Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 863 The biggest surprise
Opening Shi Lei's report, the content inside was mainly about the detailed situation after reporting to him.

Among them, Xie Liancheng had woken up after being in a coma for a night, and his life was not in danger. This made Zhou Xu feel relieved.

At the end of the report, Shi Lei undoubtedly mentioned the situation in Pingyuan City.

This time they annexed Liang State, and their total population of the Zhou Dynasty suddenly increased by more than 20,000.

As the original border city of the Liang Kingdom, the total population of Pingyuan City was relatively small, with only more than 3,000 people. However, during the greenskin invasion, only less than 1,000 people escaped to Yuancheng alive. .

Among them, the 500 garrison arranged by Zhou Dynasty in Pingyuan City was almost completely wiped out.

Coupled with the casualties suffered by their Zhou cavalry in the subsequent battle of Yuancheng, this wave of losses was not insignificant.

According to Shi Lei's idea, the existence of green skins may turn the location of Pingyuan City into a high-risk area.

Nowadays, Pingyuan City has become an empty city. In this case, it is better to take advantage of the situation and transform Pingyuan City into a fortress specially used to store troops, and comprehensively improve the level of city defense. In the future, whether it is to resist the attacks of greenskins or dwarves, can show better results.

Obviously, after the incident, Shi Lei, who thought about it carefully, had figured out the matter and did not dare to think too much of those dwarves.

It has to be said that Shi Lei and he thought about this matter together.

After experiencing this greenskin invasion, the risks of Pingyuan City cannot be ignored. Instead of continuing to develop as a city, it is better to completely transform it into a border defense fortress, thereby further improving the border defense level.

Of course, to achieve this, the mobilization of a large amount of labor and the injection of financial funds are necessary.

At this moment, Zhou Xu had already begun to look into their upcoming project arrangements.

The project to transform Pingyuan City into Pingyuan Fortress will directly affect the safety of their Great Zhou New Taipei District. There is no doubt about its importance, and it must be started as soon as possible.

For this reason, some projects that are in the queue have to be moved back, and the financial funds on hand have to be readjusted.

In addition, although the specific list of soldiers who died in the battle has not yet been released, part of the pensions that need to be paid will undoubtedly have to be set aside in advance to avoid excessive financial pressure, insufficient funds turnover, and inability to spend in time. .

This area has too much influence and absolutely no mistakes are allowed.

After doing this, their internal financial funds in Dazhou suddenly became tense.

Not only do many projects need to be postponed, but financial funding for some ongoing projects also needs to be appropriately reduced.

Of course, with limited financial funds, he doesn't have to worry about how to adjust the schedule to make things turn around.

"Give this to the Minister of Finance and ask him to write an adjustment plan as quickly as possible."

The specific calculation adjustments are left to the Finance Minister. He can just mark projects that can be postponed and projects that are so important that funding cannot be cut and that's it.

After receiving the document sent directly from His Majesty to the Ministry of Finance, the Minister of Finance took a look at it, put down the document, and scratched his head vigorously.

A few hairs were invisibly scratched off, making his head a little brighter, and his expression became painful.

They have many projects waiting in line every year, and the financial funds collected every year are often clearly arranged at the beginning of the year, without even a single extra penny!

Afterwards, whether it is adding new projects, adjusting the order of queued projects, or adding new expenditures, it will affect the whole body, and basically all projects will have to be adjusted accordingly.

Thinking of this, the Finance Minister suddenly felt even more painful.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!!!"

Inside the department, the sudden shouting was filled with grief and anger, and it startled the newcomers. Their hands trembled, and the documents were scattered on the floor.

"What, what's going on?!" Compared to the scared newcomers, the old people in the department were very calm. Many of them didn't even raise their heads, and their attention was completely focused on what was in front of them. on the file.

This can't help but make the newcomers even more confused.

Just when he didn't know what to do, the senior who was responsible for leading him rolled his eyelids.

"It's the minister who's calling. It's a common thing, just get used to it."

"..."

Then the time quietly entered winter.

This winter, Zhou Xu did not stay at the palace in Xianyang City, but rushed to New Taipei District.

With this territory already occupied, there will definitely be further development. To this end, he will first inspect the situation and make plans for subsequent development.

Walking from Anling City, after passing through the border city of Xinbei District, Zhou Xu went straight to Daliang City.

There was no fanfare, they changed into casual clothes, and after meeting with the people arranged by Shi Lei, they entered the city in a very low-key manner, focusing on saving trouble throughout the whole process.

The internal planning of the city here can only be said to be quite satisfactory. According to his thinking, each city will have to be rebuilt again.

The palace was built quite decently, but it could be seen that it was a bit old.

Since they occupied Daliang City, the palace has been sealed off, and not a single plant or tree inside has been touched.

After entering the palace, Zhou Xu's "eye of peeping into secrets" opened and he began his treasure hunting journey.

I never thought that the emperor of the Liang Kingdom was more practical than Yan Sheng. He didn't have any underground secret rooms, and all the good things were hidden directly in the palace's treasure house.

They had never seen any mantras in the previous war with Liang State. Zhou Xu couldn't say how strange this was, after all, mantras themselves were not that bad.

After arriving at the treasure house of the Liang Palace, all the answers were revealed.

It’s not that the Liang Kingdom has no mantra, but it’s just that it was too unlucky to obtain a complete mantra.

At this moment, a bunch of fragments attached to the mantra characters were being placed together in a thick treasure box.

The copper lock that was originally fastened to the treasure chest had been chopped off by Silk's sword beside him.

Stretching out his hand, Zhou Xu inhaled the mantra characters into his body one by one.

Thanks to the tolerance provided by his talent, so far, he has never encountered a mantra character that does not suit him.

During this period, I also met an 'old friend', which was the phrase 'skeleton'.

Although the Emperor of Liang obtained the 'skull' phrase, he did not have the corresponding other mantra characters to combine with it, and it was still unable to be used.

But in Zhou Xu's hands, the situation was different.

Although he already has this mantra phrase, the repeated phrases can directly increase the strength of the related mantra after being absorbed.

There are a lot of mantras surrounding the 'skeleton' in his hand, which in disguise allowed him to gain a lot of strength.

However, what he didn't expect was that the biggest surprise in this wave was the last mantra character placed in the corner of the box...

(End of this chapter)