The Reborn Lao Tzu Is the Emperor

Chapter 1341
Dongsha Islands far away overseas.

Crescent Island.

More than three years have passed since Zhao Dongting established the Dongsha Islands Special Zone.

During this period of time, with the continuous promotion and encouragement of sea trade by the Song Dynasty, the North and South Islands and Crescent Island became prosperous at an extremely fast speed.

In the past, when there were only pirates like Liu Xikang and Hong Niangzi, there were only a few huts on the island, but now there are palaces everywhere.

There are two armies of Dikui and Dijie, and there are tens of thousands of defenders on the islands.There is no need to worry about the security of the Dongsha Islands.

It's just that these palaces, mansions, etc. are not affordable for ordinary people.

Because these palaces and mansions were all developed by the construction group under the Ministry of Construction of the imperial court, from the time of development, their purpose was to sell them to the wealthy businessmen who came to Dongsha Islands for trade.This is probably the first developer to appear in this era, and it was established under the instruction of Zhao Dongting.

Since Zhao Dongting occupied Leizhou to implement the New Deal, he has already established the Ministry of Construction.

With the slow passage of time, the Ministry of Construction, which was not known to people before, is gradually becoming more and more impressive.There are commercial and residential projects developed by construction groups under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Construction of the Song Dynasty even in various inland places, let alone islands like the Dongsha Islands.Today, these unique buildings have gradually been favored by wealthy businessmen.

Take Guangnan East Road, which is the closest to the Dongsha Islands, as an example.

What is a wealthy businessman?

What is a noble family?

If you can own a house on the Dongsha Islands, then you are a wealthy businessman, and you are a wealthy family.Otherwise, there will always be less color.

Although the popularity of this kind of real estate development projects is naturally far from being comparable to that of later generations, it still brings far less wealth to the Song court.

After all, this industry is almost monopolized in the hands of the Song court.

This also allowed the Song court to realize the rapid return of funds, and then formed a virtuous circle.

The various departments and ministries with a commercial nature under the Ministry of State continue to earn wealth for the imperial court, and then the imperial court uses this money to continuously improve people's livelihood.

If it weren't for this, it would be impossible for Da Song to reach the current situation in just a few years.

In this era, nine-year compulsory education, medical insurance, pension insurance, and unemployment insurance can appear, which is absolutely unimaginable.

But now in the Great Song Dynasty, there are indeed quite a few people who don't even understand what these insurance concepts are enjoying these benefits.

And this is all brought about by Zhao Dongting's New Deal. He tried every means to collect money from various places, and then used it for the people, so he was able to work hard.

Even though the New Year's Eve has passed, Crescent Island is still as lively as ever.

Standing at the port, you can see densely packed overseas sailing ships.These sailboats are of different colors and styles, and they are densely arranged on the sea, almost covering the sky and the sun.

The spacious official road leading directly from the port to the island is also full of vehicles, horses and pedestrians.

There are wealthy businessmen, ordinary people, martial artists, and all kinds of foreigners.

As the largest maritime trade city in the Song Dynasty, the Dongsha Islands have undergone earth-shaking changes in just three years.

in the city.

Soldiers wearing armor and holding Shenlong guns can be seen patrolling back and forth on the street.

There are also hawkers who live on this island, setting up stalls to sell small items made by themselves.It looks very ordinary, but some of them were actually murderous pirates.

Now the people on the island are no strangers to these foreigners, and they can even speak some foreign daily language more or less.

All kinds of languages ​​with different pronunciations rang chaotically in this noisy street.

This picture is even more lively than the painting of Qingming Shanghe Tu.

It wasn't until the evening that the hustle and bustle of the city gradually dissipated.

The hawkers went home one after another with their own burdens.

Except for those shops that were open day and night, the rest of the shops also closed their doors one after another.

But the city gate was not closed.

The gates of Crescent Island City were never closed at night.

If you look at the city from a high place, you can find that except for two streets that are still brightly lit, the rest of the place is gradually being swallowed by darkness.

In this darkness, the shadows of houses can be vaguely seen.

sub city.

There are still some lights on here.

Most of Crescent Island's official offices, as well as official residences in the city, are located in this sub-city.

The gates of each city are guarded by soldiers with torches.The torch fluttered gently with the night wind.

