As Zhu leisurely walked through the final enthronement ceremony.

On the sea less than three kilometers west of Lanfang Square, the Lanfang coastal defense force has only two 052-class destroyers "Yonghua" and "Guoxuan", as well as six supporting frigates, plus the royal yacht "Zhu Sen". A total of nine ships all headed in the direction of the sea to the west, firing empty salute shells from their main guns into the sky.

The "Zhu Sen" is a yacht, there is no large-caliber main gun, only the goalkeeper close defense system and the Aster anti-aircraft missile launcher, so it is replaced by a salute warhead missile specially customized for this ceremony. It is said that for this matter, a special custom order was placed in advance for Dassault Aviation of the French, and a lot of extra money was spent, and the price of each firecracker bomb was several times more expensive than the genuine Aster 15 anti-aircraft missile (mainly because the custom design fee was expensive, and others did not need it, so it could not amortize the R&D expenses).

Who let the Lan Fang people spend all the money, so they had to find a way to burn money for pomp and circumstance.

In the sky, three squadrons in front and behind, a total of 12 J10 planes shuttled through the sky above the square, and the female Grand Duke was invited to review. When the crowd of people watching the ceremony saw the group, they also cheered and cheered in the sky.

Of course, these equipment have also been bought by the Lanfang people in the past three years in order to protect themselves and their own peace. This is to prevent the "return to the Asia-Pacific" to directly destroy the Lan side as the influence of the financial turmoil of '98 recedes and the "return to the Asia-Pacific" after the destruction of Iraq by the Oceanic people.

Gu Kun's approach in the past few years is very different from the aggressiveness before 2002, he no longer arrogantly takes the initiative to stimulate the Brittany, let alone the Oceanic people who have no direct contradiction with him. Be prepared to make money for a few years, just buy some weapons, and protect yourself a little.

12 J10s cost him 500 million US dollars, an average of 40 million US dollars each, and because Lan Fangguo is weak and lacks talents, there are no pilots, so he can only hire retired and demobilized pilots from the northern country as usual, and the extra 20 million US dollars is even the salary of those 12 pilots-

Originally, according to the rules of the major aviation schools and airlines in the north, most of the retired and demobilized pilots were going to fly civil aviation, but now Gu Kun had no choice but to say sorry to his old partners China Eastern Airlines and China Southern Airlines, and cut off their 12 pilots.

In the same way, it is not enough to protect yourself with equipment, so in the three years from 02 to 05, Gu Kun did not consider the cost and benefits, and expanded Lanfang Port and Lanfang International Airport at his own expense.

To the east of the oil port wharf where oil was originally sold to Huahai, several kilometers of coastline were circled, and a special port for military supplies was built to provide a base for the Lanfang people to expand to 2 drives and 6 protections.

The other areas of the outlying island where Lanfang International Airport is located, as well as other idle supporting islands nearby, have all been built into airports.

The airport island originally had a natural area of more than 40 square kilometers, and even if the civil airport was expanded to the largest and with three or four runways in the future, the entire scale would be less than 20 square kilometers.

Therefore, the remaining half of the island was misappropriated for fighter jets, hangars, underground material warehouses, and so on. The radar stations can share backups, and the outlying islands on the outskirts also spent money to get some anti-aircraft missiles similar to the S400, of course, not Lucia, but imitations.

The runway of the military airport, of course, is not only a light cargo such as J10, anyway, the Lan side is an infrastructure maniac, the runway must be long and wide, the radar station is built large and round, and there is no pressure on you to take off and land H6K or early warning aircraft.

However, in order to show the determination of the Lan people to love peace, they only deployed weapons of a self-defense nature, so the Lan side did not buy bombers and early warning aircraft, so as not to provoke some guys, and also hinted to those guys:

Don't force me, if you force me, I'll have to flee north, and now we're just peace-loving and neutral. If you don't like me and don't let you make money on arms, it's not that you can't negotiate, as long as you are willing to sell, we dare to buy it, and we will buy a little to pay protection money. I'm afraid that you won't sell it because of the leak.

The delicate balance goes without saying.

All this, in the eyes of ordinary Lan Fang people, they don't think too much, and they can't understand so many twists and turns. They just intuitively felt that Lanfang, a small place, was very different from a few years ago, and the royal family led the subjects to become more confident and energetic together.

"It's really an eye-opener, I didn't expect that in our Lanfang, we can see such a majestic pomp in our lifetime, rich and strong, rich and strong first, first rich and then strong, His Royal Highness has done it. ”

"When you are old, you have not endured hardships, and look at what the country was poor when it first escaped from the Breton dogs twenty years ago. It is really a blessing for Lan Fang to have the old Zhu family take everyone to the future. ”

After all, Lan Fang has not been rich for a long time, and those who are a little older, and now middle-aged people in their thirties and forties have all experienced hard times, not to mention those old people. There is a bittersweet comparison, drinking water and not forgetting the well diggers, how can they not be 100% convinced of Gu Kun and Zhu Youran.

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The enthronement ceremony began at nine o'clock in the morning and lasted until half past ten, and finally ended completely. Because Lanfang is located in the tropics, considering the heat of the afternoon, the various ceremonies will not be delayed too late.

However, today's weather is very good, since the morning has been overcast, blocking most of the sun, so that hundreds of thousands of people attending the ceremony feel that the temperature is bearable, only slightly stuffy.

