|||->-> to the west, a few dozen miles from Matsubara Castle, the battle continues.

Xie Mu single-handedly stopped all the masters of the Yao family's branch, and the power of "infernal affairs" poured out, and the evil qi almost collapsed the sky.

The world is turned upside down, the law is broken, and no one can stop it.

But Xie Mu has always kept in mind that he didn't kill anyone with his own hands, and those who died before were all affected by the heavenly thunder or the aftermath of the move, which was an unintentional killing.

It's not that he doesn't want to kill, it's that he can't.

He knew very well that with such a high-intensity operation of the "Infernal" power, if he had a killing intent, he would easily be swallowed by the "Infernal".

To be able to maintain his sanity to this extent, Xie Mu has done his best.

Compared with Xie Mu, Yao Zilin's appearance is much worse, after all, Xie Mu has infinite blood and evil qi to use, and multiple injuries can be recovered instantly.

At this moment, Yao Zilin's blood soaked his whole body, and the blood thunder was all over his body, but he no longer had the dazzling light at the beginning, his left arm was floating in the wind, and the broken stump was forcibly fixed by relying on blood thunder.

Xie Mu held the knife in both hands, although he had the upper hand, he did not dare to be careless at all.

"Infernal" is a double-edged sword, and when he fights with Yao Zilin, he is holding the tip of the sword to fight with others, but the tip of the sword on the other side is sharper.

Xie Mu said in a loud voice: "Yao Zilin, you better go back, I don't want to kill you, Songyuan City, you can't keep it." ”

When Yao Zilin heard this, the anger in his eyes was even stronger, he didn't expect that even if he tried his best, he wouldn't be able to take the other party, and his way of holding the sword gradually changed.

I saw Yao Zilin's fingers on the blade of the sword, slowly erasing from the hilt to the tip of the sword, and blood was drenched all over the sword.

In an instant, the blood-colored thunder shined brightly, penetrating the heavens and the earth, Yao Zilin was surrounded by blood thunder all around, there was no gap, and his whole person became a thunderball.

Xie Muyi frowned, "What kind of martial arts is this?"

He subconsciously took a few steps back, looked solemnly ahead, and revealed an extremely terrifying aura from Yao Zilin's body, the other party was really desperate.

What kind of combat power can a desperate warrior who returns to the Void Realm show, Xie Mu has expectations, but he is more cautious, holding the knife with both hands, and making great moves.

However, at this moment, several fluctuations came from not far behind Xie Mu.

Xie Mu had to hurriedly turn around and fight back, a knife fell, the knife qi blocked the qi, and in an instant, the heavens and the earth shook, the ground cracked, and the blood rained down.

In a hurry, Xie Mu was seriously injured, and he retreated quickly, and the bloody aura enveloped his body to repair his injuries.

"Qiu Xujiu, why did you appear here?"

Xie Mu was surprised, the person who made the shot flew from a distance, it was Qiu Xujiu.

After he glanced at the other party, he sneered, "I said why are you here, your breath is so weak, it turns out that you were defeated by Su Ran and fled here with serious injuries." ”

Having said that, he was more cautious, and as soon as he struck a hand, he sensed the strength of the other party.

Qiu Xujiu and Yao Zilin were both injured, but if the two really fought together, he might not be able to resist it, and at that time, I am afraid that he would have to completely hand over the "infernal" treatment.

Although it is said that after "Infernal" devours his will, it will eventually be returned, but Xie Mu is afraid that one day, it will not be returned, and it will be no different from death.

Yao Zilin saw Qiu Xujiu, collected the blood thunder, returned to normal, his face was gloomy, he didn't speak, turned around and flew away.

Qiu Xujiu and the other warriors of the Yao family's branch followed one after another, and they all left this place without stopping, even the soldiers who were killed by the thunder

In spite of.

When they were all gone, Xie Mu collected the evil qi and returned to his normal state.

But as soon as he recovered, Xie Mu spit out a mouthful of blood, "Infernal" ensured his safety, but the burden of using "Infernal" was too great.

He vomited blood, not an injury, but a stress.

Xie Mu's face turned a little pale, wiped the blood from the corners of his mouth, and used "Infernal" throughout the whole process, but Zhenyuan saved a lot.

He looked in the direction of the Yao family's retreat, "So simply, the battle in Songyuan City should be over, and we won." ”

"However, Qiu Xujiu is so strong, how did Xiao Ran defeat him? ”

Xie Mu rose into the air and flew in the direction of Songyuan City.

......

353 FEDERAL CALENDAR, NOVEMBER 12.

In a bubble tea shop in Songyuan City, Xie Mu was drinking black tea slowly, looking at the crowd walking outside the door, and sighed.

Beside him, a man asked softly, "Why is the gentleman sighing?"

Xie Mu glanced at him, it was the familiar but unknown young boss who was also Zimeilin's spy, and the two were old acquaintances.

He said: "I am lamenting that time is too fast, thinking back to a few years ago, Su Ran said that she wanted to build her own career, and at that time she only said that she was intermittently complacent, but I didn't expect it to be now." ”

The young boss said: "Mr. Su is eloquent and strategic, and there are several capable people like Mr. Su, and there are several capable people like him, so he should have this achievement." ”

Xie Mu smiled and took a sip of black tea again.

