The Invincible Overlord of Heroes.

Settling down in the locality is an extremely tedious task. It cannot be completed in a short period of time by Jilong alone and the unfamiliar clerks recruited.

The most important thing is that settling in the Eagle Kingdom does not seem to be a happy thing.

Anyway, after Jilong made the relevant announcement and the application methods public, not many people came forward to apply for settlement.

The most active were the security guards and the porters hired by Aiden.

On the first day, they filled dozens of temporary service windows.

However, after them, only a handful of people were willing to come and apply for household registration.

Xu Lai couldn't understand it at first, but after Ji Long explained it to him, he finally understood.

In the final analysis, others look down on the Eagle Kingdom. Most people think that settling in the Eagle Kingdom is a shameful thing.

You know, they originally had household registration in the imperial capital.

As for the Eagle Kingdom, it is a small country that came from nowhere and most people have never even heard of its name.

Asking people to give up their capital city residence and move to your small country, even ordinary people, would hardly agree.

Not to mention that Lionheart City, as the capital of the empire, is not like in modern society, where buildings are often stacked up to 3 or 40 floors, and cannot accommodate many people.

Therefore, the people living in the capital are basically the petty bourgeoisie with some assets.

Families without money cannot stay in the capital, let alone the villages or towns outside the capital.

For the petty bourgeoisie, once they have some money, face is particularly important and they cannot accept this kind of gap.

To put it bluntly, the Eagle Kingdom was established too recently, and the reputation of Xu Lai and the Eagle Kingdom has not yet spread.

Anyone who has seen Xu Lai can feel his terrifying reputation, but the key point is that most people cannot see Xu Lai.

Therefore, fame still needs someone to spread it for them.

This is also the reason why those nobles like to hire bards to sing unrealistic stories everywhere.

Xu Lai had neglected this aspect of work before. Of course, even if he didn't neglect it, he didn't have the time and energy to do it.

"Well, since they don't want to become people of the Eagle Kingdom, there's no point in using the Eagle Kingdom's food to feed them!

Notice that starting tomorrow, all non-Eagle Kingdom personnel can only receive one-third of the original relief food per day."

"Your Majesty, we still need these people. You know, the biggest shortage in the huge Western Empire is population.

Most people can only eat two meals a day. If we reduce the food supply by two-thirds, people may starve to death.”

Xu Lai pondered for a moment. Although he was very dissatisfied, he didn't really want to starve people to death.

Even if I stay to do hard labor, I will contribute to the Eagle Kingdom and not let others get away with it.

“The elderly and children don’t move much, so they won’t starve to death even if the food supply is reduced to one-third.

If there are those who really can't handle it, just find them something to do and give them something to eat.

If adults starve to death, they deserve it.

Lionheart City has been destroyed for so long, with garbage, rubble and corpses everywhere. They can just do whatever they want, and they will starve to death?"

As a king, he personally cleaned up his own temporary camp.

Why do those guys just sit back and reap the rewards without doing anything?

Not only would he not be able to sit back and enjoy the fruits of others' labor, Xu Lai originally wanted to first clean up the city, establish a complete administrative system, and then make unified arrangements.

However, those people did not do any public work, but instead cleaned up their own private homes overnight.

Before, because he was afraid that they might be in danger, Xu Lai gathered them in the square and the buildings near the square under the pretext of distributing food.

But after two days of hard investigation and fighting, we can’t say that all the demons have been eliminated, but at least they are basically invisible in easy-to-find places.

Therefore, it is time to send them back to their own homes. Although they may be too lazy to clean up other people's places, they will definitely clean up their own homes.

However, Jilong still raised a question. He was worried that if he ignored those people, they would take advantage of the period when Lionheart City was severely damaged to expand massively.

It is considered good if you can just build your own house after all your dead neighbors have lived there.

Some people would like to directly declare that all the shops along the street are their own property.

If you ask him for the property ownership certificate, he will say that it was burned in a fire. Anyway, the official records show that it was really burned.

"Don't worry about how they build the house, as long as it doesn't block the road, just ignore it.

But if there is a dispute, both parties involved will be thrown into the dungeon.

