The income of the Xiliang Headquarters is not included in the northwest fiscal revenue. All expenses and income are completed by the Xiliang Headquarters itself. Zhang Qingyun has not given any thought to the money of the Xiliang Headquarters.
But this time he was tempted, because now the Northwest Yamen, apart from money and various expenses, only had less than five million taels of silver left!
If he wants to do more things, he needs to get more money. The lord is exempted from paying taxes. Now only commercial taxes are left in the northwest. If commercial taxes want to increase, more merchants need to come to the northwest.
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But after the lord's falling out with Qingye Xuan, only a few large chambers of commerce still come to the northwest to do business. God will bless the tax rate if it is not lowered. It is difficult to increase it.
So he could only put what he saw in Prime Minister Li's pocket. The lord has so much money, so if he takes out ten or twenty million, there should be no problem!
He doesn't want much, and he uses it all for people's livelihood.
Li Xiang next to him didn't know that Zhang Qingyun put his hand into his pocket, but happily gave his wife some pieces of vicious beast meat.
"Taste this meat!"
"Yes!" Wu Yating responded, picked up the meat and ate it, then said to Li Xiang: "Wang, the people on the Great Wall Legion are ready. Let me ask you, when can we start choosing?"
The harem encyclopedia of Li Xiangquan was handed over to Wu Yating, and the issue of the draft was also handed over to Wu Yating.
"You just have to figure it out!" Li Xiang said nonchalantly. He likes beautiful women, but he is not very eager for them. One or two at home is enough.
As he spoke, Li Xiang looked at Zhang Qingyun and Xia Li, who was sandwiching meat for Zhang Qingyun. Everyone with a discerning eye in Xiliang could see Xia Li's love for Zhang Qingyun, but they all also knew that Zhang Qingyun was with a woman named Zhou.
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But this is nothing. A capable man, who doesn’t have three wives and four concubines?
Li Xiang said jokingly: "Qingyun, what do you think of Miss Xia Li?"
Zhang Qingyun, who was calculating how to get the money from Li Xiang, ate the meat from Xia Li and subconsciously said: "It's very good!"
"Then are you willing to marry her?" Li Xiang asked again.
"Yeah!" Zhang Qingyun responded casually. Charlie, who was sitting next to him, looked at Zhang Qingyun in surprise. Zhang Qingyun came back to his senses. Li Yi smiled and said: "My lord, Manager Zhang has already agreed. You see?"
How about taking advantage of this free time and let them get married?"
Li Yi controls the Xiliang Army Intelligence Bureau. Currently, Xiliang intelligence has come into contact with Lingjiu Palace, and the girl Zhang Qingyun likes is already flirting with her senior brother!
Li Yi is not optimistic about Zhang Qingyun and that woman, but Xia Li is very good. Although she is a Westerner, she is really good to Zhang Qingyun.
They protect Zhang Qingyun on weekdays. As long as they are not prohibited from entering, you can see the two of them walking together!
Therefore, Li Yi felt that the lives of the two of them should be cooked first, so that Zhang Qingyun would not be too uncomfortable when meeting that girl Zhou again.
"Lord, this, this!" Zhang Qingyun wanted to say that he didn't pay attention just now, but when he saw Xia Li's happy, excited and expectant eyes, he didn't know why, he didn't continue to refuse, and just said: "Lord,
Now is not the time, why don’t we wait for two more years, wait until the affairs in the northwest have settled down, and then a new group of officials will grow up, and then the subordinates will be free, and then give her a stable home!"
Xia Li's face was full of smiles. As a Western woman, her love for her was always expressed on her face. She never concealed her love for Zhang Qingyun, even if Zhang Qingyun had a girl he liked before.
"In this case, do you think I have to wait another year or two before getting new ones?" Li Xiang said weakly. He really didn't like too many people in the backyard. In the days of the Li family, he had grown up
I have seen all kinds of women fighting openly and secretly.
If you don't fight, there will be no room for survival. Because the mother gave birth to him, she has a little status in the family, but it can only prevent herself from being bullied.
He doesn't want the Li family's situation to happen in his backyard!
"No!" "No!"...
Among the few people, except Qian Duoduo who had been eating and didn't reply, the rest of them all refused in unison.
Li Xiang could only eat the meat silently. With chopsticks, he took away most of the meat from the iron pot and put it into a bowl. Before eating, he took away the remaining pieces of meat. Qian Duoduo's heart was bleeding as he looked at the meat.