Xiao Ran completely occupied Songyuan City, and moved all his forces from the village to the city as quickly as possible.

Originally, the ordinary residents of those villages arranged jobs and houses for them to live with the city residents.

And the thousands of warriors she brought with her turned into construction workers and began to repair all kinds of damaged buildings in the city.

The first thing to repair is the houses of ordinary people, and it is a voluntary maintenance, and the money for materials is all reimbursed by the city lord, that is, Xiao Ran.

This move naturally won the support of the people.

After all, every city lord, whether it is the previous Yao family lineage or the later Yao family branch, is a warrior organization, and never cares about the life or death of the people.

Songyuan City is located in the middle of nowhere, and because of the intervention of the Yao family, the government has been semi-paralyzed since a long time ago.

Some ordinary people have almost forgotten that there is still an official mansion, but the arrival of Xiao Ran rebuilt the official mansion and really did something practical for the people.

However, there are also some discordant voices among the people, such as "it is not their responsibility to destroy the houses" and "if they don't attack the city, it will be fine".

There is even a lot of hype in the city.

"The new officials have taken office with three fires, and they are about to start collecting taxes."

"In order to make up for the war damage, the new city lord has to arrest the strong men and loot the property. ”

"I heard that the city lord is an evil cultivator and wants to kill 5,000 mortals to sacrifice to the sky. ”

In short, all kinds of rumors are spreading, and there are all kinds of things, all of which are trying to smear Xiao Ran and them as much as possible.

It's just that Xiao Ran's eyeliner spread all over Songyuan City, easily pulling out a large number of rumor-mongers, and beheading them in public.

At the same time, several new decrees were announced.

"First, the troops under its jurisdiction have three chapters of the law with the people, and they will not disturb the people. ”

As I said when I entered the city, the people were nothing too big

reaction, because that's what the owners of the new city have always said.

"Second, all soldiers volunteered to help civilians rebuild their homes. ”

This one is a bit ordinary, because Xiao Ran's soldiers have been working for many days, and a large number of houses have been rebuilt.

"Thirdly, taxes for all walks of life will be reduced in proportion to a certain amount within three months, and after three months, they will return to the tax level set by the original federal government. ”

This one finally set off an uproar.

Tax reduction or something, is expected, if the tax is collected as soon as it comes up, it is to fish with all its might, unless you are a fool, you will not do this.

But what is the concept of bringing taxes back to normal federal levels?

The federal tax rules were originally formulated for the people to recuperate, but when it came to the implementation below, it completely changed.

When the Dragon Group was in charge of this place, the tax revenue was one and a half times that of the Federation, but when the Yao family lineage was in power, it simply became twice as much, and the branch vein was even more ruthless, directly three times.

With such a high-pressure tax, I am afraid that I can't afford it anywhere outside the Kansai except for Songyuan Castle and Changlin Castle.

Originally, Matsubara Castle was still a wealthy and populous city, but because of the successive looting, the people gradually became poor.

People die for money, birds die for food, and taxation is in line with the people's personal affairs.

As for the latter ones, such as "resetting the government", no one cares about it.

In fact, who would have thought that in just three days, so many things would happen, and in just three days, Xiao Ran would use both soft and hard measures to subdue Songyuan City.

Some people may wonder, without taxes, where will the money come from? What about military spending?

The answer is, war dividends!

After the battle of Songyuan City was fought, it brought Xiao Ran and them huge war dividends, not to mention three months of taxes, even a year, which is not comparable.

Xie Mu sat in the bubble tea shop and picked up a newspaper casually.

There was originally only one newspaper in Songyuan City, and now this newspaper office has naturally completely fallen into the hands of Xiao Ran, of course, secretly.

On the surface, the newspaper is still privately owned, but the people in charge are actually members of Zimeilin.

Today's newspapers, as always, are praising Su Ran's exploits and propagating Su Ran's policies.

What if no one buys the newspaper?

It's simple, find a few people to stand on the street and distribute it for free, as long as it is a free thing, the people will rush it out, and no matter how much it is printed, it will be distributed quickly.

Xie Mu put down the newspaper that had no nutrition to speak of, and drank the milk tea in the cup, "Boss, have another cup." ”

The young boss quickly refilled him with another glass.

Xie Mu looked at the boss and said suspiciously: "I haven't asked you yet, are you really a bubble tea shop owner in the future?"

The young boss smiled, "It's all up to the boss's arrangement, but there is no task at the moment, being a bubble tea shop owner is much easier than selling fans on the street." ”

Xie Mu nodded, and when the other party left, he didn't ask for his name, perhaps, the other party had long forgotten his name, as a spy, it is estimated that all he remembered was his own pronoun and number.

Xie Mu sighed again, leaned back on the seat, and looked into the distance.

"Finally the first son was left behind, and there was a person who said that the mechanical arts would be the starting point of the revival of civilization, and that Songyuan City was the starting point of Su Ran's domination of the world. ”