The Invincible Overlord of Heroes.

There were deafening shouts and cries outside the carriage, but as long as the windows of the carriage were gently closed, the sounds outside would be instantly blocked out.

The carriage was protected by a soundproof barrier, so sounds from inside and outside could not be transmitted at all.

"Even if we kill them all, others will not give up Qingfeng City, this piece of fat meat, especially since you have erected the statue of the God of War."

Xu Lai did not send Ji Long to deal with the problem, and even did not allow her, the city lord, to go, but instead sent a general in charge of security.

What is Roland's current status? He is Xu Lai's personal defense officer.

It can be said that the outside world was in turmoil, and it had nothing to do with Roland. His mission and responsibility was to protect Xu Lai's safety.

Therefore, when Roland and this group of people armed with swords dared to block Xu Lai's way, he would not be polite at all.

Su Ya saw further than Ji Long. When Xu Lai sent Roland to take action, Su Ya knew that Xu Lai wanted to kill this group of guys.

Sure enough, it didn't take long before both sides started to quarrel and drew their weapons.

It was nothing for Roland to draw his weapon, but if others drew their weapons in front of Xu Lai, there would be no way they could escape unscathed unless Xu Lai didn't care.

As soon as the quarrel started, Xu Lai closed the window on his side.

Su Ya knew very well what this meant.

"Then let them come over and see whether their heads are harder or my knife is harder."

Su Ya shook her head helplessly, moved Xu Lai's head to her thighs, and said with a smile:
“Of course your sword is hard, but once the killing begins today, you will become a thorn in the eyes and flesh of the nobles.

I don't think there is any possibility of cooperation between the existing Northern Empire and Southern Empire.

I'm afraid they will try every possible way to create trouble for us and hold us back.

Maybe, several of the existing teleportation arrays will be closed tomorrow."

Xu Lai fell silent instantly, and helplessly said, "Tell Roland to keep as many of them alive and lock them up first."

Su Ya's words gave Xu Lai a headache.

No matter how dissatisfied Xu Lai was with these powerful people, they still enjoyed privileges in other cities.

Xu Lai went through a lot of trouble to open up teleportation arrays in one city after another, but these people might go back and say a few words, and the teleportation arrays that they had worked so hard to open might be closed.

He offered three times the average recruitment price for soldiers. Not to mention the merchants, even the nobles were tempted.

The market has been booming recently, and many people sent by nobles have come directly via the teleportation array to sell the goods.

If transportation were entirely dependent on caravans, apart from some merchants from the Western Empire and the Northern Empire, which were close to the grasslands, who else would be able to come and do business from thousands of miles away?

Although the teleportation array is expensive, the price offered by Xu Lai is enough to cover the teleportation cost and still have a lot of profit.

Besides, Qingfeng City has many specialties, including a kind of energy stone with a fairly good price, which can save a lot of costs when used to supply the teleportation array.

Qingfeng City also makes a lot of money. Just by using the teleportation array so frequently, the city can earn several thousand gold coins a day in teleportation fees.

Add to that commercial taxes and the profits from the sale of other goods, although recruiting soldiers is a bit expensive, after covering the recruitment price, there will still be at least tens of thousands of gold coins left over every day.

The surplus is after deducting various costs and marketing staff salaries.

It is equivalent to Qingfeng City. The extra income from trade alone is tens of thousands of gold coins every day.

If we add the grain handed over by the residents, the gold coins provided by the recruited farmers, and the horses provided by the herdsmen.

As well as half of the newly erected statue of the God of War, magic gold coins, gold bags, gold capsules and other treasures provided by the parliament.

Adding up all the income, after the teleportation array was opened, Qingfeng City could earn at least tens of thousands of gold coins a day, and sometimes even more than a hundred thousand gold coins.

Of course, Xu Lai has not yet deducted the expenses for supporting the army from this money.

Moreover, Qingfeng City is Xu Lai’s capital, and it is the city he built with the most effort.

If it's impossible to accumulate wealth here, it's even more impossible in other cities.

In the teleportation array level, Xu Lai is equivalent to using the resources of a small area to fight against other forces. The difficulty level is increased by who knows how many times.