But she was the one who put it in.
The little hands picked up the fish that slipped through the net, and the rest were dumbfounded!
Li Xiang happily ate meat!
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The cold winter passed quickly, and then came the annual spring. The northwest also officially entered a state of truce, and soldiers from all departments returned to their military camps for training.
The army from Xiliang headquarters either went to the north to hunt ferocious beasts, or they headed outside the Northwest Pass in large numbers.
Facing the movements of soldiers from Xiliang Headquarters, some forces concerned about Xiliang sent a large number of troops outside the pass. They wanted to know where the Xiliang Headquarters army came from and where they were going.
Xiliang headquarters needs a lot of wars to improve its level. There will be no wars in the northwest for the next few years, so Li Xiang sent an army to the Dark World.
When the number of the Xiliang army in the dark world reached 200,000, it took the Xiliang army two months to defeat Lu Gaoyin and all the monsters were killed. The Dongfang army officially became famous in the dark world.
At the same time, the farmers of Xiliang built a huge dock at the wharf next to Lu Gaoyin and began to build warships. The Xiliang army was not satisfied with just one Lu Gaoyin, they wanted to fight farther away.
When the Eastern Army is invincible and invincible, killing all creatures from hell and retreating, more and more people want to let the Eastern Army establish a country!
They want to join the Eastern Army. Compared with those of other forces, the professionals and soldiers of the Eastern Army are better.
Li Tu ignored these, because he knew that once they showed any signs of this, the entire dark world's major forces would become enemies. At that time, they would have to fight not only the creatures of hell, but also the people of this world.
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Therefore, they only stayed in the land they seized from the hell creatures and did not invade the places where other forces were located.
They came here to level up and obtain various resources, not to grab land. There are only so many of them, so what do they need so much land for?
Xiliang Headquarters can get two to three million gold coins every month in the dark world. One gold coin weighs twenty-five grams, and two gold coins are one tael. They get about one million taels of gold every month!
After using this gold to purchase a large amount of supplies with their lord, they would still have a lot left over!
The Dark World is self-sufficient and has a lot of surplus gold.
Li Jin in the Western world is still in need of support from Xiliang. At this time, Xiliang supports Li Jin with 50,000 infantry, 10,000 cavalry, and about 40,000 talents of various types. In the Western world, Xiliang has 100,000 troops. Headquarters people.
Li Jin built an Eastern city in the West and became the economic capital of the chaotic land. The tax collected every month was ten thousand taels of silver. This only left the real bulk of the tax, which was Xiliang and the Western World. The trade amounted to millions of taels of silver every month.
The Western world is no less rich than the Eastern world. Millions of taels of silver sounds like a lot, but among the top ten chambers of commerce in the West, which chamber of commerce doesn’t earn more than a billion taels of silver or nearly 100 million gold each year?
In the Western world with billions of people, their market is no weaker than that of the Eastern world. It’s just that the Eastern cities in the current chaotic land are not very famous. When they become famous, earning 100 million taels of silver every year will not be a problem!
The two enclaves were developing well, and Prime Minister Li's military plan in the northwest was progressing steadily.
Xiliang suddenly became quiet, but there was a big problem in the northeast of Daqian. The chief steward of the Northern King had an affair with the grassland people, intercepted Marshal Li Zhen's goods, and sent more than half of the goods to Laicao grassland.
This melon soon spread throughout Daqian, and people were immediately attracted to the Northeast. The small place of Xiliang was once again ignored.
Boom, boom, boom!
Among the endless mountains, Xiliang soldiers with bare upper bodies, each holding a stone extraction tool, mined stones from the surrounding mountains.
Li Xiang took the square halberd and scratched it hard on the stone, taking out a whole piece of stone.
All 35,500 Xiliang cavalrymen went to the mountains to mine stones. Behind them was the mountain that had been dug up, leaving a very wide road.
The imperial system has been upgraded to its final stage, and the population of Xiliang has also reached the upgrade conditions. The entire country outside the customs is rapidly eating up all kinds of newly emerging technologies.
And Li Xiang mined stone for a building:
"The Great Wall: China
Attribute: One of the wonders
Function 1: To repel enemies from the outside, the Great Wall can form a barrier to prevent monsters above the innate level from entering the Great Wall.
