Wanli hurriedly turned his head and looked at the clock on the wall. This thing has become popular in Ming Dynasty. Anyone with a bit of wealth will buy one at home.
It can tell the time and can be used as a decoration.
"Back to Grandpa Huang, it's already eight o'clock in the evening."
"Oh, cough cough cough,
It's getting late, Jun'er has a rest and is going to do it."
Wanli was unwilling to leave and insisted on waiting until Jiajing fell asleep before leaving.
He had already privately asked the imperial doctor that his grandfather would not survive for a few days.
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Jilong Mountain
Accompanied by a resonant salute, the main line of the Huanjilongshan Railway, which had been under construction for five years, was finally opened to traffic on May 8, 1578.
This round-the-island railway,
It was rated as "The Road to Miracles" by later generations of Sihai Royal Television.
It is the first railway in the world with a total length of more than 1,000 kilometers.
After completion,
It has given a pair of powerful wings to the economic development of Jilongshan.
The total length of the railway is 1,350 kilometers and the design speed is 60 kilometers per hour, which means that Jilongshan has become a 24-hour urban circle.
More than two hundred years later, a descendant of the Japanese broke the news on the Internet, saying that there was a Japanese skeleton under every sleeper on the Jilongshan Railway around the island. In the five years of construction of the railway, a total of more than 60,000 Japanese died of exhaustion.
This news immediately triggered a heated discussion around the world. However, the final conclusion was that the content of this news was fake, and the poster was purely alarmist to gain attention.
After all, according to official data from the Sihai Kingdom, a total of less than 10,000 Japanese were employed during the five-year period to participate in the construction.
At this opening ceremony, Wang Lidong and his 16-year-old eldest son Lin Jinhu cut the ribbon.
Starting this year, he began to selectively take his eldest son to participate in some meetings, and gave him an official title in the Japanese Chief Envoy: Right Counselor,
From the fourth grade.
Next,
Wang Lidong took his son,
I spent a week carefully inspecting several key areas in Jilong Mountain.
On the way back to Rongcheng, he said to his eldest son:
"I'll give you one month to make a copy of the Jilongshan Chief Envoy and plan the development for the next five years."
Lin Jinhu, who was thinking about how to show off in front of his brothers and sisters when he returned home, suddenly heard the bad news and said with a grimace:
"Dad, how can I do such a big task well?"
Wang Lidong was unmoved and said:
"You haven't done it yet, how do you know it's not done well? In the past six months, you have participated in many high-level meetings of the group, and you also know the general situation of Jilongshan..."
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Rongcheng Magistrate's Office
On May 19, 1578, Emperor Jiajing died.
On the same day, Wang Lidong learned the news via telegram.
I sighed inwardly, my only VIP customer...
On the third day, he received another message from the capital:
He was impeached by the imperial censor, and Wanli had already issued an order to remove Wang Lidong as the prefect.
He knew that this day would come sooner or later,
But I didn't expect the cabinet to be so impatient.
Wanli was only 16 years old this year and was not old enough to govern himself, so Jiajing specially appointed three cabinet elders, Zhang Juzheng, Zhang Siwei and Shen Shixing, as auxiliary ministers.
As for Xu Jie, the former chief minister of the cabinet, and Lan Daoxing, the Lan Shenxian, Jiajing ordered them all to be executed and the nine clans were wiped out. The crime was regicide.
Regarding Wang Lidong, an outlier in the officialdom, during Jiajing's reign, the civil servants had no choice but now they had the final say, so why not take action against him quickly?
After Wanli found out about this, he didn't object.
Although Jiajing had specifically warned him before his death that Wang Lidong, the prefect, must not touch Taoist Priest Baihe.
But he believed that the immortals his grandfather talked about were actually like Lan Daoxing and were both liars.
The elixir of ghosts.
He asked the imperial doctor about the cause of Jiajing's death, and it was because of excessive drug abuse.
For this reason, Wanli didn't take Jiajing's advice to heart at all.
