Chapter 70: Jack and Ann
The fact that Li Xie slaughtered the nobles of Chrysanthemum City has spread throughout Tudor!
Sure enough, it proves that there is no impermeable wall in the world!
Because of the excessive killing, Li Xie was named the "Evil Duke", and it is said that he can make children famous for a period of time to stop crying! And because most of the killings are nobles, at least fifty percent of the Tudor aristocratic class have jointly written to Mercedes VII to punish Li Xie for his crimes!
When Li Xie learned of this, he wrote a letter to Mercedes VII to read in the court, which roughly read: "I heard that someone wants to ask His Majesty to punish me, and I already have a list of his grandmother's! One person obediently pays one million gold coins, otherwise, the nobles of Chrysanthemum City are your example! You can try whether I dare or not!"
This kind of threatening words will surely cause an uproar, and it will inevitably make all the nobles unite against Li Xie!
However, life always surprises people, and the surprise that life gives Li Xie is that no one in the court dares to say anything to Li Xie, and for a period of time, there are often servants of noble families who come to give Li Xie gold coins!
In fact, it can't be said to be a surprise, such a situation can be regarded as normal! Mercedes VII did not cure Li Xie's crime, no one in the Tudor Dynasty could cure Li Xie, and Li Xie's murderous reputation has spread, who would think that he would not dare to kill the nobles?
It's just a pity for those bewitched brain-dead nobles, who are openly threatened, and they can only pay to eliminate the disaster!
As a result, basically no one dared to provoke the "evil duke" anymore! And Li Xie had another nickname, "The Duke of Greedy Money"!
This is an episode that happened in two months!
For Li Xie, Chrysanthemum City is his current main theme.
In the past two months, with Xiao An's advice and supervision, the food crisis in Chrysanthemum City has been easily solved, and another thing that has to be mentioned is that Li Xie wrote to Mercedes VII to buy grain, and sure enough, in about a month, Mercedes VII sent a large amount of grain!
This incident surprised Li Xie and often asked Xiao An, but unfortunately Xiao An kept silent.
In the past two months, Li Xie has become more and more pleasing to the eyes and more fond of the two siblings, Jack and Xiao An!
Jack incorporated 30,000 men out of 50,000 slaves and 60,000 young men among the refugees and poor into the Guards, adding them to the original Guards and the Forbidden Army, totaling 110,000 to form the "Evil Army" of the new army in Chrysanthemum City!
All countries in the Continent of the Gods have a tradition of joining slaves and refugees into the army, but most of them are used as cannon fodder!
He took the evil army as the main force in cultivating cultivated land, on the one hand training their physical strength, and on the other hand, he demanded that they obey! Of course, the beginning did not go so smoothly, and the original civilian guards were used to being loose and disobedient. This situation reflects Jack's foresight of slaves and refugees as regular army training and mixing with the forbidden army.
Slaves and refugees have strong surnames, they are very obedient, they are satisfied with food and clothing, and they are in awe of the nobles, and they never dare to hesitate to Jack's orders, but they don't do it well, but with the well-trained elite of the forbidden army, even if the slaves and refugees don't do well, they can imitate and learn, and gradually look like it!
Only the original civil guards, not to mention, even continued the previous disobedience and disrespect!
In such a situation, Jack's method is very simple - kill!
In Jack's words: "Military law does not allow any soldier to disobey!"
In doing so, they may be branded as violent and difficult to convince the public, but the contrast between slaves and refugees highlights the lawlessness of the Guards!
In this way, about 10,000 people were killed, and finally all the evil troops were submissive, and no one dared to disobey any military law and disobey the orders of Jack, the commander-in-chief!
In Jack's words: "The army, first of all, the first point must be obedient, an obedient army is the premise of strength, if you don't do this, you don't need to talk about anything else!"
And he did it, 100,000 evil troops, and they were already obedient to him! This is only two months, and Jack promised Li Xie that within three years, Li Xie will be trained to train an elite-level army!
Looking at the 100,000 evil army that was well-disciplined and acted neatly, Li Xie was very satisfied! The most satisfying thing was that Jack had not forgotten his master! In the newly built military camp, a bronze statue of Li Xie was erected, and the evil army had to salute the bronze statue of Li Xie every morning before they died. Now, Li Xie is walking on the street, as long as the soldiers pass by, they all stop immediately and salute Li Xie!
That taste made Li Xie feel like he was floating high above! How could he not be satisfied with Jack?
Jack is in charge of the military, and Xiao An, this beautiful, quiet-looking but actually naughty little girl, Li Xie is more pleasing to her than Jack!
Solving the food problem is enough to make Li Xie admire Xiao An! And Li Xie looks at Xiao An well, in fact, it is some of this chick's practices!
The grain flour has been made into wine, and the remaining sake lees have been made into coarse cakes, which taste much better than poor bitter gourds! And Xiao An did not order people to give them directly to the poor people, but asked them to receive them themselves, and distributed them in the name of Li Xie, and every poor person who came to receive the coarse cakes knew: "This is a coarse cake that the evil duke has compassion for the poor and especially gives to the poor!"
Walking on the street, the soldiers would salute, and those poor people were even more embarrassed, so they knelt down directly and said again: "The god of the earth is above, praise you, my most respected evil duke!"
Oh...... What does that taste like...... Let Li Xie, who once thought about being developed and smashing those homeless people who looked down on him with money, got another kind of vanity satisfaction!
