Infrastructure Throne

I received Shelley's invitation letter at the time when the snow melted. The spring was cold and the plum blossoms in the suburbs were in full bloom.

There is only one month left before the Shenbing Forging Conference. Since the Blue Sky King City is far away from the southern tip of the Shuguang Continent, Shen Qingze must leave immediately.

Shen Qingze left Yuanliu City and went to the southern part of the mainland. It would take at least two to three months to come and go and participate in the conference. Yan Zui could no longer be lazy just because he was there. During this period, the three cities Yan Zui is responsible for all internal affairs, economy, and military affairs.

In the past, Yuanliu City was just a small frontier city with a population of less than [-], with poor resources and a single hierarchy. Most of the things that came to the desk every day were intrigues among nobles or trivial matters. Yan Zui didn't need to spend much time handling government affairs.

Nowadays, Yuanliu City's population is expanding, and its territory has increased several times. Industrial areas, agricultural areas, and trading areas, new workshops or shops are registered every day, ships, docks, rail transit, medical schools and other infrastructure for people's livelihood, New problems arise all the time.

On the map of the Dawn Continent, the area under the jurisdiction of Yuanliu City is inconspicuous. Compared with the giants such as the Three Great Empires, the territory it owns is only three cities.

However, although the sparrow is small, it has all internal organs.The current three Yuanliu cities are like a miniature version of an independent kingdom, and the complexity of the internal operating mechanism is no less than that of the three great empires.

Almost all of this was created by Shen Qingze. When he was in the City Lord's Mansion, Yan Zui didn't need to worry about these complicated matters. Yan Zui only needed to be in charge of military affairs, supervise the drills of the guards, patrol the city defense, and do things he liked and was good at.

There are piles of various data reports and documents submitted by the Office of Affairs——The standard format and content of those reports are stipulated by Shen Qingze himself. Analysis and decision-making are also required.

Before Shen Qingze descended to Yuanliu City, Yan Zui's biggest goal was to overthrow the moth nobles who opposed him in the city, and to be a guardian like his father, guarding this barren small city.

Until Shen Qingze showed him a strong rise, a completely different future.

Previously, neither Yan Zui nor Yuanliu City thought that Yuanliu City would one day expand to its current scale, and it was even on the way to continue expanding, challenging the Pearl City, the most powerful city in the North.

Humans are born with desire and greed. Since it is possible to defeat Pearl City, it seems that it is no longer an unattainable dream to go one step further and unify the Northland.

Shen Qingze is a very planned person. There are piles of plans written in the study, most of which Yan Zui has read. Every time through these thin papers, Yan Zui sees the ambition that is about to come out behind him, Yan Zui is shocked. feel palpitations.

What made him even more heartbroken was that Shen Qingze would follow the plan step by step to realize it calmly, perhaps slowly, but unswervingly.

As the ruling family of Yuanliu City for generations, the Yan family has always only cared about one-third of an acre of their own land. Yan Zui has neither good feelings nor interest in other cities.

If it weren't for Shen Qingze's insistence on treating the three cities equally, according to Yan Zui's inner thoughts, Beiji City and Nanji City, as the defeated parties, are not worthy to sit on an equal footing with Yuanliu City, and the residents should not enjoy the same rights and absorb their resource supply Yuanliu City is the serious business.

This is the biggest disagreement between the two on internal affairs, but Yan Zui knows that his political ability is not as good as the other's, so he absolutely respects his decision.

With the expansion of the territory, more and more cities will be brought under the rule in the future, Yan Zui vaguely sensed what Shen Qingze's goal was, and he never objected to it, instead he took it for granted.

This is the road that every man who wants to make a living should walk. Yan Zui is willing to stand behind Shen Qingze and remove all stumbling blocks for him. He doesn't mind Shen Qingze being the leader, but the person closest to him must only be... Can be myself.

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On the morning of the farewell to Shen Qingze, Yan Zui had two fresh dark circles under his eyes, nagging him to go early and return early, even the flowers and plants on the roadside seemed to understand his mood, swaying their branches and leaves dejectedly in the early spring morning breeze.

Shen Qingze was amused by the other party's melancholy eyes, and couldn't help kissing his eyes lightly: "If you have any doubts, just read the notes I left for you."

"Understood, I will read it." Yan Zui adjusted the rabbit fur scarf around his neck for him, "I have something, I will tell you when you come back."

Shen Qingze was startled: "What?"

Yan Zui smiled mysteriously: "Come back early."

Shen Qingze had no choice but to get into the carriage with Yaya and Abai in a daze.

The mighty horse convoy, with nearly a hundred elite fire commanders in front and behind, were all carefully selected by the guards.

This time, Xiao Meng was in charge of the guards himself, and Teng Changqing was the deputy commander. Yan Zui even wanted to send a team of his own personal guards to Shen Qingze, but the latter resolutely refused.

After Jin Da became the Chief of the Police Department, he was no longer Shen Qingze's attendant, so he had to transfer Tong Er and Yin San to serve beside him.

These two boys stayed with Father Li in the smelter for a year. They endured hardships and endured hard work without complaint.

