In the next few days, Xuanyuan Mansion indeed became a little different.
Some residents living near Xuanyuan Mansion have seen some very strange things recently.
The guards who had been patrolling Xuanyuan Mansion, as if they had been given a shot of blood during these times, would actually line up in neat lines, three times in the morning, noon, and evening, and conduct various military drills in the square.
There are also many slaves who are working very hard to repair the dilapidated city lord's mansion.
However, these things are obviously not something they do willingly.
This can be seen just from the few black-clad soldiers behind them.
Whenever a guard or slave wants to be lazy, those cold-blooded black-clad armored men will impose harsh punishments.
In this way, the guards and slaves were able to do what they were supposed to do with trepidation.
However, no matter what the guards and slaves thought, in short, after such training, both the guards and the slaves gradually gained a little more vitality and strength, and the lines on their bodies became a little harder.
This invisible change is changing them inadvertently.
However, these changes in the City Lord's Mansion have made people living in Xuanyuan City full of worry.
In their minds, the greater the changes in the city lord's mansion, the more attention they will attract from those bandits.
Xuanyuan, which has not been visited by bandits for a long time, is likely to attract bandits again because of the changes in the city lord's mansion.
Because a city lord, since he has the power to change his own mansion, must have a lot of wealth.
In this way, if those bandits who thought that there was not much money to be made in the city came here to rob again because of the changes in the city lord's palace, then the residents living in the city would suffer again.
These days, Ye Fan learned a lot from Liu Jusheng about the situation in the Southern Wilderness Continent, especially Xuanyuan City.
As the saying goes, adding insult to injury adds insult to injury, and it is indeed very suitable to describe Xuanyuan City at this time.
Over the past few years, not to mention Xuanyuan City, but also the entire Southern Wilderness Continent, has suffered from various natural disasters, either severe droughts or large tides.
However, even if this is the case, it doesn't matter. After all, Xuanyuan City has a good terrain. Thanks to the unique products here, although the residents in the city cannot have enough food and clothing, they can at least survive.
However, every time a certain period of time passed, bandits would come in to fight against the autumn wind.
In the beginning, there were only some small-scale bandits, and they only raided once or twice a year.
However, this situation did not last long before it developed into an overwhelming sweep and plunder.
The people of Xuanyuan City worked so hard to save the little money they had, but it was completely robbed in a few times.
The Southern Wilderness Continent is in a state of no management. This place is basically a place where bandits and desperadoes from all over the world gather. Killings and fights occur almost every day.
As for looting caravans and towns, it was even more commonplace.
In fact, when Liu Jusheng heard that Huangfu Qingming was going to be rewarded to Ye Fan by Xuanyuan City, he wanted Huangfu Qingming to take his life back.
However, he was blocked by Huangfu Qingming's words. As long as Ye Fan is willing to go back, the door of the Huangfu family will be opened for him at any time.
After hearing Huangfu Qingming's reply, Liu Jusheng, who knew Ye Fan's character well, shut up.
In fact, the situation here is more serious than many people imagine.
The banditry intensified, not only ravaging Xuanyuan City, but also began to spread to the entire Southern Wilderness Continent.
Maybe, in a while, the entire Southern Wilderness Continent will be controlled by rogue bandits.
After learning about these situations, Ye Fan looked very serious, but he did not expect that this situation would be far worse than he imagined.
I thought that the rogue bandits in the Southern Wilderness Continent were no different from the bandits in other places.
But he thought wrongly. The rogue bandits here might even have formed a regular army, otherwise, it would be impossible for them to spread to the entire Southern Wilderness Continent.
Thinking of this, Ye Fan suddenly looked at the few old people in Xuanyuan City and said, "Isn't there anyone to suppress the banditry here? If a few more legions of men can be sent to surround and kill, we can achieve some effect.
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After hearing Ye Fan's words, not only those old people, but also Liu Jusheng looked at Ye Fan in shock.
Ye Fan's words were originally just a casual mention to find out what the major forces thought of this matter.
After all, in Ye Fan's view, such a large area in the Southern Wilderness Continent is like a big fragrant cake, and there should be many forces coveting it.
However, the real situation was completely different from what Ye Fan thought.
