It is 180,000 miles away from Anyi and surrounded by mountains. There is a fertile grassland tens of thousands of miles in size.
Here was the fiefdom of a third-grade marquis from the former Great Jin Kingdom, now the Qingqiu Divine Kingdom.
In the middle of the grassland, a majestic city that is hundreds of miles in size stands majestically. The contemporary head of the Qingqiu Divine Kingdom's third-ranked 'Tianmahou' clan, the current Tianmahou Ximenyou stands in front of the door of his mansion, looking up at the height of a hundred feet above the ground. That medium-sized battleship.
Huang Lang stood on the bow of the battleship with his hands behind his back, looking down at his friend Ximen.
"Tianmahou, the prince values you very much. Not only does he value you, Tianmahou, but also the 'Pegasus Heavy Cavalry' inherited by the Ximen clan. The prince wants to form a powerful assault cavalry, and the Ximen clan's Pegasus heavy cavalry should be core."
Huang Lang smiled and looked at the conquest document in Ximen's hand: "After signing the conquest document, we will all be colleagues from now on. Your family and your family's fiefdom are all in the prince's land. You will have a good time working for the prince in the future... The Duke can Expect."
Ximenyou held the Zhengpi Book in one hand and looked at Huang Lang coldly: "Sir Huang Lang, tell me that the Duke can be expected... This is too far. If you can make cakes to quench your hunger, what will you say to me today? How many people have said this?”
Huang Lang smiled and said nothing. He had actually said this to several marquises whose status was similar to that of Ximen You.
Ximenyou laughed: "Look, look, sure enough... Master Huang Lang's ability to draw cakes in the air is amazing. I am just curious about one thing. The prince himself only has a fiefdom in Kyushu. If his promise comes true, We, the wealthy families born and raised in the land of Kyushu, if more than a dozen dukes emerge, will the prince take out all his territory and grant it to me and others?"
Huang Lang squinted at Ximenyou. Tonight, Ximenyou was the first to ask this question.
After pondering for a moment, Huang Lang smiled and said: "Marquis Tianma thinks that our prince will only have the land of Kyushu in the future?"
Ximenyou also laughed: "Otherwise? What do you think, Lord Huang Lang? What the prince did today... was so earth-shattering and so loud that it was like the sound of a collapse of the sky. I could hear it clearly."
Black clouds were rolling all over the sky, and there was a faint sound of thunder in the black clouds.
Ximenyou pointed in the direction of Anyi City and sighed heavily: "The prince himself... is in an embarrassing situation. I heard that since he returned to Yuzhou after receiving the title from Qingqiu City, the prince has been assassinated more than a dozen times."
"The loyal ministers of the previous dynasty will not let the prince go... And the princes and ministers of the Qingqiu Kingdom, listen, listen, what did our prince do just now when you came to deliver the conquest document?"
"So majestic and domineering, he defeated almost all the important officials in the court by himself!"
"Yes, with the sacred weapon that governs the country in hand, as a prince, this is enough to establish himself. What should he be afraid of?"
Shaking his head, Ximenyou sighed: "But are we afraid? Master Huang Lang, frankly speaking, Prince An is a huge fire pit now... You won't force us to jump into the fire pit, right?"
Ximenyou sighed and threw the conquest letter back to Huang Lang. He rejected Wu Tie's conquest.
Friends of Ximen, and the Ximen family members behind him, were all cursing in their hearts. They were complaining to Linghu Qingqing, why did Wu Tie's fiefdom fall on his own family, so that his family was forced to become King An? ''s subordinates.
Today's matter has been made clear.
In the future, the Ximen family will not have a good life in Yuzhou. After rejecting Wu Tie's conquest, do they still want to have a good life
But, it’s better than taking refuge in Wu Tie, right
Rejecting Wu Tie only offended a prince.
If you agree to Wu Tie, you will offend the entire Qingqiu Kingdom.
Choosing the lesser of two evils, Ximenyou gritted his teeth and refused Wu Tie's conquest. He and many members of the Ximen family seemed to have seen a future scenario in which the Ximen family's industry would be frantically suppressed by Prince An's palace.
After all, this Prince An has never been a kind person.
