These big shots are actually me

Mo Zuo was even more shocked when he heard this. In order to make those heating pipes always reliable, he used Oliha steel!

This is a generous move that none of the Feileng Cui nobles have used!

Then you told me that Oliha steel, which never corrodes and was even once called the metal of the gods, was dismantled because it had become useless because of its age?

Laying heating pipes with Oliha steel was something Mozodu had hesitated for a long time before making up his mind to do.

Because at that time, Mo Zuo firmly believed that although this move cost a lot of money, as long as it was completed, it would definitely be a good deed that would benefit the world!

As a result, it's all gone now, and it still doesn't seem to have worked for a few years?

As for the reason, it's nothing more than wealth. By the way, I heard that Feilengcui purchased a batch of cheap and high-quality Oliha steel when laying those sewer pipes. Hiss, these people couldn't have sold Feilengcui. Leng Cui, right?

"Do you know how many years ago these pipelines were removed, or how many years after the death of the Archduke of Aragon?"

"I don't know about this. If you are literate, you can go to the library in the city and look for it. I heard that there are many books there, which may contain the answers you want."

As he spoke, the hawker explained:

"Ah, I'm not doubting that you are illiterate. I'm worried that outsiders like you don't know our words. I heard from gentlemen that the words used by people outside are different from those here. I think that's the case, too. After all, I don’t understand a word that many foreign guests say.”

After hearing this, Mo Zuo also asked feebly:

"I also heard that during the Grand Duke of Aragon's reign, free public hospitals and public schools were set up in every larger town. But it seems that they are gone now?"

Mo Zuo didn't want to ask this question, because judging from the situation of this vendor, he should not have received education.

Moreover, that group of people even demolished the heating pipes and obelisks that they obviously benefited from, so they will definitely not continue to receive free medical care and education that sucks their own blood.

"There is no such thing. There are hospitals and schools!"

"Um?!"

Mozo was really shocked this time. They even demolished the heating pipes and obelisks that benefited him, but they still kept the hospital and school?

No, it may be reserved, but not free!

Mozo no longer believed that these people had any conscience left, so he asked tentatively:

"It's not free, is it?"

"free!"

At this moment, Mo Zuo almost thought he was hallucinating. Do these people really have any conscience left?

But immediately the hawker's words broke Mo Zuo's fantasy and made him feel helpless and sad.

“The hospital is free to see a doctor and treatment is free, but some expensive medicines or amazing treatments are chargeable.”

As he said that, the vendor looked left and right, then approached Mozuo and whispered:

"I don't think you are a bad person, so I told you what I told you. You must not tell others that I said it. I went to that hospital a few months ago. Hey, do you know the result? I It turned out to be good until I took a look.”

"There's something wrong with my hands, something's wrong with my waist, and there's even something wrong with my head. Fortunately, my friend knows a little bit about earthwork and I'm strong enough to resist."

These words sound like a medical joke made by ignorant poor people based on malicious speculation about the good intentions of doctors.

However, Mo Zuo always felt that the other party's statement was the truth.

After taking a deep breath, Mozo asked the vendor:

"You said there is something wrong with your head? Can you let me take a look?"

"Huh? Yes, that's okay."

After the hawker hesitated for a moment, still coveting the church silver coin, he put his head over it.

Mozo originally wanted to take a closer look, but at the first glance, Mozo saw the problem - someone was using a spiritual tide to covertly impact the vendor's soul.

Although it was said to be obscure, the other party's methods were rough and perfunctory, so Mo Zuo could see the root cause at a glance.

This is really a disease-free treatment!

"Then can you tell me more about the situation at school?"

"School, the school is better than the hospital, but the quality is limited. The school is indeed free, but they said that in order to prevent students from using resources but not studying well, they have set up a lot of assessments."

"Honestly, as someone who has never read a book, I think this statement is correct, but in fact, hey, the so-called assessment is based on money, and it is also called: 'He has given so much money. , how can you not study hard?'."

"If children can learn something if they are given money, I will accept it with all my heart. But the problem is that he only takes money and doesn't teach anyone! The only thing he will give you is something that everyone knows is useless. What integer?”

"Certificate!?"

