Godsend Field

Chapter 99 Takeover
The land in the northwest has no water all year round, coupled with the scorching sun and the raging winds, it gradually turns into sand and gravel, and the surface layer is no longer suitable for the growth of any vegetation.The sand and stones drifted around with the strong wind and hit a group of carriages driving on the road. The horses seemed to be familiar with this environment and walked forward vigorously, but the coachman felt a little uncomfortable.

"Ada, what's the matter, are you squinting?" A skinny old man behind the coachman said with concern.

"It's nothing, village chief!" Ah Da agreed, raised his whip and slapped the horse, causing the horse to speed up its pace in pain.

"Ada, do you think that tiger is telling the truth? The wolf teeth are gone like this?"

"Village chief, what are you talking about, Huzi is my brother-in-law, he dared not lie to me if he lied to anyone, if he said it was gone, he would be gone!"

"That's right, Huzi is so afraid of your sister, he won't dare to lie to you!"

"Village chief, how about I also go to serve as a personal guard for the new lord? No matter what you say, my grudge has also reached two levels!"

"Okay, if the lord really wants to clean up our northwest province, I'll ask everyone in the village to go!"

In the village at the foot of Wuzhi Mountain, two hundred personal guards closely guarded the village.Since the last Fangu battle ended, Tianci sent more than 50 personal guards to send the injured back to Shisan Village for recuperation, and the rest of the personal guards followed Tianci to Wuzhi Mountain.Spike has entrenched here for several years, forcibly occupying twelve nearby villages, collecting supplies and food every six months.And the money collected in the past six months was wiped out by the heaven-sent guards before it could be handed over to Viscount Safeiros.Under Gelu's suggestion, Tianci sent several personal guards who were familiar with nearby villages to each village to inform the village chiefs, asking them to send a carriage to pull back the handed-in food supplies and return them to the villagers.

In the living room of the largest room in the village, Tianci sat in the middle, and Gru, Lier, and Lorna stood on both sides.The twelve village chiefs below sat on both sides with nervous expressions, their foreheads were covered with beads of sweat, and they didn't dare to breathe.Gelu passed on the decree of amnesty among the village chiefs.

"Ahem!" Tianci clenched his fist and coughed lightly, and everyone immediately looked at Tianci.

"I am God-given Earl Kate. You are the village chiefs of nearby villages. Maybe you also know that His Majesty the King will seal Yanhua City as my territory on his 8226th birthday, and all within a radius of five hundred miles will be mine. Jurisdiction, everyone is also under my jurisdiction. But after I visited secretly, I found that the situation here is quite chaotic, and all the people are oppressed by the villain Langya and live in dire straits. As an earl, as a guardian of the empire I can't tolerate such a thing happening in the empire, in my territory."

"Yesterday, my personal guards surrounded Langya in Fangu and wiped them all out. From then on, you don't have to be oppressed by Langya anymore, and you can live in peace and stability. I also know that you have handed in a lot of things a while ago , are still in the warehouse now, I called you this time not only to inform you of the above things, but also to let you take back the things you handed in. I don't want any more innocent people because of Langya's evil deeds starve!

Finally, I would like to announce that according to the king's decree, all taxes will be exempted for one year from now, and taxes will be halved within three years! "

Finally finished speaking, Tianci was sweating profusely, looking at Li'er next to her, Li'er looked at herself with a smile on her face.Last night, Lier forced herself to memorize the speeches she had made all night and finally finished memorizing them.

At this time, the twelve village chiefs were already in tears, weeping bitterly, and knelt down in front of Tianci to worship. Tianci quickly stood up and helped all the village chiefs up one by one.

"My lord, there are quite a few people in our village who can fight. I hope to join your bodyguard. I wonder if you can see it?" The thin village chief asked, holding Tianci's hand tightly.

"Our village also has..." Several other village chiefs also said one after another.

"Everyone be quiet!" Gelu stood up and said loudly, "The lord's personal guards are not yet full. According to the An Empire's decree, the lord can have [-] personal guards. Up to now, there are only [-] men from our Thirteenth Village. If the village chiefs If someone recommends it, you can ask them to come to me directly, I am the head of the lord's personal guards, Gelu from Thirteenth Village!"

