Law of the Devil

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Chapter 387 [Lulancheng]

(As usual, two chapters in one, sent together, no subsections, but a lot of weight.

Even Princess Louise had almost forgotten that she had developed a ritual habit since childhood - in any case, it would be rude to stare at someone so straight.

Princess Louise forgot to answer even the other question. Fortunately, Miss Delhi, behind her, returned to God and gently pulled the princess.

The princess had just returned to God, but she was even more surprised when she heard each other's words.

That guy... servant?

What shocked Louise was that this beautiful, unspeakable guy, the “servant” —— the one who was so intensely pressured, was just a servant? This weird guy seemed so arrogant, even his extraordinarily arrogant temperament seemed to be born. This naturally spontaneous and frivolous aura is clearly a temperament that can always be cultivated at the highest level... but a guy like this is just a servant?

I fear that all the people of the heavens, the vast majority, will be assigned only to Him as a servant.

But it's only natural to say that from that beautiful, unorthodox guy. Weird thing is, this beauty (Louise makes such a name for this guy inside), he...) The word is clear and gentle, if the temperament of the servant is like a proud lonely peak, then this man is like a vast sky! Let the mountain peak be so arrogant, but as if it were no higher than heaven.

“… ah.” Louise finally opened her mouth and took a deep breath. After all, she was educated by the court as a child. After a little panic, she calmed down and smiled. “Well, you're right, we're going to Lulan City. What do you have...”

There was an undisguised smile in the other person's eyes, and his movements seemed to carry an indescribable wind: "Well, that would be great. I have an impertinent request that my servant and I come from outside to take a tour of the area in the northwest, and unfortunately we have just been told in this town that the Duke of Tulips has issued a special decree here. The Duke of Tulip has ordered restrictions on entering the city because the city is too busy and there are too many continental passengers entering and leaving the city every day - in addition to paying for the inclusion tariffs, you need to obtain a clearance to enter and leave the city. Besides, this is a busy season, I hear that at this time of year all the hotels in the city will be full, without the clearance of the merchants, you can't even find a hotel in the city... beautiful lady, you see, the two of our master servants are just ordinary tourists, not merchants, and we came all the way, we didn't know this special northwest decree beforehand, so I saw that you and your companion seemed to be the original merchants, I think you must have entered the relevant permits, so I took the liberty of stopping you on your way, can you please take us to the city? ”

Princess Louise dazed for a moment.

Customs clearance, a new decree issued by Dewey, began the previous year, and in order to avoid the random entry of Northwest Army or Prairie scouts into his territory, he ordered checkpoints to be set up throughout the border area of De Sa 'a province, where merchant groups had to be boarded in exchange for customs clearance before entering the country.

Princess Louise came from Didu, in her capacity, although she did not present herself as a princess, but by the time she arrived, her men had already been processed in the name of a Didu nobleman. She has clearance procedures, just... take these two strange people into town?

Louise's curiosity finally prevailed and took two people in, which was nothing to her singular imperial princess, but she was really curious about this beautiful, unspoken guy.

Ever since she was a child, she has seen all kinds of noble children of the Haut-Men, but has never seen a man with such a beautiful demeanor! She was staring at this guy, and she had a dark speculation about his whereabouts.

Looking at his face, he should be very young, and this standard Roland accent must have been strictly learned by the world since childhood, and this style, as well as raising his hand and throwing his foot, is simply not a slight glitch of elegance, making Princess Louise recognize that this guy must be a young man coming out of the house.

However, I have never heard of such a young and brilliant figure in the great family of the Empire. Are those ancient families in the north? But this guy looks so sweet, not like the Northerners deserve, then, Southerners? But look at his fair skin, and his eyes are so clear, not like the over-smart southerners. Most importantly, Princess Louise felt that all the top luxury doors on the continent were basically clouds of Emperor Du, and if such a handsome family emerged from a younger generation, she could never have known.

“Okay.” The princess and Miss Delhi glanced at each other and said, "It's not difficult to take you into town, but, Your Eminence, before asking for help, could you identify yourself and your whereabouts? ”

“Well, my name is Snowfall, from the North of the mainland.” The man laughed and had to admit that, when he smiled, even Princess Louise was in his smile and briefly fainted.

“... um... snowfall, such a lovely name.” The princess hides her own faults: "Better than your hometown, you must have seen the snowy beauty of the North.” After a pause, she looked at the “servant” behind her: “Well, where's your companion? ”

Killing Princess Louise is absolutely unbelievable. How could a man with such a good temperament be a servant, even with an implicit pressure?

