"This is the City of Seine." Everyone, including Jiang Tian, was looking at the huge city and seemingly endless city walls under the sun, standing at both ends of the river bank in the center of the Seine River;
There are also densely packed high-rise buildings, each with its own characteristic top.
This is the most prestigious gem and pearl in the crown of the Kingdom of Zealand. The prestigious metropolis of the Western Continent was once the dream destination of countless people in the Kingdom of Zealand. It represents the most advanced fashion and way of enjoyment, all the time.
The promised land where wealth gathers and flows.
But many people, including Jiang Tian's predecessor, left behind countless love and hatred, and experienced all kinds of joys and sorrows; in the end, after brutal barricade battles, under the butcher's knife of the five Dukes, everyone around them
Familiar faces fell down and tried their best to escape from here.
Therefore, after experiencing hardships and turmoil, the city of Seine has long lost its glory and dignity; not only the once prosperous suburban residential areas and water and land markets have become devastated and dilapidated; even the damage on the city walls is
Lack of maintenance has resulted in weeds growing over it.
In fact, as a super metropolis that brings together the royal family and most of the country's nobility, chambers of commerce, and wealthy people, the size of the city of Seine has also been continuously expanded and extended during the changes in dynasties. From the original small city of Xidian on the river bank in the Frankish era
, to a large urban area that now spans both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
Therefore, the city wall that Jiang Tian can see at present is not actually an outer city wall in the true sense; it is a wall called the "tax collector". That is to say, when the Sealand Kingdom was at its most prosperous, it was covered by the territory.
A gift project dedicated by the taxpayer to the "Terror Lord".
Of course, there are other rumors circulating among the people. These special businessmen who have been entrusted with the expediency of taxation in all aspects feel that the rampant private smuggling and black market activities in the capital city of Seine have seriously affected the tax sources they use to make profits; in addition,
Your Majesty, please rectify the tax system.
Therefore, these groups of tax collectors united together, spent a huge amount of money to lobby the court, and got through to the "Terror Lord"; only then were they allowed to invest in the construction of such a road to connect the large residential areas and clusters outside the city.
The city also included the new outer city wall.
Therefore, this tax collector's wall is not very high, and it does not have a gatehouse in the usual sense. There are only ten tax cards. It is not so much used to defend against foreign enemies, but rather used to block those who try to smuggle in and out of the capital/
A dynamic private group that evades taxes and also provides convenience for tax collection.
Despite this, not long after the birth of this tax collector's city wall, it was quickly surrounded by more peripheral residential areas and markets. And inside the tax collector's city wall, there are also various factories, workshops and river terminals clustered together.
The most polluted urban area is called Xiacheng District.
In contrast, Seine City was built in the Lily Dynasty era. It is surrounded by a real outer city wall and many majestic gatehouses to form a giant city called the outer ring area; it is also where the vast majority of poor people and poor people live together.
The main street is where various guilds and trade markets are located.
It is divided into the left bank area and the right bank area according to the north-south direction of the Seine River; each of them is divided into different communities, such as the expat area where foreigners gather; various senior colleges, church schools, vocational schools,
Training centers, centralized academy areas….
Therefore, this outer ring area, which occupies most of the city of Seine, also brings together the most colorful architectural styles on the continent; from the ancient Roman-style single-family building "Insula" to the South Italian-style columns.
shaped towers, to Gothic spires, and Norman-style longhouses with pitched roofs.
However, it is the most essential part of the capital. It is located in the upper city/inner ring area surrounded by the continuously reinforced inner ring city walls from the Rose Dynasty to the Acacia Dynasty. It is also home to most of the residences of wealthy businessmen, nobles and ministers.
Government departments constitute an upper-class community.
It has the most densely packed jewelry, clothing, accessories and other luxury stores and specialized service workers, well-maintained public facilities and security environment, and the most luxurious entertainment venues. It is also home to several palaces with different purposes and many
Bieyuan, an imperial property.
