"Five million taels of gold, three million taels of silver, and twenty large arsenals," Lin Bing said quietly, "This has been found out so far, and there are still several secret warehouses that have not yet been included - my lord, when you entered the Demon God Castle, I had reservations, because you had to start a war with the barbarians and lose troops." Now it seems, you are right, we are rich. ”

I did get rich. The Senean stockpiles were not just gold, but also other treasures, weapons, and luxury goods, especially weapons, which were mountains of armor that had been captured on the battlefield by Senean armies over the years. Because it's too narrow, the demon soldiers can't use it, and now it's all cheaper Zichuan Xiu.

personally inspected the treasury site, standing in front of the neatly stacked mountain of gold bars, Zi Chuanxiu's eyes were straight.

"I don't understand," he said with emotion, "With so much money, the Demon God Emperor still needs to send troops to invade?" You can buy half of the continent! With so much money, it's incredible that you can still fight and lose. ”

Lin Bing said: "My lord, the Demon Kingdom has been rich in gold and silver minerals since ancient times, and with the accumulation of nearly a hundred years of Senea rule in the kingdom, it is not surprising to have this huge wealth. The demons have always advocated violence and ignored equal trade transactions. Since the demon soldiers are used to robbing and can get it, they naturally refuse to pay for it. Moreover, the only channel for the demon race to circulate to the human world was completely blocked by the Zichuan family, and the two countries have always been enemies who do not share the sky, and the Demon God Emperor really can't buy things even if he has money.

My lord, the Lin family has always been known for being rich in the world, and their wealth is probably several times that of the demon race, but they are only the weakest of the three powerhouses in the mainland. It is not that you can do whatever you want with a good army and a warehouse full of gold and silver, and the Seneans are a lesson for us. ”

"Chief Lin, I understand what you mean"

Lin Bing stared at him deeply: "My lord, do you really understand?" ”

Zi Chuanxiu smiled: "Chief Lin, please rest assured, I am a very lazy person, and I am not interested in doing things that are too laborious." ”

Lin Bingzhan smiled and said, "My lord really understands, in this way, the lower officials will be much more relieved." ”

But Zi Chuanxiu didn't intend to let Lin Bing go like this, the former commander of the Far Eastern Army made him a little puzzled. He ascended the throne and became emperor in Vahnstadt, and as a courtier of the Zichuan family, this is a great rebellion. Bai Chuan Roger and other die-hard party members are fine, but even Lin Bing does not say a word to admonish or block it, which surprises Zichuan Xiu. The attitude of the former boss was so calm, as if she saw the accession of Shikawa Xiu to the throne in the Far East as a long-awaited event, and she accepted this fact naturally and without difficulty.

Zi Chuanxiu whispered, "But if—pay attention, Chief Lin, I'm talking about what if—I suddenly get rid of my bad habit of being lazy, and plan to do something very laborious and troublesome, Chief Lin, which side are you going to be on then?" ”

After speaking, Zi Chuanxiu stared at Lin Bing very intently, but the latter's reaction was only a faint smile: "My lord, since the departure of Brother Yingxing, you have been born out of thin air and have become a recognized leader of the Far Eastern military. They have your stamp on them, is there any other way out but to cling to you? ”

"What about you?"

"Two years ago, the demon clan broke the Valen Pass, and the lower officials should have died at that time. Thanks to your lordship, you will not give up, and try your best to keep the lower officials, and entrust them with important tasks, you have the grace of regeneration, and it stands to reason that the lower officials should stand on your side......"

Her voice gradually lowered, with a little loneliness in her expression: "But helplessly, after all, the lawsuit has taken the family's money for more than ten years." has waited for two generations of chiefs, and there are some things that the lower officials really can't do. If there really is such a day, the lower officials are in a dilemma, and there is only one death. My lord's kindness, forgive the official for reporting it in the next life. ”

Zi Chuanxiu was shocked, thinking of the ups and downs and turmoil in this female general's life, he couldn't help but feel compassion. Lin Bing has not been married so far. This woman has dedicated the best youth of her life to the Far Eastern Army. She assisted two commanders of the Far East, first Ge Yingxing, and then herself, and the Far Eastern Army was all her sustenance and her home.

One day, if she leads the Far East Army to rebel against the family, it will be equivalent to destroying the achievements she has devoted her life to, destroying her dedication and joy and sorrow, and destroying the pillars of her life and all hopes.

This is a resolute and resolute woman, she seems to have nothing to do on the surface, but in her heart she has made up her final decision, and she still has to ask her in the bottom line, which is too cruel.

Zi Chuanxiu bowed his head and apologized: "I'm sorry, Chief Lin, I shouldn't have asked you this." ”

"It's okay, my lord, there are some things, it's good to be clear, and you don't have to dodge. Now that you've said that, sir, can you tell me? What do you really think? ”

Looking at Lin Bing, Zi Chuanxiu said very seriously and vigorously: "Chief Lin, as long as I live, there will not be a demon soldier crossing Guqi Mountain, this is my promise to you—and it is also a promise to Lord Ge Yingxing." Sir, you can rest assured. ”

Looking at the sincere young man in front of her, Lin Bing slowly raised her head, and a smile bloomed on her face like a flower. It was as if the softest part of her heart had been suddenly touched, and tears kept pouring out of her eyes, and she turned her head to prevent Zi Chuanxiu from seeing the tears in her eyes.

"Thank you, I'm happy." She wiped the tears from her eyes and said with a smile, "I'm really happy." He'll be happy, too. We didn't read you wrong, Ah Xiu, thank you! ”

Zi Chuan handed over a handkerchief. Very tacitly, neither of them spoke, and their minds were thinking of a person, thinking of his gentle eyes, smiling face, and that sick body had the strongest soul of our time.

There are people who die but never leave.

After a while, it was Lin Bing who spoke first, and her voice had returned to its former heartiness: "My lord, now we seem to be powerful, but in fact we have a shallow foundation. Although we have captured the Demon God Castle, we are far from being able to claim to control the Demon Kingdom. Our real strength is still the family soldiers and the Far East. The Zichuan family is our mother country, and the Far Eastern Army is naturally loyal to adults, but they also cherish their mother country.

My lord, since you took over the throne of the demon race, the morale of the army has been quite unstable and has great mood swings, so you have to be careful. ”

"The army is unstable?" Zichuan Xiu was surprised: "How come! I didn't receive any reports! Could she ......?"

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency Shirakawa is loyal to you, but the Far Eastern Intelligence Agency is not omniscient after all. What's more, the Intelligence Bureau itself is made up of human officers and soldiers! My lord, you have been focusing on the affairs of the demon clan for a while, and you have neglected to control the old army. At this time, many subordinates came to me to tell me what they thought. They have always been loyal to the adult, but the adult suddenly became the emperor of the demon kingdom, and they were all very confused: they were upright family soldiers, and now they suddenly became the subordinates of the demon emperor, so what are they now? Is it a soldier from the Demon Kingdom, or a soldier from the Zichuan family? ”

Zi Chuanxiu's lips were pursed, and her voice was very cold: "Who said that?" ”

"My lord, the human heart cannot be suppressed! Not only the Xiuzi battalion, but also many orc soldiers have this idea! My lord, are you going to send demon soldiers to kill your orcs and Xiuzi battalion? ”

Zichuan Xiu was speechless.

Lin Bing sighed: "To stabilize the morale of the army, the key is to stabilize the family. I remember that my family had promised you that as long as the Demon God Kingdom was pacified, the Far East could be under your control. Now, although the demon tribe elected you as the emperor, which makes the chief angry, but in fact, this does not exceed the bottom line of family tolerance, and in the final analysis, it is a matter of face. If you lower your profile, you may not be able to win the recognition of your family. ”

Zichuan Xiuichi snorted: "How can the family admit that I am the emperor?" ”

"It is impossible to admit that you are emperor, but as long as the family canonizes you as the commander of the Far East, I think it will be enough to calm the morale of the army. The officers and soldiers will know that you rule the Demon Kingdom region, and you are the Emperor of Light, but for the family, your identity is the full power of the Far East and the Far East, and you are still the courtier of the family. The family has saved face, and His Royal Highness the Chief is magnanimous and elegant, and he must not want to break with us completely. ”

Of course, Zi Chuanxiu knows how big His Royal Highness the Governor's "magnanimity and elegance" is, and the two of them can add up to a needle - thinking that he is also very wronged, he paid money and people to fight the Demon Kingdom, and suddenly found that he was helping Zichuan Xiu.

