Since half a decade, the Great Xia Kingdom has reached Xiye City in the south and Jihai City in the north, as long as it is a city within the territory of the Great Xia Kingdom, no matter how big or small, it is expanding frantically and strengthening the city defense, many nobles in Great Xia think that the country is mainly nomadic, and the construction of the city is purely a waste of labor and money, so they are full of complaints, but Mo Di simply ignored all opposition voices at all, insisted on expanding the scope of these cities, and threatened to catch up with the scale of the city of Dashang.

At the same time, Mo Di Shan Yu was preparing to be proclaimed emperor, and sent an envoy to submit his credentials to the Great Shang, asking the Great Shang court to officially recognize the Great Xia Shan Yu as the emperor of the northern kingdom, and to sit on an equal footing with the Great Shang Emperor.

Soon, someone revealed the rumors, saying that this was the idea of Zhang Dongyuan, a homeless man who fled from Dashang, and heard that this Zhang Dongyuan is now the mastermind of Da Shan Yu. Some nobles who hated Zhang Dongyuan to the bone sent killers to assassinate Zhang Dongyuan, and Mo Di Shan Yu had to strengthen the number of guards around Zhang Dongyuan. In the end, the angry Mo Di Shan Yu directly took Zhang Dongyuan with him and used his imperial guards to protect Zhang Dongyuan.

At the same time as expanding the city, Mo Di Shan promulgated new measures, all skilled talents, whether it is mining, iron smelting or spinning, as long as they can be used by Daxia, no matter which country they were from before, they will be promoted by exception, and if they are slaves captured from the Great Shang, they will be stripped of their slave status and become free.

One stone stirred up a thousand waves, some slaves who were captured from the big merchants, who were already ruined, now have a free body, and can not be discriminated against, and can even settle down in Daxia, and finally see the hope of life. Other slaves who had been captured from the Great Merchants hated that they had no skills, but they were soon surprised that they were also exempt from slavery if they could contribute to the expansion of the city.

At the same time, Mo Di Shan also promulgated measures to levy people to farm, as long as they can open up wasteland and grow food for the royal court, they will be exempted from paying taxes for three years, and even some old, weak, sick and disabled people have joined the ranks of farming. Since then, the royal court of Great Xia has rewarded childbirth, giving birth to a boy, rewarding two pots of wine and a dog, giving birth to a girl rewarding two pots of wine and a sheep, giving birth to twins and doubling the reward, and the parents are exempt from paying taxes for one year......

The new-looking Great Xia Kingdom soon had its own foundry bureau and was able to smelt iron ore by itself, although the output was not high, but at least it no longer had to rely completely on the supply of the big merchants and several neighboring countries as in the past. In the past, the acquisition of iron tools was nothing more than two means, either exchanging or grabbing.

As for the reduction of the economic income of the royal court caused by the tax reduction, it temporarily relied on frugality to get through the difficulties. And Mo Di Shan Yu has another plan in his heart.

After a period of time, the Emperor of Dashang sent an envoy to pay homage and submit his credentials, recognizing Shan Yu of Daxia as the emperor of the northern kingdom. On the fifth day of the seventh month, Mo Di publicly sacrificed to the Holy Spirit and proclaimed himself the Emperor of Great Xia

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All the Great Xia nobles who opposed Mo Di Shan as emperor were either degraded, deposed, or killed, and so on. In the second month of the Emperor's reign, he sent Qiu Yule, the king of Helan stationed in Helan City, to bring 20,000 soldiers and horses to the south to invade the border counties of Dashang. A total of two counties in Taoliang County were broken, and thousands of people were looted. The city was also plundered of grain, grass, goods, salt and iron.

A few days later, King Tu led 20,000 horses south from King Tu, broke the two counties of Yangguan County, and plundered more than 2,000 people. and plundered a large amount of grain, grass, property, salt and iron, and returned to the north......

The emergency document flew like snowflakes to the Yamen of the envoy of the capital strategy of Jiyuan County, Longting Dao, and flew to the hand of the envoy Guo Chong. Guo Chong was angry and scolded, tens of thousands of reinforcements have been sent to various counties in the past few days, but in the face of the Great Xia cavalry that has gone crazy, it is tantamount to a drop in the bucket, and the Great Xia people are now completely out of common sense.

Guo Chong stood in front of the Longting defense map, his face was shrouded in clouds, his brows were tightly locked, except for the two cities of Fuli and Anping, the border counties were all plundered, and the soldiers and civilians suffered heavy casualties, the only news of the victory was from Songbei County, which had been broken a few months ago, and the new county guard and the commander cooperated to fight an extremely beautiful battle of annihilation, eliminating more than 1,000 people under the King of Daxia Fanlu.

