Chapter 863 The Biggest Surprise
After opening Shi Lei's report, the content mainly reported the details to him.
Among them, Xie Liancheng has woken up after being in a coma for a night and is not in danger of life, which made Zhou Xu breathe a sigh of relief.
At the end of the report, Shi Lei undoubtedly mentioned the situation in Pingyuan City.
This time, with the annexation of Liang State, the total population of their Great Zhou increased by more than 20,000.
As a former border city of the Liang State, Pingyuan City had a relatively small total population of only more than 3,000 people. However, during the invasion of the greenskins, only less than 1,000 people escaped to Yuancheng alive.
Among them, it is no exaggeration to say that the 500 garrison troops that the Great Zhou Dynasty had stationed in Pingyuan City were almost completely wiped out.
Coupled with the casualties of their Great Zhou cavalry in the subsequent battle of Yuancheng, this wave of losses was not small.
According to Shi Lei, the presence of the greenskins is likely to turn the location of Plain City into a high-risk area.
Now Plain City has become an empty city anyway. In this case, it would be better to transform Plain City into a fortress specifically for storing troops and comprehensively upgrade the city's defense level. In the future, it will be able to show better results whether resisting the attacks of greenskins or dwarves.
Obviously, after the incident, Shi Lei thought about it carefully and figured out what happened. He didn't dare to think too highly of those dwarves.
It has to be said that Shi Lei and he thought the same thing on this matter.
After experiencing this greenskin invasion, the risks of Plain City can no longer be ignored. Instead of continuing to develop it as a city, it would be better to transform it into a border fortress to further improve the border defense level.
Of course, to achieve this, the mobilization of a large number of workers and the injection of financial funds are both necessary.
At this moment, Zhou Xu has already started looking through the next project arrangements for their Great Zhou.
The project of transforming Plain City into Plain Fortress will have a direct impact on the safety of their Great Zhou's New North District. Its importance is unquestionable and it must be started as soon as possible.
For this reason, some projects in the queue will have to be postponed, and the financial funds on hand will have to be readjusted.
In addition, although the specific list of soldiers who died in the war has not yet been released, a portion of the pension that needs to be paid will undoubtedly need to be set aside in advance to avoid too much financial pressure and a lack of funds to make timely payments.
This area has such a huge impact that absolutely no mistakes are allowed.
As a result, the financial resources within their Great Zhou suddenly became tight.
Not only do many projects need to be postponed, but the financial funding for some ongoing projects also needs to be appropriately cut.
Of course, with limited financial funds, how to adjust and coordinate the funds to make the money flow is not his concern.
"Go give this to the Minister of Finance and ask him to write an adjustment plan as quickly as possible."
The specific calculations and adjustments will be handled by the Minister of Finance. He only needs to mark out the projects that can be postponed and the projects that are so important that funding cannot be cut.
After receiving the document sent directly from their Majesty to the Ministry of Finance, the Minister of Finance took a look at it, put it down, and scratched his head vigorously.
He scratched off a few hairs invisibly, making his head a little brighter, and his expression became painful.
Their Great Zhou has many projects waiting in line, and the financial funds collected every year are often arranged clearly at the beginning of the year, without a single cent left!
Afterwards, whether it is adding new projects, adjusting the order of queued projects, or increasing new expenses, it will all have a ripple effect, and basically all projects will have to be adjusted accordingly.
Thinking of this, the Finance Minister felt even more painful.
“Aaaaaaaaaaah!!!”
Inside the department, a sudden loud shouting sounded sad and angry, yet also a bit mournful. It scared the newcomers so much that their hands trembled and the documents scattered all over the floor.
“W-What’s going on?!”
Compared to the frightened newcomers, the old staff in the department were very calm. Many of them didn't even raise their heads, their attention completely focused on the documents in front of them.
This can't help but make the newcomers even more confused.
Just when he didn't know what to do, the senior who was in charge of guiding him rolled his eyes.
"It's the minister who's calling. It happens all the time. You'll get used to it."
“…”
Then time quietly turned into winter.
This winter, Zhou Xu did not stay in the imperial palace in Xianyang City, but rushed to Xinbei District.
Now that the territory has been occupied, subsequent development will certainly be necessary. For this purpose, he must first inspect the situation and make plans for subsequent development.
Starting from Anling City and after passing through the border city of Xinbei District, Zhou Xu headed straight for 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, trying to save trouble the whole time.
The internal planning of the city here can only be described as average. According to his ideas, these cities will have to be rebuilt from scratch.
The palace was built quite decently, but you could also tell it was a bit old.
Ever since they occupied Daliang City, the imperial palace has been blocked off, and not a single blade of grass or tree has been moved.
After entering the palace, Zhou Xu opened his "Eyes of Peering into Secrets" and began his treasure hunt.
Unexpectedly, the emperor of Liang was more honest than Yan Sheng. He didn't have any underground secret rooms. All the good things were hidden directly in the treasury of the palace.
In the previous wars with the State of Liang, they had never seen any true words. Zhou Xu didn't feel that strange about this, because after all, the true words themselves were not so common.
After arriving at the treasury of the Liang Palace, all the answers were revealed.
It’s not that the Liang State didn’t have the true words, but that it was just unlucky and didn’t get the complete true words.
At this moment, a pile of fragments with mantra characters attached to them were being placed in a thick treasure chest.
The copper lock that was originally on the treasure chest had been cut off by a sword from Silk standing next to it.
Stretching out his hand, Zhou Xu absorbed those mantra characters into his body one by one.
Thanks to the inclusiveness provided by his talent, so far, he has not encountered any mantra characters that are incompatible with him.
During this period, I also encountered an 'old friend', that is, the 'skeleton' phrase.
Although the Emperor of Liang obtained the phrase "skull", he had no other corresponding mantra characters to combine with it, so he still could not use it.
But when it came to Zhou Xu, the situation was different.
Although he already had this mantra phrase, repeated phrases, after absorption, can directly increase the strength of the related mantra.
He had quite a few mantras revolving around the 'skull' in his hand, which in turn strengthened him a lot.
However, what he didn't expect was that the biggest surprise of this wave was the last mantra character placed in the corner of the box...
(End of this chapter)
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