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Chapter 1218: High-Power Alcohol Production Base
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
Over the half past year, although Zhang Tie was not in Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory, he was still paying special attention to everything in Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory.
The construction of the site of Iron-Dragon Sect was one of the most attractive things to Zhang Tie. Zhang Tie knew that Threerocks Construction Business Group had mobilized over 300,000 people, hundreds of airships of all types and over 10,000 sets of mechanical equipment and vehicles to build the site of Iron-Dragon Sect in the half past year. Even now, over 2,000 craftsmen were still constructing the site of Iron-Dragon Sect a day.
With such a large scale and great efforts, Threerocks Construction Business Group carried out multi-tasks at the same time. Some high-class highways leading to Youzhou Province, Yanzhou Province and the other places across Youzhou Province from Xuantian Eighteen Mountain Peaks had been open to the traffic in the half past year. Various buildings and living facilities on Xuantian Peak were also gradually improved.
Last night, Zhang Tie shocked the public too much. Even Bai Suxian couldn't believe that Zhang Tie invented dual-drive engine which couldn't even be invented by senior mechanical engineers.
Therefore, early morning, they all urged to visit the production bases of Zhang Tie in Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory.
Undoubtedly, Bai Zhengnan, Bai Suxian's elder brother was most interested in Zhang Tie's high-power alcohol and new-type airplane.
As the royal highness of Lord Guangnan's Mansion, Bai Zhengnan ruled over 10 corps in the south border of Taixia Country. He understood military affairs, people's livelihood and political affairs. Therefore, he was the first one who saw the great value of Zhang Tie's high-power alcohol and new-type airplane. After those knights talked it through with Zhang Tie last night, Bai Zhengnan rushed to the warehouse of Xuantian Peak and teleported all those barrels of high-power alcohol into his portable space-teleportation equipment with the reason that those lanterns over Immortals Gathering Peak lacked fuel and he felt this high-power alcohol was proper; therefore, he moved them himself instead of bringing trouble to Zhang Tie.
Before going to bed, Zhang Tie heard this message from his subordinates and became speechless about that.
'How could those lanterns on Immortals Gathering Peak need fuel like those inferior lanterns? It's absolutely a joke given the magnificence of Lord Guangnan's Mansion and Bai Suxian's daily needs.'
'Even if Immortals Gathering Peak really lack fuel, when did the royal highness of Lord Guangnan's Mansion become the butler of Immortals Gathering Pick?'
'Speaking of value, the production cost of those barrels of high-power alcohol is just a few silver coins. How could the royal highness of Lord Guangnan's Mansion take them away without my consent as if he was afraid that I wouldn't agree with him instead of feeling bashful?'
When Zhang Tie heard this news before going to bed, he forced a bitter smile.
This night, Zhang Tie lived in the Master's Pavilion of Iron-Dragon Sect on Xuantian Peak.
Master's Pavilion was not just a pavilion; instead, it was a complex which was connected by bucket arches and elevated high bridges. Being in the depth of the most beautiful wood, brook and garden on Xuantian Peak, the entire Master's Pavilion included Zhang Tie's main building, 21 various pavilions, buildings and courtyards for the loving of guards, maids, servants and Zhang Tie's family members. At least 300 people could live in the Master's Pavilion comfortably.
The entire Master's Pavilion had not been put in use yet. It was Zhang Tie's first time to live in it. Although it was a bit empty inside and not as boisterous as Zhang Mansion, Zhang Tie was still very satisfied with it.
Because the courtyard and facilities on Pines Peak had not been completed, Mountain Lifting Hermit lived in an elder's courtyard on Xuantain Peak for the time being; Lu Zhongming, Lin Huanxi, Donder and Zhang Su had their own courtyards; Zhang Tie's disciples had long got their residences on Xuantain Peak; Bai Suxian and Bai Zhengnan directly flew to Immortals Gathering Peak and lived there.
As her elder brother and so many knights were here, Bai Suxian felt embarrassed sleeping with Zhang Tie; therefore, Zhang Tie enjoyed a rare, personal sleep.
This night, there were only 5 people in the Master's Pavilion, Zhang Tie and 4 of his disciples.
Liu Xing and Zhao Bing were responsible for Zhang Tie's safety when he was sleeping; Qian Bingbing and Zhang Yawei served as Zhang Tie's maids.
Serving one's master when in need. Almost everyone in Taixia Country felt it was reasonable. It was not just a lip service. Because Iron-Dragon Sect had not established its personnel affairs system, Zhang Tie's Master's Pavilion didn't have enough servants; therefore, on the first evening when Zhang Tie came back, his disciples were on night duty for Master's Pavilion.
Zhang Tie was not used to that; however, he knew that it was absolutely acceptable in Taixia Country. Additionally, those people were arranged by Liu Xing. Given their facial expressions, they all felt very honorable serving as Zhang Tie's guards and maids. Now that they were all excited, Zhang Tie didn't need to say anything else.
Liu Xing, Zhao Bing, Qian Bingbing and Zhang Yawei stood there still overnight.
After a few hours' deep sleep, Zhang Tie had woken up before daybreak.
The moment Zhang Tie got up, Qian Bingbing and Zhang Yawei had opened the bead curtain and entered Zhang Tie's bedroom. Before they started to help Zhang Tie put on clothes and cleanse up, Zhang Tie said bashfully, "Erm…I will do it myself!".
"Master, do you blame Yawei and I for being ham-handed and want to be served by other senior or junior sister apprentices? Are you chasing us away?" Qian Bingbing opened her mouth. At the same time, the two female disciples' eyes were filled with glistening teardrops. With innocent looks, they almost cried.
Facing such a situation, although he was their master, Zhang Tie could only stay silent. Zhang Tie had a similar experience. At school, sometimes, a teacher's casual sentence might make a student unhappy for many years, even cause a knot in his heart. Therefore, besides preaching his knowledge to disciples, Zhang Tie always reminded himself that he had to pay attention to his diction in front of his disciples. "Whoops, alright, but you don't need to stand outside overnight if you still want to be on night duty in the future!"
"Don't need to stand outside…Master…Master…do you want us to help you go to bed?" Zhang Yawei whispered as she lowered her head.
The two female disciples blushed at once as they lowered their heads and peeped at Zhang Tie.
If it was a male disciple in front of Zhang Tie, Zhang Tie had long slapped him and sent him flying away. However, they were two female disciples. Zhang Tie became speechless, 'What are the two girls thinking about?'
Now that he couldn't slap them and send them flying away, Zhang Tie could only straighten his face as he flicked Zhang Yawei's head by finger in an imposing manner.
Zhang Tie had determined to establish his personnel affairs system in Iron-Dragon Sect. At least, he could select some dare-to-die members from those gifted by Lord Guangnan's Mansion and have them assume the night duty for these guards and maids. With so many girls on his side, he might have love affairs with them one day. Similar things were not fresh in Taixia Country. Take Nangong Sheng the master of Immortal Fist Position Sect as an instance, some of his current concubines who accompanied him to attend the rotating chakra ceremony were his former disciples. As for knights, such romantic affairs were acceptable. Some sentimental love stories might be deducted from such affairs. However, Zhang Tie could barely accept such affairs.
Perhaps, he was deeply impressed by Miss Daina. The relationship between him and Miss Daina was always a hazy and pure friendship between teacher and student. Therefore, Zhang Tie unconsciously treated Miss Daina as a model and would never break the friendship between a teacher and a student.
As of now, although Miss Daina couldn't teach him anything more; what she instructed Zhang Tie were deeply buried in Zhang Tie's memory. The last lesson of Miss Daina taught Zhang Tie how to be a qualified teacher.
This was a sort of memory that could only be understood by Zhang Tie.
"Hahaha, young brother Zhang Tie. The day is breaking. Will we take a look at the production base of high-power alcohol and dual-drive engine that you taught us last night?" Bai Zhengnan's loud laughter drifted from the sky. Soon after he flew off Immortals Gathering Peak, his voice had reached the Master's Pavilion on Xuantian Peak.
This was a senior tactic of voice transmission. In this means, the voice could reach over 10 miles away. When it reached the destination, it would diffuse as if he was talking to you in front of you. Ordinary earth knights could barely grasp this skill.
Before Zhang Tie went to wake him up, the royal highness of Lord Guangnan's Mansion had left for Zhang Tie's Xuantian Peak and urged him to get up. Perhaps, the royal highness didn't even fall asleep last night. As for a knight, they only needed to enter meditation by crossing their legs with eyes closed for a short while to recover their spirit and energy.
Bai Zhengnan's arrival broke the embarrassed atmosphere in Zhang Tie's bedroom coincidentally.
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When Zhang Tie put on his clothes, cleansed up and walked out of the Master's Pavilion, Liu Xing and Zhao Bing in iron armors both bowed towards him outside the Master's Pavilion with gleaming eyes.
"Master!"
