The imperial capital of the Xinghan Dynasty.

Lu Chensheng stood outside the palace, and the palace maids on the side also stood quietly aside, not knowing what the saint was thinking.

After staying for a long time, a guard finally came to report in a hurry.

"Report, front-line emergency!"

When Lu Chensheng heard the voice, he was shocked in his heart, and hurriedly stepped forward to report the emergency.

After flipping through it, I looked at it carefully, and after reading it, I was relieved.

Bai Yi has been on the expedition for a month, and Lu Chensheng has no news of the other party in the palace, so it is inevitable that he will have some worries in his heart.

Now that he finally got the news and knew that Bai Yi was fine, Lu Chensheng also breathed a sigh of relief.

Looking at the good news in the letter, Lu Chensheng waved his hand and asked the other party to pass the news to the other ministers.

Ministers should know about this information.

Seeing this, the guards hurriedly went down to report the news.

Lu Chensheng was still happy, and after he relaxed, he came to the harem alone and told Qiong Yue about Bai Yi's news.

Qiong Yue was embroidering with a python pattern, and she was also happy to hear the news.

"I'll just say that Sister Bai Yi is fine, she is very powerful in leading soldiers, so my husband is worried."

Thinking of Lu Chensheng's previous worries, Qiong Yue couldn't help but say more.

Lu Chensheng smiled, Bai Yi was fighting outside, Lu Chensheng was a little worried in his heart, this is also a common thing.

Qiong Yue just said a word, and then didn't say more.

"Now that I know that Bai Yi is fine, let's take a look at the music, I have heard some rumors here, saying that the saint has been a little negligent in political affairs recently."

Lu Chensheng's face stiffened when he heard this, the news had reached the harem, and he didn't know who passed it on.

But after thinking about it, Lu Chensheng didn't care too much, nodded lightly and went to the imperial study.

Recently, because there was no news from Bai Yi, Lu Chensheng was worried in his heart, and he really didn't deal with these slack.

On a look, there is a lot of accumulation of these notes.

Now it is early summer, the temperature is still quite high, and it seems that a little Xiaoice River is far away.

However, whether this is far away or not, in fact, there is no need to care, there are seeds of new crops, as long as they can be harvested, it will not be too bad.

For this year's harvest, the government and the opposition are looking forward to it.

Lu Chensheng is also looking forward to it, thinking about how much this year's harvest can reach.

However, there is good news this year, the population is constantly skyrocketing.

Because of the guarantee of life, coupled with the land ownership system, the people can go and plow the fields at will.

As long as there are more people, there can be more arable land, and in this case, some people are urging their children to have more children.

After all, having more children means having more labor and an extra income.

Not to mention the taxes paid by the imperial court, the grain harvested is basically its own, which is naturally better to have more babies.

In addition, the court has said that let the people have more children, can the people not agree to the court's request?

Spreading the branches is the most important thing to do.

"Looks like it's going well this year."

Lu Chensheng flipped through the notes, and many of the notes presented were talking about the situation in various places.

At this time in previous years, Lu Chensheng could basically see a lot of news about droughts and the like, or waterlogging or something.

But this year, Lu Chensheng basically didn't see such news.

This made Lu Chensheng quite happy, without these news, it means that the situation in various places is good, and this year must be a bumper harvest year!

Just thinking about it, Lu Chensheng was a little uneasy, and then called Gu Zhifang.

"Over there, Jinyiwei hasn't reported any droughts, floods, pests and other things, right?"

Lu Chensheng asked.

Gu Zhifang was stunned for a moment, then shook his head, "Back to the Holy Saint, there are no such things. ”

If such a major event exists, it will definitely be reported.

"It's good if you don't have it, it's good if you don't have it, without these disasters, this year must be a bumper year."

Lu Chensheng's face was full of joy.

Gu Zhifang only understood at this time why the Holy Lord was like this.

"Holy Lord, it's not like these things aren't without them."

Gu Zhifang opened his mouth at this moment, which made Lu Chensheng, who was originally happy, suddenly stiffen.

