The Invincible Overlord of Heroes.

When Xu Lai saw Elvie's new attributes, his mouth opened a little wider than a duck egg.

With this attribute, coupled with a piece of artifact equipment, Xu Lai doesn't know who else can defeat this Seraph leader in a duel.

Looking at Elvi, even Xu Lai felt a sense of oppression.

Elvy's 7 characteristics are really great for angels. Maybe most middle and low-level heroes don't have as strong a bonus as her.

Especially the last characteristic, it is almost obvious that it is a small stove given to Elvi by the God of War.

Although the 250-point radiant shield cannot resist physical damage, it can resist any form of spell damage.

This is equivalent to an additional 250 points of health for yourself and the angel troops when facing mage heroes and mage troops, which is a huge improvement.

Moreover, this improvement is not only useful when facing mage heroes and mage troops. There are many physical heroes who can also master some spells.

For example, the demon lord Sellon, or the current Xu Lai.

There are even some units that have a lot of spell damage, such as the black dragon's dragon flames, the fire phoenix's flames, the titan's lightning, etc.

These are not magic troops. They have stronger physical combat capabilities, but they also take into account spell damage.

Especially this time, they are about to face the black dragon. Seraphs are immune to fire damage and are not afraid of dragon fire.

But the archangels still need this radiant shield to help resist some fire damage.

Dragon Flame is a kind of accumulation of energy. No matter how powerful the dragon is, it cannot spit it out without limit.

As long as you can withstand the first wave of dragon flames and give the archangels a chance to get closer, no matter how strong the dragon scales are, they can't stop the angels' long swords.

In addition to characteristics, Elvy herself has also been improved a lot.

Elvi did not directly comprehend the secret skills of the four elements like Dill did, but only improved some attributes and added a little more health.

Well, not a little, but an exaggeration, almost a thousand points of health increase.

Although a large part of it comes from the Archangel's Glory, which had no attributes when it was Seraph.

Elvi knelt down on one knee in front of Xu Lai piously, holding the sword in one hand, placing the other on her white knees, and resting her forehead on the back of her hand.

"I will protect you with my life, my knight."

Xu Lai squirmed, wanting to tell her that she had said the opposite, but thinking that he couldn't beat Elvi, he didn't even know what to say in rebuttal.

So Xu Lai stretched out his sinful hand and stretched it out gently.

It covered Elvie's beautiful and resolute face.

"Get up, my beautiful angel, we don't want this in our house."

Outside, Elvi and the others are Xu Lai's subordinates, but inside, they have already become Xu Lai's relatives.

Today, Xu Lai spent this sleepless night in the underground city.

He did not go to accompany Su Ya, but also restrained the violent impulse in his heart, and did not do anything to Elvie. Even Giselle, who had only bullied her once, only had dinner with her.

Xu Lai didn't know how to apologize to women. If he gave gifts, Xu Lai's own treasure house would be open to all of them.

Everything he owned belonged to these women, so he didn't know how to compensate, so he had to give Yu Lan more warm nights.

Lying in Xu Lai's arms, Yu Lan even said bluntly that if she could get such compensation every time, then she would rather Xu Lai not give her any future general orders.

In Yu Lan's arms and in his own home, Xu Lai could finally put down his guard in Conaston and all the tedious matters that required him to worry about.

After a good night's rest, Xu Lai was busy again the next morning.

As the city lord who had not shown up for a long time, Xu Lai spent two days inspecting his territory one by one, starting from the underground miner town.

And he was not just patrolling, he sent gifts to all his subjects.

Miner Town has been rushing to increase production in order to expand the city wall of Qingfeng City, so Xu Lai sent them a large amount of wine and meat.

On average, everyone in Miner Town can receive at least 5 kilograms of beef and mutton and at least 3 bottles of wine.

A family of horse thieves, equivalent to a family of three, can harvest 15 kilograms of meat and 9 bottles of wine at a time, which is the largest reward among all the territories.

This is considered an additional reward, that is, a reward in addition to salary.

However, the workers in Miner Town are all laborers transferred from horse thieves. They are punished and their salary is only half of that of normal workers, but the rewards for everyone are the same.

