Just when Xia Yan was depressed, a good news came.

Yuan Liyang seemed to have gotten some news and hurried to the center of the court.

"Your Majesty, those playing cards have been proofed, you can take a look."

"Yo, the mold was made so quickly, come and I'll take a look."

An armored guard took up two playing cards and placed them in front of Xia Yan.

Xia Yan looked at the two playing cards below, with a puzzled look on his face.

"What, there are two?"

Hearing this, Yuan Liyang hurriedly explained.

"Your Majesty, that's right, the first one is a playing card made according to Your Majesty's drawings, which is beautifully made and brightly colored, but the cost is very high, and the materials are very difficult to find, so each playing card needs a full cost of a hundred dollars."

"But the second one is a slightly cheaper poker that we imitated based on the first playing card, in which the material is cheap but the feel is relatively rough, and the cost is only a penny a pair, so we want your majesty to choose!"

Hearing Yuan Liyang's words, Xia Yan's eyes seemed to flicker with a light.

Isn't this coming, it's good to make playing cards, a hundred dollars to make a pair, you must know that one or two pieces of silver is equal to a thousand dollars.

That is to say, for every ten decks of playing cards you know, you can consume one or two pieces of silver.

The most important thing is that this thing is the same as Huazi, and the promotion of the whole army will not improve the military index at all.

And maybe it will cause the army to be undisciplined and its combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced, and it will be a good place to burn money!

Then, Xia Yan began to show seriousness and used a preachy tone.

"It must be the first type, only the first kind of mold can be called playing cards, otherwise it will be a pile of rotten paper!"

"Yes, yes, then I'll let me do it."

"Well, how many playing cards can be made per day?"

Yuan Liyang's brain began to spin rapidly when he heard this, and after some careful calculations, he spoke.

"Your Majesty, we only have one mold at the moment, and we can make about a hundred decks of playing cards every day."

"What's that? Only a hundred? ”

Xia Yan was about to vomit blood when he heard it, and if he heard a hundred pairs, he could only consume ten taels of silver a day.

"Do everything you can to increase my output to more than 2,000 per day, and if you can, the more, the better!"

"What's that?"

At first, Yuan Liyang almost thought he had heard it wrong.

This thing is so expensive that Xia Yan actually plans to produce more than 2,000 per day?

Isn't this a proper act of looking for death?

Yuan Liyang just wanted to refute, but thinking that Xia Yan's previous decisions seemed to be extremely successful, he began to doubt himself slightly.

Could it be that this thing can work wonders too? ……

After thinking about it, I still felt that maybe I was old, maybe what Xia Yan said was right.

And most importantly, Daxia is rich now!

In the past few days, more than 60,000 taels of silver have just been put into storage, and it is simply impossible to spend. That's what a little bit of silver counts.

Even if it's really wasted, it's just for the little emperor to play with!

Thinking of this, Yuan Liyang's mood was much more relaxed, and he didn't say anything more, but silently went down and began to prepare for production.

When Xia Yan saw Yuan Liyang like this, he didn't say anything more, and announced his retirement from the dynasty.

As usual, Xiao Haozi and Xiao Kaizi, who had just announced their retirement from the dynasty, appeared in front of them.

Xia Yan rolled his eyes, this life is no different from being imprisoned.

Others only saw themselves as emperors, but they never thought that they would have to live a life similar to being imprisoned every day.

But fortunately, I have worked hard to get rid of this life.

As long as you go back to your previous life, it's just a small goal to serve, then you don't need to live a hard life!

When he arrived at the study, Xia Yan began to think silently about how he should spend his money.

It's definitely not going to work if you sink to the bottom, but you have to find some way to make yourself float.

Well...... Squander? ……

In an instant, Xia Yan's eyes flashed.

That's right, there is no lake in his own territory of Great Xia, but there is a bordering Taihu Lake.

Because the ownership of Lake Tai has always belonged to the Xi Kingdom, there is not a single ship in the entire territory of Great Xia.

Wouldn't it be nice to spend a lot of money to hire someone to make a boat?

There is also an explanation to the hundred officials, Great Xia must have its own warship, and only with warships can it be a strong country.

As for the lack of a lake, it has never been a problem, and he can fool the hundred officials to dock the ship to the edge of Taihu Lake first, and when the national strength is strong in the future, he will directly attack Xiguo on both sides of the land and water, and take Xiguo in one fell swoop.

Then the warship can be put to use!

And you can also have an explanation, and you can spend a lot of money for no reason.

Moreover, since there are no ships in the territory of Great Xia, no one in the territory of Great Xia knows how to build ships at all.

If you want to build a ship, you have to ask people from other countries to build it.

In this way, it can prevent the silver taels from entering the hands of the people of their own country and transferring assets abroad in disguise.

Wonderful!

By the time a group of ministers found out that the ship had been built, but they themselves had been slow to give the order to launch the water, it would be too late to know that they had been fooled.

Okay, let's do it!

After thinking everything through, Xia Yan was also happy in his heart.

On the second day, Xia Yan couldn't wait to tell his thoughts to the ministers.

And the ministers stared at Xia Yan after listening to Xia Yan's thoughts.

Good guys, there is not a single lake in the country, at most it is a stream less than half a meter wide that flows in the city, and you actually plan to build a ship?

Is this a brain show teasing? Or is there too much money to make?

As for Xia Yan's occupation of Xi by land and water armies, several people directly regarded it as a fart.

What kind of spring and autumn dream is this?

You must know that there are six empires directly adjacent to Great Xia, and the most powerful of them is the Xi Kingdom.

In terms of land alone, the Xi Kingdom has reached more than three times the size of Great Xia.

Not to mention the military, even if you count the expansion of the previous few days, there will be an army of 12,000 people.

Xiguo, on the other hand, has an army of 100,000 troops.

Moreover, the Xi Kingdom also has the 70,000 sailors that the Great Xia Dynasty dreamed of.

Among them, there are hundreds of warships alone.

It can be said that Xi Guo did not come to invade Great Xia, and Xia Yan actually wanted to invade Xi Kingdom.

It's unreasonable!

Almost everyone's eyes showed embarrassment, but two of them seemed a little calm, Zhuge Liang and Di Renjie.

For some reason, Xia Yan saw Zhuge Liang like this, and he faintly felt a little bad in his heart.

wanted to probe Zhuge Liang's tone, but Zhuge Liang seemed to be tight-lipped and didn't answer what Xia Yan said at all.

Whether it is Xia Yan or the seven old masters, Zhuge Liang is just silently smoking Huazi, and those four words are always in their mouths.

"Huazi is good."