Chapter 571: Rumors (2-in-1 Chapter)
In a wooded area outside Sea Soul City. Cain's left hand communication bracelet lit up, and when Cain saw the identity of the messenger, he immediately answered the channel: "Boss." β
Cain's left hand has a visceral respect for this boss, and in fact the other three Heavenly Kings of the Wildfire Organization are the same. So far, only the Four Heavenly Kings know the identity of the boss, and only these elites who know the truth can really understand how difficult it is for the boss to create an organization like Wildfire!
"Hmm. I wonder how the temptation to storm Fengxiang City went? β
Ah Niu has not appeared for so long, and every day he uses his communication bracelet to call a certain city lord, Cain's left hand and the wildfire boss know that Ah Niu may be trapped in an important mission or a special map and have no time to get out, and now is the perfect time to test the dragonless Fengxiang City!
Tong guΓ² consciously tested and tested the reactions of Fengxiang's officials, military and civilians, so as to provide a useful reference for possible formal actions in the future!
The embodiment of the tentative action is a very old but effective method: rumor-mongering!
"Because of the fear of being revealed by Fengxiang City, the people I sent out did not dare to be too ostentatious when performing the task, and after three days, the actual effect was not very obvious, at least I haven't seen Fengxiang City's reaction. Want to be a little more daring? β
The Boss was silent for a moment. He quickly said: "Don't take unnecessary risks, but still try to avoid being exposed by them as much as possible." Although Zheng Aniu is still unable to get in touch with the territory now, the administrative system and the operation of the military force in Fengxiang City have not been affected much, and it is difficult for us to find an opportunity in this situation" After a pause, the boss continued: "Continue to spread rumors, if there is any change in Fengxiang, you must contact me as soon as possible." β
"Good. Boss, has the matter of the aliens who were wiped out when they went to Suruga Town on a mission last time? Although he knew that he should not ask, Cain's left hand did not hold back, and the failure was regarded by him as a great shame, and Cain's left hand felt uneasy whenever he thought of the trouble that the death of those aliens had caused to the boss.
The boss obviously saw Cain's thoughts, and smiled faintly, "It's okay, it's done." That's the end of that, just keep up with what you're doing. β
"Don't worry!"
Fengxiang Administrative Center, looking at the letter forwarded by the deacon of the Mi Chamber of Commerce, Sun Liang was confused.
"Mi Zhu, the eldest young master of the Mi clan in the East China Sea, invited the lord to go to Qishan County for a talk, and his words were sincere and humble, what did they want to do? Even if you want to expand the list and scale of trading items with our Fengxiang, you don't need the lord to go to Xuzhou in person! β
"As long as the Mi family doesn't want to break off the cooperation with us, judging from the attitude of the deacon of the Mi Chamber of Commerce, and the wording of the eldest young master of the Mi family, it shouldn't be that he wants to part ways with us."
Pang Tongyi time could not make an accurate judgment on this matter, and the trip to Qishan County could only be decided after Ah Niu returned. Since the secret establishment of the Heqi Chamber of Commerce, Feng Xiang's dependence on the Mi Chamber of Commerce has been greatly reduced, at least he no longer has to rely on the Mi Clan's sales network as before. There is already a slight ability to say "no".
However, whether it is Ah Niu or Pang Tong, they all think that such a practice is tantamount to lifting a stone to shoot themselves in the foot, unless it is a last resort, it is in line with Feng Xiang's practical interests to maintain a good cooperative relationship with the Mi family.
Prior to this, the cooperation between Fengxiang and Mi was a pleasant thing. Mi's wealthy Mi family, in the process of cooperation, did not show the arrogance of the huge wealth, that is usually the characteristics of the tyrant, like the Mi family, a business that has been inherited for many years, has its own unique set of treatment and code of conduct, such a partner is worthy of dependence!
The high-grade Wuhuan war horses transported back from Youzhou by the Canglan Water Division have a huge market in Qing and Xuzhou, which do not produce horses. It is said that most of those war horses were sold to Xuzhou Thorn Shi Tao Qian, which greatly improved the status of the Mi clan in front of Tao Qian, Mi Zhu's brother Mi Fang has entered the Xuzhou Mansion, and even the NPC princes in Jing and Yang are impressed by the Mi clan, and the Mi clan has benefited a lot from the fame and fortune of the Fengxiang war horse trade.
Feng Xiang also obtained a lot of benefits in this transaction, at the beginning of the cooperation between the two sides, Feng Xiang was constantly attacked by hostile forces, and there was really no more energy to expand the territory on the business network, and the emergence of the Mi family solved this problem. Thanks to the almost ubiquitous trade network of the Mi clan in Qing and Xu Erzhou, Feng Xiang did not have to worry about the sales of war horses at all, and could also use the Mi clan's manpower and connections to complete the acquisition of the materials needed by the Talan tribe.
