(2-in-1 chapter)

This scene made Bolton sigh, he dismounted and came to the woman, took out the compressed dry food from his waist bag, put it in the little girl's hand, and said softly, "Take it and eat it." ”

"Thank you, uncle." The little girl blinked innocently, not realizing that she was calling Bolton too old, and Bolton only laughed and did not correct him.

The woman was grateful for this, hugged the little girl and kept bowing: "Thank you, General, you are really a good person, I wish you a speedy promotion." ”

Bolton's scalp was numb after hearing this, this woman really didn't know his identity, he was a prince, and if he was promoted, wouldn't he become a king?

Who this generation of crown princes is has not yet been decided, and it is a felony to talk about the choice of king.

Of course, the ignorant is not guilty, and the woman is only a kind blessing, so Bolton didn't say anything, also afraid that telling her identity would scare her.

The little girl held the compressed dry food and wanted to break it off, but because she hadn't eaten for several days, she didn't have much strength, and she couldn't break it for a while.

Seeing this, Bolton stretched out his hand, helped the little girl break the dry food, handed his own kettle, and said softly: "Eat slowly, this dry food is very hard, don't swallow it." ”

"Thank you." The little girl nodded obediently, she picked up a small piece of dry food, pursed her lips, obviously she was too hungry, but she did not put it in her mouth, but handed it to the woman's mouth, and said in a milky voice, "Mother, you eat first." ”

I'm obviously hungry, but when I get the food, I still remember to give it to my mother first... This well-behaved appearance was more similar to Solandale, and Bolton only felt his nose sour, and at the same time an evil fire rose in his heart.

Dan Yucheng forced good civilians into such a pitiful appearance, and today he must kill a few dog officials!

Just when Bolton was annoyed, the irritable snorts of the horses were heard one after another, and the adjutant general also reminded: "Your Highness..."

Bolton looked over, and saw that many civilians begging for food had gathered around, and they must have seen the mother and daughter get dry food, thinking that there was food here, and they surrounded the marching party to beg for food:

"General, we've been hungry for days, give us something to eat!"

"That's right, general, you have to be fair with your troops, and you have to be fair to us, you can't just give them and not give us."

"You must have a lot of dry food on you, see us pitiful, just give us some, we are really starving to death..."

...

The woman looked a little alarmed when she saw so many people coming around and pointing, and hurriedly stuffed the dry food in her daughter's hand into the depths of her clothes and held her tightly in her arms.

Bolton frowned when he saw that he was surrounded.

The adjutant general walked up to Bolton and reminded in a low voice: "I can't give it anymore, now that there are few people, I can get out, if I send them food again, the news will spread ten or ten hundreds, and more and more people will come to us to ask for food, and we can't feed so many people." ”

Bolton nodded silently, glanced sideways at the woman and the little girl, and motioned for them to leave from the back path.

The woman hurriedly bowed and thanked her, and fled with her daughter in her arms.

Bolton paid no attention to any civilians begging for food, let them cry and beg, and threw himself on his horse, flicked his whip, and led the team out of the crowd and rushed to the consul's mansion.

Because the city defense army had been changed and controlled by the Guards Legion earlier, Gomez and Lin Gengsen did not know the news of Bolton's arrival, and they were frightened when they saw the men and horses breaking into the ruling mansion from the window, and then seeing the general who led them.

These two people had entered the royal city before, and they were fortunate enough to meet Bolton, and they directly recognized this as His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince, and they didn't even have time to change their clothes, so they hurriedly ran downstairs.

"Your Royal Highness, why are you here? We're sorry we couldn't meet us at the city gates..."Gomer and Lin Gengsen came to Bolton's horse one after another, bowing their bows and expressing their humility.

"You should be sorry." Bolton didn't even look at the two men, rode past them, and left an order, "Within thirty minutes, call the high-ranking officials of all departments in Danyu City, as well as the nobles who contracted the Danyu Plain." ”

...

Twenty-eight minutes later, the last nobleman hurried into the conference room of the consul's residence, wiping his sweat with a handkerchief.

As a directly governed city, Danyu City has more various ruling departments than ordinary main cities, and there are also many high-ranking officials, plus those nobles who contract the agricultural land of the Danyu Plain, there are nearly two hundred people in the conference room.

Fortunately, the size of the conference room in the Consulate Mansion is comparable to that of an auditorium, and it is spacious enough that it will not look crowded with so many people.

