Chapter 188: Judgment Bell
Through communication with Count Downton, Diapolo finally figured out the general situation. The actual area of Dick Roma is actually far beyond the range that the Count's Count's Count's cricket, and even reached the standards of the marquis - unfortunately not many are really used.
It is precisely because of this that in the generation of Downton's grandfather, the people of the Dick Roman family did not have the opportunity to explore the outside world because the territory was too large and they could not be defended.
Also, the growth rate of the number of residents in the territory cannot keep up with the speed of external development - there are too many factors that can lead to the death of an ordinary human being, and the grain output is limited.
In the absence of any valuable area around it, the territory was vast and sparsely populated. Earl Downton's grandfather lost the opportunity to explore the outside world, and this idea has been passed on to Earl Downton.
After Earl Downton took office, he only managed the territory well and had no idea of opening up to the outside world.
"You can find a way to avoid the population. How can you stop developing for this reason?" Diapolo could not understand at all. What's the difficulty of growing the population? As long as you have land and modify some policies, you are still afraid that you will not be able to attract people?
"What can I do?" Earl of Downton also looked helpless. Although the border nobles were independent and had extremely high authority, it was because this ghost place was not easy to develop. If something really happened, I couldn't even call for support, and basically I took care of everything myself.
"It can attract domestic refugees!" Diapolo, who was not familiar with the situation, gave his own advice.
"Where do refugees come from the country? Although Elvis' country is small, the people are not poor. It is impossible for the people to come to the border to settle down. No matter how well they say it, when others hear the word "border", they will stop going."
"That's true." Diapolo nodded, and he had no worries about food and drink. Whoever ran to the border was full and could not escape.
"There is no way to attract domestic residents to settle down actively, so we can only find ways to obtain the population from the outside."
"There is no way to attract me!" When talking about this, Earl Downton was even more helpless. His grandfather didn't give up on the development of the outside world for no reason, and there was no way.
"Elvis' barren area is too long and there is no one living in it. If you buy slaves from those merchants, the expense will be too high and there will be no way to replenish the population."
"Oh, I understand your troubles, that is, most of your neighbors are non-human races, right?" Hearing this, Diapolo's eyes lit up.
"That's right, most of the primitive wilderness and jungles around Dick Rome's territory, or non-human races. If you want to plunder the population through war pioneering, you must at least break through a primeval forest. My grandfather had already investigated it at that time. There were many powerful beasts among them. It would cost an unbearable price to conquer that forest!"
"Well," Diapolo nodded, "Is the Principality of Elvis xenophobia xenophobia? It does not accept races other than humans?"
"Not xenophobic! All humanoid races can come and live, but the elves and dwarves are not very willing to contact humans. I don't tell you why, you know, sir." A hint of embarrassment appeared on Downton's face.
"Will you be captured and sold as a slave?"
"Hehe, before the control of elements allowed you to establish a country, humans in this area were always oppressed and suffered. After the founding of the country, the situation improved. After hundreds of years of development, it was the current level."
"Isn't this essentially an exclusion? I can't accept that non-human races live with me for a long time."
Diapolo pondered, and understood the general situation, but this made him have more thoughts in his mind.
"Since we cannot live in harmony, let's separate!"
Diapolloben planned to organize a war to the outside world, but because of the lord Downton, he was confused, and except for knowing that there were no people around his territory, he was not clear about the rest.
So Diapolo could only wait for the result of the investigation by the intelligence agency he secretly established - he brought out a dragon from the Dragon Domain that could control the power of shadows.
Originally, this dragon was at the bottom of the dragon domain, and its head-on fighting ability could not be compared with other dragons. It could only hide in the shadow and disguise it. However, when it comes to the main material world, its real power is stimulated and can hide from the shadow shadow world of the main material world.
Therefore, Diapolo was entrusted with important tasks and even assigned many of his slaves to convert them into his own relatives. In order to ensure that he was not fooled, Diapolo also formed an intelligence agency called "Hawkeye" based on the recruited knights.
While the preparations were carried out before the pioneering work, the harvest in the underground palace continued, with at least dozens and at most hundreds of adventurers killed underground every day.
As a corresponding person, in order to mobilize the enthusiasm of those adventurers, there will be a lucky person or a relatively good person who has a great strength who walks out of the underground palace with an astonishing amount of treasures. When they return to the city, their experiences are widely publicized, they disappear without a trace.
