Chapter 74 Chapter 231 The Jianghu and the Temple

Chapter 74 Chapter 2.31 Jianghu and the Temple

The Eastern Shenzhou Group's assassination of Wei Keng should have started in 2207 of the Qin Tongli calendar. However, the changes in the operating modes of various places in the western part of Shenzhou brought great difficulties to the assassination, so the assassination plan had to be postponed.

This is because the various cities have transformed public places and have now completed the security system of information network camera monitoring and electronic dog patrol.

At the same time, all ordinary people in the western cities have uploaded their daily travel data at multiple points in the big data (scan a code and give a red envelope of one yuan), and the subway and other transportation stations must scan the code, so it is difficult for assassins from the eastern rivers and lakes to lurk.

In addition, Wei Keng travels to various production areas for a long time, and the date of returning to the big city every year does not exceed ten days, and he often works remotely, so squatting becomes unfeasible.

Therefore, it is necessary to buy off the people around Wei Keng. The old military officer from the Western Regions took a line through a special Jianghu route, Qin Hongyao.

In the suburbs of Xijing, outside an ancient temple, Qin Hongyao, who received a secret letter from the sect, hurried over.

But when the uncle in Qin Hongyao's sect proposed to her "stand on the righteousness of the country and deal with the domineering military leader Wei Keng in Xilong".

Qin Hongyao frowned, although she was willing to be a tool to deal with some tasks for the sect.

But the "righteousness" now is to assassinate Wei Keng? She is unwilling to do this wrong thing for the sect. In her eyes: "Wei Keng is no longer the impression of the children of the aristocratic family in the past, but a brave and loyal person for the country and the people."

In the end, the girl was still naive and did not understand the cruelty of the "court struggle". She thought that this world could be refuted with words. She seemed to feel that she belonged between the two, so she persuaded her uncle to change her mind.

However, she never knew that her uncle would not know the "righteousness". After confirming that Qin Hongyao would not help her, he took advantage of her unpreparedness and stabbed her from behind. And forged the illusion that she died of love.

There is really a lack of clues in this case, so it can only be determined at this point.

Wei Keng learned about this case a few months later, and heard that it was a love affair. He was stunned for a few seconds and didn't want to think about it.

...

October 2208, this is the season of potato harvest.

The total output of Hetao potatoes (fresh potatoes) reached 2 million tons, and Gandhi reached 20 million tons.

In the staple food recipe of Shenzhou, potatoes are relatively late, and in the developed countries around the world, the consumption is only about half of that in Europe and the United States. Only 40 kilograms per capita, and 85% of the potatoes produced enter the market in the form of fresh potatoes, lacking fine processing.

The habit of consuming potatoes in developed countries in Europe and the United States is determined by their historical agriculture.

Oats, a crop for feeding livestock, has been the staple food of Western people for a long time. Later, wars needed food, especially horses, so Europe began to store oats. Potatoes have a high water content and cannot be stored or used as military rations, but they can fill the stomachs of the people and free up more land to grow oats.

Now Wei Keng, like the Eastern strategists in the first half of the 21st century in the main world, is considering the possibility of replacing staple food. Before the great changes, he was not worried because he had food on hand.

Expand the potato industry in agricultural production areas, and then support the starch processing industry. Extended industries such as shochu and monosodium glutamate all use local grain. Even the last dish in major canteens has been changed to egg powder, bacon and mashed potatoes to reduce the demand for rice among young people.

Next, the world situation is about to be in chaos.

Now, the system has sent the latest reminder that the time will be reset to zero in three years (the prince of Shengyang and his technical team will be back). Please quickly enter all industrial technologies into the space-time gap station to prepare to seize the replica position of armament manufacturing. If it is not seized in time, the space-time crack laboratory will be taken over by Shenzhou industrial personnel.

In this regard, the system has put forward new requirements: if the task is completed on this timeline, and its own space-time positioning is successfully established on the coordinates of multiple regions around the world. Then at the downstream of this space-time area, at the time node four hundred years later. You can get the right to open 10 or 20 time-space gates and release 2 million tons of materials within five years.

[That is to say, no matter whether it is the timeline of the next-door death plane, the China Revolutionary League, or the timeline of the end of the soul, any timeline four hundred years downstream can have the ability to carry two million tons of materials through time and space. This is why the two major time-space groups in the main world fought each other in some timelines in the last plane war. 】

Wei Keng: "Four hundred years later? Damn, then you can directly exchange for interstellar battleships."

At night, Wei Keng climbed to the top of the potato pile in the large warehouse and said loudly to the vast starry sky: "Praise the future of the stars for this world."

