Nine Pins Immortal Road

Chapter 1168 Invite to go together
Wuzhou City, State Shepherd's Mansion.

Liang Zhaohuang hosted a banquet to entertain the county guards, officials and monks who came to the state city to escort taxes.

Previously, when he inspected the whole state, he often used methods of thunder and thunder, and even the method of "killing chickens to scare monkeys", in order to establish his prestige.

Now, the counties have successfully collected Wuzhou's first tax, escorted it to the city, and handed it over to the Liang family. Whether it was to appease people's hearts or to show favor, Liang Zhaohuang naturally had to host a banquet.

Of the eleven counties in Wuzhou, ninety percent of them are now supported by the Liang family and hold the position of county guard. The Liang family married, and the daughter of the family married into the Liang family.

Therefore, the atmosphere above the banquet has always been quite relaxed and lively.

When the banquet drew to a close and the atmosphere reached its peak, Liang Zhaohuang took the opportunity to announce his decision at the banquet.

That is to connect and dredge the roads and water conservancy projects between the counties and counties of Wuzhou; there is also the matter of launching airships between the counties.

These two things have mixed advantages and disadvantages for the prefects of the counties and even the rich and powerful families in the county. They are not only beneficial to the development of their families, but also not conducive to their control and power in the local area.

However, Liang Zhaohuang had just established himself in the process of patrolling the whole prefecture, and most of these county guards were supported by the Liang family, so naturally he would not raise any objections. support.

At that moment, Liang Zhaohuang called Liang Xiangkun and Liang Weishi up, introduced them to the county guards, and explained that they would be responsible for the construction of roads, water conservancy, and the management of airship routes.

Liang Xiangkun and Liang Wei's are Jindan real people, and they are not inferior to these county guards. With the support of Liang Zhaohuang and Liang's family, these county guards and powerful monks naturally did not dare to belittle, and respectfully treated them.

In a banquet, the guests and hosts parted happily amidst the bustle and bustle.

After the banquet, Liang Zhaohuang took over the jade slips submitted by Liang Zhongxu, which included detailed records and statistics of the tax payment situation of each county and county.

Liang Zhaohuang first took a look at the total data. For Wuzhou's first taxation, the counties and counties paid a total of more than 12 Spirit Crystals. It doesn't seem like a lot, but it is a huge number if converted into high-grade spirit stones or even low-grade spirit stones. .

Moreover, such taxes are not one-time, but every year.

Moreover, with the development of time, the development of Wuzhou's counties and counties has gradually deepened, humanity has developed, more resources have been cultivated and developed, and taxes will continue to increase.

For example, in the old states that have developed inland for thousands of years in the Xian Dynasty, according to some intelligence and information learned by Liang Zhaohuang, the annual tax revenue alone is not less than one million spiritual crystals.

Moreover, this is the income of the states after paying taxes to the central government.

However, for the aristocratic families in various states, although there is a lot of tax revenue, the spiritual stones and resources required for the cultivation of the family children and maintenance in all aspects are also very large. It is even difficult to support the tax revenue alone. , wealth, etc. are also important supports.

The Liang family is not worried about resources and wealth now. What they lack is manpower and combat power. Instead, they would rather spend more wealth and resources to improve the cultivation and growth of their own children, as well as the improvement of the family's combat power.

Otherwise, no matter how much wealth and resources are accumulated in the family treasure house, if they don’t need to go out or circulate, they will be nothing.

Liang Zhaohuang checked the tax collection records and statistics, and after confirming that they were correct, he signed his own seal on the jade slips.

Then this jade slip will be returned to the archives.

As for the more than 12 spirit crystals confiscated this time, not all of them were directly collected into the Liang family's warehouse.

Although the Liang family will take most of it, it is Wudu's tax after all, and part of it will be used for the construction and development of Wudu.

For example, the elite teams of various counties in Wuzhou led by the Liang family built the defense line in the Qingpeng Mountains and Kunpeng City, as well as the military salaries and daily practice expenses of the soldiers and monks in the defense line, etc. In the past, it was mostly the Liang family themselves As a result, it is now possible to use this tax as a subsidy.

In addition, the two new plans proposed by Liang Zhaohuang this time are to connect and dredge the roads and water conservancy in various counties. Part of the tax is used as support; there is also the construction of the airship route, which can certainly earn a lot of benefits in the later stage, but the early stage construction and start-up also require a lot of resources and wealth, and this Wuzhou tax can also be used to support it.

After such a calculation, no matter how much tax Wudu pays in a year, it is limited to the Liang family's own treasury for the cultivation and development of the Liang family's children.

