Many of the people in the royal city saw that others were fleeing, some followed and some were watching, but no matter what kind of people they were, they would at least ask others to find out what was going on and why they were fleeing.

When you ask the common people, you can't get an answer, and when you ask the servants of the nobles, you can't get the answer, because the nobles don't tell the servants everything, and the ordinary people are afraid of the nobles, so they naturally don't dare to ask the nobles who are dressed in rich clothes, so all the people are confused, whether they are fleeing, or waiting, or refusing to leave, they don't know what happened.

Of course, in the case of opaque information, the most likely thing to happen is rumors, rumors are due to opaque information, ordinary people can only rely on speculation and reasoning to get the most reasonable results, and spread step by step, of course, there will be some people with ulterior motives, deliberately spread some rumors that are beneficial to themselves, thereby disturbing society.

As for the issue of rumors, it has been a long-standing problem since ancient times, and it is impossible to eradicate rumors in any era, even in later generations with advanced technology and media, it is difficult to stop the generation and spread of rumors.

There are reasons for the opacity of information, and there are also reasons for the lack of credibility of the imperial court, anyone in the world can play hooligans, but the imperial court cannot do this, if the imperial court is playing hooligans, then the people will lose confidence in the imperial court, and anything the imperial court says will lose credibility, so that rumors have a breeding ground.

At this time, in the Lion King City, it can be said that rumors are flying all over the sky, and there is more than one kind of rumor, all kinds of rumors have come out, some say about the plague, some say about rebellion, and some say that the Tang Dynasty soldiers and horses have called, all kinds of rumors, the people left behind are confused, and it is impossible to distinguish which is true and which is false.

The royal family and nobles were the first to get the news, and naturally they were the first to flee, and the ordinary people followed, blocking the road out of the city, so that it was not easy for the people who got the news later to get out of the city gate.

Especially the location of the city gate hole, because the mouth is too small, it has been blocked, some nobles with big businesses, and there are still many materials that have not been transported out of the city, at this time if they want to transport out, it is naturally impossible, and they can only do it in a hurry.

The most unfortunate are the nobles who got the news late, and some noble families who were deliberately abandoned, when they learned the news and wanted to leave the city, the city gate was already blocked too much, and the speed of leaving the city was like a snail crawling.

Abandoned family members are naturally unimportant and unfavored people, for example, there are too many palace maids and not very important palace people in the palace, and their existence value is not great, how can they be taken with them at the critical moment of escaping? The concubines of big families who are not favored are naturally also abandoned, and they can only be forced to take care of themselves, who makes them not important?

In the crowded situation, the most fatal thing is the stampede accident, because the people in the city have to escape from the city, and the city gate hole is too small, it will naturally be desperately squeezed out, at this time it is inevitable that someone will stand unsteadily, so that the stampede accident happened.

For a time, the gate of the royal city was crying for his father and mother, and there was also an uneared insult.

The royal city of the Lion Country has always been the most prosperous city in the Lion Country, but at this moment, with the withdrawal of the royal family and nobles, the soldiers and horses stationed in the country have also been evacuated.

The gangsters in the city began to steal everywhere, and finally became more and more emboldened, and began to rob passers-by in the street, becoming lawless, and even serious incidents of hurting people.

A royal city that had been developed for many years had become a hellish city, so that many people on the streets were so frightened that they had to hide in their homes.

However, this state of anarchy will not last long, because more than 10,000 soldiers and horses of Ma Teqin and 5,000 soldiers of the Tang Dynasty are already on their way to the royal city, and they will arrive in a few hours.

Ma Teqin personally led a small number of cavalry, and the Tang Dynasty ironclad artillery car troops, had already taken the fastest step ahead, and soon arrived at the Lion King City.

Seeing the scene of the gate open, Ma Teqin was very proud, and at the same time quite worried, he knew that the old king must have escaped, but he must not have run far, if he launched a cavalry pursuit, it was completely possible to recover him.

