Chapter 17 Taixia Yingzhou

Eastern Continent, Taixia, Yingzhou...

As the most powerful and awe-inspiring country in this era, and also the core area of ​​human civilization in this era, the Eastern Continent, where hundreds of millions of Chinese people gather, is not only the hometown that every Chinese dreams of. , is the pinnacle of the entire human civilization and power in this era. When historians of every human race talk about the most important reason why human beings can continue to survive after the catastrophe, the Eastern Continent—Taixia—Huazu —These three trinity words should always be placed in the most important position.

If there were no Chinese, no Taixia, mankind would have perished in the first two jihads. This is the consensus recognized by almost every historian, and anyone who has a clear understanding of this era will lament that there is such a thing. The exclamation of the black iron age belongs to the era of the Chinese and Taixia.

In this era, the survival of the Chinese race and the strength of Taixia have become the greatest hope for the survival of the entire human race.

If you don’t pay attention to the history and legends that happened in a longer time, the human race at this moment has a written history of almost 6,000 years. If the 6,000-year history is taken as a coordinate, the human history before the catastrophe occupies It has been occupied for about 5,000 years, and the human history after the cataclysm is less than 900 years old. In the 6,000-year history of this human race, a country as powerful and prosperous as Taixia today has never It has appeared, and even in almost all human history textbooks, it is difficult to find a country or alliance that can be compared with Taixia. All the so-called glorious and powerful countries and alliances that exist in the history books, compared with today's Taixia, are instantly eclipsed like fireflies competing with the bright moon.

The strength and prosperity of Taixia has reached a level that many people can't understand. Those people can't understand, they can only envy them, and then desperately try to get closer - this kind of approach, when the holy war comes, will appear even more Be eager——Yingzhou, one of the seventy-two states in Taixia, is a gate of Taixia because of its proximity to the sea. After the outbreak of the holy war, a large number of overseas immigrants flooded into Yingzhou. The cities near the sea became bustling.

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Although it is not the first time to come to the port of Fuhai City, and it is not uncommon to see what those prosperous ports look like when he was in Huaiyuan County, but every time he comes here, Zhang Yang can't help but feel an inexplicable feeling in his heart. of shock.

Fuhai Port is only one of the 17 ports owned by Yingzhou, and it is not the largest. Its scale and cargo throughput can only be ranked in the middle, but it is this port that makes Zhang Yang visit for the first time. Almost lost my way.

The seaside coastline of this port is more than 70 kilometers long, and it has more than 20,000 large and small docks and docks. At the cargo dock, there are densely packed hanging towers like giants everywhere. Walking in the middle of such a port, It makes people feel like walking in a steel forest composed of ships and giant ships. It is here that Zhang Yang first saw what a million-ton ocean-going ship looks like.

The port is equipped with a special railway line to connect the traffic between the north and the south of the port. It takes about an hour to take the railway from the southernmost point of the port to the northernmost point of the port, and take the traffic train in the port.

Fuhai Port is very big, and Fuhai City is also very big. After coming to Taixia, all the information he came into contact with was summarized in his mind, and Zhang Yang's first deep-rooted impression of Taixia was just one word. --Big!

Zhang Yang doesn't know how big Taixia is, because the entire Eastern Continent,

Including the many inaccessible black and gray areas on the map, it is the territory of Taixia. In the words of the Chinese people, the entire eastern continent is the inherent land of Taixia.

In the land of Taixia, the most prosperous places are the nine great states of China. After the nine great states of China, there are thirty-six upper states. After the thirty-six upper states, there are seventy-two states. In those remote places, there are still many small and medium-sized counties and populated areas that have not reached the size of the upper state.

To become a big state in Taixia, there is one most basic condition, that is, within the territory of this state, the number of first-class cities must reach at least 108, and there are many other conditions and requirements.

