Xuanshan Province, Haiti City.

The location of the internship of the Three Thousand Academy this time.

Xuanshan Province was located on the southwestern coast of the empire, close to foreign territory. There are many iron mines and coal mines in the province, and the mountains often show a dark and bright color, hence the name of Xuanshan Province. However, after the restrictions on mineral development of the empire, Xuanshan Province is no longer most famous for mineral mining, but for marine development.

The ocean is rich in resources, including oil, coal, iron, copper, aluminum, and other minerals buried in the ground, as well as chlorine, sodium, magnesium, sulfur, iodine, uranium, gold, and nickel dissolved in seawater. Of course, there is also a large amount of marine life produced, which is sold as a high-end ingredient.

Xuanshan Province can now be said to be the largest marine development province in the entire empire, and the annual output of marine minerals accounts for almost 25% of the minerals consumed by the entire empire, and it is the vanguard of the empire in the study of the utilization of marine resources.

Sanchao Province, which is on a par with Xuanshan Province, takes advantage of the three ebb and flow of the coastline of the province every day to transmit the electricity generated by ocean power generation to the entire 48 southern provinces. And in terms of desalination, the promotion of these two provinces is also indispensable.

An Xiaoyu: The city of Haiti, where they are located, is a city with high-tech integration.

Unlike his rustic name, the buildings of Haiti are all shiny and beautiful, and the city's construction planning is also very reasonable, with both technological and human characteristics. Although they had already seen pictures of Haiti before they came, many of the students could not help but exclaim as they walked out of the station.

Even An Xiaoyu was a little shocked, the scientific and technological development of this place was even higher than that of most places in the imperial capital.

The entire station is designed as if it were sandwiched between two tall towers, and all the trains pass through the underground and pass through the entire city of Haiti, and the buildings above ground are not affected by the noise at all. And the above two towering buildings are the so-called railway hotels.

An Xiaoyu didn't know that the Railway Hotel would be like this.

The imperial capital and the Eastern Wilderness are either without railway hotels, or the fine tradition of the entire empire, that is, there will be a railway hotel near the station, giving newcomers and no money a place to stay, which is the cheapest and certainly one of the worst hotels in the entire empire.

Not to mention the imperial capital, there is a railway hotel in the Eastern Wilderness, and there is one of the bow tribes, which has been renovated from old cabins, and is even more dilapidated than the most dilapidated houses of other tribes. An Xiaoyu felt that if it weren't for the fact that there would be wild beasts at night in the Eastern Wilderness, I am afraid that many people would be more willing to sleep on the streets.

But this railway hotel in front of you...... No, no, no, this isn't a hotel anymore, is it? Isn't it a five-star hotel?

The towering buildings on both sides of the station have a total of sixty-three floors, which can be regarded as a tall building even in the imperial capital. But when they look beyond the plaza around the station, they can see many taller buildings than them.

These high-rise buildings are so high that some of them barely have a roof, and half of them are hidden in the clouds, making people feel like a fairyland.

Zhao Ziying couldn't help but say: "Teacher, I think it's good for us to stay in a railway hotel." ”

"Hehe, all the students of the Three Thousand Academy have come to our territory, how can you let you live in such a place? We have prepared a special place to stay and await your arrival. "At this time, a man wearing a garrison uniform walked over.

Coming to the team of the Three Thousand Academy, he said hello to Ran Ye and the counselor of the second class, and then smiled at An Xiaoyu and nodded, before saying, "Please come with me." ”

Zhao Ziying couldn't help but look back at the two tall buildings, and muttered in a low voice: "I think it's good here, other places, what is it?" ”

"Shut up, you!" Pan Zhangchao couldn't help but say: "They must have arranged a nine-star hotel for us, and when the time comes, all the delicacies of the mountains and seas will be selected by us, and maybe there will be special services." ”

The students around him suddenly became imaginative.