When he was still the Duke of Yuzhou, he killed so many wealthy families in Yuzhou. How could he dare not touch even a third-rank marquis family
And the Ximen family's biggest backer in the court... Their family's biggest backer in the court was a prince who was once the Sima family. However, the Great Jin Divine Kingdom was destroyed, and the Sima family had long been moved to the fiefdom of the Jin Kingdom to live concentratedly. The Ximen family's backing was no longer useful, so what could they use to deal with Wu Tie
Huang Lang caught the expedition letter thrown back by Ximen's friend and looked at him seriously.
"Think it over again? Marquis Tianma, don't let down our prince's good intentions... If the Ximen family takes refuge in our prince, they will definitely not treat you badly in the future. For example, tonight's starlight refinement, the prince will open a special passage for You will benefit a hundredfold.”
Huang Lang pointed to the thick black cloud above his head, as thick as if it were covering the entire world.
Over the Tianmahou Mansion, there are more than 120 heavenly weapons suspended in the sky. These are the heavenly weapons that the seniors of the Ximen clan have worked hard to refine over the years. With the background of a third-grade Hou family, they can gather the materials and forge more than 120 heavenly artifacts. This is already the limit of their power.
The Ximen family is different from the Lan family to which Lan Changqing belongs. The Ximen family is regarded as a general. They are good at fighting but not good at management. Although the title is much higher than that of the Lan family and the fiefdom is much larger, in terms of financial resources, Ximen The family is too weak.
In particular, the Ximen family also needs to raise troops. Their private army, Pegasus Heavy Cavalry, is an elite heavy cavalry that even Wu Tie covets.
As for the Lan family... The Lan family has some servants to protect them, but that's all. In terms of financial consumption, everyone is not at the same level.
If more than one hundred and twenty heavenly artifacts can be refined with enough star power, it is very possible to turn acquired nature into innateness, breed enough spirituality, and transform into innate spiritual weapons, which can be at least three to five times more powerful. look.
The high-end combat power of the Ximen family can be increased several times as a whole, which is a huge leap for the entire family's foundation.
But if we miss the grace of the gods and these seven nights of starlight tempering, we don't know how much time it will take to advance these one hundred and twenty heavenly weapons.
Ximenyou felt disgusted in his heart. He looked at Huang Lang angrily and said in a deep voice: "Is it possible for King An to be able to cover the sky with one hand? We have seven days... Even if we waste one or two days, we still have enough time to temper. Refining divine weapons.”
Huang Lang looked at Ximenyou deeply: "What Tianmahou means is that you want to leave the land of Jiuzhou and go somewhere else to refine your magic weapons?"
Ximenyou's face twitched.
Huang Lang smiled slightly: "The prince said that those who left these few nights should not come back."
Huang Lang threw it away gently, and the book of Zhengpi shone with spiritual light and flew back to the pale-faced Ximenyou, floating quietly in front of him.
"Your Majesty said that during these seven starlit nights, those who signed the levy document were His Majesty's subordinates. Your Majesty will never treat them badly."
"Even if you don't sign the conquest document, as long as you stay in your own home peacefully, you are still a kind-hearted person. Your Majesty, you will never treat kind-hearted people harshly... Of course, they must be 'safe and sound'!"
"As for those who are unwilling to sign the conquest document and take their clansmen and the clan's heavenly artifacts to go outside to be refined by the starlight... Haha, as a minister of the prince's land, he is unwilling to serve the prince. That’s all, they are still secretly hoarding magical weapons and accumulating military strength... What do they want to do? Rebellion? "
The corners of Huang Lang's mouth twitched, and his smile was as weird as a weasel paying New Year's greetings to a little hen.
"Tianmahou, head of the Ximen family, think about it carefully... Think about it carefully... Well, do you want to be the prince's loyal ministers? Or are you willing to be kind-hearted people in the prince's territory? Or be... rebellious ministers and traitors with evil intentions?"
Ximen You's body was stiff, and the many Ximen family members behind him were stiff, and they were speechless for a long time.
"Think about it, think about it..." Huang Lang persuaded seriously: "The prince values the Pegasus' heavy riding. The Ximen family's ability to tame war beasts and mounts and train cavalry is also highly valued by the prince. After all, in the prince On our territory, the Ximen family is the only one!"
"Because of the importance... Therefore, the prince does not want any accidents." Huang Lang looked at Ximen friend with a smile: "I don't want any accidents at all."
Ximenyou asked Huang Lang in a very serious tone: "What if, if I, with my clan members, insist on leaving this place covered by dark clouds, and insist on refining the heavenly weapons that my ancestors have preserved from generation to generation into innate spiritual weapons?" Woolen cloth?"
