Within the territory of Dawan Kingdom.

A railway is being laid intensively, and in order to speed up the construction period, the Dawan people have come up with all the problems they have come up with and build the railway in sections, so that the railway can be built at a very fast speed. These railways mainly pass through the mining areas, and the mountainous areas are the most difficult sections of the road to build, but they are not worried about how to build them, or they don't care about the specific process, because there are Indians, and the Indians have become the main force in building the railways.

"What are those Dawan people doing?" Lieutenant Song Li asked the guide next to him strangely, they are the officer corps sent by the Qin State to the State of Rest, most of them are some trainee officers, of course, there are some senior officers, but they will not go with them, only a small number of officers will follow them. Along the way, they mainly observe the military, political, economic situation of various countries. The state of Qin usually assigns such homework to those officers who have graduated, and through these young officers, the state of Qin can see what kind of state the country is in their eyes.

"Peel." The guide glanced at it and said easily.

"Peeling?" Song Li asked.

"Yes. Skinning, presumably those damn Indians trying to escape. Or if they committed something else, the Dawan people decided to punish them, and such a punishment was very effective. Did you see that? Over there, there are many such human skins, they are all human skins that have been peeled off, peeled off alive, and they hurt, I feel that I can see them. Forget it, anyway, the punishment is very large, only in this way can those Indians be frightened, they can obediently go to build the railway, after the railway is repaired, the country of Dawan can become better. The guide said.

"Oh. Who is doing this? Song Li asked curiously. No one would be so cruel in general, and he wondered what kind of people were making them so crazy.

"Oh. Those are Dawan's police forces, Dawan is considering the establishment of a self-defense force, but, the Dawan parliament does not seem to agree, the control of these are all Huns, they are small in number, it is difficult to control, in order to make these Indians obedient, can only take such measures. They must be made known. What people make them feel scared. So, the Dawan police stood up. Originally, they were very few in number, just to maintain the law and order of the town, but now they have become these guards to protect the Indians, they are very fierce to the Indians, there is no way, there are too many of them. In total, there are more than 300,000 people, and the police force is less than 10,000, and no matter how to control it, we can only increase the number of people while suppressing them and scaring them with extremely cruel methods. The guide told the other in a very relaxed tone, but he didn't know if it had other intentions.

"Hey, these people are poor too." Song Li said.

"Alright. It's not pitiful, the Huns are pitiful when they deal with them, they can't eat enough every day, we Dawan people can. Give them enough to eat, which is much better than how they are treated in their own country. The guide said.

"Oh." Song Li nodded. Along the way, they mainly looked at the customs of Dawan. Learn what the Dawan people think. And how they solve their problems.

"Hey, what are they planting over there? I think there are still Indians. Song Li asked. He stood in the carriage and looked around, and his military telescope played a big role.

"That's platinum flowers, also called cotton, which you Qin people want by themselves, and the amount you want is very large, I don't know what to do specifically. Anyway, there are a lot of people who grow it, and it is said that this place is more suitable for growing such things, and the yield is relatively large. Anyway, it's very profitable, I saw that the people of Qin came to harvest it, and I also wanted to plant, and after doing this little work, I would buy some land, get some seeds, and plant some seeds. Sell for some money. The guide said.

"Platinum flowers, cotton. I don't know what to do, maybe there is a need for something like this in China. Song Li shook his head and said. He didn't know what it was for, but it was closely related to him, and the use of cotton was mainly to make nitrocellulose, and a large amount of smokeless gunpowder was made from here, and the fixed ammunition they used contained such things. South Koreans are actively cracking their ammunition secrets. It's a pity that they didn't know that there was such a thing as cotton, which only directly led to their inability to crack the specific composition of smokeless gunpowder.

The Qin people planted a large amount of cotton in the northern region of the Western Regions, but those were official, or a small number of reliable private farms, and abroad, the demand of the Qin State was very huge, because the Qin State expanded very strongly, so a large amount of cotton was planted, and they first met not the civilian use, but the military, smokeless gunpowder gun and ammunition demand to stimulate the planting of this cotton.

"Can you tell me about the Sabbath? And the country of Seth, I want to know about such a country. Song Li asked the guide.

