The ancient city of Er, mentioned in the official document of the Ministry of War, is located on the southwest border of the Dongzhou Empire, and it can be regarded as the first important town of the Dongzhou Empire in the southwest region.

There are dozens of orc tribes scattered near the ancient city of Er, as we all know, when the land countries expand their territory, they often have fierce conflicts with these beast tribes, and there is no friendship between the human race and the beast tribe, either the human race conquers the beast race, or the beast tribe hammers the human race.

In the early days of its founding, the Eastern Continent sent large armies many times to try to conquer all the orc tribes in the southwestern territory by force, turning them into slaves for the human race. Although the orc tribes in the territory of Dongzhou have never established a unified country, these orc tribes are uncompromising in accepting the rule of the human race, after all, the loudest slogan in the orc tribe is that the orcs will never be slaves.

In order to effectively suppress the disobedient beasts, the rulers of the Dongzhou Empire spent a lot of money for decades to build the ancient city of Er, which is known as the light of hope of the empire. The ancient city of Er, which brought hope for the long-term rule of the empire, was a source of nightmare for the orcs who had been active in the area for a long time.

In order to destroy the ancient city of Er and expel the human race, there was a brief alliance between the various orc tribes and organized an army of orcs to resist the army of the Eastern Continent Kingdom.

Around the ancient city of Er, the human race and the beast race have been engaged in fierce battles for a hundred years, and according to the imperial history books, there are not 1,000 large and small battles, but 800 times. Although the warriors of the orc clan fought bravely, their IQ was generally not high, and later, the military department of the Eastern Continent Kingdom aimed at the weakness of the orcs, and after summing up the experience and lessons of dozens of defeats in the war, they decided to adopt a divide-and-rule disintegration method against the orcs and divide the alliance of the orcs from within.

In view of the difference in the combat power of the beasts, the Imperial War Department has taken effective countermeasures, for the beast tribes that can fight well, they send a lot of money and beautiful women to entrap them, and the remaining beast tribes with few numbers and poor force value have launched a crazy slaughter.

After many years of division and slaughter in the ancient city of Er, the orc tribes near the ancient city of Ergu gradually declined, with the continuous decrease in population and the continuous loss of land, so that the orcs in the territory of Dongzhou completely lost the strength to resist the human race, and at the same time, the various orc tribes because of their growing differences with each other, and the rift of mutual distrust made them never organize an effective alliance again.

There are some beast tribes who are unwilling to be humiliated and left the territory of Dongzhou Kingdom, while the remaining beast tribes gradually began to submit to the rule of the human race, and the slogan of never being a slave was also thrown into the trash can by them permanently, and no one dared to mention it again.

In order to influence these surrendered orcs, the rulers of the empire have also changed the laws of the empire many times, and explicitly abolished the permanent slavery status of the previous orcs in the empire. Under the dual control of force and spirit, the orcs who have obtained the status of civilians are content with the status quo and no longer think about rebellion all day long.

In a sense, it is only in the last ten years that the ancient city of Ergu has had a real sense of peace and stability.

Not only was the position of the Taishou held by the Wu family for a long time, but even the officials in the city were inextricably linked to the Wu family.

Because the Wu family has been working hard in the ancient city of Er for many years, and has a huge reputation in the local area, even more than the influence of the imperial royal family on the ancient city of Er, so when it comes to the ancient city of Er, most civilians first think of the Wu family in the ancient city of Er, who is famous for killing the beast clan.

Due to the imperial family's inability to meddle in the internal affairs of the ancient city, the current Taishou of the ancient city of Ergu is naturally also a member of the Wu family.

Since this Renjie brother served as the Taishou of the ancient city of Er, in recent years, the beast tribes around the ancient city of Er, even the slightest commotion has not happened, the reason is very simple, this Renjie Taishou Wu Tianyou also has another title of 'Beast Head Maker'.

As soon as Wu Tianyou took office, he issued an extremely cruel Taishou order, as long as the beast tribes living around the ancient city of Er dared to launch a rebellion, or any kind of commotion, not only the initiator himself would be tortured by thousands of knives, but his relatives and friends would also be chopped into meat in front of him, and what was even more perverted was that Wu Tianyou would randomly select one of the mutineer's neighbors to bury the mutineer.

At the same time, Wu Tianyou also tailored a detailed system for the orc tribe to destroy the door and exterminate the number of people, an orc made trouble, killed his whole family and friends, more than ten orcs made trouble, killed the entire orc village, if there are a hundred orcs to follow the trend to make trouble, then congratulations to this orc race, they will get a ruthless killing from Wu Tianyou, and the entire race will be completely wiped out from the southwest region of the empire by the elite army of the ancient city.

In this way, after Wu Tianyou brutally slaughtered the two orc races that had made small mistakes and could reach the standard of extermination, the remaining orc tribes lived in fear near the ancient city of Er, and they were quiet for a while, so that the civilians in Daliang City almost forgot that there was still an orc in the ancient city.

However, things in the world are always interconnected, and when you have worked hard to solve old problems, new problems will soon arise that will make you even more headaches.

Because of the financial constraints of the Dongzhou Kingdom at the beginning, there was not enough money to support the long-term war around the ancient city of Er, in order to save military expenditures, the empire had to completely delegate the military power and internal affairs of the ancient city to the Wu family in a helpless situation, and let them recruit troops to govern the ancient city of Er.

Over time, the Empire's control over the civilians and officials of the ancient city weakened to the extreme.

