Chapter 871. Decades of Empire
In 250 AD, the ninth year of Phoenix in the Great Wei Dynasty!
On the coast of Xuzhou, countless warships and sails were like clouds, and the bells were jingling like heavy rain. Wang Hou's heavy nautical battleships had completely replaced the old building ships, and the cannons were also installed in Wu with the activities of pirates. The Yangtze River was no longer a barrier to the south of the Yangtze River. The Great Wei Navy, who was proficient in naval battles, could use a huge fleet to carry tens of thousands of soldiers to log in at any point in the long southeast coastline, and no longer had to cross the Yangtze River, forcing the Wu army to start building a naval division.
However, this time, it was not Cao Wei who launched an attack on the Wu Kingdom, but the Wu army took the initiative to advance north.
What is particularly strange is that the two confrontational fleets did not even have a single word Wu, but they all hung the flag of the Great Wei. Even this war was started because the State of Wu wanted the State of Wei to annex Wu and accept the three states of Wu. They took the initiative to ask for annexation, and they all came to the door to cut you down and forced you to agree. This is probably rare in the entire history.
What the hell is this?
Therefore, the old commander of the Wu army, who was responsible for commanding the fleet, Lu Xun, a genius who defeated Liu Bei more than 20 years ago, is still depressed now.
It seemed that the old commander was not very interested. The young man next to him, who was wearing a beautiful prince clothes and particularly gorgeous clothes, patted his shoulder with great enthusiasm.
"The interests of the people of Jiangdong depend on your battle today!"
"Some family understands, don't worry, the King of Wu, and the family is determined to fight!"
"Come on! Shengfan, I will issue an ultimatum to the opposite sea commander General Chen Dinglou. If I do not agree to my Jiangdong's request, I will destroy his Jianghuai Navy now!"
"Come on, the old marshal, I will go to fight for you!"
Seeing that Lu Xun was in a state, he smiled relaxedly. The young man actually hugged the two beautiful Jiangdong girls beside him, shook proudly towards the flagship tower, muttering while walking.
"The beauty of Wu Yue is so good! No wonder my father had to tie down his mother when he kidnapped the votes!"
And what is particularly strange is that the flag held by the tall guard officer behind him was actually not written by the word "Sun", but the word "Wang"!
That’s right, this playboy is nothing else, but Wang Hou’s youngest son Wang Wen!
In the past twenty-seven or eight years, with the development of navigation technology, the ships in the Central Plains even made their appointments to India as far as India and ticked on the Black Sea. Although the three brothers at this time were far less prosperous than the British East India Company’s era, the trade brought by the ocean still became a large piece of fat, which attracted many aristocratic families in Jiangdong to salivate and devoted themselves to it. Not only did they rely on serving the northern trade to make money before making a profit, but also many ambitious families also built ships to participate in the voyage, established colonies overseas, and became rich.
However, the Sun family did not have the broad mind of Wang Hou. The subordinates gradually established colonies overseas, and their power grew stronger and stronger, gradually threatening the dominance of the Sun family. Before Sun Quan died, he had cleaned up the aristocratic family. Lu Xun, who had escaped from the Java Lu family colony, escaped a life. Two years ago, Sun's famous tyrant, Sun Hao, ascended the throne and began to suppress and kill the Jiangdong Navigation Family in his territory.
As a result, the civil war broke out in Wu. It was natural that the sailors, which had warships, muskets, and cannons, rushed forward, bombed the Stone City and defeated the Sun family.
However, no one of the Jiangdong families was convinced. After a debate, they made the most tidy decision to welcome the bloodline of Princess Wu, Sun Shangxiang, and Wang Wen, the son of the King of Liao, to inherit the Sun family's throne.
In this way, there is another advantage, that is, through Wang Wen and the powerful Wang family, the southern goods of the Jiangnan family can enter the Central Plains market without paying heavy import taxes, allowing the major families to make another big profit.
But the Xuzhou Navigation Family, which was the most profitable in the Empire Ocean, did not do it! They also did the southern goods business. The cost of the Wu people was low, so wouldn’t it be easy for them to buy? In the third-level parliament of the Empire, the Xuzhou Family strongly opposed the inclusion of the Wu Kingdom into the Great Wei Empire, and advocated continuing to treat them as raw materials for commodity and industrial and commercial dumping sites.
So, today's sea battle came into being!
The two huge fleets of hundreds of giant battleships gradually approached like long snakes. They looked at the Xuzhou, which was hanging the Guangling Chen family flag opposite the fleet. Lu Xun, who was in the state, waved his long sword and grinned and roared.
"No representation, no taxes! Fire a gun and let these imperialists know the power of our Jiangdong!"
Damn, I have to rely on fighting to get on the pole. Speaking of taxation, Jiangdong sailors, who had accumulated a lot of energy, viciously lit the sparks on the cannon's butt. In the loud bang, hot iron cannon balls whizzed out. The giant ships on both sides trembled violently as if they were slamming.
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On the other end of the empire, another siege battle is also in full swing.
It has been tens of thousands of miles since its invasion of the Western Regions. The Great Wei Empire has been in the twelfth year of intervening in the civil war of the Anxi Empire. At this time, the army of the Western Regions Protectorate's Office suddenly surrounded the capital of the Anxi Empire, Taixifeng, which was invisible, with three layers inside and three layers outside.