On the contrary, this will further stimulate the enthusiasm of these horse thieves and strive to work harder so that they can become good citizens as soon as possible.

You know, in order to increase the enthusiasm of these people, Xu Lai told Bello that one horse thief can be released every month and they can become free civilians.

The conditions for release are, of course, to select the one with the best performance from those who have committed the least serious crime.

There is nothing outstanding about the rest of the territory, so all families are treated equally.

However, during Xu Lai's absence, they had been actively producing and living, and did not cause any trouble to Xu Lai. Xu Lai was willing to share the benefits with them.

This time, according to household registration, all residents who settled in Qingfeng City and the cities affiliated with Qingfeng City can receive a bag of rice or a bag of noodles.

Heavy manual laborers, such as lumberjacks, construction workers, and crystal miners, can receive an additional portion of beef and mutton, a barrel of oil, or a barrel of wine based on their occupational certificates.

After the people have been rewarded, there are still the most important people who need to be rewarded.

Xu Lai also announced during his inspection that all public officials could receive a bounty of one gold coin each on the basis of a bag of rice, noodles and beef and mutton.

Among the public officials, those who are affiliated with the security team, the security station, and the recruits who have just joined will receive an additional gold coin on the basis of one gold coin.

These people are considered our own, so we must focus on rewarding them to make them follow Xu Lai even more wholeheartedly.

Finally, and most importantly, all soldiers who participated in frontline battles will be rewarded according to the standard of 5 gold coins for ordinary soldiers and 10 gold coins for officers.

Since this reward was extra, Su Ya had rewarded them according to Xu Lai's instructions long after the Qingfeng Legion returned.

Therefore, Xu Lai simply did not differentiate this money in detail, but only based it on two standards: ordinary soldiers and officers.

Among them, special mention is made of the recruits Reina recruited from among the prisoners. Of course, these people are not eligible to receive the additional bounty of 5 gold coins.

However, Xu Lai still gave each of them a gold coin. These guys didn't even have the settling-in fee for normal recruits, so giving them a gold coin was just to calm their hearts.

The morale of Qingfeng City is already high and taxes are low. Xu Lai also managed to ensure that everyone has farmland and work to do. It can be said that as long as they are not lazy, everyone can support their family and even save a little money.

There are actually very few daily necessities in the grassland. Except for furs, beef and mutton, food cannot be eaten openly, and salt and iron are all imported.

The residents of Qingfeng City and nearby areas have a high demand for various supplies.

Once they have money and are confident about their future lives, they are willing to consume rather than keep saving, which can boost the business atmosphere.

Therefore, regardless of the business scale and population size of Qingfeng City, which is not as good as Kaunaston Castle, the business environment and potential are much better than Kaunaston Castle.

Of course, Conaston is also undergoing new renovations now, and it’s hard to say what the future will be like.

After inspecting Qingfeng City, Xu Lai continued to inspect the trading center and villages outside the city.

These villages under Qingfeng City have a higher degree of freedom. In addition to paying 30% of Xu Lai's tax, any excess profits can be divided in half with Xu Lai.

Patrolling all the way down the upper reaches of the river, there are a total of 5 villages nearby, and the owners of two more villages have other ideas and plan to only do livestock business.

The location along the river is always limited. Xu Lai does not allow the villages to be too dense because it needs to make room for upgrades and expansion.

Xu Lai promised land, financed gold coins, and helped them buy the heart of the castle. The investment was not small.

Compared to those in Kaunaston Castle, the village chiefs here are much happier.

However, when Xu Lai was inspecting, some village chiefs still complained to him that the conditions Xu Lai gave were too harsh.

Because he is only allowed to collect 30% of the tax and is not allowed to increase taxes on the common people. It is either too difficult or too little for them to make money.

For example, they can develop the tertiary industry. Most villagers on the grassland can raise cattle and sheep.

Taxes can be collected on transactions of milk, goat milk, beef and mutton, fur, etc.

However, Xu Lai has stipulated that villages along the river must vigorously develop agriculture, so the scale of the tertiary industry cannot increase.