"Hmm, thanks!" Zhang Tie threw a glance at them. After standing outside the Master's Pavilion overnight, the two men's iron armors had been covered with hoar-frost and dew.
"It's disciples' responsibility to serve our master!"
Bai Zhengnan and the other knights had just arrived at the opening land outside Master's Pavilion and were waiting for Zhang Tie to come out.
"Have you had breakfast?" Zhang Tie asked.
"How about having breakfast on the airboat? I've already had people to prepare it on the airboat!"
Bai Zhengnan answered. Feng Cangwu shrugged. Mountain Lifting Hermit didn't say anything. Lu Zhongming and Lin Huanxi revealed a smile. With red eyes, Donder might not have a good sleep last night. Zhang Su was waiting for Zhang Tie's decision. Bai Suxian looked curious.
Watching the expressions of the other knights, Zhang Tie said, "Let's go then…"
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In less than half an hour, soon after they finished their breakfast on the airboat, the airboat had already landed on a vast and smooth land in the south of Dongyang City within Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory which bordered Gaoping Prefecture in Yanzhou Province. Right in the middle of this open land which covered over 1,400,000 square meters, there were rows of huge erect metal cans and intensive pipelines.
This was the first production base of high-power alcohol within Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory according to Zhang Tie's plan.
The airboat directly landed on an open land within the production base of high-power alcohol.
Soon after the airboat parked, a lot of armored guards had swarmed up from all directions while blowing whistles. At the same time, they had pulled their sabers out of their sheaths as if they were facing a sharp enemy.
These ordinary guards could barely see senior airboat in usual times. After the rotating chakra ceremony, Zhang Tie returned his Iron-Dragon airboat to Taiyi Fantasy Sect; therefore, it was difficult for them to identify whether this airboat came from Lord Guangnan's Mansion or other places.
The airboat arrived abruptly without any notice. Therefore, these guards could only surround the airboat rapidly; meanwhile, having people notice the director of the base. They also knew that those who could take a flight by airboat were definitely not commoners.
Zhang Tie didn't open the hatch door of the airboat at once. Zhang Tie was also waiting for the arrival of the director. If he went out at this moment, these guards might not be able to identify him. In case of any trouble, he didn't feel like explaining anything to them.
Only after a short while, the boss of Zhongpin Business Group in Dongyang City, which was a branch of Li Clan of Wansheng Palace in Wuhua Prefecture, Zhuozhou Province had run over here while smoothening his clothes.
At the sight of Li Tao, Zhang Tie had people open the hatch door. After that, he walked out of the airboat.
Li Tao had seen Zhang Tie twice. The construction of this high-power alcohol production base was a task that Zhang Tie delivered to Li Tao. Li Tao was invited to attend Zhang Tie's rotating chakra ceremony too. However, on that occasion, Li Tao was just a trivial person like Lu Yishan. It was already his great honor to have a seat in the auditorium. By contrast, those who were waiting to be received by Zhang Tie in Xuantian City together with him were not even qualified to talk to Zhang Tie. However, in this rotating chakra ceremony, Li Tao knew the real identity of Cui Li and was in much more awe of Zhang Tie because of the talents that Zhang Tie exposed.
At the sight of the young man walking out of the hatch door, Li Tao became slightly stunned. Closely after that, he bowed deeply towards Zhang Tie and said, "Master, Li Tao feels sorry for being late!"
Watching Li Tao's movement and hearing his words, those surrounding guards hurriedly put their sabers back into the sheaths as they knelt down by one knee towards Zhang Tie.
Chapter 1219: The First Myrmidon
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
Zhang Tie told Li Tao to show around this high-power alcohol production base to his followers. Meanwhile, those guards kept patrolling in the base.
This was Zhang Tie's private high-power alcohol production base; however, it was Zhang Tie's first time to visit here. Therefore, Zhang Tie was also interested in those tall and huge iron cans and pipelines in the base.
"Those guards have a quick reaction speed. Are they new?" Zhang Tie asked Li Tao as he looked around those facilities in the base.
"Master, they are guards of Zhongpin Business Group. After the base was completed, this humble man only assigned a part of them here for the sake of the safety of this base. However, after the catastrophe of bloody figures broke out in Tongzhou Province, I was told that many bloody figures had entered Yangui Mountain Range; therefore, this humble man assigned all of them here!"
"Do you live in here too?"
"There are fewer than 5 LV 9 fighters among them; all the others just rank from LV 4 to LV 8. I was told that all the bloody figures are LV 9 fighters. Therefore, I was worried that these guards might not deal with those bloody figures and directly live in the base!"
Li Tao was a LV 13 battle general. As long as he was here, he could deal with 10 bloody figures. Even if a big group of bloody figures raided here, he could at least resist them for a short while. During the process when he resisted those bloody figures, as long as he sent the distress signal, the powerhouses of all the clans across Dongyang City would be able to come here for aiding him as soon as possible.
"If you and your guards move to the base, what about your business?"
"Compared to the task of Master, my business is nothing but sh*t!" Li Tao said meticulously without any arrogance or claiming merit for himself.
Zhang Tie threw a glance at Li Tao as he signed with emotion inside. 'What a young member of a family holding official rank for generations! His insight and trick couldn't be matched by ordinary businessmen. Li Tao knew that he could change his fate as long as he completes Zhang Tie's task and satisfies Zhang Tie. His Zhongpin Business Group, the annual sales volume of which was only hundreds of thousands of gold coins was nothing but sh*t in front of Zhang Tie's eyes.'
Zhang Tie was also told that Li Tao had exerted his full efforts in the half past year in order to complete the construction of this high-power alcohol production base within 3 months. The budget of this base was 5 million gold coins; however, in order to complete Zhang Tie's task, Li Tao added 600,000-700,000 more gold coins into the construction of this alcohol production base.
As long as money was in place, some equipment suppliers within Yanzhou Province could rapidly produce various facilities requied by this production base; additionally, resources and relations could be coordinated in all aspects; thirdly, he used this money to set heavy rewards for those workers, technicians and engineers who could complete the works overtime. With the efforts and coordination of Li Tao, this high-power alcohol production base was finally completed within 3 months. However, those gold coins that Li Tao provided himself greatly weakened the foundation of his business group. Even so, Li Tao didn't complain about that; neither did he ask more money from Iron-Dragon Sect; instead, he just gritted his teeth and completed the task perfectly.
Li Tao's meritorious services ranked first in the construction of this high-power alcohol base.
Li Tao's efforts could be identified from his look. After half a year, he had been much thinner and darker.
What was more, after the first batch of high-power alcohol was produced, Li Tao blocked the news in case of arousing the attention of all parties as he was clear about the value of the alcohol. Additionally, nobody took away those high-power yeasts from the reaction kettle of the base. Zhang Tie was the creator of those high-power yeasts; if someone took away those high-power yeasts or if those high-power yeasts met some problems, Zhang Tie would have known that without having to come here.
As Li Tao had experience in producing alcohol; he knew what counted most in this base. However, he didn't lose his mind in front of interest when Zhang Tie was not here. Therefore, he was definitely reliable.
As Li Tao was capable, visionary, loyal and deeply believed in Zhang Tie, of course, Zhang Tie would not let him suffer a loss; instead, Zhang Tie would put him in an important position and gift him a bright future. As Zhang Tie urgently needed capable and loyal people like Li Tao, he brought Zhang Su and Donder here.
"Do you remember what I told you at the beginning? As long as you could complete this task well, I will gift you a bright future and enable you to return home one day with honors. Even the elders of Li Clan of Wansheng Palace would behave politely in front of you!"
"This humble man remembers it!" Li Tao said meticulously.
"Hmm, don't run your Zhongpin Business Group anymore!" Zhang Tie said calmly.
Li Tao's footsteps stagnated slightly.
"That business is too small. You couldn't make too much money in one year. You don't derserve to do that. Just stay on my side as the general manager of Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory!" Zhang Tie threw a glance at Li Tao as he added, "This base is just a start in Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory. The scale of 500,000 tons is just the first step for throwing a stone to clear the road. In the future, Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory would be able to produce at least 2 million tons' high-power alcohol a year. As the conditions gradually grow mature, I will found bases in Youzhou Province, Yanzhou Province and Tongzhou Province. You will be responsible for all the alcohol production bases within Northeast Military Region. As for the treatment, I gained 60,000 kg gold a year when I served as the judicial officer of Youzhou Province. You could choose between 60,000 kg gold and 1/100 of the total profit of the entire high-power alcohol industry within Northeast Military Region a year!"
After hearing Zhang Tie's words, Li Tao blushed in a strange way as he took in a deep breath and bowed deeply towards Zhang Tie once again and said, "Master, from today on, Li Tao would like to serve you faithfully. Li Tao had confidence in the business of high-power alcohol and would like to choose the second compensation!"
Zhang Tie burst out into laughter as he thought, 'This guy is really smart and could take note of the situation. He could grasp the chance timely.'
