The past two years have been two years of rapid progress in the New Great Yan Empire.

The empire has undergone drastic changes, with electricity in every county and many tall buildings rising from the ground.

Of course, in the construction of high-rise buildings, the imperial officials were very enthusiastic, but the crane in the clouds was more restrained.

His general opinion was that a large number of high-rise buildings could be built in the first, second, and third colonies, but in the empire itself, it was necessary to preserve the original appearance of the city as much as possible.

Because the stone buildings in the empire are really beautiful and quaint, many of them are hundreds of years old, and even thousands of years old, it is a big deal to repair and decorate the interiors of the houses.

If all the beautiful ancient buildings are demolished and all the buildings are built, future generations will scold the mother.

Moreover, the houses in the empire are all made of stone, which is solid and warm, and because it is relatively large and sparsely populated, the per capita living area is also very large, and the comfort is also good.

The empire originally had a main army of only 600,000, but now it has skyrocketed to 1.8 million, nearly half of which are Yi troops.

And in order to prevent the tragedy of the Roman Empire from repeating itself, the empire began to implement the policy of Yi people becoming citizens of the empire.

You can't really let people become servant soldiers, so when you fight, you don't have a sense of belonging and no sense of honor.

This is despite the fact that the productive forces of the empire were already highly developed, and all in the service of the war. But the crane in the clouds has only been on the throne for more than three years, and the empire has not been able to produce guns and ammunition capable of supplying an army of 1.8 million.

But two-thirds of the army has already completed the conversion, and the semi-automatic rifle has also begun to be fully finalized and mass-produced, and will soon be equipped with the army.

Howitzers of various types, cannons, thousands of them were manufactured.

A total of more than two dozen capital battleships will be upgraded soon.

But the newly built Imperial battleships, a total of two have not yet been completed, this is a fifteen-thousand-ton battleship.

Absolute sea artifact, from design to construction, now three years have passed, and it has not yet been launched.

According to the progress, it will probably be half a year before it will be launched, and it will be at least a year before it can officially enter service.

The names of the two battleships were solicited from the whole country and then voted on.

As a result, the first ship was the Shinjong, and the second was the Aoten.

The name of Xinzong is deserved, because he is the Emperor Gaozu of the New Great Yan Empire. The other one was supposed to be the Himexia, or the Crane in the Clouds.

But Ji Xia is only the official name of the crane in the clouds, and there are very few people who really call it.

And the crane in the clouds is not domineering enough, and it still sounds like a bad guy.

So at the opening ceremony of the Imperial Naval Academy, a student asked Yun Zhonghe, Your Majesty, which of your names is more majestic and domineering.

The crane in the cloud instinctively replied: Yun Aotian.

As a result, the name immediately spread, and the people of the empire found it interesting, affectionate, and domineering, which was wonderful.

Then the second battleship was called the Aoten.

Now the entire empire is waiting for the official launch of these two sea weapons.

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On the side of the Black Flame Empire, those marshals of the Black Flame Empire found out, and they had become leveling monsters of the New Great Flame Empire Legion.

It's really a rebellion one after another.

The crane in the clouds and the New Great Flame Empire were not in a hurry at all, and took turns to send the empire's troops to the battlefield of the Black Flame Empire.

After more than two years of fighting, the total number of troops who came to the Black Flame Empire to participate in the counterinsurgency exceeded 700,000.

Finally...... These rebel generals of the Black Flame Empire are gone.

Gradually, no one rebelled.

With the entry of the new Great Flame Empire, the Black Flame Empire has also undergone tremendous changes.

Start building a new Black Dragon City, laying railroad tracks and building roads.

Moreover, the Imperial Legion has built a series of fortresses around the Cursed Lands, officially sealing off the area.

Finally, the crane in the clouds still approved Ji Yan to enter the cursed land to practice martial arts.

But in this regard, the crane in the cloud is still very restrained. Try to improve the martial arts of the warriors of the original Black Flame Empire, rather than letting the warriors of the new Great Flame Empire enter the Cursed Land to practice martial arts.

The Black Flame Empire originally had nearly 200,000 warriors, but after two or three years of great war, more than half of them suffered casualties, and now there are less than 100,000 left.

With the entry of the New Great Yan Empire, the devouring effect of advanced civilizations on backward civilizations gradually emerged.

The warriors of the Black Flame Empire also gradually realized what advanced productivity was and what was a powerful force.

In the brainwashing day after day, the warriors of the Black Flame Empire finally began to be truly loyal to the crane in the clouds.

