Although Annan Erruan responded in a timely manner, with Annan's hard power, he still seemed very powerless in the face of the sudden attack by the behemoth Daqing military.
Daqing's official and "private" parties work together, and Annan will soon be defeated with concerted efforts.
It is estimated that Er Ruan will resist tenaciously for a while. As for whether to surrender or flee to another country in the end, it is possible. However, the option of resisting to the last soldier is unlikely.
Of course, Annan's affairs have developed little to do with Jia Lian now. The Rongguo Mansion only continued to pay attention to it and secretly provided some small means to protect him.
As long as Daqing's military doesn't suffer a disastrous defeat as soon as it goes abroad (to the sea), affecting the continuation of the policy of opening up the sea.
The textile factories opened in Yongji and Antai counties in the past two years are now very large in scale, with more than 30,000 people working in each place, producing various brocades and silks day and night.
Here, a special workshop for female workers was opened in the name of Princess Yongji, and private women were vigorously encouraged to go out to work to earn money.
But even with the continuous implementation and publicity of various preferential policies and affordable subsidies, the number of female workers in textile factories in these two places is still less than half.
This is the limitation of the times. Changes require more efforts and time, and cannot be implemented simply by force.
In fact, today's textile factories are already a bit deviant in the eyes of some people. Although there is no turmoil in the court, "scholars" among the scholars come out to criticize and comment from time to time.
Part of the reason is that these two factories pay taxes in full every year, and they pay taxes at the highest rate of 12 taxes in Daqing.
This is certainly a good thing for the Yongji and Antai county yamen. It not only solves many major issues in local people's livelihood, but also makes the people generally wealthy.
What's more, these two county magistrates have achieved real political achievements, and even the prefecture offices above them have political achievements and share the credit.
However, the textile factory's rule-breaking style has irritated other state officials and made other powerful families who are also doing business unhappy.
They spent countless efforts to block the court's idea of tax reform on the pretext of "competing with the people".
However, two textile factories in Yongji and Antai broke such unspoken rules. Not only did they not evade taxes, but they paid the highest tax rate in full.
The most important thing is that these two factories are actually operating more and more prosperously. What does this mean?
Naturally, the court would be reminded that the tax rates in the past were too low...
Isn’t this going to ruin everyone’s job?
But Princess Yongji?
Isn’t she the adopted daughter of His Majesty who married into the Duke of Rongguo?
Hmm... It seems that they really can't afford to offend, so many forces began to jointly try to suppress all positive news about these two textile factories.
From time to time, Shilin criticized them once or twice. Although "Daqing News" often provided positive guidance, the reputation of these two textile factories in other state capitals was actually not good.
The main criticism is that textile factories recruit a large number of female workers and encourage women from all over the country to leave the family and work outside the home to earn money.
When a woman can be self-reliant and earn enough money to live through such formal channels, she will naturally seek to improve her status intentionally or unintentionally.
The status of men in many families has been challenged to a certain extent, which is also the biggest reason why textile factories are boycotted by some well-intentioned people.
Qin Keqing was also a little uneasy, but Jia Lian comforted him: "This is an inevitable process of social development and the liberation of productive forces. If the country wants to continue to be strong and prosperous, it will definitely face such problems.
The problem is solved, how can you choose to escape like those rotten scholars? Besides, the status of women in this era is already too low, so it is actually a good thing to improve it appropriately."
All in all, what the textile factory is doing is right. Improving the status of women and liberating at least some of them from the family is also beneficial to the development of society.
Although the radiation range of the two textile factories in Antai and Yongji seems to be quite limited, the "Yongji Spinning Machine" owned by these two textile factories has greatly improved the efficiency of spinning in this era.
This increase even increased to a terrifying figure of six to seven times!
It is precisely because of this that the East China Sea Chamber of Commerce has made a lot of money by selling these extremely cheap textile products in Japan, Tianzhu and Eros at prices equivalent to 60% or even 50% of similar local products.
Of course, the price of local textiles in Daqing has inevitably been reduced by about 15%, and this figure was only finalized after many discussions and studies by the think tank of the Donghai Chamber of Commerce.
It can not only bring some benefits to the people of Daqing, but also prevent things like "low prices hurting farmers" from happening.
Although it is inevitable that the interests of some people will be affected...
