"Is this the Pearl?" Standing on the beach, looking at the Pearl that had entered training mode, Hu Yinglan's eyes shone, "It seems a little different?"
The white Pearl is noble and elegant, and plunges into the sea like a sharp knife.
"Of course it's different! Technology has improved! The Zhang family's technology is improving all the time.
The turret on the Pearl directly adopts the double turret, and the turret technology is now mature."
Zhang Hao began to explain
Because of the use of twin turrets and the fact that the Pearl is more slender, the main guns on the bow of the Pearl are no longer side by side, but are placed front and back. There are two groups in total, four 460 mm guns.
Two 100mm twin secondary guns were added to both sides.
The stern of the ship is a 460mm twin gun emplacement, assisted by two 100mm twin secondary guns.
There are four 100mm twin turrets on each side of the ship, for a total of eight turrets and 16 artillery pieces on both sides.
In addition, three depth charge ejection towers were added to each side of the ship. The depth charges were modified from 460 mm artillery shells. This ejection tower borrowed technology from mortars.
Also, 12 sniper points have been added to the battleship. Each sniper point has two sniper rifles, a team leader, and four team members to form a sniper team.
"Sniper rifle? What is it?" Hu Yinglan heard strange words again.
"There is a group of snipers in place now, let's go up and take a look." Zhang Hao took Hu Yinglan and flew towards the battleship. The battleship had just left port to prepare for the afternoon training, and its speed had not yet increased.
Zhang Hao and Hu Yinglan quickly flew to the bow of the ship.
A general on the bow of the ship watched the two men flying in coldly and shouted, "Please identify yourself!"
Hu Yinglan frowned: "Shu Bennan, you..."
Zhang Hao waved his hand to stop Hu Yinglan and said loudly, "Zhang Hao, President of Dayang Group and Minister of National Ocean Development."
Hu Yinglan frowned, but still introduced, "Hu Yinglan, the palace guard, is following His Majesty."
"Proof of identity!" Shu Bennan was meticulous.
Zhang Hao and Hu Yinglan took out the identity jade tags. This is the identity jade tag of an official, a bit like an official seal. But it has complex formations and anti-counterfeiting methods inside.
After checking the official seal, Shu Bennan opened the barrier and allowed the two of them to enter. The seriousness on his face disappeared and he revealed a smile, "What are you two doing here?"
Zhang Hao smiled and said, "Your Majesty is concerned about you and asked Guard Hu to come over and take a look. How are you doing? Can you adapt to life at sea?"
"No problem!" Shu Bennan smiled brightly, "Thank you Your Majesty for giving me this opportunity. I will definitely live up to Your Majesty's high expectations. At the end of the year, I will lead the battleships to kill all the navy of Langya Kingdom!"
Hu Yinglan also had to praise a few words. Finally, Zhang Hao took over the words, "How are you using the new sniper rifle you recently purchased? Guard Hu happened to be here today. I took her to check it out."
"No problem. Feng Dinghu!"
"Here!" A man who looked to be in his thirties and had a golden elixir level but was calm came over.
"Take Guard Hu and Mr. Zhang to visit your sniper rifle team."
"Yes. You two, please come with me."
The only sniper point at present is at the highest point of the battleship's superstructure. There are 30 people around Feng Dinghu, but for the time being there are only one sniper rifle and five ordinary guns. Ordinary guns can also be used for training, at least for everyone
Get familiar with it.
Feng Dinghu went off in person. The target was a target on the shore, about two kilometers away from the battleship. Even if Hu Yinglan used the eagle eye technique, she could only see a small dot. There was an iron ball the size of a human head.
The battleship is still accelerating. Although the battleship is very stable, just a slight fluctuation is enough to miss the target.
Feng Dinghu was lying on the floor, with the muzzle of his long sniper rifle pointed at the target in the distance. Time passed by, and suddenly there was a loud noise, and the muzzle of the sniper rifle spurted out brilliant flames, and the air seemed to fluctuate. During the explosion
Amidst the sound, there was a faint sharp sound.
Hu Yinglan frowned and looked into the distance.
