Aspirations for Nation and Beauty: Section 24 Peace Grand Meeting (1)

The situation in northern Luzon is a bit delicate. According to intelligence reports, Frederick has reorganized his army and practiced martial arts. Compared with the defeat of the Pasha people a few years ago, there is not much difference in military strength, and now it is obvious that Lu The Song people and the Komini people formed an alliance, and the female archduchess of the Free Dominion was the one who threaded the needle, and also provided a lot of financial support and loans for the restoration of Luzon's military strength, otherwise the Luzon people would not be able to survive in the country. Got this far in a short time.

According to the information obtained by the security department in Northern Luzon, the attitude of some Andean people in Vito Mansion has become increasingly ambiguous, and some people have even secretly colluded with the Luzon people, but because of the overall situation, the security department No major action has been taken, which bothers Wufeng a little. Wufeng also knew that it was a coincidence that the capture of Northern Luzon was a coincidence. If it wasn't for the Luzon people's own civil strife and the invasion of the Pasha people, the fertile land of Northern Luzon would not be their turn to enjoy anyway.

With the gradual increase in investment and publicity in Northern Luzon in the past two years, funds from the interior of the empire have also begun to swarm in, and the conditions of light, heat and soil irrigation are far stronger than the natural conditions in the Northwest, making Northern Luzon very difficult. It soon became an indispensable raw material and export base for the entire Northwest. Cash crops such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco have broad market prospects in both the Western and Eastern Continents. Coffee was popular in the Empire, Cane sugar has even taken up more than half of the beet sugar market. Even areas like Taixuan, which used to be mainly beet planted, have gradually changed to cotton planting. The unique luxury goods, coupled with the development of Shuangdui northern iron ore, has driven the development of many related industries such as metallurgy and ironware manufacturing, and has become an important supply base for exports to the Indian region.

This huge success has made it impossible and absolutely impossible for the Northwest to lose this piece of land, and the economic take-off has also made local residents of all ethnic groups gradually recognize their own rule, and its strategic location determines that it not only It can form a pincer attack on the countries in the Western Regions that have been vacillating, and it will be a solid cornerstone for him to set foot in the Central Continent in the future. In this case, he has to carefully consider the possible consequences every time he takes a step.

Until now, Wufeng still hasn't made up his mind whether to draw troops from the Northern Luzon Army to join the Eastern Front. The defense in northern Luzon should be satisfactory, but what about the Northern Expedition when the Luzon people led by Frederick took advantage of their Eastern Expedition? Can it withstand the Luzon people's offensive? Wufeng has no bottom in his heart.

It's not that he doesn't have confidence in Helian Bo, but Frederick's military genius was surprising in the battle with the Pashas, ​​and Wufeng couldn't help but admit the courage of a strong man to cut his wrists, even if he had to give up at the beginning Giaxicheng's decision was also a rather painful choice. Then a series of counterattacks were launched on the front line of the Salween River, which was also impressive. After the war, the contradiction between the Komini people and the Pasha people was used to cleverly sow dissension, and I lost no time to turn enemies into friends with the Komini people. Forming an alliance, Wufeng had no choice but to maximize the danger of this guy, so even when he used troops on the Tengger Grassland, Wufeng never relaxed his guard against Luzon.

The Grassland Peace Celebration Party was held in the Northwest Ethnic Art Palace in Qingyang Prefecture. This is an oval-shaped luxury building that can accommodate twelve thousand people. It was built four years ago. In the words of Morun, the city guard of Qingyang, it was specially built to express the reverence of the people of all ethnic groups in the northwest for living and working in peace and contentment under the leadership of the great leader Li Wufeng. It cost a total of three million imperial gold coins and took more than three years to build. Finish. This was an astronomical figure for the finance of the Northwest four years ago. Xiao Tang, who was also the director of finance of the Northwest at the time, denounced it as "a waste of money for the people and a disaster for the country and the people." The government's finances were used as collateral to jointly borrow from several banks and banks that had just established a foothold in the northwest, and only then did they barely raise enough funds to start construction.

It cannot but be said that Morun's feat was quite forward-looking at the time. The huge amount of work required a lot of labor. In addition, it was also a good way to unite the hearts of the people at that time. Although he encountered a lot of financial troubles, under the pressure of Wufeng, Xiaotang still had to agree that the Northwest County Finance Department would fund the project. Part of the payment was made. Afterwards, Xiao Tang angrily denounced at the Northwest Administrative Work Conference that this was a typical "Molun's beauty, and the whole Northwest County pays for it" face project, which caused numerous complaints from the parties involved.

