At Kelling Castle, Rhys and the Tiger Brothers stood in the middle of the council, their faces not very good-looking. The Nine Councillors were even more quarrelling, some of them proposed to surrender to Rayse, at least to retain most of the interests, and others objected, saying that Barr dissolved their parliament after annexing Yuhua and Red Cloud, and set up a House of Commons in Thunder City, which was just to bring the nobles together for recreation, and where was the slightest right left.

In the midst of the quarrel, Karn, a nobleman who had fled from the east, asked for an audience and said that there was a solution to the current predicament.

The council elders snapped at Karn. Karn's advice did not disappoint.

Kahn made two comments. One of them was to emulate Roy in Red Cloud City, using slaves as soldiers (not warriors). Specifically, in the eastern areas threatened by the Barr, the slave-owning aristocracy was mobilized to distribute land to slaves in exchange for slaves to join the army, and the slaves kept part of their own rations, and the rest went to the slave owners. The slave army has a ninth-class meritorious service, and each higher level can be exempted from one level of surrender. With the slave army, and then uniting with the Swallow Thorn tribe, it is easy to resist the invasion of Thunder.

Second, it is necessary to spread rumors that Roy has pardoned the slaves of the old Thunder Ministry, but the abuse of the slaves of Red Cloud has intensified...

The council elders were so convinced that they immediately arranged for it to proceed, and granted Karn the right to sit in the council.

Rhys and Tigers looked ashamed and indignant when they saw that the Council had taken Karn's advice, and they didn't care what the old men did, as long as they put tens of thousands of soldiers in their hands, they would be ashamed to defeat Baal.

Bar won Kaiyun City, searched the secret rooms in the city, and arranged the city defenses. He also ordered Leng Yan, the most outstanding warrior in the battle, to lead a thousand warriors to build fortifications on the hills five miles south of the city, and guard them with Kaiyun into horns.

During the march, someone captures the remnant of the Red Cloud nobleman who killed Roy's brother Roth, and delivers it to Barr. This Raunod is also a man, knowing that his life is short, he does not beg for mercy, nor abuses, but only tilts his head and does not speak.

"I admire you as a person, but your actions have affected my great things, so you must die," Barr said. So he sent for Raunoe to give Roy. To Barr's surprise, Roy did not kill Raunaud, but instead cut off his left hand and left him at his side.

"Roy really wants to be a saint. Barr sighed.

Oria arranged for the guards on the border of the Yanthorn and met Baal in Kaiyun City. At this moment, the news that the Kailing tribe had gathered 20,000 slave soldiers had already arrived. Barr said to Oriah, "There's something bad for you to do. ”

"When can you arrange for me to do a good deed?" said Ollya, joking disapprerovingly.

"When the bad ones are done, let's do them well. Barr handed Olya a bag of wine and continued, "You send a few hundred-strong squads out to deliver a few victories to the slave army on the other side. ”

Ollia was somewhat incomprehensible, drank and did not speak.

"When people make progress, we always have to give some gifts, right? This is mainly to let those slaves make meritorious contributions, to see if the nobles will really give them merits, and also to let the low-level slaves think that they are very powerful, don't train too diligently, and when the time comes, we will gnaw and knock our teeth. Barr and Ollya touched the bag and took a long sip of wine.

"I don't know what you've been thinking about all day? According to me, you can't just do it. Oria couldn't figure out what Barr was thinking, so she took another big sip.

Barr got up and walked down the terrace, leaving a word for Olia: "Defend Kaiyun City, I'll go back to Thunder and meet the council elders." ”

The city of Thunder was beating gongs and drums, and when Baal's horses appeared in the streets, they were greeted with flowers and flowers. In the council hall, Su Yan and the other eight people stood in line, all of them bowing their heads slightly, looking a little afraid of the tall figure that appeared at the door.

Seeing this, Barr stepped forward and bowed, no worse than before, which made Su Yan and the others breathe a sigh of relief. When Barr stood up again, Su Yan pulled a delicate animal skin from his sleeve and handed it to Barr. There are two lines of large characters written on the animal skin, and below it are the signatures of dozens of people.

To the effect that Barr should follow the example of the pony monarch Malin, receive divine authority and be called king.

"This matter must not be mentioned again. However, there is one thing that I would like to discuss in Parliament. With a slash of his hand in the air, there was a sound of breaking through the air, and the skin was reduced to several pieces and fell to the ground.

The Nine Councillors immediately clasped their hands on their chests and saluted, originally shocked by the momentum of Barr's broken luck.

Barr invited the nine people to their respective seats, and said: "You have heard about what happened in the east of the Kailing tribe, so don't worry, I don't mean to follow in Thunder." Barr knew, of course, that these men had pushed him for the purpose of being king, because Malinn had retained most of the slavery after he became queen.