...

In Shenjing, Wei Keng's potato declaration may not have been heard, but the behemoth in the heavy floating ship factory in Yanbei has been closely watched by the military intelligence department.

Although the prototype in the shipyard can only be photographed from a distance, the construction and welding of the giant Tesla gravity partition device has been clearly photographed by satellites, and even attracted the attention of Europe and the United States, and reported.

Luoshui declared this thing for civilian use, which is to launch low-orbit satellites through electromagnetic cannons when it reaches the top of the stratosphere. Oh, whoever believes this reason is an idiot.

But no one could object with legitimate reasons. Wei Keng's business plan to launch hundreds of thousands of satellites and the plan to reduce the cost to a few hundred yuan, the various groups had no alternative plan.

The gold-holding group like Luoshui became an indispensable superstructure in Shenzhou as early as the end of the first global hegemony war and the loss of the royal majesty. As long as there is no open rebellion in name, it is normal to do big construction. Didn't the industrial group in the north directly undertake the manufacturing of industrial products such as Pojun Jinjia?

In the face of such a group, we can only suppress it with means within the rules, forcing it to go beyond the rules first, and then suppress it.

Oh, this is also difficult now. The bigwigs in Shenjing admire Wei Keng very much. In terms of the operation of the west, just like the war in the northwest territory in 1977, the defense is watertight. There are no shortcomings in various light and heavy industries. In the past, the southeast controlled more than 70% of the food supply in Nanyang and Southeast Asia, which might be a threat to the war of commodity colonization, but it was also made up this year.

Several members of the royal family discussed this matter in a telephone call and said: "The conflict between the east and west of the country must be mediated."

However, when the two major factions in the east and west of China have already set up an array to oppose each other in terms of interests, can the top-level mediation work?

And at this moment, an external incident has caused another problem.

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In October of the year 2208 of the Qin Tong calendar, in the Arctic Ocean, under a large piece of ice, Akula-class submarines are sailing under the glacier. The tonnage of these submarines is more than 8,000 tons, far exceeding the level of conventional submarines, but they are not absolutely drop-shaped. Relatively speaking, they look like a flat underwater tank without tracks, which shows that the large-scale hull processing technology in this world has not yet been broken through.

But perhaps it is the Soviet Union's compromise in technology in order to make the underwater fleet cheaper and more convenient to manufacture. Under the blessing of the black technology of Tesla nuclear cold fusion in this world, the submarines here are very large. And there is no need for mechanical propeller power, but all-electric propulsion is used.

Ten years have passed since the Battle of Talas.

Due to the good economic development in the western part of China, a large number of road construction and steady increase in industrial and agricultural output value, Soviet decision-makers have paid more and more attention to the threat from the East! (Although Wei Keng is not prepared to provoke border provocations again, the strength is there.)

Because the super floating flying ship in Yanbei is under construction, Soviet Russia feels targeted. But let the Soviet tank group knock on the door of the Western Region again? Those generals who are all for me and all for me are unwilling to do so.

So, the Soviet decision-makers decided to send the Akula submarine to the Far East, cross the Bering Strait, and deploy it southward to threaten the Eastern Pacific in an attempt to achieve strategic offset.

In the words of the Soviet official, this is a preemptive preparation to curb the next war after Asia resisted the ambitions of the imperial forces of China.

November 3, 2208. The Akula-class submarine bypassed the patrol of the Shengyang Navy. After entering the Whale Sea (Sea of ​​Japan) and surfacing in a high-profile manner, it quickly dived. After this incident, Shenzhou's Beiyang Fleet immediately dispatched the Wupeng frigate, lowered the lotus sonar system, and blocked the lanes north and south of the Whale Sea, but the Akula submarine had already left this inland sea and turned to the Pacific Ocean.

The situation became serious. Even if the Akula submarine sank a merchant ship of Shenzhou on the surface of the Eastern Pacific Ocean, it would be an unbearable loss for the Donglin financial consortium. Puhai and Taozhuge's stocks turned red by a large margin, causing complaints from people in Jiangnan. The newspapers began to discuss: Where is the fleet?

In Shenjing, the cabinet also started a questioning meeting.

The leader of the Donglin faction, Xu Ge, stomped his dragon head stick: "Everyone, what do you think?"

Jiang Yisheng: "Beitai is the territory of the Japanese. Soviet submarines can only attack us if they pass through the island chain controlled by them." This guy obviously has the style of "I would rather die than die than die".

The faces of the gentlemen present were livid.

