"No way, that old guy Aini, reacted so quickly?"
Xu Lai has just returned, and the statement from King Aled has just been sent to the Noble Council.
After the death of the High King, although the Noble Council existed in name only, it was still nominally responsible for managing all imperial nobles.
For the noble council to come forward and question Count Aini is a way that is in line with the procedures and makes Count Aini unable to remain silent.
It has to be said that Jiang is still old and spicy. These nobles' political methods are much better than Xu Lai's.
If there is a question, there will inevitably be a reply, and the noble assembly cannot beat people to death with a stick.
Aled and Xu Lai don’t need the noble council to give an answer, they just need to let this matter sink into the hearts of the people.
The stronghold camp has been plundering the Pingfeng Grassland for a long time, plundering food, plundering materials, and even plundering the population.
I don’t know how many hard workers have been plundered through various sneaky means.
Unfortunately, Count Aini was afraid of trouble and didn't want to take care of it, and he couldn't provide evidence to the temple.
On this point, whether it is the people of Pingfeng Grassland, even the grassland nobles, or the priests of the temple, they have great opinions on Count Aini.
Once the news of Count Aini's affair with the stronghold camp spread, combined with the previous invasion of the stronghold, Count Aini responded passively.
It can be said that Count Aini has lost his crotch with yellow mud, and is either shit or shit.
Count Aini cannot explain clearly. The situation in the empire is corrupt, and Xu Lai is not the only noble on the grassland who wants to make decisions independently.
The temple can't take action now, and the noble council has given it another name.
Coupled with the battle with the stronghold some time ago, although each family suffered losses, the biggest loss was undoubtedly Count Aini, who theoretically owned the entire grassland.
It’s just that in the past, Count Aini was always very trouble-free and had to be a director.
Why is the response so fast this time? The official document from the Noble Council has not been sent. Even if Count Ani has heard the news himself, he should not have responded so quickly.
Su Ya happily drew circles on Xu Lai’s chest and explained with a smile:
“This is not an order issued by Count Aini, but someone who spread it.
It is said that our Qingfeng City has been targeted by the orcs. It is said at the stronghold that the Beast King has given a death order and must destroy Qingfeng City.
In addition, although we won the stronghold last time, the stronghold army also came straight to us.
So now those refugees, even if they are homeless, are not willing to come to us, for fear that one day they will lose their lives as well. ”
Xu Lai frowned. This rumor was spread very well, because it is probably true.
True rumors can no longer be called rumors. Others just call them rumors. The truth is just being made public
To be honest, Xu Lai was also prepared for Qingfeng City to be destroyed, and then he would take his whole family to hide underground or stay away from the empire.
At that time, apart from taking away Su Ya, Yu Lan and others, he would not think much about the rest.
Even for his troops, he will not carry them all, but only the most effective ones.
So it is normal for others to have concerns. If Xu Lai was a refugee, he would have the same concerns.
There was a "pop" sound.
Xu Lai spanked him neither lightly nor hard, but although the sound was loud, he didn't use much strength.
“You can still laugh now, so you must have found a countermeasure?”
Su Ya said with a smile: “Fang Yang and Wei Yihong have already figured out the rumors. .
But it won’t be easy to deal with them for a while.
As for the rumors, it’s easy to deal with them. It depends on whether you have the determination.”
"Pa", Xu Lai struck again.
“When did I lose my determination?”
Su Ya squinted her eyes and bit her lip and said: “Farmers with no land, no houses, and no property are everywhere on the grassland.< br>
We only need to announce Qingfeng Town’s tax policy. I believe it won’t take long for many farmers to flock here.”
Qingfeng City is still implementing it now. When the thirty-seven tax was originally formulated, Count Aini's tax collector had never been to Qingfeng City.
One reason is that the grassland has just been peaceful for a long time, and the other reason is that before the war started, Count Aini had just imposed a large-scale tax.
However, it is foreseeable that there will be another large-scale taxation before the end of the year.
Furthermore, due to the difficulty of taxation, a large-scale taxation often takes a long time, so it is expected to start next month.
Earl Aini only gave Xu Lai a title and land, but no city and no subjects.
Everything in today's Qingfeng City was built by Xu Lai himself.
But Earl Aini shouldn't care about this. Knowing that Xu Lai has a base camp-level city, he will definitely ask for less money.
Of course Xu Lai refused to give it, so why was he so anxious to ask King Alede to give Count Aini eye drops? Was it because he could turn his face openly and openly when the time came.
Xu Lai was unwilling to have conflicts with the nobles at first, so this policy has always been hidden.
Anyway, Qingfeng City’s taxes have never been collected seriously once, and Xu Lai and the others only talked about it in private and never put it on the table.
At least there was no relevant explanation in the announcement issued by the Council.
