“Woo——!”
With the sound of a loud whistle, the steamer slowly started on the canal. Fang Zheng stood at the bow, looking at the beautiful scenery in front of him. He couldn't help but feel as if he had traveled to some strange world again.
Under Fang Zheng's design, after more than a hundred years of hard work, the Han Dynasty now has the foundation of an industrial society, including steamships, trains and airships.
Especially when it comes to airships, China has never lacked smart people. In fact, some people have actually thought of using airships to open routes to transport people and materials, and thus the world's first state-owned airline came into being.
Of course, even though Fang Zheng had changed the world beyond all recognition, there were still some things that were deeply rooted and had not changed. For example, the people of the Han Dynasty believed that their country was the Central Kingdom, the Celestial Empire, and the center of the world, and other places were wild and barbaric, and they had no intention of exploring the outside world.
Especially now after being industrialized by Founder, this willingness is even weaker. Think about it, you can take a train from one city to another quickly in the Central Plains, but there is nothing in those wilderness border areas, and you have to travel hard in a horse-drawn carriage... and there are no complete educational facilities, and no medical resources... Who would be willing to go out and open up land with nothing to do?
This left Fang Zheng speechless.
By the way, although there are people in this world who are trying to create cars, there is one biggest problem that has not been solved.
That's the wheel.
Refining rubber was more difficult than Fang Zheng had imagined. At least with the current level of steam technology, it was not possible to make proper wheels. The wheels used in today's "cars" were made by wrapping a thick layer of animal skin around a wooden tire, and then fixing it with an iron hoop... It was easy to imagine how painful it was to sit on it.
Moreover, this world currently does not have the technology to miniaturize internal combustion engines. Although ancient China had strong iron and steel smelting capabilities, the materials needed for this power system would not be acquired overnight even if Fang Zheng personally took the lead in climbing the technology tree. Therefore, so far, the steam power systems here are all very large, and the machines are also super large. For example, the steamship Fang Zheng is sitting on now, as well as those trains, are about five times larger than the "genuine" ones in the original world...
So in the end, the car has come to nothing, but fortunately, the tank has finally been made.
So now Fang Zheng was standing on the deck, looking at the brightly lit cities on both sides of the river. He also saw a martial artist in a fluttering robe and carrying a long sword riding a horse galloping through the streets. He then came to the side of the road with sweat all over his forehead, dismounted, tied the reins to the horse post next to him, and quickly walked to the public telephone booth on the other side, opened the door, entered the booth and put in a coin...
At the same time, Fang Zheng also saw behind him, a female ghost covered in blood was staring at him outside the phone booth, emitting an immense resentment. The martial artist was making a phone call while tightly holding a talisman in his hand.
Finally, he seemed to realize something and slowly turned his head... Then when he saw the female ghost behind him, the martial artist suddenly turned pale and screamed loudly. But soon, he grabbed his neck tightly and struggled as if he had difficulty breathing. Then, the man tilted his body and fell to his death in the phone booth. The female ghost stood outside the phone booth, showing a sense of relief that she had avenged her great revenge. Then, a light and shadow flashed around her, and then the Black and White Impermanence appeared out of thin air, handcuffed the female ghost and took her away.
"Why……"
Seeing this, Fang Zheng couldn't help but sigh.
Tell me, is this a fairy tale, cultivation, science fiction, supernatural, or martial arts?
He himself doesn't understand it.
As for the female ghost chasing him, Fang Zheng didn't care. When he set up the underworld of this world, he had referred to his own experience in the Fairy Sword world. In fact, this world is always unfair. Take modern society for example, there are often cases of teenagers under the age of fourteen killing people and dumping corpses. As a result, the law cannot convict them because they are not old enough, and they can only fine and pay compensation.
You say that the general public would be furious when they heard about this kind of thing and would curse the law as unfair, but the law can do nothing about it. The law is there to protect the majority of people. It is impossible to kill all of them with one blow just for the one in a hundred thousand underage scumbags, right?
But with Fang Zheng, he had a solution.
Yes, the laws of the living world may not be able to do anything to you, but what can you do to the underworld? In fact, when setting up the system, Fang Zheng combined his own experience in his previous life and specially set up a system, that is, if the criminal is severely punished by the law, then it's fine.
But if the criminal exploits loopholes in the law, or uses his wealth and status to reduce his sentence or get away with it, then the underworld can take action.
The case of this female ghost killing that martial artist is one of them. It is said that the law of nature will always prevail. If the living world cannot punish you for your sins, the underworld can. From evil ghosts demanding your life, to the violent death of the whole family, to the extinction of the family line, to shortening one's life span... the underworld has many ways to take revenge on people.
