Chapter 221: Love and Hate

"Alas, how can the empire not defend against it, successive emperors have taken this sea as the first national defense, but our Xianglong is a landlocked country with a long coastline, but since the founding of the People's Republic of China, energy has been placed inland, and when it comes back to clean up coastal defense, it is too late, let's Xianglong use the army first, this is not empty, but refers to land operations, this sea, although the annual investment of the empire is not small, but you have a slow start, and then chase, how can we easily catch up When Shuiyue Island has its own place, the people on the island are engaged in maritime operations。 Throughout the South China Sea, there is no place where people are more familiar with the sea than they are. Tell me, how can you make a soldier who is good at riding a horse like the turbulence on a ship?" said the old man in red with a sigh.

"Isn't it enough to gather fishermen along the coast and train them to become an army?" said Wang Teng. "Well, that's what the empire thought and did at first. However, as long as there are people, there must be weapons. Ships are the foundation of offshore operations. The shipbuilding technology of our Xianglong Empire is a hundred years behind that of the island nations. They are all hundreds of meters high. Our largest sailing vessel is more than ten meters high. How can we fight?", the old man in red said helplessly. "There are no boats to buy. It's not that we're out of money. Wang Teng came back like an idiot.

"Son, how could this empire be unexpected? But if you want to buy it, someone has to sell it~!" The old man in red pointed to the mural, "This is the most powerful attack ship of the Maritime Patrol at that time. This ship empire spent nearly ten million gold coins to buy from the Zhan Bai Ting Empire, and it is also a ship that has been eliminated by others. But we can't build such a ship. The old man in red looked at the boat and was very angry.

"Is that thousands of gold coins?" Wang Teng was surprised. The ship in the picture is several tens of meters high and has several towers. Compared to the 100-meter boat in the mouth of the old people, it can only be said to be a rabbit at the feet of a lion. If you take this boat, with a 100-meter boat, you will not be able to use it even if there are more people. "In addition to pirates with strong military power at sea, such as Suigetsu Island, there was also the Hill Empire {hilleire}, which occupied only one part of the water in the Byzantine Empire. The Hill Empire had absolutely no connection with our country, and their friendly relations with the Byzantine Empire were not very good. Therefore, advanced shipbuilding technology simply cannot be transmitted to us, and we can only endure the oppression of these pirates at sea. The words of the old man in red opened a corner of the true side of the Xianglong Empire for Wang Teng.

I have lived in this powerful country since I was a child, and I am used to being number one in the world. In the center of Wang Teng, the country where I live, on this continent, this is the role of the boss. I used to think that the boss was actually a little annoyed. "A thousand years have passed, and generation after generation of once powerful and resourceful gentlemen have gradually begun to live in the glory of the first power on the continent. Since the Zhai family moved out of Haiphong, it is said that the empire has negotiated directly with Suigetsu Island every year, providing them with some supplies and money, as long as the empire's coastline is not disturbed. The old man in red still said helplessly.

Wang Teng also nodded with a stiff face, but there is no way to do it, he can't beat others, so he can only use the method of negotiation, but he is a little timid no matter how he thinks about it. "That's right, the person who Tsubame married happens to be the youngest son of Shimazu in Suigetsu Island now. As you can imagine, this is what others think of my Zhai family. Therefore, in order to maintain the reputation of the Zhai family, the father had to endure the pain of severing the father-daughter relationship with Yanzi. It was only then that Wang Teng understood that in this matter, whether it was their grandmother or the father of the old man in red, they had done the right thing. What is wrong is their hatred of the enemies of this country. Will Romeo and Juliet be happy in the other world?

"Then why do you say that my grandmother and grandfather died for the Zhai family?" Wang Teng asked curiously, this should be an old death, why is it tied up again, it seems to be very tragic. "This is also the wrong thing that the Zhai family did. Although the ancestors of the four generations of the Zhai family all lived in the South China Sea, Shuiyue Island was not easy. The owners of the three islands also died in my Zhai family. My grandfather killed Grandpa Shimizu. After the Zhai family was moved to Yibin by the royal family, Shuiyue Island had no hope of revenge. Therefore, they have been waiting for the opportunity to give the Zhai family a fatal blow. The old man in red said through gritted teeth.

"Just when I was just promoted to a great magic teacher at the age of 26, when the teacher took me to practice in seclusion, the hidden Moon Island unexpectedly attacked the Zhai family in Yibin. The old man in red clenched his fists, and whenever he mentioned it, he felt disgust and regret. "If the swallows and the water don't clear the tragedy, it is estimated that I am the only living Zhai family in this world. The old man in red sighed and said that in this family crisis, it was the younger sister who was evicted from the house who finally saved the family. How could he not feel ashamed and regretful for being a brother?