"None of these things? Someone lied about the information? ”

"It's such a saint, in fact, there is still some waterlogging in the Jiangnan generation, but at the beginning of this year, due to the large amount of cement production, the Ministry of Industry allocated a large amount of cement to the Jiangnan generation to carry out river water control.

Originally, this year's flooding has all been blocked or dredged, and there is also a drought, and the saint knows that there are several places in the Xinghan Dynasty that have been relatively short of water.

It's just that the dams that were built before have been built, and in the summer of this year, water has been released to deal with the drought, so the crops in the fields have never been so short of water, and the drought naturally does not exist. ”

Gu Zhifang knew a lot about these news, and he answered very smoothly at this time.

When Lu Chensheng heard this, he finally understood the situation.

At this time, he nodded, with a smile on his face, "This Wang Tianxun has done a good job, so much silver has been smashed into it, and this year I finally saw a little effect." ”

Wang Tianxun is in the court, and he is basically disliked.

Every day, he just stretched out his hand to ask for money, saying that he wanted money here and money there.

Li Daifu of the household department and the other party, that is simply a glance, will quarrel.

What I never expected was that under the governance of the other party, this year can be regarded as a smooth weather.

"At present, the people in these places are very grateful to the Holy One, and I heard that they have all set up an immortal position for the Holy One at home."

Gu Zhifang said another sentence on the side.

Lu Chensheng waved his hand, helpless.

The immortal position is a thing, and it is available in Yunmeng City.

After Lu Chensheng went to control the flood, the people found it really useful, and after building a statue outside the city, they also set up an immortal position at home.

Lu Chensheng naturally didn't want to do this, but those people insisted on doing this, and Lu Chensheng had no choice.

However, with this year's matter, Wang Tianxun knows about it, and I am afraid that he will be able to hold his chest high in the court in the future.

When Lu Chensheng thought of this, he immediately laughed secretly.

Li Daifu wants to save a little money in the future, and the money allocated to the Ministry of Industry will not be able to do so.

On the Ministry of Industry, there has always been a lot of money, sometimes so much that Lu Chensheng has to come forward to stop it.

After a dynasty, there are too many places to ask for money, and naturally it is impossible to let the Ministry of Industry occupy all of it.

Lu Chensheng looked down at Song Shu and began to approve.

On the fifth day of the first month, after arriving at the point, Lu Chensheng was served snacks.

And at this moment, on the side of the Grand Duchy of Kiev, Bai Yi has already begun to attack the city.

According to the survey, there were about 30,000 soldiers in the city.

More than 40,000 people fled before, but not all of them entered the city, and I don't know where they went.

Maybe he went to another place, or he secretly went home, Bai Yi didn't pay much attention to this.

The siege began directly.

At the border, it was already a lot of time, and she didn't want to waste too much time to take down the Grand Duchy of Kiev.

The artillery was pulled out, the soldiers began to prepare, and the hot air balloon was already in the air, loaded with a lot of fire oil.

"Our general said, give you one last chance, if you don't surrender, you have to bear the casualties yourself!"

A shout made the soldiers in the city commotion, but there was no other movement.

It seems that the other side will not surrender.

Seeing this, Bai Yi didn't bother to continue shouting, and the artillery began to bombard.

One by one, the cannonballs flew up and landed exactly in the city.

The soldiers in the hot air balloon began to wave red flags to indicate that they had hit the target, but due to the distance and the commotion below, it was not clear whether they had killed the opponent's prefect.

Artillery began to continue shelling.

After half a pillar of incense, the soldiers on the hot air balloon began waving black flags, indicating that the bombing point was no longer worth bombing.

The artillery began to turn its target and placed it on the gates and walls of the opposing side.

The soldiers on the city wall were already pale with fright.

They are here, but they can see very clearly that the location of the viscount has been blown up!

If they were, they would have died!

No, if this artillery bombarded the place, they would have died!

Listening to the roar, and the huge destructive power, the soldiers were already frightened, and almost ran away without turning around.