Even if the Harmony Chamber of Commerce has been established, Ah Niu can also hand over the Wuhuan War Horse to his own Chamber of Commerce to take care of, but a certain city lord did not do that after thinking about it repeatedly, many reasons prompted Ah Niu to make such a decision.
First, secrecy. The Harmony Chamber of Commerce is one of the core secrets of Fengxiang City, if Fengxiang suddenly hands over the Wuhuan War Horse to the Harmony Chamber of Commerce to take care of, the outside world will easily associate Fengxiang City with the Harmony Chamber of Commerce, and the possibility of the Chamber of Commerce's secret exposure will be greatly increased!
Secondly. The state of existence of the Chamber of Commerce. If the true relationship between Feng Xiang and the Harmony Chamber of Commerce is revealed, I am afraid that the opportunity for the Harmony Chamber of Commerce to silently accumulate strength will be lost, and there are not many forces that are not very friendly to Feng Xiang, including some NPC princes, who have come to a few good shows of "collusion between officials and businessmen", and the Harmony Chamber of Commerce, which is still very immature, is estimated to fall tragically under the open guns and hidden arrows soon. Ah Niu couldn't even be sure that when that happened, the Mi Chamber of Commerce, whose interests had been damaged, would fall into the trap of his former partner.
ββThe Mi clan of the East China Sea has a huge amount of money, which is an energy that no one can ignore, and Ah Niu doesn't want to be put on the ground by "money" for no reason.
Third, the current development direction of the Harmony Chamber of Commerce. At present, the main direction of the Chamber of Commerce is the Qiang market, and only by using the relationship between Fengxiang and Burning Qiang to quickly seize the market, can the Heqi Chamber of Commerce have a place in the shopping mall with strong hands! For this reason, Qian Xixi and Yin Meng invested almost more than ninety percent of the resources of the Harmony Chamber of Commerce, and they did not even have the spare strength to expand the market in the Central Plains - with the efforts of Cao Mengde, Han Fu of Jizhou, Liu Dai of Yanzhou, and Wang Kuang of Hanoi Taishou had all agreed to open their territories to the Harmony Chamber of Commerce.
Even the cakes delivered to the door are temporarily unable to taste, not to mention that the Heqi Chamber of Commerce has allocated a lot of manpower and resources to greatly strengthen the institutions in Qingzhou.
Therefore, the consignment right of Wuhuan War Horse will still fall under the name of the Mi clan in a short period of time, and Feng Xiang's dependence on the Mi clan will not change in essence in a short period of time!
"Don't pay attention to this matter for now, anyway, the lord will soon find out when he returns. The lord has been out to sea for a long time this time, and all the things that need to be handled by the lord himself have been rushed for a while......" Pang Tong said with a wry smile, a wise man like him can't do everything for Ah Niu.
The invitation of the upgraded territory, the envoy of the Taran tribe, and the Mi clan of the East China Sea, coupled with the fact that Chen Shuo sent someone back from Luoyang a few days ago, saying that the ancestral hall of Zhurong Yuanzu selected by Luoyang had been completed, and Ah Niu needed to go to Luoyang in person to instruct Luoyang's next move (in fact, it was to touch the next link in the task of rebuilding Luoyang), and things had been piled up.
It is conceivable that after Ah Niu comes back, he will inevitably be busy for a while.
"Mr. Pang, according to the reports of the officials and martial artists patrolling Fengxiang City, among the strangers who have stayed in Fengxiang recently, some people have suspicious appearances, and some rumors about the lord have appeared in the territory, and the situation is worrying." Sun Liang said in a deep voice.
"Oh, what rumors?"
They said. The lord has not come back for so long, and it is likely that he has been lost somewhere, and he will not be able to come back in the future, and the fact that other strangers cannot get in touch with him is the best proof of this. According to them, even if the lord is in a foreign country, he will never be unable to get in touch, and even a few strangers from the Zilong Society deeply believe it, so ......" Sun Liang looked solemn.
Pang Tong sneered twice, "It seems that there are still people who are not dead in our Feng Xiang thief heart, taking advantage of the fact that the lord is not in the territory, deliberately bewitching the people and confusing our people's hearts, but it is a pity that they underestimate Feng Xiang's cohesion." Look at how it is: from today onwards, martial artists will be sent to secretly monitor, and those strangers who intend to come to Fengxiang to sabotage will be blacklisted and expelled one by one. In addition, you'd better talk to Zhuge Lin of the Zilong Society, and ask him to restrain the gang and not contribute to the spread of rumors! β
"Very good, today coincides with the day when the subordinate territories of various military tuns send grain to Fengxiang City, and after I make a little arrangement, I will arrange what Mr. said." Pang Tong's composure made Sun Liang, who was also a little nervous, breathe a long sigh of relief.