He continued: "But the Kailing tribe and the Yan Thorn tribe now have a combined army of nearly 40,000 troops, and our army is no more than 10,000 people, so I want to implement taxes and county systems in the original Red Cloud Tribe, and I need the council to come up with an opinion as soon as possible." ”

The nine councillors heard that they were only tossing in the red cloud for the time being, so they were relieved, and if the toss was good, they might not mind promoting it. Su Lan asked everyone's doubts: "What is the tax system?"

"I want to free all the slaves in Hongyun from their hands and feet, call them 'people', and then give them fields and pastures, divide the land into upper, middle, and lower classes, and let the people pay grain and livestock every season according to the level and quantity of the land, which is called taxation. At the same time, Hongyun County is set up, and there are five counties... Establish a military service system..."Barr said this for a long time, and the old man nodded his head.

After Roy saw the paperwork handed to him by Barr, his expression was richer than that of the Ninth Master, and he didn't know how the upper and lower councils would nod their heads in agreement with such a thing that harmed the interests of the nobles.

"What about the nobles here?" Roy asked, a little worried.

Of course, Barr knows the difficulties, far away on earth, since ancient times, there is a lot of resistance from the top down, and a lot of blood from the bottom up. But now that he has a large army and a personal prestige, and no one dares to contend with all the fallen magnates, who can stop him if he wants to change? Barr said: "The nobles, according to the regulations, keep one-tenth of the existing land and pastures, and may compete for the appointment of county officials at all levels. Those who do not accept only one word 'kill', one person does not accept, the whole family is reduced to the people, the crowd is gathered to make trouble to stop the promoters, and the locks are sold as slaves to thunder. I will do this personally, and you can only engrave the seal and seal the book and issue the decree. ”

Roy couldn't help but shudder when he saw Barr's blue hair stand up and his eyes filled with murderous aura, but when he thought that the wealth of the whole county would be gathered in his hands in the future, he couldn't wait to repair a few more warehouses immediately, but his face showed an expression of yearning and longing, and finally he almost laughed.

Barr patted Roy and poured cold water on him: "The subcontinent is often flooded and drought, and the land income is not much, so keeping slaves is actually a long-term solution. On the contrary, this tax system, the things collected, in nine times out of ten, may be used to counter the disaster victims, although Hongyun is located in the center, the situation is better, but you have to take good care of your warehouse, don't let me cut off your head in the end. ”

Roy touched his neck and smiled innocently, not thinking that Barr was joking.

The Nine Dukes of Pingyu, over the years, have discussed few things within the empire, and there have been many discussions about the affairs of the subcontinent. After their plan to weaken the thunder of the western tribes of the subcontinent failed, the news of the serfdom system in the eastern part of Kailing came out, and they were really angry. Baal's two small actions on the pony and the red cloud shook the foundation of the council at once, Kailing went astray, and there were some undercurrents surging in the empire.

So the host, the bald Chis, was sent to the Kailing tribe.

The Ministry of Kailing openly received Chiss in the Parliament. The Bald Chis scolded the council for taking the Empire's sophisticated weapons, but was beaten so badly by two or three thousand Thundermen. After that, he said his true purpose, saying: "Roy made a small move in the red clouds, gathered thousands of inferior slaves, and achieved a small victory, you will follow suit." Don't you know that Bal has emptied the council of Rayse, and the nobles are trembling all day long? Now it's good, you have just given land to the slaves, and what kind of taxation system is there on his side, which is unheard of, and you want to call the slaves some kind of bullshit 'people', and kill dozens of nobles, and you also want to wait for the slaves to cut off your heads?...

"What a big breath, Lord Chis is just a councilor of the Pingyu Empire, and not the Nine Princes of my Kailing, don't you regard yourself as the master here?" a discordant voice came, but Karn, who was sitting in the back, couldn't help it, spoke.

"What are you?" Chiss had long felt that it was strange for a person to sit at the back of the council, and now he stood up against himself, and immediately became even more angry.

"You and I are both nobles, and please respect yourself, Lord Chis. In Lower Karn, there were only observers. Karn walked unhurriedly to Chis's side, saluted all ten people present, and then said: "It is really a helpless move to turn slaves into soldiers, and I think that if the Pingyu Empire can send 5,000 iron armor, we will not mind sending more than 20,000 armed slaves to a decisive battle with Baal." ”

Chis's eyes lit up, and he immediately looked at the person who had contradicted him, and sincerely returned the salute to Karn, which was regarded as an apology, and then the bald Chiss said: "What Mr. Karn said is reasonable, I wonder if the elders of the Council of Kailing also have this opinion, for the sake of the nobles, I don't mind going to make a trip to persuade the Imperial Council to send a large army to help." ”

After a few whispers, Councillor Nine agreed, and in this regard, he took Karn more seriously.