Outworld: Rise of an Industrial Empire

Xuanwu Capital, Guogong

Mansion Guogong Mansion is a building unit on the same level as the royal palace, although the luxury is not as luxurious as the royal palace of the kingdom, but it is also quite grand.

However, there is no moat outside the city walls, but inside the ten meters high city walls, there are parks and castles.

Heavily armed guards patrol the manor in neat rows, armed with heavy weapons.

On top of the city walls, guards armed with muskets were stationed.

In one of the castle's rooms, two men in gorgeous costumes were talking.

Murong Shixing, the head of the Murong family in the Xuanwu Capital, said with a bitter face towards the person in front

of him: "My lord, I'm not alarmist, there are rebellions all over the empire, and we have to guard against it!"

Huang Qi, the prince of the Xuanwu Principality on the side, was drinking tea at this time, he glanced at Murong Shixing disapprenorovingly and said

, "Lord Murong, I think you are still too worried.

After speaking, he tasted tea, but Murong Shixing on the side said anxiously:

"My lord, in the past month, the beggars in the whole city have almost disappeared without a trace, I heard that there are factories that have dismissed dozens of people, and on the third day all these people disappeared, I suspect ......."

Before he finished speaking, Huang Qi interrupted him:

"Lord Murong, you don't need to worry, even if someone wants to plot against you, you go and see those who rebel, which one has not been suppressed? In this Xuanwu Capital alone, there are three thousand city defense troops, even if there are tens of thousands of mobs, there is nothing to be afraid of, let alone some beggars.

Murong Shixing still sighed anxiously, then pointed to the east and said,

"Lord Huang....... Then we should also take precautions, if there are really a lot of people hidden in that civilian's mine, then my lord, you should immediately send an army to destroy them!"

Huang Qi put down the teacup in his hand, nodded slightly towards Murong Shixing and said,

"Hmm...... Lord Murong, this is true, but I have only been in office for a few months, and there are many things that I don't know yet, so you can go directly to Lord Li!

Both of them have their own little abacus, three people to be exact.

In fact, Huang Qi was not a local nobleman, but was sent by the imperial court.

His family's power is not ranked, but there are some fiefdoms and family properties in Kyoto.

In the Xuanwu Principality, he did not have any power, but only held the only remaining rights of the imperial court, such as military power, only the overseers of the Xuanwu Capital were people of the empire, and they could barely be commanded by him, and they had an army of about 1,000 people.

Including the captains of the Xuanwu capital, the captains of many city-states in the principality are people of different forces, and the armies they control are nominally empireal, but the actual control is the family behind them.

For example, the other 2,000 city guards in Xuanwu Capital are actually the "private soldiers" of the Li family.

Li Chengwei is a member of the Xuanwu Li family, and these 2,000 people only obey his orders.

In addition, these 2,000 men were nominally directly under the Empire, so the Duchy needed to allocate funds to pay them each time.

Therefore, they not only kept regular private soldiers in the open, armed with heavy weapons prohibited by law, but also ate the salaries of the empire.

Of course, the income of this military salary is also controlled by the nobles, but don't think about controlling the army by cutting off the military salary, people can instead not "pay taxes" to the imperial court.

The Xuanwu Principality is not bad, the Principality of Mount Tai is almost no different from the kingdom, and even the Guogong does not obey the dispatch of the imperial court, in other words, the Guogong is the head of the entire local aristocratic power. The entire principality has been divided among the major powers, and apart from paying a tax every year, the imperial court, from military to political, cannot intervene at all.

At this time, the abacus of the three of them were:

The Murong family of the Xuanwu Principality has a lot of black history, and it is the only family among the four major families of Xuanwu that the people hate to the bone.

And Murong Shixing had learned about the situation of the federation and the Soviet government, so he knew very well that once there was a rebellion below, his family would at least lose a lot if he didn't finish his life.

And if it succeeds, then his family will be completely finished, even if the mob is only a temporary success, temporarily gaining control of the capital, the first target must be their Murong family.

The reason why Huang Qi was reluctant to send troops was that as a member of the imperial court, he wanted to use the man-made rebellion below to weaken the power of these local nobles.

In the same way, the Li family, as a local nobleman, naturally hoped that Huang Qi would send a team to suppress it first to consume the power of the imperial court, so Li Chengwei was also waiting.

In addition, both parties also knew that the Murong family had caused public outrage, and at the same time, the Murong family had been restricted and had no private power, and they also hoped that the civilians would rebel first and make a big fuss about the Murong family's property.

Therefore, the two of them looked at each other, and the Murong family was naturally very anxious.

The Xuanwu Murong family relied on violence to start and rely on violence to maintain their interests, they used the privileges of the nobility to rob the property of the commoners, this behavior itself was spurned by the nobles, and it was not legal according to the law, and they would be fined, but with the background of the Murong Kingdom, it was not targeted by the major nobles in the early days, and later, the previous generation of the Xuanwu Murong family won the position of the city governor of the Xuanwu capital, and they were even more unscrupulous, and even robbed some civilians of their family property, and the city governor was a member of their family, and they didn't even need bribes。

Then there is no doubt that the rebels will rush to the Murong family's manor as soon as possible and hang the Murong family's people on the tree.

The Murong family is a thug who has raised hundreds of people, but on the one hand, these people have not received systematic training, and on the other hand, they do not have military-grade weapons, relying on iron knives alone, their combat effectiveness may not be much stronger than those mobs, and even if they keep the manor, I am afraid the loss will not be small.

....

Murong Shixing knew that it was naturally impossible to cooperate with the Li family, they were not short of money, what they needed was influence, in addition to improving their own prestige, but also the influence to suppress other people's forces.

They didn't target themselves with violating the law, they were all concerned about the face of the Murong Kingdom, how could they let go of this opportunity to cause losses to their family.

Murong Shixing lowered his face and took a deep breath, then leaned over to Huang Qi's side, changed to a smiling expression and said

, "Lord Huang, if this mob riots, it may also cause you a lot of losses.....

." Hearing this, Huang Qi raised his eyebrows suspiciously, he didn't understand what Murong Shixing meant, he barely had any property in the Xuanwu Principality, and the rights in his hands were all appointed by the empire, no matter what the result was, he would not lose personally.

At this time, Murong Shixing took out a wad of paper from his pocket and handed it to Huang Qi with a smile:

"Lord Huang.... This mob riot is likely to cause your miners to revolt! My lord..."

Huang Qi was stunned for a moment, looking at the paper in Murong Shixing's hand for some reason.

Murong Shixing spread out the paper and said to Huang Qi:

"Lord Huang, this is a mineral in the western suburbs, this is ...... The slaves and overseers who work are all ready, the demand for minerals in this federation is very large, and there is no shortage of orders......."

Huang Qi immediately understood what Murong Shixing meant, and was immediately a little shocked, shocked that Murong Shixing could actually give him so much money

! He couldn't believe it at this time, such a huge asset could be obtained with just one order from him!