Urban Sims

Grand City.

A city with a permanent population of more than 50,000 and a wall height of more than 30 meters. There is a magnificent mansion inside, a tall and white city hall in the middle, a well-planned business district and a street of hotels and hotels next to it, a military academy in the west of the city, and a On the hill, there is a majestic and majestic monastery, full of flowers, crowds of people, merchants gathering, and workshops like clouds. This city, which has been built for less than five years, is completely comparable to Voris in terms of prosperity. The capital of the kingdom is Watts City.

But this morning, groups of light cavalry rushed into the city from the city gate, and after the emergency martial law was declared throughout the city, the entire Gran City was shrouded in an atmosphere of depression and uneasiness.

In the afternoon, there was a burst of fierce shouting and killing from the Lord's Mansion. After a while, the shouting stopped, and some sharp-eyed citizens of Gran City seemed to see that Lord Downey of the Lord's Mansion seemed to be surrounded by a group of heavily armed soldiers. After being escorted to an unknown place, I suddenly felt a thump in my heart, Grand City was about to change.

…

Lord's Mansion.

In a side hall of the west wing.

After being escorted in by the soldiers, Downey looked downcast and angry, and saw the person he hated most in front of him.

"Shameless thief! You put all the things in my territory into your own pockets!" Donnie yelled and spat on him.

"Donnie, where did I fail you to make you hate me so much? Look at the bustling city below you, look at this rich land, every brick, every tile, every plant and every tree, which point, no Fortunately, I worked so hard to get it for you, you sit in the castle every day to enjoy these achievements, sit and enjoy the glory and wealth, why do you want to mess with me like this?"

Zhou Ming turned around with his hands behind his back, and looked at Tang Ni, who was in his thirties, with a shaggy chin and a mature personality but far from mature, feeling extremely disappointed, and really didn't know what to say.

Fortunately, I have worked hard to assist him for more than ten years, and I have been traveling around in battles in the south and the north, but I got this result.

Hey, I'm so angry that I won't fight.

"Bah! Damn thief, I only wish I didn't listen to Eugenie earlier and poison you with a glass of poisoned wine! Let you, a thief, steal my power and put me in that puppet's seat, let you I've had enough of being fooled and manipulated! I want to get back what belongs to me and everything that was stolen by you, the damn thief!"

Donnie roared hysterically, with red eyes, and rushed towards him with teeth and claws, but was immediately pressed down by two guards.

Looking at Downey in this appearance, Zhou Ming suddenly remembered that Mrs. Madeleine who once regarded him as his own and cared for him so much. In the weather, she jumped from the top of the high castle, ending her painful and desperate life.

Unexpectedly, Downey finally came to this step, either for his supremacy over everything, or to win the smile and sweet promise of that peerless beauty, or to fight for greater freedom and a better life. The vast sky chose to betray his best friend and his wife Alice, who had been with him for 13 years and had given birth to four children for him.

This is absolutely inexcusable!

Yes, King Helian, who has been fighting against Zhou Ming for more than ten years and has been defeated repeatedly, finally found a fatal loophole in his impenetrable defense line. This fatal loophole is naturally Downey.

Through the channels of several traveling businessmen, Helian secretly sent her daughter, Princess Eugenie, who is all over the world, to Downey's bed. I couldn't put it down, and I couldn't put it down for this beautiful, graceful, natural beauty who had been taught court etiquette since childhood. I couldn't help myself in this gentle country.

After learning her true identity, she was the daughter of King Helian, and was told that her father, Helian, was willing to marry him to stop the war, and promised to seal him as Grand Prince who occupied the seven counties in the east of the kingdom. After receiving the Grand Duke, Donnie's heart immediately began to beat unsatisfactorily.

Not only that, King Helian also promised that after his death, he will be elected as the first heir to the throne of King Voris, that is to say, as long as he agrees to marry Princess Eugenie as his wife, he will not only have a peerless Beauty can also get a complete Kingdom of Voris.

Do it, why not!

At this time, Downey's mind had already dumped his wife Alice, who had been with him for many years, to that Java country.

Compared with Eugenie, who was born in the royal family, this commoner wife who is not as good as others in terms of background, appearance, temperament, culture, and aristocratic etiquette has fallen to the status of an ordinary mistress in Downey's heart. There is not much difference, even because her body has become out of shape due to multiple childbirths, sometimes she feels that she is not as good as those young and beautiful mistresses outside.

After being tricked by Helian's beauty, Downey, under the "guidance" of this beauty, changed some of the policies that Zhou Ming had implemented in the territory for many years, and changed them into a mess during the time he was away.

