Your fiefdom gains one soldier every second, what should you do, Queen Mother?

Ying Xuanze suddenly raised his hand, and the people immediately quieted down.

"The bandits in Yingchuan are extremely arrogant. Although I have eliminated Duotian Village, there are still the remnants of Yunqing Village, as well as Longwang Village and Qingfeng Village."

"If we don't get rid of these bandits, there will be no peace in Gaoliu City!"

Ying Xuanze swept his cold gaze over the people in front of him, and finally fixed his gaze on those who had just said they wanted to open the city gates.

"There are many fierce bandits in Yingchuan, and they will definitely extend their hands and feet outside. So I guess some of you are undercover agents planted by the bandits in the city."

As soon as these words were spoken, the people below began to talk about it.

"What? Undercover? Even in Gaoliu City, where things are like this, there are still undercovers?"

"What do you know? There are so many bandits in Yingchuan. The imperial court will definitely send people to wipe them out."

"If we don't place spies along the way, once the army arrives and the bandits are unprepared, won't their lair be dug up?"

"Oh, I see! No wonder I saw a few people sneaking around on the street before. I think they were the bandits' undercover agents!"

Ying Xuanze smiled and raised his hand again to ask the people to be quiet.

"To be honest, the leader of Duotian Village led his people to attack me this time because he thought I didn't bring any soldiers or horses with me."

"But now that I have killed so many bandits, these undercover agents in the city must know my background. Fellow villagers, think about it, what do they want to do most at this moment?"

The people looked at each other in bewilderment. After a while, someone raised his hand and said, "Run! Find a way to escape, or hide!"

"I know! They want to go back to their own village, otherwise they're afraid that you, sir, will scare them to the point of peeing their pants in the city!"

The people burst into laughter, and Ying Xuanze laughed along, while he and Zhang Fei kept observing the expressions on the people's faces.

"What you said makes sense, but none of them are right. Do you have any other answers? If you answer correctly, I will reward you with 10 taels of silver!"

"Oh my god! 10 taels of silver? So much?" The people below were all staring. They had never seen so much money in their lives!

"I know!"

"I know it too!"

The people raised their hands one after another, but none of them gave the correct answer. Then a young man raised his hand.

"My Lord, if I were one of those undercover agents, I would try my best to leave Gaoliu City and then tell the other strongholds about the situation here."

"So what the undercover agents want to do most right now is to leave the city!"

Ying Xuanze shouted, "Great! The young man is so smart, and the younger generations are all like this. Why should we worry about our Great Ying Dynasty not being strong?"

He asked Zhang Fei to hand the silver to the young man, then raised his hand and pointed to a few people in the crowd.

"Go ahead, catch them!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a dozen elite soldiers ran out from behind him and captured the civilians he pointed out at an extremely fast speed.

"Sir? What are you going to do?" the citizen who was held on the ground shouted.

"What?" Ying Xuanze sneered, "Are you asking anyway?"

"You have been hiding in Gaoliu City for so long, have you forgotten who you are?"

Ying Xuanze sneered again: "If the villagers who were born and raised in Gaoliu City saw these heads hanging on the city wall, they would not be able to hide the hatred in their eyes."

"I was just observing your every move carefully. Some of you often looked up at these heads with eyes that seemed to be able to eat people."

"Some people have tense expressions, which means they are angry. Some people wipe their tears silently, which means they are sad. Some people clench their fists, which means they want to kill these beasts with their own hands!"

Ying Xuanze put his sword on the head of an undercover bandit and said sternly, "You guys are the only ones who not only don't hate us, but also flirt with the people next to you. Are you thinking of leaving the city to report the news?"

"You're talking nonsense! You're framing me!" An undercover bandit raised his head with great effort and glared at Ying Xuanze.

"Bah! What Zhenxi Hou? I think he is just a corrupt official! He is a man who takes human life lightly! Folks, don't believe him! He won't let us go out of the city to work, there must be something else going on!"

Ying Xuanze's eyes turned cold, and the next second he swept his sword across, and a head rolled to the ground. It was the undercover bandit who had just spoken.

Seeing his companion's head, the undercover bandit in front of Ying Xuanze struggled in fear and said, "Speak! I'll tell you! I'll tell you everything! Sir, please don't kill me!"

"We are undercover! We are undercover sent by Qingfeng Village! We want to go out of the city to report the news, so we said we wanted to go out of the city to work after we secretly communicated just now!"

The undercover bandit cried loudly and begged Ying Xuanze for mercy. The next second, most of his pants were wet and a foul smell came out.

"Damn it! It must be you undercover agents. My daughter was kidnapped by bandits! Give me back my daughter! Give me back my daughter!"

"Sir! Kill them! Avenge my dead son!"

The people knelt on the ground and begged Ying Xuanze not to let these undercover bandits go.

Some of the people couldn't control their emotions. They rushed up and started punching and kicking the bandits and undercover agents.

They beat and cursed, wishing they could snatch the swords from the soldiers and cut them into pieces.

Ying Xuanze signaled with his eyes, and then the bandits undercover were pulled aside by the elite soldiers, and six or seven of them lined up and knelt together.

No matter how the undercover agents shouted and begged for mercy, Ying Xuanze remained unmoved.

He raised the sword in his hand and shouted to the angry people below:

"I, Ying Xuanze, will keep my word. I will not spare any of the bandits from Yingchuan!"

He swung his sword down, and the next second the elite soldier in charge of the execution raised his sword and brought it down! Then six or seven heads rolled to the ground.

Ying Xuanze took a torch and burned the headless corpses.

When the people saw that the Marquis of Zhenxi had such iron-blooded methods, they were all moved to tears.

They knew that leading troops to war required food, so many people stepped forward, knelt on the ground and shouted loudly:

"Sir! I am willing to donate grain to serve as military rations! Please do your best to suppress the bandits!"

"Sir! I am willing to give up the piece of land in my home, just asking you to avenge my two sons!"

"Sir! I want to offer food too!"

"..."

Ying Xuanze quickly stepped forward and helped these people up one by one. He said in a loud voice:

"No! How can I, the Marquis of Zhenxi, take things from you people?"

"We have military rations! We also have military pay! And even if we want it, we have to take it from the bandits!"

"Fellow villagers will go to the military camp in the north of the city to collect food. These are what we took back from Duotian Village!"

The people shed tears, cheered loudly, and their emotions were extremely high.

"Marquis of Zhenxi! Marquis of Zhenxi!"

Looking at the people who were so excited that they cried, Ying Xuanze also smiled with relief.

Although he can rely on the system's capabilities to form an army for himself and expand his territory.

But he knew that if he wanted to gain control of the world, the most important thing was always the people's hearts.

With a strong army and loyal people, great things can be accomplished!

Ying Xuanze looked back in the direction of Kyoto and murmured in a low voice: "Wait, Queen Mother, the day when I, Ying Xuanze, return to the capital will not be too far away..."