Chapter 174.3 – Remorse Outside The Country
Their days went on as usual.
Zhao Jinge helped Jiang Zhen with the various political affairs that should be handled by the Pri Minister as usual, while also worrying about Zhao Mingzhu’s potential marriage.
Zhao Jinge was quite worried about Zhao Mingzhu continuing to postpone getting married, but he was also afraid of pressuring her. He couldn’t talk to her about it, and only spoke of his worries in front of Jiang Zhen.
“Our daughter can have a good life even if she doesn’t get married. If she marries and she has a bad life, what is the point of her marriage?” Jiang Zhen said. He was not going to care about his children’s marriages. They were adults, so why should he have to find lovers for them?
This would be too useless!
Zhao Jinge also thought like this.
The Republic of China was doing very well. No man was allowed to take concubines, while won were allowed to work. There was still a lot of work in the family that was pushed to won, like child care. It was the won’s responsibility to bring them up.
If his Mingzhu was mistreated…
Zhao Jinge decided never to rush his daughter.
Two days after this decision, the emissaries from Daqi arrived in the capital of China.
The three representatives from Daqi had already learned a lot about the Republic of China and the more they knew, the more amazed they were.
If nothing else, they traveled in horse drawn carriage.
In Daqi, the roads outside the city were basically all mud roads while the roads in the city were paved with stones, making them bumpy. However, the Republic of China’s roads were smooth and clean!
They didn’t even feel bumps on the way over!
Also, they could see various flat rice fields, smiling people and happily playing children.
They also heard that the Republic of China wouldn’t collect taxes from farrs for the first few years!
Originally, since the Republic of China has been established for only five or six years, they thought this place would still be in chaos, but the reality? The whole place was actually pretty calm.
The people of Daqi and the forr Toyo people were all living together in a mix, with nothing bad happening!
Qi Qing was amazed, and Zheng Yi couldn’t help but admire it from the bottom of his heart. Even so, he also knew that behind this peace, there was actually bloodshed.
As far as he knows, two years ago a group of Toyo pirates, who had been burning and looting in Daqi for a long ti, and gradually growing in size, tried to steal back their country from Jiang Zhen but ended up being killed by him.
Moreover, although the country of China was established only five or six years ago, Jiang Zhen has been operating here for ten years before that.
Of course, the reason Jiang Zhen was able to do it was mainly because the country was not large.
Jiang Zhen has always been in business, and by making money from it and collecting taxes on business, he has been able to maintain the operation of this country. This being the case, he naturally didn’t need to bother people who cultivated the land.
At first, Zhou Maohe couldn’t help criticizing Jiang Zhen, but later he beca silent.When they finally arrived at the capital of the Republic and discovered that Jiang Zhen and Zhao Jinge still didn’t co to et them, Zhou Maohe beca angry again.
But it was useless for him to be angry.
“His Majesty and the Lord Pri Minister are now at the Research Institute, please co over.” The person who ca to greet them was Wang Daniu, Wang Haisheng’s son. He was smiling and didn’t care about Zhou Maohe’s ugly expression.
It wasn’t only because he wasn’t afraid of Zhao Maohe, but also because he didn’t take him seriously.
When Zhao Maohe sensed that, he beca even angrier but Wang Daniu had already turned around and left.
Also, he had actually changed his na, so he was no longer called Wang Daniu but Wang Zhenhua.
In the whole Republic of China, there were many people with the sa na as him.
In the past, when they lived in Hexi Village, if soone shouted “Daniu” several people would respond, but now if you shouted “Zhenhua” in China there were many people who would respond.
Although Zhou Maohe was reluctant, he still followed Wang Daniu to the research institute with the others.
The research institute covered a very, very large area, so even after traveling by carriage it was a long ti before it finally stopped by the fence.
Zheng Yi and the others got off the carriage and were led through the gate of the fence to go inside, but just as they entered a sudden loud noise startled them.
Where did such a loud noise co from? What the hell is going on?
Zheng Yi was so scared that his heart started to beat faster as he looked forward and saw dust and smoke coming from the distance.
Was this artillery?
Zheng Yi was thinking this when he heard another loud bang, followed by another cannon explosion right in front of them.