The whole building is completely built in Western style. Qingyang City Guard Mo Lun, who has always admired the architectural style of the Western Continent, specially invited architects from the Western Continent to design the stand. Thirty trumpet arches per tier. They are collected by two circular arcades on the outside, and the uppermost solid wall is added to form a 30-meter-high facade. The trumpet arch opens on the facade, and there are 30 openings on each floor. The bottom floor is the entrance to the loggia, and the upper two floors are window openings. The stands recede layer by layer, forming a stepped slope. Stairs are arranged in the horn arch, leading to each area of ​​the stand respectively. According to the number of the admission ticket, the audience can find their own entrance, and then find their own stairs. After climbing up, they can easily reach their seats. The entire Art Palace can accommodate 12,000 people, and the entry and exit are orderly, very smooth, and not chaotic.

The outside of the Art Palace is built with gray-white tuff, which is extremely majestic. The lower three floors are decorated with coupon columns, and the top floor is divided by pilasters. The shield, with its protruding corbels, holds up the mast above. The mast is used to pull the suspension cables to spread the tarpaulin to shade. There are 30 bays in a circle, and only the four gates at both ends of the long and short axes are slightly different from each other, but its oval shape and column style have produced rich light and shadow changes and contrasts, while its simplicity is Make it appear more grand and solemn. There is a statue in front of each window opening on the second and third floors, which is very vivid against the black shadow behind it, embellishing the Art Palace noblely and vigorously.

Huge projects require a lot of volcanic ash. Fortunately, there are many volcanoes in the mountains at the junction of Qingyang and North Luzon. The volcanic ash is inexhaustible. The transportation industry of the Wei family in Qingyang also took this opportunity to start digging the first pot of gold, and thus began to move towards the road of the first transportation family in the northwest. Not only is the scenery near the volcano group beautiful, but there are also many hot spring groups. Later, it was built as a special hot spring hall for Jiedushi, and became a holy place for leisure for Wufeng and his harem women.

After Xiao Tang, director of Northwest Administration, made a speech, the party officially began. All ethnic groups in Northwest China with strong ethnic customs came to the stage to perform songs and dances representing the characteristics of each ethnic group to show the great achievements of all ethnic groups in Northwest China. Great achievements under the leadership of Mr. Yum!

Accompanied by singing and dancing, someone sitting in the huge central bay also began to chatter and complain.

"Look, look, sir, how is it? What did Master Xiao say at the beginning? I Morun's face alone? Now this is the first time I use it, but he is showing the limelight. We people of all ethnic groups in the Northwest Everyone's eyes are fixed on Mr. Xiao's face. You are all the leaders of our various tribes in the Northwest. Look, now our Mr. Xiao is beaming with joy. Who still remembers that I, Mo Lun, built The suffering that this dilapidated house received in the first place?" The obese man sitting in the lower corner shook his head and vented his dissatisfaction filled with righteous indignation.

Wufeng regretted that he shouldn't have put this guy in the same room as himself. Originally, he thought that he had some credit for the completion of this art palace. In addition, he was also the local chief executive of the Northwest capital, and even other officials They were all lined up in a few other bays, and he sat alone with himself and the heads of various ethnic groups in the Northwest~IndoMTL.com~ But this is good, it caused a whole lot of trouble, I'm afraid there will be no peace tonight.

"Come here!" Seeing that someone was still eloquent, Wufeng frowned slightly and rolled his eyes.

"My lord, what are your orders?" The guard immediately stood behind Wufeng.

"Go and invite Mr. Mi Fengmi next door to come over and add a seat next to Mr. Morun. I think Mr. Mo is having a lot of fun talking tonight. I must have a lot of common words with Mr. Mi." Wufeng said lightly. .

The person who was flicking his three-inch tongue to the people next to him was stunned for a moment, as if he had suddenly stuffed a duck egg in his mouth, he couldn't speak, and the guards ordered him to go out Let's go, and then shouted eagerly: "Slow!"

"What's the matter? Lord Mo?" Wufeng looked at the swollen and red face with a half-smile.

"Uh, um, I suddenly have a sore throat. I'm afraid it's because my throat has caught a cold and I can't speak, so there's no need to invite Master Mi over." .

"Oh? Mr. Mo caught the wind and cold all of a sudden? What should we do? Mr. Mo was so generous just now, why all of a sudden now...?" Wu Feng looked surprised.

"Uh, there are unforeseen circumstances, this, this is inevitable." The fat man's voice was really hoarse at this time.

"Since that's the case, let's forget it. Master Mo still needs to rest his throat. Let's enjoy the singing and dancing tonight. Fortunately, Master Mo's ears have not suffered from sudden illness. People, health is very important!" Wu Feng Nodding his head, he waved his hand to signal the guard to step back, and a slight smile crossed the corner of his mouth.