Chapter 299: Allegiance
Perhaps it was Shaoyang's words that made Blaise feel very face-saving, so he had the courage to introduce Pulit to Shaoyang.
"Your Highness, this is Pulit, the city lord of Mihe City, and this time I came to Songhai City to meet you on the orders of His Highness. Blaise said as he looked at Shaoyang's face, and dared to continue when he saw that there was no change.
"He and his subordinates knew each other in the early years, and in the past two years of correspondence, they also had the intention of taking refuge in His Highness, but Mihe City is too far away, and borders the northern provinces, forced by the pressure of the traitor Sneike family and the Northern Army, he had to endure it all the time, this time thanks to the summons of His Highness, he specially invited his subordinates to come together, willing to be loyal to His Highness. ”
At this time, Pulit also hurriedly got up from his seat, came to Shaoyang and kowtowed and knelt, "My subordinates are willing to swear allegiance to His Highness to the death, and let them be sent!"
Shaoyang didn't respond immediately, just silently looked at Pulit who was kneeling in front of him.
Seeing this, Blaise was in a hurry, and hurriedly came to Plitt and knelt down, "Your Highness, your subordinates can guarantee that Plitt will be loyal to His Highness, and he has never done anything unfavorable to His Highness before." ”
"Okay, let's all get up!" Shaoyang couldn't do it if he didn't tell them to get up, a mountain of meat knelt in front of him, and the liquid that didn't know whether it was sweat or oil kept dripping, the picture was unimaginable.
The two still didn't dare to get up, Shaoyang pretended to be annoyed, and scolded, before they stood up and stood motionless, not daring to wipe the sweat on their foreheads.
"Why? I still have to ask you to sit down?"
"Don't dare, don't dare!" the two were surprised and delighted, and Shaoyang's attitude showed that he had not rejected Pulit's allegiance.
Shaoyang's purpose in convening a group of city lords was originally to control the cities of the Northern Wilderness, and Pulit took the initiative to vote for him and his intentions, so naturally he would not refuse, as for whether the other party was sincere, he was not worried, and a city lord could not affect the overall situation at all.
And with Blaitze's timid personality, he dared to come forward to vouch, which must be trustworthy to him, and he must indeed be sincere in himself.
"Since the city lord of Pulit is willing to take refuge in Lone, Lone will naturally not refuse, as long as he can seriously implement Lone's decree in the future, he will definitely not treat you badly, this must be very clear to Blaize. Shaoyang smiled, he knew everything about Blaitze's fortune.
For the three city lords who took refuge in him at the beginning, he has never been bad, but the other two are much worse than Blaitze's business acumen, although he has also made a fortune in the past two years, but compared with Blaitze's tens of thousands of gold coins a year, it is far inferior, and he only earns two or three thousand gold coins more every year.
"Subordinates must obey orders. Plitt hastened to show his loyalty.
Blaise also helped on the side, "Your Highness, don't you know, on the way here, Pulit said that he would ask the Tuntian Legion to go to Mihe City to reclaim the land, and in addition to build a road. ”
"Oh?" This is very insightful, Shaoyang nodded in approval, and also gave appropriate support, "The matter of Tuntian is urgent, go back to the Ministry of Agriculture and the Tuntian Legion, just say that it means to be lonely, first arrange two regiments to Mihe City to reclaim the land, and the specific regulations will be according to the rules of the original Wilderness City." As for the construction of roads, it is not a matter of one city and one place, and when the time comes, Songhai City will naturally specify a series of plans, and Mihe City only needs to cooperate with it. ”
Pulit was overjoyed, with Shaoyang to speak, the rest of the things would be easy to do, at least the matter of Tuntian would start soon, and he stepped forward to kneel down to Shaoyang to thank him.
Blaise didn't dare to trouble Shaoyang about other business matters, and then under Shaoyang's inquiry, Pulit answered some about the situation in Mihe City, mainly only asking about the population, resources, agriculture and other related information.
This Mihe City is worthy of being the city closest to the northern provinces, the scale is much larger than the Wilderness City, and even larger than the previous Songhai City, with a population of more than 200,000, a radius of more than 50 miles, a land area of nearly 8,000 square kilometers, and more than 300,000 acres of land suitable for reclamation around the city alone, in addition to several small iron, copper and other metal mines.
The data provided by Plitt was much more detailed than the information collected by Songhai City, and Shaoyang did not blame the intelligence department for this, but just told Plitt to go back and send the detailed data to Songhai City, but he didn't expect Plitt to be prepared.
"My subordinates have brought relevant data and official documents, but these are the statistics of the previous year, which may be different from the current one. ”
It takes a lot of manpower and material resources to count these data, normally a city will not be counted every year, once every three or five years is the most frequent, the data of the previous year may be different from the current one, but with the situation of Mihe City, there must be little difference. If it is put in Songhai City, it will not work, not to mention more than a year, it is more than a month, and the changes are amazing.
Even so, Shaoyang was very satisfied with Pulit's performance, and praised a few words, these data are enough for all departments to understand the situation in Mihe City, and if they really want more real-time data, it is not too late to re-count after they completely control the Northern Wilderness Territory.
After chatting for a while, Shaoyang decided to send off the guests, with his current status, there was no need to leave the two of them for dinner, and he also assigned them a task when they were done.
"Lone summoned all the city lords this time, they didn't dare to do anything on the surface, but what they thought in private is unknown, Blaise is estimated to know about Lone's refuge, but it is Plitt you, they definitely don't know, presumably it is indispensable to contact you in private, help Lone to find out their thoughts, Lone doesn't need them to take refuge sincerely, as long as they don't obstruct the implementation of Lone's decree, if someone conspires to disobey, be sure to arrest them. ”
"Yes, the subordinates will complete the task. ”
After leaving the City Lord's Mansion, not long after the two returned to Blaize's mansion, Pulit quietly moved out and lived in the inn, reducing contact with Blaitze, so as not to arouse the suspicion of other city lords.
As for the matter of negotiating with various ministries, Blaise handled it for Plitt single-handedly, not to mention that there are his benefits, that is, there are no benefits, and he has to help with his heart when Plitt is carrying out Shaoyang's task, so that he has a merit no matter how he says.
There are still two days left before Shaoyang gathers all the city lords, and the city lords rushed to Songhai City one after another, not to mention Brell in Donghe City and Jeff in Yangguan City, nine of the other ten city lords also came, and the only city lord who did not come was Grege, the city lord of Tiemu City, who had a feud with Shaoyang, but he didn't refuse directly, but just used the excuse of being seriously ill and bedridden, and sent a cousin over to make up the number.
During this period, as Shaoyang guessed, many people colluded in private, and Pulit was invited to meet privately by several people, most of whom were just worried that Shaoyang was not good for them and joined forces to ensure their own interests, and Pulit also showed the same concern on his face, pretending to unite with them.
Only the appearance of Greg's cousin made him sneer in his heart, in order not to startle the snake, he falsely wronged him, but secretly told Blaise everything and asked him to pass the news to Shaoyang.