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

Longxi City, City Lord’s Mansion.

Wang Yuan yawned, glanced at the sky which had already turned dark, and then whispered to the servant beside him, "Is there no news from Yingchuan yet?"

"Reporting to the city lord, our people are waiting at the same location every day, but we haven't seen anyone. Maybe they are busy with other things?"

Wang Yuan snorted coldly and suddenly knocked on the table. He said sternly: "At the beginning, I told them that the Marquis of Zhenxi had no soldiers, and it would only take half a day to destroy the Marquis's mansion!"

"Now almost ten days have passed and there is no news at all. How can I explain this to the capital?"

"Your Excellency, you can't solve the problem even if you are anxious! There are 30,000 bandits in Yingchuan. It would be easy to destroy the Marquis of Zhenxi. Maybe they are thinking about who to do it?"

"No matter what, this is the marquis appointed by the court. If he died in Xiliang, the court would definitely investigate the cause of his death. Perhaps they are afraid of this and have not sent any news yet?"

Wang Yuan snorted again: "What are you a bunch of cowards? If you kill them, you have the support of that master. What are you afraid of?"

"Anyway, go to Gaoliu City tomorrow and see what's going on. If the Marquis of Zhenxi is dead, go up the mountain and tell the bandits not to forget to send the things to the mansion."

"If they are still alive, urge them to hurry up!"

"I'll pack my luggage right away..." After receiving the order, the servant quietly retreated.

The next day, the servant boarded a carriage and arrived at Gaoliu Castle two days later.

As soon as he got off the carriage, he realized that Gaoliu City was different from the past. It was no longer deserted but rather had a much more lively atmosphere.

"Could it be that Marquis Zhenxi is still alive?" The servant murmured in a low voice. After wandering outside the city gate for a while, he decided to enter the city.

After entering the city, he unexpectedly found that there were many more young faces in the city and the streets were busier than before.

What surprised him most was that some of the originally damaged houses were being rebuilt. If he had not been to Gaoliu City before, he would not have thought that this was a city that had been looted several times by bandits.

"What is going on?" The servant looked puzzled. Unknowingly, he walked to the door of a shop.

Seeing a lot of rice in the shop, he was suddenly surprised, so he went to the door and asked, "Boss! Is the harvest so good this year? There is so much rice."

The shopkeeper stood up from the stool and said with a smile: "Haha, young man, you don't know that these are all given by Lord Zhenxihou!"

The servant frowned, wondering where the Zhenxi Marquis got the food. So he asked again, "Strange, aren't you afraid of bandits coming to attack? I heard that there are several gangs of bandits around Gaoliu City!"

The shopkeeper was stunned at first, then laughed heartily and said, "You are from outside, right? No wonder."

"Young man, you don't know that there are no bandits around Gaoliu City! Lord Zhenxi Hou eliminated all the bandits in Yingchuan a while ago!"

The servant suddenly took a deep breath. Before he could speak, the shopkeeper spoke first: "Haha, you also find it incredible, right?"

“To be honest, the people in our city also find it incredible, but Lord Zhenxihou really did it!”

"He chopped off the heads of the bandit leaders, and they are still hanging on the north gate!"

The shopkeeper became more and more excited as he spoke, his joy completely invisible between the lines, and he even closed his eyes with laughter as he spoke.

"Now that there are no more bandit troubles, life is getting more comfortable day by day, and all the people who fled before have returned."

"By the way, sir, what would you like to buy? Eh?" When the shopkeeper opened his eyes, he found that the servant was gone.

"Tsk, what a weirdo..."

The servant hurried to the north of the city, and just as the shopkeeper had said, the heads of Wang Meng, Li Kui, Zhang Dayong and others were hanging on the city wall.

He had seen all these people in the City Lord's Mansion. Even if the Marquis of Zhenxi wanted to bluff people, he couldn't possibly produce so many heads.

He took one last look at the heads, then hurried out of the city, got on the carriage and immediately returned to Longxi City.

......

In the City Lord's Mansion, Wang Yuan was drinking with his concubine in his arms. He was drinking so hard that he was about to touch the concubine's body when a servant came in hurriedly.

"City Lord! Something bad has happened! Something bad has happened!" The servant knelt in front of Wang Yuan. Seeing that he looked pale, the latter asked his concubine to put on her clothes and go out first.

After the concubine left, Wang Yuan asked the servant, "What happened?"

"Dead! All the bandits in Yingchuan are dead!" The servant continued, panting, "Longwang Village and Qingfeng Village were destroyed! Wu Meng and Li Kui's heads are hanging on the city gate!"

Wang Yuan suddenly stood up, pulled up the servant and asked loudly: "Is this true?!"

"I saw it with my own eyes! There were more than a dozen heads hanging there! I also saw those bandits! It's absolutely true!!"

Wang Yuan let go of the servant and sat back on the stool with a serious expression. After a long while, he said in a deep voice:

"This Zhenxi Marquis has a hidden trick... I didn't expect that at such a young age, he is so scheming!"

"Sir, Yingchuan has been completely wiped out. What should we do next?"

"The imperial court sent the Marquis of Zhenxi to Xiliang. Could it be that they really want to completely change Xiliang?"

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Wang Yuan raised his eyebrows and stared at the servant.

"The Ying family was demoted to Xiliang by the imperial court. The Ying family father and son had their military power completely taken away, and they refused the imperial court's troops. It is impossible for them to have an army!"

"The destruction of the four mountain strongholds in Yingchuan must have been a result of this kid's plot to sow discord among them. In the first place, the four mountain strongholds also had their own ulterior motives."

"But this is definitely not a good sign for us. We must find a way to strangle the Marquis of Zhenxi in the cradle before he gets up!"

"Your Excellency means that we should do it ourselves?"

"Yes, but not entirely." Wang Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly, his eyes sharp.

Just when he was thinking about how to kill Ying Xuanze, another servant ran in hurriedly.

"Sir! The Marquis of Zhenxi is here! He's waiting outside the mansion!"

The other servant was startled and his face turned even paler with fright. Wang Yuan also paced back and forth with a serious look on his face.

After a while, Wang Yuan said to the servant who reported the news, "Get ready and meet the Marquis of Zhenxi in the hall!"

"Yes!"

Outside the City Lord's Mansion, Ying Xuanze, Zhang Fei and Zhang Liang stood on both sides of him, and behind him were a hundred or so warriors.

Zhang Fei glanced at the soldiers guarding the gate, and then whispered in Zhang Liang's ear: "Military Advisor, is this enough for us?"

"My lord is a marquis appointed by the court. I don't know how many levels higher than the city lord he is. He wouldn't dare to do that."

"Yes, if he dares, I will be the first to chop him away!"

Just as the two were whispering, a servant came out of the mansion, walked respectfully in front of Ying Xuanze and said, "Sir, please follow me. The city lord is waiting inside."