Population is a symbol of a country's productivity. As long as there are enough people, nothing is impossible to accomplish. It is just a matter of time.
Therefore, Zhang Feng has always attached great importance to the population issue, and he suggested that Queen Isabelle implement various policies to promote childbirth.
For example, if you have a second child, you will get certain housing purchase discounts, and part of the child's expenses from birth to the age of fourteen will be borne by the state. If you have a third child, you will be directly allocated a large, fully-decorated house, etc.
Isabel naturally listened to Zhang Feng. Although it was just advice, it was almost the same as Zhang Feng giving direct orders.
With these policies in place, the fertility rate in the Buck Kingdom increased dramatically, with many newborns being born every day.
Perhaps now it seems that these children may not be able to help with national construction, and may even be a burden, but in another ten or twenty years, they will be the main force of the Buck Kingdom.
As for the welfare policies provided, they actually don’t cost any money at all. The Red Leaf Chamber of Commerce can even bear the cost itself, and there is no need for the Buck Kingdom to intervene.
Now hearing that his plan had finally paid off, Zhang Feng was immediately excited, and the shadow of the sea beast threat also dissipated a lot.
As long as they are given time, no matter what sea beasts they are, they will be no match for them!
I had a good sleep at night and when I woke up in the morning, the sun was already high in the sky.
"Master, wake up!"
When I opened my eyes, I saw a cat-eared girl in a maid outfit standing by the bed.
"What time is it?"
Zhang Feng stretched lazily. He had spent too much time discussing in depth with Caroline about the issues concerning newborns last night and was a little tired. It was normal for him to get up late in the morning.
"It's already ten o'clock!"
Windsor prepared Zhang Feng's toiletries while speaking exaggeratedly.
"It's already ten o'clock? Yawn~"
Zhang Feng lifted the quilt and stood up, revealing his streamlined muscles. Windsor blushed slightly as he watched him.
After washing up, Windsor heated up the breakfast left for Zhang Feng. After a simple breakfast, Zhang Feng said:
"Prepare the car and go to Steel City."
"OK!"
A glittering golden steam carriage came out of the Red Leaf Castle and traveled unimpeded all the way to the Steel City.
Today the Steel City is still the same as it was last night, with no workers but only some soldiers on duty.
Zhang Feng did not intend to make the problem of the sea monster public until he found a solution. Otherwise, it would do no good except causing unnecessary panic.
Now some of the workers in the steel city are on paid leave, while others have been transferred to other factories and receive double wages. Although Zhang Feng is not a member of the working class, he will not treat these cornerstones of the country unfairly.
"Wow! That's a sea monster!"
The car hadn't arrived yet, and when Windsor saw the huge shadow in the distance, he covered his mouth in surprise.
If nothing unexpected happens, this might be the largest animal she has ever seen in her life.
"Yes, that's the sea monster."
Seeing the corpse of the sea beast again, Zhang Feng also breathed a sigh of relief.
Even though this thing is dead, seeing it still gives me an inexplicable sense of fear.
The golden steam car came to the sea beast like an ant to a big fish.
As expected, Caroline and the others are here.
"Master Zhang Feng, good morning!"
Caroline saw Zhang Feng and bowed gracefully.
"Zhang Feng, good morning!"
Others also greeted him.
"Good morning! Did you get anything?"
Zhang Feng walked to the side of the sea beast and touched its skin. It didn't feel like the skin of a living creature at all, but rather like rock.
He tried his best but couldn't even make it collapse.
Caroline smiled and said, "Master Zhang Feng, the surface of this sea beast is very hard. Not to mention pressing it with your hands, even if you chop it with a sword, it won't leave any marks. Only the golden sword with divine power can hurt it, but the sword is too short. Even if you stab the whole sword in, it still can't penetrate the skin of the sea beast..."
Apparently, Caroline had already experimented.
Zhang Feng smacked his lips and said:
"Tsk tsk, not to mention the attack power, the defense is definitely top-notch. Hill, how did you kill it?"
Hill next to him shrugged.
"I don't know either. Just hit him and he'll die."
“…”
Even Hill has learned to take a joke.