Regarding Lin Bing's proposal, Zichuan Xiu thought so. But if he wanted to run back to the imperial capital to explain, he didn't dare. To conquer the Demon Kingdom, His Royal Highness the Chief doesn't have this ability, but he still has the ability to cut off the Demon God Emperor who was sent to the door.

After discussing with Lin Bing, both of them felt that the best person to explain to the imperial capital was Lin Bing. After all, she is a former commander of the Far East, and her prestige and connections are stronger than those of the nascent generals such as Shirakawa Roger. Moreover, she was Ge Yingxing's favorite general back then, and she was an old family general, no matter how suspicious the imperial capital was, she should not be regarded as his own henchman, her position was more detached and objective. Sending such a heavyweight back is more sincere and convincing.

Before leaving, Zi Chuanxiu told Lin Bing: "After you go back, you just scold me, scold me for being wolf-hearted, scolding me for losing my conscience, full of evil, and scolding as hard as possible - in short, if they hadn't stopped me, you would have raised volunteers to crusade against me tomorrow." ”

Lin Bing smiled slyly: "My lord, although I have no choice but to succumb to the rebel army, one of my red hearts always cherishes the motherland. As long as the family rebel army arrives, I will immediately join forces with the outside and fight back, and I will not share the sky with the traitor Zichuan Xiu! “

The two laughed. Zi Chuanxiu personally sent Lin Bing out of the west gate of the Demon God Castle, and he watched her leave, until her back turned into a small invisible black dot on the horizon in the direction of the sun going down, and he went back in amazement.

After sending Lin Bing away, Zichuan Xiu finally returned his spirit to the military and political affairs of the kingdom. According to tradition, when the new emperor ascended the throne, he should announce it to the entire kingdom, and by the way, announce the news of the Kuroshio invasion and call on the whole country to fight against the king.

For this matter, Zichuan Xiu hesitated for a long time. It's not that he can't send these thousand messengers - when the Bright Dynasty was first established, the patriarchs of all clans were vying to serve the Emperor of Light, and it was not difficult to select a thousand cavalrymen from among them to serve as messengers. What made Zi Chuanxiu hesitate was that the current Demon God Bao may not still have the prestige of the past. Moreover, the kingdom has just experienced the defeat of the Western Expedition War, and most of the elite demon soldiers have died in battle, how much strength can each clan take out to Qin Wang?

It's best that Princess Cardin helps the Emperor of Light make up her mind. She said: "How many soldiers and horses can rescue the Divine Citadel is not the key. Your Majesty, you have enough troops at your disposal, and you don't care about the scattered soldiers of the small tribe. Although you formed the Vahnstad Alliance, there are still a number of tribes - such as the Mongols and the Yakun - who have not joined the alliance and have not recognized your throne.

But now the Kuroshio is invading in a big way, and this is a crisis for the entire kingdom. Regardless of any dispute, it is an unwritten tradition of the kingdom to work together to resist the Kuroshio invasion. We will announce the enthronement of the new emperor and the alert of the Kuroshio Current's invasion at the same time. As long as the various clans send troops to resist the Kuroshio, it is invisible, which means that they will acquiesce to Your Majesty's throne. In this way, when the Kuroshio tide passes, the wood is completed, and your ascension to the throne as emperor is a foregone conclusion. Your Majesty, there is a name for the central imperial power, which is usually very dominant. ”

"Princess Cardin said, the emperor is vain. From the good as the flow, say: 'No.' The above is from the record of the "Bright Emperor Benji" in the demon history book "Divine Codex". Since Zichuan Xiu ascended the throne and became the emperor of the demon clan, there have been many inexplicable troubles. The first thing is that there are inexplicably more white-haired demon old men around him, who follow him like leeches all day long, even if Zi Chuanxiu goes to the toilet in the middle of the night, they take turns guarding outside. Then recorded: "At the end of the day, the emperor changed his clothes." "I even went into the toilet and poked my head to see the Nata that Zichuan Xiu had just pulled out—uh—said it was to record the health of His Majesty the Bright Emperor.

