"Zhao Hu, what are you bringing people here for?"

At the gate of Donglai City, Wang Meng, the commander of the city gate guards, scolded loudly with a sinister face.

"Of course I'll kill you, open the gates of the city, and welcome the lord into the city!"

Hearing Wang Meng's words, Zhao Hu's expression remained unchanged, and he said in a cold tone.

As he spoke, Zhao Hu's body moved, quickly approached Wang Meng's side, and in his frightened gaze, a sword pierced his neck, causing blood to splash, and he died tragically on the spot.

Immediately afterwards, Zhao Hu agitated the internal strength in his body and shouted loudly: "Everyone, the lord's army is outside, Wang Meng has been killed by me, if you don't want to die, get out of the way immediately, let me open the city gate and welcome the lord into the city!"

Hearing Zhao Hu's words, the faces of the hundreds of soldiers at the city gate changed several times, and finally took the initiative to get out of the way, allowing Zhao Hu to open the city gate with hundreds of elite soldiers of the Zhao family.

"Young master, the gate of Donglai City is open!"

At this time, a Yang family guard came to Yang Rui's side and said softly.

"Let the army enter the city, take over the defense of Donglai City, and those who resist will be killed!"

Hearing the words of the Yang family's guards, Yang Rui said in a flat tone.

"Yes, young master!"

The Yang family's guard replied softly, then turned around and ordered.

Soon, 50,000 steppe cavalry took the lead in riding into Donglai City and took over the defense of the city walls of Donglai City.

In the process, some of the generals of Donglai City wanted to resist, but all of them were ruthlessly killed by 50,000 steppe cavalry.

At this time, under the protection of 500 personal guards, Yang Rui entered Donglai City with 20,000 Yang family troops, went straight to the Donglai City Lord's Mansion, easily defeated the guards of the Donglai City Lord's Mansion, and controlled the Donglai City Lord's Mansion in the palm of his hand.

After that, Yang Rui left 100 personal guards, and the remaining 400 personal guards were released, so that they could lead the Yang family army and the grassland slaves to take over the official warehouses and other strategic places in Donglai City, and maintain the order of Donglai City, and kill those who took the opportunity to make trouble!

After arranging all this, Yang Rui said to one of the guards beside him: "Bring in the person who opened the gate of Donglai City, I want to meet him!"

"Yes, young master!" the guard quickly replied, and turned to leave.

Soon, Zhao Hu, a young man who had changed his clothes and was wearing brocade clothes, came to the living room of the City Lord's Mansion in Donglai City, looked at Yang Rui on the main seat, and took the initiative to salute respectfully: "Zhao Hu has seen the lord!"

Looking at Zhao Hu, who was dressed in brocade, sixteen or seventeen years old, and about the same age as himself, Yang Rui smiled slightly: "Sit down, let's talk slowly!"

Hearing Yang Rui's words, Zhao Hu did not hesitate or hesitate at all, and immediately sat down at the position of Yang Rui's head, and then set his eyes on Yang Rui's body, waiting for Yang Rui to speak.

"Zhao Hu, you are the first and only family leader in Donglai City to take refuge in me, I don't know why you want to take refuge in me?

Looking at Zhao Hu, who was sitting at the bottom, Yang Rui asked with a curious expression.

Zhao Hu's Zhao family, although it is only a small family in Donglai City, has survived in Donglai City for more than 100 years, the relationship network is not shallow, and the potential is great, when all the families in Donglai City reject themselves, Zhao Hu can lead the Zhao family to take refuge in himself, which requires a lot of courage and determination, which makes Yang Rui very curious.

"Lord Lord, you are the hereditary baron of the empire, the entire Donglai Peninsula is your fief, Donglai City is the capital of your fief, and you have indisputable sovereignty over Donglai City, our Zhao family, as the people of the empire, the people of Donglai City, if you don't take refuge in you, who else can you turn to?" Zhao Hu replied softly.

"Zhao Hu, can you tell me about the situation in Donglai City?"

Hearing Zhao Hu's words, Yang Rui smiled slightly and said softly.

As soon as Yang Rui's voice fell, Zhao Hu responded loudly: "Your Excellency, although our Donglai City is the capital of the Donglai Peninsula, its influence on the Donglai Peninsula is actually extremely limited, and it can only radiate a few cities near the Donglai Mountain Valley, with a population of more than five million, most of which are quacks and farmers of the major families in the city, and they think that the major families farm for a living、、、、

Hearing Zhao Hu's introduction, Yang Rui nodded lightly, knowing that he had not deceived himself, what he said was true, and some of the information was even something he didn't understand.

When Zhao Hu introduced the situation of Donglai City, Yang Rui smiled slightly and said: "Zhao Hu, as a reward for you to open the city gate, I can let your Zhao family keep one-tenth of the land, and the rest of the land, our Yang family will buy it at the market price, and it will definitely not let you lose money, I don't know what you think?"

Hearing Yang Rui's words, Zhao Hu responded without hesitation: "Lord Lord, our Zhao family is willing to dedicate all the land to Lord Lord!"

Hearing Zhao Hu's words, Yang Rui smiled slightly, waved his hand lightly and said, "Zhao Hu, just do what I just said, you go and prepare! In a few days, someone will hand over to you!"

Seeing that Yang Rui had made up his mind, Zhao Hu nodded lightly, and then chatted with Yang Rui for a while, and then left the Donglai City City Lord's Mansion.

"Family master, our Zhao family opened the city gate to welcome the lord into the city, what kind of reward did the lord give our Zhao family!" The big man in iron armor saw Zhao Hu coming out of Donglai City, and hurriedly greeted him, and asked with a look of anticipation on his face.

"Lord Lord, allow our Zhao family to keep one-tenth of the land and buy the rest of the land at the market price, so that our Zhao family will not suffer!" Zhao Hu said softly.

