Heaven's Formula

If you fish four or five times a day, how much should you harvest?

There is no doubt that this number will be staggeringly large.

Everyone couldn't help looking at each other—they realized for the first time that the concept of fishing had changed drastically from the moment the trawling net entered the water.

Chapter 419 Declaring War

Huiyang City, inside the State Shepherd's Mansion.

"My lord, according to the report from the spies, there is also a Jinxia City outpost on the official road from Ganzhou to Shenzhou. Our transport team disguised as a trading company was seized halfway!"

"Lord Fei, the delivery time of White River City information has been overdue for two days, do you want to reschedule?"

"The information from Anshen City has not arrived today."

"There are reports from secret agents lurking in the county that Jinxia City seems to be providing food to those towns that are short of food. But... the relief food is all seafood? My lord, I will send someone to review the accuracy of the news."

Fei Nian rubbed her forehead with some headaches, what's going on in Shenzhou?Not to mention what great things the secret agents of the Ministry of Recording have done, even the basic function of collecting intelligence is somewhat unsustainable.Is the guy Dong Zong recruited really a professional spy?

Of course, the situation was not so difficult at the beginning.

In the first two weeks, the intelligence collection work was carried out very smoothly, and the food shortage plan was also carried out in an orderly manner. It was foreseeable that in a month or two, a large-scale famine would break out in Shenzhou.If Jinxia didn't have enough food, that would undoubtedly be the best result. The Privy Council didn't even need to send troops, just relying on those 10,000+ mouths could collapse the princess's territory.

It doesn't matter if there is food in stock.If Anshen, Baihe, and several other major counties could not be kept, Jinxia's efforts in winter would be in vain.If the Privy Council enters with Liuzhou stored grain at this time, it will be the savior.In addition, whether or not the hungry people are accepted is also a challenge to Jinxia City. The princess just announced that everyone is treated equally at the New Year celebration, and now she is turning away a large number of hungry people. This is definitely a major blow to her prestige.

However, the smooth operation at the beginning seemed to have suddenly reached an inflection point. Jinxia's army began to strictly investigate all roads leading to Shenzhou, and the recovery of intelligence became intermittent.

If the official road is closed, it will make it difficult to transport materials such as silver and other materials. This is understandable for Fei Nian, but it is somewhat unreasonable that the sender has something wrong in this regard.

They did not take the official route, and there were carrier pigeons to assist in the interrogation. At the same time, there were at least two sets of teams at a transfer point, and the possibility of being wiped out was extremely low.

If it has something to do with the three princesses' coping strategies, that would be too incredible.How much control can a new regime have over the territory?What's more, apart from Jinxia, ​​other places were just captured in winter.

"Master Fei, the information about Baihe City is here!" At this moment, a subordinate quickly walked into the lobby, "There are two copies in total!"

"From White River City?" He lifted his spirits, and quickly beckoned to the other party to bring it over. Originally, the information had to be screened by the recording department first, but now there are only two copies, and he can easily read it by himself.

After unpacking the oiled paper, a bloody smell came out.

Fei Nian frowned, only to see that there were a few dark red blood stains on the two letters, it was obvious that someone had put their lives to send it to Liuzhou.

"My lord, this is..." The subordinate hesitated to speak.

"Which spy was attacked while placing the secret letter?"

In order to avoid exposing the relationship between offline and offline, this kind of large-scale information that cannot be delivered by pigeons is usually hidden in the agreed collection place, and the senders do not meet each other and do not know who the other party is.

The message was delivered after a delay of two days, and the blood on the letter may have explained the problem.

But now is not the time to worry about those spies, Fei Nian opened two bags of envelopes one after another, and poured out the contents.

One of them was sent by Pelican.

Fei Nian had some impression of this person, he was not the kind of person who walked alone, he had his own team outside, so the food burning plan of Baihe City was also entrusted to him to execute.

Fei Nian was startled when she saw the first line of words.

