Cold Wind City, the City Lord's Mansion, the night is heavy.
After the long-legged family was expelled, the Allard family occupied this luxurious and spacious mansion.
Inside the mansion, there are magic fountains surging day and night, arcane gardens that are evergreen throughout the seasons, and a patchwork of architectural communities. As for the Frost Goddess' Winter Temple, it is even more glorious and magnificent, one of the best in the entire Northland.
In order to show the new atmosphere of the new powers, the mansion buildings are also hung with dazzling lights, and the courtyard promenade has been renovated to make it even more dazzling after night, adding new scenery to the city.
When you look up from the broken house in the craftsman area in the city, you can see the shining light on the spire of the mansion in the north of the city. Let the civilians and nobles in the city feel... How much does it cost
Living in the City Lord’s Mansion did not improve the status of the Arad family. The rushing out of gold coins decorated the facade of the mansion, and failed to enhance the family's strength.
For half a year, the old Allard had to feel distressed for a few seconds before going to bed when he closed his eyes.
In fact, there is no gain, just wrangling with other powerful and powerful.
Lehman and Minos are no weaker than the Arad family, coupled with a large number of low-level aristocrats clamoring to divide power and share the spoils, it is upsetting every day.
When waking up every day, Old Allard thought about which opponent he was going to eliminate to frighten other powerful people. In order to maintain the stability of the ruling, family wizards and knights kept secretly eradicating dissidents.
The little nobles in the city suffered heavy casualties due to this, but the dissidents did not decrease, but increased. The situation of the Arad family is not getting better, but getting worse.
The power of the family is constantly being consumed.
It’s a little bit less each time, and the more times it accumulates is considerable.
Only because the little nobles that were eliminated failed to help the Arad family. Their remnants scattered and fled without whereabouts.
Until one day there was a news that the emerging'rich and powerful leaders' outside the city had formed a light cavalry with a size of 100 men. Most of its members are the former noble knights of the defeated Coldwind City.
The news made old Allard even more sleepless day and night, restless sleep and food.
The rule system of the alien world is very simple, it is just a dual structure of lord and vassal.
This is the result of low agricultural production and limited management capabilities, and cannot afford too many real'people'. The lowest level'person' is also a title of'knight' anyway, controlling a village and possessing a lot of privileges higher than ordinary people.
As for the common people underneath, they don't have any rights, let alone any property, and they are no more advanced than livestock.
Zhou Qingfeng expanded this ruling system when he was in the Black Forest. By integrating the original human settlements and foreign trade, more residents in his territory became real people.
Doing a bit of officialdom is called'improving production relations and liberating productivity'.
In order to restore the country, Enisa took away 50 adventurers equivalent to "knights" from Harmony Village at one time, two or three hundred militiamen.
This reflects the strong mobilization ability under the new system.
Zhou Qingfeng didn't realize that he had set up that household registration, house number, and what was so special about territories and urban planning. But this system has a powerful management effect.
Old Allard couldn't open the account book and accurately find the home of a certain farmer in his territory. There was no way to know how many strong people there were in the farmer's family and how much grain could be collected.
The old-style lords didn’t even know where their lords lived. They expropriated materials in a particularly brutal manner. With a small number of servants or knights under their control, they suddenly surrounded the villages in the territory, and then...
robbery!
This low-level management method is destined to collect less than a large number of people and materials, and cannot support real "people". In the final analysis, the ruling institutions are too simple.
The old Allard is not afraid of the "rich and powerful collar" with tens of thousands of civilians. In his understanding, they are just talking animals.
But more than one hundred'people' are different.
Armed these more than one hundred'people' into a cavalry squad, letting them be born out of production and only for fighting, the old Allard is even more restless.
This represents sufficient financial and material resources, but also represents a strong power and position.
The Long-legged Family of Cold Wind City only commanded more than four hundred'people' in their heyday. These'people' also belonged to a bunch of different little lords, large and small. Only part of the long-legged family.
