As the sun sets, the sky begins to turn orange. The color also gets darker and darker over time.

The King of Rotation walked out of the Heavenly Temple in Beiyin with the notebook in hand, and several nine-headed birds hanging in front of the hall spread their wings and flew high.

The nine heads all let out a screaming sound in unison, echoing in the sky above the Heavenly Temple in the North Yin Middle.

The king of rotation got off the pedestal of the main hall and went straight to the palace gate.

Before the reincarnation king left, the Emperor Xudu in the palace said to the palace slaves beside him: "Spread the messenger of Dongcang." ”。

The palace slave didn't ask much, answered, strode quickly, and left the hall without looking back.

Emperor Xudu picked up the pen again, looked at the manuscript carefully under the soft light of the centipede bead, and then picked up the pen to review.

It is undeniable that both Emperor Xudu and Xiao Shizhu are not lazy rulers.

But recently, the Beiyin Dynasty has been plagued by internal and external troubles, and the recitals have always piled up every day, which makes the Emperor Xudu very hard.

Recently, the time to play is already a luxury for Emperor Xudu. In the past, in the second half of the night, he would have to approve clothes to meet with ministers, or stay up late to deal with government affairs.

The gray hair on the temples also added a lot unconsciously.

Especially after the completion of the compensation delivered to the Nine Hidden Kingdom, the treasury of the Beiyin Dynasty has been empty, and the people are full of complaints, and the fact that they no longer trust the Beiyin Dynasty can always make the Emperor Xudu frown tightly and feel haggard.

I don't know how long it took, the Emperor of Xudu had already completed three or five books, and when his brows became more and more tight, the palace slaves went and returned.

Behind him was a fat yellow-haired rat demon.

This rat demon is fat, but not tall, and his short and fat body makes his body even more bloated. It's just that the beard and the top of the rat demon's head have all turned white.

It seems that this rat demon is also quite old.

This rat demon with two long and thick teeth standing up on the outside of his lips is the Dongcang envoy that the Emperor Xudu wants to see. He served in the treasury of the area east of Xudu, and was in charge of the storage of money and grain throughout the Northern Yin Dynasty, including the operation of the imperial court money estates in various places.

Don't look at him as a rat demon, but he is very proficient in money management. In terms of careful budgeting, compared with those money tellers in the underworld who are good at seeking wealth and planning money, they are more proficient in planning and calculating money.

That's why Emperor Xudu dared to hand over the treasury money to him and the envoys of Dongcang to take care of it.

This is also where Emperor Xudu used people properly.

There are Dongcang envoys to take care of money and grain, and the Beiyin Dynasty has always had abundant money and grain in the past. In order to build an elite ghost army, continue to fight in the south and the north.

The envoy of Dongcang came to the depths of the main hall, in front of the case shrouded in soft light, knelt down and kowtowed, and the Emperor Xudu sent the palace slaves down. In the main hall, only the Emperor of Xudu and the envoy of Dongcang remained.

"Dongcang envoy, how much money is left in the treasury now?" Emperor Xudu asked bluntly.

Before the words could be spoken, Emperor Xudu continued to bow his head and looked at the black and white words on the notebook in his hand.

The Dongcang envoy, who was kneeling in front, took out the golden abacus that was hanging, but the size of a palm, from his neck, and shook it up and down.

The abacus sounded softly, and the golden light flashed.

The Dongcang envoy did not rush to answer, but silently raised the abacus in his hand.

The sound of snapping and clattering sounded from the abacus continuously.

Emperor Xudu was not affected by the noisy sound of the abacus at all, and continued to look at the notebook in his hand intently, waiting for the Dongcang envoy to give him a positive result.

After a long time, the crackling sound of the abacus finally stopped.

"Back to Your Majesty. The squinted Dongcang envoy stretched out his hand to brush his silver beard under his chin and replied: "If we do not remove this year's military expenditures in all parts of the territory, there are now less than 3 billion taels of gold left in the treasury." ”。

The memory of this Dongcang envoy is also extraordinary. He was sleepy when he read the other books, but the account book was not only refreshed at first sight, but also unforgettable.

All the income and expenses of the Northern Yin Dynasty were deeply imprinted in the minds of the Dongcang envoys.

Even if there is no ledger in the main hall now, the envoy of the East Warehouse can understand every income and expenditure of the treasury.

After a slight pause, the envoy of Dongcang continued to say to Emperor Xudu: "But the military expenses of our imperial court, as well as the pension compensation for the military families who died in the past battles, as well as the settlement fee, will cost 800 million gold a year. Excluding these expenses, the amount of gold available to the imperial court this year is only 2.2 billion. ”。

As he spoke, there was a hint of imperceptible embarrassment on his face.

The money left in these treasury looks like a lot and is very rich. But there are still six continents under the jurisdiction of the Northern Yin Dynasty, with a vast territory and tens of millions of miles of land, and money is needed everywhere, so this money is nothing.

