Faced with Di Xin's questioning, Zhou Yanwai stood up.
"You don't need to stand up, just sit down and talk."
"Thank you, Your Highness."
Zhou Yanwai followed the good example and sat down again and continued: "Your Highness, there are not many officials in charge of the inspection department in this city. Recently, they collectively left Taicang City due to a case, so they are unable to come to see Your Highness."
"When the inspector comes back, they will come to see you."
By the time they come back, he will probably have left Taicang City.
Di Xin did not dwell too much on this issue. The question just now was enough to express his attitude. As for where the people who didn't come went, he didn't care.
"continue."
"yes."
Zhou Yanwai nodded, took a stack of books from his colleague Sun Wenxu and said: "Your Highness, this is the population list of Taicang City, as well as the tax and silver books of these years, etc. Please take a look at it."
Di Xin's eyes signaled that Xizi walked over, took all the books, and placed them on the table in front of Di Xin.
Di Xin casually picked up a book and flipped through it, while Zhou Yanwai reported one by one on Taicang City's population movement, taxation and other administrative matters in recent years.
Because Taicang City is close to the border and is mainly a military city, although it belongs to a single government, the permanent population is not very large. Even if the surrounding villages and merchants are included, the total number of people in the city is only tens of thousands.
Next is Ouyang Lie's report.
Because of the frequent incursions of the Turks, the border areas were given more military importance. There were two thousand elite soldiers in the city, including one thousand light armored infantry, five hundred heavy armored infantry, three hundred archers, and two hundred light cavalry.
In addition, there are three guard posts around, each with a thousand soldiers stationed there. Once Taicang City is attacked, reinforcements will be sent back quickly.
This is five thousand people, and as Emperor Xin's general, all the troops combined are only six thousand people.
And once the war begins, there will be even more troops protecting Taicang City.
The reason why Taicang City is so important is that this city is responsible for the logistics of other towns, all garrison posts, and frontline soldiers.
All food and wages shipped from Dali will pass through Taicang City and then be distributed according to military rosters.
Because of its importance, although it is farther from the border than other towns, every time the Turks invade, they will basically send people to sneak over and harass them.
It is precisely because of this that, in addition to ordinary soldiers, there are also many warriors stationed here. Even the commander Ouyang Lie is only one step away from breaking through the innate world. He is a warrior who has reached the perfection stage the day after tomorrow.
Hearing this, Di Xin's heart moved.
Before, he had wondered why Ouyang Xuan, who was already a warrior in the late acquired period, was only a member of the Qianhu household, and he didn't have his own guardhouse, so he could only stay in Taicang City.
Emperor Xin initially thought that there was some hidden reason behind this obviously unfair treatment, and it was something that even Ouyang Xuan's father and the dignified commander could not solve.
Combined with the information he had previously detected, there was indeed a hidden secret, but it was not what he thought.
It is obvious that Ouyang Lie kept Ouyang Xuan in Taicang City for personal gain, in order to add a warrior of the later stage to Taicang City.
After understanding this, Di Xin looked at Ouyang Lie with a hint of admiration in his eyes.
This approach would affect Ouyang Xuan's future, but for the sake of Taicang City and all the soldiers at the border, Ouyang Lie did it resolutely.
No wonder the intelligence said that Ouyang Xuan and Ouyang Lie were at odds with each other as father and son, and Ouyang Xuan often contradicted Ouyang Lie.
Ouyang Xuan has been fighting on the front line for ten years. He is a warlike person, but he thought that his father could only stay in Taicang City, a place far away from the front line, every day.
It can be said that Ouyang Xuan was as aggrieved as he wanted, but due to his responsibilities, he had no other choice but to occasionally vent his dissatisfaction.
If Di Xin recruited Ouyang Xuan before to build up his power faster, then now he really has a love for talents.
If he really becomes the leader of the Ancient Moon Realm one day, such outstanding talents who are hard-working and patriotic and love the people are the right candidates to assist in the governance of the Ancient Moon Realm.
At the same time, Di Xin also realized something.
Now it seems that the war situation at the border is much worse than before, so much so that Ouyang Lie, a third-level commander, has no choice but to take this evil trick.
In this unusual situation, Di Xin immediately thought of other realm masters who came from outside the Ancient Moon Realm like him.
It's not that Emperor Xin is a warrior, there are quite a few realm masters who have entered the Ancient Moon Realm now. Apart from those realm masters who are too lazy to manage their power and hide themselves to practice, there are naturally realm masters who value power as much as Di Xin.
Now that there are such big changes at the border, there is a high probability that a realm lord has arrived from the Turks, and their power has become small.
This was also Emperor Xin's mistake. The Great Shang unified all the heavens in the prehistoric world, and its power was arrogant in the prehistoric world. Even if there were occasional small forces that were unwilling to be left alone, they could easily bulldoze them. This also led to the fact that except for the power at the level of the world lord, Emperor Xin
I have become accustomed to ignoring forces other than big merchants.
And this habit was brought into the Ancient Moon Realm by him.
In the Ancient Moon Realm, although the Dali Dynasty was declining day by day, it was still the most powerful country in the world. Although Di Xin, who had traveled through time and space, knew that there were Turks and other foreign forces around him who were eyeing their ambitions, he actually didn't pay much attention to it.
In his subconscious mind, even if there were other realm owners who wanted to manage their power, they would choose the Great Li Dynasty.
But after all, Dali is not a big merchant. Although it is powerful, it is not impossible for other forces to surpass it, let alone the participation of the world lord.
Who are the Realm Lords? Each of them is a strong man who rules a whole world. To describe them as the proud ones is an insult to them.
The only ones who can deal with the Realm Lord are those at the Realm Lord level.
Di Xin, who originally thought of slowly developing his power and waiting until the fight for the throne in the capital was settled, to make a comeback, finally felt a hint of urgency.
Although Di Xin is confident, he will not underestimate himself. If he fails to integrate the border areas into his own power before the Turkic world lord develops, he may be completely defeated.
Ouyang Lie didn't know that Di Xin had guessed so much information in his short report. Of course, this was one of Di Xin's advantages as a Realm Master.
But now, this time the meeting has finally reached the point.
When Ouyang Lie finished his report and sat back down, all the officials involuntarily sat upright, tensed their backs, and even breathed a little lighter.
Di Xin also calmed down his thoughts at this moment and temporarily put the matters of other realm masters behind his mind.
"It's been a hard work for all of you, my lords, guarding the border in this remote place."
Di Xin put down the book in his hand and said a few words first, then paused for a moment, and waited until everyone's attention was concentrated before continuing: "Originally, I should have submitted a memorial to thank all of you, but today I encountered
Something very interesting happened.”
coming.
All officials present tried hard to maintain their expressions.
Di Xin looked around with interest from left to right, and then ordered: "Bring the people here!"