The strength of the'rich and powerful leader' forced the remaining powerful and powerful in the city to unite. If you don't unite, sooner or later, Cold Wind City will be swallowed by the'rich and powerful leaders'.
Old Allard is distraught. He has reached an agreement with other families in recent days, and everyone joins forces to fight Victor Hugo's rapid expansion.
It takes time, and the mobilization of the old lords is so slow. Just urging the knights in the territory to gather is a big trouble.
Some will come today and some will come tomorrow. Some people say that there is no food in stock, so you need to give some food first. Some people say that there is no travel expenses on hand, and a sum of money is required first, and a servant will be sent to report that he is ill and cannot come in a week.
Old Allard is anxious during the day, hoping that his opponent's development will slow down before he is ready. He was annoyed at night, afraid that he was really ready, and the opponent's strength had reached a state of crushing.
Then it really can only be slowed down.
But what is afraid of.
Old Allard had insomnia at night, and finally got a little sleepy after a drink. The servant stumbled and ran to report: "Master, the soldiers of the inspection office are blocking the road, and even our city lord's mansion is sealed."
What
For the sake of city finances, the old Allard had to pull Hugo into the city council as the deputy speaker. The Vice-President is also very capable, and soon collected a large amount of tax for the Parliament.
For the sake of money, Hugo wants to rebuild the inspection office, and the rich and powerful in the city have no objection.
After all, someone must come to provide public services, otherwise just cleaning up the rubbish will cause a headache. But in just over a month, how dare the soldiers of the inspection office come to blockade the noble area
why
The servant said with weeping face: "It is said that someone has attacked the inspectorate. They are blocking the city to catch assassins."
The reason is bad enough.
At this time, the whole city was blocked, and the noble area was also blocked. Didn't it clearly restrict the activities of the powerful
The old Allard's brains were twisted, trying to guess Hugo's true intentions. Just when he was about to send someone to find out more, someone fell into the courtyard of the City Lord’s Mansion with flying skills, standing outside and shouting...
"Your Excellency Arad, Hugo attacked the Wizard Tower. He did it, he did it first!"
The guards of the mansion thought that foreign enemies were coming, but they were stunned when they heard the shouts.
The person who came was Piero, the changing chief of the wizarding group. He yelled and screamed without a wizarding manner, and shocked the entire city lord mansion.
Old Allard was waiting for news in the mansion, and his scalp numb when he heard Piero's yelling. He hurried to the courtyard, but saw more wizards descend from the sky.
Normally, the wizards who are very elegant and calm are all like a fleeing mouse. After landing, they are anxious and scolded, embarrassed.
Various voices poured into Old Allard's ears, making the entire city lord's mansion panicked and confused.
"Stop arguing, what's going on?"
Old Allard yelled, but saw that his house became like a vegetable market, and anyone could come in and out. Lehman and the patriarch of the Minos family brought a lot of family armed forces to him.
"Allard, you idiot. You shouldn't have brought the black-hearted Hugo into the city. He is about to do it on us now. He has already taken the Wizarding Tower."
"Allard, you quickly come up with an idea. What shall we do?"
Old Allard's cold hair stood up instantly, his hair was cold, and the little wine he had just drank all turned into cold sweat. The heads were moving in front of him, and a group of people wanted him to think of an idea.
If he had such prestige on weekdays, the old Allard would wake up from dreaming. But then he hurriedly asked: "What do you mean? How could Victor Hugo conquer the Wizard's Tower?"
The Wizard's Tower is not a pigpen.
Even in the pig pen, there are dozens or hundreds of pigs in the pen. How can you be captured casually
As soon as the question sounded, the chief of energy shaping Rao fell from the air and fell heavily to the ground. The blood flowed on his back, and he shouted with hatred:
"Allard, quickly summon the whole city. Hugo wants to control Coldwind City. He has already taken down the Wizard's Tower, and he will definitely not let us go."
Seeing the chiefs of the wizarding group in front of him, old Allard felt dizzy—what the hell was going on? Are you really pigs
A group of people were beaten so badly? Now I want to go up to the top, what do I take to top? Brains