Chapter five hundred and ninety seventh bow to the grand duke
Every temple war requires hundreds or thousands of city-states to mobilize millions of troops. Tens of millions of civilians last for years or even decades. The average cost of materials per soldier will be in hundreds of tons, and the total logistical pressure is simply unimaginable to modern people.
They were equivalent to supporting a protracted world war with transportation conditions 1,000 years ago. The victorious party often won the victory of Pyros, and the defeated party was even worse. It was common for expelling and destroying the clan and destroying the entire country. [..com]
Basically, it is common to kill thirty or fifty city-states and toppling one or two temples in a war.
Chen Yi provided a large and cheap material through industrial classification, which greatly shortened the war process and inevitably weakened the economic crisis of other city-states.
The total amount of materials is not as good as other city-states, but based on annual calculations, the size of the city-state in Xijiang is about 15% of the Shuilong Temple, which is more than 50% of the city-states under the Shuilong Temple.
If any leader of a city-state could do this, he would have been promoted to a high title half a year ago. That is, Chen Yi's identity is different from the indigenous people of the Western Continent, which made the chief priest of the Water Dragon Temple hesitate again and again.
However, as the main part of the war ended, the vector temple knights returned to recuperate. The temple believed that its control was restored, and it happened to be time to reward merit and it was a matter of time for Chen Yi's promotion.
They didn't know that Chen Yi had recently obtained more than 80 magic knights, otherwise they would never have been so generous.
Zhou Zhixue and Maxim did not understand the significance of the Grand Duke very well, but one thing was clear, and they seemed to be behind again.
"Mr. Maxim?" Zhou Zhixue asked the Russians tentatively. He couldn't take out much heavy metal.
"I'll apply to the country." Maxim knew in his heart that if he was the governor of the Western Continent, the issue of title was ultimately a threshold that could not be avoided.
You can tell from the appearance of these indigenous people that without a title, he is simply a second-class citizen.
However, the priests had a good appetite, and Chen Yi had such high requirements for passage fees and taxes.........Maxim sighed helplessly and went back to his room to write a report.
Moscow also had a strong discussion on this.
During the period when Maxim left the city-state of Xijiang, the Russian Observatory Group not only paid attention to the news about the dragon, but mainly observed Chen Yi's title information.
They also wanted to figure out what the Great Jazz could do.
Although there is not enough information from Xijiang, the Great Jazz is really the most legendary man in the Western Continent. He has the most lovers, the man who dreams of girls, the man worshipped by soldiers, the natural commander on the battlefield, and the defender of the city.
Of course, the right to tax exemption, tax surveillance and judicial exemption are also natural rights of the Great Jazz. In some places, the Great Jazz can also define...a unique mining area, and retain the guards and personal corps. What Moscow values most is the voting rights and political participation rights of the Great Jazz. Under proper operation, the Great Jazz is equivalent to the representatives of the interests of the city-state who want to speak in the temple, in addition to bribery, only the titles above the Great Jazz can be achieved.
Otherwise, no matter how rich Russians are, they will not catch the eyes of the indigenous people in the Western continent.
After careful consideration, Moscow agreed to Maxim's Fungool.
However, they were unwilling to pay terrible amounts of access fees and special taxes, so they submitted an application for visit to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, hoping to negotiate.
This outline of visit was naturally handed over to Chen Yi. The passage committee shouted loudly, and Chen Yi himself sneered.
Where is such a good thing in the world?
As soon as Maxim arrived at the temple main altar, he received news.
The only reason why I can't stop it is to make a big profit.
In fact, the bribe orders he asked for help were pieced together by the chief high priest. They were all embargoed or high-tax products in the Western Continent. The cost may be only tens of millions of dollars, and the miscellaneous charges will cost tens of billions of dollars, which is fully in line with the Chinese-style commodity circulation rules.
All this money will be used to subsidize the expenditure of the martial arts school. As students at the fighting skills level appear one after another, this expenditure is really a lot.
Since Chen Yi was involved, the Russians' visit had not arrived and it was over. Xijing set its goal on the payment method of tens of billions of dollars from the beginning. The Russians will definitely not get cash unless they are not prepared for the second half of the year.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs had a tough attitude, and Maxim was urging him tightly. Moscow pinched his nose and simply sold three oil and gas wells to offset the cost.
Chen Yi reluctantly agreed, so that the ship's supplies could be %%.
Several bearded men in the Xijiang area took the ship to the port near the temple in pain, and ordered the priests below the main priest to collect these supplies worth more than the aircraft carrier.
As a result, the chief priest of the Water Dragon Temple thought he had received a valuable gift, while Moscow thought he had paid a valuable price, and the intermediate profits and taxes that accounted for more than 90% were taken away by Chen Yi.
Two weeks later, Li Feng represented Chen Yi to the temple and received the title of Grand Duke.
The nine high priests of the Water Dragon Temple, six high priests from other temples, as well as dozens of great dukes and countless great jazz, were present to pray for blessings.