Except for a very few lucky people who can escape with a small amount of wealth, most of the other adventurers who were spared by Diapolo were "recycled" by Diapolo after playing their due role.
Because every day, people can walk out of the underground palace alive, this underground palace that initially brought fear to adventurers has gradually unveiled the mystery. Adventurers all know that the monsters in the underground palace are mainly based on undead and earth elements, and are mixed with a small number of underground monsters.
So, adventurers began to make targeted preparations, and their survival rate increased significantly - mainly because the dragon who controls the underground palace, deliberately letting the water go under the instruction of a certain existence.
While being able to ensure the living rate, there are continuous reports of adventurers getting rich overnight, more and more adventurers arrived in Cecil City, and the demand generated by the huge number of adventurers also attracted profit-seeking businessmen.
The weapons store that sells weapons and armor, an alchemy store that provides various types of potions, and a wine tavern for adventurers to vent their lives and deaths... The economy of Cecil City began to take off.
The whole city is becoming more and more vibrant day by day. Of course, the corresponding economic prosperity is the rapid rise in criminal cases.
The weakest adventurers all control extraordinary power that ordinary people cannot fight against. The absolute crushing of power brings psychological superiority. They feel that they are superior to others and will have less worries when they act, and most of them will do whatever they want.
Therefore, theft, rape and violence cases in Cecil City occur every day. For these crimes, those with milder circumstances are fined or forced labor, while those with severe circumstances are executed in the street.
"Cecil City! Finally arrived. I didn't expect that a border city in a principality could be so clean!"
Under the dark sky, a team of adventurers, after paying the city fee, entered the city through the dilapidated city gates. The clean and tidy roads paved with stone slabs immediately aroused the amazement of a priest in the team.
"I really didn't expect it, but seeing that the road was recently newly built, I have long heard that the local lords have restrained a lot of wealth with the help of the Tamil underground palace. Now it seems that the rumors are true."
In the team, a mage in a blue robe looked at the passing pedestrians, looked at the dilapidated houses and roads in the city, and made inferences.
"Rod, you started to reason again. There is no need to do this. Just find a tavern to find out about this kind of thing and then come out."
"What do you know? This is practicing observation skills!"
"Okay, save your energy, hurry up and find a tavern to rest. We came here so far, not just to listen to you discuss these boring things."
A tall lady with fluffy chestnut hair and a pair of hairy and pointed ears hidden in the hair color on her head yawned a little lazy and greeted her teammates.
"Okay, okay, hurry up and find a tavern!"
After stopping a passing peer and asking where the best tavern in the city is, this team of adventurers who had just entered the city rushed there, but before they could enter the tavern.
They heard a melodious and powerful bell coming from not far away. When the bell rang, the adventurer team was surprised to find that almost all the pedestrians on the street changed direction at the same time and rushed to the place where the bell rang, as if they were received by some mysterious call, which made people feel heartbroken.
"What's going on?"
The half-elf ranger, frightened by the scene in front of him, held the dagger on his waist tightly, his eyes full of vigilance.
But before they could figure it out, the door of the tavern in front of them was pushed open, and a group of adventurers with alcohol on their bodies rushed out.
"Brother, can you ask, what happened? Why are you all coming out?"
The blue-robed mage Rhode reached out to stop a handsome and handsome man and asked in a casual tone.
"You just came here, are you?" The bearded man looked at the eye-catching and well-equipped adventurers team in front of him and touched his stomach with a smile.
"We just arrived and wanted to find a tavern to rest, but..." Rhode pointed to the hurried pedestrians on the street and smiled bitterly, "My brother, can you explain what's going on? I'll give you a glass of wine!"
"Hey, I'm going to watch the fun. If you have nothing to do, come with me! Just take it as a warning, this territory cannot be messed up."
"What are you watching?" asked the girl with a pair of cat ears on me, curiously.
"What else can I see? Of course it's an execution. I just caught a drunk golden adventurer a few days ago. Calculate the time and it's almost the execution today."
"Execution of the Golden Level?" Hearing the introduction of this big man, this adventurer team was shocked.
"What crime did he commit?"
Although there are no explicit regulations, no matter which country, the strong have criminal immunity that ordinary people do not have. As long as what they do is not too serious, law enforcement officers usually turn a blind eye and go through it.
Chapter completed!