"I'm sure that Jinxia City has some kind of extremely convenient means of communication, which can send news across thousands of miles in an instant. Everything that happens in Baihe City can be known to the other party immediately. I hope the headquarters will be more vigilant! It is this negligence that has caused A has suffered heavy losses, if possible, please inform the spies who have sneaked into other towns as soon as possible.”

There really is such a method?

In an instant, many doubts lingering in his heart had answers.

For example, during the prison robbery in Shangyuan City, who was informing Xia Fan of the transfer of the Privy Council Guards.

For example, how did the "decisive victory over a thousand miles away" mentioned in the newspaper come true.

Being able to assign this communication method to the affairs sub-bureau of Baihe City shows that it is by no means a rare thing, and the conditions for its use are probably quite simple.

Although I don't know the specific method, the confirmation of this information alone is worth a thousand dollars!

The next piece of news is related to the demon——

"I also discovered that the wild cats in the city have become the enemy's eyeliner. I'm afraid it has nothing to do with the monster. I guess that the monsters colluding with Jinxia City are far more than two-headed dragons. When fighting Jinxia, ​​the general government must consider other than alchemists. Other powers, so as not to be plotted by evil spirits."

"In addition, Jinxia claims to be able to supply the entire Shenzhou territory. I don't know whether it is true or not. However, it is a fact that the rise in grain prices in Baihe City has stagnated. I decided to attack the grain store in advance. The outcome of this battle is unpredictable. If a certain encounters Unexpectedly, I hope that the Privy Council will take good care of my descendants as promised.”

In addition, the letter also recorded some scattered information.

For example, Jinxia mobilized the army to block the main official roads in the state, the food relief team stated that they would not give up every citizen of Baisha City, etc...

From here, Fei Nian felt the huge gap in the speed of information acquisition between the two sides.

After several batches of silver they sent were seized, they got the news of Jinxia's army's actions from the spies.Even before the general government has decided on a countermeasure, the three princesses have already started a public opinion offensive, trying to confuse the hearts of the people.

Another letter was much simpler.

There are only two paragraphs - the secret code of Baihe City has been cracked, and the hidden spies have suffered heavy losses.

The information transfer point was also confessed by the captives. They will find a way to send the rest of the information and persist until the last moment.

Fei Nian thumped the table violently.

Really the worst guess came true.

This letter also means that unless the Privy Council sends new staff, there will be no more information from Baihe City.

He refolded the first letter and pushed it in front of his subordinates, "Arrange a messenger to deliver this secret letter to His Highness the Second Prince without delay."

"Just for a letter?" The latter was stunned, "My lord, do you want to wait until tomorrow..."

"Didn't you hear what I said?" Fei Nian said coldly, "What I want is to travel day and night and deliver it alone!"

"Yes, I'll do it now!"

Not long after this person left, another official from the registration department came in, "My lord, the spies from Jinxia City have sent a new issue of the Shenjin Weekly Report."

"Put it on the table."

He didn't open the newspaper until the other party resigned. It's ridiculous to say that the most reliable information channel now is actually the public documents that come out every seven days.

But Fei Nian soon lost even this self-deprecating mood.

The title of this issue of the newspaper is "Commemorating the Heroes of Shenzhou", and there is a row of small characters below: Declare war on the usurper Ning Qianshi and the Gyeonggi Privy Council.

4 Chapter Twenty

Declare... war?

A princess entrusted to a remote place actually spoke of treason in such a righteous way?Isn't she afraid of the uproar of the people under her rule?

At this moment, Fei Nian suddenly wanted to ask the spy, what would be the first reaction of the Jinxia people after seeing this newspaper.

consternation?Fear?Avoid talking about it?

If you switch to another city, it will definitely cause panic!

After all, their opponent is the imperial court of Qiguo, and treason has always been a serious crime involving many people.

I didn't expect her to directly point it out now.

After all, the Privy Council underestimated her ambition and will.

The portrait on the front page is an ordinary scholar.Among the scholars, they are all the ones with the lowest grades-a scholar, in his 20s, with a mediocre family background, and can't see any advantages except being able to read and write.

