Wolf King

Marcus feared that Sean would be informed of Philip’s death and squeezed the news, not allowing anyone to inform his daughter who had arrived in Bolton’s territory. When the city’s position led Valentin up and down, Bolton’s territory was still very calm.

The lord of the Bolton Territory has been hanging for several years. The reason is that this broken place is not only excessively poor, but also very close to Valentin-the bottom of the population can run to Valentin, middle-class people, The small nobles and others who have access to the road also squeezed their heads to Valentin; the vast territory of nearly 100,000 square kilometers (smaller than Fujian) is only sparsely distributed with tens of thousands of people, and there are only more than ten small nobles. , Such an earl collar whose **** are too poor to be taken out, can someone call the ghost if they are willing to pick up...

Today, the people led by Bolton can really see a ghost.In the afternoon of that day, an extremely gorgeous, spacious carriage with Earl's grain hanging on the body carried a team of hundreds of people and hundreds of carriages. Entered the only city of Bolton: Taal City.

The weather during this time was pretty good, relatively clear, and the road surface was bumpy, and I haven’t known how many years it hasn’t been leveled. It’s not too hard to walk except for the dust, the wind blowing the person’s face... but if you sit in the carriage You will suffer if you go there, and make sure that you can spit it out overnight.

Whether Sean, Xiao Yun or Lola Philip, they are definitely not the two who want to be turned into stupid and pretending to be forced. On the second day after entering the Bolton territory, the three of them silently got off the carriage, or rode, or followed It would be better to be confused with the wind and sand than to get through with your belly.

Lola, sitting on the back of a short-legged mare, swept her eyes across empty streets, closed shops, and ragged pedestrians on the roadside. The look on her small face was very heavy.

"Ayun, as you said, the people in Taal City are no better than those in those rural towns." Lola fell a little, "How come this is the case, shouldn't the city be better."

"The flowing water is the living water, there is vitality, and it can bring prosperity." Xiao Yun did not ride, and slowly walked next to Lola's pony. "The Kingdom of Cronin is only Valentin. Living water, so Valentine can flourish in just twenty or thirty years. People are all looking forward to a better life, and people who are trapped in the dead water will naturally flow to the living water area, the closest to Valentine Bolton took the initiative to passively lose blood to Valentine for so many years, people ran away, and the remaining economic vitality also ran away, of course, it will be worse than the rest of the Cronin Kingdom."

Lola nodded solemnly, her small chest lifted up, quite young: "Grandpa can turn Valentine into living water, and I can also turn Bolton collar into living water."

"Well~ That's right, our future countess will certainly be able to do it!" Xiao Yun encouraged with a smile.

Among the group of Philip's young people who followed, a few had a particularly complicated look at the alien young man who was particularly close to Miss Lola...

The only son of Philip, the city’s only son, Makas, has always been the goal of the young people in the family to please the compliment, and for Miss Lola who will marry sooner or later...To be honest, although there will be respect, but not many people will Pulling is too important.

The young people from the family called by the Philip city host thought they were going to be assisted by Markas, but they were arranged for Miss Lola; that’s all, and even more, Miss Lola’s side didn’t know when there was more Interracial, Miss Lola is also very close and trustful to this interracial youth, and she has followed his words. Even those of them in the family have retreated, which is very embarrassing...

......If Xiao Yun was not an alien, sooner or later he would leave Cronin, and Lola was indeed too young. Maybe there would be a palace fight on the way.

"Why should Master Philip pass the title to Miss Lola, and the Philip's family is not empty anymore..." A young man couldn't help whispering softly, his eyes full of envy and jealousy. It is no secret that Markas is a waste in the family. Lord Philip is understandably disappointed with Markas, but picking someone in the family is always more reliable than letting young Lola succeed!

The younger generation of the Philip family is a bit talented, such as the third son of Philip’s brother, Lola wants to shout uncle Joe Philip.

Hearing the clan whispering, Joe Phillips deliberately slowed down half-step and looked at the cheap-mouthed kid, glaring fiercely, then glancing forward.

The talkative guy immediately closed his mouth, and the strange boy walking on the left of Lola was nothing. The legendary magician who rode alongside Lola was no one to provoke.

Shaun, covering his face with his cloak, didn't seem to hear the movement behind him, and held his hands to continue to look at the scene in Taal.

