"Your Excellency, all the towns under the rule of Somer City are fully loyal to you, and the map of Somer City and the financial statements are here. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

In front of me, there was a middle-aged man who was a little bald, a little fatter than before I lost weight, and wearing fine aristocratic clothes. The man's smile was full of flattery, because he was not tall, so as soon as he bowed, his stomach would reach his chest, which looked funny and flattering. However, this man is the hereditary lord of the big city of Samer, and the lord of the city with the title of viscount of the Subic Kingdom.

But now, Samer, a city located in the southwest center of the kingdom, has long been taken by us, and long before we fought hard in White Oak and the kingdom, thousands of skeleton soldiers and a large group of regular mixed troops were stationed here, as well as many Freedom Alliance troops of the Three Cities, all because the location here is more important, it is an important supply place for us to go north, and it is also a rare large city in the southwest of the kingdom, with a population of more than 80,000 here, which is definitely a very large population in the relatively remote southwest of Subic. And a city that can accommodate this population is naturally a big city.

"Very well, Your Excellency, you and your family are safe, and you can still have your rights as before, of course, it must be in our sight." After taking the map and the report of the registered population, and reading it a few times, I also smiled, and I knew that this fat man would not pose much of a threat to us, so I also fed him a reassuring pill.

For those local forces that do not obey the control, of course, with my absolute strength, I can easily suppress or even wipe them out. They may have a lot of control over the local villages and towns, and some of them also control the lifeblood of the local economy, but for the size and strength of my current territory, their capital can be completely ignored by me. Loyalty, I don't believe you can get it with a single shout. But the strength is here, as long as they don't oppose our rule and support our control of these places, then I will naturally give them a little benefit, carrots and sticks, this is the way to rule.

The reason why I will stay here for a while is not only because of the great location of Sammer, a large city in the southwest, which is convenient to reach other places, but also because the control of this area is directly related to the peace and tranquility of our rule. The population here is large, and the supplies are also abundant, and the kingdom also had a lot of control methods here to suppress the local aristocratic forces. The reason is that if there is turmoil here, the scale will expand rapidly, and because of the geographical location, it will be controlled by hostile forces, which will also directly curb the movement of the surrounding armies, making the military operation very difficult.

Before we went north, that fat viscount had been a die-hard supporter of the kingdom, providing a large amount of military supplies to the kingdom's army, and also making a fortune from military sales. When the kingdom's army marched south to attack us, he also publicly claimed on many occasions that it would be easy to eliminate the Free Cities Alliance and those few Orientals, and said that he would hold an exhibition so that the people in the city could see what the Orientals were like. That kind of arrogance, as if the army was his family, sounded very stupid.

However, when the kingdom failed to retreat, he still made a lot of money by helping the kingdom's army regroup, and then won the local commercial tax rights by bribery, grievances and other means, and made huge profits in the same way as our holy water trade and the Southern Noble Alliance.

And when we went north, the kingdom's army retreated all the way, and when our army came to Samer, this guy decisively tied up the officers sent by the kingdom in the city to monitor them, and then walked out of the city with a banner (a more formal way of surrender on the mainland) to surrender to us, and provided us with important military rations. And when I asked him about his insults to us before, he explained to us the benefits he would bring us in the position of city lord from various angles, and also gave us 50,000 gold coins for military purposes.

This guy is very clever and very familiar, and he has no position at all, as long as we still have enough strength, then this Viscount of the Kingdom who wantonly insulted us before will become our helper in managing Summer. And I believed that we had the strength, so I gave him the city, and he did not disappoint me, and the area was always calm when the bandits were cholers, and this viscount also played a big role.

Now in my hand, I have a very detailed map, which has been mapped and modified on the previous map of the kingdom, on which the territory of the kingdom is located in the northernmost part, and a black line runs along the upper side of the map, through the black dot called the white oak, and runs through almost the entire map. And to the south of this black line, there is a dense text written to complete the territory of the Freedom Union as much as possible. On our side, there are still thinner black lines that divide several places within the alliance, those are the land allocated to Fang Zi and Zeng Qiang, although there are some problems in the division, but as an alliance of interests, we don't care too much, we will solve this problem in the future, after we have more land.

And connected on this map, the biggest force is me, and the Freedom Alliance, a force that I and Fang Zi jointly own. On this map, the Freedom Alliance occupies only one corner of the southwest, and the two points that symbolize our tribal town are also very abrupt there. There is no way, for the sake of initial development, we still do not have enough control over the north, and the political center is still located in the southwest. And in many places to the west and south of our land, there are huge Subic forests. And to the east, although it does not border, it also has the words "Kingdom of Barot", which means that our territory has begun to integrate with the world. Even on the main road, we are a third-rate force, and we also have the armies of second-rate countries.

This map is not large, just a detailed map of the territory less than half a meter long, and it is far less accurate than the depiction of my territory on the sand table of the tribal city. But looking at this map, I felt a sense of pride, a sense of pride that came with conquest. I remembered the pride and satisfaction of Emperor Kangxi in the Kangxi Dynasty when he looked at himself taking the vast country, and I began to feel that way at this time.

"These are my territories." I looked at the map and said contentedly.