Chapter 293 The Civil War Intensifies
The auction of the iron-shelled ships is extremely popular. The ten iron-shelled ships are all 80 meters long and 18 meters wide, with a relatively bloated shape and slow speed.
Compared with warships, these iron-shelled ships are much more fragile and have no armor at all. However, Anyang has designed a double-layer hull and sealed cabin, which is much safer.
An iron-hulled ship has a maximum speed of 40 kilometers, a maximum voyage distance of 4,000 kilometers, and a load capacity of about 4,500 tons.
The average transaction price of 10 iron-hulled ships is between 380,000 and 390,000 taels of gold. The people still have great wealth. Especially with several Anyang business companies, one can give out a huge wealth of 400,000 taels of gold. The term "rich can rival a country" has become a true portrayal in Anyang.
After the merchant ship auction ended, the shipowners received the first order: orders from the Anyang military. Transport fuel, transportation machinery and port equipment, transportation vehicles, transportation cement, etc. Anyang gave early support policies for this new marine commerce.
Then there were a large number of Anyang Commercial Bank Groups and others lined up - locomotives, agricultural machinery, massive cloth, and countless colorful commodities. In just a few days, hundreds of large warehouses were built by the East Sea of Anyang. The power of capital completely exploded here in Anyang.
The pursuit of wealth and the use of business to plunder luck has become a true portrayal of Anyang. In the past, in an empire, only emperors, officials, etc. could plunder luck; but in Anyang, luck can also be gathered through a huge business network.
But the only means of luck in business exchanges is limited to wealth, and the efficiency is only about one-tenth of the efficiency of luck in empires gathering; but it doesn’t matter, the area of an empire is limited, but business can continue to expand and expand again!
The outline of Anyang's "Business Kingdom" has appeared. The "Business Empire" will only slowly change after the business kingdom is consolidated.
On the magnificent sea, ten iron-shelled ships connected front and back, breaking through the waves and sailing forward; on the left and right sides of the merchant ship are two 80-meter-long warships. With warship escort and the navy hand in hand, the merchants who just bought the seaship have a heartfelt touch.
Anyang’s support for business is not something that is said, but what he says. In the negotiations with Jin State, Anyang has won a lot of commercial interests; now he personally guides merchants to embark on the vast ocean. Invisibly, the interests of Anyang and merchants have become one; those merchants who dare to cause trouble in Anyang will disagree first.
However, some people still suffer a little during their first voyage. For example, the three people "Guo Youcai, Liu Shuren, and Huang Youquan". These three people met at the first industrial expo and gradually began to cooperate. Now they are a joint venture between the three parties and established a "Sancai Group". This time, Sancai Group sold the money and finally borrowed 50,000 taels of gold from the bank, which was considered as buying an iron-shelled ship.
The excited Guo Youcai, Liu Shuren, and Huang Youquan decided to go out to sea for the first time to personally fight, and also look at the vast ocean; as a result, the three brothers and brothers all fell into seasick!
In fact, not to mention these three people, more than 40% of the crew members were seasick when they sailed for the first time! They had never been on a boat, nor were they mentally prepared. Many crew members lay on the deck to play the "mortality" game.
Fortunately, the Anyang military had already prepared, so they sent the navy to help and teach various experiences.
If you are seasick, you can use more spells for the time being and fly; this is the shaking of the sea ship, causing "allergic" in physiological reactions, and most people can adapt slowly.
This voyage lasted for more than two days. The sea boat spanned more than 2,000 kilometers and arrived at the concession on the southeast coast of Jin State. The concession range was 30 kilometers and was at the estuary of the Daqing River, the estuary of a large river in Jin State. Because the seaside is mostly barren, this area is such a place. This place is named "Shan Haicheng" by Anyang.
Now the Shanhai City is still deserted and has nothing; there are only a few masters in the Golden Elixir stage who use spells to temporarily clear the river bank to facilitate the ship to get closer. After the ship cannot continue to get closer, they can only temporarily use spells to freeze the water surface and transfer goods, etc. to the ground through the ice surface.
After a while, a large number of people came out, and they hired the people of Jin. Anyang has money, and if thousands of taels of gold are scattered, they can hire more than 100,000 people to be busy.
This "mountain and sea city" with nothing is changing at an unprecedented speed. From the beginning, it was Anyang's current architectural style, tall buildings, and wide roads.
Of course, the first thing to be established is the Judicial Square. The Judicial Square has almost become an iconic "building complex" in Anyang. The center is the square, and all the laws in Anyang are carved with stone tablets inside; there are five offices on the outside: courts, banks, industrial and commercial, taxation, and police. Even if it is temporary, the construction is very conspicuous.
The Judicial Square is a microcosm of the Anyang government.
In addition, in this deserted Shanhai City, there is actually a team of Jin's imperial guards, who are here to receive goods - including a set of low-level machine tools, related drawings, etc.; there are even more than a dozen low-level technicians responsible for guiding the application, and the dispatched technicians are actually just qualified apprentices.