Guo Chong pointed to the direction of Great Xia on the map with his scabbard, and asked extremely confused: "What are these Great Xia people going to do? In previous years, at this time in previous years, even if they came to loot, the largest was the size of thousands of people, and they ran away after robbing one or two county seats. But is this crazy this year? The size of 20,000 cavalry is already normal!"

Because of the extremely special geographical location of Longting Road, the economic envoy has the right to mobilize all the troops of the whole province, and the county guard has the right to mobilize all the troops of the whole county, whether it is a garrison or a guest army. However, the offensive posture and scale of the Great Xia people are far from being comparable to the past, and Long Ting is afraid that he will have to concentrate half a Dao scale of troops in order to win one of the battles, but these madmen from Great Xia are looting everywhere, and they don't know where they are going to fight.

Based on the information obtained a while ago, Mo Di of the Great Xia Kingdom first expanded the city, and then proclaimed himself emperor, increased the Foundry Bureau and the Salt Transportation Bureau, and removed the slaves who had skills and slaves who could build the city. Reward farming and weaving, reward fertility, and so on.

Guo Chong frowned and pondered for a while, and then said, "Could it be that Great Xia also wants to take the road of farming?" But they are a nomadic country, so it makes no sense to do so!"

Behind Guo Chong, an extremely sturdy lieutenant said casually: "Lord Guo, those cattle of Great Xia can't be judged by common sense, what should be done if you don't want to roar at your brother's gluttony."

I don't know how many crops he can grow in the north!" Guo Chong glanced at the lieutenant who was open-mouthed, but he was not angry.

This lieutenant's name is Hong Fanlong, from Jiannan Road, is recommended by Tang Jiusheng, the son of the national teacher Tang Fulong, the letter of recommendation said, although Hong Fanlong's mind is not very flexible, but he is obsessed with martial arts, is a martial idiot, and is honest, please Guo Daren to include it, and the letter also contains a small note, saying that although this person is the apprentice of Qi Wangsong of the Divine Sword Gate, he is not as treacherous as his master, and I hope that the Lord will make good use of this person.

So, after Hong Fanlong came to the Yamen of Jiyuan County, Guo Chong made an exception to keep him by his side and used him as the commander of the personal guard, responsible for Guo Chong's safety and security work. Hong Fanlong was flattered, and since then he has been desperate for Guo Chong, going in and out, and being loyal.

Perhaps, as Hong Fanlong said, these people of Daxia cannot judge by common sense, and they really want to start learning farming? Guo Chong just had a flash of thought, and quickly shifted his mind to the war, how to defend the border counties that had been harassed many times was the real thing.

Guo Chong was pondering in front of the map, and a meteor scout horse rushed to the Yamen of the Jinglu with an urgent military situation to report to the lord, saying that after Murong Shizong, the king of Daxia Fanlu, returned to the north after suffering a defeat in Songbei County, he was ambushed and arrested by Emperor Mo Di of Great Xia, and beheaded after announcing the crime, and the tribe was also divided into three parts by Mo Di, one for himself and one for the kings of the East and West. It is said that Murong Shizong himself was extremely opposed to this Great Xia reform.

When night fell, in the yamen, civil officials and military generals and staff gathered together to analyze the information obtained from Great Xia, and finally came to the conclusion that Emperor Mo Di of Great Xia was going to take advantage of the opportunity of this raid on the border counties of Dashang to weaken the strength of the kings who opposed him.

Guo Chong, who breathed a sigh of relief, hurriedly drafted a fold overnight, explained to Emperor Yin Guang the situation of Longting Road and the abnormal movements of the Great Xia Kingdom, and asked the imperial court for reinforcements, grain and grass. Eight hundred miles were expedited to Yong'an City.

And at this time in the Great Xia Kingdom, the most proud person is the Great Xia Emperor Mo Di, Zhang Dongyuan's strategy greatly weakened the strength of several princes who opposed him, and also allowed him and the kings of the East and West to dismember Murong Shizong, the king of Fanlu, Mo Di was satisfied, and the income caused by tax reduction and exemption was reduced, and he could soon get it back from these princes who opposed him, and more.

Emperor Mo Di of Great Xia, when he was drinking with Zhang Dongyuan once, crowned Zhang Dongyuan as the marquis, an unprecedented heavenly marquis. Mo Di has always believed that Zhang Dongyuan is the Holy Spirit, given to him by God, he will surpass the ancestors of Great Xia, and with the assistance of Zhang Dongyuan, he will open a new Great Xia, a unified Great Xia, a strong Great Xia.

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