When the invasion cooldown was over, Xia Qi once again chose to invade.

To his surprise, the soldiers did not appear to be war-weary.

One is because of the belligerence of the orcs, in the matter of fighting, the orcs will always stop every time.

This is actually an advantage.

At the same time, because of the constant fighting, the discipline and formation of the orc army have been substantially improved. In particular, the werewolf legion led by Richard has surpassed the defenders of the cities in Great Xia, and it is not much inferior to the first-line army.

This is also a bonus.

What's more, these soldiers are all excited and full of anticipation for the invasion war.

The reason for this is mainly because it is too cold on the side of Great Xia, so it is better to go to other players' side and treat it as a vacation.

It's too cold here in Great Xia, Xia Qi is okay, the earth dragon is burning in the hall all the time, but ordinary people don't have this treatment, and even if it's indoors, it's like an ice cave.

Anyway, because of Xia Qi's unremitting invasion, Great Xia has currently hoarded a sufficient amount of food, as well as a large number of medicinal materials.

With the support of sufficient medicinal resources, the disease in the city was finally suppressed.

As the days passed, Xia Qi's persistent invasion of players finally maintained the situation of Great Xia.

Eventually, the temperature began to rise.

With the melting of ice and snow, it also means that the era of Xia Qi's crazy invasion of players is over.

It was also because of this snowstorm that the Great Summer suffered serious losses.

A large number of houses collapsed, all crops were frozen to death, and many people even died of starvation due to the collapse of houses.

All of these require a lot of manpower and material resources.

Among them, the engineering department is undoubtedly the busiest, and the poor old minister is about to have a cerebral hemorrhage.

After receiving Xia Qi's warrant, the Minister of Engineering did not dare to delay, and immediately organized labor and started work.

Looking at the melting ice and snow, Xia Qi's heart was somewhat delicate, from now on, he would no longer be able to invade other players unscrupulously and plunder resources.

Before the ice and snow completely melted, Xia Qi hurriedly fought two more invasion battles, and then silently hung up the war-free token.

Rowling looked at Xia Qi's figure, and felt a lot of emotion in her heart for a while.

It can be said that this is the most relaxed and comfortable winter she has lived in so many years.

Feeling Rowling's gaze, Xia Qi felt her gaze, but he didn't care.

The council hall, which was specially used to convene the courtiers to deliberate, was rarely filled with people.

All the big and small officials in Great Xia City, as long as they are in charge, all gathered here, and they discussed the future direction of Great Xia.

Now what they are discussing is whether or not to give color to those steppe people.

Since the beginning of winter, the people on those grasslands have constantly harassed the Great Xia, and even united several times to try to get the idea of grain and grass.

This revenge must be avenged by Daxia, but at the time of revenge, the people in the hall had a dispute.

The internal political faction headed by Zhang Liang believes that the current Great Xia is in ruins, and the focus should be on resuming production, and other matters should be postponed.

The military faction headed by Xiong believes that this matter should be done sooner rather than later, and that it is necessary to plow the court and sweep the holes to severely attack those grassland people, so as to play the role of killing chickens and monkeys.

Xia Qi looked at Xiong in surprise, a little unexpected, this guy who has always shown himself to be rough can actually say such a truth.

But looking at the group of people standing behind him, it was already clear in his heart that this guy must have been withdrawn by others to become a representative.

In fact, as for the matter of sending troops to recruit those grassland people, Xia Qi had considered it before the winter came.

But as soon as the preparations began, a blizzard came.

I just don't know, those guys are dead now.

But Xia Qi just thinks about it.

Like Rowling and Alola, their tribes have been living in a bitter cold land far worse than the grassland for many years, and since they can survive, there is no reason why those grassland people can't hold on.

Since the beginning of human beings, I don't know how many disasters they have experienced, and this blizzard is not enough to crush them.

When it comes to resilience, humans are at the top.

"Okay, don't make any noise."

