Chapter 252: The order of the city-state calms the hearts of the people
Returning to the station, Wan Yanxiao asked, "Prince Xingchen, just ......"
I didn't want to wait for him to finish asking, Wan Yan had already pulled him, and then smiled and said, "Prince Xingchen, let's go and count the battle damage first, and we'll see you at the meeting later." β
Wan Yan Qiongyu bowed silently, then turned around and walked back to his camp, Wan Yan Xiao was a little puzzled when he saw this: "Big brother, what's the matter?"
"Fools can see that he failed to succeed in the city," he glanced at him, and said with a wry smile, "With his arrogance, wouldn't you offend him by asking him like this?"
Only then did Yan Xiao react, slapped his head, and said with a smile: "I was reckless." β
"Let's go, the literary army also has some skills, and this time the sons and daughters have suffered a lot of damage. β
Wan Yan shook his head, turned around and left with Wan Yan Xiao, and went to deal with the post-war sweeping work.
At the same time, Wanyan Qiongyu had already returned to his military tent, and as soon as he entered, he could no longer suppress the red fire and poison in his body, and sat down directly, using his true qi to frantically try to resolve the two.
After fleeing from the city before, he did not hesitate to consume his vitality to suppress the poison and red fire for the sake of face, but in this way, his injuries were even more serious.
Fortunately, there were already several spirit masters waiting in his tent, and when they saw him sitting down with a gloomy face, these spirit masters hurriedly came up and used spiritual magic to help him heal his injuries.
As the only son of Wanyan Fourth, Wanyan Qiongyu went out with the army this time, and there was a special reserve team, mainly responsible for treating him, inquiring about information and other matters.
These spirit masters all have the cultivation of the Four Realms, specializing in the cultivation of the healing department, and with the joint efforts of several people, they quickly dissolved the poison and red fire in Wanyan Qiongyu's body.
Suddenly, Yan Qiongyu's body relaxed for a while, and he slowly exhaled a breath of turbidity, then opened his eyes, gritted his teeth and muttered the words "Literary Army".
"Give me a good investigation of those people in the Literary and Art Army, their exercises, cultivation, and experience, all of them will be investigated for me clearly," Sen Ran smiled, and Wanyan Qiongyu said coldly, "To be able to hurt me so badly with the cultivation of the Three Realms, this group of people is not weaker than Yao Ruoyu when combined." β
Seeing his order, several spirit masters immediately surrendered.
After everyone withdrew from the military tent, Yan Qiongyu got up and came to his desk, took out a bag from the pen holder, stared at it silently, and suddenly sneered: "Interesting, did you even expect this? That's why I left two tips." As he spoke, he opened his bag and took out a folded letterhead.
After Yan Qiongyu unfolded it, he glanced at it a few times, and a burst of anger suddenly appeared in his eyes, but only after the corners of his eyes twitched a few times, he sneered and folded the letterhead again, and said with a smile: "Amazing, really powerful, Wenyi Jun, see what else you can do this time, come here, send a secret agent in the city to contact Li Huo and tell him that I agreed." β
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"You're here to ask me, what's in the two bags for Yan Qiongyu?"
The purple-robed young man sat upright, holding a puff fan with a smile, fanning the wind on the stove under the teapot, and smiled.
Right in front of him, there sat a small young man with thorny hair, who was frowning at the purple-robed young man with a suspicious expression.
"Didn't you guess that, that's why you came to ask?" Smiling slightly, the purple-robed young man said lightly, "Soon after I gave him the tips, Wanyan Qiongyu followed the Guang'an army to conquer Hezhou, so you came to ask me." β
"Then why are you doing this?" the thorn-haired young man gritted his teeth with complicated eyes, "Brother Ding, although I will be on your side no matter what, don't you think it's too much? I don't know why you didn't go to them, but there's no need to help Yan Qiongyu!"
"After helping Yan Qiongyu?" seemed to be stunned, the purple-robed young man immediately smiled, "I never intended to help him, or rather, the person I planned to help was never him." β
Seeing the prickly-haired young man with a puzzled look, the purple-robed young man smiled, didn't answer, lifted the teapot that had just been boiled, poured a cup of tea for the two of them, and then smiled: "What do you think of the literary and artistic army?"
"What do you think?" the thorn-haired young man groaned slightly, "There are civil and martial arts, but martial arts still lack time. β
"Yes, even you see it that way, not to mention themselves, right?" The purple-robed young man smiled and picked up the teacup, stared at the tea in the cup, and said slowly, "But, who said that their text is not short of time?"
Ignoring the prickly-haired youth's suddenly sluggish look, the purple-robed young man smiled and lowered his head to take a sip of tea, just because of his bowing, he didn't let the prickly-haired young man see his expression.
(All fools!)
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When Wang Jin returned to his mansion, it was already late at night.
As soon as he returned to the mansion, he hurried to the backyard, and when he stepped in, he saw a man holding an edict cloth, sipping tea, and smiling and looking at the contents of it.
