The Invincible Overlord of Heroes.

Lina and Pierce led the Knights through the Pingfeng Mountains on May 5th.

It was too late to bring both knights with her, so Lina handed them over to Pierce and rode a fast horse with Elvy and other angels to Stone City.

On the morning of the 11th, Lina, Elvy and others took the teleportation array and arrived in Qingfeng City.

This was Lina's first time in Qingfeng City. She had only been to the grassland a few times before, let alone this city which had been built less than a year ago.

The huge and prosperous Qingfeng City made Lina's eyes light up.

"Elvy, is this the Qingfeng City that was built by His Excellency the Knight Commander?"

Speaking of which, Elvy lives and works in the imperial capital, and she is not a country woman who has never seen the world.

Lionheart City is several times larger than Qingfeng City, with ancient magic towers, towering secret arrow towers, magnificent palaces, and wide avenues.

In any of these aspects, Qingfeng City is far inferior.

However, the King's Avenue in Lionheart City is wide enough for eight carriages to run side by side, but only the king's carriage and guards can pass through.

However, the avenues in Qingfeng City are open to all vehicles and are divided into lanes, horse paths and walking paths.

There are three distinct lanes, and people are coming in an endless stream, and the shop is filled with a bustling atmosphere.

This kind of atmosphere had also existed in Lionheart City before, but only on the busy streets.

Nowadays, even those once bustling streets are becoming less and less popular.

As a female knight, Lina actually doesn't like to show up in public, nor does she like crowded occasions.

But she longed for this kind of bustle and loved this kind of prosperity, especially when she had contributed her part in the bustle.

"In fact, we haven't stayed in this city for too long."

Elvy didn't have the same feeling as Lina, because she was born to belong to this city and this city also belonged to her.

Lina is different. Elvy witnessed the city's gradual prosperity, while Lina witnessed the gradual decline of her country and her city.

When Xu Laijianguo came, many people were happy, especially the herdsmen on the grassland.

However, Lina may not be very happy, because this means that the temple has completely given up the Old Empire, the country where she and her brother were born.

After calming down, Lina smiled and said:

"Let's go report to the Knight Commander right away and bring this good news as a gift. It's just right."

After saying that, Lina glanced at the small group of orcs surrounded by a group of Seraphim.

After taking a look at the orcs, Elvy chuckled and said, "Yeah, luckily we made it in time."

Elvy did not let these angels fly to the sky. Instead, they lined up in two neat rows and escorted the group of orcs towards the former castle, now the royal palace.

The people of the grassland hated the orcs, but those that Elvy brought back could not be considered captives, but only messengers.

If it appears in a busy city and causes any misunderstanding, it would be bad.

One by one, the Seraphim spread their broad wings and covered all the orcs within them.

At this time in the imperial palace, in an unusually spacious conference room, the lords of major cities and the surrendered nobles were all sitting on both sides of a long table.

The founding ceremony and the awarding ceremony were about to begin. These city lords from far away places finally arrived in Qingfeng City before Xu Lai's deadline.

However, what is unbelievable is that the country is about to be founded, but Xu Lai is not familiar with most of the people here.

Among the nobles present, excluding Jimmy, the others were already relatively familiar to me after having met them two or three times.

Those who have been captured more than two or three times were basically people who had been captured before, and only then could Xu Lai see them more often.

On the contrary, those nobles that Xu Lai was not familiar with, and had never even met once, were the ones who remained neutral from beginning to end.

"The Lord of Cana City, Rio Canaar, salutes you, Your Majesty the King."

At the last meeting before the founding of the country, the first thing to do was for everyone to introduce themselves.

Xu Lai's founding ceremony has not yet been held. Theoretically, Xu Lai is not qualified to be called His Majesty the King at this time.

However, after taking a look at the person who stood up, the memory brought by his super intelligence instantly allowed Xu Lai to remember all the information of the person in front of him.

The Kanar family is also a traditional noble family on the grassland.

However, this family was once the imperial royal family, that is, a branch of the family of the Supreme King Aled.

