Yanghe County, Jinwu City Standing on the top of a mountain outside Jinwu City, looking at Jinwu City, Zhang Tie couldn't hide the excitement in his heart.
Four years ago, Jinwu City was just an idea of Zhang Tie and his brother Zhang Yang on the drawings, but today, the former idea has become a reality.
Compared with the first-class city in Taixia, Jinwu City, which has an area of only about 100 square kilometers, can only be regarded as a small city, but the excitement brought by the shuttle airships over Jinwu City, as well as the bustling crowds outside Jinwu City, make people forget that this is a small city, and regard it as a prosperous commercial center or a regional air traffic hub.
The railway and highway have been built at this time, standing on a high place, you can see the railway and highway transportation network extending in all directions with Jinwu City as the core radiating in four directions, the smoke of the train is like a long snake galloping on the railway, on the highway, all kinds of vehicles come and go.
Because the city is too lively, just more than a mile outside the city, there are two tall and majestic sub-forts that Zhang Tie did not expect, guarding Jinwu City like two silent guards, playing the role of diverting the flow of people.
Many of the airships that traveled to and from Jinwu City were parked directly in the airship bases on the periphery of the two tall deputy forts.
Around Jinwu City and the two sub-forts, on the ground within a radius of dozens of kilometers, some villages and towns have begun to form, as well as factories, and everything in front of them is thriving and full of vitality.
Zhang Tie also saw a large barracks outside the city.
Like Jinwu City, the large-scale barracks also seemed to be very lively, of course, this kind of excitement was the excitement on the battlefield, composed of steam armored vehicles speeding back and forth, as well as the shouts, collisions, and sweat and dust of countless soldiers.
Under Zhang Tie's lotus blossom eyes, although it was dozens of kilometers away, everything in that military camp still appeared clearly in front of Zhang Tie, as clear as looking at the palm prints in his hands.
The flag hanging on this barracks is not the banner of the official army of Taixia Youzhou, nor the banner of the Zhang family of Huaiyuantang, but a golden crow flag.
The Golden Crow Banner is exactly the same as the logo of the Golden Crow Merchant Group, only more murderous, on the left and right sides of the Golden Crow, the claws of the Golden Crow, grasping the shield on one side and the sword on the other.
This is the symbol of the Jinwu Merchant Regiment's escort armament, in other words, the symbol of Zhang Tie's private army.
Under the Golden Crow, the resolute looks on the faces of the soldiers who were training did not escape Zhang Tie's eyes.
The dust condensed with sweat, leaving black sweat grooves on the faces of the soldiers on the battlefield, the officers were roaring, and the ballistas on the steam armored vehicles were also roaring, and in the rhythmic vibration and roar brought by the steam weapons, the targets on the slope of the shooting range were pitted everywhere Just by glancing at the size of the military camp and the number of people trained on the battlefield, Zhang Tie roughly estimated that the number of the armed force of the Jinwu Merchant Regiment was about 100,000.
I haven't gone home for four years, and the current Zhang family is no longer the original Zhang family.
Zhang Tie, who was a little excited, looked at the Jinwu City in the distance for a while, and finally took a deep breath, moved his body, and left the top of the mountain.
Half an hour later, Zhang Tie appeared in the huge shadow of the city wall of Jinwu City, tilting his head and looking at the unspeakably tall city wall of Jinwu City.
Standing on the top of the mountain in the distance just now, he looked condescendingly, and he didn't think how high the wall of this Golden Crow City was, and when he came to the bottom of the city wall, Zhang Tie felt that the wall of Golden Crow City was too high.
In the whole Youzhou, the city wall of Youzhou City, which is a first-class city, is only more than 70 meters high, and the city wall of Jinwu City is as high as more than 100 meters, like a high tower, standing under the city wall of Jinwu City, raising his head, only to feel the momentum of the Jinwu City that Mount Tai is overwhelming.
There are all kinds of city defense machinery on the city wall, and the steam ballistas and heavy centrifugal turrets arm the entire Jinwu City like a steel hedgehog, and outside the city wall, there are still pieces of movable city wall steel armor, which is no longer the setting of the city wall, but the configuration of the battle fortress.
If the Golden Crow City is counted as a city, it is only a small city, but if the Golden Crow City is counted as a fortress, it is already a big fortress.
The Golden Crow City was built after his own accident, looking at the Golden Crow City in front of him, Zhang Tie knew what kind of mood his family and his brother were in when they built the Golden Crow City.
If it weren't for the safety considerations, Jinwu City would not have built such a high and intimidating wall.
This city wall is actually a portrayal of the elder brother's heart, and in the past few years, perhaps the elder brother has been thinking about how to make this family strong in Taixia every day, and no one in this family will encounter any misfortune again.
