The flame that appeared in Li Ru's hand, although weak, but he visibly became larger, when the flame became a fireball, Li Ru suddenly flipped his wrist, and the fireball dissipated directly.

"Taiping Sutra" is a very magical book, if you really count it, he should be the most talented book among all Han Long's exercises.

At least for people like Han Long, he really watched it for a long time, and he didn't understand anything, so in the end, he simply gave this thing to Li Ru, for him, the Li Ru who can be used is much more important than an exercise that he can't understand.

The next day, the refreshed Li Ru knelt down in front of Han Long in front of everyone and called himself the lord.

For today's Li Ru, the Huo family brothers just felt that he had changed a little, but they couldn't say it clearly, but as the person with the highest cultivation in it, Situ Hao, the city lord of Flame City, couldn't help but be shocked when he saw Li Ru.

Yesterday he was also studying the exercises desperately, although it can be regarded as a small achievement, but if he wants to achieve results, it is not something that can be seen in a day or two.

But today he saw Li Ru, and was surprised to find that this guy had entered the Qi Refining Period, and this Qi Refining Period did not mean that he had reached the first level of Qi Refining like Zheng Zhong at the beginning, but he had officially entered the Qi Refining Period.

It seems that the speed is not as good as Zheng Zhong, but as soon as his temperament changes, then the rest will naturally come naturally.

Situ Hao couldn't help but be a little surprised by Han Long again when he saw this, he was not a fool, the exercise that Han Long gave Li Ru yesterday was the root cause of such a big change in him today.

Thinking of this, Situ Hao's attitude towards Han Long was two points better again, although he still didn't recognize himself as his subordinate, but at least his attitude was no longer repulsive.

And Li Ru also smiled lightly after seeing this scene, in his opinion, this is enough, as long as Situ Hao no longer takes the initiative to refute this matter, then slowly he wants to refute, and there is no chance.

Han Long and the others also officially started to rest here in Flame City, after all, they also needed to wait for Zheng Zhong's return, and at the same time clean up all these things they got from Flying Tiger Mountain, they couldn't just let them throw them everywhere.

In the ten days of waiting for Zheng Zhong's return, Han Long, who had money, food and medicinal materials, finally cured his secret injury, although Han Long's cultivation after the secret injury did not advance but retreated, but it also allowed him to continue to cultivate.

Huo Jun's exercises are his own, and they don't know how to improve, but every time the Huo family brothers fight, Huo Du, who has practiced to the middle stage of the copper skin, is always pressed and beaten by his younger brother, although he has not built a foundation, I am afraid that it is also the middle or even late stage of Qi training.

As for Li Ru, since he cultivated the "Taiping Sutra", his whole person has become a little dusty, and he has also changed his linen clothes into a green coat, and he always holds a folding fan in his hand.

In addition, with the strengthening of cultivation, the momentum and appearance of his whole person are constantly changing, although he still looks like a little old man, but his back is no longer so rickety, and even his wrinkles are much better.

It's just that because of years of struggle and hardship, there is an extra scar on the corner of his eye, and when the wrinkles on his face become lighter, getting the scar makes him a little ruthless.

But he didn't care about that.

Ten days later, Zheng Zhong returned to Flame City with the will of Han Long's father, and His Majesty would not have taken care of such a trivial matter.

But because Han Long went out for the first time, and because this time he went out, His Majesty had a different mind, so he personally drew up a reward.

The Seven Princes dedicated King Han Long, meritorious service to suppress bandits, and specially rewarded a famous knife and a pair of armor, hoping that he would arrive at the new city as soon as possible, and worry about the king!

This is a reward for Han Long, Han Long himself is a king, and his identity can only have a formal official position after the new city is built, so before that, it is just a spiritual reward for him, as for the famous sword....

The sword is the king of a hundred soldiers, and giving him the sword is a hint, which both Han Long, Situ Hao and others know very well.

In addition, in addition to Han Long, others also have a lot of rewards.

Situ Hao, the city lord of Flame City, was originally only a third-class city lord, and even Flame City was just a third-class city that did not enter the stream.

This time, with Han Long's light, Flame City was exceptionally promoted to a first-class city, and in addition to allowing expansion, it could also recruit soldiers and horses in the same range.

But even so, Flame City still can't change his embarrassing position, as soon as he doesn't have any good specialties, not some strategic location, even if he is given the treatment of a first-class city, he still has no way to develop!

At this time, Li Ru secretly gave him a letterhead, and told Situ Hao softly, "This is for you by His Royal Highness Xianwang, if you want to change the status quo, maybe this can be useful!"