Xia Qi's voice was not loud, but the next moment, the two factions that had been arguing endlessly suddenly closed their mouths, and the entire council hall was terrifyingly quiet.

"It is not an overnight matter to conquer those steppe people, and order Kree and Hawke to observe the movements of those steppe people at all times, and report it immediately if there is any change."

"No."

Hearing Xia Qi's words, the generals of the military faction were disappointed, they understood what His Majesty meant, and it seemed that in a short period of time, this battle would not be fought.

Xia Qi knocked on the table with his fingers and said in a deep voice: "Okay, let's talk about the next thing." ”

The next thing is the arrangement of work for people who have been disabled in accidents.

Xia Qi asked the Minister of Labor to arrange some work for these people as much as possible, and issued a new decree.

A person who becomes disabled in the course of work may receive a monthly disability allowance for the first six months.

This money is not much, only enough for one person's food and clothing.

In addition to these, there is another problem that is very troublesome, and that is orphans.

Shortly after Xia Qi announced the dismissal of the meeting, the Minister of Ordnance came to the door again, and at this time, he no longer had the majesty of the minister, and his face was full of depression and self-blame.

The minister of the ordnance department is neither Xia Fox nor Chi.

These two people, one is working day and night to develop new weapons and equipment, and the other is leading the smelting and casting department, where can they take care of the rest.

The minister of the ordnance department is called Cen Mai, and as soon as he stepped into the Qinzheng Hall (office hall), he gave Xia Qi a five-body throw.

"Why did Cen Aiqing give such a big gift?"

Xia Qi put down the pen in his hand and looked at Cen Mai.

I only heard Cen Mai's tone tremble: "Your Majesty, the minister's poor supervision led to the theft of the ordnance, and the minister is guilty." ”

Hearing this, Xia Qi's face instantly became solemn.

Theft of ordnance, which is a very serious accident.

In terms of weapons and equipment, the control of Daxia is strict, and it is strictly forbidden for the people to cast and sell weapons, and once discovered, it is a felony.

In addition to the military, some special departments or professions, if they want to obtain weapons, they must also report in advance and pass a strict review before they can be approved.

This is no exception, even for the Ti Cavalry.

No wonder Cen Mai would make such a move, if he can't get it right, let alone whether he can be an official, he will go to prison directly.

"Tell me, what are you missing?"

"Two hundred and six bronze knives and two hundred and ninety-six bronze spears."

That's not a lot, but it's not a small amount.

The key point now is who stole these weapons, who bought them, and what they were used for.

"Order, the Ti Cavalry Division will comprehensively inspect the theft of ordnance, and the culprits must be arrested."

"Cen Mai, the minister of ordnance, failed to inspect effectively, and was fined one year's salary and thirty court rods."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Hearing this, Cen Mai exhaled in his heart, such a result was very good for him.

Not only was he not imprisoned, but he didn't even lose his official position.

On the other side, after receiving Xia Qi's warrant, the entire Tiqi Division was operational.

Half a month later, all the criminals were arrested, and after interrogation, all the leaders were shown to the public.

It was found that it was a person in charge of the warehouse from the Ordnance Department who stole the ordnance while people were unprepared, and then took advantage of his accomplice, a city gate officer of the city defense army of Daxia City, to transport it out of the city in the middle of the night.

It was then transported to the grassland by the personnel of Qingyan City for sale.

After the people of Qingyan City confessed, they sold all these ordnance to the Morhan Department in the grassland.

Xia Qi was so angry that he slapped the table, this damn grassland man actually dared to put his claws into Great Xia.

Originally, he planned to let these steppe people go for a while, but since they were going to die, he would fight them directly!

These damn guys, if they don't clean them up, won't they go to heaven?

At the same time, in addition to Cen Mai, the head of the Ordnance Department, the defender of Daxia City, the city lord of Qingyan City, the general of the city guard, and the director of the Cavalry Division were all jointly and severally liable and were all fined for half a year.

