Your Majesty the Empress, I am really not a traitor!

"The executioner is a special candidate of the church. According to our investigation, most of the executioners abroad are missionaries. They use missionary reasons to enter countries and perform tasks assigned by the Holy See."

In Xia Yuxiao's study room, Lingyan held a document in her hand and read the contents for the two "adults" - Xia Yuxiao and Qin Ji.

"Most of these people are absolutely loyal fanatics carefully selected by the church. They were originally used as single combat units against alien species, but with the expansion of the church's power, they are now also responsible for internal cleaning of the church and some external assassinations. task."

"According to the information we have received, there are currently no large-scale executioners entering our country. However, individual executioners have been mixed in. Before this war against the church, we were the only ones in Tai'an City. There are quite a few people who have been found to be in contact with the executioners. Among them, in some chambers of commerce, there are executioners living there directly, and it took a lot of effort to arrest those guys."

The executioners are the ceiling level of the church's internal combat power, and the process of arresting them at the Gray Scale was not particularly smooth. When the deputy commander led the team to arrest them for the first time, they even lost two scale guards.

After the news was known to Lingyan, she decisively changed her strategy and carried out a round of major upgrades to the executioner's equipment.And put forward a rigid requirement: when capturing the enemy, the team members are not allowed to leave the team to act alone.

The subsequent two executioners were basically not killed when they were caught. Although these guys were indeed powerful in combat, they faced the scale guards who had also been trained by the devil. It is basically difficult for resistance to cause too much damage.

"Infiltration has already appeared, I expected this point," Qin Ji said, "But, besides that, did you ask anything else?"

"Sorry, we have been interrogating for many days. These three executioners were very tight-lipped and didn't say anything. Later, we interrogated the peripheral members of the church who communicated with them to understand their intentions. Judging from the information we have obtained so far , the current purpose of the church is to cooperate with the neighboring countries of Daxia, so as to suppress our country's development and foreign strategy."

"So they sent these three people to Tai'an City, and prepared a whole set of intelligence team." Qin Ji glanced at the materials, and then said, "Look, Your Majesty, what happened in Samanjan, if we don't It’s hard to guarantee what will happen if we act in time. The cleanup of Tai’an City this time is also considered a good thing.”

The cleansing of Tai'an City and other areas by the Gray Scale Office before the war did cause panic among many Daxia citizens and courtiers, but relatively, most of the people arrested this time were not wrong, and it was precisely because they were relatively Thoroughly, the subsequent military mobilization of Daxia was not seen through by the enemy.

"It is indeed a good thing. Thinking about it now, we have always lacked a sufficiently professional intelligence team."

In fact, it is not that Daxia does not have a team engaged in intelligence and assassination, but before the appearance of Huilin, this task is often a temporary appointment, sometimes it is a follower of the dragon guard, sometimes it is a person selected from the army, and sometimes It is a civil servant.There is no one team who is really fully responsible for this matter.

"Your Majesty, I suggest to expand the Gray Scale and place its eyeliner in various important places in the Great Xia. Of course, this is just a stopgap measure to stabilize the regime in the next period of time." Qin Ji said.

"I know," Xia Yuxiao nodded, "If Da Xia wants long-term peace and stability, he can't just rely on the unconventional monitoring methods of the Huilin Office. After all, he must form his own system in the future."

Now the gray scale can be used as a knife for her to stabilize power, but if a country wants to develop truly and stably for a long time, it is not a long-term solution to rely on the knife to hold everyone's back.

Chapter 54 Two Royal Meals

All morning, Qin Ji sat with Xia Yuxiao to discuss political affairs.

Although this is work, both Qin Ji and Xia Yuxiao found that during the process of discussing and processing, the efficiency and status seemed to be very compatible.

As for Lingyan, after she finished her report, she continued to deal with her own business.Her official duties have little to do with political affairs, and she is basically trying cases.

Finally, proposed by Qin Ji, the two finally checked the general direction of the armistice agreement with Samanjan.

In fact, there are not many controversial points left in this matter. It is a certainty that the king of Samanjan will be sent back to be re-supported. In terms of territory, Daxia cannot easily give up several important places.For example, the gold mine that Qin Ji seized before.

The most important remaining issue is how to deal with the refugees in Samanjan.

During the course of the war, Qin Ji had asked the armies of Daxia and Daxi to ensure that they would not affect the common people as much as possible, but war is war after all, and it is impossible not to affect the lives of ordinary people at all.

The Church suffered setbacks in counter-offensive and defense. In order to organize an effective line of defense to delay Daxia, the Church and Samanjani politicians continued to squeeze the survival resources and manpower of the people in areas closer to the front line.

People in many places even have no food for the winter - because they were urgently requisitioned by the army of Samanjan.

Since it is going to support a king, it is impossible for Daxia to let a large number of people starve to death in exile.Therefore, it is time to make a decision as soon as possible regarding the situation of dealing with refugees.

Qin Ji's idea is that Daxi Kingdom will provide a certain amount of food seeds and deliver them to the refugees. In the spring of the next year, Daxia will send personnel to assist the refugees in reclamation and cultivation of wasteland.At the same time, from the existing granary in Samanjan, the country's grain storage is allocated to help these refugees survive the winter.

