Chapter 421: It Is Impolite Not to Reciprocate
Declare...war?
A princess who was granted a fiefdom in a remote place actually spoke of treason so righteously? Wasn't she afraid of the uproar of the people under her rule?
Fei Nian suddenly wanted to ask the spy what the first reaction of the Jinxia people would be after seeing this newspaper.
Surprise? Fear? Avoid talking about it?
If it were any other city, it would definitely cause panic!
After all, their opponent was the court of Qi, and treason has always been a serious crime with far-reaching implications.
I didn't expect her to point it out directly now.
The Privy Council underestimated her ambition and will.
The portrait on the front page was of an ordinary scholar. Among the scholars, they were the least classy ones - scholars, in their twenties, from ordinary families, and except for being able to read and write, there was no advantage.
But such a non-sensor became the "hero" in the title. He used his life to break the spy's plan, causing the attack on the Baisha mine to fail. It is rare for a scholar to have such courage, but is it really worth writing about?
Fei Nian found it hard to understand.
On the battlefield, every person who died in the battle was as brave as him, but the history books did not record them at all, because these people were not Qi-sensing people, let alone being crowned with the title of "hero".
If the role model set by Jinxia City was Xia Fan, Fei Nian would be much more receptive.
As a Qi-sensing person of the same age, Xia Fan was the only one whose depth he could not judge. This feeling was very obvious when they met in Shangyuan City. In comparison, Luo Qingqing and Fang Xiandao had never given him such a feeling.
Moreover, he was also a listener, and his prospects and strength were far better than this scholar named Huo Ying.
With such a good role model, why not use it, but focus on recommending an ordinary person?
If there was no information that Xia Fan had been stationed in Fengyang Villa, he would have almost suspected that there was some estrangement between Xia Fan and the princess.
And the next part made Fei Nian's veins jump.
The weekly newspaper used a lot of space to describe the Privy Council as an unforgivable treacherous enemy, plotting to usurp the throne and imprisoning the emperor. They created disasters in various parts of Shenzhou, massacred innocent people, and even burned food to create a food gap in Shenzhou, hoping to weaken Shenzhou's resistance through famine, in order to eliminate the last hidden danger of the royal family - Her Royal Highness Princess Guangping who was enfeoffed in other places.
At the end of this paragraph, the newspaper actually used the name of "the enemy of all living beings in the world" for the Privy Council!
"Asshole, it's really unreasonable!"
Fei Nian couldn't help but curse.
He was rarely so indignant.
If it was other traitors, it would be fine, but Xia Fan clearly knew the real purpose of the Seven Star Privy Council and the pressure faced by the six countries in the Central Plains. The integration of internal forces must be as fast as possible, but Ning Wanjun made trouble for the Tianshu Envoy at this critical juncture - she was the real culprit, and the degree of harm could be said to be greater than any previous traitor. In the weekly newspaper, she became the heir to the royal power who supported justice and restored order?
He was not angry at the princess, nor at those blind and ignorant ordinary people.
He was only disappointed with Xia Fan - the efforts made by Qixing for the secular world of the Central Plains were not as important as a princess.
Fei Nian wanted to tear up the weekly report, but after all, it was important information and had to be sent back to Shangyuan. After thinking about it, he finally endured it.
There was also a huge painting on the last page.
However, this painting was not a portrait, but... a fish?
Fei Nian recognized it for a long time before realizing that it was the Jinxia people who were processing the sea fish they caught. The piles of "hills" in the distance were all seafood. People used shovels and dustpans to process these fresh fish, as if they didn't care at all that the tools in their hands might shovel the fish into meat paste.
The text below the painting confirmed his guess.
The weekly report said that the fish production in Jinxia City was rising steadily. Now 200,000 kilograms of fish, shellfish, shrimps and crabs can be caught a day, and delivered to the main towns along the river the next day, and the county towns not on the river bank are two to three days. Even if the enemy loses humanity and deliberately creates famine to attack Shenzhou, as the capital of a state, the Jinxia Affairs Bureau will never let the people starve.
One day - two hundred thousand catties?
Fei Nian looked at it three or four times before he confirmed that he was not dazzled.
This is an imaginary number, absolutely an imaginary number!
What is the concept of two hundred thousand?
If the fishermen want to move these fish ashore, they need hundreds of people to toss back and forth for several days, not to mention fishing them out of the sea!
If the people of Jinxia have this ability, what kind of food do they need Gaoshan County to supply?
However, absurdity is absurd, regardless of whether this is the enemy's bluffing, the news does confirm the two previous intelligence - one is that there are signs of Fang family activities in Jinxia City, and its origin is very consistent with the time node when the Privy Council came up empty-handed before. The living dead of the Fang family are good at ice condensation 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 parts of Shenzhou without spoiling.
Another point is that it can reach the county town along the river within one day, which is much faster than the upper limit of the cargo sailing ship. In the past two weeks, more than ten intelligence reports have mentioned that there are large-scale mechanical creations in Jinxia, which use magic tools to provide power. The person in charge of the new mechanical construction bureau is Mo Yun, who was once an official of the Ministry of Industry.
It is not rare to find magical instruments that can provide power. At least in the underground library of the Record Department, there are several drawings of magical instruments that can be moved. It is completely reasonable for the Mohist School to have this technology. But the key is that the person who drives the magical instrument must be a sensor - this is also the reason why such magical instruments are far less valued than combat magical instruments.
Whether it is a cargo ship sent by Jinxia City or a large-scale mechanism used to dismantle the city wall, it must occupy the quota of sensor. When the war with the Privy Council was about to break out, they did not strengthen the training of sensor, but let them busy themselves with trivial matters. It was not that Ning Wanjun was stupid, or there were enough sensor in the city to let them assign some of them to do miscellaneous work.
Combined with the warnings of overseas monsters and pelicans, this change is likely to have nothing to do with the monster. If a large number of sensor out of thin air appears on one side during the war, it is definitely not good news for the Privy Council. Apart from anything else, just one day to let the ship cross the territory of Shenzhou is a great advantage in logistics and troop dispatch.
Both pieces of intelligence prove that Jinxia's war potential should not be underestimated!
At this moment, Fei Nian saw two Fei family alchemists rushing over from the side, with talismans in their hands.
——What are they going to do?
His mind was still thinking about the intelligence, and he couldn't come back to his senses for a while.
The next moment, the top floor of the county government hall suddenly collapsed, and a huge monster fell from the sky, smashing the furnishings in the room to pieces!
Then the surging water appeared out of thin air and rushed in all directions-
Under the impact of this "wave", the walls, doors and windows almost shattered, and even the pillars in the hall made a cracking sound. The recording staff who were handling intelligence in the outer hall could not resist the sweeping force of the water. At the least, they were knocked to the ground and broke their heads and blood. At the worst, they were hit in the vitals and died on the spot.
The pillars didn't last until the end.
Its fracture caused the roof to fall down as a whole. With a loud bang, the huge governor's mansion collapsed completely and turned into a pile of rubble in an instant!
I was busy this morning and couldn't write two chapters in time, so I can only update one chapter today. Sorry.