Chapter 9: The Wandering Dream
This year, Zhu Cizhuo was already twelve years old, but because of the second pregnancy and childbirth, the growth period of his body was obviously slower than that of ordinary people, and he was only a tall boy about eight years old. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info is very satisfied with this point King Ming's own god, but Zhu Cizhuo is very puzzled, thinking that it is the hands and feet of Mingwang's own god.
Since the beginning of this year, Zhu Cizhuo suddenly found that the construction and development of Sun Moon Island were carried out according to his own intentions one day during the Spring Festival. At the same time, he also found that King Ming's own talent in governing the world is very lacking, and it can even be said that he is very incompetent, in addition to making great contributions to his "home decoration project", he is simply an idiot in the management of military and political affairs.
In fact, King Ming still has some ideas for the construction of Sun Moon Island that ordinary people dare not think, but he is waiting for Zhu Cizhuo's thoughts in silence in many things. When the two shared a mind, there was no secret to what they were considering, so the two chose to be silent.
It's just that the spirit that the Ming King himself can't see with the naked eye can move freely from Zhu Cizhuo's body, and only at the moment when he "possesses" Zhu Cizhuo, he will use the water vapor in the air to transform into an identical Zhu Cizhuo and invade in the same amount. Therefore, Zhu Cizhuo has also never seen the true face of King Ming's own god with three faces and six arms, and every time he can see King Ming, it is his other body.
As the two get along for many years, Zheng Zhi is getting older and older, and due to different preferences, it is inevitable that there will be collisions in thoughts and behaviors. Especially in political affairs, the original pattern of governing the country with shrines can no longer convince the island Zibai, and the successor of the Great Living Buddha Laban does not know anything about the situation in this place, and the people of the island have asked King Ming to be in charge of the government.
Zhu Cizhuo didn't want to get involved in politics, he just wanted to join the WTO and return to the Ming Dynasty as soon as possible. King Ming is not even more interested in the affairs of governing the world, and he will one day leave this realm and return to the heavenly realm.
Although there are still more than 6 million yuan accumulated in the Jieshen Treasury, the construction on the island, the normal tax revenue that cannot make ends meet, and the upcoming sea battle in Tainan Bay will affect the political situation and economy on the island. The people still like to live and work in peace and contentment, especially since this is already a well-off country, and the people are very opposed to the expansion of the territory, the reception of refugees and foreign wars.
The people here have a high level of education, and they are deeply rooted in Confucianism, although they respect the Ming King very much, but there are not many people who really do Buddha. This is the so-called more knowledge, the more reactionary they become, and even if some of them are criticized and half killed, they will not be able to change their "reactionary thinking."
In Zhu Cizhuo's view, this is normal, the Chinese nation has been the world's richest country for thousands of years, and the barbarian small country can only look at it, and is not interested in the annexation of the subject country or the colonization of distant countries. The group structure of the common people here itself has problems, nearly half of the population is above the well-off, and the happiness index far exceeds that of Zhao Cichao's later generations, and when encountering difficulties, they will inevitably oppose military expansion.
King Ming's own god was originally ready to hand over this realm to the management of the physical body, not to mention that he could still occupy and enjoy the joy of the world at any time, and he has been perfunctory about this matter for the past two months. But at this time, the Living Buddha Laban was forced by the officials to discuss with the Ming King himself whether to withdraw his troops, give up and return the Friends Mall under construction in Tainan.
Of course, the king of Ming was unwilling to throw out the money and silver, but he had no idea for a while, and after losing his temper, he had to promise to reply to them after three days. He was also very angry with Zhu Cizhuo, who was inactive, at this time, and did not express any opinions and suggestions on this matter.
The original sea area of Riyue Island was divided into two after the addition of Miyajima, and through the efforts of King Ming, the total land and sea area of this secret realm has been increased to 4,800 hectares. In this way, a rectangular secret realm of 20kmx15km is formed, and the westernmost entry gateway is "only more than ten zhang" from the edge of the sea area, and now it is 6.7 kilometers.
There is about 3 kilometers of white sand beach on the south side of Miyajima, and 12 years ago there was a 6-kilometer-long variegated beach under the cliff on the north side of Miyajima. After the construction of the 36-meter-wide truck road along the mountain, the beach was filled and gradually built into a heavy industrial area for mining, iron, and artillery.
There is also a layer of stone and wood compound road above the freight channel, which was built after the old national teacher was expelled from the territory, including the industrial zone for 11 years, and the scale of the project is very large. The lower freight lanes are made of fine granite excavated from the construction port area, and the upper compound roads are made of the same granite beams and railings, and the beams and slabs are embedded with teak planks seven inches and five minutes thick between the frames. The straight compound road leads straight to the side of the canal, the two layers of stone railings are carved and decorated with beasts, and all kinds of small stone beasts on the railing pillars are in various postures, lifelike, beautiful and exquisite, only in the world, and then called "ten thousand beasts listen to the court" by the people.
The bottom height of the freight passage is the same as that of the second floor of the castle, and it crosses the canal until the border of Binhe County, which is slightly longer than the stone and wood compound road, and the height difference is the same as two floors. The straight road to the north side of the sea is only 2.3 kilometers, this narrow sea area is the nearest internal transportation channel for cargo ships, and it is also the only military port area in the territory. A 150-meter-wide artificial embankment has been built along the side of the canal palace island to the northern end of the border, and the 36-wide horse road has been lined with trees on both sides, and the end of the embankment in the two-way bridge is the military wharf of Riyue Island.