Now that we are paying close attention to the taxation of the ghost people, it is just a drop in the bucket for the treasury of the Northern Yin Dynasty. For a time, the Northern Yin Dynasty was also greatly injured.

"Taxes were levied on the princes of all the land, and they were required to pay tribute. Adjust the taxes in various places, increase the output of workshops under the management of the imperial court, and make money as soon as possible. Emperor Xudu didn't seem to care about this, nor did he have the distress of the Dongcang envoy, and said casually at the moment: "All money and food expenditures should also be prioritized for the reconstruction of the army and the pass in the southern part of the Six Heavens Continent." ”。

And the book in the hand that Emperor Xudu was staring at intently at this time was the Shangqing boy from the southeast coastal area of Liutianzhou.

The Shangqing boy has already written clearly in this notebook, and the Nine Shadows Kingdom has begun to build fortifications on islands all over the sea at this time.

It even began to expand the reef, and the Nine Shadows Kingdom took the reef as the center in the sea and reclaimed the sea in all directions, so that some independent islands had a screen.

Don't think twice about it, and know where the funding for these programs comes from. It must be the compensation of the Northern Yin Dynasty.

However, when Emperor Xudu saw this reclamation of the island, his heart immediately jumped and jumped to his throat.

Although his face was calm, his heart was like a rock falling in the water, with ripples and horror.

This kind of industrial product and skill comes from the wisdom of the ancient demon gods. He didn't know that the Emperor Xudu was very clear. At that time, there was only Kyushu in the underworld. There are no three continents in the Northland, but there are only two continents.

The demon god used this technology, without relying on the power of gods and ghosts, to fill out a continent on the sea within a year.

Just to prove that what can be done by magic and ghosts, craftsmanship and skill can also be done.

According to the description of the Shangqing boy in the playbook, the reclamation method of the Nine Shadows Kingdom is the same as that of the demon god back then. It is also to lay hard and rusty Tianxuan iron pipes around the reef first, so that the ghosts who are good at fire control can weld each hollow pipe together with tin dust and ghost fire at the connection of each hollow pipe, and then weld many pipes into a circle.

These pipes are all hit at the bottom of the sea, embedded in the rocks of the seabed, the wind cannot shake, and the waves are unshakable.

The circles of large and small iron pipes are connected one by one, extending out in all directions.

Then the seawater in the empty circle and in the iron pipes was also connected to countless solid iron rods, all of which were welded together. Finally, it is filled with sand and gravel stirred with clay, white plaster and glutinous rice juice, making it a land.

And salt baking is added to make it solid inside and not soaked by rainwater.

In this way, even if the iron pipe at the very edge of the outside is broken, and the island has already caused it, it will not allow the island to do any damage.

Finally, the island is covered with loose earth and rocks, and planted with vegetation. Around the strait pipe, countless rocks are piled up, and this has become an island in the sea.

This is the island-building technique of the old gods, the group of demon gods who painstakingly manage all kinds of strange and obscene techniques.

From this point of view, Xiao Shizhu has already obtained the Emperor Xudu, looking for a thousand years of demon god skills.

This made Emperor Xudu a little creepy, and his back was cold.

He had experienced the war of gods and demons, and he knew how terrifying the skills of those demon gods were.

Therefore, but the Shangqing boy needs a lot of money, in order to deal with and defend against these reclamation tactics of the Nine Shadows Kingdom, Emperor Xudu did not hesitate to call the Dongcang envoy.

Let the Dongcang envoy no matter what, but also meet the money needs of the Shangqing boy. As long as the money is worth spent, it can block the attack of the Nine Shadows Kingdom in the future, and the Emperor Xudu will not hesitate to do so.

The Dongcang envoy didn't say anything, but just answered.

Now that the Nine Shadows Kingdom and the Northern Yin Dynasty are in truce, the strength and resources of the two countries will no longer continue to be consumed. The other ghost countries, as long as they are not dizzy, do not dare to provoke these two ghost countries for the time being. It is still easy for the city of the Northern Yin Dynasty to collect more taxes and tributes from the Hades and Ghost Kingdoms below.

In this way, the treasury can also be filled, and the envoy of Dongcang agreed without hesitation.

"Go ahead. Emperor Xudu, who put down the book in his hand, picked up his pen and told the envoy of Dongcang: "Work well, don't be passive and slack off." ”。

"No. The Dongcang envoy, who answered again, got up after kowtowing, bowed his head and retreated, and withdrew from the main hall.

The sky outside was already dark, and the darkness of the cloudy sun descended between heaven and earth in time, and the darkness of the night was coming.

Many palace lamps in the Six Heavens Gods and Ghosts Palace were lit, and the centipede beads and Jiaozhu beads inside and outside each hall and pavilion were shining in the darkness.

Over there, under the soft light of the centipede beads, Emperor Xudu had already put pen to paper on the Shangqing Boy's notebook and wrote down the content of the review: "Continue to monitor every move of the Nine Shadows Kingdom on the sea, and report all the situation in time." ”。

The palace slaves with food also walked in one after another and served him today's dinner to Emperor Xudu......

