The Invincible Overlord of Heroes.

This year's May is different from last year's. This year's May is the milk month, and milk production will triple.

This is obviously a month that has nothing to do with fighting, but for the herdsmen on the grassland, it is undoubtedly a month worth rejoicing.

Since May, officials from all over the country have arrived in Qingfeng City one after another.

This also includes the businessmen that Xu Lai had invited before. Because of the distance between them and when they received the news, many of them were unable to catch up with the first batch of sales.

In addition, there was Tahan who rushed back, and the cavalry regiment he led.

The Qingfeng Legion led by Reina set out only after settling all affairs in the Stone City. They were all infantry and their pace was much slower than that of the knights.

But this time, Xu Lai wanted to expand the army, and Qingfeng City had already started a new round of recruitment.

Ten thousand infantrymen were recruited from the believers, and 3000 cavalrymen were recruited from the herdsmen.

But these thirteen thousand people have not yet welcomed back their commander.

However, the hundred or so officers that Xu Lai brought back to be promoted and re-employed were led to expand the camp and clean up the camp outside the city.

They came back via the teleportation array, so naturally the speed was very fast.

These more than a hundred officers, headed by Joseph, were mostly the herdsmen that Xu Lai brought back from the stronghold.

These people have fought with Xu Lai for the longest time, and now their lowest levels are great knights and heroes.

Originally, Xu Lai planned to train them as future military officers.

Although they have not had much experience now, they are all old men who have experienced many major and fierce battles.

Xu Lai would be of great use to these one hundred plus officers, but the orders for their rewards had not been issued so quickly.

At this time, they were all on semi-vacation, so they just helped Xu Lai train the new recruits for a while and let these believers and herdsmen get into the state quickly.

Transactions in the market became increasingly popular with the arrival of city lords, officials, and caravans and transport teams from the Stone City.

The commercial areas originally planned by Xu Lai, including the commercial areas in the outer city, are no longer sufficient.

The influx of a large number of people also caused housing prices and commodity prices to rise rapidly in a short period of time.

Fortunately, Su Ya acted decisively. In addition to opening the official cabins to supply the believers, he also opened many grain stores in the name of the official to sell grain at a reasonable price.

Xu Lai bought grain at a high price and sold it at a low price. Although he lost a lot of money, he stabilized the market.

As long as the prices of things like food can remain stable, the lives of ordinary people will not be affected too much.

After Xu Lai returned to Qingfeng City, although most of the troops did not come back with him, Roland and his paladins were brought back.

Together with more than one hundred officers including Joseph, they quickly took over the barracks and recruited soldiers from the market in the past two months.

With tens of thousands of soldiers in charge, Su Ya was ruthless in dealing with those profiteers who hoarded goods.

These guys hired people to buy grain from Xu Lai's affordable grain store, and then sold it to Xu Lai at a high price. Do they really think that others are fools?

Anyway, in the final analysis, after cutting the leeks from these dozens of unscrupulous businessmen, Xu Lai not only made no loss, but also made a huge profit.

Especially as the land prices in Qingfeng City are becoming more and more promising, these unscrupulous businessmen have hoarded a large number of land deeds.

Just the confiscated house deeds and land deeds are enough to clean out all the pockets of these unscrupulous businessmen.

As more and more wealthy officials moved into the city, Qingfeng City became more and more lively and prosperous.

Conaston Castle, once the first city on the grassland, has become more prosperous than ever after the city walls were demolished, but it is still incomparable to today's Qingfeng City.

The news that Xu Lai was going to establish a country had now become clear, and as early as the morning of May 5, the streets of the entire city were covered with the latest notices issued by the Executive Office.

The country's name, national flag, and even the Congress that had been agreed upon in advance have been officially announced.

Xu Lai does not have any bloodline of the Supreme King's family, so he cannot inherit the title of the Lion Dynasty no matter what.

Besides, the grassland is not only vaster than the former territory of the Lion Empire, but even the four empires that are now divided into pieces are each more vast than the grassland.

Even in terms of grassland size, Pingfeng Grassland is not the largest grassland in the empire.

The reason why this place is important is simply because it is backed by the Pingfeng Mountains and is a neighbor of the stronghold.

The four empires did not completely divide up the imperial territory, such as the imperial capital Lionheart City, Pingfeng Grassland, overseas islands and so on.