Many people were worried that the crane in the clouds would directly abolish the samurai clan or the shaman clan, but he did not, but still developed these two forces, and even asked some scientists to turn to research in this area.

The Black Flame Empire's research on martial arts is a bit close to biology to a large extent.

However, it is foreseeable that once the civilization of the New Great Yan Empire fully enters the Black Yan Empire, will this martial arts civilization still be preserved?

The reason why the Black Flame Empire's martial arts are strong is because of the respect for martial arts. And once this mainstream is deviated, the weakening of the level of martial arts will become inevitable.

Yun Zhonghe has thought about this problem many times, and is ready to face the martial arts civilization with detachment and niche. Weaken the name of the Black Flame Empire and restore order.

It's like the Jedi in Star Wars, of course, it's just a movie, and it's completely unknown whether this niche and detached goal can be accomplished in reality.

And in this way, the Order Council will be beyond the imperial power, the Cabinet, and the Privy Council, but it will have a certain amount of power.

This balance of power is really difficult to establish.

Thankfully, the Order Samurai Society has a good foundation.

First of all, Yun Zhonghe himself is the supreme leader of the Order Society, his wife Inaka Yue is the chief samurai of the Order Society, and Yun Zhonghe's daughter Jing Que is a martial arts genius, and she is bent on studying martial arts, and she can become the heir of the Order Society in the future.

The 100,000 warrior legions of the Black Flame Empire have also begun to be reorganized, and they also have to learn hot weapon combat, but they can't let go of cold weapon special operations.

Even if necessary, they need to become the ace legions of the Empire.

I have to say that this group of people in the Black Flame Empire is really strong in martial arts.

In just two or three years, one after another the powerhouses of the Black Flame Empire entered the Black Dragon Tower Trial, and they died nine times.

After they came out of the trial, they actually chased Jing Zhongyue's martial arts level one by one. Now in the Black Flame Empire, there are already three top powerhouses who can be comparable to Jing Zhongyue.

Unable to conquer them by force, the crane in the clouds baptized them spiritually and became their mentor.

This baptism was still very successful.

Because...... It was too dangerous during the Black Dragon Pyramid Trial, and they were also very aggressive, and every time the crane in the clouds entered and rescued them.

These pyramids of black dragons are extremely dangerous, and anyone who enters them is in danger and will die. Only the crane in the cloud is as easy to enter and exit as a latrine, and there is no feeling or danger.

Moreover, the crane in the cloud can also use dream-making and spiritual techniques to brainwash everyone madly.

The goal is to train instinctive reactions, so that everyone can see the crane in the clouds with awe and allegiance from the depths of their souls.

And this kind of mental brainwashing, especially useful in the pyramid, just takes a long time.

It's like boiling an eagle, like training a beast of prey.

There is no way, the worldview of these top powerhouses has been formed, and it cannot be changed, so it can only be used brainwashing.

And some young martial arts geniuses can instill a sense of honor in their allegiance to the empire.

In short, for the transformation of the Black Flame Empire, the crane in the clouds was carried out carefully, slowly but with remarkable results.

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In addition, the Empire's airship legions have been conducting extensive aerial exploration.

The straight-line distance between the New Great Yan Empire and the Great Salty Demon Kingdom is about 13,000 kilometers, and the round-trip is 26,000 kilometers, which far exceeds the maximum range of the airship.

And there were no supplies along the way, so the imperial airship still hadn't entered the territory of the Great Salty Demon Country, and I didn't know what happened to the Eastern World.

At this time, it has been only seven years since the crane in the clouds left the Eastern World, and the Great Xian Demon Kingdom may have undergone great changes.

About a year and a half ago, the Airship Legion had already come to its conclusions.

If the empire wants a large-scale crusade, it is almost impossible.

Under today's conditions, no army can cross more than 20,000 miles of no-man's land, let alone an army of hundreds of thousands.

It's not like the territory of the empire, where there are gallops everywhere, and supplies and food everywhere.

Moreover, the sea route is not passable.

From the north, there is more than 10,000 miles of permafrost sea, and although the empire already has icebreakers, it is impossible for the entire fleet to break through the ice.

And after breaking the ice for more than 10,000 miles, the energy has long been exhausted, and even the ship has been destroyed.

This is very strange, at that time, the members of the new faction of the Great Yan Empire left by boat, and found the new continent and established the new Great Yan Empire.

Why can't you walk by sea now?

Because of the world's climate, the world has cooled down in the past few hundred years. Originally, this sea area was thawed for at least a few months, but now it has been completely frozen and completely impassable.

