"Xiaozhou, you..."

Yu Yin, who was always calm and elegant, opened her mouth in surprise and stared at Ling Zhou with her beautiful eyes.

Oh my god! You know, among the six districts, the one closest to the Central Special District of Lanling Capital is also 1,000 nautical miles away!

"Your Highness, this is an almost impossible task."

Chen Yiru shook his head and said.

"As long as you want and are willing to spend money, nothing is impossible."

Ling Zhou shook his head, raised his chin, looked at the vast ocean, and smiled: "Currently, the longest bridge in the world is the Danyang-Kunshan Bridge with a total length of 164.851 kilometers. We want to build a bridge that is 1,000 nautical miles long, about 1,852 kilometers."

He paused and said with a smile: "This is indeed very difficult, but we can build several large artificial islands as transit points!"

Chen Yiru felt a little dizzy.

Build a bridge?

Build an artificial island?

Only Ling Zhou could come up with this idea, right?

"Your Highness, building a bridge connecting the six districts and the Central Capital Special District, not to mention the technical issues, the funds required are enormous! It is estimated that at least 100 billion US dollars will be needed, or even more."

Chen Yiru said seriously.

Ling Zhou nodded. He naturally understood this. He also knew that if he wanted to connect several large areas of Lanling with bridges, it would cost a huge amount of manpower and financial resources. It would also take a long time.

According to his understanding, the construction of Huaxia Dankun Bridge hired about 10,000 people.

It took four years.

The total amount of funds spent reached 8.5 billion US dollars.

The bridge he wants to build is more than 10 times longer than the Danyang-Kunshan Bridge, and the funds and manpower required are definitely more than 10 times.

Of course, this only counts the distance between the Central Capital District and the nearest region.

If we want to connect the six major regions, the manpower and financial resources required will probably have to increase 20 times.

"Haha! The last thing we lack is money. We own two oil fields, which together have 8 billion tons of oil reserves. In addition, we also have the vast Lanling Sea. In the past, due to the obstruction of our Lanling, the development of this sea area by the Chi Kingdom was probably not even one-tenth, and there are still a lot of resources here. Now, we have an epoch-making 'Mineral Exploration Aircraft', which can explore the entire Lanling Sea and dig out all these resources. In addition, we can also operate the 'Mineral Exploration Aircraft' to explore other sea areas."

Ling Zhou looked into the distance with a smile and said, "With the 'Mineral Detection Aircraft', we can say that the vast ocean is our treasury. In this way, will we still be short of money? Since we are not short of money, we will naturally do everything possible to build Lanling to the best of our ability."

Chen Yiru nodded and understood Ling Zhou's thoughts.

She also understood that transportation was a major factor in national development. Using bridges to connect the various regions of Lanling would make transportation in Lanling more convenient, which would naturally allow Lanling to develop better.

"I just don't know whether His Majesty will agree."

Chen Yiru said.

"Haha! Father is not an old stubborn man. If it is beneficial to the development of the country, he has no reason to object."

Ling Zhou laughed.

Chen Yiru nodded and stopped talking.

After thinking about it carefully, she also agreed with Ling Zhou's proposal.

Yu Yin watched from the side without expressing any opinion, as she didn't understand any of this.

Ling Zhou leaned his hands on the railing of the yacht deck, squinted his eyes, looked at the vast ocean, and silently turned on the system.

At this time, a prompt is displayed on the task system:

Special mission rewards are being refreshed...

Yes, after the Lanling Kingdom gained the sovereignty of the "Former Sanyang Sea Area" and successfully acquired the world-class oil field with a reserve of 6 billion tons, it completely built the foundation of a financial kingdom for the Lanling Kingdom and completed that special mission.

Special mission: Build the foundation of a financial kingdom for your country. Completed

Today, Lanling has a world-class oil field and a super-large oil field. The country's territory has expanded to 100,000 square kilometers, and it has an exclusive economic zone of 220,000 square kilometers, which can be said to have laid a solid foundation for Lanling's future.

If you want to build a financial empire based on such a strong foundation, it is only a matter of time as long as you don't do anything stupid.

However, the system remains the same.

It has been 6 hours since the prompt to complete the task appeared, but it is still refreshing.

Although I am looking forward to the reward, I am also a little impatient.

If possible, he really wanted to pick the system out and give it a good beating.

He thought to himself that he should study it carefully when he had time.

"By the way, Sister Yiru, we haven't negotiated with the Chi Kingdom and the Fei Kingdom about those captives, okay?"

Ling Zhou looked at the gradually approaching Qinglan Island and asked with a smile.

Two months ago, the Lanling Navy captured thousands of prisoners from the Chi Kingdom and the Fei Kingdom, including four high-ranking generals. Now the Chi Kingdom and the Fei Kingdom are negotiating with Lanling to redeem the prisoners.

"Yes, Chiguo and Feiguo have not yet agreed to our conditions."

Chen Yiru said.

"What conditions?"

Ling Zhou asked curiously.

He didn't pay much attention to this matter, so he didn't know much.

"10 billion dollars."

Chen Yiru said with a smile.

Ling Zhou was speechless. His father and the others were so cruel.

It would cost $10 billion just to redeem these prisoners.

Not to mention, the $10 billion is probably just the price for redeeming these prisoners. The captured warships, submarines, fighter planes and other military equipment are probably not included.

If you want to redeem these equipments, it should be easy, just add money.

He guessed that the Chi Kingdom would probably be furious.

Not only did they lose the war, they also lost 300,000 square kilometers of sea area and a military base, and were attacked by Lan Ling's aircraft carrier fleet. It was extremely frustrating.

Now they want to redeem the prisoners, and they are asking for 10 billion US dollars. Why don’t we rob them?

But they were helpless because they couldn't beat Lan Ling.

If they could defeat Lan Ling, they would probably be showing off their power in Lan Ling's territory right now.

Ling Zhou smiled at this.

Although the extortion is a bit harsh, it is the only way to deal with countries or individuals with evil ambitions.

If you don't hurt them once, they will think you are easy to bully.

Afterwards, Ling Zhou changed the topic and started chatting with Yu Yin.

Soon, their yacht arrived at the pier of Qinglan Island.

Ling Zhou walked off the yacht with Chen Yiru, Yu Yin, and a group of bodyguards.

Looking at the beautiful Qinglan Island, Ling Zhou smiled.

The construction style of this island is somewhat similar to that of China, and also has a Southeast Asian style. After all, countries like Chi, Japan, and South Korea are all deeply influenced by China.