"Yes, it's the certificate you mentioned. My friend doesn't believe in evil, because he heard that people in big cities read certificates, so he borrowed a lot of debt to help his son get one, but it turned out that it was really useless. !”

"It's really a piece of junk that can't even be used to light a fire!"

After hearing this, Mo Zuo also sighed and said:

"The certificates people in big cities look at are all from abroad or from specific schools, right?"

"Well, I don't know exactly, but that's what you said."

After hearing this, Mo Zuo couldn't help but sigh. He knew that these people would not have any conscience.

But he really didn't expect it to be so disgusting.

"Do you know what's going on with the orcs?"

"Orcs? I don't know about that. Our place is very remote. I just heard from the guests that you can often see orcs or demihumans being led around in big cities."

Being led along? Has the slave trade resumed in the bitter cold?

Mozo then asked a few more questions, but the hawker was not very clear about them. Seeing this, Mozo could only give up and hear more things from the hawker.

It seemed that he should not have chosen to take this airship that was only temporarily docked at the border of Hazel in order to reach the bitter cold land as quickly as possible.

After thanking the hawker, Mozo handed the church silver coin to the hawker.

At the same time, when Mozo's hand passed over the wine bottle, there was a ding-dong sound that only the vendor and Mozo could hear.

In response, Mozo showed a meaningful smile to the hawker who was in a daze.

The other party also immediately woke up and nodded with a smile.

Mozo paid more, and the amount was generous!

Before leaving, Mozo asked the vendor again if he wanted to take away his lunch - a piece of stiff stem of unknown origin.

The vendor who saw a touch of gold in the wine pot happily handed his lunch to Mozo and said sheepishly:

"Just try it, don't bite the bullet and finish it!"

Mo Zuo just smiled to show that he knew about it, and then he ate the nameless plant stem one by one on the road, which was both bitter, cold and hard.

After eating, Mo Zuo couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh.

Once upon a time, he finally made the people here change from pursuing enough food to pursuing good food.

And now, he actually made a big circle and walked back to the same place...

312 The Atonement and the Republic (5k)

The hawker had no reason or need to deceive himself, and what he said was basically things that you could know by yourself.

Therefore, Mozuo intuitively told what the vendor said was the true situation in this bitter cold land.

But in order to avoid cognitive differences caused by different classes in different regions. Mozzo decided to walk more places.

And Mo Zuo also wanted to investigate whether the assassination that year was as the history books said or if there was another hidden reason. Although everything back then pointed to the orcs, Mozo always felt that this was too 'natural'.

Moreover, even if it is not for myself, I still want to investigate this matter for the first Emperor Hazel.

After all, the first Emperor Hazel and Mozo have always been good friends and allies.

Mozo then walked around the small town for a long time as if aimlessly. He seemed to be careless, but in fact he was observing everything in the small town.

At the end of the day, Mozo decided on a few things.

Although the judicial system of the Bitter Cold Land is still in the hands of the court in name, it has actually fallen into the hands of the local nobles or the church.

After someone commits a crime, the person responsible for trying the other party is often not the court of the court, but the manor of a nobleman or the auditorium of the church.

Mo Zuo didn't know the specific circumstances of the trial, but he guessed it wouldn't be much better.

Then when Mozo was checking the literature, he discovered that the vendor was wrong about something. The heating pipes he laid back then were not 'widely dismantled', but were dismantled regionally. All major cities at that time and new large cities later retained their heating systems.

But the heating pipes in this small town-like place were completely dismantled.

Mozzo speculates that the dismantled pipes were either sold or buried in new cities.

And the reason for tearing down these pipelines is not what the vendors said they were in disrepair as recorded in the literature. But as the years progress, local governments are no longer able to continue to provide huge heating and maintenance costs.

After all, it is Oliha steel, which is known as the metal of the gods. Under normal circumstances, it is basically impossible for it to be scrapped due to age. So these people’s written reasons for tearing down the pipes used something that seemed to make sense.

And the literature says that there are many "still usable" obelisks preserved in big cities, but in order to maintain these obelisks and heating pipes. The nobles will charge certain fees from the people.

And they also bluntly stated in the literature that these costs shared on the people are only a small part, and the big part is borne by governments at all levels and the nobles!

