"Is this the second city? What's the matter with you saying that there is no garrison in it? Li Hao looked at the city in front of him and asked Kewen beside him. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"This is the second city from Guangming City, compared to Guangming City, this is much smaller, but because it is located in a peaceful area, it is better than Guangming City in terms of trade development, and his value may be better, the reason why there is no garrison is that this is a commercial market town, even thieves will not attack here, because they need a place to sell stolen goods, and this is the best place to sell stolen goods."

Kewen explained briefly, Li Hao nodded and said, "Since that's the case, let's go in, it's better to control it directly without the garrison." ”

After hearing Li Hao's words, Kewen immediately stopped Li Hao's behavior and said: "If you want to go like this, master, I'm afraid it will be very difficult to control, these merchants are the most cunning, they come and go from various worlds, the relationship is complicated, and the soldiers they hire are also very powerful, there is no garrison, and there is a reason why their mercenaries are very strong so they don't need it." ”

"So what do you say? Actually, I don't care about mercenaries, because they are all vulnerable to me. Li Hao was very disdainful of the mercenaries inside, he needed to hurry.

"No, master, you need these merchants, because if you have them to join, your time to conquer this world will be greatly reduced, merchants are the best spies, and they are also connected to other worlds, if you can subdue them, it will be too good for you."

Kewen persuaded that since he had decided to join Li Hao's team, and for his family not to be executed, he could only use the fastest way, although the merchants were not feasible, but their strength was undoubted, every city had their men, as long as they were willing to cooperate, those cities would be taken down very easily, and there would be no need to die so many people.

"You're smart, but I like smart people and do what you think, but I only look at the results, and if I don't get what I want, I'm afraid I can only say I'm sorry."

Li Hao said to Kewen with a smile, and then Kewen immediately understood what Li Hao meant, which was expressing dissatisfaction with him, of course he still accepted Kewen's proposal.

Kewen immediately rushed to the city with his original subordinates after receiving Li Hao's order, Li Hao was not afraid that they would betray him, if he could defeat them once, he could defeat them a second time, and the knights who followed Kewen also knew this very well, so they had no intention of betraying.

Two of them, the emissaries of the church and the Count of Julius, also played a great role, one was an important member of the church, and the other was an imperial nobleman, and they all joined Li Hao's command, so what else are these knights embarrassed about?

Half an hour later, when Li Hao was waiting a little impatiently, someone finally came out inside, and Kewen appeared in front of Li Hao with a few businessmen.

"Master, these are the stewards of the business alliance and the managers of the city, they have agreed to sacrifice the city, and they will help the master recover the cities in the future." Kewen felt that he had done a good job this time, and after entering, there was a burst of coercion and temptation, but these businessmen surrendered directly without discipline, so that Kewen had a feeling of power and nowhere to go, he wanted to kill chickens and make an example of monkeys, the problem is that there are many chickens, and the monkeys are gone.

"This must be..." What's the matter, the merchant leader is a little confused, he doesn't know what Li Hao's name is, he can't just call it, it's too rude.

"Don't worry, you call me Shijun, yes, I'm Shijun!" Thinking about it, only this name is the most compatible with himself, and now his strongest means is not King Kong is not bad, but the sword intent evolved from the will of the kitchen road, as long as the enemy is dragged into the sword intent illusion, nothing in the world can be killed.

It's not that I didn't think about calling the God of Food, the problem is that the name of the God of Food is not called casually, although he has the divinity from the Demon King of Eaters in his current body, but he still hasn't become a god after all, and the name of the monarch is just right for him.

"Your Excellency, our business alliance is willing to serve your great cause, but we have a small request, I hope you can get the legal right to operate under the notice, and will not be replaced by others at will."

The representatives of the business alliance stated their purpose, which is why they are here, Cowen said, if they don't agree, they may be wiped out at any time, and no one can be replaced.

As a businessman, the first thing to consider must be the pros and cons, after considering the costs and losses caused by the fight against this food king, the avatar was decisively decided, compared with the possible benefits, the loss is so large that it is simply unbearable, and there is no chance of winning at all, the only thing that can be expected now is that this food king thinks that His Royal Highness is benevolent, and will allow them to keep their wealth and the right to do business.

In fact, every upheaval of royal power would lead to the bankruptcy of a large number of large merchants, not because of business failures, but because the rulers needed a group of their own people to control the economic lifeblood of the kingdom.

"Bold, this is what you can covet? Get down on your knees or you'll be put to death at once! "When Cowen heard the request of the merchant representative, he immediately became furious, is this a trick for him? And the people he brought with him coveted the monarch's purse?

You must know that in the light world, all the money is the emperor's, and the faith is all the holy light, these two points no one dares to question, even if your family is rich, the emperor wants it is just a matter of one sentence, unless you are a nobleman, and the merchant is obviously not a nobleman.

After hearing Cowen's heavy drinking, the merchant's body shook a few times, but he unexpectedly had no soft bones, this is a matter of livelihood for him in the future, if he can't guarantee it, he will have to die early and late, he has a lot of enemies, and if he dies of bullying and starvation in the future, it is better to die now.

Li Hao waved his hand to stop the long sword that Kewen was about to cut off, that was really going to be cut, Kewen was for his own consideration, he didn't want to leave the impression of colluding with outsiders to seize financial power in Li Hao's heart, but after seeing Li Hao's gesture, he retreated to the back.

"Your money means nothing to me, keep your money, but remember to obey the laws I say you make, otherwise you may take everything I give you at any time, now go and do everything you say, I will be rewarded for doing well, if you can't do it, the person who speaks big will generally have his tongue cut out."

