The Dongsha Islands far away.

Crescent Island.

More than three years have passed since Zhao Dongting established the Dongsha Islands Special Zone.

During this period, with the continuous promotion and encouragement of maritime trade by the Song Dynasty, the North and South Circles and Crescent Islands became prosperous at an extremely fast speed.

In the past, there were only Liu Xikuang. When the pirates such as Hong Niang were entrenched, there were only some thatched huts on the island, but now there are temples everywhere.

There are two armies of land and land masters, and tens of thousands of defenders in the archipelago. There is no need to worry about the security of the Dongsha Islands.

These temples, mansions, etc. are not something ordinary people can afford to live in.

Because these temples and mansions were developed by construction groups under the Ministry of Construction of the Court. From the time of development, the purpose was to sell them to wealthy merchants and nobles who came to the Dongsha Islands to trade. This was probably the first developer to appear in this era, and it was established at the instruction of Zhao Dongting.

Since Zhao Dongting occupied Leizhou to implement the new policy, he has established the Ministry of Construction.

As time goes by, the Ministry of Construction, which was originally unknown, is gradually becoming more and more popular. Even inland areas, there are commercial residential projects developed by the Construction Group under the Ministry of Construction of the Song Dynasty, not to mention islands like the Dongsha Islands. Nowadays, these unique buildings have gradually been favored by wealthy businessmen.

Take Guangnan East Road, which is closest to the Dongsha Islands, for example.

What is a wealthy businessman?

What is a wealthy family?

If you can own a house on the Dongsha Islands, you are a wealthy businessman, and you are a wealthy family. Otherwise, there will always be fewer colors.

Although the popularity of such real estate development projects is naturally far from comparable to later generations, they still bring far-reaching wealth to the Song Dynasty court.

After all, this industry is almost monopolized in the hands of the Song Dynasty court.

This also allowed the Song Dynasty court to quickly recover funds and then formed a virtuous cycle.

The various departments and departments under the Ministry of State Administration of China continued to earn wealth for the court, and then the court used this money to continuously improve people's livelihood.

If it weren't for this, the Song Dynasty wouldn't have reached its current situation in just a few years.

In this era, nine-year compulsory education can appear, medical insurance, pension insurance, and unemployment insurance, which is absolutely unimaginable.

But now there are quite a few people in the Song Dynasty, and even those who don’t understand what these insurances are, enjoying these benefits.

And this was all brought by Zhao Dongting's new policy, which was achieved by trying every means to collect money from all over the place and then use it for the people.

Even though the end of the year has passed, the Crescent Island is still as lively as ever.

Standing at the port, you can see overseas sailing boats. These sailing boats are of different colors and styles, and are arranged densely on the sea, almost covering the sky and the sun.

The spacious official road leading directly to the island is also full of cars and horses, and pedestrians are endless.

There are wealthy businessmen, people, martial artists, and all kinds of foreigners.

As the largest sea trade city in the Song Dynasty, the Dongsha Islands have undergone earth-shaking changes in just three years.

Inside the city.

Soldiers wearing armor and holding dragon guns can be seen patrolling back and forth on the street.

There are also vendors living on this island who set up stalls to sell small items made by their homes. They look very ordinary, but some of them were actually pirates who killed people without blinking.

Now the people on the island are no longer surprised by these foreigners, and they even speak some foreign daily terms.

Various languages ​​with different pronunciations are ringing in chaos on this noisy street.

This picture is even more lively than the paintings of the Qingming Shanghe Map.

It was not until the evening that the noise in the city gradually dissipated.

The vendors carried their own burdens and went home one after another.

Except for those shops that operate day and night, the rest of the shops have also closed their doors one after another.

But the city gate was not closed.

The gates of Crescent Island City have always been closed all night.

If you stand on a high place and look at the city, you can find that except for the two streets that are still brightly lit, the rest of the places are gradually swallowed up by the darkness.

In this darkness, there are still shadows of houses.

Zicheng.

There are still some lights vaguely lit here.

Many official offices on Crescent Island and the residences of officials in the city are mostly located in this sub-city.

At the gates of each city, soldiers holding torches were guarding them. The torches swayed gently with the night wind.

