Chapter 305 Chapter 304 Iron Duke
In the country of Danyang, Wu Fanghai, as the commander of the five-nation coalition, was invited by the emperor of the country of Danyang to pay a formal visit to the emperor.
We met, the Great Emperor of the Kingdom of Danyang thanked the one on the left and thanked the other on the right. In short, I am very grateful to you five countries for your help; now that I have finished helping, isn't it...it's time to get out?
Wu Fanghai said very seriously: "Your Majesty, the minister is about to say goodbye to His Majesty. It's just that Your Majesty still has one thing to do."
"What is it?" The Great Emperor of Danyang Kingdom frowned.
"Your Majesty, please issue an edict to separate from the Land of Canglan and rejoin the West!"
The emperor's tense eyes suddenly relaxed a lot. I thought it was something. This thing is simple, but it is also really important. The name is an invisible and intangible thing, but sometimes it is really critical.
That afternoon, the Great Emperor of the Danyang Kingdom officially announced the abolition of the unequal treaty with the Canglan Kingdom, and completely shifted the relevant responsibilities to Prime Minister Wang Fei, accusing Wang Fei and related interest groups of making the decision. Then, Wang Fei became the scapegoat.
Killing is not killing, that is too chilling. But Wang Fei's prime minister was dismissed. The new prime minister who was launched is very interesting—it turned out to be Chao Yue, the former treasurer of the royal firm in the Kingdom of Danyang.
The meaning of this is obvious, and it should also follow the example of Qixia Country to develop industry and commerce. Not only that, the Great Emperor of the Danyang Kingdom also lowered his status and asked Wu Fanghai to take Chao Yue to the Qixia Kingdom to study.
Wu Fanghai did not refuse, and this is also a good opportunity to bring the relationship between the two countries closer. After the Great Emperor of the Danyang Kingdom issued an announcement, the coalition forces began to retreat.
However, except for the Qixia Kingdom, which was innocent in autumn, the rest of the armies of the four countries all 'returned with a full load'. As for the territorial disputes between the Kingdom of Jinyang and the Kingdom of Danyang, the Kingdom of Qixia did not speak up—you two should let it go, I just watch the excitement.
For the country of Qixia, it is not a good thing that other countries are peaceful.
No, something happened between the Zhoushan Kingdom and the Zhongshan Kingdom—the caravans of the Yanyun Kingdom who bought pills had to pay taxes if they wanted to pass through the two countries!
From the country of Yanyun to the country of Qixia, the country of Zhoushan is separated. Some time ago, the country of Yanyun invaded the country of Zhoushan and caused great harm to the country of Zhoushan. Naturally, the country of Zhoushan couldn't let it go, and its attitude was very tough.
No way, the country of Yanyun can only follow a curve, preparing to cross the country of Jinyang and detour the country of Zhongshan. But the country of Zhongshan also collects taxes; the tax is lower than that of the country of Zhoushan, but it is also very painful.
Just as analyzed by Zhang Hao, Liu Xinyu, and the think tanks of the Qixia Kingdom, as long as the Qixia Kingdom sells pills at a reasonable price and does not become the target of public criticism, the rest of the countries will naturally become a mess because of conflicts.
In this way, Qixia Country can mediate in the middle and act as the captain of the brigade.
In such an international atmosphere, Liu Xinyu notified the countries again: Qixia Kingdom will hold an industrial and commercial expo at the end of the year. At that time, Qixia Kingdom will build an expo venue at the former site of Guangling City Imperial Palace, and sincerely invite all countries to participate. and issued a detailed plan.
The news spread, causing quite a stir for a while. The development model of Qixia Country is becoming more and more unfamiliar; but it seems... this is very effective, because the industrial and commercial classes in various countries are active.
At this time, it was only one month before the end of the year. After getting the news, some commercial firms in the Zhongshan Kingdom started to leave, bringing various spiritual materials from the Zhongshan Kingdom.
All of a sudden, the entire western countries of the Fertile Continent began to be influenced by the Qixia Kingdom. The scope of this influence not only includes the former six countries, but even the country of Qingyun in the north, and even the country of Canglan, which was once hostile.
