Chapter 152 Xuanyuan Yunqi

Time flies, half a month passes in a flash.

Winter has already come, and now people are wrapped in thick fur clothes, even Lu Chen is the same.

Warriors have a certain resistance to cold. Masters like Lu Chen are not afraid of cold at all. Even if Lu Chen does not wear so thick clothes, there is no problem, but not afraid of cold does not mean that you can't feel cold. The cold wind hits the body and still feels a little uncomfortable.

Most high-level warriors are like this, such as Bai Qingqing and her friends, who also wear thick clothes.

Winter makes Lu Chen feel a little uncomfortable. His women are wrapped in thick fur clothes. The originally graceful lines are covered by the clothes, and their perfect figures cannot be shown at all.

But there is no way, he can't change the weather.

The arrival of winter also brought a lot of problems to Beijun. At this time, Lu Chen was not aware of what troubles Beijun would encounter in winter. He has been preparing to deal with the southward movement of the King of Beixian in the past half month, so he has hardly paid much attention to the political affairs of Beijun.

In the early morning, Lu Chen woke up in the soft and warm fragrance of Yelu Nanyan. After having breakfast with Yelu Nanyan, Lu Chen went to the study as usual.

When he arrived at the door of the study, the important officials and generals of Beijun were already waiting at the door.

Now they come to the study together every five days, and then report to Lu Chen about the recent situation of Beijun and discuss some things that happened in Beijun.

At the beginning, Lu Chen actually had no rules for reporting things, but gradually Li Rui and others formed a habit, and Lu Chen simply stipulated that major events in Beijun should be discussed every five days.

After seeing Lu Chen coming, Li Rui and others immediately bowed and said, "Greetings, Your Majesty!"

"Live a thousand years, live a thousand years, live a thousand years!"

Lu Chen nodded slightly and went directly into the study, "Come in."

Then everyone followed Lu Chen into the study. Today's study seemed more crowded because there were more people participating in the discussion.

Basically, as long as the loyalty of officials reaches 90 and they hold important positions in Beijun, Lu Chen allows them to participate in the discussion.

Seeing the increasingly crowded study room, Lu Chen thought to himself that fortunately the construction of the Council Hall had already begun, and it should be built soon. Then there would be no need to continue to crowd in this study room.

At this time, Lu Chen glanced at everyone, and then said: "Old rules, if you have anything to say, speak one by one."

Hearing this, Li Rui took the lead and said: "Prince, now the severe winter has come. Although Beijun has successfully resisted the looting of the barbarians this year, there are still many people who lack food and clothing. Do we need to distribute porridge this year?"

The people of Beijun have always been very poor. Even if Lu Chen has exempted them from a lot of agricultural taxes, they are still very poor. Most people have difficulty filling their stomachs.

This is why every time the Beiwang Mansion recruits workers, there are always many people who want to become workers of the Beiwang Mansion.

As long as they enter the Beiwang Mansion and become workers of the Beiwang Mansion, in the eyes of the people of Beijun, they will no longer be afraid of starving and freezing in the future.

After hearing what Li Rui said, Lu Chen thought for a moment, and then said: "Continue to distribute porridge, but this year the Northern Palace will pay some money to buy food, and then distribute porridge in the name of the Northern Palace."

Li Rui instantly understood what Lu Chen meant. Lu Chen was planning to win people's hearts, but this was understandable. After all, Lu Chen is now the vassal king of Beijun, and the entire Beijun is Lu Chen's fiefdom. As the king of a fiefdom, it is normal to win people's hearts.

Li Rui immediately said: "Yes, Your Majesty."

Lu Chen asked: "Does Lord Li have anything else to say?"

Li Rui glanced at the generals headed by Mu Changtian next to him, and then continued: "Your Majesty, recently the people in Yancheng City complained that they couldn't buy wood. They claimed that the Wanning River Valley and some forests were surrounded by the Yancheng army, and the woodcutters couldn't go in to chop wood."

"Winter is here. If there is not enough wood, many people in Beijun will probably freeze to death this year."

Hearing this, Lu Chen was stunned.

Lu Chen himself is a master. Although he can feel the cold, he is not afraid of it. It is precisely because he is not afraid of the cold that he has no concept of winter and even completely forgets that people can freeze to death in winter.

After all, it has no direct relationship with him, so Lu Chen usually does not pay attention to it, but after hearing what Li Rui said, Lu Chen reacted.

The heating problem is indeed a troublesome thing.

After Li Rui's voice fell, Lu Chen glanced at Mu Changtian and his generals. At this time, Mu Changtian stood up and said: "Your Majesty, there are military camps of Beijun in the forests around Yancheng, or Beijun's secrets are hidden, so I asked the soldiers of Beijun to block most areas."