There are good horses on the grassland, and the Alade family has many relatives. It is normal to send a relative to help look after the grassland.

Therefore, even though he was only a viscount, Count Eni could not move him around, and he had no subordinate relationship with Eni at all.

Not only that, the two main cities of the Canar family, one is on the grassland, namely Cana City.

However, Kana City is only a base-level city, while another castle-level city, Nar City, is actually located within the territory of the Western Empire.

The Kanar family's fiefdom was located on the grassland, but the poor grassland people were not willing to stay there at all.

After taking away the largest ranch, the family's focus actually gradually shifted to the Western Empire.

Of course, the nobles of the Western Empire did not recognize the Canal family at all. Therefore, when the Western Empire was established, there was no place for a small viscount of the Canal family.

The marriage relationship between the Canar family and the Aled family might have been useful for the first three generations, but basically no one cared about it after that.

Poor Canar family, the little capital they had in the Western Empire was directly shattered by hell.

On the grassland, their family is isolated and has no connections, and the key is that the hatred between them and Count Eni is quite deep.

It was only thanks to Xu Lai's sudden rise that the empire continued to fall apart, otherwise the Kanar family would have basically been wiped out from the grassland.

Speaking of which, the Kanal family, which was excluded by most of the nobles on the grassland, was brought here by Jimi and was the first noble to side with Xu Lai.

"Hats on Cranston, hello, sir."

The person who stood up this time was an old man about 5 or 60 years old, dressed in chain mail, just a baron.

The status of Baron is neither high nor low, and it is considered good in an earldom.

But he was able to stand up second because the time he joined Xu Lai was second only to Rio Canal.

This Cranston man, Maoshan, was not unable to integrate into the aristocratic circle of the grassland, but simply because they were relatives of Jimmy Martell's family.

Xu Lai nodded to him, then looked at the next noble who stood up.

Sure enough, the next person to stand up still had close ties with the Martell family.

The current patriarch of their family was once the closest friend of Martell's father.

Then stood up Martell's own friends, Martell's wife's family, and so on.

After hearing the last part, not only Luo Mingru, Zhang Zhiqiang and others, but even Jimmy Martell himself was a little trembling. The following city lords, even if they were not nobles, were all recommended by him, Jimmy Martell, and had some relationship with him.

But Xu Lai was very calm, as he had known about this matter for a long time.

He had anticipated this when he asked Jimmy for recommendation, but he really had no network foundation, and the heroes did not dare to let them have too much control.

Anyway, this is a world where strength speaks. The strongest troops on the grassland, the highest-level heroes, and the best equipment are all on Xu Lai, so there is nothing to be afraid of.

After everyone had introduced themselves, Xu Lai spoke last:
“As everyone knows, a lot of things have happened in the grassland and even in the entire empire over the past year.

I don't have much time to meet with you all.

Fortunately, everything is settled now, and it is time for us to enjoy the fruits of this year's battle.

However, there are a few things I must clarify with you here before the founding ceremony."

When everyone heard this, they all perked up, knowing that the highlight of the meeting was about to come.

What Xu Lai is going to say now may very well be related to the future distribution of interests on the grassland, and everyone cannot help but take it seriously.

Seeing that everyone was listening attentively, Xu Lai coughed and said:
"The first thing is the process of opening the country on the 15th. I have already had the documents placed in front of you. I believe you have all read them just now.

Among them is a ceremony for awarding honors and titles, which I need to explain to you in advance.

According to the previous feudal model, all the power of the grassland could not be concentrated and used.

Although we have repelled the orcs, there is still a huge enemy that is eyeing us covetously.

Therefore, I want to adjust the current distribution model. "

Without waiting for others to ask, Jimmy was the first to speak out:

“Your Majesty, it is no exaggeration to say that the peace of the entire grassland depends on your power.

If you hadn't stood up, we would have already become slaves of the orcs, and would never have had our current status.

It's up to you to seal it up, and we won't have any complaints."

