The Invincible Overlord of Heroes.

In theory, there can be no country without Congress.

Only with a Congress can a country be established. It is not allowed to have two Congresses in one country.

The reason why the four great empires of the east, west, south and north have not been able to completely break away from the empire is that, except for the capital Lionheart City, the four great empires do not have their own parliament.

Even though the Northern Empire was recognized by the Temple, the former Grand Duke Aled, now King Aled, still failed to build his own parliament.

Theoretically, this thing will only explode if the capitals of other countries are destroyed.

Of course, there are some special situations where it can be obtained, such as through the wishing stone, which is said to be able to wish for anything.

There are also some special altars in the wild where you can use sacrifices that meet the requirements to get what you want.

In addition, top-level blueprints or artifacts may also appear in top-level diamond treasure chests, but this depends on luck.

If you are unlucky, the country may not even get a parliamentary building from its founding to its demise.

[Congress]: 1. Provide basic magic supplies and basic magic arrays, such as magic lamps, fireproof magic arrays, constant temperature magic arrays, etc.

2. Provide a license for building a royal palace, allowing the king to build a royal palace near the parliament.

The palace can provide additional recovery effects for the king and his wives, concubines, ministers, guards, pets, and war horses.

The palace can provide the king with a higher level of magical protection, allow guards to be stationed there, and provide a certain number of defensive buildings and facilities.

(Note: The specific array and facilities will be determined by the size of the palace.)
The palace can increase the growth rate of all organisms in the city by 50%.

3. Provide national taxes: For every farmer (militia) in Qingfeng Fort, 1 gold coin will be provided as tax every natural month.

In the country you build, all commercial activities will be automatically taxed according to the ratio you set. The current default tax ratio is 10:1, that is, for every transaction of 10 gold coins, 1 gold coin will be automatically paid to the council hall.

4. National Affairs: The Congress provides many office facilities including the Finance Room, Conference Room, Office, Guard Post, Propaganda Room, etc.

The national policies formulated by members of parliament can be transmitted to all parliaments, interior departments, meeting halls, village offices and other offices in the country through the national affairs function after obtaining the king's approval.

5. Gather: The Congress can gather the scattered magic power within the sphere of influence of the country, and gather gold coins based on this magic power (5000-20000 gold coins can be provided every day, affected by the magic tide and the size of the sphere of influence, and currently 10000 gold coins can be provided every day)

6. Capital: The city where the Congress is established will automatically be upgraded to the capital of the country, allowing the following buildings to be upgraded or constructed:
1. Allows the construction of a small palace, the construction cost is million gold coins;

10,000 units of basic resources such as wood, ore, and steel;
One thousand units each of rare resources such as gems, crystals, sulfur, and mercury;
Mithril, adamantium and other top-level resources are 100 units each.

2. It is allowed to build a large palace, and the construction cost is the small palace * 10.

3. It is allowed to upgrade the city wall to the capital city. The wall must be at least 20 meters high and 8 meters wide, and reduce 75% of the ranged damage.

The cost will be determined by the size of the wall to be upgraded, as well as the scale of the city.

4. It is allowed to upgrade the Cloud City to an Advanced Cloud City. After upgrading, you can directly recruit level 8 archangels.

Costs 30 gold coins, 5 units of wood, 5 units of stone, 50 units of crystal, and 100 units of gems.

5. It is allowed to upgrade the Champion Hall to the Grand Champion Hall. After the upgrade, 5 level 7 knights can be recruited every month.

Costs 10 gold coins, 2 units of wood, 2 units of stone, 50 units of crystal, and 50 units of gems.

7. Establish a nation. If you have the power of Congress, you will be allowed to establish your own country, and the king will be the leader of this power by default.

Note: If the leader of the faction does not agree to establish a nation, all heroes within the faction will not be able to build the Congress. Forcibly building the Congress will be considered as a betrayal of the faction.

8. The only thing is that you can only have one congress. When your forces capture other congress cities, the congress of that city will be downgraded to a parliament.

On the contrary, if your congress city is captured and the other side also has a congress, the congress of that city will be downgraded to a parliament.