It is not a big problem for the domestic parties whose interests have been harmed. The East China Sea Chamber of Commerce has provided some policy preferences or subsidies.
Of course, there will always be some who are greedy and insufficient, but now the power of Duke Rongguo's government is known to the whole world, and many people who reach out randomly have been severely beaten back.
Among the countries that have been dumped overseas, Japan has also used this as an excuse to start trouble recently.
Two years ago, a squadron of the Nanyang Fleet attacked Japan. One hundred and fifty quasi-Xiantian warriors, led by three legendary warriors and twenty Xiantian masters, approached Ping'an Capital!
If it hadn't been for the emergence of a legendary strong man in the Japanese royal family and the shogunate in the end, and the Shinto religion sacrificed more than 20,000 Japanese people on the spot to summon an evil spirit shikigami "Yama-no-Orochi".
Japan Fusang would have to be destroyed at that time...
Even so, the battle still caused the earth to shatter outside Heianjing, and even triggered a century-level earthquake in Fuso, causing huge casualties to the Japanese.
The Japanese royal family and the two legendary strongmen of the shogunate also followed the path of martial arts, but compared to Daqing's martial arts system, the martial arts here in Japan are more similar to side sects or demonic ways.
In the early stage of physical training, there are countless extreme quick-turn methods, most of which are magic secrets that stimulate potential or swallow the essence and blood of other creatures, including human beings, to forcibly speed up the practice regardless of the sequelae.
When you reach the Houtian realm (second level), there are many martial arts schools that are extremely pursuing lethality, such as killing gods with one strike, instantaneous killing, drawing swords and other side combat techniques that hurt yourself first and then the enemy, or explosive techniques.
It has become mainstream in Japan...
Therefore, the lifespan of martial arts practitioners here is generally very short, not much different from ordinary people, and there are very few Houtian realm warriors who can live over a hundred years old.
Legendary warriors who grew up in such an environment are naturally extremely powerful in bursting out in combat in a short period of time. The three legendary warriors dispatched by the legion at that time were able to suppress the Japanese side for a long time in a one-on-one situation.
You must know that these three legendary warriors of [Jia Lian Legion] have all been promoted to the peak level of legend, while the legends of the Japanese royal family and the shogun are still only in the middle level of legend.
But even so, the biggest reason why that battle ended in a draw was not the Fuso legend that these two people continuously forcibly broke out, but the evil spirit (Shikigami) worshiped by Shinto for hundreds of years - Yamata no Orochi!
This is an evil spell created by the Shinto onmyoji who combined the witchcraft secrets spread to Japan since the Tang Dynasty and several magic methods, including one or two incomplete magic methods passed down from the era of various schools of thought. It took several generations to finally create
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It is said that the Yamata no Orochi was a pseudo-mythical creature created from the souls of more than 100,000 people and cruel and bloody sacrifices.
After the Yamata no Orochi was born, it immediately lost control and began to bite the Onmyojis, causing several Onmyoji families to be almost exterminated before being barely sealed for a very short period of time.
It was not until the later Song Dynasty in China that a peerless figure among the Onmyoji, Abe Seimei, appeared in Fuso. This person combined with many extraordinary forces such as Shintoism and Fuso Buddhism, and finally exhausted all means and even sacrificed himself, who had been promoted to the legendary realm at that time.
After more than two hundred years of life, he finally suppressed the Yamata-no-Orochi that had been ravaging the Fuso Land for hundreds of years, and gradually took control of it.
This makes this Yamata no Orochi the greatest foundation of Fuso and the strongest shikigami in the Onmyoji lineage!
But even so, since then Shintoism and Onmyoji have to sacrifice at least 10,000 Japanese people every year to the Yamata no Orochi so that it can maintain its strength and generally obey its orders.
This Yamata-no-Orochi has eight heads and eight tails, and is dark green all over. Its head is the same as the giant venomous snake head in the Fuso legend, its eyes are scarlet, and its face is ferocious.
It is a hundred meters long, and the diameter of the thickest part of the body is more than ten meters. It is also good at using poison and earth spells, which is really tricky.
The extraordinary level of Yamata no Orochi is also only at the middle level of legend, but because when his eight heads and eight tails explode at the same time, he is equivalent to eight masters of the same realm who are in sync with each other, and his combat power is truly unparalleled.
The great earthquake of the century in Fuso was actually mainly caused by this beast, and the legendary warriors of the legion were generally suppressed.
