In the Dali Imperial Palace, in the depths of a certain palace, Emperor Duan Zhengchun put down the teacup with a somewhat melancholy expression, and indoors, two black-clothed people looked at Duan Zhengchun with solemn expressions.

Duan Zhengchun sighed, and then slowly spoke.

"You went to Kaifeng Mansion overnight, and you must report this matter as soon as possible!"

The two men in black clenched their fists in agreement and turned to leave.

Watching the man in black leave, the melancholy between Duan Zhengchun's eyebrows did not decrease, but became more and more intense!

The two men in black changed into fast horses in the middle of the night and were about to gallop away, but not far from the palace, two crossbow arrows shot out in the dark.

The two of them were obviously not ordinary people, one shouted loudly and dodged, and the other quickly pulled out the long knife at his waist and flew the crossbow arrow!

One of them shouted at the other.

"My Highness, you go quickly, you must send the news out!"

After saying that, he rushed into the woods first, and the other person did not hesitate for a moment, and then shouted loudly, and patted the horse's buttocks with the back of the knife, and the horse was frightened and quickly rushed into the distance.

But apparently, it was all in vain, and the men in black who rushed into the woods were cut off with a knife before they could see the enemy, and the headless corpse shook a few times on the horse's back and fell to the ground.

The other person, less than 100 meters away, saw a black shadow rushing out next to him, raised his palm, and cracked towards his chest.

The man was so shocked that he raised his long knife and tried to resist, but it was too late, and the palm print quickly hit him on the chest, and the man spat out a mouthful of blood and fell to the ground and died!

A group of figures covered in black veils quickly flashed out of the darkness, without the slightest communication, and quickly dealt with the scene.

A black-gauze figure searched out a secret letter from a person's arms, then looked at the underground corpse, glanced at it, snorted coldly, and turned to leave.

Chen Can yawned, took Ah Bi's long legs away from his waist, and gently removed Ah Zhu's hand from his chest, and climbed up lazily from the middle of the two women.

Abi muttered, Mi Mi Huhu opened his eyes, and saw Chen Can get up and was about to get up to serve, Chen Can waved his hand, and smiled and asked her to continue to sleep for a while.

Chen Can walked out of the room and saw two black gauze women standing at the door, so he opened his mouth surgingly.

"Say it!"

A woman in black gauze hurriedly reported.

"Last night, Duan Zhengchun secretly met with the people of the Great Song Imperial City Division, and the news has been intercepted by his subordinates!"

Chen Can sneered and said.

"It seems that Duan Zhengchun has noticed it!"

The woman in black gauze hesitated for a moment, and then cautiously asked.

"Chief, are we going to do something to the Dali Duan clan?"

Chen Can shook his head and said.

"The time is not yet ripe, once we attack Dali, Da Song will definitely know, and will not hesitate to send troops!"

After Chen Can finished speaking, he still sighed deeply, time, what he needs most now is time!

The Imperial City Division of the Great Song Dynasty is a spy agency of the Great Song Dynasty, responsible for monitoring hundreds of officials and spying on intelligence, similar to the Jinyi Guard of the Ming Dynasty.

However, the power of the Imperial City Division is far inferior to that of Jinyiwei, and the sense of existence is very low, and it is basically active in the capital, but Dali is a frontier country after all, and it is normal to have a secret liaison base of the Imperial City Division.

However, after a few months, the members of the Great Song Dynasty secret agents in Dali City were basically pulled out!

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After nearly seven months of layout and attack, now the Vulture Palace is in the southwest, and has become the largest force in the local area, destroying sixteen cities successively, and many local forces that have been entrenched for hundreds of years have been killed by Chen Can.

The other obedient ones use life and death charms to control their leaders, using a semi-coercive, semi-cooperative way to control the local economy.

With such a big move in the Vulture Palace, it is impossible for Dali to not know that the forces around him have changed.

Southwest Yi is sandwiched between the Great Song Dynasty and Dali, and most of the forces of the Vulture Palace are close to Dali and Dayue, so the purpose is to prevent the Great Song Dynasty from detecting the intentions of the Vulture Palace.

Fortunately, the flow of information in this era is indeed very slow, 9 percent

Nineteen ordinary people have only lived within a radius of 10 kilometers all their lives.

The place of Southwest Yi was originally a barbarian land with poor mountains and bad waters, and it was originally not valued in the Great Song Dynasty.