At this time, Bolton sat in the main seat, and the rest of the officials and nobles stood in front, not without seats, but no one dared to sit, so everyone simply stood.

Bolton didn't mean to be polite to them at all, and he didn't say anything to let them sit down, and went straight to the topic with a cold face: "Danyu City Food Officer, come out." ”

Gomai leaned forward and said cautiously: "Report to His Royal Highness the Prince, this person has been beheaded." ”

The atmosphere was clearly deadlocked, and a faint murderous aura began to fill the air.

Burton glared angrily and asked, "Beheaded?!" ”

Gomai hurriedly replied: "On the night of the Dragon Fire Festival, the grain officer Kerry was in the brothel kiln and left his post without permission, causing all the eight granaries to be burned. According to the Code, this unforgivable crime of dereliction of duty should be beheaded. ”

"You reacted quickly, and beheaded the grain officer before Wang Cheng sent someone to investigate. How? Protecting the Dharma? Burton's eyes became colder and colder, and murderous intent began to appear in his voice, "Or kill people?" ”

Gomez was so frightened that his face turned white: "Your Royal Highness, what do you mean by this?" ”

Burton's face seemed to be entrenched in a dark cloud, and his face was so heavy that he was about to drip water: "You know what you mean. The matter of the Dragon Fire Festival is very strange, Danyu City blows the north wind in this season, but that night the south wind suddenly blew, and it didn't blow early, not late, just during the fireworks ceremony, and it just burned down the eight granaries, and the grain official just left his post that night..."

"You're going to tell me that so many 'just happens' are all coincidences?"

At this time, Lin Gengsen stepped forward and said without tears: "Your Royal Highness, we don't feel that we are innocent. The officials of the various departments of Danyu City are appointed by the Archon Gome, and I will review and review them, and if anything happens to any of them, we will not escape responsibility.

"If you want to say that we are guilty of negligence, we admit it and are willing to accept punishment. But you have come up like this, and we don't know what to say..."

Gome saw the anger burning in Bolton's eyes, and hurriedly spoke up: "Your Highness, there were many accidents on the day of the Dragon Fire Festival, and it was indeed a lot of coincidences that collided together. Otherwise, if we planned the fire in the granary, what would we do? Is it any good for us that the granary burns? ”

Bolton stared at the two of them coldly, staring at them until their scalps were numb, and then he stretched out his hand and nodded on each of their faces: "I will go and investigate the matter of the Dragon Fire Festival carefully, and when the time comes, if any clues are found, I will count them with you one by one!" ”

"Yes, yes," Gomer and Lin Gengsen replied resignedly.

Bolton didn't pay any attention to them, but looked at the nobles standing behind him, raised a finger, and said with a blank face: "I came to Danyu City today for only one thing, and that is to plant blood essence grass in the Danyu Plain. ”

"You are all contractors of the cultivated land in the Danyu Plain, and I invited you here today in the hope that you will give me a face and cooperate with the work given to me by my father, so that I can go back and pay errands."

A nobleman stepped forward and whispered: "Your Royal Highness, according to the provisions of the legal code, after signing the contract contract, these cultivated fields will be the property of our family, and we will cultivate them independently and bear our own profits and losses. ”

"Our wheat this season is about to ripen, and if you pull out the wheat stalks at this time, the manpower, animal power, seed fertilizer, etc. we have invested this season will be wasted, and it will also cost a huge amount of time.

The nobles were ready to be scolded, but who knows, Bolton was not angry at all, just stood up and said lightly: "Okay, since you don't want to do it, then I make a proposal-"

"What about you, all go home and sit quietly, you should eat, you should drink, you don't have to care about anything, you don't need to contribute, you don't need to contribute, our personal guard regiment will pull wheat stalks and plant blood essence grass by yourself."

"When I'm done, who's in favor and who's against?"

The nobles were dumbfounded, Burton's words were simply rogue logic! It's like a gang of robbers breaking into your house and saying with a pleasant face: "Brother, just sit down, and your family's belongings will be taken by yourself, and you don't have to help us." ”

Outrageous?!

The nobleman who stood up just now couldn't help it, and his voice became louder: "I object!" ”

"Huh-" A cold glow appeared in Bolton's hand, and the great body disappeared, and the continuous black shadows connected with the nobleman, and the sharp slash swung out from the bottom to the top, directly splitting the nobleman in half.

"Boom-" The two bodies of the nobleman were swept into the air by a huge force, and before the blood could spurt out, Bolton had already slashed three times like lightning, and the surging knife qi split the corpses at both ends into six more sections.