It is precisely because of the coordinated "law enforcement" of the yin and yang worlds that the world before our eyes is extremely peaceful and tranquil. Although people who are haunted by evil spirits can also go to a Taoist priest to get a talisman or something, it is natural to kill someone and pay with your life. The law of nature will always prevail and retribution will come. This is the truth engraved in this world by Fang Zheng. It is a rule with the highest priority and no one can escape it.
If those Taoist priests and the like want to help, they will only be burdened with debts and will die a miserable death.
In fact, Fang Zheng sometimes wondered what the outside world was like when he had free time. The Huns had been completely destroyed by Fang Zheng, and even their territory had been occupied. Now the criminals were most afraid of going to Siberia to grow potatoes.
But what about other places?
For example, Southeast Asia? North Korea? Central Asia? Europe? Oh, and what is the current situation in Japan?
Fang Zheng really wanted to go and see it, but as an emperor, he couldn't leave at will. And although it would be great to mobilize the whole country to start the Age of Exploration, the current Han Dynasty was not strong enough to expand outward. But Fang Zheng was not in a hurry for one or two hundred years. It would be enough to wait until the whole country was strong enough to expand outward.
This time, Fang Zheng was leaving the palace for a private visit in disguise—well, to put it bluntly, he was sneaking out to play.
Even Emperor Qianlong could go to the south of the Yangtze River, so why couldn’t I?
The achievements I have made are enough to hang up and beat the emperor of the entire Qing Dynasty.
By the way, Fang Zheng also built the Grand Canal like Emperor Yang of Sui. Of course, he didn’t need to recruit countless coolies to build the Grand Canal like Emperor Yang of Sui did, and then killed a lot of people and caused public outrage - otherwise, wouldn’t your industrialization be fake? !
After the founding of the country, Fang Zheng established a state-owned construction company specifically responsible for various infrastructure projects, so there was no need to recruit coolie laborers to work for him like other emperors. Even in this era, these construction companies became popular in the eyes of many civilians. After all, they were infrastructure, so Fang Zheng implemented the iron rice bowl principle, which made those civilians almost want to squeeze in to work.
What? You mean hard labor? Isn't farming at home also hard labor? It's really worth it to have a stable job!
Under such circumstances, Fangzheng's Grand Canal was built smoothly without causing any public resentment or instability. Not only that, the canal built by Fangzheng was longer and wider than that of Emperor Yang of Sui...
So you see, climbing the technology tree comes first.
It’s no wonder that it’s not enough. After all, not every emperor is like Fang Zheng, who has the patience to play Civilization for a thousand years.
This time Fang Zheng planned to go on an incognito visit to those border areas. On the one hand, he wanted to understand the people's sentiments, and on the other hand, he wanted to relax.
Of course, Fang Zheng was not worried at all that he would meet Xia Yuhe by the Daming Lake.
He wouldn't worry that one day a Ziwei would come to him to claim him as his father.
As for whether Fang Zheng would encounter trouble after leaving, he was not worried at all. Now that so many years had passed, everyone had recognized Fang Zheng as an immortal who had been reincarnated from heaven, without the slightest hesitation - after all, he sat in the court every day for more than a hundred years, and his appearance had not changed at all. It was impossible not to recognize him, right?
Moreover, Fang Zheng had left a trace of his spiritual consciousness in the palace before leaving. If there was anything that needed his decision, he would certainly rush back immediately. Therefore, Fang Zheng was not worried about any trouble or problems caused by his trip.
The third reason for Fang Zheng's secret visit was that he heard from the four sacred beasts of Xiaoyao Palace that there were many strange monsters from foreign countries in the south recently. They seemed to want to occupy the mountain and become the king, so Fang Zheng had to go and see what was going on.
You have to know that after Fang Zheng "destined" the world to have immortal attributes, many of the originally special animals were directly transformed into monsters. For example, the four sacred beasts in Fang Zheng Xiaoyao Palace really transformed into the four sacred beasts. In the wild mountains and jungles, many animals also seemed to have developed spirituality because of this.
Of course, Fang Zheng did not issue any decree that "no spirits are allowed after the founding of the country", but he still let the monsters in his Xiaoyao Palace go around to capture those monsters that had developed intelligence, and he set up a force specifically for them to control these guys.
Of course, Fang Zheng can control the monsters within the Han territory, but he is not in charge of the monsters outside the territory.
So now that he heard that there were monsters from abroad sneaking in, Fang Zheng naturally wanted to see for himself. There were monsters from abroad? How did the monsters come from? Was it a byproduct of his own division of yin and yang? If so, he would have to make some rules for them to prevent them from causing trouble here, right?
In this way, Fang Zheng took a steamer all the way to Suzhou and Hangzhou.
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