The laughter was exaggerated, but some well-informed merchants still denied it: "It's not such an exaggeration. Isn't the railway line here in Shanbei being laid? However, based on Yingzhou's steel production in the first half of the year, the imperial newspaper estimated that that thing... probably
It will be repaired in ten years..."
Ye Qing was speechless as he listened in the carriage. The original production capacity, which was adjusted at the beginning of the production mechanism half a year ago, is now triple the production capacity. It is expected that after the comprehensive adjustment is completed, the steel output will reach ten times that of half a year ago. When the expanded steel plant is completed, the production capacity will increase.
It will rise further...
This kind of magic in industrial society has been performed repeatedly during the two world wars on earth. It is not strange to him, but people in agricultural society have not experienced it, so how can they understand it?
Even if the information is disclosed to them, it will only be regarded as deliberately released false information. Thanks to the grassland and the Southern Dynasties that have been fighting in the Beiman Mountains for tens of thousands of years, the underground black industry chain has a strict set of judgment mechanisms. This kind of bluff and fake tricks
The game has been broken for a long time. The data is too exaggerated and beyond imagination. The employer doesn’t know how to make a penny.
"Even if it's repaired, can the train run all the way? It's broken before it runs..." Someone laughed outside, very proudly: "I ran on the train yesterday to see the front of the train. Although the Han soldiers blocked it, I couldn't see it.
Let me go in and take a look, but at every stop someone has to go down and add something...it's obviously for repairs."
Run...break...fall?
Ye Qing had a strange look on his face. He lowered the curtain of the carriage and thought for a moment. He felt a little enlightened... Should he be adding water and supplementing the miscellaneous spirit stones? The failure rate of the Fire Spirit Steam Engine is very small. How can it be repaired at every stop?
He actually wanted to listen to it again, but he was afraid that he would laugh out loud - these weird views were really from the perspective of an agricultural society.
In my memory, the early industry of Earth's Britain was also affected by the continental blockade policy of the Napoleonic Empire. It was once short of food and became emaciated. However, thanks to colonial blood transfusions and profits from smuggling to various countries, it was still able to survive and the continental blockade policy went bankrupt.
From an industrial perspective, the Cai Dynasty's blockade actually prevented Ying Xiang from being disturbed by other states. A thick seal covered a young seed - a dark, closed, and depressing environment may suffocate people.
For a seed in the germination stage, as long as it can still obtain water resources, this situation is actually... not bad.
It's even good...but saying this is a bit insulting to the Cai Dynasty, and he didn't even think about capitalizing on his enemies.
Ye Qing watched for a while and then lay down in the carriage to rest. In fact, he was slowly adapting to the difference in physical strength. The subtle control of fairies was better than that of mortals, and they had an improved version of mortal Taoism, which all required deduction and familiarity.
He changed his identity and sent his avatar eastward to the sea, in order to avoid the surveillance of several forces blocking him, and at the same time, he deliberately did not let the Northern Wei Dynasty know that he would have to change caravans several times on the way, in order to inspect the situation in the various states and judge the reality.
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With Sichuan Forest's notes and records, as long as you pass by, it is equivalent to drawing the most precise map.
The time on the grassland caravan's journey passed quietly like this. After hundreds of miles, they arrived at the tribe at the next supply station. The caravan was about to transfer across Beiman Mountain to Wuzhou in the south. Ye Qing said
Randomly changed to a caravan company and continued to follow eastward.
Sometimes we break up with the caravan in the wilderness and simply move forward on our own. This is to speed up the journey. The plan is to arrive at the port of Stuning in the North Sea in mid-November and to reach Dongzhou at the end of November.
But he doesn't pursue speed. Whenever he goes to a more prosperous place, Ye Qing will join a caravan for a journey and learn about the situation nearby - the grassland fairy sects, small and medium-sized tribes, horse bandits, savages, and even the strength of the border states across the mountains.
, this is also very familiar to the prairie tribes in the neighboring states and counties.
In fact, I am more concerned about the north. I wonder if Wei Yu has become the Immortal King.
It was not until the end of October that we arrived at the territory of the Menle tribe in the grassland in the north of Louzhou. From the map, we could see that one-half of the long march to Beihai had been completed. However, according to the communication with the main body, no one had heard of it.
There were big moves in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and there was no news that Jin Zhang was going south to spend the winter.
In fact, this in itself...is not good news.
"The first Immortal King in the world..." Ye Qing sighed, looking a little regretful. He once had the opportunity to become the King of Han, but various factors disrupted the good thing. In fact, he lost half the battle to the Northern Wei Dynasty.
In the morning when the sky was dim and bright, the wind howled in my ears. This time I was using Taoism to drive. Liniang slowed down in front and looked back: "Senior?"
"It's okay... let's move on."
The sound was scattered in the wind, and two rays of green light flew eastward, heading towards the only ice-free port in the North Sea. The morning sun was rising, and the rays of light were brilliant, bathing the two of them, dyeing them with magnificence.
The west of the junction line between Mobei and Monan·Qiushan
On the green and yellow grasslands at the foot of the Qiu Mountains, the tents grew as lushly as mushrooms after the rain, filling the hundred-mile radius densely. The entire camp settlement had different colors from the outside to the inside.
The white and red tents are filled with dignitaries from all walks of life, officials and leaders of small tribes who came to listen to the instructions. They are divided into areas according to their status and closeness. There are a total of 300,000 people. Most are scattered in the periphery, and a small number are gathered together.
Near the golden tent of the hard fortress structure.
