Chapter 294 Intensified Civil War

The auction of iron-hulled ships was extremely hot. The ten iron-hulled ships are all 80 meters in length and 18 meters in width. They are relatively bulky in shape and relatively slow in speed.

Compared with warships, these iron-hulled ships are much more fragile and have no armor at all, but Anyang has designed a double-layer hull and a sealed cabin, which is much safer.

An iron-hulled ship has a maximum speed of 40 kilometers, a maximum voyage distance of 4,000 kilometers, and a load of about 4,500 tons.

The average transaction price of the 10 iron-hulled ships ranged from 380,000 to 390,000 taels of gold. There is still great wealth among the people. In particular, there are a few commercial firms in Anyang, and one family can come up with a huge wealth of 400,000 taels of gold. The term "wealth can rival a country" has become a true portrayal in Anyang.

After the merchant ship auction was over, the ship owners received the first order: an order from the Anyang military. Transport fuel oil, transport machinery and port equipment, transport vehicles, transport cement, etc. For this nascent marine business, Anyang has provided initial support policies.

Then there are a large number of Anyang commercial groups waiting in line - locomotives, agricultural machinery, a large amount of cloth, and countless colorful commodities. In just a few days, hundreds of large warehouses were built on the east coast of Anyang. The power of capital has completely exploded here in Anyang.

The pursuit of wealth and the use of business to plunder luck have become a true portrayal of Anyang. In the past, in an empire, only emperors and officials could plunder luck; but in Anyang, through a huge business network, luck can also be gathered.

It’s just that the means of gathering luck through business exchanges are limited to wealth, and the efficiency is only about one-tenth of the efficiency of the empire’s gathering of luck; expansion!

The outline of Anyang's "commercial kingdom" has appeared. The "commercial empire" cannot be slowly transformed until the commercial kingdom is consolidated.

On the magnificent sea, ten iron-hulled ships are connected front and back, breaking through the waves and moving forward; on the left and right sides of the merchant ship are two 80-meter-long warships. With the escort of warships and the hands-on teaching of sailing experience by the navy, these businessmen who have just bought seagoing ships are moved from the bottom of their hearts.

Anyang's support for business is not just talking about it, but actually doing what it says. During the negotiations with the Jin State, Anyang won a lot of commercial interests; now, he personally guides the merchants to set foot on the vast ocean. Invisibly, the interests of Anyang and the merchants have become one; whoever dares to trouble Anyang, these merchants will be the first to disagree.

It's just that some people still have to suffer a little when sailing for the first time. For example, "Guo Youcai, Liu Shuren, Huang Youquan" these three people. The three of them met at the first industrial expo, and gradually began to cooperate, and now they have established a "three talents group" as a joint venture between the three parties. This time, the Sancai Group bought an iron-hulled ship by selling iron and steel, and finally borrowed 50,000 taels of gold from the bank.

Excited, Guo Youcai, Liu Shuren, and Huang Youquan decided to go out to sea for the first time and take a look at the vast sea; as a result, the three sufferers all got seasick!

In fact, not to mention these three people, for the first time sailing, more than 40% of the crew members were seasick! They had never been on a boat before, and they were not mentally prepared. Many crew members lay on the deck and played the game of "morgue".

Fortunately, the Anyang military had been prepared for a long time, so they sent the navy to help and impart various experiences.

For those who are seasick, just spend a little more spells temporarily and fly up; this is an "allergy" caused by the shaking of the sea ship, and most people can slowly adapt to it.

The voyage lasted more than two days, and the seagoing ship traveled more than 2,000 kilometers to the concession on the southeast coast of Jin State. This concession has a range of 30 kilometers and is at the mouth of a large river in Jin State—the mouth of the Daqing River. . Because most of the seaside is a barren area, it has such an area. This place was named "Shanhai City" by Anyang

Now this Shanhai City is still barren, with nothing there; only a few Jindan stage masters are working, using spells to temporarily clean up the river bank to make it easier for ships to approach. After the ship can no longer approach, it can only temporarily freeze the water surface with spells, and transfer the goods to the ground through the ice surface.

After a while, a large number of people came out. They were hired Jin people. Anyang is rich, and if a few thousand taels of gold are sprinkled, hundreds of thousands of people can be employed to keep busy.

This "mountain and sea city" with nothing is changing at an unprecedented speed. At the beginning, it was Anyang's current architectural style, with high-rise buildings and wide roads.

Naturally, the first to be established is the Judicial Square. Judicial Square has almost become a landmark "building complex" in Anyang. There is a square in the center, and all the laws of Anyang are engraved with stone tablets inside; there are five offices in the periphery: courts, banks, industry and commerce, taxation, and police. Even if it is temporary, the construction is also very conspicuous.

Judicial Square is a microcosm of Anyang government.

In addition, in this barren city of mountains and seas, there is actually a team of imperial guards from the Jin Kingdom. They came to receive the goods—including a set of low-level machine tools and related drawings; The technicians sent were actually apprentices who had just qualified.

