Today is the king who is focused on making extra money... Anyway, Yu...

In fact, Gui Yang should bear a great responsibility for this matter. After all, it was his decision to send the person before the king without a thorough investigation.

At first, I just wanted to find a few people who knew how to farm and give them to the king. It would be better to have an agricultural official. Who would have known that such a small agricultural official would have a heart that wanted to turn the world upside down?

The occurrence of divine punishment at this time was simply an opportunity for the princes to rebel openly. Gui Yang was filled with hatred when she thought about the big incident that almost happened.

He asked the servant to come close to his ear and gave him a few instructions. Then the servant quietly left to do something.

He brought the remaining retainers back to his mansion. He would be going to the East China Sea in two days and had no time to waste on those trivial matters.

After returning to the palace, Shen Zhiwei took a nap. When she woke up, Hu Youan told her some bad news.

Nong Xi committed suicide in prison out of fear of punishment and hanged himself with a belt.

"He did have some integrity, but with his death, all information about the spies has been completely cut off. It's my fault for not doing my job well. Please punish me, Your Majesty."

"If he wants to die, he can die anyway. You can't keep staring at him." Shen Zhiwei waved his hands in a daze, without any anger at all.

The person she had just met at noon died within two hours. It was not the first time that Shen Zhiwei heard the news of someone's death. She had even seen the corpse with her own eyes, but she still could not adapt to the speed of death.

Even catching the subway to go to get off work is not this fast.

Hu Youan didn't think the matter was simple.

"Your Majesty, before Nong Xi died, he once saw the retainers around the Grand Astrologer..."

Hu Youan actually thought that Nong Xi was killed by Taibuyang's people.

Hu Youan thought about the fact that all those slaves were sent to the king by Taibu Yang, and he felt that Taibu Yang might have some shameful thoughts.

Shen Zhiwei thought of Taibu Yang, who knelt before the palace gate to apologize, and said, "No way! His mind is smaller than a needle tip."

Shen Zhiwei always felt that Taibu Yang was not a good person.

In this era where everyone values ​​bloodline and origin, he hangs out with a group of rangers and uses those rangers to kill and poison people. Anyone who is good at using such methods is destined not to be a positive character.

For a vicious person, after being cheated, his first reaction is to retaliate.

Hu Youan was reminded by Shen Zhiwei's words. She also thought of Taibu Yang kneeling down in front of the palace gate to apologize. This was a very embarrassing thing.

"Even if he's seeking revenge for personal gain, he should have waited until Nong Xi revealed who's behind him before taking action!"

Hu Youan had no objection to Gui Yang's revenge on Nong Xi. She was just dissatisfied that the other party took action before Nong Xi confessed everything, which affected intelligence gathering.

Shen Zhiwei's lips moved slightly, but he didn't say anything to complain, but his heart was already flooded with thoughts.

As an official, you secretly ordered the execution of a criminal, openly and honestly. Are you only concerned with intelligence? Have you ever cared about the laws that this official was trampling under his feet during this period?

Hahaha, that’s right. Now is not the time to govern the country according to law. How can legal norms compare to moral etiquette?

Revenge is an act that conforms to moral principles and ethics. Even if Gui Yang personally took a sword and went to the prison to kill Nong Xi, no one would come forward to stop her, because Nong Xi's behavior was very bad. He took advantage of theocracy and wanted to use theocracy to suppress royal power.

This behavior is almost as serious as treason in later generations. As Gui Yang was half the recommender of Nong Xi, if Shen Zhiwei blamed her, Gui Yang would be the first to bear the brunt. With such deep hatred, Gui Yang even wanted to cut Nong Xi into pieces.

"Your Majesty, Gui Yang looks kind but is cruel at heart. He is not a virtuous person. If we leave the affairs of the East China Sea to him, I'm afraid something will go wrong."

Hu Youan has dealt with Gui Yang several times, and she has come to understand Gui Yang. She pretends to be a decent person on the outside, but is actually a villain without moral integrity.

The king trusts this person and may be harmed by him in the future.

"Except for him, there is no one suitable to do it. Youan, you can't go to the East China Sea."

Shen Zhiwei didn't have to use Gui Yang, but she had no one else to use.

When she was at the farm before, she had no one available, so even though she knew that Nong Xi, the former agricultural official, was a person with ulterior motives, she still had to use him.

If Meng Nu had not been found, Shen Zhiwei might not have attacked Nong Xi at this time. She would have waited until the first batch of grain was harvested. At that time, she would have the food and the confidence to support her own people.

Moreover, compared to virtuous and loyal people, Shen Zhiwei would rather use a villain like Gui Yang. She doesn't want to die before the special event comes to an end, nor does she want to live to the end.

Villains are good. In order to climb up, villains will do things with all their might. In special events, villains are the best tools. When she wants to destroy the country, villains will also become useful tools.

If he is a gentleman, then when her country is destroyed, it would be bad if he sacrificed his life for the country or fought with his life.

Shen Zhiwei couldn't bear to see that kind of scene.

The more Shen Zhiwei used Gui Yang, the more convenient it became, completely disregarding the possibility that Gui Yang might betray him. After hearing what Shen Zhiwei said, Hu Youan lowered his head in shame.

It was her incompetence that put the king in an awkward situation where he had no one to rely on and had to rely on a villain.

She needs to work harder. The king is surrounded by tigers and wolves. She must become the sharpest sword in the king's hand and kill the tigers and wolves with the sword!