After this bow, Li Tao became Zhang Tie's first myrmidon instead of a commoner within Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory.
In Taixia Country, the relationship between master and myrmidon was similar to the relationship between teacher and student. Myrmidons enjoyed many privileges; meanwhile, they would be restricted in many aspects. Rights and obligations always went hand in hand. When Li Tao was not Zhang Tie's myrmidon, if Zhang Tie killed him out of no reason, he would commit a crime; however, after Li Tao became his myrmidon, if Zhang Tie killed Li Tao according to home regulation, he would not suffer any punishment. Similarly, before Li Tao became Zhang Tie's myrmidon, if he had any enemy, Li Tao had to deal with the enemy himself; however, after becoming Zhang Tie's myrmidon, Zhang Tie would be responsible for dealing with Li Tao's enemy.
All the major clans in Taixia Country had myrmidons, such as Lord Guangnan's Mansion and Huaiyuan Palace. The more powerful myrmidons a clan had, the more powerful the clan would be.
Now that Zhang Tie had determined to treat Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory as his foundation in Taixia Country, of course, he needed to consolidate this foundation in all aspects and expand his reliable ones for better ruling Fire-Dragon Territory. As Zhang Su was his cousin, Donder was his instructor and friend; of course, they couldn't be his myrmidons. Therefore, Li Tao was fortunate to become Zhang Tie's first myrmidon.
Bai Zhengnan and the other knights just saw Zhang Tie convince Li Tao on one side. Although they didn't know what Li Tao had done for Zhang Tie, they could see that Zhang Tie regarded Li Tao highly.
After realizing that this man might be responsible for the business of high-power alcohol on Zhang Tie's side in the future, even Bai Zhengnan threw a deep glance at Li Tao and bore this man's look in mind.
As the sun rose up, workers in the alcohol production base were in positions on time. Black smoke also rose out of the chimney of the base which indicated that they were producing alcohol. Most of these workers came from the former alcohol plant of Li Tao; some of them were recruited by him lately.
Li Tao introduced each production link to Zhang Tie and the other knights.
They saw hills of maize straws being transmitted into the huge grinder. After being shattered into pieces, the maize straws entered the stewing workshop. After that, they were divided into those huge reaction kettles for fermentation.
The entire fermantion process would take 21 days. 21 days later, the substances in the reaction kettles would be divided once again. The reaction kettles were connected to high-pressure steam pipelines. In high-pressure steam, different substances would be divided into different places once again.
The pale gold liquid that flew out of that pipe on the top of the reaction kettle was high-power alcohol. The substance flowing out of the pipe which was connected to the middle part of the reaction kettle was plant fiber pulp, the residue at the bottom of the reaction kettle was a special organic fertilizer…
After the plant fiber pulp entered the new production line, they were mixed with broken coarse coal cinders and turned into combustible honeycomb briquet before being pulled away by trucks…
Chapter 1220: Fiery Oil
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
"Are all the products here made of maize straws?""Right!"
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"What's the efficiency of maize straw?"
"On average, 4 tons of maize straws could be made into 1 ton high-power alcohol, over 2 tons of special plant fiber pulp and over 900 kg organic fertilizer."
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"Is this high-power alcohol drinkable or not?"
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"Which effect is better, this organic fertilizer or ordinary fertilizers?"
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"What's the purpose of this special plant fiber pulp? Could it only be made into coal balls?"
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Donder's eyes were always gleaming as if numerous gold coins were flickering in front of him after finding that all the products here were made of maize straws which were usually burned as wastes.
Among all the people at present, Donder had the most questions, which included almost all the questions of the others. With Zhang Tie's consent, Li Tao replied them generously.
"This alcohol is different than ordinary alcohol which is brewed by grains; it's not drinkable. Even though being mixed with water, it still tastes especially spicy and numb. You could easily identify it…"
After hearing Li Tao's words, they all tried to taste the alcohol which had been mixed with 80% of water on the production line.
Its taste was similar to liquor; however, it was more stimulative than liquor. After being mixed with water, it was pale gold instead of being colorless. The moment they tasted it, their tongue would become numb. With such a terrifying taste, it could easily be identified.
"Pitiful!" Donder said in a disappointed way after having a sip.
"Nothing pitiful!" Zhang Tie replied with a smile, "It's already very fortunate for us to make high-power alcohol using maize straw. This alcohol has a very high fuel value. As a payment, we will lose its drinking value. This alcohol is many times more poisonous than ordinary alcohol to the human liver. With one cup of it, you might suffer from hepatotoxicity. It's the balance way of nature. We cannot make one thing that could be used by machine and eaten by humans. That's not the balance way of nature!"
All the others nodded as they all felt that Zhang Tie's words were reasonable.
"As for the effect of this organic fertilizer, it's not too special. After one month's commissioning and trial run, it was already December when the first batch of high-power alcohol was produced. However, we basically couldn't plant crops in winter; we just distributed this organic fertilizer to those farmers who sent us their maize straws. The effect of the fertilizer couldn't be seen until a few months later when they plant crops!"
At this moment, Li Tao threw another glance at Zhang Tie's expression before saying meticulously, "As for the purpose of this special plant fiber pulp, as of now, according to the request of master, we mix this plant fiber pulp with coal cinders and use them as fuel. This fuel is combustible; it's available to keep ourselves warm and cook dinner at home; it could even be used for heating up the boiler and driving various steam equipment. It could produce 10% higher heat quantity than ordinary coal. Additionally, it would produce much fewer soot than ordinary coal and honeycomb briquet. It��s especially clean and convenient at home; additionally, after over 1 month's trial production, we discovered another interesting thing!"
"What's that?"
"Follow me, you will know it." Li Tao led them into another production workshop on the other side.
This workshop was also used to produce something using those fiber pulp and coal cinders. However, being different than those coal balls and cool bars, the machines and production line in this workshop were different than that in the neighboring workshop. There were two sets of locomotive grinders on a production line which could produce bricks.
Those coarse coal cinders in the neighboring workshop would be further shattered into finer coal cinders and sands. After being mixed with the fiber pulp, these coal cinders and sands would be transmitted onto that production line and be compressed into dark grey square bricks.
A lot of square bricks had been piled up tidily in this workshop.
"We found that this plant fiber pulp would carry a strong plasticity after being mixed with finer coal cinders and sands. Therefore, we slightly changed the technology and made those coal cinders finer and lowered its proportion in the mixture. In the beginning, I made it into square bricks only for the sake of stock; later on, I discovered that these square bricks could even work as building materials if there's not a high request in fire-resistance…"
Fire-resistance was relative. These things being produced in alcohol production base could burn for sure as long as they were thrown into the boiler or the hearth; however, unless someone purposefully burned them, they would not burn up spontaneously just like a pile of coal.
"These coal bricks would have a great purpose in troops, not to mention the alcohol!" Bai Zhengnan put it straight. As the royal highness of Lord Guangnan's Mansion, he picked up a dried brick and sensed its weight and hardness by weighing it in hand even though his hand was made dirty. He then said, "My airship troops, armored troops and transport fleets are all driven by steam engines. Therefore, the logistics departments have to carry a large quantity of coal in each action; especially when they're somewhere where coal couldn't be supplied, they would carry more coals. Otherwise, those armored vehicles, transport vehicles and airships might flameout at any time. Common coals are incompact and couldn't be easily transported. Given convenience, ordinary coal indeed couldn't match this kind of compressed fiber-coal brick. If the fuel of troops is all turned into this kind of bricks, the logistics troops would feel much more relaxed!"
"Additionally, these things could also be used to build temporary fortifications in the wild in emergencies; it would be much better than digging soil and setting sandbags…" Feng Cangwu also picked up one coal brick which felt like ordinary brick and timber and started to observe it while narrowing his eyes, "Now that this thing has a very strong plasticity and could match coal as a fuel, if it's supplied for troops, we can make it a bit special; change the molds on the production line and press them into standard tenon-and-mortise pieces for the sake of assembly. Soldiers could rapidly build fortifications or small battle fortresses with these pieces…"
Donder widely opened his eyes as he said, "Does that work?"
"It could definitely not be used to defend powerhouses; neither could these bricks be used to build long-term fortifications and battle fortresses; however, they could be used to defend demons below LV 9 in emergencies!" Zhang Su said as he also picked up a brick, "Fieldworks and civil engineering are the most powerful means that humans adapted to deal with demons. This thing could definitely be used as fuel of troops and material to build fortifications rapidly!"
Bai Zhengnan, Feng Cangwu and Zhang Su had rich experience on battlefields. Therefore, their words all hit the nail right on the head. As this thing had a great portability, a good combustion effect and an extremely high plasticity, it's indeed very useful in corps. Some timbers could realize the same effect after being processed. However, no corps across Taixia Country could be that luxurious to use timbers as fuel; otherwise, a corps would go bankrupt after only one battle.