Congress construction cost: upgraded from Parliament, only one can be built nationwide, the upgrade cost is 50000 gold coins, wood*1000, ore*1000, steel*1000, gems*50, crystal*50, sulfur*50, mercury*50, mithril*5, and fine gold*5.

After reading the properties of the "Congress" blueprint, Xu Lai let out a long sigh of relief.

He had known for a long time that Congress was important, but it was not until he saw the blueprints and understood the attributes of Congress that he realized that he had underestimated Congress.

It can be said that the Congress is the most important building in the entire country, without a doubt.

Only with a Congress can we truly become a country, otherwise we can only be a single force.

Moreover, Congress can impose business taxes throughout the country and issue executive orders to all of its cities, large and small.

At the same time, only with the establishment of Congress was it allowed to build the imperial palace, advanced cloud cities and capital-level city walls.

All these illustrate the importance of Congress.

That was why Xu Lai didn't even pretend to refuse. Dur handed it to him, and he put it into his own space ring.

“This gift is so precious, to be honest, I feel unworthy of it.

Just as you said just now, once they come to the grassland, they are my subjects, regardless of whether they are believers of His Majesty the God of War or not.

Providing them with the necessary supplies for survival is the duty of every lord.

However, I really couldn't refuse to take this drawing, so I had to put it away.

However, I just looked at the blueprints, and a building like the Congress can only be used after the leader of a faction agrees to establish a nation."

Reality is not a game with only one player.

Any hero, noble or individual of any other identity, as long as he has the corresponding blueprint, can build the corresponding building in his own city.

However, the Congress is unique. If subordinate heroes establish the Congress at will without the consent of the leader of the power, then the capital will be placed in someone else's city.

Therefore, to establish a congress, the leader of a force must agree to establish a country, which can also be regarded as a reminder to the leader of that force.

Of course, Xu himself was the leader of the power, and all the nobles in the entire grassland had submitted to him.

So, he can build Congress wherever he wants.

However, if he insisted on building Congress in someone else's city, he would not be able to regret it if any problems arose in Congress.

Throughout history, it seems that no king would hand over the capital to other lords.

"That's right." Durr answered without hesitation.

However, Xu Lai was not actually asking this question; he had to make it more obvious.

"I'm talking about building a country."

Dur smiled and said, “Although I am old, I have good ears.

This blueprint was given to you by His Holiness the Pope. You should understand what it means.

I dare not say or promise anything else, but after you establish your country, the Temple will certainly recognize the legitimacy of the country you have established. I cannot guarantee anything else, but at most I can help you mediate when other countries have objections.

But you don't have the bloodline of the Aled family, and you don't have any marriage relationship with the Aled family.

Even if we establish a nation, no nobles will respond, and we will inevitably offend the rulers of the Northern Empire, the Southern Empire, and the Eastern Empire."

Xu Lai smacked his lips and said:

"My relationship with the Northern Empire is actually pretty good. If I want to establish a country, will I really offend them completely?"

The Eastern Empire had no borders with him and had an extremely arrogant attitude, as if it did not take the other three empires or Xu Lai seriously.

Being at odds with the Eastern Empire was already a reality, and there was no conflict of interest between Xu Lai and the Eastern Empire.

Except for the Eastern Empire, he has a good relationship with the Northern Empire, and he still needs to borrow the Northern Empire's mountain fortress.

Needless to say, the Southern Empire is his most important trading partner today.

Once we fall out with these two countries, the worst case scenario is that diplomatic relations will be severed, and the worst case scenario is that trade will be cut off or even war will break out.

Fighting, Xu Lai is not afraid of fighting. The Northern Empire has also experienced a war not long ago and is directly under the threat of hell.

The Southern Empire has very poor combat effectiveness and is extremely far away from the grassland, so if it really sends troops, it can only be by sea.

As for the sea, Xu Lai would not have to take any action, as the Naga would never allow the Southern Empire troops to run rampant within their borders.

The key point is that Xu Lai is still the biggest financial backer of the Naga tribe, and just helping Xu Lai overturn a few troop transport ships will be enough to give the Southern Empire a headache.

What Xu Lai was afraid of was that these two empires would cut off trade with him.

Trade is about exchanging what you have. For example, the grassland is obviously short of food, and no merchants from the northern and southern empires are entering, so it is almost impossible for Xu Lai to obtain additional food and fodder.

