Gao Yishan turned to look at the dilapidated city behind him. That was Qingtang Pass, which used to be the border between the Yun Nation and Dayao.
After passing through that pass, they would enter Dayao's territory.
Of course, Qingtang Pass was no longer used to guard the border. The entire Yun Nation had fallen under Dayao's shining steel saber.
Gao Yishan looked at it for a while before slowly retracting his gaze and focusing on the queue.
This was a team of thousands of people from hundreds of cities in the Yun Nation. It was filled with congratulatory gifts for Dayao's empress, Qi Zixiao.
Some of them were warlords, but some of them had just been appointed by Zi Donglai and didn't have much foundation.
Replacing them were aristocratic families from various cities.
These aristocratic families changed their allegiance faster than ordinary people. After the fall of the Yun Nation, most of them surrendered to Dayao without any backbone.
As for sneaking into this team and heading to Dayao, it was easier than previously thought.
Zi Donglai, who had killed countless people, only needed a list of names to let these people go to Dayao. He originally thought that they would carefully check everyone's identity, but they didn't.
It seemed that Zi Donglai never thought that there would be people with ulterior motives mixed into this team heading to Dayao's capital.
It wasn't that he didn't think about it, but he simply didn't care.
No one could cause any trouble under the nose of dozens of Spirit Wheel experts, not to mention that Qi Zixiao, the fourth most powerful expert in the world, was sitting in the palace.
With the release of the latest list of the world's experts, the news that Teng Yue, the fourth most powerful expert in the world, had died at the hands of Qi Zixiao finally spread.
Today, the first and second most powerful experts in the world had been in hiding for a long time. It was really surprising that the third and fourth most powerful experts were actually women.
Now, countless people were guessing who would win the battle between the third and fourth most powerful expert in the world.
In just a few years, Qi Zixiao had risen from the seventh most powerful expert in the world to the fourth most powerful expert in the world. These people who had died were all killed by her.
One had to know that Qi Zixiao was only 26 years old.
Gao Yishan touched his chest, where his goal was. As long as he could get Qi Zixiao to place this thing in the palace hall, the Yun Nation would still have a chance.
…
After traveling for three days, the surrounding scenery had changed. A few people could often be seen measuring something on the side of the road.
These people were aboriginals.
This made them very curious as to what these aboriginals were doing in the wilderness.
After traveling for another day, Gao Yishan saw the prisoners of war that were captured by Dayao. Groups of prisoners of war laid a layer of stones on the ground. Then, they used a mud-like substance to pave the road. There were also people who pushed a huge stone mill to flatten the layer of mud on the road.
Although he did not know what the mud was, Gao Yishan immediately understood that the other party was repairing the road.
He wanted to build a road from Dayao to the Yun Nation.
This caused Gao Yishan's heart to tighten.
He knew the significance of a smooth road.
If this road was repaired, it would be faster to travel from Dayao to the Yun Nation. The righteous people in the Yun Nation would have a hard time, and it would be harder for them to overthrow Dayao.
This was not something the barbarians would do. It must have been someone else's idea.
He had heard that Qi Zixiao's husband was not an aboriginal. Perhaps it had something to do with him.
As the convoy progressed, he saw more prisoners of war.
All the prisoners would stop and look at the convoy when they saw it, as if they wanted to see if they could see familiar people. However, they were greeted by unfamiliar faces.
However, what surprised everyone in the convoy was that there seemed to be something wrong with these soldiers who were captured by Dayao.
In their imaginations, the captives were like the people in the mines, working endlessly. As soon as they stopped, they would be greeted by the whips and kicks of the aboriginals. Their expressions were numb, their eyes were devoid of color, and they wore tattered clothes. They couldn't even take a bath for several months, and their bodies were weak.
However, the prisoners of war in front of them were not like this.
Their clothes were indeed tattered and dirty.
However, when they stopped and looked at the convoy, no one whipped them. After looking around for a moment, they lowered their heads and continued with their work.
Their bodies were not weak and could even be said to be strong. It was not just one or two of them, but most of them were like this.
The most important thing was that their expressions were not numb or lifeless.
Instead, they looked like ordinary people. At most, they looked a little more fervent.
After all, they saw visitors from the Yun Nation and people from their hometown, so it was easy to understand their gazes.