This statement may fool many knowledgeable people. You might even get support from a lot of people because of it.

But in fact, for Mozo, this is still a nonsense reason.

Not to mention the obelisk, which is completely derived from the characteristics of sequence one.

He wanted to ensure as much as possible that no one would freeze to death in winter. Mozzo spent a lot of effort on the heating system.

The first thing to do is the Oliha steel pipeline, which basically does not need maintenance once it is buried underground. At this point, subsequent holders of power do not need to pay maintenance fees that increase with age.

Later, in order to avoid a similar situation where the authorities gave up due to excessive heating costs, Mozzoko, under the instruction of the first Emperor Hazel, led the original founders to find two suitable sequences with great difficulty. Three extraordinary characteristics.

He also invited three legendary craftsmen from the dwarf tribe to forge it into hundreds of heating cores. This is the perfect solution to the problem of burning water money.

Thanks to Mozo's efforts, the two largest parts of the heating system have become zero cost to subsequent authorities!

The only thing they have to spend money on is water money at most, and the water in the bitter cold land is purely cheap until now!

Originally, Mozo thought that after he had achieved this step, even if the subsequent people in power were no longer the first generation Emperor Hazel and the others, these people would not be ruthless against the heating system that he had fixed and they would also benefit if they were greedy. .

At that time, Mozo felt that the most they could do was charge a high heating fee to everyone who used the heating system.

Then, since most of the people in power who must be immortals can 'make money at zero cost', why bother to kill the swan that lays the golden eggs?

This is also Mozo’s best effort to ‘pave the road with gold’ while preventing others from poaching the gold and destroying the road.

Because no matter how he thought about it, Mozo felt that it was in everyone's best interests to continue to bury this 'gold' in the soil. At this point, the obelisks scattered throughout the bitter cold land have similar purposes.

These are swans that lay golden eggs! A person with a right mind should understand that it is best to keep ‘them’!

But Mo Zuo didn't expect that although this group of people also understood this truth. After all, the obelisks and heating systems in big cities are still there, but at the same time they made something that Mo Zuo still couldn't understand. move.

If the heating pipes in small places were removed in order to recover the material money of this batch of Oliha steel, and possibly to be too lazy to exploit the poor people.

But why was the obelisk removed?

The material of the obelisk itself is not a very valuable thing. What is truly valuable about the obelisk is the extraordinary characteristics of Sequence 1 contained in it and the countless inscriptions that lock these characteristics.

If Mozo is completely dismantled, it can be understood that it is for the extraordinary characteristics of Sequence 1 inside. If the people in power are obsessed with power and they themselves are the corresponding path, then killing the swan that lays the golden egg is relatively normal.

What does it mean to dismantle some and leave some behind?

There is no weird saying about extraordinary characteristics that I use some for promotion and then keep some.

Mo Zuo doesn’t think these people are stupid, so is there some hidden secret that I didn’t discover due to lack of intelligence?

After putting down the documents in his hands, Mozo shook his head and left the library.

When he left, he did not forget to put down a few church gold coins on the desk of the librarian, who was full of embarrassment and covered in patches.

This is something Mo Zuo doesn't understand even more. In an era where knowledge is power, how could a librarian be so depressed?

But when Mozo walked out of the library, Mozo roughly understood this.

The word "National" in front of the name of the National Library has been scratched out. At the same time, Mozo also found the word "donation box" in the corner with a word that was hard to read clearly. Then there is a rectangular blank under the word that is obviously different from the rest of the color.

This was probably because the local nobles felt that there was no need to open a public library for a group of "illiterates", so they directly stopped funding the library, and then the place changed from public to private. At the same time, the books hidden in such a library should not be about extraordinary documents.

What became more obvious then was that with the collapse of the education system, how could there be room for private libraries to survive in areas where illiteracy dominates?

Perhaps everyone knows that the books in the library are 'gold that does not shine'. But if you can’t understand the words and don’t speak, people will almost die. What is the use of gold that is not gold?

Looking at the word that could no longer be read clearly and the donation box underneath that had obviously been removed for a long time.

Mozo couldn't help but shook his head.

If nothing else happens, this library will probably close down completely soon.