Great Zhou Empress

As a consultant, Xue Zhijing began to take stock of the current situation of the Dacheng Dynasty and the countermeasures together with the Queen Mother Yuan Hanzhang.

The Dacheng Dynasty has a complete picture of the dynasty that is not out of proportion. Xue Zhijing can tell at a glance that the size of the states, counties and provinces on it is not suitable, but it can barely be seen.

From the map, Liu Mian, Duke of Qin, and Liu Xin, Duke of Jin, now occupy the western region. Their army is mixed with Xia's army, and the forbidden army is now stalemate with them in the Bianjing City area.

Because Qin Guogong's soldiers and horses are the most powerful, and they also threatened the safety of Bianjing City, so Xue Zhijing's little friend Yuan Jin was transferred from Xiongzhou to lead troops to resist Qin Guogong's army.

In the north, the Liao Kingdom has already occupied most of the land in the Northern Central Plains, and the entire area north of the Huaihe River is in danger.

Not to mention the uprising of tea workers in the southwest region, which is said to be related to the Maitreya religion, which is very troublesome.

It can be said that the Dacheng Dynasty is now fighting on several fronts, and it is already at the most critical moment.

Calculated, the area that the Dacheng Dynasty can effectively control now is the southern area east of the Taihang Mountains, east of the Sichuan Basin, and south of the Huaihe River.

Fortunately, in the early years of the Dacheng Dynasty, the economic center had already shifted from the Yellow River area to the south. Although the capital was still in Bianjing near the Yellow River, the food in Bianjing was mainly transported by water from the Jianghuai area.

In the agricultural era, food comes first.

The Dacheng Dynasty still controls its own core grain-producing areas, and thus the economic lifeline.

The final finalized plan was the troika strategy.

First consolidate agriculture.Human society is built on agriculture, and once agriculture is stable, more than half of the country will be stable.When spring comes, it will be spring plowing. The imperial court can set a tax reduction policy to encourage scattered farmers to return to their hometowns to cultivate, and at the same time encourage sea merchants to find high-yielding seeds overseas, and reward them with titles.

The second rectification of armaments.In times of internal and external troubles, the military must be strengthened.First of all, count the head count of the existing forbidden army to eliminate the situation that the military registration is absent, increase the number of high-tech military products and equipment, and increase the navy and navy.

The third is to build a good public opinion.At present, the little emperor is still there, Qin Guogong Liu Mian proclaimed himself King of Qin, and joined forces with Jin Guogong to split the Dacheng Dynasty. It is necessary to print books, tabloids, and edit dramas to let people in the whole country know that their actions are illegal. , so that the court can always maintain the commanding heights of law and morality.

After these three basic strategies came out, Yuan Hanzhang was obviously much more relaxed.

In fact, if she was asked to think about it, she could also think of these strategies. The details might be different, but the direction should be the same.Because Xue Zhijing's plan is an upright path, which is what the countries of later generations do when they prepare for war for a long time.

Yuan Hanzhang just temporarily lost some energy, which made her imagination and courage a lot less.

Xue Zhijing's return injected some fresh blood into her and brought Yuan Hanzhang a different sense of security.

Slowly, the empress dowager that Xue Zhijing was familiar with came back.

Yuan Hanzhang promoted Xue Zhijing to the highest position of court lady, fifth-rank Shanggongju Shanggong.The promotion of the inner palace is just a matter of Yuan Hanzhang's words. If she can, she would like to give Xue Zhijing the position of Minister of the Household Department. Unfortunately, it is impossible for the entire court to allow a woman to be a minister.

After getting a new position, Xue Zhijing began to carry out the project non-stop.

She first summoned a large number of sea merchants and issued recruitment information to them. If anyone can obtain high-yield grain seeds from overseas and it is feasible to return to their hometown, the imperial court will award them a title according to their merits.

The highest can be Hou.

The reason why the title was promised instead of bonus land was because the current financial situation of the Dacheng Dynasty was not good, and most of the financial revenue had to be supplied to the imperial army first, so they could only use titles that did not need to pay assets to make big cakes.

Originally, titles were only given to clan members and civil and military ministers, and they were a status symbol. For most of the maritime merchants who were merchants, even if they did not have corresponding salaries and fiefdoms, they would flock to them.

Anyway, I have to go to sea, so I just need to find some seeds by the way, it doesn't take much trouble.

Zhao Wutong even saw the recruitment advertisement coming over.

After the meeting, she touched Xue Zhijing over.

"I've been waiting for you in the mansion shop for a long time, why don't you show up, if I hadn't heard the news, wouldn't it be that I have lost my place."

Xue Zhijing slapped his head, "I'm sorry, Boss Zhao, I really forgot in a hurry, I even slept and ate like I was in a war these days, I really didn't remember it for a while, but I asked my subordinates to advertise everywhere, no, You still saw it."

