The capital of the Kingdom of Thousand Springs is called "Jade Spring City". Before the emergence of Void City, this city was known as the most beautiful city in the main plane. It builds the city wall with beautiful stone that looks like white jade. When the weather is good, the city wall looks like a huge jade stone under the bright sunshine, which is really beautiful.
It has always been called "the kingdom of heaven on earth", or "a city as beautiful as the kingdom of God". Not only did the bards write countless songs to praise it, but even the gods often descended into incarnations to stop here. Among them, the goddess of springs was the one who did this most often.
This medium god of the natural god system likes to wander among mountains, forests and springs. The core requirement for believers is to "protect the springs" and "increase the number of springs." He doesn't care about other things, whether it is good or evil, or military. It's a thief, He doesn't care.
It is precisely because of his attitude that he was favored by the human gods, and used it as a springboard to expand his power into the Ancient Forest and Broken Cloud Mountains, and fully supported this country of thousands of springs.
As the capital of the Kingdom of Thousand Springs, Yuquan City is full of springs. These springs are not like the famous spring city in Qilu land on earth, which comes from the gush of groundwater. Instead, they are 30% natural and 70% man-made. When this city was built, more than a dozen legendary magicians joined forces to create water under the city. A portal to the elemental plane of water was built. Through the portal, clean water continuously flows into the ground, and flows out of the ground along the dug springs, turning into a wonderful scene of "one city with thousands of springs".
In this city, surrounded by white jade walls, there are exactly a thousand springs, no more, no less.
When this city was first built, the Kingdom of Thousand Springs was only in its prototype, and its name had not yet been determined. It was after the construction of the City of Thousand Springs that the goddess of springs descended incarnation, personally blessed the country and named it the "Land of Thousand Springs".
However, behind this beautiful city is a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
There was no country of thousands of springs in the world, nor was there any Jade Spring City. It was a rolling hilly area in the southeast of the Duanyun Mountains. It was bordered by the Duanyun Mountains to the north, the Golden Desert to the south, the Great Plains to the east, and the Great Plains to the west. Ancient forest. Dwarves, gnomes and other races mix here and live a peaceful life.
After the rise of mankind, they first fought against the orcs under the leadership of the God of Knights, and fell at a disadvantage. Then the God of Vengeance came to power, and he changed his strategy, leaving only some humans to guard the fertile land between the three mountain ranges of Broken Cloud, Gray Stone, and Behemoth to prevent the further expansion of the orcs' power, while the remaining humans were sent out, Attack eastward.
This is the famous "Eastward Movement" in human history. In this war that lasted for thousands of years, humans annihilated the dwarfs, elves, dwarves and other nations that originally occupied the eastern part of the continent, and established a federation of twenty-eight cities on the most fertile eastern plain in the world - This was the prototype of the later Blue Moon Kingdom.
After that, humans were divided into two groups. One group believed in the Sun God and attacked the north, completely annihilating the dwarf kingdom and establishing the Holy Angel Kingdom. The other group marched toward the southwest, seized the elven pantheon and was annihilated by the Lord of Mysteries. The elves Taking advantage of the fact that the clan was hit hard, they combined some forces of the natural gods to eliminate the dwarves and dwarf forces in the hilly areas and established their country.
In this process, nature killed many people, and the elf people, who were once famous for being good at making small machines, were almost wiped out. The remaining remnants left the main plane under the protection of their gods and went to an unknown place. The famous world; more than a dozen dwarf countries, large and small, were all destroyed, and the dwarf clan became a famous wandering race on the continent; only the dwarves have been resisting tenaciously with their strong bodies and unquenchable fighting spirit.
Over the years, approximately every thirty or fifty years, the Kingdom of Thousand Springs would organize an army to attack the dwarf kingdom in the Duanyun Mountains. On the one hand, they are greedy for the local mineral deposits and the treasures of the dwarf kingdom. On the other hand, they also want to do something extreme and force the dwarves to leave the main plane like the elves, so as to settle a worry.
Every time they prepare to launch a large-scale attack on the Duanyun Mountains, they will set up a temporary military camp outside the Dongfang main gate of Yuquan City and put out recruitment orders. They can recruit a large number of adventurers every time. When the war officially breaks out, these adventurers will naturally charge forward and retreat behind, specializing in dangerous missions. Although most of the people who survived made a lot of money, only less than one-third of them survived and returned home with a lot of money.
Of course, you can't rely on the debt after someone dies, and the Country of Thousand Springs has to pay a large amount of pension every time. If not, the adventurers are not fools. Who would take the huge risk of three people dying and two people to try for this wealth? Many injured or elderly adventurers actually come here just for this pension.
What they want to earn is not the wealth, but the money from working hard.
This is the sorrow of the poor, and it doesn't make much difference anywhere.
But this time the situation is a little different. Outside the east gate of Yuquan City, a temporary military camp has been set up again, and the recruitment order has been hung up again. However, most of the people who applied for the recruitment were strong and strong people, as usual. Even the gathering of weaker applicants did not happen at all.
The person in charge of recruiting soldiers was an earl from Qianquan Kingdom. He was sitting on the high platform of the military camp, watching the situation at the registration office where the recruitment order was issued from a distance. After a long time, he sighed deeply.
"Sir, do you have any questions?" asked the confidant next to him.
"This time, we didn't recruit much cannon fodder."
"If there is no cannon fodder, just let the militiamen serve as cannon fodder." One of his sons said casually, "As long as the elites come."
The earl shook his head and did not explain in detail to his son, but frowned.
If you kill an outsider, you don’t feel bad, but if you die of one of your own, you feel bad!
Although the life and death of civilians is not a big deal, it is a bad start this time, and it will be difficult to say in the future. Maybe in the subsequent battle to open up the Duanyun Mountains, the country will tend to use the militiamen as cannon fodder instead of recruiting low-level adventurers in order to save the pension.
This is certainly a good thing in the short term and saves a lot of money, but it is detrimental to the long-term planning of the entire country.
The people of the Kingdom of Thousand Springs were happy to hear about the war, on the one hand because they could gain benefits through the war, and on the other hand because the losses caused by the war were relatively small. If a large number of militiamen are lost in every war, and tens of thousands of families cry after a war, it will be a heavy blow to the people's hearts.
Over time, war is no longer an opportunity for the civilians of the Land of Thousand Springs to get ahead and get rich, but a heavy burden.
Of course he couldn't see all of this. But thinking about such a future, how could he not be worried!