Chapter 110: Subjugating Ma Wang

  The little kitten abused the horse king, not just giving the horse king a few painful hits, but fiercely beating him up, hitting his bones to pieces, and it wasn't just one bone, but all the bones in his body were shattered.

  Ma Wang was beaten by a little kitten and became a mess!

  So, normally speaking, the little cat can only bully Ma Wang once, and then there are no more bones to break. Why can it continue to bully for three days? Moreover, even if Ma Wang's vitality is strong, after being bullied for three days like this, he should be hanging on by a thread. Why can we still hear Ma Wang's miserable cries?

  As for the reason, Li Xie was in a difficult situation. In addition to being in a difficult situation, there was still pain and fear.

  The little cat almost always followed Li Xie, so it knew almost all of Li Xie's secrets, including the fact that his flesh not only allowed demons to upgrade but also heal them!

  Even little kitty knows that a certain amount of meat from Li Xie's body can instantly restore all the injuries to the demon beast.

  So why can Ma Wang be repeatedly abused and not die? Does it still need to be said more clearly?

  Poor Li Xie, these two or three days, he has been scratched by the kitten and lost a lot of flesh.

  Last time saving Jinyong Zhanji, using one finger could only hang on to Jinyong Zhanji's life, but couldn't make Jinyong Zhanji recover instantly. To make the horse king with all his bones broken recover instantly, Li Xie needed a palm of flesh from his hand.

  Li Xie was often bitten by the kitten, and he had gotten used to the pain, so he didn't mind when the kitten suddenly bit off his palm. But thinking of Ma Wang's bones being shattered all over his body, then restored, only to be beaten again, the unimaginable agony still made Li Xie shudder involuntarily.

  "Xiao An, how are those textbooks coming along?" Li Xie decided to change the subject, so as not to leave a shadow in his heart about little cat.

  Xiao An replied, "It's almost done. Those people are now writing textbooks. According to your idea, the textbooks will take Master Mian as their faith, and the miracles of Master Mian have been written. Another part, about Xie Ge's personal legend biography, is also almost written. When Xie Ge has time, let them bring it over for you to see."

  "Hmm, how about the school's construction?"

  "The school is modeled after the Wang Dynasty Academy and is also based on a blueprint provided by Brother Vandy, it will be completed in about another month and can be officially used next spring."

  "Great!"

  As for the school's progress, Li Xie was very satisfied.

  In Li Xie's mind, in the school's teaching, apart from teaching some basic knowledge, cultural courses are a compulsory subject, and the textbooks for cultural courses mainly focus on the divine deeds of "Mian Dashi" this god, plus fabricating some legendary stories about Li Xie himself. Of course, the basic central idea is to believe in Mian Dashi and worship Li Xie!

  The people of Chrysanthemum City have hardly received any education, and now that they are being taught information, they will not go to doubt it, and it is inevitable that they will deeply believe in the gods and also fanatically worship Li Xie.

  As soon as the school is built, along with specially written textbooks, within three years, Chrysanthemum City will truly become Li Xie's absolute territory, and the people of Chrysanthemum City will have fanatical beliefs and fanatical worship.

  It can be imagined that in the future, Li Xie's status in the city will be such that every word he says will be regarded as truth by the people of Chrysanthemum City.

  This is what they call cultural brainwashing!

  These were all learned by Li Xie from elementary school textbooks on Earth. Of course, with the rich material and advanced information on Earth, it's already difficult to continue brainwashing culture, but Chrysanthemum City can definitely do so.

  "There's another thing." Xiao An said: "Yejiao, everything in our Chrysanthemum City is considered new construction. The peasants and merchants have low incomes. How do you plan to handle this year's taxes? Will it be at the usual tax rate or with some reduction?"

  It's money again!

  When it comes to money, Li Xie gets a headache!

  "What about you?" Li Xie asked.

  "My opinion is that this year, the entire city should be exempt from taxes, allowing the people to have a prosperous New Year and stabilize their minds. On the other hand, the original tax rates were too harsh: refugees paid one gold coin per person per year, commoners paid fifty gold coins, and merchants and landowners paid one thousand gold coins. This was especially true for commoners, who had most of their annual income taken away by taxes, directly affecting small business owners and farmers, which in turn affected the overall economy of Chrysanthemum City. Xiao An thinks that tax rates should be halved for the next year, while refugees' rates should be doubled! This would be beneficial to the long-term development of Chrysanthemum City's economy."

  "Ah, let's just exempt it all for this year. As for next year's affairs, we'll talk about it next year." Li Xie didn't want to bother calculating it either. After all, the tax revenue from Huajing City wouldn't be much, and he only had 500 million gold coins on hand. If he couldn't find a source of income for next year, he would definitely be in financial straits, so how could he dare make plans for next year? He could only wait and see what happened. However, Li Xie was also clear that Xiao An's suggestion was indeed the most beneficial one. The only way out was to think of ways to make money! But there was one thing Li Xie didn't quite understand: "Why do refugees' taxes need to be increased?"

  Xiao An smiled wryly and said, "Evil brother, you don't know that the welfare in Chrysanthemum City is good. Now refugees from all over are flocking to our Chrysanthemum City. If we don't increase taxes, it will definitely be overcrowded! Moreover, increasing taxes can also make life more difficult for refugees, but it will also force them to engage in production and strive to obtain the qualifications for living in Chrysanthemum City, become ordinary people, so as to let the population of Chrysanthemum City develop healthily."