"Okay! We can rest assured when Gelu does things!" The village chiefs basically knew Gelu, and things in their hearts were settled.

"Village chiefs, you have also met the lord, you should go to the warehouse and take back the things in your village!" Lorna reminded the village chiefs.The village chiefs are more concerned about this batch of supplies and food, after all, it is related to the life and death of thousands of people in their villages.Farewell to the lord, the village chiefs walked quickly towards the warehouse.

"Brother Tianci, how do you feel?" Looking at the sweaty Tianci, Lier laughed.

"It's not bad, it's much better than yesterday! It's just too tired!" Tianci sat back on the chair, picked up the tea bowl, drank heavily, and put down the tea bowl, "Gelu, next, shall we continue to recruit personal guards, or directly Go to Yanhua City to take over the territory?"

"There was a battle yesterday, and food is released today. I don't think it will take three days before the nearby cities and villages will know about your arrival. If we go to take over Yanhua City immediately, even if Viscount Sephiroth hands it over, the Lord may not have enough." It is not too late to take over Yanhua City after we have enough personal guards!"

"Then how long do you think it will take us to find enough personal guards?" Tianci asked.

Gelu smiled slightly, "Judging from the situation just now, within ten days, the personal guards will definitely surpass it." Gelu mysteriously held out three fingers.

When the village chiefs pulled the carriage into the village, the nearby villages were boiling. The arrival of the new lord and the extermination of Spike ignited like a fire in the vicinity of Yanhua City, becoming the hottest topic before and after tea.The battle of the new lord to exterminate Spike was also rumored to be vivid and miraculous.

In a gorgeous room in Yanhua City, the butler ran into the door in a panic, "My lord...the news is absolutely true! The new lord has indeed arrived in Shisan Village!"

Viscount Sephiroth picked up a grape with his slender fingers and put it in his mouth, "I know, what should come will always come, what's the fuss!"

"But my lord, the new lord is in Thirteen Village, last time we..."

"So what about Shisan Village? If the village chief is so kind as to ask me for it, I'll give it back to him... I'm afraid he won't dare to come to see me in his life!"

"Then what should we do next? I heard that the new lord has recruited more than 3000 guards in less than ten days."

"What should I do? Continue to go back to my Hotan City to enjoy the blessings. I am afraid that we will be able to return to the capital in a short time!" Viscount Sephiroth stood up, walked to the window, and looked at the sky in the distance, "Your Majesty, you are brilliant." !"

Thirteen villages are busy. More than 2000 people from various villages were recommended by the village chiefs to become personal guards. Adding the previous 400 people, there are now a total of more than 3000 and 2000 personal guards.Almost all the more than [-] newcomers brought their own dry food and tents, and they gathered and set up on the outskirts of Shisan Village, just like a small military camp.

It is certainly happy to have more personal guards, but at this time Tianci is very upset.

Looking at Li'er, Gru, Lorna, and the village head who were sitting next to him, Tianci also said bluntly, "I brought a total of two thousand purple gold coins this time, and seized more than 500 purple gold coins from the devouring mercenary group." Purple gold coins, more than 1000 purple gold coins were seized from Langya. At the beginning, [-] purple gold coins were used to form the bodyguards and compensate the five strong men, and nearly [-] purple gold coins were used to buy equipment and things, and now only [-] are left I'm afraid that these purple gold coins are not enough to support the military pay of the personal guards, not to mention the equipment...food..."

Everyone was silent, unable to think of a good way for a while.

"Brother Tianci, after we take over Yanhua City, can't we use the taxes there?" Lier suggested.

Tianci shook his head, "The whole country is tax-free this year, how can I continue to collect taxes?"

Lier was a little sad, "It would be great if I were from a comprehensive college, and I would be able to help you, Brother Godsend!"

Tianci's eyes lit up, he turned around and picked up a pen and paper, wrote some words in a swish, folded it up and handed it to Gru "Gru, you send someone to the Duke's Mansion in Anconakate, and give it to my mother, who is the second lady of the Duke's Mansion." !"

