"Thank you, Your Majesty, I will be heartbroken to repay Your Majesty's kindness."
Dichen saluted solemnly, and a faint tear flashed from the corner of his eye. This feeling of being valued is really too precious.
From now on, Dichen's journey will be as wide as the sea and the sky.
Ouyang Shuo smiled slightly, "Don't forget, we are all Chinese descendants, we are one family."
"Yes, family!"
Dichen was very emotional. At this moment, he completely let go of his knots and fully integrated with the new character.
The two former mortal enemies smiled at each other.
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Golden autumn and October is the harvest season.
What Ouyang Shuo was most concerned about was the situation of the four construction groups in Beiyuan, Xijiang, Xikang and Australia.
After nearly a year of hard work, the four major construction corps have reclaimed nearly 10 million acres of farmland, forest farms or pastures, and semi-military farms have sprung up, bringing vitality to the desolate border.
The newly built granary is gradually filling up.
At the same time, taking advantage of the rich mineral resources in the Western Regions, the Privy Council set up a number of arsenals nearby, and a large number of weapons and equipment were produced on the assembly line to prepare for the next year's war.
The frontier, which has been silent for nearly a year, has the conditions to go to war again.
In view of this, Ouyang Shuo asked Honglu Temple to issue an ultimatum to the Persian Empire, restricting the Persian Empire to hand over the Wokuotai Department before the end of Gaia Eighth.
Otherwise, there will only be an army to meet each other!
Ouyang Shuo's words were very strong, and he was determined to fight. He was trying to use this opportunity to put pressure on the Persian Empire in order to make strategic preparations for the oil fields in the Persian Gulf.
For the Persian Empire, a threatening neighbor, Ouyang Shuo would suppress it no matter what.
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Persian Empire, Tehran city.
After receiving the ultimatum from Daxia, the King of Persia felt very embarrassed. Although he knew that this day would always come, it was really difficult to make a decision when this time came.
Expulsion of the Wokuotai tribe can be exchanged for a short-term peace.
If the Wokuotai tribe is not expelled, war may come to the Persian Empire in the spring of next year.
Like Bactria, taking advantage of the rare peace period, the Persian Empire is running full steam ahead on the road to industrialization.
Some firearms of the European Allied Forces were exported from the Persian Empire.
Once the war with Great Xia breaks out, such a rare situation will inevitably be broken, and the industrialization that has finally developed will slow down or even stagnate.
This was unacceptable to the King of Persia.
The problem is that if the Ogodei Department is handed over like this, it will be a great shame to the Persian Empire, and the imperial military may find it difficult to accept it, which will damage the morale of the troops.
"We have to think of a way to get the best of both worlds."
The King of Persia muttered to himself, his eyes shining with wisdom.
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capital.
Time has entered October, and the largest government abolition operation launched by the Great Xia court since the beginning of spring has finally come to an end, and all provinces have completed the adjustment of three-level institutions.
The situation in the turbulent place gradually stabilized, and it burst out with greater energy.
The construction of the eight logistics support centers by the Privy Council's War Preparedness Administration is also nearing completion. Around the central headquarters, a number of cities have quietly risen to become important military industrial centers.
At the moment when the logistics support center was built, half of the war labor of the people of the empire was directly exempted.
After the expansion, the Martial Arts Department has also started to operate quickly, with tentacles all over the provinces, implementing full-coverage supervision and guidance for all warriors in the empire.
The most obvious effect is that the crime rate in the empire dropped by 20%.
All in all, the grand strategy formulated by the court years ago is coming to an end one by one.
For Da Xia, the eight years of Gaia was a harvest year. Although it didn't show much, the overall national strength has reached a new level, which is impressive.
On October 20th, Daxia's first power plant was built in the western suburbs of the capital and officially put into use. The lights in the capital city were turned on for the first time.
For Daxia, this has cross-age significance.
Ouyang Shuo even personally attended the electrification ceremony and lit the first street lamp in Wangcheng.
The electrical age has quietly arrived.
For players like Ouyang Shuo, this situation was both familiar and unfamiliar.
In the real world, incandescent light bulbs have long been eliminated and appeared in the game world. In this world where martial arts and technology coexist, it feels a little weird.
Ouyang Shuo thought of an adjective called the "steampunk" era.
A fantasy age with modern technology and mysterious power.
For players, this should be the best era. They can not only enjoy the convenience brought by modern technology, but also go further and further on the road of individual evolution.
People and technology, in harmony.
Rather than reality, as technology advances, human beings themselves are degenerating.
Ouyang Shuo liked this era.
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November 1st, the capital.
At nine o'clock in the morning, the grand opening of the Empire's first sports meeting.
Ouyang Shuo attended the opening ceremony and delivered a passionate speech. For the first time, he put forward the initiative of national fitness, bringing the health of the people into the highest decision-making plan of the empire.
Afterwards, the Royal Drama Troupe, the Royal Art Troupe and other top cultural groups in the empire presented a wonderful opening ceremony performance to tens of thousands of spectators.
The essence of Chinese culture is vividly expressed.
In the next half month, the capital city will be plunged into a carnival because of this grand event. Thousands of athletes will shed their blood for each of the laurels.
The first batch of competitive records of the empire will also be born and recorded in history.
Outside of the Great Summer, due to the approaching winter, the global chaos has entered a rare rest period, and the battlefields have gradually become quieter.
Both warring parties are seizing the precious rest period, recharging their energy and replenishing food and supplies at the same time. Like the Germanic dynasty, they still have to use winter to recruit troops again.
The current calm is just the prelude to another big explosion.
Ouyang Shuo predicted that in the nine years of Gaia, war will still be the global theme. Only when this wave of war ends and the global situation ushers in a new situation, can peace be exchanged.
brief peace.
According to Gaia's intention, the game world may not have peace in the true sense, unless there is a super empire that dominates the world.
But it's hard!
Even if he is as confident as Ouyang Shuo, he doesn't think Da Xia has this strength.
In the last week before winter, the Pacific trade rules proposed by Great Xia finally got the response of the Dawson Dynasty, the Dark Night Empire and the Indian Empire.
The Quartet Talks started here.
In the next few months, the four-party delegation will conduct round after round of consultations on specific agreements. The reason why it took so long is that the Quartet did not trust it.
This is destined to be a bumpy road to negotiations.
Di Chen was appointed by Ouyang Shuo as the head of the Great Xia Negotiating Team and was fully responsible for this matter.
From this moment on, Di Chen was truly accepted by Da Xia.