Outside the city, the adjutant took people around the cottage, and there was no one but the irascible dryad.

"Report, Lord Adjutant, we have searched the entire cottage, and this group of thieves suddenly disappeared, even the stolen goods are gone." A waiter hurriedly ran over and said.

"Damn, let people play it!" The adjutant whipped down a man standing in front of him and shouted, "What about the general, who saw the general?" ”

The surrounding soldiers didn't dare to reply when they saw him making a nameless fire, and they all froze in place.

"Are you all dumb!?" The adjutant angrily took out his saber and played a sword flower and pointed at the neck of a person not far away, "You say, what about the general?" ”

The man didn't expect the adjutant to come, and said tremblingly: "My lord, I don't know ......" Before he could finish speaking, the adjutant had already cut off his head with a knife and pointed his sword at the next soldier.

Adjutant, one of his usual cronies, couldn't look at it at this time, so he leaned over and said, "My lord, before we broke through the city gate, I saw the general riding a fast horse, as if rushing to Piaofeng City. ”

"Humph!" The adjutant sneered, put away his saber and said, "He thought he could still escape the palm of my hand?" The class teacher is back in the city! Listen, give me a little brightness in my eyes for a while, whoever can kill the general first, I will protect him for a lifetime of glory and wealth! With that, a whip was whipped on the horse's back, and the black-maned horse raised its front hooves in pain and roared, and galloped towards Floating Maple City. The other military services followed, and all the pride they had come with was lost.

"Slow!" Just 200 meters away from the city gate, the adjutant suddenly pulled the horse rope and stopped, and the army immediately stood guard.

The usual scene of people and traffic is gone, and in contrast to the closed city gates, and the hundreds of archers and magicians who are ambushed in the shadows.

"My lord, beware of deception!" It's still the cronies who kindly remind him.

"There are less than 100 guards in the city, and they are all my cronies, why are you afraid?" Although the adjutant expected that there was fraud in it, in order to rectify the morale of the army, he still announced, "Pass on our military order, 200 heavy infantry attack, and kill on the spot when encountered!" ”

As soon as the adjutant finished speaking, two hundred heavily armored infantry stepped out of the army, armed with heavy shields and sharp swords, and slowly advanced towards the north gate, and just as they were about to approach the city gate, hundreds of bows and arrows fell from the sky, and the speed was so close that many people were caught off guard and shot into hedgehogs. "Withdraw quickly!" The adjutant yelled.

The 50 mages in charge of the ambush could not miss such an opportunity, and immediately summoned the Fire Wall Technique to block the enemy's rear path, and the battle lasted less than half a minute, and there were few more than 200 heavy infantry left. The adjutant didn't believe that such a powerful attack could be a recruit that the general had just recruited this year, and his teeth were clenched and blood was oozing from between his teeth.

After a while, three fast horses galloped at the same time, and the scouts sent out by the three of them, one of them spoke first, "Oh no, my lord, there are a large number of enemy troops in ambush in the east of the city!" ”

The second person immediately said: "My lord, there are hundreds of enemy troops in the west of the city!" ”

The adjutant's face became more and more ugly, and the third scout was smart enough to keep his mouth shut.

"My lord, let's get out of here as soon as possible, if they open the city gate and chase them out, we're afraid we won't be able to resist it!" A cronie dressed as a prison soldier analyzed.

The adjutant laughed angrily, "Zhao Yi, Zhao Yi, I really didn't expect you to be so smart and leave a hand a long time ago, and a single immortal jump will ruin my three years of hard work!" "Until now, he didn't know that Floating Maple City was someone else's world.

"My lord, let's go!" "Yes, my lord is not afraid of running out of firewood while keeping the green mountains!" Several cronies persuaded one after another.

"Let's go!" The adjutant said weakly, turning his horse's head, "Let's go to Snow City to join my eldest brother, and one day we will come back!" He led a group of remnants of the defeated army to Snow City.

Tongfu Inn in the city, the No. 1 private room of the Son of Heaven, the new and old city lords, several main managers of the dynasty who participated in the mutiny, the four wealthy merchants of Piaofeng City and the squires of all walks of life, as well as several gang leaders of the newly built gangs gathered together, everyone ate meat and drank a lot of wine while discussing the future of Piaofeng City, while watching Tong Xiangjin dance with four beauties.

"Apprentice, in fact, you, the city lord, are not working for nothing, you are paid!" The old city lord obviously drank a few glasses of the old wine of the shopkeeper Tong, and he was already a little incoherent.

He Shuai suddenly became interested, put down his chopsticks, and said happily: "Master, how do you say this?" ”

The old city lord spit out the chicken bones in his mouth, picked up the brocade and wiped his mouth, and said, "Look, who are the people at this table?" ”

He Shuai looked around and said in a low voice: "Aren't these the four wealthy businessmen and the big bosses from all walks of life?" Could it be that the money was given by their elders? ”

"The children can be taught!" The old city lord patted He Shuai's shoulder approvingly, lowered his voice and smiled: "As city lords, in addition to recruiting soldiers and horses to expand our own power, we also have a great privilege, which is to directly control the taxes of all the shops in the city!" Of course, the soldiers and horses you recruit also need money to support, so this tax issue is the top priority. If it is too high, it will be opposed or even disgusted by the city's citizens, so that business will go downhill, and over time there will be a loss of value and even population. However, if it is too low, it will also cause trouble, and of course, the biggest trouble is that even its own soldiers cannot be fed, and the city defense is paralyzed. ”

"This means that a balance must be found, and this balance must first meet the daily needs of the city's citizens, ensure the steady development of commerce, and secondly, strengthen itself through taxation!" He Shuai said thoughtfully.

The old city lord nodded and smiled: "Next, it's up to you, kid!" ”

"Isn't that easy?" Liu Peng came over with a bottle of unopened daughter Hong, and the two generations of city lords turned their heads to look at him, only to see him blushing and his little face, and his eyes were blurred and said, "Attract investment!" On the basis of stabilizing the prices in the city, recruit a large number of foreign capital and shops into Piaofeng City, such as the rice of Burning Snow City, as well as the silk of Phoenix City, there are more merchants, and the competition will be greater, and the competition will begin to compare the type and quality of goods, and the goods will naturally attract other merchants to purchase in our Piaofeng City, and a recyclable ecological chain will be born, and you will be worried about military spending? ”

The two generations of city lords were embarrassed when they heard Liu Peng say this, and they both nodded approvingly.

"Oh, what are you talking about, old city lord, eat this spring roll, you like it the most! Young City Lord, don't be stunned, come and drink, drink! Tong Xiangyu walked into the private room with a good daughter red in her arms, and saw the three of them talking and laughing, and hurriedly greeted her.