From Kane's tone, Xu Lai guessed that there would be no problem in cooperation.
But before cooperation, Xu Lai still needs to dig out the heart of the castle.
Otherwise, if the Northern Empire agrees and Xu Lai fails to produce the parliamentary drawings, he will completely offend the Northern Empire.
As for those cities in the Northern Empire, they must be captured. It is not a big problem to let Tahan go there.
The cavalry led by Tahan are not completely unable to attack the city. They can be used to suppress the formation even if they do not attack the city.
Xu Lai has already chosen the candidate to actually attack the city. It is not Reina who leads the Qingfeng Legion to attack everywhere, but the dragon knight Eric.
Xu Lai has already given Eric the order to march urgently. Now that Tahan has cleared all the roads, the first group can march to Lion Heart City in one day at most.
Except for the leader Eric, the Xiandeng Regiment is all infantry.
With these infantry, Xu Lai can safely recruit the soldiers of the Southern Empire.
Able to wear magic equipment, of course none of the Royal Archer Regiment recruits soldiers.
There were so many people, and many comrades were killed by Xu Lai, so it was a bit difficult to collect them.
The main reason is that the number of our own soldiers is too small. Even if these shooters and infantry are mixed, they cannot be defeated at all.
On the contrary, although the First Ascension Group is elite, its number is only over 5,000. They were carefully selected after another round of expansion.
Together, these people are still a powerful fist. Once they are separated, they are easily broken by others.
With no other choice, Xu Lai could only give instructions to Reina, asking her to take her troops back to Lion Heart City for rest.
Coming together with Reina and the others will also include most of the priests in the priest group.
A few bishops, archbishop-level priests, will still stay in various cities to conduct ceremonies for believers and restore the ecology.
It’s just that believers have no magic power except faith, so the speed of ecological recovery will drop significantly.
But for Duer and the others, rebuilding the Holy City is what they most want and need to do at this time.
Xu Lai could not stop them, and he could not say that they were not doing their jobs properly. He even wanted to fully support them as he told Earl Kane before.
After all, in the final analysis, Xu Lai owed the temple a big favor, and it was really hard for him to compete with others for this place in the Holy City.
But there is a city within a city in the capital, and Xu Lai doesn't feel very comfortable.
In addition, Qingfeng City was built by him personally, and the feelings are deeper.
In the end, he decided to leave the position of the capital to Qingfeng City and make Lionheart City the companion capital.
Being the capital also means that the status of Lion Heart City in the Eagle Kingdom is second only to Qingfeng City and higher than all other cities.
While waiting for the Qingfeng Legion to enter the city, Xu Lai also organized manpower and material resources to renovate the two military camps inside and outside Lion Heart City.
Lion Heart City is the capital, and there are two camps outside the city, one guarding the left and the other.
There are more military camps in the city, three in total, belonging to three royal legions respectively.
The griffins also flew back to the old camp, under the care of Ed, Silver Wing and others.
The Southern Empire army was split into two parts, and one part was guarded by Tahan himself in the left camp.
The other part, led by Charles, went to another camp to station.
All weapons have been confiscated, and Xu Lai gave another death order. Anyone who makes trouble and disobeys management will be killed directly without discussion.
Although this group of royal elites had never suffered such hardship, they did not dare to really cause trouble for the moment.
Because not long after they were taken into the camp, they saw a well-dressed and usually high-ranking man hanging on the tattered city wall.
Except for Finance Minister Tiff, she and some of her immediate family members were temporarily spared their lives due to the Northern Empire.
All the other nobles who participated in the assassination of Xu Lai were hung on the city wall, one by one.
The reason Xu Lai has tolerated them until now is because he is afraid that he will alarm them in advance and let them run away.
Only when there were enough manpower to control the entire city, Xu Lai settled the score.
But even so, there were several masterminds, such as the former Minister of Defense.
This guy abandoned his wife and son. When Roland led people to catch him, he tore up a teleportation scroll and ran away.
Xu Lai didn't know where this guy had gone. He probably went to join his brother-in-law.
I just don’t know if his brother-in-law would be so angry that he would kill him too when he learned that his biological sister had also been hanged by Xu Lai.
Of course Xu Lai hopes so, but he is not worried even if he is not dead.
