The northeastern part of the Xingmeng Continent.

Nestled at the foot of the Black Frost Rock Mountains, Rime City has been around for hundreds of years, and was originally a makeshift home for hunters and small traders, not even a village. Later, as the popularity grew, more and more people stayed here, and it gradually developed into a relatively large town.

About one hundred and thirty years ago, a certain Heavenly Rank Sanctuary occupied this place with a group of henchmen, and then successively annexed some surrounding villages and towns, proclaiming himself a viscount, and in fact monopolizing the native origin within a radius of hundreds of kilometers.

This guy's ability to govern the territory is quite passable, and he has a few capable subordinates to help, and there are no masters to compete with him for territory in this bitter cold land, so the scope of the territory has gradually expanded, and now it is the number one force in the Black Frost Rock Mountain Range.

The Black Frost Rock Mountain Range is also one of the major mountain systems in the northeast region of the continent, stretching for tens of thousands of kilometers, with high mountains and dense forests, rich in many rare magical beasts, high-end ingredients, precious medicinal materials and other resources, so every year a large number of adventurers will come to the mountains to search for treasures.

"It's a terrible weather......

Ento, who was in the carriage, looked at the gloomy sky overhead, tightened his thick bearskin robes, and the palm-sized snowflakes fell one after another, and the rough ground had begun to freeze, and pedestrians were often seen hurrying by on the road.

Ento no longer hesitated, and drove two long-haired wildebeest to the city.

He had been in this business for more than ten years, and the carriages were full of spices and medicinal herbs that had been purchased cheaply near the mountain passes, and when he returned to the city and resold them to the merchants who had come from afar, he could earn a small sum of gold coins, and he could almost raise a wagon family by doing a little business.

What makes him helpless is that the lord's taxes are too heavy, after the previous lord died of illness ten years ago, the new lord has intensified, and more than half of the hard-earned income of a month will be looted, which makes many lords dare not speak out.

However, in such a remote country where the Emperor was far away, a Sacred Domain powerhouse was already a powerful existence that could only be looked up to, and with an army of thousands under his command, no one could challenge his position.

Not only Ice Rime City, but also in other areas of the Black Frost Rock Mountain Range, those large and small forces and gangs are all like this, and they can be vigorously looted and squeezed.

More than half an hour later, the city gate was in sight, and this place was already a rare big city in the surrounding area. The walls are five meters high and more than two meters thick, and they are made of large blocks of black rock.

There are many black-armored guards patrolling back and forth on the city wall, and every 100 meters there is a watchtower made of logs and steel components, on which burly soldiers in full armor and grim expressions are on duty. The walls are also equipped with long-range heavy crossbows, expensive enchanted arrows, and small trebuchets.

This configuration is partly to deal with the occasional high-level demonic beasts that run out of the mountains, but more also to suppress internally and ensure that the majesty and power of the lord are not challenged.

Ento touched his pocket, there were still a few silver coins in it, and couldn't help but sigh again, every time the entrance fee to the city was very expensive, but there was no way, unless he didn't want to go into the city to do business.

As he approached the city gate, he noticed that something was wrong with the atmosphere today, the fierce city guards and tax collectors had disappeared, and instead a row of bloody human heads hung by the city wall. There was a large crowd of people watching and talking.

“…… Zarin, what's going on? ”

Ento saw a familiar face in the crowd and hurried over to whisper.

There was an unconcealed excitement in the other party's voice: "Don't you know yet? Today, a very powerful strong man came, and he cleaned up all the lord's family, as well as his sworn friends, all of whom have been publicly executed. The big man has already announced that he will take over the place and that he will cut taxes drastically from now on. ”

"Really?"

"Of course, can this be fake? Do you see these heads? They are all guys who refuse to obey the orders of the new lord, and now they have all been beheaded by the lord's men. ”

Ento breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good, as long as you don't pay so many taxes, you will be much more comfortable in the future." ”

"Isn't it? Moreover, the new lord also announced that he would open his door to purchase certain kinds of special products, and the price was also very favorable, so in the future, you don't have to give your goods to those greedy foreign merchants, just sell them directly to the city lord's mansion. ”

"Really? Then I'll have to check it out. ”

Ento said goodbye to his old friend, and hurried into the city gate in a carriage, but was not hindered and exploited.

The streets of the city are clean and orderly, the guards patrolling the city have changed a group of people, and dry blood can be seen on some sections of the road, apparently from the recent fierce fighting.

The carriage traveled all the way to the city lord's mansion, and it didn't take him much to find a row of newly opened shops, and many mountain people like him were selling their goods at the door. There are also soldiers next to him to maintain order.

Ento waited in the back of the queue with peace of mind, and it was not long before it was his turn, and two junior pharmacists came to inspect the goods in the carriage, and after checking the quantity and condition, they motioned to the slave laborers next to him to unload the cart, and a clerk counted eighty imperial gold coins, put them in a small cloth bag, and handed them to him.

"Next time, let's collect more and come back, our master needs these medicinal herbs very much." A low-ranking civil servant said to him kindly.

Overjoyed, Ento thanked him again and again, this time the price of the goods was at least twice as high as before, and he was not arbitrarily deducted taxes, which really made him inexplicably grateful.