The ambitious Emperor Chongsheng naturally couldn't tolerate the actual independent status of the ancient city in Dongzhou, but he never found a better solution.

This time, the Ministry of War sent Li Qiu to Ergucheng, which was once again deliberately trying to restore the empire's control over Ergucheng and let Ergucheng return to the order controlled by the empire.

There are as many as 50,000 troops that can be directly mobilized by the Taishou of the ancient city, and it is obviously a fantasy to take back the military power directly from the Wu family, but it is still feasible to try to recover the financial power.

Emperor Chongsheng's tolerance for the ancient city of Er is getting lower and lower, and it is also because the ancient city of Er has become more and more excessive in recent years, Wu Tianyou not only refused to pay taxes and silver to the household department, but also asked the household department to allocate funds on the grounds of maintaining the security of the southwest territory of the empire every now and then, and threatened that if the household department refused to allocate funds, the soldiers in the ancient city of Er mutiny, and caused another large-scale rebellion of the beast clan, then this black pot of their ancient city would be thrown to the household department with dignity.

The officials of the household department of Dongzhou do not have a good tradition of being the backstabber, they faced the blatant extortion of the ancient city, the household department Shangshu immediately sent someone to inform the military department of the matter, and asked the people of the military department to help solve the difficulties, at the same time, the household department Shangshu also threatened the people of the military department, if the military department can not solve the problem of the ownership of the financial power of the ancient city, and therefore let the ancient city play a mess with the problem, this black pot will be given to the good brother military department to carry.

The military department Shangshu had a headache about this matter for several days, and he had sent his subordinate and capable officials three times before to coordinate the financial contradictions between Ergucheng and the household department.

Unfortunately, one of the three subordinates sent by the military department Shangshu to Ergucheng drowned while washing his face in the morning. One went missing on the way to the ancient city of Ergu and is still missing. The rest of the subordinate ended up even more outrageous, according to the people of the ancient city of Er, he trespassed into the forbidden land of the orc tribe without permission, and wanted to forcibly have a harmonious story with an elderly female orc, but was turned by a group of irascible orc warriors on the spot, in short, this subordinate finally failed to leave the orc tribe alive.

Just when the military department was still frowning, and he couldn't find a suitable candidate to go to Er Gucheng again, the left waiter of the military department strongly recommended Li Qiu, and the reason sounded very reasonable, the person who could kill Tuoba Ji must be the person with the halo of the protagonist.

Li Qiu's unfortunate luck continued, and under the reasonable remarks of the Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of War, the task of going to the ancient city of Ergu to recover the financial power fell to Li Qiu's head.

The official document of the Ministry of War used a lot of space to exaggerate praise and praise Li Qiu, and finally put forward two small requirements for Li Qiu at the end, the first is to recover the financial power, and the second is to return to Daliang alive.

In the remarks of the official document, the causal relationship between the two requirements was implicitly expressed to Li Qiu, if the second article cannot be completed, the first article must be completed, and if the first article cannot be completed, the second article does not need to be completed.

Gan, cutting off people's wealth is like killing parents, Li Qiu knows that he is in big trouble, and he is not cutting off a person's financial route, Li Qiu has cut off the wealth of countless officials up and down the ancient city, including the famous Ergu Gujie brother.

Li Qiu didn't know that he had a fart to lead two thousand soldiers to the ancient city of Er, which could not deter others, but also slow him down the speed of escaping. If it was really because of the financial power of Er Gucheng and Li Qiu, it would definitely be easier for him to escape alone than to flee with a group of people.

What's more, the two thousand soldiers assigned to Li Qiu by the Ministry of War were all from the Qinglong Army, which he was all familiar with, and the Qinglong Army, which was known as the bottom of the four major waste material pension armies in the empire, made Li Qiu's scalp tingle.

Li Qiu couldn't figure out what else he and the two thousand scum soldiers could do except die to the people of Er Gucheng.

After learning the hard way, Li Qiu trotted to find the military department secretary with the official document, hoping that he could withdraw the military order, or directly find someone to replace him to go to the ancient city of Er. Let him lead the two thousand Qinglong Army to negotiate with Er Gucheng, it is better to directly find a place in Daliang City to bury him on the spot, so as to save him Li Qiu from having to trouble others to mail his bones back after Li Qiu dies in Er Gucheng, why waste the cost of an imperial express.

Li Qiu is a serious general, not a general who is in a hurry to be reincarnated.

"How could the general's son be unable to do anything. ”

Li Qiu: "....... "This man looked like a fool who was jealous of his identity.

"General Yangwei is an existence that can even handle Tuoba Ji, and the ancient city of Er is nothing in your eyes. ”

Li Qiu: "....... "At first glance, this man is an old yin and yang weird slut.

"Our military department is full of old men, even if you look for us, it's useless, and we won't accompany you to the ancient city of Ergu like someone. ”

Li Qiu: "....... "This man may be a rotten egg lover hiding in the military headquarters.

"Major General...... I whispered to you something, and I was just a passerby, purely curious, you and that person's ...... Whether the story is true or not, and what postures you usually like, can you teach me when you have time, I like to learn new knowledge the most. ”

Li Qiu: "....... "This person is diligent and eager to ask your father and daughter-in-law, Uncle Gan, Li Qiu couldn't help but slap him, and then he was warmly sent out of the military department by the guards of the military department.

Li Qiu now finally knows what it means to be sinister in people's hearts and what is the enemy inside.