The Invincible Overlord of Heroes

It is an extremely tedious task to settle down and register as a resident. It is not something that can be completed in a short time by Jilong alone and the unfamiliar clerks recruited.

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

Anyway, when Jilong made the corresponding announcement and the handling method public, not many people took the initiative to come to handle the settlement.

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

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

However, after them, only a few people were willing to come to handle the settlement.

Xu Lai didn't understand it at first, but later Jilong explained it to Xu Lai, and he understood.

In the final analysis, it was still that others looked down on the Eagle Kingdom. Most people thought that settling down in the Eagle Kingdom was a very shameful thing.

You know, they originally had a household registration in the capital of the empire.

And the Eagle Kingdom, a small country that didn't know where it came from, most people had never even heard of its name.

Asking people to give up their capital hukou and transfer to your small country, even ordinary people, few would agree.

Not to mention that Lionheart City, as the capital of the empire, is not like modern society, which is stacked up to 30 or 40 floors, and can't accommodate many people.

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

Families without money can't stay in the capital, let alone the villages and towns outside the capital.

This kind of petty bourgeoisie, with some money, is particularly important for face, and can't accept this gap.

To put it bluntly, it's still because the Eagle Kingdom was established too recently, and Xu Lai and the reputation of the Eagle Kingdom have not spread.

People who have seen Xu Lai can feel his terrifying reputation, but the key is that most of them can't see Xu Lai.

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

The reason why those nobles like to hire bards to sing unrealistic stories everywhere is mostly for this reason.

Xu Lai had previously neglected this aspect of work. Of course, even if he hadn't neglected 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 of the huge Western Empire is population.

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

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

Even if they stayed to do hard labor, they would contribute to the Eagle Kingdom, and they couldn't let others get away with it.

"Old people and children have little activity, so they won't starve to death even if the food is reduced to one-third.

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

If adults starve to death, it's what they deserve.

Lionheart City has been destroyed for so long, and there are garbage, rubble and corpses everywhere. Can they starve to death just by doing anything?"

He is a dignified king, and he even cleaned up his temporary camp himself.

Why do those guys just sit back and enjoy the fruits of others' labor?

It's fine to sit back and enjoy the fruits of others' labor. Xu Lai originally wanted to clean up the city first, establish a complete administrative system, and then make unified arrangements.

However, those people didn't do public affairs, but they had to clean up their private houses overnight.

Before, Xu Lai was afraid that they would be in danger, so he gathered them in the square and the buildings near the square in the name of distributing food.

But after two days of hard investigation and fighting, I dare not say that all the demons have been eliminated. At least the easy-to-find places are basically invisible.

Therefore, it is time to send them back to their own homes. They are too lazy to clean up other people's places, but 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 it.

Those who directly built their own homes with the houses of their dead neighbors were considered good.

Some people wanted to directly declare that those shops on the street were their own property.

If you ask him for the property ownership certificate, he will say that it was burned down by a fire. Anyway, the official record shows that it was really burned down.

"Don't worry about it. Don't worry about how they want to build houses. As long as they don't block the road, don't worry about it.

But if there is a dispute, both parties in the dispute will be locked up in the dungeon.

I just want the public security to be fine and the order to be unaffected. Now where can I find so many people to solve the case for them."

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

In addition, the lack of planning and private construction by ordinary citizens is also a huge damage to the city's safety and image."

Xu Lai snorted coldly and said, "What is there to explain? I just want to find something for them to do and don't want them to come out and cause trouble.

As for the houses they built, we will tear them down later. We have gathered a lot of people in Gray Castle and Little Gray Castle.

When Tahan opens the passage on the ground, those high-ranking people who think they are the empire will be demoted to become serfs."

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

In fact, as a traditional noble son, Jilong is more likely to accept serfs than Xu Lai, and his family has raised quite a few.

And because of his father, the Martel family is one of the few families that still retains a large number of serfs.

Other families, even those that surrendered to Xu Lai the earliest, also passively dismissed a large number of serfs.

On the one hand, because these serfs had a bad life, many of them sneaked to Xu Lai to serve as soldiers, which was considered a turnaround.

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

Therefore, except for the relatively well-treated maids, servants, cooks, grooms, butlers, etc., the rest of these families were almost passively dismissed.