The forests and minerals on Miyajima were undeveloped at this time, and it was still a wildlife ecological reserve with an area of nearly 300 hectares, except for the residential area at the end of the castle, and the top of the mine by the canal on the east side was the granite rock mountain that had been cut over. Naqi Shixiu Peak is the highest place in the Sun Moon Island, and the high stone is nearly 50 meters larger than the top surface of Miyajima.
The tip of the mountain is placed slightly on the south side, so that the joint joint of the two islands is not visible at all, and it is no longer clear where the seam is, so that six or seven hundred meters wide and three kilometers long pre-leveled grassland is left between the foot of the mountain and the compound road. In order to settle this granite mountain, the god of the Ming King in this area has been pre-processed in advance, and after flattening, it has been cushioned with a zhang of mineral sand.
At this time, after being planted with soil ten years ago, it is already a large beautiful platform grassland, which looks like an aerial zoo from a distance. From time to time, herbivores are running in the middle of it, and the largest number of cervids is not the same as hundreds of cervids, more than 60 BMWs of various colors and 24 buffaloes that seem to be three times larger than usual are the highlights.
At the end of Miyajima is an eleven-zhang high cliff, under which a six-meter-wide canal tunnel has been built, and the upper compound road has a two-story pavilion platform at the top of the canal, one of which has an iron cage stairwell leading to the lower passage and the canal embankment. The platform on the second floor is an area between the Gaoling Canal that stretches out of the cliff, standing on the platform, you can see the mountains and rivers of Binhai County and the ninety percent of the villages and fields, and you can also see the military port and the endless ocean not far away and the rare foreign sailing ships, of course, you can also see the heavy industry area that has just been built.
At the top of the western side of the heavy industrial area, near the port area, there is also a slum area where coolies work for a living, which has been gradually formed since the construction of the freight road began eleven years ago, and it has also been reclaimed to make the Bangan embankment and build a small fishing port. The first granite passage was slightly blackened by the fire, and the space under the cargo passage was transformed into a temporary resettlement house for immigrants, and the first public primary school on Riyue Island was opened.
At this time, the temporary buildings built under the transportation channel were rationally used, and a long stone street about four feet wide was built, and outside the street was a long freshwater canal five feet wide, either bright or dark. The outside of the canal is divided into more than a dozen factories or mines by driveways, some of which have water towers or chimneys, and a few of which are under the passages without walls and doors.
The entire heavy industrial area is north of the cliff all year round, with little sunlight, but in the tropics it is a shady place for people to play. This is the land route where immigrants must pass through by boat, and you can see the ships and carriages that carry goods, and you can also see the training gunboats and the magnificent stone carving railing, and since the completion of the double road, it has quickly become a good place for the people of the whole territory to play and play.
The appearance of Sun Moon Island overnight in this new forest mine made the people in the territory suddenly remember the legendary savior King Dawei Deming, and the compound road and castle on the top of the high mountain that were not open to the world made the people feel even more mysterious. After the appearance of this magnificent mountain, not many people were able to enter the territory of the top fort, and the more than 10,000 people who appeared there overnight did not want to talk about what it was like inside, and nearly half of them were foreign craftsmen.
At this time, the residents of Minato did not have much contact with the local people, and although they were both Han Chinese, there were barriers in language communication, and the two groups were after all people of two eras. The aborigines are descendants of the Middle-earth people who have been around for a thousand years, and most of the newcomers to the port area are apprentices of craftsmen who have recently been recruited from the Ming Dynasty, or young men and women who have not died and have been resurrected inexplicably.
The original foreigners are also mostly such craftsmen, and some are still well-known craftsmen who have died, and they were still sealed by the Ming King for the rest of their lives. There are nearly 10,000 men and women living on the top five floors, of which 3,000 are eunuchs, craftsmen or chamberlains, and 1,500 of them are black slave eunuchs who work as chamberlains in the upper fort.
Now there are more than 4,000 people living in the top four-story fort and the temple, more than 2,400 eunuchs and 800 young maids serve in the palace temple of the Ming King's body, 600 guards take turns to be on duty to be responsible for the security of the fort area, and a small number of male and female officials or living Buddha monks, with or without their families, live on the platform floor below, and there is a special brothel on that floor.
In addition, there are nearly 1,000 non-staff artisan households, close to 6,000, who do not yet live in one of the four basements in the inner courtyard of the fort, which is a special city, with the most advanced technology, culture and art in the region, and the small castle is the frontier of this world.
Personnel in each region have different waist cards for inspection, the flow of people is strictly restricted, and the entry and exit must be checked, and the management system is extremely strict. Except for a small number of foreign officials who entered the palace on schedule, the personnel stationed in Dingbao were fixed all year round, except for the military and police guards, and they were not allowed to go out to communicate with outsiders casually, let alone collude with foreign officials for profit. Offenders are dealt with very severely, and most of the unemployed are guilty of capital crimes or official prostitution, and those who leak secrets or violate the laws and regulations by military guards are better to die.
This is a group of people who don't know where they are or where they are, although they all have flesh and blood and emotions, and their bodies also exist in the world of this era, but their souls and knowledge have been replaced by ancient people. Zhu Cizhuo even suspected that he was dead, or that this was a dream in itself, and the world he lived in did not exist at all.