It was a surprise for Zhang Tie. Before coming here, he had known that these things were combustible; however, it was out of his imagination that the remains of alcohol brewage could have such a great purpose.
"I feel that those fiber pulp might be used to make paper!" Lu Zhongming opened his mouth too, "I've been to some paper mills in Guzhou Province. I feel that this fiber pulp was very similar to those pulp in paper mills; additionally, this fiber pulp was finer and smoother. I suggest you to have a try. Papermaking process is not that complex…"
Of course, this fiber pulp could be used to make paper! Zhang Tie had long known that. However, as it was his first time to visit this alcohol production base, in front of so many knights, Zhang Tie didn't need to act like a prophet. Now that someone had mentioned it, Zhang Tie just praised him.
"Elder brother Lu is right!" Zhang Tie nodded as he told Li Tao, "After a few days, find some professionals here to test the quality of paper made of this fiber pulp. If it's feasible, we can use some fiber pulp to make paper in the future." After saying that, Zhang Tie pointed at Donder and added, "He's Donder, my general steward. Later on, you two will be responsible for the management and financial affairs of this alcohol production base. Donder's words are also mine!"
"Yes, Master!" Li Tao nodded. Closely after that, he deeply bowed towards Donder and said politely, "General Steward Donder, I will learn from you!"
"Haha, we will learn from each other!" Donder had long been excited. With sparkling eyes, Donder chested out as he ticked off with fingers, "High-power alcohol means money; organic fertilizers mean money; coal bricks and coal balls mean money; paper means money; however, maize straws are wastes. Erm…this base is absolutely a coins-making plant. One base is too few, the more the better…"
"Elder Brother Bai and Elder Brother Lu, how do you feel about this business? Do you like that?" Zhang Tie asked Bai Zhengnan and Lu Zhongming.
"Is this the business that you're going to introduce to us?" Bai Zhengnan asked Zhang Tie seriously. Lu Zhongming and Lin Huanxi also exchanged a glance with each other.
"Of course, if you like it, you could be responsible for this business in the south border and Northeast Military Region. We will share the profits!"
"If this business expands in the south border, do you know how much will it make a year? Do you know what a great influence it would pose? How could you be so generous?"
"We can make money together. I feel bored by making so much money alone!" Zhang Tie revealed a casual smile while his generosity moved them, "Heavens Fortune Sect has also boarded my ship. The elder of Guan Clan would come here after a few days too. Two elders, don't be that courteous to me…"
"Which Guan Clan?"
"Guan Clan of Mingwu Palace!"
"Are the airplanes also produced here?"
"Airplanes and engines manufacturing plants are in Xuantian City!"
"Well, let's take a look in Xuantian City. I want to say how many more good things do you hide!"
"Sure, let's take a look in Xuantian City then!" After saying that, Zhang Tie told Li Tao, "You come with us. You'd better know the purpose of this alcohol in Xuantian City…"
"The name of high-power alcohol is too long; additionally, it's not imposing and intuitive. The word alcohol would easily arise misunderstanding too. People would think that it's eatable and cheap; therefore, it would hurt people easily. It's inconvenient for us to raise its price in the future. If we want to sell it, we'd better give it an effective name which could be easily remembered. " Donder had a very sensitive commercial gift. Only after frowning and thinking about it for a short while, he had proposed a useful suggestion.
"There were gasoline, kerosene and diesel before the Catastrophe, whose names were all easily remembered. Now that high-power alcohol is produced in Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory, how about calling it Fiery Oil?" Zhang Tie instantly thought up a new name for high-power alcohol.
"Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory, Fiery Oil. It sounds good and is catchy!" Donder spoke highly of it at once. After muttering this name for a few times, all the others nodded one after another.
"I also feel that Fiery Oil sounds more elegant than alcohol!" Li Tao nodded as he added, "We can name this alcohol production base as Fiery Oil Refinery!"
…
The airboat then left the Fiery Oil Refinery for Xuantian City.
After Zhang Tie showed those people around this Fiery Oil Refinery, they gained a wholly new name for high-power alcohol——Fiery Oil!
It only took the airboat about 1 hour to arrive at Xuantian City from the border between Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory and Yanzhou Province. They saw the plant which could produce 100,000 dual-drive engines annually and the first airplane manufacturing plant in Taixia Country in Xuantian City…
Chapter 1221: Air Cavalry Type-I
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
In a courtyard of Zhike Complex on Xuantian Peak…The two moons were hanging high in the sky; the 18 mountain peaks were far or near and bathing the same tranquil moonlight. The night breeze blew over Xuantian Peak, causing pines to sway.
This courtyard had the best scenery in Zhike Complex. It was Lu Zhongming, Lin Huanxi and their disciples who lived in there.
After wandering in Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory for a day and having supper in Xuantain City, Zhang Tie had returned to Xuantian Peak. Lu Zhongming and Lin Huanxi also returned to their own courtyard. When Lin Huanxi instructed some disciples to cultivate, Lu Zhongming came to the lookout pavilion in the courtyard as he stood still and watched the scenery of Xuantian Eighteen Mountain Peaks.
After a while, Lin Huanxi appeared behind Lu Zhongming and helped him cover a cold-proof cloak.
As a knight, of course, Lu Zhongming was not afraid of cold. However, the couple loved each other so much. They had got married before promoting to knights; therefore, their living habits and details had not changed for dozens of years.
After knowing that his beloved wife was on his side, Lu Zhongming grabbed her hand as he turned around and smiled towards her, "I thought you've gone to bed!"
"I find you have something on your mind; therefore, I came here to take a look at!" Lin Huanxi replied with a gentle smile.
"You know what I'm thinking about?"
"We've gotten married for dozens of years. Since you came back from Xuantain City, I've found that you were thinking about something!"
Lu Zhongming's eyes shone as he asked, "What do you think I'm thinking about?"
Lin Huanxi just replied with a smile as she pointed at the Immortal Spring Peak in the far, "I like that peak; how do you feel?"
After being stunned for a second, Lu Zhongming burst out into laughter, "My wife really knows my heart. I thought you wouldn't agree with me!"
Lin Huanxi let out a sigh before saying, "It's increasingly chaotic in Taixia Country. Although we're knights, we're no different than duckweeds in this chaotic world. Although Guzhou Province is good, our Minling Swordsmanship Sect's foundation is too weak. It's a dangerous period. This holy war might be a great catastrophe for humans. If we're not careful, an earth knight could eliminate us along with our Minling Swordsmanship Sect. In this situation, even knights should cooperate with each other for survival. Zhang Tie once saved my life in Earth-elements Realm. This man is hospitable and righteous. With profound, secret methods, he behaves modestly and is not over-ambitious. He's our benefactor, good teacher and bosom friend. There are still 15 empty peaks. After Fiery Oil enters the market, Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory must become attractive across the world. By then, the 15 peaks would soon be occupied by others. As Zhang Tie is longing for talents and has started to recruit myrmidons; why do we miss such a good opportunity?"
"My wife knows me best!" Lu Zhongming let out a deep sigh towards the sky as he said, "I was not decisive just now; today, I found Zhang Tie was open and aboveboard. He could directly gift the business that could make hundreds of millions of gold coins a year to us and let us earn such a great profit easily in Northeast Military Region. He's a real hero. He makes friends by heart instead of interest. No wonder he could convince Mountain Lifting Hermit who used to be free and aone in Earth-elements Realm. Although he had already married so many wives, he could still win the heart of the princess of Lord Guangnan's Mansion. Additionally, 3 of the top 7 sects in Taixia Country get along well with him. In the future, he was doomed to be the son-in-law of Lord Guangnan. So many major sects and lords and local powers are his VIPs. Furthermore, Zhang Tie is just 30 years old. He will definitely have a bright future. It's a great honor for us to join Fire-Dragon Sect and have such a reliance and bosom friend. Previously, I was worried about that you felt pitiful about abandoning Minling Swordsmanship Sect; I've not imagined that you're more soberer than me!"
"If we're here, just bring all of our disciples here. We only have hundreds of disciples. The Immortal Spring Peak could hold all of them. Mountain Lifting Hermit and young sister Suxian both think about enrolling disciples here. Mountain Lifting Hermit directly wants to leave his orthodoxy here. If we're here, Minling Swordsmanship Sect would be moved to the Immortal Spring Peak in the territory of Fire-Dragon Sect. Immortal Spring Peak will still be dominated by us. It's just a matter of name!"
"If so, I will go find Zhang Tie and express our opinion right now…" Lu Zhongming said as he was going to leave here for Zhang Tie; however, he was stopped by Lin Huanxi.
"Just tell him about that next morning!"
"Ahh, why not tonight?"
