In the pavilion, Sisi jumped on his feet and shouted anxiously to Albert: "Have your people taken action? If not, tell him to stop immediately!!"
"...This... Rehain once said that he would interrogate Jehain this afternoon... So I asked them to take action at noon... Judging by the time, they should have taken action by now...
..”
"What!?" Sisi was shocked, and with a pale face, he took two steps back and sat down on the railing of the pavilion. His whole body fell into a sluggish state.
Lei Haiyin had indeed said before that he would interrogate Jiehain this afternoon and ask him why he abandoned the city and fled openly, regardless of the honor of the royal family.
When he heard this sentence at the time, he didn't think it was anything, but now it seems that it was completely a trap set against the Ezekiel family!
Even the time has been chosen for you. If you don’t start now, when will you wait?
"Father...Father...you don't have to be like this. Rehain may not be so smart. He..."
Although Albert was also sweating, he still had a sense of luck and comforted his father with a forced smile on his face.
However, before he could finish his words, there was a sudden shout from outside the courtyard.
"Finance Minister Sisi, are you here?
I am an envoy from the royal palace, and I have come to invite you to the palace on your Majesty's orders."
Hearing this voice, Sisi's bark-like old face finally showed a sad smile. He glanced at his favorite son with a bloodless face, then stood up like a zombie, straightened his clothes a little, and then shook his head.
He walked out of the courtyard without looking back.
Behind him, Albert Ezekiel stood like a statue in the pavilion, standing from noon to midnight.
The next day, incredible news came from the palace.
The Ezekiel family, the only ordinary noble family among the three ancient nobles of Lu Gaoyin, and in charge of the financial lifeline of the entire kingdom, announced that it would withdraw from Lu Gaoyin's political arena.
Before retiring, the current head of the family, Ceci Ezekiel, donated nearly 90% of the family's property to "support the reconstruction of Lugaoin" and moved his family out of Lugaoin City and settled in King's Port on the western border.
According to some rumors, the retirement of the Ezekiel family was related to the shipwreck more than ten years ago. Some people even speculated that the Ezekiel family and Jehaine together committed the heinous murder.
Brother, it's a serious crime.
However, this family has never had any bad deeds in Lu Gaoyin, and the children of the family have always been very low-key and rarely caused trouble. And it is precisely because of this that King Lei Haiyin finally let them live, otherwise they would be punished according to what they had committed.
It is a light crime to destroy the entire family in one go!
After getting rid of the Ezekiel family, the enemies of the year, the new king turned his target to his brother, whom he once loved very much.
He took some time out of his busy schedule to personally visit the secret cell (a prison where secret criminals or royal criminals are held) and stayed there for a whole night.
The next day, when inspecting the prison, the guards of the secret prison were horrified to find that the former king Jehain had hanged himself on the bars of the prison with his clothes.
After learning the news, Rehain was silent for a long time, then sighed softly and murmured "Why bother?"
Then he ordered no one to spread the news, and rewarded the former king's queen who was uneasy in the harem generously, allowing her to continue living in the side hall of the harem with her son.
With a quick cut of the trouble, Rehaine quickly eliminated all factors in the kingdom that might hinder Lu Gaoyin's reconstruction and the current political stability. Then the king began a drastic military reform.
He first sent an envoy to the desert mercenary group's base and persuaded the leader of the desert mercenaries, Glaze, to re-include his mercenary group into the national army.
Then the existing legion organization was completely broken up, general officers were promoted based on their performance in the war just past, and some incompetent non-commissioned officers were also eliminated.
He mixed the mercenaries from the Desert Mercenary Group into the ordinary legion, and established a teaching team within the legion. The teaching team is composed of all high-level mercenaries. These mercenaries will specialize in teaching ordinary
Soldiers' skills in fighting monsters.
Moreover, he also took advantage of the fact that the war at Fort Yucatana was still continuing sporadically, and asked the teaching team to lead the legionnaires to escort the materials shipped to Fort Yucatana. On the way, he encountered some remaining demon legion monsters, which just served as training for the soldiers' courage.
Practice.
In the end, he dismantled the Royal Guards, leaving only the Guards squadron led by Chris and another high-level professional selected from the Polis family. The others were all organized into a first-level team.
A small team was sent to the rubble wasteland to perform the task of clearing and retaking the town.
In addition to the military aspect, Rehein also made very significant improvements in the commercial aspect. He first announced a 3% increase in commercial taxes, but if businessmen can set up free refugee relief stations outside their own shops or in public places and send their own guards
If you jointly perform city patrols with the city guards, the business tax payable by the merchant will be reduced by 50%.
At the same time, the king also modified some of the surviving small fishing boats in the port area to make them suitable for one-way ocean voyages.
He then sent bold envoys on these ships to the ports of Lu Gaoyin's former trading partners, telling them that Lu Gaoyin was now safe and that people were waving gold coins and preparing to purchase large quantities of supplies from any incoming merchants.
for reconstruction.
Soon, the lively scene of thousands of sails competing against each other once again reappeared outside Lu Gaoyin's harbor, and the ship that had just been taken from the hands of the Ezekiel family and Jehaine (the Hope was finally found and towed back to the port)
His Majesty the King, who took the Shiquan Dabu Pill, did not hesitate to buy out the goods brought by several merchant fleets. He even bought several of the merchant fleets with all their goods.
After having ships again (the previous merchant fleet was all sunk in the harbor war), His Majesty the King's commercial revival plan was fully launched.
We can't go to Kurast for the time being, but there are still a lot of potential customers in the Twin Seas outside the strait.
Rehain, who had taken many boat trips there when he was young, knew very well the local people's demand for goods, so he could always find goods that sold well in the Haworth Islands.
The merchant fleet returned from its first voyage with a large amount of supplies and a ship full of gold coins. The opening up of maritime trade channels once again revitalized Lu Gaoyin's blood transfusion channel.
Thanks to the efforts of the king, his subordinates and the residents of the city, Lu Gaoyin is rapidly recovering its strength, which can be seen from the reconstruction of the seaport area that is more spacious and cleaner than before.
The main street of the business district once again saw a huge crowd of people.
Most of the refugees were sent back to their homes in the gravel wasteland.
Most of them received a pension that was enough to get their lives back on track, and the money was paid entirely by His Majesty the King himself.
However, beneath the surface of this faction's prosperity, the guardians of King Rehain and Lugoin have never forgotten the real threat they face.
On the other side of this blue ocean that brings wealth, the hell demons are frantically expanding their power in the humid and sultry rainforest.
These vicious monsters are peeping at Lu Gaoyin with greedy eyes. If the threat from them is not resolved, the people of Lu Gaoyin will not be able to sleep peacefully and peacefully.