"We finally arrived at the country of Zhongshan!" Ma Jianliang wiped the sweat from his forehead with lingering fear.
Since the first navy of the Langya Kingdom led by him was "singled out", he tried to go to the west to find out the news. However, at this time, the Langya Kingdom and the Canglan Kingdom were still in confrontation, and the border continued to be blocked. Therefore,
Ma Jianliang could only go around in circles. He first went north to the Kingdom of Shaoze, then took the opportunity to sneak into the Kingdom of Taihua, and finally found the opportunity to come to the Kingdom of Zhongshan.
Along the way, I encountered danger many times and almost had my identity discovered several times.
Fortunately, we finally arrived within the six western countries. At this time, Ma Jianliang was dressed as a ranger, wearing a simple but starry green shirt, with a long sword hanging on his waist, which seemed a bit bohemian.
He followed the main road and moved forward with scattered caravans, heading towards the country of Qixia in a leisurely manner.
"We will reach the Kingdom of Qixia in a few days!" Ma Jianliang recalled the scene of the naval battle in Ma Jianliang's mind: Under the attack of the strange ships and weird artillery of the Kingdom of Qixia, the warship of the first navy of the Langya Kingdom
, had almost no power to fight back, and were smashed into pieces one after another.
This scene makes Ma Jianliang feel mixed emotions every time he thinks about it: trembling and a touch of fear, some being unable to accept it, some envy, and even more curious, wanting to find out.
Driven by this mood and the emperor's order, Ma Jianliang finally set foot on the land of the west, preparing to collect information.
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When Ma Jianliang arrived in the Kingdom of Zhongshan, Taoist Master Guanyun, a master of the Xiaoyao Sect in the God Transformation Stage, also returned to the Kingdom of Langya with Taoist Master Mingquan, met with the Emperor of the Kingdom of Langya, and asked about the situation of the naval battle.
Then Taoist Guanyun came to Surabaya Port to observe the ruins. Standing on the ruins of the Dudu Mansion, Taoist Guanyun was speechless for a long time. Taoist Guanyun was also astonished at the news of the sudden defeat.
He didn't know what to say for a moment. It was Xiaoyao Sect who asked Langya Kingdom to give Qixia Kingdom's ship that was "overestimating its capabilities" some color. In fact, Taoist Guanyun felt from the beginning that Qixia Kingdom's ship
Whether you can cross the Green Sea of Death is a question.
I didn't expect the reality to be such a slap in the face, or the kind of snapping noise.
Taoist Master Guanyun stood there for a long time, finally sighed and said to Yan Zhen, the governor of Surabaya Port next to him: "This loss will be fully borne by the Xiaoyao Sect!"
Yan Zhen was overjoyed and thanked him immediately. The Xiaoyao sect bore all the losses, so the emperor could not blame himself and others harshly. The reason why the Xiaoyao sect bore all the losses was actually an invisible apology: This time it is our Xiaoyao sect.
The problem.
Taoist Master Guanyun returned to the imperial capital and left a total of 200 Infant Transformation Pills and 10 Eternal Elixir Pills for the Emperor of Langya Kingdom, and then left. The price of these pills was almost half of the loss in this naval battle.
Times as much.
However, Taoist Guanyun looked solemn, and what was displayed in his mind was the power of artillery and the destructive power it caused. When he was in the Kingdom of Qixia, Taoist Guanyun had already seen the destructive power caused by artillery.
But he didn't expect that the Qixia Kingdom could actually move the artillery on the ship, go 16,000 miles away to bombard the Langya Kingdom, and kill the Langya Kingdom's first navy in one go.
Especially according to the descriptions of the sailors here in Langya Kingdom, the steel battleship is just a turtle shell and cannot be broken at all. Everyone attacked for more than an hour and lost more than 20 Nascent Soul stages, but they were unable to break it.
defense.
Occasionally, one or two attacks break through the defense, but they can only leave shallow scratches on the hard iron ship, which is of no use!
Taoist Master Guanyun returned to Xiaoyao Sect, but his brows were furrowed. He vaguely felt some kind of change, but he couldn't express it in words.
"The Kingdom of Qixia...Xuanzhen Sect...what are you doing?"
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In the Kingdom of Qixia, the court meeting is over, and Zhang Hao has returned to Ninghe County for the time being. At the national level, there is not much need for Zhang Hao to directly exert his efforts, so Zhang Hao only needs to give some guidance on the side.
The most important thing for Zhang Hao now is to develop and expand the maritime industry. One ship is not enough!
Now Zhang Hao is the Minister of Marine Development, and the focus of marine development is the Zhang family's fiefdom. This makes Liu Xinyu a little entangled. But there is no way. If you want to develop the ocean now, you can only rely on the Zhang family and Dayang Group.
