Chapter 354: An Accelerating World of Change
The desire to explore the sea led Stony Creek to urge the fleet to sail north early the next morning.
And the natives, after watching the boats like hills go away, still can't believe that such a thing is from the hands of humans.
The appearance of the fleet made the indigenous laborers more and more in awe of Daqi.
Chang'an, in the palace of King Qi.
Yang Hao and Yin sat opposite each other, and on the table between the two was a new toy that Yang Hao had made, chess.
"General!"
Yang Hao ended the contest with an afterthought.
Yin smiled bitterly.
"The king's chess skills are becoming more and more exquisite, and the minister has lost again."
Yang Hao said with a smile: "Playing chess is good for self-cultivation, people are old, their brains are not enough, they have to find some way to live their brains." ”
Yin nodded and said: "What the king said is true, the minister came in to look in the mirror, but found that there was a lot more gray hair, as the king said, the years are not forgiving!" ”
"It's been almost fifteen years since you and I met!"
Yang Hao said.
"Fourteen years and three months."
Yin said in a deep voice.
Yang Hao sighed: "It's rare to remember so clearly, I almost forgot the original scene." ”
"Yes! So much has happened over the years. ”
Yin sighed.
"Stony Brook should have gone to sea now!"
Yang Hao said suddenly.
"It's almost time to calculate, after Commander Shi comes back, it's time for me to set up a navy army."
Yin stroked his beard and smiled.
Yang Hao nodded: "The water army must be established, and our Qi country cannot limit our eyes to the land."
Whether it is in the south or overseas, there are many things that can enhance the strength of our Great Qi, and if we don't take these things, future generations will definitely scold us for being useless.
”
"My lord, the minister has something to understand!"
"Oh! What's the matter? ”
"The king is so anxious to conquer the south, it is nothing more than worrying about the barbarians in the west, but the minister thinks that my Daqi does not need to be so anxious, it is better to fight steadily.
Besides, I am now expanding the land for thousands of miles and has a population of one million.
Throughout the ages, it is my Great Qi that is the strongest, even if that barbarian comes here, he will only be slaughtered by my country.
”
How could he understand Yang Hao's worries.
The Western traverser doesn't know what the situation is at all, if he is a person who doesn't learn and doesn't know how to do it, it's okay, he is confident that what he learns under the exam-oriented education has a certain advantage.
But if the other party is a bull character, the devil knows how far the other party has developed.
He was very worried that those people in the West were already far ahead of his ranks.
You must know that in that time and space without itself, China in this era is not the most developed place.
If Westerners had conquered the valley of the two rivers and ancient Egypt, they would have outnumbered them far in population.
Moreover, Yang Hao felt that since their news could spread to the far east, it meant that these two places had been conquered, and they had been conquered for a long time.
This makes him how not to worry.
Although there is a long distance between the West and the East, sometimes this distance does not give him much security.
Since Alexander in the West in later generations was able to hit India, the Western traversers of this era did not rule out the possibility of being able to hit the East.
The overall strength of the current Great Qi is far inferior to that of the Great Qin of later generations, and if he encounters a strong enemy like the Mongols in later generations, he has little confidence to be able to resist.
His pride and unwillingness not to allow him to fail were not only related to the life and death of this Qi country, but also his anger at the hundred years of shame in that time and space.
If he is defeated, how can he meet and call him the descendants of Yan and Huang, and what face will he face the 5,000-year-old Chinese civilization.
Others can not understand, but he can't not care.
He wants to win, he wants to press the Westerners to the ground and rub them and let them taste the shame.
He wants to pay back this shame tenfold and hundredfold.
But to do this, he can only go all out, not hesitating to disrupt his once slow development plan.
Today's Daqi is like a ***, whether it is suitable for this era or not, Yang Hao is ready to make it.
From the orbital ship to the practical generator he is studying, all reflect his inner anxiety.
Moreover, in the fifty-first district, the clandestine development of firearms has begun.
Yang Hao, who was so anxious, not only did Yin not understand, but the officials of Daqi were also a little puzzled.
Yang Hao sighed and said, "There are some things that we have to prepare for the worst, and we can't leave the trouble to enough people."
The world is big, and there may be potential enemies in unknown places who are ready to wipe us out of this world completely, and if our generation does not do it, maybe we will civilize our land and become a paradise for others to do so.
I wouldn't allow that to happen even one in 10,000 chances.
”
Seeing that Yang Hao was so excited, Yin felt a little uneasy in his heart.
"The worries of the officials, you as the prime minister? It needs to be coordinated from it and not to cause panic.
No matter how strong the enemy is, as long as we are strong, we can deal with all kinds of enemies.
”
Yang Hao calmed down his emotions and said in a deep voice.
Yin Bai said: "The minister understands! ”
Yang Hao raised his hand and motioned for Yin to sit.
"In a few days, your eldest daughter will come out of the pavilion, and this king will have someone create this pair of phoenix-patterned jade bracelets, you can bring them back to her!"
Yin Wenyan hurriedly said: "This reward is too precious, how sacred the phoenix pattern is, the little girl has not made an inch, how can she use this thing!" ”
Yang Hao said: "You have paid so much for me, what is it for a mere phoenix?" ”
Yin's heart was suddenly moved, and he got up and bowed: "The minister will dedicate the last trace of blood to my Daqi to repay the king's kindness." ”
Yang Hao nodded: "It is a great blessing in life for me to have your assistance, so I will let you and my monarchs and ministers create a prosperous era of Great Qi." ”
"The ministers will follow the king for eternity!"
Say goodbye.
Northern!
The desolate Monan grassland has just experienced a tragic massacre.
In order to maintain his prestige, the Xiongnu king Shaoyou carried out an iron-blooded suppression of the tribes that did not submit to him.
A tribe of 1,000 people was all wiped out, and Shaoyou's ferocity made the tribes on the grassland tremble, and the last trace of opposition completely disappeared under such iron-blooded suppression.
In May of the 11th year of Hongwu, Shaoyou and Mobei established the Xiongnu royal court to rule the northern grasslands, and the sphere of influence has even exceeded the territory of Daqi, and there is a tendency to unify the grasslands.
Although he became a king, the environment in the north was too harsh, so he never wanted to return to the rich land of Middle-earth.
"Qi people, sooner or later, one day I will let you surrender at my feet!"
It had been a long time since the Qi State had paid much attention to the barren land in the north, and the expansion of the Xiongnu had not attracted the attention of the northern border army at all.