However, it made the people in the convoy feel a little strange. It seemed that these people were a little different from the captives they had imagined.
They had even thought that someone would rush over and beg them to save them. When there was no hope, seeing a convoy from their hometown was very likely to happen. This also made them nervous. If that happened, it was best to pretend not to see it.
In the end, this did not happen.
It was unexpectedly calm.
Perhaps it was because most of these people were from the original army and were stronger?
Well, it was a joke that the Yun Nation's army was strong. Even the people of the Yun Nation didn't believe it.
Other than the original Western City Army, the other armies could be said to be a bunch of bandits.
Perhaps these people were the Western City Army? That was possible.
At the thought of this, the way everyone looked at those people changed. Although the Yun Nation was no more, the Western City Army still had a considerable position in the hearts of the people of the Yun Nation.
After all, this was a real army.
When they were resting, they realized that the accompanying aboriginal guards didn't mind them coming into contact with the captives, so both sides naturally started to chat.
However, what surprised the people in the convoy was that these captives weren't from the Western City Army.
Most of them were city guards, and some were even ordinary people.
This surprised everyone a little.
As they continued to chat, there were more and more things that surprised them.
First was the food. Their food was unexpectedly good … Every meal was meat and broth …
"Do you have vegetables? Can you give me some on account of us being from the same hometown? Less is fine too. I'm about to vomit from eating broth … Although there are pumpkins and potatoes, they taste the same when stewed with meat … "
This made the faces of everyone in the convoy turn black. Many of them hadn't lived a life of eating meat for every meal yet.
It was already good enough for ordinary people to eat meat once a year.
Some low-level officials could only eat meat once a week to once a month.
You guys are actually about to vomit from eating meat? Do the people of the Yun Nation and low-level officials not have better food than the captives?
Then, they revealed some information about the captive camp.
For example, there were 10 people in a small team, and the team leaders were all from the Yun Nation. There were 100 people in a platoon, and the platoon leader was an aboriginal while the deputy platoon leader was still from the Yun Nation. It could be said that they were managing themselves, so there weren't that many guards.
For example, as long as they completed their work, they could rest for a while without being punished. Of course, they could also rest if they didn't finish their work. However, if they didn't finish their work at night, the entire team would be punished.
For example, they actually had a little salary every month. Although it wasn't much, it was enough for them to buy two sets of clothes, the cheapest soap, and some miscellaneous grains to improve their diet. They could even buy two bottles of low-quality wine.
For example, they were held captive for 10 years. From the third year onward, their salary would gradually increase, and after 10 years, they would be free. Many people in the convoy had heard of this news, but hearing it personally from these captives and seeing their expectant gazes gave them a very different feeling.
Gao Yishan listened calmly, but he frowned when he returned to the car.
What these captives said made him understand one thing: the aboriginals had changed.
Although he had sensed it when he was in the Yun Nation, this feeling had never been as clear as it was now.
They had changed their previous style. They no longer only knew how to burn, kill, and plunder. Instead, they had started to use gentler methods to appease the people.
The treatment of these captives was even better than that of many of the poor people in the Yun Nation.
It was also much better than the people in the mines.
He wasn't the only one who felt this way. Many people in the convoy also felt this way.
However, the reaction of the people in the convoy was completely different. Everyone else was rejoicing. This change in the aboriginals was a good thing for them.
…
Half a day later, they finally saw the road that the captives had built. It was a straight gray hard road that seemed to be paved with a large stone slab.
The carriage moved onto the road that had been completely solidified, and its speed more than doubled.
Everyone felt the speed of the convoy and was shocked by this road.
Even the Yun Nation would find it difficult to build such a road, but the barbarians had actually done it.
The rest of the journey was sometimes in mud, and sometimes there was a paved road. According to the captives, this was called a cement road.
The aboriginals had divided this road into several sections and built them at the same time.
The closer they got to Lan City, the more shocked everyone was.
According to their calculations, the part of the road that had been repaired was more than 500 kilometers long … The total length would be more than 2,400 kilometers.
What shocked them even more was the material used to build the road. In less than two years, they had built a road that was more than 500 kilometers long. It had to be known that the official roads of the Yun Nation had been built over hundreds of years.
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