Chapter 455: Sleeve Hands

When the war between Xiling and Chunnan was at a stalemate, to say that Dongping would send troops to Xiling for the benefit of their allies, neither Dongping nor Chunnan themselves would believe this. The so-called alliance only connects the complementary needs of the two countries, and although it temporarily conceals the contradictions in the two countries, it can only be temporary. Chunnan has obtained a lot of things from Dongping, such as all kinds of heavy military equipment, a complete set of training methods, a complete set of troops and tactics, they have gained a lot of technology from Dongping, but lost a large part of the domestic liquidity. And this part of the funds, has greatly enriched the market liquidity of Dongping, Chunnan's orders in Dongping because of the improvement of production management level and the increase in production capacity will not be wasted, through the Dongping of horses and other transactions, so that a large number of profits flow into Dongping. Because Tan Weixin has always been carefully regulating the economic trend of the entire Dongping, Dongping is now more and more financially sufficient. And Chunnan, although it is still rich in the world, but compared with Dongping, this kind of wealth is somewhat deformed. Everyone understands that once the two countries have resolved their own internal and external troubles, it will be the time for the two countries to go to war. The two new armies formed by Chunnan were both placed on the border between Chunnan and Dongping. The combined strength of the two new armies, which numbered close to 100,000 men, and the rigorous training they underwent made them very formidable to pose a threat to Dongping on the other side of the border.

Over the years, this has become more and more apparent. Concubine Lian Chang Ling began to use her delicate identity in Dongping to dismantle Dongping's platform. Especially this time when the crown princess made this series of things, he was already challenging the endurance of the Dongping royal family. Although Tan Xiaopei suppressed the matter and did not break out, he was more cautious in his communication with Chunnan. Although the airship is sold to Chunnam, it is stuck on some other items even more dead than before. When Chunnan urgently asked for a super-large type of ballista this time, and was willing to pay a very high price, Tan Xiaopei refused without even thinking about it. Although these operations will make it more difficult for Zhuo Xianchen in Yuhang, and will make him work under more pressure, this is what an envoy should do. Both Dongping and Chunnan are more and more eager to get what they want in each other's hands, because, as everyone knows, this kind of alliance relationship cannot last forever, and even, it won't last too many years.

However, after all, they are allies now, and when Dongping is in trouble in Chunnan, they still need to make some moves to maintain the apparent harmony, so that on the one hand, they will not let Xiling and Beiliao take advantage of it, and on the other hand, it is also to prepare for the future. Even if there are many rifts in the relationship between the allies, at least when it really breaks down in the future, Dongping still hopes that it is not because of something wrong on its side.

Tan Xiaopei summoned Zheng Zhe and relayed all kinds of information collected by the Dongping Intelligence Bureau to him, asking him to hand it over to Chunnan. In Yuhang, Zhuo Xianchen was instructed to submit a sincere letter to the lord of Chunnan, expressing Dongping's concern about the situation in Da Nanguan, and informing Chunnan that his side would take a series of actions "within its ability" to help Chunnan. Action is naturally necessary, and Dongping has always said to do it. The entire Blood Qi Army, the first part of the forbidden army, and a part of the garrison and baggage troops under the Canal Governor's Mansion began to move towards Xunshan Pass, and the first batch of Danyang First Air Force, which was equipped with snow owl airships, directly transferred to Xunshan Pass, and began to carry out intensive reconnaissance and surveillance of a series of targets in Xiling. In Zhenzhou, Lu Dan mobilized half of his troops, as many as 30 battalions, including the main battle battalion and the garrison battalion, Chen Bing's southern line, looking ready to go south at any time, while the Yunzhou side was even more ruthless, they attacked and advanced from Changshi Pass and Bauhinia Pass, and pocketed the triangle area that was originally blocked between the Zhenbei Military Division and Yunzhou. In order to achieve such an operational goal, Yunzhou actually mobilized a total of 50 battalions and 150,000 people, although most of them were newly trained troops, and the intention of training the troops could not be more obvious, but Xiling suffered from insufficient combat strength, and really could not draw troops to resist, and abandoned this piece of land after fighting and retreating. Then retreating will be more conducive to the defensive terrain and confront the Yunzhou army. However, the Yunzhou side did not care much about themselves, they originally had the purpose of training, not only practiced attack, defense, marching and other actions, but also practiced soil work. They built a series of forts and two large barracks on the edge of the area they had occupied. Then, in total, less than four battalions of troops were left in these places, all of which were garrison troops and baggage troops, and the rest of the troops were withdrawn to Yunzhou. This short sortie was obviously to take advantage, but because the faction was very sufficient, Xi Ling was also frightened for a while, after all, the two-front battle was not something that Xi Ling could withstand anyway. At this time, Xiling implicitly conveyed to Dongping the attitude of seeking peace through some powerful merchant groups and families that could still walk through the doorway, and through institutions such as the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce and the Seven Seas Trading Company. Everyone understands that this peace is shorter than the covenant between Dongpyeong and Chunnan, but the secret agreement was reached in less than half a month. This kind of simple agreement, which seems to be a non-aggression pact, is extremely inbinding on both sides, but it is what everyone needs now. Dongping made it clear that he wanted to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, in the place of Dananguan, who lost or won would not have much impact on Dongping, Tan Xiaopei and others wished that the two countries would not stop fighting for ten or eight years. In Xiling's view, everything will be fine if Dongping does not interfere, in less than a month, Da Nan Guan has changed hands six times, obviously becoming a meat grinder, but no one can stop, no one wants to stop, and the heavy losses that have been suffered can only be compensated by Da Nan Pass.

