Behind me is the earth

Chapter 531 529. Northern Expedition

"Why do I feel that the king doubts me?"

After leaving the palace, Xia Ke was thinking in his mind.

"You are right. The king not only doubts you, but also sends people to follow you."

Guru said.

"Follow me?"

Xia Ke was surprised.

Gulu: "Just over a hundred meters behind you, there are two people who keep this distance and fall behind you."

Xia Ke: "I will soon create a shadow clone to deal with them."

"Come on."

Gulu said: "These two people are not ordinary people, and your shadow clone may not be able to deceive their perception.

Don't be self-defeating.

You'd better restrain yourself and don't show off your poor transformation skills. "

"Clumsy? I am the best transfiguration master!"

Xia Ke said fiercely.

"As long as you are happy."

Gulu said perfunctorily, but still told him: "You'd better be honest, this is not Dongluo Continent, and you can't deal with the masters of Qi State here."

"I know. Anyway, the goal has been achieved. When you settle down, first go to the Ministry of Works to find out."

Xia Ke said indifferently.

"Secretary Xia."

The waiter in the green robe in front stopped in front of a house in Wendefang: "This is a courtyard house. Secretariat officials usually live here, but most of them are already married. Except for working overtime, they come here on weekdays. There were few people there, and it was still very quiet.

There is a public toilet in the southwest corner of the yard, and the north wing has been transformed into a kitchen. People come to cook in the morning and evening on weekdays.

Yours is the second room in the west wing. Pots, pans, bedding, kettles, and toiletries are all ready in the room.

You have been tired from traveling all the way, so take a rest early. "

The house here is only separated from the palace by an alley. It is convenient for the secretariat officials to be on call at any time when important and urgent work assigned by the king is encountered.

“My friends, listeners, a majestic army of one million, heroes of the Qi Kingdom with high spirits, stepped into Jingzhou Province, crossed the Liusha River, and the horn of the Northern Expedition has sounded!

Our army has the confidence, determination, and ability to kill all enemies who dare to invade us! "

As soon as he entered the courtyard, Xia Ke heard a young man wearing a round-neck robe sitting on a rocking chair under the shade of the crabapple tree in the courtyard, holding a folding fan and listening to the Voice of Qi on the radio.

"Master Yao, where are you enjoying the shade?"

the waiter greeted.

"It's Xiao Zhang. Didn't Qixing Manufacturing Factory just manufacture a batch of air conditioners? When will your office install them in our dormitory? I'll be sweating in the heat every day and won't be able to sleep, which will delay the next day's work! "

As soon as Mr. Yao saw the waiter, he expressed his bitterness.

"Hey, Master Yao, I will definitely come next year."

Xiao Zhang chuckled.

The number of air conditioners produced by the air conditioning factory is very small. This year, some important yamen have installed a batch of air conditioners. If they want to install them in dormitories, although the Secretariat has a big reputation, they can't get them.

Seeing Master Yao still getting angry, Xiao Zhang quickly said: "September is almost half over, if Master Yao continues to be patient, next year will definitely happen!

Let me introduce to you, this is Mr. Xia Kesha, the engineering secretary recruited by the king himself. "

Xiao Zhang introduced the two of them to each other, and then hurriedly left the courtyard, unable to help but wipe the sweat from his forehead.

"By the way, Xiao Zhang, there is also the motorcycle. I heard that our Zhongshu Pavilion has a few purchase quotas this year. Please help me pay attention to this."

Lord Yao chased him out and shouted.

"Okay, Lord Yao, I'll let you know if there's any news."

Xiao Zhang replied quickly and then ran away.

The First Steel Works built a motorcycle factory based on the Qingcheng Town Bicycle Factory. It took engines from Yile County and went back to manufacture Qingcheng Chaoyang brand motorcycles. Once launched, it caused a sensation in the market. It's in short supply.

The air-conditioning plant was built and put into operation by Qixing Manufacturing Plant in Yile County this spring. It had just been launched in early summer, and there were only two large workshops, and the output was not high. But this summer the weather is extremely hot. After being installed in various yamen, the effect is unexpectedly good and the response is surprisingly high.

But output is a big problem. That is to say, Zhongshu Pavilion has great reputation and still works in the palace. Naturally, it was solved for them all as soon as possible. However, some middle and low-level officials in the pavilion also lacked air conditioning in their homes, which made their offices feel uncomfortable. Embarrassed.