Except for some special maps, and leaving the borders of the Han Dynasty, the communication bracelet can be used normally in most cases. Limited by the player's existing strength, few players will go abroad to adventure, and there have been many curious babies who have been killed by various monsters abroad to get back to life, and dropped a sentence, "The outside world is dangerous!" β
The strength of the adventurous player is not enough to leave the territory of the Great Han Dynasty, and the lord player whose personal combat power is already at a disadvantage will naturally not run out without nothing.
From the player's point of view, it is difficult to imagine that a lord (especially a lord of a territory of the size of Feng Xiang) will ignore the territory for a long time, and even if it is necessary to participate in some important national battles in person, the lord player will use the guΓ² "microphone" to keep abreast of the movements within the territory.
Ah Niu broke off contact with Feng Xiang this time. It's been 47 days!
Prior to this, the highest record for adventure players to leave the territory of the Han Dynasty and survive was 11 days, and the journey to the East China Sea has been a full 47 days since the moment he left the border!
This is an unprecedented record, and many people know that Wang Yue walked with Ah Niu, but this record still seems a bit exaggerated. Therefore, when the adventurers of the Zilong Club heard those deliberate rumors, they vaguely thought that "I see" and "such a situation is indeed possible".
ββWhen Kakaluka received the news, while he was a little happy, he also felt a little lost in his heart, and the joy he felt when the Five Lakes City was upgraded was gone, "If he hadn't left because of something, would Fengxiang City have become the first third-level city before our Five Lakes?" β
The city lord of the first city in the world has been away from the territory for so long!
After 47 days of the lord's "disappearance", there is no sign of turmoil in Fengxiang City now, and the entire territory still seems to be vibrant, orderly, and prosperous as before!
This situation is beyond the comprehension of many lord players to complete this "miracle". It is not unrelated to the "efficient administrative system" and "strong military strength". Without the former, Fengxiang City would have already become a miasma; If there is not enough force to support it, it is unknown whether Fengxiang City, which has many enemies, can continue to the present.
However, what really plays a decisive role is the people's heart of Fengxiang.
Under those rumors about Ah Niu, the villagers of Fengxiang were firm enough.
"The city lord of Ah Niu will definitely come back!"
"Yes, there's no way the city lord will leave us alone."
"You can go while resting, it's not like the city lord hasn't been out of the house, isn't it a little longer this time? Even if you are really trapped somewhere as you said, don't forget that Wang Yue Daxia is also with the city lord, that is the first wonder man in Shenzhou. β
"What? The city lord has been absent for a long time, and someone may attack Feng Xiang? We Fengxiang can recruit tens of thousands of soldiers who are good at fighting, and we are not afraid of their arrogance, but we are afraid that those people are afraid of the name of Fengxiang's iron army and have no courage to come! ββ¦β¦
Many lord players couldn't help but sigh like this: "No matter whether Zheng Aniu is in the territory or not, the people of Fengxiang never seem to think of betrayal, I really don't know what method he used to make these poor NPCs so desperate for him!" β
At the beginning of each month, each grain-producing subordinate territory will transport a large amount of grain harvested at the end of the previous month to the main city, and then transfer it to those dependent territories that have no grain production capacity through Fengxiang. In order to improve efficiency, this detail was planned long before Chen Gong went to Liangzhou to open up a special territory.
In the first three days of the month, the first day was the handover of grain in Wuwei Town, Longhu Town, and Jiuli Town, the second day was the colony of Blu-ray City, and the last day was the colony of Sea Soul City. Chen Gong is such an absolutely meticulous and absolutely serious person, many small things have carefully finalized procedures and plans, Sun Liang can get started quickly after taking over Fengxiang's affairs, and it is not unrelated to the good foundation laid by Chen Gong.
Today is the first day of June, and it is the day when the three grain production bases in Fengxiang will deliver grain.
In the open space outside the east gate of Fengxiang City, a large number of well-packed grain bags were piled up into three hills according to different affiliated territories, several officials of the administrative center were carefully counting the quantity, and hundreds of villagers gathered in groups of three or five, chatting and laughing, while waiting for the officials to finish counting the grain transported by their affiliated territories, and then send the counted grain to the granary of Fengxiang City.
