Pivot of the Sky

Solomon saluted at the entrance of the pavement and looked at Iso's carriage and left. He did not recognize that the caped driver was Amon, nor did he know that it was the only god he believed in. In fact, Solomon saw Amon and felt that he looked familiar, but he didn't even think about it, because Amon had come out of the Temple of Cloud Dreams and had just been sacrificing to the Goddess of the Swamp with a group of drivers.

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The merchants passing through the Black Fire Swamp were particularly lucky these two days, the weather was always pleasant, even the mud pools in the swamp no longer smelled corrupt, the occasional wild animals in the jungle were nowhere to be traced at this moment, and the annoying mosquitoes disappeared without a trace.

Two days later, Amon drove out of the Blackfire Swamp to where he had captured King Lucille alive. This is the other end of the pavement and has now grown into a large town with a newly built Great Light Temple dedicated to the Light Holy Fire practised by the Potts and a Swamp Lady Temple.

After the fall of the Enrir meteor, the Temple of Enrir was still there, until Hattie was annexed by Potts, and Grussia and later Darius did not force the locals to demolish the Temple of Enrir, except that the provinces officially built the Temple of the Great Light Holy Fire, and the official offering was made to the Great Light God Mazda.

As the years passed, Enrir was gradually forgotten, the kingdom of Hati had ceased to exist, a new generation had grown under the rule of several new provinces divided in Poz, and the Temple of Enrir had been abandoned everywhere. Since the Temple of Enrique had lost its official status, some people had quietly demolished the stones and taken them back to repair their houses and yard walls.

As of today, there are few shrines of Enrir in the former Hati and Assyrian territories that are intact and regularly sacrificed by the people. There are three main categories of sacrificers to Enrir: the elderly, who have been faithful to Enrir since childhood, and the young, who have inherited this faith for reasons such as family. As for the third category of people, they simply did not believe in Enrique and Anuna to reveal their gods, but expressed nostalgic thoughts or some desire in this way.

Instead, the two temples of the Swamp Goddess Cloud Dream, the sacrificer is still in constant communication today, and she has become the legendary local goddess.

Instead of walking northwest into the former Hati, Amon drove all the way south to the beach, looking at the endless yellow sand on the left and the ever-growing grassland on the right, which was the battlefield where he led the An-La Regiment against the Nanar Regiment in Hati. Today, the Golden Gothima is silent and the grassland yellow sand remains the same.

Amon and Medanzo don't need to rest, but Iso is just a mortal and old man, and needs to be aware of living and clothing all the way. Though Iso claims to be tough and doesn't need the gods to take care of him, Amon is like a servant of the mortal world who arranges everything well on the road so that Iso doesn't feel like a traveling Lawton.

Iso left his palace in Salem City and the fields that belonged to him to his friends, but he did not return home empty-handed, with a savings, a huge sum of money, and decades of his career made Iso very wealthy. As for the drinking-water food needed on the road, Amon carried it in a space machine, and no other supplies were needed along the way.

When this seemingly mediocre carriage arrived at the blue sea, it finally revealed its extraordinary, and the two horses pulling the carriage wanted to stop before the wave on the coast, but the chaser whipped a whip, and the horse seemed to be motivated by some force and ran forward with his hooves.

Iso opened the curtains and looked out. It was Amon God who drove the car. Whatever miracles appeared, he was prepared, but this moment was still deeply shocked. The wagon ran on the tip of the waves, and the fresh sea breeze blew in, with a slight hint of saltiness, making people feel unusually comfortable.

How many mortals have enjoyed this in their lives? Iso looked out at the sea for a long time, and then withdrew his gaze and looked at Amon's back, with unspeakable gratitude in his eyes. There's a much more amazing experience back there, after the wagon winds over the sea, more than ten times faster than on land, like flying in an invisible wind trap.

Not knowing how long later, a few small dots appeared on the distant horizon, followed by another, a battleship in array, and Medanzo had heard the shock of the sky. With so many ships gathered, an unprecedented sea battle is breaking out ahead. Without waiting for those battleships to realize that there was a carriage on the surface, Amon shook a rope and the carriage had swept up into the sky. The horse pulled the car, and the footsteps were cloudy.

Iso's carriage passed over the battlefield, and what erupted at sea was a naval battle that decided to win. From up and down the cloud, the number of battleships in Potts clearly exceeded that of the Allied Coalition forces in Heaton, but the Potts Navy came from various provinces of the Great Empire with mixed language and poor command of the warriors. Heaton Allied fighters, mainly sailors from years of sailing, commanded unified dispatch and crashed the Potts battleship queue.

This naval battle, known as the Salami Sea Battle, culminated in a major victory for the Heaton Coalition and heavy losses to the main naval forces of the Potts, after which they were no longer able to attack from the sea. Shortly after the outbreak of the naval battle, the Hitton Army, which was dominated by Kibada fighters, also fought heavily against the Poz Army in Pradaya and won.

