Chapter 21 Stargazing City
Guanxing City is located in the northwest of Huaiyuan County, where the entire slave trading market in Huaiyuan County is located.
The scale of the slave market in Guanxing City not only ranks first in Huaiyuan County, but also in the entire Weiyi subcontinent. There is no other reason, because apart from the native slaves of the Weiyi subcontinent, other continents and some scattered human races The slaves in the inhabited area will also be continuously transported to Huaiyuan County by sea vessels through overseas trade, and then transferred here from ports such as Yiyang Port in Huaiyuan County.
The slave trade is the fourth largest trading commodity in the human world in this era. According to those slave traders, the slave trade is an important way to optimize the overall human resource allocation of the human race, maintain the survival of the fittest within the human race, and keep human beings alive and aggressive.
Although the slave trade is not noble, it has the inevitability and rationality of its existence. After all, not to mention slaves, everyone in this era is living under the threat of the giant wheel of the era and the demons.
The name of Guanxing City is very poetic, but this city is not poetic at all. In addition to the large-scale slave trade here, there are also the largest casinos in Huaiyuan County, the largest courtyards, and the bloodiest and cruelest underground gladiators. field.
The Zhang family of Huaiyuantang shows another image of the family here.
Many people can imagine what the place with the most slaves, the most women, and the most gamblers is like. If Stargazing City were located in another place, then the city would probably be extremely chaotic, but because it is in In Huaiyuan County, in addition to slaves, women and gamblers, there is also the most terrifying Hurricane Legion in Huaiyuantang stationed in this city, so the order in this city is surprisingly good.
The crime rate of this city is even lower than that of Yiyang City, and the security level of the whole city can be ranked in the top three among the eight cities under Huaiyuan County.
The Hurricane Legion is an iron fist of Huaiyuantang. The entire legion has a population of 420,000. More than two-thirds of these people are slaves from various continents and countries. , Huaiyuantang will give these slaves the status of free people.
The Hurricane Legion has existed for more than 300 years. During these 300 years, Huaiyuantang has explored an efficient and stable system for managing this mixed corps. Under this system, the combat effectiveness and loyalty to the family of everyone in the legion have been excavated to the greatest extent.
There are quite a few brothers in Qianlongtang who have served in the Hurricane Legion after leaving Qianlongtang, serving as officers at all levels.
The general information about Stargazing City was learned by Zhang Tie when he was at home these two days.
Zhang Tie, who stayed at home for two days, left Jinhai City after having breakfast at home on the 25th, and went to Stargazing City alone.
At this moment, Zhang Tie, with the sun on his head, wearing a pair of sunglasses, is driving a fast-moving sports car, the Selon T9, which he bought less than an hour ago, from Jinhai City to the scenic spot. On the highway of Star City.
Just this hour, Zhang Tie understood a few things.
The first thing is that the cars that used to cost thousands of gold coins in Heiyan City were very expensive. Most of the ordinary steam-powered cars of this era can actually be bought for between 100 and 200 gold coins. The biggest reason why the cars in Heiyan City are so expensive is that Heiyan City itself does not produce cars, and the cars shipped to Heiyan City from outside have passed through various tax barriers and the exploitation policy of Heiyan City's car monopoly After that, an ordinary car sold for sky-high prices.
Because Huaiyuan County has its own automobile industry,
So the price of buying an ordinary steam-powered car in Jinhai City is only more than a hundred gold coins.
The Xianlong T9 sports car that Zhang Tie is driving now costs a little more than 500 gold coins, which is already considered a high-end car.
This is the first thing Zhang Tie understood, and the second thing Zhang Tie just understood is that although the cars of this era are all steam-powered, the power effect brought by different steam power units installed on the car is totally different.
A turbo steam heat recovery external-combustion engine is installed on the Sea Dragon T9, which is an engine between an internal combustion engine and an ordinary steam boiler engine. Compared with an ordinary steam engine, this engine has a higher heat Utilization efficiency, the fuel used by this engine is not coal, but anhydrous alcohol that is N times more expensive than coal, but the combustion value is not as high as coal.
This turbo steam heat recovery external combustion engine has 9 parallel pistons. The pistons are installed obliquely to the chassis. Under the action of the pistons, its power output is not transmitted by rotation but by swing. It is transmitted to the wheel shaft through the angular transmission device to drive the car forward.