The dazzling morning light laid a light golden carpet on the avenue, the long carriage left the city lord's mansion and stopped at the North Gate pier, and the fire commander escorted Shen Qingze to board the ship.

The group first took the water route to Moon City at the southern end of the Northland, and then changed land from Moon City to the Royal City of the Blue Sky Merchant Alliance. This is a relatively short route between the north and the south.

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Everyone drove lightly and hurriedly, and when they arrived at the Blue Sky King City, there were only two days left before the opening of the Shenbing Forging Conference.

The vast majority of Shen Qingze and his party have never stepped out of Yuanliu City in their entire lives, let alone traveled thousands of miles across the Shuguang Continent from north to south.

This is the first time they have walked out of a corner of the Northland and opened their eyes to see the outside world. Along the way, the different and wonderful customs and customs of various places opened everyone's eyes.

In the distance, a towering and majestic palace-style city gradually rose on the horizon, and the outline of the Blue Sky King City appeared more and more clearly in the eyes of everyone.

The white jade-like straight and tall city walls and golden glazed tiles are shining brightly in the sun. There are four outer cities in the southeast, northwest and four directions, and they are like stars arching the moon to guard the central royal city.

The sea water of the blue sky sea is introduced under the city wall, forming a criss-cross moat. Countless ships of various shapes come and go on the sparkling water, and the noisy voices of people can be heard endlessly.

The magnificent scene in front of them shocked everyone. This royal city alone occupies an area larger than the three Yuanliu cities combined.

Teng Changqing was riding on the horse, and couldn't help showing envious eyes: "It will be great if our Yuanliu City can have such a grandeur..."

Shen Qingze sat comfortably in the carriage, looked at the Wangcheng which was close at hand, and remained silent.

He is no stranger to the royal cities of the three empires who have seen art design drawings, but compared to the game screens, the visual impact of the real world is truly unparalleled.

Relying on the invitation letter sent by Shelley, everyone was not troubled, and the hundred-man horse team passed the first outer city smoothly, but unexpectedly encountered interception in the inner city.

"We were invited by the third prince of the elves to participate in the forging meeting of the gods. Why don't you let us in?" Teng Changqing lowered his voice and looked coldly at the guards blocking the way.

The guard rolled his eyes, but he didn't even answer:

"Everyone here is invited. What's special about you? As I said, you are only allowed to bring ten guards into the city. The others must stay in the outer city and are not allowed to go anywhere during the conference, otherwise At your own peril!"

Teng Changqing was furious, and pointed at the large group of guards who had just passed the checkpoint:

"Those guys have more people than us, why can they go in, we can only bring ten? Aren't you just looking at the dishes?"

The guard curled his lips in disdain: "You don't have eyes? Didn't you see that the family crest of the motorcade is the royal family of the Mansi allies?"

He glanced down at the invitation letter, and raised his voice exaggeratedly: "Yuanliu City? I've never heard of it. A small remote city in the northern region expects to be treated like the royal families of the three empires?"

His voice spread far away, causing the surrounding guards and passers-by to laugh.

Teng Changqing blushed under the sound of pointing and pointing, and wanted to refute, but his words were not sharp enough, so he couldn't find an excuse for a while.

The guard said impatiently: "Hurry up, either ten people enter the city, or none of them enter, there are still people waiting in line behind."

Teng Changqing still wanted to argue with reason, Shen Qingze stretched out a hand from the carriage window to stop him: "The guests do as they please, just abide by the rules of the game here."

Teng Changqing just gave up, and together with Xiao Meng ordered ten fire commanders to enter the inner city with the chief priest, and the rest rested in the outer city temporarily, waiting for orders at any time.

A group of people had just passed the checkpoint, but they did not expect that the next batch of blacksmiths to enter the city would be accompanied by more than [-] guards.

Teng Changqing couldn't bear it anymore: "It's nothing more than the royal family of Manxi's allies. Why do these people have special treatment? Is the Blue Sky Business Alliance deliberately targeting us? Just come in and show off?"

Shen Qingze shook his head slowly, and looked away from the blacksmith surrounded by the guards - that person was Di Feng, a famous blacksmith in the Great Xia Empire, with a comprehension level of 580.

"They didn't mean to target us, it's just that we left the Northland, and our Yuanliu City is still a little-known remote town, and we don't even have the qualifications to be targeted."

Xiao Meng and Teng Changqing were shocked, with anger on their faces, they calmed down for a moment, and looked at each other, only unwilling and wry smiles remained in their eyes.

Not long after everyone entered the city, the third prince Shelley, who had been away for several months, finally arrived late.

Along with him came not only the braided elf girl, but also a slender and handsome man. His ears were shaped like fish fins, and blue scale-like lines could be faintly seen on his temples.

The man looked at Shen Qingze unscrupulously, from head to toe, his thin cold lips curled slightly: "This is the human officiant that you boasted so much?"

"How dare you call yourself a blacksmith at such a young age? A blacksmith apprentice is about the same. Look at his hands, they don't even have calluses."

The man didn't hide his smile at all: "If you come to the beauty pageant, I'd like you, hahahaha!"