For example, the six governors appointed by Zhou Ming were replaced, and six earls were conferred to take over the military and civil affairs in various places. They also recruited a group of knights who did not know where they came from. One baron, one knight, not many Over a long period of time, this land, which has undergone earth-shaking changes in more than ten years, has returned to the state of enfeoffment and autonomy among various lords more than ten years ago.

For a time, Glenland, which had been turned upside down by Downey, was boiling with public resentment, like a raging fire cooking oil, and it was about to explode.

Zhou Ming, who was shocked to hear that there was a fire in the backyard, had no choice but to return quickly with light cavalry to control the shock that was likely to cause his good situation to fall apart.

"Donnie, have you ever heard of the saying that the reason a stupid person dies is because he did the stupidest thing even though everyone knew he was stupid!"

Zhou Ming said angrily, except for the woman behind him and a group of unknown knights who supported him, except for the woman behind him and a group of unknown knights supporting him, this territory, this city, and even this lord's mansion, except for a few opportunistic people, had done these stupid things. , no one stood up to support him.

Even the guards who escorted him were members of the lord's guard who had been most loyal to him.

"Ryan, are you going to kill me?"

Suddenly hearing the word "death", Downey trembled in panic. He immediately thought of this cruel man who had killed countless people with despicable means over the years. Now he was targeting himself. Downey was so cruel Only then did he realize that he should not have provoked this demon.

Plop!

The extreme fear of death made Downey kneel down, hugging Zhou Ming's trouser legs, and cried loudly: "I'm sorry Ryan, I was wrong, please forgive me, I am your best friend and brother-in-law, Can you just bear to watch Alice lose her husband and her four children without a father at such a young age? Don’t kill me, please don’t kill me!”

He squirmed forward a little more and hugged Zhou Ming's thigh.

"The decision whether to kill you or not is not in my hands, but in Alice's hands. You can go and beg Alice."

Zhou Ming shook his head, broke away from Donnie's pull, exited the side hall, and handed everything here to Alice, who walked in with a child in her arms.

Alice walked into the side hall with red eyes. She had obviously cried just now and her body was still shaking a little. She had just taken people to the side hall next door to poison Eugenie, who made her feel ashamed at the first sight. For the first time as a princess, she watched a living person die in front of her, and she had not yet come out of the emotions that were mixed with fear, excitement, excitement, and hatred.

"Alice, my beloved wife and lover, please let your husband go! I swear to God, from now on I will only love you as a woman, I will wholeheartedly treat you as a woman! Please don't Kill me, I am the father of your four children and your husband, and my weight in your heart is far greater than that of your brother’s husband!”

Downey, who was on the verge of collapse, hugged the hem of Alice's skirt, tears and snot running down his face. At this moment, he just wanted to live, even if he lost all his glory and wealth, and lived like a dog, as long as he could live.

"Go away! You heartless thing, you can't even compare to a hair of my brother! Just for a woman, you abandoned the promise you made to me, abandoned the future of my four children, abandoned you Everything you promised me! You have a conscience that was eaten by a dog, and now you want to kill my brother. Go to hell and repent!"

Alice handed down the death sentence without mercy. Yes, she had also had fantasies about this man, but watching him have more and more illegitimate children outside, and watching his increasingly indifferent attitude towards her, until After seeing the woman who made her feel ashamed and desperate, she no longer had the slightest pity or sympathy for this ruthless man.

Yes, what my brother said is right. The only man in this world who is good to her and will always be good to her is her brother.

"Alice!!"

Donnie shouted in despair, but he could only look at the back, getting further and further away from him.

…

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, another ten years have passed.

In the past ten years, Zhou Ming led his Tiger and Wolf Legion and after occupying the entire Kingdom of Voris, he suspended the pace of external expansion and instead built strong fortresses on the borders to prevent several surrounding kingdoms from uniting out of fear and invading. This new country is not yet stable internally.

Continue to promote the agricultural revolution, reduce corvee taxes, reward fertility, improve environmental sanitation, release gangs of thieves, abduct people from neighboring countries, and use various means to increase the country's population base.

Implement low-tax policies, encourage industry and commerce, vigorously exploit coal mines, smelt steel, and enhance military strength, which not only hides wealth for the people, but also enriches the country and strengthens its military.

In just ten years, this small "Kingdom of Burns" under the governance of Zhou Ming has become a kingdom with a population of over 600,000 and an elite army of over 30,000. In an emergency, it can pull out an army of 100,000 A "strong country" with a large army.