However, there is no need for Liang Zhaohuang to carefully plan and plan these. The Liang family has its own special department, imitating the central household department of the Xian Dynasty, which is responsible for the income and expenditure and management of family resources and wealth.

As the patriarch, Liang Zhaohuang only needs to check and supervise the management of these income and expenditure arrangements.

And as the taxation spirit stones and spirit crystals were put into storage one after another, Wudu's first taxation operation also ended smoothly. There were no accidents or confusion during the whole process, and there were no robbery, banditry, or magic repairs. The case for tax ideas.

How much of this was due to Liang Zhaohuang's inspection of the entire prefecture before the start of taxation, killing the blood vine demon king, and disposing of several county guards and powerful families to scare chickens and monkeys, etc., is unknown.

However, the successful completion of this first taxation has laid the beginning and set the standard for the subsequent annual taxation. It is conceivable that as long as there are no major accidents or changes, the subsequent annual taxation actions will be carried out smoothly. go down.

Later, Liang Zhaohuang stayed in Wuzhou City for another three months, not only to support Liang Xiangkun and the Liang Wei family who started work, but also to ensure that there were no other changes in Wuzhou.

Three months later, the hustle and bustle in Wuzhou due to his inspections and tax payment for the first time gradually settled down, and the luck of humanity has stabilized again, which also reflects that the situation and people's hearts in Wudu have stabilized. .

At this time, he also received a message from Lord Suzaku that the Dragon Turtle 'Xianhui' was ready for action.

After Liang Zhaohuang arranged some family affairs and state affairs, he left Wuzhou and entered the East China Sea to go to the meeting with Lord Suzaku to see what the other party said about the 'Dragon Tortoise Slough'.

Because of the lessons learned from being ambushed and attacked by the blood demon king and the blood vine demon king in Heize County, especially this time when he left Wuzhou, left the range of the immortal dynasty, and entered the East China Sea where human luck is difficult to play, Liang Zhaohuang undoubtedly needed it even more. Be careful and ensure that you have enough combat power.

So for this trip, Liang Zhaohuang not only brought the phoenix figure, but also the royal beast '鼍蛇'.

This is not only to enhance his combat power, but also to grow the royal beast '鼍蛇'.

The dragon tortoise is also of the blood of the dragon clan. Whether it is the dragon tortoise 'Xianshe' or its location, it is undoubtedly something that is beneficial to the imperial beast 'Snake'. Liang Zhaohuang may gain something by bringing it with him. To enhance combat power.

It has been decades since the royal beast '鼍蛇' advanced to the fourth-order demon king, but the growth in strength has been a bit slow, and it is still at the early stage of the fourth-order, so that most of the time now it can only stay in Wuzhou In the eastern sea area, he leads the giant whale demon and the dragon race, and guards Wuzhou in the eastern sea.

However, for Liang Zhaohuang's fights and battles, the help was getting smaller and smaller, gradually unable to keep up with the improvement of Liang Zhaohuang's cultivation base and strength.

Liang Zhaohuang took him with him this time to see if there was a chance to improve his strength.

Not only that, before Liang Zhaohuang set off, he also sent a summons to contact a helper.

Ten days later, in the East China Sea, in the deep sea east of Yingzhou.

whisper!
With a long cry of the phoenix, Liang Zhaohuang flew down on a deserted island in the sea area below by riding the 'Phoenix Faxiang'.

Not long after, the waves in the sea on the side rolled, and the royal beast 'Snake' emerged from the sea, holding a shark-like beast in its mouth, and swallowed it with its head raised.

Liang Zhaohuang watched but shook his head slightly and didn't say much.

At this moment, he seemed to feel something, and turned to look towards the sea to the west.

groan!
Then a dragon chant sounded, and then a dragon shadow rushed out of the sea and flew straight to the deserted island.

Standing on the dragon shadow is a figure, it is Yang Xiu'e, and the dragon shadow under her seat is her royal beast, the dragon 'Xuan'e'.

Before Liang Zhaohuang set off, he sent a message, and the helper he contacted was Yang Xiu'e.

Just as he expected, Yang Xiu'e was also quite interested in this dragon turtle 'Xianhui'.

"Friend Daoist Yang!"

"Friend Liang Daoist!"

The two met and greeted each other.

Yang Xiu'e was the first to smile and said: "Thank you, Fellow Daoist Liang, for your invitation. If you get something this time, it will be all thanks to Fellow Daoist."

Liang Zhaohuang also responded with a smile: "Fellow Daoist Yang, you are being polite. I have received help from fellow Daoist many times before, and I still don't know how to thank you."

"I'm not sure about the invitation this time. It's just a little bit more help and confidence in inviting Taoist friends."

