Take Taobao with you to another world

"How?" asked the mercenary captain.

"Carl," said his friend, "this requires a real partnership between us. You have no problem. Are your partners thinking about it?"

Carl laughed, "We are ungrateful people, as long as we are paid enough, we will do anything. Now who can give us more benefits than you?"

"Carl." His stranger friend looked at him seriously.

The head of the mercenary group spread his hands, "I know what you want to say, Yang, just looking at these few days, of course it is more beneficial to betray you." He said sarcastically, "Even if I picked off a few heads to I want to express my sincerity to you, but if I can give you some good looks from the inside, such as setting a fire, poisoning, or kidnapping one or two important people, and causing you some big and small troubles, the king and those noble lords may be able to Forgive me for my petty sins, for they are so eager to win every bit of you. Stepping on the corpses of strangers, my mercenary company will get a lot of money, and I don't know what kind of knight I can get. Identity—but I’m alive today because I’m afraid of death enough.”

Carl sat at the end of the long table watching the friend.

"If my mercenary group really did this, your morality will not allow you to torture us, it will definitely make us die very quickly, right?"

His friend smiled.

"Although it is inevitable that people will die, if you have wine today, you will be drunk today..." Carl also laughed, "But after getting to know you allies, I found that I can see many interesting things happen if you keep working here, some even I have never imagined it, but I am extremely looking forward to it. For example, will you kill the king and nobles of Orbis?"

"Kings and nobles are necessary now," said his friend flatly.

"But you don't need to," Carl said.

His friend doesn't speak.

"Yan, you not only don't need it yourself." Carl said, "You want to make others not need it."

He propped his chin and looked at the stranger.

"You make men self-reliant, you protect women, you take in children, beggars, old people, and homeless; you manage streets, build cities, and cultivate land; you cure diseases, supply food, and educate fools. These are what rulers do It is also something that only rulers can do. But you arrogant strangers, without the order of the king or the instruction of the nobles, just bypass them and do what they should do. Everything that's ever been done is lumped together..." He said maliciously, "Oh, my God, they're a bunch of noble bastards."

"Even the mice want to know when you want to change the dynasty," he said.

"We don't have that plan," Young said. "We haven't gotten to this point in our work plan."

"As long as the king and the nobles are not unconscious corpses, they can see and hear that the foundation of power is being hollowed out by you. It is not just their status that is at stake." Karl said, "You plan to spend five years rectifying and rehabilitating Songgang Wharf, building the new city into something called a 'free trade zone', turning this city within a city into a new trade center, no ambitious person can be more daring than you, but in You here, this is just the beginning. Half of the five years have not yet arrived, and you have already turned Fusong Port upside down. Next, you will not only let this free trade zone accommodate tens of thousands of new people, but also produce to feed such food for many who will be subject to your rule, who will speak your language, learn your mind, and use your laws...this is a kingdom within a kingdom."

He got down from the table and walked slowly across from his foreigner friend.

"No ruler can tolerate this, no matter how much tax you pay." He spread his arms and leaned on the table, "Besides, we all know that you don't care much about money, and those clanging precious metals are just the raw materials for your production." Partly, the goods you produce are your real currency. So even if all the trade proceeds are handed over, your foundation cannot be shaken, and it is impossible to satisfy the king and nobles. As long as they see this city-in-a-city country, they will know that they have not received real wealth, which you will not give to you strangers, no matter how much they ask for it. And the more these fearful people claim from you, the more they hate you, and they live in this country People are more and more connected with you. They have felt that the presence of kings and nobles is not necessary for them, because of your presence, they are more and more like a group of blood-sucking moths. Besides, you are choosing among them those who are most loyal to you. Instill the will into their minds. Oh, the most important thing is not to forget that you have a stronger armed force than the Mage Alliance, and no external force can destroy you."

"The people need to be ruled. Who do they want to protect their lives so that they can live in peace?" Karl said. "You see, they have answered."

This answer is revealed in the bright lights of the new city, and it is also settled in the anxious longing of the people in the containment area separated by a wall.

Whispers buzzed into the hut from all corners of the containment area, "Carl," his friend called his name for the third time, "you're a very, very intelligent man who can see things connection. So, what do you think we'll do?"

