God don't even try to stop me from doing infrastructure!

In the capital of the country, Kuri, the temple of Ishtar, the goddess of the night, the priestess poured ointment on the golden statue of the goddess.Balsam is olive oil soaked with various spices. Today's olive oil is difficult to extract, so it is very precious, and is generally only used to make balm.

She is one of the nine priests, the high priest of the Temple of the Goddess of the Night, the half-sister of King Taixi, and the mother of Menis, Elisa.

The temple of the Goddess of the Night is tall and gloomy, with tall pillars on both sides like majestic holy guards, only the grease lamps in the copper animal heads on both sides are on, and the flames dance in Elisa's eyes.

"Menes should be here soon."

Elisa muttered to herself: "He should bring him back, right? The real son of God who was imprisoned in the deep palace by the future king of the North Kingdom. The one who put the King of the North Kingdom on the throne brought the Supreme King to the North Kingdom." A man who was prosperous and powerful, but his glory was stolen by despicable counterfeiters, and disappeared into the darkness without a sound.

"The most mysterious teacher of the King of the North, Yun Ze."

Elisa smiled slightly when she thought of what the Evernight Goddess had guided her devout believers to see.

"The glory belongs to its true owner.

"Thieves of glory, your face must be covered with a filthy veil, the veil is full of curses that can take away souls, your body is full of blood-sucking insects, the female name is 'Teng', and the male name is 'Xun' , which produce a foul-smelling venom from their tails.

"Those who steal glory, you will eventually decay and die on the pillar of shame in history for thousands of years!"

"This is Curry, our capital," said Harry in front of the carriage with a strong sense of national pride: "The greatest city in the world. Behind it is the Holy Mountain, which provides us with clean and clear spring water. Irrigated our farmland and pastures, and raised us Taixi people. According to the will of the gods and the instructions of the sages, the great king found this place to build a city, and this is our Curry."

After a long journey, they finally arrived.

Although the journey was bumpy, Yunze didn't feel tired and was in good spirits.These days, he has been thinking about whether he wants to settle here, whether he can settle here.Menes meant to keep him, as a mystic.

Yunze is curious about the laws, local customs, and most important public security issues here.

For Yunze's question, Menis answered every question. Although the answer was subjective, from the current point of view, this should be a city suitable for living.

The laws of Taixi are very detailed, and it is regarded as benevolent among all countries. Many petty crimes that can be executed directly in other countries, such as theft and adultery, can be made up for in Taixi through money and labor.In addition, there are many protective laws against civilians, so in comparison, the civilians in Taixi also support this dynasty.

Taixi is a very interesting country. It is very strong and aggressive externally. If it is not happy, it will use the army to crush the other country.But once you become a Taixi person, you will immediately be protected by the law and feel the great benefits of being "Taixi's own people".

This is probably why Taixi has been fighting endlessly for years, but the country is still stable, and there is no reason for riots in the newly included land.

Secondly, Taixi has a relatively advanced political system. In addition to the royal family with the integration of theocracy and royal power, there is also a house of elders who can reject the king's unwise orders, which is jointly held by the old royal family of Taixi and several powerful officials.

The House of Elders usually does nothing, but if the king makes a wrong decision that endangers Taixi, they can unite and even depose the current king.

Finally, as the capital of an emerging empire with a powerful military, Curry's commerce is quite developed, and most things in this era can be bought on the market, even seafood.It only takes two months for those seafood to travel upstream through fishing boats to the library, and the dried seafood can be stored for a long time, so it can be brought over for sale.

Of course, what Yunze likes the most is Taixi's strength.Because it is powerful, there is no risk of war in the short term.The heirs of the royal family have also been determined early on. The two sons of the first princess have the highest inheritance rights. As long as the third and fourth princes are fine, the battle for the throne will not be particularly fierce.

But Menis didn't just talk about the good side of Taixi. He also told Yunze that there were some riots in the northwest of Taixi recently, because a group of thugs were gathering there to resist the rule of the royal family.But not long ago the eldest prince and the fourth prince went out to fight and basically suppressed the riot.

And all this is due to the decrease in food production and the lack of warm clothes in recent years.

"The past few years seem to be colder than before," Menis said.

"It will get better." Yun Ze said.Although it can't change the weather, he carries high-yield and cold-resistant food crops.

Curry looks like an endless line from a distance, but when he gets closer, he realizes that it is a towering city wall. The whole piece of polished stone is stacked to form a [-]-[-] meter high city wall. There are beautiful and detailed patterns on the stone. relief.

There is a Liao watchtower every [-] meters on the city wall. Soldiers can be seen faintly in the Liao watch tower. There are two rows of soldiers standing outside the Liao watch tower, each wearing bronze armor and holding bronze weapons.They let their short and medium hair loose, wore metal helmets, knee-length skirts, thick leather boots, and leather armor, looking dignified.

"This is Curry's south gate, the widest of the three passable gates."

The south gate is six to seven meters wide, and the arch is made of stones. I don't know what kind of structure it uses, but it is very stable.There are two big lions standing on both sides of the stone arch, one in a lurking shape and the other in a killing shape. It is a bit far-fetched to say that it is lifelike, but the stone lion more than ten meters high has precise shape, strong muscles, big mouth and fangs, and is fierce and majestic. for shock.

They didn't stop all the way, but dismounted at the gate of the city, and mounted again when they entered the city.Yunze had no other place to go, and he planned to see the great priest, so he stayed in the team and walked while looking around.