“Oh... he's just a servant, you just have to call him Little Third.” Snowflake answered with a few words. His tone is still gentle, except that when this servant is mentioned, his gentleness is aptly divided, as if it were the gentleness of a gentle master towards his servant. Though gentle, the flavour of sudden superiority is truly true.

Yet... you are really a servant.

But... Xiaosan, the name is good... so strange.

Soon after, the princess decided to take them on the road together, and when she saw the two men without horses, she asked the accompanying escort knight to give them two horses to ride.

The knights who accompanied them were the elite followers of the Guardian Princess and Miss Delhi. Originally they were stopped by these two strangers, they were already very upset. They also had to give up their horses. Naturally, some people were unhappy. Only the princess ordered them, and the knights dared not disobey them. Anyway, these knights have come a long way, two rides a man with a spare horse.

At this moment, to embarrass the two roadblockers a little, someone pulled out the two most violent spare horses they had.

These two tall horses are quality horses in the Imperial Forest Army, except that such horses are not rideable by ordinary people.

Looking at the two horses brought to these two, the other knights laughed in their hearts: it will only take a moment to pull you off the horses!

But then, everyone stood still!

The two tall war horses came to the two men, and even one of them, anxiously shaking his hooves, seemed to be hiding some fear, anxious even whispering. The servant named “Xiaosan”, just “Humph” sneered, but this is the kind of "Humph”, the horse next to him actually hissed directly, and then anxiously backed off. If these horses had not been rigorously trained, they would have broken free of the knight's rope and ran away.

Even the knights around them suddenly feel a strange sense of fear and oppression in their hearts under the eyes of this strange “Little Three”.

At this time, the snow smiled lightly and walked two steps forward. He reached out and caressed his horse's back. He seemed to have a natural softness. The agitated horse immediately calmed down.

Under the eyes of the crowd, the snowy hand fell gently on the horse's head and stroked it back and forth. The horse actually bent down his head. Then, the four hooves bent on their knees and lay down in front of the snowfall. It actually became extremely gentle. Left snowfall to sit on the horse's back easily, the horse stood up to support the hooves.

“Little San, don't scare our people.” Snow fell on the horse's back and looked back at his servant. There was suddenly a slight fear in the colour of the Little Three Gods. He dared not disobey the order of snow. He hummed, pulled the rope, rolled over the horse and stopped moving.

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A group of people went to Roland Cheng, at the gateway gate of the city, after having effortlessly completed the formalities of entering the city, came to the city of Lulan.

This season is truly the busiest time in Lulan City, the spring recovery of everything, after a harsh winter, all kinds of materials consumed enormously, is the perfect time for a large number of merchant teams from the mainland to flock to the grasslands to sell food and other goods of all kinds of living equipment on the mainland.

Entering Lu Lan City, the crowd on the street is bustling, often the merchant team, the carriage is crowded on the road. Although the northwest has just experienced a war, it has not reduced the incentive of the merchants. Lu Lan City, the largest city on the imperial border, has become a bustling commercial city after more than two years of operation in Dewey.

The streets were busy and crowded, but there was no order. A group of cavalry men in tulip family city guard uniforms rode back and forth on horseback. On the billboards at the gates of the city, the latest decree of the Duke of Tulip, and even some clerks specially appointed by the General Administration, stood beside the billboards and read the contents aloud.

After entering the gate, in the eyes of the Princess Louise pedestrians, the whole of Langcheng is a flourishing scene.

Several streets in the distance, even expanding, and tall houses are being built, and it is even strange that there are three or two ordinary citizens beside the works under construction, carrying a basket full of food and water to feed those who are building the roads.

The workers were all dressed in a strange and uniform grey garment with a large “build” embroidered on the front in Roland.

Princess Louise sees something strange. She has never seen such a scene, as if those under construction were a unified group - traditionally, in the Roland Empire, projects such as roads, houses, etc., in the case of the official major works of the Empire, were direct labor and civilian workers, even slaves, and some aristocratic families built their own houses with slaves and servants from their own families.

The princess looked at it curiously and sent someone to ask, and she got an answer that made them feel strange.