"Boom!" The ceiling collapsed in pieces from the blast of the knife, and the wreckage of the building fell down with blood and shredded flesh.

Everyone screamed and dodged, the six gods shrank into the corner of the wall without a master, and a few unlucky people couldn't dodge, their legs were crushed by the collapsed ceiling, and they fell to the ground and wailed in pain, judging from the broken bones from the deformation of their legs, they should have to be in a wheelchair for the rest of their lives.

In the dust and blood, Bolton's body stood like a demon god, and his sharp pupils did not have any emotional fluctuations, only coldness: "Who else is against it?" Stand up. ”

These nobles are usually pampered, where have they seen such a brutal and bloody scene, one by one they collapsed directly, crying and fleeing out of the door.

However, they hadn't taken a few steps before the door to the conference room was blocked by the guards brought by Burton.

These guards are all fierce soldiers who crawl out of the pile of dead people, never blink an eye when they kill people, and they look at the eyes of the nobles as if they are looking at a corpse.

An elderly nobleman, seeing that he was cornered, pointed at Bolton and exclaimed, "If we just say a word of opposition, you will kill the killer, this is murder!" This is a code of blasphemy! ”

"Codex?" Bolton sneered coldly, and directly slapped the blank oracle given to him by Pertheus on the table, "Father gave me this blank oracle, I have unfettered power of life and death in Danyu City, whoever wants to die must die, you tell me the Dictionary?" Now I'm the Codex! ”

"Hmm-" Bolton took out the knife again, and the surging knife qi gathered into a turbulent current, and the body of the elderly nobleman was like being swept into a meat grinder, and was directly torn into dozens of pieces by the knife qi.

The nobles were frightened, realizing that they had met the devil, and their family background was no longer a talisman, and they fell to their knees in fright, crying and begging for mercy.

Killing chickens and monkeys, killing two chickens, and setting an example of a hundred monkeys, Bolton's goal has been achieved, there is no need to kill again, he directly put the knife into the sheath, sat back in his seat, took out the title deed prepared in advance, and said coldly: "If you don't want to die, line up to sign." The cultivated land in the Danyu Plain is now all owned by the royal family, and I have the final say on what is planted on it. ”

The current situation is already difficult to protect itself, and the nobles still have the heart to consider the issue of arable land, and rush to the table to sign.

"Slap, slap, slap..." Just as everyone was stopped by Bolton, an inopportune applause rang out.

In the corner of the conference room, I saw a person in cloth sitting there, although this person was plainly dressed and looked ordinary, but those who knew him knew that this was the richest man in Danyu City and the chief representative of the hundred nobles, Du Mingwei.

Bolton looked sideways at Du Mingwei, not knowing where he was playing.

Du Mingwei did not shy away from the murderous gaze, after applauding, he got up and saluted Bolton, and said unhurriedly: "In Xia Du Mingwei, I have never met with His Royal Highness the Prince before, I only heard that you are a legendary general who killed decisively, and I am fortunate to meet today, and the rumors are indeed true." ”

Burton ignored these rhetorical words, and uttered four words like a death declaration: "You are against it too?" ”

Du Mingwei was indifferent and smiled slightly: "Since His Royal Highness the Prince has a blank handwriting, how dare I object?" Not to mention signing the title deed, even if you plan to raid my home, isn't it just a matter of one sentence? ”

Bolton didn't say a word of nonsense, and directly called the adjutant general: "Du Mingwei's house was raided, and all property was confiscated." ”

"Yes." The adjutant general glanced at Du Mingwei and strode away.

However, before the deputy general walked out of the door, Du Mingwei's voice sounded again: "His Royal Highness the prince wants to raid the house, of course I will open the door to greet him and obey the order." But I want to warn you that there is no need to let your soldiers run for nothing. ”

"My home, there is no money to copy."

Burton frowned, he didn't understand what Du Mingwei meant, he had read the relevant information before coming to Danyu City, and knew that Du Mingwei was the richest man in Danyu City and the representative of the 100 nobles.

This kind of person with a lot of money actually says that he has no money to copy? What kind of trick is this?

Du Mingwei looked up at Bolton, and the next words made the surrounding atmosphere start to become very subtle: "Before the arrival of His Royal Highness the Prince, I have already scattered all my family property for disaster relief, and all the food in the basement has been used to relieve my compatriots. ”

"Now, my house is empty except for a few beds, a few tables, and a few walls, and if His Highness even wants these things, then send someone to copy them."