The long fairy road is wonderful

Chapter 1050 Catch the Thief

The Kingdom of Tahaka is not that big. After all, the name Tahaka means 'Land of Nine Cities', which shows what kind of small country it is.

But the Yellild Empire is obviously smaller and has a small number of soldiers. It is really uncertain how much benefit it can win during the civil strife in Tahaka.

In addition, the Yellild Empire can't stretch its hand too far, because in the east of Tahaka, there is a more powerful kingdom of Palendish, whose land area is more than three times that of Tahaka.

More than half of the land in Palundxiu is near the sea, and it is just at the end of the Gray Ridge Mountains. Except for the city as a frontier fortress, almost all of the land is fertile plains suitable for farming.

The flowing water from the Grayridge Mountains irrigated the land and made the Kingdom of Palendish the most powerful country in the Kikka.

Originally, the Kingdom of Tahaka was also a part of Palen Dexiu, but it was later split. Palendexiu will definitely not let go of the good opportunity that Tahaka is in civil strife.

Originally, they could rely on natural moats to defend themselves, but now they are overwhelmed by the domestic turmoil. It will be a matter of time before Tahaka is divided up. When it is settled, Yellild will probably face Palun Dexiu, who is several times stronger than Tahaka.

However, Lin Tianci was not very interested in military politics, and Saili only briefly mentioned a few words, and then continued to introduce the Yellild Empire and the city named Ishgard.

"The Yellild Empire pursues an extremely strict theory of the superiority of the capable. Strictly speaking, there are no real nobles in the empire, because all titles are not hereditary, and the only exception is the throne of the emperor."

Because there were more and more people on the street, Celie lowered her voice a bit:

"However, even the emperor's direct blood relatives will be relegated to common people if they refuse to work hard and only know how to spend their days and nights. This has happened several times in the history of the empire. Even the emperor's children are like this. The lower nobles Treat your children more severely, and the common people will naturally learn to behave."

It feels like Lin Tianci can't survive in the Yellilde Empire...

It should be said that he was lucky that he didn't cross over here, otherwise he would definitely be whipped to work in the mine now.

"The empire never supports idlers. Conversely, capable people will get an extremely superior living environment on the empire's side. There is no political compromise, and no intrigue among big businessmen. It is a very ideal and very active social structure”

What Sai Li said gradually began to be incomprehensible, but it was science popularization anyway, so it didn't matter if she understood or not.

"All children here will receive a five-year compulsory education from the age of 6. All expenses are funded by the state, which provides the empire with a large number of outstanding talents, but it is a pity that their land area is too small and the natural environment It's bad, otherwise it would have already become an important behemoth in the strange world."

Compulsory education is really awesome. Even in the relatively peaceful and prosperous Eastern China, it is impossible for every child to go to private schools for free. Now only the Wanshu faction can do this, but the recruitment of students is also based on merit.

This is a compromise that had to be made based on limited resources.

Not to mention the other planes Brother Lin has been to, illiteracy is the norm, not many people can write their own names, and many people don’t know a single character, so a character like a magician who deals with scrolls all the year round He is called a high-level intellectual in the magical world.

In fact, not to mention the multiverse world, even on the earth, it is extremely difficult to achieve universal compulsory education.

Western developed countries such as Europe and the United States rely on the wealth plundered from colonies or foreign wars to build themselves to achieve compulsory education. Even so, there were still many illiterates in the 20th century.

China is the only country on earth that has eradicated illiteracy and popularized compulsory education on its own. This is an incredible and great project.

In order to find a way out, the Yellild Empire has indeed made great efforts to comprehensively reform the social system and spend a lot of money to popularize compulsory education. These are all efforts made for the prosperity of the country. In comparison, the upper-level ruling institutions in many places seem too bloated and corrupt. .

To be precise, Yellilde's upper-level rulers are too enlightened and rational, and even Saili has a very high opinion of them. Looking at the entire multiverse world, it is really Yellilde who can rule the country like this One copy of the empire, no semicolons.

"Wait a minute, don't rush to popularize science, is there anyone from the White Hands Association here in Ishgard?"

If she didn't interrupt Sally's business, the girl could talk until dark.

"Yes, there are, but the distribution in Ishgard City is all very low-level contact points, and the only high-level contact point was pulled out not long ago."

The White Hands Association is a group of information dealers. No matter how hard the fight between other forces is, anyone who buys information will not be rejected, and they dare to sell any information, as long as they give money.

This group of people who wander in the gray area will naturally not be welcomed by the ruling institutions.

The contact points of the White Hands Association cannot be exposed. Most of the time, they are similar to baseless urban legends, but once exposed, it will inevitably lead to a large-scale encirclement and suppression.

