The Book of Heaven

Chapter 35 Home City

A frontier is a frontier.

As far as Ma Zheng knows, a corporal head is only worth five hundred dollars in other places, and only Zhuangziying can exchange it for one tael of silver. title.

Now that they were almost at their destination, Ma Zheng asked Ma Zhao to stop and search for a suitable place. The two of them dug and buried their armor and other identification items, and changed into the camouflage clothes they carried with them. Ma Zheng was carrying a stick, and Ma Zhao's two big-headed knives were wrapped in cloth strips and tied behind his back before he started on the road again.

The town of Da Yuezhi three miles away is called "Holm". There really is no special translator for the Han Empire. The Han Empire is too big, so no one will worry about these small things, but it is just a small town with a permanent population of less than 2. In fact, during the war, a [-]-strong infantry of the Han Empire could easily take it down without much loss.

But for the ordinary people of the twelve races living in this wild northwest, every fixed town is a paradise in their hearts.

With the protection of high walls and soldiers, you don’t have to worry about horse thieves coming and going on the grassland like the wind. With solid red brick houses, you don’t have to worry about the white-haired wind in winter.

More importantly, each town often automatically becomes a trading center for the nearby area. In this kind of town with rich merchants and supplies, as long as there is such a small industry, it can easily maintain the life of the family. Hard times.

Home is also the largest and almost the only trading center in the vicinity. Although it is not far from the border of the Han Empire, once a large-scale war broke out between the two sides, it will bear the brunt of it. But how long has it been since the Da Yueshi and the Han Empire officially fought?
I am afraid that the people living in the city of Home now have already forgotten the blood and blood enmity between their own race and the Han people.

On the contrary, most people living in Homem like to deal with Han people, of course, they are the kind of merchants who drive teams of horse-drawn carriages and bring various Han people's goods.

So even though Ma Zheng's image is a bit shabby, and Ma Zhao's figure is rather abrupt, but he still passed the gate of Home City with ease, and the guards of the Da Yue Clan standing at the gate showed no hostility at all, so they just let him go. After two people.

In addition to the openness of Home City, Ma Zheng's childish face and Ma Zhao's appearance that is not human, let alone Han, are also extremely important factors.

The shops facing the street, the vendors on the side of the road, and the salesmen pushing carts made Ma Zheng feel a little stunned for a moment.

Even in Majiapu, he had never seen such a prosperous scene, and what he saw were almost all Chinese-style buildings, regardless of skin color and race, and almost all spoke fluent Chinese, which made Ma Zheng feel that he What I arrived at was not an enemy town, but the English Street, French Street, or Yinren Street in China, which can be generally called "Yiren Street".

Seeing these Ma Zheng couldn't help but feel regretful.

Think about it, in that world, countless young people used to fantasize about, or fantasize about, when they would come up with a CET-[-] and CET-[-] exam on the Internet. In this world, the Han Empire has already done it.

It is not necessary for the Han Empire to promulgate any decrees, but it can make all the barbarians come to court one after another. Perhaps this is the style that an empire should have.

After a momentary feeling, Ma Zheng did not dare to forget the mission of coming to Home City.

From the guards at the gate of the city to the patrolling soldiers in the city, Ma Zheng silently calculated that although there was no war, as the only commercial and trade distribution center within a few hundred miles, the city of Home was actually quite astonishingly rich. Don't pay attention to it.

The garrison of Home City is marked on Ma Detu's map, and the number has reached at least 3000.

The population base of the Da Yue Clan is not even a fraction of that of the empire, and its military strength is naturally far inferior. Therefore, in the empire, a lieutenant like Ma Detu can command tens of thousands, or even tens of thousands of people. , It is estimated that there are 5000 people under his command.

"That is to say, there is no shortage of corporal chiefs and sentry lieutenants here, and there are even several military marquises and Sima. If you are lucky, you may even meet a school lieutenant."

A group of patrol soldiers with bright armor and sharp knives had just passed by. They looked mighty, but Ma Zheng could feel that they were beyond gold and jade.

He looked at this team of patrolling soldiers and licked his upper lip, as if he saw a lot of military achievements, especially the leader who should be a corporal, with a pair of dark circles under his eyes and sloppy footsteps, he didn't know how many wives and aunts he had slept with last night , or riding a few rouge horses.

With officers and soldiers of such strength, Ma Zheng felt that even if he didn't make a move, Ma Zhao could easily take them down by himself.

A series of strange sounds came from around him, Ma Zheng couldn't help but sighed and turned his head, his eyes glanced at Ma Zhao.

The idiot turned his head away in shame. He didn't want to meet Ma Zheng's eyes, but when he didn't pay attention, he saw a barbecue seller on the side of the road. The yellow barbecue hanging on the window sill immediately made Ma Zhao look at him again. I can't move my eyes either.

Ma Zheng was looking at the situation, but his body trembled immediately, and he couldn't move his eyes any longer.

"Baked kids?"

The stupid guy's eyes are wide open, and his big mouth full of scorched teeth can't be closed. Although he is so hungry that his internal organs rebel, but looking at the thing with a head and limbs hanging on the window of the barbecue shop, his face is full of tears. Thriller.

"Hey, that's not a child!"

Ma Zheng almost looked at the flower at first glance, he really thought he was roasting a child so wicked, and he didn't see the clue until he looked at the ass of that thing.

Those were not half-grown children, but monkeys, their skins were roasted to pieces, and it was easy for people who didn't know the details to mistake them.

"How about we get one?"

Seeing the idiot still trembling, Ma Zheng became playful, but even if he knew he wasn't a child, he still couldn't get up if Ma Zheng cut a piece and chewed it.

Ma Zhao let out a strange cry, causing many people around to look at the two of them, a man who looked like a king kong, actually coquettishly looked like a little girl.

"If you don't eat, you won't eat even if you're starving to death!"

It was Ma Zhao's first time refusing to eat meat.

Ma Zheng couldn't help laughing out loud, which dispelled a lot of the haze in his heart for the past two days.

Although it caused crowds to watch, the openness of Home City was surprising. When Ma Zheng and Ma Zhao took another step, those people smiled kindly and dispersed.

Looking for a restaurant opened by a Han Chinese again, Ma Zhao started to concentrate on eating and drinking, but he didn't care about the scenery around him.

The two of them were looking for a seat facing the street and by the window, so Ma Zheng could just listen to the gossip of the diners in the restaurant, and watch the people coming and going downstairs with his eyes.

Sitting at the next table behind Ma Zheng were four young men, judging from their attire, they should belong to a certain sect or gang. Even the long knives leaning on the table were of the same standard.Ma Zheng squinted his eyes as if he was looking at the scenery, but his ears were actually on the guests at the table.

Just because he just heard that behind his back he was talking about a major event that was about to happen in the Great Yuezhi Kingdom - the Great Yuezhi Kingdom recruited troops, recruited knights from all corners of the country, and gave them high officials and generous salaries.

(End of this chapter)