At present, the commander-in-chief of the Shenzhou Navy of the East Ocean Fleet asked the North Sea Fleet and the South Sea Fleet to form a joint search group to completely eliminate this threat. The commander-in-chief of the North Sea Fleet now believes that he has blocked the Tsushima Strait, and Shengyang has now blocked all the seaports of the Chiba Islands. It is impossible for Soviet submarines to enter their defense zone again. The fleet of the Southern Ocean even expressed its embarrassment on the grounds that it could not spare troops to defend strategic areas such as Malacca.

In short, to form a general fleet, the Eastern Jin will have to pay more.

Let's put it this way, now the group of bureaucrats under the command of Xu Ge Lao in the entire Shenzhou are a mixture of interests from all parties. If this mixture can collectively bite the meat, such as dividing the emerging market in the west, everyone will still stand together as an alliance, but now the overall interests are damaged, and it is difficult to unite to resist the enemy.

To what extent are the Donglin people mixed? A considerable part of the internal political affairs in Shenzhou cannot be considered pure Shenzhou people.

Example 1: Although the Wang family’s ancestral graves are now in Guangdong, they occupied a piece of land in Japan during the Age of Exploration 300 years ago and became a local daimyo. They still have an important voice in the royal circle of Japan.

Example 2: Zhou Group. Four hundred years ago, when Shenzhou experienced drought during the Little Ice Age, they migrated to the New World, forming a large number of Minnan-speaking areas. On the west coast of the New World, when Shenzhou was in civil strife during the first global hegemony war fifty years ago, the United States of Eden annexed this area. However, the financial tycoons led by Wu and Li of the Donglin Party were recognized by the United States of Eden and became important participants in this new world. These groups support the Donglin Party and give a lot of money every year, but they also donate to the Senate of the United States of Eden.

Examples 3, 4, and 5 are countless.

Such a group of people in the court, in normal days, can be accepted as absorbing funds for Shenzhou, but now these hungry wolves may bite back at any time.

In the past, Luoshui left them alone to work alone, which brought vitality to all industries in Western Shenzhou.

Now, under the threat of only a few Soviet submarines, the eastern gold flow has been exhausted, and the various scholars in Shenzhou have to focus their attention on the small party leaders in the Advisory Council that originally belonged to them.

When the tide is surging in the temple, the evil wind is also stirring in the rivers and lakes.

Although the royal family of Shenzhou has taken action to suppress the contradictions, the Saichu team in the Western Regions has been investigated and the entire team has been disbanded, and it is impossible to launch another action against Wei Keng.

However, the rivers and lakes forces that originally accepted the orders of the Donglin temple forces have not given up.

Now the situation is difficult and Donglin is now in a mess. It is useful for the western frontier and has no intention of playing the previous plan.

But at this time, it is no longer the Donglin side that can make the decision. The Cao Gang that received the order is a tool of an idea. In the past, they acted as black gloves in exchange for the support of the Donglin court. They have invested so much in this task and will never give up just because the big guys above say they won’t do it!

Even now, the Cao Gang system wants to assassinate Wei Keng. The reforms of the Western Economic Association in various aspects have completely hit some of the Cao Gang's businesses. For example, "the labor of the blind migrant group is sold to the mining area" and "the interception of improper tolls for goods".

Cutting off someone's money is like killing their parents, so, in the eyes of the Cao Gang, Wei Keng is a local tyrant who is a disaster to the country and the people, and they want to get rid of this disaster for the country and the people.

It's just that they have to drag Donglin into this matter and cover themselves in the court. This time, it was the black gloves that stuck to their backers.

...

In a desert in the Western Regions, a group of people took cars in batches to a gas station. A few hundred meters away from the convenience store, this group of people wearing sunglasses gathered at the edge of the protective forest. Waiting for their leader to arrive.

When Bai Yiyun walked over on the sand, the group of people in black clothes and black sunglasses lined up collectively, and the leader said to Bai Yiyun: "General Hu, everything is ready."

Bai Yiyun looked at the members standing in line behind him, nodded without sadness or joy, and opened his box. Inside the box were various firearms, short-range missiles with sleeve arrows, and high-explosive grenades.

And those desperate men in line began to take their equipment according to the task classification. Their faces were all cold, well, maybe they were pretending, as dead men, there was no complex thinking, just enough madness.

Bai Yiyun raised his glass: "Brothers, the wind is whistling and the Yishui River is cold, and the warriors will never come back once they leave."

These dead men recited in unison: "Explore the tiger's den and enter the dragon's palace, look up to the sky and exhale to become a white rainbow." After saying that, he raised his glass and drank it all.