Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 218 50 Yuan Bought a New Atmosphere
Fortunately, Xia Houyan's melancholy mood did not last long.

This is not because the excellent anthology Lawrence read to him "I express my heart for the lord" is so inspiring, nor is it because of the revolutionary optimism of the lord himself, but because there are too many things that need him to worry about in Frost Maple Ridge .

After receiving the guarantee from Paulus, the commander-in-chief of the Southern Army, the Igor family finally had a backer in this southern wasteland, and no longer had to worry about the open and hidden arrows from Rock Creek City every day——

The southern army escort team that Paulus promised to the lord almost followed Xia Houyan to Shuangfengling.

This reinforcement, mainly composed of a hundred Southern Army crossbowmen, has filled up the shortage of Phoenix Terrace's current military shortfall in projection power.

Of course, no one would think that a mere hundred crossbowmen could turn Shuangfengling into a strong city that would never fall.

The main function of this Southern Army reinforcement was to bring ten genuine Southern Army flags to the Igor family.

These military flags have been enchanted by the Southern Army Mage, and the flags are rippling with dazzling magic glow:

Once installed, these military flags will project a phantom of the Southern Army's iconic wasteland vulture badge in the air, proving that this territory is already under the protection of the garrison of the Imperial Southern Army.

Even the subordinates of the Duke of Houston had to think twice after seeing this image, whether they should take the risk of offending the regular imperial army to cause trouble in Phoenix Terrace.

Sometimes politics is as simple as this:
It is much more useful to show the backer behind you than to carry a three-edged scraper behind your buttocks.

In addition to receiving friendly troops and organizing the defense of the territory, another thing Xia Houyan has to worry about is the bandits on the wasteland.

The lord was dismayed to find out that this group of criminals really were his mother's ghosts:

After the last battle to defend Frost Maple Ridge, Mountbatten and Karen took advantage of the victory to pursue and lead the pioneering army to pull up several cottages in a row, which directly frightened the rest of the bandits and abandoned the villages to flee. The soldiers of the Pioneer Army left behind several empty cottage ruins.

Xia Houyan originally thought that this group of bandits should die down and go back to grow sweet potatoes, right?

But who knew, after the bandit camps in the eastern part of the wilderness were wiped out, the organized robbery of bandit gangs disappeared, but this gang of bastard bandits actually broke up and continued to do petty theft in the wasteland Illegal activities.

It was the peak trade season at this time, and there was no problem with the large caravans and brigades passing through the wasteland. Under the protection of mercenaries, they lived in the rest area honestly, paid tolls at Shuangfengling, and then crossed the North River. The journey was safe and sound. ;
However, there were also all kinds of unlucky small traders who had been beaten with sap sticks, trousers stripped, and buttocks stabbed by scattered thieves. They found Horn Eagle Manor crying and asked Xia Houyan, the only legal lord on the wasteland, to give them justice.

If there is anything the Chang Gong on Earth has taught the lord, it is probably:
Mother Xipi, the work of suppressing bandits is really not done by human beings!
If there is another thing that the Chang Gong on earth taught the lord, it must be:
Niang Xipi, suppressing bandits who are scattered and guerrilla, this job is really not even a bitch!
Even the rapidly developing Frost Maple Ridge, it is impossible to have the energy, military power and ability to carefully clean up the scattered thieves on the ground of the broken soul: this group of people can't find them if they hide in the caves and bushes. If the pioneer army really Going to search the mountains and seas inch by inch, isn't production going?Are the days running out? !

Even in the Central Plains of the Empire, small gangs of robbers and thieves organizations have always existed. Xia Houyan is not full of food, so he really has no interest in doing stupid things with unequal costs and benefits such as "completely eradicating crime".

Fortunately, the harsh natural environment of the Soul Breaking Land can largely help Shuangfengling to do this dirty work:

Without the copycat as an organization and support, the wandering bandits on the wasteland are almost in a state of no subsistence allowances: it’s okay to hit the sap, once they don’t encounter "business", they will not leave for three days. God will starve himself to death.

Therefore, Xia Houyan specially asked someone to write a letter to Commander Paulus, asking the commander to publicize at the border crossing:
Recently, there are many bandits roaming the wasteland. For safety reasons, travelers are advised not to travel on small roads. It is recommended to travel along Route 66 patrolled by Shuangfengling soldiers and stay in a safe and secure rest area along the way!

——Of course, the so-called "safety is guaranteed" refers to the safety of life, not the safety of property...

In a sense, the wasteland thieves who ran around and committed crimes did indeed play a role in attracting tourists to the Shuangfengling Highway...

For this, a certain unscrupulous lord can only feel grateful.

Another thing that Xia Houyan needs to care about is Wei Erfu's "novel creation" project.

In view of the fact that this elf writer has indeed played a role in generating income for the territory, coupled with the lord's policy of "a hundred schools of thought contend and a hundred flowers bloom" in the territory's literary and artistic construction, Miss Welf, who had been working as a coolie under the bed of the Horned Eagle Manor before, is now also in high status. , there is a small single-family building in Xiti next to the Horn Eagle Manor.