The sea to the north is frozen.

From the south, there is no way to go by sea.

The Empire's airship legion has drawn very detailed maps, including nautical charts.

From here to the sea to the Eastern world is intercepted by land, without a single gap.

Because it is accompanied by large ships all the way, the airship can constantly replenish energy, all the way south, all the way south.

Finally, when we arrived at the permafrost sea in the south, we were completely sure that the sea route would not work, and it was completely blocked by land.

At this time, there was a little discordant voice within the New Great Yan Empire.

Some people feel that since the army of the New Great Yan Empire can't get by, the army of the Great Salty Demon Kingdom can't get through either, and everyone is isolated from the world.

In this way, the New Great Yan Empire can not be in a hurry to go east, and it can wait until it is strong enough, and the million army can be pushed from the land to the Great Xian Demon Country, and then go to war.

For the first time, Yun Zhonghe became angry at a meeting of the Cabinet and the Privy Council, declaring that this was a typical capitulationism.

Born in sorrow, died in peace.

The Great Xian Demon Kingdom is constantly transforming and becoming stronger, and one day in the future, the warriors of the Great Xian Demon Kingdom may cross more than 20,000 miles of no man's land to kill.

Of course, the New Great Yan Empire was surrounded by the sea and seemed to be very safe.

But one day, the empire itself will not be enough, and it will still have to be developed across the sea.

And now the empire has crossed the sea, building cities and strongholds on the central continent. And this land borders the Great Salty Demon Country, but it is far away.

It is more important than anything that the war must be fought away from the empire itself.

Once the warriors of the Great Salty Demon Kingdom were allowed to enter the territory of the Empire, it would be a complete nightmare.

At that time, the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, the First Marshal of the Privy Council, was completely on the side of the crane in the clouds, and directly suppressed the voices of the capitulation faction with a one-sided posture.

Just three days later, all the capitulation officials were out of the field.

This also made all the officials of the empire see clearly the absolute will of the highest level.

The two giants, Ji Zhan and Hua Bi, saw very clearly that the empire had been preparing for this war for several years, and everything revolved around this war.

At this time, if you tell the citizens and the army of the empire that this war will not be fought, the consequences will be very terrible, and the entire empire will lose its goal in an instant, become empty, and even go to degeneration.

The so-called arrow is on the string, and it has to be sent, this is the truth.

Once the will to war is set off, it will be very difficult to extinguish it.

And because of the general mobilization of war, the operation of the war machine, the development of the empire has entered an unprecedented high-speed stage.

The Empire's gross domestic product, which increased every year, was measured in tens of percent.

After the strategy of the Eastern Crusade was completely decided, the next step was how to go to the East.

Once again, the Empire's airship legions were dispatched, and once again the fleet was dispatched to explore.

Eventually, the narrowest part of the entire continent was found.

This empire is about five thousand kilometers away from the Black Flame Empire, like the junction of two continents, and the narrowest place is only less than fifty kilometers.

So, an unprecedented project was discussed over and over again.

In the end, the decision was made thoroughly.

Dig through the narrowest of continents and dig a canal for the fleet to pass through. Dozens of kilometers of land had to be dug up, and the canal had to be deep and wide enough for large warships to pass through.

There has been a lot of discussion about this resolution.

First of all, how much it will cost to dig this canal, not to mention how much manpower it will take.

And once this canal is successfully dug up, it is equivalent to taking the initiative to destroy the barrier of the Great Salty Demon Kingdom and the Great Yan Empire.

The fleet of the New Great Yan Empire can go to the Great Salty Demon Country, so in turn, the fleet of the Great Salty Demon Kingdom can also be killed?

So whether to dig this canal, the crane in the clouds really thought about it again and again.

Eventually, the Cabinet and the Privy Council submitted a report.

A very terrible report.

In the past few years, the New Great Yan Empire has sent more than a dozen waves of exploration teams to the Great Xian Demon Country, all of which are powerful warriors, with a total number of more than a few thousand.

But not a single one returned.

Moreover, someone came up with an old report.

Back then, Jing Zhongyue took more than 10,000 people to walk from the direction of the Western Regions, but when she walked to the Central Continent, she was only a few thousand miles away from the New Great Yan Empire.

Despite the heavy casualties, only five percent survived.

However, the samurai of the Great Salty Demon Kingdom are much stronger than the army of Inakatsuki, so the army of the Great Salty Demon Country may not be able to go.

