Chapter 540: Grain Levy
Xia He was really not too excited, he advanced to the Yang God, killed four legends, and gained a lot. But thinking that there is a long way to go, there is not much mood to celebrate.
After letting Medirli go to Sun City, Qiu Xuanji came to congratulate her.
Xia He is very optimistic about this little Taoist, and this guy's character is not bad.
"Xuanji, I advanced to the Yang God, which is equivalent to the legend of this world, and I also feel the suppression of the world's power. I have all sorts of ways to circumvent it, but I don't want to use it. In the future, the affairs of the army will depend on you more. β
Qiu Xuanji smiled bitterly: "My lord, I'm afraid that in a year or two, I will also advance." β
"So fast!"
"My lord, you have a lot of things to tell me on weekdays, this is the main world, my cultivation is much faster than in my own world, and some of the previous problems have also been made up. β
"Then I'll be busy for a year or two, and after two years, I'll have more people available. And the enemy above the legend is our great enemy. β
Xia He thought to himself that the power of the legend was mainly used in the other world to provide resources for his subordinates in this world. And the so-called backlash is really nothing to himself, but he is now a legend, and if he kills ordinary people, it will cause public outrage.
This is the reason why I don't want to do it, it's not a good thing to be the enemy of the world.
Xia He's army broke the coalition army outside Huaihua Castle and immediately sent an envoy to the imperial capital.
The City of Juno, the Imperial Council.
Juno III, who had not appeared for a long time, looked at the members of the two houses and said, "What do you think of Asla's request?"
"Your Majesty, since the Marquis of Asra has become a legend, he is also worthy of the status of a duke, and this request is not excessive. β
Juno III looked at Duke Donald in the House of Commons in surprise, he didn't expect that the House of Commons would take the initiative to show favor before the House of Lords had yet to support it.
Yes, to achieve a legend, of course, you have to show goodwill.
"Your Majesty, it's just that the revenge of blood is not over yet, and it is unfair to give the title now. The Councillor of House Green stood up and said to Juno III.
Juno III laughed, these people, still thinking that Asra would die in battle?
"If there is no objection, then I will canonize Asra Xia as the Duke of the Empire. And the lands he asked for were also canonized to him. β
"Your Majesty!"
Juno III looked at the Speaker of the House of Lords and said, "What's the problem?"
"The Underworld is a Borderland......
"Since it is not from the Empire, what loss will I have to give it to him if I canonize him?" said Juno III lightly. He didn't care about the underground world, the veins of the magic rough stones, forty percent of the production was directly sent to his hands, and he didn't have to do anything.
Another twenty percent was for the Metatrin family, and two percent for his nephew, Lilac County. I heard that there are still some commissions for his daughter, and the rest is Asla's.
What is he dissatisfied with about this distribution?
Although Metatrin is becoming more and more powerful, he is far more loyal to the royal family than other families. Loyalty is such a thing, if you want it 100 percent, sooner or later something will go wrong. Metatrin had done enough that he could turn a blind eye to many things.
This kind of distribution plan was proposed by Asra, so Asra is fine, at least for now.
Anyway, if you sit on this place, you will receive forty percent of the benefits, and other nobles will not want to squeeze in.
The people here were speechless, yes, since it did not belong to the empire, and there were underground forces entrenched, it was equivalent to the empire having nothing to lose, so it gave Asra a fief.
Whether he can beat it down or not is his own business, and if he can't beat it, everyone can continue to watch jokes.
If he wants to defeat him, Asra will have to invest a huge amount of troops. Now the empire is using troops against the half-elves, and the half-elf empire is the fat.
Juno III rejoiced when he saw that there was no objection. This underground world has become Asra's territory, and if Asra dies in the future and has no descendants, he can take it back.
As for how he died, it doesn't matter.
Xia He didn't know what intrigue there was in the court, and he knew that his request would definitely be granted. It is estimated that the emperor wants the territory of these eighteen nobles. This kind of place is something that I can't occupy by myself. Even if there are rich mineral resources in this territory, they can only be given with both hands and handed over to His Majesty the Emperor.
The Emperor's layout in the Northland should not be aimed at the underworld, but at the Griffin Temple on the ice field.
That spatial passage, although it was created by the god of the underworld to confuse the empire, its value is not small, otherwise how could the empire be fooled.
In June, the appointment was swiftly processed.
Medirli also brought in enough soldiers from the CitΓ© Soleil side, and Xia He marched north to occupy Viscount Murphy's city. The nobles here have long since run away, and the common people are also in fear.
Xia He didn't bother to govern it, anyway, this place was not his own in the end.