In the past, Taal City, where tens of thousands of people lived, lost more than half of its residents in the past two decades. Many houses collapsed due to disrepair. The ruins of the houses can be seen on both sides of the main road into the city. They can be seen in the center of the city. Overgrown weed thorns, this has to be said to be a wonder...

The cities are all ruined like this, people's lives are naturally very difficult, such a large team of escorted teams full of materials, after entering the city, it actually attracted many people with bad looks to follow far away, it seems very furious to grab one The trend...If Xiao Yun did not put the particularly deterrent Snow Wolf tribe on both sides of the convoy, and at the end there was a full-faced Hannah (...) who led the line, the green eyes The guy might have swarmed up early.

Walking all the way to the square in front of the city hall, the surrounding buildings are finally a bit decent. Some of the shops that are in operation, and many citizens or farmers are selling stalls to maintain the popularity of the surroundings and keep it for this run-down city. A last dignity.

Seeing this huge strange team, the citizens of Taal City were shocked. When they found the luxury carriage with the Earl's pattern in the team, many people stood up in surprise.

Bolton led this hot potato, and finally the Lord Earl took over? !

It didn't take long. Several local officials who ran out of the city hall with fairly neat clothes, but many patches, humbly stooped and ran to the front of the convoy. The leader had dashed white hair and gullies, like The old farmer is better than the Cronin official; the man looked at the aging voice but was full of breath. He stopped and said loudly: "Dare to ask which adult is here?"

Lola pinched the horse's belly, and the pony kicked up the first few steps: "I am Lola Philip of the Philip family, who is the mayor of Tal."

The old man was shocked, and quickly bent his waist to a more standard: "The scumbag is the mayor of Tal, and I welcome Miss Lola."

"Just about to visit you, Mr. Mayor." Lola said, "Please let us enter the city hall to talk."

"Of course, of course." The mayor quickly gave way and respectfully led the way ahead.

The team stayed in the square, Lola jumped off the horse and invited Mr. Sean and Mr. Ayun to go with her, and then glanced at the Philip family, and named Joe Philip and another cousin.

The young man of the same generation as Lola was immediately energetic, and Lola's uncle Joe Philip had no expression.

The city is tattered, and the city hall is not much better... The wallpaper in the hall, which should have been flourishing, was peeled off, and it was barely pasted on the wall with white paper. There was no silverware on the tables and cabinets. The lampstands on the walls are all made of wood...

Lola frowned and looked at the layout of the hall, looking at the mayor with doubt: "Wang allowed Bolton to retain 30% of the tax for his own use. Hasn't Taal City had any tax reserves in these years? How can even the city hall be broken into this look? "

These words are very professional and well-placed, which shows that the Philip's lady came to know about Bolton. The mayor's heart moved, the original guess was more certain, and quickly made a bitter face: "Miss Lola has some I don’t know, the original city government of Thar did hold a tax, but when the mayor left last year... not only evacuated the warehouse, but also stripped the gold foil from the walls, claiming that it was not enough to make up for the loss... I was originally the sheriff of Taal City, and the parliament no longer temporarily assigned the mayor.

Lola's mouth twitched... Strongly unable to look at Sean and Xiao Yun, she walked to the seat with a straight face and said, "Our Philip's family is preparing to take over Bolton's territory. My grandfather sent me to check the waves. Get the situation. You can stand up for Taal City during the crisis, which is very good. I think you should have enough knowledge about Taal City. Let me talk about the situation in the city."

The mayor raised her eyelids in surprise and glanced at the young earl young lady. When she saw her calm and serious look, she could not see anything. She quickly picked herself up and stood up to report the situation to the young lady.

Sean was very satisfied with Lola’s performance and nodded appreciatively. Xiao Yun also felt that the little girl did not live up to his saliva in the past few days. It is worthy that there was a pit father... In Xiao Yun’s opinion, the parents were wasteful The extreme family children will be more crisis-conscious and more likely to be talented, because instinct will tell these poor children that no one can rely on them...

Joe Philip standing quietly next to him didn’t look very good. His eyes stayed on Xiao Yun’s face for a moment, and then he turned to Sean, and his eyes dropped silently. It was originally just Lola, a naive and romantic girl. How long did it take to understand Enweiqi, this political method can only come from the legendary magician's teaching.

