On the north side of Tianheng Mountain, beside the official road, a group of people from Zhidong Kingdom were resting.
They needed to transport a lot of goods this time. Even with the help of airships, it still took a lot of time. Fortunately, they have reached Tianheng Mountain now and will reach Liyue Port in a few days.
Originally we were able to arrive two days earlier, but we encountered an inexplicable battle near Guiliyuan.
Although the enemy was quickly repelled and there was no loss of goods, the casualties still damaged the morale of their team.
Therefore, when they were about to arrive at Liyue Port, Dadalia asked someone to rest here for a day.
Dadalia was sitting on a boulder with a piece of grass in his mouth. With his back against the rock, he was looking up at the sky.
Soon, a scout came to him and reported.
"Sir Executive Officer, my subordinates were incompetent and failed to catch up with the suspicious person."
"Lost?"
Seeing Dadalia's serious expression, the scout lowered his head.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Executive Officer, I clearly saw the other person enter the cave, but when I went to investigate, I found that the person seemed to have disappeared without leaving any trace. I have tried my best to search, but I have not found any traces of the person.
Such things, so, so people just lost track of them.”
The scout, who was racking his brains to reduce his guilt, suddenly thought of some other information, and he quickly continued.
"Sir, although I did not fail to see the other party's appearance clearly, judging from the hair color and outline exposed in the hood, the other party should be a blond woman, and judging by her height, she should not be very old!"
"Forget it, I won't punish you this time. At least if you lose him, it shows that the other party is indeed a very suspicious person."
Thinking of the figure he saw watching from a distance after the battle, Dadalia decided not to dwell on the matter anymore.
If it is really aimed at them, it means that they will still encounter it in the future, and there is no need to delay their business.
He stood up and stood on the boulder, looking past the scouts who were half kneeling on the ground and looking at the other fools who were resting nearby.
He remembered that the task Her Majesty the Queen had given him before leaving was to obtain the Heart of God from the Liyue God. This was a very arduous task, so it was impossible for these fools to have no fighting spirit!
Thinking of this, Dadalia opened his hands and scolded.
"You all cheer me up! Don't forget to fulfill your oath to Her Majesty the Queen and bring victory to Solstice at all costs!"
"For the Queen!"
"For the Queen!"
Looking at the fools who had regained some fighting spirit, Dadalia felt a little satisfied.
Liyue Port at night.
"Uncle, won't you have dinner with me?"
At the dinner table, Gui Chuanyu's mood was a little low.
After hearing these words, Xue Lian touched her son's head with distress and disgust.
"Isn't Mom staying with you? Eat quickly!"
"But wouldn't it be better for uncle and mother to have dinner with me?"
Facing such a "greedy" son, Xue Lian spoke to him gently and seriously.
"The head of the house has a lot of things to do, so I didn't mean not to eat with you. Let's not be unhappy and just eat well, okay?"
"good!"
Gui Chuanyu responded to Xue Lian's words obediently, stretched out his hands to take a chicken leg in each hand, and said with an expression and tone of "looking at death as if he were home".
"Uncle said that you can only grow faster if you eat more. Now I will start eating more to grow up quickly, and then I will help my uncle manage the family. Then my uncle will be able to eat with me every day!"
After saying that, he started to cook!
Xue Lian on the side did not stop her son's remarks when she heard this. She looked at her son tenderly, but her thoughts had already drifted outside.
The head of the house has been staying in the study since he came back. During this period, many people came here, including the familiar eldest sister Tou Beidou and the less familiar Gan Yu. However, no matter who it was, their faces did not look good after leaving the study.
This discovery made her feel a little worried, but the issue of identity prevented her from asking more questions. She could only pray that things would pass quickly.
I hope the emperor will bless your family...
In the study, the busy Ouyang did not know that his failure to accompany Gui Chuanyu to dinner this time had caused some psychological harm to the child.
He had already agreed to Gan Yu's request. The matter was so important that he had no time to think about those things.
At this time, he was browsing Liyue's taxes and other information from the past ten years that Gan Yu had brought over.
He said it was browsing, but in fact he flipped through it very quickly, mainly relying on systematic memory. He had to read all these things first and then build a model in his mind for analysis.
The reason why I didn't go to Yiyan Palace is because a lot of information is in other places and the transportation distance is a bit far. On the contrary, your house is right in the middle of various departments, which can save a lot of time.
As the data is filled into the model one by one, the tables in my mind begin to become clearer.
Ouyang, who was still reading, gradually understood the industrial structure of Liyue.
Generally speaking, minerals are Liyue's pillar industry, which can be seen from the fact that just two places, Black Rock Factory and Layeryan Abyss, account for one-third of the total tax revenue.
What's even more frightening is that most of Liyue's various industries rely on this huge ore industry to survive. This part of the tax revenue plus ore accounts for a full 80% share.
It is true that Liyue Port is the largest trading port among the seven countries, but in terms of total volume, the largest trade port is the ore trade.
Because of the ore, more and more businessmen are coming here. Their arrival supports the huge number of dock workers in Liyue Port, drives the development of other industries in Liyue, and puts the entire operation of Liyue into a cycle.
Generally speaking, Liyue's prosperity is due to its developed trade, but the root cause of everything is the ore.
So, in the game, under how much pressure did Seven Stars shut down the Stratayan Abyss and Black Rock Factory?
With this question in mind, Ouyang continued to read and soon came up with a vague guess.
Maybe Ningguang took this opportunity to do this deliberately.
The reason is that Ouyang made an interesting discovery.
He discovered that since Ning Guang came to power, she has been using her authority to stabilize the current scale of the mining industry while curbing the disorderly expansion of the mining industry.
And secretly and silently, through her own trade, she made the cake of tea, cloth and porcelain bigger.
Especially when I visited six countries five years ago, the proportion of ore in the trade contracts signed with each other was very small, and most of them were goods other than ore.
This roughly illustrates that Ning Guang is also aware that there are problems with Liyue's current economic structure.
So she just took this opportunity to break the entire Liyue industrial structure?
This is the unemployment of at least 800,000 miners!
So much courage...
Ouyang sighed a little in his heart, but the speed of reading did not change.
On the other side, Shen He didn't speak, just watched quietly and helped hand him new materials.