When Yang Xiu'e heard this, the smile on her face became brighter, but she didn't say any more polite words, she just nodded and said: "Let's go now, don't make the other side wait too long."

"Okay." Liang Zhaohuang nodded, and did not take the 'Phoenix Faxiang' anymore, but flew onto the royal beast 'Snake', and the Snake carried him away in the sea.

Beside him, the dragon 'Xuan'e' was carrying Yang Xiu'e, also walking through the water.

Liang Zhaohuang took out a jade slip, which recorded the map of the sea area in the East China Sea, and the meeting place marked by Lord Suzaku.

While guiding the snake forward, he chatted with Yang Xiu'e, talking about their recent situation, Yangzhou, Wuzhou, and some things about the Yang family and the Liang family.

Of course, it is also said that in the current Xian Dynasty, the wave of public opinion is the most surging about the reset of the "Three Provinces".

However, in the past few years, the voices and public opinions about resetting the "three provinces" in the Xian Dynasty have completely set off a wave, and have received the support and solidarity of more than [-]% of the prefects and rich families in the Xian Dynasty.

Among them, most of the credit can be said to belong to the 'Changfeng' Liu family.

No one knows how many prefectures and rich families in the counties and counties the Liu family of the "Changfeng" has won and how much support they have received in the states of the Xian Dynasty by taking advantage of the cloud boat route during these thousands of years.

This time, in order to reset the three provinces, the energy that the Liu family exploded is undoubtedly shocking.

"This time, the Liu family really stood on the cusp of the storm." Yang Xiu'e watched the strong wind sweeping the sea in the distance, sending a large amount of sea water, fish and shrimp into the sky, and said in a deep voice: "If you can't go up to the sky, in the end You must fall to pieces."

Before the words fell, the waves swept by the strong wind in the distance fell down, and a large number of fish and shrimps rolled up in it fell into the sea water, and most of them turned into flesh and blood.

"What exactly is the Liu family going to do?"

Liang Zhaohuang was also full of doubts at this time.

"Sit on the seat of the three provinces, can the Liu family really protect themselves?"

At this time, everyone can see that the higher the wave of public opinion that the Liu family has raised, the greater the fear that the royal family and the Emperor will have towards the "Changfeng" Liu family, even if they really agree to reset the three provinces. If the Liu family ascends to the position of the three provinces, it is absolutely impossible to escape the follow-up revenge of the royal family and the emperor.

Yang Xiu'e nodded, then shook her head, as if she knew something, but she didn't say much, but turned the subject, and said, "Actually, from the actions of these years, anyone can see that the Central Committee of Xianchao, The royal family and the human emperor have the intention of gathering the power of the immortal dynasty and centralizing power."

"What the 'Changfeng' Liu family has done is not only representing their own interests, but also representing the interests of all our families, and even more prestige and powerful families in the county."

Listening to Yang Xiu'e's words, Liang Zhaohuang was thoughtful, and he understood what the other party meant.

The Liu family's action this time undoubtedly seized an excellent opportunity. As long as it is handled well, all the aristocratic families, county princes, and even the county's wealthy families in the Xian Dynasty will become the Liu family's amulets.

This is the Liu family's confidence in this fight?

Liang Zhaohuang was a little uncertain.

But no matter what, having the Liu family charge ahead, and the Yang family, Jiang family, etc. standing in front, is quite beneficial to the Liang family. It gives them more time and space to develop, and Liang Zhaohuang is naturally willing to follow behind Waving the flag and shouting.

The two of them rode the dragons and escaped all the way to the depths of the East China Sea. After more than a month, they finally arrived at the meeting place marked by Lord Suzaku.

This is a vast sea area. Since many days ago, the two of them have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles to the sea area, but they have seen only a vast sea area, but not a single island.

Until this time, an 'island reef' with a size of several thousand feet appeared in the sea ahead, which seemed very abrupt.

Five-colored Buddha lights flashed in Liang Zhaohuang's eyes, and he turned his 'Five Elements' and 'Tianyantong' to look at the 'island and reef'. He immediately reached out and stopped Yang Xiu'e, and said with a smile: "The guests have arrived, and the master still hasn't shown up?"

Hiss... Ang!

The next moment, there was a roar, and the 'island reef' floating thousands of feet in size rose from the sea, revealing its entirety, it was actually a huge basaltic elephant.

But then, black light bloomed all over Xuanwu, and then quickly shrank, gradually turning into a black flag fluttering on the sea, with many cracks and holes on it, it is the Xuanwu flag of the Xuanwu lineage of Sixiang Island.

(End of this chapter)