For Yunyang, this was an ordinary night.
Alaya sleeps alone in the cold bed, and Felita studies ancient magic by candlelight. Hilo lay on his back on the roof looking at the moon and the Milky Way, while the flowing stones were clinking on the iron blocks in the basement. Bai Huang read the romance novel with relish, and Yun Ye staggered through the garden after drinking half a jug of wine. Li De showed a rare hardworking side, and stayed with He Yue in the soundproof interior hall to work all night.
At dawn, Heyue and Lide came out of the interior hall, seeming to be still talking about the political affairs they talked about last night.
The people in the lord's mansion also turned a blind eye to this scene, thinking that only this lord, Heyue, who can cure the fish-addicted lord here, can arrest him and send him to the internal affairs hall to work hard. But seeing the scene of Heyue and Lide walking side by side, the people in the Lord's Mansion still vaguely feel that the two of them are a bit different than usual, but they can't tell what has changed, they can only default to it. I had an illusion.
Li De and He Yue walked to the garden, He Yue said with a smile:
"Today I plan to ask Feilin to meet and talk about what he saw and heard in Zhaochen. Maybe it will help us fill in the gaps in our policy of governing Tiancheng."
Lied nodded:
"You talk first. After that, I will probably call all the staff in the Lord's Mansion to have a meeting to talk about future plans."
He Yue folded her hands in her long sleeves and replied:
"good."
Everything seems to be exactly as it always has been.
Only at the time of parting, Li De suddenly said something for no reason:
"Master He does have a good voice."
He Yue's back paused for a moment, without looking back. He just rubbed his slightly red cheeks with the back of his hand, covered up the smile at the corner of his mouth, and replied:
"I used to think that the lord must be weak when he is paralyzed at home every day, but now it seems that he does have the strength of the Nine Great Consummations."
The two stopped bragging about their business, and He Yue turned around and smiled at Li De.
Later, when Heyue was talking with Feilin, Lide yawned and brought over a bowl of longan and red date soup.
…
Regarding Yunyang's next path, Li De thought very clearly.
He and He Yue have the same point of view: Although it is not impossible to continue to go north and use Zhaochen as a springboard to fight for more land, but at present, Yunyang will not adopt such a strategy. It is true that there are still a few territories that are easy to bully in the north, but there is a behemoth that is eyeing a tiger-Wanze territory in the north.
Those small territories can be said to be the meat cooked in the pot by the Lord Wanze. If Yunyang decides to grab some of them, he will definitely be able to grab some of them, but there is no need. There are no decisive resources in those territories, and they are far less important than Tian Cheng in terms of strategic position, so it's better to let them go out and be a favor.
As for leasing the twenty cities in the south of Tiancheng to Yunhai, it was also to deal with the complicated and changing situation.
First of all, for Yunhai, without these 20 cities, their subsequent external expansion will be greatly restricted, which is equivalent to being locked in the south by Yunyang, and they can only develop eastward all the way. According to Lide's understanding of Bai Feng, although this person is a little erratic in his actions, if he understands the pros and cons, Bai Feng can make up his mind to fight Yunyang.
Let's go back to Yunyang.
Winning Tiancheng is certainly a good thing, but capturing Zhaochen and Tiancheng one after another made Yunyang's territory expand too much at once. The industrial technology was too late to be promoted, and the secret organization could not cover it. Recruiting troops seemed a bit hasty, and even the gunpowder and incendiary bombs that were originally pressed at the bottom of the box were almost exhausted. Although the Battle of Anning City made it impossible for any territory to dare to provoke Yunyang in a short period of time, this did not change the fact that Yunyang was a bit aggressive and inwardly soft in a short period of time.
Now the industrial base is scrambling to increase production, but it will take at least a few years to fully recover.
During this period of time, Yunyang was still aggressive with the outside world, but it was for outsiders to see. With the door closed, my family has to keep clear about their own family affairs. Li De doesn't mind releasing the twenty cities south of Tiancheng to Yunhai first, because once there is a way out, Yunhai won't concentrate all his strength to fight to the death.
At the beginning, the royal family kept silent about his "dove occupying the magpie's nest" in Zhaochen, in fact, they wanted to use him to contain Yunhai.
As far as Li De is concerned, it is okay for you to ask me to contain Yunhai, but it is impossible for you to expect me and Yunhai to fight to the death. Anyone with a brain would not do this, Yunyang just took over Zhaochen and Tiancheng, the most urgent thing to do now is to consolidate his rule in these two territories, and prepare for a new war in the near future.
These thoughts were also conveyed by He Yue to other people who attended the courtyard meeting.
At the end of the courtyard meeting, Griffa, then Minister of Finance, got up and said:
"Speaking of which, an interesting thing happened recently, and I want to share it with you."
The eyes of other people gathered here. Griffa held a large stack of financial statements with one hand, rubbed his eyes with dark circles with the other, trying to wake himself up as much as possible, then said with a smile:
"Recently, many of our companies suddenly received a lot of investment, and some people bought a large amount of the 'dry stocks' issued by us. I thought something was wrong, so I entrusted Sister Shuang from Anbu to help investigate, and found that the source of funds was from the Xin Territory. Now more than 30% of the nobles in the heart hold our shares, and this number is still expanding."
Those present are all extremely smart people, and after a little thought, you will understand why.
Before Yunyang became the lord of Tiancheng, 20,000 people were trapped in the quagmire in the territory of Zhaoxin, and Tiancheng failed to survive. After Yunyang took control of Tiancheng, the Luxin Territory sent another 50,000 people to form a coalition army with the Huaiwang Territory and the Shenghe Territory, and almost all of them were wiped out in the battle of Anning City. Today's Zhaoxin Territory is seriously injured, and it is difficult to protect itself. It has become Yunyang's next target.
And the nobles in the territory of the heart are clearly aware of their situation.
Once Yunyang calls, their family property will be in jeopardy, and no matter how much land they hold, it will be confiscated.
However, they can realize their family property and buy the stocks that Yunyang has been operating and circulating. If Yunyang wins the battle, then those who hold stocks will see their wealth increase rather than decrease. This can also be regarded as an early risk hedging, no matter whether Yunyang can win Zhaoxin or not, they don't have to take high risks.
Griffa said it was "interesting" because anyone could see it. Purchasing the shares issued by Yunyang at this juncture is tantamount to sending money to Yunyang's industry in disguise, helping Yunyang quickly recover its strength. The nobles in the territory of the heart must be very clear about these things, but they don't care.
Or maybe, the aristocrats who take care of their hearts just want to show their favor.
"It's a disguised form..."
He Yue turned her head with a smile and asked Li De:
"What about your attitude?"
Lid also showed a smile, stretched and replied:
"My attitude? Of course it's four big characters—intensify."