Outside the pavilion, the wind was still howling.

In the Longwei Pavilion with the door closed, the window was only covered, and the sharp howling sound of the yin wind outside the pavilion blew in through the cracks.

Tengu Dahua was still sleeping in the Longwei Pavilion, still so comfortable and peaceful, and Xiao Ling's small talk with her parents was over, and she had already gone back to her palace. In the current Longwei Pavilion, only Xiao Shizhu and his wife are left.

Xiao Shizhu looked at the chair his daughter had sat on, and asked the ghost mother leisurely, "What do you think of your daughter's proposal?"

In the pavilion with the gate closed, you can still hear the wind howling outside, far and near.

The wind and snow at night are getting heavier and heavier.

"A well-organized and feasible policy of enriching the country and enriching the people has provided a way of life and upward space for the country's ghost people, and has also allowed more trading channels for commerce; The ghost mother frowned, paused her teacup, and said bluntly to Xiao Shizhu: "However, there are too many theories and not enough practice. ”。

Xiao Shizhu couldn't help but say, mumbled, and nodded affirmatively.

Now it's just them and their husbands, and it's nothing to tell the truth. I didn't say it before, so as not to discourage Xiao Ling's enthusiasm.

"The theory is good, if these plans can be successfully implemented, it can greatly increase the annual income of the imperial court's treasury, solve the problem of a large number of idle productive forces, and control corruption and embezzlement. After a while, Xiao Shizhu frowned slightly, and analyzed them one by one: "But this series of plans is also equivalent to moving other people's cakes, who does not move, who moves first and then who moves, Poria does not realize this." Danshui Sanjie, who has been away from the government for a long time, did not expect this. They just realized the general problem, so they gave Poria a one, two, three, or four steps. But there is no action to set an example for chickens and monkeys, even if the plan is seventy, eighty or ninety steps, the matter will only have a beginning and no end. ”。

"Hmm. The ghost mother, who drank tea on the side, also nodded in agreement.

"But you know, we have to maintain Poria's prestige. ”。

Xiao Shizhu, who said this, picked up the long pen on the pen stand in front of him, picked up Xiao Poria's notebook and unfolded it, and revised it with a pen.

After a long time, Xiao Shizhu stopped writing, looked at the changed script, and handed it to the ghost mother on the side.

There was a crackling sound from the furnace, and a few pieces of hot wind carbon exploded under the licking of the flames, and a few sparks rose from it, and soon cooled down, turning into light ashes and falling back into the furnace.

The ghost mother looked at the notebook she had taken in her hand, Xiao Shizhu had already started with the first article on Xiao Lingling's proposal, and added a few more points.

First of all, under the pretext of developing the military industry and the construction of national infrastructure, several production mines and forge workshops under the pretext of developing the military industry and national infrastructure were liquidated and acquired, as well as a part of the production mines and forge workshops under other local mining tycoons.

This plan, combined with Xiao Poria's proposed document and strategy for issuing mining life documents, is tantamount to weakening the rights and abilities of too many gentry and magnates.

This kind of step-by-step encroachment can reshuffle these production industries, redistribute work, and also promote some talents to go to the ministries, departments and other units to which these posts belong to exercise and exercise.

Economic development can also take advantage of this to make further progress, killing multiple birds with one stone.

In the revised notebook, Xiao Shizhu wrote down which of the shopkeepers who would take the lead in acquiring the mines.

All of them are huge family groups in the mineral mining and forging mineral industry from all over the Nine Shadows Country.

Although compared to the previous heroic and powerful times that Xiao Shizhu cleaned up all over the country, these families now no longer have strong military strength, and they do not have most of the family members and mercenaries, but they are still one of the veins of economic production in the Nine Shadows Country.

Xiao Shizhu will not use force against these people, after all, they are all law-abiding, but Xiao Shizhu also knows that money can make ghosts grind.

You can give the ghost people wealth, superior food and clothing and no worries, meat and wine, summer clothes with tulle, winter clothes with brocade, no shortage of ghost houses, no shortage of cultivated fields, commercial activities are level, and warehouses are full. But he will never give any ghost people a rich country.

He is the only human soul who has learned a lot in the human world and has not been reincarnated. He knew that the emergence of most of the rich and rival forces was the beginning of the demise of many imperial courts and the source of turmoil.

He Xiao Shizhu is a point, businessmen can have it, and rich people must also have heads. But do your best and divide the wealth equally.

The place where Xiao Shizhu changed the book also has a deep meaning.