"Yes!" Gru took the letter and handed it to Rona, who stood up to handle the matter.

"My lord, I have actually talked to the representatives of each village. They insisted on not having military pay. I think I can discuss it with them. Ten gold coins per month for the first year will be added year by year. You What do you think?"

"This saves a lot of military pay, but what about equipment? A person's weapons and armor need at least one purple gold coin..."

"In terms of weapons, more than 500 weapons were seized in the last extermination of Langya. In terms of armor, we can first equip the guards who don't have fighting spirit, and those who have fighting spirit don't need armor for the time being." Gelu suggested.

"Hey, I have to do this! I never thought that being a lord would be such a headache! Gelu, let's take back Yanhua City as soon as possible!"

This day is a day that is remembered by the people of the entire Yanhua City, and no one can forget it. On this day, their fate took a turning point with the arrival of a young man.

"Look!! There are troops coming, is it an enemy attack?" On the city wall, a lazy soldier suddenly saw dust flying in the distance, and thousands of people rushed towards this side.

"Hurry up and report to Viscount Saphiroth!" The soldier hurried down from the city wall, forgetting to put the weapon in his hand on the wall.

"Close the city gate, there is an enemy attack!"

There was chaos at the gate of the city, the guards were horrified, and hurriedly dispersed the people who lined up to enter the city, and five people pushed the huge gate

"Crack~~bang" the city gate was closed heavily.

The people who didn't have time to enter the city immediately fled in all directions. Even the hotel owner left the hotel, took out a bag from under the bed in his room, stuffed it in his arms and fled in embarrassment.

Tianci led 400 personal guards to the gate of Yanhua City. Except for more than [-] people who rode horses, the rest of the guards walked.Along the way, everyone traveled day and night with high spirits, and it took only one day to arrive at Yanhua City.The city gate was full of soldiers, armed with weapons, and in front of the tower directly above the city gate stood a middle-aged man dressed in gorgeous clothes. He was the only noble Viscount Saphiroth in the entire northwest province.

Tianci walked ten meters away from the city gate and stopped, and the two sides confronted each other.

Gru took two steps forward and shouted loudly, "The Earl of the Welsh Empire, the lord of Yanhua City, the capital of the Northwest Province, is a godsend; Lord Kate is here, please open the door quickly to welcome you!"

The corner of Viscount Saphiroth's mouth tilted up, staring at Tianci in the middle, "I am Viscount Saphiroth, and I was appointed to take charge of Yanhua City. I was shocked to hear that Earl Tianci came. I wonder if there is any proof?"

Gelu snorted softly, and held up the Heaven's Amnesty Order in his hand, "Here is the Heaven's Amnesty Order, how could it be false?"

Viscount Sephiroth laughed loudly, "The decree of amnesty will not be false, but I can't guarantee the person who takes the decree of amnesty. Besides, no one here has ever seen the Earl of Godsend. Even if you say you are, we There's no way to tell the difference."

"You..." Gru was speechless angrily.

Tianci drove the horse also came up, "Then you mean that you don't recognize us?"

"Don't worry, my lord, I don't mean that! The decree of amnesty was issued by His Majesty the King himself, so there is naturally a way to distinguish the authenticity, as long as the lord count drips blood on the decree of amnesty, the authenticity can be distinguished." Safei Viscount Ross said.

It was a godsend meal, and I remembered that at the banquet of His Majesty the King, when the court attendant handed over the decree of amnesty to him, he supervised himself on the spot to drop a drop of blood on the front of the decree of amnesty.

After receiving the order of amnesty from Gru, Tianci bit his finger, and a drop of blood dripped on the front of the order of amnesty. Suddenly, the three big golden characters on the front of the order of amnesty shone brightly. Even under the scorching sun, it was hard to hide the light .Looking at the shining decree of amnesty, many soldiers on both sides couldn't help but knelt down and worshiped, shouting "Your Majesty."