"I heard that next year, Chujiang Province will also build an air-conditioning factory. I hope it will be more generous next year..."

Just as Xiao Zhang was thinking about it, a few crisp gunshots suddenly came from the quiet night.

He was startled and quickly looked in the direction of the sound.

I saw several figures running in different directions, and behind them, someone was chasing them. And everywhere in the city, there were figures flying up, chasing those who were running away in panic.

"assassin?"

Xiao Zhang was very surprised.

There have been several assassinations in the palace before, but rarely such a big commotion.

Often, they are discovered and controlled by the security forces in the dark before they get close to the palace. It is rare to see such a commotion like this one.

When he returned to the Civilization Park where the Secretariat was located, although it was just a courtyard located in the southwest corner of the outermost corner of the palace, he could still feel the tension in the palace here.

There were running guards everywhere, and lights illuminated everything. The road into the First Palace Gate has been closed, and several nodes have been closed and restricted.

"Waist card!"

"Face scanning, iris monitoring."

"Beep."

After Xiao Zhang passed the inspection, he was released into the yard.

"It's not peaceful tonight. If you don't have urgent and important work, don't wander around."

The guard ordered.

"good."

Xiao Zhang didn't ask any more questions, and just said yes and entered the Civilization Park.

Here you can also hear the sound of fighting in the direction of Yuanhe Hall.

"Monster, let's catch him without mercy!"

In the corridor outside Yuanhe Hall, a slender assassin was pressed on his shoulders by four or five spears, and he was forced to kneel on the ground.

Next to it, there is a monkey jumping flexibly between the palace walls, and the space is constantly fluctuating. However, under the influence of the magic circle, the space of the palace is extremely sticky compared to ordinary places, and it cannot be teleported out no matter what.

As the space for movement became smaller and smaller, his head was finally chopped off with a sword and fell to the ground.

"Take this woman into custody and interrogate her severely!"

With a cry of approval, the woman was stuffed with a steel gag, her limbs were tightly tied with special steel wires, and then she was lifted off.

In Qixing Hall, Ren Pingsheng sat cross-legged under the eaves, drinking Siqi's freshly squeezed mango juice, watching all the assassins in the palace and city being taken down.

"Master, it seems that Barbarian is really anxious this time, sending so many temple killers at once."

No one in the harem was asleep, and they all gathered around Qixingtang at this moment.

"This assassination is over. Tomorrow we will inform the whole country about the assassination of Daru Kingdom and prepare for a full-scale counterattack!"

Ren Pingsheng said: "Early tomorrow morning, the leading group for declaring war will enter the palace to discuss matters."

"good."

Xiaowan responded and asked Wangshu to go to the secretariat and ask them to notify the person overnight.

Ren Pingsheng looked at Ruan Tang: "My Chief Engineer Ruan, when you have free time, go to Chunshan Island to inspect it. I am planning to build a space base there."

"Space base?"

Ruan Tang was surprised: "Are you ready?"

The construction of a space base cannot be used only by the talents trained in these short seven or eight years.

So many talent gaps have to be filled on the other side of the earth.

"Ready."

Ren Pingsheng nodded.

"Well."

Ruan Tang agreed: "I'll go tomorrow."

No one was affected by the assassination.

The palace had clear sentries and secret sentries, and was protected by a magic circle. The assassin had already been discovered when he entered the first palace gate.

Whether it is a shape-shifting alien posing as someone in the palace, or an invisible alien with the ability to teleport through space, they are all exposed one by one under iris monitoring, voice-based aliens, and the palace's magic circle. In this case, they can still survive under heavy siege. Entering the second palace gate without killing someone is already very powerful.

However, in the royal capital, there are hidden dragons and crouching tigers, and I don’t know how many people are rushing to make meritorious deeds!

These assassins have hit the muzzle of a gun.

The moon was setting and the sky was rising, and early the next morning, the interrogation report had been delivered to Ren Pingsheng's desk.

"They are assassins sent by the temple of Daru Barbarian Court, and the leaders are the priests of the Wolf Temple."

Reported by Wangshuhui.

"sucker Punch."

After Ren Pingsheng finished his meal, he threw away his chopsticks and walked towards Yuanhe Hall.

In the side hall, Liu Qiang and more than a dozen people came over early in the morning.

While they were chatting, they quickly stood up when they saw Ren Pingsheng appearing at the door.