Perhaps because Xu Laijianguo received the support of the temple, these forces also sent delegations over.

They seem to be waiting and watching, and perhaps they also have the idea of ​​taking the opportunity to establish a country.

Even if I can't build an empire, I can build a small kingdom like Xu Lai and satisfy my desire to be a king.

On the contrary, the Eastern Empire, the Southern Empire and the Northern Empire have not made any movement so far.

The Western Empire has collapsed, but the major cities connected to the Northern Empire and the grassland, or to the sea, still fly the flags of the empire.

These cities also sent representatives here in their personal capacity.

Caoyuan is not qualified to inherit the throne, and Xu Lai disdains the title of Lion.

He once hesitated between the Tiger Kingdom and the Eagle Kingdom, but finally chose the Eagle Kingdom, which was loved and respected by the herdsmen.

As for the flag, Xu Lai is still black. The flag of the kingdom has a black base with a golden eagle embroidered on it.

The Congress was upgraded on April 4. After the establishment of the Congress, Xu Lai directly included all the grassland cities and the territories controlled by these cities through the Congress.

The moment Congress was put down, the country had actually been formed, but there was no specific ceremony.

And Xu Lai also obtained a new information panel, which represents the information panel of the kingdom of the kingdom.

【Eagle Kingdom】

King (who holds the supreme power of the Eagle Kingdom): Xu Lai

Chief Minister (the highest official assisting the king): Suya

Others: None
Capital: Qingfeng City (a national capital city)

City: Konakostun (castle-level city)
Mingyue City (castle-level city)
Midheim (castle-level city)

Bretonnia (castle-level city)
Stone City (Castle-level city)
Martell City (base-level city)
……

Sai Er Village (Village)

Note: Manors, ranches, farms, strongholds, camps, etc. are not included in the city list.

Ore vein: Rich crystal mine (Qingfeng City)

Rich Gold Mine (Mingyue City)
Rich Gem Lake (Konastunburg)
……

Barren Ore Pile (White Rock Town)

There is a lot of information on the kingdom list, but it is just an overview and gives you a general understanding.

When it comes to each city's economy, soldiers, officials, staff and other issues, there is no other way to find out except to go deep into these cities.

However, these situations are intuitive enough. For example, if a city's mineral resources are downgraded or disappear, but are not reflected in the report to the higher authorities, Xu Lai may be able to discover the problem.

Of course, the Eagle Kingdom today has nearly a hundred cities, even if we don’t count the villages and towns.

Including the estates, pastures and mineral resources covered by the villages and towns, there are thousands of them.

And no one else can see this kingdom panel except Xu Lai.

Therefore, even if the information recorded above is very detailed, he may not be able to see it.

If in the future, the Eagle Kingdom has been upgraded to an empire like the Lion Dynasty, there will probably be hundreds of thousands of pieces of information on the list.

By that time, if the information in the top ten of the list changed, Xu Lai might not be able to discover it in time.

After the official announcement was released, Aaron brought all the security guards, whose number had expanded more than ten times.

Together with hundreds of administrative staff led by Little Aboka, they constantly patrolled the streets of the city and made arrangements.

The sheriffs and security guards from other cities, as well as the members of the security stations in the villages and towns, were all temporarily seconded to Qingfeng City.

After half a month of drill training, the group of new recruits from the expansion camp were transferred back to the city to patrol and stand guard in the streets.

Normally, except for the city gates, the streets only need the security team to manage them, but now soldiers are being dispatched to stand guard.

Because more and more people are entering Qingfeng City.

Officials, nobles, caravans, envoys, and refugees wandering from the west.

Even if Xu Lai had foresight before, he would rather spend dozens of times more time to build a Qingfeng City that is big enough.

But today, it still faces terrible population pressure.

All of this reached its peak after the Qingfeng Legion led by Reina and the Knight Wind Legion led by Jimmy arrived in Qingfeng City one after another.

Even though the military camp outside the city was expanded a bit, it still could not fully accommodate the two large legions.

Moreover, a large number of troops were needed to be stationed in the city, so half of the Qingfeng Legion soldiers were urgently transferred to the newly built imperial palace.

Xu Lai worked hard and hurriedly upgraded the parliament to the Congress on April 4th, just to build the palace before May.

