As for the Liu family and the Li family, they were quickly liquidated by Guo Nian, and more than 200,000 gold coins were confiscated from the two families' banks and properties. This was a huge amount of wealth, which was greater than that of Youzhou City.
The annual tax was even more. These more than 200,000 gold coins were directly handed over to the tax treasury of Youzhou City and confiscated.
Guo Yi returned home.
Zixing asked hurriedly: "Husband, Liu Xuefei is dead."
"Dead." Guo Yi nodded.
"Oh, why bother?" Zi Xing sighed and said: "It was good, why do we have to do such a thing? Let our poor child have no mother from now on."
"From now on, let's call this child Xingyue." Guo Yi sighed and said, "I hope she won't follow in her mother's footsteps and have a heart as broad as the stars and the moon."
"Yeah." Zi Xing nodded.
Guo Xingyue. This is a very good name.
It placed Guo Yi's endless hopes on her.
Time flies, time is true.
Ten years passed by in a flash, and Xiao Xingyue turned eleven years old in the blink of an eye. And Guo Yi looked even older. These ten years should be the most peaceful and prosperous time for the Wu Kingdom.
It is also the childhood that Xiao Xingyue remembers most deeply.
"Grandma, look at the bamboo dragonfly I made!" Xiao Xingyue shouted excitedly.
"Beautiful, so beautiful." Zi Xing said affectionately.
Decades passed by, and she had spent more than twenty years in this world without her realizing it. Although her appearance remained unchanged, her mentality was no longer young. Twenty years of cultivation and twenty years spent in the mortal world,
The mentality of the two people is completely different.
After twenty years of cultivation, it was a solitary practice. Even if I came out of seclusion twenty years later, I still maintain a young mentality.
But spending twenty years in the mortal world is different. Twenty years of baptism and vicissitudes of life are enough to make a huge change in a person's mentality and spirit.
Although Zixing's appearance has not changed, her mentality is getting older.
As for preserving a person's appearance, it is publicized that Dr. Guo invented a liquid that can preserve a person's appearance.
As soon as the news came out, many noble ladies in the palace came to the Guo family to hate the medicine that could preserve a person's appearance.
It's a pity that Dr. Guo refused and refused everyone's request for medicine. Gradually, there were no more people coming to ask for medicine. A few years ago, there was an endless stream of people coming and going at the door of Guo's house.
Today Guo Yi has white hair.
Unknowingly, he was nearly sixty years old, with gray hair, and the skin on his face had become extremely rough, with wrinkles like the mountains and rivers of the motherland.
Guo Nian looked at the little Xingyue flying like a little butterfly in the yard, Guo Yi's eyes were full of love.
The child grew up beside him, and the blood of the Guo family still flows in his blood.
"Grandpa, look at my bamboo dragonfly, does it look good?" Little Xingyue squeezed into Guo Yi's arms excitedly.
"It's beautiful, it's beautiful." Guo Yi hugged little Xingyue with a smile and said, "This bamboo dragonfly is more beautiful than anything else."
"Grandpa is lying." Xiao Xingyue pouted and said, "The little tiger next door said that the bamboo dragonfly I made is very ugly and not good-looking at all."
"What does he know?" Guo Yi raised his eyebrows and said, "That little fat guy knows how to lie. Grandpa's words are the truth."
"Really?" Xiao Xingyue laughed.
"Of course it's true." Guo Yi nodded.
Little Xingyue smiled and said: "Grandpa, please let my bamboo dragonfly fly."
Guo Yi smiled and said, "Okay. I'll let it fly right now."
After speaking, Guo Yi blew at the bamboo dragonfly, then twisted his hands, and the bamboo dragonfly immediately flew up.
"Wow, grandpa is so awesome." Xiao Xingyue looked at the bamboo dragonfly excitedly.
Childhood is always innocent; childhood is always innocent; childhood is always clear.
Guo Yi couldn't bear to let little Xingyue's childhood be polluted, so he tried his best to give little Xingyue a clean and pure childhood.
In the past ten years, Guo Nian has never gotten married again.
If it were anyone else, he might not be willing to do so; but Guo Yi is not someone else, and he has a relatively weak idea of continuing the family line. Moreover, he is the Nine Heavens Emperor and has an endless lifespan, so there is no need to continue the family line.
Children are just a kind of emotional sustenance.
It is just a tool that he should have to experience the life of a mortal.
Without children, a person's life is not a complete life.
After ten years of preparation, the State of Zhao was finally ready. After ten years of sharpening a sword, whatever the sword pointed at was invincible.
From the original 300,000 troops, after ten years of development, it finally expanded to 500,000 troops.
For any country, this is definitely an army that has always been difficult to contend with.
However, there has never been any change in the 150,000 troops reserved in Youzhou City. On the contrary, King Wu Cheng recruited soldiers from all over the country, and the capital stockpiled 150,000 elite soldiers and generals. These elite soldiers and generals have become the hands of King Wu Cheng to guard against at any time.
Guo Nian's trump card for rebellion.
It's just that after ten years, Guo Nian has never had any thoughts of rebellion.
The child who was in his twenties is now in his thirties. When the boy's immaturity and youthfulness faded away, he immediately became a remarkable being.
"Lord City Lord, the Zhao army has crossed our border." The soldier came to report.
"Lord City Lord, Zhao's forward troops have clashed with our defenders." Another soldier came to report.
The storm has been brewing for more than ten years and finally broke out.
Guo Nian sat on the chair and squinted his eyes.
The young boy at the beginning has now become a mature middle-aged man. He has long black hair and a pair of wise and deep eyes. He sneered: "After more than ten years of development, Zhao Guo has become stronger.
, but we are not weak either."
"City Lord, what should we do now?" the forward general asked.
"Give me the order to shrink the defense line." Guo Nian stood up and calmly gave the order: "Let General Liu Han retreat to the twenty-mile defense zone. In addition, let General Chen Mo ambush the Zhao State's logistics supply line that invaded our Wu State from the right.
"
"Yes!" The messenger nodded immediately.
The war between the two countries is never a small-scale battle.
Moreover, a battle involving hundreds of thousands of troops may result in tens of thousands of deaths. This is a huge cost to any country.
There is a place called Baima Town at the junction of Youzhou City and Zhao State.
The battle begins!
Zhao's army captured Baima Town easily.
General Zhao boasted: "The people of Wu are all soft-footed shrimps and are useless. We easily occupied one of their towns without spending a single soldier. I'm afraid it won't take more than three months to defeat Wu."