But it is such a non-sense person who has become the "hero" in the title.He broke the spy's plan with his own life, making the attack on the Baisha Mine fall short.As far as the courage of a scholar is concerned, it is indeed rare, but is it really worth writing about?

Fei Nian is hard to understand.

On the battlefield, every person who died in battle can be said to be as courageous as him, but the history books do not record them at all, because these people are not sensitive, and they will not be crowned with the title of "hero".

If the example set by Jinxia City was Xia Fan, it would be much easier for Fei Nian to accept it.

As a person of the same age who feels angry, Xia Fan is the only one he can't judge the depth of. This feeling was very obvious when they met in Shangyuan City. In comparison, Luo Qingqing and Fang Xiandao never gave him such feelings.

What's more, he is still a good listener, regardless of prospects and strength, he is far stronger than this scholar named Huo Ying.

There is such a good role model not to be used, but an ordinary person is emphatically recommended?

If it hadn't been reported that Xia Fan had been stationed in Fengyang Villa, he would have almost wondered if there was any gap between Xia Fan and the princess.

And the next part made Fei Nian's veins twitch a little bit.

The weekly newspaper used a lot of space to describe the Privy Council as a heinous and treacherous enemy, conspiring to usurp the throne, and imprisoning the emperor.Created disasters in various parts of Shenzhou, massacred innocent people, and even burned food to create a food shortage in Shenzhou, hoping to use famine to weaken Shenzhou's resistance, in order to eliminate the last hidden danger of the royal family - the enfeoffment of Guang Her Royal Highness Princess Ping.

At the end of this paragraph, the newspaper actually used the title of "the enemy of all living beings" for the Privy Council!

"Bastard, it's really unreasonable!"

Fei Nian couldn't help cursing.

He had seldom been so outraged.

It would be fine if they were other traitors, but Xia Fan clearly knew the real purpose of the alliance of the Seven Stars Privy Council, and also knew the pressure the six countries of the Central Plains were facing.Integrating internal forces must be done as soon as possible, but Ning Wanjun added chaos to the Tianshu Envoy at this juncture—she is the real culprit, and the degree of harm can be said to be more than any previous conspirator. In order to uphold justice and bring order out of chaos, the heir to the throne?

He is not angry with the princess, nor is he angry with those ordinary people who are blind and ignorant.

He was only disappointed in Xia Fan - Qixing's efforts for the secular world of the Central Plains were not as important as a princess.

Fei Nian originally wanted to tear up the weekly report, but it was important information after all and had to be sent back to Shangyuan, so she finally endured it after thinking about it.

On the last page there was also a huge copy.

But this painting is not a portrait, but... a fish?

Fei Nian recognized it for a while before realizing that it was the Jinxia people who were handling the sea fish they had caught.The piles of "hills" in the distance turned out to be full of seafood. People handled these fresh fish with shovels and dustpans, as if they didn't care about the possibility that the tools in their hands might shovel the fish into meat.

The text below the painting confirmed his guess.

According to a weekly report, the fish production in Jinxia City is increasing steadily. Now, 20 catties of fish, shellfish, shrimps and crabs can be caught a day, and delivered to the main towns along the river the next day, while the counties in non-river counties take two to three days.Even if the enemy loses humanity and deliberately creates a famine to hit Shenzhou, as the capital of a state, the Jinxia Affairs Bureau will never let the people go hungry.

One day - 20 catties?

Fei Nian looked at it three or four times before confirming that she was not delusional.

This is an imaginary number, definitely an imaginary number!

What is the concept of 20 million?

Fishermen need hundreds of people to toss back and forth for several days to bring these fish ashore, let alone fish them out of the sea!

If Jinxia people want to have this ability, what kind of food do they need from Gaoshan County?