In August of this year, in a border war with the four surrounding kingdoms, they jointly invaded. The 40,000-strong army that the four kingdoms had scraped together was wiped out. One king was killed and two were captured. The small "Kingdom of Burns" shocked dozens of kingdoms and became famous throughout the continent.

Some keenly observant kings also noticed the unique political structure of this kingdom during this battle. Its great power caused some voices to discuss reforms to begin to spread among the upper echelons of some kingdoms.

This battle, due to an occasional cold, worsened his lung disease, and became the last battle that Zhou Ming commanded in his military career. In the following years, he could only lie in a hospital bed in a private manor, relying on expensive medicines to survive. He also called his two sons to his side and decided to cultivate them well in the last few years.

…

On this day, the weather was cold and gloomy.

Perhaps because he felt that his time was coming soon, Zhou Ming called his two sons to the hospital bed and gave them some kind words.

He said to his 26-year-old eldest son John: "John, I know that you control two-thirds of the kingdom's field army and have made great achievements in battle. Last year, you captured 12 earldoms of the Iron Castle Kingdom. You are also arrogant and look down on you." Your weak cousin the king... But you must not tell your aunt Alice to ask Cousin Allen to move his butt and give up that position to you. Never do this! Since this kingdom If you are named Burns, you should belong to the Burns family! This is the promise I made to Alice. I must abide by it when I am alive, and you must abide by it when I die!"

"Yes, Dad!"

The eldest son John lowered his head and said, feeling very surprised. This idea was buried deep in his heart, but he didn't expect his father to see it.

"John, it's not that Dad wants to stop you from doing a big business, but it's not a business that involves fighting among each other. Take a longer view. Don't just focus on the Kingdom of Burns. Any land outside the Kingdom of Burns, you can do it." You can become king there."

When he was tired, he stopped for a while, and then Zhou Ming said again: "John, did you know that an explorer I sent to the east the year before last came back recently. He told me that behind the Ural Snow Mountains in the east of the kingdom, there is An extremely vast land, even larger than the hundreds of kingdoms we know combined! You can send people to dig a passage in and occupy that vast land. There are many volcanoes and minerals on that land, including Saltpeter and sulfur for gunpowder.”

"Dad, the Ural Snow Mountain is ten thousand feet high. It is said that only the devil can climb over it. Send people to dig a passage. How long will it take? Dad, I plan to knock down the Iron Castle Kingdom next year and make it my fiefdom. Allen My cousin and Aunt Alice should agree."

John said with a relaxed face. The entire Burns Kingdom was conquered by the Derek (Zhou Ming's surname) family. Now he just wants a feudal kingdom that he conquered by himself. No one should gossip now, right? .

Seeing the frivolous way his eldest son John spoke, Zhou Ming knew that no matter how many times he warned him, he probably wouldn't take it to heart. This child, after learning a little bit from him, became a little arrogant. But he was his son after all, so he couldn't say those harsh words anymore. He just hoped that after he left, he wouldn't get into too much trouble.

After explaining to John, Zhou Ming turned his attention to his younger son George, who was only 16 years old, had a personality very similar to his own, and was very interested in inventions and creations.

His youngest son was very talented. When he was 13 years old, he invented a powerful matchlock gun based on the design he gave him.

Perhaps because he knew the meaning of his father's explanation this time, little George did not speak and just listened quietly. When he heard that the Ural Snow Mountains could be climbed and there was a wider world behind them, his eyes suddenly lit up and he was excited. Insatiable curiosity.

"Dad, do you want me to fulfill your wish and help you see the world behind the Ural Snow Mountains?"

Zhou Ming hadn't spoken yet, but as soon as he caught his gaze, little George spoke first, as if he knew what he would ask.

George knew that his father's lung disease was very serious and it was very difficult to speak every word. He was sensible and hoped to relieve his father's pain.

"George, you are the youngest and the smartest among the children. Dad only has one sentence...keep your curiosity and desire for knowledge alive, don't care about other people's opinions, and move forward...to reach the pursuit in your heart. The dream place of..."

Perhaps because he breathed a sigh of relief, Zhou Ming felt that he was getting more and more tired, his head was spinning, and his body was gradually getting rid of the pain. Before losing consciousness, he seemed to hear his youngest son George, his wife Anna, and their two daughters. , the sound of crying in the ear.

…

"Ding~"

"The game character has died and is exiting the game..."

The author's bacteria has been resurrected and is looking for recommendation votes...