Escorted to the place of worship, the orchid buds were erected on the wooden frame, and the red silk clothes were unusually eye-catching in this cold winter wrapped in silver makeup.

After fiddling with it for a while, the national teacher used a lit torch to ignite the pine wood at the foot of Lan Ya, and a clump of fire dragons instantly burned around, frightening the people to flee in all directions until they withdrew more than ten zhang away.

The national teacher was also frightened, obviously this was also beyond his expectations, and someone in the crowd shouted: Look, the circle of black burnt color burned on the snow is the pattern of the lotus flower, and Guanyin and other immortals use lotus platforms, forming an inexplicable sense of awe of lotus flowers in the hearts of the people.

Before people could confirm this, the wooden frame was ignited by the national teacher again, and the black smoke rose from the bushes, stabbing people's eyes, and countless eagles flew out of the air, with mouthfuls of dew in their mouths, and threw them into the fire.

The dew fell on the pine wood, and it bloomed blood-red, like a tree weeping blood, and the solid wood cracked through it, hollow in the middle, and countless snakes crawled out of it, their eyes blood-red, and they scurried in all directions.

"The gods are fallen, the heavens and the earth are disgraced, and the heavens are woeful! Misfortune for the people! Misfortune of the country! Returning!! A burst of solid internal force came from the ethereal air, like a heavenly sound.

As the sound fell, the ground collapsed, and the red-clothed figure fell into the pit and disappeared. When the national teacher ordered someone to dig a deep pit, the woman in red was already unrecognizable, and she could only vaguely determine from the ornaments on her body, this is no doubt that this is Lan Ya.

Under the woman's body, a boulder was dug out and written: Seven-Star Python Calamity, Biling Nether, Descending Demons and Eliminating Demons, Defending the Country and the People.

Yu's Lanya, whether it is a demon girl who brings disaster to the country and the people, or a fairy who helps the people of the world, did not drown in the hustle and bustle with the death of the woman, but was more and more rumored, leaving a moment of shock in people's hearts, a legendary life.

Whenever there is a calamity, people will always think of that Biling Fairy, and secretly pray for the fairy to return and help all sentient beings......

Four years later, the Qin State came to attack, the frontier was urgent, the eighteen-year-old Zhuo Xiaoran took the initiative to invite Ying to participate in the war, postponed the deadline and the marriage date, determined to start with a small soldier, swore to fight to the death with the Qin State, to defend the territory of the Xiao State, this matter was unexpectedly supported by the crown prince, the King of Northern Xiao and Wang Anshi, even the Emperor Xiao nodded and agreed, although Xiao Ran did not let Xiao Ran become the king, but agreed to restore the identity of Xiao Ran's son, and the political views of several forces reached unprecedented unity.

A flying pigeon flew to the sky above the palace, swooped down directly to the Yuansi Pavilion, when there were still dozens of zhang away from the courtyard, a flying eagle pounced in the oblique thorn, and the sharp claws directly grabbed the neck of the pigeon, the pigeon only fluttered twice, and then lost its breath, and was caught by the flying eagle and flew to the Yuxiang courtyard next door, and fell into the window of the main house with satisfaction.

A jade arm like a lotus root stretched out, threw the pigeon's corpse to an ugly slave with a mask beside him, the ugly slave respectfully took it, the rough hand full of scars, people look terrifying, but the technique is very flexible, only three or two times to clean up the pigeon, wrapped it with lotus leaves, and threw it into the carbon basin, and after a while, the aroma overflowed.

The owner of the lotus arm raised his eyelids, opened the letter sign on the carrier pigeon, and the familiar handwriting came into view, like a dragon in the abyss, hidden and tenacious, and wrote: Meng Huai was threatened by me, and he didn't dare to make a time, don't read it, she, can she be okay?

The girl crumpled the letter, and felt that it was inappropriate, smoothed the crumpled paper ball, and outlined it with a carbon strip: Bi Ling has been crying ugly by herself.

He tied the letter to Hai Dongqing's paw and whistled.

