40. Investigation

On November 12, Ma Mengshi came to Yang's house again, and as soon as she saw Yang Siqi's face, she immediately threw herself into Yang Siqi's arms and offered a fragrant kiss. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info This is a good thing sent to the door, of course Yang Siqi will not refuse.

After the kiss, Yang Siqi stretched out his right hand and gently touched Ma Mengshi's Yao nose, and said with a smile: "Okay, Shi'er, your kiss is very expensive, let's talk about it, what do you want me to do this time?" ”

"Look at what you said, who do you think you are?" Ma Mengshi was coquettish.

"Hehe, I, treat you as a wife, but my wife is now coquettish to me, and there are always some difficult things for me to do, and I have already learned this."

"Yes, I just haven't seen you for a few days, can't I kiss you?" Ma Mengshi said a little humbly.

Yang Siqi smiled: "Okay, if you don't say it, forget it, anyway, I'm just happy to be idle." ”

"Forget it, I can't fight you guy, you're too ghostly." Ma Mengshi knew that she couldn't hide it from Yang Siqi, this man, when it comes to IQ, is definitely only above her and not below her.

"Let's talk about it, husband and wife are birds of the same fate, is there anything else that needs to be like this?"

"Siqi, I have discussed the general plan with the third grandfather and the people in the family, there is no problem, but I hope you had better give me a more detailed plan, how to do it? I need to have a more detailed understanding of what kind of effect can be achieved after doing this. ”

Yang Siqi smiled: "I'm already doing it, but, Shi'er, you can give me a little power." ”

"What power?" Ma Mengshi's heart is a little uncomfortable again, in the end, the feelings are still not deep, and she has not reached the point of absolute trust in Yang Siqi, and she will start to ask for power now, so what about the future?

Yang Siqi didn't have time to guess Ma Mengshi's thoughts, and said: "What I said before is just a general strategic plan, if I want to make a more specific implementation plan, that is, a specific tactical plan, then I need to go to the field to investigate." Without investigation, there is no right to speak, and I am going to investigate in our Ma family's territory. I'm a stranger to check those things, and you're not afraid that I'll be killed by my own people. ”

Ma Mengshi understood, but felt a burst of guilt in her heart, why did she always spend Yang Siqi's gentleman's belly with the heart of a villain? Why can't he give Yang Siqi a little more trust? Why does Yang Siqi think about the bad as long as he is a little out of line? What the hell is wrong with you?

However, Ma Mengshi didn't have more time to sort out her thoughts, and said: "This one is easy to do, I'll let the people around me be your guide." ”

Yang Siqi rolled his eyes: "Shi'er, are you joking?" If I'm willing to expose it, do I still need to talk to you? How long can I hide with the people around you who are with me? ”

"And what do you want?" Ma Mengshi also understood.

"Just give me a token of the Ma family or something as a token, so that I can go around the Ma family's territory casually, investigate the water, soil and products everywhere, and I won't go to any confidential places, just to investigate the resources in the territory, with this first-hand information, I can formulate a more perfect plan."

"Of course this one is fine, do you need a more advanced or low-level token?"

"What am I going to do with such a high class? Just one of them will do, as long as people don't treat me like a thief. And give me an explanation that I was ordered to investigate, and that I can explain my identity. Once I get caught, I've got to have something to prove my identity. ”

"Okay, or else, I'll arrange for two secret guards to protect you in secret, so they don't need to show up if it's okay, and if something happens, they can get you out by other means. Don't refuse, although you are a seventh-level magician, you don't have any combat power yet, you have to protect yourself, even if it's for me, okay? ”

Faced with Ma Mengshi's soft words, Yang Siqi could only nod and agree.

"Shi'er, since you have chosen this path, this road is not easy to walk, as your man, for some reason, I can't stand at the front desk to help you shelter from the wind and rain for the time being, so I can only rely on yourself for now. When my strength improves, I will stand up to help you. For my sake, for the sake of our future children, you have to be careful to protect yourself, you know? ”

Moved by Yang Siqi's warm words, Ma Mengshi sent a fragrant kiss again. After the kiss, she said affectionately: "I am the commander of hundreds of thousands of troops, and I have been on the battlefield dozens of times, I am not so easy to get into trouble, but you, although you are hidden in the shadows, but as time goes by, the greater the chance that you will be discovered by other forces, and when the time comes, the more dangerous you are, and you must also protect yourself." ”

The two made love again, and Ma Mengshi left.

The next night, Ma Mengshi came over again, in addition to the task manual of the token that Yang Siqi needed, there was also a black dress like underwear.

"What is this?" Yang Siqi felt very curious about this clothing, and he tried to pull it hard, but found that this clothing was very tough.

"This is an underwear woven from the spider silk spit out by the fifth-level demonic beast poisonous tarantula, don't look at it as similar to ordinary clothing, but it has the defense power of heavy armor, and it has extremely high defense against battle qi and magic. Ordinary high-level generals would not be able to break through its defenses. ”

"It's so strong, it's such a good thing, it's expensive."