.
Liu Xinyu is currently thinking about whether to join Dayang Group's shares, but it is just a plan and has not been told to anyone yet. Liu Xinyu must carefully grasp all the measures to ensure the stability of the country before she can think about the interests of the empire and the royal family.
Benefit.
The interests of the empire and the interests of the royal family are different.
After a while, Liu Xinyu recovered her thoughts and began to meet with representatives from different countries.
There were more than fifty people in total, including representatives from the Zhoushan Kingdom, Yanyun Kingdom, Zhongshan Kingdom, Jinyang Kingdom, and Danyang Kingdom. The princes who led the team this time paid great attention to them.
Even shocked.
But the people around the prince were different.
Tang Jun, the crown prince of Zhoushan, was accompanied by Prime Minister Wu Ruohui;
The crown prince of Yanyun Kingdom, Yan Xiao, is also accompanied by Prime Minister Duan Xuehai;
The prince Zhong Linsong of the Kingdom of Zhongshan is accompanied by the prince's young master Qin Shaoxuan;
The prince Zhao Huaiyun of the Kingdom of Jinyang was accompanied by the prince's young master Wei Zirong;
As for Song Qiming, the crown prince of Danyang Kingdom, he was accompanied by Prime Minister Wang Fei.
Everyone was sitting together, but at this time they seemed to be forming a united front. They looked at Liu Xinyu with their eyes, wary and wary. The light in the eyes of the princes was even more complicated. There was something faintly there.
Pressure and admiration.
Some of us have been crown princes for decades, and they are still crown princes; but Liu Xinyu, who was less than nineteen years old, had already ascended the throne and became the first queen in the history of Western countries.
The most important thing is that before Liu Xinyu came to the throne, he started to clean up the aristocratic families, nobles, etc. with very tough methods. After Liu Xinyu came to the throne, he even planned a new transformation of the Qixia Kingdom.
Unprecedentedly, it took industry and commerce as its national policy, and in one fell swoop opened the outer seas that had blocked the fertile land of the West for thousands of years.
Everyone is envious and jealous, but now they have to face Liu Xinyu together. I wonder what price Qixia will offer?
After the tea was served, Liu Xinyu was the first to speak: "Everyone, I'm glad you can come. Originally, I was planning to wait a few days and take the initiative to contact you."
Everyone was stunned. Liu Xinyu was actually planning to take the initiative to inform everyone?
But at this moment, when everyone heard Liu Xinyu saying "I", they always felt a little awkward.
Liu Xinyu paused for a moment, then glanced at everyone with half-smiling eyes: "I heard that when the Qixia Kingdom was preparing to sail, some people said that they wanted to drive the Qixia Kingdom into the sea."
Everyone turned their heads and said similar words!
Liu Xinyu chuckled softly, her voice not as soft as a woman's, but a little domineering and mocking. "The country of Qixia has gone to sea, but we have opened up shipping routes with the outside world and brought back cheap elixirs.
All elixirs in Qixia Kingdom are open for supply. The prices of all elixirs have also been reduced to the lowest price, and everyone can buy them freely.
This is our elixir price list, with unified quotations at home and abroad. You don’t need to come to me alone, you just need to organize a caravan and come to us to purchase directly.
During the procurement process, if you use elixirs, spiritual materials, etc. to trade, you will be given certain discounts and enjoy priority in transactions.
Don’t worry, the price is the same for everyone.”
The price list was distributed, and after everyone took a look at it, they suddenly exclaimed. The price is really... too cheap! In everyone's preparations, Qixia Country should have peeled off a layer of skin, but it turned out to be such a low price.
.At such a price, Qixia Kingdom only earned a hard-earned penny.
But everyone is not a child. After seeing such a price, the first question that comes to everyone's mind is: Why?
Yes, why!
There is no pie in the sky; if there is, it must be bait!
With such a low price, the Country of Qixia must demand something. But everyone doesn’t know what the Country of Qixia requires.
But one thing that everyone didn't realize was that after seeing such a low price, the atmosphere of a vague alliance among everyone had faded.
Seeing such a price, everyone had the realization that there was no need to form an alliance, and if the supply of elixirs was opened up, everyone would still be in a competitive relationship.
The elixirs cannot be unlimited, and the number of elixirs brought back from Qixia Country every time is definitely limited. So, who can grab more?
For a moment, everyone was whispering again. Each prince discussed with the think tanks around him. But the think tanks were also confused, and they were all stunned by Liu Xinyu's sudden low price.