No, I'm back this time, and from now on, no one can bully this family anymore Zhang Tie said to himself secretly.
"Wow, the walls of this Golden Crow City are so high, they are higher than all the first-class cities" Not far from Zhang Tie, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy also stood under the city wall, raising his head and marveling at the majesty of the city wall of the Golden Crow City.
Next to this young man, there is also a middle-aged man in his thirties and forties, both of whom are dressed as businessmen, the young man looks a little immature, but the middle-aged man has a shrewdness, the faces of the two people are somewhat similar, it is estimated that they are father and son.
Many people who come to Jinwu City for the first time, when they enter the city, will stop under the city wall for a while, look up and admire the majestic city wall of Jinwu City, because of this, Zhang Tie and the young man standing under the city wall do not look special.
"Do you want to take a photo under the Golden Crow City, two gold coins at a time, this is the highest city wall in the entire Northeast Governor's Mansion, pass by, don't miss the opportunity" Seeing Zhang Tie and the young man stopping here, someone with a camera immediately came over to pull business.
It turns out that this city wall can actually become a scene of Jinwu City.
Zhang Tie smiled dumbly in his heart.
"Let's go, let's go to the city first, we have to go to get the cards and queue up tonight, if we are lucky, as long as we queue for a few days, we should be able to get a box of potions for the whole school" The middle-aged man pulled the teenager, ignoring the words of the peddler, and directly pulled the teenager into the city.
"Dad, is this all-in-one potion really good to sell in the states outside," the young man asked in a low voice, very vigilant.
"It's very sought-after, I've already contacted the market, just in Tongzhou, twelve boxes of full-effect potions, take each one plus two gold coins to retract and make a steady net profit of 24 gold coins, this money is not much, although the road is hard, a little bumpy, and it takes a lot of time to go back and forth, but if you are lucky, you and I, father and son, can also run twice a year" The middle-aged man said in a low voice while walking.
"In the future, if I have money, we will also buy an airship," said the young man, and in his immature voice there was an ambition that a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers.
"Yes, it's good to have this ambition, the Hong family in our city also started by the father and son as merchants and small traders," the father patted his son's shoulder and encouraged him with satisfaction.
The two father and son of the merchant whispered, and then squeezed into the crowd of people who entered the city gate, and there were also two teams of city guards and officers at the gate of Jinwu City, and the soldiers and officers guarding the city looked at the faces of all kinds of people who entered the city and the packages they carried with them.
Seeing the father and son enter the city, Zhang Tie also walked over, mixed in the bustling crowd and prepared to enter the city.
At this moment, Zhang Tie is of medium stature, slightly strong, dressed as a samurai that can be seen everywhere in Taixia, neither ostentatious nor mediocre, he looks powerful and powerful, and there is nothing too strange on his face, only a trace of ruthlessness and toughness that this samurai should have, with an ordinary saber on his waist.
Almost the same dressed people, in the surrounding crowd, Zhang Tie could also see seven or eight people.
The guards of the merchant group, the solitary samurai, and some strong merchants are almost all like this.
Compared with when he first arrived in Taixia, Zhang Tie carefully compared it and found that the number of people carrying weapons with him in the crowd had quietly increased.
Zhang Tie was about to enter the city, when he saw an officer walking down from the passage above the city gate in a hurry, and whispered a few words directly to an officer guarding the city gate.
The words of the officer who came down from the city tower reached the ears of the guarding officers, and likewise, they also reached the ears of Zhang Tie.
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The phrase is, "The city lord is coming, be careful" Hearing this, Zhang Tie's footsteps stopped almost suddenly.
City Lord, isn't that his father?
Just a few seconds later, a convoy composed of four luxury black cars drove quickly from the carriageway to the side of the city gate, and stopped outside the city, several people walked down from the black car, the officer at the city gate hurriedly walked over, saluted respectfully, and then consciously followed behind the few people who got off the car, stopped and pointed outside the city.
Because of the arrival of these people, many people who were entering the city turned their heads curiously to look at those people.
However, the sharp eyes of the few bodyguards standing around those people and the aura above level thirteen transmitted from their bodies made the curious people only maintain this curious and contemplative look, and no one could walk over.
Zhang Tie's father, Zhang Ping, was surrounded by the crowd, so he came to the side of the place where Zhang Tie was standing just now, raised his head, covered a pergola in his hand, and looked at the tall city wall of Jinwu City, "This city wall is indeed too high, it looks murderous, and it makes the atmosphere of Jinwu City a little tense, it seems that it is really necessary to beautify it properly."
Zhang Tie's father said, and there was an accompanying stenographer with a notebook and quickly wrote down his words: