The shouts of murder outside the carriage were loud, but as long as the window on the carriage was gently closed, the sounds outside would be instantly cut off.
A carriage with a soundproof barrier is completely unable to transmit sounds from inside and outside.
“Even if we kill them all, others will not give up the fat piece of Qingfeng City, especially since you have erected the statue of the God of War.”
Xu Laibu sent Jilong To deal with the problem, even she, the city lord, was not allowed to go, but a general responsible for security was allowed to go.
What is Roland’s status now? That was Xu Lai's personal defense officer.
It can be said that the outside world is in turmoil, and it has nothing to do with Roland. His mission and responsibility is to protect Xu Lai's safety.
Therefore, when Roland and this group of people armed with swords dared to block Xu Lai, he could not be polite at all.
Su Ya could see further than Jilong. When Xu Lai sent Roland to attack, Su Ya knew that Xu Lai had murderous intentions towards this group of guys.
Sure enough, it didn’t take long for both sides to start a quarrel and both drew their weapons.
Roland's drawing of a weapon is nothing, but others draw their weapons in front of Xu Lai. Unless Xu Lai doesn't care, it is impossible to escape intact.
As soon as the quarrel started, Xu Lai closed the window on his side.
What this means, Su Ya knows very well.
"Then let them come over and see if their heads are stronger or my knife is stronger."
Su Ya shook her head helplessly and moved Xu Lai's head When he reached his lap, he said with a smile:
“Of course your knife is strong, but once the killing begins today, you will be a thorn in the eyes of the nobles and a thorn in their flesh from now on.
With the existing Northern Empire and Southern Empire, we estimate that there is no possibility of cooperation anymore.
I am afraid they will try their best to cause trouble for us and hold us back.
Maybe several of the existing teleportation arrays will be closed tomorrow. "
Xu Lai became silent for a moment, and gave a helpless order: "Tell Roland to keep him alive and lock him up first." ”
Su Ya’s words gave Xu Lai a headache.
No matter how dissatisfied Xu Lai is with these powerful people, they can still enjoy privileges in other cities.
Xu Lai worked hard here to open the teleportation array in one city after another, and these people may just say a few words when they go back, and the teleportation array that was finally opened may be closed.
He offered an average of three times the recruitment price for recruiting soldiers. Not to mention businessmen, even the nobles were very excited.
The market has been very good recently, and there are many people sent by the nobles to come directly by teleportation array to sell.
If we rely solely on caravan transportation, except for some merchants from the Western Empire and the Northern Empire who are close to the grasslands, no one can travel thousands of miles away to do business.
Although riding in the teleportation array is expensive, the price Xu Lai offered is enough to cover the cost of teleportation, and there is still a lot of profit.
Besides, Qingfeng City also has many specialties, one of which is a kind of reasonably priced energy stone, which can save a lot of costs when used to supply teleportation arrays.
Qingfeng City also makes a lot of money. Just by using the teleportation array so frequently, the teleportation fee can earn thousands of gold coins a day.
Coupled with commercial taxes and the profits from the sale of other products, although recruiting soldiers is a bit expensive, in addition to covering the recruitment price, at least tens of thousands of gold coins can be saved every day.
The balance is after deducting various costs and wages of market personnel.
Equivalent to Qingfeng City, there are tens of thousands of gold coins every day just from extra income from business and the like.
If you add in the grain turned in by the residents, the gold coins provided by the recruited farmers, and the horses provided by the herdsmen.
As well as half of the newly erected statue of the God of War, magic gold coins, gold bags, gold bags and other treasures provided by the parliament.
All kinds of income are added up. After the teleportation array is opened, Qingfeng City can earn at least tens of thousands of gold coins a day, and if it is more, it can already exceed 100,000 gold coins.
Of course, Xu Lai has not deducted the expenses of supporting the army from this money.
Moreover, Qingfeng City can be regarded as Xu Lai's capital, and it is the city he built most carefully.
If it is impossible to accumulate wealth here, then it is even less possible in other cities.
Once the teleportation array is completed, Xu Lai is equivalent to using the resources of a small area to fight with other forces. The difficulty level has increased many times.