Liu Xinyu saw everyone's expressions in her eyes, her waist became straighter and straighter, her neck was slightly raised, and she glanced at everyone with a bird's eye view. You are still struggling with the price, but you don't know that our country of Qixia has already begun to plan for eternity.
This time, Liu Xinyu didn't speak either, and just watched everyone whispering quietly as if they were watching a play.
After a while, Zhao Huaiyun, the crown prince of Jinyang Kingdom, finally spoke cautiously: "Thank you for your generosity, Your Majesty. The price is really surprising, far exceeding our expectations. It's just... just..."
‘It’s just’ After a while, Zhao Huaiyun didn’t know how to speak. He couldn’t directly ask: What are his plans?
Liu Xinyu finally spoke: "There is a reason why we gave such a low price."
Everyone's eyes were fixed on Liu Xinyu's face, waiting for an explanation.
Liu Xinyu stood up slowly and walked to the wall map, "This is a map of the known world. On the basis of the geographical features, we have added the navigational chart we just obtained.
What do you see in this picture?"
Before anyone could speak, Liu Xinyu said directly, and her words were categorical: "I see... backwardness! What is connected by the navigation line is the civilized world. And what is outside the navigation line... is the backward world!
Our fertile continent, the West, lags far behind the entire world.
I don’t want to open my eyes one day and suddenly someone says: Your Majesty, there is a person from the civilized world coming outside, saying he is here for archeology!”
When everyone heard the last sentence, laughter suddenly broke out.
"Isn't it funny!" Liu Xinyu suddenly turned around and spoke in a high-pitched voice.
Everyone immediately became silent.
After another while, the Crown Prince of Yanyun Country, Yan Xiao, spoke: "I agree with your Majesty. But I wonder what your Majesty's plans are?"
"It's very simple, unite the strength of the six countries in the West and rush out together! For so many years, at least for eight thousand years, although we in the West have had constant twists and turns, we have always joined forces to fight against the East.
Eight thousand years have made us one.
Therefore, after the success of this voyage, the first thing I thought of was that we should unite and develop together.
The Kingdom of Qixia is willing to set an example for this, so all elixirs are treated equally within the six countries! All are supplied at the lowest price!
I just hope that we, the six Western countries, can catch up with our backwardness as soon as possible and not become... barbarians in the eyes of others!"
After Liu Xinyu said that, she slowly sat down. Everyone continued to be in a daze. Everyone thought of many possibilities, but they didn't expect that Liu Xinyu would suddenly give such an answer.
Have you ever felt ashamed? While you were still preoccupied, people had already begun to consider the future of the six Western countries. This mind, this determination, made everyone look at Liu Xinyu from initial suspicion, vigilance, contempt, etc.
It turned into respect and shock.
The first queen in the history of Western countries is truly extraordinary.
"I agree!" It was Yan Xiao, the crown prince of Yanyun Kingdom, who spoke. He stood up and bowed deeply to Liu Xinyu: "Your Majesty, on behalf of Yanyun Kingdom, I would like to thank Your Majesty, and I am willing to work with your country to achieve common goals.
Promote the development of the six Western countries!”
After Yan Xiao spoke, everyone reacted one after another and began to express their opinions without spending any money. But in the end, everyone set their eyes on Song Qiming, the crown prince of Danyang Kingdom.
Song Qiming clenched his hands into fists, and the veins on his arms popped out; his face was ashen, and there were faint veins on his neck. Wang Fei, the prime minister of Danyang Kingdom, also looked quite ugly.
The country of Danyang... is the only traitor among all the countries!
No matter what happened in the past, the betrayal of Danyang Kingdom is an indisputable fact!
At this time, Yan Xiao spoke again. He sighed leisurely: "The performance of the Qixia Kingdom is amazing. A few months ago, it was on the verge of subjugation, and it also sent envoys to the Canglan Kingdom, but it was...
It was carried out in a cooperative manner. From beginning to end, the Kingdom of Qixia never harmed the interests of the six Western countries.
It has only been a few months now, and the navigation line to the West has been opened up, and the "life" route has been opened from the "death" green sea. It is a miracle.
Now I am more willing to share this miracle with other countries, which is admirable.
But a certain country...hey..."
The crown prince of Danyang Kingdom and the representatives of the country lowered their heads, wishing they could crawl into a hole in the ground. But obviously, this was no longer possible for them.
With Yan Xiao taking the lead, everyone expressed "concern" that Danyang Country is not doing well and you must correct it.
Finally, Liu Xinyu spoke again. Her tone was soft, but her attitude was very tough. "His Royal Highness Song Qiming, for your country... I have a proposal.
I would like to invite the other four countries to support you, help you put down the domestic rebellion, and help you get rid of the control of the Country of Canglan.