After staying in Taixia for a few months, Zhang Yang has not understood how Taixia's city levels are divided until now. As for first-tier cities, he only heard people say that cities like Jinyun Guoyiyang City However, in Taixia, it barely meets the requirements of a first-class city. The so-called barely refers to the population and economic scale that Yiyang City and its surrounding areas can accommodate. The city is also a bit reluctant.

In the Weiyi subcontinent, the country that imitates Taixia everywhere is the Norman Empire. Many social systems of the Norman Empire are copied from Taixia, such as the city’s hierarchical division system, such as the country’s class division system, and so on.

The founding emperor of the Norman Empire, who was famous in the Weiyi subcontinent, became commonplace in Taixia. In the eyes of most people in Taixia who knew the Norman Empire, the so-called founding emperor of the Norman Empire, It's just a smart person who admires the Chinese culture and has traveled in Taixia for a few years. Fortunately, he learned something, and then returned to a foreign place and started to use what he learned to become the king. Just a guy.

There are many such people, and there are many in every continent and those so-called foreign lands, and even until today, many guys with the same thoughts and dreams come to Taixia every year, hoping to be able to live here. In this magical land, they find a shortcut to heaven after returning to their homeland.

As a Chinese living overseas, after returning to Taixia, the first thing to adapt to is the inherently strong self-confidence and pride of the Taixia Chinese. After a certain level, some stubborn and extremely proud Chinese began to call themselves gods.

In this era, every Chinese living in Taixia has such a proud capital.

Taking Yingzhou as an example, Yingzhou is a big state. On the map, the span of Yingzhou in the north-south direction and east-west direction is more than 20,000 kilometers. The land area of ​​Yingzhou alone has exceeded the entire Blackson tribe. If the sum of the territory of all the countries in the corridor is added to the area of ​​the large and small overseas islands and sea areas under the jurisdiction of Yingzhou, the size of Yingzhou is several times larger than that of the Blackson Terran Corridor.

Of course, Yingzhou is not only big, as an upper state, Yingzhou is not only big, but also very prosperous.

Yingzhou is divided into seven counties. In addition to more than 130 first-class cities in seven counties, there are more than a thousand other cities below first-class. There are tens of thousands of large and small towns. A few days ago, the Yingzhou Inspector's Office calculated the salt consumption of the entire Yingzhou and roughly counted the total number of Chinese population in Yingzhou. The conclusion is that the Chinese population living in Yingzhou is between 6.7 billion and 7 billion. Between, and today, this number can only be more.

The state of Yingzhou alone has such a scale, and one can imagine the prosperity and power of Taixia.

After arriving in Yingzhou, the first thing Zhang Yang bought was a full map of Taixia's territory with a total area of ​​nearly four square meters. Zhang Yang calculated the distance from the southernmost point to the northernmost point of Taixia, where a clear map can be drawn except for the gray area on the territory map, and then came up with a number - 380,000 kilometers.

What kind of concept is this? If a person takes a train, the speed of the train can reach 100 kilometers per hour. Except for stopping for two hours a day to add water and coal, the train keeps walking on a crossing road. On the straight railway from north to south in Taixia, it only takes half a year to travel from the southernmost point of Taixia to the northernmost point by train. In fact, Zhang Yang heard that many people have tried to take the train from the southernmost point of Taixia to the northernmost point, and it usually takes more than one year and eight months to get there.

On the map, the distance from the easternmost to the westernmost in Taixia is about one-third longer than the distance from the southernmost to the northernmost.

I don't know why, after coming to Taixia, Zhang Yang's heart settled down. He didn't feel that kind of stability when he was in Heiyan City. When he returned to Huaiyuan County, he was a little bit more stable, but he didn't completely After settling down, Zhang Yang's heart calmed down until he stepped on the land of Taixia, knowing that there were hundreds of millions of black-haired and black-eyed Chinese like himself living here. The uneasy noise disappeared, and some worries about coming to a strange place disappeared without a trace.

Zhang Yang felt that this place, Taixia, was the place where the descendants of the Zhang family would truly settle down and take root, and it was also the place where he would show his talents and lay a foundation for the future of the Zhang family.