The entry of such a large group of people into the city did not cause any panic.Where they walked was a large open space, but there were some low-rise houses in the distance, and civilians in white clothes walked back and forth.The team kept going in, the road became wider and wider, and the houses around were getting bigger and better, and gradually two-story houses appeared.

There are many people in white robes walking on the road, which should be local residents.There are also some people wearing dyed robes and a lot of metal ornaments on their upper bodies. They should be rich merchants and nobles with more noble status, and they are accompanied by servants.

But there are more slaves wearing tattered cloth or simply hanging a piece of cloth around their waists, shivering in the cold wind, even if they don’t have brand marks, they can be known as slaves, because their expressions are numb and their skin is dark .

Menis introduced in a low voice: "Through the inner city, you can see the royal city, where there are royal palaces and shrines. We will stay in a courtyard outside the royal city in Sham, and I will take you to see my teacher."

There is no specific wall as a dividing line between the inner city and the outer city, but the two are clearly distinct.

The houses in the outer city are all built of low mud, and the area of ​​each house is not very large, the largest is five to six hundred square meters. But in the inner city, the houses are surrounded by stone walls. Less than the approximate size of the house, a wall is a kilometer long, and its specific area can be imagined.Through the wall, one can vaguely see a two- or three-story house inside, and there are people guarding it.

There are more and more people wearing embroidered and dyed gowns with patterns on the road. Although they only have the simplest decorative patterns, they often have some metal ornaments on their bodies, mostly bronze and silver, and occasionally gold ornaments and beautiful gemstones.

They sat in a carriage, surrounded by guards and maids, and behind them a group of barefoot slaves.

These are the local nobles, right?

The more you go here, the higher the terrain. When you reach the central area, it is already a highland that has been cut off from the mountain. From a distance, you can see a snow-white city built against the mountain. Facing the mountain, it is integrated, like a miniature The exquisite model has long stone pillars, rough sculptures, winding stairs, beautiful gardens, like a snow-white crown worn on the earth.

Menes said it was the palace.

There is also a landmark building not far away. It is a square building surrounded by stone pillars. There are two sesame figures on the side of each stone pillar. It looks like a small sesame from a distance. cage.It was probably a temple, after all, it looked quite big, and there were so many soldiers guarding it. Those soldiers were all wearing pointed metal helmets, which were easy to recognize.

"It's the prince's other courtyard."

The other courtyard of Prince Sham is not far outside the palace.

They stopped in front of the gate, and the guard captain and the guard who led the team led the team in after a brief negotiation.Prince Sham has been sitting in the carriage and has not appeared.

Bypassing the huge and well-manicured garden, through a stone-paved path until you reach a row of three-story ten-meter-high stone houses. Behind this house is a large building, which is said to be servants and slaves. living.It took them a whole few minutes for this process, which shows how big this house is.

The garden was several hundred acres in size. Besides the grassland, ponds and flower beds, there were also some animals, and there were even carnivorous leopards walking through it.

Behind the garden is a beautiful house like a modern villa, with beautiful hexagonal pillars, various stone carvings on the steps, walls, and doors, and some patterns are painted with paint on the surface of the house. A portrait of a person covered with gold leaf.

"Go to the temple now?" Yunze asked after tidying up his clothes a little and bringing gifts.

Meinis originally planned to wait for him to rest for a night before going, but since Yunze didn't feel tired, it was okay to go right away.

"Are you going now?" Prince Sham lamented, "Then I have no choice but to go to the palace to meet my father and mother. Otherwise, they will know that you have just come to see the high priest, and I will rest in another courtyard. Scold me badly."

Menis and Yunze left Prince Sham's other courtyard in a carriage and went to the temple.

There are three temples in Curry, the one that Menis is going to is the temple of the sun god, and the other two temples are in the other direction, the temples of the goddess of war and the goddess of night.

The row of stone pillars in the temple is made up of huge square stone blocks. According to visual inspection, each stone pillar is seventeen or eight meters long. It is the most majestic and tall building that Yunze has seen up close here. It is hard to imagine that such a behemoth would appear in this era.

This is a building made entirely of stone, with a height of five or six floors, and exquisite reliefs carved on the surface of the stone pillars, which seem to be some fairy tales.

Yunze wanted to take a closer look, but was pulled away by Meinis: "Next time, I will show you to take a closer look."

They entered through the gate of the temple, and the guards with weapons bowed to Menis one after another, and no one stopped and questioned Yunze, a stranger.It was the same with those people in white robes with some pens and parchment in their hands that they met inside the temple. When they saw Menes, they bowed their heads and called them my lord.

Yunze can be sure that Menis is a powerful and valued heir here, and his position is very stable.

"Where is the teacher?" Menis asked a young man with a turban on his head.

The other party glanced at Menis and Yunze with a complicated expression: "The teacher is already waiting for you in the side hall."

"Who else is there besides the teacher?" Menis asked again.

"There are priests from other temples, including your mother, Lady Elisa. The teacher told me to wait for you here. If you arrive, please take the honored guest to meet him immediately." The young man glanced at the 'honored guest', and then Can't help but take another look.

I didn't look carefully just now, he is really handsome, is this a distinguished guest?

"I'll go see the teacher right away." Meinis walked to Yunze's side, blocking the young man's sight, and said to Yunze, "Let's go together."