Soul echo

Chapter 223 Heading to the 'Military City'
Calderon exhaled hot air into his palms, rubbed his hands that were red from the cold, and then looked up at the sky.

Gray clouds blotted out the sun, and the damn cold wind kept blowing, and kept blowing down those thick, cold clouds, turning them into snowflakes, and drifting down to the earth.

"Close the door!"

An impatient voice came up the stairs, and Calderon and his companions turned their heads to look, and saw an orderly with an unhappy expression coming out of the stairs, shouting: "Those magicians said that there might be a blizzard today. , the transportation line may stop for a few days, close the door quickly, so you can go back and rest!"

Although the commanding attitude of the orderly made the soldiers feel unhappy, the news that they could leave the city gate and go back to rest made them very excited.

The same is true for Calderon. It is cold and snowing. No one likes to leave the warm house at this time.

Putting their muskets on their shoulders, several soldiers walked to the city gate switch and were about to raise the drawbridge when Calderon narrowed his eyes.

"Look, what is that?"

Several soldiers looked in the direction of his finger and saw snow dust flying in the distance.

The messenger also looked over, and then spat: "Whatever it is! Just close the door!"

"It's a carriage..." Calderon murmured.

Hearing this answer, several other soldiers looked at each other and stopped closing the door.

The weather is so cold, and there will be a blizzard in the future, and there is no other place nearby that can shelter from the wind and snow. If you just block that carriage outside like this, you will die.

Seeing their attitudes, the orderly didn't dare to make a fuss, couldn't help muttering a few words, and braved the cold wind and heavy snow with a few soldiers, waiting for the carriage to arrive in the distance.

Immediately afterwards, the soldiers discovered that the driver was very skilled. Even on the snow-covered ground, he could keep the carriage at a fairly fast speed without slipping or colliding. He was about to reach the suspension bridge. When it is ahead, it can also slow down the speed of the carriage.

With this kind of driving skills, let alone driving a horse-drawn carriage, it is not a problem to drive a chariot on the battlefield!

The speed of the carriage slowed down, and when it stepped on the suspension bridge, it would not cause any damage to the suspension bridge.

As soon as the carriage drove into the city gate, the soldiers who felt their blood boiling tensed their muscles, turned the winch, and pulled up the suspension bridge.

Seeing that they had begun to close the city gate, the orderly snorted, turned and walked down the stairs.

Calderon wiped off the sweat from his forehead and the back of his neck, and walked down the stairs with his companions. The drawbridge has been raised, and the city gate will be closed next.

Going down the stairs and walking out of the city wall, several soldiers found the carriage parked under the city wall. After seeing them coming down, the coachman nodded to them and said "thank you" before driving away.

The soldiers looked at each other and laughed dumbfoundedly.

'Military City' is a semi-open town, most of the time you need to go through strict inspections to enter and exit, but there are exceptions to everything, like the situation just now, the soldiers didn't bother to search carefully.

The soldiers guarding the city gate only asked Zhong Ye why they came to the 'Military City', checked the carriages, and then let them go.

'Military City' cannot be regarded as a 'small' town. The resident population here does not seem to be large, but there are several factories. The existence of those factories makes the town occupy a huge area.

From a distance, Zhong Ye saw several thick smoke rising into the sky, and coupled with the information he learned from the Lord of Vienna, he deduced that there were at least five factories in this town.

These factories should not all produce guns, because this town was completely closed in the past, and the people in power in the town must at least meet the living needs of workers, soldiers and their families.

Therefore, the corresponding factories came into being.

In any case, they all successfully blended into the 'Military City' and completed the first step of the plan.

Obviously, there would not be any adventurer's home in this kind of place, and there was no one on the street, so Zhong Ye could only drive the carriage to wander the street, looking for an inn.

Fortunately, the sign of the hotel was quite conspicuous, and Zhong Ye's perception was more sensitive, so he found the location of the hotel two streets away.

"come in……"

Zhong Ye knocked on the door of the hotel, and not long after, a weak voice came from the hotel.

Zhong Ye pushed the door open and walked in. Seeing a tall figure push open the door, the innkeeper who was lying on his side watching the visitor suddenly sat up straight in fright.

Glancing at the big sword behind Zhong Ye, the innkeeper swallowed, "You, you are..."

"I'm here to stay."

Zhong Ye patted off the snow on his body outside the door, but the wet feeling of his clothes still made him feel a little uncomfortable.

"Do you have any room here? Can I place my carriage?"

Zhong Ye pointed to the door, and the innkeeper raised his buttocks slightly, leaned forward, and saw the small carriage outside the door.

The innkeeper heaved a sigh of relief, but their shop can still accommodate a carriage of this size.

Seeing the innkeeper nodding his head, Zhong Ye said, "Then give me two rooms."

two?

The innkeeper was a little puzzled, but when he thought of the carriage outside the door, he suddenly realized.

"Two rooms plus a storage carriage..." The innkeeper lowered his head and counted with his fingers, and it took about half a minute to get the result. "Twelve copper coins for three days. We don't accept copper coins from other territories!"

Zhong Ye nodded, "That's four coins a day, do you accept silver coins? What's the exchange rate?"

"Silver coins are only produced by the royal family and Uned. The fineness is equal to 26 copper coins, and the fineness is [-]."

Zhong Ye dug into his wallet and took out a silver coin, "Although it was not produced in the Kingdom of Gaul, it is of good quality."

The innkeeper picked up the silver coin and glanced at it, nodded in approval, "This counts as twenty...three for you! How many days do you want to stay here?"

Zhong Ye thought for a while, then shook his head, "I'm not sure yet, more refunds and less compensation."

Putting away the silver coins, the innkeeper got up, walked around the counter, and took Zhong Ye to the backyard of the inn, because he didn't know how to drive, and Zhong Ye needed to drive himself.

After walking half a street, the innkeeper asked Zhong Ye to turn into an alley, which was so narrow that it could only accommodate a carriage, and if he was not careful, he would get stuck in it.

The innkeeper squeezed into the coachman's seat, watching the road ahead nervously, and suddenly heard the adventurer beside him say: "I heard that this is an important military town for the production of guns. There should be many taboos. I came here to take the road to Claremont. I hope you can tell me what places you can't go, so as not to stray into those places when you go out for supplies, and hurt you."

The innkeeper froze for a moment, sorting out the meaning of the words in his mind, and then nodded in agreement.

It is said that it is far away from Claremont. Although I don't know where this adventurer came from, he must have supplies.

Squinting his eyes and looking at the sky full of snow, such Blizzard shops will not open, but there is always a time when they open.

"On the west side of the town, there are several factories that you can't go to. There is also the center of the town, where the army is stationed, and the northeast of the town is where the nobles live, but you can't get in there, there are soldiers guarding it. .”

West, center, and northeast.

Zhong Ye nodded slightly, "I see."

The concentration of several factories means that the storage and transportation are uniformly deployed, and it is easy to manipulate here. As long as one of the links is bought, some arms can be deducted.

Regardless of the military barracks, the Northeast is the area where nobles live. This is not a territory that has been passed down for a long time. A large number of nobles means power chaos, and many people want to get involved here.

The nobles here are just the 'white gloves' of those people, but I don't know if the people behind those nobles know that their 'pawns' have joined that interest group, what's more, those big nobles themselves are members of that interest group?
——If there is no accident, this town must have been established by the royal family, and the only ones who are brave and able to put people here are the great nobles of the Kingdom of Gaul.

If the situation is really as the lord of Vienna said, he may be able to follow the vine this time, tear off the veil on the face of that interest group, and let the world see what kind of face is under the veil!
(End of this chapter)