“Master.” A knight who returns in return after questioning also looks a little strange. In the presence of outsiders, he calls the princess “master” rather than “Your Highness”, and the knight honestly replies: “I asked, the original construction workers in grey clothes were said to be a team specializing in the construction of various works under the administration of Desa province, and they are also said to be made up of an army, an original by the Duke of Tulips and called" engineers ". All these guys do on a weekday is build projects, open bridges, start dirt work, etc... and like soldiers, they get paid every month. ”

“Well, why are the citizens carrying food and water to comfort the engineers? Is the army here so loved by the people?” The princess asked.

“This... is not true.” The knight scratched his head: "I asked them," These people are the normal situation here, and the road you see being built and the house that is being expanded on both sides is theirs. These people with food and water are the residents of this street, the owners of the houses that are being built. ”

The public has taken the initiative, she looks at the distance, and the houses that have been built are not small... Has the province of Difficult Moral Saxony reached this level of prosperity? Even ordinary people are rich enough to live in a house this big?

Fortunately, the knight quickly said the answer: “My lord, this surprised me, too, that they told me that the house, the road, was built by the Duke of Tulips, who announced that it was built at the official expense of the Dessard Provincial Administration. It is said that within this year, more than a dozen streets throughout Lulan City will be fully expanded and built, all at the expense of the government here, and that these households, if they promise one thing, will have their own children, and henceforth all men over the age of 18, undergo reserve training for the Tulip Family Private Army in Texas Province. ”

“All enlisted? ”

“No, not all of them, just reserves. The decree of the Duke of Tulips is said to be simple, as long as the young people in their families, who have reached the age of eighteen, undergo one year of military training in reserve service, do not really enlist in the army, they only undergo training and can return home after one year of training. These citizens were very supportive of the decree and were given free access to their own houses as long as they undertook to undergo six months of military training. However, the ownership of the house is vested in the official government of Dessardines, which has the right of abode and does not have to pay rent. Free housing in exchange for military training. ”

Princess Louise stunned.

Did Dewey... that guy have a lot of money to spend?

I'm afraid there's at least 300,000 permanent residents in this city, young men, at least 78,000, all of whom can attend military training, and then live in big houses provided by the government for free?

And next to her, after listening, Miss Delhi shook her head and thought for a moment, and suddenly said a word gently: "Tibetan soldiers in the people? ”

“It's not just Langcheng.” The knight replied with a bitter smile: "I heard that this was an ordinance issued by the Duke of Tulip at the beginning of this year and has been implemented throughout the province of Tessagon. A reserve training camp for recruits is said to be situated 50 miles outside Lulan City. These ordinary citizens who have undergone training may also be allowed to return home every seven days after the training. ”

The whole province?

What does this Duvi want?

If we go on like this, the whole province of Texas is afraid of over 300,000 young people! After all, if you go for a year of military training, you'll get a free big house to live in, and I'm afraid very few people will refuse to do that. 300,000 young adults, even if only half of them accept this condition, can have at least 100,000 young adults with military experience in Dewey's territory in less than a year! If necessary, with a paper conscription order, these men can be qualified soldiers immediately in military uniform!

Far away, snow falling and his servants, both on horseback, have been far away from Princess Louise's queue, the knight's voice is not loud, but with the skill of snow falling, it is naturally one word, clearly heard. After listening, the snow suddenly sighed in the shadows.

“This tulip duke, nice big pen. 150,000 soldiers hidden in the people...”

He turned his head and looked at his servant and suddenly smiled. “You seem to be right. The person most likely to cause us trouble among these humans is the Duke of Tulips… Prince Three, your information is very good. ”

The servant suddenly showed a slight fright in his eyes and quickly lowered his head. Afraid to let the Elf King see his face clearly, he whispered, "You… there are no three princes in front of you anymore. I am only your servant, my noble king! ”

In a complex mood, a group of people continued forward and just turned around. The road ahead is obviously the busiest part of Lulan City. The street is more than twice as wide as the road before, and the houses on both sides are huge and lively.

Even stranger, on this street, every few meters on the road is a huge banner, those banners vary in color, red, orange, yellow, green, green, blue, and purple, all kinds of, on each huge banner, clearly write some words that surprise Princess Louise...