"Think openly, I have seen all those people outside. If I remember correctly, most of them should be from the Imperial Capital.
In the Imperial Capital, a count is nothing, and he is not qualified to control the lion. The teleportation array of Heart City.”
Su Ya comforted.
Xu Lai smiled bitterly and said: "It can be considered good news."
Whether it is good news or not, Xu Lai can only endure it for the time being. Who makes him not capable yet? , taking the rest of the cities for their own use.
He doesn’t need too many. As long as he unifies all the cities in the grassland, relying on the resources of the entire grassland, he can at least be able to fight.
If it can be extended outwards, let alone an empire, even if it only takes half of the empire, the resources will be enough to grow.
"In my opinion, in the name of public security punishment, we can fine them a sum of money tomorrow and drive them out."
Xu Lai frowned, and couldn't help but said: "If they are released like this, they They will definitely talk nonsense when they go back."
Su Ya smiled slightly and said: "What should we do, lock them up until they die? Wouldn't the impact be even worse?
Besides, Well, with their character, they would not talk nonsense when they return, and they might call our place a devil's cave.
If they speak normally, others may still believe it. But once they exaggerate, others will not believe it. How much more can you believe?
Of course, it will definitely have an impact on our reputation, but this impact should not affect other cities. After all, this is a special period.
Besides, even if word spreads, they have made so much money from doing business with our Qingfeng City, will they give up easily? "
Businessmen are chasing profits, and the nobles are not much better.
Under the circumstances that Qingfeng City is profitable, let alone some bad rumors, there are people who were killed today. Their family members may not be willing to let go either.
"That's true.
However, with the opening of Qingfeng City, this kind of thing will probably not happen less in the future.
How about we give in? "
"This is not possible. The nobles and businessmen all have the character of wanting to look forward to Shu.
As long as we make a little concession today, we will make more concessions later.
Once they develop on our territory and become entangled, it will be very difficult for us to clean them up. ”
Xu Lai smiled and said: "It's so complicated, isn't it? I won't give them this chance."
Su Ya smiled and said: "If you don't give it, won't others give it to you?
What nobles are best at is exploiting various loopholes and looking for opportunities.
These officials in your city hall are all old people who have been with you for a long time, and most of them come from poor backgrounds.
Can they resist the temptation? If a noble wants to marry them, will they refuse?
These are just officials from the city hall. What if Wei Yihong, Urdola, and the Eboka brothers are all being solicited?
These people have also made great contributions to Qingfeng City, and now they all hold high positions of authority.
If they marry nobles and wealthy businessmen, do you want to sell this face? After all, they were still clean, and if they had any connections, it would be a matter for the future.
What about the surrendered nobles in Conaston? Including the current lord of Conaston Castle, how many noble families has Martell's family been married to? Do you know? ”
Su Ya asked Xu Lai a lot of questions in a row, which confused Xu Lai. It wasn't that he hadn't thought about these questions before, but he really didn't go into it that deeply.
In his own impression, he had always been just a lord of a small city, but now he suddenly grew stronger and even became the king of the underground. It was considered a time of satisfaction.
However, he had just returned to his city and suddenly encountered so many embarrassing problems.
What Su Ya said is true. Unless Xu Lai can be alone, no one can control the city or even the whole world.
Otherwise, it would be impossible to prevent the people under his command from slowly connecting and eventually forming a huge group.
"Then what should we do?"
Xu Lai couldn't help but ask.
Su Ya smiled bitterly and said: "If you ask me, I don't know who to ask.
The only advice I can give you now is not to magnify the matter. , but I can’t give in at will.
I don’t have much experience in how to grasp it.”
This is Xu Lai's most fatal weakness. The ruling team are all novices, and some questions cannot be answered or explained at all.
While Xu Lai was thinking deeply with his pillow on Su Ya's soft thigh, the carriage finally started to move slowly again.
Xu Lai's words were quite timely. In the pool of blood on both sides of the carriage, there were a row of men and women kneeling.
They were lucky. Thanks to Xu Lai's refusal to pursue the matter, they survived by chance.
But the innocent guards who followed them all fell into a pool of blood because they drew their swords.
