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* BloodBrothers: {{Invoked|Trope}} by Liu Feng as a way to motivate his military when he realizes that their morale is not sufficient to hold up under a real battle against a superior force.
* CompetencePorn: A good amount of the enjoyment out of this series is seeing how Liu Feng constantly takes on powerful people and easily come out on top.
** It's more than just Liu Feng being highly competent. He also surrounds himself with highly competent assistants and ensures that his followers learn how to become highly competent individuals as well. Because of this, he and his forces can come at most problems from multiple angles and consistently gain the upper hand against adversaries.
* CompetencePorn: A good amount of the enjoyment out of this series is seeing how Liu Feng constantly takes on powerful people and easily come out on top.
** It's more than just Liu Feng being highly competent. He also surrounds himself with highly competent assistants and ensures that his followers learn how to become highly competent individuals as well. Because of this, he and his forces can come at most problems from multiple angles and consistently gain the upper hand against adversaries.
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* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: When Liu Feng is first given control over the city he is informed about the horse bandits who will be coming in 20 days. He recruits a volunteer army and trains them with more modern training methods, albeit without firearms. Normally it takes six months to train a solder to be disciplined and in fighting shape. However he somehow manages to do so with time to spare with in the 20 day time limit.
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* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: When a girl comes to Liu Feng asking for help saving her ailing father, he declares it old age and incurable without even bothering to examine him. He then prescribes him a treatment without having any idea what the [[WorstAid exact problem is]]. Justified as Liu Feng is not a doctor and downplayed as the father is murdered before the girl can return home, so we don't know what effect it would have on him.
* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: When Liu Feng is first given control over the city he is informed about the horse bandits who will be coming in 20 days. He recruits a volunteer army and trains them with more modern training methods, albeit without firearms. Normally it takes six months to train asolder soldier to be disciplined and in fighting shape. However However, he somehow manages to do so with time to spare with in within the 20 day time limit.
* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: When Liu Feng is first given control over the city he is informed about the horse bandits who will be coming in 20 days. He recruits a volunteer army and trains them with more modern training methods, albeit without firearms. Normally it takes six months to train a
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* RevengeBeforeReason: A not uncommon reaction from certain arrogant nobles or merchants who are not only denied the preferential treatment they are used to, but are made to suffer the just consequences of their actions like any regular person would in their situation. Considering how blatantly superior Liu Feng's military and economic might is, [[CurbStompBattle this ends about as well as you'd expect]].
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* CurbStompBattle: Liu Feng's forces versus pretty much anyone else. Between superior training, superior technology, and superior intelligence (whether that means tactics, information, or smarts) it's a rare enemy that can even inflict ''casualties'' on Liu Feng's military after he gets established. Several engagements are so one-sided that the author [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome doesn't even bother showing them]] beyond "about to begin" and "after it's over".
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* UnderestimatingBadassery: Later in the series, many city leaders will constantly underestimate Liu Feng and his City due to it being so far away and a pretty much unheard city. When they try to attack it, suspecting they will win easily with sheer numbers, they get demolished.
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* UnderestimatingBadassery: Later in the series, many city leaders will constantly underestimate Liu Feng and his City due to it being so far away and a pretty much unheard city. When they try to attack it, suspecting they will win easily with sheer numbers, they get demolished.demolished.
* VillainsWantMercy: The number of antagonists who look down on Liu Feng only to end up trying to beg or bargain for their lives is impressive. [[spoiler:Almost as impressive as how many don't get it.]]
* VillainsWantMercy: The number of antagonists who look down on Liu Feng only to end up trying to beg or bargain for their lives is impressive. [[spoiler:Almost as impressive as how many don't get it.]]
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* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: When Liu Feng is first given control over the city he is informed about the horse bandits who will be coming in 20 days. He recruits a volunteer army and trains them with more modern training methods, albeit without firearms. Normally it takes six months to train a solder to be disciplined and in fighting shape. However he somehow manages to do so with time to spare with in the 20 day time limit.
