"It is indeed them." Confirm

When Ian saw Yingguang, Huijian and Xuanguang coming to his lord's mansion, what he thought in his mind was 'Sure enough'. Sure enough, they were three old acquaintances.

To be honest, Ian thought that these three people would stay in the Xiahui Territory from the beginning. As Huaiguang's eyes to observe him, he had already made preparations. He even gave them the observer position within the Chongling Sect. They stayed, but in the end, these three people went to the Holy Mountain Headquarters for further training and came back two years later.

In fact, this is a relatively normal rhythm. Generally speaking, if ordinary people take over a territory, it will definitely take one or two years to establish authority, and then they can carry out the subsequent management and stability maintenance and related expansion and development work... In other words , during this period, the clergy are of no use, and they will also be dissatisfied with each other due to the struggle between religious authority and lordship.

Two years later, when Ian had secured his position as lord and accepted Huaiguang's help and cooperation, he seemed much more friendly.

But who could have guessed the speed of Ian's progress? In two years, the entire territory had changed so much that it was as incredible as changing a city.

Judging from the surprise on the faces of the three of them, they definitely saw many things beyond their imagination in Xiahui City.

"From now on, I will serve the people in your territory, Lord Earl." Confirm.

"Look out for each other."

Sister Yingguang bowed to Ian solemnly, and the two paladins also bowed slightly. Ian accepted it calmly, and then smiled and invited everyone to take their seats.

The banquet to receive the Huaiguang envoy was very sumptuous, with meat cooked in various ways, high piles of fruits and vegetables, buttered bread, salads sprinkled with mustard and sweet sauce, and a basket on the side contained a roasted chicken wrapped in long leaves. , the juice overflows from the cracks in the golden skin, exuding a rich fragrance.

Although it is rich, it is not luxurious. Ian doesn't like to eat luxury food that may taste better but is more than ten times more expensive. He likes the word "cost-effectiveness" very much.

And at the dinner table, he informed Huaiguang one by one of the natural disasters he had sorted out that he might have encountered.

For example, the ‘Duke Thorin’ located underground and the possible ‘Evil of the Void’.

For example, the disaster of light far away in the sky has a vague or non-existent relationship with the ‘devil’. Recognize it.

"My brother Mahdi once communicated with Dragon Island."

Ian lied without the slightest trace of guilt. He spoke very smoothly and naturally, without even the slightest fluctuation in his thinking: "Other Dragon Kings gave the answer of 'possibly', but there is no evidence at the moment. It's just my prophetic hunch. Tell me, the disaster of light is definitely not a natural disaster, but a disaster that occurs only when someone destroys it."

"...We will determine that."

Archbishop Swearing takes this very seriously. She is not very tall, so she sits in a booster chair, but this does not diminish her majesty: "The Holy Mountain has plans to communicate with Archduke Thorin, but the devil is related to the Disaster of Light. …This possibility is indeed beyond our expectation.”

"Thank you for your suggestion."

"As a Terran who also lives on this land, this is my duty."

Ian said humbly.

During the following banquet, the guests and hosts enjoyed themselves. Ian accurately grasped everyone's personality, constantly raised interesting topics, and kept the atmosphere at a level where everyone was comfortable at all times.

And during such a pleasant exchange, Ian 'inadvertently' mentioned that he had predicted a 'disaster' about the Xiahui Territory.

"I think this is not a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster. I have many enemies, and each of them has the ability to destroy half a city."

He said straightforwardly: "I'm not saying that I hope Huaiguang can break his own principles and help me - I mainly want to know whether the three priests who will stay in my territory can protect the people at that time. Not affected by the aftermath of the battle?"

"It would be better if you can cooperate with our medical staff to treat the injured."

On the surface, Ian seemed to just want Yingguang and others to express their stance, but in fact, the content of his inquiry was much more than what appeared on the surface.

After swearing and Tian Yan looked at each other, Archbishop Tian Yan turned his head and said solemnly: "Whether it is a man-made disaster or a natural disaster, it needs to be verified. No matter what the outcome is, we will inform you. This is an agreement between the prophets." Accept.

"As for protecting civilians who have nothing to do with the battle, this is something that anyone with a conscience will do. But even so, our clergy will not act as the 'Huaiguang Church', but as local residents Action, please understand this."

"that's enough."

Ian is very happy with this.

After all, he is actually not sure whether it is the Flying Flame Land, an attack by the elves' pillar party, or simply some super natural disaster... Terra is a place where nothing is strange, so we can't always think of problems on people. .

