Monarch of Evernight: Twelve Islands

bsp;Nan Ruohuai was very self-aware of his status. He was still smiling and showed no embarrassment. He didn't take the city lord's attitude to heart at all.

Qianye asked: "Do you know this person? What is his relationship with that fifth brother?"

Nan Ruohuai said: "Although he doesn't know me, I know him. Fifth Brother is one of the four most promising people to compete for the throne. The recent change of Yuanjing City Lord should also be due to this factor. . This Mr. Luo is Fifth Brother’s uncle, his biological uncle.”

Nan Ruowai emphasized the last few words, and Qianye understood them.

Qianye looked City Lord Luo up and down and said calmly: "From now on, this island will be the territory of the Thirty-one Princes. Even if there is no chance that Prince Zheng will be the king, he will have to fight for it. Either you surrender now, or Just die."

City Lord Luo was shocked and angry when he heard this, and shouted: "You, you are treason!"

"It seems that it is impossible for you to surrender, then go and die." Qianye's face sank, he raised his **** together, and swung in the air. There was only a flash of blood, and City Lord Luo's head was already high. Fly high!

Seeing this scene, Nan Ruohuai's face turned pale, and his heart beat fast out of his chest. It's not like he's never seen someone killed before, and it's not like his hands were never stained with blood. However, at that moment, he felt a mountain of pressure coming out of thin air, and he couldn't move for an instant.

Nan Ruohuai truly felt at this moment that Qianye didn't even need to raise his hand if he wanted to kill him, just a thought. City Lord Luo is also well-known in the royal capital. He is one of the few powerful people associated with the royal family, and he has a record of leapfrogging enemies.

For such a well-known person with excellent status and martial arts, if he didn't even have the slightest reaction in front of Qianye, let alone fight back, and even kill a chicken, he would probably die with more dignity.

The city of Yuanjing is already in chaos.

To the people on this remote floating island, City Lord Luo is already a god-like figure. Such people have been killed, so what else can they do?

Qianye pointed towards Yuanjing City and said: "When the Marines enter the city, any resistance will be killed without mercy!"

The transport ship sailed straight to the city head and threw the elite soldiers on the city wall. Many defenders threw their weapons directly to the ground. Anyone who had the slightest intention of resisting was killed on the spot like a melon or a vegetable.

In less than an hour, Qianye was already sitting on a high seat in the city lord's palace. On the left below were the mercenary generals he had brought with him. They were only three or five people. On the right, they were crowded. They were all from all walks of life in the city. A person with a head and a face.

The roar of guns and artillery could be heard from time to time outside the window, and occasionally there were a few particularly shrill screams, which made the so-called big shots in Yuanjing City restless. In fact, Qianye brought far more mercenary generals than the ones in front of him. Those who were not present were busy taking over important facilities and buildings in the city.

Qianye waited for the room to quiet down, coughed, and said, "This is His Highness the Thirty-One Prince, everyone knows it."

"Of course, of course!"

"Like thunder!"

"It has been famous for a long time. Only when I saw it today did I know what it is to be a dragon or a phoenix among men!"

Flattery came like a tide, photographing Nan Ruohuai as if she was in a cloud, almost forgetting where she was. Fortunately, he still had his last few moments of clarity, knowing that these people actually had no way of knowing who Prince Thirty-One was, and all these flatteries were just to give Qianye and the battleships outside the face.

But they were right. With Qianye and the fleet around, Nan Ruohuai rose from a passerby to a hot candidate. If Qianye's origins were not unknown, Nan Ruohuai might have become one of the three most popular people in one fell swoop.

The sound of gunfire still sounded outside the window from time to time. Qianye said to everyone: "It seems that there are still a lot of rebels and rebels in the city. Ruohuai, how does Zheng Guo convict people of rebellion now?"

Nan Ruohuai said casually: "Zheng mainly followed the Qin system. Regarding the conviction of treason, the convictions were similar in all countries. Once verified, they were all executed by the Manchus."

He opened his mouth and came, obviously the prince's basic skills are still solid.

Qianye nodded and said calmly: "It's your first offense, so you don't need to be punished so harshly. You've already shown up. Anyone who dares to resist at this moment is treason. It's enough to kill the whole family. The clan members don't need to implicated."

"Sir, you are kind!" Nan Ruohuai praised.

But the leading figures in the city couldn't sit still, and some of them broke into sweat on the spot. When Qianye saw him, he didn't say anything, and said in a friendly manner: "If you have anything to arrange, please hurry up. In half an hour, I want to go around the city."

"Thank you, sir! I do have some important matters at home that need to be dealt with quickly."

Similar sounds continued, and in the blink of an eye, more than half of the people ran away. Qianye gave them an extra half hour. After half an hour, anyone who dared to resist would be killed. Even City Lord Luo was slaughtered like a chicken or a dog, who else could escape?

For the few people who stayed, you looked at me and I looked at you, their eyes were full of vigilance for meeting similar people.

Qianye's eyes were slightly closed, as if he was falling asleep, until half an hour passed, then he stood up and said, "Let's go to the city for a walk."

Yuanjing City is simple and beautiful, with white stone as the base and mostly decorated with bright colors. There are not many traces of fighting in the city, and the damage is not big. After all, the resisters are still a minority. With the help of major families to suppress it, the few resisters are probably turned into corpses.

