Although Shangqing Palace is called a palace, it is also a royal garden with about one thousand acres.

This scale is small in the royal garden. The buildings here are not dense, with a lake, a mountain, and a garden.

This mountain is not high, more than 300 meters, or 999 feet, and is piled up manually. The soil is just the silt produced by digging the lake.

The Shangqing Palace of the Supreme Emperor is on the top of the mountain, but this is the Lingbao Heavenly Venerable, one of the ancestors of Taoism. The Supreme Emperor himself does not live there. He lives in the Wuwei Hall slightly below the Shangqing Palace to practice.

The Palace of Wuwei is taken from the way of following nature, and doing nothing.

On the other hand, it fully expressed the Supreme Emperor's determination to retire, and handed over all the power of the government to Emperor Wan Yun, who did nothing himself.

There are three realms in the Shangqing Palace, mountains, lakes, and sea of ​​flowers.

The Supreme Emperor lives on the mountain with only one residence, but Princess Xiangxiang has two. There is a palace at the center of the lake, Qinglianju. There is also an incense palace in the center of the sea of ​​flowers.

Both places are the residences of Princess Xiangxiang. When the weather is hot, they live in the middle of the lake, and when the weather is cold, they live in the center of the sea of ​​flowers.

Because this sea of ​​flowers has flowers from the whole world and uses a large number of greenhouses, it is very warm even in winter.

There is a legend that Princess Xiangxiang lives in the center of the sea of ​​flowers all year round and is soaked by the fragrance of flowers, so she has a charming body fragrance and is called Princess Xiangxiang. It is also said that Princess Xiangxiang eats flowers every day, so the fragrance is so strong.

Of course, these are nonsense. Although there are many flowers in this sea of ​​flowers, there are more of them.

The old eunuch took the thing from Yun Zhonghe and quickly climbed up Wanen Mountain along the steps, came to the Wuwei Hall, and knelt down and said, "Wuwei Daojun, Ao Yu has something to offer, saying that this thing is related to the fate of the empire, and he is willing to exchange it for something."

"Take it in!"

The old eunuch came to the door, but he could not enter because the Supreme Emperor was practicing Taoism.

A boy handed out a basin inside, and the old eunuch placed the box on it, then knelt outside and waited quietly.

Although he couldn't see it outside, the old eunuch could still make up for the pictures inside in his heart.

The stuff was sent in.

The box was opened.

After a moment, the old eunuch felt his hair rise suddenly.

There was also a slight tremor in the air.

He felt the atmosphere of the entire Wuwei Hall tremble suddenly.

It was obvious that the thing Ao Yu offered was indeed extraordinary. When the Supreme Emperor saw it, he was slightly shocked.

Because the sound of reciting the scriptures inside stopped.

Even all the candlelight inside seemed to be blown by a gust of wind and shook.

What exactly did Yun Zhonghe deliver? It shocked the Supreme Emperor?

He sent a map, a map of the Great Zhou Empire.

Of course, although this thing has great strategic value, it is not enough to shock the Supreme Emperor, let alone affect the fate of the empire.

The key is that Yun Zhonghe drew a route on the map and a route on the sea.

It is the route of the earthquake that broke out since last year, and the entire earthquake zone was drawn as much as possible.

In particular, the eruption of Dari Mountain volcano may promote further geological activities.

The earthquake has continued recently and has been going east, but most of it is in the southern mountainous areas, and the impact is not very big.

But somewhere on the map, Yun Zhonghe drew a circle, and it was drawn with cinnabar strokes, which was blood-red and dazzling.

The place he encircled is called Langzhou.

Langzhou is the southernmost coastal city of the Great Zhou Empire, and it is also a super city close to the Southern Barbarian Realm. It is only more than 2,000 miles away from the straight-line distance of the Shi family of Zhenhai King's Mansion.

Although this place is not the four core cities of the Great Zhou Empire, its weight has become increasingly large. At least in terms of taxes, it has surpassed Jiangzhou. I believe that in the near future, it may replace Jiangzhou and become the new core city of the Great Zhou Empire.

Because it has a very excellent harbor along the coast, there is one of the three major maritime departments of the Great Zhou Empire in Langzhou, and it is the largest one.

A considerable part of the cotton, silk, porcelain and salt of the Great Zhou Empire all set out from Langzhou Port.

This is the center of distribution of many materials and the center of trade.

So here is not only the Maritime Bureau, but also the Manufacturing Bureau, the Salt Transportation Bureau and other yamen, which are the top source of wealth in the entire Great Zhou Dynasty.

Every day here is a sea of ​​gold and silver, with an annual trade volume exceeding tens of millions of taels of silver.

Not only that, the largest navy of the Great Zhou Empire was also in Langzhou. Firstly, it was because the port here was excellent, secondly, it was to protect maritime trade, and most importantly, it was to guard against the Shi family of the King of Zhenhai Mansion.

This only prince of the Great Zhou Empire made his fortune by pirates and was considered an absolute maritime overlord.

Before, even if the Shi family failed on the ground, the Shi family had the strongest sea fleet and easily retreated. Therefore, after each rebellion was suppressed, the Shi family could make a comeback. As a last resort, Emperor Tianyan conferred the Shi family as King Zhenhai, the only king of different surnames.

Moreover, because it monopolized the trade in the entire southern maritime state, the Shi family was as rich as the country and could easily recruit enough troops. As long as they had money, they would have as many mercenaries as they would have.