"No one told me what happened in those days. When I got the news, I saw the tombstones of my sister and her brother-in-law. According to my father, my brother-in-law and sister alone stopped nearly 100 killers, including two Holy Lords and two great magical mentors. The old man in red said sadly. Wang Teng gasped, the two saint-level masters and the two great magicians may be nothing in the eyes of today's old man in red, but at that time, his sister, that is, his grandmother, was only 23 years old, according to this calculation, his grandfather was not very old, so, the two of them, at a young age, can block so many masters, what is their strength?

"I heard that my brother-in-law broke his heart in front of the remaining killers and cried out to heaven to stop the idea of revenge on Suigetsu Island. The Zhai family owes me. When the old man in red spoke about this, his mood was very complicated, and his voice trembled slightly. Wang Teng was also very entangled, and his chest was very tight. "I don't know if Shimizu's death played a role or if it was something else. Since then, Shuiyue Island has begun to look for trouble with the Zhai family again. My sister, on the night of Clear Water, went with him, leaving only the lonely Rou'er, that is, your mother. At that time, she was only six years old. She experienced what it was like to lose both her father and mother for a day. Because of this, she left a shadow in Rou'er's heart. Because of this, she hates the Zhai family and me. The old man in red breathed a sigh of relief and finally finished telling the story.

Wang Teng smashed his mouth, his heart was very entangled, this is not listening, after listening, his life is even more what, the only son of the Long family, what is the identity of the Long family, the symbol of loyalty and patriotism in the mainland, and his grandfather turned out to be the notorious Shuiyue Island, and this Shuiyue Island, because of his wife, and his clan, finally died in a foreign land, how can you hear it like the story sung in the opera, now it happened to Wang Teng, and he really couldn't respond at that time.

"It's raining, are you okay?" Seeing that Wang Teng didn't speak for a long time, the old man in red thought that what he said scared Wang Teng, and hurriedly said with concern. "Ah, uncle. Wang Teng looked indifferent, no one would be so calm as Wang Teng standing in this matter now, at least he didn't shout I don't believe I don't believe it.

"Uncle, there are some things I really don't understand. Wang Teng thought about it, hesitated for a while, and finally asked. "Where?" the old man in red squinted his eyes, as if guessing something, and hurriedly asked. "The people of Suigetsu Island are actually people in the sea. Their clothing, language and customs must be different from those of our Xianglong people. In addition, in addition to the hostility between Suigetsu Island and this family in our country, the Suigetsu people here should be wanted. How can the murderer swagger here?" Wang Teng frowned slightly, expressing confusion. While this sounds tragic, it's not without reason.

"It's raining, you're amazing. This is the cemetery, I know your identity, and take you to Zhai Fu's backyard. The old man in red nodded and said with a serious face. "Yibin is in the hinterland of the empire. This is an island bandit. Even if it had the ability, it did not have the ability to run into the hinterland of the empire to assassinate the meritorious nobles. This can happen. There are still some people in the middle, these people are just our own Xianglong~!" The old man in red said calmly, Wang Teng could feel the hatred in his heart, but at this juncture, the old man seemed to have buried all the hatred again.

When the old man in red said this, Wang Teng immediately understood that there must be some other factors mixed with this, and this factor was irresistible to the old man in red, because, if he had been retaliated against, then he would not be so rude in front of Wang Teng today. "Uncle, who are those people?" Although Wang Teng had already figured it out, after all, he was only a 16-year-old boy now. He wanted to say what he was supposed to say. Therefore, Wang Teng, like a 16-year-old boy, stupidly asked this question.

"Actually, it turns out that my uncle doesn't know, Yanzi is your uncle's favorite sister, her death once made me sink, and it wasn't until two years later that I barely recovered from my grief, and it was from then that I found something unusual in this matter, and when I struggled to start checking, I found out that Zhai was a person from the Xianglong Empire, and a person who calculated by themselves, damn it, my sister, did not die in the hands of Shuiyue Island, nor did she die under the rule of the Zhai family, but died in some old people who were greedy for red and said firmly。 Wang Teng raised his head proudly, the sun was shining. In the eyes of the public and those who were expecting it, he replied playfully, "I won't tell you~!"

"What do you want us to discuss, or do you decide~!" Arya let go of the hand holding Wang Teng's arm and said unhappily. Han Xiao quickly winked at Wang Teng and said, "Sister-in-law is right.