"Isn't what I can see all what you show me? As long as you achieve your own goals, you don't care about the king and nobles, and you don't care about punters like us." The mercenary captain said, "There is no need to slaughter extinct The method is to replace the flesh and blood of a country, and to change the belief. I heard that the women in the women's labor camp have already wanted to abandon the names from the past, so maybe the language and surnames are also uncertain... and it may not take ten years for you to complete all this, What strength and will! Who can stop you unless you stop yourself? Do you still ask me what I think, Jan?"

His friend put his head down and thought for a moment.

"...To be honest, we didn't think about what we are today at the beginning." He said, "At least when I first set foot on this land, I didn't know that our day-to-day work could bear such fruits."

The mercenary captain slowly straightened up and looked at him with a subtle expression. "You haven't thought about it—this sentence is simply a lie. Do you mean that you have been concealed? Bewitched? Or manipulated by some evil force?"

"Because we are friends, I can tolerate your doubts for now, but I will only say this once, Carl - was never deceived, and was never bewitched, we knew what we were doing, before we decided our purpose,' He's told us almost all the consequences." Yang said, "He also gave us other options, after all, this place is so far away from our homeland, and the Orbis people are not friendly, we don't have to stay."

Carl was speechless for a moment, of course he knew who that "he" was, and he also knew the status of "him" in the hearts of foreigners, "But you stayed."

"Everything must be done from the beginning to the end, and Fusong Port is indeed a good deep-water port." Yang said.

"It's hard to imagine... those nobles can be so stupid." Karl murmured, "They should have noticed your ambitions long ago, but not long ago they still thought that what you were after was only wealth."

"We don't have the same idea as theirs about what wealth is," Young said, "and, Carl, do you agree with the others? monster?"

The mercenary captain blinked, "...you do seem to be smarter than most people, but you are not monsters."

It's just that his team members would mutter occasionally, did these strangers have invisible heads and hands and feet, or how could they do so many things?

"Yet years ago, before 'the One' came to us, we were either tribesmen in the hills, or slaves like cattle. That's what we are all about, and that's why we can't be with the lords. Eat on one plate." Yang said, "He came to us and saved us, not only gave us shelter, what we did in Fusong Port was exactly what he did for us, but with less heart In case, let alone our vulgar and shallow wisdom."

Yang put down his pen.

"We seem to be able to handle anything, first of all with the City of Industry behind us, the source of all our wealth and strength," he said, "and second of all, we know this port, this city, this country perhaps better than we do. More than anyone. Carl, you've seen those reading rooms, did you know that we wrote enough papers to fill a room in the first year since we got to Orbis? We see with our eyes, we hear with our ears, we use Measured with both feet, of course—”

Yang smiled again, "Now it seems that we have ulterior motives and planned it for a long time, but if we don't always guard against the worst malice of others, we can't sit here and talk like this today. This world is full of cruel struggles and all kinds of conflicts. There is an unknown danger, our voyage must not only overcome the natural dangers, but also face the dangers of the human heart, we have to be careful..."

"Where are you being careful?" Karl asked sincerely.

Should we carefully bombard the palace and turn the king and nobles into frightened birds, or should we carefully turn Fusong Port into a pocket, empty the royal power, trample on the dignity of the nobles, intercept their authority, and attract the coalition forces to march, and then continue cautiously? Pour a letter of persuasion on the head of the inviolable mage alliance?

"...All in all, we try our best to prevent all possible crises with cautious, careful, suspicious work." Young insisted, "It can be said that at the beginning, the purpose of all our work was to make everyone To be able to return safely and smoothly is also what he expects of us."

Karl asked: "Since Orbis is so far away from your homeland, and the residents here are also ignorant, greedy and vicious, why do you come here again and again?"

Jan looked up at him.

"Because we leave home with courage and confidence, we should not just come as a traveler. He has given us so much and such comprehensive protection, we should also bring him some gifts."

Jan paused again.

What gift did they bring to the sorcerer?

They brought a lot of things, books, maps, seeds, herbarium, hydrographic records... and people.

The magician picked up the child, stared at her with his black eyes, and said softly, "It's still so young..."

Do these young men on the voyage sympathize with this child who was almost used as food?Of course they were sympathetic, so they took her, and a few others.

But the feeling of "pity" alone is not enough to determine their subsequent actions.

Before the start of the second voyage, the warlock had additional conversations with the young men outside the regular meeting.