The ground trembled and a heat wave rushed toward them making them retreat. They controlled their urge to turn around and run away. As the smoke cleared, they saw the place where the artillery exploded now had a big crater.
Daqi also had artillery so Zheng Yi had seen a lot of artillery before, but this was the first ti he saw such powerful artillery.
Was Jiang Zhen going to give them a hard ti?
Zheng Yi felt so amusent as he turned to look at Zhou Maohe and Qi Qing. He found that Zhou Maohe was stunned, while Qi Qing’s face showed even more remorse than before.
If Daqi had such powerful artillery, they wouldn’t have to fear the Rong army, let alone rebels.
However, now this artillery was not in the hands of Daqi but Jiang Zhen. If Jiang Zhen turned against Daqi…. Zhou Maohe and Qi Qing’s expressions changed a little.
“Please co inside.” Wang Zhenhua spoke again.
Wang Zhenhua led these three people as he continued to walk inside, bypassing the place where the artillery was tested, and eventually ca to a green lawn.
The grass here was very lush so there should be nothing dangerous, but not far away there was so connected iron construction put together, while people ca in and out of it. They didn’t know what these people were doing.
Zheng Yi and others were still wondering when they saw so people standing on a high platform not far away, and the people surrounded in the middle were Jiang Zhen and Zhao Jinge.
They went there, and just as they approached the high platform, they suddenly heard a strange noise.
They looked over and saw smoke coming out of the head of the front section of that strange iron construction.
What was that? Zheng Yi and others wondered as the iron construction that was linked together suddenly moved.
What the hell was that?
It didn’t have horses to move it, so how could this iron construction move on its own?
What else did Jiang Zhen co up with? Zheng Yi started to wonder.
What kind of demonic magic did Jiang Zhen use? Zhou Maohe and Qi Qing standing under bright sun suddenly felt cold.
Jiang Zhen, who stood on the high platform suddenly looked at them but then moved his gaze to the train.
After three years of hard work, the steam engine research was finally successful and the first train was constructed.
The craftsn of China were always very smart, and with him giving the direction of research, the result ca out very fast.
Jiang Zhen made a long, round railway track here.
This train was in fact much smaller than a real train and it drove forward on the tracks at a very slow speed, but as it started its second circle, it started to go faster.
After it raced around for so ti it slowly stopped.
It slowly stopped, but Zheng Yi and his companions’ heartbeat did not stop.
They saw clearly that this iron construction was moving without horses and cattle pulling it and without anyone pushing it. There was also nothing under it except so wheels.
How on earth did Jiang Zhen do it? Why did he co up with such a thing?
Was this a threat to Daqi?
Qi Qing looked at Jiang Zhen and decided to approach Jiang Zhen first, but was stopped before he could get close.
“Jiang Zhen, what happened at that ti was my fault. Today I am here to apologize!” Qi Qing said, kneeling on the ground.
Jiang Zhen stood on the high platform and looked at Qi Qing from his high position.
When he left Daqi, he knew that Qi Qing would regret it.
At that ti, thinking that Qi Qing would regret it one day made him happy, so he always wanted to et Qi Qing in person once again. Yet now that Qi Qing was kneeling in front of him, he suddenly felt that it was no longer necessary.
However, even if Jiang Zhen didn’t care about Qi Qing anymore Zhao Jinge did.
Stepping down from the platform, Zhao Jinge walked towards Qi Qing. “Since this is a plea for punishnt, how can there be no punishnt? Soone, find so thorns for Marquis Qi.”
“Yes!” Soone answered, and then quickly brought the thorns that Zhao Jinge had already prepared before.
After the thorns were brought, Zhao Jinge asked soone to tie them to Qi Qing’s back.
Seeing that he was already so old but still making trouble for others like this, Jiang Zhen felt it was very interesting and cute.
However, others obviously didn’t think so.
“You bully people too much!” Zhou Maohe exclaid, looking angrily at Zhao Jinge.
However, Zhao Jinge just ignored him just like Wang Zhenhua did before, not putting him in his eyes at all.
Zhou Maohe hated when people ignored him and wanted to say sothing, but a guard ca over and covered his mouth.