The strength of the New Great Yan Empire lies in the new navy, and the strength of the Great Xian Demon Kingdom lies in the Demon Kingdom Warrior Regiment, which is a ground army.

Therefore, naval battles are more beneficial to the New Great Yan Empire.

Because the warships of the New Great Yan Empire have advanced steam engines, have a longer range, and are equipped with high-rate-of-fire, high-range, high-precision cannons.

After all, the mainland of the New Great Yan Empire is surrounded by the sea, and as long as there is a strong navy, it will be able to protect the mainland after all.

After dozens of arguments, the empire finally decided to dig a canal!

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First, the site was decided, the site where the canal was to be dug was decided, and then a port was built nearby, and the city base was built.

It took a full year and a half, and the city was named Shocking City.

Next, hundreds of thousands of Yi people, tens of thousands of imperial craftsmen, and tens of thousands of legions were transported to the Heaven-shattering City.

Not only did he deliver explosives from the empire, but he also built an explosives workshop in Cloudsdale.

After everything was ready, the vigorous and earth-shattering project began.

Hundreds of thousands of people, began to dig canals.

"Boom, boom......" is exploding every day.

An astronomical amount of explosives, little by little, blasted a gap in this narrowest continent.

No words can describe the difficulty of this huge project, nor can they describe the great significance of this earth-shattering project.

The powerful New Great Yan Empire has never had such a magnificent project.

This is a real groundbreak, and the moat becomes a thoroughfare.

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Time is like water, time is like a shuttle, and another five years have passed.

By this time, the third battleship of the Reich had already been launched and was in service.

Dozens of capital warships have also been upgraded.

The more than 1 million troops have also been fully equipped and reequipped.

At this time, it has been more than eight years since the crane in the clouds ascended to the throne, and twelve years have passed since he left the Eastern World.

The three colonies, as well as the Black Flame Empire, have all been incorporated into the Great Flame Empire.

More than tens of millions of Yi people have also become citizens of the empire.

Yun Zhonghe is also over forty years old, but he really looks immortal, his face has not changed, and he is still as handsome as jade, as if carved.

The two children, Jing Que and Jing Hu, are both twenty-three years old.

Ji Qing's two little babies are both eight years old. Jing Zhongyue and Yun Zhonghe gave birth to another pair of twin girls, who are also five years old. The children born to Tussauds are all over six years old.

So it's a bit embarrassing for the crane in the clouds, because the imperial law is monogamous.

You, as the monarch of the empire, have three wives within the empire?

However, no king can be perfect, and he must not be allowed to abandon his wife and children for the throne, right?

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"Your Majesty, the old man is no longer good. Ji Zhan trembled.

The crane in the clouds hurriedly went to the top of the snowy mountain to meet the reclusive Ji Sheng for the last time.

Prince Ji Sheng is more than one hundred and ten years old and has finally come to the end of his life.

In fact, in recent years, he has been unable to go to the ground, but he has been holding on, just wanting to wait until the day of the Eastern Crusade, and even the day when the Crane in the Cloud recovers the Eastern World.

However, he couldn't wait.

"Your Majesty...... I was very rebellious when I was young, and I had been to the East, Great Xia, Great Win, and Great Zhou Empire, and I was still a representative of the Order Society at that time, and I had accepted tribute from the three major empires. I've lived there for about fifteen years, and the Oriental world is not that advanced, but for some reason, I always feel that it is our roots. ”

"My best years have been spent over there, and ...... I also married three wives and had several children. ”

"I want to go back in my dreams, I want to go back in my dreams. ”

"I want to eat a bite of steamed buns, I want to eat a bowl of dumplings, I want to eat a bowl of tofu brain......"

"My East, the East of dreams. ”

"Your Majesty, Crusade, Crusade, Crusade ......"

Then, the elderly Prince Ji Sheng passed away.

Left behind deep regrets, but full of infinite hope.

And Prince Ji Sheng left a will, after he died, he would be cremated to ashes and sprinkled on the newly dug canal.

After his death, Yun Zhonghe used the name of the dictator of the empire to posthumously crown Ji Sheng as the prince of the empire again.

And named the third battleship of the empire the Holy King.

This decision was opposed by many people, and many people felt that Ji Sheng was just the former ruling king, the posthumous prince, and he could never be compared with Yan Xinzong and Yunzhonghe.

But the crane in the cloud is still very resolute and directly inscribed the name.

There is no need to pay attention to this, at that time there was a German battleship named the Bismarck, although it was already Germany during World War II, and there was no emperor anymore.