I just want public security to be good and order to be unaffected. There are not enough people to solve cases for them now."

Jilong frowned and said, "But if we don't care, I'm afraid it will be hard to explain in the future.

Moreover, the lack of planning and the random construction by ordinary citizens are also a huge damage to the city’s safety and image.”

Xu Lai snorted coldly and said, "What's there to explain? I just want to find something for them to do and don't want them to get into trouble.

As for the houses they built, we can tear them all down later. We still have quite a large population gathered in Graycastle and Little Graycastle.

When Tahan opens the passage on the ground, all those who think they are the superiors of the empire will be demoted and become serfs. "

Jilong smiled bitterly and did not continue to refute Xu Lai's opinion.

In fact, as a traditional aristocratic son, Jilong was more likely to accept serfs than Xu Lai, and his family kept quite a few of them.

And because of his father, the Martell family was one of the few families that owned a large number of serfs.

Other families, even those who surrendered to Xu Lai first, were forced to dismiss a large number of serfs.

On the one hand, because these serfs had a hard life, many of them sneaked over to Xu to join the army, in order to stand up and claim power.

On the other hand, the existence of serfs greatly weakened the enthusiasm for labor.

Therefore, except for the maids, servants, cooks, grooms, butlers, etc. who were treated relatively well, the rest were almost all passively dismissed.

Even the Martell family had to give them private property while retaining a large number of serfs.

For example, the laws of the Eagle Empire stipulate that at all times and under all circumstances, the cultivators of the fields must obtain at least 3% of the income from the land.

Of course, this grower has certain prerequisites.

If you go to open up wasteland, even if the land does not belong to you, you can at least get 3%.

But the land has an owner. If you rush to plant crops on it, it is equivalent to depriving others of their planting rights, which is a different matter.

We need to analyze each case specifically. Xu Lai is not the maker of the law. He just put forward a general outline.

The implementation methods, implementation standards, reward and punishment measures, and details in all aspects will naturally be studied by the people below and finally reported to him for approval and verification.

Xu Lai's original intention was good, but the extent to which it can be implemented in the future will still be decided by the powerful.

Things like land annexation will never change as long as there is no dramatic change in productivity.

Moreover, the powerful class has extremely high combat effectiveness, and human wave tactics can never crush them.

Maybe this is why demons and undead invade every thousand years or so. This is probably the natural law of this world, just like peasant uprisings.

These are some of the methods Xu Lai thought of to protect the grassroots people.

But there is a prerequisite, which is that it only applies to the people of the country.

As for those who are unwilling to join the Eagle Kingdom, they can do whatever they want and do whatever they want. How can he care so much?

“By the way, before the announcement about reducing relief food, post a new announcement first. I want to raise the citizen standards of the Eagle Kingdom.

From now on, only citizens of the Eagle Kingdom will be eligible to enjoy the highest level of treatment in this world. For the rest, let them go back to their own countries."

Isn’t there a saying that goes, If you ignore me today, I will make you out of reach tomorrow?

Xu Lai planned to put this sentence into action.

The Eagle Kingdom was founded by him, and he feels that they are just like his own children. There is nothing wrong with them.

This group of people looked down on his Eagle Kingdom today, so they will all be inferior people in the future.

"Ah, what are the standards?"

As the specific person in charge of this task, Jilong naturally needed to ask clearly.

Xu Lai waved his hand and said, "First of all, they have to be people with no criminal record. The Eagle Kingdom will not accept just any garbage.

Secondly, the Eagle Kingdom does not accept lazy people, and those who have no work record during this period will not be accepted.

Finally, there are people who have certain skills, no matter what kind of skills they are. In short, I don’t want to just sit there and eat.

Anyway, you can do whatever you want, just select according to this standard, I need someone who is down-to-earth and worth training. "

Jilong shrugged. According to Xu Lai's standards, he wondered how many of the remaining tens of thousands of people in Lionheart City would be qualified.

But if you only choose one of the three conditions, this requirement is undoubtedly very loose.

If none of the above conditions are met, not only will Xu look down on him, he will also think that the other party can only become a serf.

"Oh, by the way, forget about the elderly and children who are unable to work."