"This country of rest, it's not a thing, they're just a group of robbers on horseback, as long as you're weak, they'll attack, but if you're strong, they'll actively learn from you, you Qin people have a lot of things, and people from rest should study well, but you have to be careful, they're a group of robbers, once they're targeted. Disaster will come, dealing with the people of Anxi, is to make a deal with the wolf, anyway, to deal with the wolf, we have to be careful, this is what we in Dawan Country think about, we can't always rely on you Qin people to protect us, we must have our own armed forces, and this armed force is our own military force. With him, we can protect ourselves to a large extent. The guide said.

"Seth Country, do you understand?" Song Li then asked.

"This, I don't know, we just know that the country of Seth is to the west of the Sabbatarians, and we can only reach the country of Seth by crossing the Sabbatarians, this country has two rivers, and then they are in the lowlands, and the Sethians often harass the Sethians, and the Sethians can also defeat the Sethians, but this time, we seem to have heard that the Sabbatarians sent troops to attack the Sethians, and it seems to be very smooth. It's just to get the support of your Qin people. The guide said.

"No, no. We didn't support the Sabbators, we went to the Sabbator this time, just to observe the Sabbators, to carry out some communication cooperation, and on the arms, we did not support them. Song Li emphasized. For such a thing, he still knows, although the Qin military hopes to support the expansion of the Sabbatarians to the west, but in fact, they can't do it, because the transportation situation is very poor, which makes it difficult for their supplies to be replenished here, which directly makes them give up the idea of supporting the Sabbatarians, but the Sabbatarians got muskets from another way, this way is the Tocharians, they are very willing to do such a thing, they are born merchants, they boldly do such an arms business.

"It was the Tocharians who did it, we Qin people didn't do it, it was the Tocharians who sold them the arms, and we didn't do anything." Song Li said.

"Oh. No matter what. Those who sell arms. It's just so damning. The Sabbatians had these muskets, and they were like devils, with sharp claws. There are more sharp teeth, I really don't know how many people these devils will eat. In order to spare the country of Seth, poor country of Seth, if the Sabbaths are aimed at us, we will not be good. The guide said worriedly.

In the Dawan Kingdom, in the parliamentary hall, the Minister of Defense is also persuading his parliamentarians to establish the Dawan Kingdom's own self-defense forces. Their main object of defense was the Sabbath State.

"We all know that the Sabbath is already equipped with a large number of muskets, and we only have the police force, and the musket team in the town, they are at most the militia, and we rely on our town to become the largest fortress, but we can only defend passively in this way, and we cannot cause a great deterrent to the Sabbatarians. Look. The people of Anxib can attack the country of Seth, and they can also attack our country of Dawan. Said the Minister of Defense.

"Although we have the protection of the Qin people, we can't put all the security on the Qin people, can the Qin people protect us for a lifetime? We still need to protect ourselves. We need to form our own self-defense forces to protect our own security. Said the Minister of Defense.

"But we will spend a lot of money to do this, and the price of buying arms is not cheap." A lawmaker said.

"The most important thing is that there are many people, who are not engaged in mining production, but are engaged in boring military work, our enemies are not coming, we have Qin people to protect us. Why should we worry that the Dawan people must call, could it be that the Dawan people are not finished with us?" Another member of parliament said. The issue that parliamentarians are concerned about is the issue of financial resources.

"At the moment we have built a railway, which has cost us quite a lot of financial money, and although in terms of manpower, we have a large number of Indians to help us build the railway, and we have saved a lot of manpower, but we still need a lot of miners to do production. There's no way around it. The councillor said.

"Good. Very good. Hearing this, the Minister of Defense said excitedly. He knew he had finally found a place where they could use their expertise.

"Indians, we have more than 300,000 Indians who help us build railways, these Indians can not only help us build railways, they can also help us open mines, so that our people can be left, this is not a lot of money, we can build our own army with people, and with an army, we can protect our own property. I think these slaves are very important to us, and we can solve all the problems by importing them from Indy in large quantities. Said the Minister of Defense.

"Bang la la blah." Hearing this, the parliamentarians began to discuss the feasibility of this matter. If you use your own people to open mines, the cost is really high, but if you use Indians, Indians can solve a lot of their problems, and Indians are very cheap. Dead is dead. They don't have to bear any legal responsibility, and the benefits are very many, and the price of the Indians is cheaper, compared to the minerals excavated. Such a situation is simply too favorable.

"But we don't have that many Indians to supply us at the moment, and we have to find a way to solve this problem ourselves." Congressman Dawan said.