This is also the final gathering place for the ancient elevated aqueducts across the city, as well as several drainage channels and artificial canals. In a sense, part of the Seine River flowing through the city will be transformed into the home of dignitaries and wealthy people.
Use yachts and flower boats to raft the inland water.
In addition, it is the castle area located on the river bank in the center of Seine; it is also the predecessor of Seine City and the original royal palace established by the Kingdom of Zealand. But in fact, because of being plagued by floods and humidity, the royal family has not lived since the end of the Rose Dynasty.
In a small urban area located on the river island.
Instead, they chose to build several other palaces of different sizes on the terraces of the left and right banks. As the daily life of the monarch and royal family members, they accepted interviews and handled court affairs, held religious ceremonies, reviewed the royal army, hunted and had banquets.
, a place to escape summer and winter.
In the era of the Burning Sun King and the Burning Sun King, in order to solve the problem of the urban area becoming increasingly narrow and cramped and traffic congestion due to the population explosion, they ordered the demolition of a large section of the city wall from the inner ring city to the outer ring between the left and right banks.
; This gave rise to the more peripheral tax collector city wall.
In addition, during the period from the deposed king's abdication to the Blood Moon Massacre, the city of Seine was chaotic and disorderly; citizens were encouraged to demolish more bricks and stones of the city walls and use them for other purposes. Therefore, in a sense, the current capital of Seine
The city is no longer a city with complete walls.
Therefore, amid the changes of governments and the continuous turmoil, the ability to block and resist the waves of armed forces from different camps pouring into the capital is more often than not the dense buildings and narrow streets in the city, as well as in the communities.
They are just barricades built by citizens.
In other words, in previous battles that could determine the ownership of Seine City, the outcome had been basically decided before entering the city. But now, in addition to this thin and low "tax collector" wall,
It seems that there is no longer anything that can stop the Free Army.
Therefore, while the army was approaching the outskirts of Sena City in a mighty manner, Jiang Tian also successively released hundreds of cannons of various types, and baggage trucks filled with ammunition and food and grass from the "Dimensional Bubble" module; they were pre-built and used.
A variety of equipment to break through fortresses and attack cities...
At the same time, in the inner ring of Seine City, outside the residence of Rafaello, the newly married ceremony official, those who were originally loitering on the street corner, or arranging surveillance at the concierge and shop opposite, were not able to discover and notice.
, as the owner of the mansion, I don’t know when the building will be empty.
In fact, at this moment, Rafaro has secretly arrived at a downtown dock on the left bank of the city's outer ring, in a warehouse that has been vacant for many days. And here, in the past few years, he has been operating and manipulating the black market in the capital.
The subordinates recruited and developed gradually gathered over.
Then as these people arrived one after another, the fresh smell of blood filled the air, and they turned into corpses that were put into sacks, tied with stones, and thrown into the river nearby. Most of them were from the municipal government or the police station, or even
The kingdom's secret bureau, the spies planted by other nobles.
At least when the Free Army came to the city, these unstable factors deliberately used to paralyze others were no longer necessary. Therefore, all kinds of weapons that had been brought in through secret channels in the warehouse were also distributed on the spot.
Entrained and transported to more strongholds.
Of course, Rafaro did not expect how much threat and impact these piecemeal armed men hiding in shantytowns/slums could have on the defense of the capital; but at this critical moment, whether he had the ability to do it, and whether he was willing
Doing it is a completely different matter.
In fact, he was also very surprised and shocked when he suddenly received the news that the Free Army was about to approach the city; because in his expectation, there were at least a few key battles, which in disguise disrupted his secret advancement steps.
; But it also allowed him to finally be freed.
In fact, he has always hidden his true mission, mingled among the drunken dignitaries, and played a kind of extravagant role. He could not help but have some kind of schizophrenic faint wavering; when he dreamed about it at midnight, he could no longer tell the difference.
Which one is your true self?
After rushing to several secret strongholds and activating various arrangements to create chaos in the city and confuse the public, Lafaro finally arrived at the police station in the Left Bank District. Of course, he was not here to surrender, but to help.