Chapter 128: The Great Age of Turbulence

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Starve! This kind of death is very rare in the old world, and people can only see the images in the camera when relaying the black African news footage, although the old world is not perfect, but the death of starvation is still rarely born around ordinary people.

When Luo Zhengdao heard the inside story of this incident, needless to say, the huge shock to his heart at this moment was no less than the explosion of a big Ivan nuclear bomb on his head.

I don't kill Beren, but Beren dies because of me. I have heard this sentence countless times, and my ears are about to be calloused, Luo Zhengdao has always believed that only those who are used to pretending will use this kind of literary tone full of pretensions to raise their value. Unexpectedly, today, he personally experienced this heavy sense of fate in the form of providence, and he really didn't know what to say for a while. It is true that the illness of the little girl selling flowers is a force majeure, and it seems that the soaring food prices in the Xiangjiang market cannot return the responsibility to the business association. Don't forget, wasn't the initiator of this siege battle Luo Zhengdao himself? For the poor flower girl and her three younger siblings who unfortunately starved to death, he asked himself, how could he have the face to say that he was not responsible?

"The death of a million people is just a number, and the death of one person is a tragedy!"

Silently repeating this aphorism in his heart, even though he had seen a lot of killing and death since the crossing, Luo Zhengdao's face showed a bitter smile. Indeed, he was a mortal man who was content to live freely, the kind of ordinary man who lacked ambition. However, under the intricate internal and external pressure, Luo Zhengdao has come to this point, why can't Luo Zhengdao help himself? He is neither a hero in troubled times who can face the cruel reality of success and ten thousand bones, nor is he a hero who follows the spirit of righteousness without regrets, until this time, Luo Zhengdao finally felt the helplessness and fatigue of being swept forward by the surging tide of the times.

The so-called times create heroes, whether you are a real hero or not, as long as you are involved in these grievances, then there will only be an endless sad sigh left in the rivers and lakes

"Bang-"

"Bastards, a bunch of rubbish, can't you find a few capable generals? Failure, failure, other than failure or failure, why do I hear this kind of news every time? ”

In the imperial city of the old Bright Dynasty, the atmosphere in the golden hall was extremely oppressive and gloomy, and the angry goblin emperor sat on the dragon chair, watching his face distorted and deformed due to excessive anger and chagrin, and the goblin bosses were all silent. It wasn't until it was cold for a long time that a goblin boss sitting below spoke:

"Zheti Baishan has also failed, we underestimate this Count of Frus, he is not as incompetent as other human nobles!"

will only repeat the obvious facts, this big guy won the eyes of his colleagues, and soon, the discussion in the imperial court cut to the point, and another big man sitting opposite said:

"How to deal with the Xiangjiang Business Group Union? They handed over a large number of human exiles and gold and supplies to the pirates, and we can't pretend that this incident has not been born! ”

Seeing this, the Goblin Emperor sighed helplessly, waved his hand and said:

"Enough, will continuing to hold this accountable avoid disgrace to the Empire? Sue sΓΉ those waste, double the payment of fines and supplies this year. ”

Hearing this, the goblin bosses all looked at each other, this punishment decision for the merchant group alliance, compared with the mistake they made, it seems to be too light, could it be that the emperor Xi Γ  privately accepted the benefits of the merchant group alliance? Most of the participants didn't know why, and the court suddenly fell silent, until a goblin boss couldn't help but ask:

"Your Majesty, is it enough to just deal with it like this?"

"Hmph, that Count Flu didn't kill them, are you planning to get the Empire's hands dirty? Think the empire's face is not big enough? ”

When they heard this, the bigwigs had already understood the meaning of the goblin emperor's words, and the Xiangjiang merchant group and this lackey were still useful, so they couldn't kill them for the time being. Anyway, it is the fat meat placed in the goblin's mouth, and when they want to eat it depends on their mood, and the bigwigs are not in a hurry to unload the mill and kill the donkey, so the follow-up measures for the Xiangjiang incident were finalized one by one.

At this time, the more I thought about it, the more I felt that the goblin emperor had no intention of dwelling on the trivial issues, and he said with a full of melancholy:

"Wait a minute, you will compile the information on the Battle of Xiangjiang and send it to the Senate for review, and wait for the feedback from there to come back, and then make the next step of discussion."

Speaking of the Goblin Senate, the meeting scene over there was far more lively than the deserted court meeting, and as soon as the envoy sent by the Goblin Emperor entered the door, he could hear a goblin boss knocking on the table and roaring:

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Bastard, it's all your fault, you should have killed all those hairless monkeys a long time ago! ”

"Don't talk nonsense, aren't you afraid of being punished by God?"

"Is it okay for you to talk less nonsense?"