Since Liu Xinyu publicly stated that he would open the door to do business, the industrial and commercial classes in various places naturally have no reason to refuse. The industrial and commercial class will not struggle with wealth.
And in this atmosphere, an even hotter atmosphere exploded - Dayang Group's second steel warship will conduct its first sea trial in three days! And this time, the steel warship's displacement has reached an astonishing... 12,800 tons, almost three times that of the Zhiyuan battleship!
When the news spread, there was an uproar! Isn't Dayang Group's shipbuilding speed...too heaven-defying? Although according to the news from Dayang Group, it will take about a month for outfitting after the sea trial, but it is still shocking.
In particular, the displacement of 12,800 tons made countless well-informed people open their mouths. The battleship Zhiyuan with a displacement of only 4,100 tons bombarded the Kingdom of Langya twice, but the Kingdom of Langya did not express anything.
Nowadays, the coastal countries including the Kingdom of Langya and the Kingdom of Canglan are racking their brains to think about the construction of steel warships. As a result, the Dayang Group has already started sea trials for the second warship before everyone has time to do it.
All of a sudden, more people went to Qixia Country.
In this atmosphere, Ma Jianliang, an amateur intelligence officer from the Land of Langya and the commander of the First Navy, also rushed from the land of Danyang, which had just ended the war, to the Land of Qixia.
Ma Jianliang missed his residence after a day's driving, so he could only temporarily find a good place in the mountains and arrange a formation to rest—or he deliberately avoided the residence. Because it is near Ninghe County.
He wants to minimize his sense of existence, and then he will try to see if he can board the second giant steel ship and experience it as an ordinary person.
However, the formation foundation that Ma Jianliang took out was not a formation foundation in the conventional sense, but...a total of more than five hundred 'hundred-yuan bills'.
After these banknotes were injected with real yuan, they began to fly and combine according to Ma Jianliang's will, and finally formed a defensive enchantment with an invisibility effect!
The most important characteristic of the Vientiane Promise Array is that there is no limit. As long as there is enough formation foundation, as long as there is enough knowledge of formations, formations with infinite changes can be arranged.
One of the most important reasons for the rapid success of the banknotes issued by Green Boat Bank is that these banknotes can be used to deploy troops!
Banknotes of different denominations can cooperate with each other to form countless perfect formations.
As long as you have money, you can!
More precisely, as long as there are banknotes.
The banknotes made by Zhang Hao with the Vientiane Promise Formation and Hunyuan Pure Gold have been welcomed in the practice circle even beyond Zhang Hao's expectations.
At this time, Ma Jianliang not only used banknotes to arrange a defensive enchantment, but also arranged a gathering array and so on. With the banknotes, you can throw away the flags and so on. The efficiency of the Vientiane Promise Array is excellent, and anyone who has used it can feel it.
In the past, the reason why people didn't use the Vientiane Promise Formation was that not many people knew about it, and that Hunyuan Jingjin needed a lot of spiritual materials and couldn't be recovered. But Zhang Hao is not a problem here.
It took one night before he knew it, and the next day Ma Jianliang began to hide his cultivation, changed into ordinary clothes, dressed himself as a western native, mixed with the people of Ninghe County, and rushed to the oasis port slowly.
Along the way, Ma Jianliang saw many scenes that surprised him.
Wide 'highways', toll booths with reasonable prices, and laughing people. There are no domineering aristocrats here, and when people meet merchants, they are not in awe, fear, or alienation like they used to encounter nobles, but they take the initiative to get close to them, and some people even buy things from passing merchants.
The expressway is also very interesting, with carriages in the middle and pedestrians twice. The toll booth is mainly for horse-drawn carriages.
Walking along the road, I found that the expressway passes through dense villages, and there must be a culvert dug under the road. The culvert is generally 2.5 meters to 2.7 meters high, enough to pass most vehicles. If it doesn't work, you can cross the highway.
Before that, Ma Jianliang was just hurrying on his way, but he didn't observe the changes in Qixia Country. But when he saw it, he was shocked.