Huang Lang looked at Ximen's friend with a smile: "Didn't I just say that? If Tianmahou really does this, he will never come back... This Tianma Prairie, the countless war beast mounts on this prairie, and the Ximen family's house The land, mountains, forests, and mines all belong to the prince."
A young man from the Ximen family who looked about ten years old rushed out of the crowd angrily, pointed at Huang Lang and yelled: "But why? This Tianma Prairie is... Our Ximen family has made contributions to the Kingdom of God from generation to generation and has accumulated a lot of family property!”
Huang Lang tilted his head and looked at the young man: "The family fortune accumulated through generations of contributions to the Kingdom of God... I dare to ask, for which Kingdom of God did your Ximen family make contributions?"
The young people from the Ximen family suddenly turned pale, and Ximen You and others also became stiff-faced and speechless.
Huang Lang said calmly: "Now, this land of Jiuzhou is our prince's fiefdom. You must remember it."
"Why was our prince able to obtain this Kyushu fiefdom? Because our prince has truly made great contributions to the Qingqiu Kingdom and eradicated the most destructive remnants and traitors of the previous dynasty!"
"And you haven't accomplished even an inch of your work!"
"Do you think that with a flimsy letter of allegiance, you can get your Majesty to accept you? Haha, it's a joke!"
"Look at it clearly, look at it clearly, how many people without fiefdoms, newly minted relatives of the emperor, with red eyes, are roaming around the world with good land for wealth and water?"
"In addition to taking refuge with our prince, if your Tianmahou family does not give up your ancestral business and become a commoner willingly, you will be wiped out sooner or later. Do you believe it?"
"You don't have to believe it... but think about it for yourself, how much confidence does His Majesty have in you?"
"Haha, your Majesty is currently busy dealing with the invading army of the Great Martial Kingdom, and has no time to pay attention to you knights left over from the previous dynasty..."
"But as this young man said, you have served the Kingdom of God for generations, and your ancestors have worked hard to obtain this fiefdom."
"Your ancestors were loyal to the previous dynasty... not the Qingqiu Divine Kingdom!"
"The book of conquest is right here... Think about it carefully, think about it carefully." Huang Lang looked at Ximen friend with a smile: "Tianmahou, in our prince's land, according to the customs of various feudal states, it is natural to set up a military department. . There is already a candidate for the left prime minister of the military department, but among the various palaces under the military headquarters, the positions of the master of the 'Tianma Palace' and the Tianma Heavy Cavalry Corps are vacant."
"You... must... decide... to... think... clearly... clearly!" Huang Lang warned Ximen, word by word, very slowly and seriously.
The battleship suddenly rose into the sky and quickly disappeared into the black clouds.
In the black cloud, a huge vortex was visible to the naked eye, and it swallowed the battleship in one go.
Black clouds cover the land of hundreds of states. Wherever the black clouds cover, Wu Tie can use the power of the divine whip to move the battleships he sends out into the void and appear anywhere under the black clouds at will.
Otherwise, with the manpower he sent out, it would be impossible to visit the wealthy families in Jiuzhou one by one overnight.
It's a long night, but it's also a short night.
When the starlight in the sky gradually stagnated, and a hazy black curtain gradually spread from the highest point in the sky, blocking the stars and moon behind, Huang Lang, Li Ergouzi and others, who had been busy all night, finally stopped.
In Wu Tie's Jiuzhou fiefdom, more than thirty large families with second- and third-grade dukes and titles, as well as several counties and districts in their fiefdoms, brazenly left their fiefdoms, taking with them the core clansmen and the treasures left over from the ancestors' sacrifices. Shi Shiran, the divine weapon of heaven, left.
Some families with marquisships hesitated for a while and then left.
Among the families with earl titles, only a few have strong in-laws, or a family from a large family or a branch of a large power has left.
Others, including the most hesitant Lan Changqing and others, gritted their teeth, bit their fingertips, and heavily stamped their bloody fingerprints on the conquest book made by Wu Tie's secret method... Hesitated. After a while, Lan Changqing and other more sophisticated people still used a writing brush to seriously write down their names and family origins on the conquest book.
In fact, stamping your fingerprints on the levy document feels like signing a contract of betrayal.
It's a little more dignified to sign with a brush.
Of course, in fact, it is the same thing, but in terms of form, Lan Changqing and others must not be careless.