The gorgeous bathroom is steaming with steam, and the slightly dim lighting makes everything around it look hazy.
Zuo Si was lying in a huge pool at the moment, feeling the hot springs gushing out from the underground of the Silver Moon City Palace. Every muscle and cell in his body seemed to relax.
There is no doubt that there is nothing more enjoyable than soaking in warm water of moderate temperature after a journey in the wilderness and fighting.
Especially the bathrooms in Silvermoon City Palace were specially built to cater to Alustriel's special hobby of bathing and inviting friends and lovers to bathe together.
Whether it's the magic lamps hanging on the walls, the several large separate bathtubs, or the lounge chairs placed in the water, they all prove how much this Ms. Hope likes bathing.
There will even be maids bringing alcoholic drinks and food in for bathers to replenish their energy.
Of course, why you need to replenish your physical strength while taking a bath cannot be explained in too much detail. You will understand everything.
Anyway, Zuo Si doesn’t need to replenish his physical strength for the time being.
To be precise, he and Alustriel were not even in the same pool, but at least seven or eight meters apart.
Through the hazy white water vapor, you can vaguely see the other party's graceful figure looming in the mist, full of temptation that cannot be described in words.
Coupled with her sincerity, gentleness, tolerance, maturity and wisdom, this chosen one of the Magic Goddess simply satisfies all the beautiful fantasies that men have about the opposite sex.
It’s no wonder that so many people are crazy about Alustriel. Even Sammaster, the founder of the Dragon Cult, once fell under her skirt.
Unfortunately, Zuo Si knew very well that this female "Sea King" would never give up the entire forest for a tree.
Her own overly "philanthropic" character is the biggest problem.
According to legend, Alustriel once collected the magical portrait of Drizzt Do'Urden, the famous dark elf ranger in the North.
As for what exactly she did with this portrait, only she knows.
So in Zuo Si's view, Alustriel may be a good friend and lover, but he is definitely not suitable for living together for a long time.
Of course, there are exceptions for those who have cuckold plots and like to find excitement and perversion.
In this regard, Drizzt's choice is definitely the wisest.
Although he also has a very fond impression of the Queen of Silvermoon City, he has always been very clear that with his sensitive status, it is impossible to reach her.
While Zuo Si was silently thinking about what Northland would look like in the future, Alustriel on the other side suddenly asked: "Sos, do you have any plans for the future? Or do you have any goals you want to achieve?"
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"Plan? If you are referring to the operations in the Neransir Islands, Baldur's Gate and Luskan, the original idea was actually just to earn wealth in order to purchase those exaggeratedly expensive and precious magic materials. To put it simply
It’s just to make money. Other than that, I don’t have any political intentions or ambitions.”
Zuo Si obviously understood what the Queen of Silver Moon City wanted to know, and decisively gave a clear answer.
In fact, with the opening up of the new world, he is no longer as enthusiastic about Vanessa's original idea of ​​controlling maritime trade on the west coast of Faerûn.
Because if you just buy some sugar, salt, luxury goods, condiments, spices, silk, cloth, special steel and other things from the earth in the industrial age, you can easily make a lot of money.
Moreover, when buying things there, Zuo Si always "borrowed" them directly from drug lords, warlords, and gangsters as much as he needed, without any cost at all.
It's just that now that the entire organization and sphere of influence have been established, the lich, their apprentices, and their subordinates are all benefiting from it, so it's not easy to stop it directly.
Otherwise, Zuo Si wouldn't even bother to fight this battlefield with the Arcane Brotherhood and Luskan.
"Don't you want to build an ideal country according to the ideas in your mind? With your intelligence and ability, it should be easy for the people under your rule to live a prosperous and comfortable life, right?" Ai
Rastro asked with interest as he lay beside the bathtub.
"Wealth and comfort? Hahahaha!"
Zuo Si couldn't help laughing loudly, and responded while laughing: "It may not be difficult to be rich, but comfort will never be achieved.
Because human desires are endless.
When a person feels unbearably hungry, he may feel extremely satisfied and happy after eating a piece of bread, a piece of grilled fish, or even a bowl of sour leftovers.
But if a person is full, he will not be able to eat too much even if delicacies are placed in front of him.
