Chapter 396 Northern Wilderness Royal Family (Part 2)
From the vegetable seller's memory, Song Zheng discovered that they had strict regulations on the time for each message delivery. For example, today, the vegetable seller must send the message back after half an hour. If the information is not sent back within the specified time,
This line will be cut off immediately, no longer in contact, and no longer active.
Song Zheng knew that there was not much time left for him.
He quickly separated a ball of sapphire blue distraction and controlled the vegetable seller. The whole process was so painful that he was sweating all over.
Baolan, who had recently been separated, was a little too distracted and was about to exceed his limit. But the situation was like this, but he couldn't help but hesitate.
He hurried back to the capital, but on the way he felt solemn in his heart: With such a strict organization and extreme caution, it seemed that Duan Xuanhe behind the scenes was not a fool, but a difficult opponent.
He joined Lu Wanmin and quietly entered the middle-aged woman's yard. On the way, he once again reluctantly separated a ball of sapphire distraction, instantly controlled the middle-aged woman, manipulated her to collect the intelligence of Fei Tonghai and others, and in
The information contains a secret stamp unique to women’s souls.
Song Zheng quickly rushed to the vegetable seller with this information, and then took him back to the vegetable seller's residence as quickly as possible. Counting the time, he sent the information back.
After doing all this, Song Zheng breathed a sigh of relief and returned to the capital.
The next thing to do is to wait patiently for a reply from Dunlong City.
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Nearly half of the ancient Huaxu Kingdom is located in the Northern Wasteland. These areas are covered with ice and snow for at least nine months of the year. The environment is extremely harsh and survival is difficult.
But it was from this harsh land that the Duan clan raised their troops and fought their way to the warm south. Those opponents who grew up in a comfortable environment were vulnerable to their army.
From that time on, the Duan family of the Huaxu royal family had always looked down upon southerners.
They feel that warriors who grew up in hardships and hardships are far stronger than the weaklings in the warm lands of the south. The Duan family has been committed to building new cities in the northern wilderness, transporting supplies from the south to the north, and in the wind and snow of the north.
Cultivate warriors.
In the first few hundred years after the dynasty was established, this national policy was thoroughly implemented. However, as time went by, the northern wilderness became more and more desolate. Everyone wanted to live in the warm and humid south, and no one wanted to go to the north to endure hardship.
This made Duan extremely angry, but some general trends cannot be reversed by relying on imperial edicts.
Duan believed that there were fewer and fewer residents in the northern wasteland. The south was becoming more prosperous and economically developed, and more than 90% of the officials in the DPRK and the Central Government came from the south.
In the past few thousand years, even among the royal family, a large number of people believed that there was a need to move the people to the Northern Wilderness. It was difficult to survive there, and only three out of ten people could survive. This was a "waste".
But Duan Xuanhe firmly supported his ancestor's decision.
His political philosophy is very clear: First, when the royal family rises, they cannot rely too much on foreign ministers. Foreign ministers are unreliable, and they can only rely on the royal family itself at critical times.
So he tried hard to get some military power from Tiansha, and worked even harder to prove that he was no worse than Yun Chijing.
Second, strictly implement the empire's Northern Wilderness plan. He has started to build seven new cities at the same time in the mountains behind Dunlong City. Each city can accommodate 30,000 people. He plans to use various materials produced in the Northern Wilderness to
More than 200,000 young men and women were exchanged with the human traffickers in the south and placed in these seven cities, allowing them to thrive, undergo training in the blizzards of the Northern Wilderness, and eventually grow into the empire's winter warriors!
In addition, he also has more long-term plans, using the desolate beasts of Shenjin Mountain to train troops, etc.
"The east coast will be in chaos, and the seven heroes of the human race will eventually be unified. I, Hua Xu, must make preparations early!" This is what he often said after coming to Dunlong City.
Under his reorganization, the military affairs of Dunlong City and Huaxu Tianjun improved greatly. In addition, Duan Xuanhe also had an extremely sophisticated battle plan.
It had just arrived in the evening, but Dunlong City had already fallen into darkness, and the cold wind was howling, as if a big ghost was roaring.
Duan Xuanhe received intelligence from the Hongwu capital. From the reports of Fei Tonghai and others, the situation was developing in the direction Duan Xuanhe expected. There was serious internal fighting in the Hongwu court, but no one could gain an absolute advantage, so in
For a long time to come, they will have no time to take care of border military affairs.
Duan Xuanhe was also very sure that the two countries had just experienced a war and both sides suffered losses. Hongwu would never have imagined that he would provoke another war in less than a year.
When Duan Xuanhe thought of the last battle, his anger surged: What a shame for Hua Xu!