“The establishment of the Northern Empire was also recognized by the Temple.

If you have any concerns in this regard, I can ask Bishop Kemiler to go to the Northern Empire in person to negotiate for you."

Crimson Archbishop Kemiller was originally in charge of the affairs of the northeast region and had a good relationship with King Aled.

In addition to Xu Lai's relationship with King Aled, as long as he is willing to make a promise and guarantee not to invade the territory of the Northern Empire, the Northern Empire probably doesn't want to fall out with Xu Lai.

Others may not know the information about the orc invasion, but the Northern Empire is absolutely clear about it.

“As for the Southern Empire, you don’t need to worry about it.

The merchants in the Southern Empire have never had any principles.

As long as they can still make money, they don't care what others say or do.

If the profit is enough, it would be no problem to ask them to help you snatch the daughter of High King Aled."

Xu Lai paused and said, "Why would I want Aled's daughter? I heard that Ms. Aled is already over 40 this year."

Dur shrugged and said, "What does this matter? If it weren't for this relationship, how could the Southern Empire become an independent country?"

Dur's tone was full of disdain for the current ruler of the Southern Empire.

But this has nothing to do with Xu Lai. He just needs to make sure that the Southern Empire will not cut off trade ties with him, so he has nothing to be afraid of.

After thanking Dur again, Xu Lai was not in a hurry to return to Qingfeng City.

Originally he needed to go back immediately, but with this congressional scroll, he still needed to make some preparations.

Regardless of other things, his current team cannot be directly carried over to the period after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

In a country, the most important person is the king, but ministers are also indispensable.

When Xu Lai founded the country, he faced the issue of reward.

At this time, he was actually reluctant to reward his subordinates. It was not because he was stingy, but because he felt that many people's contributions were not worthy of the positions he wanted to reward.

There are also some people who, although not to say they have not made any contribution, have indeed just joined his forces not long ago.

If these former nobles were not given a higher position, it would not only be unreasonable but would also easily cause backlash from all the nobles.

Give it to them, but Xu Lai couldn't accept it and felt like he was at a disadvantage.

For now, one of the greatest contributions to him and the entire grassland forces is in this city.

So Xu Lai did not leave in a hurry, but took his think tank Yu Lan and had a secret meeting with the Lord of the Stone City, Lena, until midnight.

No one knew what they talked about. All we knew was that the next day, Xu Lai brought his men and boarded the teleportation array.

Reina, who was supposed to be in charge of the affairs of Stone City, entrusted the placement of believers to Dur.

Three days later, the administrative affairs of Stone City were entrusted to a strange elven woman.

Along with the elven woman appeared more than a hundred green dragons.

Xu Lai had seen this elf before. He had come to Qingfeng City during the auction as an envoy of the Elf Queen.

Xu Lai had already agreed to leave Stone City as a backup city for the elves.

After obtaining Xu Lai's permission, the elves sent out a construction team and some elven troops that could be considered reinforcements.

To be honest, Xu Lai was very touched that the elves were still able to send troops to support him even when the situation was so severe, and they sent flying troops like the Green Dragon, which had extremely high combat effectiveness.

Unfortunately, the battle ended too quickly, so the enemy and the elf troops made a detour, and when they finally arrived, they had missed it perfectly.

The elves sent these green dragons here, perhaps just to protect their own people, but they set out at the very beginning of the battle after all.

An elf and a human 8th-level Crimson Archbishop preside over the lives of humans and elves respectively. There will be no problems in Stone City in the short term.

Lena brought Xu Lai's Qingfeng Legion to Qingfeng City to participate in the subsequent reward ceremony.

The awarding ceremony, which was originally limited to the Qingfeng Legion, was expanded by Xu Lai to the entire grassland.

Not only Reina and the Qingfeng Legion were transferred to Qingfeng City.

Across the entire grassland, all city lords, parliament chairmen, and high-level generals will all return to Qingfeng City to report on their work.

Xu Lai has various intelligence constantly gathering from various cities.

And his think tank, together with consultants such as Jilong and Naru, have some knowledge of the various cities on the grassland.

These days, they have been constantly compiling various intelligence and providing their necessary opinions on the next rewards and punishments. (End of this chapter)