  "This... " Li Xie, who was born from picking up scraps, really didn't want to be harsh on his former colleagues.

  Xiao An continued helplessly: "Evil brother, in other places, refugees are usually driven out of the city or some of them are taken as slaves. Evil brother doesn't do these things, so the number of refugees in Chrysanthemum City will continue to increase. Although we make them work and give them rewards, our living space in Chrysanthemum City is also limited. The better our welfare is, the more refugees it will attract. My brother said that now is not wartime, but once it's wartime, just the refugees alone would be enough to completely paralyze Chrysanthemum City. Moreover, refugees are the most difficult to investigate, and if some people with ulterior motives mix in, it's hard to detect them. He can't help but consider these things, so he specially called me to think of a way to limit the number of refugees."

  After listening to Xiao An's words, Li Xie also felt that refugees would be a big trouble in the future.

  If Chrysanthemum City and Sunflower City were to clash, leading to a war between the Tudor Dynasty and the Solaria Dynasty, the number of refugees would surge dramatically. Without any guarantee of livelihood, these refugees would swarm like locusts wherever they could find some space to survive. This was something Li Xie understood all too well.

  It seems that Jack is also preparing for future battles, so I can only follow what Xiao An said.

  "Alright." Li Xie finally agreed.

  Seeing Li Xie's difficulties for the refugees, Xiao An's face showed a hint of a smile: "I didn't expect Brother Xie to be such a kind person. If it were another noble, they would wish that there weren't any refugees at all! They would either chase them away or beat them up. The more ruthless ones would even capture them and sell them as slaves! Brother Xie is indeed a different kind of noble!"

  "Haha……" Xia An's praise made Li Xie feel great, his eyebrows twitched and he smiled: "I'm too handsome and too smart, I have status and money, I'm considerate and have a good taste, these shortcomings are too obvious, it always makes me very difficult. However, I still have some advantages, for example, I'm a person with a conscience!"

  "Pfft!" Xiao An couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of saliva, then burst into giggles: "Xie Ge is so shameless with his self-praise!"

  "Hold on! You say that talking about my shortcomings is self-praise? Then if I talk about my strengths, isn't that boasting to the extreme?"

  "Hum! That's still a flaw!" Xiao An looked at the white paper on the table with disdain: "I think your biggest advantage is just like your handwriting, crooked and curved!"

  "Hah! You're wrong, this isn't my strong point, it's my forte! My forte is just like these words! It can bend and twist, and will slowly become straight and strong!"

  "What's your strong point? Bring it out and let me see if it's really like that!"

  "This... " Li Xie chuckled: "My good qualities, ordinary people can't see them. Maybe in the future you'll have a chance to see them. Hmm, it seems that Ma Wang is calling."

  Li Ye stopped teasing Xiao An, who was relatively simple in some aspects, and quickly changed the subject. Xiao An listened carefully and asked strangely, "It seems that it's not called that anymore, will it die?"

  "It's been a while!" said Zayn Nadir, noticing that his gaze was directed outside the study, where a chaotic "thud" sound came from. Zayn Nadir walked over and opened the door to the study, only to see Ma Wang limping in, looking exhausted, with a small cat sitting on its head, proudly raising its head and face.

  "Meow! Meow meow!" As soon as it entered the door, the kitten scratched its paws and slapped Ma Wang's forehead with a loud slap. Ma Wang was in pain and suddenly knelt down on all fours, kowtowing to Li Xie!

  "What's going on?"

  Zain said: "Meow sister said that she has already helped you fix this horse, if you don't believe it, you can ask the horse to stand upside down and see."

  Wow!

  Li Ye's eyes lit up: "How did you manage it?"

  The little cat patted its chest, raised its head high, and with big eyes that showed a domineering spirit, it looked around with an air of superiority: "Meow, meow!"

  "The process doesn't matter, results are what's most important!"

  Wow!

  Li Xie narrowed his eyes, and from Ma Wang's helpless and fearful gaze, he probably also guessed: the favored one had been beaten into submission!

  "Will it suddenly obey me?" Li Xie was going to ride the horse, but he was afraid that it would be subdued and then kick him at any time.

  The answer to this question is that the horse king shook its head vigorously, indicating that it absolutely did not dare to do so.

  Li Xie was even more surprised: "So obedient?"

  "Hum..." Ma Wang let out a thunderous roar, amidst which was an endless amount of helplessness and suffering.

  It's a fierce horse that is not afraid of death! But what does the fearless horse fear most? Dying and coming back to life, but being unable to live as before.

  Originally, Ma Wang thought it would be a direct kill for the little cat, so he endured it. What's scary about dying?

  However, Ma Wang gradually realized that it couldn't die even if it wanted to! That damned little cat could actually make it recover instantly!

  So, even the most fierce horse could not withstand the torture of the little cat. In a desperate situation, after holding on for two days, the horse king finally surrendered.

  And it doesn't dare disobey!

  The kitten clearly told it that if it wanted to commit suicide, the kitten could save its life; if it wanted to run away, the kitten had already recognized its breath and would always catch it; if it didn't listen, hum, not listening once, let it enjoy a week of broken bone treatment.

  Thus, Ma Wang did not dare to commit suicide, did not dare to run away, and even more did not dare to disobey!

  It's also worth mentioning that Ma Wang became Li Xie's demonic pet, and it is also Xiao Miao Miao's younger brother.

  Several words can be seen in Ma Wang's helpless horse eyes: I was forced!

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