The meeting with Zhang Ruoming ended in a joyful mood, the two left the study, and the servants had already prepared the food for dinner, because Zhang Ruoming's family was a bit of a person, so everyone ate at a large round table, Shu Han and Zhang Ruoming sat together, the others were listed on both sides, and the children were taken care of by the nanny, Fu Erlan had already fed Xia Langqing and Xia Langhuai before eating, and the two children were sleeping deeply in swaddling clothes at this time, looking cute and cute.

Because the two children are very cute, Zhang Ruoming's children often gather around the two little brothers to watch, Zhang Ruoming's youngest daughter is also in swaddling clothes at this time, the three children are side by side, pink and jade, very cute, especially the two children of Shu Han's family, I don't know what they grew up eating, it's really like the children in the TV series, people just want to pinch their faces, among them, Xia Langhuai was also pinched by Zhang Ruoming's several older children to wake up from their sleep, Crawling and preparing to beat these villains who disturbed his sleep, Shu Han and Fu Erlan watched from the sidelines and couldn't help laughing.

At this time, Zhang Ruoming and Shu Han no longer talked about the big things in the Black Iron City, but ridiculed each other about some interesting things that happened recently, such as how the recent urban construction of Huajin City is, how many clothing stores have opened, etc., these are all topics that women like, Shu Han and Zhang Ruoming are also accompanying them, and a meal can be said to be a pleasure for the guests and hosts.

This was absolutely unimaginable before, after all, Zhang Ruoming used to have little affection for these women who were forced to marry him, and it was common for them not to go home for a few months, let alone eat together, and now, with children as a fusion agent, the relationship between them is indeed much better, and after eating at Zhang Ruoming's house, everyone changed to another room to play cards, of course, the main thing is that Fu Erlan and Zhang Ruoming's wife are playing cards, and Shu Han and Zhang Ruoming are going to play billiards, Several children were all handed over to the nanny to take care of, and after noon, Zhang Song, Lin Bida and others also came to Zhang Ruoming's house to pay New Year's greetings, as well as Skywalkers like Li Yi, Liu Yangkai and others also arrived, each of these people is four wives, plus a lot of children, if it weren't for Zhang Ruoming's home being big enough, there would be more than 30 people in the room alone, and I am afraid that it would not be able to accommodate so many people.

Everyone has their own jobs on weekdays, whether they are busy in the army or working for their own family business, it is basically difficult to get together, now everyone is gathered in Zhang Ruoming's home, the family members are naturally together, and the men are bragging and chatting together, almost no different from the modern Spring Festival, and then they keep the New Year, and wait until after twelve o'clock, they will light the firecrackers, look at the bright fire in the distance, this Spring Festival will also officially start in the sound of firecrackers.

After that, there are their respective New Year's greeting activities, Shu Han is undoubtedly the busiest during this period of time, as the city lord of Joaquin City, there are many people who want to see him, and he has a lot of friends to see, and at the same time, he has to write letters to people in Black Iron City and other cities, condolences to each other, it can be said that it is very busy, and at the same time during the Lantern Festival, Shu Han and others have gone to Black Iron City to participate in the big banquet of Black Iron City, this banquet will bring together all the ruling class people in the entire Black Sports City today, which is considered a high-end party, Shu Han, as the lord of a city, is naturally also involved.

For the people, the New Year is to eat a lot of meat, at the same time the streets are lit up, everywhere is a festive atmosphere, which is undoubtedly difficult for the people to feel before, especially the people in the foothills of the city and the city, in the context of the extremely poor material conditions, people have almost no festival traditions, can only spend every day very shabby, that there is almost no happiness at all, just to survive, not called life at all.

It is precisely because of this, now under the governance of the Black Iron City, they can live a happy New Year, which is undoubtedly very important to create a sense of belonging in their hearts, after this New Year, many people in the foothills and the city of Picheng have not had too many complaints about integrating into the Black Iron City, coupled with various policy subsidies, their lives are getting better and better, the people always don't care who their rulers are, anyway, for them, as long as they can live a better life, To be able to live with dignity, that is enough.

What's more, the Black Iron City and the Foothill City, the people of the city itself are the same language, the same culture, the same text, in this case, the integration between each other, the speed is very fast, sometimes only need both sides to release a goodwill, and after the New Year, spring is also coming, the farmers are once again caught in busy, although the Black Iron City has no concept of spring, summer, autumn and winter, but in spring, the temperature begins to rise, and it is still the season for a large number of crops to be sown, It's just that it will take about a month later than in the past, and the temperature will probably return to the original spring season.

People are back to busy work, and scientific research workers, for the revival of science and technology is still redoubling their efforts, at the same time, the lack of population, is becoming more and more prominent, now the entire Black Iron City needs to use people in too many places, the construction of railways needs people, the construction of roads needs people, the construction of factories and production equipment also needs people, the construction of the army also needs people, everywhere needs people, and the number of people in the Black Iron City is only 1.6 million, it is too few.

In this case, the demand for the population once again appeared in front of the Black Iron City, and at this time, it was difficult for them to plunder the population from other places, unless they attacked the monster again, but the last attack had already made them jealous, that time the monster was already a kind of weak monster mastiff that they knew, but it still brought them great damage, the monsters in other places still did not have a detailed understanding, who dared to attack, from the last attack they could already see, The combat power of these demonic beasts is quite amazing, and it is better not to have any thoughts about them if they don't have enough strength.