Even the Martel family, while retaining a large number of serfs, must also give them private property.

For example, the laws of the Eagle Empire stipulate that at any time and under any circumstances, the planter of the field must obtain at least 30% of the income from the land.

Of course, this planter has certain prerequisites.

If you go to open up wasteland, even if the land does not belong to you, you can get at least 30%.

However, the land has an owner. If you rush to plant, it is equivalent to depriving others of their planting rights, which is another matter.

Analyze the specific situation. Xu Lai is not the maker of the law. He just proposed a general outline.

The implementation methods, implementation standards, reward and punishment measures, and details of all aspects are naturally 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.

As long as there is no rapid change in productivity, things like land annexation will never change.

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

Maybe this is why demons and undead can invade every thousand years or so.

This is probably the natural law of this world, just like the peasant uprising.

These are some methods that Xu Lai thought of to protect the lower-class people.

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

As for those who don't want to join the Eagle Kingdom, they can do whatever they want, he can't care so much.

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

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

Isn't there a saying that if you ignore me today, I will make you out of reach tomorrow.

Xu Lai plans to put this sentence into action.

The Eagle Kingdom was founded by him, and that feeling is like his own child, there is nothing wrong with it.

These people, who look down on his Eagle Kingdom today, will all be inferior people in the future.

"Ah, what is the standard?"

As the specific organizer of this task, Jilong naturally needs to ask clearly.

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

Secondly, the Eagle Kingdom does not accept lazy people. People who have no work record during this period are not accepted at all.

Finally, people with certain skills, no matter what kind of skills, I don't want people who just eat for free.

In short, you can do it yourself, just select according to this standard, I need people who are down-to-earth and worth cultivating."

Jilong shrugged. According to Xu Lai's standard, I don't know how many of the remaining tens of thousands of people in Lionheart City are qualified.

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

If none of them meet the requirements, not to mention Xu's disdain, he also thinks 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 still too kind.

Almost all administrative affairs were handed over to Jilong.

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

It is not only legitimate to order Jilong around, but Xu Lai himself does not have much pressure, after all, he has never held any leadership position before.

After getting rid of the pressure of political affairs, Xu Lai's focus shifted to the palace and those old nobles.

After getting rid of political affairs, Yu Lan has taken over the palace in full.

Another deputy sheriff took on the work of patrolling the streets and maintaining public 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 we need to use the Gate of Time and Space. He is now a master of earth magic, and if he rests enough, he can complete the round trip in one day.

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

Xu Lai trusted the dozen Pegasus Knights very much. They were divided into two shifts, day and night, and led people to dig day and night.

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

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

The creator of the trouble came from the family of the Supreme King Aled, the so-called imperial royal family.

When the demons 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 was already good enough.

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

The royal knights were basically composed of noble children, royal children, and those middle-class children with clean backgrounds in the imperial capital.

To be honest, ordinary families really can't afford to support a knight, let alone a royal knight.

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

This generation of the Supreme King has no direct bloodline, if you don't count his daughter and son-in-law in the Southern Empire.

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

Some of them had a long bloodline, but they might still have outstanding abilities and could still have a place in the palace.

The remaining few had a closer bloodline and might have been trained as heirs.

Aled's disappearance was so sudden that no clear heirs were left.

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

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

In addition to the servants who picked up weapons from nowhere, they were mighty and powerful.

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

The treasury had actually been moved almost completely, but the priests in the Holy Angel City were also extremely valuable assets and could not afford any accidents.

At this time, Xu Lai was surrounded by the weakest guards, with only more than a hundred sin angels, evil angels, and some royal griffins.

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

Those servants and guards who had finally found them all stepped back unconsciously.

Some of the timid ones even peed directly.

First he was assassinated, and then he didn't want to join the Eagle Kingdom.

Xu Lai was very angry, and he was worried about having no place to vent, and it happened that these people bumped into him.

If they didn't come at this time, Xu Lai originally wanted to deal with them together with those old nobles.

In the past two years, he has experienced countless battles, and the number of demons and orcs who died directly at Xu Lai's hands is countless.

He has lost count of the generals, heroes, and even leaders he has defeated and killed.

This proud record has now become his reputation and is superimposed on him.

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

Soldiers hiding in the corners could have some courage and morale.

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