“Sicilian Fur Line, the finest leather goods on the continent - Address, 1 Peacock Avenue! ”

“Old Mama's Hot Pot Shop, Tessa Province Chain, come and taste it! Address, 2 Green Dragon Street! ”

“Check it out, there's the best jewelry here! Fortune jewellery store, mainland gold sign! Address, right around the corner! ”

“Snow Wolf Mercenary Regiment Headquarters! Bravest and loyal samurai, solve all your troubles! Address: 1 Xuanwu Avenue!" No unlawful entrustment. "

If these weird banners of all kinds are just staring, then you'll immediately discover that by the side of the street, even every 20 meters, there's a big wooden trash can that's about half a person tall, and even the barrel walls of these trash cans are painted smoothly, and it says something like "Traveler's House, the best hotel chain in Texas!” “Wear Hawk Leather Boots, Walk 10,000 Miles!” “Thunder God's Hammer Weapon Shop, Dwarf Craft, the finest weapon on the continent!” Wait, wait...

These varied things made a line of outsiders stare at each other, and then Princess Louise's curiosity snuck up again, and immediately sent a knight to ask the passers-by, and the result was even more surprising.

“All of these signs were ordered by the Duchess of Tulips, and the banners and the text on these trash cans are ‘advertisements' as the Duchess says, but any merchant who wants to write their own text on them will pay for it. It is said that, on a time-bound basis, every month they go to the Governor's Office for competitive bidding. It is now said that a banner on this street has fired 1,000 gold coins a month, and a trash can has fired 500 gold coins a month. ”

Princess Louise listened, calculating quickly in her heart, couldn't help but take a breath, look at this wide and bustling street, look at the banners and trash cans in the distance, calculate the amount, sigh: “God, isn't that just this street, you can make the Duke of Tulip earn more than 10,000 gold coins a month? Just hang a few pieces of cloth and you can charge at least 10,000 gold coins a month! ”

“Ten thousand gold coins, enough to feed an imperial standard infantry battalion.” As the General's sister, Miss Delhi immediately came to the conclusion: "The Duke of Tulip is a very rich man. ”

The snow kept falling behind me, and I couldn't help but sigh at this moment and whisper to the servant beside me: “Did you see, many of the young men walking in the streets here are steady, with strong arms and godly eyes, even though they are civilians, at first glance are militarily trained people. These are a lot stronger than the rest of the continent we've come all the way to. I'm afraid this tulip duke will be able to pull up hundreds of thousands of qualified troops at any time in the future once the war begins. Besides, this guy seems to make a lot of money, which must have been spent on feeding his army. ”

The servant, naturally the three Dragon princes who surrendered, flashed a harsh color in his eyes and whispered: “Master, I was dealing with this guy before, he was a very clever and powerful man who could even escape under my father's hunt. We walked all the way here, and I'm afraid the Duke of Tulips is one of the finest talents in the human race, and perhaps… we can take him now…" He said, lifting his fingers and gently scratching him around his neck.

Looking at the grim face of the Golden Dragon, the snow fell and smiled lightly. He looked up and looked at the sky. The sun was already a little dazzling, and the snow stretched out its cheerful palms, blocking it from the curtains. Under the golden eye, the circle of silver wire on his wrist was hidden.

Finally, Elf King laughed and laughed like a spring breeze, but his voice, word for word, was like a knife in the heart of a golden dragon.

“Don't think I don't know what you're thinking... you better remember carefully that your identity is now just my servant, no matter what happens to me, I make any decisions and I don't need your advice to ‘contribute wisdom’ to me.” The Elf King looked at the Golden Dragon, and his smile, though gentle, was like a needle in his eyes: "In the world of mankind, he assassinated a duke, and he himself was a strong man of the continent, surrounded by masters like clouds... you must very much want me to die in Roland. ”

The golden dragon's face changed, he was about to argue, the snow had fallen slightly laughed: “Don't deny it, we all know each other's thoughts very well, you submit to me, but I won't naively think that you are loyal to me. However, what I need to remind you is that… no matter what kind of trick you want to play, you better do something clever. Next time, don't use this stupid trick again, because it will make me look down on your intelligence. ”

The snow had kicked gently into the belly and walked to the front.

The golden dragon left behind has a slightly more complex meaning in its eyes.

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Princess Louise traveled directly to a Southern chamber of commerce in the city. Miss Delhi's family, after all, is inextricably linked to this southern chamber of commerce. Early to learn of the arrival of the most honorable lady in the family, the people of the Chamber of Commerce had cleaned a clean, comfortable and spacious yard at the headquarters of the Chamber of Commerce.