After hearing Ye Fan's words, several old people swallowed hard and stuttered: "Cheng, City Lord, how can you have such an idea? The rogue bandits are the actual overlords of the Southern Wilderness Continent, and they have also formed many alliances. Once
Someone killed the bandits and offended the bandits alliance, so they will have no place here."
On the other side, Liu Jusheng also hurriedly said: "Young Master, the rogues in the Southern Wilderness Continent cannot be surrounded and killed at will, otherwise they will provoke the rogue alliance and they will kill the nine tribes!"
Ye Fan was slightly startled when he heard what Liu Jusheng and the old people said.
Are the rogue bandits the actual overlords of the Southern Wilderness Continent?
As the actual master of the Southern Wilderness Continent, he is still unable to suppress the bandits?
And what kind of gangster alliance can't be offended?
It is quite ridiculous to regard the rogue bandits as the masters of the Southern Wilderness Continent. You can see the seriousness and seriousness on the faces of Liu Jusheng and the old people, but Ye Fan realizes that in the entire Southern Wilderness Continent, he cannot fight with the rogue bandits.
The concept of opposition is probably deeply rooted in people's hearts.
Along the way, Ye Fan also saw the arrogance and domineeringness of those rogue bandits, and he also had a little understanding of the rogue bandit forces here. He knew that some places where regular legions in the world would not dare to easily set foot were definitely not good places.
But Ye Fan never expected that the rogue bandits in the Southern Wilderness Continent would be so intimidating that the people living here would not dare to resist them.
No wonder bandits are rampant in the Southern Wilderness Continent, everything is being robbed, famine is everywhere, and there are constant deaths and injuries.
Faced with the undying power of the bandits, the people living here can only watch as the bandits of all kinds move away the food they have worked so hard to cultivate and the family property they have saved so hard. This is almost impossible in other places.
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Ye Fan suddenly thought of a relatively famous city lord in Nanpan Continent.
This city lord should be the first person in the Southern Wilderness Continent to resist the rogue bandits.
About a thousand years ago, when troubles were rampant and everyone was being plundered by rogue bandits, only one city lord advocated encircling and killing the bandits to clean up these cancers.
At that time, the power of the city lord was quite powerful. By surprise, he quickly wiped out many bandit camps and rescued countless imprisoned slaves and local people from those camps.
For a time, this city lord was regarded as the uncrowned king by all the poor people in the Southern Wilderness Continent, and his longevity tablets were enshrined in the homes of many poor people.
However, this situation did not last long and the situation took a turn for the worse.
A rogue alliance composed of hundreds of rogue bandits directly captured the city where the city lord was located and carried out a bloody massacre.
Everyone related to that city lord was brutally killed by this bandit alliance.
All of a sudden, the city lord's reputation dropped sharply, and almost everyone was busy cutting ties with him. However, all the common people who set up his immortality tablet at home did not escape the murderous hands of those rogue bandits.
As a result, the views of the people's relatives and friends towards the city lord also changed.
They all thought that this city lord had brought everyone down.
Because the poor people are very realistic. In their hearts, they only think that if the city lord did not fight against the bandits, such a massacre would not happen.
Since that city lord, although banditry has continued in the Southern Wilderness Continent, there has never been any resistance against bandits.
In fact, the banditry in the Southern Wilderness Continent is not the most terrifying.
The most terrifying thing is that the poor people living here have lost the courage to resist the bandits. Over the years, they have become a habit of being squeezed. This is the real headache for Ye Fan.
While Ye Fan was deep in thought, several old people on the other side felt that they needed to give the new city lord a warning.
In their opinion, Ye Fan dared to say "encirclement and kill the bandits" when he arrived, which was entirely due to some ignorance and excessive ignorance.
Therefore, one of the old men said to Ye Fan in a helpless tone: "Lord City Lord, you don't know something. In this place, there is no king's law and truth at all. The alliance of large and small bandits is the only destiny here.
Facing their oppression and punishment, we can only choose to obey and not disobey. The only way is to spend money and avoid disasters.
In the Southern Wilderness Continent, if we rashly organize manpower to surround and kill the rogue bandits, I am afraid that not only will we not be able to get the understanding and help of these people, but it will also cause them to panic, and may even cause trouble.