"The lord of the family, the lord is too much, isn't it! Our Zhao family opened the city gate to welcome him into the city, he not only gave us the Zhao family a reward, but also wanted to seize the land of our Zhao family, isn't this ungrateful?"

As soon as Zhao Hu's voice fell, the big man in iron armor complained with anger on his face.

This big man in iron armor is named Zhao Lei, the captain of the Zhao family's escort team, and Zhao Hu's most trusted subordinate.

He originally thought that Zhao Hu would be rewarded by Yang Rui, but he didn't expect that Zhao Hu not only did not get Yang Rui's reward, but was instead seized by Yang Rui of the Zhao family's land, which made Zhao Lei angry.

"Zhao Lei, there are some things you don't understand, after a while, you will know what a great reward the Lord Lord allows us to keep one-tenth of the land!" Zhao Hu shook his head lightly and said.

After speaking, Zhao Hu took Zhao Lei back to the Zhao family, took out all the title deeds in the family, selected one-tenth of them, and put the rest together to be sold to the Yang family.

When Zhao Hu went home to prepare, Yang Kun entered Donglai City with a large army, and let the troops of Donglai City be imprisoned in the camp in the city, and then came to the Donglai City Lord's Mansion to report to Yang Rui.

"Uncle Kun, this is the list of the major families and wealthy businessmen in Donglai City, among them, the families and wealthy businessmen I ticked, all of them were exterminated, and the rest were purchased at a price of one-tenth of the market price, and they were only allowed to keep 1,000 acres of land, and all the excess were forcibly acquired, and those who refused to buy were all caught in Donglai City, and those who dared to resist and were powerless to be killed were all killed!"

Yang Rui took out a list, handed it to Yang Kun, and said in a flat tone.

The list in Yang Rui's hand was listed by Yang Rui according to the intelligence of all parties after Zhao Hu left, among which the families and wealthy businessmen who ticked were either Wang Xi's descendants, or sent troops to participate in the siege of the Yang family's army. And those families and wealthy businessmen who did not tick, although they did not directly attack the Yang family, they also provided Wang Xi with money, food and materials, which indirectly caused harm to the Yang family's army, and Yang Rui would not let them go easily.

Of course, these are all secondary, the main thing is that these families and wealthy merchants control the wealth of more than nine floors in Donglai City, and most of the people in Donglai City rely on these families and wealthy merchants to survive.

In other words, these wealthy businessmen and families control the actual power of Donglai City, if Yang Rui does not eradicate it, he will not be able to control Donglai City in a limited way, and it is said that he will find a place to establish a new city and settle the people of Yangjia Village who are coming.

You must know that there are hundreds of thousands of people in Yangjia Village, Yinghe Town, plus some people who are willing to rely on the Yang family, adding up to at least millions, or even millions.

The resettlement of such a large population has a great demand for land, but the land in Donglai City is controlled by nine layers in the hands of these families and wealthy merchants, which makes Yang Rui have to be ruthless and clean up these rich merchants and families.

"Yes, young master!"

Hearing Yang Rui's words, Yang Kun took the list, glanced at it casually, responded loudly, and then went down to arrange.

Soon, 50,000 grassland slaves and 20,000 Yang family soldiers, under the leadership of Yang Kun and 400 Yang family guards, were divided into large teams and killed among the families and wealthy merchants on the list.

In the face of the murderous and powerful Yang family army and grassland slave soldiers, those big families and wealthy merchants in Donglai City were ruthlessly exterminated, their families were slaughtered, and all the industries and wealth fell into the control of the Yang family.

Under the threat of the Yang family army and the grassland slave soldiers, most of the families and wealthy businessmen who did not make the line chose to sell their land, and only a small number refused to sell it, were forcibly purchased and driven out of Donglai City, and some families and wealthy businessmen who dared to resist by force were ruthlessly exterminated by the Yang family army and the grassland slave soldiers, and all property was confiscated.

In just three days, the big families and wealthy merchants with more than seven floors in Donglai City were wiped out, and only the families and wealthy merchants with more than two floors survived after selling the land in their hands.

In the process, more than 100,000 relatives of the guards and soldiers of major families and wealthy merchants were mercilessly beheaded, turned into a mutilated corpse, and were hit and buried in a large pit outside the city.

With the land and wealth above the ninth floor of Donglai City concentrated in Yang Rui's hands, the corners of Yang Rui's mouth showed a faint smile, and he threw a development plan for Donglai City for the next five years to Yang Kun, and let him build according to the development plan, so he concentrated on retreat and cultivation, preparing to break through the bottleneck as soon as possible, promote to the mana realm, and become a powerful monk.

While Yang Rui was concentrating on cultivation, Zhao Lei, the captain of the Zhao family's guards, looked at Zhao Hu, the head of the Zhao family, with a shocked look on his face and said, "Family master, the lord is too ruthless!

As soon as the lord came, he killed so many families and wealthy merchants, and killed more than 100,000 people, wasn't he afraid of arousing the opposition of many forces on the Donglai Peninsula, and even attacking with a large army?"

Hearing Zhao Lei's words, Zhao Hu said in a flat tone: "Our lord has a big heart, and wants to control the entire Donglai Peninsula, those pirate forces in the Donglai Peninsula, it's okay if they don't come, once they dare to attack our Donglai City, there will definitely be no return!"

Hearing Zhao Hu's words, Zhao Lei said softly: "Family Master, is the Lord Lord so powerful?"

As soon as Zhao Lei's voice fell, Zhao Hu responded softly: "Yes! The strength of the lord is not something you can figure out! From today on, our Zhao family will take the lord as the leader, and whatever the lord needs our Zhao family to do, our Zhao family will do it, and absolutely no objections will be allowed!"