After Ren Pingsheng sat down on the sofa in the main seat, they sat down again.

"Did everyone hear the news last night?"

Ren Pingsheng picked up the tea cup. The tea leaves in the hot water were filled with spiritual energy, which was refreshing.

"It is disgraceful for the Barbarian Court to send assassins."

Lu Yingying, Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, reprimanded.

"This just shows that the barbarian court is at the end of its rope!"

Ren Pingsheng smiled and said: "Now, the Daru people on the front line can't resist, so they just think of these off-the-chart moves."

"What His Highness said was bloody."

Liu Qiang said: "Now, our frontline is advancing very fast and has captured the entire territory of Yuzhou.

And we have advanced the battlefield to the Suiyuan, Rongcheng, and Duohai areas of Jingzhou Province. As long as we want, the cities south of the Liusha River can be returned to our control at any time. "

"Actually, after our Yueyang War last year, the main contradiction we faced in unifying the country was no longer the Northern Expedition against the Barbarians, but how to rule the north and how to provide relief to the people in the north.

It is easy to conquer a country but difficult to defend it. When we conquer a country and defend it, we must pay attention to the timing.

Last year, we did not have enough trained officials with experience in local governance; we also had insufficient food reserves to provide relief to the people; and we still had insufficient reserves of military firearms, ammunition and other materials.

After a year of intensive accumulation, these problems have been solved.

Guangming, please tell me about the situation here first. "

Ren Pingsheng looked at Lu Yingying.

"good."

Lu Yingying nodded: "I would like to tell you about the situation of reserve officials. Now, there are 178 officials in various ministries observing the administration, of which 28 were excellent and 150 were good in this year's assessment.

There are 1,462 local government officials, of which 162 are rated as excellent, 1,280 are good, and 20 are qualified.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs can dispatch more than 1,600 people to serve as local officials in the north.

As for staff, we can also hold a special recruitment campaign for middle schools in various places. "

Ren Pingsheng waited for Lu Yingying to finish speaking, then looked at Wu Fengbo from the Ministry of Education: "How is the education situation this year?"

“Your Highness, since this year, the Ministry of Education has established a large number of primary and secondary schools in all provinces and counties.

Among them, taking county-level administrative divisions as the core, taking population as consideration, and maximizing the use of educational resources, 1,470 primary schools and 490 middle schools have been built or under construction.

However, in accordance with the spirit of His Highness, before the construction of the school is completed, we have called on and sent a large number of primary and secondary school graduates from Wuzhou to various places to serve as Enlightenment education teacher.

Today, there are more than 4.2 million students enrolled nationwide. "

Wu Fengbo reported.

"Too few. Judging from our current population structure, there are at least 20 million primary and secondary school students, and there are still too many out of school."

Ren Pingsheng said.

"We will continue to work hard!"

Wu Fengbo assured.

“Even if the journey is long, it will be accomplished; however difficult it may be, it will be accomplished.”

Ren Pingsheng nodded: "However, in specific work, you have to eat one bite at a time and do things step by step.

Only by conducting research and improving planning can it be implemented. Only by investing resources in the most appropriate place can the effect be maximized. "

"Yes, I understand."

Wu Fengbo responded while taking his notes carefully.

“Among these students, except for Wuzhou, students from other provinces have only studied for more than a year at most, and may not be able to use them.

However, there are a large number of civil servants who can hold another assessment. Anyone who is interested in officialdom must have learned our knowledge. As long as they pass the test, they can definitely use it. "

Ren Pingsheng and Lu Yingying said.

"After I return, I will make a plan."

Lu Yingying said.

"Now, each department of finance and taxation, industry, agriculture, and national defense will talk about their current situation."

Ren Pingsheng asked the remaining people to take turns speaking.

"Everyone, our economic development has been very strong this year. Our finances and taxes are now very sufficient, enough to support the Northern Expedition..."

"Currently, our two engines of heavy industry, the north and the south, are developing rapidly. The Chujiang base is also under construction, and a large amount of private funds have entered the textile, food and other fields..."

"Now, we have built seven large-scale grain storage bases in the country. The total reserves are enough to feed the people of the country for a year, which is enough to support the needs of the current Northern Expedition..."

At the meeting, various ministers spoke one after another, and everyone present also had a more comprehensive understanding of the current situation in Qi.

It can be seen that after more than a year of accumulation, the time is ripe for the Northern Expedition and the preparations are sufficient.