Zhao Wutong sneaked up to Xue Zhijing's ear and asked, "Looking at how big your plate spread is, I now really believe what you said about Penglaizhou, but didn't you just tell me about that? , did not tell other fleets."

Xue Zhijing said seriously, "I told you that it was news for you, so I naturally kept my promise and didn't tell anyone. Look, this time, do you want to go there and find those few crops, but they have titles. "

"Heh!" Zhao Wutong snorted coldly, "I am a girl, can I still be a Marquis?"

Xue Zhijing was startled, she also thought of this question.

In this era of knighthood, where would women be made dukes, they would only be dukes for their husbands or sons, and then let them be imperial wives.

Go back and discuss with your empress to see what to do.

Zhao Wutong, the pirate leader, is the most courageous, and she is really the most suitable person to venture across the stormy Pacific Ocean to explore the Americas.If this can't give her a title or something, it will be troublesome.

"Don't worry, you will definitely have the title you deserve. The empress dowager and I keep our promises, and there is absolutely no lie."

However, Zhao Wutong still has some wait-and-see thoughts, let's take a look first.

After the meeting, Xue Zhijing went to the Ministry of Industry without stopping.

This time, she finally met Ayla whom she hadn't seen for a long time.

Ayla is the daughter of Suleiman, the head of the Guangzhou Fanfang, a talented scientist with a very smart brain and a heart-shattering appearance.

Ayila was still covered with a veil, but she was wearing a straight man's attire at this time, her hair was tied up high, just looking at her back, her waist was simply breath-taking.

Xue Zhijing stabilized his mind, and told himself that Ayila hates others being nympho because of her beautiful appearance, so she must calm down.

Ayila is also a court lady at this time. Xue Zhijing recommended her to Yuan Hanzhang two years ago. Yuan Hanzhang specially set up a Sitianzao office in the palace for her, and asked her to be a sixth-rank officer. The research funds are paid out of the Empress Dowager Yuan Hanzhang's own pocket, and she can do whatever research she asks.

At this time, Ayila was working with officials from the Ministry of Industry to install the latest bed crossbow.

She worked as a part-time job for the people of the Ministry of Industry for free, and the Ministry of Industry naturally let her do it half-heartedly. In fact, most of the improvement of this bed crossbow is her wisdom.

Jiankang City has suddenly become a temporary capital, and there are not enough houses in each yamen, and they are crowded together. No, the courtyard of the Ministry of Industry can't fit two beds and crossbows.

Ayila commanded the staff of the Ministry of Industry to assemble it, and muttered, "This place is too small to be installed, so let's put it in the school yard outside the city."

Xue Zhijing smiled and called her, "Ayila!"

Ayla immediately turned her head back.

"Xiaojing! You're back!"

Seeing Xue Zhijing, Ayila's surprise was completely exposed in her clear eyes, Xue Zhijing was also very pleasantly surprised, and wanted to go forward and hug her.

The hand that was stretched out just now was retracted, forget it, or not, Ayila's appearance is too amazing, it is easy to make mistakes when hugging, but I can't help Xiao Liege.

Ayila didn't notice Xue Zhijing's abnormality at all, approached her and asked, "Recently I have been in the Ministry of Industry, when did you come back, I heard that you have been living in Liao Kingdom, how is it?"

"I'm fine. Although I experienced some risks in the middle, I finally came back without any danger. Now I am the Shang Palace of the Shang Palace Bureau in the palace. The Empress Dowager gave me a lot of tasks. I just met a group of people this morning. Maritime merchants, recruit them to actively go overseas to find some high-yield grain seeds. No, I thought you were doing new technology updates, so I came here." Xue Zhijing said with a slight smile.

When it comes to technology, this is Ayla's favorite part.Engineers in this era are not completely experts, as smart as Ayla, from shipbuilding to weapon manufacturing, because they are all similar wooden mechanical structures, Ayla can do research and research.

As she said that, she hastily dragged Xue Zhijing to look at the bed crossbow and introduced it to her.

"It's actually just an improvement, but I can guarantee that the effective range will reach a thousand steps."

Simply put, the bed crossbow is a compound weapon that uses the mechanical power of pulleys and gears to drive hard arrows to launch. It is a high-tech weapon of this era.

A step in this era is about 1.5 meters, and a thousand steps is 500 meters, which is simply a big killer.

Xue Zhijing is not a person who loves war. Modern society is rich in information and information. She has seen too many tragic pictures and photos. Those scenes were still under the hot weapons of modern society. In ancient society, soldiers fought coldly, blood and blood The collision of flesh is beyond words.

She prefers to "go up to attack the strategy, secondly to attack the diplomatic relations, secondly to attack the soldiers, and then to attack the city".

The most important function of high-tech weapons is deterrence, not killing.

"I just want to go to the palace to report to the Empress Dowager, and then I will ask the Empress Dowager to go to the school to see the experiment after the assembly is complete. Xiaojing, do you want to go together?" Ayila said to Xue Zhijing excitedly.