After saying that, Li Hao left, and Kewen glared at the merchant fiercely and said, "You'd better be able to finish it, otherwise I will definitely cut out your tongue." Then Corvin followed suit, leaving the merchant representatives sweating profusely and sitting prostrate on the ground in their tents.

Li Hao's momentum is not something that ordinary people can bear, and they can persevere, completely because of their attachment and belief in wealth.

Under the threat of Kewen, of course, the most important thing is that Li Hao's strength gives them no chance to resist, and then Li Hao found that these merchants really have big words, almost as long as there are cities, there are their people, and they have five cities in one day, each of which was secretly opened by the people of the merchant alliance to open the city gate and take it down.

The nobles and church people in the city were all imprisoned by Li Hao, and by the time the churches and people of the kingdom in the light realm reacted, Li Hao had already captured nearly half of the territory, and when he wanted to fight back, he found that he couldn't even get together the soldiers.

The people of the merchant alliance directly hired all the mercenaries, and the armor and equipment that the armed forces needed were naturally sold by the merchants, and the people of the kingdom found that the merchants in their territory had been emptied, and all the things in the shops had been taken away.

The nobles of the kingdom were not happy, but it was the ordinary people who were really unhappy, and the people who lived in the cities were no better than the people who lived in the countryside in the suburbs, and they had no land and of course no surplus food.

A city consumes a lot of daily necessities, and the merchants exist to ensure their needs, but when the merchants leave, these people find that even if they have money, they still can't buy food.

Not being able to buy them for a day or two will not make them hungry, after all, it is not that there is not even food for a day or two, and the nobles will also come out to quell these events that are likely to cause riots, but after a long time, the nobles will not be able to hold on.

The nobles are not merchants, they do not hoard grain for sale, the hoarded grain has always been for their own families and armies, at the beginning they may be able to help the commoners, when the merchants are not there, they do make a lot of money selling at a high price, but after a long time, the nobles give up.

Survival was obviously more important than making money, and when the nobles cut off the trade, and when there were no merchants and no more nobles, the common people finally began to go hungry.

It's not that the nobles of the kingdom didn't want to rush out and rush to the bottom territory controlled by Li Hao to rob the merchants and nobles there, but they couldn't rush out at all, because of the lack of armor, they couldn't even combine a normal army now.

In the royal city, the members of the Julius family are gathering together with a serious face, they are now in a very dangerous situation, and the slightest carelessness will lead to a catastrophe, and the reason is because of the current head of the family in the city of light, Count Julius.

"Let's talk, let's not sigh all the time, what are we going to do now? When I went to the palace today, I was denied an audience, and the attitude of the church towards us has also changed greatly, and the attitude of most of the nobles in the city has begun to become ambiguous towards us, and I am afraid that something big will happen. ”

An old man looked at everyone and said lightly, he was Julius's father, the old earl of the previous generation, and he had been staying in the royal city since he retired from the position of head of the family, and was a hostage in the royal city with the descendants of the branch.

Each generation of Julius' heads of the house would be in the city of Light, not for the church, but for the kingdom, but unfortunately now it seems that the kingdom has murdered them.

"It's all our family master's fault, if he hadn't insisted on going his own way and didn't notify us in time, we wouldn't be so passive! Now what? How do we know what to do? I don't even have the right to go out of the city to hunt, and the children of other nobles don't associate with me at all, so I'm like a blind eye now! ”

A young aristocratic boy said, and he could see that he was very agitated, and what he had experienced recently was unimaginable to a man of his age.

"Old patriarch, I want to know what Lord Earl wants to do, or why he did it, now we have become a thorn in the side of the nobles and the church of the kingdom, if it weren't for the hostages in the hands of Lord Earl, I'm afraid we would be dead by now, and we are now under house arrest, and we can't even get out of the royal city."

"I know, I know, don't worry, don't worry, he has already written to me, in fact, this is an opportunity, which one of the Lords of Eater gave me the opportunity, Julius did this to be able to make the family go further." The old patriarch said soothingly, but obviously it didn't have any effect.

"Further? What are you kidding, we have reached the earl, do we want to be made a duke? That's going to divide a large territory, and who of the existing lords of the kingdom would want to? Even if they wanted to, the emperor wouldn't be willing, Julius was too naïve, why didn't he consult us first? ”

The old patriarch was blamed, but he didn't care at all, because he knew that Julius was about to succeed, and when Julius succeeded, he would be the emperor's father, and these branches would also receive great benefits.

"Okay, don't argue, Julius has his own plans, now you just have to say whether you want to participate or not, if you want to stay, if you don't want to, you can now receive a piece of your property in the family and leave, this is also a way to keep the bloodline, in case we fail, at least Julius's bloodline will not die out completely.

After a moment of silence, someone finally couldn't sit still.

"I'm sorry everyone, I'm still young, I don't want to die like this, forgive me for not being able to live and die with my family!"

"I'm sorry for that, too, I'm sorry."

The young nobleman stood up and apologized and left in a chic manner, seeing that after he left, several more people left one after another, the old patriarch did not keep but watched quietly, and the proof of being able to leave was that they were all disloyal to the family, or very swinging people, and had no effect on the family, but was an unstable factor, and it was good to leave.

"Okay, is there anyone else leaving now?" The old patriarch looked at the people who stayed behind and asked, but no one spoke.

The old patriarch nodded and continued: "Since no one has left, we will carry out our plan next, and those who leave are likely to expose our plans, so wait a minute, you all go to the shelter with me, what we have to do now is not to hold Julius back, the kingdom does not threaten Julius with us, he will have no worries, and we will be the real royal family after seizing the royal city." ”