In the face of absolute strength, Li Xie almost did not stop to take control of the entire Chrysanthemum City, and at the same time, he also accepted a total of 15,000 people's guards, and the rest of the people's guards, Li Xie let Jack Rothschild take full responsibility, and his method was very simple, kill, and then burn the corpses!

Therefore, at noon, you can see the raging fire and black smoke in the north of the city soaring up to 30 meters high!

Next, a group of guards carried the corpses of Larry Brown and others on the car parade through the streets, on the one hand, read out Larry Brown's evil deeds, and on the other hand, constantly preached how the new city lord, the evil duke, was lenient to the people, and so on.

So much so that the common people in the city were in turmoil, throwing garbage at the dead on the one hand, and singing praises to Li Xie on the other.

Li Xie, who has never met the civilians, seems to have become the most holy city lord in the eyes of the civilians!

These things are still ongoing.

As Li Xie himself, he is about to catch his bald head! It is easy to take a city, but if you want to manage a city, you will face many problems!

The various government positions in Chrysanthemum City are held by the nobles in the city, and they are basically cleaned up by Li Xie, making Chrysanthemum City temporarily appear without a government, but this has not had much impact on the commoners, although most of the shops belonging to the nobles are closed, but those are only the markets that belong to the upper class, and the markets that belong to the commoners are still open, and the civilians have food and shelter, and they can control how the officials above his head change!

It's just that sooner or later this matter needs to be resolved, if there are no personnel to hold the position of political axe, in the long run, there will be no order, and the civilians will be self-sufficient according to their own survival needs, and Chrysanthemum City will not want to develop, let alone prosper! In addition, the civilians do not produce much, there is no commercial trade, and soon there will be a situation where supply exceeds demand, especially the 20,000 guards in Chrysanthemum City, I am afraid that there will be no food to eat!

Fortunately, Li Xie listened to Jack's suggestion and left some nobles in charge of agriculture and fortifications, and they still had to survive and build for a while!

And now what needs to be solved are several major problems in Chrysanthemum City!

The first problem: Larry Brown opened the city unrestricted in order to capture more slaves, so that many refugees and poor people ran to Chrysanthemum City, which can accommodate a million people, there are about 10,000 nobles, about 200,000 commoners, and 300,000 refugees! Most of these 300,000 refugees are not engaged in production, just begging, wandering, picking up leftovers, doing some short-term work, etc., usually they will be sold as slaves, or forced to do coolies, but they have something to eat, but now, they can eat Chrysanthemum City to death, if they are not fed, they will starve to death!

The second problem: Larry Brown left 50,000 slaves in the slave market! These people are also not engaged in production and face the same problems as refugees, but refugees can move away, but they can't! This is also a huge mouth, how much grain does Chrysanthemum City have to eat?

The third problem: There is not much arable land in Chrysanthemum City! It should be said that all arable land has been abandoned by the aristocracy! The economic sources of Chrysanthemum City are mainly slave markets, luxury goods markets, black markets, smuggling, and so on, while the most fundamental agriculture has been stagnant, and it is necessary to buy grain from Sunflower City every year as a subsidy! This is the most fatal point! Because it is now the Mid-Autumn Festival, there are not many grain reserves, and the status quo can only be maintained for about two months, and after two months, even Li Xie, the city lord, may have nothing to eat! And if you give the slave refugees civilian-level food, the food that Chrysanthemum City currently has and will harvest can only last for a month!

"Damn, in the end, it's all about eating!"

Li Xie sat in the lobby of the hotel, Zeenard and Van Di Searle sat on the left and right, Jack's sister Xiao An sat on the side, and there were two other people in front of him, one named Tyr, a nobleman in charge of agriculture in Chrysanthemum City, and the other named Van der Sar, who was in charge of fortifications.

"Tyr, you're in charge of the food problem, what do you say you should do now?"

Now, the remaining nobles in Chrysanthemum City are so afraid of Li Xie that they don't even dare to take a breath in front of Li Xie! They all know how lucky they are to survive, and last night, at least nearly 10,000 people died in the city! This evil duke doesn't mind adding a trivial life or two to a trivial matter!

"Your Excellen......cy," Tyr replied tremblingly: "According to the past, now two horse convoys will be sent, one will go to Sunflower City to purchase grain and grass, and the other will go to Plum Blossom City in the west to purchase grain, grass and daily necessities, and go back and forth for about two months, just to solve the food problem in Chrysanthemum City." ”

"How much can I buy food when I go to Plum Blossom City?" Li Xie didn't think that the matter of Chrysanthemum City could be hidden from the outside, and the right minister must have planted some eyeliner in the city, and what happened here would soon be spread.

And in Sunflower City under the control of the Cheetah Legion, I'm afraid that they won't sell food to Chrysanthemum City, and even Li Xie has to consider whether Sunflower City will plot against Chrysanthemum City!

Plum Blossom City is the territory that belongs to Li Xie, and at present, Li Xie has not yet designated a acting city lord, and now the supreme governor of Plum Blossom City is still an official appointed by Mercedes VII, and Li Xie is not clear whether he belongs to the forces of Mercedes VII or the forces of the right minister.