"Think positively. I have seen those people outside. If I remember correctly, most of them should be from the imperial capital.

In the imperial capital, an earl is nothing, and he is not qualified to influence the teleportation array of Lionheart City."

Su Ya consoled.

Xu Lai smiled bitterly and said, "It can be considered good news."

Regardless of whether it is good news or not, Xu Lai can only be patient for the time being. After all, he does not have the ability to take over the other cities for himself yet.

He doesn't want much, as long as he unifies all the cities in the grassland and relies on the resources of the entire grassland, he will at least be able to fight.

If it could be extended outward, let alone the territory of an empire, even if only half of the empire could be conquered, the resources would be enough for Xu to grow stronger.

"In my opinion, we should fine them a sum of money and kick them out tomorrow in the name of public security punishment."

Xu Lai frowned and couldn't help but say, "If we let them go like this, they will definitely talk nonsense when they go back."

Su Ya smiled and said, "What should we do? Lock them up until they die? Wouldn't the impact be even worse if it gets out?
Besides, given their personalities, they will definitely not say anything nonsense when they go back. They might even curse this place as a den of devils.

If they say it normally, others may believe it. But once they exaggerate, how much do others believe it?

Of course, it will definitely have an impact on our reputation, but this impact should not affect other cities. After all, this is a special period.

Besides, even if the news gets out, they have made so much money doing business with Qingfeng City, are they willing to give it up so easily? "

Merchants are profit-driven, and the nobles are not much better.

As Qingfeng City is profitable, let alone some bad rumors, even if their family members were killed today, they might not be willing to do so.

"That's true.

However, with the opening of Qingfeng City, such things are expected to happen more frequently in the future.

Should we back off a bit?"

"That won't do. The nobles and merchants are always greedy for more.

If we make a slight concession today, we will make even more concessions later.

Once we allow them to develop in our territory, it will be very difficult for us to clean them up.”

Xu Lai smiled and said, "It's complicated, isn't it? I won't give them this opportunity."

Su Ya smiled and said, "If you don't give it, won't others give it?
What the nobles are best at is finding various loopholes and opportunities.

These officials in your city hall are all old people who have followed you for a long time, and most of them come from poor backgrounds.

Can they resist the temptation? If a noble wants to marry them, will they refuse?
These are just the officials of the city hall. What if Wei Yihong, Urdola, the Eboka brothers, and Lazi are tempted?
These people have made great contributions to Qingfeng City, and now each of them holds a high position of power.

If they were to marry nobles or wealthy merchants, would you give them this face? After all, they still have a clean background, and any connection they have will be a matter for the future.

What about the surrendered nobles of Conaston? Including the current Lord of Conaston Castle, do you know how many noble families the Martell family has married into? "

Su Ya asked Xu Lai a series of questions that confused him. It's not that he hadn't thought about these questions before, but he just hadn't thought about them so deeply.

In his own impression, he had always been the lord of a small city. Now he had suddenly grown stronger and even became the king of the underground. This was a time of great ambition and success for him.

However, he had just returned to his city when he encountered so many troublesome problems at once.

But what Su Ya said was the truth. Unless Xu Lai could control this city or even the world alone, no one else could do it.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to prevent the subordinates from gradually connecting with each other and eventually forming a huge group.

"Then what should we do?"

Xu Lai couldn't help but ask.

Su Ya smiled bitterly and said, "If you ask me, I don't know who to ask.

The only advice I can give you now is to not escalate the matter, but also not to give in easily.

I don’t have any experience on how to handle the situation.”

This is Xu Lai’s most fatal weakness. The ruling team is composed of novices and some questions have no answers or explanations at all.

Just as Xu Lai was thinking while resting his head on Su Ya's soft thighs, the carriage finally started moving slowly again.

Xu Lai's words came at the right time. A row of men and women were kneeling in a pool of blood on both sides of the carriage.

They were lucky, and thanks to Xu Lai's decision not to pursue the matter, they managed to survive.

But the innocent guards who followed them all fell in a pool of blood because they drew their swords.

However, Xu Lai could only deal with those who were relatively innocent and let the masterminds go.

"Did you hear anything?"