The most prosperous commercial street in the city is next to the airship landing site, and every store is busy restocking the shelves. Obviously the war broke out suddenly and they wanted to close the store urgently. They also got the news that the war was decided and Qianye was coming to patrol the streets. They were afraid that the depression in the market would be regarded as passive resistance and thus anger this terrible big shot.

Qianye strolled by, occasionally walking into a shop he was interested in and asking a few random questions.

Yuanjing City is the only external port on the floating island. Most of the shops sell local specialties, luxury goods that are rarely produced on the island, and various industrial products. The floating island is still mainly based on agriculture and mining. The only industrial industry is smelting, which smelts various raw ores into basic metal ingots and then transports them back to the kingdom.

Most of the products produced on the floating islands are basic materials. Although there must be various rare and strategic minerals, they cannot be mined due to insufficient technology, so they have always been deposited there.

While Qianye was watching, he was chatting with Song Lun and Nan Ruohuai beside him. In front of a shop, his eyes were suddenly attracted by a piece of ore with green spots. He picked it up and looked at it for a while.

This ore is called barium, which is a complex of various rare minerals and will be used in high-grade engines and ballistae. Qianye didn't expect to see this kind of raw ore here, and he just threw it randomly where the ordinary items were.

Qianye said to Song Lun: "I didn't expect that there is such a thing here. Don't they use it themselves?"

Song Lun said: "They should not use it."

"Why?"

Nan Ruohuai on the side replied: "The refining cost of this kind of green barium stone is extremely high, and its application field is extremely narrow. To be honest, the technology of high-level engines and crossbows is only available in the empire, and our little Zheng Guo does not have this ability at all. Even if it is refined and mined, it can only be sold to the empire for the purchase price, and we will make little profit."

Qianye weighed the green barium stone, shook his head, threw it to Song Lun, and said: "Keep it first, buy as much as you have."

"Yes, sir."

The shop owner was overjoyed and thanked him profusely.

Walking along the way, I made a lot of discoveries, which made Qianye very satisfied. As long as these minerals are processed well, they can be put into use immediately. After all, there is already an entire aerospace craft engine production line in the neutral land.

The production line in the neutral land requires resources, Zheng's resources require downstream industry exports, and the core technology is in the hands of Ningyuan Heavy Industry. The three parties check and balance each other, and no one can do without the other. With such a key link located in three places, no matter what happens, Qianye, who holds the Hall of Heroes, can turn all three industries into scrap metal as long as he cuts off the void passage. Therefore, even a big shot like Zhang Buzhou, due to lack of key resources, can only watch the development of Nan Qingcheng, and the benefits of grabbing it are limited, and the gain outweighs the loss.

Qianye asked a few more questions. What he didn’t understand was that Zheng State had a lot of resources, so why didn’t it develop well. Nan Ruohuai explained concisely and concisely.

In fact, the Zheng State does not lack insightful people, but it is a vast country with a sparse population, and the human race’s living environment is not stable. Most of the time, they have to fight against the surrounding dark race tribes, and the need for immediate combat power is extremely urgent. For Zheng Guo, the fastest way to obtain high-end equipment is to go to the empire to participate in the war, obtain military merit, and exchange military merit for it.

If we develop on our own, it will take decades to build a complete military industry system. Even if it is completed, if Zheng Guo cannot keep up with independent research and development and still relies entirely on the empire for technological output, the equipment it creates will inevitably fall behind. The investment in core technology research and development is another astronomical figure.

After listening to the explanation, Qianye shook his head and said: "It has been a hundred years since the founding of Zheng Guo. If you had worked hard to establish a complete system from the beginning, you should have built it by now, right? Research and development cannot cover the entire line, and screening It is not impossible to take advantage of the country's talent advantage and find one or two points to break through, and it is not impossible to have so many resources and have to sell them at a garbage price."

Nan Ruohuai had never thought about this truth and was stunned for a moment.

At night, after Qianye had finished his dinner, a detailed mineral and resource production table of the floating island was placed in front of him. The data on the form is very detailed, including not only the production and reserves of the categories, but also the introduction of important minerals and the surrounding environment, and a distribution map is attached.

Nan Ruohuai's ability to compile such a piece of information in a short period of time is commendable.

After reading this list, Qianye has a rough idea. The resources on the floating island are at least enough to sustain the cost of the initial activities. It won't be enough until all the subsequent large forces arrive.

Qianye opened the detailed map of Zheng State and said to Nan Ruohuai: "What else is worthwhile about the outer islands? In addition, in the cities of Zheng State, where are there more systematic workshops?"

Nan Ruohuai had done his homework a long time ago, stretched out his hand to point on the map, and said: "This is Liaocheng."

Liaocheng is located in the west of Zheng State, also on the edge of the mainland. This city has a developed metallurgical system, with numerous blast furnaces and workshops of all sizes. Basically, most of the people in the city rely on the metal industry for their livelihood.

Due to their geographical location, Liaocheng and Floating Island have formed a de facto complementary relationship over the years. Most of the metal ingots transported from the floating island will be refined in Liaocheng, or crudely made into various metal products, and then transported to the royal capital or inland.