Such a society made him, a bystander, see "hope".
Following the people along the way, when they entered Zhang's fiefdom, Ma Jianliang saw the railway under construction. It was a three-meter-wide road paved with I-beams and sleepers. It looked like a ladder placed on the ground.
The front is rammed with earth, the back is paved with thick stones, and then sleepers and rails are placed. The sleepers seemed to have been impregnated with some simple antiseptic, giving them a faint bluish-black tint.
"This is the railway?" Ma Jianliang shook his head slightly. He couldn't see the use of this thing—except waste. Black iron is also iron, such a waste would require thunderbolts.
Continue to move forward, and from a long distance, you can see the lighthouse at the port position, and the colorful light pierces the sky like a sharp sword. Following the railway all the way to Changshan Town, it was suddenly lively.
Today's Changshan Town can already be called "Changshan City". The urban area has expanded to a range of ten kilometers, and there are crowds everywhere, and the carriages have been blocked here. However, more people crowded towards the beach.
Tomorrow is the sea trial, but people have already queued up ahead of time.
In the sky above the Zhang family, the aura of the transformation stage reverberated faintly, making no one dare to make mistakes, including Ma Jianliang - he was only here to spy on information, not to find fault.
After finally squeezing to the beach, he found a mountain, and Ma Jianliang waited quietly. Practitioners' time is sometimes the most worthless, just close your eyes and meditate for a while, and when you open your eyes again, it will be the dawn of the next day.
Zhang's guards and others have already begun to maintain order at the port, and let people board the ship by drawing lots. Although it was a sea trial, the Zhang family also took the opportunity to show their strength. This time the sea trial will be released in advance, and ordinary audiences will be invited to board the ship to experience it by drawing lots.
There are more than a dozen lottery boxes on the beach, the boxes are made of black iron and have a seal. Everyone can only reach out and fumble, and take out paper balls one by one.
Handwriting was printed in the paper ball.
The sun was rising, and suddenly the guards of the Zhang family shouted from the port. Everyone began to draw lots, and the second steel warship was about to start sea trials.
Ma Jianliang immediately stood up and began to line up and draw lots. He was a little nervous, wondering if he could catch it?
Suddenly, there was a melodious and long-lasting sound on the sea—Ma Jianliang later found out that it was called a siren. This is a device that uses high-pressure steam to produce sound.
This time, the second steel warship used oil-fired steam boilers and steam turbines in its power system instead of turbines driven by spirit stones.
For the time being, which turbine is better is still under discussion. However, the well-developed steam turbine has shown excellent performance.
The sound of the siren gradually approached, and behind a cliff, a huge steel ship that shocked Ma Jianliang slowly appeared.
The giant ship hadn't finished outfitting yet, it was just a sea trial, the deck was empty, even steel beams were exposed in many places, and there were still huge holes in the positions where the artillery was placed.
However, the most obvious thing on the giant ship is a flat "chimney" more than ten meters high. This chimney is about three meters thick and five or six meters wide, showing a flat oval shape. At this time, the chimney was emitting faint black smoke.
Dugu Junjie, who had just completed his fifth voyage, stood at the bow of the ship in high spirits. He held his hands behind his back and held his head high.
The giant ship approached slowly, gradually entering everyone's sight. Countless people opened their mouths wide in surprise.
The huge steel monster with a length of more than 160 meters and a width of 27 meters gradually revealed its majestic body. There are actually two holes in the middle and rear of the giant ship that are draining water, and the water is steaming, and the temperature seems to be very high.
But there are four large characters on the side of the giant ship: Iron Duke!
The name of the first battleship is 'Zhi Yuan'. Obviously the name of this second warship is 'Iron Duke'.
"Why such a strange name?" Ma Jianliang was a little puzzled.
The huge battleship gradually sailed out of the cliff, gradually revealing everything. An unspeakable shock came to my face.
Suddenly there was commotion in the distance, and Ma Jianliang faintly heard a voice saying that the queen was coming.
(Second update, I am so tired that I want to inhale oxygen... my brain is numb.)