The current Ali Du Protectorate Army has no longer been the case that Qing Yi'er once called the Han people. The various ethnic groups in the Western Regions with big beards and deep eyes filled the army with various faces, but they were all shouting in Chinese.
Since Alexander the Great's expedition to the west more than 400 years ago, the Western Expedition of the Great Wei Empire has greatly imported Eastern culture to the West Asian region. Even Confucius' "The Analects of Confucius" has now been translated into Latin in Roman city.
Under the violent bombardment of cannons, the Taixi sealed wall made of rammed earth was peeling off one after another, and a gap collapsed. The Pathia shooter on the city fell down like knocking down cans on the shelves. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the middle army under the city, a not-so-young but still greasy guy, making the hair smooth, whirling and even took the lead and charged.
Two troops mixed with various races were fighting wildly in the gap in the city wall. The air was filled with the sound of weapons colliding. Every moment, corpses rolled down. However, in this bloody anxiety, the Parthians suddenly shouted in fear.
Just above their heads, eight hot air balloons floated over in huge numbers, carrying heavy black ball bombs, the grenadiers accurately ignited and threw them on the heads of the Parthians who were still stubborn in the city. The huge sparks roared, exploded and scattered the crowd. Finally, the Parthians who had resisted for thirty-three days disintegrated.
However, before the army was excitedly cheering, the hot air balloon that had only flown for more than ten meters was flying, and a female warrior slid down along the top. She was extremely accurate, just like Master Kong's assassination in "Assassin's Creed", smashing the guy with greasy head and floury face under her body, and then the angry voice suddenly rang out.
"Uncle!!!"
Looking at Changle's fiery eyes, he retired gloriously from the position of emperor, and finally got what he wanted, Cao Zhang, who became an Eastern conqueror like Alexander the Great, scratched the back of his head sadly.
"This..., Changle! Today's weather, hahaha..."
"You two!!!"
But before Miss Changle got angry, another roar of anger came from the city wall. A big banner behind her was hung with the name Deng of King Huluoshan. Deng Ai, who had matured and mighty, stuttered again.
"Who..., who made you... run to..."
He wailed, looked at each other, and suddenly pulled out the battle knife and musket. The unscrupulous uncle and an unscrupulous wife rushed into the Taixi lockdown city. In a blink of an eye, the Taiyan was almost out of sight. Deng Ai was so angry that he shivered again, and finally waved his slap hard in a very sad way.
"The whole army enters the city!"
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Taixifeng is not small, but no matter how big it is, it can still go against the sky? In the palace of the Parthians, Deng Ai finally caught the former emperor who was middle-aged and his unreliable wife. He scratched the back of his head and forced him to come to the Western Regions, robbed Deng Ai's position as the Great Protector of the Western Regions, and gave him a King of Khurasan. Cao Zhang scratched his head with guilt, and his pretty face turned red. He pointed to the huge Hittite lion relief behind his back. However, Changle was yelling with confidence.
"It has been several days since the old man wanted this Persian relief to go back to decorate the museum. As a daughter, I am called filial piety. Do you understand?"
Her mouth was so angry that she tilted her slap, her fingers trembled for a while. In Miss Changle's smug smile, Deng Ai finally waved her slap sadly.
"Disassemble it for me!"
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Now Wang Hou finally lived the most longing for him before traveling through time. He received a high pension and traveled everywhere without any trouble, so he didn't have to take care of his grandson.
In the past two years, the daughter and son-in-law were "filial". The museum in front of Chang'an City has already placed a lot of novel large stone blocks from all over the world, such as Egypt's stele. The Sphinx looks like a small one, and a Muinai is also brought back. She is wearing a straight and clean vest and is leaning on a crutch in her hand. As the staff nodded and warmly greeted, Wang Hou leisurely reached the deepest part of the museum like an ordinary retired old man from the empire.
However, as he suddenly pierced into a small pit at the center of the parquet on the ground, the ground in the silent and deserted rear exhibition hall suddenly cracked, and then a dark corridor was revealed.
In the innermost, there were two rows of black tables, and a circle of old men who should have retired long ago and even entered the coffin were already waiting on both sides of the table. Although they looked at the group of old men, they were actually all the helmsmen behind the scenes of a family consortium that was rich enough to rival the country.
Seeing that Wang Hou finally came in, his old teeth were gone and he couldn't eat sashimi anymore, Chen Deng yawned and complained.
"I said, Lao Wang, you are sick! I'm leaving the good palace without waiting. I'll find the underground where the enemy is buried. I think it's not too early to enter the coffin? I have to come and experience it now!"
In the Great Wei Empire with a population of nearly 100 million, there are only a few immortals who are qualified to talk to Wang Hou like this. They don’t think it is impossible. They stroked their beards with a smile. He hummed proudly.
"What do you know about Old Man Chen? This is the feeling of controlling everything behind the scenes! Dominate the whole world under the shadow!"
"Stop talking nonsense. The Western Regions army has advanced to Persia. The next step is Rome. We must deduce the direction of the world for fifty years in advance!"
I guess later mystical archaeologists have to study the Knights Templars like the mysterious organization of Light and Illuminati, and I can study my own black hand who has played the rest of my life! It feels like a big boss in the game!
Behind, amid the roaring sound, the entrance of the museum was closed again. While speaking, Wang Hou's broad slap fell heavily on the gold-made globe, which was shining with magnificent globe by candles. The black shadow of the slap just enveloped the entire civilization circle today.
Chapter completed!