Xu Lai suddenly asked.

Su Ya was stunned, then shook her head and said, "I did hear some, but they were all groundless rumors, less than 10% true.

I won’t tell you for now, so as not to make you angry and maybe even hurt our feelings.

If there is anything to verify, I will report to you."

Xu Lai rarely comes back, and Su Ya doesn't want to upset Xu Lai because of those irrelevant things.

If it were someone else, no matter how true the rumor was, I would have to answer it if Xu Lai asked.

But Su Ya, Yu Lan and others are different.

They are not only Xu Lai's subordinates, but also his women. Of course Xu Lai has to satisfy their little whims.

Xu Lai thought for a moment and said, “Okay, let’s talk about it after you verify it.

Humans are social animals, and no one can remain unchanged.

They can marry whoever they want. If I'm not at home, you don't have to interfere.

However, the laws of the empire are no longer suitable for us to continue using.

Tomorrow you should find some people to come over and study together, and formulate a new law in the name of Urban Public Security Law that is suitable for our situation.

Didn’t you just say that it’s impossible to find the middle ground? Then let’s use the new public security law as the middle ground.

"Whatever is not prohibited by law can be done. Those who break the law will not be treated with mercy. How do you think?"

Imperial law is a naked law of privilege. The nobles have too many rights and too few obligations, and there are almost no constraints on them.

However, it is impossible for Xu Lai to abolish the imperial law unless he leaves the imperial camp one day. Otherwise, the imperial law that symbolizes the empire can never be abolished.

Therefore, Xu Lai had no choice but to come up with an innovative idea and use the public security law that is only applicable in cities instead.

Even if the public security law is used as a substitute, Xu Lai will not abolish the privilege, but will let Su Ya grasp the balance in the middle.

This is not a world where everyone is equal, nor is it a peaceful world.

If the strong cannot obtain privileges, who would be willing to follow him?

Even if he didn't need anyone else, Xu Lai himself wouldn't be willing.

Take the simplest law of life for example, would Xu Lai be willing to pay with his life for killing a civilian?
This is obviously impossible if he really wants to implement an equal system.

Then, apart from the recruited soldiers and diehard followers, everyone else would probably immediately become estranged from him and would betray him when they find an opportunity.

But the existing imperial law is too privileged. How could Xu Lai be willing to let a group of irrelevant people enjoy the empire he fought so hard for?

How to measure the middle degree is a big problem and a very tricky one.

Xu Lai's approach was to ask Su Ya to find someone to study it together. He didn't want to have the headache anyway, so he just needed to finalize and make the decision.

Xu Lai had no idea how many troubles he had given her, and Su Ya agreed without even thinking about it.

Sure enough, after Su Ya agreed, Xu Lai's frown relaxed a lot, and he even had the mood to laugh at himself:
"It seems that I am really not suitable to stay at home. If I am not at home, they can't find me and can't do anything to you.

If I were at home, they would never stop making trouble. "

Hearing this, Su Ya frowned and said, "The day after tomorrow is the New Year, you won't even skip the New Year, right?

Moreover, Mr. Wei invested countless efforts in Qingfeng City's first auction. Every day, he had to spend a lot of time and effort just to exhibit the artifacts and arrange security.

It would be disrespectful for others if you leave at this time.

Besides, no one knows how many good things will appear in this first auction. I heard from Mr. Wei that at least two artifacts have been sent to the auction for appraisal.

If you don't come back, I'm afraid people won't be willing to take out the artifact to shoot."

Although Xu Lai didn't know whether he was there or not had anything to do with whether others sold the artifact.

But he knew that he really had to be present at this first auction.

Because it wasn't just Wei Yihong, the entire Qingfeng City, including the city lord Su Ya and the lord Xu Lai, had been preparing for this auction for a long time.

First, there was a nearly half-year construction, decoration and promotion period, and now there is an additional full month of artifact display period.

When it came time to finalize the acceptance of the results, how could Xu Lai leave at this time?

“Don’t worry, even if I want to leave, I will definitely wait until the Qingfeng Army returns to defend.

There are so many people watching Qingfeng City right now, how can I dare to leave at this time? " (End of this chapter)