"Hehe! Sure enough, the Earl is here in person, pass my order, open the city gate to welcome the Earl!" Viscount Sephiroth issued orders to the soldiers behind him.

The city gate was wide open, and Viscount Saphiroth walked to the door to greet Tianci in person. After saluting, Viscount Saphiroth said with a smile on his face, "I don't know that the Earl is here in person, so I forgive you for being negligent."

"Viscount Saphiroth, you should have heard that His Majesty the King gave me Yanhua City as a territory. I was studying at Imperial College and didn't immediately take up the post. Now I'm here..."

"That's natural, that's natural!" Before Tianci finished speaking, Viscount Sephiroth said first, "General Seiya left in a hurry, and I reluctantly came here to manage Yanhua City for my lord. Now my lord is here. , I naturally want to return the management rights to the adults. And I saw that the adults have more than three thousand personal guards, and all of them are capable of completing this important task. I will also be able to unload this burden and return to Hetian City to cultivate well One click!"

Walking on the road leading to the City Lord's Mansion, all the residents of Yanhua City heard that the new lord was coming, and excitedly ran to both sides of the official road to look at the new lord.If it weren't for the guards who opened the way on both sides in advance, the residents would have crowded onto the avenue long ago.

"Hehe, it seems that your lord has such a high prestige in the hearts of the people. When I came to Yanhua City that day, there were not even one-tenth of the crowd here." Walking side by side, Viscount Sephiroth said with a smile .

"My mother said that the human heart is made of flesh. As long as you have people in your heart, they will naturally have you in their heart!"

"Hehe, your lord is right, right!" Viscount Sephiroth smiled awkwardly, which was uglier than crying.

Entering the City Lord's Mansion, Tianci and Viscount Safeiros quickly handed over.

Except for the issue of city defense that Gru can do for Tianci, other things need to be done by Tianci himself.Gelu skillfully ordered the three squadron leaders to take over the city defense with their respective squadrons.In the personal guard, a hundred people form a squad, a thousand people form a squadron, and 5000 people form a regiment.

In the past, when the lord took office, he would bring many aides to help him hand over the management. This time, Tianci was forcibly arrested by Gelu, and there was no staff to follow him.Although I stayed in the Management Department of Imperial Comprehensive College for a while, Tianci didn't learn anything. "If I had known today, I should have listened to it!" Tianci thought regretfully.It's true that when the book is used, there will be less hate!
Seeing Tianci's embarrassed look, Viscount Sephiroth stepped forward, "It seems that the Earl doesn't have many staff this time, but it doesn't matter, my territory is in Hotan City, if you find any problems in the future, you can come to me at any time , I swear to God, I, Viscount Sephiroth, will never deny my account after the handover like everyone else. In this way, my lord can rest assured!"

Tianci smiled slightly, "Then I will thank Viscount Sephiroth first. But there are still a few things I want to ask."

"My lord, may I ask?"

"His Majesty the King once clearly stated that the whole country will be exempted from taxes this year. Why don't you implement the King's order and instead increase taxes year by year?"

"The orc empire invaded with troops, and General Seya personally went to supervise the battle. The so-called army has not moved, and the food and grass go first. Although it is clearly a war, it is actually food and gold coins. Since the beginning of the war, the Ministry of Military Affairs and the Ministry of Finance have The military expenditure of our Northwest Army has increased, but it is still a drop in the bucket, far from enough for actual needs. I have no choice but to collect taxes and raise funds for the army. Although it is hard for the people, it is better than losing the war. My Northwest was killed by orcs The bloodbath is good. The West Malaysia rebellion 40 years ago is the best evidence."

"Rebellion in West Malaysia?"

"The earl is still young, and the history book has not yet been edited. Maybe you don't know it very well. 40 years ago, the acting governor of the Northwest was dissatisfied with His Majesty's decree and the restraint of the general of the Northwest Army. He openly rebelled in Sima Po, which not only severely damaged I launched the Northwest Army, and opened the border to introduce the orcs to invade. At that time, the orcs bloodbathed countless villages in the northwest of my country. At that time, it caused a great uproar in the whole country, and even the French Empire took the opportunity to attack us. Later, Lord Rafal Saint It was only then that the orcs were driven back to Kundong Mountain. From then on, the general of the Northwest Army will be in charge of the governorship of the Northwest."