Coupled with Chen Can's deliberate cover-up, now that more than half a year has passed, except that Dali knows that a big force has appeared around him, Da Song has no idea about it!

However, as the Vulture Palace began to control the local economy, it gradually affected the territory of Dali, and the Duan clan of Dali finally sensed a hint of crisis.

Dali first sent a large number of spies to investigate, but most of these spies were killed, and a small number of them learned part of the truth and returned to Dali to report to the current Dali Emperor Duan Zhengchun!

Duan Zhengchun learned that there was a mysterious force around him that suddenly rose, that was worried, he saw from the intelligence that this force has a large number of martial arts masters, and acts ruthlessly, has slaughtered the city in the southwest several times, such a crossing of the river, Dali must be guarded against.

Moreover, as more and more news came back from the secret agents, the ambition of this force was finally revealed, and the other party controlled a large number of cities, greatly increased the construction of buildings, and vaguely had a tendency to establish political power.

As soon as he learned the news, Duan Zhengchun prepared to send the news to the Great Song Dynasty.

But Chen Can has already been preventing Dali's hand, not only planting a large number of spies in the palace, but also arranging a large number of people in places such as official roads and post stations in Dali and the Great Song Dynasty.

In the past six months, the connection between Dali and Dasong has almost been severed, just to prevent Dali from snitching!

The relationship between Dali and the Great Song Dynasty is similar to the relationship of subordination, but it is two independent countries, Dali and the Great Song Dynasty are divided and ruled, and the two sides get along very well over the years.

For hundreds of years, because of the inconvenient transportation and the intricacy of local forces, Nanxiyi has always been an independent force outside Dali and the Great Song Dynasty.

And now, there is a vague unification trend in the southwest, and once this news spreads, the Great Song Dynasty will definitely intervene forcibly!

The Great Song Dynasty seems to be very weak, but in terms of military affairs, it has actually been very strong, it is commonly known as the love of face, and the number of its soldiers has been maintained in the millions.

If Da Song knew that there was another powerful force around him, he would definitely be wiped out in the bud!

Although Dali Kingdom does not seem to have a strong presence in the Tianlong World, its power is still not to be underestimated, with a land area of 720,000 square kilometers, a population of millions, and an army of nearly 100,000, which is much stronger than the current Vulture Palace.

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If the Great Song Dynasty sends troops again, under the attack from both sides, Chen Can will be defeated!

After more than half a year of development, the Vulture Palace now controls a land area of about 60,000 square kilometers, and a population of about 1 million under his rule, he bought thousands of horses from the Western Regions, armed a team of 3,000 cavalry, and nearly 8,000 infantry and other miscellaneous soldiers, with a total strength of more than 10,000 people.

These 3,000 cavalry are all the original elite of the Vulture Palace, as well as the people from the Western Regions recruited in Tianshan City, and they are also the only trump card in Chen Can's hand!

These troops seem to be a lot, but the infantry are forcibly recruited, and there are a large number of people in the rivers and lakes, the discipline is scattered, and the cohesion is far less than that of the real army.

Chen Can is not short of money or land now, the only thing he lacks is time!

Southwest Yi this place, inconvenient transportation, everywhere is primeval jungle, often within a few hundred kilometers, there are only one or two cities, the rest of the population, are hidden in the vast primeval jungle.

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He needs time to integrate the current land and population resources, train the army with peace of mind, and at the same time develop the economy and open up trade routes!

Now what Chen Can lacks the most is time, in the past six months, in addition to the war, Chen Can has not forgotten to develop local agriculture, commerce, education and other industries!

For agriculture, Chen Can cited some advanced experience of later generations, improved a large number of agricultural tools, improved seeds, and introduced a large number of seeds from the Western Regions to enrich crop varieties, in order to attract local natives to go down to the mountains to open up wasteland and farm

Chen Can adopted a three-year tax exemption and a seven-year halving policy.

And in order to support these ordinary people to farm, Chen Can also purchased a large number of farming cattle, and distributed seeds, farm tools and other tools to each family!

Attracted by such a policy, a large number of indigenous people who have been farming and hunting in the primeval forests for generations have begun to descend the mountains.

Chen Can also set up a persuasion team, let this group of people sneak into the deep mountains and old forests, and use bitter words and torches to lengthen knives to "please" those natives down the mountain!

With the population, they began to build villages, new cities, a large number of official roads, water conservancy facilities, and a system of villages, towns and counties.