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Three months later!

The 39-kilometer-long canal has finally been dug successfully.

As the dictator of the empire, the crane in the clouds officially announced the completion of the canal project.

The third battleship of the Empire, the Holy King, became the first ship to cross the canal, and then Yun Zhonghe personally scattered the ashes of Prince Ji Sheng in the canal.

In addition, the canal was named the Shengwang Canal, and the city along the canal was also renamed the Shengwang City.

The entire project lasted five and a half years.

A total of 3 million people were mobilized, and there were already three urban agglomerations on either side of the canal.

It has become a province of the Empire, with millions of people coming to settle here, and the Second Naval Headquarters of the Empire has been built here.

Not only that, but three universities are about to be completed.

During the eight years that Yun Zhonghe served as the dictator, the territory of the empire expanded more than sixfold.

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After the opening of the Shengwang Canal, the passage of the New Great Yan Empire to the Great Salty Demon Kingdom was officially opened.

The Crusade can begin!

And it was at this time that the giants of the Imperial Cabinet and the Privy Council began to negotiate a new one.

Because, there is a great cry within the empire.

I want to make the crane in the clouds the emperor.

Because in the imperial system, there has always been an emperor, that is, Yan Xinzong, but the throne has been vacant for more than a thousand years. In everyone's opinion, the achievements of the dictator king are no less than those of Yan Xinzong, and they are even more awesome. Therefore, it is completely natural for him to be called emperor.

Moreover, now the Eastern Crusade is about to start, and a war with the Great Salty Demon Kingdom is about to start.

The enemy has an emperor, but if the Great Yan Empire does not have an emperor, wouldn't it be inferior?

The words of the dictatorship are still human, and the words of the emperor have a kind of divine meaning of monarchy.

With the emperor as the supreme leader of the empire, then in the future war, perhaps the heavens will also have an army to protect the empire.

This sounds a bit superstitious, and the New Great Yan Empire has always dismissed superstition as a backward and decadent ideology in the East. However, the next thing to face is a world-class war, a big war related to life and death, and no one is not superstitious.

This trend of proclamation of the emperor grew stronger and stronger, and eventually the Cabinet and the Privy Council could not resist it.

Finally, at the meeting of the day, the members of the cabinet and the Privy Council suddenly knelt down in unison and persuaded the crane in the clouds to become emperor.

No matter what they thought in their hearts, they couldn't stop the trend of the crane in the clouds becoming emperor, and they also loved and admired the crane in the clouds in their hearts. The reason why I am worried in my heart is that I am afraid that once I become emperor, what will happen to the future emperor's descendants? Wouldn't there be a danger of losing the country?

The crane in the cloud was silent for a moment.

Then he said: "In the Eastern world, the thing of being called an emperor is very sacred, and it needs three persuasions and three words. But we're all old buddies now, so I'm going straight to the point and not playing false. ”

"First of all, once you become emperor, it is bound to be hereditary. I'm okay to do it myself, but I don't guarantee that my children and grandchildren will be wise, and a mediocre emperor is still not a small lethal force. ”

"Secondly, whether I want to be emperor or not depends not on my personal will, but on the interests of the empire. The empire needs me to be the emperor, so I will be the emperor. But now it seems that the empire does not need much for me to be emperor. ”

"In the end, even if you want to be the emperor in the future, you will have to move towards hypocrisy. The emperor is the supreme leader of the empire, but he is more of a spiritual leader, and cannot really be arbitrary and hold power alone. ”

"That's all I have to say, let's move on. ”

The ministers still did not rise up.

Yun Zhonghe said bluntly: "I will never be the emperor now, whether I want to be the emperor in the future depends on the needs of the empire, but it is definitely not now." ”

At this time, the ministers stood up and said, "Yes, Your Majesty!"

Yun Zhonghe said: "The biggest thing now is to set the date of the Eastern Crusade. As the old saying goes, everything is ready, only the east wind is owed. Now that the Saint King Canal has been opened, our fleet has been fully upgraded, and the Empire's legions have been upgraded, it is unlikely that the Black Flame Empire will have a rebellion, and the colonies have become the empire's own territory. Everything is ready, we can go east to destroy the Great Xian Demon Kingdom. Even though I have a heart for it, I still have to set a date. ”

Next, the Cabinet and the Privy Council began to negotiate the date of the expedition.

An hour later!

The date of departure has been set.

On the ninth day of the ninth month of September, the Imperial Army set out on its march.

The day has finally arrived!

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