Riding and Slashing

Five years later……

Fog Cage City.

Today's Fog Cage City is different from ten years ago.

The crowds in the street are still coming and going, the business of craftsmen is still booming, and the sound of selling is still endless...

But there are no 'craftsmen' who wandered around the streets. Instead, there are security police patrolling around.

The arena in the center of the city is still full of people, but this time it is not holding a competition, but a public lecture.

"I am Andrew Brandon, dear friends. I am grateful for your renomination for mayor, but unfortunately, I have decided to retire...today is my last day as mayor and my Speaking to you here for the last time..."

A fat man weighing at least three hundred catties was speaking to the citizens on the high platform of the Fog Cage City Arena.

"You have all seen that it is really not easy for me to climb this high platform...it is also very dangerous-I am not sure when this platform will be crushed by me, I can already hear it creaking... So, goodbye, dear friends."

This fat man named Andrew is an old acquaintance of Li Ang.

Boss of the Fogcage Arena.

Four years ago, that is, in March 360 of the Pan Deli calendar, Andrew was elected by the merchants and citizens of Mistcage City as the spokesperson, and had a friendly negotiation with King Vidis.

The process of the negotiation is unknown, but everyone knows the outcome of the negotiation——Since then, King Vidis left the Mistcage City, and Andrew became the first 'mayor' elected by the people on the continent of Pendor .

It didn't take long for King Vidis to declare that he regarded the New Pendor Empire as the suzerain state, and with the support of Emperor Leon, he took the second and eighth legions of the peacekeeping force to his hometown of Vanskerry.

In the autumn of 360 Pandeli, Klose, the commander of the Second Legion, returned to Mistcage City with his troops, announcing that Queen Agnus of Vanskerry died of illness, and Vidis became the new King of Vanskerry.

Vidis and Earl Edin never returned to Pendor Continent, they stayed in their hometown.

After this, there was a commotion in Fieldsville for a while, and some minor disturbances occurred.

Under the suppression of the peacekeeping forces, the riots subsided after only one month, and then Fierdsway was divided into three independent city-states.

Wucage City, Guangxiao Bay, Fengyu Port.

Merchants and pirates, native West Coast aristocrats, smugglers and slave traders—three kinds of people, three powers.

Most of the pirates have already left Smoky Cage City with Vidis, and the merchants represented by Andrew have implemented self-government in the area around Smog Cage City, and announced that they will no longer retain large-scale private armed forces, and fully obey the policies of the New Pendor Empire. It became a direct-controlled county of the New Pendor Empire.

The nobles of Guangxiao Bay declared their independence and illegally established a country with the Knights of Dawn as the main body—Knights of Dawn Kingdom.Subsequently, they launched a 'Holy War', regarding the New Pendor Empire and the believers of the God of Wealth as heresies.However, this unwise behavior was quickly suppressed...

And Fengyu Port is more sensible. The smugglers and slave traders who control this area approached Ramon, hoping to cooperate with Ramon, and use Ramon's influence to make Fengyu Port and Singal It also retains the status of an independent city-state.

The final result was that Filzway, which was divided into three independent city-states, became the three counties of the New Pendor Empire.

With Li Ang's strong support and Andrew's efforts, Fog Cage City quickly recovered and became the most prosperous city on the west coast.

Fengyu Port was taken over by Ramon and sold to Li Ang at a price of one dinar——Ramon has done a big business of selling cities again, but the price is really ridiculously cheap.

On the other side of Guangxiao Bay, Paladin Roland personally led the army and uprooted this illegal "Knights of the Dawn" - from the time Roland led the troops to the surrender of Guangxiao Bay, it only took a month, and all the way was destroyed. There is really nothing to say about a 2-strong army besieging 2000 people...

The Knights of the New Dawn and the Knights of the Twilight also completed a real merger in the short war, and the Knights of the Dawn returned to their original appearance.

After the full surrender of the "Knights", Roland personally built the same sculpture group as the Changhe City Square in Guangxiao Bay.

Although Roland still devoutly believed in the Goddess of Justice, he had clearly understood that - letting people live and work in peace and contentment is the ultimate justice.

It doesn't matter what god you believe in or what sect you belong to.

The most important thing is to serve the people and lead them to a happier life.

Just like the three queens are doing.

As the mayor of Fog Cage City, Andrew is well aware of what the three queens, Amy, Wentilef, and Alina, have done in the past few years.

In other words, everything Leon did.

