Seven hundred and thirty fourth chapter rectification
At this time, there was a sudden sound of fighting in front of him. Ye Fan looked at the fighters. They were ordinary people fighting with several tigers.
The situation in Xuanyuan City is very bad. Bandits will come into the city from time to time to plunder, so the living situation of the people in the city is extremely bad.
Except for some local residents who have lived here for generations, and some soldiers who are unable to leave due to their duties, others are trying their best to leave this chaotic place and go to those stable and rich areas.
However, in this area, the distance between any two cities is too far. Without suitable transportation, it is impossible to get out of Xuanyuan City just by walking, even if you walk for several years.
Moreover, the Southern Wilderness Continent is no different than other places. Many places are not peaceful. Even if they risk their lives to get out of Xuanyuan City, many people will die on the way.
Even if some lucky people avoid all kinds of dangers on the road and successfully reach another city in the Southern Wilderness Continent, if there is no money to clear various levels, these civilians from other regions will still be ruthlessly abandoned.
Looking at the civilians who were gradually despairing under the tiger's claws, Ye Fan finally let Liu Jusheng take action and killed the beasts.
Later, he did not accept everyone's gratitude and asked Liu Jusheng to speed up the carriage.
There are too many incidents like this in Xuanyuan City.
With Ye Fan's current ability, it is impossible to manage it.
Now that we know almost everything about the situation in Xuanyuan City, it is time to return home.
Half a day later, Ye Fan stood on a somewhat dilapidated palace road, looking at the palace with some old buildings in front of him, frowning slightly and said: "Is this Xuanyuan Mansion? How long has it been since the buildings here have been repaired?"
Ye Fan's carriage drove into the palace complex in front. On the avenue, he occasionally saw a few tired-looking patrol soldiers, their eyes full of helplessness and despair. This was a silent protest against their own punishment.
The guards in Xuanyuan City are all soldiers who were assigned here because they made big mistakes.
If it weren't for the fact that the guards here were all criminals and couldn't leave the place of dispatch easily, I'm afraid even the guards in the city would have left here long ago.
Xuanyuan Mansion is covered with weeds everywhere, and the upper floors of many buildings are covered with thick dust.
When several lazy-looking patrolling guards saw the carriage rushing into the City Lord's Mansion, they had no intention of intercepting and interrogating them. Instead, they allowed Ye Fan's carriage to run wildly through the City Lord's Mansion.
It seems that these patrolling guards have completely forgotten their duties.
From this point of view, Xuanyuan City has indeed been abandoned by the Zhongzhou World.
"Hey, may I ask, among the nine palaces here, which palace is where the city lord lives?" Liu Jusheng stopped the carriage, stopped a guard patrolling the palace, and asked with a smile on his face.
The guard who patrolled the mansion, holding a rusty spear, walked slowly to a stone and wiped the tip of the spear intently, as if he had not heard Liu Jusheng's question at all, and did not even raise his head.
"Ten star beads, point the way down." Ye Fan casually tossed a dozen star-studded star beads directly at the feet of the guard. There was nothing for the guards living in this city.
Nothing is more convincing than money.
Sure enough, as soon as the ten Xing Yuan beads came out, they immediately got the news they wanted.
I saw that the guard who had ignored Ye Fan and others before suddenly collected all the Xing Yuan beads on the ground, pointed to the main road on the left and said: "Go a few miles from here, the highest
The largest building is the City Lord’s Mansion.”
Ye Fan nodded slightly and asked Liu Jusheng to drive the carriage straight to the direction of the City Lord's Mansion.
After the guard hid all the Xingyuan beads in his hand, he looked at the direction of the carriage and murmured to himself: "There is someone in Xuanyuan City who came to take office. What did this unlucky guy offend?"
It's really pitiful and sad that a person was sent here to be the city lord."
Every time Xuanyuan City is attacked, Gao Gao, who is in the upper city's main palace, is naturally the focus of the bandits' care.