On the contrary, when the most basic survival needs and safety needs are met, people will further desire spiritual satisfaction, such as various entertainments.
When all the above needs are satisfied, they will further want social status and political power.
I heard that you are the first person in the history of Silvermoon City to be successfully elected as the Supreme Mage through a referendum.
Then I believe you should know best how terrible and ridiculous it is to let civilians who lack sufficient foresight, knowledge and wisdom decide who is the supreme leader through voting.
And these people are also very easy to be incited.
Often just a tiny spark can immediately trigger large-scale riots.
In other words, they often don’t know what they are doing. They will quickly and blindly follow the trend just after hearing some rumors, and they seriously lack independent judgment.
Not to mention using similar methods to decide important policies of a city-state or even a country.
That's why I said that governance is a very troublesome, time-consuming and labor-intensive matter.
The most ideal situation is for a small group of elites who can understand the sufferings of the people to implement centralized rule and keep the people as far away as possible from the political field that they do not understand at all, so as to ensure the stability of the entire city-state and even the country.
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Only by maintaining stability can society develop steadily, and at the same time, the poor at the bottom can obtain enough income to support their families.
In this regard, you have done very well.
Silvermoon City's stable situation for a century and a half has allowed most of the citizens here to accumulate a considerable amount of wealth.
When civilians have money, they will generate purchasing power, and the purchasing power will form a prosperous and stable market, attracting businessmen from other places.
Over time, there was a steady flow of trade and taxation.
To be honest, Silvermoon City is the city with the least internal conflicts that I have seen in Faerûn so far.
Except that there are too many high-level mages that are difficult to manage, everything here looks so perfect."
"Thank you for the compliment. But compared to these words of praise, I would rather hear you point out the shortcomings and areas that can be improved. From the rapid rise of the Nelanthel Islands, I found that you seem to have very unique insights in this regard.
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There is no doubt that unlike voters such as Kelburn and Elminster who do not like to get involved in politics, Alustriel is a person with clear political ambitions.
Perhaps she witnessed the fall of the famous elf city Myth Drannor (also known as Cormanthor) when she was young, so she wanted to build such a city or even a country throughout her life.p>
Among them, the huge and complex barrier inside Silver Moon City, which is like an elven magic lock, is the best proof.
For Alustriel, magic and the power of voters are just tools to realize his political ambitions, and the latter is the most important.
Compared to magical knowledge, she prefers to hear some advanced ideas and systems about governing the country.
As long as she can make Silvermoon City more prosperous and prosperous, and strengthen the connections between the towns in the Silvermoon Alliance, she will be very happy to listen and give generous rewards to them.
In this way, the two of them had a "frank conversation" in the bathroom and chatted for more than three hours before they walked out of the bathroom still unsatisfied.
I don't know if it was an illusion, but Zuo Si always felt that the maid guarding the door looked at him in a weird and not quite right way.
After he left Silvermoon City with his team, rumors immediately spread among the maids that Thos, the double chosen one of the goddess of poison and disease and the goddess of magic, could satisfy Her Majesty the Queen in the bathroom for more than three hours.
You know, most other people came out looking exhausted within half an hour or so of entering.
Without the use of magic, anyone who can persist for an hour is considered "gifted".
And Zuo Si still looks so young, with a bright future ahead of him.
Of course, Zuo Si will definitely not hear these rumors.
Because when he completed his journey to the North and was about to return, he was blocked by Erinikas on a country road outside Silvermoon City.
You don’t need to ask to know that Irenekas first went to Neverwinter City but failed to find anyone, and then chased him all the way from Neverwinter City to Silvermoon City.
Looking at the elf archmage standing in front of him, Zuo Si immediately asked with a hint of curiosity: "Why don't you study the saints of Amauna Tower in the underground temple and come all the way to see me?"p>
"I want to study that artifact scepter."
Irenekas stated his intention straightforwardly without any nonsense.
"The artifact scepter? I'm sorry, we have an agreement a long time ago. The artifact belongs to me, and the saint belongs to you. So I will not hand over the scepter to you. Let's give up this intention as soon as possible." Zuo Si said straightforwardly.
Refuse.
What a joke!
To be continued...