Huaiguang, who specializes in examining natural disasters, is willing to try and judge for him, which can reduce a lot of calculations for him... And the fact that the priests are willing to protect the "healing team" is the greatest good news.

If everything really comes to the worst end and the enemy causes great damage to Xiahui City, then the priests who protect the healing team will find that the healing ability of this team is far beyond everyone's imagination.

After that, Ian’s opponents will understand what ‘kill first and heal first’ means.

After the banquet was over, Ian arranged a special residence for the envoys - it was a forty-story residential building located near the commercial street on the east side of the city. It could overlook Xiahui Lake and Yinfeng in the distance. Looking at each other.

This is Ian's idea for a 'residential building', and it is also a test of whether the Xiahui Ling construction team has the ability to build high-rise buildings.

The test results are very good. With the help of the earth sublimator and the iron man exoskeleton, the construction team built quickly and well with excellent quality. Even the internal decoration is of high quality, which proves that Xiahui Ling is now in civil engineering. In terms of performance, it is not inferior to international standards.

But practice has proven that even the property management of residential buildings is more convenient, the arrangements for water, electricity, energy and various materials are also simpler, and even the decoration has been arranged.

But for Xiahui people, as long as they can live in a detached house, even a shabby small detached house, it is definitely better than living in a building.

after all……

"Your Excellency, you must be right. I think it would be very comfortable to live in such a building." Confirmed.

According to a City Hall survey of passers-by, almost 99% of people think that the residential building designed by Ian is very comfortable. They have even tried to move in, but gave up later.

the reason is simple.

"This building is too high - wouldn't it collapse immediately during a war?"

The passerby said bluntly: "Our territory is so good, I don't want to die so early."

That's it.

Since then, Ian has given up on replicating the high-rise buildings of the Earth or the civilization of the previous era on Terra... Yes, it is too stupid. As long as the enemy's Ascended One has no holes in his head, he will definitely target this kind of building. Buildings with extremely high crowd density are bombarded indiscriminately.

You know, Terra is not like Earth. When the war machine here is activated, it doesn't matter whether you build civilian buildings or not. It is better to say that they hit civilian buildings. As long as the enemy troops hide in the city, then even the city will be razed to the ground. Flat ground. Recognize

Condemnation? A joke, the Terran World War is aimed at the destruction of the country and the annihilation of the species. There is no bloody battlefield where the fifth-level forces do not deserve to exist. Who cares about condemnation - even ordinary people themselves do not think there is anything wrong with it. , what they have to do is to suppress their sense of existence as much as possible and survive.

Therefore, since then, Ian has begun to study underground living areas and shelter structures with great concentration.

Only then did he understand why there were so many 'mazes' in the civilization of the previous era... It was not that there were many mazes in the dungeons, but that only the ruins of the dungeons had escaped the disaster of falling from the sky and could become mazes!

Following the staff of the city hall, the Huaiguang envoys settled in the welcome wine of this building named 'Chongling Building', a high-rise building with 'worrying safety'.

Warm rooms, perfect decoration, simple but comfortable beds and bedding...these ordinary details moved this group of bright people.

"The territory they built doesn't seem to indicate anyone is oppressing anyone."

The other four clergymen who acted separately from the three-person team of Yingguang were elite clergymen from the Imperial Capital Cathedral under the Archbishop of Oath. During their free movement, they traveled throughout Xiahui City and observed things including Recognition of construction sites, interactions between commercial street managers and vendors, patrolling guards, and operations in alchemy workshops and other areas.

The leader, a clergyman wearing flying wing armor and dressed as a knight, said: "The workers at the construction site do not have a 'slave foreman' to whip and scold. Even for the simplest transportation work, the workers have an 'iron man exoskeleton' as a Tools were used and safety regulations (by Terra's standards) were adhered to on the job site, which clearly put workers' lives first."

The second reporter was an old nun. She was about sixty years old. She had a kind face but a serious tone: "Vendors also obeyed the rules very well. No one even littered the whole commercial street. Everyone behaved well." Go to the special trash cans and put the garbage into categories..."

"This is very unbelievable. I even suspected it was some kind of psychic brainwashing. However, after observation, I found that the Xiahui leader had indeed used the 'artificial soul' technology as reported in the intelligence. There was no trace of brainwashing."

