Beidou Academy was surrounded by crowds of people, but at this moment the silent crowd became noisy because of this sentence.
Zhang Shengde frowned, this was completely out of the plan. The issue of fairness has never been considered by practitioners. In other words, in this world of practice, the word "fairness" has always been a decoration.
I didn't expect someone to ask this question today.
But it’s understandable if you think about it, because Zhang Hao said before when enrolling students that the test should be unified. With such an opportunity, some "unruly people" will naturally try to seek a fairer (favorable) environment for their children.
But parents from wealthy families are not happy. The competition is already fierce, and if there are any restrictions, it will be very annoying.
Under such circumstances, the crowd split into two groups almost instantly and began to quarrel.
Zhang Hao slowly flew up and roared: "Quiet!"
The cultivation level of Jindan Stage is already good, and the voice spreads loudly.
Zhang Hao spoke, and the people below quickly calmed down. Then Zhang Hao looked at the person who just spoke, and said in a cold voice: "Tell me, how can it be considered fair?"
"This..." Feeling Zhang Hao's attitude, this person felt a little numb, but he still said forcefully: "I think that certain methods should be adopted to try to eliminate the gaps between children of different classes. Only in this way can we select
A true genius!”
"Oh... the idea sounds good, but what method should we use?"
"This... this... how about a points system, for example, to complete tasks of the same difficulty, for ordinary families, calculate a little more."
As soon as these words came out, there was chaos and noise again.
"Quiet!" Zhang Hao roared, "If you make any more noise, get out!"
Then everyone became quiet again.
Zhang Hao looked at the man and smiled coldly, "What you said makes sense. But let me ask: why!"
"This...is as fair as possible."
"Haha..." Zhang Hao smiled, raised his head slightly, looked around, and said in a high-pitched, cold voice:
"Fairness, what is fairness! When the rain is pouring and you are hiding at home chatting and playing cards, the sailors of the Ocean Group are moving forward in the wind and rain, looking for unknown hope on the rolling green sea of death.
There were lightning and thunder, rough waves, and no daylight; there were even marine monsters circling in the sea, waiting for their lives. The sailors did not dare to close their eyes for several days, for fear that if they closed their eyes, they would never have the chance to open them again.
While you are walking in the sunshine and quarreling with your neighbors, the engineers of Dayang Group are working day and night.
The engineers and craftsmen at the shipbuilding base have not had a break for half a year. They spend every day with the sound of hammering steel. When they are tired, they meditate and practice on the spot. When they feel a little energetic, they go to study and study. When they are energetic enough, they start to work.
.
An average person consumes three hammers made of steel per month!
While you are content with three meals a day and a hot bed, the soldiers of the Ocean Group are training, practicing, and preparing for the battlefield at any time.
You demand fairness. I want to ask, why do you demand fairness?
Shouldn't those who make silent sacrifices use their legitimate income to raise their children?
If you don't want to accept it, you can leave now, no one will stop you. Otherwise, just stay with me!"
Tens of thousands of people were silent, but this time everyone's mood completely changed.
Zhang Hao then said to Zhang Shengde: "Dad, things are almost done. We can start."
Zhang Shengde sighed and nodded. After Zhang Hao flew off, Zhang Shengde spoke: "After discussion, Beidou Academy adopted a completely free approach. As long as you are from the country of Qixia, it is free!"
The atmosphere suddenly became lively.
Zhang Hao saw this and smiled faintly. In fact, the academy is cultivating talents for itself, and charging fees is asking for trouble. Now Dayang Group can also bear these fees. The reason why it was mentioned before that fees outside Ninghe County were possible was to let them learn
Be grateful and remember the benefits of the Zhang family and Dayang Group. Only in this way can we win people's hearts.
You have to let them know how difficult it is to make them appreciate it.
Zhang Shengde continued: "Attention all students, the test will begin immediately.
From the entrance of the college to the back mountain, formations have been arranged, and everyone must understand the rules clearly.
After entering the formation, you cannot use your true energy, magic weapons, etc., and you can only move forward with your physical strength. During the process of advancement, you will encounter some small and interesting games, including arithmetic, building blocks, small mazes, single-plank bridges, and various small
Traps etc.
You can choose to play the game, or you can choose to move forward. Each thing has points, and we will eventually select the top 1,000 people who reach the finish line based on their points and performance.
Finally, we will select the 450 best seeds from these 1,000. Then we will select the 50 best from the remaining 550. Finally, a total of 500 students will be admitted.
The first screening time is until sunset. The time is set to... 18:00 pm sharp. It is now 9 am, and everyone has 9 hours. It is enough time, so don't rush.
Start now."
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But it is said that when Dugu Junjie led the battleship south again, he encountered the cunning and timid mirage again. After the mirage secretly caused several troubles in the sea, it was finally greeted by depth charges several times and ran away in despair again.
