In the west of Cecil City, there are many trees and lush plants. The vast jungle here provides a steady stream of building materials, industrial raw materials and even food sources for the new Cecil Territory. In the north of this forest, next to the white water Along the river, Shuanglin Village is gradually bustling with the rising sun.
This is a newly-born village, but it is orderly and vibrant. Neatly arranged wooden houses are shrouded in cooking smoke, and "new houses" built of cement and bricks are dotted among these wooden houses. Wide cement roads connect them. Several main buildings in the village, due to frequent cleaning and strict sanitation system, these roads are clean and tidy, and there is no common defecation and defecation on the roads in other areas in this era.
All these characteristics are the embodiment of "Cecile Order".
Lumberjack Buddy went out facing the morning sun. He carried the heat accumulated after a hot meal at home, which helped him resist the cold wind in early spring in the forest. This man who had cut down trees all his life walked to On the street, he wiped his nose which was slightly itchy in the cold wind, and then walked towards the report office.
When crossing the street, he glanced at the houses on both sides, and the appearance of this place last year vaguely emerged from his mind.
He still remembered that when Cecil's 800 refugees first came to this land, it was just a poor logging camp. Dozens of loggers and a small group of soldiers came here with axes and swords. The initial camp was not as big as the square in the center of the village today, but now it has become a village in less than a year, and it is a beautiful and big village. Tents have been turned into lumberjack huts. , the lumberjack hut was expanded and increased to become a street, and the support resources from the city were continuously sent here, just like the timber felled here was continuously sent to the city, cement appeared, and shops appeared. The logging camp turned into a village even got a name. The lord himself named it Shuanglin Village.
If he hadn't experienced all this personally, Buddy couldn't believe that all this happened under his nose.
More lumberjacks appeared on the street. Buddy greeted these friends, and everyone walked forward together talking and laughing. On the way, someone suddenly sighed: "This place has changed a lot."
"That's right, after all we are not idle in winter," a lumberjack with a big beard laughed, "We even built the bell tower."
"I don't know what's changed in the city recently," Buddy muttered, "It changes faster there than here."
"The last time I entered the city, I saw that new houses were being built on the west side of the city. It was said that two thousand people in the buffer camp had obtained that... oh, citizenship," said the first lumberjack, "but recently I I haven't been into the city yet... "
There are convenient roads and rivers between Shuanglin Village and Cecil City, but in fact, the loggers here do not often enter the city. Since this place has become a fixed settlement and various village facilities have been established, Shuanglin Village has gradually become Without the ability to sustain themselves, the workers who came here at the beginning have become settled villagers. Due to the large number of work tasks and the fact that there is nothing to do when they go to the city on weekdays, the people in Shuanglin Village generally live on their own every month. After going to the city once or twice, they often relied on the descriptions of the occasional people who came back to the city, or heard the words of the convoy guards who transported supplies between the village and the city.
During the chat, everyone's topic gradually turned to speculation about the changes in the city, guessing whether the lord had made something new, but they didn't chat for too long, and the report office had already arrived.
Buddy wiped his nose and looked at the shed of the report office. According to the work flow, he will get the tools after reporting here, and then go to the designated area in the forest with the foreman to start work. But something seems to have happened at the report office today. He saw that many people were gathering in the small open space in front of the report office, even his foreman was standing there.
Buddy and a few loggers approached curiously, and found that the convoy carrying supplies arrived at Shuanglin Village. Although the village has already been established, it is only a new village after all, and a lot of things like cloth and wine still have to be transported from the city. Basically, there will be at least one such convoy coming from the city every week.
It is indeed a good thing for the convoy to enter the village, but it is a bit strange for everyone to gather together. In order to unload the goods and hand over the items ordered by the villagers individually, the convoy will stay here all day. Everyone gathered here early because the convoy brought What's new
When Buddy was wondering, he saw his foreman squeezed out of the crowd with a smile on his face, and the foreman was still holding a few large sheets of paper full of words and pictures that smelled like ink.
"Boss," Buddy hurried over, "What good things did the team bring?"
"Oh, Buddy," said the foreman, apparently in the right mood, and with a certain interest in showing off, waving the paper in his hand, and exclaimed, "Look, newspaper! Something new in town!"
"Newspaper?" Buddy was stunned for a moment, the team really brought something new, and just like every time before, as long as it is something new in the city, it must be something that everyone has never heard of, "You mean These pieces of paper? This... what is it for?"
"Civilians can also buy books to read." The foreman glanced at Buddy, with pride in his eyes and tone. Although he just bought the newspaper a little earlier than others, he was very proud. There are a lot of things written, including the recent changes in the city."
"Where is it?" When Buddy heard it, he immediately moved closer, "Where is it written... what is it written in?"