Zi Chuanxiu had a very impulsive idea, and wanted to send the half-orcs to drown these old demon men in the pit, but they were opposed by the demon generals under his command. They said that the group of old men were the historians of the royal family and the famous scholars of the kingdom. The usual task is to record the emperor's daily life, words and deeds, and compile the contemporary chapters of the "Divine Codex", which is highly respected and respected by the people.

"The inheritance of the kingdom and the Dao system that has been passed down for thousands of years cannot be eliminated from Your Majesty!" The generals burst into tears, and Zichuan Xiu was listless. Cardin, Ross, and Gwyn were just intellectuals, but even Lu Di, a rogue who couldn't read big characters, came to intercede for those historians, which couldn't help but surprise Zichuan Xiu, and he wanted to ask Lu Di: "Even if it is compiled into the "Divine Codex", can you understand it?" ”

The more ignorant the place, the easier it is to form blind superstition about knowledge. Seeing that the generals under his command were so enthusiastic about the history book culture and the public was angry, the Bright Emperor finally made a concession and allowed the historians to follow him to record, but only one person could be left around at a time, and when the Bright Emperor was discussing confidential matters, he had better be sensible and walk away by himself, not waiting for the orc guards to come and throw him out.

The historian problem is just a trivial matter, and there are many things that give Zi Chuanxiu a headache.

After ascending the throne, the former Demon God Emperor Cardin handed over the classics of the kingdom's household department to the new emperor Zichuan Xiu, including the household registration information and land map of the demon kingdom. Zi Chuanxiu took a rough look in the palace and found that the customs and customs of the Demon Kingdom were really not ordinarily complicated.

According to the census records of 781, there are 32 large and small tribes in the kingdom, with a total population of 9.53 million - after a series of disasters such as the rebellion of the Tatar tribe, the defeat of the Far East, the defeat of the Western Expedition, the human counterattack, the civil war, and the Kuroshio invasion, Zichuan Xiu estimates that the current population of the kingdom will have to be reduced by at least one or two million - these millions of people, distributed in this more than 500 square kilometers of land, can be called a typical local sparsely populated. There are many lands, such as the Mongolian territorial border in the northeast, where the demon kingdom only claims to own, and in essence has not formed an effective rule. The barbarians who live there are still uncivilized barbarian tribes - unlike the barbarians of the Eastern Wilderness, these barbarians are actually demons, but they are still in a more backward era, they have no language and writing, and they cannot communicate. In the words of Cardin: "They're still sleeping in the trees!" "Therefore, the successive Demon God Emperors have taken a laissez-faire attitude towards them, as long as they don't come to make trouble.

The territory of the Demon Kingdom is vast, and its western border is close to the Zichuan family, which is well known to Zichuan Xiu, and the southern border of the kingdom is a black ocean, which is called the Black Sea by the Demon Race. Because of the kingdom's backward navigation technology, the exploration of the Black Sea has not yet been completed, and it is impossible to know what kind of place the end of the Black Sea is. To the east of the kingdom, that is the famous Eastern Wilderness Grassland, the birthplace of the barbarians, is a nightmare that has plagued the kingdom for three thousand years.

The southern part of the kingdom is cut off by a continuous stream of dead lands, and no one has survived to cross the past.

As an emperor, it is natural to have a clear understanding of the situation of his own territory and people. For a whole day and night, Zichuan Xiu buried his head in the thick household registration information. Studying and reciting the information of one hundred and thirty-two tribes, there were almost two hundred names of the patriarchs and elders of those big tribes alone, which was enough for Zi Chuan Xiu to have a headache for a night. And the name of the kingdom was quite awkward, and he read it so that his tongue was knotted.