At this moment, in the City Lord's Mansion, Qin Feng was looking at the magic projection sand table in front of him, and a group of former lord's henchmen were standing tremblingly on the side, and they didn't dare to come out.

It was this handsome-looking young man in a sky blue magic robe who raided the City Lord's Mansion alone today, killing the nineteenth-level lord lord in one round, and then easily killed everyone who dared to resist. The army stationed in the city attacked the city lord's mansion, and he killed hundreds of people with magic, so that no one dared to provoke again.

In front of the powerful legendary mage, these motley armies are almost like scarecrows, and they can be killed with a single spell.

Soon after the man took control, another powerful female legendary mage arrived, and then set up an ultra-long-range teleportation magic array, sending hundreds of heavily armed warriors and administrators, and successfully took over the entire city.

“…… Looks like this place is quite rich in products."

Qin Feng's eyes moved away from the sand table, looked at them, and said in an indifferent tone: "Two generations of lords, after so many years of operation, they have mixed up such a famous hall?" There is less than one county in the territory, the army is only 3,000 people, and they are all the worst ragtag army, there is not much money left in the treasury, and the people are still being squeezed miserably, I really don't know what you are doing? ”

Everyone looked at each other, no one dared to speak out, to put it bluntly, these guys are a rabble gathered by a group of bandits, robbers and hooligans, with no knowledge, no vision and no ability, except for riding on the heads of the people to make a fortune, it is really too difficult for strong people to expect them to do something.

"Well, it's a waste of saliva to tell you this, Dellam?" Qin Feng turned his head and called.

"The minister is here."

A man in black in his thirties, with bright eyes, responded and stood up from the side.

Qin Feng glanced at him: "In the future, you will be the acting city lord here, give you a month to straighten out all the things in this territory, is there a problem?" ”

"As you wish, Your Highness." Delram replied solemnly.

He used to be the internal affairs officer of a certain noble domain, and he had outstanding political achievements. Later, because he was framed by someone and owed a huge debt, he was sold as a slave, and was later bought by Qin Feng, who valued his ability, and now he has become a member of the internal affairs team.

Aaron, who was next to him, raised his head from a pile of ledgers, frowned, and said, "The resource production in this place is still good, but the population is smaller, and you must transport all the slaves you bought before you can consider large-scale development." ”

The population of the territory is less than 100,000, and most of them are scattered, and if you want to develop the territory, you can't do it without enough human resources.

Qin Feng said: "Don't worry about this, the Magic Guild's floating magic energy transport fleet has already set off, and it will arrive in about two or three days." ”

He bought more than 100,000 young and middle-aged slaves in one go, and emptied the supply of several slave traders for this quarter, just for today. Of course, this is not enough, and as the territory continues to expand, the demand for population will be endless.

"As for you guys, from today onwards, all of them will be given to me to work in the army or villages, and the salary will be paid as usual, and I will be assessed once every three months, and those who do well can be promoted, and those who are bad can be demoted to slaves." Qin Feng looked at the previous lord's subordinates and said.

He didn't plan to keep a bunch of wastes for nothing, among these people, who were familiar with the local situation, had a little ability and had a good attitude, they could temporarily stay in the City Lord's Mansion to listen to errands. Those who have no ability and are disgruntled will be assigned to work at the grassroots level.

"Yes, Your Highness."

These people did not dare to disobey, and agreed aggrievedly.

A few days later, a fleet of dozens of large floating magical transports arrived in the territory, bringing with them 20,000 slaves and a large number of supplies and weapons to build the territory.

Qin Feng immediately began to implement a series of administrative measures, gathering the people as much as possible, building ten new towns based on the original villages, and expanding and renovating the ice rime city, making the city walls taller and wider, and equipped with more weapons to defend the city.

Although the sparrow is small and has all kinds of organs, it is necessary to formulate a complete and feasible system of laws and regulations in the areas of public security, internal affairs, tax management, and so on, which is an indispensable step in the establishment of a stable regime.

As for the formation of the most important army, Qin Feng personally inquired about the whole process, and the scale was initially set at 10,000 people, mainly composed of those young and middle-aged slaves, and absorbed a part of the original people, and the officers were temporarily served by the high-ranking slaves bought. As for the specifications of weapons and equipment, they are naturally compared to the elite standards of the regular army of the Grossas Dragon Empire.

After the formation of the army is completed, the next step is the harsh training, Qin Feng's requirements are very simple, since the military salary, food and treatment are of high standards, then the training must naturally be of high standards. As long as he can recruit the elite who are used to fighting, he doesn't need to be a fancy soldier.

These things are quite tedious, but they are indispensable homework during the start of the business, and no successful founder can be lazy, and Qin Feng will naturally not be an exception. For three months, he spent three months in the barracks, sparing no effort in training these recruits.

It wasn't until three months later, when he broke through level 23 that order had been established in the territory, and the recruits looked like they were ready to start thinking about their next expansion plans.

In fact, regarding the strategy plan for this area, the experts in the half-plane have worked out a number of quite good operation plans in combination with the super quantum computing center, and there are professional officers in this world to make corrections, so there are basically no omissions.