Joe Philip clenched his fists quietly, and he was reluctant to rise to the heart... just because he was born in the main branch, such a little girl could easily get such a good resource support!

Lola sits more casually, which is also Xiao Yun's advice. Her identity has a natural advantage. There is no need to be tight at any time to make people think that she is not confident; when she listens to people, she looks at the other person's nose and doesn't look too excessive. Aggressive but able to show her concentration; when the person who reports implies that she has suffered injustice, there are villains, it is not easy to express her attitude and show likes and dislikes, because the person who makes the decision cannot be inspired by only one side of the word.

"...I know." Listening to the part-mayor mayor secretly told me for a long time, Lola's expression did not change at all, and he pondered slightly, and said, "The situation in Tal City is very bad. I think we have priority. The consideration is how to rejuvenate the residents in the city. Please ask Mr. Barlow to find some empty houses to settle my entourage and my convoy. Later, I want to borrow the city hall for a dinner. I hope that Mr. Barlow will be able to bring the officials in the city. Please come with the nobility, I need to know how many people are left in Taal City."

Without being promised to continue as mayor, Barlow was a little disappointed, but was pleasantly surprised that the earl's lady was still willing to value him, so she did not say anything, even claimed to be, and invited the female clerk of the city hall to entertain Miss Lola And ran out to settle the team himself.

Loli sighed with relief, and the first pass was over, looking at Xiao Yun with some excitement.

Xiao Yun gave her a thumbs up.

How to settle the original official Xiao Yun did not speak directly, just gave her some hints to see what this little girl would do; now it seems that Lola Philip is still very talented and instinctively knows how to handle Carrots were hung in front, allowing local bureaucrats to use her.

Cutting off the original team as soon as you come up can hold Taal City in your hand more quickly, but it will also cause the Bolton locals to centrifuge with her, so it is necessary to use the locals appropriately... A courtier does not mean that all courtiers are replaced, and people of different factions have to stay, otherwise it is easy to play things-Chongzhen is like this to give him a handicap.

Being a leader does not require proficiency in everything, knowing that hiring is better than being a general manager... uh... as a team leader, Lola, who is at a very fast age of absorbing knowledge, will undoubtedly understand Xiao Yun’s guiding spirit. Next Then this kind of wisdom of using people is brought into full play:

After meeting the locals at the dinner, local officials can keep everything in the position of management, and all the people they bring are used for management.

Local officials will organize the active members of the citizens to come to the city hall in batches to learn the business philosophy and operation mode taught by the Snow Wolf, and learn the excellent citizens to formally join the Philip family (Miss Lola) and form a group to be released as the future lord. Responsible for the end of the retail of all living materials and promoting the reputation of Philip’s family; the people they bring are directly devolved to various villages and towns, first to count how many people, how much land is abandoned, how much land can be Development and utilization, local people's livelihood...etc.

Half a month's time was set for work on both sides. Miss Lola was so tired that she could barely stand up... If Xiao Yun had been hanging her with grandpa's expectations, this noble lady would have to strike.

"It's good to be busy. Everyone has something to do, so I don't have the energy to trouble you." Xiao Yun smiled in the slightly reorganized backyard room of the City Hall. "Lola, look, your uncle My cousin has always been a bit of a blame for you, and now they drive you around like a dog, who still has the time to talk gossip?"

Lola couldn't help crying: "You don't like Ayun, I didn't treat my brothers as dogs!"

"It's almost ~" Xiao Yunyouya was drinking tea. "Now you can't be idle. Now that those local officials are free, the adventurers are still there. Hurry to rectify the manpower to catch all the idlers wandering on the street... Concentrate, the road should be built, the house should be pushed into danger, the city of Taal is so broken, locals must not engage in urban construction work?"

"You talked about leaking! You meant to catch them, right?" Lola brought her little finger sharply.

"Don't worry about these details..."

"How can I gather them to take care of the food? Where can I find so much food for them to eat?" Lola hesitated for a while, thinking of a serious question again.

