"Yes, that's right, I object too!"
"I object too!"
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The voices of the ministers became louder and louder. Yi Xifeng watched the people's quarrels with cold eyes. When they reached the loudest point, he took a big step forward and shouted:
"First of all, your statement was wrong from the beginning. Regardless of any country, land and people are the foundation of the country. Without them, let alone building the ancestral pagoda, you wouldn't even have a place to dig graves."
Yi Xifeng's words were very harsh, but every word was true.
"Let me tell you, do you think the wealth your ancestors left to you is this tower? No! Is it endless glory and wealth? No! Is it the power of life and death that covers the sky with one hand? No! What is it? They are the people who grew up on this land!"
Yi Xifeng strode up to the crowd. To be honest, if he hadn't reached a deal with the Queen of the Floating Tower Kingdom and helped her protect the country, he really wouldn't want to deal with these pedantic people.
Yi Xifeng said one word at a time.
“The tower is gone, we can build it again!”
"The money is gone, you can make it again!"
"The country is gone, we can fight again!"
"But if people are gone, they are completely gone!"
Everyone was told to remain silent, but the old man with the goatee was still unconvinced.
"Without towers, wouldn't we be able to defend against them?"
"Defend? How to defend? Fifty thousand versus 180,000. If you don't use a tower, you can defend one and let me see!"
"You!" Goatee's face turned red with anger, and he pointed his finger at Yi Xifeng and kept trembling.
Yi Xifeng snorted coldly and said:
"What's more, if you don't use these towers as a fortress defense line now, when the endless wilderness overwhelms this country in the future, do you think your ancestral tower can still be saved? It will still be in ruins!"
All the ministers looked at each other with confused expressions on their faces. At this time, a young general said loudly:
"What Marquis Ting said is absolutely true. We can't move the ancestral tower. Instead of leaving it here and being demolished by the endless barbaric army, it's better to use this to resist them and preserve the ancestral foundation!"
"I agree with what Marquis Ting said."
"I agree."
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As voices of support continued to emerge, people who were originally neutral began to join forces to support Yi Xifeng's proposal.
"Bah bang bang!"
Applause sounded from the high platform, it was Her Majesty the Queen of the Tower Kingdom.
"What Ting Hou said is very reasonable. I have approved it. Ting Hou will be fully responsible for building the defense line. No one can disobey it."
After the court meeting dispersed, Yi Xifeng was stopped by the queen.
In fact, Yi Xifeng had already mentioned this matter to the queen before the court meeting. The queen just wanted to see how Yi Xifeng could convince these stubborn old guys.
"I am just curious. With the strength of fellow Daoist Yi, he can convince them by just releasing his pressure, so why waste his own words?"
Yi Xifeng chuckled and said: "The queen should know that although it is simple and effective to suppress them with strength, it is unpopular with the people. We have to let them contribute to building the defense line. If anyone is not convinced and makes a stumbling block in secret, the result will be The plan is ruined. By then, all the efforts will be in vain."
The queen nodded. She agreed with Yi Xifeng's statement. As the king of a country, she naturally understood that people's hearts cannot be tested.
"Of course, this doesn't guarantee that they will do their best, so we have to send people to keep an eye on them at all times." Yi Xifeng added.
"Who do you think is more appropriate to send, Fellow Daoist Yi?"
Yi Xifeng pursed his lips not far behind the queen and said with a smile: "Far away in the horizon, but close in front of you."
The queen turned around and saw that the person Yi Xifeng was talking about was her daughter.
The specific plan to build a defense line in Tallin was finalized by Yi Xifeng and implemented by Qi Chengcheng. Qi Chengcheng is good at managing property and is best suited to do this. With the help of several major chambers of commerce, he is much better than those ministers who only use their power for personal gain.
Qi Chengcheng happily accepted, and of course he had benefits. The female king first gave him one hundred taels of gold as a deposit, and the remaining four hundred taels would be made up after the deal was completed. Five hundred taels of gold is already a very generous reward for this amount of work.
Halfway through the strategic construction of the fortress, Qi Chengcheng suddenly discovered that there was still 50,000 taels of silver allocated by the king. If others had seen this wealth, they would definitely have pocketed it, but Qi Chengcheng immediately found the princess in charge of supervision and wanted him to take it back.
But the princess refused.
After listening to Her Royal Highness the Princess's explanation, Qi Chengcheng understood that the king had earlier ordered that all the one million taels of silver be used to build defense lines. Now that he had spoken, how could he take it back?
Her Royal Highness is good at martial arts but not good at writing. Even if she is good at it, she will not be handsome. She has not thought of any good solution to this problem.
It happened that Yi Xifeng passed by here.
As the maker and implementer of the plan, Yi Xifeng naturally wanted to inspect the progress of the plan. But as soon as he entered the door, he was pulled by Qi Chengcheng.
After listening to Qi Chengcheng's description, Yi Xifeng immediately gave a solution.
"Dig a trap."
"trap?"
Seeing the confused looks of the two people in front of him, Yi Xifeng spread his hands and explained helplessly: "Traps are also part of the defense line."
Qi Chengcheng was stunned for a moment, then suddenly slapped his head and said, "Look at my brain, I'm only thinking about building the fortified city and I forgot about this."
Her Royal Highness the Princess blinked her beautiful eyes, her brows furrowed slightly, and she looked hesitant.
"Traps can only catch prey in the mountains. How can they stop an army of 180,000 people?"
"Princess, you made a mistake." Yi Xifeng said with a smile.
"What's the meaning?"
"Traps are not set up to stop the army, but to psychologically frighten the opponent."
Her Royal Highness the Princess frowned and carefully considered the meaning of this sentence.
Yi Xifeng shook his head when he saw this. Qi Chengcheng was good at planning property. The princess was upright and suitable for supervision, but no one was good at fighting.
Although Yi Xifeng has not experienced many battles, his ancestors in his previous life have left behind a lot of valuable combat experience. Yi Xifeng's thoughts were more or less influenced by them.
"It seems that we need to arrange for someone who knows the art of war to come over." Yi Xifeng pinched his chin and thought of someone.
An hour later, Shi Qingan was brought to Qi Chengcheng's camp.
Qi Chengcheng first looked at the person, then at Yi Xifeng, and couldn't help but send a message to the latter and asked: "Hey, Yi Xifeng, why did you find a team leader?"
Yi Xifeng laughed and didn't explain anything. He said directly to everyone: "The people have arrived. You can discuss it among yourselves. I will leave first if I have something else to do."
After saying this, Yi Xifeng flashed, leaving an afterimage and walked away. With Qi Chengcheng here, he doesn't have to worry about being left out.
Qi Chengcheng didn't know that Yi Xifeng had gone out of the city that night, let alone brought two people back with him. (End of chapter)