After all, he himself has only been following Li Ang's policies in the past few years, without doing anything extra, but the Fog Cage City has become prosperous and stable again, and it is much neater and more orderly than before.

Even Buckley's sea merchants exclaimed, "It's only been a few years, and Buckley has never seen such a stable and prosperous big city without even a beggar."

In fact, those uninformed Buckley people don't know what prosperity is at all.

Long River City is called a big city with more than 30 residents. There are at least ten "remote towns" like Fog Cage City in Pendor Continent.

After finishing his final speech and climbing down from the podium in the Fog Cage City Square with difficulty, Andrew got into an exquisite and gorgeous carriage.

This is the 'Alice' carriage, which was given to him by Li Ang on behalf of Alice.

After all, Andrew was Alice's 'adoptive father' before she was three years old.

In the carriage sat Andrew's son, an 11-year-old boy.

However, this child has a well-proportioned body and a handsome face. It seems that he has not inherited Andrew's obesity gene.

This child's name is Ryan, which is very similar to Li Ang's name, and he looks three points similar. This is why Andrew took care of the dying Li Ang back then. When Andrew met Li Ang, not long after Ryan was born, Andrew wanted to Accumulate some virtues for the children born in middle age.

"Father, you are only 50 years old, why are you retiring?"

Ryan stretched out his hand to close the car door for the overweight old man, and looked at the crowd still waving at Andrew outside the car window: "People love you very much, and they all say you have done a good job!"

"Haha...Actually, being the mayor of Fog Cage City is really an easy job. As long as you don't break the law, everyone can do it... Cough, Bieber, hurry up and drive, don't the citizens hear this? Great..."

Andrew wiped the sweat off his face, urged the 'driver' to leave quickly, and then waved goodbye to the window.

The groom known as Bieber drove the carriage out of the square and headed towards the main road leading to Long River City.

The citizens really loved Fatty Andrew very much. Even though the carriage left the square, people still waved at the carriage from behind. It was not until the carriage was completely out of sight that the crowd in Fogcage City gradually quieted down.

To the southeast of Wucage City, a new level road has been built, with a width of more than ten meters, leading all the way to Lion City.

Ryan has not forgotten his own question: "Father, is it really easy to be mayor? If it is easy, why did you retire after only one term?"

"It's certainly not easy to be the mayor, but it's very easy to be the first mayor of Fog Cage City... as long as you keep your duty and have a bottom line. I guess Bieber will be no worse than me..."

Andrew leaned comfortably on the sofa of the carriage and explained: "As for why I retired after only one term... I know what I am capable of, and the job for the next term will not be so simple—His Majesty Li Ang gave every city Both have set economic growth and people's living index growth indicators."

"Ha, boss, I'm not expected to be an official, I can only be a mercenary...or a coachman."

Bieber turned his head from the front driver's seat and said, the window of the compartment was not closed, it seemed that he heard Andrew's words.

"I don't quite understand...why is the first session easy, but the next session will be difficult? Is His Majesty Li Ang deliberately entrapping officials and lords everywhere?"

Ryan was still puzzled.

"He's not trying to entrap the officials... boy, don't listen to those fools who don't know the truth. It's just because everything I do as the mayor is done according to His Majesty Li Ang's orders-in fact, I have nothing Yes, Wucage City was developed into what it is today by His Majesty Li Ang. But the future development depends on the ability of the mayor and city officials. I don’t have the ability to turn stones into gold. Of course, I have to abdicate decently .”

Andrew patiently explained: "Besides, we don't lack anything now. His Majesty Li Ang left me a big villa in Changhe City. Of course I want to live a leisurely retirement life... by the way, I will accompany you to complete the studies."

"But I always hear people say that His Majesty Li Ang likes to entrap officials and nobles... People say that he is just a lucky guy who makes people jealous, but they all admit that he is a good emperor, and they praise him and scold him at the same time. I don't understand..."

Ryan frowned.

"Call him because his three wives are really enviable, and he's really not the kind of pure good person...Praise him because he has really made people's lives richer all these years-this is not contradictory, boy... ..."

Andrew pursed his lips and replied, probably recalling some past events.

"Not a purely good person? Haha... Boss, you can just say that His Majesty Li Ang is a villain, a lucky one who is favored by the three goddesses - anyway, he doesn't mind others saying that."

Bieber smiled back from the front row.

"Hahaha, don't make it so obvious...At least respect the achievements of Emperor Li Ang, or Ryan will misunderstand."