After nightfall, the Yuque Palace is also brilliantly lit and bright.

The laurel tree of the Moon Wall Palace, illuminated by the palace lamp.

The main hall was brightly lit, and the lights were bright, illuminating every corner.

Lai Yueqi, who had dinner, came to the main hall after taking a walk in the palace garden with the support of the palace maid.

Recently, the ghost doctor told her that the fetal gas is stable, the fetal position is also positive, and the child is growing healthily, which makes Lai Yueqi very happy.

In order to keep the child healthy, Lai Yueqi didn't dare to leave behind for walking and exercising after meals, and she has always been cautious about herself.

After a walk, she came to the main hall to do the bookcase.

Lai Yueqi's personal palace maid followed, brought her some fruit and pastries, and retreated behind the gate.

And Lai Yueqi's bookcase is still so messy, with countless drawings and books of all sizes facing each other, as well as wooden rulers, curved rulers and compasses and other things.

These tools are all things that Lai Yueqi commonly uses.

It was on this few feet of book case that Lai Yueqi used these tools to design generations of new weapons and armaments for the Nine Shadows Kingdom. And constantly updated, upgraded.

In this way, we will continue to improve the combat effectiveness of the Nine Shadows Army.

Lai Yueqi sat down, took a yellow scroll in her hand, and flipped through it.

Now on the bookcase in front of her, most of them were translated by the ghost mother with Chen Ruo herself, and Xiao Shizhu brought back the Demon God books from the Yellow Spring.

The contents of these books are all records of the skills and superb craftsmanship of some demon gods, involving all aspects.

Lai Yueqi wants to take advantage of the fact that she can still move, and wants to seize the time and study more.

Strive to study a few more things that benefit the country and the people before giving birth and confinement by yourself.

Lai Yueqi's plan is very accurate, she wants to research things and put them into prenatal experiments before she is about to give birth.

After she gave birth and had a confinement period, the experiment would be roughly completed.

When the time comes, we will produce what can be done, and continue to study what we can't.

After flipping through the scroll for a long time, Lai Yueqi was a little sleepy, and opened her mouth to yawn slowly.

When she finished yawning, Lai Yueqi's eyes lit up again, and she saw a strange ancient pagoda painted on the scroll in her hand.

The stone pagoda on this picture has a peculiar shape and a unique style.

The stone pagoda is straight, large at the top and bottom and narrowed in the middle, and long in the middle, a bit like the inside of a gourd. But outside, there is no decoration, and the mountain is eight-edged.

But there are no eaves and no corners, and it is very weird.

On closer inspection, it looks like an hourglass. It's just that the annotation next to it has been clearly written, and it is solid in the center, so it can be seen that there is nothing inside the tower.

"What did the ancient demon god do with such a strange stone tower?" With this thought, Lai Yueqi focused again and looked at it carefully.

Under this look, I really don't know if I don't see it, and I was shocked when I saw it.

After Lai Yueqi repeatedly read the annotations and remarks next to her, she was even more surprised in her heart.

This new discovery of hers opened her eyes and gave her a new understanding of the past of the underworld.

Before this, Lai Yueqi could never have imagined that the demon gods had been able to create such a magical creation.

What she saw now was nothing more than the conjecture and hope of many craftsmen in the ghost world in the past. It's just that I don't know that the demon gods thousands of years ago have turned their conjectures and hopes into facts.

Now that Lai Yueqi knows this, excitement continues to surge from the bottom of her heart for a while.

"Someone, please the lord, please the lord and **. Lai Yueqi, who was stunned for a long time, the first thing she did after reacting was to shout excitedly to the palace maids and palace people around her: "Quick, go and invite them to come." ”。

This new discovery, Lai Yueqi must tell Xiao Shizhu and the ghost mother.

Those palace maids and palace people didn't know what was going on, and they all stayed where they were for some reason, looking at each other, and no one moved.

"Let's go. Immediately afterwards, Lai Yueqi hurriedly urged again.

The palace people and palace maids, who were at a loss for a while, didn't dare to slack off, and they didn't want to ask more, so they immediately chose a few palace people who walked fast, rushed out, and went straight to the Juexiangyuan.

Lai Yueqi, on the other hand, took a deep breath, let her excitement be controlled a little, and slowly put down the scroll in her hand.

It's just that his face and eyes are still full of excitement and excitement.

On the scroll she put down, on the page she opened, on the edge of the stone tower structure drawing, at the edge of the page, there was a line of crimson ghost characters - Thousand Miles of Shadow Tower.

This ancient god creation is Lai Yueqi's new discovery, and it is also the reason why she is excited and excited now.

Next to the name of this picture, the remarks written by the translated demon god clearly describe the function of the stone tower: "It can transmit the images of ghosts and ghosts, as well as sounds, to a communication device thousands of miles away." ”。