Soon, they came to the edge of the station square, where two buses were waiting, presumably to pick them up. Dong Xiaoguan was stunned for a moment after seeing it: "Isn't this kind of bus a full ride of sixty-five people?" Why two? ”

Leng Yan asked, "You don't know?" This time our internship is actually nationwide, not only the mecha department of the 3000 Academy, but also the interns from other schools, there are a total of so many internship locations in the country, isn't it normal to bump into others? ”

An Xiaoyu was also stunned, she had been obsessed with learning recently, and she had not paid attention to such a thing, so she asked, "Which school's mecha department is interning with us?" ”

"I heard it's Lu Er?" Leng Yan is worthy of being the heir of a military family, and he is very well-informed in this regard.

Ran Ye also said with a smile at this time: "It is indeed the students of the Second Army Academy who are with us, but because Lu Er is closer to another station, the Lie Chen they took is more than ten minutes away from us, let's wait a little." ”

So under the guidance of the counselor, the students of the two classes began to wait in line next to the bus, after all, they were here for internships, not to enjoy happiness. Of course, after so many things, the students of the mecha department have no opinions.

On the contrary, the guard who came here to greet them was a little anxious, and repeatedly said that he would let them get on the bus first, and it would be the same to get on the bus and wait.

Ran Ye just shook his head with a smile and said: "If the other party is an ordinary student, of course we are willing to get on the bus and wait, but the other party is also a mecha army, and everyone is a reserve soldier of the empire, so it is really a bit rude to get on the bus before we meet." ”

The guards had no choice but to give up.

An Xiaoyu secretly yawned, and the sun shone warmly on her body, which made her want to sleep. Although at her level, sleeping is no longer a necessary daily activity, but after getting used to it, it is difficult to quickly abandon it, not to mention that An Xiaoyu also likes the comfort brought by sleeping.

But I've been making up for my homework these days, and I'm crazy about mecha training at night, so I barely make up for all the homework I missed this month. But as soon as the nerves are relaxed, it is easy to get sleepy, especially after the intrigue with the Empire.

The transaction that An Xiaoyu said was reported to the upper echelons of the empire through Guan Jue, and the above also attached great importance to her proposal, but these people have always been competitive, so they have determined a lot of things with An Xiaoyu and signed many contracts.

I have to say that this group of people is a good hand at digging traps, but fortunately I brought Che Zichang, a skilled hand, otherwise I was almost secretly cheated by the empire several times. The loopholes hidden in those regulations, she asked herself if she couldn't see it at all, I was afraid that she would have to help the empire count the money if she was cheated.

But fortunately, Che Zichang was smooth enough, and he singled out all these places and explained them to An Xiaoyu, and the clerk sent by the empire had a green face, and finally had to modify the contract and agreement according to An Xiaoyu's meaning, and then sign it.

Because this is an area she has never touched before, An Xiaoyu has been having a difficult time researching the laws of the empire and contracts lately. She seems to lack talent in this area, and some things simply don't understand what they mean.

Che Zichang's explanation for this is: "The law is actually very simple, but if you want to study how to exploit loopholes, it is a university question, especially if the empire is an official exploiting loopholes." When those regulations were formulated, many of them were the back doors left by themselves, and you were a layman so quick to figure it out? ”

According to him, he also went from the bottom to the top, and after suffering a lot of losses, he accumulated so much experience and exercised a keen sense of smell for these loopholes. An Xiaoyu called the insider, and said that he still gave up.

In short, the matter of cooperation was finally finalized, An Xiaoyu took out part of the experimental results left by Chi Mo and Wei Fangcun and handed them over to the empire to deal with, and the empire reserved many benefits for An Xiaoyu, including technical support, authority opening, position transfer, etc.

Of course, the biggest head is the base of the East Wilderness.

According to the agreement, An Xiaoyu can spread outward through the four secret bases that are now established, each base covers a hundred surrounding mineral bases, and take over first, with the right to transfer and replace the soldiers, and can replace the soldiers with the soldiers of the Eastern Wilderness Army.

