Wang Qiang, who cultivated for the cultivation of the six-grade physical realm, was the chief soldier of the city defense army of Black Rock City. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoAs early as two years ago, there was news that Black Rock City, which had not had a city lord in office for three years, was sent here by King Wei to send the third son.

In the two years that Wang Qiang waited, at the beginning, the ordinary people and military families in Black Rock City were still the same as before, and the sects all kinds of black-clothed people came out at night, assassinated, and fires came one after another.

For these Wang Qiang is used to it, although the Tianjing Mine here is royal, there are still a lot of tiny veins near the entire Black Rock City.

The emperor and the king of Wei did not look down on it, but those idle monks were different, they began in groups of three or five, and then gathered more and more, and finally formed one sect after another.

But the royal veins are all about to run out, let alone those tiny veins?

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and the most indispensable thing in the rivers and lakes is a bloody battle, and in order to compete for the mineral vein, the assassination has gotten out of control.

However, a year ago, a guy named Lian Chuang suddenly came to change the situation, and he took the handwritten letter of the prince of the world to recruit all the sects.

The reward given is really rich, but it needs to wait for the prince to take office before it can be cashed out. Some of the sects chose to believe him, while others didn't believe at all, for the simple reason that they had heard that the third prince was a waste who couldn't cultivate.

However, Lian Chuang is a member of the third son after all, and now he has united half of the sects in Black Rock City, and it is not easy to deal with it.

In this way, the two sides formed a terrifying balance, and no one could destroy anyone, and if they fought hard, they would kill a thousand enemies and lose eight hundred.

After the balance of terror was formed, although there were still people in black flying around at night, it was ninety percent less than before!

Three months ago, another group of people came to Blackstone City, also from the third generation, but most of them were craftsmen and children.

With the arrival of this group of people, Blackstone City has ushered in a new change.

First of all, these children actually know all the words and are not low in learning, among them, the older professor is younger, in a place called the School of Truth, and the children are admitted to study for free, but for a group of children, people are still generally distrustful, except for desperate beggars and orphans, there is no one to go.

The craftsmen began to build workshops by the Heilong River outside the city, and the daily movement was very loud, and the farmers within a radius of ten miles moved away because of the noise.

And today, the new city lord who has been waiting for nearly two years is about to take office, and he received the news of the post station early, and he waited at the city gate early in the morning.

It wasn't until noon that Wang Qiang saw the long queue of motorcades on the official road.

After the convoy arrived at the city gate, Wang Qiang hurriedly asked, "But the newcomer city lord mall master has arrived." ”

After receiving an affirmative reply, he hurriedly shouted again: "Xiaguan Black Rock City City City Defense Army, I am here to welcome the mall owner!" and then the city defense army behind him also shouted.

Shang Weiyang came out of the car and saw that the city defense army that came to pick him up looked up at the broken city wall that was only three meters high, yawned and said: "I didn't expect it to have arrived, that, the chief soldier, right? ”

"This mall owner is really powerful, the carriage is so bumpy that he can still fall asleep, it seems that the rumors are true. Wang Qiang didn't know that Shang Weiyang's carriage actually had shock absorption, and muttered in his heart about this city lord, but he still followed this city lord into the city.

After Shang Weiyang entered the city, he began to observe this small border city, all the buildings here are low, and there are not many merchants on the central main road that is not wide, but there are some stalls, selling vegetables, dustpans, and other handicrafts.

Shang Weiyang was disappointed for a while, there was an extreme lack of commerce here, and the people in the city all looked listless, even if they were rich in the sect, they were relatively speaking.

When they came to the City Lord's Mansion, Zhang Chen, Yang Meng and others had already come once, and they arranged for them to quickly settle everyone.

Shang Weiyang called Wang Qiang over and asked, "Lord Commander, this city lord has just arrived, let's report on the situation in Black Rock City." ”

After hearing this, Wang Qiang reported: "Qiqi City Lord, the current population of Blackstone City is 300,000, most of whom are miners and their families. Five years ago, His Majesty withdrew all the officials because the veins were close to exhaustion, and now the city is temporarily in charge of everything. ”

"Oh, how is it different from what I saw in the gazetteer, isn't there still more than 200,000 military families?"

"Lord Castle, that was before, and the remote location of Black Rock City had not been updated. Since Sun Xiao, the new general of the border guards, took office, he built a fortress 500 miles away, and all the military dependents were relocated. That's all there is to Black Rock City. ”

"Then let's talk about sects and taxes!" Shang Weiyang thought for a moment and asked again.

"Let's talk about the sect first, there are too many sects here because of the existence of the Tianjing Mine, although the ore veins are close to exhaustion, and a group of them have left, but those who remain are all strong and brave people, although most of the monks are cultivating in the Qi Refining Realm, but the total number of all the sects is more than 8,000 people, and the number of Shangcheng defense troops is almost chasing after them. Speaking of taxes, Xiaguan took the salary of King Wei here, and also tried to collect taxes once, but the resistance of the people and sects was too great. ”

"That is, there is no tax, although my father has allocated military salaries, but there is no tax, how can the city defense army and the sect resist the attack of demon beasts?"

Wang Qiang was slightly embarrassed when he heard this: "That, the border guards will send an additional 100,000 troops to garrison here every time, but..."

"But what, let's say, the lord of this city won't blame. ”

Hearing Shang Weiyang say this, Wang Qiang also gritted his teeth and said: "Although the border guards will come to defend against the demon beasts, they will have to charge, and every time the people and sects in the city will pay Tianjing and gold coins to General Sun." ”

After Wang Qiang finished speaking, he thought that Shang Weiyang would be quite annoyed, but Shang smiled and said: "Interesting, he actually came to my territory to collect protection money! Okay, I understand the basic situation, you go down, and by the way, send someone to call Lian Chuang to me!"

After hearing this, Wang Qiang said in his heart: "This Lian Chuang is really the city lord's person, but fortunately, the matter of the sect just now was fooled." Then he retreated.

Shang Weiyang waited until the night to see Lian Chuang, and as soon as he came to Shang Weiyang, he said: "The Three Corpse Brain Worm Pill doesn't want to solve it, so it made me wait for so long." ”

"Hehe, of course you have to solve it, Lord City, but you can blame me, this time I was delayed for you. ”

"In that case, let's first report the information you have collected in the past two years, not to mention those on the surface, but directly on the dark. ”

"Hehe, don't be in a hurry, let's talk about what I'm going to do today, Lord City, I received an important news today. ”

"What's the important news to hear?"

"Hehe, it's not like one of those stubborn sects is preparing to assassinate you in the last few days. ”