Hai Dongqing flew back to Yuansi Pavilion, a window of Yuansi Pavilion opened, let Hai Dongqing fly in, untied the letter, and the handsome young man said helplessly: "The name of my courtyard is really going to be changed, where is this 'Yuan Si Pavilion', it is clearly 'Brother Unjustly Killed', and another carrier pigeon that has been trained for half a year has entered the belly of the fish like this, let your master leave half of it for me, don't eat alone." ”

Wang Anshi is not only helpless, but also very angry, he is now favored as an important minister, but now he has been reduced to a microphone.

One always writes the phrase "She, is she okay?" at the checkout desk? ”

The other always intercepted his letters like a bandit, and commented on them without shame, and even the pigeon he sent the letter became a delicious meal in her belly, but she was angry, and the only way to get angry was to take back half of the roasted pigeon to eat, so as not to make her too proud.

Now she is the head of the Wang family's fish, in charge of all the Wang family's business, for every ten cents earned, two cents belong to her, and she has to look at her face everywhere.

This status has really reversed so quickly, is this what she said, what is it called---- currency is king, and those who get currency win the world?

However, with her efforts, the Wang family's business spread rapidly, not only penetrating into every corner of Xiao State, but even the Yuli Sanbu, Zhou State, Qi State, and even Qin State, all have business dealings, no matter what it is, in her hands, it has become a tool to make money.

Just like this Qin State, there was an elephant farmer who did business with her, she exchanged Xiao Guo's porcelain for beef and milk in Yuli, made dried meat and milk chips, in exchange for Xiang Nong's elephant dung, and made colorful paper with elephant dung, and exchanged it back for Qi country's sea vegetables, made into flakes of large dried leaves, made into sushi food, and sold back to Xiao State......

It's just a closed circle of business, and the fish steward's business is not just about these few items.

The fish housekeeper, whose full name is Yubai, is very prosperous in the Wang family.

This fish steward, who is not someone else, is none other than Yu Lanya, Yu Xiaobai in his previous life, and now, his full name is Yu Bai.

Afraid that the things of four years ago would repeat and put her in danger, Zhuo Ran swore that he would only meet her after helping Wang An Shi win the world, so in the past four years, she and him have never seen each other, and the days of meeting are far away.

Two years later. The political situation in several countries has changed again.

Yeti unified the three tribes of Yuri and established the Han state.

Yuan Li, the Duke of Zhenguo of Zhou, died of illness, and his only son Yuan Shang took over the title of Duke of Zhenguo, but left a letter, traveled through the rivers and lakes, and disappeared.

Qin killed his father and brother and became the emperor of Qin.

The Hu family, the prime minister of Hu Cheng, who died unjustly 28 years ago, was revived, and his son Hu Zhiyuan served as the right prime minister of Qi State.

The situation in Xiao Guo is also turbulent, with ups and downs.

The prince, who was originally favored and arrogant, lost power again and again, either because there was a major case of corruption in the officials under his control, or the silver treasury was stolen six times in a row, and the thieves were nowhere to be found.

The one who was on par with him was Wang Anshi, the second son of the Wang family, whom he had always looked down on.

Now Wang Anshi, is no longer a small four-grade Ministry of Works, has become the head of the three princes, commanding the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of Industry, although compared to the prince's military department, the Ministry of Officials, and the Dali Temple, the power is much worse, but he also assists in the management of those officials in the Inspectorate, the so-called three words become a tiger, these mouths are bigger than the sky, and the generals of the military department also have the ability to say death.

In response to Wang Anshi's officials, the prince had to come up with countermeasures, actively mobilize officials, and promote some talents who can speak well to compete with the Inspectorate.

At this time, there was a war of words going on in the court.

"Your Majesty, after the minister took office as the prefect of Longyang Mansion, he made great efforts to govern the country, but found that some merchants traded with the Han Kingdom, not only transporting their horses, cows, and animal skins, but also selling sweet potatoes, porcelain, and silk to them, so that they could eat and cover their stomachs, and have the strength and energy to fight our Xiao State.