After that, the journey was uneventful. When the battleship arrived at the Skeleton River again, there was already a heat wave rolling in here in Tuotu Continent. Compared with the cold in the north when it set off, it was already a bit hot and unbearable. There is an indescribable heat in this place.
Dry and uncomfortable.
But when we returned to the Skull River again, a small city had appeared on the bank of the Skull River. Here, a port was actually built: Skeleton Port!
Yeah, that's quite a scary name.
However, when the battleship arrived here, there was actually fighting again. This time the Red Lotus Sect was not fighting the Holy Fire Sect in the north, but fighting the ocean monsters.
From afar, I could see the ocean monsters attacking the land crazily, and the small town was shattered.
The attack of the ocean monsters is like water flooding the golden mountains; occasionally you can see black waves rolling, and the mountain peaks collapse like a clay pot.
As for the Red Lotus Sect, under the leadership of Guardian Zuo Hua Baixiang, they continue to kill a large number of marine monsters and obtain abundant resources. From time to time, you can see thousands of meters in size of flame formations falling, and pieces of marine monsters are formed.
Grilled fish fillet.
Looking at the broken coast, I am afraid that this battle has been going on for a long time.
When the battleship appeared, Hua Baixiang flew excitedly from afar, driving the flaming phoenix along the way, burning half the sky red. She hurriedly landed on the bow of the Iron Duke, but looked at the white-painted Pearl next to it.
The large characters milled out with a lathe on the side of the Pearl are very eye-catching.
When they met, Dugu Junjie introduced Liu Dingshan; Liu Dingshan nodded coolly and stood aside without speaking.
Hua Baixiang turned around and chuckled, "Where's Zhang Hao? This kid doesn't dare to come over, right?"
Dugu Junjie smiled bitterly, he is our president, he is very busy, and he was spanked last time, so how dare he come here. Dugu Junjie changed the subject: "Have you taken the initiative to hunt and kill sea monsters?"
"Yeah, I think you can sail in the open sea, so it doesn't matter. Let's build a port here. I don't want these sea monsters to come to eat people, so we just go to the sea to catch a few dragons and so on. I don't want to
It actually caused the whole sea to boil.
Humph, I, the Red Lotus Sect, am not a soft persimmon. Although these sea monsters are powerful, they are not very smart. As long as they are lured to the ground, they will serve as food!
In the past two months, we have obtained a mountain of ocean monsters.
Now the sea monsters have almost stopped. A month ago it was the craziest. But thanks to your black iron and steel, if it weren't for these excellent materials, we would have suffered a big loss."
Hua Baixiang seemed very excited and pointed at the battleship Mingzhu next to her, "This battleship is beautiful!"
"This is the vehicle of our Majesty the Queen."
"Queen?" Hua Baixiang became interested instantly, "By the way, I was in such a hurry last time that I didn't have a good exchange. How about going to our Holy Mountain this time? Our leader really hopes to communicate with you face to face."
Dugu Junjie nodded and smiled: "That's no problem. We also want to have in-depth exchanges this time. This time we also brought a lot of medicinal materials that your sect needs, as well as a large amount of elixirs, black iron, etc. We also brought
Artillery and basic industrial technology.
This time, we need to have a good talk."
"Can industrial technology build ships?" Hua Baixiang's eyes have been fixed on the Pearl. After hearing that this battleship was the 'Queen's Car', Hua Baixiang became interested.
Dugu Junjie smiled: "You can produce black iron in large quantities. As for whether you can build ships, it depends on your ability. But I believe that as long as there is a large amount of black iron, your sect will soon have its own steel battleship."
Hua Baixiang was very satisfied with Dugu Junjie's attitude. While talking, she invited the warships to enter the Skull River. They originally wanted to build a port here, but now it seems that the port is unusable and they can only continue to enter the river.
The marine monsters blocking the river mouth were quickly eliminated by artillery. The warships easily entered the river.
But as soon as he entered the Skull River, Dugu Junjie frowned: "The water in this river... seems to have dropped a lot? At least one-third less!"
"It is still the dry season in Taotu Island. The river water will not rise until the rainy season. During the rainy season, the river water will be more than double what you saw last time!
We only have two seasons here, the rainy season and the dry season.
The rainy season begins almost every year in April and May, and can last until September. During this period, it rains almost half of the time, and sometimes it rains every day. After September to April and May of the next year, it is the dry season, with almost no rain."
"Oh..." Dugu Junjie's eyes widened, wondering about this strange world. Is this the world of magic? It is indeed quite magical!
But Zhao Dahe, who was following him, didn't think so. He was thoughtful, could the different seasons and the theory of a round earth be unified?
The battleship continued to move forward, but this time it did not move too far. It only came to the lake where the snapping turtle was hunted last time and stopped. There was already a small city here.
A large number of hunted marine monsters were processed here, and a large number of masters from the Red Lotus Sect gathered here.
