Chapter 195 (1/2)

Duvi, of course, will not take the 4000 rebels with him to the territory. After all, it was somewhat disgraceful. Of course, Du Wei did not expect to hide it from anyone, especially the Regent of the imperial capital. Du Wei believes that his actions are well known by Prince Chen. However, if he wants to gain a foothold in the northwest, he has to seize all the capital to gain a foothold. The four thousand rebel troops, more or less, are also within the tolerance of Prince Chen: His Highness has demoted the whole Rowling family. He sees that a large number of ”sinners” of the Rowling family can't be used. Can't duvidan be a duke and go to the northwest empty handed?

I believe Prince Chen still has this capacity.

After all, this is not something that can be put on the table. Dewey used bribery to stop these 4000 people. If he took these 4000 people all the way to the northwest, he would not give the Regent face. It's just as well for everyone to make it known.

Knight Robert, with two hundred royal guards and four thousand rebels, marched quickly. Instead of taking the main road, he turned to the path and went to the territory first. Don't worry about the supplies along the way. With Duwei's official documents, the local garrison government along the way will provide food.

Du Wei, however, has to move forward slowly. Before arriving at the territory, Du Wei is ready to make a general survey of the situation in the northwest. It's one thing to hear a lot of things, but it's another thing to experience and see them with your own eyes.

Mulan, the capital of nurin Province, is not a big city if it is located in the prosperous central or southern part of the mainland. More than 100000 people. Second rate at best. But in the northwest, it is the most prosperous place in nurin province.

This is the last big city on the business road in Northwest China. Caravans from the south, caravans from the northwest, will meet here. All kinds of exotic goods from the southeast of the mainland, as well as cattle and sheep or fur merchants from the northwest grassland across the desert, will also stay here.

Just as the carriage approached the outskirts of Mulan, Dewey had opened the window. Enjoy looking at the scenery outside the window.

In Northwest China, due to geographical reasons, there is a wind season of one or two months every year. Although the kilimarro mountains are a natural barrier, blocking most of the strong winds, a large amount of dust will still be rolled in from the desert on the other side of the mountain every year.

The wind is strong and the sand is strong. This is the characteristic of Northwest China. So the buildings here will not be too high, such as the grand mansion of the imperial capital, or the tall tower which is often more than ten meters high, there is absolutely no land.

The whole Mulan City, the tallest building. It's the wall of Mulan city. The 12 meter high city wall is completely in line with the military system of the Empire.

Because of the common low buildings, this city with a population of more than 100000 covers a large area.

Because Knight Robert has sneaked with 4000 rebel light suits. The one who was responsible for leading the cavalry in front of the road was replaced by the leader of the 500 royal guards who was responsible for escorting Du Wei to the northwest this time. Although he was only a small officer of the 500 cavalry, the identity of the Royal Guards was naturally different.

In the south of Mulan City, it is the largest market here. Originally it was a town outside the city, it has evolved into the largest trading place for business groups from south to north. When Dewey's team passed by, they immediately felt the noisy atmosphere here.

When passing by on the road. Du Wei looked out at the fair not far away. There were many people in the market. There were many foreigners with flat noses, curled hair, dressed in cattle and sheep skins, businessmen from all over the Empire, horsemen, herdsmen, and shops with all kinds of leather goods. It's noisy.

But Dewey aimed his eyes at the merchants' money bags.

”My Lord. This is the largest trading place in Northwest China, although Mulan city has a small population. However, the annual business tax revenue is extremely objective. The land in Northwest China is poor and is not good at grain production. In particular, Mulan City, as the capital of nurin Province, has five times more business tax revenue than agricultural tax every year. ”

It was a pretty young man sitting next to Dewey in the carriage who said this. His name is Philip. He is one of the top 80 disciples recommended by blue ocean scholars to Dewey. He was 28 years old, but he was born beautiful and looked like a teenager. His surname ”Philip” should be an old aristocratic surname in Roland. This surname was once a famous family in the mainland before the establishment of the Roland empire a thousand years ago. However, it declined in the war of the reunification of the mainland. Today, the once prominent Philip family no longer exists.

Philip was born into a civilian family in the south of the imperial city. Among the 80 disciples recommended by the blue ocean scholars, he immediately got Du Wei's attention after a few short contacts. He is studious, steady, rigorous and quick witted. He is a very potential staff candidate.

What makes Dewey feel more valuable is that when he was young, Philip once came to the Northwest with a business group. When he was young, Philip used to study the local conditions and customs in mainland China, and he was very fascinated. With the encouragement of blue ocean scholars, the disciples of blue ocean were very disgusted with empty talk and keen on practical work. When he was young, Philip committed himself to join a business group, served as an accounting apprentice, and walked a large circle in the northwest.

Originally, Dewey did not expect that the situation in the northwest had been eroded to such a degree, but when he came out of the city of sin that day, he felt a kind of inexplicable absurdity about the so-called temporary regulations twenty years ago!

Twenty years have passed since the end of the war. Have the wartime theater regulations not been abolished? Let the army of a region control the financial power of the whole region? It even replaced the distribution right of the central empire. Can we interfere with the administrative power of local government at will?

This is ridiculous!

Isn't this a complete warlord? No wonder the Empire has never interfered in the situation in the northwest. In fact, it is powerless to interfere! After winning the northwest war, the old emperor Augustine VI didn't take any effective measures to solve the problem of the northwest war. Instead, he focused on Nanyang, which could make him continue to show off his power!

And the northwest army has almost become the local emperor of the northwest area! Such a military group controls the northwest. Fiscal revenue can be self-sufficient, bound by the imperial central government has become smaller and smaller, and even extremely exclusive!

Not to mention anything else, old Raymond told Dewey last time that there were two lords in the northwest region who were driven out by the northwest legion, and one of them lost his life... How arrogant this is?!

Who is the northwest army afraid of?!

After learning about these things, Dewey immediately found Philip, a disciple of lanhaimen, who is familiar with the northwest. Along the way, Philip stayed in Dewey's carriage and introduced to Dewey what he knew about the situation in the northwest. The more Du Wei heard behind, the more frightened he was! I can't help regretting that I didn't have a good talk with Philip earlier.