Despite being from different townships. But many of them are old acquaintances and are not strangers to each other. The small talk scene in the past was very lively, but it will be a little depressing, which is due to today's topic.
I don't know when the villagers' topic turned to the fact that the city lord went out and did not return, and a few strangers with ill intentions spread rumors in the city. Out of concern about Ah Niu's delay in returning, everyone's mood is a little heavy, and those players who deliberately spread rumors have aroused everyone's public anger.
"Those bastard things, I really don't know what An's heart is, when will the city lord of our Fengxiang City come back and what does it matter to them? Need them to remind everyone! A young farmer said with hatred, and his swarthy face was visibly flushed with anger.
"Yes! Our Ah Niu City Lord is too benevolent, I don't understand why there are always people who are dissatisfied with the city lord, did he really respond to that sentence: People are good and are bullied, and horses are good and ridden? A middle-aged farmer from Longhu Town sighed.
"It's a pity that I wasn't selected when I recruited troops in the territory last time, otherwise, I would definitely beat those hateful aliens with my own hands and help Lord Ah Niu let out a bad breath!"
As he was talking, five adventurers suddenly appeared outside the city gate, each with a black cross mark on their heads, indicating that they had just been expelled from the city by Feng Xiang, and the black cross was the mark of expulsion.
Once marked as an eviction, it will be visible to all villagers in the territory, and it will be impossible for the expelled person to blend into the target territory again until the mark is removed. Even if you are lucky enough to get past the gate guards, as long as one of the villagers in the city shows up, a farce of "rats crossing the street, everyone shouting and beating" will be staged.
Of course, in order to protect the player's **, this mark will not be visible to others, and as long as the player does not enter the territory of the expelled territory, the player's normal game will not be affected in any way.
"These five expelled Inhumans should be the villains who have been found to have deliberately spread rumors in the territory. Our Fengxiang rarely expels strangers, and Deputy City Lord Sun has never used such a method, and today he expelled five at once, thinking that it must be because of that reason. β
Hearing Qian Jin say this, everyone's eyes were fixed on those players, Qian Jin didn't notice that this time Xun Chou who came to deliver food, the cold glint in his eyes flashed.
These five adventurous players who were expelled from the city by Sun Liang were the members of the wildfire who entered Fengxiang to spread rumors at the request of Yin's left hand. They had been carrying out such activities in Fengxiang City for three days, but they did not expect to be arrested in the process of "preaching" today.
The frustration of the failure of the five adventurers had not yet subsided, and when they turned their heads and saw hundreds of NPC villagers outside the city looking at them unkindly, they were like adding fuel to the fire, and their anger burned with anger.
An adventurer of the heroic profession had a hot brain and yelled in the direction of these villagers: "What are you looking at? Zheng Aniu may not be able to come back, your Fengxiang City is about to end, is Lao Tzu wrong? A group of lowly, no-autonomy, thoughtless NPCs, what do you want to do with such big eyes, can you still bite Lao Tzu! β
"What the first city in the world, I'm bah! Lao Tzu just said a few big truths, why did he expel us? If you don't let us enter the city, forget it, your city lord won't be able to come back anyway, haha......" The yin and yang weird Fang Shi said lukewarmly.
Seeing that the villagers were all angry but trying their best to endure it, the heroic man seemed to have found psychological balance, deliberately held his head high, and walked away with his companions in a majestic manner.
In their impression, these ordinary NPCs in the game are just a group of "humanoid monsters" who have no self-awareness and only know how to obey, and they are even inferior to those monsters in the wild!
Killing them doesn't give you experience.
Therefore, it is a good choice to transfer the anger to these NPCs after you have just eaten deflated. Unless they receive an attack order, or fight back in self-defense when their lives are threatened by the player, these lowest-level NPCs usually do not have the ability and awareness to actively attack the player.
There are no absolutes in the world, and there is also a demon Yan Yan who specializes in killing players in ordinary NPCs, but Yan Yan has long been a legendary figure, and now no player thinks that Yan Yan is an ordinary NPCet PC is also thunderous, and there are endless legends about him, in the eyes of those NPCs who have been abused by players, Yan Yan is their idol, a hero among civilians!
Xun Chou stood up silently and said to his companion in Wuwei Town beside him: "I may have eaten the wrong thing, my stomach is a little uncomfortable, I want to go to the woods to solve it, wait for you to help me talk to the mayor." β
"Oh, go ahead, if you're strict, you'd better find a doctor and get some medicine, we have the job here."
A man with anger and determination written on his face soon disappeared into the woods outside the city.
(2-in-1, including 90 votes plus more) (to be continued,)
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