The situation was great, but in the end it was dragged into the quagmire by Hongwu. The final result seemed to be that each of them retreated to the national border, but as the party that took the initiative to attack, the Huaxu Ancient Kingdom actually lost.
After reading the information, he handed it to the military advisor beside him.
The military advisor was brought by him from Beijing and was a confidant who had followed him for hundreds of years. After seeing it, the military advisor smiled slightly: "Everything is as expected by the prince. It is a great opportunity for our court. The prince can make a unique decision."
His merits are no less than those of Taizu and Emperor Gao!"
Duan Xuanhe sighed softly: "There is no need to rush..."
"A big war is a waste of money. The imperial court has no money to give me, and our negotiations with the southerners are still going on. They are willing to lend me six billion yuan in jade, but the price they want is too high, and six billion yuan,
I'm afraid it's only enough for us to break through the Guanghan River defense line and annihilate Hongwu's border town outside the pass. It's not enough to support my king's huge desire to fight all the way to Hongwu's capital."
The military advisor was involved in all the secrets. As a confidant, he could understand the prince's pride and helplessness.
As the representative of the Northern Wilderness faction in the royal family, Duan Xuanhe looked down on the southerners, but in order to realize his dream, he had to put down his dignity and borrow money from the southerners.
Now in the whole of Huaxu, only the wealthy businessmen in the south have money.
But what they wanted were all the Hongwu prisoners of war captured in this battle. The lion opened his mouth.
"Besides," Duan Xuanhe said, "the Huaxu Heavenly Army along the Guanghan River still needs one or two months of training before they can truly be capable of fighting."
The military advisor was a little worried: "Since the prince took control of Dunlong City and started to rectify military affairs, the Huaxu Heavenly Army along the Guanghan River has only had more than half a year of training and rectification time. Is it enough?"
Duan Xuanhe chuckled: "My king doesn't really need to train them into a heavenly soldier, I just need to train them to be able to defeat the external troops outside Hongwu Pass."
The military advisor also smiled and nodded repeatedly.
"We are secretly preparing to execute our plan as soon as the time comes. Fortunately, Hongwu's side is in chaos, leaving us plenty of time."
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Song Zheng was suspicious for a while, because no matter from any aspect, Duan Xuanhe should take action. But the news coming back from Dunlong City was: be careful to hide and continue to inquire.
This even made Mr. Song wonder for a time whether he had made any omissions and was discovered by Duan Xuanhe?
He searched the memories of the middle-aged woman and the vegetable seller thoroughly, and even dragged Zhou Sheng over to help him analyze and deduce them together.
After Zhou Sheng fully inquired about the situation, he helped him deduce the result over a cup of tea: "It's not your problem, it's Duan Xuanhe's own lack of preparation."
Song Zheng was speechless, and Zhou Sheng had already left impatiently: "The sacred warship is at a critical moment, and you still bother me with this kind of thing, can't you use your own brain?
If you don't have urgent matters in the future, don't come to me."
Song Zheng couldn't laugh or cry.
But he was still a little worried, so he used Long Yiwei's secret spies in the ancient country of Huaxu to investigate. Longyiwei's infiltration in Huaxu was not very successful. He did not find out anything about military affairs, but he learned a piece of news: Duan
Xuanhe is negotiating with several of the most famous banks in the ancient Huaxu Kingdom to borrow money.
This confirmed Zhou Sheng's speculation from the side, and Song Zheng understood: less than a year had passed since the last war, and the Huaxu treasury was probably full of rats. Duan Xuanhe was not in a hurry to start the war, but
I'm really not ready yet.
He suddenly had a strange feeling: the situation that Duan Xuanhe originally needed did not come so soon. But because of his own plan, all the conditions were prepared for him.
As a result, Duan Xuanhe himself was not ready yet...
funny.
He waited with peace of mind, and at the same time, he also thought about it: Duan Xuanhe was worried about military expenses, so where did the military expenses for Hongwu's war come from? He couldn't let himself pay for it, right? This was not a small amount of money, for such a national war
With consumption, I am afraid that ten Zaixing Palaces can be built.
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In the dark sea of consciousness, an obscure and ancient call sounded. Syllables were spit out from the throat of the holy leader, and a face gradually rose from the sea.
"King Zombie."
Different from the impression of the undead, King Zombie's skin is smooth and moist, and his face is as handsome as a sixteen-year-old boy. He tied his black hair back and fastened it with a dark red metal ring.
The seal is engraved with a special inscription that is rare in the world.
If Yama is here, he must be able to recognize it. This inscription is a taboo and a blasphemy in the Netherworld, and the Netherworld hates it to the core.
It can isolate the Netherworld from its response to the dead, and is a means to fight for the Netherworld's authority.
King Zombie faced the Holy Cult Master and Holy Queen, bowed and prostrated: "The Lord summoned me, for what reason?"