The victory of both battles marked the complete repelling of the invasion of the Potts Empire by the United Kingdom of Heaton and the liberation of the city states from the Potts rule. When Iso arrived in Aaron City, the people here were crying out in love and celebrating their victory.

Iso's carriage crossed the battlefield and landed directly on the outskirts of Aaron. Medanzo also joked with Iso: "You are such a blessed sign that, with your arrival, the Potts Army finally withdrew completely. ”

Aaron is a beautiful city, and their patron saint is Aarona, the god of wisdom in the Olympus system, standing on a hill right next to the neighborhood in the beautiful temple of Aarona. The city is also home to remnants of war, and some buildings have white marble columns with smoky smoke, but are very busy and lively.

Medanzo said curiously: "I thought I would see a city full of broken walls that had been ravaged by war, but I didn't expect it to be like this. ”

"I heard that Potts' army had set fire to Aaron City, and now I know that the rumors are not complete. The people of Aaron City had withdrawn at the time, probably setting fire to something they could not take with them. But there's also a lot of damage here. Can't you see that the walls and the buildings are new? ”

Medanzo nodded: “Of course I noticed that the small city of Aaron has a lot of human and material resources. In a short time, the castle will be rebuilt like this. ”

Amon, who hasn't spoken, explains: "The profits of this war are also significant in the state of Aaron City, which is the organizer and leader of the coalition, whose navy plays the most important role, and the nearby cities and states that depend on it, and Aaron has made a fortune in war. More city alliances are being negotiated in the lobby, and Aaron has become the leader. ”

When Isaac entered Aaron City for an examination, he clearly revealed his identity without concealing anything. He introduced himself directly to a businessman born in Middletown, Heaton, United Kingdom, and when he was very young, he followed a merchant ship out to sea, met pirates, was hijacked and sold into slavery by pirates, and moved to many parts of the Sky Pivot continent. Later, he was freed to become the owner of the city of Sarem in the Plains, such as this year when the leaves finally fell and documents were taken to prove his identity.

The sniffers were surprised that some people had also heard the legend of Salem City and the name of Iso, which was brought back by wise men traveling far away from the mainland, and did not expect to see the legendary person today. The arrival of Iso even provoked a considerable disturbance, and the sergeant guarding the city scrutinized his identity papers and the items he was carrying without detecting any problems.

Iso's carriage entered the city, and the people around him cast their eyes of surprise, envy, suspicion, and suspicion. In private, they talked about everything. With Iso's age and experience, he no longer cares about these conversations, but openly faces all sorts of perspectives and talks with Medanzo about the past and present of this city of Aaron.

Why would Medanzo say this is Little Arlen City? While the city is not small in Heaton UK, it is certainly not magnificent or prosperous enough compared to the famous city of the heavenly pivot that he has seen. Medanzo grew up in Barren City and then went to Dreamfield. If Arlen City were less than a tenth of Barren City on a city state scale, it would be far less ambitious than Dreamfield City.

The history of the heavenly pivotal continental powers has been for more than a thousand years, and civilizations have flown far, while the United Kingdom of Heaton, like the Olympus Divine System, is only the backdrop to the continental margin. But this city, full of vitality and vitality, has grown very rapidly, drawing on the seeds and nutrition of the civilizations of the nations of the heavenly pivot continent.

Aristotle is one of the many great scholars and wise men born here in a freer and more floral state of mind.

But the attitude of many ordinary people in this city township towards the kingdoms of the heavenly pivot is complex. They were once weak people and learners, and there was a subconscious worship and even a sense of inferiority in the face of powerful and prosperous nations such as Ecu, Baron and Hattie. As they gradually become stronger and richer and more arrogant and arrogant, the subconscious sense of historical inferiority translates into an unknown sense of superiority and hostility towards civilizations.

This bond began to emerge after the Heatons defeated the Potts, so when people saw Iso return, there would be arguments with complex emotions that were hard to describe. It is also a source of civilization, and the sedimentary bone marrow may have influenced many over thousands of years of latent acquiescence, and Ammon came just as the state civilization of Aaron City had just emerged.

Ammon arrived in the Hilton United Kingdom, which had just defeated the mighty Potts Empire. It was a time of great flux of ideas, clashes of ideas and sparks from time to time. It was also a new kingdom, distinct from the kingdom of the Heavenly Pivot. As soon as Ammon entered Aaron City, he closed his eyes and listened to the voices of the city, not only the arguments of those around him about Iso's pointers, but also the important matters being negotiated in the city hall ——

During the Hebrew War, the nearby cities and states were dependent on Aaron and formed the Aaron League, the first of 35 cities and states, under which they jointly organized the United Hitton Navy and paid the alliance gold to build warships from the Aaron City State. But after the victory of the war, as many as two hundred new cities, big and small, joined the alliance, the alliance paid a political contribution, with the nature of the alliance tax, or more directly, the protection fee.