He was no longer able to speak.
Zhou Maohe had always thought that what he was going to do this ti was very simple. He thought that in order to get the approval of the imperial court, Jiang Zhen and Zhao Jinge would definitely accept the imperial court decree, and then help the imperial court stop the rebellion, but now it seems…
Zhou Maohe suddenly panicked.
Jiang Zhen and Zhao Jinge did not say much to them. Zhao Jinge just watched Qi Qing carry thorns on his back as he left.
Zheng Yi and Zhou were not sent back until an hour later. Qi Qing, who was no longer young but knelt for a long ti, fell ill. Zhou Maohe also fell ill but from anger.
A doctor was sent to them, but Jiang Zhen and Zhao Jinge never saw them again.
“What do they an by this?” Zhou Maohe asked.
What else could they an? They didn’t plan to help Daqi.
If Zheng Yi was Jiang Zhen, he would certainly not let the people under him help others at the risk of their own lives.
What’s more, even if they did, they might not be able to save Daqi.
However, he could not say this to Zhou Maohe directly so he simply just stopped talking and gave him a wry smile.
It made Zhou Maohe even angrier.
Zheng Yi comforted him and then returned to his room to read the newspaper again.
After another day, Zheng Yi t with Jiang Zhen.
“I never thought that our eting would be like this.” Seeing Jiang Zhen, Zheng Yi beca a bit emotional.
“Yes.” Jiang Zhen said. More than ten years have passed and a lot has changed. Zheng Yi, who was was once a handso young master was now a slightly obese middle-aged man.
“China is developing very well.” Zheng Yi added.
“So, do you want to co?” Jiang Zhen asked. “What I lack most now is people. But if you want to live in the Republic of China you must abide by the laws of China.”
“Show .” Zheng Yi said.
Jiang Zhen had already prepared for this and gave Zheng Yi several thick books.
It was printed in traditional Chinese characters so Zheng Yi could read it without any obstacles, and after he read it for a while, he said: “I need to study it.” He has already made up his mind to co to here, but if he wanted to live here permanently he needed to know more about China.
“Alright.” Jiang Zhen said.
The laws of China, in so places, were sothing that would make the privileged class in Daqi uncomfortable, but Daqi was at war now so staying there could cost one’s life at any ti.
He believed that Zheng Yi would definitely choose to co to the Republic of China but he was also afraid that so other people would also choose to co to China.
Of course, China would not accept everyone. People like Zhou Maohe were not welco. If he wanted to stay here he would need to carry out an ideological reform first.
Zheng Yi and others stayed in the Republic of China for a month, gained nothing and eventually could only return back in disappointnt.
A few months later, the Zheng family ca to the Republic of China together with the Hu family and several other families.
Even the Second Master Zheng ca.
It was then that Jiang Zhen beca aware that the last reliance of the Imperial Family of Daqi, a general from the south side of the Yangtze River, unexpectedly stood up as a king and no longer followed imperial court orders!
Today, Daqi was in complete chaos, because the current Emperor of Daqi liked to bla his defeat in the war on the uselessness of the military generals.
From the beginning of the siege of the rebels to now, he cut off the heads of not yet of a hundred generals, but eighty. It was no wonder that the generals rebelled.
By now Daqi basically could no longer be saved, so Second Master Zheng had to find a way out.
Of course, he didn’t want to co, but Zheng Yi wanted to go. If he was left alone, he could only await his death so he finally decided to also co to China.
After the first group of people ca, one after another many more from Daqi ca to China.
Once here, they had to comply with the laws, so many people were dissatisfied, but people knew how to bow their heads when they looked for shelter so they gradually got used to it.
Moreover, it’s actually quite nice here, with many new and exciting things.
The spacious roads were not the rarest thing now. There was a train that moved without horses and could transport a lot of goods which was loved the most by people.
The Republic of China’s first railroad led from the capital to the port of Wangxiang. Thanks to such a railway, it took only one day to travel between the two places, and the transportation of goods beco much easier and faster.
The train would make a rumbling sound and sitting inside would be unpleasant but people still loved it.
The first train left in front of Jiang Zhen.
With roar it moved.
The Republic of China would also certainly develop.
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