In addition, it is best for Daxia to provide a certain amount of food trade, so that Samanjan can use domestic minerals or spirit stones to trade-in the future, with Daxia's in-depth research on these things sent by the Weixi Empire and Putting it into use, spirit stones are definitely a major consumption that cannot be avoided, so there is no harm in stocking up more in advance.

This proposal was rejected by Xia Yuxiao.

"Although the food reserves in Daxia are abundant at present, food is the lifeblood of our people. We don't know what will happen next year. If the food reserves are insufficient by that time, let alone meet the consumption of the army, even disaster relief may not be enough. What do you think? That's good, but we can't ignore the basic interests of the people in our country."

Xia Yuxiao pointed out the error of his idea in this way.

Faced with Xia Yuxiao's correction, Qin Ji didn't hold back. What's more, what Xia Yuxiao said was indeed reasonable. Since this suggestion is not good, it's better to change it.

Soon, the corresponding issue of resettlement of refugees in Samanjan was finalized after two discussions. Daxia decided to directly throw the blame for the food problem of the refugees to the church. Of course, it does not mean that the church does not care about it. Watching the people of Samanjan starve to death in this winter.

While throwing the pot to the church, Daxia will also cleanse the nobles and officials in Samanjan, and use their family property and grain storage to exchange for foreign trade for grain to support the refugees for the winter.

As for whether the church will be so thick-skinned that it refuses to distribute even a little relief food, that is not what Daxia considers. Anyway, Daxia should liquidate the Samanjan officials, and change the food if it needs to be exchanged. The church It would be better to distribute relief food, which reduces the burden of disaster relief.If he had the cheek to ignore it, then the church's posture of messing up the country and finally letting go of it would more or less add black material to him.

Although the church-state generally dare not expose the black material of his church.

After finishing today's cooperative office, Xia Yuxiao simply invited her to eat lunch together.

"I didn't expect that I could eat imperial meals twice a day."

Looking at the exquisite stew served, Qin Ji couldn't help but let out a sigh of emotion.

Although I have received imperial meals as rewards before, but eating imperial meals with the emperor twice a day is really a rare favor.

"What's so strange about this, I'm not asking you to eat something good that you can't eat." Xia Yuxiao gave him a white look, and then picked up a piece of her favorite stewed meat.

"Indeed." Lingyan echoed from the side.

This is indeed not a good thing that cannot be eaten. In fact, judging from the current two meals, although Xia Yuxiao's food is definitely much better than that of ordinary people in Daxia, but for the supreme ruler of a country, It is already considered a relatively simple style. Four dishes are placed there, plus a plate of exquisite snacks and a cup of tea to solve the lunch.

"I didn't expect, Your Majesty, do you eat these every day?"

This is very different from what I ate when I was entertaining others.

"Why, do you still think that I eat wild game every day, stuffing venison, bear's paw, bird's nest and shark's fin into my mouth all day?" Xia Yuxiao waved her hand, "The back kitchen used to have this regulation, but I calculated it carefully. Forget it, if things go on like this, one meal of mine can eat up the expenses of ordinary people for several months. There is nothing wrong with having this money, even if it is replaced by ordinary meals, this meal of mine is enough to survive many people who are about to die of starvation gone."

"Besides, the taste of these dishes is no worse than those of mountain delicacies."

After finishing speaking, Xia Yuxiao stopped talking and concentrated on eating her own food with her head down.

Qin Ji naturally had nothing to say, he silently looked at the emperor in front of him eating happily, smiled, greeted Lingyan at the next table, and started eating together.

"Let me tell you about Qin Ji, don't think that these things are not on the table. In the past, the founder of the country used to ask the trusted ministers around the table to eat these things to do business. Do you remember when I was with the late emperor when I was a child? "

"Remember, Your Majesty."

Qin Ji—the former Qin Ji, although he was not very close to Xia Yuxiao when he was young, he still knew some things about Xia Yuxiao. Xia Yuxiao was trained by the late emperor for a while when he was a child , during that time she lived in the late emperor's palace, and ate with the late emperor.

"The food his old man eats is the kind of ostentatious dishes. There are many dishes, and most of them can't be served in the first time. They are basically left for a while. The taste is really bad, and some are even reheated. "

"The first emperor didn't like food either, but at that time those old ministers always wanted the first emperor to keep the emperor's favor, so he couldn't get rid of those ostentations. Later, the first emperor simply took me to the back kitchen to cook by himself. Small stove."

Xia Yuxiao took a mouthful of tofu that was burnt on the outside and tender on the inside, and continued after swallowing it.

"The first emperor is indeed a good cook."

Qin Ji was still deeply impressed by this. Because the late emperor had been fighting abroad all year round, he would often set up a stove in the wild and arrange some ingredients to make something to eat.Sometimes, when he has leisure time, the old man even likes to fry a candy for fun.