Of course, don’t think that Anyang is kind-hearted and fishing! Only by guiding others can we let others follow you forever. Once Jin really establishes an Anyang-style industrial and commercial system, Jin will likely live in the shadow of Anyang forever.
But the current situation is: the monarch and minister of Jin are not stupid, but they have to do so!
The Liu Kingdom in the south introduced Anyang's technology, law, commerce, etc., and the Qi Kingdom in the west had long begun to transform industrial and commercially; although the Daxia Kingdom in the north was divided, the technology developed particularly rapidly in the war-torn environment. The Jin Kingdom had previously verified the technological changes with the failure of a million troops.
Everyone else is developing, and Jin State can only pinch its nose and recognize it!
The construction of Shanhai City also means that Anyang has officially embarked on the pace of alternative expansion. The spread of technology has also caused Anyang's influence to expand rapidly.
More than a month after the war with Jin State ended, nouns such as "Anyang" and "Li Xian" spread throughout the radius.
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In Nanyang County, there were about 250,000 prisoners in prison camp.
At the beginning, several consecutive battles were fought, Nanyang County, Dongyuan County and Anyang County jointly captured about 400,000 prisoners of Jin State. Jin State sent troops twice in a row, sending more than 850,000 troops (including civil servants).
In the end, more than 70,000 were killed in the battle, and less than 70,000 fled back to the Jin State, nearly 400,000 were captured. There were still about 300,000, and they were directly dispersed. It was normal for deserters and other soldiers to appear in such a large battlefield, especially those civilians.
In group battles, especially those who go abroad to fight, the number of deserters may reach one-third, which is normal. They are all cultivators with a long lifespan and no one is willing to die.
The pursuit of immortality, strength, and even ascension by cultivators is essentially a "selfish" behavior; therefore, cultivators often focus on themselves, think about problems and look at things.
In war, no matter the outcome, the benefits are the state, officers, etc.; soldiers can get few benefits, and the risks they take are the greatest possible - it is death.
Of course, not everyone is so pessimistic and exhausted; some cultivators are very active - in the future, these people may become generals. Cultivation itself is also a process of elimination and competition for survival of the fittest.
Nearly 400,000 prisoners, 250,000 were acquired by the more powerful Nanyang County; less than 150,000 remain, belonging to Dongyuan County. With these prisoners in hand, Nanyang County and Dongyuan County can threaten Jin State - don't attack us, otherwise our hands will be 400,000 heads.
However... but all of this has nothing to do with Wang Zhouzhi, the general of the Northern Jin State. Now, Wang Zhouzhi is a prisoner, a senior prisoner. He has been granted the true essence, spiritual consciousness, purple palace, and meridian Qihai. Now Wang Zhouzhi is just a slightly healthy and strong ordinary person.
Standing in front of the prisoner camp and looking up at the geese that had already begun flying to the south in the sky, Wang Zhouzhi smiled bitterly, "It's true that 'the geese fly south, no one will return'. The Iron Mouth Hell is the Iron Mouth Hell. Although the words are not nice, the results of this divination are always so accurate!"
A group of embarrassed figures came, which were Wang Zhouzhi's personal soldiers; but now, these personal soldiers have heavy labor every day.
Although the abuse of prisoners has attracted widespread attention since Anyang, and Nanyang County dares not offend Jin too much; ordinary labor is also necessary. It is to make all prisoners tired and make them unable to escape; and to do something along the way. Every time the labor is over, there will be people who will constantly strengthen the seal repeatedly.
Seeing the personal soldiers coming back, Wang Zhouzhi sighed and had to get up to prepare food and drink water. Once upon a time, Wang Zhouzhi, one of the four generals of Jin State, had to do these tasks.
Wang Zhouzhi's personal soldiers sat down silently, without saying a word, as if they were at ease to accept Wang Zhouzhi's "servation". This situation has been going on for more than a month.
Some were grateful and didn't need to say it. The tired soldiers who could hardly stand up silently took the food and warm water from Wang Zhouzhi's "Butler".
After eating, after the personal soldiers recovered some strength, a personal soldiers suddenly spoke, "General, today I went to the mine to mine and listen to the discussions of the soldiers of Nanyang County. Gao Bin, the governor of Songzhou County, joined forces with the Wang family of Guangling County, to send a total of 500,000 troops, including 200,000 civilians, and suddenly attacked Nanyang County.
Although Nanyang County has defense, it has been defeated step by step. It is said that the first line of defense collapsed on the first day. This is the information from three days ago.
According to the discussions of the soldiers from Nanyang County, Nanyang County retreated 30 miles, and more than 30,000 soldiers were either killed, injured or captured."
When Wang Zhouzhi heard this, his eyes immediately flashed, "What else? Don't give up even gossip."
The personal soldiers thought about it and said, "The soldiers from Nanyang County called Anyang unhappy and called Li Xian a tyrant businessman. They said that the generals of Anyang sold weapons everywhere, saying that Anyang had milk and was just a mother. Some soldiers scolded him very badly, saying that Anyang was like a fan, who only recognized money but not people."
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Chapter completed!