Lu Chen actually knew this, especially the area where the artillery battalion was located. A large area of ​​forest was all allocated to Mu Jingwu's artillery battalion. This is mainly because they are afraid that spies will discover some secrets of Beijun.

It is right to block those forests.

However, the heating problem of the people should indeed be solved.

Lu Chen thought for a moment, then said, "General Mu, after you leave the Northern Palace, open some unimportant areas to the people. Don't let the people freeze. If the people freeze to death, how can we build the Northern County next year?"

Mu Changtian said, "Yes, Your Majesty, I will immediately ask the soldiers to relax some restrictions in the forest areas after I leave the Northern Palace."

After he finished speaking, Mu Changtian retreated, and Li Rui also retreated to the position where he had stood before.

Lu Chen glanced at everyone and asked, "Are there any other people who need to do anything?"

Mu Changtian stood up again and said, "Your Highness, the military camp has currently recruited 50,000 new soldiers. Together with the original Beijun soldiers and black cavalry, the entire Beijun now has 120,000 soldiers. Do we still need to continue recruiting new soldiers?"

After hearing Mu Changtian talk about the issue of soldiers, Lu Chen pondered for a moment, and then said, "Not for the time being. Beijun can't support too many soldiers."

The soldiers in Beijun are basically peasant soldiers, and the soldiers recruited by Mu Changtian are not regular soldiers in the strict sense. They only train during normal times and go back when it's time to farm. Their combat effectiveness is very weak.

Lu Chen's plan is to professionalize the soldiers in Beijun in the future and make them professional soldiers. The current black cavalry is like this. The black cavalry is completely supported by the Beiwang Mansion.

However, it is a huge pressure on the finances of Beijun and Beiwang Mansion to support hundreds of thousands of professional soldiers, and this cannot be done at present.

In the final analysis, it is still a matter of money and food.

After hearing Lu Chen's words, Mu Changtian said, "I understand. "

Then Mu Changtian returned to the position where he had just stood.

After Mu Changtian returned to his original position, Xuanyuan Chen stood up and said, "Your Majesty, the craftsmen you asked for have arrived in Yancheng. When I came to the Northern Palace this morning, those craftsmen were already waiting for you at the city gate to meet them."

Hearing this, Lu Chen's eyes lit up, "So fast?"

Lu Chen was a little surprised. He thought that these craftsmen would need at least one or two months to arrive in Yancheng. Unexpectedly, it took only more than half a month for them to arrive in Yancheng from Dayu City. Now he can start preparing for large-scale production of his gunpowder and red cannons.

Maybe he can prepare a big surprise for the Northern Xian King when he leads his army to Beijun.

Thinking of this, Lu Chen continued to say to Xuanyuan Chen, "After the morning meeting, I will go with you to meet them. "

After talking about the craftsmen, they discussed some topics about the development of Beijun, such as the promotion of potatoes and sweet potatoes, and the issue of taxation.

However, from beginning to end, Lu Chen did not mention the topic of dismissing officials.

Lu Chen actually wanted to deal with the officials of Beijun a long time ago, but he faced a big practical problem, that is, after dismissing the officials of Beijun, he basically had no available people, which made Lu Chen feel very entangled.

Although he hated the corrupt officials in Beijun now, if there were no corrupt officials, who would work for him, and his decrees would be implemented. I am afraid that it will not be passed on at this time, so Lu Chen can only bear it for the time being.

After the morning meeting, Lu Chen went to the city gate with Xuanyuan Chen.

At this time, the north gate of Yancheng was full of people. The people of Yancheng were very curious about what these people who were carrying large and small bags and pushing large and small carts were doing.

I don’t know who said "The prince is coming", and the people made way for him.

Soon Lu Chen rode his horse to the craftsmen of Dayu City. At this time, there were two young men in front of the convoy who looked only in their twenties or thirties. The men were strong and powerful, and their muscles covered their fur. The clothes were lifted up, and he was about 1.9 meters tall.

Lu Chen immediately identified the information of the two people.

[Name: Mo Fei]

[Identity: Current leader of the craftsmen of the Northern Palace, formerly a craftsman of Dayu City. After learning that the Northern King needed craftsmen, he immediately led two thousand craftsmen to Yancheng. ]

[Strength: Fifth Rank]

[Loyalty: 100]

…

[Name: Mo Xing]

[Identity: Current craftsman of the Northern Palace, Mo Fei's younger brother, formerly a craftsman of Dayu City. After learning that his elder brother Mo Fei was going to Yancheng to pledge allegiance to the Northern King, he also followed him to Yancheng. ]

[Strength: Fifth Rank]

[Loyalty: 100]

…

Look Seeing the information of the two people, Lu Chen was stunned for a moment. Both of them have the surname Mo?