"The person in charge is such an idiot that he actually lured the spies of the empire to his stronghold, but it's not a big problem."

Although there are levels between the contact points of the White Hands Association, they are all parallel to each other, which means that each other does not know the specific situation of the other party, so if a contact point is cut off, as long as the upper layer quickly gets rid of the relationship, the loss is only Just a point of contact, not uprooted.

"The rest of the very low-level contact points do not have magical communication capabilities. The information they collect can only be transmitted through manpower, and then reach me layer by layer. For the same reason, I ordered them to also have to be transferred layer by layer. Hand it over, so it is far less responsive than in the water capital, and it may take a few days to arrive here."

That is to say, it's useless to get intelligence support from the White Hands Association in a short period of time, but Lin Tianci doesn't care, anyway, it's not bad for a few days, he can use this time to wander around by himself, maybe he will meet him first.

Having said that, since Sai Li's order will take a few days to arrive, why didn't Brother Lin find the local contact point of the White Hands Association by himself?

First of all, the branch of the White Hands Association didn't know Lin Tianci, and they didn't even know the brooch representing Sai Li at all.

After all, they are shady spies. Even in the face of customers who buy information, they will order food. Even if strangers can find a contact point, they will not get any useful information.

Secondly, Celie doesn't know where the contact point of the White Hands Association is in Ishgard. It's true that she is the behind-the-scenes boss of the White Hands Association, but it's impossible to know everything about it.

Just like if you ask the president of a super-large group where a small employee who works under him is, he will definitely look confused. If you don't look for it in the personnel department, you won't be able to find it.

Lin Tianci needs to find a hotel or other place as a temporary base first. After having a foothold, when Saili's order arrives in Ishgard, the contact person of the White Hands Association will definitely come to the door by himself.

So he walked along the road while thinking about going to change some money first.

Of course, the currencies of different countries are also different. In his pocket, he has some currency of the Taharaka Kingdom and some currency of the Water Capital, but there is no currency of the Yellild Empire.

First find a bank or a pawn shop, and exchange the hard currency in the dimension pocket, such as gold and gemstones, for some money, then go to the hotel, and after confirming the foothold, walk around, waiting for the White Hands Association to come to the door.

The course of action is roughly like this, the first step is to exchange money first.

Just as she was about to ask Celie if she knew where the bank in Ishgard was, she heard someone shouting on the road ahead, 'Stop the thief! '.

Lin Tianci looked up and saw a nimble figure in a gray cloak quickly passing through the crowd. Two guards wearing thin breastplates and shining all over were chasing after him and shouting to stop.

It was probably because the guards were catching the thief, but there were quite a few passers-by on the road who were anxious and righteous. When they heard this, many people hurriedly stood on the way of the thief's escape, trying to help the guards catch him.

However, the thief ran very fast and was very flexible. He easily got rid of the pedestrians who tried to stop him after a few turns, and his speed did not decrease much.

Most importantly, looking at the direction, he seemed to be heading towards Lin Tianci.

Brother Lin glanced at the side of the road and saw a trash can filled with waste newspapers. He took out the newspaper and shook it vigorously when the thief passed by him.

After all, he is a player who often plays with talismans, and he is also very proficient in playing with soft things like newspapers. The unfolded newspaper directly pastes on the thief's face, making him unable to see the way for a moment.

Just as he reached out his hand to tear off the newspaper that blocked his view, the thief immediately felt his body floating in the air...

Because little brother Lin whipped him and tripped him directly, the leather bag that seemed to be snatched from his arms rolled out, and some scattered coins jingled and fell on the ground .

When he was falling in a daze, Lin Tianci jumped and landed on the back of the thief, stretched out his hand to push the thief's arm away, and pressed him firmly to the ground.

At this moment, the out of breath guard who was chasing after him finally arrived, and hurriedly took out heavy handcuffs and handcuffed the thief. Another guard said:

"Well done, thank you for your courage."

"You're welcome, just take it easy."

If it was Brother Lin in his previous life, he would have to run away from this kind of thing. After all, the risk of being brave is very high.

But in this life, don't worry about it so much.

Another guard pulled the thief to his feet, said 'be quiet', and tore off the newspaper that had covered his face.

According to Lin Tianci's usual love luck, the possibility of the thief being a girl is very high, but this time it is obviously not.

It was a man who looked to be in his teens, probably at the high school level at most, he gave Brother Lin a sideways look, and muttered something.

"By the way, Mr. Guard, I want to ask where there is a bank nearby."

"bank?"

The guard looked Lin Tianci up and down, and then said:
"Look at your appearance, you should be a foreign traveler. If you are not here for business or visiting relatives, I suggest you go to the Walnut Bar first."

Why would you recommend a bar when you ask where the bank is?

(End of this chapter)