"Knock Knock"

The hurried knock on the door woke up the sleeping Yan Linglong, she raised her head to look at the dark sky outside the window, and realized that something big had happened, so she shouted, "Come in!" ”

A female guard pushed the door in, hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Your Highness, there is a report from the palace that Your Majesty has been assassinated!" ”

"What did you say?" Yan Linglong instantly fell asleep and asked with a shocked face.

The female guard repeated it again, and said, "Your Highness, this matter should be true, no one dares to lie about this kind of thing!" It is said that the Assassin was a master of the arts, and was very familiar with the structure of the palace, and was extremely aware of the situation of the forbidden army's garrison, and it seems that he had been planning for a long time. ”

"Super master!" Yan Linglong frowned, there are only a few super masters in the whole world, all of them are famous martial artists, and this time they actually came to assassinate Yan Xifeng, it was really unexpected.

"Really dead?"

After muttering to herself, Yan Linglong fell into deep thought.

After all, she is her own brother, and if she says she is dead, she will die, Yan Linglong was very surprised, and Yan Xifeng's death was too sudden, which somewhat disrupted her plans.

But now was not the time to think too much, she immediately got up and dressed, and then quickly entered the palace.

After entering the palace, after Yan Linglong personally confirmed, she believed that Yan Xifeng was dead, and her head was chopped off, how could she not die.

Yan Xifeng had only been on the throne for a few months before he was assassinated and became the fastest emperor in the history of Yan Kingdom.

Although the emperor is dead, he can't mess up, and Yan Linglong, as the princess of the town mayor, immediately supports the overall situation. She first ordered the forbidden army to invite the three important ministers of the men, Shangshu Ling, and Zhongshu Ling, as well as the generals of the city protection army outside the city.

Three important ministers with the power of the prime minister rushed to the palace, when they heard that the emperor was assassinated, they thought that Yan Linglong had usurped the throne, and the hearts of the three people were scared.

The smart Yan Linglong did not choose to listen to the government, because Yan Xifeng was assassinated, and she had a major suspicion, so she suggested that the three highest governors of the three provinces should directly hang the title of the third prince and assist the new monarch, so as to alleviate her suspicion. After her son sits on the throne and the situation calms down, Yan Linglong can enter the court, even if she listens to the government.

As soon as the three important ministers heard this arrangement, their hearts were hot, and they immediately glanced at each other and made a decision.

Next, it is to announce the world, the new emperor ascends the throne, Yan Xifeng is buried and so on.

After Xiao Rui got the news, it was already several days later.

Yan Xifeng is looking for death by himself and deserves to die, let him go to hell to find his father, and the two can continue their grievances again. Now that Yan Guo has ushered in a new monarch, Yan Changqing, who is only three years old, has Yan Linglong's support, Yan Guo will inevitably be close to Great Xia, and Xiao Rui will not have to worry about the safety of the south.

Don't worry about the south, the Wa Kingdom no longer exists and has become Yingzhou, so don't worry about the coast. The west is blocked by the Qi River, but beware of the Qin State.

The Great Wall is being built on the eastern section of the northern frontier to block the Yuan army and stop them in the north, and with Yue Fei and Li Cunxiao there, it will not be a big problem.

The middle section is a mountain and river, and there is no need to worry about the natural dangers.

Only the western section remains, there are no mountains and rivers, and it is the bordering terrain of sandy land and grassland, so the gate of the border line that stretches for five or six hundred miles is opened.

That area is very desolate, and the people living in it are also very poor, and the two prefectures of Ganzhou and Suzhou, which used to belong to the Qi State, now belong to the territory of Great Xia. After these two states to the south, you can directly enter the fourteen states of Anxi.

As the Qi River blocked the ambitions of the Qin State, he was bound to go north from the sixteen counties of Dongqi, bypass from the grassland, and then directly enter the two prefectures of Ganzhou and Suzhou, and continue to attack south, and could enter the fourteen prefectures of Anxi in Great Xia. Attacking to the east, you can enter the fourteen states of Anbei.

And let's not forget, the Mongol tribes have also migrated westward.

Therefore, it will definitely become the battlefield of the confrontation between the three kingdoms, and for this reason, Xiao Rui reactivated Tian Boyuan, the Marquis of Changsheng, and Han Ming, the Marquis of Zhenyuan, and let them sit in Ganzhou and Suzhou to prepare for the future war. At the same time, let the captives go to Ganzhou and Suzhou, where they will build cities as barriers.

Xiao Rui had another chance to descend to no avail, which was rewarded by Zhang Ruoxi when he gave birth to a son for Xiao Rui.

Therefore, after arranging the military affairs of Ganzhou and Suzhou, Xiao Rui immediately started to descend.

This time the arrival speed is very fast, and it does not come to the civil ministers or military generals, but the item descends, it is an improved plow, which can increase the speed of cultivated land.

Xiao Rui had some hope, but there was nothing he could do.

And Qin's action was really expected by Xiao Rui, and he couldn't cross the river, so he went north to detour. Emperor Qin issued an order to Meng Yi to reorganize 200,000 soldiers and horses, detour from the grassland, and occupy Suzhou in Bactria first.

The location of Suzhou is in the northwest corner of the Great Xia territory, and if you mainly occupy there, you can go south to east, which is equivalent to directly tearing apart the defense of Great Xia. Then the soldiers and horses of the Qin State can use Suzhou as a base one after another and begin to destroy Great Xia!

I have to say that Emperor Qi is wishful thinking.