Could it be that there is really a school called Mohism in this world?

After Lu Chen's understanding of Dayu City during this period of time, he found that some of Dayu City's ideas are really very similar to Mohism. In addition, there are now two people with the surname Mo, which makes Lu Chen even more suspicious.

However, whether they are from the Mohism is not important. The most important thing is that these craftsmen are 100% loyal to the Northern Palace. Letting them make weapons reduces the risk of leakage.

At this time, Mo Fei and Mo Xing came to Lu Chen at the same time, and then saluted and said: "I, the humble Mo Fei, and I, the humble Mo Xing, greet the prince!"

Other craftsmen also saluted and said: "Greetings to the prince!!!"

"Live the prince a thousand years, a thousand years, and a thousand years!!!"

Lu Chen nodded, and then said with a smile: "Okay, everyone get up. "

At this moment, Lu Chen's eyes were suddenly attracted by a figure in the distance.

There were too many people just now and he didn't notice it. After the craftsmen lowered their heads, Lu Chen suddenly found that there was a woman wearing black and red armor on a white horse not far away.

The woman had a high ponytail, a red robe, and a red tasseled spear in her hand. The woman was very beautiful, with delicate features, and a heroic spirit between her eyebrows. The whole person looked heroic.

This...

Lu Chen was immediately confused.

He didn't seem to have seen this woman in the black cavalry before?

And there seemed to be no white horses among the black cavalry, and most importantly, no women.

After noticing the color of the horses, Lu Chen soon discovered another point. The horses ridden by the soldiers behind the woman were also white horses, not black horses like the black cavalry.

Out of curiosity, Lu Chen immediately used the system to identify the information of this woman.

[Name: Xuanyuan Yunqi]

[Identity: The daughter of the head of the Xuanyuan family in Dayu City, 23 years old this year, the sister of Xuanyuan Chen, a master. When she heard that Yancheng needed craftsmen, she led 3,000 light cavalry to escort these craftsmen to Yancheng. She had a strange feeling for the King of the North. ]

[Rating: 98]

[Loyalty: 100]

[Favorability: 50]

Seeing Xuanyuan Yunqi's information, Lu Chen was stunned again.

9...98 rating? ? ?

However, Xuanyuan Yunqi was indeed very beautiful, but her beauty was more unique, different from the beauty of those women Lu Chen had seen before.

And she was not only so beautiful, but also a master.

This...

The system did not tell him that the third master was summoned at the beginning.

Is Xuanyuan Yunqi considered a reward from the system?

After all, the 500,000 people in Dayu City are all considered as the system's summoning rewards, so Xuanyuan Yunqi should also be included in it, right?

Lu Chen was a little unsure.

After all, this surprise came too suddenly.

He never thought that there was a female master with a score of 98 in Dayu City.

Of course, there was another thing that surprised Lu Chen.

That is the three thousand white horse light cavalry.

The system did not mention these three thousand white horse light cavalry at the beginning. The system only regarded these three thousand cavalry as ordinary people in Dayu City.

Lu Chen always thought that the black cavalry was all the soldiers who could fight in Dayu City, but he did not expect that Dayu City still had three thousand light cavalry.

He knew from the beginning that Dayu City had great war potential, but he did not expect Dayu City to be so strong.

At this time, Lu Chen was a little curious, why did the three thousand light cavalry led by Xuanyuan Yunqi not come over?

Just when he thought so, he found that Xuanyuan Yunqi actually left directly with three thousand light cavalry.

Lu Chen frowned.

A female Grandmaster with a score of 98, ran up to him, took a look, and then ran away?

Could she run away?

Lu Chen quickly turned his head and said to Xuanyuan Chen: "General Xuanyuan, who is the woman in black and red armor? Why didn't she salute me and leave with the soldiers?"

Hearing this, Xuanyuan Chen immediately said: "Your Majesty, that woman is my younger sister. She is the general of Dayu City's defense. The three thousand cavalrymen are also the city guards of Dayu City. They are here to send craftsmen to Beijun."

"Now that the people have been sent, they have to hurry back to Dayu City to prevent Dayu City from being attacked by barbarians. As for why my younger sister didn't salute..."

Speaking of this, Xuanyuan Chen hesitated for a moment, and then Xuanyuan Chen still said with a stiff upper lip: "I apologize to the prince on behalf of my younger sister. My younger sister has been spoiled since she was a child and doesn't know etiquette. I hope the prince can forgive her."

"When my younger sister comes to Yancheng next time, I will definitely grab her and kowtow to apologize to the prince."

Hearing Xuanyuan Chen's words, Lu Chen was stunned.

Don't know etiquette?

Really don't know etiquette?