But in just over a second, the iron ball two kilometers away suddenly rolled out, and the surrounding rocks exploded.
Feng Dinghu still did not get up, but aimed at the next target. In the sky, a bird was released. It was a bird about thirty centimeters, less than two kilometers away from the battleship. But compared to the iron ball, the bird was
A target moving at high speed.
And another point is that the flying birds are very fast. If you don't snipe as soon as possible, the flying birds will fly away.
Feng Dinghu remained motionless, and more than ten seconds passed quietly before he suddenly fired again. About a second later, the flying bird exploded into a ball of blood mist in the sky.
Then Feng Dinghu stood up, his eyes full of pride and confidence.
Zhang Hao was a little surprised when he saw it. Cultivators are indeed powerful. If ordinary people were to train, it would only take several years of hard work to reach this level. But cultivators don't have to. Especially those in the golden elixir stage.
He was able to kill enemies with a sword and had strong facial features. After being exposed to a sniper rifle, he became a sharpshooter in just three days.
Hu Yinglan's pupils shrank, and she keenly felt the terror of the sniper rifle.
Zhang Hao explained from the side, "The sniper rifle is specially developed for those who are in the Golden Core stage and above. Its bullets have been specially processed and can penetrate ordinary magic weapon defenses. Within a range of 15 kilometers, it is enough to pose a threat to those in the late Golden Core stage.
Once a person is hit in the early stage of the Golden Elixir, he is almost certain to die.
Being unprepared, the Nascent Soul Stage was attacked by a sniper, which is also very dangerous."
Hu Yinglan took a breath and asked after a while, "Can I try?"
"Please." Zhang Hao said.
With the help of Feng Dinghu, Hu Yinglan tried to aim through the telescope. But after just one glance, Hu Yinglan was startled. Looking through the telescope, the target two kilometers away seemed to be a hundred meters in front of her. This distance was not suitable for the Jindan period.
It can be said that it is close at hand.
Slightly adjust the heavy sniper rifle, align the center point of the sniper rifle with the target, and then adjust it slightly higher.
When she pulled the trigger, Hu Yinglan felt a huge force burst out of her body, and heard an explosion the next moment. But two seconds later, nothing happened in front of her.
"It missed." Zhang Hao said with a smile, "Let's go, these things need special training. They can lie on the ground for more than an hour without blinking."
"Is this another way of saying that you kill people without blinking an eye?" Hu Yinglan stood up, praised Feng Dinghu and others, and walked around the battleship with Zhang Hao before leaving.
In the evening, Zhang Hao and Hu Yinglan took a train to the imperial capital. The goods on board the train included a large amount of black iron, artillery and shells, a large number of spare parts (mainly for military crossbows), as well as a few guns and bullets.
The most important thing is that Zhang Hao also brought some special gift mirrors!
After a period of exploration, the glass factory finally produced the finished product. However, the current glass mirror is only about one foot. But compared with the mirror of the daily ritual instrument, this kind of glass mirror is clearer and brighter. The most important thing is
Perfect!
When the mirror of a daily ritual instrument is not used or activated, it is just an iron lump. No matter how beautifully made it is, it is still inferior to a natural mirror.
The train arrived in the imperial capital in the middle of the night. Hu Yinglan returned to the palace with gifts, especially guns and mirrors, while Zhang Hao rested in the mansion outside the palace. As the minister of the Ministry of Ocean Development, Zhang Hao also had his own mansion.
After a short rest, the morning court began at sunrise. Zhang Hao stood in front of the main hall, which was also the position of deputy prime minister.
Other officials, such as Zhao Duo, Wu Fanghai, Liu Jingming, Zhou Jue, Xu Jie, Yan Qing, etc., gathered together.
However, Liu Guang, the Minister of Commerce of the People's Republic of China, did not appear.
As Hu Yinglan announced that His Majesty had arrived, Liu Xinyu walked slowly over and sat down slowly. The Queen looked very ugly today, and Zhang Hao could even see the murderous intent flashing in her eyes.