At the same time, in addition to the two of them, there were also rewards from the Huo family brothers.

This time they were able to exterminate the Flying Tiger Village, and the Huo family brothers could be regarded as a result of their hard work, Huo Du became a captain, and Huo Jun became a captain.

Although the two of them still only have the 300 soldiers and horses in their hands, they have a position and a territory in the future, so if they want to become a real captain again, what is the difficulty.

As for Li Ru, Zheng Zhong didn't pay attention to him at all, so His Majesty naturally wouldn't pay attention to a little thief.

"Since that's the case, I'll just leave!" Han Long looked at the many subordinates who had already packed up, and arched his hand directly towards Situ Hao, and then without waiting for Situ Hao to speak, he turned around and left directly.

After Han Long and the others had already left, Situ Hao took out the open letterhead in his arms again, and couldn't help muttering, "Business tax.... What a gamble!"

On the third day after Han Long left Flame City, news also came out from Flame City.

"Flame City has abolished the entry tax!"

"Flame City has abolished the poll tax!"

"Flame City has turned fifteen acres of land into twelve!"

"Flame City has only added one tax, and all merchants doing business in Flame City need to pay 20% of the net profit!"

As soon as this news came out, everyone around was shocked.

Generally, if a city wants to collect money and grain, one is the acres of land, and the other is the entry and exit of people and city gates, which are also necessary, because this is a guaranteed tax policy.

But now Flame City has abolished the three taxes in one go, although the increase is also twenty percent, but now who will expect anything from a businessman, so no one knows how much the so-called businessman's net profit is twenty percent.

The most important thing is that Flame City is not a major road, nor is it a special product area, where are there any merchants!

Just when everyone wanted to see the joke of Flame City, and just when everyone wanted to see the joke of this unknown prince who had just taken refuge in him, the tax details of Flame City were slowly announced.

On the first day, the Flame City's taxes were almost zero!

The next day, the taxes in Flame City were pitiful!

On the third day, because there were some shops in the city itself, Situ Hao was not allowed to lose all his face.

Day 4......

Day 5......

Day 6......

As the days passed, the tax revenue of Flame City once became a joke in the Fuling Kingdom, and in their opinion, this kind of tax was the most normal level.

It's not a big city in the first place, and it's not a good place in the first place, so it's ridiculous to have to do some kind of tax reform.

However, after half a month, the situation has improved!

Day 16.

Situ Hao, who was already accustomed to disappointment, and Situ Ran, who was accustomed to dismal taxes, was frightened by the scene when he walked out of the door of the mansion today.

The streets of Flame City, where there were only some voices in Pingsuri at noon, were now crowded with all kinds of cars, horses, and people!

Flame City, where there are not many people in Pingsuri, is now full of traffic at the city gate, and the soldiers defending the city have come to the city lord's mansion three times in a row to ask for help.

"It's ..... What's going on!" Situ Hao grabbed Situ Shan, the butler and deputy general who was constantly busy going back and forth, "In this city, what is going on!"

Situ Shan wiped the sweat stains on his face, he was a good and dignified peak Qi cultivation cultivator, but he was actually tired and sweated a lot early in the morning, which showed how busy he was.

"Back to the city lord, today there are no less than 100 laughing caravans in my Flame City, some large and some small, thousands of people have poured in, as well as more than 10,000 carts of goods!"

Situ Shan was also frightened by this scene.

On top of that, after he asked the caravans who were respectful to him, they told him that they had come because of the merchant tax.

The commercial tax is indeed very unbeneficial, and it can even be said that the commercial tax gives those businessmen a great opportunity.

Flamecity doesn't have a poll tax or an entry tax, which means they don't have much to cost other than their own goods.

In other words, if there is no profit, he will not have this tax, in other words, as long as they can afford to pay this tax, they must have benefits and profits.

And that's not the most important thing, the most important thing is that Blaze City is the first to do so.

Although there are no specialties here, although the location is not very good.

Although it can even be considered small, one thing that cannot be denied is that the people here are very simple, and in addition, this is a second-class city.

Anyway, they need a place to stay when they go to Kyoto and nearby to do business, and although Flame City is not the most suitable place, with these benefits, he can't help it!

By the time the first month had passed, Flamecity's business taxes had reached the sum of the previous year, and that number was still increasing.

"Broad City!"

"Recruitment!"

"Build!"

"Transformation!"

With money and food in hand, Situ Hao naturally began to develop his ambitions, and his cultivation that had not been moving for a long time also changed in this great joy and sorrow.