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* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Baron Carter sells Liu Feng his city and he soon finds out that he has 20 days to prepare for the horse bandits, who will come to raid his city at the harvest. In that time he is able to completely rebuild the city with an unskilled and starving work force, train a volunteer army, defeat the grain merchants' armed rebellion, and defeat Baron Carter's attempt to retake the city, all before the horse bandits even come anywhere near the city. Baron Carter's attack could also be considered this, as he has sold his city to Liu Feng in an attempt to sit out the bandit attack by hiding out at the capital, planning to take ownership of the city once Liu Feng is killed by the bandits. Instead he tries eventually tries to buy back the city before the attack after it had been rebuilt and once that fails he leads a small army on short notice to try and retake it by force.
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections/[[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney Money!]]: More than a few times wealthy merchants, nobles, or those representing them come to Xi Yang and expect to get preferential treatment or ignore the city ordinances in place because of their wealth and/or status. [[SubvertedTrope It never works and they have to pay the fines or other penalties for breaking the rules.]]
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** The above is not the last time that others try this tactic on Liu Feng. However, since his rulership of Xi Yang puts him in a position to increase his resources and available power, [[SubvertedTrope it is the last time it works]].
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* SuccessionCrisis: The king of the country Xi Yang is in is severely ill and all three of his sons (first, second, and fourth child) have designs on becoming the new king when he dies. A great deal of the political intrigue that Liu Feng finds himself involved in (whether he wants to be or not) is because of this. [[spoiler:His daughter, and possibly the only decent person among his children, ''also'' wants to become the next monarch, but can't even declare her intentions because [[NoWomansLand too many of the nobles would not tolerate a woman in power]] and would try to kill her.]]
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* SuccessionCrisis: The king of the country Xi Yang is in is severely ill and all three of his sons (first, second, and fourth child) have designs on becoming the new king when he dies. A great deal of the political intrigue that Liu Feng finds himself involved in (whether he wants to be or not) is because of this. [[spoiler:His daughter, and possibly the only decent person among his children, ''also'' wants to become the next monarch, but can't even declare her intentions because [[NoWomansLand too many of the nobles would not tolerate a woman in power]] and would try to kill her.]]]] A great deal of the political intrigue that Liu Feng finds himself involved in (whether he wants to be or not) is because of this.
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* SuccessionCrisis: The king of the country Xi Yang is in is severely ill and all three of his sons (first, second, and fourth child) have designs on becoming the new king when he dies. A great deal of the political intrigue that Liu Feng finds himself involved in (whether he wants to be or not) is because of this.
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* SuccessionCrisis: The king of the country Xi Yang is in is severely ill and all three of his sons (first, second, and fourth child) have designs on becoming the new king when he dies. A great deal of the political intrigue that Liu Feng finds himself involved in (whether he wants to be or not) is because of this. [[spoiler:His daughter, and possibly the only decent person among his children, ''also'' wants to become the next monarch, but can't even declare her intentions because [[NoWomansLand too many of the nobles would not tolerate a woman in power]] and would try to kill her.]]
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* SpringTimeForHitler: The whole reason Baron Carter sold Xi Yang, a failing town, to Liu Fend was to use him as a ScapeGoat. Only for Liu Feng to turn Xi Yang into a thriving city.
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* SpringTimeForHitler: The whole reason Baron Carter sold Xi Yang, a failing town, to Liu Fend Feng was to use him as a ScapeGoat. Only for Liu Feng to turn Xi Yang into a thriving city.city.
* SuccessionCrisis: The king of the country Xi Yang is in is severely ill and all three of his sons (first, second, and fourth child) have designs on becoming the new king when he dies. A great deal of the political intrigue that Liu Feng finds himself involved in (whether he wants to be or not) is because of this.
* SuccessionCrisis: The king of the country Xi Yang is in is severely ill and all three of his sons (first, second, and fourth child) have designs on becoming the new king when he dies. A great deal of the political intrigue that Liu Feng finds himself involved in (whether he wants to be or not) is because of this.
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* BloodBrothers: {{Invoked|Trope}} and {{Exaggerated|Trope}} by Liu Feng as a way to motivate his military when he realizes that their morale is not sufficient to hold up under a real battle against a superior force.
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* BloodBrothers: {{Invoked|Trope}} and {{Exaggerated|Trope}} by Liu Feng as a way to motivate his military when he realizes that their morale is not sufficient to hold up under a real battle against a superior force.
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* BloodBrothers: {{Invoked|Trope}} and {{Exaggerated|Trope}} by Liu Feng as a way to motivate his military when he realizes that their morale is not sufficient to hold up under a real battle against a superior force.
