Tang Qi Tan

Chapter 536
"This is the city of Seine." Everyone, including Jiang Tian, ​​was looking at the sun from a distance, standing at both ends of the river island in the center of the Seine River, the huge city and the seemingly endless city wall; There are also densely packed towering buildings with distinctive tops in different shapes.

This is the most prestigious gemstone and pearl on the crown of the Kingdom of Sealand. The prestigious metropolis of the Western Continent was once the dream of countless people in the Kingdom of Sealand. It represents the most advanced fashion and enjoyment methods. The promised land where wealth gathers and flows.

But many people, including Jiang Tian's predecessor, left countless loves and hatreds, and experienced all kinds of joys and sorrows. Finally, after many tragic barricade battles, under the butcher's knife encircled and suppressed by the five dukes, they followed Familiar faces fell down, desperately escaping from here.

Therefore, after suffering and turmoil, the city of Seine has long since lost its glory and dignity; not only the once-prosperous suburban residential areas and water and land markets have long since become devastated and dilapidated; even the damage on the city wall is Without repairs, weeds grow.

In fact, as a super metropolis that gathers the royal family and most of the nobles, chambers of commerce and wealthy people in the country; the scale of Seine City is also constantly expanding and extending during the change of dynasties.From the small city of Xidai on the river island in the Frankish era to the large urban areas across the two banks.

Therefore, the city wall that Jiang Tian can see at present is not actually the outer city wall in the true sense; it is a city wall called "tax-payer".It was also the most prosperous era of the Sealand Kingdom, a gift project dedicated to "Mr. Terrible" by the taxpayers in the territory.

Of course, there are other inside stories that are circulated among the people.These special businessmen who were entrusted with all aspects of tax collection felt that the private smuggling and black market activities in the capital city of Seine were rampant, which had seriously affected the tax sources they used to make profits; in addition, the Horror Secretary rectified the tax system.

Therefore, these groups of taxpayers joined together, spent a huge amount of money lobbying the court, and opened up joints in front of "Mr. Horror"; only then were they allowed to fund the construction of such a road, which divided the large residential areas and clusters outside the city. City, also included in the peripheral new city wall.

Therefore, this taxpayer city wall is not considered high, and there is no gatehouse in the usual sense, only ten tax cards.Rather than being used to defend against foreign enemies, it is better to say that it is used to block those dynamic folk groups who are trying to smuggle/tax evade inside and outside the capital, and it also provides convenience for tax collection.

However, not long after the birth of the taxpayer's city wall, it was soon surrounded by more outlying residential areas and markets.On the inside of the taxpayer's city wall, there are also various factories, workshops, and river wharfs, and the most polluted urban area is called the lower urban area.

In contrast, the city of Seine was built in the era of the Lily Dynasty. The outer city wall in the true sense and many majestic gate towers are surrounded by a huge city called the outer ring area; it is also where the vast majority of poor and poor people live. The main block, where the various guilds and trade markets are located.

According to the distribution in the north-south direction of the Seine River, it is divided into the left bank area and the right bank area; each of them is divided into different communities, such as the expatriate area where foreigners live; various advanced colleges, church schools, vocational schools, Training center, concentrated college area....

Therefore, in this outer ring area that occupies most of the city of Seine, it also gathers the most colorful architectural styles on the mainland; from the ancient Roman style single-family building "Insula" to the southern Italian style columns Towers, to Gothic steeples, to Norman style longhouses.

However, it is the most quintessential part of the capital, located from the Rose Dynasty to the Acacia Dynasty, the inner ring city wall was continuously built and reinforced, and the upper city/inner ring area surrounded; it is also the residence of most wealthy businessmen, nobles and ministers, Government departments, composed of upper-class communities.

It has the most dense jewelry, clothing, accessories and other luxury stores and dedicated service workers, well-maintained public facilities and security environment, and the most luxurious entertainment venues.There are also several royal palaces with different purposes and many other gardens and imperial properties.

