Of course, what Shang Weiyang said to Zhang Long was not a joke, he was serious.

A month later, all the mature workers and large equipment that were in charge of the Huaxia subway project boarded the train to the Huahan border.

Shield machine, this kind of large-scale underground operation equipment has only been available in the Chinese Empire so far.

Therefore, no one could have imagined that more than 30 meters underground on the Sino-Han border, a tunnel connecting the two countries is being excavated.

The Huahan underground tunnel project designed by the Ministry of Infrastructure Construction can be described as the most ambitious project on the Tianjing continent at present.

The tunnel had to assume the role of not only secretly transporting supplies, but even taking into account future troop and ordnance shipments.

So the entire tunnel is up to 30 meters in diameter and can accommodate ten tank cars side by side.

This is also thanks to the magical energy of spiritual power and formation on the Celestial Crystal Continent, if such a project on the earth in the previous life would also belong to the project of the century.

However, even this is expected to take up to a year to build the tunnel, mainly because the border is full of stone and there is a lot of groundwater.

Every time the shield machine advances a certain distance, it needs to pump water, pour cement, and strengthen the formation.

So even with such a sharp weapon as a shield machine, Zhang Long still gave a one-year construction period.

Although the secret project of the Huahan Border Tunnel is huge, it is indeed a top-secret project and is not to be said to the public.

At present, the hottest hot spot on the Tianjing Continent is Shang Weiyang's comeback.

At the beginning, Shang Weiyang advanced to become a strong god, and after announcing the establishment of the Academy of Sciences, he plunged into scientific research.

More than a year is not a long time, but it is enough to make some people who don't pay much attention to the Chinese Empire forget Shang Weiyang.

For example, Qin Zheng of the Qin Dynasty, Cao Fan. Another example is Li Yang, Li Feng, and Ren Haijiang of the Tang Dynasty.

In the days when Shang Weiyang was engaged in scientific research, they were the trendsetters on the Tianjing Continent.

In the reform of the Qin Dynasty vigorously promoted by Qin Zheng and Cao Fan, in just one year, it became rapidly rich and powerful compared to the Qin and Guang periods, and the people in China finally got out of the stage of starving to death if they were not full.

However, there are advantages and disadvantages, and a large amount of foreign capital colludes with domestic capital, resulting in the complete collapse of the domestic small-scale peasant economy.

Even some small landlords could not withstand the crush of industrialization. The income from farming is constantly compressed, and land annexation is even more severe.

The rise of large farms often represents the displacement of countless small farmers.

All these people have been absorbed into the factories by the new industrial factories, and they are being exploited frantically every day.

Originally, the day was at most sunrise and sunset, and you could take a nap in the middle, and there was leisure and leisure.

Now in the factory, twelve hours of labor a day, only a little rest for some traditional festivals for a day or two, but such conditions are still a joint venture factory with the Chinese Empire.

More workshop-style private factories not only work 16 hours a day, but also have less than half the annual vacation of joint venture factories.

But this is not the saddest, the saddest thing is the tradition of contract labor that has been handed down from the era of the small peasant economy.

For example, if a child of a family who has no land and wants to learn to be a carpenter, he needs to learn the trade.

During the learning period, the master did not give a penny, but the apprentice had to do all kinds of heavy work.

After such a period of time, the master will teach the craft, but even so, the master will often leave a unique job, and keep hanging the apprentice so that he cannot leave the master to serve him at a low price.

Such a tradition is logically not based on survival in the industrial age, after all, the industrial age is about efficiency, and factory owners want every worker to become a skilled worker in a day, so all kinds of training are carried out from the beginning and are treated equally.

However, the main door of the factory grasped the core point of the contract workers, that is, they had no land and had to go to the factory, otherwise they would starve to death.

The free paid training that was often carried out in the Chinese Empire came to the Qin Dynasty and the traditional bonded labor system combined with the training of people who charged sky-high prices.

Often, as soon as you sign a contract with the factory, you will be sold for at least 20 years without pay.

Therefore, although the products produced by the factories of the Qin Dynasty are low-end, they are cheap in cost, and they often still have good sales.

Although Qin Zheng received a large amount of tax revenue for domestic infrastructure construction, he and Cao Fan have now felt the pressure from the people at the bottom.

Recently, the workers of several factories have been overwhelmed and have chosen to die with the factory owners, and according to the statistics of the Chinese Empire, the suicide rate of the people of the Qin Dynasty is the highest in the Tianjing Continent.

Coupled with the fact that his spies had already detected it, the Workers' Party forces in the Chinese Empire began to infiltrate like the working class.