In the end, it was Hill who helped. He used his half-dragon claws to gently cut off a part of the sea monster's skin and had it taken away for research.
Then they found some people to build passages inside the sea beast's body. They worked from morning until dark, and finally they built several passages inside the sea beast's body that could accommodate people walking.
This sea beast is so huge that humans can even walk in some of its blood vessels. However, its blood is highly corrosive and extremely dangerous, so we naturally cannot be so reckless.
Everyone wandered around inside the sea beast's body and learned about its body structure.
What is particularly special is that sea beasts have two extremely large hearts, one located on the front fin and the other on the back fin. They are surrounded by extremely tough skin, so it is unlikely to kill them by hitting the heart with one blow.
Then there is the brain of the sea monster. I thought that a sea monster of this size should have a huge brain as well, but surprisingly, the brain of this sea monster is only the size of an ordinary small water tank.
Although it sounds big, compared to his body size, this brain is really too small.
Zhang Feng seemed to understand a little bit why Hill said that this sea monster was mentally retarded. It turned out that it had no brains.
However, this is consistent with Zhang Feng's guess. Biological weapons don't need any brains. They just need to understand and execute the master's tasks.
This sea beast can obviously do it.
Apart from these, the internal body of sea beasts is not much different from that of ordinary animals, except that they are larger, harder, and not afraid of corrosion.
You can only study these relatively superficial things in one day. As for the more detailed ones, you can only study them slowly later.
Zhang Feng’s main purpose was to see if these sea beasts had any weaknesses. Now he found the weakness, which was his two hearts.
If these two hearts were pierced, the sea beast would probably die soon, but the problem was that the defense near the two hearts was too high, and only Hill could break it with brute force alone.
Even the heart of the sea beast itself has very strong defense and toughness. Even if you finally break through the defense outside the heart, it may be difficult to hurt the heart.
So this strategy of attacking the heart doesn’t work, at least not right now.
As for the sea beast's brain, it is also a weakness. The brain is even more fragile than the heart. It can be punctured with a slight poke. But the problem is that the defense around the sea beast's brain is higher than that around the heart! If the defense around the heart can be ranked second, then the defense around the brain can be ranked first.
Hill finally managed to pierce the sea monster's brain and killed it with one blow.
Apart from Hill, it is estimated that no one else can break through the defense.
However, this does not mean that these sea beasts are invincible. At least bombs are still effective. But even the homemade bombs made by Zhang Feng have to be thrown in the right place, such as into the mouth of a sea beast. Otherwise, the damage caused is limited and the sea beast cannot be killed at all.
In addition, sea beasts are huge in size and numerous in number. Killing them with bombs is a huge project, and Zhang Feng is not sure it will be 100% effective.
Bombs can be used, but new methods of attack must be researched.
After a day of research, just as Zhang Feng was about to leave, Bernice suddenly found Zhang Feng excitedly.
"Zhang Feng, guess what I found?"
Seeing Bernice's agitated expression, Zhang Feng's heart moved, and he asked doubtfully: "Could it be that you found something related to 'divine power' in the sea beast's body?"
"Ah? You guessed it!"
Bernice was a little surprised, but she didn't care too much. Instead, she excitedly took out a blue bead.
The beads are the size of goose eggs, smooth, round and crystal clear.
"This is?"
"This is something hidden in the brain of a sea beast. After I discovered that it has the aura of 'divine power', I quickly brought it here to show you."
Speaking of which, after Bernice felt the divine power on the bead, her first reaction was relief, and then she couldn't wait to show it to Zhang Feng.
As for the reason, it is very simple. Now she is the only one around Zhang Feng who has "divine power", so the golden armor made by Zhang Feng needs her to recharge the energy.
It was okay once or twice, but after it happened too many times, Bernice felt uncomfortable because she thought of an animal - the cow.
She felt like a cow, having to produce milk for Zhang Feng every day.
Although for her, transferring the divine power in her body into the golden armor did not cause any danger or harm, and at most it would just make her a little tired, but to be honest, this feeling was not very good. But after all, it was Zhang Feng who asked for help, and she couldn't refuse.