Not to mention whether Meng Yi's 200,000-strong army can take Suzhou, and whether the Mongolian tribe on the grassland will let him go around, it is unknown.

Therefore, Xiao Rui was not worried, and waited and watched the changes, and the current Great Xia was not afraid of any aggression.

Ten days later.

Yan Changqing (Xiao Qiye) officially ascended the throne, and at Yan Linglong's suggestion, he sent a letter of state to Daxia, hoping that the two sides would deepen cooperation and deepen the alliance. With the help of Great Xia, the flood-prone areas of Yan have been planted with sweet potatoes and a bumper harvest has been reaped.

After thinking about it again, Xiao Rui agreed to deepen the cooperation between the two sides, and will sell potatoes, corn and cotton to Yan Guo in the future, and send people to teach planting experience, so that the new crops can have a bumper harvest in the land of Yan Guo.

And the time, unconsciously, came to August, ushering in the autumn equinox.

This year, Daxia also suffered severe natural disasters such as floods, droughts, torrential rains, and typhoons, affecting one-third of the state capital, and even the 14 prefectures of Anxi were also affected to varying degrees.

The people's grain harvest is only one-third of what it was ten years ago, or even less, if there are no new crops, how will the people live?

Thankfully, the people had a new crop.

The harvest of new crops has made up for the shortfall in the grain harvest, and the yield has even caught up with the rice harvest. Now there is no need for the imperial court to vigorously publicize it, and the people will know what to plant.

Yes, potatoes, corn and sweet potatoes don't taste as good as rice, but in the event of a disaster, it's already thankful to be full, and you still have the luxury of eating delicious?

Therefore, it can be predicted that in the future, the planting structure of the people will be dominated by new crops, supplemented by grains.

Looking a little further ahead, the harvest of grains in Daxia has decreased, and the same is true for other countries!

Needless to say, the Qin State was affected by drought and locusts, and the people's harvest was also sharply reduced to one-third, and the Qin Emperor had to reduce taxes, but don't forget, many people are rented land, and the state can be exempted from state taxes, but the magnates will not be exempted from the people's taxes!

After the man in charge of the family paid the tax on the only one-third of the grain left, he looked at the only remaining grain in the family, and maybe he could only hold on for two or three months, and then looked at the people in the family, there was no hope in his eyes, and he was full of despair, and the man in charge of the family couldn't stop crying.

This is not the case with one family, but with countless families.

On the other hand, those powerful people, Yingge Yan Dance is extremely luxurious, and it really responds to that sentence:

Zhumen's wine and meat stinks and there are frozen bones on the road.

The distant state of Wei also experienced the same experience as the state of Qin.

As for the Yuan Kingdom, because of the different systems, their result plan is that the big tribe eats the small tribe, and as for the small tribe, they will live if they can survive, and they will die if they can't survive.

Under the endless grassland, I don't know how many people are buried.

And all of this is in Xiao Rui's hands.

Since ancient times, conquests have relied on the right time, place and people, and now Xiao Rui is using disasters to make Great Xia the most powerful country in the Shenzhou Continent.

So Xiao Rui had to stabilize and continue to wait.

And then, Xiao Rui began to focus on the integration of the state, which is the guarantee of the overall planning of Daxia in the future, and it is a major event, Xiao Rui is worried that it will be difficult to rely on the household department alone, so Xiao Rui personally asked.

During this time, the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Cabinet have finalized the entire plan, including which states to withdraw and which areas to be incorporated, and have reorganized and confirmed the prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of each state.

Then Xiao Rui personally looked at it, approved the red grace, and the cabinet quickly drafted the holy decree and promulgated the world.

At the same time, the state officials of the fourteen states of Anbei were also re-planned, in order to stabilize the Qi people, so the old Qi officials were reused, but now the Qi people have known the good of the new crops, and the good of Daxia, and the resistance has been reduced a lot.

Taking advantage of the withdrawal of the state, it is also appropriate to plan the 14 states of Anbei at the same time.

The withdrawal of the state is proceeding in an orderly manner, and the weather is starting to get cooler.

Xiao Rui set his sights on the concession of the coal mine again, and after discussing with several cabinet scholars, he was ready to take a bigger step and liberalize the number of concessions, and there was no limit on the number of concessions.

But the concession cannot be canceled, even if it is a blank slate, it is a useful blank paper, and the coal mine must be within the control of the imperial court, and the coal mine needs to be audited, managed, and taxed.

There is no longer a limit to the quantity, and the people can obtain qualifications as long as they open mines according to the requirements of the imperial court, but if they want to evade taxes, the punishment is very cruel.

Only by liberalizing coal mining in this way can coal production be guaranteed.

Of course, in order to avoid excessive prices in coal mines, illegal merchants maliciously hoarded and raised prices, Xiao Rui specially asked the Ministry of Households to set up a new department, similar to the China Construction Division of the Ministry of Industry in Daxia, called the Price Division, which specializes in auditing market prices, especially strictly controlling items related to the people, such as salt prices, grain prices, coal mine prices, cotton prices, etc.

Relying on the macro-control of the imperial court, the amount of coal produced has risen, and the price of coal mines has been controlled, and the price of coal mines will fall rapidly, so that the people can heat themselves in the cold winter.

Xiao Rui relied on the memories of his previous life to impart the knowledge that could benefit Great Xia, and quietly watched Great Xia become stronger little by little.

It won't be long before it will be the highlight moment for Great Xia to stand up and sweep and dominate the Eight Desolations.