Xiao Yun was really satisfied with this named disciple. Although he was a little arrogant in the past, he now knows the pragmatic spirit when he comes into contact with the facts, and he smiles: "We have no food, those local nobles have ~ don't look at Bolton's virtue The luxury of the noble family’s mansion is how they come...You call them and make it clear that this is a voluntary project for the urban construction of Taal City. Every family must pay for the food and not confiscate the manor farm. Anyway. You are Miss Jiaojia of the Philip's family. What's wrong with the willfulness? Even if the little nobles try their best to sue the aristocratic council, the parliament won't give them a face when they take over the mess that Bolton leads the mess... "

"This, is this too much?!" Lola was shocked.

"Which is too much, just confiscating the manor farm and not taking their title. If someone openly rebelled against you, it would be just right. Wait for your grandpa to come and take the title to those old people who have followed your grandpa's hard work to develop Valentine for decades. Hero, isn't it very secure." Xiao Yun didn't care. You have no power and no power to pick up your tail to be a man, right to have power and manpower, just wave it!

Lola thought for a moment in a serious and nervous way, painfully: "Although what you said is too good, it seems that you can only do what you said."

"Anla Anla, it’s good to talk about benevolence and bragging. If you really want to talk about benevolence, then you can’t do anything. You’ve seen how poor the self-cultivators led by Bolton are on our way. I couldn’t find two pieces of clothes, and I had to freeze to death in winter without sleeping with pigs and cows. It’s all like that, the local aristocracy could still try to squeeze oil and water from the peasants. "Xiao Yun sneered," asked me to say that the population of the Bolton Territory has been greatly reduced by the problem of the outflow of Valentin, and there is also the problem of the local nobles not to allow the Boltons to prosper. The parasites have to kill all the sacrifices."

Xiao Yun’s remarks were a bit murderous, but Lola nodded subconsciously. Although she didn’t accept them all, she could understand and agree with them slightly-Philip City’s owner could not raise his son. The ability to govern the city seemed to Xiao Yun It's also choking, but if compared with the nobles of this world, it can indeed pull a tall man out of the sack. At least in the manor owned by the Philip family, there are basically no serfs, all are self-cultivators.

Well, the self-cultivators in this world do not mean that the land belongs to them, but they can rent land from the lord as a freeman (and also serve for the lord, that is, do white work), and meet lords who eat better. If the luck goes bankrupt, the days are better than serfs.

After hurling Lola to continue working, Xiao Yun went back to the room with his hands behind his back, and shocked Sean's somber old face as soon as he entered the door.

Before Xiao Yun could speak, Sean handed over a letter, and the legendary magician's voice and hands shook slightly: "Ayun, this is a letter from Primo... Macas, Killed his father."

Xiao Yun didn't anticipate this, but he was shocked at the moment he heard the matter-with Philip's political wisdom, could Marcus succeed so quickly and so easily? !

Quickly walked over to take over the letter and bowed his head.

"...I don't understand." He returned the letter to the other party and tried to make a confused, puzzled, and unbelievable face. "What did Primo say? Is this true? How is it possible?"

There is a difference between a fake shock and a real shock. Xiao Yun did not dare to bet on whether Sean could still have subtle observation in grief, so he had to lead him to talk more.

"Plimo also... couldn't believe it. He and Philip haven't got along very well, but they have known each other for many years... After Philip was assassinated in the street, he stayed in Valentin to investigate the matter and didn't come to us." Sean's voice was sad and choked with a bit of sorrow. "It was the assassin from Bradrick who killed Philip. The assassin was hired by an aristocrat who once had a feast with Philip... Primo didn't believe that such a desolate aristocrat would assassinate The courage of the Earl, after squatting for a few days, he found that... the nobleman who was so desolate that his own manor was almost deserted, the money for hiring assassins came from Lamia."

After a pause, Sean's tone became cold and gritted: "At Philip's funeral, Eddie of Lamia presented 800 burials of gold coins to Marcus."

Xiao Yun put his hand on his forehead and sat down slowly: "You calm down, Sean...maybe the Lamia Chamber of Commerce thinks that it is easier to control Markas as the city master, so he arbitrarily took his own actions...maybe not Makass has something to do with it. After all, Makass is also Philip’s only son."

"Oh, huh." Sean's face was twitching with hate. "Yeah, how much Philip loves Marcus. Everyone who knows him knows-if it was not Primo who saw Philip resign as the city owner. After the news spread, Marcus ran to the Lamia Chamber of Commerce and was rejected by that Eddie. Primo couldn't believe it... there would be such a stupid thing!"