Dugu Junjie, Liu Dingshan and others looked at the mountains of ocean monsters and were filled with emotion. The Red Lotus Sect is indeed a holy land. Although it is only one-half of the Tiandu Sect, it is still a holy land after all.
A holy land with enough power and depth to bring down the ocean monsters; this is a power that the Kingdom of Qixia cannot yet match.
But Dugu Junjie didn't know that when three steel battleships appeared in this lake, it caused a shock.
A master flew out, came to the bow of the ship, looked at Hua Baixiang, and said in shock: "Hua Hua, is this the steel battleship you mentioned?"
"This is Lan Baihong, the master of our weapon refining hall!" Hua Baixiang introduced Dugu Junjie and Liu Dingshan, and then turned to Lan Baihong and said, "Master Lan, the steel battleship you have been waiting for day and night is here.
, and there is one more Pearl.
This time, Dayang Group has brought black iron smelting technology and technical personnel as agreed, and will assist us in building a black iron factory."
"Oh...that's great!" Lan Baihong was excited and a little overjoyed.
Seeing Lan Baihong's performance, Dugu Junjie also showed a bright smile. It seemed that he could sit down and raise the price. Although there was a dedicated person in charge of the negotiation, it did not prevent Dugu Junjie from offering opinions.
Unfortunately, Hua Baixiang and Lan Baihong, who were temporarily excited, did not notice Dugu Junjie's meaningful smile.
But no matter what, compared to the obscurity last time, too many people from the Red Lotus saw the steel battleship this time!
It is really a ship made of iron, a steel battleship that can cross the open sea!
This time, the battleship quickly caused a huge sensation among the Xuanzhen Sect. The goods brought on the battleship also caused a sensation for the Red Lotus Sect. They no longer have to accept the exploitation of the inland holy land.
The battleship stopped here and the transaction began.
Because there are so many unfamiliar products, medicinal materials, spiritual materials, etc., the pricing is very cumbersome. But this does not affect everyone's enthusiasm.
After more than ten days of discussions, the transaction officially began. Excellent dark iron and steel were moved out in tons and tons; a large number of Qi Refining Stage elixirs and many Foundation Establishment Stage elixirs were also moved out in boxes.
There are also medicinal materials unique to the Northern Fertile Continent, some special spiritual materials, etc., which are all moved down in boxes.
The red lotus sect's medicinal materials, unique spiritual materials, and even the demon pills, pearls, etc. just obtained from the ocean monsters were also loaded onto the battleship in boxes.
Both parties to the transaction were excited and grinned from ear to ear. Of course, there were occasional voices of fierce bargaining, but this only made the atmosphere of the transaction more intense.
During this period, engineers from Dayang Group also followed Hua Baixiang to observe several black iron mines, and finally selected the location. They were ready to guide the construction of the black iron factory.
The artillery carried on the battleship was finally carried by masters such as Lan Baihong and flew all the way to the Holy Land of the Red Lotus Sect, the Flame Mountain. Dugu Junjie and others also followed to the Holy Land of the Red Lotus Sect.
Far away, I saw a huge flame lotus, almost hundreds of meters tall, burning crazily on the top of the mountain! The whole sky was illuminated red!
The flame lotus is really a lotus made of flames. Each petal seems to be made of flames, trembling slightly and rising like flames.
Under the Flame Lotus, there seemed to be an erupting volcano, but the power of the volcano was sucked away by the Flame Lotus. The volcano became a doormat and a source of energy.
Looking at the blazing flaming lotus from a distance makes people feel vaguely restless and irritable, as if some kind of fire energy has entered the body.
Dugu Junjie, Liu Dingshan, Sword Heroes, Zhao Dahe and others were immediately shocked. Such a spectacle is unprecedented.
"This is the Nine Earth Red Lotus!" Lan Baihong was a little proud, "This was the original treasure of the Tiandu Sect. Legend has it that in ancient times, fire lotus seeds dropped from the sky and landed on Tiandu Peak. However, they were captured by the founder of Tiandu Mountain.
Before the Nine Earth Red Lotus matured, Master refined it and imprinted it with a seal. In this way, we disdainful descendants can control the powerful Nine Earth Red Lotus."
Liu Dingshan watched silently, then sighed for a while: "This Nine Earth Red Lotus can destroy the Divine Transformation Stage!"
"Tao is friendly and discerning. However, the cost of destroying the Divine Transformation Stage is too heavy. We will not adopt it unless we have to."
Liu Dingshan nodded and sighed again: "It is said that reading thousands of books is worse than traveling thousands of miles. Today is an eye-opener. I always thought that the Nine Earth Red Lotus was just a treasure. But I didn't expect it to be such a holy thing!"
"It's a pity that the holy fire that was nurtured by the Nine Earths Red Lotus for ten thousand years was lost and was snatched away by the traitors in the north." Lan Baihong sighed.
(Third update, busy until midnight. Big chapter, please vote for me)