The alliance of political contributions paid by the city states is unprecedentedly large for the city of Aaron, and would have been used by the coalition forces to fight the Poz Empire. When the war came to an end, the alliance payments made by the city states did not diminish, but were dominated by the state of Aaron, used to strengthen its own political and military power, and built a more magnificent city of Aaron.

The city of Aaron is not a monarchy, but a city republic. Adult men with citizenship in urban states have established the Citizenship Assembly, an advisory body that discusses affairs, quarrels, chatter, bullshit and spreads rumours. In addition to the Civic Assembly, there is a Council of Lords, in which only honourable nobles are eligible to participate and are an important body for political participation. On the basis of the Civic Assembly, the State of Aaron organized another 500-member meeting, which is a daily parliamentary body.

Ammon was also the first to come to such a city republic, and when he entered the city, it was precisely on the day of the meeting of 500 people in Aaron City that the main issue discussed in the city hall was the new joining of the Aaron League in the nearby city states.

By an absolute majority, the 500-member Conference adopted a resolution to increase the membership fee for affiliated municipalities, open trade between municipalities, form an allied army under the unified command of the Aarons, punish and suppress those who join the alliance and then regret not paying the alliance fee or wish to withdraw from it.

The more interesting Amon sounds, the more popular and popular the monarchy of the Aaron people should be than the monarchy of the continent, but the popular mentality here is very interesting. It was at that time that he also heard Medanzo talking to Iso and explained the recent war treasures in Aaron City State.

Discussions continued in the city hall, with the previous topic on income and the second on debt.

During the Hippo war, it was expensive for Aaron to build a navy, and the recent rebuilding of the city state was a huge expense, so it would raise the membership fee for the city states. There will now be an enormous investment income, which should be repaid in advance of the debt owed by the city of Aaron, which was borrowed mainly from States outside the Aaron coalition during the war.

Aaron City State did not want to pay it back because their new alliance would also build stronger armies, build more merchant ships, build stronger city defenses, and more magnificent temples. So they came up with the idea that it would be up to the Citizens' Assembly to vote on whether or not to repay the debt. If the Citizens' Assembly decides not to repay it, the State of Aaron will not repay it, which is commonly known as voting.

The rationale for Aaron's unwillingness to pay their debts is also clear. They borrowed this money to fight the war and now need more money to empower themselves. Aaron's philosophy and actions are a form of protection and care for the surrounding states. The proposal was adopted at the 500-member meeting and awaited submission to the Civic Assembly for a vote.

The third topic of the meeting remained fiscally relevant, with some believing that many wealthy merchants in the state of Aaron engaged in maritime trade were resorting to various means of tax evasion and needed to be scrutinized. However, this proposal, which was previously rejected by the Council of Lords and this time by the 500-member meeting, will not be submitted to the Civic Assembly for discussion and vote.

The last topic of the meeting was military layout. Why would Aaron State have to spend so much more when the war in Hippo was clearly over? With the exception of the construction of merchant ships and shrines, the remaining major expenditures are for military purposes, as there is now a good excuse for the rivalry between Aaron and Kibada.

The State of Aaron City established the Aaron Alliance, and the very powerful military forces of Kibada took the opportunity to conquer many of the small surrounding States, forming the Alliance of Kibada against the Aaron Alliance in various respects. The city of Aaron hopes that all the states belonging to the Alliance of Kibada will depend on it, thereby forming a stronger alliance of Aaron.

Ammon has been listening to the discussions in the City Hall of State, while forwarding them to Iso, concluding: "These people are really complicated, they vote in consultation within the City State, and the decisions they make, though inefficient, are easier to support than the Emperor's orders. Yet they are discussing how to extort money from other city states to give more wealth to the Aarons, while deciding not to repay their debts in this form, and they refuse to order strict scrutiny of Aaron rich merchants' tax evasion in the city states. What do you think of that? ”

"When I was a teenager, Aaron was a state republic like this, and if it was military, it was no better than Kibada, if it was abundant, it didn't seem as good as my hometown of Miduli, but it grew stronger in this war and became the leader of the Aaron Alliance. I wonder if you heard what the passers-by who just walked accidentally said - ‘Aaron is a republic of the Aarons, an empire of the Hitons. ’ ”

Amon just smiled and didn't say anything more. He asked Isaac: "You are the guide. Where should I drive this car? ”

Iso replied, "Go ahead, I'll show you the way, we'll find a guest house to stay in for a while. ”

Medanzo asked somewhat puzzled, "Isn't your hometown in Miduli? Aaron City is just passing by. Why stay here and not rush back? ”

* * (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote on recommendations, monthly tickets (qidian.com) and your support is my biggest motivation.)