Compared with cars using coal and ordinary steam engines as power units, the biggest advantage of this kind of car that burns alcohol and uses turbine steam heat recovery external combustion engines is that it can start quickly, which can greatly shorten the warm-up start of steam-powered cars time.
However, its disadvantage is also obvious, that is, the cost of use is extremely expensive.
One kilogram of anhydrous alcohol needs about ten kilograms of grain raw materials to be fermented. Ten kilograms of grain can almost buy a ton of coal in coal-producing areas like Heiyan City, even in other places. Buy hundreds of kilograms of coal, and the combustion value of alcohol of the same weight is far lower than that of coal. The cost of using the same combustion value, alcohol is nearly a thousand times higher than the price of coal fuel.
These many factors make the alcohol fuel-powered car of this era truly an expensive toy that only a few people can enjoy.
Before the cataclysm, humans could still obtain alcohol through the chemical industry, but with the depletion of oil and other resources and the advent of the catastrophe, the only way for people to obtain alcohol in this era is the traditional grain fermentation method. In this era, many countries even banned the production and sale of any power equipment fueled by alcohol.
However, there are also some wonderful countries, such as the lunatic emperor of the Holy Golden Orchid Empire—Sea Song VII, who once fantasized about building a powerful alcohol internal combustion engine to realize his dream of flying into the sky.
I heard that before the cataclysm, alcohol could indeed be used as fuel for the internal combustion engines of cars and airplanes, but after the cataclysm, just like the state and properties of many things have changed, the combustion value of alcohol has also significantly decreased, so Also just can't satisfy the requirement as the fuel of high-efficiency internal combustion engine.
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At this moment, the Sacred Dragon T9 is galloping on the road at a speed of more than 100 kilometers per hour. At this speed, Zhang Tie enjoys the comfortable feeling brought by the speed of the convertible sports car.
After leaving Qianlong Island, Zhang Tie felt that the money he earned had finally turned into money.
On Qianlong Island, as soon as the upper lip touches the lower lip, hundreds of thousands of gold coins are spent, and it becomes a castle under construction. Every day, if you tinker with a little potion and sell it, there will be tens of hundreds of gold coins in the account. This made Zhang Tie almost not take the gold coins seriously.
And at this moment, driving this cool sports car, which is worth less than a high-grade recovery potion he used for his brother, watching the envious and jealous eyes projected from the people and vehicles he met along the way, There is only one feeling in Zhang Tie's heart - it's nice to be rich!
After leaving Qianlong Island, a few hundred gold coins can buy a cool sports car for fun, and two or three gold coins can allow oneself to stay comfortably in a city for a month without doing anything. You can buy a good house with gold coins, you can buy a villa with thousands of gold coins, you can enjoy a delicious meal for a family with more than ten silver coins, and you can hire an ordinary worker with dozens of silver coins...
All of this made Zhang Tie realize the magic of money again.
The stargazing city that I am going to now is a place that fully interprets the magic power of money. Here, money can even buy people. The value of a person here is ranging from dozens of gold coins to hundreds of gold coins.
In Zhang Tie's pocket was Zhang Taibai's golden ticket worth 20,000 gold coins that Zhang Taibai handed him after he bought a can of full-effect potion. This time he came to Stargazing City to buy people.
After going through a crisis, for Zhang Tie, it's time to slowly turn his money into a strength that can deter others. Like a dog, if this kind of thing happens again in the future, I will use my money to pile up the rubbish.
After driving for more than an hour, there were more and more billboards on both sides of the road. On those billboards, there were various beauties in sexy clothes, or various gambling tools in the casino. There are billboards every few hundred meters in the hotels, casinos, and courtyards in Stargazing City.
Of course, there is also an advertisement for the largest slave trading market in Stargazing City. The advertisement on the background of a special building silhouette has only one sentence—Paradise Lost, everything you need is here.
A pleasant roar of the engine came from behind, and in just two or three seconds, a red sports car drove to the left lane of Zhang Tie Xianlongzuo T9, and the two sports cars drove side by side.
Compared with the sharp-edged and masculine Sendra T9, the lines of the red Chitu sports car are more elegant and slender, which makes people know that it is a car suitable for women at a glance. Also a young beauty in her twenties with short hair.
Zhang Tie and the beauty glanced at each other.
What Zhang Tie didn't expect was that the woman looked at him with disdain, and finally raised her chin at him with a provocative look... x-on:为嗨生生provide]. If you like this work, you are welcome to come (m) to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.)