The outer city of Crescent Island has never been under martial law, but the inner city has always been heavily guarded.

As the night was getting darker, the guards didn't notice that dozens of black shadows sneaked into the city from all over.

All of them have good cultivation, appearing and disappearing like ghosts and ghosts, crossing the city wall as if walking on the ground, silently.

With the vigilance of ordinary defenders, it is really not easy to find such a master.

"There are assassins!"

However, within a few minutes of these dozens of men in black rushing into the city, they were finally discovered by the secret sentries arranged in the city.

There was an exclamation.

Then the sub-city became almost brightly lit at an extremely fast speed.

The horn sounded.

All the government offices and mansions were lit up quickly.

The defenders in the sub city also moved accordingly.

There are social security offices or sentry boxes under the jurisdiction of the Social Security Bureau in every street, and upon hearing such noises, soldiers with torches and Shenlong blunderbuss will run out soon.

With Zhao Dongting promulgating the imperial decree to distribute Shenlong blunderbuss to the defenders in various places, the defenders in the social security bureaus of the Song Dynasty now have the right to issue guns.The combat power is not comparable to before.

This was undoubtedly beyond the expectations of the dozens of men in black.

Even though they were well-cultivated, it was difficult to hide their whereabouts when the defenders in the entire sub-city were in motion.

"Who is coming! Hurry up and catch him!"

There was such a voice in the street.

However, those men in black didn't care about the shouts of the defenders, they still rushed on the roof and headed for the depths of the city.

Their trip was clearly very targeted.

Looking at their whereabouts, the low-ranking generals of the various social security offices changed slightly one after another.

Apart from the major government offices, the inner circle of Zicheng is the mansions of the top officials on Crescent Island.

Although these high officials may not be considered anything in the entire imperial court, in this Crescent Island, they are people who can really change the sky of Crescent Island by stomping their feet.

Hong Niangzi, the head of Crescent Island's special envoy, and Diaozhu, the commander of the Dikui army and comfort envoy, and his wife also live in the depths of this city.

If they were assassinated...

Just thinking about it is enough to make these Social Security officers shudder.

That was a big event enough to change the entire Crescent Island.

"shot!"

"shot!"

Thinking of this, the generals no longer bothered to investigate the origins of these assassins, and all shouted loudly.

Gunshots exploded suddenly in the night.

Clusters of sparks emerged.

A man in black screamed and rolled from the roof to the ground after being shot.

There was the sound of bricks falling to the ground.

The defenders below rushed forward and surrounded the man in black who had fallen to the ground.

The man in black is no longer alive.

A defender stepped forward and took off the black scarf covering his face, turned his head with a little surprise, and said, "General, you are from Dongdao!"

"quick!"

Hearing the words, the general said in succession, "Follow the general to the governor's mansion!"

After finishing speaking, he ran towards the mansion of Hong Niangzi and Diabolo.

While running, he hummed again and again, "These thieves are really here."

In the entire inner city, there are not a few defenders of the Social Security Bureau who lead troops like this general to gather at Hong Niangzi and Diabolo's mansion.

But at this time, the mansion of Hong Niangzi and Diabolo is actually not peaceful.

It was from the moment the horn sounded that the red lady and diabolo were already awakened from their sleep.

Just sitting up from the bed, the two looked at each other.

Diabolo smiled and said, "Young lady, why don't you guess if East Island has sent assassins?"

The red lady's wonderful eyes slightly annoyed him, and said: "You have made such a big commotion on the East Island, except for them wanting to kill you, who else can it be?"

"Ha ha!"

Diabolo smiled lightly, "Let's get up and see how hard they are willing to go to kill me."

In fact, although the defense of Crescent Island City was considered strict in the past, it was far from this level.

The defenders of the Social Security Bureau in the city were able to escape in such a short period of time, all because Diabolo had already issued an order to make the defenders of the Social Security Bureau strictly guard against assassins.

He knew that after suffering so much under his hands, he would not let it go easily.

And Dong Dao probably didn't have the courage to send troops to attack Song Dynasty, so the most likely thing was to assassinate him, the "instigator".

It's not like they haven't used such tricks before.Didn't the emperor send people to assassinate him when he was parading in Lin'an?

(End of this chapter)