Therefore, the city lord who came here to take office was either crazy or dead. I have never heard of a city lord who could have a good death in this place.
From above, the tall buildings on the ground were extremely majestic and imposing.
But now when I walked into the palace complex, I saw that there were potholes everywhere that had been vandalized, and several walls had collapsed, but they had not been repaired in any way.
The protective power of the entire city lord's palace was extremely weak.
Ye Fan only saw a few hundred scattered guards along the way.
These guards obviously don't care much about Ye Fan, the new city lord. At this moment, they are all wondering how many days this newly arrived city lord can last here.
The city lord's palace is several times larger than the eight surrounding palaces.
However, apart from its large area, this city lord's mansion has nothing to recommend it.
Its level of dilapidation is even greater than that of several other palaces, because every time bandits enter the city and loot it, the first person to escape must be the city lord.
In this way, the entire City Lord's Mansion has no defense at all, allowing any bandit to enter and exit the City Lord's Mansion at will.
The things in the city lord's mansion were also looted and moved cleanly by the bandits.
What left Ye Fan speechless the most was that even the rockeries and giant stone sculptures that were difficult to move were carried away by the bandits.
In this way, even if others don't tell the real situation of Xuanyuan City, Ye Fan can only imagine how bad it is.
"Liu Jusheng, would you like to introduce the situation in Xuanyuan City in detail?" He got off the carriage, walked into the central hall of the city lord's palace, found a broken stone chair and sat down, Ye Fan said to Liu Jusheng who was following closely.
Liu Jusheng had worked hard when he entered the city, so he was quite familiar with the current situation in Xuanyuan City. When he heard this, he quickly said: "The normal strength of Xuanyuan City should be more than one million.
But over the years, the guards protecting Xuanyuan City have been dying, escaping, and receiving no relief. Therefore, there are only about ten thousand soldiers left in the entire Xuanyuan City.
There are less than half a million residents in the city, and most of them are local residents who have not been developed. Such a small population is really too small for this huge city.
Moreover, with only ten thousand guards, it is somewhat impossible to protect Xuanyuan City, even the main palace of the city. What's more, these guards have been frightened by the bandits. Every time a disaster comes, they run faster than anyone else.
, Xuanyuan City today has almost no defense at all.
However, it is precisely because of this that Xuanyuan City has experienced a very strange scene in recent years. Due to countless lootings, many bandits have understood that there is actually no profit to be made in Xuanyuan City today.
For those relatively large-scale thieves, they often organize a large-scale invasion of the city and even have to pay for the toll. For them, the looting in Xuanyuan City has not received the rewards they deserve.
Therefore, Xuanyuan City has become much calmer in recent years, and large-scale looting operations rarely occur. Instead, some tribes living around Xuanyuan City have become the targets of looting by bandits and mercenaries.
However, most of the tribes that can live here have strong armed forces, and the men of each tribe are born warriors, so so far, the bandits and mercenaries have not taken advantage of them..."
Under Liu Jusheng's explanation, Ye Fan gradually gained some understanding of the situation in Xuanyuan City and its surroundings.
After Liu Jusheng finished speaking, Ye Fan glanced at the few soldiers beside Liu Jusheng and said with a smile: "In my name, gather all the guards and servants of Xuanyuan City. I want to see this Xuanyuan City."
How much defense power does the city have left?"
"Yes, City Lord!" Upon hearing this, several soldiers nodded respectfully and retreated one by one.
"You want to rectify Xuanyuan City now?" Liu Jusheng looked a little surprised and said: "The people here haven't recognized you as the city lord, how can you carry out the rectification work?"
"I don't want to rectify them, but I want to plant a seed of hope in their hearts first. However, I think this seed of hope will sprout and grow sooner or later!" Ye Fan smiled.
, and just looked around in the hall.
Liu Jusheng frowned and stood silently, obviously he didn't understand what Ye Fan meant.
After nearly half a day, the guards and slaves scattered throughout Xuanyuan Mansion reluctantly gathered in a square one by one.