In addition to Xiao An's beauty, in the past two months, Li Xie has followed Li Xie the most, except for Zeonard and Fandi Serre, who belong to Xiao An!
With her more, Li Xie knew that this chick knew a lot, and many ideas were enough to amaze the countries of the Continent of the Gods!
For example, on the issue of farming, the cultivated land in the Continent of the Gods only belonged to the nobles, and most of the peasants were slaves and commoners, who farmed for the nobles and received a little commission from the nobles. Xiao An's idea is not to give them commissions, but to let them be in charge of a certain percentage of the grain produced in the area they are responsible for, so that they can greatly mobilize their positive surnames, instead of a fixed commission! Isn't this the predecessor of the land contract system?
Compared to the continent of the gods in a slave society, what an advanced idea!
Another example is the development of Chrysanthemum City, Chrysanthemum City is in ruins, but there are no nobles in charge of various positions, and it is difficult for Guanggao agriculture to prosper, Xiao'an means to give civilians the opportunity to hold important positions, let them assist in the construction first, and then open schools, reduce or even exempt tuition fees, for civilians to study, cultivate talents!
In the Continent of the Gods, it is almost impossible for civilians to hold any position, and civilians can hardly go to school! Xiao An's idea is another breakthrough for the countries of the Continent of the Gods!
Of course, Xiao An is because she was born in a commoner, thinks about problems from the perspective of the masses, and has a narrow class concept compared to the aristocracy, so that she can reflect her advanced!
Li Xie, a modern person, how could he lose to her?
Whoever is responsible for contracting a certain area of cultivated land, and the output of the cultivated land belongs to the individual, and the person who contracts only needs to pay a certain amount of taxes every year!
As for the development of Chrysanthemum City, the school will definitely do it, and it will definitely reduce the tuition fees and open it to anyone, but Li Xie has a bolder way - a job fair!
Recruit talented people from all over the Tudor Dynasty to come to Chrysanthemum City to serve, as long as they are talented, regardless of their birth status, they can come to Chrysanthemum City to be officials, and the commission is huge!
Recruitment information has been ordered to be sent to various places, and the first job fair in the history of the Continent of the Gods is brewing.
"Here, everybody!"
On the grass of a garden in the Castle Lord's Mansion.
Several bonfires are burning, and the light and heat emitted make the winter nights less cold.
Today is December 21, 2012 in the new calendar of the gods, the winter solstice of the Continent of the Gods, as one of the most traditional festivals in the Continent of the Gods, on this day, the family will gather together to have a dinner with roast pig as the main dish.
In the City Lord's Mansion, at the suggestion of Li Xie, a bonfire was set up on the open grass and an open-air barbecue dinner.
Li Xie himself doesn't like to eat at the dinner table in a regular manner, this kind of wild barbecue-style dinner is what he loves, maybe it is a long-term wandering relationship, this kind of dinner is more free.
Jack, Xiao An, Kano, Fandi Serre, Zeenard, and Meowth all sat on the ground around the bonfire with Li Xie, and the few campfires next to them were some single guards in the City Lord's Mansion, and the others were already on vacation for reunion.
"Life must be full of joy, don't make the golden bottle empty to the moon! Come, everyone have a toast!" Li Xie stood up and raised his wine glass with a smile on his face.
He is indeed proud of life at the moment!
Chrysanthemum City is gradually stable, food is worry-free, the army is gradually seeing the scale, waiting for talent recruitment, the development of all industries, everything is moving in a good direction!
And as Li Xie himself, he came to another world for a few months, became a nobleman, held power, and held the territory, which shows that the scenery is infinite! The most important thing is that there are a group of people around him!
After a long period of lonely wandering life, Li Xie finally gradually felt at home in the other world, and tonight, belonging to the family festival, he can feel unprecedented warmth with everyone!
This is the pride of life!
"My lord is so eloquent! A poem that expresses such a free and easy pride!No, I have to write it down!" Vandi Serre was shocked again, and did not care about drinking, so he quickly took out a pen and paper and wrote down this poem.
Xiao An next to him also looked at Li Xie with wide eyes and surprise: "Brother Evil can compose poems!" The artistic conception expressed in just a few words can't be explained by the bard's chatter!"
Fandi Serre wrote the poem very well, and said proudly: "Xiao An, you don't know, the literary brilliance of the adults is directly compared to the gods in the sky! The words are amazing! The occasional chant is a quatrain for the ages! Listen, the adults also said before, 'Zhumen wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road'! This is the adult who saw the countless poor people in Chrysanthemum City, and the nobles were drunk with purple and gold, I don't understand what Zhumen means, but it should refer to the nobles! Your quality is impressive!"
Xiao An was even more amazed, his mouth was open, and he blinked his eyes and looked at Li Xie: "Xiao An thinks he has read thousands of books, and he thinks he is very smart, but the adult is a land contract system and a job fair, and he is open-minded, bold and insightful!
This......
I'm plagiarism......
Li Xie secretly took a sip of wine and used a wine glass to hide his embarrassment, he was really reciting two lines of poetry, and he was praised as a celestial!
But thinking about it, he was immediately relieved again, anyway, everyone is happy and happy, what does it matter if they borrow the poems of ancient sages? Stealing books is not stealing!
"Haha......" Li Xie drank the wine and said with a smile: "Do you know that I am good at writing?