It can be said that this is to give the Eastern Wilderness Army a buffer time, and also to those with vested interests in the Eastern Wilderness Base. The Eastern Wilderness Army now has only a few hundred thousand people, and it is impossible to control all the bases in the entire Eastern Wilderness.

Not only is it impossible to drive out the original garrison, but such a small number of manpower is scattered throughout the Eastern Wilderness, and it is estimated that there are not even a few thousand people in one base, so how to deal with the situation when the time comes? What to do if you encounter a beast tide? These are the big questions.

Therefore, opening up the 400 mineral bases around the four military bases of the Eastern Wilderness Army and letting the Eastern Wilderness Army take over is to give a signal to those with vested interests - the mineral bases in the Eastern Wilderness are destined to change hands, and you should evacuate as soon as possible, otherwise when people forcibly come to the door, they will not only take away your things, but also slap you in the face.

What's more, it wasn't your stuff in the first place, it was the stuff of the Eastern Wilderness and the Empire.

Because of the dispersion of the Eastern Wilderness tribes, there is no unified team and management, and the interests in these bases have always been separated. The bigwigs from all sides have reached out and obtained a lot of benefits from it, a large number of benefits that should have belonged to the Donghuang people themselves, but the Donghuang people were unaware of them.

Now, An Xiaoyu wants to take these things back and hand them back into the hands of the Donghuang people themselves.

Of course, there are also many people who don't care, they think that the number of the Eastern Wilderness Army is so small, it is impossible to continue to expand in a short time, and they want to make more money, and wait for the empire to come and warn before leaving. There are even people who think that the Eastern Wilderness Army's operation this time will definitely fail, so they have no intention of leaving at all.

An Xiaoyu knew that these people were destined to be disappointed, and they were going to roll out of the Eastern Wilderness with a swollen face.

Because the development strategy of the Eastern Wilderness Army is simple and established, the reason why Si Mingyu and An Xiaoyu want to return to these bases is not only to control these resources in the hands of the Eastern Wilderness people themselves, but also to make the arms of the Eastern Wilderness people more powerful.

Since the establishment of the army in the Eastern Wilderness, a large number of people in the Eastern Wilderness have been reluctant to join the army, and there are only a few in total, which Xilai has explained to them in detail.

The first is the issue of uprooting. In the past, the management of the Eastern Wilderness troops, the Eastern Wilderness base and the local garrison were separated from each other, forming two systems. The garrisons at the base are all deployed from all over the world, and the local garrisons are stationed close to Shinonome.

This is unacceptable to many people in the Eastern Wilderness, after all, the area of the Eastern Wilderness is very large, if you leave with the garrison, even if it is a time of rotation, it is not so easy to go home, and it is likely that you will not be able to see your family for more than ten years, such conditions discourage them.

Then there is the economic issue.

Today's people in the Eastern Wilderness mostly rely on some simple sandy crops to make a living, and most of the others are doing hard labor in mines and bases to earn coolie money. Of course, there is not much money for these coolies, otherwise the people of Donghuang would not regard the price of making a train as sky-high.

This is because the basic service conditions of the Eastern Wilderness are extremely poor, the transportation and communication are inconvenient, and there is no basic output and medical conditions, so many necessary supplies and medicines for life, including energy blocks, anti-inflammatory drugs, summer medicines, etc., are particularly expensive.

Most of the money they earned was used to buy these things, and even in some places where there was no water source, they had to go to other tribes or empire water trucks to buy water to sustain their lives. After all, not all the underground in the Eastern Wilderness has water, and even if there is water, it may not be drinkable.

In the Eastern Wilderness, the conditions for conscription were very low, and they were provided according to the basic standards of the empire. What exactly are the basic standards of the empire? In fact, in Dongyun, such a salary post is enough to maintain the life of a family, but Donghuang cannot.

