Chapter 2980 Desperate Counterattack 18

The reason why roads are built is to ensure smooth flow of troops during war. As for hiring people to patrol, one is to prevent enemies from coming in, and the other is to escort people or businessmen along the way to ensure their normal production and business activities. Make the base more prosperous, so that it can receive more business taxes and make the base have money to spend.

Otherwise, if commerce is underdeveloped and commercial taxes cannot be collected, agricultural taxes will be collected, and the people's lives will be miserable.

An Ran didn't want to collect too much agricultural taxes. After all, farmers could only scrape out as much money as they had, so she still promoted business development, collected more commercial taxes, and used the money to build a better base.

Therefore, only the people in the base know that this base is not only safe, but also prosperous.

Staying in such a place, no one wants to go outside, after all, it is too dangerous outside.

Especially those who have been here for a short time, have been refugees outside for a long time, and have had one meal without another. When they come to a place like this, they just feel that this place is paradise. They cherish it very much and think about their days outside. , even less dare to leave the fortress, just want to hide in this safest place and live a peaceful life.

Thinking of such a safe place, they are willing to stay even if the owner of the base charges more taxes.

What's more, the owners of the base don't charge much in taxes, so they prefer to stay and won't leave.

In fact, not only outsiders look at such a place and feel it is like paradise, but also the group of people who initially followed Enron also feel that their own base is so well-constructed that it feels like paradise.

Especially those in the Anyang Marquis Mansion at the beginning, they really never thought that the eldest lady in the family who was bullied by others in the past could transform into this after going through troubled times. It was really unexpected for them.

Not only can she fight, but she also reads a lot and knows everything. They all can't remember what the eldest lady was like a year ago.

However, they did not have any doubts about Enron's development. They just thought that Enron rose up from a desperate situation. This kind of counterattack had never happened before, so it was not surprising.

Seeing how powerful An Ran was, everyone couldn't help but wonder whether Mr. Hou and the others had any regrets after escaping to the south. After all, in order to live a good life in the south, Mr. Hou and the others spent a lot of money to buy some land and houses, almost emptying their family property. .

Because the money spent is much more expensive than buying land in the north, it is actually equivalent to a reduction in property in disguise.

Not to mention that Zhuangzi in the north is currently unavailable, so it is equivalent to the fact that the income of the Marquis and the others has been reduced a lot, so their life will definitely not be as good as that in the capital.

On the contrary, the eldest lady has built such a big base and is the owner of this base, just like a local emperor. How much power and resources does this have? The eldest lady's life is much better than before.

In this way, if the Marquis and the others know about the development of the eldest lady, will they regret that they should not have left the capital in the first place.

However, before leaving the capital, the eldest lady does not need to survive in a desperate situation. I am afraid that she will not be able to inspire such motivation, and there may not be such development by then, so everything is just a coincidence.

During this period, they also inquired about the news about those who were crossing south. These news were all heard from the ears of the new refugees.

Although many people are ordinary people and do not know the major events in the DPRK, they have heard about it. It is said that those people are not happy staying in the south. They worry all day long that the aliens will cross the river and attack. It is said that the aliens have conquered them. A navy who knows how to fight on the water will probably cross the river to destroy the Southern Dynasty. This news makes those who cross the south, even if they cross south, live in fear and uneasiness all day long, so those people's days are not as good as theirs. These people in the north are stable.

In fact, even An Ran is not sure whether the aliens will destroy the Southern Dynasty, because the aliens are not weak in strength, and they have indeed obtained the navy. In this way, it is hard to say whether they will cross the river and destroy the Southern Dynasty. After all, the fate of the country is such Things are sometimes very mysterious.

Although the foreigners often massacred cities and acted cruelly, and regarded the people of the Central Plains as inferior and their own ethnic group as superior, it was different from the previous Central Plains dynasties that did not make such distinctions. It does not seem to be a good thing, but God wants If you want them to succeed, it is possible to succeed.

The original person had died at this time and had no memory of this, so An Ran couldn't figure it out and could only judge based on his own experience.

In terms of strength, apart from the fact that the river is wide and difficult to cross, if there is no natural barrier between them, the Southern Dynasties are no match for these foreign races.

Therefore, whether the Southern Dynasty can survive depends on whether Dajiang can stop the aliens.

However, An Ran felt that as long as the emperor of the Southern Dynasty did not perish and there would be no internal strife, the Southern Dynasty should be able to survive with the great river and natural moat, just like the Eastern Jin Dynasty and Southern Song Dynasty in the real world. Unlike the Southern Ming Dynasty, after the death of the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, there was no The orthodox heir caused the kings to fight for the throne and the group was leaderless. Everyone's thoughts were spent on internal strife and did not agree with the outside world, which led to the new dynasty quickly conquering Jiangnan.

But in this world's dynasties, the emperor is not as stupid as Chongzhen. He knows how to escape, and the system is still preserved. With the great rivers and natural dangers, without internal strife, as long as there are no accidents, it should be able to last for a long time.

And this is what she wants to see. After all, she still wants to deal with the group of people who killed the original body. Naturally, she doesn't want to see them die. After all, they are going to die at the hands of aliens. How will she deal with them in the future?

The development of the situation was just as An Ran expected. Although the aliens had obtained the navy, their attack on Jiangnan was not successful so quickly. The aliens had advanced very quickly before, but when they reached the river, they struggled for a long time. The lack of progress makes them anxious.

Although they have begun to use people from the Central Plains Dynasty to deal with people from the Central Plains Dynasty, they do not dare to cultivate too many troops from the Central Plains Dynasty for the time being. They are afraid that they will betray them and it will be over by then. Therefore, many times, they still play by themselves. , and this will inevitably cause casualties.

And they don't have many people. The more casualties there are, the more unbearable they are, which makes them naturally anxious.

An Ran received anxious news from the Xihu people - because the alien race was located in the northwest, they were commonly called Xihu - and stepped up the progress of expanding their territory, because she knew that in a short period of time, the Xihu people would suffer even greater casualties, and they would suffer even greater losses. No, she will suspend the offensive immediately and reorganize the north first. Then, she will be under pressure, so naturally she will take advantage of the opponent's lack of reaction to expand her territory, so that the Xihu people will be unable to attack them. .

And as long as the Xihu people take the initiative to attack her, she will have an excuse to fight back in the future and be able to unify the north.