Hu Youan secretly clenched her fists. She already had a plan in mind. She must train the remaining 500 soldiers well!

"I will not let Your Majesty suffer this humiliation again. Your Majesty, I beg Your Majesty to agree to lead the troops to attack Taisheng!"

Taisheng City is located between Jingchang City and the East China Sea. That place was originally the territory of the Zhou emperor, but now it is occupied by a prince with the surname Si and has become the Sheng State.

It was a very small country, but because the Marquis of Taisheng was closely related to the king of Bian State and had the support of Bian State, no one dared to invade Taisheng so far.

When the former king was alive, he would sometimes sigh at that small piece of land. Although the country was very small, it occupied the area of ​​Tai River, which was accessible to the whole world, and had several ferry crossings and docks.

Jingchang’s goods will be sold to various places in Taisheng, and most of the goods sold to Jingchang from various places will go through Taisheng.

Tai Sheng is small but very rich because it makes a profit from the price difference between middlemen.

"Why do you suddenly want to attack Taisheng?" Shen Zhiwei was puzzled. Why did the topic suddenly turn to war?

"If we have salt fields in the future, we need ways to sell them to various places."

Hu Youan's reasons are very legitimate and necessary.

Shen Zhiwei was in a dilemma. She didn't want to make any trouble. She just wanted to wait for the special event to be over, get the achievement points as rewards, and then lie low until the rebels came to attack her, become the king of a fallen country, and finally go home.

"How can we fight? And how can we defend?"

Shen Zhiwei did not directly express his inner thoughts, but asked sharply.

Her meaning was very clear. If they really took the city with only a few hundred soldiers, could such a small number of people defend Taisheng?

Shen Zhiwei was even suspicious. As soon as they captured Taisheng, the Bian Kingdom sent troops to rob it. Which prince who wanted to rule the world would not be tempted by such a commercial city with developed transportation?

No one took action before, simply because it was too close to Jingchang, it was not appropriate to use force, and there was no legitimate reason.

As soon as Taisheng fell, the king of Bian State could come under the banner of revenge for Marquis Taisheng.

Not to mention that it was natural for the emperor to recover the land, the princes were now just one step behind the veil. The emperor? The emperor was just one of the weak princes with a special title.

Shen Zhiwei was madly complaining about the madness of this idea in his heart, while Hu Youan felt more and more that Tai Sheng must be defeated.

"Your Majesty, why do we need to defend the city? Who dares to come and fight with you for the city? Tai Sheng's soldiers are not many, only about 2,000, and they are all scattered and guerrillas. It will not be difficult to capture the city. Tai Sheng has no ability to resist. Five hundred men are more than enough to suppress their resistance. This battle will be won!"

Shen Zhiwei was worried that Bianguo would attack, but Hu Youan never thought that Bianguo would take action from the beginning to the end.

If the Bian State wanted to take action, it would have done so before. The reason it hasn't done so yet is that it doesn't dare to do so.

Nowadays, the big countries are restraining each other. Every time a fight breaks out, it is between the big countries and the small countries. The outcome is naturally the destruction of the small country. The big country swallows up the small country and digests it for a long time before taking any action again.

If they attack the cities near Jingchang, it means they want to raise their flags and rebel directly. The other major powers will surely join forces to completely destroy that country.

Hu Youan was afraid that Shen Zhiwei would disagree, so she began to explain the situation of all parties in a simple and easy-to-understand way, trying to get Shen Zhiwei to agree with her idea of ​​sending troops.

Shen Zhiwei listened to Hu Youan's words and closed his mouth silently. He seemed to be listening carefully to Hu Youan's analysis of the strength comparison between Taisheng and Jingchang, but in fact his thoughts had drifted far away.

She really didn't have the patience to listen carefully to this kind of military class. She was not very interested in modern times, and she couldn't feel involved in ancient times. Listening to military classes was like listening to a foreign language.

To be honest, it has been a month since he came here, but Shen Zhiwei still hasn't recognized all the vassal states within the Great Zhou.

There are too many of them, over a hundred in total, big and small. Sometimes there is one more today and one less tomorrow, and they are updated in real time. Who can remember them all?

It was because Tai Sheng was too close that Shen Zhiwei could remember him instantly.

Hu Youan was talking until his mouth was dry, and he paused to listen to Shen Zhiwei's opinion.

Shen Zhiwei came back to his senses and met Hu Youan's expectant eyes, just like when he was distracted and playing with his phone in class, and was suddenly called on by the professor to answer a question.

At that moment, the familiar panic occupied his mind, and Shen Zhiwei's palms were sweating anxiously.

You're such a jerk! Speak up! Anything's fine, don't be so awkward!

"...In short, the advantage is mine."

Hu Youan had never heard of the word "advantage", let alone this joke.

"You" means sufficient and wealthy. Applying this sentence, it is not difficult to understand the meaning of "advantage", that is, Jingchang is stronger than Taisheng.

Hu Youan's eyes curved with a smile, and he bowed and said, "I will live up to your expectations, Your Majesty. Once the East Sea Salt Fields are completed, Taisheng will surely become the land of the Son of Heaven."

Huh? Are you sure?

Shen Zhiwei was a little worried when she thought of this.

But never mind, just don't let her go to class.

Shen Zhiwei now puts all her energy into the special event, and with a month and a half left until the end, she is already looking forward to the extra money coming in.