Subsequently, Xia Qile ordered the city lords, the generals who defended the city, and all important departments to put the people under them in order, and if this kind of thing happened again next time, they would not be spared!

Such a major event happened in Great Xia, and for a while, those city lords, generals, and ministers of various departments all looked conscientious, and they didn't dare to slack off at all.

And at the same time, the other end.

On the grassland, days have passed, and the men and horses sent to receive the ordnance have not yet returned, and Swaka, who was sitting in the leader's tent, couldn't help but sigh deeply, he knew that the people sent out probably would not return.

He turned his head to look at Natulu and Duride on the side, and said, "Order all the men and horses, change into the weapons and equipment you got from the Xia people, and we will go and swallow the Yehe tribe!" ”

According to the strength of the major tribes, the Arata tribe and the Tuhote tribe have become the bottom of the six tribes.

However, Schwagka was not in a hurry to destroy these two tribes, these two tribes had been dead for so long, and it was no longer a basis.

Moreover, the resources in these two tribes have been almost consumed, and now it is really pointless to waste people and horses to destroy them, and there are not many resources to grab.

It's better to let them continue to stumble, it basically doesn't have much impact on him, compared to the Yehe tribe, which was originally the top of the six major tribes, even after experiencing a blizzard, the resources in its tribe are very considerable.

While destroying it, it can also replenish a wave of resources, and such a tribe is worth his hands.

After changing their weapons and equipment, the men and horses of the Morhan tribe immediately raided the camp of the Yeh tribe.

The Yeh tribe was caught off guard, and with the weapons and equipment in their hands, the Morhan tribe established a definite advantage in just one face.

Under several rounds of fighting by two waves of people, the Yehe tribe, which was greatly injured, quickly went to defeat.

Under the disbelief on the face of the leader of the Yehe tribe, Schwaga cut off the other party's head with a knife, the leader was dead, and the Yehe tribe, which had suffered heavy casualties among the tribal warriors, had obviously lost the strength to resist, and the rest of the people fell to their knees and surrendered.

Things like this can be regarded as the norm among the major steppe tribes, and the Yehe tribe a few decades ago was also built up by burning, killing and looting all the way.

In the grasslands, such things are very common, even in a large tribe with tens of thousands of people, it is not unheard of that things disappear overnight.

There was no cohesion between the tribes, and as long as their leaders and henchmen were destroyed, it would not be a shame for the rest to surrender.

It is not easy to say that large tribes on the grassland want to be established, but it is not difficult to say that it is difficult.

As long as there is a strong enough warrior to lead a team of men and horses, after annexing a few more tribes, it is easy to snowball all the way.

But on the other hand, it is easy for them to perish.

It's possible that one or two fiascos can tear that tribe apart.

In fact, this is actually a common problem of nomads.

Take Xia Qi's Huaxia as an example, in its history, whether it was the Xiongnu, Rouran, Turkic, or other nomadic peoples.

Don't look at how strong they are, just a few defeats and a huge empire will fall apart.

To put it bluntly, these grassland people only have no cohesion, and they only know how to fight and kill.

It is easy to burn, kill and plunder, but if the established big tribe does not know how to govern and develop well, and rules by force alone, then the tribe will easily collapse.

Most of the tribes of the grassland people have this problem, and it is precisely because of this that from the beginning, Xia Qi has never taken the grassland people seriously.

Because he knows that a steppe tribe that does not know how to govern and develop is not to be feared at all.

But now it seems that among these people who only know how to burn, kill, loot, fight, kill and kill the grasslands, there is one more guy with brains.

In less than a month, the Morhan tribe annexed the two major tribes of Yeh and Aries, and then he did not move against the remaining three tribes.

Because the annexation of two tribes in a row is already the limit of the Morhan tribe, if he is greedy, I am afraid that he will be strutted to death at that time.