"My lord, Plum Blossom City doesn't produce much food, and it can only purchase about one-tenth of Sunflower City, and it can only last for about fifteen days. ”

"One-tenth is one-tenth, that's all!" Li Xie nodded, and said, "In addition to purchasing grain, is there any other way to relieve the pressure on grain?"

Tyr hurriedly said: "Now we can only sell the slaves, drive the refugees out, and then make every effort to reclaim the farmland, and only maintain the residents of the city, which can last until the next year, and then the spring harvest will be good, and the food crisis will be lifted." ”

"No, refugees can't be driven, and slaves aren't sold!" These are people, who can be said to be the most honest and obedient, and they are also the most willing to contribute and only need to pay a small amount of money, simply put, it is a high-quality labor, it is a pity to sell it, and it is a pity to drive it out, Li Xie does not support it emotionally, he has always had no sense of belonging in the aristocratic circle, but has a special cordiality to refugees: "What else can be done?"

Tyr shook his head timidly, if he didn't sell slaves or drive out refugees, there was really no way, and Tyre didn't dare to say that Li Xie's actions would starve countless people to death in Chrysanthemum City!

"Your Excellency, do you want to buy food from Your Majesty?" Van Dee Seldo.

"It's too far!" Li Xie shook his head, he had already thought of this method. Now Chrysanthemum City is Li Xie's private territory, except for paying taxes to the dynasty, everything else is self-financing, and the grain can only be solved by itself, Mercedes VII will not allocate grain, of course, it is true that it can be purchased from Mercedes VII, and Mercedes VII can definitely give enough food, but the problem is that Yanjing is too far away from Chrysanthemum City!

A total of more than 1,300 kilometers!

Unlike Li Xie's horse convoy, which can travel 100 kilometers, at most it will take 20 kilometers a day, and it will take more than 60 days to travel the distance alone! Moreover, if there is wind and rain on the road, it will have to be delayed, and some mountain roads will be difficult to walk, and it may not be able to walk more than 10 kilometers in a day!

And Chrysanthemum City can only last for a month!

On the other hand, the Tudor city was located in a structure of the character "Hui", with the outer cities not far from each other, and the cities in the north and south directions very far apart, which was to defend against foreign invasions. But it also makes the three cities near Chrysanthemum City, and the Plum Blossom City in the west, and the Sun Flower City in the east are all about 300 kilometers away, and the Peach Blossom City in the north is about 600 kilometers!

According to the calculation that it takes two months to go to Plum City to purchase food, it will take about four months to go to Peach Blossom City to purchase, because it is not as convenient as buying food from Mercedes VII to other cities. Mercedes VII will directly transfer the fleet of horses to transport grain, and the grain reserve is also large, which greatly saves time. And to buy food from other cities, you have to send a convoy to deliver it yourself, and it also takes a certain amount of time to buy food, and the distance is reduced, but the time required is not much reduced!

"Hey......" Li Xie sighed heavily: "I regret it now, I regret being a bullshit city lord! This is still the first day of being a city lord, the trouble is coming, and it is still the first step to clean up the mess! No, I will let Lao Qi take back the territory when I go back, and I will go back to Yanjing to be my duke to be happy and free!"

"Giggle......" Xiao An couldn't help laughing out loud on the side.

Li Xizheng was depressed and glared at the chick fiercely: "What are you laughing at?

Xiao An was not afraid of Li Xie glaring at her, so she covered her mouth and said: "Brother Evil calls His Majesty Lao Qi, Xiao An thinks it's funny." ”

"Go, play. "If it were normal, Li Xie would definitely have to tease this little beauty, but now, Li Xie has an annoying word in his head, and he is not so idle and elegant at all!

"Do you really want me to go?" Xiao An stood up, smiled slyly, and said to himself: "Xiao An still wants to make a plan, if you want me to go, just go, go back to the room to see how the chick's injury is!"

Little chicken is Xiao An's name for the Golden Feather War Chicken, this monster is now taken care of by Xiao An, although the Golden Feather War Chicken has a life, but the injury has to recover slowly, at least for a long time can not move, and Xiao An is a pharmacist, just suitable for taking care of this kind of hard injured Warcraft.

The so-called pharmacist is a completely different profession from the sacrifice, and the sacrifice heals the injured and sick through divine light or some magic, and the effect is fast and the recovery effect is also good, which is the mainstream healing profession. The pharmacist is to cure the disease by configuring herbs, the effect is slow, and the recovery condition is average, but there are some diseases that cannot be cured by the sacrifice but the pharmacist can be cured, so the pharmacist cannot be said to be worse than the healing ability of the sacrifice, but the pharmacist usually treats the common people, and it is a non-popular profession in the Continent of the Gods, and is not recognized by the nobles.

"Advice?" Li Xie glanced at Xiao An's cute face, and sighed: "Then tell me, if you can help Brother Evil solve this food problem, Brother Evil will fulfill one of your wishes, as long as Brother Evil can do it!"

"Really?"

"Did I lie to you?"

"Okay, you said! Hmph, what's the difficulty in solving this problem!"