Chapter 37: The Reclusive Bilbo
"Where is this?"
Xu Feng stood up with an ancient cypress tree and surveyed her surroundings.
The climate is very good, the air is fresh, the vegetation is quite lush, and the temperature is like spring.
Xu Feng judged that this should be the Shire area.
The Shire region is an area inhabited by hobbits, where the climate is suitable, very suitable for growing tobacco, the char's tobacco is exported to the entire Middle-earth continent, this tobacco is only grown in the southern part of the Shire, and the cultivation and drying methods are only known to the hobbits, so the hobbits who like to grow make a fortune from tobacco.
The number of hobbits is not small, but compared to the Terrans, dwarves, and elves, it is definitely not much.
However, the hobbits are the race with the highest per capita wealth in the entire alliance race, and when normal humans are still worried about food and clothing, the hobbits are holding banquets every day, and they like to eat food very much, they need to eat fourteen meals a day.
Of course, they don't eat much at each meal, after all, their average height is only 1.2 meters.
Because of the wealth of the Shire region, it has also attracted many robbers who covet the wealth of the Shire region.
Even several Terran kings wanted to fight the idea of tobacco in the Shire.
The Shire's tobacco, however, is protected by the Holy White Council.
The White Council is the most authoritative council in the entire Middle-earth region, and the participants of the council are all Maia, that is, secondary gods.
Among them are five lesser gods, who are the main leaders of the Holy White Council.
Of course, there are only three main leaders in the White Council now, and the former black-robed mage Sauron has fallen into the Dark Lord and has been destroyed in his physical form.
Another blue-robed mage was nowhere to be found.
Among the remaining three mages, the white-robed mage Saruman has the highest status and the strongest mana, and is also the actual controller of the Holy White Council, while the gray-robed mage Gandalf was originally slightly stronger than Saruman, but Saruman asked Gandalf to take out some of his divine power to make a mana ring, so Gandalf's strength was weakened a lot.
And Gandalf is not a pursuit of strength, he prefers to travel and make all kinds of friends.
Gandalf has the appearance of a human being, but as a secondary god, he is not human at all, so he treats everything in Middle-earth as an equal.
Gandalf has a very good relationship with the Tuk family, and the Tuke family is equivalent to the royal family of the Hobbits, the Hobbits are not keen on power, so they have no government, no army, and no royal family, only a few big families jointly govern the entire Shire region, and the harvest is shared equally by everyone, and there is almost no contradiction.
The Tuke family sent Gandalf tobacco's tobaccos to the Shire every year, a tradition that lasted from the First Age to the Third Age.
Gandalf is obviously Maia, a secondary god, but Gandalf is extremely obsessed with hobbit tobacco, almost to the point of never leaving his hand.
The white-robed mage Saruman often laughed at Gandalf's "depravity", and even once brought it to the White Council to say that until one time, Gandalf gave Saruman a bag of tobacco, and Saruman never laughed at Gandalf again.
At first, Saruman just smoked secretly, but then the amount became larger and larger, and he was too embarrassed to ask Gandalf for it, so he could only go to the Tuke family with a shy face.
The Tuke family is very friendly and delivers tobacco to Saruman every year in addition to Gandalf.
Saruman was so pleased with these little hobbits that no force should invade the Shire, and the surrounding kingdoms were obliged to protect the peace of the Shire.
It is precisely because of this that when the fighting in Middle-earth was at its most intense, the Shire region was always peaceful.
Those who wanted to fight the idea of charr tobacco, because of the connection of the Holy White Council, they did not dare to make a mistake.
Of course, on the way to the Shire, there will still be robbers who will take risks, after all, snatching a bag of charr's tobacco will cost you a month.
Xu Feng smelled the smell in the air, but he didn't smell any tobacco, so this should not be the southern area where tobacco is grown, nor the riverside area.
Xu Feng had seen a map of Middle-earth before, and he probably remembered that the Shire region was divided into several small areas, including the southern area, the northern area, the riverside area, the stag land, and Emin Berrell.
The southern area is for tobacco cultivation, the northern area is for enjoying the scenery, the riverside area is a port, the buck land is the territory of the buck family, and the Emin Berrell is the most densely populated, the most prosperous and lively area, similar to the royal capital.
Of course, the hobbits don't have kings, so they don't have kings.
For the sake of convenience, the hobbits modeled after the Terrans and set up a mayor with little real power, who was elected every seven years on the summer solstice to deal with foreign affairs and coordinate and liaise with the major families.
The largest family of the hobbits, or similar to the royal family, is the Tuke family, followed by the Bucks, the Baggins family, the Stark family, and so on
The male lead of this plot, the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, is the son of Bongo Baggins and Beladona Tuke, and is related to two large families, so in this respect alone, Bilbo Baggins is the prince of Hobbit, and it is not an exaggeration - if the hobbits have a kingdom.
According to the original book, Bilbo Baggins lived in the Amin Barrell area, but he never liked to communicate with his people, he felt that his people laughed all the time, like a big fool, he didn't like this, he liked a serious and orderly life, so he bought a piece of land in the most prosperous place, there were no buildings within a kilometer around, and no one was allowed to enter, and he built a huge and luxurious pit with enough food to eat him for a month.
He called this kind of life: seclusion.
At present, this is not the South District, nor the Riverside District, nor the lively Emin Berrell area, so it may be the North District or the Stag Land.
The scenery of the North District is very good, and it is a necessary place to enter Emin Barrell from the Terran territory, Xu Feng feels that this should be the North District.
At this time, his mind moved slightly.
Iron Hammer said with his mind: "Feng! Where are you? Why am I all water! I hate water! I hate water! ”
"It's all water?" Xu Feng hurriedly said with his thoughts: "Is there a ship near you?" ”
Hammer responded, "No, there is only a valley wetland except water." ”
Xu Feng said: "You should be in the Linhe District, I should be in the North District, you set off a spiritual firework, I will go to find you." ”
"Good!" Hammer then interrupted the communication of ideas.
In a few moments, a cloud of fireworks rose in the northern sky that only the Psionic Vision could see.
Xu Feng then walked in the direction of the fireworks.