The natural hot spring hotel in Sedika is indeed a unique feature of this era.
Zhao Ziliang and others lay in the hot spring water and soaked in it, washing away the dust and fatigue from the journey, sweating all over, and feeling particularly refreshed and energetic.
Zhang Huchen washed his face and shouted: "Sir, come to a bar and drink some wine while you're at it.
I think it's easier to get rid of fatigue."
"That's okay."
Zhao Ziliang agreed and shouted to the waiter standing outside the pool: "Man, bring some of the best wine you have here."
The waiter outside the door agreed: "Okay, sir."
Zhao Ziliang looked at Phyllis and asked: "Phyllis, when was the last time you came to Sedica?"
"Last March, I remember it was very cold here," Phyllis said.
"It seems that you are quite familiar with this place.
Tomorrow you will take us to see various places."
"No problem, this is also the location of the Thracian Military District.
The Thracian Military District is one of the most important military districts among all the military districts in the Eastern Roman Empire.
The military district commander plays an important role in the high-level power circle of the empire.
The official residence of the military district commander It was the original Governor's Palace, but previous wars had a great impact on the city's The buildings were greatly damaged.
The only things that have not been damaged in the past few hundred years are churches and these hot spring hotels.
Although this place is located in a remote area, it is actually one of the political centers of the empire.
It not only has churches, schools, city halls, The Governor's Palace, as well as the theater, the market to the west and the slave market to the east."
Sedica was not a big city at this time, but Zhao Ziliang and others still spent a whole day shopping the next day.
They visited the entire Sedica, even the military camps and city walls in the city.
This was mainly due to the power of money. .
Just after returning to the hotel that afternoon, Phyllis whispered to Zhao Ziliang: "Sir, we seem to be being watched."
Zhao Ziliang had long known that someone was staring at them.
This started when they were eating in a pub at noon.
Throughout the afternoon, someone was staring at them.
He asked: "Who do you think it is?"
Phyllis said: "I think it is a local force.
If it is not an official force, it should be a local power here."
"Why are they targeting us?"
Phyllis said: "To be honest, I think it's because you are Easterners that there are very few Easterners here.
Even if Easterners want to go to the Frankish Kingdom further away, they usually take the Mediterranean via Italy.
It's too dangerous to go here.
Don't It seems that this is the territory of the Eastern Roman Empire, but it is located on the border, and there are all kinds of people.
Not only the villains who escaped from the south, but also many adventurers from the interior, as well as the descendants of the surrounding Germanic people, and even more Avars, Bulgars and Slavs” Zhao Ziliang had roughly figured out the situation of the garrison here during the day when he was shopping.
There were about 10,000 garrison troops.
This was the intersection of the three kingdoms.
Ten thousand garrison troops from the Eastern Roman Empire were not considered too many.
If they were It's really troublesome for the official forces to target them.
If they are just local gangsters, Zhao Ziliang is not worried.
At worst, they will kill each one.
These people are colluding with officials and gangsters.
Zhao Ziliang nodded and said, "Okay, I understand, let's have dinner first, and then we'll talk after dinner."
The group of people had dinner in the hotel room.
The dinner was brought back from outside.
The food was rich, including bread, red wine, roast beef, mutton, and roast chicken.
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While eating, Zhao Ziliang told Liang Zhenwu: "There are a few people watching outside.
Send a few people to have a look and find someone to find out where these people are from."
Whether it is official forces or local gangsters, it is nothing to Zhao Ziliang.
What he is worried about is the sneak attacks by the old guys who are practicing in the Eastern Roman Empire.
Of course, with his ability, he is not afraid of sneak attacks by those people.
Worried about Liang Zhenwu, Zhang Huchen and the other nineteen Dragon Guard soldiers.
"Yes" Liang Zhenwu agreed and assigned three people to go out to investigate the situation.
After a while, one of the guards came back and reported: "Sir, I asked the owner of the hotel to find out.
The people I targeted should be local mercenaries.
These people specialize in targeting strangers.
The owner of the hotel asked us to Be careful, he said those people may be interested in our horses, and the other two brothers are watching them."
Zhao Ziliang nodded.
This is possible.
There are more than 20 people in their group but they have more than a hundred horses.
Such horses are nothing to the army and officials, but they are a large amount of property to ordinary people.
You must know that in the East In the Roman Empire, the ownership of horses belonged to the empire, and individuals only had the right to use horses.
This law had been promulgated for many years.
When this law was originally promulgated, it was to create a powerful cavalry.
The main horse-producing areas of the Eastern Roman Empire were in the plains of Asia Minor.
Almost all horses in the Thracian region were transported from the plains of Asia Minor, and almost all of these horses were in the army.
Only the government and some nobles had some horses for transportation, and civilians There are almost no horses, which shows how precious horses are here, but even so, there is still a horse market here , the reason is that it is close to the Bulgar Khanate and the Avar Khanate.
It is normal for people to smuggle horses from these two countries.
Why is it said that the Bulgar Khanate and the Avar Khanate also imposed an embargo on war horses against the Eastern Roman Empire, and The crackdown was so severe that even the horses smuggled into the Eastern Roman Empire could not be used as war horses, but could only be used as mules to draw carts.
Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and said to Liang Zhenwu: "After you finish eating, go out the back door and contact the people stationed here in the East Factory.
We must understand the power situation here, otherwise we will not know what happened if we suffered a loss."
"yes" Late at night, Liang Zhenwu came back from outside.
He knocked on Zhao Ziliang's door.
After hearing the sound, he opened the door and walked in.
He reported: "Young master, I saw it.
This is what the other party gave me.
It has the names of Sedika written on it."
"The situation of the country's forces" and then handed over a piece of paper.
Zhao Ziliang took the paper and read it again, and said: "It seems that the group of people targeting us is quite powerful.
After all, this is in the city, and there are troops patrolling it.
They should not dare to mess around.
I speculate that they may come when we leave the city.
After that, I don’t know where exactly I will start.”
"No matter what, I'm going to ask the brothers to be careful tonight and arrange a few people to stand guard."
Liang Zhenwu said, turning around and walking out, but he stopped after taking two steps, turned back and said, "Sir, just now I When I came back, I encountered a carriage transporting slaves.
There was an iron cage on the carriage, which contained several slaves, both male and female.
I saw a woman who looked like Princess Grayling, but it was too dark and I couldn't see clearly."
"Princess Greenlin" Zhao Ziliang stood up and frowned, "Is it possible that she was arrested by slave traders again?
She has our Xi Qin passport in her hand.
She is no longer a slave. " Liang Zhenwu smiled bitterly and said: "Sir, if our passports have a deterrent effect on those heinous slave traders who rob homes and homes, we will not be targeted."
Zhao Ziliang's face turned cold, and after a while he said: "Liang Zhenwu, do you know why I want to make this trip?
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Because I believe that we will fight here sooner or later, so that everyone in the world will know about our prestigious Western Qin East.
The Roman Empire thought that it was the successor of the Roman Empire and the oldest empire.
Although we had destroyed the great food country, they still did not They take our newly established country of Western Qin seriously.
They think they can restore their former glory.
If they want to make them surrender, they have no other way but to fight.
Beat them until they lie down to conquer a country or a nation. , War is the only method.
You talk to them about benevolence and justice, but they talk to you about business.
Forget it, let’s not talk about it.
Where did you see Princess Grayling just now?”
Liang Zhenwu said: "Two streets away, the carriage went south."
Zhao Ziliang immediately stood up and said, "Let's go and rescue Grayling.
This woman is really annoying.
I told her to go with us and asked her to wait for two more days, but she just refused.
Now it’s fine, it’s back into the hands of slave traders.”
Liang Zhenwu followed Zhao Ziliang and said, "I don't know if it's Princess Grayling, I didn't see it clearly."
The two climbed over the wall from the back door, avoiding the people watching outside, and soon arrived at the place where Liang Zhenwu saw Grayling.
Liang Zhenwu stood on the side of the street and said: "This is it, that car is going that way."
Zhao Ziliang followed Liang Zhenwu's finger and looked in the opposite direction, and immediately said: "Let's try our luck.
We will search all the way, hoping to find the carriage containing the slaves."
The two of them were really lucky.
They searched for a mile in each of the other three directions at the intersection in front of them, and finally found the slave carriage on the street on the left.
"Yes, that's the carriage," Liang Zhenwu said immediately after seeing the carriage.
Zhao Ziliang looked up at the house next to the carriage.
He saw that the house was not small in size.
It was a building with a very large area.
At this time, the door of the large building was closed tightly.
Glass oil lamps were hung on the stone pillars outside the door.
The stone pillars The patterns on them are all extremely delicately carved.
No matter where this place was, Zhao Ziliang immediately said to Liang Zhenwu: "Let's climb up to the roof and see if we can sneak in from the roof."
"Okay" Liang Zhenwu agreed, and the two of them immediately flew onto the roof.
Sure enough, there is a door on the rooftop that can enter the house.
After entering the house, the two of them moved very lightly.
There were many people in the house, most of them were servants and maids, and there were many Armed guards stood guard.
Zhao Ziliang was not polite and would knock anyone out whenever he saw them.
It took the two of them a full quarter of an hour to knock out everyone in the building.
One of them was a big fat man wearing extremely expensive clothes.
He should be a noble.
This can be seen from the person's clothes and the golden fake curly hair.
"Sir, we found Princess Grayling.
She is locked in a dungeon with some slaves."
Liang Zhenwu's voice came from a house to the east.
Zhao Ziliang rushed over when he heard the sound, and soon found the entrance to the dungeon.
When he walked into the dungeon, he saw that there was knee-deep water in the dungeon, and all the slaves were shackled and hung in wooden cages.
Zhao Ziliang walked up to Gray Lin, looked at her and sighed: "If Xiao Liang hadn't said that he saw someone like you locked up in a slave carriage, I really wouldn't have known that you were arrested as a slave again."
Greenlin looked at Zhao Ziliang, tears streaming down his face, "I'm sorry, I was too willful and made you worry again."
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Zhao Ziliang shook his head to Liang Zhenwu: "Open the cell door and let them all out":