The generals of the Tang Dynasty ironclad artillery carriage would not follow him to pursue the old king, and they drove into the royal city in a mighty manner, showing the military might of the Tang Empire very well, and letting the people of the Lion King City see the advanced equipment of the Tang Dynasty.

With the arrival of the main force of Ma Teqin and the follow-up soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty, the chaotic Lion King City soon became orderly, and some of the criminals who took the opportunity to do evil were brought to justice.

However, the cavalry of the Horse Service Division, who personally pursued the old king, encountered a problem that annoyed him very much, that is, the gate in the direction of the south gate was blocked by the fleeing people, which made it difficult for him to achieve a quick pursuit of the old king Kullam, in addition, if all the people of the royal city ran away, how to govern after he took the royal city, these ordinary people were too faceless to him.

After using violent means, Ma Teqin will all the people gathered near the city gate dare to go to the city, whoever dares to disobey will be directly whipped with a horse whip, and those who can't be pulled away will be slashed with a saber, and after killing a few people, the rest will be more obedient.

However, it is not enough to clean up the people at the gate of the city, after leaving the city, there is only a small road that is not wide, and it has been occupied by the fleeing people at a glance, if you want to clean up the people on this road, it is really not easy, after cleaning up, it is estimated that the old king Kuram has already fled.

Kulam had no choice but to let his men drive the people away, let them return to the royal city, continue to live and work in peace and contentment, and not flee with the old king, while he himself returned to the royal city and went straight to the palace.

Due to the rush of time and insufficient preparations, not all the royal families and nobles left, and some people were reluctant to leave.

And the royal family who is unwilling to leave is divided into two kinds, one is a tough guy who would rather die than give in, waiting to be stabbed, and the other is a speculator who is ready to surrender, this type is generally a partial branch of the royal family, their status is not very noble, but they don't want to go to the mountains to suffer, and would rather stay in the royal city to be an Le Gong, such as Liu Chan.

As for the palace maids and others who no one cared about, because they didn't dare to leave the palace at will, they naturally basically stayed in the palace.

In order to get his new regime on the right track as soon as possible, Mateqin strictly ordered his soldiers and horses not to loot the people, let alone destroy the palace and any items in the palace, and not to harm the former royal family.

Ma Teqin suddenly betrayed Kulram and unilaterally signed a compensation agreement with Datang, which made the legitimacy of his regime seem a little insufficient, in this case, Ma Teqin especially needs to prove the legitimacy of his regime, and it is a very good way to use the people of the former royal family who have not left.

There are still a lot of people from the former royal family who did not leave, among them, those who were unwilling to take refuge in him were quickly killed by him, and the royal families who were willing to submit were treated very well, although they would not be given real power, and even, they would be monitored, but at least they could live happily.

Mateqin sought out one of the most respected former royal families and publicly counted the mistakes of the former king, which had brought the Lion Kingdom to ruin, and he asked the royal family to succeed Cullam as the new king.

Of course, this is only a temporary transition, how could he give the throne to the people of the former royal family, just to show that he is not a rebel.

Less than a day after the new king ascended the throne, the new king ceded his throne to Ma Teqin at the behest of Ma Teqin, and Ma Teqin also pretended to be reluctant to accept the king's position until he couldn't push it, and officially ascended the throne as the new king of the lion country.

In this way, Ma Teqin's throne was a concession from the former royal family, and the legitimacy of the regime was greatly increased, and the sense of identity of ordinary people naturally increased greatly.

After ascending to the throne, the most urgent thing for Mateqin to do was to eliminate the former king Khuram and his followers who had fled into the mountains as soon as possible, because the existence of these people seriously threatened the stability of the new regime.

In addition, Ma Teqin has promised to compensate Datang, but when Kuram fled, he took away half of the treasury, which made the treasury of the Lion Country not enough to compensate Datang's requirements, and this is obviously something that Datang can't agree, he doesn't dare to offend Datang, so he must exterminate Kuram as soon as possible and get half of the treasury property that was taken away.