Because of this, people like us who live in the city rarely organize manpower to fight back when rogue bandits wash the city. Of course, proper resistance is possible. If you have the ability to prevent rogue bandits from entering the city, but you don't
If we don't surround and kill them, other rogue forces will ignore them."
Listening to the explanations of these old men, Ye Fan suddenly felt that this might be a method used by the major bandit forces to dominate the Southern Wilderness Continent.
However, it was precisely this kind of bloody suppression method that Ye Fanjue vaguely seized on one of the opportunities.
An opportunity for him to conquer Xuanyuan City and even unify the Southern Wilderness Continent.
If you seize this opportunity well.
Then Ye Fan, relying on the resources of the Southern Wilderness Continent, will initially have the capital to dominate the world.
As they walked and discussed like this, they unknowingly walked out of the city lord's mansion.
Ye Fan and his party walked to the outskirts of Xuanyuan City.
There are large areas of fertile farmland here, but when Ye Fan came here, he was stunned by the sight in front of him.
Before, Ye Fan walked all the way to Xuanyuan City and saw few bandits. Therefore, although he knew that banditry was serious, Ye Fan could not imagine how serious it was.
They came all the way, sitting in a carriage, discussing Xuanyuan City with Liu Jusheng, not paying much attention to the scene on the road.
But at this time, when he saw with his own eyes the lives of the people in Xuanyuan City, Ye Fan truly understood how serious the banditry in the Southern Wilderness Continent was.
In fact, this was the first time Ye Fan saw what real banditry was, and it also made Ye Fan finally understand what the three-pronged policy of "kill them all, rob them all, and burn them all" was.
In front of Ye Fan's eyes, all the fertile fields as far as the eye could see had been harvested.
At this time, farmers are full of joy and celebrate the autumn harvest.
However, although the crops in the fields have been harvested, not a single grain of rice is left in the homes of these farmers, who have carried them all away.
He also left a message that they would come again this time next year...
In fact, not only the crops in the fields were looted by the bandits, but also some of the hunters who were hunting in the mountains and forests had their prey carried away one by one, and they were not even given the food to cross the east.
They stay.
Although these methods of the bandits made Ye Fan angry, for him, what really shocked him were the ordinary people in the fields.
Because Ye Fan and others came in plain clothes, they did not attract the attention of the farmers in the field.
In fact, Ye Fan felt that even if he displayed the etiquette of a city lord in a big way, these poor farmers might not care about him.
In the endless fields, there are actually many farmers walking or standing, picking up the grains scattered in the fields during the previous harvest. Their expressions are a little helpless and numb, but more of them are desperate.
What appeared in front of Ye Fan was not only despair, but also despair.
Now that winter has arrived, it is a foregone conclusion that there will be no food to survive the winter and people will starve to death in the fields.
This is evident from the darkening of the farmer's eyes.
Looking at these people who belong to him, Ye Fan felt that maybe he, the city lord, should really do something for them.
After all, whether he wanted it or not, from the moment he stepped into Xuanyuan City, everything in the city had an inseparable relationship with him.
Seeing the silence on Ye Fan's face, Liu Jusheng also sighed: "People living here have no hope at all. This winter, I don't know how many people will freeze to death or starve to death. The population of Xuanyuan City is not at all."
Too much, I really can’t die anymore..."
Hearing this, Ye Fan also frowned deeply.
Now he has no money, no one, and no food. If he wants to solve the problem at hand, he can only ask others for help.
With his own family background, even if he fills in all his properties, it will only be a drop in the bucket and will not have any real effect at all.
As for Huangfu Qingming, there is no need to think about it. They are sincerely trying to embarrass themselves, otherwise they would not have thrown such a mess to themselves.
Therefore, if you want to ask for subsidies from Huangfu Qingming, you will only be looked down upon.
However, fortunately, as Liu Jusheng said, the population of Xuanyuan City is not very large now.
As for this winter, Ye Fan still has a way to keep them fed.
At worst, sell some of your belongings, go somewhere else, buy and sell a batch of supplies and come back.
As a city lord, Ye Fan felt that this was his biggest dereliction of duty as a city lord, because he failed to protect the property of the people in the city.
What’s the use of a city lord who can’t protect the people in the city!