The price at which the imperial court acquired privatized industries in various places was also set slightly higher. This could easily have caused most of the merchants to lose a great deal of their wealth for small profits, so that Xiao Shizhu could divide it equally, and the small profits gained were only stagnant water rather than living water.

Only consumption has not been earned, and gold and silver will always be exhausted one day.

Surprise, has always been Xiao Shizhu's best. Whether it is arranging troops or internal affairs, Jean is good at this.

He also used this tactic to weaken the powerful this time, and the only difference from the many past attacks on Haoqiang was that Xiao Shizhu did not kill again. The suppression of illegal magnates over the years has now had a good effect, so that the rich ghosts in his Nine Shadows Kingdom can only behave in a proper manner.

Therefore, Xiao Shizhu did not plan to use knives and guns, let alone use national law, and there was no need to do so. He only proposed to buy these industries on the grounds that he was loyal to the monarch and patriotic, which would facilitate the faster development of the country.

And Xiao Shizhu originally planned to do this, and there is no such thing as ruling the country with yang and yin. As for the transformation and expansion after its acquisition, Xiao Shizhu also wrote it clearly in the notebook. This plan is beneficial and harmless, and it can quickly increase the material output and economic income of the Nine Shadows Kingdom, which is very considerable.

It can also make the national strength continue to progress, thriving at the same time, science and technology have made great progress.

After continuous development, once there is a foreign war or a domestic defensive war, the war machine of the Nine Shadows Kingdom will operate efficiently.

After the ghost mother looked at the notebook, she thought about it carefully after meditating, and felt that there was nothing wrong with Xiao Shizhu changing it like this.

Today's Nine Ghost Country is different from any other ghost country in this world, it is almost a Nine Ghost Country that has completely eliminated the class system, and the ghost officials and armies across the country are almost united. With this kind of loyalty and patriotism, and the acquisition of these industries with the development of the country, I am afraid that those businessmen who were nominated by Xiao Shizhu in the notebook will be impatient to agree and gladly accept the acquisition of the property by the imperial court.

This can also find a good balance for the development of all walks of life in the country of industry, commerce and agriculture in today's Nine Shadows, so that it can be internally stable and will not cause economic turmoil.

There is another deep meaning in this, because the music book was played by Xiao Fuling. Lord Weng still doesn't care about eating, drinking and having fun, but more about people's livelihood and national development, Xiao Fuling's prestige in the court and local people in the future will only increase instead of decreasing.

The self-motivation of the ghost people in the country can also be invisibly improved.

"If you want to choose a good father who is the best in the world, you will definitely be nominated. The ghost mother who closed the notebook said this, handed the notebook to Xiao Shizhu, and also cast a grateful look at Xiao Shizhu.

"I think if my parents were alive, they would have done so much for me without complaint, not for a nomination. Xiao Shizhu took the notebook and put it down, picked up a brand new and unwritten notebook, and said while transcribing the altered notebook: "Even so, of course I am the same, and my parents all over the world are almost the same, and I didn't do it for the sake of this kind of false fame." And Poria is a child with talent, ability and brains, although many decisions are not yet mature, but once she grows up, she will definitely be a towering tree. ”。

After saying this, Xiao Shizhu's face was always full of determination.

The prediction in his words has always been firmly believed. The pride in my heart also arises spontaneously.

After a while, Xiao Shizhu finished transcribing the transcript. He put down the long pen in his hand and pulled down the long strap hanging from his hand.

The long belt was pulled, and the bell hanging from the beams rang.

The crisp and melodious bell broke the howling wind outside the pavilion, the pavilions opened wide, and Qinglan walked in and closed the door with her hand.

"Two copies of the book, the original handed over to the Tianji Pavilion for archiving at the civil affairs counter. The transcription scroll was handed over to Xunxiang of Tianji Pavilion, and she was asked to immediately organize someone to print fifty copies. Xiao Shizhu handed the two notebooks to Qing Lan, who was standing in front of the bookcase, and explained: "Tomorrow morning, I will use them in the court." ”。

Movable type printing has long been used in the Netherworld Prefecture, and this technology has also been adopted in the Nine Shadows Kingdom to speed up the transcription and reproduction of the required documents.

Xiao Shizhu said that printing is using this technology.

Qing Lan clicked a few times, nodded and took the notebook, then turned around and left.

Xiao Shizhu also stood up, stretched his waist, and saw that on the small table next to him, there was a notebook, which was Ying Lingxing's attack plan, and said leisurely: "After sleeping tonight, I hope there will be good news tomorrow morning." ”......

On the Qinglong Sea, the waves are turbulent and no longer calm.

Under the night wind, the green dragon sea waves can always let out a roar of dragons and tigers.