They are powerful. After these young people returned from a long voyage, they became more and more aware of the fundamental gap between the industrial city and other countries and regions, and they felt the power they possessed from another angle.They have knowledge and weapons, are used to and are good at cooperation, have tacit companions, and enough supplies, they can do more than they imagined, and because they are alone, they don't have to report everything to Industrial City, be able to act autonomously after the approval of the internal meeting.This means that unless they are strictly controlled and draw an insurmountable bottom line of principles, they will inevitably do some "unreasonable" and "shocking" things actively or passively.

The carefree young people behind are eager for challenges and eager to change the world with their own hands.

The conflict between them and local traditional forces is inevitable, because it is difficult for anyone to refuse the benefits brought by "foreigners", and some people will inevitably lose their own interests because of foreigners.These contradictions are not irreconcilable, as long as these "foreigners" are willing to change a submissive posture, and give generously to the nobles and kings as they treat the poor, as long as they loosen their hands and let those who have suffered because of them gain Ten times or a hundred times the return, at least...they won't make enemies on all sides like today.

But unfortunately, there was no such assumption from the beginning.

The magician said to these young people: "We are going to take the road that looks more difficult."

Wherever he points, believers are willing to go through fire and water.What's more, this road is what they expected?

"We care little for enmity, and those enemies cannot hinder our progress. For the more they strive to maintain their rule, the more they lose their power; into the arms of outsiders; the more stupid, short-sighted, and restless they are, the better for us and the faster our work goes—this is the fate they have chosen for themselves.” Young said, “We will not change direction."

Carl looked at him, and after a long time, he said: "As long as you can do half of what you said, my partner and I are willing to bet our lives."

The night of floating people's hearts passed, and the dawn came again.The morning sun lights up the hill, the gentle wind blows the fluffy green grass, the elf leans on the rock, a shrub protrudes from the crack of the rock, the green round leaves are like a wreath dotting his long hair, his bright green eyes watch Looking into the distance, said softly:

"coming."

A wriggling army snakes its way along the road.

The warning did not stop the determination of the mage, on the contrary, the offense of the stranger aroused their great anger.Since the establishment of the Mage Alliance, it has been like this army that has traveled all the way, pointing at the staff, and everyone is trembling and frightened, not daring to fight against it. Such outsiders dare to trample under their feet the supreme dignity of the gifted!In the valley that day, the rumbling bombardment that fell on the heads of the mages was like a loud slap in the face, not to mention the humiliation shown in the persuasion letter, and they demanded equality from the strangers through the incompetent king of Orbis The justice of the duel, in this short journey of a few days, they really didn't have any ambushes and spying——

What arrogance!

The Mage Alliance has never been underestimated like this. They have to teach these arrogant outsiders some painful lessons. They cannot allow foreigners to gain a foothold in any of the five regions and ten countries, and this alliance cannot take a step back. Mortal lives have to be drained properly, otherwise it is not good for the mage union to cover up their failures - cover up that they chose the wrong enemy, twisted many warning signs, but still hoped that the opponent was a mindless savage People will offer them victory with both hands.

The most powerful of them stared ahead as if seeing something more terrible than failure lurking in the harbor behind the hills.

But the three mages were so powerful, and the people around them believed in their strength like life-saving grass. Until they were welcomed into the palace on the hill, they still kept their lips tightly shut, and no one uttered a word of frustration.Then, surrounded by the king and many nobles, they looked down at the city walled by foreigners and the white ship in the distance.

"..."

They were surprised at first, and after releasing a few detection spells and receiving a response, the ever-changing expressions of the three archmages finally turned gloomy.

Even if the coalition forces approached and started a battle on the hillside behind them, those arrogant heretics did not make a gesture of confrontation.In Yuanwang technique, the checkerboard-like city is only surrounded by a thin and low wooden wall, the avenues are solid, the land is flat and orderly, and the crops are lush and prosperous. It is a well-managed but weakly guarded The manor - alone and untouched.On the four sentry towers, you can see watchmen with their backs facing each other. They look vigilant, but they have no spears or swords in their hands. It can be seen that sporadic figures flashed by, but the straight back and strong steps did not seem to be fleeing.No matter how concentrating the Archmage was on it, he couldn't feel the large crowd gathered in it, and he couldn't even sense the tension that should be felt when a large spell is triggered or not.