"So, we need an army, we can participate in the battle, go to the south, go and discuss with the Yueshi people, the Qin people will agree to our request, we need a large number of slaves, not only can we buy, we can also participate in the battle to get so many slaves. We Dawan people need an army to protect our own safety. At the same time, it can meet the needs of any of our interests, and this is our Dawan Self-Defense Force. The Minister of Defense said strongly. He hopes that the Dawan Self-Defense Force will not only be able to defend his own safety, but also expand the power of the Dawan people. Become the defender of Dawan's interests, the defender. The councillors nodded, feeling that what they said was right, and that was really the case for them.

Just when the Dawan people noticed that the role of the Indians could play a bigger role. General Moran and Meng Ping received a more difficult question.

"What do you mean by Indian?" Meng Ping asked Mo Lan, and Mo Lan also hurried to the front line headquarters.

"I don't know. My people tell me that the Indians want to negotiate, they want to know what the cost or the conditions are for us to end this war, and if the Indians can accept it, they want to be able to end it. Moran said.

"What are your conditions?" Meng Ping asked.

"I don't know, my people have already asked the damn councillors. They don't know how to fight, but they know how to fight for their interests. They themselves know what they need, I don't know it myself, you can ask them. General Moran said as he entered the conference room. The Indians are already waiting there. There was an interpreter next to him, and the Hindi official was anxiously waiting for the outcome of his disposition.

"I wonder, why would Indy do this? Usually by doing so, they are already in some kind of desperate situation. Meng Ping said.

"I don't know, but I know that we definitely have the initiative, because if we weren't very good, I don't think they would have been involved in such a thing." General Moran said.

"Yes." Meng Ping nodded.

"Sir, this is a telegram from a member of the domestic council." A staff officer handed Moran a telegram.

"What's written on it?" Meng Ping asked curiously.

"It's a condition, our parliamentarians are really greedy, they demand a radius of not less than 1,500 miles, and a population of more than three million. and a large amount of labor export, in addition, we will be compensated more than 1,000 tatuo every year, that is, about 500,000 gold coins equivalent to the Qin State to us. Such conditions, damn if I were an Indian. I'm going to keep fighting. Moran said after reading it.

"That's true, and I don't think the Indians seem to want to go on like this." Meng Ping said.

But they won't accept such harsh conditions. This is an absolute insult to them, they simply have no such reason to accept such conditions, you can just look at the reaction of the Indians to know their attitude. Moran said. Moran is still very sensible, he knows that under such harsh conditions, Indy is crazy. They will accept such conditions, and they will keep fighting. Because such conditions will not be acceptable to the Indians at all. However, the parliamentarians are more concerned with the interests of the Yueshi people, and in their opinion, the Yueshi need more interests to maintain their financial balance, and if the finances are out of balance, their country will have no meaning to exist.

As a result, as Moran expected, the Indic representative was shocked when he heard such conditions, and it was obvious that he felt that the Indians could not accept such conditions at all, because they were too harsh. They simply could not do such an insulting condition, they were unlikely to accept such content, and they decided to resist. This is their only choice, and this is forced by the Yueshi people.

Jiaozhou, Qingcheng, Zhang Qing's office.

"Our ships can only stay here, there are storms in the south, and the wind direction is not good for us in such weather, you know, our ships rely on sails, and if there is no wind, we are not at all." An assistant explained with a wave of his arm.

"I know. If there is a new technology that can change that, I think we will definitely need such a new kind of vessel. Zhang Qing said. Due to the direction of the wind, it takes a long time to sail on the southern route. At this time, it can only be suitable for ships returning to the north, thinking that the wind direction and the storm situation have seriously affected Qingcheng's business activities. Zhang Qing can only be helpless about this.

"I know, sir, that the Admiralty is working on a steamship, a ship that can move by machinery, and with such a ship, I think we will be able to solve our navigation problems to a great extent. If this is the case, the problem will be easily solved. Zhang Qing's assistant said.

"Well, I know that, but the technology is still not mature enough, even though they sail the coastal areas well. But they need a lot of coal to replenish it, and besides, there is a big problem with their sailing area, and I think it will take some time to complete such a technology, but I think time will tell. It's just that. This can only be done by our businessmen, and hopefully they will make the right choice. Zhang Qing said. The government cannot do such a thing, and although it can be encouraged, it is very difficult to do it without profit. Zhang Qing knows this very well, the technology is very good, but it must bring a lot of profits, without profits, everything is in vain. That would only lead to more waste, which would cost them dearly. Zhang Qing did not want such a loss from the businessman.