Huge waves several feet high can also be seen everywhere.

This day is calm, but the night is rough and dangerous.

In the night rapids and high waves, the whirlpool is constantly rolled up randomly and randomly on the Qinglong Sea, which is very level, and must be professional and excellent and not panicked helmsmen and sailors to be safe and secure.

And there is also the sea area around Liubo Island, which is shrouded in heavy rain, and the waves under the strong wind set off big waves one after another, trying to roar and roar under the fierce wind and rain, roaring and engulfing everything in the sea area.

The island of Liubo, which is immovable in the midst of storms and huge waves, lies above the sea. On the island shrouded in rain and mist, only the grass and trees swayed left and right in the wind, looking crumbling.

The cliffs and mountains on the edges of the island are thousands of years old, and as they continue to be built, more and more impregnable forts dot the cliffs in the mountains, and there are places where the sky can be guarded.

There are forts and open-air batteries on the mountains, as well as arrow towers and outposts.

Like a sturdy warrior of steel and stone, it surrounds the edge of the island and guards the place.

All artillery mounted on batteries and a large number of trebuchets, bed crossbows and repeaters.

The sergeants guarding this place are also mostly equipped with firearms.

Although it is still an old-fashioned bird gun with iron sand, before the Nine Shadows Kingdom set foot on this continent, the ghost soldier equipment here was the most advanced in this land.

It's just because Liubo Island holds the Liubo Strait on the west coast of the entire continent. All the seafaring fleets that were heading from the south to the northwest, as well as those that came from farther east to the east of Liutian Chau, and entered the central area of the west coast of Dongyingzhou and the border area of the northwest region, eventually passed through this place.

Without powerful weaponry, it is impossible to defend this strait and island.

Emperor Xudu could have anticipated the importance of this place. So when he gave up the ghost soldiers on this continent, he also gave the garrison on Liubo Island and secretly transported a large number of ghost cannons and shells.

The total number of ghost cannons on the island has increased from more than 100 to more than 300. The storage capacity of more than 1,000 shells has been directly increased to more than 30,000.

Emperor Xudu and the ghost generals who were left behind all knew tacitly that these weapons could not be used on pirates, but would fall on the already powerful Jiuyou National Army.

Now guarding this place is a dark commander in the former Xuan Emperor's army, named Yihuo. He is a demon spirit, his body is as huge as a python, and his appearance is no different from that of a python, with no hands but wings on his back.

The pair of long wings without feathers were exactly the same as the winged hands on the backs of the Nine Shadow Kingdom's Toutou people, but they were longer and larger than the winged hands of the Toutou people, and they were about a zhang long when they were unfolded.

Eight hundred years ago, this demon spirit came here to supervise the island and command the garrison on the island by the order of Emperor Xudu.

This work was done for 800 years, and during this period, the Emperor Xudu did not send other officials or generals to change the wings.

It's just that after Yihuo took office, the pirates who once roamed the strait did not dare to set foot in this sea area again.

The route has been safeguarded, and the Emperor Xudu will naturally not change people again.

No, although Emperor Xudu has abandoned millions of troops on the surface, Yihuo is still the local son of heaven on Liubo Island.

Coupled with the secret promise of Emperor Xudu that if they could hold on to their current land, they would be crowned kings, and Yihuo was even more reluctant to leave this sea island.

Moreover, at the beginning of the rainy season, he began to stock up on food and weapons.

The wealth captured from pirates over the centuries was used to buy weapons and food, as well as other war resources. Everything is about stabilizing the island, defending it, and then waging wars against other places.

When the vision of the king was washed away in his mind, the number one target of the Wing Torch War was aimed at the Nine Shadows Army that had taken root on the west coast of Dongying Continent and had gained a firm foothold.

Wing Huo also purchased a large number of warships for this purpose, and the fleet of the sailors of Liubo Island has changed from 25 warships of all sizes in the past to a huge fleet of 100 large and small warships.

Eight of the large treasure ships were sold at low prices from the Northern Yin Dynasty. Yihuo also took advantage of the rainy season to strengthen the training of sailors in the Qinglong Sea.

As Xiao Fuling said, the Emperor Xudu gave up before the peace treaty, and the Xudu Army and the Xuandi Army left behind in Dongyingzhou were not scattered, but a huge annoyance to the Nine Hidden Kingdoms.

Liubo Island is part of this trouble.

Yihuo also planned to send troops as soon as the rainy season ended, and marched from the sea to attack the area south of Dushuo Mountain.