The Walled City is adjacent to a dirty and chaotic urban area. Compared with the eerie emptiness and tranquility of the foreigner's territory, this place is simply very lively. The traces of human chaotic and disorderly activities are reflected in the mage's special perception, like a piece of boiling magma, Their numbers are difficult to measure, but surprisingly, these are not the forces that the Outlanders have prepared for war.These are just the residents of the royal capital who betrayed the king and chose foreign heresy. The war is imminent. Instead of fleeing the city, these people closely rely on foreigners. They bring their families and live in those low huts docilely Waiting, as if really believing that those outsiders can give them shelter.

On the surface of the sea, the two giant white beasts were as silent as a mountain.

Everywhere is a flaw, so it seems that there are traps everywhere.

Worse than facing an army of [-].

Compared with the coalition army that was being driven forward, the foreigners waited for work at leisure and had enough time to prepare for the war, so this place could not be an empty city.Even if they only look at the new urban area, no one would think that foreigners don't care about this place, and no one can easily give up their territory after investing so much manpower and material resources.

By now, everyone knows that the strangers are not a formidable enemy with common sense. They are few in number and have no talent for strength—at least not the kind of strength talent that people usually think of, but they are extremely powerful, so powerful that They still hold their weight lightly in the face of dozens or even hundreds of times the enemy.

The mages looked at the sea again, the black pipe of the white ship was facing the port and the palace, and the deep hole was like a devil's throat.

Behind them, the trembling nobles of Orbis have tried their best to recall all the things about the strangers. They have reviewed their past contempt over and over again, reviewing the humiliation they have suffered from the strangers, hoping to squeeze them out from their memories. A sliver of favorable information, for there was nothing else they could do but this futile effort.A nobleman sitting in the shadows in a corner raised his haggard face and looked into the distance.

The overall situation has been decided, and everything is left to fate.

The sun rises and sets, and the footsteps of time do not stop, and another round of fiery sun illuminates the sea.The soldiers who rested under the hill for a whole day finally had some fighting spirit. After a hasty breakfast, they formed a battle formation again. In the formation, the winch rotated, the tendons creaked, and the trebuchet The long arm is slowly lowered, and on the smooth planed wood, the magic circle dipped in magic stone powder has a clear texture, which makes people dizzy at first glance. Throw it over the hills, and throw it at the beautiful and fragile stronghold of the enemy.

The iron armored officer led a group of soldiers towards the hill palace.

The three archmages sat in the palace, watching the battlefield that was about to turn into a sea of ​​flames.

Among the leather ammunition bags that are urgently needed to be fired, most of the clay pots are filled with kerosene, and some are filled with clear water. There are light yellow solid blocks that can only be used by mages floating in the water. Substances that produce highly poisonous substances should not be used in the capital of a country, but the foreigners have forced them so that they have not much choice.

The green-eyed young elf sat on a treetop swaying in the wind, holding a crystal clear hourglass in his hand, and the hourglass was about to run out.

The next moment, he suddenly looked up.

The lanyard was cut by a sharp blade, and the throwing rope was thrown in the air with a bang, and with the howling of the wind, groups of round pottery pots crossed the hill high - this wave of attack was half an hour earlier than the agreed time!But a moment later, there was a shrill scream in the direction of the port, like the howl of a banshee, which lifted everyone's breath and heartbeat high. However, exclamations resounded all over the city, and then there was a loud bang, and thunder fell from the clear sky, and the earth was shaken with the depressing rumbling and violent shock——

In a tunnel on the edge of the city, the women shrieked and retracted into the cave, kneeling to cover their ears, but couldn't help but look out. The beautiful female elf was guarding the outside, frowning and watching the city in front of her, her ears trembling slightly. His expression was grim.The wind brought the smell of flames and blood, and the grass and leaves were flying on the hillside. On the dirt wall behind the elf, the cloth bag hanging on the wooden peg was tilted to one side, and a corner of the white letter paper fixed with iron clips was exposed. It read in smooth black handwriting:

"...The magician cherishes his students so much, and paved such a flat road for them. The young voyagers came across the sea from the warm fertile soil of knowledge with fire, and lit the fire in this boring world. Poverty, hunger, and disease have burned away the shackles of many people's souls. This flame cannot be extinguished by the power of the world, and the behemoth they want to challenge is already old and decayed. meaning……"