Traveling in the Old World was not a pleasant thing, and it was not like the New World where relatively developed railways connected most cities together.

Most of the land here belongs to fiefdom nobles. It is very difficult to get a railway to pass through the territory of these nobles. Even if the various benefits of railway passing are explained to those nobles, the thought that in the event of war, the enemy can pass through the territory through this railway in a short time and go directly to the interior is enough to make the nobles give up the benefits.

It is quite good to have countries and city-states near the seaside. Because the coastline is too long and difficult to defend, they have their own early warning and defense system, and they do not need to worry that the railway will directly send the enemy to their hinterland. However, due to the conflicts of interest and hostile relations, even if these kingdoms and city-states built railways, they were just small-scale railways that were not completely connected.

However, the Church of Fortune seems to be interested in connecting these railways together to form a continental railway, and is sending people to lobby these countries and city-states, and has achieved some results.

But even though they are as powerful as the Church of Wealth, they have no confidence to successfully lobby the inland kingdoms for the proposal of railways to run through their kingdoms, so the inland kingdoms are still transported in the most primitive way of animal power.

However, there are also some countries that are particularly geographically and have extremely difficult even if these countries are willing to build railways, and even spend ten or even dozens of times as much as those of railways in other places. For example, the Kingdom of Teresa is such a country that first advocates the benefits of railways. The royal family and the nobles of the kingdom are also willing to build railways, but there is still no real railway.

The Kingdom of Teresa is located in the mountains. The entire Kingdom is not only surrounded by mountains, but also surrounded by mountains on the outside. These mountains are like natural barriers to protect the Kingdom of Teresa from outside invasion. Since the founding of the Kingdom of Teresa, there are only one case of attacking the heartland of the Kingdom by the enemy. That case was at the beginning of the founding of the Kingdom and when the armament was incomplete, and the invading army did not eventually leave the mountains of the Kingdom of Teresa.

After the Kingdom of Teresa regained its neighboring states into vassal states, it became the most stable country in the entire Old Continent.

In the past, in the extremely chaotic era of the Old Continent, all those who were in war tried every means to pass through layers of obstacles and settled in the Kingdom of Teresa, which was therefore called a quiet place.

For these outsiders, the Kingdom of Teresa did not turn them out like other kingdoms, but accepted them and even gave them the identity of normal nationals.

As for this behavior in the Kingdom of Teresa, the various True God Churches gave high praise and said that they would never let war invade this quiet place, so as long as the church war is involved, they will basically not affect the Kingdom of Teresa.

However, not all kingdoms like the Kingdom of Teresa. Many kingdoms are jealous of the stability of the Kingdom of Teresa and want to create some trouble for the Kingdom of Teresa. However, due to the promise of the church, they dare not directly attack the Kingdom of Teresa, and they have no confidence to rely on their own strength to break through the mountain defenses of the Kingdom of Teresa.

So they thought of a trick. Since the Kingdom of Teresa is willing to accept those who avoid war, they take the initiative to help the Kingdom of Teresa transport these fugitives. At the same time, they also use various methods they can think of to limit the delivery of food to the Kingdom of Teresa, and try to use this method to artificially create famines within the Kingdom of Teresa, causing the fugitives to conflict with Teresa's own people, and finally tear off the mask of the last pure land on Teresa's continent.

This practice did cause a lot of trouble to the Kingdom of Teresa at the beginning. The Kingdom of Teresa had to use the treasury reserves to buy high-priced food. But I don’t know if the Kingdom of Teresa was lucky or if they were blessed by the gods. After a difficult period, they discovered a grain crop suitable for growing in the mountains and with extremely high yields, which made the Kingdom of Teresa’s grain production dozens of times, and could be self-sufficient and easily resolved this crisis.

This crop caused a great sensation throughout the Old Continent at that time, and even led to the wars on the Old Continent for a period of time. Both the church and the country sent people to the Kingdom of Teresa to find out whether the matter was true. If it was true, then they all hoped to get the seeds of that kind of food crop to plant in their own country.

Unfortunately, after joint inspection by several churches of the Natural Deity System, it was found that this crop can only grow normally in a special environment like Teresa Mountain. Once transplanted to other places, except for a few places with similar environments to Teresa Mountain, no other places can be successfully transplanted.

After the movement caused by this high-yield crop subsided, the mainland returned to a state of war. As for the countries that plotted against the Teresa Kingdom, the Kingdom of Teresa did not let them go after stabilizing the domestic situation. A large number of mercenaries from the Kingdom of Teresa entered the hostile countries around these kingdoms and joined the military system of these hostile countries to help these hostile countries conquered cities and territory. In the end, in just two years, the countries that plotted against the Teresa Kingdom were annexed and divided by the surrounding hostile countries.

Things like the demise of the country were not particularly big at that time. Except for some people who were interested in discovering the role played by the Kingdom of Teresa in this matter, no one paid too much attention to the demise of these kingdoms. However, in the eyes of some people who were interested, the Kingdom of Teresa was also marked as dangerous.

Over the years, a large number of refugees have moved to the Kingdom of Teresa, and among these refugees there are some open-minded scholars, as well as some who have been accused of heretics who have touched the knowledge of taboos.

Because the True God Church did not have a great influence in the Kingdom of Teresa, after settling down, these people did not have to worry that the church knights would smash their house and drag them out of bed and hang them on trees on the street. The stable life also allowed them to concentrate on their own research.

The Kingdom of Teresa gathered these scholars together very early to open the world's earliest academy. With the continuous expansion of the academy, it eventually built an academic city, but the church would rather call it a city of heresy.