Whether conservative or radical, there is always an antithesis to any viewpoint, and there is no way to satisfy everyone's needs at the same time. After a period of scolding, a goblin boss who was standing on the pulpit sneered with a gloomy face:

"Don't talk nonsense about killing all the human beings, you old fools, the gods blame you, it's not you who are unlucky but the entire empire, do you want the empire to bury those hairless monkeys? A bunch of idiots! ”

If it weren't for the fact that they had to maintain a decent and peaceful posture in public, these bigwigs who held the power of life and death were as happy and sad as ordinary people, they were actually not much different from ordinary goblins, and they would even be more unscrupulous. When they get together, there are still differences of opinion between them, and the quarrel is fierce, and it is a trivial matter to blow their beards and stare at them, and it is not news that the annoyed and angry party directly rolls up his sleeves and goes up to pinch a fight. The deputy commander of the military department, who had come to report on the situation of the battle with the messenger sent by the emperor, smiled bitterly, the noise he heard at the entrance of the Senate Chamber was a common phenomenon, and it was usually even more noisy than this!

Patiently, in a sound of criticism and rebuke, he forwarded the intelligence text to the Senate for discussion, and it was not until a few hours later that the deputy chief of the military department was able to escape from the encirclement of the rhetoric and return to the palace to resume his life. As soon as they met, it repeated to the emperor the results of the preliminary discussions of the Senate, saying:

"Your Majesty, the Senate believes that we need to strengthen our navy and cannot allow piracy to continue to run rampant."

Hearing this, the Goblin Emperor rolled his eyes when he heard this, in fact, he couldn't even laugh bitterly, and then he could only sigh and shake his head and say:

"Pirates are indeed rampant, so do you think there is any way to get rid of them once and for all?"

As soon as the emperor said this, the golden hall immediately fell cold, and after a long time, the deputy commander of the military department saw the emperor's displeasure on his face, and he took the opportunity to admonish and said:

"The Imperial Navy cannot be compared to the old naval powers, and the children cannot stop the endless raids of the pirates on the coast, but we will soon have a large number of new warships launched, and at the moment it is only difficult to recruit skilled sailors, and if we do not solve this problem, no matter how many warships we build, we will not be able to defeat the pirates."

The crux of the naval exhibition has been broken with words, and the deputy minister of the military department no longer hides it, and he continues to talk eloquently:

"Your Majesty, I will build a batch of sailing warships, and all the oarsmen will be replaced by human slaves, so that our existing naval soldiers can form a powerful fleet to sweep away those pirates."

All the way to the bloody fight to fight out the hegemony of the main 6, from the tribal alliance in the ravine to the prominent position of the great powers, all by force of the goblin Second Empire naturally has no shortage of elite soldiers. However, the navy and the Sixth Army are two completely different things, rashly pulling those soldiers who are accustomed to the Sixth Army to serve on the battleship, and in a short period of time they have to face an unfamiliar combat environment and very different tactical coordination, even if they have ten percent of their combat strength, they have to immediately fold it in half. For these laymen, on the contrary, the relatively backward performance of the sail oars warship is relatively simple and suitable, does not need too many skilled sailors, and the combat method is also based on jumping gang white-knuckle combat, the disadvantage is that a large number of troops are consumed on the oars, and the strength and firepower of the hull structure of the battleship are not as good as the battleship.

According to the method mentioned by the deputy minister of the military department, replacing the goblin soldiers with human slaves as oarsmen, it is equivalent to the usable soldiers of the goblin navy surging several times in an instant, which is of course a wonderful method.

The Goblin Emperor sitting on the dragon chair relied on the Golden Bloodline to sit in this position, but there was more than one candidate with the Golden Bloodline, and the Goblin Emperor could not be useless in terms of ability. It pondered for a moment, thought about all aspects of the military chief's mentions, nodded and said:

"Well, your solution is not the best, but it can be emergency for the time being. Well, let's decide! Let's go ahead and see what it actually does. ”

The Aetheric Sea of the New World is different from the liquid ocean of the Old World, with many similarities and even more differences. On the whole, we are in this chaotic era of the pre-industrial revolution. In the background, the New World's Naval Technology Show is more similar to the Old World's Age of Discovery.

It is not necessarily true that this is a miracle, and if you look down on the course of history from a macro perspective, there are other explanations for many things. For example, in the old world, biology had a concept called "convergent evolution", which was that different habitats could shape organisms, that is, what environment you live in, you have to change yourself in order to adapt to that environment. Fish and dragons, sharks and dolphins, these three marine creatures belong to reptiles, fish and mammals respectively, and they have lived for a long time, but their appearance is extremely similar to what people call streamlining. The reason for this is none other than to better adapt to the environment of the Earth's liquid oceans, and these organisms have chosen the same evolutionary direction, at least in terms of appearance.

ps: Paralyzed, today the crab only knew, it turned out (back. Jing) has also become a sensitive word, it seems that I really have nothing (back. view).