The other is education, many literati in the Northern Song Dynasty, Chen Can used money to induce, and semi-coercion, using the channels of beggars to transport hundreds of down-and-out scholars, all of whom were scattered in various parts of the southwest Yi to let them start education.

Education in the entire Southwest Yi region is currently free, and the implementation is six years of free education, and after six years of study, there is no more advanced school, because there is no imperial examination here, and there is no junior high school, high school, university and the like.

At present, Chen Can needs literacy, not cultural people, and those need time to precipitate!

Of course, Chen Can also took the time to compile an educational history of loving the leader, of course, this leader is not the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, but he Chen Can!

In order to make learning easier, Chen Can moved Pinyin to this world, so that children can read words as soon as possible!

If it weren't for the fact that there is no mass base now, Chen Can would even want to make simplified characters, but unfortunately now is not the time, Chen Can can only give up!

Education should start from the baby, this is a wise saying, Chen Can will not give up this position.

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Although the territory that Chen Can now controls has not yet been officially named after the country, Chen Can has taken the "dragon" as a totem, and the army flag is also the dragon flag, and some people have already called it the "Dragon Country"!

Agriculture and education, as well as Daxing construction, all require a lot of money, and in order to make money, Chen Can also began to vigorously support business almost immediately.

In this era, it is actually very simple to support business activities, because Chen Can is a modern person!

And a modern man who has traveled through so many worlds!

Chen Can even earned more than 500,000 taels of silver in just half a year by relying on a simple industry, and even after the trade routes in the Western Regions were completely opened, the profits brought to him by this industry would exceed millions of taels of silver every year!

This industry is the sugar industry!

Sugar in this era is very expensive, and for the common people, it is comparable to the caviar of later generations, and basically only during the New Year's holidays, you can buy a few taels to try it!

The most important thing is that most of the sugar on the market in this era is sand sugar, which is the product of the cooling of the syrup made from sugarcane, and the color is purple-black, which is similar to the brown sugar of later generations, but the taste has a trace of bitterness, far less pure sweetness than that of later generations.

The reason is still a process problem!

As for the pure white sugar of later generations, this era has not yet been born.

In the Liangguang area, there is a kind of tribute, called frosting, which is similar to the rock sugar of later generations, but the color is brown, and the kind of sugar is not accessible to ordinary people.

In order to prevent leakage, Chen Can set up a sugar bureau and secretly built a prison-like city, and the craftsmen in it were not ready to leave the city for generations.

In this era, even the ordinary sugar process is a secret process that has been passed down from generation to generation by many families, not to mention this kind of white sugar process that transcends the times!

In many crossings, after getting the white sugar out, it was directly taken to the grocery store to sell, which was purely to beg for food with a golden rice bowl, and the next day, the whole family disappeared.

In the Southwest Yi region, a large amount of sugarcane can be grown, and the raw materials are very cheap!

In addition to the profiteering industry of sugar, there is another industry, which is salt!

Ordinary people can do without sugar, but they can't do without salt!

The salt in the Great Song Dynasty is 50 to 60 wen per catty, the salt price in Dali is 80 to 100 wen a catty, and the salt price in the southwest is as high as 150 wen, which is a lot

The natives in the mountains worked hard to carry a wild boar down the mountain, and when they went back, they brought a few catties of salt with them at most!

Yes, it's salt, not the white salt that we ate in later generations.

The table salt of this era was the kind of coarse salt with a little brown color, and the taste was a little bitter, similar to the coarse salt we used to pickle pickles in later generations!

It's such salt that many ordinary people can't afford to eat!

Today, Chen Can's territory has extended to the Liangguang region, and it is close to the Dayue country, where there is a large sea area, and there is no shortage of raw materials for sea salt.

Chen Can also set up a salt bureau, exiled a large number of criminals to work as salt workers here, and set up a large number of salt factories in the local area!

Chen Can has improved some of the processes, and the sea salt produced still cannot be compared with the salt of later generations, but compared with the salt of this era, the quality is still greatly improved!

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Salt, which costs less than two pennies and a catty, is sold out, and there are dozens of times the profit casually, this is not a huge profit, what else is a huge profit?

In addition to sugar and salt production, there are many industries that Chen Can has started to build, such as paper industry, iron factory, textile industry and so on!