In addition, the accompanying pair of nobles also took their own assets, which together were more than the entire treasury, and if they could all be obtained, it would be of great benefit to the stability and development of the new regime.

Therefore, in any case, the elimination of the former king Khuram has become an important issue that the new regime of Mateqin urgently needs to solve.

However, Kuram and his entourage have gone deep into the southern hinterland, and I don't know which mountain they are hiding in, and many areas in the south are the fiefs of the former royal family, and the local people are more supportive of the former king, which is very unfavorable to Mateqin, so even if it is an urgent problem, it is not easy to solve.

In addition, a large part of the existing soldiers and horses are soldiers of the former king, and it is doubtful how much loyalty they can have, so it must be improved as soon as possible to prevent these soldiers and horses from mutiny.

The current Lion King City, in addition to the more than 10,000 soldiers and horses of Ma Teqin, there are also 5,000 elite Tang Army, and the strength is still very strong.

But the Tang Dynasty soldiers and horses will not stay in the royal city for long, and sooner or later they will leave the royal city, so before the Tang Dynasty soldiers and horses leave, Ma Teqin urgently needs to integrate the soldiers and horses under his command well, kill all the soldiers and horses under his command, win over those who should be wooed, promote those who should be promoted, and in addition, recruit loyal recruits from among the common people, so as to completely stabilize his regime.

There are a large number of civilians in the Lion King City, and there are also a lot of people in the nearby villages, and it is not difficult to recruit soldiers, as long as you start conscription, you will soon be able to get tens of thousands of soldiers and horses.

However, Ang Lee did not allow the Lion Kingdom to have more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, so they had to keep this in mind when recruiting troops, and they couldn't overdo it.

But whether it is recruiting troops or integrating internally, it costs money, it takes a lot of money, and the current situation is very unoptimistic, half of the property in the treasury has been taken away by Kulam, and the money that Ma Teqin has now is not enough to compensate Datang, let alone do other things.

This embarrassing situation made Ma Teqin quite helpless and very sad.

There are several options to address the financial constraints we are facing, the first is to delay the war reparations to the Tang Dynasty and pay them later, and the second is to levy special taxes in the capital to pass on the pressure to ordinary people. The third is to find an excuse to confiscate some nobles, so that they can also get a huge amount of property.

However, no matter what the situation is, it will be difficult to implement, Datang's strength is there, if he dares not to compensate as soon as possible, how can Datang be willing, and Ma Teqin does not even dare to make a request.

The common people are the best to bully, and it seems to be a very good idea to pass on the financial pressure to the ordinary people, but the new regime has just been established, and if the people are subjected to additional harsh taxes at this time, it will inevitably make the people very unhappy and very detrimental to the stability of the new regime.

As for finding an excuse to raid the nobles' homes, it is not an easy thing, the new regime has not yet stabilized, if there is not enough evidence to raid the homes, not only will a large number of people be unjustly killed, but also the remaining nobles will be in danger of themselves, giving birth to rebellion, and it is not conducive to recruiting the fleeing nobles.

Although he became the new king of the Lion Kingdom as he wished, he faced a lot of thorny problems, which made Ma Teqin a little helpless and had a headache.

Li An is not idle in Tanar, this seaport that originally belonged to the Lion Kingdom is now the territory of Datang, and the geographical location of this seaport is good, echoing the opposite Gordy, guarding the strait that is not very wide, so this seaport must be expanded to meet the berthing needs of a large number of merchant ships.

Soon after Li An arrived in Tannar, he issued an order for expansion, personally surveyed the terrain, and came up with a plan for expansion.

Most of Datang's dredging dredging ships are along the coast, and a small number of dredging ships are transferred to the Malacca area, where there is no such advanced equipment in the lion country, in this case, the expansion work has become very difficult, and it is difficult to dredge where the water is shallow and silt, but as long as you think carefully and prepare more manpower, you can still overcome it.