There are three other great dukes and more than 30 great jazz who will also be awarded the medal. The former is on the stage with Li Ban, while the latter has to wait another day before he can come on stage to cheer.
The haggard Maxim and Zhou Zhixue were given a lot of money, but instead of being valued, they were asked to stay near the altar and not move. The Russian hairy child wanted to run around, but after only two minutes of walking out, the fighting knight was slid back with his neck. Zhou Zhixue looked closely and saw that there was a piece of blue purple on his wrists and chestnuts.
It’s okay to have a wrist, but what’s going on with the messy clothes that are full of xiong marks?
Zhou Zhixue really doesn't want to know.
But in the next few days, he was so obedient that he could not be more obedient.
"Sowu people salute to the new Grand Duke. Thank you for your dedication to the Water Dragon Temple over the past few years, thank you for your work for all of us, and thank you for your efforts to continuity and prosperity of the temple." The priest who is the master of ceremonies is beautiful like a star. His voice has a very good rhythm, and although the meaning of the translation is rumbling, it sounds very pleasant.
Zhou Zhixue and Maxim had no time to regret taking konjac, so they became cold as a group of big jazz began to bow and salute, and they complained: The title of big jazz has not been obtained, but Chen Yi was actually lowered.
Just look at the number of the Great Jazz and the Duke of Ya, you will know that the former is at least a hundred times the number of the latter.
If the Great Jazz is the ruling force of a Popang, the Great Duke is the ruling force of a temple. Compared with Chen Yi back then, they spent as much as three or five Chen clan groups.
The last evening of the ceremony.
Water spurted around the altar, and a giant dragon appeared faintly, almost the same as the image Maxim saw in Moscow.
He shrank his neck and whispered, "Is there really a dragon?"
"Shh, be careful to be heard."
"Impossible." As soon as Maxim finished speaking, he felt that the dragon was infinitely enlarged in his eyes, as if he was staring at him face to face.
Lou Da’s eyes looked at people, and he was so cold that he thought.
Maxim said "moaning" and fell into Zhou Zhixue's arms.
The great jazz standing in front of me, stared at Zhou Zhixue with contempt, stretched out a finger, and gestured with the other finger to break it.
Zhou Zhixue felt that this was more like a threat than an explanation.
However, thinking about it, it was indeed disgusting. Zhou Zhixue shook his hand and leaked Maxim to the ground.
The ceremony is finally over.
After receiving the title of Great Jazz, Maxim seemed to be frightened and asked to return immediately.
This time they also chose to go through land and water, with different ways of bumps, beasts and other things that came, etc., left behind.
After a lot of twists and turns, they saw the buildings of Xijiang City State again, and the two were already deeply moved.
"You are the new big jazz, aren't you?" Someone recognized them before entering the city.
Maxim said happily: "Do you know us? How do you know I am from the Great Jazz?" "We are from the martial arts school." The two students stared at them with a funny look.
"Not an indigenous person," Maxim murmured and asked, "How do you people in the martial arts school know that I am a great jazz?" The martial arts school student smiled strangely and said, "The Grand Duke Chen Yi wants to see you." "What are you doing?"
"Since you are the great jazz of the Western Continent, you must pay homage to those with high titles according to the rules of the Western Continent. And you must exercise the etiquette of the Western Continent." This is why the students laughed strangely. The standard etiquette of the Western Continent is to kneel down, and it is a very humble kneel down.
Generally speaking, the great jazz no longer needs to kneel down humbly, but if the superiors ask, they can't escape the kneeling. These scenes were seen by them at the ceremony.
It would be fine if Zhou Zhixue was done, but Maxim said dissatisfiedly: "I am a diplomat."
"Since you became a great jazz, it's not. We don't understand those laws, but it's all." The student said without saying a word, pulling the two of them away. The soldiers accompanying him did not dare to use guns, so it became a decoration.
When they arrived at the Administrative Office, someone led them to start the ceremony from below.
Kneeling outside the door and in the aisle. After finally seeing someone, I also knelt down. When I got inside, Chen Yi said directly: "I order you to guard the Black Harbor in the name of the Grand Duke, go." "What?"
"You are the great jazz of the Water Dragon Temple. If you want to defend the territory of the temple, I will give you 20 soldiers and allow you to lead 50 personal soldiers. Let's go to Black Port now. Without my direct order, you will not be allowed to come back or leave Black Port."
This was the most dangerous place, so the two of them naturally would not want to do so. Chen Yi waved his hand and drove them out.
Maxim stood outside the door for a while, stomped his feet in anger and left.
After hundreds of billions of yuan, it turned into a guard. I don’t know what Moscow would think.
A few days later, Maxim's competition was ineffective and he led his two squads of soldiers to set off.
What he didn't know was that there was a team of magic knights and missile vehicles following him dozens of kilometers behind him.
Chapter completed!