Chen Can used the opened trade routes to transport the goods produced by Southwest Yi, and even semi-finished products, to Tianshan City, and then sold them to the entire Western Regions.

With the money earned in the Western Regions, Chen Can will establish a horse farm in the Western Regions, buy horses, minerals, seeds, and even population, and transport them to Southwest Yi.

In the future, commerce and trade will extend in all directions, and the caravans of the "Dragon Country" will be all over the world!

Chen Can moved Su Xinghe and his disciples and grandchildren to the local area, and the miscellaneous studies of the Loose School were really carried forward at this time!

Nowadays, this land, almost every day, has changed greatly, countless primitive villages in the deep mountains and old forests have been relocated from village to village, new villages have been built along the mountain, pieces of wasteland have been reclaimed, and new cities have risen from the ground.

This area of Southwest Yi, so to speak, is like a blank piece of paper, let Chen Can play on it!

In the past few hundred years, there has been little development in the local area, and many areas are similar to the period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms hundreds of years ago, each force occupies a place, and the people in power enjoy the glory and wealth, many of the natives in the deep mountains, and still live in straw huts, wearing straw sandals, and living a semi-primitive life.

Chen Can knows his shortcomings, and now he seems to be prosperous, but he knows that he is in danger now.

Chen Can's biggest crisis now comes from three, the first is the Great Song Dynasty, once the Great Song Dynasty knows about the existence of the "Dragon" Kingdom, it will 100% send troops to fight against it, and it is impossible for the Great Song Dynasty to allow the existence of a rising new regime next to him!

The second crisis is Dali, it can be said that the rise of the "Dragon" country, the first to feel the crisis is Dali, Chen Can's territory, many of which border Dali.

The Dali royal family believes in Buddhism and adopts a foreign policy that has always been mild, but now there is a tiger-eyeing Menghu around him, and he naturally thinks about how to kill Menghu to protect himself!

In addition to these two forces, there is a third crisis in the "Dragon" country, that is, Jiaozhi (Da Yue Kingdom), and now part of Chen Can's sphere of influence already borders the other party.

This Dayue country seems to be just a small country, but in the historical evaluation, it is a rich country and a strong army, and the rapidly expanding national strength has made this country, fighting for many years, and the minority regimes around Jiaozhi have disappeared several times, who knows, the other party will not hit the "Dragon Country" with the idea!

However, the crisis in Dayue is not yet ranked, and Chen Can's main sources of crisis are still the two countries of Dali and Dasong!

In the face of today's crisis, Chen Can is ready to adopt three strategies!

The first strategy is to recuperate, stop the war, and stabilize the territory, and the territory he controls now is enough for him.

In the next few years, it was to absorb the population, develop all walks of life, promote commercial prosperity, and at the same time introduce conscription and form a formed army.

Develop business to make money, use the money to build an army, accumulate grain, slow down the king, and in the next five years, no military operations will be carried out!

The second strategy is to form an alliance with Dali.

Sign a "perpetual" non-infringement agreement!

Chen Can is now married to the three daughters of Dali Emperor Duan Zhengchun, and soon there will be a fourth, Ah Zi After a few months of edification, he felt that his status was not as good as his sister, so in the middle of a night when no one was around, he sneaked into Chen Can's bed.

With the assistance of Duan Zhengchun's four daughters, Chen Can believes that he will definitely be able to form an alliance with Dali!

Now, Chen Can's identity in Southwest Yi has not been disclosed, so Duan Zhengchun doesn't know that the biggest crisis in Dali comes from his son-in-law!

The reason why Chen Can concealed his identity was because he was now still needed to develop obscenely, and he also needed Murong Fu's identity, active in the Great Song Dynasty, the leader of the martial arts alliance in three months, it was already in his pocket!

If Duan Zhengchun is not interested, he will secretly kill the other party and let his cheap brother-in-law take the position, Duan Yu has a gentle personality and is also very weak, which is easier to control than his father!

Forming a permanent alliance with Dali, this "permanent" is, of course, dependent on the speed of Chen Can's power development!

Chen Can also hopes that one day in the future, there will be a peaceful transition of rights, and Dali is the first force that Chen Can will annex in the future!

The third strategy is to secretly provoke friction on the border between the Liao State and the Western Xia Kingdom, so that the Great Song Dynasty will not have time to deal with the "Dragon" Kingdom!

And everything Chen Can does, there is only one thing he asks, and that is time!

Why are you grieved?