To announce this, what Xu Lai had to do was very simple, just issue an announcement.
Although the current population of Qingfeng City is not large, with so many people brought back by Xu Lai, plus the accumulation during this period, there should be about two to three thousand households, or about ten thousand people. However, these ten thousand people are related to each other.
As soon as Xu Lai announced the policy today, I dare not say tomorrow, but within a week, it should be enough to spread throughout the grassland.
You know, Xu Lai's seventy-three tax and the noble's seventy-three tax are basically completely different.
As the saying goes, people die for wealth and birds die for food.
The refugees don’t even have land. Even if they rent land from nobles, they can’t even feed themselves, let alone their families and children.
Living here in Xu, you can not only support yourself, but also support your family, and slowly accumulate wealth.
The key is that even if the policy is not announced, Qingfeng City has always implemented it this way.
It is equivalent to Xu Lai suffering a loss and giving up his reputation.
Now, Xu Lai is just picking up this reputation again.
There was a "pop" sound.
Another crisp sound.
But this time, not only was the sound loud enough, Xu Lai, who was so happy, accidentally used a little more force.
"Lang Jun, no matter how happy you are, Lang Jun, you should spank sister Su Ya. Why are you always staring at others' spankings!"
Yu Lan pursed her lips with an aggrieved look.
Xu Lai said awkwardly: "Isn't this because your flexibility is better?"
In fact, it's just because he is more accustomed to his right hand.
Three people are lying on a big bed, the same whether it is left or right.
As for Elvi, this woman actually had the ability to put on her armor again and go on duty at night after finishing her work. Xu Lai was also speechless.
Su Ya covered her mouth and smiled, but she didn't mind Xu Lai's slap.
Back to business, Xu Lai asked Su Ya to do it with peace of mind. After he came back for a few days this time, he would go back to the Northern Empire.
Xu Lai's priests, priests and angel troops are still stored in Aiweike Cathedral.
There are not many hell remnants in the Northern Empire, and the rest are basically concentrated in the northern part of the empire, where the abyss passage is.
Both the Northern Empire and the Temple need a period of time to recuperate, and are temporarily unable to continue the war against the abyss passage.
Moreover, the Abyss Passage is the lifeline of hell. Even if Kerrigan gives up the Western Empire that is within easy reach, he will definitely guard the Abyss Passage first.
Therefore, it is impossible for the temple’s troops to stay in Aivik forever.
They can either return to the imperial capital to recuperate, or they can reintegrate, elect a new knight captain, and lead the team to the Western Empire for support.
Of course, the remnants of the Northern Empire have not yet been wiped out, and it is in the core area of the empire, so the temple still has to retain a knight force here.
What can be determined so far is that the former Sixth Knights and Kemeler, who has been serving as the Patriarch of the Northern Empire, are responsible for staying behind.
As for what the Sixth Knights will be called in the future, they will have to wait until a new Knight Commander is selected and baptized by the God of War before readjusting.
Leaving the Sixth Knights behind, the temple is nothing more than targeting Xu Lai.
Even, in order to allow Xu Lai to arrive at any time, the temple has planned to use its own name to divide a town-sized farm for Xu Lai in its own parish.
A town can allow up to 500-1,000 people to travel through time and space, which is definitely not enough for Xu Lai to take all the troops back and forth.
But what the temple needs most is actually just that he can serve as the knight commander and give attributes to the Sixth Knights.
Moreover, Lina and her knights can handle the ordinary hell team even without Xu Lai's blessing.
Xu Lai and the Sixth Knights have accumulated enough feelings for the temple to use them, and he can accept it.
The Human Temple, after all, gave him a town.
“However, after I come back from the Northern Empire, I will probably stay in Qingfeng City.
After this city was built, I didn’t even stay for a few days.”
Su Ya rolled her eyes at Xu Lai and said:
"I have found a place underground where a city can be built, but we have not acquired many castle hearts. We only have enough to upgrade to the town level for the time being."
Xu Lai nodded and said: "In addition to bringing back a lot of resources this time, I also brought back some castle hearts.
Together, it should be enough to upgrade to the fortress level. It should be enough for the time being.”
After Christine was killed, everything about him naturally became part of the trophies.
Xu Lai didn't ask for the contents of Christian's space backpack, but asked for his town-level castle heart. In addition, Xu Lai also exchanged a town-level castle heart from the temple.
So, upgrading to a fortress is definitely enough.
However, Xu Lai was not satisfied with the fortress-level city.
What he was not satisfied with was this newly upgraded base camp city.
Qingfeng City is far away from other cities and has the geographical advantage of continuously expanding its territory.
The most important thing now is that we need at least two base camp-level castle hearts. Where can we get them? (End of this chapter)