Urban Sims

Chapter 47 Dying
Grand City.

A city with a permanent population of more than 30 and a wall height of more than [-] meters. There is a magnificent mansion inside, a tall and white city hall in the middle, a well-planned commercial area and a street of hotels and hotels next to it, a military academy in the west of the city, and a hill in the north of the city. Above, there is a majestic and majestic monastery, full of flowers, crowds of people, businessmen gathering, and workshops like clouds. This city, which has been built for less than five years, is completely comparable to the Kingdom of Voris in terms of prosperity. The king's capital is Woz City.

But this morning, groups of light cavalry rushed into the city from the city gate, and after the emergency martial law was declared throughout the city, the entire Gran City was shrouded in an atmosphere of depression and uneasiness.

In the afternoon, there was a burst of fierce shouting and killing from the Lord's Mansion. After a while, the shouting stopped, and some sharp-eyed citizens of Gran City seemed to see that Lord Downey of the Lord's Mansion seemed to be surrounded by a group of heavily armed soldiers. Arriving at an unknown place, my heart suddenly trembled, Grand City, the sky is about to change.

……

Lord's Palace.

In a side hall of the West Wing.

Downey, who was escorted in by the soldiers, looked downcast and resentful, and saw the person he hated most in front of him.

"Shameless thief! You put all the things in my territory into your own pockets!" Donnie yelled and spat on him.

"Donnie, where did I fail you to make you hate me so much? Look at the bustling city below you, look at this rich land, every brick, every tile, every plant and every tree, which point, no Fortunately, I worked so hard to get it for you, you sit in the castle every day to enjoy these achievements, sit and enjoy the glory and wealth, why do you want to mess with me like this?"

Zhou Ming turned around with his hands behind his back, and looked at Tang Ni, who was in his thirties, with a shaggy chin and a mature personality but far from mature, feeling extremely disappointed, and really didn't know what to say.

Fortunately, he has worked hard to assist him for more than ten years, and he has been fighting in the South and the North, but in exchange for this result.

Hey, I can't argue with anger.

"Bah! Damn thief, I only wish I didn't listen to Eugenie earlier and poison you with a glass of poisoned wine! Let you, a thief, steal my power and put me in that puppet's seat, let you I've had enough of being fooled and manipulated! I want to get back what's mine, everything that was stolen by you, a bloody thief!"

Downey roared hysterically, his eyes were red, and he rushed towards him with open teeth and claws, but was immediately held down by two guards.

Looking at Downey in this appearance, Zhou Ming suddenly remembered that Mrs. Madeleine who once regarded him as his own and cared for him so much. In the weather, she jumped down from the top floor of the high castle, ending her painful and desperate life.

Unexpectedly, Downey finally came to this step, either for his supremacy over everything, or to win the smile and sweet promise of that peerless beauty, or to fight for greater freedom and a better life. Broad Sky chose to betray his best friend, his wife Alice who had been with him for 13 years and had given birth to him four children.

This is absolutely inexcusable!
Yes, King Helian, who has been fighting against Zhou Ming for more than ten years and has been defeated repeatedly, finally found a fatal loophole in his impenetrable defense line. This fatal loophole is naturally Downey.

Through the channels of several traveling businessmen, Helian secretly sent her daughter, Princess Eugenie, who is all over the world, to Downey's bed. She couldn't put it down for this beautiful, graceful and luxurious natural beauty who had been instructed in court etiquette since she was a child, and she couldn't extricate herself from the gentleness of the country.

After learning her true identity, she was the daughter of King Helian, and was told that her father, Helian, was willing to marry him to stop the war, and promised to seal him as Grand Prince who occupied the seven counties in the east of the kingdom. After receiving the grand duke, Downey's heart immediately started beating uncontrollably.

Not only that, King Helian also promised that after his death, he will be elected as the first heir to the throne of King Voris, that is to say, as long as he agrees to marry Princess Eugenie as his wife, he will not only have a peerless Beauty, you can also get a complete kingdom of Voris.

Do it, why not do it!
At this moment, in Downey's mind, his wife Alice, who had been with him for many years, had already been dumped in that Java country.

Compared with Eugenie, who was born in the royal family, this commoner wife who is not as good as others in terms of background, appearance, temperament, culture, and aristocratic etiquette has fallen to the status of an ordinary mistress in Downey's heart. There is not much difference, and even because of her multiple births, she sometimes feels that she is not as good as those young and beautiful mistresses outside.