Of course, don’t think that this is good intentions in Anyang, it’s fishing! Only by leading others can we let others always follow behind us. Once the state of Jin really establishes an Anyang-style industrial and commercial system, the state of Jin may live in the shadow of Anyang forever in the future.

But the current situation is: Jin's monarchs and ministers are not stupid, but they have to!

Liu Guo in the south is introducing Anyang's technology, law, business, etc., and Qi State in the west has already started industrial and commercial transformation; although Daxia in the north is torn apart, its technological development is particularly fast under the war-torn environment. The Jin State previously verified the technological change with the defeat of a million-strong army.

Everyone else is developing, and Jin can only hold his nose to recognize it!

The construction of Shanhai City also means that Anyang has officially embarked on an alternative pace of expansion. The proliferation of technology has also rapidly expanded Anyang's influence.

More than a month after the end of the war with the state of Jin, terms such as "Anyang" and "Li Xian" spread all over the world.

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In Nanyang County and the prisoner-of-war camp, there are about 250,000 prisoners.

At the beginning of several consecutive battles, Nanyang County, Dongyuan County and Anyang County jointly captured about 400,000 Jin prisoners. The Jin State sent troops twice in a row, with more than 850,000 troops (including civilian husbands) before and after.

In the end, more than 70,000 people in Jin died in battle, less than 70,000 fled back to Jin, and nearly 400,000 became prisoners. There were still about 300,000, which collapsed directly. The battlefield is so big, it is really normal for deserters to appear, especially those civilian husbands.

In group battles, especially those going abroad, the number of deserters may be as high as one-third, which is quite normal. They are all cultivators with a long lifespan, and no one wants to die.

Cultivators' pursuit of longevity, strength, and even ascension is essentially a "selfish" behavior; therefore, practitioners often think about problems and look at things with themselves as the center.

In a war, no matter whether it wins or loses, it is the country, military officers, etc. who gain the benefits; the soldiers can get very few benefits, but take the greatest risk—probably death.

Of course, not everyone is so pessimistic and exhausted; some cultivators are very positive—in the future, these people may become generals. Cultivation itself is also a process of elimination and competition for the survival of the fittest.

Of the nearly 400,000 captives, 250,000 were captured by the stronger Nanyang County; the remaining less than 150,000 belonged to Dongyuan County. With these captives in hand, Nanyang County and Dongyuan County can threaten the state of Jin—don't attack us, or we will lose 400,000 heads with a shake of our hands.

But... But all of this has nothing to do with Jin Guobei General Wang Zhouzhi. Today, Wang Zhouzhi is a prisoner, a senior prisoner. Having been confiscated with true energy, spiritual consciousness, purple mansion, and meridian qi sea, Wang Zhouzhi is now just a slightly healthy and strong ordinary person.

Standing in front of the prisoner's camp, looking up at the swan geese that had already started to fly south in the sky, Wang Zhouzhi smiled wryly, "Sure enough, it's 'the geese fly south, and the people don't return'. The king of hell is the king of hell. Although the words are not good, but The results of this divination are always so accurate!"

A group of embarrassed figures came, they were Wang Zhouzhi's personal soldiers; but now, these personal soldiers have heavy labor every day.

Although the abuse of captives has attracted widespread attention since Anyang, Nanyang County did not dare to offend Jin too much; but ordinary labor is also necessary. It is to make all the prisoners exhausted, so that the prisoners have no ability to escape; by the way, they can do something. Every time the work is over, someone will continue to reinforce the seal repeatedly.

Seeing the soldiers coming back, Wang Zhouzhi sighed and had to get up to prepare meals and drink water. Once upon a time, Wang Zhouzhi, one of the four generals of the Jin Kingdom, who was high above the top, actually had to do these tasks.

Wang Zhouzhi's soldiers sat down silently without speaking, as if they accepted Wang Zhouzhi's "serving" with peace of mind. This has been going on for over a month.

Some gratitude, no need to say it. The exhausted soldiers who could barely stand up silently took the food and warm water from Wang Zhouzhi's "housekeeper".

After eating, after the soldiers regained some strength, one of the soldiers suddenly said, "General, today I went to the mine to dig, and I heard the soldiers in Nanyang County discussing that Gao Bin, the governor of Songzhou County, and the Wang family of Guangling County, sent a total of 500,000 troops. , including 200,000 civilian husbands, suddenly attacked Nanyang County.

Although Nanyang County has defenses, it has been defeated steadily. It is said that on the first day, the first line of defense collapsed. This is information from three days ago.

According to the discussion of those soldiers in Nanyang County, Nanyang County retreated for 30 miles, and more than 30,000 soldiers were killed, wounded or captured. "

When Wang Zhouzhi heard it, his eyes flickered immediately, "What else? Don't give up even gossip."

The soldier thought for a while, and then said: "Those Nanyang soldiers scolded Anyang for being uneasy and kind, and called Li Xian a profiteer. They said that General Anyang sells fire everywhere, and said that Anyang has milk and is a mother. Some soldiers scolded very hard. , saying that Anyang is just like Fantou, who only recognizes money but not people.”