Quest: Book 2 Page 10

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  "Kone, you have to remember that," My father's words developed around in my mind, "In this world, nobody knows what will happen tomorrow. To build the city this time, you don't get bogged down by the rules. You must choose a good location, it doesn't matter that it's a large scale. Everything there will be me and your Majesty behind you."

  "Forward can attack! Backward can defense!" my father says in a low voice, "all the situations you need to consider about!"

  "All?"

  "We are at the forefront of the two forces, it's a great risk." my father says, "and the Prime Minister is in the great arrogance, who knows when he will give us a knife on the back?"

  "I understand now!" I say, "you can stop worrying!"

  "You don't understand, it's not that simple to be a viceroy. Now you have the title as well, if you have any trouble that can't be solved," my father fondles on my head, "you can have a noble temper to make it pass not that clearly, or it also works that you play to depend on perfunctory, you're a young man any way!"

  "This will do?" I am very surprised!

  "What do you think why everyone wants to be a noble?"

  "Not for the nobles have the right of the first night?"*1 I have the smile on my face, I learn about this from the soapy literature.

  "Looking for some beat-ups?" my father smiles and yells, "if you dare to do so, see your mama will eat you or not!"

  ............

  A month later, after I bring the guards to run everywhere in my fiefdom with my brothers, we find a place like that finally.

  We stand on the top of a hill, we look at a huge chunk of a plain in front of us.

  "Boss, are you sure that this is the place?" Hairt asks.

  "Yes," I answer him, "in the whole fiefdom we have searched, here is the most appropriate place."

  "Boss, it's so normal over here!" Moah turns to look back, "I can't see anything special that it has."

  "Yes," Marf says too, "boss, would you please explain it to us what you think about it?"

  "We can start from the geographical position to say," I beckon Jack to open the map, "this place is between the Dark Forest and the Sea of Death, it's not far from the trade route, it's not too far from the ocean port. The transportation is very convenient, it can be developed into a commercial city."

  "Commercial city?"

  "That means it can make a lot of money!"

  "Next, we can start from the angle of battle strategy." looking at my brothers all nodded their heads with half understanding, I have the wry smile in my heart, it appears that I should give them some tutorial lessons.

  "This land is very evenly and smooth, but surrounding it are all the hills, it has the desert ahead of it less than two hundred miles, it has the forest and high mountains behind of it. You can say like this, this is a good place to defend or attack."

  "But we are not in the national borders," says Jack, "why do we need to have the preparation for the military?"

  "Good question!" I praise Jack, "if one person has no long term considerations, he can hardly avoid troubles now and then. Even though we are not in the national borders, but those several stupid viceroys are not that great, they are right in front of us! I have read the war records, the enemy had fought to our Saint Capital once!"

  "It's so!"

  "Yes! Although we are the rear area here, but we still have the coastline need to be defended." I continue to say, "and, the deathless Prime Minister must not content to let us to get this fiefdom this easily. What method or way will he have to deal with us? We must have the early preparation for it."

  "Boss, what you mean is that... The Prime Minister will send someone to fight against us?"

  "I'm not sure about this. In short, you must remember one point." I say, "if someone is not our friend, he must be our enemy!"

  "We know now!"

  "The third point," I add, "we must build our city to a large scale, that means it must have the agricultural support. You see, our this plain, it has the fertile land and the rivers running in it. As long as we have enough farmers, it's a little case for it to be just a city of five hundred thousand people."

  "Five hundred thousand people? That's how many people?" Moah asks.

  "Let me explain this to you, all of the population in the Saint Capital is more than eight hundred thousand and less than one million."

  "But boss," Hairt says, "where do we to get so many people?"

  "Don't worry, we have the alien brothers, there are many refugees in the Dark Moon city there." I smile and look up at the sky, "no matter in where, at what time, people are all numberless as the sand and worthless."

  "Boss," Hairt says, "what are you talking about? We don't quite understand!"

  “Hairt, you think about this, how many pariahs in this world? How many slaves?”

  “I don’t know, boss. But there must be many.”

  "If we supply them the food to eat, the clothes to wear, and the hope to live." I look at Hairt, "do you think that a city of five hundred thousand can hold them all?"

  "I... Don't know...!" Hairt almost gets his eyes fall down to the ground.

  "Now we don't talk about these, Hairt!"

  "Yes! Boss!"

  "You bring a pair of guards and my warrants to contact the dwarves and the elves. Tell Waldi and Wensly everything about here, I need their helps. The dwarves take the responsible for the stones, the elves take the responsible for the wood. And by the way to notice the blood-sucking vampire race."

  "Yes, boss!"

  "Moah! You go to the sand-man race and the wing-man race, the same task. Ask Wen an Morgadi them to supply the craftsmen!"

  "Yes, boss!"