The outer city of Crescent Island is never martial law, but the inner city has always been strictly guarded.

The night was getting darker and the guards did not notice it. Dozens of black shadows rushed into Zicheng from all over the place.

They all have outstanding cultivation, they are elusive and cross the city walls as if walking on flat ground, silently.

With the vigilance of ordinary defenders, it is too difficult to find such a master.

"There are assassins!"

However, when dozens of men in black rushed into the city within less than a few minutes, they were finally discovered by the secret whistle arranged in the city.

There was a scream of exclamation.

Then the sub-city became almost brightly lit at an extremely fast speed.

The horn sounded.

The lights quickly lit up in all the official offices and mansions.

The defenders in the city also moved.

Every street has social security offices or guardhouses under the Social Security Bureau. So loud, soldiers soon ran out with torches and dragon guns.

With Zhao Dongting promulgating the imperial edict to distribute the Shenlong gun to defenders in various places, the defenders in social security bureaus in various parts of the Song Dynasty now have the right to provide guns. The combat power is not comparable before.

This was undoubtedly beyond the expectations of dozens of men in black.

Even though they have good cultivation, they find it difficult to hide their whereabouts when the defenders in the entire city move.

"Who is here! Accept it quickly!"

There was such a sound on the street.

However, the men in black did not take into account the shouts of these defenders, but still rushed on the roof and headed towards the depths of Zicheng.

Their trip was obviously extremely targeted.

Judging from their whereabouts, the low-level generals from various social security institutes changed slightly.

In addition to the major official offices in the sub-city, the mansions of the top officials on the Crescent Island are the residences of the most popular officials.

Although these officials may not be anything in the entire court, on this Crescent Island, they are people who can really make the Crescent Island change with just stomping their feet.

The chief envoy of Crescent Island, Hong Niangzi, the commander of the Landkui Army and the comfort envoy of the silencer, both lived in the depths of this sub-city.

If they were assassinated...

Just thinking about it is enough to make these soldiers in the social security department shudder.

That is a big event that can change the entire Crescent Island.

"shot!"

"shot!"

Thinking of this, the generals no longer bothered to investigate the origin of these assassins, and they all shouted loudly.

The gunshot suddenly exploded in the night.

Clusters of Mars emerged.

A man in black screamed, and after being shot, he rolled from the roof to the ground.

There is a sound of bricks falling to the ground.

The defenders below rushed up and surrounded the man in black who had fallen to the ground.

The man in black is no longer alive.

A defender stepped forward and uncovered the black scarf covering his face, turned around with a little surprise, "General, he is a Japanese!"

"quick!"

Upon hearing this, the general spoke, "Follow me to the general's residence!"

After saying that, he ran towards Hongniang and Diaozhu's mansion.

While running, he hummed again, "These thieves are really here."

In the entire inner city, there are many social security guards who lead their troops to Hongniangzi and Diaozhu Mansions like this.

At this time, Hong Niangzi and Diaozhu's mansion were actually not calm.

It was the moment when the horn sounded, Hong Niangzi and Diaozhu who had already woken up in their sleep.

As soon as they sat up from the bed, the two of them looked at each other.

Diaboo smiled and said, "Madam, why not guess if Japan has sent an assassin?"

The Hongniangzi was slightly angry with him and said, "You made such a big noise in Japan. Who else can you do except they want to kill you?"

"hehe!"

Diaboo smiled softly, "Let's get up and see what kind of strength the Japanese shogunate can do to kill me."

In fact, although the defense of the Crescent Island City was quite strict in the past, it was still far from this point.

The defenders of the Social Security Bureau in the city were able to spread out in such a short time because Diabola had issued an order long ago to make the defenders of the Social Security Bureau strictly guard against assassins.

He knew that Japan would not give up easily if it suffered so much under his command.

Japan probably did not have the courage to send troops to attack the Song Dynasty, so the most likely thing was to assassinate him, the "initiator".

The Japanese shogunate has not used such tricks. Didn’t the emperor encounter the assassination of Japanese samurai and ninjas during the military parade in Lin'an?
Chapter completed!