After being tricked by Helian, Downey, under the "guidance" of this beauty, changed some of the policies that Zhou Ming had implemented in the territory for many years, and changed them into a mess during the time he was away.

For example, the six governors appointed by Zhou Ming were replaced, and six earls were conferred to take over the military and civil administration in various places. They also recruited a group of knights who did not know where they came from. One baron, one knight, not many Over a long period of time, this land, which has undergone earth-shaking changes in the past ten years, has returned to the state of enfeoffment and self-government by various lords more than ten years ago.

All of a sudden, Donny tossed and turned the earth-shattering Glanling, the people's grievances boiled like a raging fire, and they were about to explode.

Shocked by the news of the fire in the backyard, Zhou Ming had no choice but to return quickly with light cavalry to control the shock that was likely to cause his good situation to fall apart.

"Donnie, have you ever heard the saying that the reason why a fool dies is because he did the stupidest thing when everyone knew he was stupid!"

Zhou Ming said angrily, all these stupid things Downey did, except for the woman behind him and a group of unknown knights supporting him, except for a few opportunistic people in this territory, this city, and even this lord's mansion. , no one stood up to support him.

Even the guards who escorted him were members of the lord's guard who had been the most loyal to him.

"Lian, don't tell me...you're going to kill me?"

Hearing the word "death" suddenly, Downey trembled in panic. He immediately thought of this ruthless person who had killed countless people with despicable means over the years. Now he pointed the finger at himself. Only then did he realize that he should have provoked this demon.

Pfft!
The extreme fear of death made Downey kneel down, holding Zhou Ming's trouser legs, and crying loudly: "I'm sorry Ryan, I was wrong, please forgive me, I am the best friend and brother-in-law, Don't you just have the heart to watch Alice lose her husband, her four children, and their father at such a young age? Don't kill me, please don't kill me!"

He squirmed forward a little more and hugged Zhou Ming's thigh.

"Whether to kill you or not, the decision is not in my hands, but in Alice's hands. Go ask Alice."

Zhou Ming shook his head, broke free from Downey's pull, exited the side hall, and handed over everything here to Alice who came in with a child in her arms.

Alice walked into the side hall, her eyes were red, obviously she had just cried, her body was still trembling, she just took someone to the side hall next door, and poisoned Eugenie who made her feel ashamed at the first sight For the first time after the princess, watching a living person die in front of her, she has not yet come out of the mixed emotions of fear, excitement, excitement and hatred.

"Alice, my beloved wife and lover, please let your husband go! I swear to God, from now on, I will only love you as a woman, and I will only treat you as a woman with all my heart! Please don't Kill me, I am the father of your four children and your husband, and I hold far more weight in your heart than your brother's husband!"

Downey, who was on the verge of collapse, hugged Alice's skirt, tears and snot streaming down his nose. At this moment, he just wanted to live, even if he lost all his glory and wealth, and lived like a dog, as long as he could live.

"Go away! You heartless thing, you can't even compare to my brother's hair! Just because of a woman, you abandoned the promise you made to me, the future of my four children, and you Everything you promised to me! You, a dog that has eaten your conscience, is still trying to kill my brother, go to hell, go to hell and repent!"

Alice mercilessly handed down the death sentence. Yes, she had fantasies about this man, but watching him have more and more illegitimate children outside, and seeing his more and more indifferent attitude towards herself, until After seeing the woman who made her feel ashamed and desperate, she no longer had the slightest pity and sympathy for this heartless man.

Yes, what my brother said is right, the only man in this world who treats her well and always treats her well is my brother.

"Alice!!"

Downey yelled in despair, but he could only look at the figure from behind, getting further and further away from him.

……

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, another ten years have passed.

In the past ten years, after Zhou Ming led his tiger and wolf army to occupy the entire territory of the Kingdom of Voris, he suspended the pace of external expansion and instead built strong fortresses on the border to prevent several neighboring kingdoms from uniting due to fear and invading. This new country is not yet stable internally.

Continue to implement the agricultural revolution, reduce taxation, reward births, improve environmental sanitation, release bandits, abduct people from neighboring countries, and use various means to increase the population base of the country.

Implement the low tax policy, encourage industry and commerce, vigorously mine coal mines, smelt iron and steel, and enhance military strength.