As a result, Qin Zheng and Cao Fan's cabinet discussed again and prepared to follow the example of the Huaxia joint venture factory to establish a minimum working standard and a minimum wage standard.

This news caused an uproar in the Qin Dynasty, and the emerging capitalist class was of course fully opposed to such a bill.

However, factories with a joint venture background do support such an answer, intending to increase the cost of small workshops and further seize the market.

As a result, the Qin Dynasty is now full of newspaper debates, and cabinet members everywhere are constantly ups and downs.

There is quite a kind of momentum that you can stop me on stage.

And Wang Qi, Ma Tao and others, who studied at Mingyue College with Shang Weiyang, have retired to the government and the opposition, they can't understand such a world, and at this time, they can't help but envy Zhang Chen, Yang Meng and others who ran away with Shang Weiyang.

And Lu Se and others, who were at odds with Shang Weiyang at the beginning, opened factories one after another, like their teacher Zhai Qingquan, and made countless fortunes.

These people, who were full of benevolence and morality, are now the most fierce opponents of the basic wage standard and the maximum number of hours worked per day.

Even Zhai Qingquan had to sigh that the children he taught Mengxue at the beginning have really changed the world.

After talking about the Qin Dynasty, let's talk about the Tang Dynasty.

The Tang Dynasty's influential figures on the mainland were Li Yang, the two Li Feng brothers, and of course, Li Feng's chief staff Ren Haijiang.

Needless to say, it is not an exaggeration to say that Li Yang is the biggest capitalist in the entire Tianjing Continent.

The evaluation of the rich and rival country is the greatest affirmation of him, and it is also the most true evaluation.

Countless gossip tabloids have pulled out Li Feng's tragic experience in the Yue Wangfu, and his family history has also been constantly compiled and mythical.

Now Li Yang has become the idol of all the feudal dynasty and national businessmen on the Tianjing Continent.

Just imagine who doesn't want to be a huge rich man who is helpless even the emperor, and judging from the news from the outside world, Li Yang is destined to leave a name in history.

When he was a teenager, he was disliked by his parents because of the struggle for the throne, and his brothers were excluded and could only travel around to study.

Then, when the Chinese Empire was not yet established, he had the courage to invest in Huang Xiucheng, who was poor at that time and later became the financial giant of the Chinese Empire.

And with this, he got the first pot of gold in his life, and then his wealth snowballed.

When the Tang Dynasty was hostile to the unstable Huaxia Alliance, the brave team Huaxia Alliance provided a lot of help to it.

Later, with this incident, Li Yang gained the friendship of the Chinese Empire, not only to help him with business guidance, but also to export various high-tech equipment without hesitation, so that his strength was further expanded.

In the end, the territory controlled by Li Yang seemed to have become a state within a state of the Tang Dynasty. If it weren't for the fact that Li Yang and Tang Huang didn't want to use troops, and Li Yang also paid taxes according to the law, the current Tang Dynasty would have been split a long time ago.

If Li Yang's growth path is the counterattack and rise, then Li Feng is a well-deserved ups and downs.

As the eldest son of the Yue Wangfu, Li Feng has no more resources in his hands than Li Yang.

From the beginning of his childhood, he was talented and intelligent, and until the establishment of the Huaxia Alliance, his fifth brother Li Yang's contact with the Huaxia Alliance became a turning point in his life.

The repeated suppressions not only failed to defeat Li Yang, but made Li Yang rebel out of the Yue Wangfu and go all out to join the camp of the Huaxia Alliance.

The next thing was that Li Yang rose together with the Huaxia Empire, and he Li Feng was completely compared to Li Yang.

Until recent years, Li Feng began to learn from Li Yang's model, not only vigorously building infrastructure, but also paying more attention to talents.

Today, 50% of the copycat products on the market in the Tang Dynasty are monopolized by Li Feng, and the remaining 50% are also inextricably linked with Li Feng.

In the recent period, Li Feng has been in the sphere of influence controlled by the Tang Emperor, and his assets have begun to expand rapidly.

Not only that, but its influence in the military and political forces is also increasing, not only all the generals of the border guards have been bought by it, but even in the cabinet of the Tang Dynasty. Many important positions are already Li Feng's people.

Li Feng's sudden expansion is inseparable from one person, that is Ren Haijiang.

It was Ren Haijiang who persuaded Li Feng to buy border guards and smuggle supplies such as grain and medicinal materials to the Han Dynasty.

