The Emperor is Above

Chapter 520 The King Is a Poor Man

The person who led the fleet was Huaimu.

After Yangwu City surrendered to Qingyi, he was no longer responsible for guarding the camp.

When Tian Bin, Beigong Yu and Chai Yong received Qing Yi's letter, Huaimu took the initiative to take on this task.

When the fleet arrived at the newly built simple dock in Gaoling, the first thing unloaded was a large amount of salt. The light green translucent crystals indicated that it was mined rock salt, which made Qing Yi extremely surprised.

Huaimu confessed honestly: "Tun Kejin, the beloved son of Master Tun Gu, was found recently when he was playing around the burial mound with Niuniu and Xing Shu.

In fact, the main contributor was Baozhu, who discovered a vein near the two mines. The old man Bai and the old man Hei arranged for people to chisel open the rock strata and mine a batch of rock salt, which turned out to be a rock salt mine with large reserves.

I learned that you, Xiaoyi, were going to build a city in the swamp, so you would definitely need a lot of salt, so you asked me to bring the first batch of salt here."

After finding out the exact location of the rock salt vein, Qing Yi wanted to slap himself. Isn't this the place where the rebel giant ape captured pangolins and licked the crystallized salt on their scales?

Since the pangolin's scales are covered with a thick layer of salt, it means that there are salt mines in the mountain. Unfortunately, I was only concerned about the five-color copper and red-refined copper mines at the time, but accidentally ignored the existence of rock salt mines.

Salt mines are like gold mines in the Northern Wilderness, and are also part of the foundation of Dragon City. At least Qingyi, which currently controls a population of 200,000, does not have to worry about others strangling its salt supply.

Gongsun Wu led the left camp of the Dragon City Guard to garrison Gaoling City and was also responsible for building this city. With the thousands of tree spirits left by Qinghua, Qing Yi was not worried about any danger.

With the unobstructed waterways connecting Yangwu City and Feixiong Bay, a large number of engineering equipment, manpower and materials will be transported continuously.

Compared with the fear and anxiety they felt when they went deep into the Lishui Marsh a few days ago, the soldiers of the Zhongzhou Allied Forces who returned victoriously were full of pride and sang war songs excitedly.

Even Shen Buhai and Shen Bumie, who had originally had bitter faces, finally smiled. With the achievement of annihilating the Ghost Witch Army, they finally had a reason to report to the Emperor.

Hundreds of mages in the Mage Camp were constantly debating along the way whether the Xuantian Doumu Evil-Transforming Array could be optimized, and whether it could be used in future battles against ghosts and monsters.

Qing Yi fell into deep thought. For the first time, he felt so strongly the inconvenience of transportation and communication. With the rapid expansion of the area under his control, his retainers and private armies were scattered all over the place, making it increasingly difficult to contact them.

Even though Gaoling City has very convenient water transportation to the outside world, and communications can rely on the Great Wilderness Dragon Vulture or even the Dragon Bird, it is still impossible to communicate in the first place.

Can we use the rune array to create an instant communication tool? It seems that the armored vehicle battalion of Master Tu Gu has something similar!
He asked Kui Wendou and the others to study it carefully. After Qing Yi made up his mind, he quickly regained his sunny and warm smile. Xuanwei City was already in sight ahead.

Xuanwei City, which had suffered a devastating disaster at the hands of the Ghost Witch Tribe, had long since returned to its previous tranquility. Although tens of thousands of Chinese civilians had died tragically in the attack by the Ghost Witch Tribe, the 70,000 to 80,000 survivors still had to continue living.

The dead family members and friends were buried, the injured received treatment at the medical camp, and the destroyed buildings were leveled and rebuilt.

Against this backdrop, Liu Yi's major move to take over Xuanwei City seemed to cause no commotion, and was even welcomed by the local people.

This was the reward Qing Yi received for sending people to rescue in time. Dozens of Great Wilderness Dragon Vultures and two hundred lords' private armies arrived in time when the people of Xuanwei City were most desperate.