Lin Huanxi said bashfully, "I saw young sister Suxian fly into the Master's Pavilion just now…"
Lu Zhongming became stunned for a second. Closely after that, he realized what did she mean. He then put one hand onto Lin Huanxi's beautiful face lightly and stroked twice before saying, "Well, we will talk about that tomorrow. It's a good spring nightscape. 1 minute is worth 100 gold coins. Let's have a rest too…"
After hearing Lu Zhongming's words, Lin Huanxi blushed faintly…
…
After having a wild night with Bai Suxian, on the second day, Zhang Tie saw Bai Zhengnan off Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory for the south border of Taixia Country.
After visiting Zhang Tie's Fiery Oil Refinery in Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory, the airplane manufacturing plant and the dual-drive engine plant, Zhang Tie talked with Bai Zhengnan for one hour independently yesterday. After reaching an agreement with Zhang Tie, Bai Zhengnan couldn't wait to go back to the south border of Taixia Country.
Bai Zhengnan left with 2 airplanes, 20 sets of dual-drive engines, 100 tons of Fiery Oil and the parent yeast of high-power yeast that Zhang Tie handed to him. South Border of Taixia Country could establish air corps with these things.
"We're of the same family now. I will hand my sister to you. When you're free, you can come to the south border with Suxian and meet the old man so as to fix the relationship between you and Suxian in case the old man worries about you every day. Over these years, the old man always worries that his daughter couldn't marry others or find a good husband. Since she was young, I have not seen that anyone could convince her; this is pre-destined. Taixia Country is a bit unstable now. You might not keep out of the affair completely in Youzhou Province; however, with the identity of the son-in-law of Lord Guangnan's Mansion, you could frighten a lot of people in Taixia Country!"
Before leaving, Bai Zhengnan had a fervent embrace with Zhang Tie. After what happened yesterday, Bai Zhengnan had already completely treated Zhang Tie as his younger brother-in-law and himself as Zhang Tie's elder brother-in-law.
After hearing that Bai Zhengnan wanted Zhang Tie to go to Lord Guangnan's Mansion, Bai Suxian immediately pricked up her ears like a rabbit.
"Hmm, I will take Bai Suxian to propose a marriage in Lord Guangnan's Mansion this autumn, next year at most!" Zhang Tie said honestly.
Bai Zhengnan patted Zhang Tie's shoulder as he nodded. After waving his hands towards all the others at present, he boarded his airboat.
The airboat took off from the airport of Xuantian Peak towards the south.
Watching the airboat leaving, Zhang Tie let out a long sigh.
After burying the seeds of Fiery Oil, during the period when Heavens Fortune Sect and Lord Guangnan's Mansion were involved in this business, nobody else could shock or change the overall situation that Fiery Oil would prevail the entire world in the future unless Taixia Country was exterminated in a split second. U.p. dated by novelfull.Com
Watching the airboat disappearing in the skyline, Zhang Tie felt like seeing many familiar yet strange faces of ordinary soldiers of Selnes Theater of Operations in the sky. With different skins and faces, they were crew on airships, brave glider pilots, fighters who fought wing demons at their full efforts. Zhang Tie once fought demons together with them many times. Zhang Tie watched them getting injured, dying and being shot down from the sky by wing demons like unyielding fiery birds, leaving the last sound in the sky and on the ground.
They were unknown; however, their fresh blood scattered over the land and sky of Selnes Theater of Operations. Even though Waii Subcontinent had become a dead region, those former fresh faces and memories never faded in Zhang Tie's mind.
Zhang Tie especially used the Fiery Oil and the airplanes to dedicate those heroes who sacrificed their lives in the sky of Selnes Theater of Operations!
In the future, Selnes Eagle was not needed anymore; instead, each person could become the Selnes Eagle and the air cavalry!
This was Zhang Tie's sentiment which nobody understood.
Actually, Zhang Tie didn't care whether Fiery Oil was profitable or not.
The others found that Zhang Tie was watching the sky with a solemn look as if he was fulfilling a sacred contract and pledge.
"Ahem…ahem…" Zhang Su pretended to cough twice in order to attract Zhang Tie's attention, "I prepare to establish the first pilot training school in Xuantian City today. The new airplane seemed to have not been named officially. If we have other new types of airplanes, we might not distinguish them easily!"
Donder, as Zhang Tie's general steward, was responsible for Zhang Tie's finance; Zhang Su, as Zhang Tie's cousin, was responsible for establishing Fire-Dragon Corps of Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory.
With both money and knife, as the person with the highest battle strength, Zhang Tie didn't need to care about the affairs in Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory at all as everything would go smoothly in it.
As of now, Zhang Tie had been good at using these means which were usually adopted by big figures.
"Just call them Air Cavalry Type-I!" Zhang Tie named the airplane casually before reminding Zhang Su, "We can first select a batch of crew who could drive gliders. They might easily grasp the driving skills of the airplane!"
"After reading the Pilot Brochure that you compiled for a few days, even I could drive an airplane now!" Zhang Su replied with a smile.
Chapter 1222: Belief
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
On the morning of February 8, Bai Zhengnan left Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory. After that, Zhang Su and Donder left Xuantian Peak. Zhang Su was going to organize Fire-Dragon Corps by integrating the local armored forces within Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory; Donder made his first official inspection tour in Zhang Tie's territory. In Donder's words, now that he became the general steward of Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory, he had to get hang of everything in Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory, including, population, resources, land, taxes of cities and local major clans and influential figures, etc.. He had to bear all of them deep in mind.
Thankfully, Donder came to Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory with some reliable assistants from Golden Roc Bank. With the help of these assistants, he could slowly sort the financial affairs and businesses within Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory.
Lu Zhongming and Lin Huanxi also left Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory; however, before they left, they told Zhang Tie they wanted to join Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory. That made Zhang Tie exclaim that he had such a high popularity.
The news that Lu Zhongming and Lin Huanxi wanted to join Iron-Dragon Sect was not trivial for Zhang Tie and Iron-Dragon Sect.
Of course, Zhang Tie gave a warm welcome to Lu Zhongming and Lin Huanxi. They were two knights! After Lu Zhongming and Lin Huanxi joined Iron-Dragon Sect, the number of knights in Iron-Dragon Sect increased from 3 to 5 at once, including 2 earth knights and 3 black iron knights. Such a battle strength ranked top across Northeast Military Region.
Lu Zhongming and Lin Huanxi left Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory to deal with the affairs of Minling Swordsmanship in Guzhou Province. After that, they would join Iron-Dragon Sect along with their disciples.
After Zhang Tie returned his airboat to Taiyi Fantasy Sect, the airboat that Gold and Power Law promised to gift him was still being customized according to Zhang Tie's request, which would take another 2 months. Therefore, only Bai Suxian's airboat was available in Iron-Dragon Sect. Zhang Tie directly had people send Lu Zhongming and Lin Huanxi back to Guzhou Province by airboat. It would only take the airboat fewer than 5 days to make a round trip between Youzhou Province and Guzhou Province. By contrast, it would take them more than 2 months by airship. After Lu Zhongming and Lin Huanxi dealt with the affairs of Minling Swordsmanship Sect in Guzhou Province, they would be carried back by Bai Suxian's airboat.
Lu Zhongming and Lin Huanxi selected Immortal Spring Peak as their base in Iron-Dragon Sect. Therefore, soon after Lu Zhongming and Lin Huanxi left, Zhang Tie had fetched Lu Yishan and gave him 1 million gold coins for the construction of the houses and facilities on Immortal Spring Peak.
As for the construction of houses and palaces, 1 million gold coins was a big amount. The construction of Xuantian Peak had just cost a bit more than 1 million gold coins. Half a year ago, even an ordinary villa and courtyard that occupied about 700 square meters outside Xuantian City would cost more than 10 million gold coins. Due to the catastrophe of bloody figures, the price of land outside cities declined sharply.
Now that Lu Zhongming and Lin Huanxi came here for shelter, of course, Zhang Tie would not be stingy on this issue.
Zhang Tie received Lu Yishan in the main hall of Iron-Dragon Sect. After passing the gold check to Lu Yishan, Zhang Tie found that Lu Yishan was a bit strange today. After taking the gold check, Lu Yishan was still there as if he wanted to say something to Zhang Tie.
"Do you have any trouble? Go ahead, I'm listening!" Zhang Tie asked Lu Yishan straightforwardly.
After hearing Zhang Tie's words, Lu Yishan gritted his teeth with a blush as if he had made the decision. Closely after that, he knelt down in front of Zhang Tie and kowtowed loudly in front of Zhang Tie for three times, "Sorry for my rudeness, the entire Lu Clan wish to serve Master at our full efforts. None of Lu Clan dare betray Master; otherwise, we will be exterminated by the God."
After hearing Lu Yishan's words, Zhang Tie became stunned for a second. Then, he threw a glance at Lu Yishan who was a bit upset; meanwhile, Zhang Tie turned solemn as he asked, "Do you want to be my myrmidon?"
"Yes, Master!"
"Is that your intention or the intention of Lu Clan as a whole? Have you negotiated with the elders of Lu Clan?"