  "You two leave immediately! You must finish all of these in half a month, and bring back everything which I need!"

  "Boss, then what shall we two do?"

  "Marf, I'll give you the design sketches of the Darkness city in three days, you stay here to assist the preparation work for the earlier stage. Jack and I will go back to the Saint Capital three days later!"

  "What do we go back there for? Boss?"

  "Go back there for the money!"

  In the next three days, I put my own first urban city design on numerous occasions. I transfer the few building knowledge in my memory, I reference the urban planning mode that I know, again and again, I modify the design repeatedly. I finish the design finally.

  The Darkness city on the drawing is ten miles wide and ten miles deep. The city is divided into four parts by two main streets, every part is divided into numerous districts by the roads again. The drainage, the health, the supply, the defense... Everything, as long as I can think of , is all reflected in this urban design.

  By contrast, the wall is easy to be designed. I flick my pen easily, one tall and one short, two layers, the wall with four gates is there.

  I hand the designs to Marf and explain the detailed method for a whole day, then I just notice that my design is not that easily to be understood by the normal people. I have no other choice, I write down tens of text pages. They will give the detailed explanations to every design on the drawings. And I am delayed one more day, it seems to me when I have a work in the future, I need to calculate my advanced thinking and the people's acceptance in.

  ............

  Jack and I ride on the horses galloping on the way to the Saint Capital, all the guards follow behind us closely, they are moved to work for me by my father. And even some of these people have been watching me to grow up. For example... Like uncle Meza.

  "Boss," J asks by my side, "why are we in a rush like this?"

  "I want to get there before my father leaves to go back to the Dark Moon city!" I don't even look back, "with my father's help, we can have the chance to get more money!"

  We don't talk no longer. Day after day, we have no stop. Once again when we see the Saint Capital, we are all having the floating dust on the faces in the rosy sunset, we don't look much better than the refugees.

  For me, the gate of the Sai
nt Capital is familiar with tenderness, but now standing under the city gate, my mood is not that well, because... We are held up by some people.

  The one blocking my way is an infantry captain, he has the look that he feels good about himself, he has his light infantry armor wiped cleanly, he has his hand holding on the handle of the sword which is hung on his waist. He speaks to us, "the gate will be shut down right soon! Nobody can enter now!"

  "Will soon be shut, and this is not shut yet! Why do you not let us enter into the gate?" along the way to here, all the troubles are negotiated by uncle Meza.

  "You have the weapons in hands! You can't enter the city if I say so!"

  "We are the guards for the viceroy of the Darkness city! Our viceroy is right here! Let us enter!" uncle Meza makes his utmost effort to right for the point of view.

  "I said, you can't enter! Even the viceroy of the Dark Moon city comes, I still will not let him enter!"

  The days long journey has already made me very tired, and I worry about that my father will have an early return to the Dark Moon city, my mood is not very good already, plus a small infantry captain stands blocking in front of us, I am getting my temper lost.

  I urge the horse forward and come to uncle Meza's side, I look at the infantry captain carefully.

  "Your Viceroy, I'm sorry." uncle Meza apologizes to me, "all of the garrisons in the Saint Capital are the same like this way."

  "Don't apologize, uncle Meza." I smile, "this is not your responsibility."

  "I'm Kone Cada! I now order you with the identity of the viceroy of the Darkness city and the viscount to let us enter through." I speak to the infantry captain.

  "I'm sorry! Your Sir." this failure people looks at me and says, "I only listen to the command of the department of the urban defense and the department of the army."

  "My sir viceroy," uncle Meza comes to me and speaks to me in a low voice, "the department of the urban defense and the department of army are the guys of the Prime Minister's faction."

  I give him a nod, it seems that it's not so easy to solve this case today.

  The louder and louder brawl moves more and more people gathered to here. Some passer-bys, some residents of the city, and even some of the guards stick their heads out to check it out over the city wall. The infantry captain has a satisfied face... With the identity of a small captain to hold up a noble viceroy, it must be a thing worth bragging about... But to me, being held up by a small captain, my fame in the Saint Capital can't be so wonderful...

  "You really don't want to let us enter? Decided?" I give a ready to begin glance to my subordinates, "but we do have emergency officially."

  "Your Sir can come back here again for your urgent business tomorrow!"

  "Ahh!" this failure holds his face with his both hands and howls loudly.

  "Let's go!" I give the order, more than twenty horses rush through the gate, the guards standing in the gate tunnel get a lot of whips.

  "Catch them! Send the alarm!" someone shouts like this.

  I have to stop my horse, once the alarm starts, it means the invasion from the outer enemy, this case will be made into a huge one...

  (Note1: The right of the first night, It's a kind of special right for the nobles. In the noble's fiefdom, when a girl gets married, the first night who she serves is not her husband but the aristocracy. The law trample the legal personality very much, it began in the south England.)