Jilong bowed and saluted. He had long known that his king was too kind.

Almost all administrative affairs were handed over to Jilong.

Compared to his father, Jilong is capable, but very young. In any case, he is much younger than Xu Lai's actual age.

Not only was it legitimate for Xu Lai to order Jilong around, but Xu Lai himself also did not feel much pressure. After all, he had never held any leadership position before.

After getting rid of the pressure of political affairs, Xu Lai shifted his focus to the imperial palace and the old aristocrats.

After taking charge of government affairs, Yu Lan has taken full control of the palace.

Another deputy sheriff was responsible for patrolling the streets and maintaining law and order, which is actually the original job of the sheriff.

Yu Lan, with the Pegasus Knights and the Royal Griffins, has completely occupied the palace.

Xu Lai's goal is to dig out the heart of the castle first.

With the heart of the castle, even if the teleportation array still cannot be repaired, Xu Lai will have a way to bring more people in.

Here he needed to use the Gate of Time and Space. He was now a master of earth magic, and if he got enough rest, he could complete the round trip in one day.

But obviously, the excavation of the heart of the castle is not going smoothly.

Xu Lai trusted the dozen or so Pegasus knights very much. He divided them into two shifts, day and night, and led the men to dig day and night.

But even so, several suspected locations were dug very deeply, but still nothing was found.

Not only that, Xu Lai and his companions also encountered other troubles in the palace.

The creator of the trouble came from the family of the Supreme King Aled, also known as the imperial royal family.

When the devil came, these so-called royal children all hid somewhere unknown.

Not to mention stopping the demons from digging, not providing them with directions and locations is already considered good enough.

Of course, they couldn't all be killed with one blow. At that time, there was still a group of brave royal knights who launched a desperate charge towards the demons.

The Royal Knights are basically composed of children of nobles, royal families, and those middle-class children with clean backgrounds in the imperial capital.

To be honest, an average family really cannot afford to support a knight, let alone a royal knight.

"This palace was built by the first Supreme King, His Majesty Alaid. You are not qualified to dig here."

This generation of the Supreme King has no direct bloodline, if his daughter and son-in-law in the Southern Empire are not counted.

Therefore, these so-called princes who appeared in front of Xu Lai were actually nephews of the Supreme King Aled.

Some bloodlines are a bit old, but they may still have outstanding abilities and can still have a place in the palace.

As for the remaining few, their bloodlines are relatively close, and they may have been trained as heirs.

Aled's disappearance was so sudden that he left no clear heir.

Without the endorsement of the previous generation's Supreme King, it would be impossible for these so-called "princes" to become the Supreme King.

Xu Lai and his team dug for three or four days, and then they gathered all the remaining guards in the palace, which amounted to about a hundred people.

Add to that the servants who had picked up weapons from somewhere, and they formed a mighty force with great momentum.

Elvy and her angel army were left by Xu Lai in Holy Angel City to guard the treasury.

In fact, the treasury had been almost completely moved, but the priests of the City of Holy Angels were also extremely valuable assets, and no accidents could occur.

At this time, Xu Lai's protection was the weakest, with only a hundred or so sin angels, evil angels, and some royal griffins.

However, when Xu Lai pushed away those evil angels and stood in front of this group of people.

The servants and guards who were finally found all took a few steps back unconsciously.

Some timid ones even peed themselves out.

First he was assassinated, and then he was unwilling to join the Eagle Kingdom.

Xu Lai was very angry and was worried that he had no place to vent his anger when this group of people happened to bump into him.

If they hadn't come at this time, Xu Lai originally wanted to clean up together with those old nobles.

Over the past two years, countless battles have taken place, and countless demons and orcs have died at the hands of Xu Lai.

He could no longer remember all the generals, heroes, and even leaders he had defeated and killed.

This impressive record has now turned into his reputation and is superimposed on him.

Not to mention that those servants were not even professionals, even the royal guards were nervous when they saw Xu Lai getting angry at this time.

Soldiers who rely on hiding in corners to survive can have some backbone and morale.

As soon as Xu Lai's murderous eyes swept over, dozens of soldiers hurriedly dropped their weapons. (End of this chapter)