Zhang Ping said that this is the true return of fallen leaves to their roots.

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Zhang Yang waited with a few entourages near the wharf area of ​​"Maozi No. 08" in Fuhai Port. Through inquiries, Zhang Yang knew that those ships with a class of less than 50,000 tons and more than 30,000 tons that came from overseas would eventually dock. On the pier near "Maozi No. 08". Here, ships of different tonnages have different berthing areas, and the water depth and wharf facilities in different areas are also different. In the wharf area starting with "Zi", all super giant ships with a capacity of more than one million tons are docked, while 50 Giant ships over 10,000 tons basically dock at the wharf area beginning with the word "ugly".

The members of the Zhang family took an airship for more than two months last year to come to Yingzhou in Taixia from the Weiyi subcontinent. The airship is fast and comfortable. The disadvantage is that it cannot take many people on such a long-distance flight. Also can't carry too much stuff. Therefore, when Zhang Yang left Huaiyuan County last year, he decided to evacuate in batches, and the second batch of people will arrive today. The 36,000-ton ocean-going ship Anqing, after nine months of rough seas, sent a message yesterday that it will arrive at Fuhai Port in Yingzhou this morning. Therefore, Zhang Yang took a few people with him. wait here.

On the giant ship, in addition to some reliable backbones of various departments of the Golden Crow Merchant Group and their families, there were also some things that Zhang Yang asked to bring from Huaiyuan County. Some of the key equipment of the airship factory, anyway, are valuable and valuable possessions, and Zhang Yang packed them all at once.

Zhang Yang waited on the pier for more than two hours, but there was no sign of the Anqing. Instead, several other giant ships from unknown sources stopped at the pier near the "Maozi 08".

As soon as the giant ships docked, the people on the giant ships crowded onto the deck and cheered. For those people, the feeling of going ashore was like getting out of the sea of ​​suffering and reaching the other shore. Everything here, for those people To me, they are all so fresh and beautiful.

Looking at those people, Zhang Yang thought of the scene when he first came to Yingzhou.

At this time, the people who were able to come to Yingzhou by steamship were all people with rich and somewhat accumulated wealth. This can be seen from the clothes of those who disembarked.

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"Ah, Dad, what's that?" A group of people who got off the giant ship passed by Zhang Yang. Among the crowd, an eleven or twelve-year-old girl in a beautiful dress suddenly looked up at the sky and pointed to the sky. Something in the sky cried out.

"Miss, of course it's an airship. Besides the airship, is there anything else? When we settle down, the master will naturally consider buying an airship for the family as a means of transportation. I heard that Taixia is very big. It takes It’s inconvenient to travel far without an airship!” A chubby woman next to the little girl coaxed the little girl, “I didn’t expect that the young lady has only learned Chinese for two years, and now she can speak it so well!”

"No, Lisa, that's not an airship, it doesn't have airbags at all..." the little girl cried.

"how is this possible?"

A few people raised their heads in disbelief, then they were stunned, and then they shouted, "Ah, really, what is that, how could it be possible to fly in the air without an airbag!"

The cries of these people attracted more people's attention, so more people who got off the boat stopped and raised their necks to look at the sky together.

Zhang Yang also raised his head, and there was indeed a 200-meter-long thing floating in the sky at a height of thousands of meters. Not only was the shape of that thing completely different from the airship you saw, but it also had no floating airbags at all. , and there are no things like wings and wings. From the bottom, it looks like a naked boat. Unlike ordinary boats, ordinary boats float on the water, and that boat is floating in the sky.

In the past few months since I came to Yingzhou, this is the second time Zhang Yang has seen such a flying boat. Compared with the jaw-dropping when he saw this thing for the first time, Zhang Yang is much better at the moment, but that thing still makes people feel uncomfortable. I can never get tired of watching it, and I am deeply shocked by the power of civilization demonstrated by Taixia. (To be continued, this text is provided by the breaking dawn update group x-on:我爱小娃t. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.)