After saying that, Jimmy took the lead in looking around at the nobles who were closely related to him, fearing that these people would jump out to object if their brains were squeezed by the door.

Xu Lai waved his hand and said, "It's okay, just listen to me first. This concerns the interests of everyone, and everyone has the right to express their opinions.

What I mean is that our enemies are still many and strong.

We can't just hide in a small grassland in the future. Are you all satisfied with this small country?"

Everyone shook their heads. The resources on the grassland were not abundant. Although the country had a large area, there was a lot of arable land.

There was an abundance of meat, but it could not feed too many people, and there were not enough soldiers.

Due to the lack of ore and wood, not many cities can be built.

Without cities, there wouldn't be enough soldiers to recruit.

In the several wars on the grassland, Xu Lai was always the victorious side and captured so many generals and soldiers, but he still did not have many troops.

This results in the grassland's extremely poor sustained combat capability. If there is even a slight loss of troops, it may take several years to recover.

With such a huge inherent disadvantage, even if a country is established, it will definitely be annexed by the four empires.

Therefore, they cannot be without ambition, otherwise they will only wait for death if they stay in a corner.

"Well, since everyone has more far-reaching ideas, I'll tell you mine.

A knight's fiefdom is normally a manor. How much land and population does a manor have?"

As Xu Lai spoke, he glanced at the recorder outside the seats, who was also Jimmy's son, Gillon Martell.

"Your Majesty, an ordinary manor is generally one-third the size of a village, with a population of about 20 households."

The one who spoke was Jilong, and the people present were either nobles or city lords, so they had some idea of ​​what was going on.

"Let me do some calculations for you. For 20 households, I assume that they have 100 people, and all of them are able to work.

Then according to the production efficiency of the farm, 5 farmers working 24 hours a day can produce 100 units of food.

For 100 people working non-stop, that means 2000 units of food per day.

Of course, this is impossible. I will assume that each household works 12 hours a day, which means that a manor can produce 1000 units of food a day.

In one month, that is 3 units of grain, and based on the previous 7% tax, that is 2 units.

But even if 7% of the food was collected, the knights would only get 3% at most, which is 9000 units of food per month.

Not only that, the weather must be good, and every household must have at least five laborers, and they cannot get sick or be lazy.

But in reality, we all know that none of these conditions can be met.”

If farmers could leave 9000 units of grain for themselves every month, they could barely survive even if they paid 7%, let alone 8%.

After all, even if there are 6000 units of food, 100 people can each get 2 units of food per day.

But in fact, this is impossible. Even recruiting farmers is impossible because the recruited farmers will still get sick.

Moreover, due to birth, aging, sickness and death, everyone's work efficiency is different, and the distribution of physical strength cannot be as precise as recruiting farmers.

A farm, let alone producing 3 units of food per month, even if it could produce half of that, the knights would be very happy.

“However, according to my idea, a knight can obtain 3000% of the tax income from the farm under his name every month, which is units of food.

Moreover, these 3000 units of food are available regardless of the weather, whether the land is dry, how hard the farmers work, or whether the manor is looted.

As long as you have the title of knight, you can get 3000 units of food every month even if you do nothing.

At the same time, the knights could also exchange their grain directly for cash based on the grain prices at the time.

Of course, it's not just knights, the same applies to other titles, each title will receive a corresponding range of benefits, no matter what happens."

As soon as Xu Lai finished speaking, someone immediately exclaimed, "Is this such a good thing?"

The natives seemed unable to believe it, but when Luo Mingru and the others looked at each other, they knew what Xu was talking about, which was nothing more than the fiefdom system.

The biggest feature of this system is that you just get paid without doing any work.

No matter how many households you have in your fief, you can only take the income of these households, but cannot manage or influence these people.

Sure enough, Xu Lai continued:

“Of course there is, but all the nobles who receive this income can no longer interfere in any specific affairs within the territory.

These affairs will be managed by specific officials, who will also receive a portion of the city's revenue as salary." (End of this chapter)