"I've already negotiated with the elders of Lu Clan. Lu Clan as a whole wish to serve Master at our full efforts!"
Lu Yishan put his hands horizontally against each other in front of his knees. At the same time, his forehead touched his palms. This gesture indicated that he completely acknowledged allegiance to Zhang Tie. Zhang Tie became silent for a short while; Lu Yishan just maintained this gesture in order to extend his sincerity to Zhang Tie.
Zhang Tie knew that Lu Yishan must have heard the news that Li Tao became his myrmidon. If he agreed to take Lu Yishan as his myrmidon too, all the other individuals and clans which had established relationships with Zhang Tie and thought highly of his prospect and moral standing would board Zhang Tie's huge ship. Lu Clan's choice was still within Zhang Tie's expectation. Besides employing myrmidons on his own initiative, many people would recommend themselves to be myrmidons. Many major clans in Taixia Country always had a lot of talented guests, who always recommended themselves to those major clans. If their talents won the favor of the major clans or they made great meritorious services, they would promote to myrmidons.
Precisely, Zhang Tie was moved by the gray hair of Lu Yishan.
"Well, get up. From today on, you're my myrmidon. Remember to accomplish my tasks sincerely later on. I will treat Lu Clan well!"
"Thanks, Your Majesty!" Lu Yishan made another salute to Zhang Tie before getting up with an excited look.
"Hmm, you can leave for your job…"
Lu Yishan moved backward. Not until he reached the gate did he turn around and leave. Lu Yishan tried his best to move lightly in case that his footsteps reverberated around the hall.
Over 1,000 people could hold a rite or party in the main hall. However, it was empty in the main hall at this moment. The shiny floor made of obsidians could almost reflect his shadow; some huge sandalwood pillars in the main hall gave out the slight fragrance of sandalwood, which filled the main hall.
Not until seeing Lu Yishan off did Zhang Tie let out a deep sigh. He took a cup and had a sip of tribute tea. After that, he stroked the gradually colder smooth surface of the china cup as he lowered his head and entered meditation…
'Being different than Li Tao's decisiveness and dauntless spirit, Lu Yishan is more experienced, steady and meticulous. Therefore, Lu Yishan is also qualified to be my myrmidon. Given the same thing, Li Tao might bring me a surprise; however, Lu Yishan would never make any mistake. Threerocks Construction Business Group had a great power and is qualified to build Class A cities. With such a myrmidon and construction business group, I would have fewer troubles in construction.'
'Lu Yishan is my myrmidon; Lu Yishan's grandson is my apprentice. Therefore, I'm both the owner and master of Lu Clan. It seems that Lu Clan is indeed longing for standing on my side…'
'Why is Lu Clan so anxious?'
'Besides thinking highly of my prospect and believing in my moral standing, I'm afraid that they also have a sense of crisis like Lu Zhongming and Lin Huanxi.'
Facing such a situation that all the heroes would like to seek for his shelter, Zhang Tie was not dazzled by the temporary success and overwhelming situation; instead, he still maintained a sober recognition and insight.
Lu Zhongming and Lin Huanxi saw the coming crisis; Lu Clan saw the coming crisis too. As the catastrophe of bloody figures had spread over Taixia Country, everybody had seen the crisis. Facing such a systematic crisis, all the smart living beings used their instincts to cooperate with each other.
Actually, neither Lu Zhongming and Lin Huanxi nor Lu Clan could have a deeper and sharper recognition about the coming sense of crisis. Because Zhang Tie had long experienced the extermination of many subcontinents before coming to Taixia Country. Zhang Tie witnessed many countries being exterminated and numerous people becoming slaves and walking dead. However, the extermination of Waii Subcontinent was just the appetizer of this holy war.
Zhang Tie also cooperated with Heavens Fortunes Sect and Lord Guangnan's Mansion.
Powerful ones could accompany with loneliness and stars. However, after witnessing how tens of thousands of human knights and demon knights collided with each other fiercely in the Earth-element Realm, Zhang Tie dared not say that he was powerful until now. Sometimes, even an earth knight's life was very trivial. Therefore, he could only seek cooperation with more powerful organizations. Who's the powerful one? Previously, Zhang Tie was confused about the concept of the powerful one. He felt that his master Zhao Yuan could be a powerful one. However, after coming back from Earth-elements Realm, he had a clearer definition about the concept of powerful one——a person who could survive the besiege of tens of thousands demon knights is qualified as a powerful one.
Zhang Tie realized that he was too far away from that realm.
Now that he was not a powerful one, he could only cooperate with the others.
Like what Elzida told him in the letter, the so-called future was just the combination of numerous possibilities. Future is uncertain. No matter how sharp trump cards did demons have, no matter how worse was the situation facing humans, humans would always have hope as long as it was at the last moment. The option of numerous possibilities in the future was in the hand of the most powerful one.
Zhang Tie insisted on growing more powerful through individual cultivation or uniting with more people.
After settling down and preparing for further development, Zhang Tie found that few people could be trusted on his side as he only paid attention to individual cultivation over these years…
At this moment, Zhang Tie heard the crispy footsteps from the gate of the main hall as he raised his head.
Bai Suxian entered the main hall while swaying her body, "The 2,000 dare-to-die fighters gifted by Lord Guangnan's Mansion have arrived at Xuantian Peak…"
Chapter 1223: Being on the Right Track
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
As Zhang Tie was sighing inside that he didn't have too many reliable ones on his side, Bai Suxian brought him a good news. What a timely rain…
Zhang Tie immediately sprung up from the chair as he asked happily, "Really?"
"They lived in Xuantian City which was not far from here. Therefore, I brought them here. Why are you so excited?"
"Haha, why not? It's gifted by my elder brother-in-law and could solve my problem urgently." Zhang Tie put his arm around Bai Suxian's waist as he kissed her face, causing a sound 'mu', "My wife is really my good assistant!"
After hearing Zhang Tie's praise, Bai Suxian felt pretty happy as her face became shiny although she said, "Annoying…"
Watching Bai Suxian's enchanting look, Zhang Tie's concern and worry faded away at once. 'I have friends, brothers, reliances, relationships, final shelter and such a good assistant at home, what am I worried for? It's just a holy war. I will always have a countermeasure. Who cares!'
"Let's go, we will take a look at them!" Zhang Tie said in a spirited way.
"Look at what?"
"Of course those dare-to-die fighters!"
"Let them come in for your review!" Bai Suxian looked around the Ancestral Shrine Palace as she nodded, "It's spacious here. It could hold 2,000 people if they stand close to each other. Now that those people had been gifted to you, as dare-to-die fighters, they have to attend a ceremony to recognize their owner without any disturbance. This place is suitable for them!"
"An owner recognition rite?" Zhang Tie asked out of curiosity.
"Of course, dare-to-die fighters should recognize their owner. If not, anyone could command them. Who dare put such people on their side?" Bai Suxian said with an arrogant look, "The Goldensand dare-to-die fighters trained by Lord Guangnan's Mansion are famous across Taixia Country!"
"Great, I'd like to a look at them!" Zhang Tie said in an expectant manner.
Zhang Tie knew that his elder brother had controlled a small country in Chaosang Subcontinent called Immortal Wind Country. Zhang Yang favored this country because this country could train blood-tied dare-to-die fighters. It's difficult to train dare-to-die fighters. Dare-to-die fighters being trained in different secret methods had different abilities. According to Zhang Yang, Immortal Wind Country could only train hundreds of blood-tied dare-to die fighters a year; additionally, it would take them even 10 more years to train a batch of blood-tied dare-to die fighters. The first batch of blood-tied dare-to-die fighters being trained by Immortal Wind Country for Jinwu Business Group and Zhang Yang would be available next year.
The 2,000 Goldensand dare-to-die fighters was definitely a great gift.
Finding that Zhang Tie was so expectant about those Goldensand dare-to-die fighters, Bai Suxian clapped.
After Bai Suxian's clapped, two wrinkled old men in black robes and odd-looking animal horn hat entered the main hall, followed by teams of people, male and female, old and young.
Zhang Tie looked at those blood-tied dare-to-die fighters and found that they were nothing different than normal people. All of them were spirited with clear eyes. Most of them were about 30 years old. Few of them were old with a gray beard. A small part of them was at their 40s and 20s.
These people were well disciplined. They were well coordinated in actions. 2,000 people stood still and tidily in the main hall without any noise.
After the 2,000 people entered, the main hall finally became full and vigorous.
"Princess, Master, all the blood-tied dare-to-die fighters have arrived!" The two weird old men came to the front of Zhang Tie and Bai Suxian before telling them respectfully.
"There're males and females, old and young, your elder brother told me that they were craftsmen home slaves trained in accordance with the orthodoxy of dare-to-die fighters, what can they do for us?" Zhang Tie asked Bai Suxian.