Andrew also laughed.

"Ryan, although we do all think that His Majesty Li Ang is a bad guy, it's only because we are all jealous of him. In fact, His Majesty Li Ang is indeed a respectable emperor—it took him only five years to make the vast majority of people in the entire continent Food and clothing, this is something that gods cannot do. I am also one of the people who have received his favor. Five years ago, I was just an alcoholic who lost everything. At that time, I just wanted to get drunk to death. But now , I have no worries about food and clothing, a decent job, a new family, and life is getting better and better."

Bieber nodded and stopped laughing, and said seriously to Ryan.

This seemingly inconspicuous coachman is actually an officer sent by the Long River Legion to protect Andrew. The Long River Legion is the legion developed by the Long River Express. , the Changhe Legion became the largest security force in the New Pendor Empire.

“Uncle Bieber, were you poor before?”

Ryan looked at Bieber with more doubts in his eyes.

He was a child who had no worries about food and clothing since he was a child, and Andrew never let him suffer.

But he knows what poverty is, and he remembers what the people in Mistcage City were like five years ago, even though he was only six years old at that time.

"I wasn't just poor before... Ha, I used to be a member of the drunkards. Have you ever heard of the drunkards?"

Bieber smiled and took out a wine bottle, sniffed it, but didn't drink it.

Driving without drinking is the law of the New Pendor Empire, and those who violate the law will be forced to reeducation through labor—most of the wide roads connecting major cities were built by people who broke the law.

There is a label on the wine bottle, the pattern is a logo of a bull's head with a broken horn, the label says 'drunkard wine', and a short story about a member of the drunkard group is written in small characters.

"I know the Drunkards, my father also likes the Drunkens, and every bottle has a story about the Drunkens, which is very interesting. Well, I have collected 35 labels with different stories, and the experience of Lord Alaric is very good. Wonderful."

Ryan had heard of the Drunken Guild, because it was indeed very famous-currently 'Drunkard Liquor' was already the most famous ale brand in the whole continent, and it was even exported to the continents of Buckley and Amara.

Five years ago, Alaric, who was recovering from weakness, got the support of Queen Wendy, and built a winery with some brothers who did not join the legion—in fact, those who were not selected by the legions were all unemployed By.

But at the beginning, Alaric faced a lot of difficulties-just like every manufacturing company when it first started, it was difficult to sell the product.

But then, Amy helped Alaric register the trademark of 'drunkard liquor'; The memoirs were adapted into short stories, and then printed into wine labels by a printing house.

Since then, every bottle of wine sold by Alaric has a small story. As long as it is not the same batch of wine produced in the same period, the story on the label will be different.

Many people will collect alcoholic liquor labels like Ryan, and even some non-drinkers will pay attention to alcoholic liquor in order to read stories.

Up to now, the little story on the wine bottle has extended from the members of the alcoholic group to other people, such as the experience of Klose or Leslie and others-they are also alcoholics.

Alaric had already started soliciting stories from alcoholics across the continent last year.

Today, Alaric is already a well-known rich man and philanthropist. The winery he built in Kewen Town has more than 6000 employees, and it is the largest winery in the whole continent. About half of the employees are disabled.

"Lian, you see, this is why all men are jealous of His Majesty Leon—the three queens, Amy, Wendy, and Alina, can make anyone rich, even those drunks who know nothing but drinking. Make a fortune under their guidance! And they are so beautiful...they are real goddesses..."

Bieber shakes the bottle at Ryan.

Although Ryan was only 11 years old, he seemed to understand: "In other words, His Majesty Li Ang was lucky enough to get the help of the three goddesses, which is why he is today..."

Andrew smiled and shook his head: "Haha, there are more than three, Alice is also a real goddess. But, child, haven't you noticed, why are all the goddesses the wives or mounts of His Majesty Leon? Why not others, but Where is His Majesty Li Ang?"

"Hmm... is he lucky? Good-looking? Will he please girls? Or... he is very good in some aspects?"

Ryan smirked as he spoke.

"Which bastard did you learn this from... My child, this is because whoever His Majesty Li Ang wants to become a goddess will become a goddess, including horses... Like I said, no matter who becomes a fog cage The mayor of the city, as long as he doesn’t violate the law in the past few years, he can do as well as me, even if a horse becomes the mayor, it’s fine.”

Andrew didn't smile this time, and neither did Bieber, who was driving in front of him.

Ryan froze for a moment, then nodded half-understanding: "I probably understand."