Just after half past ten, the royal family went down to the tower of Yongxi Palace, and then Zhu Youran and Gu Kun both sat on the royal family's unique double-spelled golden Maybach extended version, passed through the crowd in the square, along the avenue of the central axis of the square, all the way through the square, and arrived at the bottom of the Lanfang Pagoda five kilometers away at the other end-

As mentioned earlier, this "Lanfang Square" itself is five kilometers long from north to south and one kilometer wide from east to west, with avenues in the middle of the square, Yongxi Palace at one end and Lanfang Pagoda at the other.

Gu Kun is about to unveil the Lanfang Pagoda in person as a gift to his wife to succeed to the throne.

Most of the people who watched the excitement did not quit, anyway, they stood down for an hour and a half, and they didn't care about standing for an extra hour. It's just that because the location of the ceremony has changed, the position in the venue has also changed. Originally, when the enthronement ceremony, the nationals of the country stood in the front row and had a better view, but now when they move to the other end of the square, they will have to look far away, but the foreign workers have a better view.

But it doesn't matter.

In addition, there are many distinguished customers from the business world, who have made a special trip from foreign countries to see the unveiling of this Lanfang Pagoda, and these distinguished guests Gu Kun must of course make proper arrangements.

Therefore, after the enthronement ceremony, there was a team of Maybach troops, all the guests who were originally in the VIP seats in front of the Yongxi Palace Tower and even the seats on the table were sent to the ribbon-cutting viewing platform five kilometers away.

The sense of ritual is so full, and the mystery of the crowd is even stronger.

"I really don't know how spectacular this building really is, I haven't seen anything like the roof since last year. "Some spectators who live in the local area 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 the building for so long? Is it because the clouds are so big and you can't see it clearly?"

At this moment, the clouds are still relatively thick, so the building has fallen more than four or five hundred meters, and it has already entered the clouds, and it is impossible to see how high the top floor is.

The citizen who was asked shook his head: "Not only is it such a cool weather today, since the beginning of the year, the days with the least clouds, I have never seen the top floor, and I estimate that on the day with the best view, the clouds are at least 700 meters high." There is no way, the humidity in this place in Lanfang is heavy, and it is by the sea, there is no dry season, and there seem to be a lot of rain clouds this year. ”

"Then what do you think of this ceremony, you can't see the roof, and there are no cards. "Foreign guests are worried.

Their fears, though, soon proved unfounded.

As Gu Kun walked onto the ribbon-cutting podium and made a short speech to boost his wife and express optimism about the country's prospects, he announced that the Lanfang Pagoda would be officially partially put into commercial use from today, and ordered a salute to be fired.

Rows of rockets with bagpipe structures were emptied, covering the air around the Lanfang Tower and Lanfang Square with precision, like a field of arrows that rang out in the sky.

Hundreds of thousands of onlookers and distinguished guests didn't react at first, but they just burned money to play new tricks in the salute session.

However, as Gu Kun's speech continued and time passed, everyone immediately saw that it was different.

Around Lanfang Square and Lanfang Tower, within a radius of a few kilometers, the weather is still gloomy and usual, with a slight drizzle, but it does not affect the ceremony.

People who live in the tropics are already dressed coolly, and they are not afraid of their clothes sticking to their bodies when they get wet, and people here are used to the rain, and tropical rain is not easy to make people feel 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 raining agents, right? And they are controlled so precisely, amazingly, how much does it cost? ”

After more than a decade, artificial rain is certainly completely worthless, but it is still slightly valuable now - artificial rainfall, a technology that relies on technology to control the weather, began in the mid-70s, when the Vietnam War was almost over.

It wasn't until the entire 80s that it was military technology, and in the 90s, it began to slowly become civilian. Any new technology is becoming more and more mature and cheaper with time.

And the artificial rain of the Lanfang people today has extremely high requirements for the advance layout of the clouds, the time and accuracy of detonating the silver iodide warhead, so the cost is also very amazing, enough to pretend to be a big force.

But Gu Kun is obviously not just about raining to make the weather clearer or to cool down the audience, his big money has been brewing for so long, and it is obviously of great use.

However, fifteen minutes, as Gu Kun's speech came to an end, hundreds of thousands of melon-eating people finally saw that the clouds and mist around Lan Fang Pagoda had become thinner than ever.

Gu Kun, like the Great Magister of the Son of the Plane, manipulated the heavens like a finger, saying that it would rain if it rained a few kilometers around the Lanfang Tower, and that the clouds directly above the Lanfang Tower would spread out in the direction of the rain and consume the clouds around.

God seemed to have opened the eyes of the sky, and a much brighter sunlight than a few kilometers away from the surrounding area shone directly on the top of the Lanfang Tower, and for the first time, the locals could see how high the top of the tower was, and how much was still invisible above the clouds.

And because of the refraction difference between the surrounding rain curtain and the clarity of the central sky, everyone saw a circular rainbow several kilometers long, looming.

"Damn, this house is only seven or eight hundred meters as advertised at the beginning, all kinds of gossip have been miscommunicated. ”

"This secrecy is also too good, this is how long the weather has been manipulated, so that everyone can't see the roof of the building for almost a year, always hidden in the clouds, and today is the first time that the clouds have completely dispersed. ”

Hundreds of thousands of people, the first time they saw the true face of Lushan Mountain of Lanfang Tower, they were instantly shocked. Those common people even knelt directly, as if they had seen a miracle.