The price of a box of cold medicine in the Eastern Wilderness is even five or even seven times that of the outside, so that the subsidy of the regular army is not as good as the money they earn by doing coolies. And the higher-paid base garrisons themselves don't recruit new soldiers from them, so they have to choose to do hard labor.

Finally, there is the question of belonging.

In the eyes of the people of the Eastern Wilderness, it is still not so easy for the people of the Eastern Wilderness to get along with outsiders. This is not just a matter of thinking about the people of Donghuang, but a mutual interaction.

Outsiders always feel that the people of the East Wilderness are stubborn, strong, and old-fashioned, and they feel that the outside of the East Wilderness is an advanced scientific and technological society, and the primitive way of life of the East Wilderness people is destined to lead to the backwardness of the East Wilderness people from the heart, so they often belittle the East Wilderness people directly in their hearts several times before choosing to treat them.

The people of the Eastern Wilderness have the beliefs and persistence of the people of the Eastern Wilderness, and they can accept that outsiders despise them and dislike their attitudes and customs, but they do not allow outsiders to always try to change their way of life and worldview.

You must know that they survive in this world by such a way of life and attitude towards the world. The Eastern Wilderness is desolate and dangerous, and they have survived to the present with their bare hands, generation after generation, and they cannot accept those who are armed with high-tech weapons running rampant in groups, but they do not know the hardships of the Eastern Wilderness at all, but regard this hardship as backward people pointing fingers at them.

To change these lives is to erase their lives and deny the courage of their ancestors for thousands of years.

Therefore, although these garrisons maintained friendly relations with some tribes in the Eastern Wilderness, they had left a very deep impression on the people of the Eastern Wilderness. If you go and ask a person from the Eastern Wilderness, would you like to be friends with the garrison of the base?

He will tell you that if the other person also really wants to be friends with him, of course he thinks it's nothing.

But if you ask him again, would you like to put on the same uniform as they did and join the team...... The result is definitely not going to be too rosy.

And once the base of the Eastern Wilderness falls into the hands of An Xiaoyu, An Xiaoyu can use the name of the Eastern Wilderness people themselves to recruit troops in the nearby tribes. There will definitely be many people in the nearby tribes who are willing to receive the salary allowance of the base garrison, and within half a year, they can basically take shape and replace the original base garrison.

In this way, the garrison of the base can return to the original subordinate army garrison and strengthen the local protection. The Eastern Wilderness base and the surrounding mining areas can accommodate the people of the Eastern Wilderness who originally had no chance to make money from mining, and even attract people from the Central Plains of the empire to come to the Eastern Wilderness to do hard labor.

This was not only as simple as liberating the economy of the Eastern Wilderness, but also led to the employment of the unemployed in the empire. Especially when such a great world of cultivation opens, there are bound to be more and more cultivators in the world, and the remaining ordinary people and those who are not talented enough to only cultivate to the young master will have a good place to go.

Of course, the place chosen in this way is not pretty, but compared to allowing them to live in the cultivation world where the genius fell out, the Eastern Wilderness is obviously a pure land.

And once these people choose to come to the Eastern Wilderness, it will definitely promote the integration of the Eastern Wilderness and outsiders, so that the estrangement between the Eastern Wilderness and the outside will be further eliminated. began to let these people who had only known the Eastern Wilderness in documentaries before learn more about how the stubbornness and worldview they did not understand were formed.

It can be said that this initiative promoted by An Xiaoyu is absolutely beneficial to the empire. The only drawback is that those who once controlled the resources of the Eastern Wilderness will be unhappy and put pressure on the empire when faced with such a situation.

But once the empire controls the production of longevity enhancement pills, it will definitely occupy the absolute initiative.

That's it, the empire had to fight with her for almost half a month, stumbling to sign a lot of contracts, agreeing to many treaties, and conducting many negotiations that An Xiaoyu thought were unnecessary, and then this matter was completely finalized.

Che Zichang and Si Mingyu said: "It's normal, this is a bureaucracy. ”

An Xiaoyu felt: "It's better to kill these bureaucrats." ”