In addition to the checkpoints guarded by these demonic beasts, now for Black Iron City, there are only two places left, the Holy Alliance and Guangyuan Kingdom, but these two places, there are many soldiers and generals, and the strength is strong, it is still very difficult to take them, this is the idea of Liu Sanyi and others, obviously they don't want to fight, but now this idea has changed a little, after all, even if they don't fight, if they continue to develop like this, with the strength of the Holy Alliance and Guangyuan Kingdom, they will only become stronger and stronger than Black Iron City, Because they have a large enough population base, and at the same time, a large amount of the land they have is plains, unlike the land of Black Iron City, surrounded by the mountains of the shattered plains, it is difficult to give full play to the advantages of war. 04

And the population is difficult to grow in large quantities, because of the existence of hills, the transportation of materials still has advantages, but with all parties are now building new railways, this advantage will soon be gone, this is also the Black Iron City is now worried about, in terms of terrain, the land of the Holy Alliance is undoubtedly the most suitable for population reproduction, it is close to the East China Plain, and it is also a densely populated area since ancient times, in this kind of place, as long as there is a certain period of peace, it is very fast to develop, The development space of Black Iron City is quite limited.

Because of this, the rulers of Black Iron City gradually found that if they continued to maintain such a balance, then the Holy Alliance and Guangyuan Kingdom would gradually surpass them, thus leaving Black Iron City behind, which made Liu Sanyi and others very urgent, they hoped to change this situation as soon as possible, and at this time, for the piece of purple crystal obtained in the Warcraft Forest, there was finally a new research progress, and on the land where the purple crystal was placed, the land began to change to a certain extent, The combat power of many creatures around has begun to increase a lot, and there are even some beasts that have turned into fierce beasts.

This situation is undoubtedly very special, you must know that although the beast is strong, it is still in the category of ordinary animals, but if it becomes a fierce beast, then to a certain extent, they have already surpassed the level of the beast and entered another more high-end level.

Therefore, fierce beasts are actually very few in nature, people can often see them, because their combat effectiveness is strong, often can give people a deep impression, but their number is actually not much, and from the beast to the fierce beast, it is also a very long process, but close to this amethyst, all the rules known to human beings have changed, those beasts after the radiation of amethyst, a few months, a large number of beasts died, and the surviving beasts have become fierce beasts, and even the strength is still increasing.

After the people of Black Iron City hunted these fierce beasts, they got a large number of Inner Dan, and the people of Black Iron City did not dare to take amethyst directly, but in the face of these Inner Dan, because of the experience of the savage tribe, there was no timidity at all, and after knowing that amethyst could promote the evolution of beasts into fierce beasts, Black Iron City consciously drove the animals close to this cement house, and then turned these beasts into fierce beasts, so as to increase the number of Inner Dan, according to the efforts of Black Iron City today, almost every four months or so, You can have more than fifteen Inner Dan, that is, fifteen Skywalkers, although these Skywalkers are not as good as Skywalkers who have truly awakened talents, but this is not an ordinary person after all, it is a superpowered person with the power of Skywalker, and it is precisely because of this that the option of war is back on the table of the high-level people of Black Iron City.

In the current situation, if Black Iron City continues to insist on peace, then this peace can only be short-lived, maybe twenty years, or thirty years, but in any case it will not last long, because the Holy Alliance and the Guangyuan Kingdom do not just want to simply coexist, both sides have the ambition to annex each other and thus become the overlord of the region, if Black Iron City only knows how to bow its head and develop, then the final result must be very tragic.

In the past, there was no choice, but to wait and see the changes, waiting for the opportunity to appear, so as to change the fate of the Black Iron City, but now the powerful effect of amethyst, so that the people of the Black Iron City can't help but start thinking about the feasibility of war, if the amethyst can continue to provide Skywalkers for the Black Iron City, then a year can provide forty-five, and the Skywalkers of the Black Iron City will probably automatically give birth to more than seven more than seven every year, so that the number of Skywalkers per year can reach fifty, as long as it lasts for a few years, In terms of the number of Skywalkers, it is possible to catch up with the Holy Alliance and the Guangyuan Kingdom.

In terms of high-end weapons, Black Iron City is obviously more confident in himself, after all, Shu Han is here, for the development of weapons, although he is not as well known as modern professional military fans, but compared with the people of this era, he knows better where the direction of weapon development is, compared with the other two parties, they have a lot less cost of trial and error, and speed up the speed of research and development, so in this aspect, Shu Han is confident, but in the face of war, Shu Han's attitude is still very cautious.

After all, the strength of Black Iron City itself is relatively weak, if there is a war, it is undoubtedly a small and large, the risk can be imagined, as long as it fails, it is very likely to be suppressed by the two parties and become the earliest victim of this political struggle, so Shu Han has always had an opposing attitude towards the war, compared to the war, he still hopes to resolve the dispute through negotiation and trade, and at the same time he does not think that the three parties can not coexist, in the final analysis, it is just a matter of leadership, but as the Skywalker groups of all parties increase, At the same time, with the recovery of industrialization and the improvement of people's living conditions, there is not much difference between who annexes whom.

In the past, the reason why we had to fight back and forth was because it was possible to feed our people only by defeating other city-states or countries, but now, even if you don't conquer the enemy by means of war, you can still feed your own people, so why fight?

For this era of greatly reduced human numbers, the necessary conditions for human survival are absolutely very sufficient, there is no need for human beings to kill each other so seriously, and in the end what remains is just a power struggle at the top, as long as this point is solved, it is not a difficult thing for the three parties to coexist peacefully, or even to merge into one force, because there is no need for war between the three parties at all, and in the entire region, there is a large amount of land that is still in a barren state, which can be cultivated by people, Humanity is far from reaching the upper limit of the earth's capacity, so why go to war at this time?