In just ten years, the small "Burnes Kingdom" under Zhou Ming's governance has become a population of more than 60, with an elite army of more than 3, and can pull out an army of [-] in an emergency. The "powerful country" of the army.

In August of this year, in the border war with the four neighboring kingdoms that jointly invaded, the 4 troops assembled by the four kingdoms were wiped out. One king was killed and two were captured. The small "Kingdom of Burns" shook dozens of kingdoms and became famous throughout the continent.

Some kings with keen observation ability also noticed the unique political structure of this kingdom during this battle, and its huge power contained, so some voices discussing reform began to spread in the upper echelons of some kingdoms.

This battle, due to an occasional cold and exacerbated lung disease, became the last battle Zhou Ming commanded in his military career. For the next few years, he could only lie on a hospital bed in a private manor, relying on expensive medicines to continue his life. He also called his two sons to his side, and decided to train them well in the last few years.

……

On this day, the weather is cold.

Maybe because he felt that his time was coming soon, Zhou Ming called his two sons to the hospital bed and gave them some good advice.

He said to his 26-year-old eldest son John: "John, I know that you control two-thirds of the field army in the kingdom. Your cowardly cousin king... But you must never go and tell your aunt Alice, please move your buttocks to give you that place, absolutely don't do that! Since the kingdom My name is Burns, so I should belong to the Burns family! This is my promise to Alice, I will keep it when I am alive, and you must keep it to me when I die!"

"Yes, Dad!"

The eldest son, John, lowered his head and said, very surprised. This idea was buried deep in his heart, but his father still saw it unexpectedly.

"John, it's not that Dad wants to stop you from doing a big business, but it's not this kind of business. Take a long-term view, don't just focus on the Burns Kingdom, any land outside the Burns Kingdom, you will You can become king there."

Tired of talking, he stopped for a while, and Zhou Ming said again: "John, do you know that an explorer I sent to the east the year before last came back recently, and he told me that behind the Ural Snow Mountain in the east of the kingdom, there are An incomparably vast piece of land, even larger than the hundreds of kingdoms we know! You can send people to dig a road in and occupy that vast land. On that land, there are many volcanoes and minerals, including Gunpowder requires saltpeter and sulfur."

"Father, the Ural Snow Mountain is ten thousand feet high. It is said that only the devil can climb over it, and send someone to dig a passage. When will it be cut? Dad, I plan to take down the Iron Castle Kingdom next year and make it my kingdom, Alan Cousin and Aunt Alice should agree."

John said with a relaxed face, the entire Burns Kingdom was brought down by the Derek (Zhou Ming's surname) family, and now he just wants a feudal kingdom that he brought down by himself, so no one will gossip now, right? .

Seeing the frivolous words of the elder son John, Zhou Ming knew that no matter how many times he repeated his instructions, he might not take it seriously. This kid, after learning a little bit from him, became a little arrogant and vain. But after all, he is his own son, so it's not good for him to say those harsh words. He just hopes that after he leaves, he won't fall into too much trouble.

After explaining to John, Zhou Ming looked at his youngest son, George, who was only 16 years old and had a similar personality to himself. He was very interested in inventions and creations.

His youngest son is very talented. When he was 13 years old, he invented a matchlock gun with acceptable power according to the design drawing he gave.

Perhaps because he knew what his father's explanation meant this time, little George didn't speak, but just listened quietly. When he heard that the Ural Snow Mountain could be turned over, and there was a wider world behind him, his eyes lit up and he was aroused. boundless curiosity.

"Father, do you want me to fulfill your wish for you and help you see the world behind the Ural Snow Mountain?"

Before Zhou Ming could speak, he just caught his gaze, and Little George seemed to know what he would ask, and spoke first.

George knew that his father's lung disease was very serious, and it was very difficult for him to say a word. He was sensible and hoped to relieve his father's pain.

"George, you are the youngest and the smartest among the children. Dad has only one sentence... Keep your curiosity and thirst for knowledge, don't care about other people's opinions, go...go forward...reach the pursuit of your heart ... the land of ... dreams ..."

Maybe it was a sigh of relief. Zhou Ming felt that he was getting more and more tired, his head was floating, and his body was gradually getting rid of the pain. Before he lost consciousness, he seemed to hear his youngest son George, his wife Anna and their two daughters. , the sound of crying in the ear.

……

"Ding~"

"The game character has died and is exiting the game..."

　The author has been revived and is asking for a recommendation ticket...

　　


(End of this chapter)