"Craftsmen and home slaves are inferior to dare-to-die fighters." Bai Suxian told the two old men, "You can make an introduction about them to us!"
"Yes, princess! Among the 2,000 people, there are 1,700 males, 300 females. Among the males, there're 300 LV 6 fighters, 200 LV 7 fighters, 100 LV 8 fighters, 50 LV 9 assassins and 850 craftsmen such as blacksmiths, tailors, tool-makers, gardeners, cobblers, carpenters, accountants, doctors, stewards, farmers, difference engine operators, engineers and clerks. Among the 300 females, there are 100 female fighters from LV 6 to LV 9, who could serve as maids and use remote-sensing crystals; the 200 females include gardeners, embroidery workers, cooks, actresses, music masters, nurses and accountants. Over 150 of them could master many jobs!"
Zhang Tie was really shocked by such dare-to-die fighters.
"What's the difference between Goldensand dare-to-die fighters trained by Lord Guangnan's Mansion and the blood-tied dare-to-die fighters trained by the Immortal Wind Country in Chaosang Subcontinent?��
"Goldensand dare-to-die fighters trained by Lord Guangnan's Mansion maintain their spirits and intelligence. They are nothing different than commoners. Each Goldsand dare-to-die fighter could make increasingly greater achievement through constant development on the road that they choose. However, if you want any one of them to die for you, they would never hesitate to do that!" Bai Suxian explained, "Those blood-tied dare-to-die fighters trained by the Immortal Wind Country in Chaosang Subcontinent are nothing but sh*t among the dare-to-die fighters in Taixia Country. Those blood-tied dare-to-die fighters would lose a part of their spirit and intelligence after they were trained well. Therefore, they could barely gain too much development and achievement in their own way. Although they're loyal to their owner and won't do harm to the owner, they could only serve as cannon fodders and tools to threaten others. Nevertheless, it would be very difficult for them to do something else or enter higher stages. Additionally, only males could be trained as blood-tied dare-to-die fighters. Those blood-tied dare-to-die fighters are very inferior fighters. Why do you ask about this?"
After hearing Bai Suxian's words, Zhang Tie became speechless. Of course, Bai Suxian didn't know that his elder brother had controlled the Immortal Wind Country in Chaosang Subcontinent and could have them train blood-tied dare-to-die fighters. Therefore, her comment about blood-tied dare-to-die fighters was reliable. However, those who could train dare-to-die fighters in Taixia Country were not ordinary people or clans. Zhang Yang had spent a lot in controlling a small country that could train dare-to-die fighters. As a knight princess of Lord Guangnan's Mansion, Bai Suxian was picky; however, it didn't mean that what she didn't speak highly of wouldn't do any help to Zhang Tie.
"When I was screwed a few years ago, my elder brother controlled the Immortal Wind Country in Chaosang Subcontinent in case of possible dangers. I was told that Immortal Wind Country could train dare-to-die fighters!" Zhang Tie told Bai Suxian honestly.
Bai Suxian stuck her tongue out in a cute way as she patted her chest and said, "Ahh, if so, I couldn't say that in front of your elder brother!"
"Hoho, glad that you know it. Aww, is it very difficult to train these Goldensand dare-to-die fighters?"
"Of course, difficult. Even Lord Guangnan's Mansion could only train about 1,000 Goldensand dare-to-die fighters a year. These people are two years' work of Lord Guangnan's Mansion!"
"How do they recognize their owner?"
"Just do as they tell you. It's an easy rite!" Bai Suxian said as she moved to one side, "After a while, only you could stand here. They could only see you. I will wait for you on one side!"
Zhang Tie nodded.
Under Zhang Tie's curious gaze, one of the two weird old men turned over his hand as he took out a strange tree-stool shaped podium like thing whose diameter was over 1 m from his portable space-teleportation item and put it in front of Zhang Tie; closely after that, he took out a banner which was covered with weird runes and inserted it on the back of the tree tool; besides, one side of the banner was black, the other was red. After that, he took out a necklace which was composed of a wild animal's skull and passed it to Zhang Tie. He made a hand gesture to have Zhang Tie put it on his neck. After that, he requested Zhang Tie to stand on the tree stool.
The other old man took out a closed shell from his sleeve and passed it to Zhang Tie before saying, "After a while, when we leave and blow the wooden flute, you should open your bone shell. After that, break your finger and drop some blood onto the little round black ball in the bone shell. Stand here still for a while; when they open their eyes, this rite would come to an end!"
"So easy?"
The old man nodded.
Zhang Tie then replied, "No problem!"
The two weird old men then walked away. When they reached the edge of the team of 2,000 people in the main hall, one old man took out a verdant flute from his sleeve and blew some strange melodious tones. When the melodious tones reverberated around the main hall, all the 2,000 dare-to-die fighters widely opened their eyes suddenly and gazed at Zhang Tie who was standing on the podium. Their eyes were extremely clear and a bit confused just like that of babies who had just come to the world. Being attracted by Zhang Tie, they all watched him out of curiosity.
Zhang Tie was shocked as he hurriedly opened that bone shell. There was indeed a little black round ball in the bone shell. Zhang Tie broke his finger by teeth and dropped some blood onto that little black round ball.
Strangely, when Zhang Tie's first drop of blood fell onto the black round ball, a part of the round black ball had turned golden. When Zhang Tie's 4th drop of blood fell onto it, the entire round ball turned golden. After that, the golden round ball dispersed into golden sands and flew towards those dare-to-die fighters.
Of course, they were not golden sands, but bizarre winged insects who were as tiny as sands. There were totally 2,000 such insects. All of them flew to the places below the nostrils of those dare-to-die fighters before drilling into their nostrils like being absorbed in…
Under the gaze of lotus-flower eyes, closely after those insects flew into the nostrils of those dare-to-die fighters, they drilled into the same strange place in their brain. After that, they all stayed still and turned gray as if they had become one part of their brain. Thanks to his lotus-flower eyes, Zhang Tie could see through this process carefully. If not, even if he cut open those dare-to-die fighters' bodies and looked for the insects inch by inch, he couldn't find anything abnormal.
All the 2,000 dare-to-die fighters in the main hall had closed their eyes.
However, 1 minute later, all of them opened their eyes and looked at Zhang Tie who was standing on the podium in a strange make-up, their eye light became completely different than that when they entered the main hall just now.
Zhang Tie had ever seen the same kind of eye light from the eyes of those pious believers of Ancient God Church and those people whom Zhang Tie had saved by teleporting them into Castle of Black Iron. The eye light indicated that they believed and relied on Zhang Tie unconditionally and could sacrifice themselves for Zhang Tie at any time like how fish felt when they saw the ocean and how sons felt when they saw their fathers.
"Owner!" 2,000 dare-to-die fighters shouted in unison as they all bowed deeply towards Zhang Tie.
'How sharp Goldensand dare-to-die fighters!' Zhang Tie let out a sigh with emotion, 'Such a training method is really something!'
At this moment, Zhang Tie recalled some special animal controlling means, which had been spread among humans before the Catastrophe. In that age, humans mainly adopted such means to train military dogs and police dogs. As these military and police dogs were trained by professionals in professional bases, they were fierce in nature. Therefore, when these well-trained military and police dogs were handed to polices and troops, the trainers of these military dogs and police dogs would hold an "owner recognition rite" with the receivers of these military and police dogs so that these dogs could be more obedient to their receivers. Usually, the receivers of those dogs would provide a private item which carried their odor such as key cases, hats and velvets for the trainers. Trainers of military and police dogs could have these dogs fully follow the orders of the new owners through the special odor in some special means.
Similarly, the so-called owner recognition rite of dare-to-die fighters was essentially a process which was required to control people who were more senior than dogs. Therefore, it should be more effective in the greater secret method.
Zhang Tie got off the podium and returned the weird necklace and the bone shell to the two old men of Lord Guangnan's Mansion.
"How long will the effect of this rite last?'
"Generally, forever, unless someone among them promotes to knights. However, by then, I think that master would have better methods to have a knight follower your order piously!"
Zhang Tie nodded as he looked around the over 2,000 pairs of eyes which were fixed on him. All of a sudden, he burst out into laughter…
With 2,000 dare-to-die fighters, Xuantian Feng became vigorous at once. Everyone carried out their own responsibilities accordingly. Iron-Dragon Sect finally looked like a major sect while everything went smooth.
At least, Zhang Tie finally had professional guards and maids; otherwise, he would always feel embarrassed having some female disciples on his side.
Zhang Tie didn't keep all the 2,000 dare-to-die fighters in Iron-Dragon Sect. He selected 300 people from them and had them report to Zhang Gui. They would follow Zhang Gui's orders and look after his family members in Jinwu City. As for those 1,700 dare-to-die fighters in Iron-Dragon Sect, Zhang Tie allocated duties to them respectively. In this way, Zhang Tie controlled the entire Iron-Dragon Sect at once.
