They stayed in the small seaside town for half a month. Most of the soldiers became proficient in swimming, and only a small number of people who could not learn or were not good enough were assigned to logistics.
With everything prepared, the army finally set sail. The scene at sea on the day of departure was exceptionally spectacular. The people of the small town came to see them off, cheer them on, and look forward to their triumphant return.
Jiang Jiuniang was also very excited. Looking back at the dark mass of people on the beach, she said, "Once we take over the island nation, the economy of this small town can also develop a bit."
After all, although the place is small, it has mines, and the imperial court will definitely send people to mine them. There will be very frequent exchanges with the small town, and the development of the small town will be just around the corner.
Ruozheng looked at her and smiled, "So that's why you've been buying shops ever since you came here?"
How come I never noticed Lan Jiu was such a money-grubber before?
She and Lan Jiu were best friends, so she naturally knew that Lan Jiu was now incredibly wealthy. Even so, she still bought shops wherever she went to start a business. It was really too much for her to bear.
Zhuzhu nodded repeatedly. Before joining the army, they had been traveling all the way. Everywhere they went, Jiang Jiuniang would buy a shop. Her extravagant spending was quite impressive.
"Of course, who wouldn't want more money?"
Jiang Jiuniang raised her chin proudly and continued, "When we get back, we'll definitely start building all sorts of roads. Ruozheng, get the steam engine out as soon as possible. I want to open a courier company, and then I'll arrange for steam trucks to be put on the line. I guarantee we'll make a fortune."
Zhuzhu's eyes lit up, and she hurriedly said, "If that's the case, then those chain inns can also be set up! With faster transportation, more people will travel, and accommodation will become a very profitable industry! We can invest some money in them, and we can just lie there and collect money without doing anything, hehehe~"
Jiang Jiuniang gave Zhuzhu an approving look. That was exactly what she was thinking, and she planned to give the two of them a few shares as a gift for accompanying her into this world.
Ruozheng didn't speak, but the curve of her lips betrayed her thoughts.
For her, building a steam engine was too simple. She didn't want something so simple; she wanted something big. However, she hadn't decided on the specifics yet. She would think about it slowly after the war was over and she returned home.
If we can't come up with anything else, we can just make do with any steam engine we can find.
The route was the same as before, and there was no deviation. We experienced two storms at sea, but no one was injured or killed. Finally, we saw the small island nation.
Because they wanted to protect resources and avoid using the small black ball as much as possible, Lu Baichuan, as the general, was in charge of command. Qin Jian, Jiang Jiuniang, and the others led their men directly to the island without even bothering to investigate the situation, their eyes bloodshot from the bloodshed.
Xiao Rizi had known about what was happening in Dongting for a long time and had been on guard, but he did not expect the Beiyan people to be so uncivilized. They did not declare war or give any warning, but went straight to the island and started fighting. This made Xiao Rizi very anxious.
They are still very backward. Apart from the recipe for making small black balls given to them by the strategist, they have no resources to compete with the Northern Yan people.
Unable to defeat them, they could only bombard them with small black balls. However, the Northern Yan soldiers had already infiltrated the island nation's civilian population. When a small black ball was thrown, the agile Northern Yan soldiers quickly dodged it, but the slow-reacting island nation's civilians suffered the consequences, and a large number of them were bombarded in no time.
Jiang Jiuniang was very satisfied. In this way, they could wipe out all these people without getting much blood on their hands.
The small black ball from the island nation isn't very powerful; it can only hurt people and doesn't have much impact on the environment or resources, which has helped Bei Yan a lot.
Seeing their people being injured, the villagers were very anxious, but they had no solution. They felt that as long as they could drive away the invaders, sacrificing a few civilians would be worthwhile.
However, it was precisely this kind of thinking that led them to quickly wipe out their own people. In just three days, Jiang Jiuniang and her forces reached the island nation's capital, Kyoto.
Jiang Jiuniang and the others charged into battle, while Lu Baichuan arranged for people to collect the spoils of war and burn the corpses to prevent the spread of plague or something similar.
The island is rife with internal strife and its people are not united. Under such attacks, it is more like a pile of loose sand, utterly powerless.
The Emperor's head was chopped off by Jiang Jiuniang herself. When the court officials wanted to surrender and beg for a chance to live, Jiang Jiuniang showed no mercy and executed them all.
Over the years, she has tried her best to keep her hands clean and do good deeds for her family, but she feels no guilt towards these people. On the contrary, she feels great satisfaction.
Eradicating them completely means that there will be no more hundreds of thousands of comfort women, no more massacres of hundreds of thousands, and no more horrific live human experiments in future generations...
In just half a month, the island nation was completely wiped out. Fearing that anyone might survive, the soldiers were ordered to search everywhere, and they even burned down all the houses and food supplies they could find.
In other words, they weren't given any chance of survival.
Standing on the mountaintop, Jiang Jiuniang looked down at everything that had been cleared away, and felt very excited.
Very well, nothing unexpected happened. Their trip has completely changed history.
Future generations of China will not experience those humiliations, and the entire world will not suffer from hegemonic pollution, so the end times will not come so quickly.
Although the Northern Yan dynasty never actually existed in history, its deeds were not untrue. Everything in later generations will change, but as long as they work hard to develop it, they will surely make this dynasty famous throughout history, and their names will also leave a strong mark on history.
A group of officials were left behind to handle the follow-up matters and mining. Of course, the little black balls they brought were not wasted; they were all left here for the officials to use when arranging people for mining.
This batch of small black spheres wasn't as fierce as when they attacked Dongting, but they weren't as weak as the ones from Xiao Rizi either. They were perfect for mining, as they could blast out the ore without causing too much destruction or injuring the workers.
Jiang Jiuniang provided each worker with a safety helmet and a pure cotton mask to ensure their safety.
A mobilization meeting was held on the island to tell the workers to work hard, assuring them that the court would not treat them unfairly. The meeting also served as a way to indoctrinate the soldiers, preventing them from becoming bloodthirsty because of the brutality of the war. The islanders are inherently wicked; if you don't eradicate them completely, they will spring back to life.
If we don't kill these islanders this time, their descendants will die in the future, and the foundation built by their ancestors will be plundered by the islanders...
The soldiers, who had initially found the war somewhat cruel, suddenly felt a sense of satisfaction, realizing that the war had done a good deed, protecting their descendants so they could live a peaceful and happy life.
Having done all this ideological work, the army prepared to return to the capital.
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