But the absurdity is absurd, regardless of whether this is the enemy's bluff, the news confirms the two previous pieces of intelligence - one is that there are signs of Fang's family activities in Jinxia City, and its origin is very consistent with the previous story of the Privy Council. time frame.The living dead of the Fang family are good at freezing ice, and can summon ice cubes out of thin air. If these monsters' natural magic is used to preserve freshness, it can also explain why these seafood can be transported to various places in Shenzhou without spoiling.

Another point is to arrive at Yanhe County within one day, which has greatly exceeded the upper limit that cargo sailing ships can achieve.In the past two weeks, more than ten reports have mentioned that there are large-scale institutional creations in Jinxia, ​​and they use magic tools to provide power.The person in charge of the New Machine Building Bureau is Mo Yun, who was once an official of the Ministry of Industry.

Magical tools that can provide power are not uncommon. At least in the underground library of the Ministry of Records, there are several blueprints of magical tools that can be moved.But the key is that the person who drives the magic weapon must be an aura-sensing person-this is why this kind of magic weapon is far less valued than the battle magic weapon.

Whether it is the cargo ship sent by Jinxia City, or the large-scale mechanism used to dismantle the city wall, they all have to occupy the quota of people who feel the energy.When the war with the Privy Council was on the verge of breaking out, they did not strengthen the training for the qi sensers, but kept them busy with trivial matters. Either Mr. Ning Wan was stupid, or there were enough qi sensers in the city, enough for them to assign some of them to do chores.

Judging from the warnings of overseas monsters and pelicans, this change probably has nothing to do with monsters.If there are a large number of people who are sensitive to one side out of thin air during the war, it will definitely not be good news for the Privy Council.Among other things, it is a great advantage in terms of logistics transportation and troop dispatching just to let the ship cross the Shenzhou border in one day.

These two pieces of information prove that Jinxia's war potential should not be underestimated!

At this moment, Fei Nian saw two alchemists of the Fei family rushing over from the side, and already took out the talisman in their hands.

——What are they doing?

The thoughts in his head were still on intelligence, and he couldn't come back to his senses for a while.

The next moment, the top floor of the county government lobby suddenly collapsed, and a huge monster fell from the sky, smashing the furnishings in the house to pieces!

Then the monstrous water flow suddenly appeared out of thin air, rushing in all directions——

Under the impact of this "wave", the walls, doors and windows were almost shattered, and even the pillars in the lobby made cracking sounds.The staff of the recording department who were processing information in the outer hall were even more unable to resist the sweeping force of the water. At least they were thrown to the ground and their heads were broken, and at worst they hit the vitals and died on the spot.

After all, the pillars failed to last to the end.

Its fracture caused the entire roof to fall. Amidst the loud noise, the huge State Shepherd's Mansion collapsed completely, and turned into a pile of ruins in an instant!

Chapter 421 Never Thanks

Among the ruins of the government office lobby, a raised ground can barely block the impact and subsidence of the water.

The two elders of the Fei family were on one side, protecting Fei Nian in it—although the Fei family no longer existed, when the second prince assigned tasks, he still gave priority to arranging the family alchemists to act together, and what he valued was their cooperation proficiency and Combat experience.

These two people, one Shan Kun and the other Shan Xun, are both Fei Nian's seniors, and they took good care of Fei Nian in the past, so the Privy Council sent them to go south with the core members, which can be regarded as a reinforcement for the rear front.Since the plan to enter Baisha or Anshen City was disrupted, Fei Nian thought that it was unlikely that the two seniors would have the chance to take action, but unexpectedly, Huiyang City in Liuzhou was also attacked!

He immediately thought of dragons!

"Did you see the attacker?"

Fei Bo nodded, "That's right, it's not the Xiji dragon monster, but the Jiaolong."

Fei Junzhi added, "There are still people on the dragon's claws. I don't know if it is the enemy or our captured ones. How dare you attack Huiyang City in broad daylight? This monster is too arrogant!"

"It is rumored that the dragon can control wind and water. I will use the technique of Lihuo to deal with it! Both of you, please help me!" Fei Nian immediately made a judgment.