At this sensitive time, the Dongping Imperial Court announced that the Danyang Xindu Plan, which had been progressing more restrained, was fully rolled out. Not only that, after being stimulated by Gondor, both the government and the opposition believed that as the core of the entire empire in the future, the new capital Danyang should at least be larger than Gondor in terms of scale and capacity. Gondor is a beautiful and distinctive city, but the design capacity of Gondor is about 500,000 permanent residents and about 200,000 mobile people. But Danyang's current population is already approaching one million, and when the country develops again in the future, when Danyang becomes the political core of the entire continent, it is very likely that the population will exceed 1.5 million, or even two million, and Danyang must have such a capacity. In this case, the design team headed by Ye Tao and Guan Haishan came up with a further expansion plan on the original basis. The plan will not only include the large-scale renovation of the city, so that the municipal works of the entire city can fully meet and exceed the standards of Gondor, but also include the transformation of the surrounding water system, so as to ensure that the new city can meet the living needs of two million people in terms of water supply and electricity, rather than being oversupplied for a long time. Since Danyang did not have such abundant grassland space as around Gondor after all, there was really no way to install enough windmill arrays for power generation, so Ye Tao and Guan Haishan had no choice but to turn their brains to hydroelectric power. The technology for power generation is there, and it's very simple, but when it comes to transmission and distribution technology, everyone is a little bottomless. Fortunately, the construction still needs some years, and the demand for power supply also has a long and gradual process, in this case, Ye Tao and Guan Haishan have to use their imagination to complete the structural design first.

After the completion of such a plan, the area of Danyang will be four to five times larger than it is now, the green area in the city will increase by more than ten times, and the conditions in all aspects will be earth-shaking. And outside the city, it will also form a series of natural and artificial landscapes, just like Gondor. Around Danyang, Sufeng City, Iron City, and Jiangshan Fort will become three powerful fulcrums. For the sake of the city's environmental considerations, the status of the original Jingdezhen porcelain production center will also be greatly improved, and a series of workshops that have an impact on people's livelihood and the environment will all be relocated there. Even Yip's Workshop will be relocated to a large part. And in Jingdezhen, all these polluting workshops will implement new "eco-friendly" production standards. In order to ensure that such measures do not affect the livelihood of those businesses, all businesses and workshops that implement environmental protection standards will receive tax incentives......

Of course, there are also people who are a little depressed, such as the "big wave and sand" bath, which has become a must-visit place for many people with status and status in Danyang, according to the city's expansion plan, the new city wall will pass directly through the current location of "big wave and sand". The relocation of the baths was inevitable. As one of the shareholders of the bathhouse, Ye Tao had no opinion, and even Du Fengchi, the owner of the bathhouse, had no opinion, but when Du Fengchi instructed the steward of the bathhouse to prepare for closure and relocation in advance, those old men who were used to being chic in the bathhouse actually united and quietly passed a resolution...... That section of the wall will be built last. Before the new store is completed and opened, it is not allowed to close, and it must be opened for them. Du Fengchi was completely speechless for this kind of black-box operation, but this kind of good thing is naturally not easy to refuse. And this is also one of the rare back doors in the entire plan of Xindu Danyang.

The plan for the new capital Danyang was announced at this time, and the scale was further expanded, and then the construction began in full swing. And as the news spread, Xiling was really relieved. Dongping really didn't have the heart to do it at this time. This plan of the new capital Danyang is conservatively estimated to use tens of millions of taels of silver, consume hundreds of thousands of manpower, and take several years. During this time, there will probably be no major military operations in Dongping.