This is also the final confluence of the ancient elevated aqueducts across the city, as well as several drainage channels and artificial canals; and in a sense, part of the Seine River flowing through the city will be transformed into dignitaries and wealthy families. Use yachts and flower boats to go boating on the surface of the inland river.

In addition, it is the castle area located on the river island in the center of Seine; it is also the predecessor of Seine City, the original royal palace established by the Kingdom of Sealand.But in fact, since the end of the Rose Dynasty, the royal family has not lived in the small city on the river island because of the flood and humidity.

Instead, they chose to build several other palaces of different sizes on the terraces on the left and right banks; as the monarch and members of the royal family lived daily, accepted audiences and dealt with government affairs, held religious ceremonies, reviewed the royal army, hunted and feasted. , summer and winter.

And in the era of King Scorching Sun and King Scorching Sun, in order to solve the problem of the city's rapidly increasing population, which has become increasingly narrow and congested, and traffic congestion; they ordered the demolition of a large section of the city wall from the inner ring city to the left and right banks of the outer ring. ; This gave birth to the more peripheral taxpayer walls.

Coupled with the chaos and disorder in the city of Senna between the abdication of the deposed king and the blood moon tragedy, the citizens were encouraged to demolish more bricks and stones of the city wall and use them for other purposes.Therefore, in a sense, the current capital, Seine City, is no longer a city with complete walls.

Therefore, in the change of governments and continuous turmoil in the past, the ability to block and resist the wave after wave of armed forces from different camps pouring into the capital is more often due to the densely packed buildings and narrow streets in the urban area, as well as in the community. It is nothing more than a barricade built by the citizens.

In other words, the battles that could determine the ownership of the city of Seine in the previous dynasties have basically decided the outcome before entering this city.But now, apart from this thin and low "tax-payer" city wall, there seems to be nothing that can stop the Freedom Army.

Therefore, while the mighty army was approaching the outskirts of Seine City; Jiang Tian also successively released hundreds of cannons of various types from the "Dimension Bubble" module, and trucks filled with ammunition and food; Come to break through the fortress and attack the city with all kinds of equipment...

At the same time, in the inner ring area of ​​Seine City, outside the mansion of the newly married ceremonial officer Rafaro, the watchers who were wandering around the street corners, or arranged for the gatekeepers and shops opposite; , as the owner of the mansion, I don't know when it will be empty.

In fact, at this moment, Lafaro has arrived secretly. It is located in a downtown wharf on the left bank of the outer ring of the city, in a warehouse that has been vacant for many days.And here, the subordinates he recruited and developed in the capital over the years in the name of manipulating and operating the black market gathered here one after another.

Then, as these people arrived one after another, there was a fresh smell of blood permeating the air, and they turned into corpses that were put into sacks, tied with stones, and thrown into the nearby river.Most of them are the eyeliners placed by the municipal government or the police department, or even the kingdom's secret bureau and other nobles.

At least at the moment when the Freedom Army approached the city, there was no need to keep these unstable factors deliberately used to paralyze others.Therefore, all kinds of weapons that had already been brought in through secret channels in the warehouse were also distributed on the spot, entrained and transported to more strongholds.

Of course, Rafaro never expected that these piecemeal armed men hiding in shantytowns/slums could pose much threat and influence to the defense of the capital; but at this critical moment, are they capable and willing to do so? Doing it is a completely different matter.

In fact, he was also very abrupt and shocked when he suddenly received the news that the Freedom Army was about to approach the city; because in his expectation, there were still at least a few key battles, which disrupted his secret progress in disguise. ; but it also allowed him to finally be freed.

In fact, he has been hiding his true mission, mixing among those drunk and dreaming dignitaries, playing a certain extravagant and lustful role, and he can't help but have some kind of schizophrenic wavering; when he dreams back at midnight, he can't tell the difference Which one is the real self.

After rushing to several secret strongholds one after another, and successively activated his various arrangements to create chaos and confuse the public in the city; Rafaro finally came to the security sub-station in the Left Bank District.He certainly didn't come to surrender, but to help someone finally make up his mind...

(End of this chapter)