Although the church is unwilling to admit it, anyone with a discerning eye can see that whether it is the church's Holy Prayer Academy or the colleges built by other kingdom city-states themselves, they are all imitating the academic city of the Kingdom of Teresa, and even some college codes copy the codes of the academic city.

The Academic City of the Kingdom of Teresa is willing to send its own scholars to the academies of other kingdoms and city-states to exchange and study, and is willing to absorb outstanding students from these colleges to study in the Academic City. This exchange was originally just a few scattered and spontaneous behaviors and did not rise to the official level. However, with the increase in the number of exchanges, the increase in academic subjects involved, and the number of personnel exchanges also doubled. In the end, the Academic City was the leader, and a more standardized and efficient personnel exchange plan was formulated with the academies of various kingdoms and city-states.

According to the plan, two exchange seasons are arranged in a year, and the two exchange seasons are separated. During the spring exchange season, the Academic City will send its tutors to colleges in other countries and city-states for academic exchange. They will not leave and return to the Academic City until the autumn exchange season arrives, and take away the outstanding students they value from these colleges and go to the Academic City to further study. Until the next spring exchange season, those students who have achieved success in the academy will follow the team of exchange tutors to return to their respective colleges. These students will usually become tutors of their respective colleges.

Through this exchange program, the academic city of Teresa Kingdom continues to increase its influence, and the Kingdom of Teresa also benefits, and through these scholars who have studied in the academic city, they indirectly influence the culture, thoughts and politics of their country.

Therefore, although the Teresa Kingdom cannot compare with those big countries in terms of land area, and even among medium-sized countries, its influence is not inferior to those big countries at all. Whether in terms of culture, politics, or even military, it has a strong influence on most countries on the mainland.

It is precisely because of the strength of Teresa's kingdom that Teresa's words and deeds have more confidence and pride than those of other kingdoms in their words and deeds. This special temperament makes Teresa's particularly eye-catching among the people of other kingdoms, and thus makes this a special label for them.

There is a joke that the best way to find the Teresa among a bunch of strangers is to shout long live Teresa's Kingdom.

Although this joke is a bit exaggerated, it is not completely fictional. At least Delkan Beluzi is such a Teresa man who will involuntarily show a proud look when he hears the name of the Kingdom of Teresa.

Delkan Beluzi's ancestors came from an extremely chaotic country in the eastern part of the mainland. They heard the legend that the Kingdom of Teresa was the only pure land on the mainland and moved to Teresa's Kingdom. Many people died during the migration process, and in the end less than half of them came to their destination alive.

After settling down in the Kingdom of Teresa, they lived a stable life and reproduced to the sixth generation of Delkan, so he could be said to be native Teresa people.

Like most refugee families, their family also took the mercenary merit route to establish themselves in the Kingdom of Teresa. All their families were soldiers. When he took the admission notice from the Academic City back to the family, the family had been wondering whether the admission notice was fake for a long time.

Unfortunately, the people in their family are indeed not the materials for studying. After leaving the alien species of Delkan, no one in the family was admitted to the Academic City. Even if he became a formal scholar and subject tutor, he helped the family members get better education through relationships, but still could not change the overall atmosphere of the family's military-oriented atmosphere.

Perhaps because the family's desire to discover talents was not satisfied, Delkan began to shift his focus to discovering outstanding students from other colleges. After completing his research subject a few years ago and successfully became a formal tutor, he took the initiative to apply for transfer to the exchange season team as a recruiting tutor, and went to colleges in different cities with the exchange team of the Academic City to discover outstanding students from those colleges to bring back to the Academic City for further studies.

I have to say that Delkan is very good at this. Although he has not been a recruiting tutor for a long time, the number of outstanding students he has discovered has reached as many as 100. Several of these 100 people have been promoted to subject assistants by some tutors in the Academic City because of their outstanding performance. They can become subject tutors without the need for a competency assessment.

For this reason, Delkan was praised by the senior management of the Academic City and also awarded a related award last year. Delkan also gave more recruitment rights, allowing him to recruit students at one time to increase to fifty people.

With the power in his hands, Delkan naturally would not let him waste it. So from the beginning of this autumn exchange season, he directly recruited fifty outstanding students from this exchange college to go to the academic city. There were so many that he directly poached a quarter of the students and let the dean of the college leave until the exchange team left, his face was so gloomy that water could drip out.

"You did a little too much!" On the way back to Teresa's Kingdom, the head teacher of the communication team found him and said, "Although I don't have the right to interfere in the admissions matters, your behavior has affected the normal affairs of the communication season, so I still need to tell you, hoping that you can use your rights carefully next time."

Faced with the blame from the head coach, Delkan could only bow his head and admit his mistake, but it is unknown whether he will restrain himself next time. After all, the head coach who will lead the team next time is not necessarily the current person.

The country where the exchange team went this time was a small principality, not particularly far from the Kingdom of Teresa. There were several friendly countries and their own dependent countries. On the way, not only were the mercenary groups hired by the exchange team protected, but also the passing countries and regions will also send their own troops to protect the exchange team through the border, and there was no problem with security.

However, they did not walk easily, because these countries were mountainous countries, and most of the roads they took were rugged mountain roads, which were very difficult to walk, and the team had to rush, because they needed to climb over high-walled mountains before the first snow fell to Teresa's Kingdom. Otherwise, after the heavy snow season, the high-walled mountains would be covered with snow, and this situation would be much more dangerous than usual.

If calculated based on the usual distance, the communication team was able to cross the mountains before the first snow arrived, but this time the team's personnel exceeded the standard. Not only did there be many more students, but several Teresa caravans also joined, which made the speed of traveling much slower. By the time they arrived at Dashu Town at the foot of the high walled mountain range, the first snow had already fallen.
Chapter completed!