More than three thousand people began to attack the city lord's mansion like a scourge.
The soldiers of the city lord's palace who didn't understand what was going on at first were even resisting frantically.
There was quite a bit of conflict between the two sides, which resulted in some casualties.
Until Xia Yan appeared, still holding the wooden box containing the city lord's seal in his hand.
Both the city lord's palace soldiers and the city defense soldiers were all carefully confirming the city lord's seal in Xia Yan's hand.
After confirming that it was correct, the two teams no longer offered any resistance and returned to Xia Yan for his use.
Soon, the news that Xia Yan became the new city lord began to spread throughout the city, and many people were curious about what kind of person this new city lord was.
Among them, most people chose to wait and see. The new official took office and God knows what kind of fire this new city lord will create.
Many people have begun to think in their minds, and many people have even begun to spread rumors, saying that Xia Yan is a man with three heads and six arms who is born with supernatural powers.
But no matter how many people discuss it, it will always come to nothing. God knows which one is true and which one is false.
But when the news came out, everyone was stunned.
The people, merchants, doctors, and the army are all trembling at this moment.
Who is the city lord that he met?
Oh...it seems we can't call the city lord anymore, we should call him the emperor...
It turns out that just now, Xia Yan officially announced in the Fenghua Empire that he was about to ascend the throne.
From then on, Fenghua City was directly renamed Fenghua Imperial City, the empire was renamed Songsi Empire, and the era name was changed to the first year of Songsi.
As for the reason for such an imperial name, it was also because Xia Yan thought of it on the spur of the moment.
I wanted to die, so I created the Songsi Empire, which sounds like a homophone.
With the establishment of the Songsi Empire, many people began to feel panic.
Some people are waiting and watching, but these people have only become a small minority.
Most people simply choose to leave the military.
After all, we are not fools. We all originally belonged to the Mingbo Empire. Now that Fenghua City has separated from the Mingbo Empire, how can the empire sit idly by and ignore it.
When the time comes, as soon as the army reaches the city, all those who remain in the army will become cannon fodder, so it is better to simply run away.
As for these people, Xia Yan didn't show any reluctance at all and directly allowed them to leave.
In this way, Fenghua City, which originally had 80,000 soldiers, was impregnable. After leaving most of the soldiers, only about 30,000 soldiers were left.
Even if Xia Yan's own Tianxia Gang's 37,000 people are added, the number of registered soldiers has not reached the original 80,000 soldiers.
Xia Yan took the fact that he became the emperor of the Songsi Empire very lightly and even skipped the enthronement ceremony.
After all, I am also someone who is going back soon, so there is no need to do such troublesome things.
He has now made up his mind that as soon as the soldiers from the Mingbo Empire who came to counter the rebellion arrive in front of the city gate, he will find a way to make these people surrender.
In this way, he can be captured without spending a single soldier.
As for the consequences after being caught, logically speaking, it should be relatively clear.
Rebellion, I am a rebel!
If such a crime cannot be punished by beheading, then this punishment is too light.
Of course, this is just Xia Yan's own thoughts.
If he really didn't even get punished for such a crime, but stayed in prison for the rest of his life, that would be the greatest tragedy in the world.
Songsi Empire·Fenghua Imperial City·Main Hall.
The place where Xia Yan is now is called the imperial palace, but everyone actually knows that this is actually the former city lord's palace.
The court where everyone is now is actually just a meeting hall back then.
There is no dragon chair or dragon pillar, only a large edgeless table with sixteen stools arranged on both sides, for a total of thirty-two stools on both sides, which corresponds exactly to the thirty-two founding ministers of the country today.
At the end of the table, sitting in the main seat is Xia Yan, who is also the current emperor of the Songsi Empire.
Below, Wolong frowned and said: "Your Majesty, it is said that the imperial court... cough cough cough... the army of the Mingbo Empire is less than fifty miles away from us. If calculated according to calculations, it will only take less than half a day to reach our city.
Already."
Wolong was still wearing a plaster because his arm was broken by a guard outside the door. He used his remaining movable hand to light a flower and sighed slightly.
Apart from him, the remaining thirty or so "court ministers" were also sighing at this moment.
It can be seen that they do not have much hope that the empire can win this time.
Among the remaining thirty or so people, twenty-five were guests or gentlemen left behind by the previous city lord's mansion.
To put it simply, it was Fan Lan’s think tank in the past.
After Xia Yan occupied the city lord's palace, this group of think tanks naturally followed him.
But at this moment, everyone looked solemn and almost all said dejected words.
"In my opinion, it would be better to surrender as soon as possible. What we are doing is just a farce. The court has a good life and will definitely not kill His Majesty."
"Yes, yes. Your Majesty, look at how good it would be if we surrendered. As long as we surrender, I promise to speak well for you in front of His Majesty...ahem, that Emperor Mingbo!"
At this moment, in addition to the twenty-five old think tanks who unanimously demanded surrender, there were two others who were different from them.
One of them is Yan Feiyuan, the former city lord's military commander, who is now the commander of the Forbidden Army, and the other is Ma Qian, the former city defense commander who has now become the border defense commander.
Although both of them are military generals, they remained silent at this moment.
It seems that resistance is not what they have in mind, but they are unwilling to give up.
Thirty-two people, Wolong and 25 Fan Lan's think tanks were not optimistic about this, but the two generals remained silent, leaving only the remaining four people.
The remaining four people are the four elders of the former Beggar Clan, which is now the Tianxia Clan.
In contrast to their desire to compete, the four of them frantically demanded to fight.
"Damn it, how can anyone give up without a fight? Is this still a country?"
"That's right, if you shrink your head, I won't shrink. I will stand up!"
"That's right, they're all so shrunken! Bah!"
The four people were all talking and directly criticized everyone.
Among them, they even included their former gang leader, Wolong.
In terms of status, Wolong is already the deputy leader of the Tianxia Gang, and his status in the gang can be considered to be lower than that of one person on weekdays.
But even so, this is incomparable to his current status in the court.
After all, Wolong's status today is no longer what it used to be.