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As Zhu Youran went through the final ceremonial procedures.
On the sea less than three kilometers west of Lanfang Square, nine ships represented by the royal yacht "Zhu Sen" all faced the west sea and fired cannonballs into the sky to celebrate.
In the sky, planes from three squadrons flew through the square and were inspected by the Grand Duchess. When the crowd saw the planes, they cheered to the sky and were very excited.
These reviewed equipment not only represent the power of sea patrol and air patrol, but also represent the progress of Lanfang's supporting infrastructure in the past three years. For these supporting facilities, the royal family spent a lot of money to expand Lanfang Port and Lanfang International Airport.
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In the eyes of ordinary Lanfang citizens, they don't think too much about all this, and they can't understand so many twists and turns. They just intuitively feel that Lanfang, a tiny place, is very different from a few years ago.
, the royal family leads its subjects to become more confident and energetic together.
"It's really an eye-opener. I didn't expect that we in Lanzhou would be able to see such a majestic and majestic scene in my lifetime. We are rich and powerful, first rich and then strong. Your Highness has done it all."
"You are old and you have endured hardships. Look at how poor the country was 20 years ago. It is a great blessing for Lan Fang to have the old Zhu family lead everyone to pursue a bright future."
After all, Lan Fang did not become rich not long ago. Those who are a little older, and now middle-aged people in their thirties and forties, have experienced hard times, let alone those old people. There is a contrast between remembering the bitter and thinking of the sweet.
Don’t forget the well diggers when drinking water. How could they not be 100% convinced by Gu Kun and Zhu Youran.
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The ceremony started at nine o'clock in the morning and lasted until half past ten. It was finally over. Because Lanfang is located in the tropics, considering the afternoon heat, the various ceremonies would not be delayed too late.
However, today's weather was quite impressive. It had been cloudy since the morning, blocking most of the sunlight. The hundreds of thousands of people attending the ceremony felt that the temperature was bearable, but slightly humid.
Just after 10:30, the royal family descended from the tower of Yongxi Palace. Then Zhu Youran and Gu Kun both sat in the royal family's world-unique double-jointed extended version of the Maybach, passed through the crowd in the square, and walked along the central axis of the square.
This avenue drove all the way through the square and arrived at the foot of the Lanfang Tower five kilometers away on the other side——
As mentioned before, the "Lanfang Square" itself is five kilometers long from north to south and one kilometer wide from east to west. There is an avenue in the middle of the square, with Yongxi Palace at one end and Lanfang Tower at the other.
Gu Kun is about to unveil the Lanfang Tower in person as a gift to his wife for succeeding to the throne.
Most of the people watching the excitement did not leave the venue. They had been standing for an hour and a half anyway, and they didn’t care if they stood for an extra hour. Just because the location of the ceremony was changed, the location in the venue also changed. Originally, the location of the enthronement ceremony was changed.
At that time, the nationals stood in the front row and had a better view. Now that they move to the other end of the square, they have to see from a distance, but the foreign workers have a better view.
But that doesn't matter.
In addition, there are many distinguished guests from the business community who came from foreign countries to see the unveiling of the Lanfang Tower. Of course, these distinguished guests must make appropriate arrangements.
Therefore, after the enthronement ceremony, a Maybach motorcade arrived, taking all the guests who were originally at the VIP seats and even the banquet stand in front of the Yongxi Palace Tower to the ribbon-cutting viewing platform five kilometers away.
The sense of ritual is so strong that the sense of mystery among the crowd becomes even stronger.
"I really don't know how spectacular this building really is. I haven't seen what happened to the roof since last year." Some onlookers who live locally all year round complained casually in the crowd.
These words will naturally arouse the curiosity of foreign tourists who come to Lanzhou temporarily: "Oh? Why haven't you seen what the building looks like for so long? Is it because the clouds are too heavy like today and you can't see clearly?"
At this moment, the clouds were still relatively thick and low, so when the building fell more than four or five hundred meters, it had already entered the clouds, and it was not clear how high the top floor was.
The citizen of the country who was asked about this shook his head: "It's not just the cool weather today. Since the beginning of the year, I have never seen the top floor on days with the least clouds. I estimate that on days with the best view, the clouds are at least 700 meters high."
It’s high. There’s no way around it. Lanfang is very humid and it’s a seaside place. There’s no dry season. There seems to be a lot of rain clouds this year.”
"Then how can we see this ceremony? We can't see the roof and there are no cards." The foreign guests were worried.
However, their worries soon proved to be unnecessary.
As Gu Kun walked up to the ribbon-cutting stage and delivered a short morale-boosting speech in which he doted on his wife and expressed optimism about the country's prospects, he announced that Lanfang Tower would be officially put into commercial use starting today, and ordered Ming Ming
Fire a salute.
Rows of rockets with bagpipe structures rose into the air, accurately covering the air around Lanfang Tower and Lanfang Square, like Maodun Shanyu's firing arrow array.
Hundreds of thousands of onlookers and distinguished guests didn't react at first, they just thought it was a gun salute and they were spending money to play new tricks.
However, as Gu Kun continued to speak and time passed, everyone immediately noticed something was different.
Around Lanfang Square and Lanfang Tower, within a few kilometers, the weather was still dark and gloomy as usual, with a slight drizzle, but it did not affect the ceremony.
People who live in the tropics wear cool clothes and are not afraid of their clothes getting wet and sticking to their bodies. People here are used to getting wet in the rain. Tropical rain does not make people susceptible to wind and cold.
Around the square, about a few kilometers away, you can clearly see that the rain is getting heavier, as if the eyes of the sky have been opened.
"These rockets are silver iodide artificial rainfall agents, right? They can be controlled so accurately. It's amazing. How much does it cost?"
After more than ten years, artificial rainfall will definitely be completely worthless, but now it is still somewhat valuable - artificial rainfall, a technology that relies on technology to control the weather, started in the mid-1970s, when the Vietnam War was almost over.
Until the entire 1980s, it was a military technology. In the 1990s, it began to be gradually used by civilians. Any new technology becomes more and more mature over time and becomes cheaper and cheaper.
The Lanfang people's artificial rainfall today has extremely high requirements on the advance layout of the clouds, the time and accuracy of detonating the silver iodide warhead, so the cost is also very staggering, enough to make a big show.
But Gu Kun obviously didn't just make the weather clearer due to rain, or to cool down the audience. His big project had been brewing for so long, and it obviously had other uses.
Within fifteen minutes, as Gu Kun's speech came to an end, hundreds of thousands of people finally saw that the clouds and fog around the Lanfang Tower had become thinner than ever before.
Gu Kun was like the Great Magister, the Son of the Plane, manipulating the weather with every finger. He asked the clouds directly above the Lanfang Tower to rain all around if it rained a few kilometers away.
The direction of consumption of clouds spreads out.
It was as if God had opened his eyes. A ray of sunlight, much brighter than a few kilometers away, shone directly on the top of Lanfang Tower. For the first time, the locals could see clearly how high the top of the tower was. It usually reached the clouds.
How many more invisible parts are there?
And because of the refraction difference between the surrounding rain curtain and the clear sky in the center, everyone saw a looming circular rainbow that was several kilometers long.
"Damn it! This house was initially advertised to be only 700 to 800 meters away. The rumors from various sources were all wrong."
"This confidentiality work has been done very well. This is how long the weather has been controlled, so that no one can see the roof of the building for almost a year. It has always been hidden in the clouds. Today, for the first time, the clouds have completely dispersed."
Hundreds of thousands of people were shocked when they saw the true face of Lanfang Pagoda in Lushan for the first time. The common people even knelt down, as if they had seen a miracle.