Seeing Ayila's enthusiastic appearance, Xue Zhijing didn't know her anymore.

Two years ago in Quanzhou, the Ayila she saw was a fierce, slightly tempered weirdo engineer, but now Ayila is more like a youthful girl who fits her age. Young people, because of their unique talents, have infinite possibilities, with a playful voice and bright eyes.

It's no wonder that she was in Quanzhou at the time, and she had no hope for the future. Her father, Suleiman, was from Dashi. How can she be good-tempered for a son of Duke Gui's family, the future is bleak.

It seems that the two years of living in the capital brought her a new life.

But what Zhijing Xue didn't know was that in Ayila's heart, Zhijing Xue was the one who gave her a new life, so she often said that Zhijing Xue saved her life.

Ayila went to the warehouse to get her blueprint and a model. The model was packed in a square wooden box, Xue Zhijing helped her hold it, and Ayila opened her drawing and showed Xue Zhijing a look.

Already Ayla's drawings are almost as fast as modern engineering drawings.

Not only is the painting very accurate, there are even Arabic numerals on it to refer to the length and width.

Having been here for many years, Xue Zhijing has also seen many blueprints that are commonly used in this era. Basically, he just draws down the corresponding objects, and some of them don't pay attention to the principle of perspective, let alone record their dimensions.

When craftsmen make objects, most of them rely on their experience and inheritance from master to apprentice.

Even the legendary book "Kao Gong Ji", which has been passed down for many years, uses language to describe the length and width of the corresponding object. In addition, it is more about which family the object was made in ancient times. Made here, mixed with a lot of human history.

And drawings like Ayla's, really, are almost non-existent.

Seeing Xue Zhijing looking at the Arabic numerals on it, Ayla explained, "This symbol is used for counting by Dashi. It is said that it was invented in the Tianzhu area at the beginning. Dacheng is not used to it, but I I found it very convenient, so I used it, and I wrote a corresponding explanation next to it.”

Xue Zhi nodded and said with a smile, "I seem to have seen this counting method before. It is much simpler than using Dacheng's Chinese characters, and it is easy to do some calculations. If there is a chance, I think we should let everyone Learn."

Once something is solidified, it is not easy to change it, so Xue Zhijing said that there is a chance, not that he will do it immediately.

Ayila smiled, and her love for Zhijing Xue grew even stronger.

"Let's go, let's go see the Empress Dowager."

The Empress Dowager Yuan Hanzhang was meeting the minister in the study, and the two waited for a while before seeing each other.

This time, it was mainly Ayila's report, Xue Zhijing sat down on the chair and drank tea.

Yuan Hanzhang guessed that he was a little tired from sitting, so he stood. Ayila spread out the drawings on the long table, pressed the left and right sides with a paperweight, and then carefully took out the bed crossbow model from the wooden box, and put it in the below the drawing.

Then, Xue Zhijing, who had just had tea, saw Ayila do something that surprised her, she even took off her veil.

Xue Zhijing only saw Ayila take off her veil once, that is when she and Ayila drank together by the moonlight at night, but that was because of drinking, how could they drink without taking off the veil?

When Ayila lifted the veil, Xue Zhijing was once again shocked by Ayila's appearance, the tea in her mouth rolled down her throat unconsciously, and it took a long time to recover.

A person like Ayla is a big killer himself.

Not only Xue Zhijing, but even the calm and calm Empress Dowager seemed to have some changes in her expression, and her whole person became softer.

Ayila's smile was even more brilliant, causing her face to slide towards the ultimate direction of the world, and Xue Zhijing was even more surprised that her cheeks seemed to be stained with a little blush.

Looking at the two women in front of her who were talking next to the case, Xue Zhijing's mind suddenly flashed.

they?

What happened in the past two years that she didn't know, what did she miss?

The empress dowager, Yuan Hanzhang, is magnificent, dignified and majestic, and she is the top royal sister of Fang Qiu, while Ayila has a peerless appearance, youthful beauty, and is a genius scientist with a super IQ.

It's just that there is a difference in age. Ayila is a little older than her. She is 19 years old this year, and Yuan Hanzhang is almost 40 years old.But other than that, the two of them stood together, and they really matched each other inexplicably.

Xue Zhijing, who was holding a teacup, suddenly felt a certain kind of joy.

Ayila's voice was also crisp, and she finally said, "Your Majesty, when it is convenient for you, go to the school grounds and I will practice for you in person."

Yuan Hanzhang saw that Ayila was so excited that her hair fell on her face. With a smile on her face, she stretched out her hand and brushed her hair behind her ears, and her eyes lingered between her eyebrows before saying, "Tomorrow, after morning morning, I'll go, okay~"

"Well, I'll come to the palace to wait for you in the morning~ I'll send someone to the school grounds to prepare."

"Good~"