His ambition did not make him lose his cool. He knew that the Nine Shadows Army stationed in Dushuo Mountain was not only numerous, but also had natural dangers to defend, and it would not be able to defeat it for a while.

Only from weak places, not where the army is stationed, can we attack quickly and fight quickly.

What's even more vicious is that Yihuo just wants to continue to plunder the coastal areas already controlled by the Nine Shadows Kingdom in the early stage, and he is in a corner of peace, waiting for his reputation on Liubo Island, and shouting at all parts of the coast.

The idea is good, and the tactics are also very in line with his actual situation, but he doesn't know that the Nine Shadows Kingdom will not give him another chance to practice the plan.

Tonight, Wing Huo didn't sleep, it wasn't that he knew the plan of action of the Nine Shadows Kingdom, but that he came to the southeast shore of the island to inspect the fortifications and the night watch posts of the forts.

According to the assumption of Wing Huo, if the Nine Shadows Kingdom attacked, it could only take the sea route. Attacking by sea, the Nine Shadows Naval Division that set off from Dushuo Mountain will only go straight to the southeast of Liubo Island.

Because this line is the fastest offensive route.

The winged torch had more than 300 ghost cannons, and one hundred and fifty were divided into them, and they were placed in the forts and hidden forts here, in a fan-shaped division, so that the firepower spread all over the island for nearly twenty miles of nautical miles, waiting for the arrival of the sailors of the Nine Shadows Kingdom.

It's just that Yihuo may never have dreamed that the general sent by the Nine Shadows Kingdom is one of Xiao Shizhu's protégés, and he is good at attacking the enemy by surprise.

Ying Lingxing, who had already been thinking from the perspective of his winged fire, expected that the key defense of Liubo Island would definitely be in the southeast of the island. Ying Lingxing will give Wing Fire, a surprise attack.

The wing fire, which had patrolled the fortifications in the southeast of the island in the wind and rain, came to the forward command room in the rear of the place, surrounded by batteries.

The evil ghost general in charge of the area accompanied him all the way here.

In the sound of the wind and rain, Wing Huo leaned down and sat down on the chair behind the bookcase in the middle of the room. The ghost general who followed him stood aside with his head down.

"Always be vigilant for all changes and circumstances at sea, and destroy even enemy spies at sea. The winged fire that had just sat down, without picking up the hot tea served, tirelessly told the evil ghost general: "We must also pay close attention to training, and after ten days, the rainy season will completely pass, and we will attack immediately." Several other ghost generals and Hades kings in the coastal areas have also agreed with Ben Shuai that when the time comes, we will attack the Nine Shadows Kingdom together and break the defensive ...... they have connected in the central region."

Before he finished speaking, a loud noise fell from the sky one day, and the earth trembled, and the beams and pillars in the house trembled again and again, and a lot of dust fell from the beams.

Yihuo had been in command for a long time, so his hearing could tell that it was the sound of cannons, not thunder in the wind and rain.

He jumped off his stool and rushed out of the room. The surprised ghost general also hurriedly followed.

As soon as they came out of the house, they all saw that the night sky, which was originally dark in the wind and rain, was gradually illuminated by the firelight that crossed the sky.

The fires came from the southwestern air of the island, coming from west to east like thunder, like a rain of flames, very dense.

At the top of the heads of these fires were cannonballs that grew brighter and brighter under the friction of the air.

In the rain and fog, behind the firelight was billowing gunsmoke.

Where is this rain of flames, but a dense rain of bullets.

Hundreds of shells shot up into the sky, streaked across the sky and fell towards the entire southern part of Liubo Island. As these shells fell, hundreds more shot into the sky.

A succession of shells landed one after another before the wing fire and his generals and soldiers could recover their senses. Roaring shells continued to explode on the long and narrow island.

Bursts of flames continued to rise, and the walls of fire took shape one by one, evaporating many raindrops that fell from the sky in mid-air.

The earth shook and the mountains shook, and the southern part of Liubo Island became hot all of a sudden on this stormy night.

Even in the vicinity of the wing fire, shells fell one after another.

All of a sudden, a thunderous roar resounded on Liubo Island, and the flames continued to rise into the sky, illuminating the sky above Liubo Island, making it look like daytime.

Countless fort sentry posts and arrow towers, dark forts and towers collapsed one after another in the midst of the shaking of the ground and the roar of cannons.

There were also a number of karmic fire bombs stored in the turret, which were also ignited in the explosion. Some of the ghost soldiers of the garrison in the area who did not die under the rain of shells also fell into despair at the moment when the karmic fire burst, and soon the karmic fire that burst out in all directions burned alive on the ruins.