With this exclusive business with the Han Dynasty, Li Feng quickly swelled up, invested money in factory construction, used money to buy court officials, and expanded smuggling with military figures.

As a result, Li Feng now, in just one year, is about to put the Tang Emperor in the air and confront Li Yangxing.

And Ren Haijiang, who offered the plan at the beginning, was also placed in the border guards to facilitate his smuggling business with the Han Dynasty.

These people are all the influential figures on the Tianjing Continent during Shang Weiyang's scientific research in this year.

The media reported on them even more than Zhang Zhiping of the Chinese Empire.

After all, now that the Chinese Empire has now stabilized, the news is all about building roads here and bridges there, or which laboratory will develop major scientific progress.

To tell the truth, such news has not stopped since before the founding of the Chinese Empire, and the people have long been accustomed to it, or have been immune to such news.

Therefore, the media focused on Qin Zheng, Cao Fan, Li Yang, Li Feng and others who were full of topics.

However, now that Shang Weiyang has returned, everyone knows that this prosperous era was created by Shang Weiyang.

Everything he did was earth-shattering at the time, so this time Shang Weiyang reappeared in the public eye, and people instinctively thought that Shang Weiyang was afraid to make a big news this time.

However, Shang Weiyang did not disappoint, and in addition to the unspeakable things such as building the Huahan underground tunnel and secretly assisting the rebel forces of the Han Dynasty, Shang Weiyang also made a big news.

A month after Shang Weiyang's return, that is, when Zhang Long officially set off to build the Huahan Underground Tunnel.

Shang Weiyang announced to the whole country that the entire Chinese Empire had entered a state of three-level combat readiness, and all reserves and militias had entered the conscription mode.

Shang Weiyang can be said to have made both the Tang Dynasty and the Qin Dynasty very nervous, and everyone speculated why Shang Weiyang did this and who he was going to fight against.

However, Shang Weiyang's decision did surprise everyone, and Shang Weiyang actually ordered the Huaxia People's Army to start marching like the Ten Thousand Demon Mountain Range.

And this operation is also called the Great Development of the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains.

Such a move can be said to be the first of its kind for mankind, since the First Emperor established the human kingdom.

All human beings are passive to resist the invasion of demon beasts, and it has never been said that human beings have taken the initiative to enter the Ten Thousand Demon Mountain Range.

And the other side of the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains will always be a mystery for humans.

However, since Shang Weiyang subdued Xiaobai with the Slave Beast Seal, he also had a certain understanding of the Demon Country on the other side of the Ten Thousand Demon Mountain Range.

And the Chinese Empire has the defense of the Great Wall muskets and cannons, and the demon beasts have already given up the conventional attack on the Chinese Empire.

And the information obtained from Xiaobai shows that although there are many demon beasts in the Ten Thousand Demon Mountain Range, they are completely nothing compared to the assembled demon beasts in the Demon Country.

That's why Shang Weiyang's order came in.

The purpose of this order is actually twofold, one is that from the current point of view, it is likely that in three years, the demon beasts will invade the human world on a large scale from the Han Dynasty.

Therefore, sending troops into the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains now can completely achieve the purpose of military training.

And the second purpose is that the code name of this operation has already stated, the Great Development of the Ten Thousand Demon Mountain Range.

The formation of the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains has always been a mystery, and it is undeniable that the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains and the One Hundred Thousand Mountains have played a role in isolating the country of demons.

However, except for the 100,000 Great Mountains, the Ten Thousand Demon Mountain Range has never been developed by humans.

Now Shang Weiyang thinks that he already has this strength, and of course he will not let go of this treasure mountain that is close in front of him.

So two months after the mobilization order was issued, the first mountain field army began to cross the Great Wall and stationed in the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains.

During this period, the troops received a large number of demon soldiers and demon beast attacks at the level of demon generals.

The monster category atlas also began to be frantically updated at this time.

These soldiers and monster research scholars don't know how much of a role the monster category atlas will play in the national war against monsters in the future.

They are still just going deep into the Ten Thousand Demon Mountain Range, and they have begun to camp and spread, and when they find a demon beast, they begin to record its attack characteristics, weaknesses, and living habits.

And with the First Mountain Field Army successfully taking root in the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains.

The Second Mountain Field Army also began to march to the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains, but unlike the First Army, this time there were not only soldiers and demon beast scholars, but also a large number of mineral exploration personnel, archaeologists, and a large number of intelligence personnel.

As for what the intelligence officers are doing here, it is obvious that Shang Weiyang has already begun to plan to uncover the mystery of the Demon Country.