However, Xu Lai could only deal with those who were relatively innocent and let go of the masterminds.
"Did you hear something?"
Xu Lai suddenly asked.
Su Ya was stunned for a moment, then shook her head and said: "I heard some, but they are all based on rumors, less than 10% true.
For now I won’t tell you, so as not to make you angry and maybe hurt your feelings.
If there is anything to verify, I will report it to you. ”
Xu Lai comes back rarely, and Su Ya doesn’t want to upset Xu Lai because of those missing things.
If it were anyone else, regardless of the truth of the rumors, whenever Xu Lai wants to When asked, they still have to answer. But Su Ya and Yu Lan are different.
They are not only Xu Lai's subordinates, but they are also his women. This is a little willful. Of course you have to satisfy them.
Xu Lai thought for a while and said: "Okay, let's wait until you verify it.
People are social animals, and no one can stay the same.
Who do they want to marry? , just marry whoever you want. If I'm not at home, don't worry about it.
But the laws of the empire are no longer suitable for us to continue to use.
Find some people to come over and study it together. , in the name of the urban public security law, formulate a new law that applies to our situation
Didn't you just say that if you can't find the middle level, then the new public security law will be the measure?
Anyone can do whatever is not prohibited by law. No one will show mercy to those who break the law, how about that? ”
The imperial law is a naked privilege law. The rights of the nobles are too great and the obligations are too small, and there is almost no restriction on them.
However, Xu Lai cannot abolish it. Imperial law, unless he one day leaves the imperial camp, the imperial law that symbolizes the empire can never be abolished.
Therefore, Xu Lai can only be creative and use public security laws that only apply in the city. instead.
Even if the public security law is used instead, Xu Lai will not abolish the privileges, but will let Su Ya grasp the middle level.
This is not a world where everyone is equal, nor is it a peaceful world.
If a strong man cannot obtain privileges, then who will be willing to follow him.
Even if no one else is needed, Xu Lai himself will not be willing to do it.
Take the simplest law of killing a person to pay for his life. Would he, Xu Lai, be willing to pay with his life for killing a civilian?
This is obviously impossible, if he really wants to promote equality.
In addition to recruiting soldiers and die-hard loyalists, others are afraid that they will immediately become alienated from him and betray him when they find the opportunity.
But the existing imperial laws are too privileged. How could Xu Lai be willing to let a group of unrelated people enjoy the world he had worked so hard to gain?
How to measure the degree in the middle is a big problem, and it is a very difficult problem.
What Xu Lai did was to ask Su Ya to find someone to study it together. He didn't want to have a headache anyway, so he just wanted to finalize and make a decision.
Xu Lai no longer knew how much trouble he was given, and Su Ya agreed without thinking.
Sure enough, as soon as Su Ya responded, Xu Lai's frown relaxed a lot, and he was even in a mood to laugh at himself:
"It seems that I am really not suitable. Stay at home. If I'm not at home, they can't find me, and there's nothing you can do about it.
If I'm at home, I'm afraid they won't stop."
Hearing this, Su Ya. He frowned and said: "The day after tomorrow is the New Year's Day, you won't miss it, right?
Moreover, Mr. Wei put countless efforts into the first auction in Qingfeng City. Just displaying the artifacts every day and arranging security required a lot of effort.
It would be too disrespectful for you to leave at this time.
Besides, no one knows how many good things will appear in this first auction. I heard from Mr. Wei that at least two artifacts have been sent to the auction for appraisal.
If you stop, people may not be willing to take out the artifact and take pictures. ”
Although Xu Lai doesn’t know, whether or not he is there has anything to do with whether they sell the artifact or not.
But he knew that he really had to be present at this first auction.
Because not only Wei Yihong, but also the city lord Su Ya and the lord Xu Lai, the entire Qingfeng City has been preparing for this auction for a long time.
First there was nearly half a year of construction, decoration and publicity, and now there is a full month of artifact display period.
When he saw the final acceptance results, how could Xu Lai leave at this time.
“Don’t worry, even if I want to leave, I will definitely wait until the Qingfeng Legion returns to defense.
I don’t know how many people are watching Qingfeng City now. How could I dare to leave at this time? "(End of this chapter)