In spring, Nabo flies eagles on the Hun Tong River, in summer, he escapes the summer heat in the white ice fields, in autumn, he hunts bears and deer in Qiu Mountain, and in winter, he sits in tents on Beimang Mountain...
The Golden Tent moves throughout the four seasons every year, and is known as the "Four Seasons Nabo". Nabo means palace in the grassland language. With such a large palace carrying hundreds of thousands of core tribesmen, it is a large mobile city.
Following the nomadic migration, the length of stay in Nabo in the Four Seasons varies from about two months to less than a month.
Traditionally, at this time of year, one should normally go south for the winter, but this year it was rarely postponed.
On the evening of October 17th, there are two red suns on the west side, one big and one small. The big one is the familiar sun, and the small one is only the size of a fingernail. The red light is slightly darker, with a hint of blue-black color.
This is the Black Star, or it is no longer a Black Star.
Under the strange red light of the setting sun, the tired birds returned to their nests and slid across the sky like clouds, casting many scattered shadows on the ground. The mountains and dense forests farther west of the camp also cast long shadows.
, covering most of the camp area.
The herdsmen are driving their cattle and sheep back to the pens. The Qishan pastures are much better than elsewhere, and they are not completely brown in early winter. These animals are trying their best to save some fat before the cold winter comes, so as to avoid being too thin and being selected for slaughter by their owners.
Further away, there was a hunting team returning to the camp. Those who participated in the hunting were all nobles of all sizes. They met familiar people on the way and greeted each other.
Amidst the bustle and the noise of people and horses, the nobles exchanged information about hunting harvests, about prey such as bears and deer, or the harvest from the southward threshing valley last month. In the circle where young nobles gathered, there was also some comment on the taste of women from the Southern Dynasties...
…In short, it’s all hunting.
During this period, some people also looked towards the golden tent. There was a pure white mesh array rising above it, which was very conspicuous and tightly sealed.
The wall of Hantie Lingmu itself is a mobile protective formation, carefully refined and inherited by generations of grassland royal courts, which places high demands on underground spiritual veins.
In the past ten thousand years, no matter who is the king of the North, the golden tent has been switched between four fixed places according to the seasons. The large formation is fully activated, and the area near the small golden tent has protection that is not inferior to the imperial capital Yujing's formation——
For the Kingdom of Jinde, whose total resources were several orders of magnitude smaller than those of the Cai Dynasty, and which was good at attacking but not very good at defending, every time it opened its full form, it was a huge investment.
However, as the four subterranean soils initially became yang-yang, the four places appeared correspondingly in the cave sky, which raised the defense of the Northern Wei Dynasty to several levels.
Now this golden tent has been reduced to a peripheral defense, and there is a stronger Qiushan Cave Heavenly Membrane defense underneath, completely covering the inside and outside. Only a few princesses, some important ministers, and leaders of large tribes are allowed to enter and exit. Recently, the sect leaders of the major immortal sects
They personally brought the elders to protect it, and almost all the power of the White Vein on the grassland was mobilized to gather here, which is rare in history.
But from the novelty at the beginning to now, the military and civilians have gradually become accustomed to it. Three months is enough time for the news of the original blockade to spread. Now everyone knows the reason for opening the Golden Account. The older ones are silent, and the younger people are silent.
They couldn't help but whisper in private: "There were two earthquakes last night, and I heard that the Qiu Mountains are merging..."
"Who told you?"
A Yang Shen Zhenren wearing the Taoist uniform of the Seven Soldiers Sect happened to pass by. He shook his head when he heard this and corrected: "It's not that the earth is merging, it's that the Qiushan Cave Heaven is merging with the Baibingyuan Cave Heaven - the cave in the north is weaker, so it's attracted to this side.
There is still a big difference between the merger of earth and the fusion of cave and sky."
"Where are you...er, Teacher Jin Yang."
Recognizing the identity of the other party, the aristocratic young man who just spoke sneered twice, but he couldn't figure it out. He scratched his head and said: "I misunderstood... No matter how long it is, it's been three months anyway. I heard that the king will be here soon."
Become an immortal."
Jin Yangzi smiled tolerantly after hearing this, and did not care about this nominal disciple. There were no imperial examinations in the Bahuang Domain. The middle-level nobles and above were all from a family that cultivated immortals. The elites were all sent to the immortal sect for training. They had a deep relationship with each other.
"Western Taoists predict that it will take another month or two. Even if it is successful, we still have to refine the Greedy Wolf Star Lord Blade. We may have to spend the winter here, hiss...it is warmer in the Southern Desert." Someone said sadly, feeling very nostalgic.
The climate on the Beimang Mountain side last year.
Someone sneered: "Look at your future, you are just like the girls from the Southern Dynasties."
"Cai Chao is still very powerful, but we didn't lose last time. I don't think your Majesty needs to be afraid." Someone else said, puffing up his chest.
"It's not that I'm afraid. The Southern Desert is too close to the Central Plains and is easy to be disturbed. There is no need for the king to go there to get promoted..." Jin Yangzi knew that these young nobles, in addition to eating, drinking and practicing every day, just played with women. Many of them did not study and were good at
Fighting will not soften your edge, but this is exactly the value of the Xianmen disciples' participation in assisting: "There cannot be any negligence in the king's defense. You must stay safe recently."
"Whoever dares to slack off will never be forgiven if something goes wrong."
"What the great shaman said is true." At this point, all the ten captains and above stood up, and all the ridicule disappeared, leaving only the solemn killing of the elite soldiers on the grassland.