Chapter 276: The Five Rings of the Imperial City

Chapter 271: The Five Rings of the Imperial Capital
In fact, Owen’s guess was right, that person was indeed one of the emperor’s doubles, and there were similar doubles, who randomly appeared in the imperial palace and various places in the imperial capital, using the emperor’s appearance and name to deal with some unimportant but tedious affairs, such as meeting with the emperor or attending certain banquets and ceremonies, etc. The emperor’s doubles were also in the palace and the imperial capital.

But don’t underestimate the emperor’s understudy, because the real emperor doesn’t know where he is and whether he will appear as an understudy.

You think he is the emperor’s double, but who can guarantee that he is not the emperor himself?

Even the Marquis of Burgasus, who was a close confidant of the Emperor, sometimes could not be sure whether the one he was meeting with was the Emperor himself or not.

Only he was smart enough to never try to find out if the person in front of him was the emperor himself, remained respectful no matter what, and carried out his orders without hesitation, which was why he was still the emperor’s close confidant to this day, unlike his companion who had disappeared without realizing it.

On the way back to Owen and his party, the double has already reported the process of this meeting to the emperor who is dealing with political affairs in great detail, during which there is not the slightest mix of personal opinion, just like a relentless recapitulation machine.

The emperor did not know whether to listen, anyway, casually wrote a note to the double sent off.

In fact, the emperor is important to the north, but the nobles in the north is not important, so no matter who is coming it does not matter, even if it is mixed with an unknown Owen, still will not cause the emperor’s interest in the slightest.

Control of such a large empire consumes too much of the emperor’s energy, and decades of governing also let him see too much, can be said that even if Owen directly rebel, in the order of the emperor need to deal with the affairs of the emperor to be ranked in the triple digits.

It’s not that he doesn’t pay attention to it, but it’s not necessary, the whole empire has a population of hundreds of millions of people, does the emperor need to care about a small lord with only a few tens of thousands of people?
Maybe this is the first and last time to hear this name, so the emperor will not even have the need to remember it, casually dealt with it.

Owen thought too much of himself before, in front of the huge empire he is a small worm, jumping happily will only attract the attention of the same worm rivals, the real big man will not waste energy to pay attention to this kind of small matter, so his various worries did not happen, everything is very smooth.

In the manor after two days of repair, received the emperor’s permission of the marquis of Burgassus is ready to take them to the noble council for registration, only in the noble council to complete the registration they are considered to be truly become a nobleman, only qualified to accept the emperor’s title to become the lord of the north.

Nobles are nobles, lords are lords, nobles are not necessarily lords, but lords must be nobles.

At this time the Marquis of Burgassus is actually very envious of Owen deep down, because he is busy half of his life to have a viscount collar, and these people start is a viscount collar, there is no upper limit, as long as the efforts of development for some years, to become a count collar is only a matter of time.

But let the Marquis of Burgasus go with them to change, he is not willing, after all, this is the imperial capital, even if the viscount is as many as a dog, the count is everywhere, the marquis can only shake, but also can not change the fact that this is the core of the whole empire.

This time, the ride is not the royal carriage, so Owen and the others are always able to take a good look at the imperial capital.

The emperor’s majestic natural needless to say, the whole millions of people gathered here, want not spectacular are impossible, and because there are not too many high-rise buildings, does not exist a neighborhood can accommodate tens of thousands of people, so covers an area of more, big to horror, just the city wall is up to five, which is thousands of years of continuous expansion left behind the traces.

However, the city wall is not the more back to build the more majestic, just the opposite, the city wall is a more than a short, like terraces.

For example, the outermost wall is only six meters high and four meters wide, and not with solid stone construction, but burned bricks, the internal filling is only steamed soil, defense is not as strong as imagined. But the more in the city wall is more horrible, especially the three rings of the city wall, the height of more than ten meters, there are hiding holes in the interior, armament storehouse, canteen, hospital, said it is a war fortress is not an exaggeration.

But to say the most powerful, but also to guard the palace of the first ring of the city wall and guard the inner city of the second ring of the city wall, because these two walls are fused together with the magic boundary, is not simply just physical defense so simple.

After realizing this, Owen’s expression was a bit strange, and a song of the Five Rings was stupid, but he finally held back.

According to the division, the first ring of the Imperial Palace was the core, followed by the second ring of the inner city, the third ring of the noble district, the fourth ring of the commercial district, the fifth ring of the commoner’s district, and then beyond that was the sixth and seventh ring without walls, a supply circle made up of towns and cities, mainly responsible for production and transportation in order to maintain the operation and vitality of the Imperial Capital.

Just like Owen’s North City, it is not possible for all the territories to be populated by the city’s population, and a considerable number of settlements must be retained outside the city to facilitate farming and production.

After all, with the size of the North City, it was impossible to maintain it for a long time just by transporting supplies from all over the city, and the local area must also have a sufficient amount of planting production capacity.

Through the first gate into the five ring wall, Owen found that this place is not as good as his North City, because both the building and the road give a person a sense of disrepair, potholes and uneven pavement from time to time water by the horse hoof wheels splash out, so that pedestrians avoid, just from this point can be seen that the Imperial Capital is not as good as imagined.

If the dilapidation of the buildings and roads only made Owen frown, then the civilians here were just unpleasant.

It wasn’t that the dress was scruffy or ugly, but the expressions of depression and numbness gave people a sense of breathlessness just by looking at them.

Owen didn’t need to ask to know what kind of exploitation and pressure the civilians of the Imperial Capital endured, and the occasional corner of the ghetto confirmed his thoughts.

If you don’t work hard to study and pay your taxes, you can only end up in the hellish slums, this is the cruel reality that every Imperial City resident has to face since the day they were born.

There was only so much room for the upper class, even a noble’s title could only be inherited by one person, and the rest could only find another way to make a living, such as doing business or being loyal to other nobles.

The business competition in the imperial capital is also fierce, the big fish eats the small fish, and there are countless people who go bankrupt and fall into the civilian area.

Not to mention the civilians, who are under the most pressure. An accident or an illness can send an entire family to hell, becoming expendable in the slums or the living dead.

Owen is acutely aware that the dark side of the empire is feared beyond his imagination, but is powerless to change anything.

Because class means exploitation, and exploitation means poverty, and poverty breeds misery, and misery brings disaster, like a noose around the neck that no one can escape or change, not even the Emperor.

(End of chapter)