"Here, the Baimu Street community in Xicheng District has been built, and the new immigrants who have obtained citizenship are moving. And here, it is said that the price of wheat and furs will be lowered recently, because the business route with Gelenling has been opened up. And here, be good. , Is the Church of the Holy Light in the Plain of the Holy Spirit crazy... They all started burning other people's churches?"
The foreman pointed to each section of the newspaper, and as he spoke, a surprised expression appeared on his face, and then he read the news seriously. Buddy stared at the side, but suddenly felt a burst of frustration
he can't read...
He can recognize words, but only a small part. At most, he can spell his name, age and address, and understand the form on the work card. This is the result of several days of night school. There was a night school where a teacher from the city came to teach us five days a week. Buddy had been there a few times, but he wasn't paying attention at all!
Looking at the newspaper full of words, he couldn't help feeling annoyed.
The foreman was reading the contents of the newspaper seriously, not caring about Buddy's annoyance at all, and he laughed halfway through seeing it. There seemed to be some interesting jokes or funny stories written in the newspaper, but for Buddy, In other words, everything is meaningless.
Even if this newspaper is said to only cost a few copper coins.
He knew that he couldn't ask the foreman to read the newspaper for him, even if the foreman usually had a good relationship with everyone, such a request was unrealistic.
Several familiar workers squeezed out from the crowd. Buddy raised his eyelids and saw that one of them was also holding a newspaper in his hand, and was taking apart the newspaper in his hand while walking. to someone else.
They may have bought a copy together. Although a newspaper is as cheap as a few copper coins, for many lumberjacks who just have some spare money, spending money to buy a few sheets of paper to read is probably still a kind of "not worth it." "Behavior, but they are curious about the contents of the newspaper after all, so it is very likely that they will pool their money to buy together. Anyway, a newspaper contains several pages, and these people's congresses can be broken up and read in turn.
Buddy looked at those people with a little envy, and muttered in his heart that they were all poor people who were born as coolies and dealt with axes and saws. Now they walk with their backs straight like scholars, and they roll up newspapers decently. Tucked under the arm like a book, it's...
That's pretty decent...
Buddy touched his pocket, gritted his teeth suddenly, and turned his head towards the direction of the convoy.
The foreman was reading some things at this time, and when he looked up and saw Buddy's actions, he couldn't help shouting curiously from behind: "Why are you going? The roll call is coming soon!"
"I'll buy a newspaper!"
"Can you see it?"
Buddy didn't turn his head back: "I'll buy it back and study it slowly. At worst, I'll wait for Mr. Bernard to come and ask him for advice!"
"Mr. Bernard" is the teacher sent to Shuanglin Village to give lectures, a second-level clerk who works in the government affairs hall.
Seeing Buddy walking like he was angry, the foreman shrugged and looked down at the newspaper in his hand.
He said to himself: "I have to put it away when I go back, and save a few more copies to stick together... I have a book at home."
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Holy Spirit Plain, in front of the Rock Fortress, Wright Aviken raised his head and looked up at this ancient fortress standing in the southernmost part of the Holy Spirit Plain.
The high black wall of the fortress glows with a slight grid-like brilliance in the sun, which is the copper poured in the cracks of the city wall bricks is shining. The builders of the Rock Fortress melted the copper and mixed fine gold and copper into the copper juice, This magical alloy will absorb the magic power from the sun when the sun shines, and slowly release it throughout the day and night, making the entire city wall extremely strong, and this magnificent and strong fortress is exactly what happened a hundred years ago. The product of civil turmoil in the Brumaire.
It stands between the mountains at the junction of the southern border and the Holy Spirit Plain, and controls the only way from the southern border to the Holy Spirit Plain. Even the Dorgon River, which connects the north and the south, also flows through the pass on the side of the fortress. It is a The great irony symbolizes the kingdom's complete blockade of the entire southern region. For a whole century after the completion of this fortress, the southern region became a land that was deliberately exiled. The second dynasty feared that the ancient and huge Cecil family would He made a comeback and shook the royal family, so he built this fort while constantly separating and weakening the southern border, as if to use the Rock Fortress as the new "southern border" of the kingdom, and threw the survivors of the Cecil family to The wasteland of the South.
This extremely strong fortress is used to guard against the founding family of this kingdom.
However, in the past entire century, the Cecil family has never crossed this hurdle. They silently endured the failure price of the Brumaire civil strife, and silently accepted the separation and suppression of the royal family. Until last year, the Cecil family After the resurrection of the ancestors, the members of this family crossed the Rock Fortress for the first time and headed for the Holy Spirit Plain.
Wright looked up at the high black wall of the Rock Fortress, and the history of this fortress and the short time he experienced in the incredible land in the southern border appeared in his mind. Then he looked back and sorted out his old Priest robes, stepping towards the checkpoint.