Liu Xinyu sat down and nodded to Hu Yinglan. Hu Yinglan immediately shouted, "Xuan Liu Yuan, Liu Junying comes to the palace!"
After a while, guards came over escorting the father and son.
Zhang Hao looked over and saw that Liu Guang looked gloomy, and there was an unknown young man next to him. He looked about twenty years old and had anger on his face.
However, both of their cultivation levels were sealed.
The guards escorted the two men and left the hall.
Liu Xinyu sighed, "Liu Guang, I am very disappointed!"
After a pause, he turned to Xu Jie and nodded, "Read out the information on your investigation."
At the beginning of the reform, the supervision department of Qixia Country was temporarily in charge of Xu Jie, and Xu Jie himself was also the Minister of Justice. With future development, perhaps power will be gradually decentralized.
Xu Jie took out a notebook and read it seriously, "Five days ago, we received an anonymous report saying that Liu Junying, the head of the purchasing department of Yunying Commercial Bank, had committed corruption and perverting the law, and listed in detail what he had done.
After two days of forensic investigation, we are convinced that we have the information
At the party on January 3rd of the year, Liu Junying accepted huge bribes, including top-notch elixirs, medicinal materials, spiritual stones, etc., which were discounted to about 27 million low-grade spiritual stones. Therefore, Liu Junying purchased seven black irons at a price slightly higher than the market price of 2
The manufacturer has approximately 1,860 tons of black iron. However, the quality of these black iron itself varies, and the black iron is lower than the standard purity and quality of black iron of the same grade in the market.
On January 16, Liu Junying teamed up with three transportation companies to transship strategic materials such as grain, grass, baggage, etc. After recalculating this transshipment data using a variety of different methods, the freight, labor costs, depreciation costs, etc. were calculated, and the maximum consumption should be 4.78 million.
Low grade spiritual stone.
Liu Junying actually reported a loss of 34.3 million low-grade spiritual stones. Liu Junying got 35 of the extra, and the remaining three companies divided it up according to size.
On February 2, Liu Junying took advantage of his position to create a breach of contract through a contract trap, blackmailing a supplier and extorting about 8.4 million low-grade spiritual stones.
February 7, Liu Junying
…
The total profit is about 4.5 billion in wealth of low-grade spiritual stones and 450,000 in high-grade spiritual stones.
Liu Guang was aware of the entire corruption process, and all the stolen money was piled up in Liu Guang's underground secret room.
These are already known. The rest are still under investigation. It is roughly estimated that Liu Junying's corruption of spiritual stones can amount to 70,000 high-grade spiritual stones!
The impact of this incident was so bad that it almost shook the foundation of the country, seriously affected the country's image, and hurt the confidence of the majority of industrial and commercial people.
The reading is finished.”
Liu Xinyu sighed and turned to look at Zhang Hao, "Zhang Hao, this is the industry and commerce you advocate. It's only been half a year!"
Zhang Hao's face didn't look good either. As Xu Jie read out the data one by one, Zhang Hao felt his heart twitching. It had only been half a year since the start of industry and commerce, but about 70,000 high-grade spiritual stones had been corrupted. This was almost the peak of the past seven Nascent Soul stages.
The master’s entire net worth!
Such corruption is already shaking the foundation of the country! Now the Qixia Kingdom has just begun to develop, with a fragile foundation, and there is countless floating wealth in the country. It is also thanks to the pills brought back from the first few voyages that the Qixia Kingdom has gathered together.
the foundation of.
In the past few months, due to the blockade of the five eastern countries, the country of Qixia has once again been in a lot of difficulties.
At such a critical moment, such serious corruption has occurred, and it has also involved high-ranking officials at the level of ministers and deputy prime ministers! The impact can no longer be described as 'evil'!
Zhang Hao took a deep breath, then another…take a deep breath…then walked up to Liu Guang step by step, and asked in a deep voice, “Liu Guang, why do you need so many spiritual stones? Isn’t the salary I usually give you enough?”
Liu Guang was speechless and speechless.