What he earns has to be shared equally with Xu Lai, so even less can fall into his own hands.

In other words, every village in Xu Lai has assigned security officers and tax officials to be responsible for public security and tax management respectively. They cannot deceive Xu Lai for the time being.

However, people's hearts are always insufficient. Xu Lai did not condone such a voice in the slightest, but said back unceremoniously:

"You don't want to build a village here. I can't even bother to charge you as much as you want."

You are now using my land, using my castle heart, enjoying my early funding, dividing up the refugees who have come to me, and now you still want to disobey my rules? "

"Look what you said, we have never violated your rules. If you don't believe me, you can ask. We definitely didn't charge half a penny more."

It had only been more than a month since they established the village. If they dared to ignore Xu Lai's regulations after only more than a month, they probably didn't have the guts.

But just based on the thoughts revealed in these few sentences, Xu Lai knew that this model of cooperation was still not desirable.

It’s just that he is really short of people. Even if he can purchase some low-level castle hearts in the market, someone will eventually manage and build them.

The towns and villages in Conaston are all ready-made towns and villages. Xu Lai only needs people to manage them. If the management is not good, they can be withdrawn at any time.

The villages in Qingfeng City were all built from scratch, and the builders were not given original shares. Who would wholeheartedly contribute to other people's villages?

Therefore, Xu Lai just kept this matter in mind and did not change his previous decision because of it.

Instead, he patiently told them that Qingfeng City would become bigger and bigger in the future, and the demand for food and workers would also increase.

As long as they manage and operate it well, they can make a lot of money even if they rent houses to those businessmen.

After all, Xu Lai has moved all the large livestock markets outside the city.

In order to save some money, some caravans may choose to stay in cheaper villages outside the city.

As long as Qingfeng City develops, the surrounding villages and towns cannot be poor.

It's best if they realize this, and it doesn't matter if they don't realize it. As long as their greed is put into action, sooner or later their flaws will be revealed.

When the time comes, Xu Lai will have an honest reason to punish them.

Although Xu Lai shared the profits of these villages equally with the Advent Heroes, in terms of affiliation, these villages were still affiliated with Qingfeng City.

Therefore, Xu Lai did not favor one over the other and also distributed rewards to them.

It wasn't just them, Xu Lai also took the paladins to two other remote villages and the town where Luo Mingru had grown.

Xu Lai even brought gifts to the werewolves and lizardmen in Luo Mingru's town.

Thanks to Qingfeng Zhi's good reputation, Luo Mingru's town is developing well.

Passing caravans will rest here, and the refugees found by security teams and patrols will be resettled in his town nearby.

There are also many refugees who, after hearing that this town is also affiliated with Qingfeng City, will not want to continue walking the nearly 100 kilometers and choose to settle here.

When I arrived, there were probably less than 1000 people in the city.

Now, it is a large town with 3 households and more than 5000 people settled here, with tens of thousands of people living here.

Luo Mingru told Xu Lai that he was very satisfied here. He heard that Xu Lai was forming the Qingfeng Army and he was willing to help.

Xu Lai did not refuse this, but Xu Lai did not incorporate Luo Mingru's people into the army because the ownership was different and it was difficult to manage.

Moreover, Luo Mingru himself did not join the army, but sent his generals to lead a hundred werewolf warriors and a hundred lizardman archers.

Xu Lai simply stopped dividing the team of two hundred people and organized them into a patrol team responsible for patrolling the racecourses and trade roads of Qingfeng City and its affiliated villages.

With such a foreign force here, at the beginning of each month, even if they encounter some monster moons, they can open the road as quickly as possible without affecting Qingfeng City and the surrounding villages and towns.

As for the resources guarded by the monsters, Xu Lai has no time to collect those resources now.

Anything he does is more important than collecting these low-level resources.

After contributing his own strength, Luo Mingru also frankly expressed his needs.

But it's because the ore and timber resources in the grassland are far more expensive than he imagined.

Not to mention upgrading the town, he can't even get enough wood to build houses for the settlers, and he has a terrible headache every day. (End of chapter)