"A piece of tarantula underwear like this can reach 1,000 gold coins on the market, and the amount that can be produced every year is not much. Usually there are only one or two hundred, and each one will cause people to go crazy. My Ma family has only accumulated more than 100 pieces over the years. ”

"Wait, Shi'er, you said, this is woven from the spider silk spit out by the fifth-level demonic beast poisonous tarantula. So, no one thought to raise this poisonous tarantula and take its silk? If there is a large amount of poisonous tarantula silk, can't it be strengthened into a large amount of tarantula underwear? Yang Siqi suddenly thought of something.

"You think. The poisonous tarantula is ferocious by nature, but it is a very powerful demonic beast, it eats meat, and it still eats living things, and dead things do not eat it. And an adult poisonous tarantula spits only one or two weights of spider silk every year. It takes at least ten poisonous tarantulas to be able to spit out the materials woven into a piece of clothing, and ten poisonous tarantulas must eat at least a hundred pigs every year. Also, poisonous tarantulas are highly poisonous, so how can humans raise them? Ma Mengshi despised Yang Siqi's lack of common sense.

Yang Siqi already had a vague idea in his mind, but it had not yet taken shape, and he didn't say anything at the moment.

The next day, Yang Siqi set off to the territory of the Ma family. The Ma family territory is located 350 kilometers south of Tianma City, with a total area of 50,000 square kilometers. The average ducal territory is only 30,000 square kilometers, but the Ma family has made countless military exploits over the years, and it has reached the point where it is unsealable, so the Tiger Kingdom can only increase the Ma family's territory by 20,000 square kilometers.

Among these 50,000 square kilometers, according to the map given by Ma Mengshi, including the main city of Pegasus City in the center, which is the base camp of the Ma family, in addition to Pegasus City, there are other cities of a total of thirteen sizes, hundreds of small towns and tens of thousands of villages, with a total population of more than 1.92 million people.

There are twelve important rivers in the territory, the largest of which is the Pegasus River, which originates in the Yokoyama Mountains outside Tianma City and meanders southward. It has been flowing out of the Ma family's territory. The Pegasus River flows through Pegasus City, which is an important waterway for Pegasus City to trade with the outside world, and there are many ships entering and leaving every day, and the trade is also developed.

Most of the territory is plains, which make up about two-thirds of the total area, and the rest are hilly, which accounts for about one-third. And in the plains, more than a third of the agricultural areas are very convenient for irrigation. A quarter of the population has built a lot of water conservancy facilities and has good irrigation conditions, but most of the rest is dryland where dry-fed crops such as wheat can only be grown because of the lack of water.

In the hilly areas, other crops such as soybeans are also grown, and there are many fiber crops such as cotton, and oil crops such as peanuts, but not in large quantities. As for forestry such as fruit trees, there are very few of them here, almost negligible.

The focus of Yang Siqi's investigation is the agricultural situation, including the distribution, planting mode, and yield of various types of farmland. The second is to look at the rivers to see if there is a way to build more water conservancy facilities and turn dryland into paddy fields. The third is to see if there are some mineral deposits or something. However, he did not study geology, so this aspect is only incidental.

In addition, the income of some of the lords, the industries they use on a daily basis, the main commodities on the market, etc., as well as the production equipment and output of the handicraft workshop. In addition, it is necessary to assess the traffic situation within the territory and the navigability of the rivers to see if it is possible to dig a canal to improve the transport capacity of the entire territory.

It can be said that everything is within his investigation. And the investigation is not only to see with eyes, but also to draw a map, make a record, etc., so Yang Siqi can be said to be busy. If you want to investigate the entire Majia territory, a full 50,000 square kilometers of territory, which is equivalent to one-third to one-half of the area of some smaller provinces in China, relying on him to conduct a field investigation alone, this time the investigation will only take two or three months.

However, as the investigation deepened, Yang Siqi became more and more excited, things are promising, and it is still a very favorable one. And the more he investigated, the more he felt that he could not move the model life on the earth to the world, and there were many things that had to be adapted to local conditions and had to be changed accordingly. Sure enough, there is no right to speak without investigation, this sentence is absolutely true.

In order to comprehensively enhance the strength of the Ma family, in addition to military strength, its economic strength must be at the forefront, without sufficient funds as a backing, no matter how strong the military strength is, it is just a source of no water, so Yang Siqi's key consideration is how to form a new industrial chain of material production in the Ma family's territory, so as to make the Ma family's economy get a new leap and earn more money for the Ma family.

In addition, it is necessary not to be too conspicuous, and it is not possible to use some means that can obtain huge profits, these methods are too easy to provoke people's eyes, the Ma family is now the target of public criticism, and there are a number of eye-catching profiteering businesses, which is not a good thing for the Ma family.

Therefore, Yang Siqi is now focusing on how to quickly improve the economic strength of the Ma family, but it must be inconspicuous, and let the royal family rest assured that the Ma family has no intention of rebelling, and it is best to make the royal family completely think that the Ma family is harmless. Of course, this is very difficult, but it is not impossible.

On the whole, the efficiency of this primitive self-sufficient production model is naturally quite low, and in order to enhance economic strength, it is necessary to find a way to break this self-sufficient model and form a large social division of labor and a commercial social production model. It's just that this is not only a change in the mode of production, but also a change in concept, and the best way to change is not by words, but by results, by tangible benefits.

After a month of investigation, Yang Siqi already had a draft, and some ideas were roughly formed, and he was very confident that as long as he was given three years, he would definitely make a qualitative leap in the economy of the Ma family's territory.