It is also for this reason that after the two legendary warriors of the Fuso royal family and the shogun withstood the madness of their opponents, they could only choose to devote their energy to helping their already seriously injured companions deal with the ferocious Yamata no Orochi.
And because of the outbreak of that big earthquake, considering the army under his command, he finally had no choice but to withdraw his troops.
Although that battle ended in a draw, there was no doubt that Fuso suffered huge losses, and even its capital, Heian Kyoto, was severely damaged.
In the end, the Japanese shogunate had to agree to compensate the Nanyang Fleet 10 million taels of silver, cede three ports as the Daqing Concession, and sign various shameful treaties.
However, in the past six months, Japan has begun to make small moves. In name, they do not prevent the East China Sea Chamber of Commerce from dumping various goods, but its famous names from various places are secretly boycotting the East China Sea Chamber of Commerce's business.
Some powerful daimyo even publicly burned brocades, lacquerware and other products of the Tokai Chamber of Commerce, and began to refuse to sell raw silk and other raw materials to the Tokai Chamber of Commerce.
When the senior officials of the [Jia Lian Corps] in charge of the East China Sea Chamber of Commerce learned the news, they were furious:
"No wonder the general disliked this country even more than other Western countries in the past. The Japanese slaves of that generation had wreaked havoc on our coastal areas of China in the Ming Dynasty. They were cunning, cunning, and cruel.
Their people are most capricious and humble. They don’t know the kindness and kindness in the world, and they are only intimidated by the power of force. Therefore, they can only use force but not kindness, and they must not show any kindness to them, otherwise trouble will occur!"
"That's right! Last time we didn't expect that a small country like Fuso would have such legendary combat power, and even have an evil spirit shikigami raised by evil magic.
This time, after we inform the general, we will give him a ten-legend blockade, and we will directly carry out special operations without bringing ordinary troops. I want to see how these little wimps can handle it!"
"I have long heard that Fuso's Iwami Ginzan is the largest silver mine in the world. Let's take advantage of this opportunity to capture it this time!"
"You can have this, I heard... there are also a few gold mines, why not..."
"..."
Such discussions and decision-making suggestions were quickly delivered to Jia Lian.
Where do you want to live a good life?
Jia Lian agreed on the spot without saying a word!
He even considered for a while the feasibility of taking action himself. Unfortunately, reports of large-scale gatherings of fleets from various Western countries have been coming from the area around Xingzhou and Batavia. Jia Lian really couldn't get away.
Not to mention the second spirit [Blue Dragon's Jade], even his own body, Jia Lian, is considering whether to go to sea and take charge of Batavia.
However, the legion's recent performance is gratifying, good news comes out frequently, and innate masters continue to break through the realm and become legends. It is not too nervous at the level of top-level combat power.
Also, the number of innate masters in the legion exceeded fifty two years ago. After two years of accumulation and polishing, the legendary combat power is still only thirty-two, which is indeed a bit low.
Maybe it’s because the intensity of war in the “game world” has not continued to increase as expected?
The East China Sea Chamber of Commerce began to mobilize and gather legendary combat forces, preparing to give Fuso a hard blow. Even if there was a chance to destroy this country, they would never show mercy.
Xingzhou, I don’t know when, the top of the six-story magic tower has become Jin Ling’er’s exclusive bedroom.
Perhaps due to the influence of the [Priesthood], Jin Ling'er now maintains the image of a three-foot-long giant tiger with a golden body all day long. What is even more distinctive is that an orange flame of molten gold and iron is burning on its tail all year round!
This image is naturally in line with the image of the god Ouhuohuxingjun in the hearts of believers. Ever since Jin Ling'er chose to compromise, he has been displaying this image like this in recent months.
The accumulation speed of the power of faith in its [godhead] has indeed been greatly enhanced. If the previous speed was one, then it is almost six or seven now. Today, two months later, the power of faith in the godhead has accumulated to three
More than 10,000 units!
This gratifying progress made Jin Ling'er excited, and she no longer had any objections to her current image.
Especially today, Jin Ling'er finally refined the power of faith in [Godhead] for the first time with his preliminary priesthood, and extracted a drop of magnificent colorful divine power!
"bite!"
The first drop of divine power appeared in the [Godhead], and Jin Ling'er's soul instantly entered a certain state of sublimation...