Function 2: The climate within the city, that is, within the Pass, and within the Great Wall will become like the Jiangnan region in spring and summer. In autumn, the temperature will gradually return to its original state, and in winter, it will return to its original state.
Function 2: Like a dragon thousands of miles away, with the Great Wall, it can gather the power of the dragon veins outside the pass and nourish the qualifications of our own people within the Great Wall!
Function 3: Wonder. As a wonder of China, after this building is built, you will be able to get the blessings of random gods and demons in the Chinese mythology system!
Note: Each wonder can be blessed by the country’s mythology system and random gods and demons, and the same divine power will not appear.
Materials required: Calculated according to the length of the selected terrain,"
When he saw the wonders of the Great Wall, Li Xiang seemed to see a magical weapon that could block first-class and above-level ferocious beasts from entering the Great Wall. This was aimed at the ferocious beast clan!
They are not afraid of low-level ferocious beasts, but they are afraid of high-level ferocious beasts, especially the kings of ferocious beasts!
When choosing the Great Wall, Chen Huaihe had a map of the entire northwest region in his mind. He started building the Great Wall from the foot of the Xuantian Sect to blocking the mountains outside and inside the pass. The total length was a thousand kilometers long.
There are many hills along the way. According to the currently idle 20,000 construction workers and 70,000 slaves in Xiliang, it will take about four years to complete the construction.
Construction is not the problem, the problem is the stones. Xiliang does not have that much stone. According to the current Xiliang has 100,000 units of stone, these stones can only build 20 kilometers of the Great Wall!
Moreover, a large amount of stones are needed in various parts of Xiliang, so materials have become a problem. There is no other way, so Li Xiang sets his sights on the barren mountains near the northwest land, where there are not many trees.
The Xiliang cavalry brought them back, and together they went to the barren mountains to quarry stones, and unified the lengths of the stones. After mining them, they transported them to the river by carriage, and then transported them to the north by transport ship, and delivered them to the feet of Xuantian Sect.
The construction of the Great Wall began at the feet of the Xuantian Sect, so Li Xiang built a city here. The name has not been given yet, but Yuchi Yun is in charge of the construction site.
Whether this land can really become a land of plenty depends on whether the Great Wall can be built. The temperatures in spring and summer are similar to those in the south of the Yangtze River. This is very important to the northwest and allows them to harvest more things.
Xiliang construction workers dug twenty meters into the ground at the foot of Xuantianzong Mountain, and then used stones to build the city, sewers, and floors on the ground. They were all piled up with neat stones, with various mysterious patterns carved on them.
Xiliang's majestic project cost countless people and material resources, but no one said anything, because all the money spent was the money of Xiliang King Li Xiang, and it was none of other people's business!
On the other side, the rapid construction of the Great Wall began from the area that cuts off the inside and outside of the pass. However, here, local materials are used, and there is no need to transport materials all the way. There is also the middle area.
In Dingjun Mountain in the north, this mountain has been hollowed out and a city is being built. Li Xiang originally wanted to build a city center in Jiuyuan City, but he was afraid of being discovered by Qingsong and Jimo Sect Master, so he built the town center in Jiuyuan City.
Dingjun Mountain.
It is far away from the political center of the northwest, but also in the middle of the guard of Xiliang headquarters. It also plays a key role in the construction of the Great Wall. Stones and wood from mineral warehouses in other places can be directly taken out.
Just like the military industrial base on the Gobi Desert outside the pass, the area that originally belonged to Loufan City has now been surrounded by various military factories.
The core of these military factories is the town center. He can extract materials from other warehouses. The mines in the distance only need to put the materials in the warehouse, and those who want them on the other side can go to the town center to take them out.
Li Xiang mines stones in the south. The town center in Dingjun Mountain can take out these stones, otherwise the Xiliang army can be dragged to death just by transporting them.
Li Xiang usually mines stones in the mountains, which is also an exercise for the Xiliang cavalry. At the same time, Li Xiang is also very interested in the other side of the mountains.
Some people say that the barren mountains used to be Huangjiang, while others say that they used to be a place that no one has ever been to. There were very few plants in the barren mountains and there was no water source. There were bare mountains and hard rocks everywhere.
While quarrying stones, the Xiliang army was also transforming the place. Five hundred soldiers could cut a mountain into flat ground in only ten days, and the only thing consumed was weapons.