Soon, they sensed something was wrong, and the other party's artillery began to aim at them.

"Run, run!"

Seeing this scene, the soldiers were finally frightened, and at this time, if they didn't run, they would definitely not be able to stay if they didn't run!

With a roar, a cannonball was soon seen falling on the city wall, directly blowing up several soldiers.

Even if it doesn't blow up, but it falls under your walls, it won't survive.

The soldiers on the side immediately panicked.

Having never seen such a weapon, they began to throw away their armor and just wanted to get out of here.

After several rounds of artillery fire, the upper wall had been emptied.

Seeing this, the soldiers on the hot air balloon hurriedly began to wave their flags and signal the start of the city.

A group of soldiers immediately set out, placed gunpowder on the gate, and blew it up.

There is no urn city in this city, just blast it and rush in.

At this moment, the soldiers on the hot air balloon soon saw that a group of soldiers opened the door and ran away from the north of the city.

However, Bai Yi didn't let people chase after him.

Because there was already an ambush of soldiers over there, and there was a lot of gunpowder buried over there.

Soon, a deafening sound came, and I saw a fire on the other side.

The castle was quickly and easily taken down.

The soldiers inside all surrendered, and the prefect and other generals who stayed behind were indeed killed in the first round of bombing.

So taking this city will be much easier.

After taking the city, Bai Yi directly changed the name of the city.

What was the name of the thing before, it was really ugly.

And there is no shadow of their culture at all, so change is necessary, and it is more like their territory.

"The potash I explored before is only a mile away from here, isn't it?"

After Bai Yi asked people to take over the city, he immediately asked someone to inquire.

The first thing you have to do is to find potash.

After confirming that it was correct, Bai Yi immediately began to find someone to dig up.

After they came here, it was already determined that there was potassium salt here.

Now it's ready to be transported back.

Over there in Xinghan City, they are all waiting for this batch of potash!

When it comes to the output of grain, Bai Yi does not dare to slack off.

Fortunately, the newly developed carriage is not only much longer, but also has a stronger cargo capacity, and even it runs much faster.

At this point, hauling this potash is still very simple.

The soldiers who surrendered in the city were directly dragged to the side of the potash salt lake to work.

After removing the opponent's armor, there is no need to worry about the opponent resisting at all.

In the case that the other party has no equipment, the soldiers of the Xinghan Dynasty can fight three or four with empty hands!

Training on weekdays is all lifeless, and casually playing three or four at a time is not a problem at all.

After the matter of potash was busy, Bai Yi began to pick up the map here and look at it carefully.

"This is the other party's palace, but to get to this palace, you still need to conquer these three cities, otherwise, the soldiers from these three places will easily surround us, and it is easy to be cut off from supplies, which is tantamount to trapping yourself inside."

Bai Yi pointed to a red dot on the map and said.

The red dot here is the other party's imperial capital, where the other party's king is.

It's all at this time, and the other party should also know the news that his people have arrived here.

If the other party's news is a little better, I am afraid that I already know it, and I will win the battle at the border.

Next, these enemies should know a little bit about their own artillery and muskets.

However, it should be impossible to say that the other party has a customized strategy.

The time is too short, and the countermeasures cannot be thought of at the moment.

Even Bai Yi didn't think about how to deal with such a force at this time.

If you really want to talk about it, Bai Yi just thinks that it would be better to fight with the same equipment.

Because this weapon is really difficult to fight with a blade.

But after using it for a long time, Bai Yi has more and more this feeling.

"You can use a hot air balloon to burn the other party's imperial capital."

A general on the side spoke.

If you want to fight over, you have to knock down all three cities, but in fact, it is completely possible to let the hot air balloon fly over and give the opponent some kind of fire oil.

In this way, although the large army has not yet arrived, it is enough to scare the other party to death.

When Bai Yi heard this, his eyes narrowed slightly, this year's hot air balloon did not pour fire oil, because it was too simple to take down this city, and it was not cost-effective to let the hot air balloon expose the means.