"So, I'm used to it. I don't think those grand ostentations are necessary. It costs money and it's not delicious. If you think it suits your appetite, you can come over and eat more in the future. Anyway, I can't finish all these dishes by myself. , you two can help me eliminate it."

......

how to say.

Why do I feel that the image of Your Majesty is a bit different from the one in the previous court...

Chapter 55 Lida Brick Fly

Facts have proved that these things provided by the Weixi Empire are indeed of great help to the development of Great Xia.

The celestial masters of the Tianshifu were very interested in those furnace hearts. At Xia Yuxiao's request, they immediately started research on the furnace cores, and the progress of the research was not too slow. At least, they were only studying Two weeks later, some celestial masters gave their own opinions.

The opinions provided by Tianshi are very reliable. They suggested that this kind of furnace core can be used for transportation on the battlefield in Daxia. In a carriage without horses, a crossbar controls the direction of the carriage.

It can be used, but so far it has only proved that this thing can be used, and it is very difficult to apply it in practice-this furnace heart eats spirit crystals at a slightly faster speed. Although spirit crystals are indeed not rare minerals, if there is a large demand, It is definitely in short supply, how can ordinary people use spirit crystals as firewood for fun every day...,

Moreover, the speed of this "automatic carriage" is not flattering. To put it bluntly, it can run faster than a human being pulling a carriage.However, as a new gadget, it must be in urgent need of perfection when it first comes out.

What really interested Qin Ji and Lingyan was that the celestial masters in the celestial master's mansion discovered that after they strengthened it with Daxia's special formation, the efficiency of the hearth could be greatly improved.

The cost of this formation is naturally not suitable for civilian use, and there are very few people in Daxia who know how to arrange formations and supply spiritual energy. Basically, those who have that ability are used by the court, and the cost is slightly higher.

However, in the military field, the effect of this thing can be said to be quite useful.

Since ancient times, Daxia has never feared anyone in terms of war.However, with the development of the times, Daxia is now facing a very embarrassing situation:

In today's Great Xia, there are no air units.

In the west, there are dragon knights and griffin knights as air units, and they are basically the elite soldiers.Assisted with their spells, they can greatly attack enemies on the ground in the air.

And some countries have even developed armor that allows soldiers to fly in the air. Although the time spent in the air is not long, it is enough to form an advantage.

But Daxia is a strange thing. From ancient times to the present, although Daxia has mastered some clever things that can fly, almost none of them can be used as things that can actually be put into the battlefield.

A few profound practitioners can fly through spells, as well as the very representative flying with a sword.But this is a small number of people after all, the number of profound practitioners is small, the most valuable way to use it is to provide magic output, provide buffs for the team and suppress the enemy.If a group of profound practitioners were allowed to fly around in the sky, the ability to suppress the enemy would be reduced a lot.

Therefore, Daxia's air combat units have always been equal to zero.And the main reason why he was able to compete with those enemies with air units was that Da Xia had distorted the technology tree——

Since labor and capital don't have air units, I'll let you have no air units either.

Daxia's philosophy is air defense, and it does not pursue combat capabilities in the air, but chooses to use crossbows on the ground to suppress air units.Due to the country's frantic crossbow technology and array technology, they can even form a dense arrow rain in the air with the blessing of the array.

In addition to this, the soldiers of Daxia will also place a lot of paper kites on the battlefield. The iron wires hung by these "paper kites" can stop those air units that pass quickly across the battlefield, and at least lose their balance and fall or stagnate. Then hit the iron wire directly and cause disability or death.

However, this is just a stopgap measure.

Now, seeing that this kind of furnace core can greatly improve the efficiency under the blessing of a large formation, Tianshi Mansion has a bold idea:

If we use the Riding Wind Formation to match this thing, does that mean we can send a big thing into the sky?

The celestial master is the celestial master, and these guys really do what they say. Although they haven't actually made it, they have drawn detailed drawings for Xia Yuxiao and Qin Ji to see.

When seeing the blueprint, Qin Ji let out a gasp.

I am super!Air Battleship!

What he saw on the blueprint was a big ship, and the whole ship was a huge magic circle carrying platform, and this huge magic circle combined with the aura transformation of the furnace heart formed a giant flying monster in the air .

The consumption of spirit stones is still within an acceptable range. Moreover, because it is large enough, this aerial monster can also be equipped with a lot of things such as magic crystal cannons and fixed heavy crossbows. It can also perform spells and spells from high to low. The pouring of arrows.

Good stuff, good stuff!

but......

When Qin Ji looked at the estimated cost on the back of the picture, his scalp tingled a little.This is too expensive. Daxia is not so rich now. If it really starts to be put into practice, Qin Ji feels that with the current financial resources, it is already thankful to be able to build two or three ships.After all, Daxia needs money everywhere now.

On the contrary, Xia Yuxiao seemed very determined. After confirming to Qin Ji that this thing was theoretically feasible, she immediately ordered the Tianshi Mansion to study this monster, and ordered to recruit skilled craftsmen from all over the world to help build it.

"The world is chaotic, only the strong soldiers can benefit the invincible."

She said so.

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On a snowy day, the goose feather snow floating outside seems to swallow the whole world.