Emperor Tianyan is a very early person to look at the world.

In the eyes of the world, Emperor Tianyan's greatest achievements were of course the attack on the Southern Barbarian Realm, which expanded the empire's territory by more than one million square kilometers.

But he had another great achievement, which was to build ports and carry out maritime trade.

The three major ports and the three major maritime departments of the Great Zhou Empire were all built by Emperor Tianyan in the throne.

It was the establishment of these three ports and the three major maritime departments that brought huge taxes to the court, and some businesses were even the royal family's own industries.

The construction of these three major ports and the construction of massive ships were of course a huge burden and investment at the beginning, and this could not be accomplished in just ten years.

But Emperor Tianyan used his supreme determination to pay the price of astronomical numbers. After more than twenty years, he finally built countless sea ships and three major ports.

Now twenty years have passed, and the benefits brought by maritime trade in these three major ports are simply unparalleled.

The corruption of the Great Zhou Empire is obvious to all. After all, it is a century-old empire, and it is completely difficult to recover. It is complicated and complicated. It is too difficult to clean up the officialdom.

Emperor Wan Yun is definitely a loser, but even so, the treasury can still hold on.

What a fortune this is?

Two years ago, we just fought a super battle with the Daying Empire, investing hundreds of thousands of troops and using 20 to 30 million taels of military expenses.

This time, more than 200,000 troops were gathered to fight the rebellion in the south. Before the fight started, tens of millions of taels of silver had been used.

Because the southern border is too far, nearly ten thousand miles away.

Hundreds of thousands of troops of the Daying Empire entered the borderless land, showing off the look of going to war.

Emperor Wan Yun kept saying that he wanted the emperor to guard the country's gates and to hunt Jinzhou north.

Therefore, the Jinzhou defense line is gathering a large-scale army, and countless fortresses have been built in order to strengthen the Jinzhou defense line. This work has been going on fortifications fortifications fortifications fortifications fortifications fortifications fortifications fortifications fortifications fortifications fortifications fortifications fortifications fortifications fortifications fortifications fortifications fortifications fortifications fortifications fortifications fortifications fortifications fortifications fortifications fortifications fortifications fortifications for the Jinzhou defense line.

This also requires astronomical silver.

There is also Duke Lian of Zhou going to the Western Front to defend the Kingdom of Daliang. Although there was no war, it also cost money to make pre-war preparations.

Where did the Dazhou Treasury get so much money when spending money like this crazy?

Isn’t it because maritime trade brings a lot of gold and silver that fills the treasury?

So in terms of family background, the Great Win Empire is really not as good as the Great Zhou Empire. Just like the Southern Song Dynasty, although it is weak and only half of the country, the treasury revenue in seconds will kill the Ming Dynasty every year.

Therefore, this Langzhou is considered a major tax and taxation area of ​​the Great Zhou Empire and the core of the wealth line.

In this map of Yun Zhonghe, a large earthquake may break out in the Langzhou waters.

This is so terrible!

Although it is not the busiest time of Langzhou Port now, there are still countless merchant ships, countless supplies, and countless gold and silver on the sea.

Not only that, most of the navy fleets of the Great Zhou Empire are in Langzhou Port.

This navy fleet was also built by Emperor Tianyan. It took more than twenty years to barely form an army.

This navy is a gold-eating beast, which is much more expensive than the ground army. This navy has only 70,000 people, but with warships and weapons, it is almost as good as the ground army of 700,000.

But this navy fleet is very necessary. Without this fleet, maritime trade cannot be protected. No matter whether your caravan is the Great Zhou Empire or not, he will rob it if he wants to. The maritime power is king.

Moreover, this navy fleet has a more important task, to quell the rebellion of the Shi family at a critical moment.

When the naval fleet of the Great Zhou Empire surpassed the maritime power of the Shi family, it was almost the time to reduce the vassals of the Shi family.

If a large earthquake really occurs on the sea surface of Langzhou, it may be accompanied by a tsunami. If there is no defense, the entire fleet will be destroyed and countless merchant ships will be destroyed.

That was a devastating blow, and the losses were more than tens of millions?

Because this loss is not only gold and silver, but also maritime strategic rights in the next decade.

The Shi family will once again dominate the southern waters and take away all trade rights.

Of course, the reduction of the Great Zhou Empire's vassals is nowhere to be achieved. The most important thing is that there may be a serious financial crisis in the future.

So Yun Zhonghe did not have any exaggeration at all. If this thing is true, it really concerns the fate of the empire.

If this thing in the scripture is true, it will be worth more than hundreds of thousands of troops.

Moreover, Ao Yu marked the date on it, and the time when the earthquake occurred in Langzhou waters was accompanied by the tsunami was mid-February.

No wonder the Supreme Emperor was shocked when he saw it.

Because Langzhou Port and Langzhou Maritime Warehouse were built by Emperor Tianyan, he certainly knew how powerful the strategic value was.

Of course, all this is based on the situation where Ao Yu predicted it correctly.

If Yun Zhonghe had taken out this piece of paper before, he would have been criticized as a witch and was directly beaten to 50 yards.

But not long ago, he had just used the volcanic eruption to destroy the main force of the rebels in the southern border.

This person seems to have profound attainments in astronomy and geography, and he has to be valued.
To be continued...