It was impossible for Lu Qian to immediately receive an urgent report from the Western Regions government, and even if he knew about this kind of thing, Wu would have to wait until the official report from the Western Regions came before he could officially pour out the anger in his heart.

Lu Qi has been established for more than 20 years, and the government's military department, the spy department, the security department and other intelligence systems have formed this unspoken rule.

In the case of some bad things that have a bad impact, it is only after the local government has officially reported to the central government that they can be dealt with publicly.

After Emperor Lu got the secret report from the Security Department and the Espionage Department, when the official report from the local government was not delivered to Jinling, he first brandished a knife and cut people.

Therefore, Lu Qian could only calm down and continue to inspect Zhenjiang. That's what it's all about. What can I say, now is not the past, under the rule of Lu Qichao, there are more than 100,000 musketeers alone, and there are even more cannons in the south and north, and many secrets have reached the point where they are not secrets. In other words, if you want to prevent a drop of water, the effort and energy to be paid will be too great.

He had been mentally prepared for this, but when it really came, when it appeared in front of him in this form, don't blame him for being annoyed.

Of course, he had immediately summoned the land and water garrisons in the north and south of Tianzhu to prepare them for war at any time.

It is very likely that the handiwork of Tianfang and Tianzhu is behind this matter. The big war is about to begin, and it is not impossible for the two to jump off the wall in a hurry. And if it really responds to his speculation, that day Fang doesn't need to say it, the battle in Tianzhu should be just around the corner.

In connection with the recent news from Beitianzhu, some rats are running, Zhu Luo or Xi Cha Louqi, and one of the two has always been in the water. Lu Qian is more inclined to the former!

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As a star city in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, Zhenjiang's famous Lu Qian was like thunder in his previous life, but the source of that reputation was limited to 'Zhenjiang rice vinegar'. As for Zhenjiang's industrial and commercial economy, he really didn't understand it.

However, in today's era, Zhenjiang is the largest port in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River except for Shanghai and Hong Kong, and Jinling, Yangzhou, Wuhu and other places cannot be compared with Zhenjiang in terms of total freight volume and substance. This is the confluence of the Grand Canal and the Yangtze River.

At the same time, it is also a core member of the Jinling City Circle and an important part of the Yangtze River Economic Belt.

The shipbuilding industry itself is not a pillar industry in Zhenjiang, although it has been a shuttle in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and it is a key point for the water and land in the south of the Yangtze River. However, it is also an indisputable fact that the development of Zhenjiang's shipbuilding industry has made great progress more because of the establishment of 'Longjiang Shipyard'.

In the past ten years, Zhenjiang's shipbuilding industry and supporting factories and facilities have developed by leaps and bounds, and now it is now the leading shipbuilding center in China.

Just because Nalongjiang Shipyard is one of the first-class shipyards directly under the jurisdiction of the Ship Division.

Among the many shipyards directly under the jurisdiction of the Shipbuilding Department, although there are as many as five first-class shipyards, Longjiang Shipyard has always maintained a crushing situation over the other four first-class shipyards because of its 'unique geographical advantage' - the closest to Jinling.

To put it bluntly, the invention, experimentation and popularization of every new technology in the Shipbuilding Division are initiated from Longjiang Shipyard and transferred downward layer by layer after maturity.

And the reason for doing this is to make it bigger for two reasons, one is for technical confidentiality, and the other is to choose nearby.

Today's Yangtze River is not the Yangtze River of the 21st century, and the river surface is far wider than that of later generations. And it's easy to go straight down the river into the East China Sea. With a more developed economy, abundant capital, and a long history of shipbuilding, it is easy to develop a shipbuilding center.

The problem faced by Lu Qi in terms of technical secrecy is not only 'firearms', it is only one of the many problems that Lu Qi has to face, in many aspects such as textile, metallurgy, forging, etc., now Lu Qi has an absolute crushing advantage over the surrounding countries.

In the original long history, how Chinese technology spread and kept secret, not to mention, because the original history had long been beaten by Lu Qian's hammer. The current situation is that the Tianzhu people and Tianfang people not only want to get Lu Qi's firearms, but they also hope to catch up with Lu Qi in many aspects such as metallurgy, forging, and textiles.

The secrecy and anti-secrecy of science and technology have become a major focus of the work of the Lu Qi Security Department for more than ten years. Although the shipping division is not a top priority, it is also involved.

Lu Qian is also a person who is very concerned about the development of ship design and construction technology. He knew about the clipper, but in his previous life, he didn't have anything to do with it, he only heard its name and didn't know the facts, and he didn't have any impression of it in the details. However, with the gradual expansion of Luqi's territory, especially with the 'reclamation' of the Americas, Australia and Africa, Luqi urgently needed a high-speed fast boat between continents to keep the news flowing.

Naturally, he entrusted this task to the Ship Division.

But how can the bottleneck of shipbuilding technology be so easy to break?

It takes a long time to accumulate and the whims of a talented ship designer. In the 19th century, the sailing technology of Europe had reached the extreme, and Lu Qi had just lit up the talent tree of the "sail battleship", and it was still far from the extreme.

However, Lu Qian, who returned to Jinling from Shanghai and Hong Kong, stopped the dragon boat when he walked to Zhenjiang and arrived at the Longjiang factory.