However, Xu Lai was not willing to build a large palace directly.

First, there was not enough time. A large imperial palace covers a large area, like a small city.

Xu Lai needs a lot of time to clear and relocate the buildings nearby, otherwise they will be cleared out directly and a lot of supplies will be lost.

Secondly, the resources of a large palace need to be increased tenfold. The others are easy to say, such as mithril and refined gold, which have no direct minerals.

The former is in the silver mine, and after collecting more than one million silver, he may be lucky enough to obtain one unit of associated mithril.

The latter is a companion organism of gold mines, and the probability of obtaining it is also extremely low.

These two top-level resources cannot be produced directly, so it is difficult to stockpile them in large quantities.

Before Xu came, he always got one unit from the east and two units from the west, and pieced them together.

Later, I killed Moril and robbed the dungeon, and I got a lot, but I couldn't use it all at once.

Besides, a large palace has no other advantages except that it is larger in area, has more rooms, and can accommodate more soldiers and servants.

The defensive strength of the palace wall remains unchanged. At most, there are fewer defensive facilities, but the area that needs to be defended will also be much smaller.

In general, building a large palace at this time was neither appropriate nor necessary.

After owning a palace, the growth rate of the city where the palace is located can be increased by another 50%.

Even the advanced Cloud City did not increase the production of angels.

But after this 50% increase, the number of angels that Xu Lai could recruit reached 5 by early May.

If we add in the quota from Lionheart City and one or two quotas from the dungeon, there will be at least 5 angels in May.

Of course, the angels from the dungeon didn't come so quickly.

After Xu Lai established the country, he might not be able to enter and exit Lionheart City freely as before.

While the founding ceremony had not yet been officially held, Xu Lai asked the temple for help in a very low-key manner and secretly went to Lionheart City again.

However, this time, he did not bring along the little angels who had failed to advance, but instead quickly recruited 15 archangels in Lionheart City and left.

Xu Lai even gave up the spot in the Wild Cloud City.

Sure enough, as soon as the archangel walked out of the Advanced Cloud City, the Lionheart City Congress issued the latest order, requiring the blockade of the teleportation array.

Unfortunately, the guards guarding the teleportation array are all temple knights.

It's no wonder. The fighting power of the Temple Knights is much stronger than that of ordinary knights. At this time, many important places have been replaced by Temple guards.

No matter what the Lionheart City Kingdom's purpose in blocking the teleportation array and wanting to see Xu Lai was, he would never be left behind like this.

Of course, Xu Lai has other ways. He can escape to the wild under the cover of the temple, and then use the gate of time and space to return.

However, if he did so, it would seem that Xu Lai was guilty, as if he really had some ill intentions.

It’s just right now. Xu Lai pretended not to hear anything. He came quietly and left quietly.

No matter what Lionheart City's attitude towards Xu Lai was, or what they intended to do by forcing him to stay, he had missed it perfectly anyway.

Xu Lai's approach to building a country was to thoroughly split the territory of the Lion Empire.

He went even further than the other four empires, because each of those four empires claimed the right of succession.

And although they added the words east, south, west and north, it was still named the Lion Empire.

Therefore, in theory, the Lionheart City Congress should be the most hostile party to Xu Lai.

However, although they did not send representatives to attend Xu Lai's founding ceremony, they did not close the teleportation array connecting to Qingfeng City.

Even though the guards are in the hands of the temple, the energy that provides the operation of the teleportation array has always been on the side of Congress.

As long as they are determined to kick Xu Lai's Qingfeng City out, the temple will have no choice but to compromise, unless the temple can accept the complete closure of the teleportation array.

The 15 archangels stolen from Lionheart City in the past few months were brought back and given to Qingfeng City’s Cloud City to upgrade it to an advanced Cloud City.

The size of the angel army has expanded by more than 30 members, all of whom are archangels with the power of resurrection.

Even at this moment, these angels can only be led by Xu Lai himself.

Their leader is still on his way back.

How could Xu Lai allow Elvy not to attend such an important event as the founding of the country?

Not only Elvy, but also Lina and Pierce, their brother and sister, were invited back by Xu Lai.

Even if the Knights cannot come back, let them rush to the nearby Stone City and take the teleportation array directly there. (End of this chapter)