It just so happens that after a period of recuperation, Xu Lai will definitely find a way to annex the Southern Empire and the Eastern Empire.
At that time, Xu Lai can use the fact that the Minister of Defense assassinated him as an excuse to send troops to carry out a crusade.
As for the Southern Empire, they have already sent troops to fight at the door. The two sides just had a fight and are already in a state of hostility.
On the contrary, it was the Eastern Empire. Strictly speaking, the Eastern Empire only lost one Yu Wenxin.
The Royal Griffin Legion was not originally affiliated with the Eastern Empire, not to mention that Xu Lai did not harm anyone in the Griffin Legion.
It is Yuwen Shaoguang of the Eastern Empire who has the final say whether to be in a hostile state or not.
Yuwen Shaoguang did not hesitate to go to war with Xu Lai in order to take over Lion Heart City.
But now, instead of losing troops and generals, they sent a huge flying legion to the opponent.
You know, recruiting 90,000 royal griffons is not an easy task.
Excluding outdoor buildings, a castle can only recruit 10 animals a month, and only 120 animals a year.
Of course, a large number of gryphon towers must have been built in the Eastern Empire.
But even so, if there were no treasures like the God-given Divine Weapons series, a city would only have 240 of them per year.
Even if hundreds of cities in the entire Eastern Empire had griffon castles, it would take a whole year to have so many griffons.
But the Griffin Castle requires drawings to build. No matter how the empire supported the Eastern Empire before, it probably didn’t have hundreds of drawings.
Not to mention that the level of the Royal Griffin is not very high, its lifespan is only about 3 to 40 years, and it has unlimited counterattack characteristics and can easily fall into siege.
Throwing aside the battle losses and the harvest in the wild, the Eastern Empire’s recruitment quota for at least two years fell into Xu Lai’s hands.
The Eastern Empire also has to fight against the undead in the cemetery. As the snowball of the undead gets bigger and bigger, the Eastern Empire is already extremely struggling to deal with the undead.
Xu Lai suspected that the old guy Yuwen Shaoguang would only suffer the loss of being dumb and would not dare to declare war with Xu Lai again.
There were eleven families in total involved in the assassination of Xu Lai. All eleven families were confiscated and exterminated by Xu Lai.
Adult members of the clan, regardless of gender, are all treated equally and no one is left behind.
Xu Lai did not kill all the minors, but demoted them to serfs, branded them as slaves, and assigned them to work in manors outside the city.
Originally Xu Lai planned to abolish slavery, but there were too many objections.
Plus this is a supernatural world where everyone has the opportunity to gain greater power.
People with stronger power are bound to pursue more rights and respect. If there were no serfs at the bottom, then ordinary people would become the bottom.
At that time, these ordinary people will inevitably become slaves like before.
The deprivation of the rights of serfs was precisely out of the protection of ordinary people. Such a cannibalistic society would inevitably sacrifice some people.
If sacrifices must be made, it can only be those that Xu Lai doesn't like.
So, under normal circumstances, every time Xu Lai occupied a city, he would pardon all the slaves in the city and let them regain their freedom.
However, after the assassination in Lionheart City, all the slaves in these eleven powerful families, including the male servants, maids, grooms and chefs, still retained their slave status.
Most ordinary slaves will still be sent to manors outside the city for farming.
Other slaves with certain skills are sent to the market for sale.
Of course, the Lion Heart City market has not yet recovered at this time, so they are temporarily sent to the farm outside the city.
After dealing with the person, the family property cannot be let go.
The demons had cleaned up these wealthy families several times before Xu Lai entered the city.
However, during the time Xu Lai occupied Lion Heart City, these families have also recovered a lot. At least Xu Lai has never seen them go to receive supplies.
One is that they have space rings that can hide secret materials, and the other reason is that these big families basically have secret rooms, dark rooms and the like.
Demons don't understand human architecture, and hellhounds are only sensitive to the breath of living things, but have no feeling for dead things.
It would be different if it were a human being, there would be no need for Xu Lai to dig deep into the ground.
The thieves and assassins who were searched out by Aiden, Zou Jie and the others couldn't wait to take advantage of their crimes.
