Chapter 863 The Biggest Surprise
Opening Shi Lei's report, the content inside is mainly about the detailed situation after reporting to him.
Among them, Xie Liancheng woke up after being in a coma for a night, and his life was not in danger. This made Zhou Xu feel relieved.
At the end of the report, Shi Lei undoubtedly mentioned the situation in Pingyuan City.
This time they annexed Liang State, and their total population of the Zhou Dynasty suddenly increased by more than 20,000.
As the original border city of the Liang Kingdom, the total population of Pingyuan City was relatively small, with only more than 3,000 people. However, during the greenskin invasion, only less than 1,000 people escaped to Yuancheng alive. .
Among them, the five hundred garrison arranged by Zhou Dynasty in Pingyuan City is an exaggeration to say that almost all of them were wiped out.
Coupled with the casualties suffered by their Zhou cavalry in the subsequent Battle of Yuancheng, this wave of losses is not insignificant.
According to Shi Lei's idea, the existence of green skins is likely to turn the location of Pingyuan City into a high-risk area.
Now Pingyuan City has become an empty city. In this case, it is better to take advantage of the situation and change Pingyuan City into a fortress specially used to store troops, comprehensively improve the city defense level, whether it is to resist the green skins in the future , or the dwarf's attack, both can show better results.
Obviously, after the incident, Shi Lei, who thought about it carefully, had figured out the matter and did not dare to think too much of those dwarves.
I have to say that on this matter, Shi Lei and he thought about it together.
After experiencing this greenskin invasion, the risks of Pingyuan City cannot be ignored. Instead of continuing to develop as a city, it is better to completely transform it into a border defense fortress to further improve border defense. level.
Of course, to achieve this point, the mobilization of a large amount of labor and the injection of financial funds are necessary.
At this moment, Zhou Xu has already begun to look into their upcoming project arrangements.
The project to transform Pingyuan City into Pingyuan Fortress will directly affect the safety of their Great Zhou New Taipei District. There is no doubt about its importance, and it must be started as soon as possible.
For this reason, some projects that are in the queue have to be moved back, and at the same time, the financial funds on hand have to be readjusted.
In addition, although the specific list of soldiers who died in battle has not yet been released, part of the pensions that need to be paid will undoubtedly have to be set aside in advance to avoid excessive financial pressure and funding turnover. If it is not opened, it cannot be paid out in time.
This area has too much influence and absolutely no mistakes are allowed.
After doing this, their internal financial funds in Da Zhou suddenly became tense.
Not only do many projects need to be postponed, but financial funding for some ongoing projects also needs to be appropriately reduced.
Of course, with limited financial funds, he does not have to worry about how to adjust the schedule to ensure a smooth turnover.
“Go and give this to the Minister of Finance and ask him to write an adjustment plan as quickly as possible.”
It is up to the Minister of Finance to figure out the specific calculations and adjustments. Just mark the projects that can be postponed, as well as the projects that are very important and cannot be reduced, and that's it.
After receiving the document sent directly from His Majesty to the Ministry of Finance, the Minister of Finance took a look at it, put down the document, and scratched his head vigorously.
A few hairs were invisibly scratched off, making his head a little brighter, and his expression became painful.
They have many projects waiting in line every year, and the financial funds collected every year are often clearly arranged at the beginning of the year, without even a penny more!
After that, whether it is adding new projects, adjusting the order of queued projects, or adding new expenditures, it will affect the whole body, and basically all projects will have to be adjusted accordingly.
When he thought of this, the Minister of Finance suddenly felt even more painful.
“Ahhhhhhhh!!!”
Inside the department, the sudden shouting was filled with grief and anger, and it startled the newcomers. Their hands trembled, and the documents were scattered on the floor.
"What, what's going on?!" Compared to the scared newcomers, the old people in the department were very calm. Many of them didn't even raise their heads. Pay attention. Focus entirely on the document in front of you.
This can’t help but make the newcomers even more confused.
Just when he didn't know what to do, the senior who was responsible for leading him rolled his eyelids.
"It's the minister calling, it's a common thing, just get used to it."
"..."
After that, the time quietly entered winter.
This winter, Zhou Xu did not stay at the palace in Xianyang City, but rushed to New Taipei District.
With all this territory occupied, there will definitely be further development. To this end, he will first inspect the situation and make plans for subsequent development.
Walking from Anling City, after passing through the border city of Xinbei District, Zhou Xu went straight to Daliang City.
There was no fanfare, they changed into casual clothes, and after meeting with the people arranged by Shi Lei, they entered the city in a very low-key manner, focusing on saving trouble throughout the process.
The internal planning of the city here can only be said to be quite satisfactory. According to his thinking, each city will have to be rebuilt later.
The palace is quite decent, but it can be seen that it is a bit old.
Since they occupied Daliang City, the palace has been sealed off, and not a single plant or tree inside has been touched.
After entering the palace, Zhou Xu opened his "eye of peeping into secrets" and began his treasure hunting journey.
I never thought that the emperor of the Liang Kingdom was more practical than Yan Sheng. He didn’t have any underground secret rooms, and all the good things were hidden directly in the palace’s treasure house.
In the previous war with the Liang Kingdom, they had never seen any mantra. Zhou Xu couldn't say how strange it was, after all, the mantra itself was not that bad.
After arriving at the treasure house of the Liang Palace, all the answers were revealed.
It’s not that the Liang Kingdom has no mantra, but it’s just that it was too unlucky to obtain a complete mantra.
At this moment, a bunch of fragments attached to the mantra characters were being placed together in a thick treasure box.
The copper lock that was originally fastened to the treasure chest had been chopped off by Hilke who was standing beside him with his sword.
Stretching out his hand, Zhou Xu inhaled the mantra characters into his body one by one.
Thanks to the tolerance provided by his talent, so far, he has never encountered a mantra character that does not fit him.
During this period, I also met an ‘old friend’, which was the phrase ‘skeleton’.
Although the Emperor of Liang obtained the 'skull' phrase, he did not have the corresponding mantra characters to combine with it, and it was still unable to be used.
But in the hands of Zhou Xu, the situation is different.
Although he already has this mantra phrase, the repeated phrases can directly increase the intensity of the related mantra after being absorbed.
There are many mantras surrounding the 'skeleton' in his hand, which in disguise allowed him to gain a lot of strength.
However, what he did not expect was that the biggest surprise of this wave was the last mantra character placed in the corner of the box...
(End of this chapter)