Chapter 314: Undercurrent Surging Mines

Crooks is a mining city located in the hinterland of the Valla Empire. The name Crooks in the ancient language was 'the rich capital of the mountains'. They are not only able to mine high-quality yao on the back of the Meredith mine. Crystal, and many high-quality open-pit iron ore.
This place was originally a large wasteland. After the establishment of the Valla Empire, the big noble Taylor Meredith, who was enclosed here and loved to explore, found a wealth of mineral deposits on the unknown barren hills, so he organized human hands to start mining.
The unnamed barren mountain was also named after Taylor by his own name and became one of the largest mines in the Valla Empire.
Crooks was originally just a gathering place for miners. As the Meredith mine became famous, more and more people came to hear the wind—you know that Yaojing ’s thing in many places is better than Gold is easy to use-in less than two hundred years, the shack area at the foot of the unknown barren mountain has been rapidly expanded and continuously renovated, and a new city has finally been born.
Although in terms of prosperity, Crooks is far inferior to Lancaster as a commercial city, but Crouchs is far better than the latter in terms of wealth created.
And as the ruler of Crooks, the Meredith family is naturally rich.
The old Meredith is a firm royalist, and he believes in the travel and art Grimon inherited from Taylor Meredith. It belongs to the kind that has no normal church facilities and is indisputable to the world. Church factions.
Because of this, the royal family also trusts the Meredith family, and the reputation of the old Meredith is not bad. Crookstown can be said to be as stable as Tarzan in every sense.
But under this stability, there is a surging undercurrent.
The reason is simple. Meredith had no children, he had only one daughter, and died of illness very early.
Coupled with the fact that the Meredith family was afraid of being jeopardized by the royal family, they never pulled out of the gang to marry, so there was no intricate kinship. The family is almost a single pass. If it is not for the thick foundation, it is sacrificed every year. A large number of Yao Jing in exchange for blessing from the gods and the royal family, I am afraid this family has long ceased to exist.
But after all, Meredith was just a mortal, with a limited lifespan. Even with the help of gods, life was like a candle in the wind, and it was about to end.
If it continues like this, until he dies, 80% of the territorial rights of the Meredith family and Crookstown will be captured by the royal family.
Faced with such generous benefits, naturally some people can't sit still and want to see the benefits.
As long as the old Meredith made a will under the witness of the gods before he died, and passed on all his wealth to others, even if the other party could not fully inherit the family ’s family and the Crooks City (the royal family can Reasons to bypass the testimony of the gods reasonably through taxation and other reasons), but at least can be divided into half!
The main bedroom in Crookstown, the city's main residence.
"Mr. Meredith, your physical condition hasn't changed much." A temple from the Temple of Life wished to take off his magic instrument, which resembled a stethoscope, lying helplessly on the bed, withered to the point Like an old corpse-like old man said: "Like I said last time, the 'elven stone' embedded in your heart when you were young has the power to delay aging. But it seems to be a failed product. Almost lost its power ... "
Speaking of this, the temple wished that he was unsure of the idea and hesitated again and again.
"Don't worry, just tell me how much time I have left." The old man said.
"Your body is already very aging. Judging from the current situation, the Elven Stone can last about one year."
The old Meredith had a good reputation, not the kind of cruel aristocracy, and the temple wished that he would not be angry with him, so he answered honestly: "If in a year, you can find a good spirit stone, replace it The one on your heart, maybe you can live longer ... "
"This kind of impossible thing, you don't need to comfort me." The old man smiled, but the withered face smiled not only not at all, but was somewhat infiltrating: "Is there a year left ... ... "
Miao Zhu also became silent, and he also understood that what he said just now had no comfort at all.
After all, elven stones are the same as 'point gold stones' and 'philosopher's stones'. They only exist in legends. Legend has it that only the royal family of higher elves can make them. Each one has the power of near death and resurrection, and it can also extend human life. , Even ordinary people can be transformed into the extraordinary race 'blood elves'.
It's just that the high elves have become extinct, and even the so-called orthodox Mori can't inherit one tenth of the elven technology of the high elves, let alone other elven branches.
Then the legendary elf stone disappeared into history with the annihilation of the high elf civilization.
Even the temple wished that although they had read similar content in ancient books, if they hadn't found one in the heart of the old lord, they would have thought it was just a myth ...
"I want to be alone for a while, you go out first, the consultation fee is just to ask the housekeeper."
The old man said in a deep voice.
Temple wishing to control himself without showing a happy look-the old lord made a generous shot, and each consultation was equivalent to his own for several years-he gave the old man a respectful respect, and then he turned his back The ground left.
After the temple wished to leave, the whole room was quiet again, leaving only the crackling sound of fire in the fireplace.
The old man was lying in bed, and after a long silence, he sighed.
In fact, he knew very well that the elf stone in his heart was not a defective product, but the real elf stone.
The reason why the power in it has been exhausted is simple, because he is the nobleman who found the Meredith mine two hundred years ago, Taylor Meredith!
With the power of the Elven Stone, he has lived to the present with a mortal body. In order to prevent unnecessary suspicion, he even learned makeup, made the original Meredith old, and replaced it with a new generation of Meredith. The illusion of continued rule.
But after all, the power of the elven stone is limited, and eventually he has to face death.
To be honest, Taylor Meredith had lived long enough, and his fear of death was not as strong as he had originally thought.
Just a little unwilling in his heart.
After looking at the vicissitudes of the world for two hundred years, he knows exactly what the nobles are now, knowing that when he gives up, Crouch City will certainly be ruined.
The same is true for the royal family. After all, they cannot move the emperor here, and they will eventually send someone to manage it, and the people who are sent over will need to turn in their earnings regularly, but everyone is profitable, so except for the normal transfer In addition to the benefits, I will definitely find a way to make profits for myself. The result is no doubt that they are desperately searching for civilian crushing miners ...
The cub sells Ye Tian.
What I cherish, what I have built for a lifetime, was abandoned by others, and even was destroyed, just to be able to grab that drop of profit from it, how can this make Taylor Meredith die in peace? ?
"Fortunately ... there is hope."
The old man took out a compass from under the pillow. This was the artifact he begged to his god, Grimmon ~ EbookFREE.me ~. It only served one purpose, which was to be able to point to people who were related to him.
Taylor Meredith spent his whole life on operating Crooks City. It wasn't until Crooks City was on the right track that he didn't need to worry about it. Then he put his mind a little bit on himself. Experienced the love of ordinary people, and even a daughter.
Unfortunately, his wife died of childbirth when she gave birth to a daughter. Because of lack of companionship, she rebelled from a young age and even ran away with a civilian guy after growing up a little.
Although he was eventually arrested by someone hired by himself, it didn't take long for him to have a serious illness and eventually die, leaving Taylor to regret it.
It wasn't until long ago that Tyler suddenly got a revelation from Grimmon, knowing that he still has a blood relative living in this world-while his daughter had run away, she had a crystal of love, just to protect her husband. And children, she was deliberately caught by someone hired by Taylor.
This gave Taylor new hope.
Regardless of whether it is your own grandson or granddaughter, you must pick up the other party and teach them well for the past year, let the other party inherit their own will, and continue to manage Crouch City!