Shuangfengling's publicity to the outside world is that Wei Erfu has been "concentrating on creation" at home;
Only the real "relevant people" of Phoenix TV know that the new work "Polly Hart's Love Story of Professor Polly Hart" which is being serialized by the famous elf writer "Flower of Abundance" is actually a re-employment of "Wildland Talents" aliased "East Bingku". Produced by the Training Center.

After the initial training, this writer's studio, which is located on the edge of the Frost Maple Forest and blows the cold wind from the snow-capped mountains every day, has almost quickly embarked on the right track of industrialization, process-oriented, and pig-raising.

Regardless of the prisoners in the "East Bingku", they are basically the original bandit documents, but they have already developed quite superb writing skills in the process of helping their accomplices write letters to their families;
In addition, after Weierfu gave the outline of a novel, what they have to do is to constantly fill the skeleton with names of people, places, magic, and treasures, and then change the map after a story is over, copy and paste, change the name, and start again. Once, its "creation" efficiency is quite amazing.

Facts have proved that the best incentive for writers is not a monthly ticket recommendation ticket, but hunger and death.

Under the supervision of Shuangfengling Namowen, who was carrying a whip, the bandit prisoners exploded with enthusiasm for work that can be called the limit of human beings.

When Xia Houyan left Shuangfengling and went south, the output of "Dongbingku" was only [-] words per day. When he came back, there were already hundreds of thousands of words of novel manuscripts every day, which were pulled from Dongbingku to Fenghuangtai by donkey cart. up.

It is said that even the toilets on Phoenix Terrace are used as toilet paper with waste manuscripts.

Fortunately, the Igor family has recently purchased a batch of magic pens that can be written repeatedly, otherwise the amount of ink consumed would be an expense that cannot be underestimated.

——Since there is so much text output, enough to deal with the dead house queen of the Stardust Protectorate, Xia Houyan, Werf, and Mayor Joel together, they simply open a few other serial novels, as "Frost Maple Ridge" Specialties" are sold elsewhere.

In view of the fact that the old man in Houston is probably still looking for the whereabouts of the "Flower of Abundance" in an attempt to deceive the mage group of the elves, Xia Houyan specially asked Vilf to change a few pseudonyms:

What flower fragrance and rust, what lunatics play princes, what household frogs...

In short, no matter how weird it is, it must not be seen that it was written by the same person, so as not to be surprised by Youbang: "How can this grandson write so well, I am afraid he is not a ghostwriter?"

Even Xia Houyan, the marketing place for these novels, has thought about it:

One was released on Phoenix TV to enrich the spiritual life of the people; one was sent to the defense line of the Arcane Spire to relieve the boredom of the Taiping uncles of the Southern Army; one was secretly sold to Rock Creek City, where some political propaganda was buried for peaceful evolution ...

Among the major territories of the empire, some are rich in minerals, some are rich in fur, some are rich in melons and fruits, and some are rich in novels. Frost Maple Ridge is probably the first of its kind.

"The high ground in the cultural field, if we don't occupy it, the enemy will occupy it!"

——Anyway, that's what the lord said, but no one understood.

However, the operation of Writer's Studio is not without mistakes:

Just a few days after Xia Houyan returned to the territory, there was a prisoner... ah no, the writer asked the protagonist to write poems to pick up girls in the book, and there happened to be a sentence in the book, "Eagle of Xishan, you don't know magic, why bother to come here?" Raise my casement";
As a result, another writer next door reported that the "Eagle of Xishan" was an allusion to the lord who used the goshawk as his family emblem, and he was secretly satirizing the lord of Shuangfengling who dropped out of the Master Academy and returned home. , a magic illiterate without a diploma.

At that time, Xia Houyan was furious, and asked someone to whip the whistleblower into a bedridden state:

The good cultural industry is ruined by you insects who like to report and complain, and use public power to act recklessly!

But other than this trivial incident, the overall atmosphere in Shuangfengling is still very harmonious.

Originally, there were not many people in this new territory. Even after several rounds of population expansion and the absorption of a large number of righteous men from the towns on the left bank to defect to the revolution, the population under the control of the Igor family is still only in the early [-]s.

These people live scatteredly in Fenghuang Terrace, which is mainly used for political and economic functions, Tongque Terrace, which is mainly used for military functions, and the surrounding farmland. It is still the craftsmen of Shuangfengling who are building new houses and maintaining fortifications.

Because of this, the "Shuangfengling Basic Law" promulgated by Xia Houyan with great enthusiasm has completely become the ears of the deaf, and there is no one who breaks the law all day long, not even a chicken to make an example of others.

You should be able to find it soon, of course:

According to folk rumors, there is a well-known brothel in the town on the left bank that will be moved to Phoenix Terrace...

All in all, Frost Maple Ridge, the rising pearl of the wilderness, is indeed showing a thriving scene. There are even many old people in Eagle's Rest who feel emotionally towards the new residents. There is almost an atmosphere of a sea of ​​salt here...

And when the magic fountain on Fenghuangtai Square was completed and the peak trade season came to an end, Xia Houyan finally realized that it was time to go to the imperial capital to report to His Majesty the emperor the achievements of his "son of a criminal minister" in pioneering wasteland so that he could get his money back. knighthood.

"You are going to the imperial capital to catch the exam!" Mayor Joel, who had a few more assistants to help and started to enjoy his old age, joked with the lord.

"I've hated examiners since I was in the school city." The lord laughed.

(End of this chapter)