If there was a way to replace herself, she would definitely be happy.
Just like now, she felt that the bead in the sea monster's brain might be able to free her.
Zhang Feng took the beads, and suddenly said to Bernice:
"I'm so sorry for all the hard work you've put in during this period. As compensation, if you need anything, just let me know!"
Zhang Feng just then remembered that he had been treating Bernice as a tool during this period of time because of the research on the golden armor. Although this was also Bernice's willingness, no matter what, she is the Pope of the Celestial God Church after all. Using her like this is indeed treating her like a tool.
It would have been fine if Zhang Feng hadn't said anything, but once he said it, Bernice felt a little embarrassed, as if she had brought the blue bead over just to make Zhang Feng stop looking for her.
"I……"
For a moment, Bernice didn't know what to say.
"Take your time to think about it. I'll study it first."
Zhang Feng didn't pay attention to Bernice's thoughts, but began to study the blue bead out of curiosity.
The beads feel very cold and heavy, and it seems that this thing must be quite dense.
Zhang Feng tried to explore it with his mind, but to his surprise he encountered no resistance at all and went in right away.
“This…Oh my God!”
After seeing what was inside, Zhang Feng’s eyes widened.
"Zhang Feng, what's wrong?"
Bernice asked curiously.
She came here immediately after she sensed the aura of divine power, and didn't have time to take a closer look.
"It's full of divine power, and... too much!"
Zhang Feng spoke with some disbelief.
"How much more exactly?"
Bernice felt a little regretful. If she had known earlier, she would have taken a look first. Otherwise, she wouldn't have been so itchy because of Zhang Feng.
"See for yourself."
Zhang Feng handed the goose egg-sized blue bead back to Bernice.
"Eh? I can't see... There seems to be something blocking it..."
Bernice then realized that she could only vaguely sense that there was divine power in these beads, but she couldn't see how much.
"Well, it's blocked?"
Zhang Feng was a little confused. He then discovered that there seemed to be a layer of something on the bead. He moved his mind and peeled it off easily, just like peeling an egg.
"What about watching again?"
"I can see it, I see...Oh my God!"
The moment she saw the divine power inside, Bernice almost threw the beads away. It was not because she was not calm, but it was too exaggerated!
One million scales!
You know, the golden armor developed by Zhang Feng only has three hundred scales.
Even if it was her own divine power, it was only about 1,200 scales. What was the concept of 1 million scales? It could make more than 3,000 golden battle armors! It was equivalent to more than 800 Bernices!
And so much divine power is contained in a small bead, this is too exaggerated! The two looked at each other, and their eyes lit up. It seemed that they had found a way to deal with the sea beast.
There are currently only two ways to break the sea monster's defense. One is for Hill to defeat the sea monster with his brute force, but they only have one Hill, which is obviously not enough.
The second method is to use weapons containing divine power to pierce the skin of sea beasts.
But the problem is, let's not talk about whether the divine weapons are long enough, just the divine power itself, they can't get that much divine power! Now in the entire Buck Kingdom, only Bernice has divine power, but her power alone is a drop in the bucket. Unless she can make golden armor and golden weapons uninterruptedly for decades, it is possible to defeat a sea beast with the advantage of numbers.
But obviously, it is better to hope that Hill will grow up, and then his strength will increase dramatically, and he will be able to kill all these sea beasts with a breath of dragon's breath. This feeling is easier to achieve.
However, Zhang Feng felt that he might not be able to wait for this day to come. After all, Hill had lived for more than three hundred years and was still a young dragon. It would take many years for her to grow up. By then, let alone Zhang Feng, it would be a question whether the Buck Kingdom would still exist.
Therefore, both possibilities are unlikely.
But now, after discovering that there is so much "divine power" in the sea beast, Zhang Feng feels that this is an opportunity! There is an old saying that only magic can defeat magic...
While Zhang Feng was thinking, Windsor suddenly ran over.
"Master, news came from the Orc Continent that the Heavenly Wolf Empire caught a big fish and wants to sell it to our Red Leaf Chamber of Commerce. Shu Daqiang asked if we would like to take it?"