This is the new prefect of Longyang Mansion, who just succeeded Xie Zhifu a month ago, and Xie Zhifu was transferred to Dali Temple as Dali Temple, both of whom are princes.

One person led, and more than a dozen courtiers immediately reconsidered.

Xu Ge Lao of the Supervision Yuan immediately ridiculed him, but, speaking of which, it is obvious that he is not able to distinguish between words and deeds.

Wang Anshi sneered in his heart, rolled his eyes, fell to the ground, and cried loudly with "wow", the voice was clear, and it swirled several times over the Jinluan Palace, shocking.

An Shigongzi, who was in the wind of Yushu, smoked for a long time like an angry little daughter-in-law before he choked up aggrievedly and said: "Your Majesty, Weichen is wronged, the businessman Li said that there is a royal family, and he said that the minister sentenced the country to collaborate with the enemy but wrongfully killed the micro-minister, the minister just took the salt of Qi for the horses of the Han State, and used the sweet potatoes of the Zhou State for the animal skins of the Han State, and none of them belonged to the Xiao State, how could he collaborate with the enemy and judge the country?" Besides, in the past two years, there have been ministers' trade and appeasement, is there any sign of the Han State coming to invade? Even the autumn wind is much less, and the lower officials are worrying about His Majesty. ”

Wang Anshi's eyes were red and he looked at Lord Shangshu Lin of the Household Department, and asked: "Lord Lin, you are always in charge of the Household Department and responsible for the dispatch of military rations. ”

Lin Daren comprehended: "Every time there is a war, there will be troops to punish the generals, just like three years ago when the Han State was affected by disasters and invaded Qixingguan again, Xiao Guo transferred 200,000 soldiers and horses from the east, stayed up all night, rushed to Qixing Mountain, it took a whole month, only the people along the way to eat horses and feed, it consumed 300,000 taels of silver, the Han Kingdom invaded in winter, and it was necessary to prepare medicines, cotton tents, cotton clothes and other materials, roughly calculated, it also cost 500,000 taels of silver, and the loss of bows and arrows and swords needed 300,000 taels, plus the pension of the soldiers who died in battle....... I'm afraid that if there are no two million taels, this war will last no more than three months, and if it can't be attacked for a long time, the wartime front will be extended, and it will last for six months, which will be four million taels, and if it is a year, it will have to be ......."

War, to put it bluntly, is actually a war of money, imagine how long can we maintain if we can't pay our salaries, we can't eat enough and don't have warm clothes, and we have lofty ambitions and patriotic feelings.

Wang Anshi slammed his head deep on the ground, tears poured out, even his lips trembled, and he said on all fours: "What Lord Lin said is that these two million taels can be solved, but Wei Chen thought about using a few baskets of broken sweet potatoes to send it away, and he was really naïve." But Weichen always thinks that today is sweet potatoes, tomorrow is clothes, and the day after tomorrow is cups, and finally let him rely on Xiao Guo for food, clothing, housing and transportation, Xiao Guo is not happy, he can't eat enough, and he can't wear warm; Xiao Guo is happy, so he can have a good time and please him. It's like raising a hunting dog, gradually raising it without animal nature, naturally having no intention of fighting, my Xiao State can appease the people outside the country without spending a single soldier, this is called economic aggression, a war without blood. ”

The high-ranking Emperor Xiao couldn't help but stand up, his brain exploded, and he couldn't figure out why the three Yuli tribes of the year and the current army of the Great Han Kingdom were so brave and good at fighting.

Xiao Guo's generals, although their families are poor, they can still get by; And the soldiers of the Han State, if they don't grab it, the wives and children at home will starve to death and freeze to death.

If the people of the Han Kingdom depend on the Xiao State to survive in the future, there will naturally be no more wars, and the court will not need to pay a penny to achieve the goal of peace, so why not? This "economic aggression" is really good.

Xiao Ruo looked at his son appreciatively and felt very pleased.