The destination of his trip this time was Shanghai and Hong Kong, because he wanted to send a land and water army to the heavenly world, and when a large-scale land war was about to start, there was nothing wrong with sending a naval army of 10,000 people to the heavenly world by sea. There was also a fleet of immigrants who went with them, and the population was not a small number, there were four or five thousand people in the Central Plains, plus two thousand Koreans and one thousand Japanese, and if you count the immigrants from the South Seas, the total number was as high as 15,000.

The reason why there are so many people is because the tasks undertaken by this navy and army are completely different from the previous Ling Zhen Division.

The former is only to establish a firm foothold in the heavenly world, while the latter is to sweep across the Persian Gulf.

By the time they reach the end of the day, it will be the end of the year. At that time, the land battlefield will definitely involve all the energy of the Seljuks, and they will have the opportunity to stab the Seljuk chrysanthemum.

You know, the essence of the Celestial World is no longer on the Persian Plateau, nor on the Celestial Peninsula, but in the two river basins to the west of the Persian Gulf.

At the bottom of the western end of the Persian Gulf was later Kuwait, and the little land between Kuwait and later Persia was the mouth of the two rivers.

The Euphrates and the Tigris, two great rivers that merged into one near the bay, later called this section of the river Tianfang.

To the west along the river, there is the fertile valley of the two rivers, which is the 'Central Plains' of the Seljuks when the two factions of the entire celestial civilization are opposed—Egypt in the south and Seljuk in the north.

The caliph is still in Baghdad.

This war between Lu Qi and the Seljuks will not only involve Lu Qi and the Seljuks, the Tianzhu people are likely to be killed, and Egypt and more western forces may also be involved, but Lu Qian is not afraid. He's ready. This big war, which has already begun, relies on the super combat power of the landing Qi army and the strong national strength of Lu Qi. Lu Qian has the determination to win!

What is the point of some chaos in Tianzhu? The Chola Kingdom was reversed, and there must have been measures to deal with it, and the dynasty of Xizharo followed suit, and he was also prepared.

In the previous two wars between the north and the south, the entire Tianzhu's spirit has been defeated. Similarly, Lu Qi's attitude towards Brahmins and Kshatriyas is also unmistakable, as long as he is obedient, he can be preserved. He didn't believe that the local princes of Tianzhu would really follow Zhu Luo and Xizha Lou with an iron heart, and they were enemies of Lu Qi, and they were not even afraid of death.

Tianzhu in history has always been very submissive.

And the Famati dynasty of Egypt and the monotheistic religion of the west that may be mixed in, he is not afraid of any of them. He was going to fight the monotheistic religion.

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Zhenjiang was named Runzhou in the Zhao and Song dynasties, and it was already a prosperous place in the south of the Yangtze River. A Yangtze River and a canal have made it a hub for inland water and land transportation.

The war of that year brought great damage to the city, and the repeated strangulation of the Manichaean and Song armies made the entire city very dilapidated when it was taken by Lu Qi.

When it dies now, this port city, which was in ruins at the beginning, has developed into a flourishing flower. Just like the rise of the port city of Shanghai and Hong Kong, the speed of economic recovery is stunning.

Just as the city of Shanghai and Hong Kong was full of sailors, laborers, and merchants, so did the city of Zhenjiang. They are active in the docklands and business districts, waiting for the owners to hire them or for the business to arrive.

The prosperity of the industrial and commercial markets, the development of shipping and shipbuilding, provided abundant opportunities for these people, and also brought vitality to the whole city, but of course, there were many unstable factors.

Just like Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Mingzhou [Ningbo] and other cities with prosperous maritime trade, Zhenjiang has only a handful of large and small officials, including policemen.

While a city is flourishing, it will inevitably breed many unstable elements, and in this way, the number of managers in the city will naturally increase.

Now that Emperor Lu has come to Zhenjiang in person, the civil and military officials in the city have all raised a string, lest something go wrong.

Fortunately, Emperor Lu did not really visit the workers' residential areas or the cities and villages. Just walked around the industrial zone!

Separated from the Longjiang factory is a carriage factory, with the linear increase of horses in the country, with the improvement of the road traffic environment, more and more four-wheeled horse-drawn carriages gallop in China's urban countryside. But the number is always not as good as the two-wheeled carriage.

This is determined by natural environmental factors.

Why didn't historical China really invent/popularize the Western four-wheeled carriage? The reasons are varied, and environmental factors are one of the reasons that cannot be ignored.

Europe, especially Western Europe, has a temperate oceanic climate with uniform precipitation throughout the year. In China, where precipitation is concentrated in summer, ancient dirt roads are easily washed away by rain, and two-wheeled vehicles are easier to pass than four-wheeled vehicles. Even in China right now, land transportation in the countryside is a disaster. The resistance of local government roads to rainwater is really low. Even if it is an official road, if it is not repaired often, it is a disaster.

Flexibility is the biggest reason why two-wheeled carriages can still survive in today's China.

And a new damping measure has been added - springs. Make it much more comfortable!

Therefore, the single-horse-drawn and super flexible two-wheeled carriage is still prosperous in today's China.