With these experts here, basically all the wealth hidden by the powerful has been taken out.
Since the mastermind failed to escape, the space ring naturally ended up in Xu Lai's hands. He could go back and find the mages to slowly crack it.
If they escaped, there was really nothing they could do, but the fixed assets they left behind would definitely be confiscated.
In addition to these eleven powerful families who have contacted the assassins, Xu Lai also plans to take care of the other powerful families in Lion Heart City.
While we are digging into the heart of the castle, we can also lay some charges against them.
This group of people are also too unconscious, and they don’t know what they are waiting for.
Xu Lai has been in the city for so long, but no one has taken the initiative to join Xu Lai.
Even the captain of the guard who surrendered to Xu Lai was just an ordinary elite and did not hold any title.
Whether it's because of their face or the so-called thousand-year aristocratic inheritance.
Anyway, the latest notice was posted the day after Xu Lai killed the previous wave of people.
The content of the notice is very simple. He has posted it in many cities on the grassland.
The main purpose is to abolish all identities in the old empire, including the so-called nobility and slaves.
The notice clearly stated that, except for the serfs newly engraved with the eagle empire symbol, all other slaves were illegal and should be abolished.
All previous slave markings will no longer take effect, and everyone will be free immediately.
In addition to the noble titles officially conferred by the Eagle Kingdom, all the noble titles conferred by the Lion Dynasty have also been abolished in accordance with the law.
After that, if these people show their status as nobles again, they will be dealt with according to public security management methods at best, or directly relegated to slaves at worst.
In addition, Xu Lai's announcement has one more content than the one on the grassland.
The extra content is also very simple, which is to encourage the people to report and expose the dignitaries of the old empire.
If these powerful people have bullied men and dominated women before, and ignored the law, one case will be exposed and one case will be punished.
Xu Lai will also reward part of the confiscated property to the whistleblower.
Of course, in order to prevent deliberate retaliation, Xu Lai needs the whistleblower to provide evidence.
If there is no evidence, the lie will need to be identified by the pastor. Once it is identified as false, the reporter will bear the responsibility for false accusation.
Those who make false accusations will bear responsibility for the crimes they have reported, in order to prevent the waste of public power.
As soon as this announcement came out, the small and medium-sized nobles finally couldn't sit still.
These people no longer care about their own face, and try their best to find someone to give Xu Lai a message.
Not to mention, the energy of these guys is not small. The three newly appointed peace officers by Xu Lai have all spoken for others.
Unfortunately, Xu Laicai was too lazy to deal with these people and left them all to Ji Long.
Among them, only one was received by Xu Lai personally.
It was none other than Devin McCoy, the patriarch of one of the few mage families in the Lion Empire.
"What do you mean, your Excellency.
The teleportation array, which has made almost no progress for a whole week, has been repaired in less than three hours after my official document was sent out?"
Devin McCoy did not show any panic at all, and calmly said to Xu Lai:
"Your Majesty the King, magic has always been like this.
When there is no solution, any attempt is just groping.
But once there is a solution, it can be solved in minutes.
Although we have not taken any action on the teleportation array before, we have been studying solutions.
If you don’t believe us, you can also consult your magic consultant.”
Xu Lai didn't understand magic, but he knew that if people dared to say that, they would not be afraid of him asking.
It seems like this, each mage has his or her own different areas of expertise.
Even if these mages sit in Lion Heart City every day, they may not fully understand the teleportation array in Lion Heart City.
The most important thing is that there is no evidence for this kind of thing.
Even if Xu Lailai brought in an expert in the space system, they would be able to explain it easily. After all, the McCoy family is not known for its space magic.
So Xu Lai shrugged and said:
"There is no need. What I promised you will not change as long as you complete it.
But I have to tell you. What's more, to me, this teleportation array is far from what it used to be. It’s so important in the beginning.
So the reward given to you can only be reduced by a few levels. I hope you can understand.”
Devin McCoy used words that cannot be verified. Xu Lai, Xu Lai responded with unclear rewards.
Anyway, his troops have entered the city. Although the teleportation array is still needed to teleport a large number of officials, it is no longer as urgent.
Devin bowed and said: "I can understand that the only reward I ask for is your forgiveness for our McCoy family." (End of Chapter)