Xia He's strength in the three castles is not counted, and the final army dispatched is only 18,000 people. He now had a rough idea of the strength of his army, compared to the military contrast of the nobles of the Northlands.
Among the 18,000 men, there is no mess of auxiliary troops. Anyway, most of the Northland is plains, ordinary streams and rivers, which can be crossed with a little magic. Xia He wanted to quickly eliminate these eighteen nobles.
There are too many nobles in the Northland, and if it weren't for the large amount of minerals, they wouldn't be able to feed these wastes.
Because of the abundance of products, most of the nobles in the Northland are not enterprising. Only three dukes were okay. Now that he has been cut down by Xia He, I don't know if there are any decent people in his family.
Duke Dranov still has some strength and brains, but he doesn't quite understand the details of Xia He.
Most people just regard Xia He as the emperor's favorite minister and use it to disgust the parliament.
Xia He's current strength is already a duke of strength, and himself, Medirri, Freya, and the goddess of doom are all legendary ranks. In the next few years, there will be a group of people who will advance to the Legends.
And in two years, there will be available Taoist priests on his side of the Taiyin Immortal Mansion.
It's not impossible to make a temporary cameo as a magician, and there will be a large number of advanced mage epics in the current mage group.
At dawn, a squad of scouts entered a northern-style village with a fort and a dozen militias, usually dealing with thieves and monsters.
When the scouts arrived, the entrance to the village was full of militiamen, waiting to be surrendered.
This team of twenty people has no mages, but there are five Sun City elites. The remaining fifteen are recruits who have been trained for more than a year. The scouts were all on wooden horses, armed with two magic muskets and a cavalry straight sword. Now the system of the Trojan horse is perfect, and the iron armor of defense is draped outside, sacrificing a little speed, and it can also be used to charge.
Even if there is a huge disparity in strength, the scouts still dare not take it lightly, and some villages, pretending to surrender, secretly ambushed, and killed half of a team of scouts.
Originally, there were supposed to be troops to clean up the village alone, but there were only 18,000 people on this side of the Xia River, and they had to be spread out very openly. All villages and towns have to be taken care of. So simply set up scouts to collect the village.
The five recruits went up to collect their weapons, and the militia were also cautious, for fear of angering the Blood Mage's people.
The last incident made many young people accompany the funeral, which was meaningless.
The scout inspected the village and made sure that there were no troops in ambush, so he went to the public house at the entrance of the village and called the village chief to come over.
"How many accounts do you have here?" asked the captain.
The village chief is quite old, but he still looks very energetic, and he is a professional who is less than level five. When he heard this, he said, "There are eighty-nine households." β
"With such a small number of hukou, there are more than a dozen militiamen?"
"It's still far from the city, and there are wolves in the mountains and forests in the distance, and although it is not large, it is quite troublesome. The village chief said calmly.
"You've been a soldier before?"
"Yes. β
"Then it's easy for me to tell you, my lord, I want to levy grain. β
The village chief's face was ugly, and the captain of the scout continued: "You don't have to worry, you will give the whole village a ration until the end of the year. Of course, the levy of grain will not give you money, who will let your lords ...... Hehe. β
The village chief sweated, and the scout captain no longer scared him, and said: "The team will come soon, you are ready, you are not allowed to hide privately, it is a capital crime." However, the Duke will give you some salt when he orders it, which is a little kindness from the Duke. β
"Salt!"
"That's right, table salt. If you have a lot of food, you will have more salt. But don't leave enough food for more salt. The adults collect food here because there is some shortage. If your food runs out, the Duke may not be able to replenish the villages, you know?"
"Yes, yes, I understand. The village chief was overjoyed when he heard this.
Salt in the north is much more expensive than in the south, and its share of the villagers' expenditure is not small. He understood the tone of the duke, in fact, he used salt to buy food, afraid that they would covet the cheap salt and exchange too much, and then in the winter there would not be enough to eat.
In the event of a famine, and the duke's food could not be turned, they would suffer.
Xiahe's meaning is to collect all the grain in the villages here, so as not to have any accidents. His current offensive nodes are all on the granary, leaving the Northland nobles without supplies. Unless they bring food from other worlds.
Xia He is waiting for this opportunity, if he can find the coordinates of other worlds, then he will have earned it completely.
His Majesty the Emperor, what you want is the Northland, but the other worlds can't let yourself contribute.
Once he discovers other worlds, he will mobilize his forces, completely subdue them, and transform them into a world of Daomen. In a small world, if it's not the main world, there is not much pressure on the law. The will of the world can ignore him and force it directly.
If it weren't for the Overworld, the gods wouldn't be that powerful, and they would be much easier to deal with.