Not to mention the servants of Xuanyuan Mansion, even the guards looked feeble.
There were tens of thousands of guards, but among them there were less than a hundred true Destined Ones, and every one of them was extremely weak.
As long as a few relatively strong men can knock down these Destined Ones.
The weapons in the hands of every guard were covered with rust and the materials used were very poor.
Ye Fan even felt that the weapons in their hands should be defective products eliminated from the battlefield. Such weapons could not be said to be vulnerable to a single blow.
Among the tens of thousands of guards, there are only about a thousand strong young men, and the rest are the old, weak, sick and disabled.
Anyone who expects such people to defend the city is really seeking death.
Ye Fan stood on the general stage in the square and scanned the people in the square for a while, and suddenly said loudly: "I know you all made big mistakes and were sent here, but I can assure you.
, as long as you do what I say, in your lifetime, someone will be able to return home with honor."
The guards and slaves in the square were making a lot of noise.
They didn't pay attention to Ye Fan's identity, but the words "returning to his hometown with honor" were extremely tempting.
However, they are full of doubts about the guarantee that Ye Fan gave them.
"Are you serious?" Standing next to Ye Fan, Liu Jusheng looked at Ye Fan in surprise and said, "The crimes these people have committed are not trivial. Otherwise, they would not be sent to this Southern Wilderness Continent.
Even if you are the lord of a city, you cannot forgive their sins.
And even if you can subdue these people, do you think you can really withstand the attack of those bandits with such remnant soldiers and shabby fortifications?"
"You don't need to worry about these. Now you can count the number of people for me. Next, I will train them carefully. During the training, if anyone dares to escape without authorization, you will cut off his head with your own hands." Ye
Fan said with a ferocious smile on his face: "This Xuanyuan City has been sick for a long time, so we had to use strong medicine."
"Humph, who do you think you are? This place has been abandoned by the world. We have become accustomed to our own life. Why do you want to change everything?"
"That's right. If thieves come, hide. If thieves come, hide. If you want to die, don't take us with you."
"Lord City Lord, I see that you have some background, so it's better to cover your ass and run away while no bandits come into the city now."
Since there are tens of thousands of guards, there are naturally some people with other agendas.
These guys were extremely disdainful of Ye Fan's words, and even began to verbally abuse Ye Fan without any scruples, completely ignoring Ye Fan's identity as the lord of the city.
To these people, Ye Fan said nothing, just waved his hand gently.
Just listen to "Whoosh!" Several figures flashed out.
No one could see clearly how the soldiers standing next to Ye Fan acted.
Anyway, the guards who were secretly teasing and teasing all had their bodies and heads separated and fell directly into a pool of blood.
"I don't like troublemakers the most. From now on, all you have to do is obey orders!" Ye Fan glanced at the guards who were about to move in the square with a cold expression. His eyes were cold, making some people want to jump out and do something for those few.
Those who were called unfair by the guards also shrank back one by one.
Until then, Liu Jusheng walked slowly to the corpses lying in a pool of blood. He bent down, and after groping around on those people for a while, he found a few tokens.
Throw them one by one on the square.
Seeing those tokens with skulls engraved on them, every one of the guards who still wanted to complain became silent.
Because the guards who were killed just now turned out to be spies inserted by major bandit forces.
No need to think too much, everyone knows that these spies must have been arranged by the bandit forces to convey information and spy on the current situation of Xuanyuan City.
Now that Ye Fan has just come here, if he wants to achieve something, he cannot let these spies live, otherwise, any situation he has here will not be hidden from the forces that are watching Xuanyuan City.
Ye Fan glanced at everyone in the square coldly, and everyone lowered their heads in his gaze. Then Ye Fan turned to look at Liu Jusheng and said: "I will leave them to you, train them in the most cruel way, train them
Among them, those who unfortunately die will be given a pension to their families. With me here, the appearance of Xuanyuan City should also change."