This old nun is a psychic, and the light green halo flowing in her eyes can see many truths: "And the managers of the city hall never 'reprimand'. They just make suggestions, and most vendors will obey them." Suggestion. This is wrong, because their hearts are obviously full of fear of some kind of 'punishment'..."

"We don't know the content of the punishment yet, but even by the most stringent standards, the laws of the Xiahui Territory are not considered evil laws. They are even the most kind laws among the hundreds of cities I have traveled to."

"Even the people can be regarded as good citizens, but there is not even a single unruly citizen... In the past, the lords of cities without unruly people relied on violent means to forcibly clear them out, but not in Xiahui City."

"That's not all." Accepted

A young warrior of sea origin said: "Because Qingchao, the guard leader of the Xiahui leader, is also a sea origin, and the guards on the road are also willing to chat with me. I learned from them that although they are two Fourteen-hour patrols, but divided into three shifts, each person only needs to work eight hours a day, overtime is only required at critical moments, and overtime pay must be paid."

"There must be overtime pay!"

The sea warrior emphasized, his tone was extremely emotional: "Even we don't necessarily get overtime pay!"

"Becoming a paladin means that you voluntarily contribute to the church." Archbishop Tianyan opened his eyes at this moment and reminded: "I work overtime for four hours in the middle of the night every day for more than thirty years, and there is still no overtime pay."

"But you get free coffee every night!" "This is not overtime pay, this is bishop benefit."

The position hierarchy within Huaiguang obviously does not exist at all.

But there is also the sequence of seniority and merit. Recognize

"alright."

Archbishop Swearing raised his hand to signal everyone to stop.

From just now, a light blue halo enveloped the room, preventing all information from being transmitted outside.

She looked around at everyone present and said calmly: "So, our prophet lord is indeed as rumored, using technology to recuperate manpower, and when he gets the resources, he uses part of them on ordinary people... and Inaga Two similar but different people?”

"indeed so."

Archbishop Tianyan had been meditating just now, and now he nodded as if he had fully understood: "The most critical part of Xiahui City is the alchemy park - they sent almost all the extra wealth there, and there It also continuously spits out all kinds of brand-new technologies and wealth."

"Technology is easy to say. Ian Yinfeng has definitely mastered quite a lot of pre-era civilization technologies. Even if some parts are difficult to use in today's high-quality and high-energy environment, with his talent comparable to that of a great craftsman, he is absolutely Can improve many new technologies. Recognize

"This is indeed the case. In my opinion, the technology of today's Xiahui Territory is only inferior to the relics of pre-era civilizations like the Imperial Capital. In another five or six years, there will probably be another nascent empire on this land." Heaven is the capital of heaven, or it is the moving royal court."

Heaven is the main city of the Capital of Knowledge, which is also the origin of its country's name. The Mobile Palace is the mobile capital of the Heaven Palace, a steel fortress that stretches across the Great Plains of Terra, and is a legacy of pre-era civilization.

Having said this, Archbishop Tianyan paused, and after confirming that everyone was listening, he emphasized: "But the most important thing is this wealth, and Ian has distributed it all to all the people in the territory."

"If a lord does not oppress his subjects and does not gain wealth from his subjects, then there will be a big problem. Don't forget how the previous lord of Xiahui, Baron Ryan, treated his subjects ... He is not oppressive on the surface, and also distributes money to everyone."

"What Tianyan means..." the knight in the flying-wing helmet pondered: "Earl Yinfeng is also using his subjects for experiments? Indeed, he popularized artificial souls. If he did not use this to conduct psychic experiments, he would It’s something strange…”

"This is what I suspected at first."

Sister Yingguang coughed. As the person involved, she naturally had the right to speak: "But it turns out that Ian Yinfeng did not conduct any involuntary experiments - there is a notice recruiting experimenters at the entrance of the laboratory, and the pay is quite high. People's hearts are moved." Recognize

"If someone sells himself for this money, then we can't say anything. What's more, the contract of Xiahui Ling Laboratory includes 'protecting the life of the experimenter'."

Sister Dragonman said solemnly: "I don't think Ian Silverfeng is a villain with ulterior motives like Baron Ryan. On the contrary, we believe that Count Silverfeng is indeed 'paying' at the moment, but this payment is not in vain. It’s a gift, but an ‘investment’.”

“He regards his territory as a piece of farmland. It will naturally cost time and money to open up wasteland and cultivate it. Planting and fertilizers also cost a lot of money, not to mention the time required to wait for the crops to grow... If one step goes wrong, the gamble will be lost. ."
To be continued...