Viscount Sephiroth paused, "If the Earl thinks that I am wrong in collecting taxes privately, you can report to Your Majesty, and I will take the blame. However, I also hope that the Lord can impeach the Ministry of Military Affairs and the Ministry of Finance at the same time, so as to avoid the Northwest military expenditure next time. They are exhausted, threatening the safety of my people in the Northwest."

When the two giants of the Ministry of Military Affairs and the Ministry of Finance were involved, Tianci was speechless.Viscount Sephiroth looked calm and composed.

"Let's put this matter aside, I still want to ask you, Langya gang is doing evil everywhere, why do you still protect him and let him kill the whole village of Wuzhi Village?"

"My lord, I misunderstood that Langya was a bully in Hotan City at the beginning. I caught him on the spot when he committed the crime. I punished him and drove him out of Hotan City. I didn't want this person to repent and form bandits. I wanted to Raise all my personal guards to wipe them out. I don’t want to encounter General Seiya and leave for the border. The country’s affairs are so important, so I had to give up and take over Yanhua City with my personal guards. In the past few years, Langya didn’t know how to restrain himself and went to my place to continue doing evil , I am determined to destroy them, but I suffer from too few personal guards, and I have to be responsible for the daily garrison of Yanhua City to maintain order, so I am really powerless to attack them. Fortunately, the Earl wiped them all out, and it is a pity for our Northwest Province to get rid of this big trouble. Hey!"

Godsend was speechless. . .

"Then why did you join forces with Spike to snatch the ancestral long sword from the head of Shisan Village?"

"Your Excellency is surprised! Last time I heard that Langya besieged Thirteen Villages, I was afraid that the tragedy of Wuzhi Village would happen again, so I took people to rescue them. When I arrived at Langya, most of them left. I only killed a few." Hey, a few weapons were seized. According to the rules of the empire, all the seized personal guards belong to me. If there is really any ancestral long sword mentioned by the adults, you can ask the village chief to recognize it. As long as the village chief recognizes it , I will return it on the spot!"

"You...you are talking nonsense! You are a nest of snakes and rats!" Gru next to him said angrily.

"Bastard, what dare you speak to us nobles like that! If it weren't for the fact that you are the head of the earl's personal guard, I would have killed you long ago!" Viscount Saphiroth's face sank and he roared angrily.After being questioned by such a little baby for a long time, he was already full of anger, and he could just use Gru to vent his anger.

"My lord!" Gru bowed to the sky, "Even if my father came, I'm afraid he wouldn't come up with the real thing for my father to recognize!"

"Hehe, what do you think my Viscount Sephiroth said? I swear to God, if your father dares to come to see me, I will take out all the weapons I deserve for him to identify, never False, if you violate this oath, you will be struck by lightning, and your soul will never be at peace!" Viscount Sephiroth stared at Gru with red eyes.

On the mainland, no matter ordinary people or princes and nobles, they all attach great importance to their oaths. Viscount Saphiroth has made such a poisonous oath, and no one can believe it!

"Okay, just wait, I'll call my father right away!" With God's permission, Gelu rode on a fast horse and galloped away.

"My lord, let's continue the handover. If there is anything unclear, just ask!" Looking at Gru's back as he galloped away, the corner of Viscount Sephiroth's mouth was raised secretly.

Thirteen villages

"Father, go to Yanhua City with me. There is an adult who even swore a poisonous oath by Safeiros. As long as you arrive, you can get back our ancestral long sword!"

The village head sat dryly, silent.

"Father, at the beginning you were afraid that he would hurt the villagers because of his power. Now that the earl is in charge, we don't have to be afraid of him anymore. Why are you hesitating?"

"No, how many times have I told you, if you don't go, you won't go!" The village chief stood up abruptly, roaring angrily, with a grim and painful face, "Unless you kill me, I will never confront him!"

"Bang!" The village chief's door was slammed shut.

(End of this chapter)