When Wang Lidong saw Liang Fa coming in, he cupped his hands:
"Third senior brother."
Liang Fa quickly replied:
"Sir, when you call me that, I always feel a chill on my back."
Wang Lidong smiled and said:
"You are Lingshan's third senior brother, seniority cannot be messed up."
After the ten-year period expired, none of the original four brothers wanted to return to Huashan, so they applied to Yue Buqun.
Over the years, although Wang Lidong didn't spend much time guiding the four of them, for Yue Lingshan's sake, he would give them serious guidance whenever they found him.
This saved the four of them from many detours.
To be accepted by Yue Buqun, one must have good martial arts talent. In the past, there was a lack of good teachers who could teach students in accordance with their aptitude.
Now Liang Fa is already a first-class top-level master, and after two or three more years of accumulation, he will be able to reach the super first-class level.
After seeing how much progress his four apprentices had made, Yue Buqun shamelessly came to ask for advice in his fifth year.
Wang Lidong did not disappoint him and pointed out several problems in his cultivation.
This made Yue Buqun, who was struggling to explore the way forward, suddenly feel that the sun was clearing from the clouds, and his cultivation speed had more than doubled.
"Sir, if you have anything to do, just ask me."
The mission issued by Wang Lidong was very simple. Let him pretend to be a Japanese pirate and then rob the new Rongcheng prefect.
Those who know the truth will go wherever they come from after paying the ransom. If they don’t know the truth, haha.
After several twists and turns, no official would have the guts to take on this hot potato.
Although everyone knew very well that Wang Lidong must have done this.
But he would never admit it.
Catch the thieves and catch the dirty ones, catch the cheaters and the doubles.
If he had just come down from the mountain, he would not dare to agree even if he killed Liang Fa.
"Sir, please don't worry, this matter will be taken care of by me."
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Sihai Group War Room
Wang Lidong glanced at the people in the conference room and found that compared to ten years ago, there were several new people.
And his eldest son also looked serious and sat at the end of the conference table.
“We haven’t made any big moves in the past ten years, and everyone knows the reason.
Recently, I have received many letters of invitation from veterans, hoping to fight on the battlefield before they retire.
And after so many years, it’s time to take action to avoid others misunderstanding that we have changed to vegetarianism.”
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Hearing Wang Lidong’s words, the conference room immediately became excited.
It was about to make a fortune, and everyone couldn't help but swallow a few mouthfuls of saliva.
Compared with ten years ago, the current four navies can be described as completely transformed.
Today, the weapons and equipment of the four navies have almost reached the level of Erdezi during World War II.
There is also a lack of air power.
The aircraft had actually been developed, but Wang Lidong felt that there was no use in killing the enemy.
"Minister Yu, tell us our goals and battle plan this time."
Navy Minister Yu Zihu stood in front of the stage excitedly, then picked up the baton and circled a place in Southeast Asia.
"The goal this time..."
In 1571, the French invaded the Sulu (now Philippine Army) area and began a colonial rule that lasted for more than 300 years.
Over the past seven years, the business of the group's branches in the Sulu area has been deteriorating.
The reason is that the Folangji people are up to something.
Being treated unfairly, Sihai Group's External Relations Department also communicated with the other party several times.
But she is very arrogant and has her nostrils turned upward.
On July 25, 1578, Qu Wenbin, deputy chief of the navy, led the first and second fleets of the four navies, with a total of 23 warships, to launch an attack on the naval base of Folangji in Sulu.
After three salvos of 460-caliber naval guns from the three battleships, the other side raised a white flag.
In less than half a day, the four navies captured the Subic Bay Naval Base, sank and captured 13 Franco warships, and captured more than 300 Franco soldiers.
On July 25, 1578, the entire island of Luzon was captured.
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On August 21, 1578, the deputy chief of the navy sent back a telegram stating that the main military operations had ended and the four navies had controlled the entire territory of Sulu.