"Pa!" Zhang Hao suddenly took action and gave Liu Guang a slap. The slap was very loud, and five finger prints quickly appeared on Liu Guang's cheek, which became red and swollen.
Everyone was shocked!
"Zhang Hao! You are looking for death!" Liu Junying roared.
Zhang Hao turned around silently and looked at the new officials. Most of them were newly promoted and were representatives of the industrial and commercial class.
Zhang Hao looked around and growled in a low voice, "You unsatisfactory bastards! His Majesty worked so hard to support you and gave you opportunities, and this is how you repay His Majesty?"
What was it like for you in the past? You couldn't hold your head high, you were oppressed, exploited, and humiliated by the nobles every day.
Now that you finally have the opportunity to be the master of your own affairs, you couldn't hold on even for half a year and you started to fall!
Do you think that if you can’t be a master, it’s better to be a slave?”
"Today, in front of His Majesty, I am going to tell you something that comes from the bottom of my heart. Today we are not going to talk about national righteousness such as the prosperity of the country and everyone's responsibility. We are just going to talk about ourselves!
I, Zhang Hao, was born in a small family, and I have been exposed to the exploitation of my family since I was a child. We have money, but we have no status. In the eyes of those nobles, we are just a bunch of pigs. As long as we get fat, we can be slaughtered!
I can not be reconciled.
Why do we work so hard, but we can only be helplessly exploited and never get ahead!
The country happened to be in trouble, so I tried every means to seize the opportunity and bring hope to the industrial and commercial classes.
I succeeded. Under His Majesty's wise guidance, we established an unprecedented country, a country dominated by the industrial and commercial class. We killed the nobles! We killed the aristocratic families! We killed the sects!
The moment His Majesty ascended the throne, I thought, we could finally raise our heads and be human beings, because we were no longer targets of exploitation. We even began to participate in the construction of the country.
But, is this how you build a country?
It’s impossible for people around him to know that Liu Junying is corrupt! Why are they discovering it now?”
"Why should we participate in national construction? Isn't it to make our own lives better? If corruption and injustice occur, can your lives be improved?"
Zhang Hao is really angry. Corruption has occurred in half a year, and it is still such a huge amount. If this were considered as current banknotes, it would be a full 45 billion yuan! So far, the total number of banknotes issued by Green Boat Bank is not enough. Most of them are
In the nature of a certificate of deposit.
Zhang Hao roared in a circle and turned to look at Liu Xinyu, "Your Majesty, do you know what is the biggest difference between the nobility and the ordinary industrial and commercial class?"
Liu Xinyu squinted her eyes and said coldly, "I don't know!"
"You can kill!" There was a hint of coldness in Zhang Hao's words, "Your Majesty, if you are a noble, I'm afraid it will be difficult to do it. But in the industrial and commercial class, there are no nobles, everyone is a common people."
After Zhang Hao finished speaking, a cold wind suddenly blew up in the hall.
And Liu Junying screamed and collapsed.
He really didn't expect that corruption could lead to death! In his opinion, it was just some punishment at most. Speaking of which, Liu Yuan and Liu Junying still have some royal blood, although it is a bit far away.
Liu Xinyu slowly raised her head and looked at Liu Yuan and Liu Junying, her eyes becoming colder and colder.
Liu Yuan was really panicked and knelt down with a bang: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I was wrong, I was wrong. Please take this old slave's hard work for many years into consideration..."
"Pa!" Zhang Hao turned around and slapped Liu Yuan again. Everyone was surprised again.
Slowly retracting his palm, Zhang Hao sighed, "What a shame! Have you been a slave for so long that you have lost your backbone?"
Turning his head, Zhang Hao said to Liu Xinyu, "Your Majesty, the country of Qixia is just a small and remote country. Courage and blood are our few resources.
Please Your Majesty, please kill Liu Yuan and Liu Junying will rectify the country's foundation."
However, Liu Guang was really panicked. He shouted loudly, "Your Majesty, you can't let Zhang Hao do it! Now Zhang Hao has become a powerful force and has endangered your Majesty's authority! Your Majesty, please don't be fooled!"
Zhang Hao's face quickly darkened.
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