Seeing Wang Jin coming in with excitement on his face, the man put down the edict and said with a smile: "What's the matter, so urgent?"
"My lord, good news," grinning, Wang Jin pulled out the stone bench and sat down, and said with a smile, "Li Huo came to me just now." β
"Li Huo, the patriarch of the Western Xia Relics?" frowned slightly, and the man said unhappily, "When did you get in touch with them?"
Seeing that the man's face was unhappy, Wang Jin scratched his hair a little crampedly: "They contacted me." β
The man groaned a little when he heard this, and suddenly asked, "What is he looking for you?"
Wang Jin smiled: "Li Huo said, he plans to mutiny and take the city when the Jin Kingdom attacks seven days later, hehe, aren't those turtle babies usually very arrogant?
The man's face suddenly turned pale, and after a while, he sneered, "You're very happy?"
Seeing that the man was angry, Wang Jin smiled and said: "Don't worry, listen to me, Li Huo said, he has already had contact with the Guang'an army, and the other party will attack the city again in seven days, Li Huo will lead the elite of Western Xia to raid the literary army in the city, and then attack inside and outside, and annihilate the literary and artistic army in one fell swoop, and then Li Huo will establish himself as the city lord." β
Then Wang Jin smiled: "If you don't come back, then I, Li Huo, will probably agree after thinking about it, but I know my adult's intentions, if I Wang Jin agrees, I won't have the face to see you." β
The man frowned, stared at him for a moment, and then smiled, "So what?"
"So I said to think about it first, and then I'll come back to you, adult," rubbing his palms, Wang Jin smiled, "I know my own ability, I don't have such a powerful brain, my lord, you help me sum up, what should I do next?" Do you tell Yao Ruoyu about them, or don't participate?"
"Naturally, I need to tell them, but it can't be too obvious," Raising his head and looking outside the courtyard, the man smiled, "Now Li Huo is estimated to have sent someone to monitor your entire mansion, if you go directly to Yao Ruoyu, they will come back and die and not admit it, and you can't do anything." β
"Yes, what should I do?" asked Wang Jin.
The man thought for a moment and muttered: "In this way, tomorrow you go to Zhou Zhi, and say that you want to join the city-state, and let him take you to the leader of the city-state, and then you will tell him all about it, but then Li Huo will inevitably come to question you, and you just say that it is to infiltrate the city defense army and fool him over." β
Wang Jin thought for a while, and said, "No problem, then I need ......"
Before he could finish speaking, the man had already shook his head and said, "You don't have to tell them about my existence, after all, I used to be the city lord of Hezhou, and now I have come back and hid for so long, I am afraid that they will be suspicious." β
Pouting, Wang Jin said disdainfully: "Hmph! My lord is dedicated to the public, how can they be so dirty." β
After saying this, Wang Jin had time to look at the edict on the stone table, and asked suspiciously: "Isn't this the latest decree of the city-state?
"Of course it's to be studied," smiled, the man picked up the edict again, his eyes were full of relief and expectation, "I've been studying their decree to govern Hezhou City for the past few months, it's wonderful, surprising, unfathomable, it's really breathtaking, it's better to sigh to yourself!"
Seeing the man's self-humility, Wang Jin suddenly said dissatisfied: "How can adults be inferior to them?"
"It's really not as good, there is no need to argue," shaking his head, the man shook the edict, and said, "The article of paid conscription alone is enough to create an image of treating the people like children, and most of the people's hearts are snared, and the tax revenue of the city-state is less than half ......."
Wang Jin smiled: "I wanted to laugh at them when I knew it, it's really naΓ―ve, how can half of the tax be enough?"
"Is it enough now?" the man smiled.
Wang Jin couldn't help but hesitate when he heard this, and when the man broke it, he found that there seemed to be no problem with the operation of the city-state now, and suddenly there was no shortage of funds.
"They have never relied on taxes as the income of the city-state, and the market in Hezhou, which they have been running these days, has been in full swing, and the major trading houses have settled in it, and a trade channel with the Nanban has been added, and the income of this market in January alone is more than half a year in the past, which is enough to make up for the lack of taxes. β
Speaking of this, the man suddenly looked at Wang Jin and smiled: "By the way, how do you feel about the current Diaoyu City?"
"How do you feel?" Wang Jin was slightly stunned, thought for a while, and replied a little blankly, "I can't tell, I always feel better than before, but I can't say what's better." β
"Order. β
With a gentle smile, the man said slowly: "The planning of the whole city is very regular, the shops and houses are almost separated, the streets are extensive, the houses are similar in style, and the army will patrol the city. β
Wang Jin grinned very awkwardly, although he wanted to refute, but compared to the changes in Hezhou City and Diaoyu City now, he couldn't say anything to refute it.
Even if he hated Yao Ruoyu and the others, he couldn't deny what the man had just said, and the current Diaoyu City was indeed more prosperous than when the man was governing.