joy and anticipation... Was that what he understood?

Before Yan Zui could make a move, Shen Qingze grabbed his waist first, his arms were steady and powerful, and the movement of wrapping them into his arms was undeniable and arbitrary.

In Yan Zui's widened pupils, Shen Qingze's face enlarged little by little——

An extremely pure kiss fell on his brow lightly like a feather.

The square shrouded in night fell into a dead silence in an instant, and there was no sound!

On and off the stage, from nobles to civilians, from traitors to soldiers, everyone present seemed to be covered in plaster, stiff as a sculpture, and there was no other expression except stunned.