When Princess Louise arrived, the head of the Chamber of Commerce went out to greet them and invited them into the courtyard. Delhi did not reveal the identity of Princess Louise, she merely said she was a friend of her own. Anyway, this kind of aristocratic lady always has a few close friends, and the head of the Chamber of Commerce only treats the aristocratic lady from a certain family as a warm reception.

Delhi instructed the escort knights to live around the courtyard and herself and Louise entered the Chamber of Commerce with a handcuffed maid.

This yard is fairly clean and comfortable, but slightly smaller. The head of the Chamber of Commerce explained that now that Lulancheng is growing very fast, the land price here is too expensive, almost an inch of gold, so it would not have been possible for the Chamber of Commerce to take up too much land. The strength of the Southern Chamber of Commerce is quite good. It is rare to have such a place in Lulancheng.

Princess Louise did not care about the environment in which she lived and immediately dispatched her own attentive maid to the Lester family's chamber of commerce in Langcheng to contact Mrs. Lester.

And as for falling snow...

The curious Princess Louise retained the Elf King, who had intended to stay here for the time being, and did not refuse, to stay here for the time being as a guest. In reverence for this mysterious “beauty," Princess Lewis instructed the snowfaller and his servant to live alone in a courtyard.

Snow fell happy to accept the princess's beauty, and then he made a request, and he saw that the chamber's premises also had a library, and he hoped to borrow some books from the library.

“What books do you need? ”

“Humanity, any book is fine, if there's a continent with the best history, I've seen volume six, you should have the whole set, right?” The style of King Pokémon, Wen Wen Luya, allows the head of the Chamber of Commerce to speculate - is he a distinguished aristocrat from which Emperor comes?

“Oh, we didn't, but I told someone to buy one right away.” The head of the Chamber of Commerce hurriedly retreated.

I don't know why, in the face of this beautiful man with a gentle smile (in fact, even he doesn't know each other's gender, except that when Miss Delhi introduced her, she called Snow Falling “sir”, and Snow Falling did not disagree), the head of the Chamber of Commerce always had an unnamed fear.

At lunch, Princess Louise sent someone to invite Snowfall to dinner. Elf King was happy to accept the invitation, but in order not to disrupt the atmosphere, Snowfall was very understanding. Instead of bringing his “servant” to attend, he left the Golden Dragon in the yard.

Over lunch, the girls, Delhi and Princess Louise, used up all sorts of words to try to get out of the snow. But King Pokémon's talk was excellent, astronomical geography, humanities, art, music painting, seemed like everything. This versatile and versatile man was extremely versed in many fields, and although he didn't really do it, some of the points he made, in the eyes of Princess Louise and Miss Delhi, were almost comparable to the famous master-class figures of the emperors he met. And King Pokémon's elegant style makes this lunch very enjoyable.

And Princess Louise took particular note of Mr. Snowfall's attitude during the meal. Even Princess Louise, who had been courtesy of the court since childhood, was not as polite when she used the knife and fork. Looking at the attitude of this Mr. Snow Falling, it's like looking at a wonderful scroll, even the slightest movement of his fingers, as if they were beautiful!

Two women, while intoxicated, cannot help but be secretly surprised in the heart.

How can there be such beautiful people in the world? If he were a daughter, I'm afraid none of the women in the world could compare to him!

After lunch, the head of the Chamber hurried to interrupt the atmosphere in which the three spoke.

The chief brings a message: Lord Philip, Duke of Tulip's most trusted assistant, Chief Secretary of State of Desa Banks Province, No. 2 figure of Desa Banks Province, is here!

Lord Phillip came simply, claiming to have been informed of the arrival of Miss Delhi, who was about to become Emperor Princess, who greeted her on behalf of the Duke of Tulip, while warmly inviting Miss Delhi to attend an aristocratic banquet tonight at the Duke of Tulip.

Delhi and Princess Louise looked at each other, and in Princess Louise's eyes, Delhi asked, "What about Lord Phillip? ”

“Outside. ”

“Too lazy.” Deli frowned: “How can Lord Phillip wait outside when the Governor General of Dessardines is the equivalent of the Governor of the Empire? Get him in here! ”

After a glance at the snow falling, Delhi wanted to ask the snow to evade first, but suddenly her heart moved and she didn't know what the idea was. She reached her mouth and took it back.

And the Elf King heard that he was "the Duke's most trusted assistant”. In his beautiful eyes, he immediately flashed a wonderful look...

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