The only thing that intrigued Shikawa Shu in the texts was the marriage relationship between the various tribes. Because of the convention, the royal family can generally only intermarry with the royal family. Therefore, there are often all kinds of kinship between the various tribes of the demon race, for example, Yagomi has an uncle's sister who is married to the son of Meng Khan's niece, and Prince Katun has a concubine who is the granddaughter of Meng Khan's uncle, so in this way, there is also a little kinship between Yagomi and Prince Katon. This has also formed a special tradition of the demon race, when fighting tribal wars, the leaders call each other when they write to each other: "dear uncle", "dear cousin", "dear uncle" and so on, that kind of affection. Uninformed outsiders thought they were a family joke; Once the winner is decided, those nephews, nephews, cousins, and sons-in-law are also very sharp when they cut off the heads of uncles, cousins, and fathers-in-law.

Before the complicated relationship between the various tribes of Zichuan Xiu could be sorted out, the Senean patriarch Cardin came to him again, saying that the Seneans had suffered a tragic military disaster and heavy casualties among the soldiers and civilians, and asked His Majesty the Emperor of Light, who was merciful and selfless in caring for all sentient beings, to be compensated.

Looking at the twist, Zi Chuanxiu stared at Cardin for a minute, knocking on the twist, he shook his head: "Cardanqing, what do you mean, you?" You're looking for a joint to turn over old accounts, right? (When he became the Demon God Emperor, Zichuan Xiu's most unaccustomed way of speaking suddenly changed, he had to call himself 'Lian', and he had to say 'Qing' when he called the minister.) Originally, this was nothing, but the trouble was that Zi Chuanxiu accidentally said something one day, saying, "Bai Chuanqing, I ...... today" and then his subordinates stared at him for half a minute. ）

"Your Majesty," Cardin replied unhurriedly, "you were the commander of the Zichuan family's expeditionary force, and the Zichuan family was an enemy of the kingdom. You are not at fault. But now that you are the king of the kingdom, and all the people are your people, it is your duty to help the tribes who are affected by this to tide over their troubles. Our people are in great difficulty, and we beg your Majesty to lend a helping hand to us. ”

Looking at the thick stack of lists of aid applications, Zichuan Xiu seemed to see a fire and didn't dare to touch it. He sighed and said: "Ka Danqing, you also know, although I am the emperor, but you, the former Demon God Emperor, have left me nothing, no money, no food, no soldiers and horses-you say, what should I do as the Demon God Emperor?" ”

Cardin opened his beautiful eyes and smiled: "If I knew, I wouldn't have to give way to Your Majesty, don't you say?" ”

was half-choked to death by Cardin's words that were neither soft nor hard, and Zi Chuanxiu was so depressed that he wanted to vomit blood.

Depressed is depressed, but things still have to be done. Zi Chuanxiu knew that he was the most unprecedented empty emperor, except for a jade seal, he had nothing, and what was even more troublesome was that he didn't know anything about the situation in the kingdom, so he had to find a good assistant quickly.

In the words of the demons, it is time to appoint a military advisor.

Holding his chin and thinking for a long time, Zichuan Xiu determined several conditions:

First of all, the military advisor must be capable, he must be familiar with the customs of the kingdom, and be able to handle military and political affairs skillfully.

Secondly, the military advisor must be born in the demon clan and have a certain prestige, so that he can be supported by all tribes;

Thirdly, the military advisor must not be too prestigious, and cannot be too popular with all ethnic groups, otherwise everyone will not be able to figure out who the emperor is;

Secondly, the military advisor must be loyal to himself and be able to use it with confidence;

And then again...... Well, you can't add any more conditions, and you won't find anyone if you add more.

Who should I choose? Zichuan Xiu selected the generals under his command one by one in his mind:

Rose's loyalty to himself is okay, but he is too old, but due to the experience of almost exterminating the clan, he is full of hatred for the Senea and Mongolians, and Zichuan Xiu is very worried that he will take revenge if he becomes a military advisor, no;

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