Xiao Yun was silent, and the Lamia Chamber of Commerce would not ignore the head and the tail. If Lamia knew that Philip had the idea of ​​giving up the Lord of Valentin and put it into practice, then what Lamia’s people would do It must be to support everyone to find this position... to be able to do such a stupid thing, except that Marcus does not do what he wants.

For Philip’s death, it’s Lamia who regrets it the last time. With Philip’s political wisdom, after submitting a transfer application to the aristocratic council, he will definitely take the initiative to make use of this opportunity before leaving office. Benefits, after all, no matter which faction the new city owner comes from, to smoothly take over and take over Valentin will have to fight for his old city host's support.

The political resources of the Elamia Chamber of Commerce, and the chance to win the title of the new city owner is relatively large, but they were pitted by Markas, a guy who cares about his head...so they should be close to the water tower. A step slower over there, it is estimated that Lamia's life has ripped Makas's heart...

This is really, no matter how old a sly person can't resist the knife that the dearest person stabs, no matter how beautiful the basic plate will also be fooled by the stupidity of the nest. Xiao Yun shook his head and looked up to Sean: "Is the truth that Primo has investigated public?"

"No." Sean shook his head. "But the Duke sent by Parliament has arrived in Valentin and is investigating the assassination of Philip... The stupid Markus doesn't know how many horse feet he has left waiting to be caught."

"We must try our best to cover up this matter, Sean." Xiao Yun said in a deep voice. "His father murdered his grandfather. This shocking scandal will be a fatal blow to Lola's political reputation and the entire Philip family. Philip was murdered by the Lamia Chamber of Commerce, and only by the Lamia Chamber of Commerce!"

Sean closed his eyes and said nothing. Although he knew that Ayun was thinking about the granddaughter and family of his old friend, he was really angry at what Markas did and he couldn't untie it.

"I admire your friendship with Philip, Sean, I can understand your anger at this unscrupulous son of Marcus. But for Philip's granddaughter and for Lola, Marcus cannot bear the notoriety of killing his father." Shaking his head with a firm attitude, "It is very simple to punish Markas, but it must not be allowed to implicate the reputation of the Philip family, especially to Lola. Otherwise, Lola’s inheritance rights will be questioned, maybe the Philip family will Not even the Earl's title!"

Sean suddenly opened his eyes, took a few deep breaths to force his emotions under control, and smiled bitterly: "You are right, Ayun, Philip has gone... We have to protect his granddaughter."

Xiao Yun exhaled lightly, and Sean could just turn around the corner, otherwise the efforts of this time would be completely in vain: "Lola is very smart. With her performance in Tal City, we can believe she can Take the responsibility of the Philip family. But she is still young. As a friend of Philip, I think we should give her some help..."

I sat down and watched the tragedy of Ren Lun. The former Xiao Yun could never do such a thing... replaced with the former Xiao Yun. After leaving Valentine and realizing that there was such a possibility, he would definitely find an excuse to let Xiao Eun went back to guard Philip.

If Sean assisted Philip in early warning of Markas’s attempt to abolish this guy, then Yu Yun’s plan would not be affected. In this case, Philip would definitely be hit hard, and the constraints on future use of tactics against Xiao Yun may be It will be greatly reduced; Xiao Yun was not very optimistic about the master of the straw bag, Master Marcus, who could fight Philip. In his expectation, the father and son would each win half and half.

But in the end... Compared to Philip, an old noble with rich political experience, young Lola is more suitable to be a Cronin agent for the Snow Wolf. Taking into account this possibility, Xiao Yun chose to keep silent.

Xiao Yun’s expectations of the Bolton Territory are not just commodity dumping and external information windows. When necessary, the Bolton Territory can also be the retreat of the Snow Wolf family; and the Bolton Territory is not as far away as St. Bridge, When the situation is irreversible, in just one month, Xiao Yun can safely transfer all the people to Bolton.

At both ends of the scales, one side is the stable exit of the Snow Wolf family, and it can be used as a capital for the comeback, and the other side is Philip's life. Which one is obvious is the choice.

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Xiao Yun: What can I do? I don’t want to be black, can I count on the gang of silly white sweethearts? ! This is the back of the whole family's black pot!