Tens of thousands of people in Xuanwei City have long been grateful to the lord. Just as they feared the Ghost Witch Tribe in the past, they are now just as grateful to Qing Yi.

Originally, Liu Yi was still worried about the city guard Sima, fearing that the other party would have resistance in his heart and would be difficult to deal with.

Unexpectedly, this Sima and many city guards were seriously injured. After being treated by Jiang Ji, they were sent to Longcheng Fengtu for recuperation. They had no opinions at all. "Everything should be done with both kindness and force. Of course, blindly using force to oppress is not okay, and blindly showing kindness is even more unacceptable. Our rescue of Xuanwei City is a kindness, and the destruction of the 100,000-strong army of the Ghost Witch Tribe nearby is a threat.

With both kindness and power, things will go smoothly. Afterwards, Jiang Ji led the medical camp to relieve the pain of the people in Xuanwei City, which can be regarded as virtue!"

Qing Yi was in a good mood, and explained to his retainers with a smile, “We have unintentionally shown favor, authority, and virtue to the people of Xuanwei City, so it is only natural that we can take over the city smoothly.

Since the doctor who defended the city has died and the city captain has not recovered from his injuries, Brother Liu, you have to work harder and continue to guard Xuanwei City.

I will ask Mr. Nan Guoshi to come here to take charge of government affairs, so that you can relax a lot. Please pay more attention to the changes in the cities in the east."

Whether in times of prosperity or in times of chaos, the people at the bottom of society are the most miserable and are most affected. They are willing to accept protection from whoever treats them well.

It has been more than ten days since the great battle two hundred miles west of Xuanwei City ended, and the results of the two battlefields, including Yangwu City, have also been spread.

Not only was the news sent to the capital, but the details of the battle and the complete destruction of the Ghost Witch Tribe also spread quickly to the twelve cities in the northern border, the seventy-two cities in Xing State, and even to all the countries in the northern wilderness.

Qing Yi's reputation spread to the ears of every citizen, which was obviously the credit of Shi Ludan and his knights.

According to the news brought by several fat eagles, many panic-stricken people, under the secret instigation of the knights, abandoned their homes and migrated to Xuanwei City and Yangwu City regardless of the dangers.

The migrating people will be sent to the three cities by their own retainers, and when the population grows, they will gradually build new villages in the wilderness.

During Qing Yi's handling of several cities, Shangqing Yang Lezi hesitated to speak many times. Only now did he realize that the control of the monarch and the ministers in the court over the local areas had become very weak.

Especially the defenders of the twelve cities in the northern border, in order to fight against the Xianyu tribe in the past hundred years, they have been in an almost hereditary semi-independent state, which is different from other cities.

Now that the capital has no power to support them, the people here are even more helpless and have no choice but to join Qing Yi.

Since there is no power to stop Qing Yi's control over the Northern Frontier, Yang Lezi Shangqing turns his attention to his own son, perhaps he can get compensation through war puppets or something.

As a result, that night, Zhu Zhiwu, who had just recovered from his injuries, sneaked up to Qing Yi and said, "Shao Qing, Shao Qing, Yang Hu told me that his father wants him to return to the capital.

Assist the king to make a new war puppet. Although he refused, he didn't want to break up with me, so he asked me to find you to send him back to Dragon City as soon as possible."

"Oh? Brother Zhu, why doesn't Yang Hu want to return to the capital?" Qing Yi was moved by the determination of Yang Hu and Zhu Zhiwu, and asked with a faint smile on his face.

"Besides, is there any need to think about this?"

Zhu Zhiwu said unhappily, "It's not like the king doesn't have a mage camp under his command. Given the bad habit of the capital city of ranking by seniority, we would just be juniors helping out if we went there.

What's more, the king himself is a poor guy and usually has to rely on Xing Shu to use the money and materials of our grain and oil group for assistance, which can't support our daily consumption at all.

Besides, it's so much fun to fight with you, Shaoqing. I can do whatever I want. Isn't it a hundred times better than going back and being a punching bag? "

(End of this chapter)