3 days later, after ending his first tour inspection of Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory, Donder returned to Iron-Dragon Sect. After being told that Zhang Tie got 1,700 dare-to-die fighters who had various talents, Donder immediately selected 30 young females from them and purchased a batch of remote-sensing communications devices so as to found the first Master's Intelligence Agency in Iron-Dragon Sect. In this way, each command of Zhang Tie could be delivered to all the Local Representatives Committee in each city being affiliated to Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory precisely and timely through authoritative channels.
After Zhang Tie returned to Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory for 1 week, everything in Iron-Dragon Sect and Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory had gradually been on the right track; Zhang Tie gradually ruled the Iron-Dragon Bounty Territory and Iron-Dragon Sect.
The master of Wang Clan of Yushun Palace in Ningan City also became the 3rd myrmidon that Zhang Tie received in Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory.
Additionally, only after a few days, the news that "an iron bird flew in the sky" outside Xuantian City and Zhang Tie had invented "Fiery Oil" had shocked the entire Taixia Country once again.
When Taixia became bustled and shocked by the changes in Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory, Zhang Tie received the news that the expeditionary fleet of Sacred Light Empire had left the harbor for Sacred Iceland Kingdom from Pontiff Sarlin through the remote-sensing crystal.
After one winter's preparation, Sacred Light Empire's expeditionary corps which was said "to shatter Sacred Iceland Kingdom" finally set off their harbor towards Sacred Iceland Kingdom.
One day before they set off the harbor, the last warning that Sacred Light Empire delivered to Sacred Iceland Kingdom arrived at Saint Petersburg.
Sacred Light Empire requested Sacred Iceland Kingdom to surrender to them unconditionally; abandon resistance in any terms; disband Ancient God Church; hand over all the "heretics" who joined the assassination of the chief priest of Sacred Light Empire; pay an astronomical compensation and kneel down for the arrival of the special envoy of Sacred Light Empire…
Of course, Saint Petersburg refused them. Therefore, on the second day, the expeditionary corps of Sacred Light Empire set off the harbor for Ice and Snow Wilderness…
Chapter 1224: The Turmoil in Ewentra Archipelago
Translator:WQL
Editor:Aleem
In late March, the cold wind from the Devil North Wind Belt in Ice and Snow Wilderness blew over Oro Strait all the way to the south. When it reached 600 more miles in the south of Saint Herner Island and arrived at Arkray Island, it had turned mild. The cold in the wind couldn't be sensed anymore.
As the most prosperous big island in Ewentra Archipelago, the hub that linked the north part and south part of Ewentra Archipelago and the political center of the entire Ewentra Archipelago, Arkray Island covered over 2,400 square miles. The autonomous parliament of Ewentra Archipelago was founded in Arkray Island.
In Ewentra Archipelago sea area, those islands which were larger than Arkray Island were not as prosperous as Arkray Island; those islands which were smaller than Arkray Island couldn't match Arkray Island in the background. The greater part of time-honored major sects which built up fortunes in commerce and trade across Ewentra Archipelago originated from Arkray Island. Therefore, Gantiadu Island and Sinira Island didn't become the political center of Ewentra Archipelago; Saint Herner Island was defeated by Arkray Island too.
The wind from Ice and Snow Wilderness had turned as warm as a spring breeze; however, another cold current from Western Continent sent the entire Arkray Island into cold as if the winter had arrived.
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After receiving the news that the expeditionary fleet of Sacred Light Empire on Western Continent had set off the harbor, the atmosphere of the entire sea area of Ewentra Archipelago grew increasingly intenser. As the expeditionary fleet of Sacred Light Fleet gradually approached Ewentra Archipelago, the entire Arkray Island was troubled by surging evil forces; especially the autonomous parliament of Ewentra Archipelago.
On March 26, the members of autonomous parliament were in a quarrel in the conference hall only for voting theAct on the Mobilization for the Duel.
As the members of the autonomous parliament had a great difference in views, Ms. Olina the president of the parliament let the two parties carry out a public debate.
The so-called public debate was just an orderly quarrel.
"Gentlemen, we have received the news from the Maritime Council yesterday. The expeditionary fleet of Sacred Light Fleet has already arrived at Sukbi Sea Gulf 2 weeks ago. They are accomplishing the final replenishment. Based on the speed of the expeditionary corps of Sacred Light Empire, as you know, they would probably arrive at Ewentra Archipelago sea area on the same day next month as it is only fewer than 20,000 nautical miles. At most mid Friday, a powerful fleet would arrive. As members of Sacred Iceland Kingdom, of course, we're obligated to resist the invaders. However, the problem is that is our resistance meaningful? What's the meaning of our resistance? Will the result be different than treating more fellows as cannon fodders?"
Right then, a gentleman at his 50s expressed his opinion on the rostrum, spraying his saliva in all directions. This man was Levins Hill, the clan head of Levins Clan on Bali Island and the member of Ewentra Archipelago Autonomous Parliament.
Perhaps, he had less chance to make a speech here, Levins Hill looked a bit thrilled. In the former quarrel, this old man's hair looked a bit disordered; if not Ms. Olina had guards break in and separate the two parties timely, these gentlemen might have long started to make a boxing show due to the excitement.
Levins Hill was the one who mostly opposed theAct on the Mobilization for the Duel. It was out of people's imagination more or less; however, it was still understandable. Because everybody across Ewentra Archipelago knew the relationship between Levins Clan and Renard Clan on Bali Island. Levins Hill was a dog, a graceful dog of Connar, the clan head of Renard Clan.
Connar was always silent in the conference hall. However, everybody knew that Revins Hill had spoken everything for Connar.
Of course, the attitude of Levins Clan was as same as that of Renard Connar.
Although Levins Hill was speaking out of excitement, many members of autonomous parliament below didn't look at him at all; instead, they peeped at Connar who was closely below the rostrum of the president.
Like usual, Connar still wore a suit of exquisite gray Western-style clothes as the deputy president of the autonomous parliament. Connar's grey-brown hair was combed well. Under the light of the ceiling fluorite lamp, his hair was shiny with delicate, waxy light. Even flies would slip on his hair.
Connar watched Levins Hill calmly in a glassy-eyed way. The same fluorite lamplight outstood this man's hooknose and strongly defined and a stubborn chin. The two deep eye sockets were like pitch-dark pits while the eyesight in the deep pits was confusing and profound.
Ms. Olina was sitting on a higher rostrum behind Connar in a black silk longuette and a delicate, simple and elegant makeup. Perhaps because she had delivered and suckled babies, Ms. Olina looked more mature and feminine. She was brilliant. In each conference, those members of autonomous parliament who peeped at her in the public would be fascinated by Ms. Olina's charm.
The sexy fox who was well-known across Ewentra Archipelago had already become the president of the Ewentra Archipelago Autonomous Parliament. Navyblue Castle Business Group grew increasingly prosperous. An extremely charming mature widow being set off by power and wealth would make men feel being convinced. However, all the men could only stand it because they all knew whom did this woman belong to.
Like Connar, Ms. Olina who was sitting on the highest position also maintained a calm look; besides, she also looked a bit tired as everybody knew that this woman had made her full efforts these days in order to respond to the coming expeditionary fleet of Sacred Light Empire.
Many male members of parliament would be fascinated by the look of Ms. Olina. Only very few people noticed that Ms. Olina was wearing a luxuriant purely black longuette with a silver diamond brooch on her breast.
"...The expeditionary corps of Sacred Light Empire assigned 2 throne priests and 5 major priests from the eastern parish. How could Sacred Iceland Island resist such a great power? Is that useful for all of us to fight them? Levins Hill loudly repeated the worst news that everybody else had known; although the others disliked him, they couldn't refute him.
"According to you, do we just put up our hands and wait for being arrested?" Bell Filis on the other rostrum asked him out of fury, "Do you mean that we have to give up resistance because of the power of the enemy? Do we also give up resistance if our enemy is a demon? If so, what about the face of His Majesty? You're a treason!"
After old Bell resigned as the member of autonomous parliament, his grandson had taken over his position and become a member of Ewentra Autonomous Parliament.
The relationship between Bell Clan in Saint Herner Island and Ms. Olina who came from the same island was universally known.
ThisAct on the Mobilisation of the Duelcould almost be regarded as a duel between the president and the deputy president of the Ewentra Autonomous Parliament.
No matter what, junior Bell was a bit young. Levins Hill caught the loophole in junior Bell's furious question at once as he revealed a smile.
"I'm doing this according to the opinion of His Majesty. Mr. Bell must remember the nature of Ewentra Mixed Fleet. According to the agreement, it served as the local garrison fleet. Over these years, the expenditure of Ewentra Mixed Fleet was always allocated by our autonomous parliament. Unless being invaded by demons, the Ewentra Mixed Fleet should be led by the Ewentra Autonomous Parliament. That's why I oppose theAct on the Mobilisation of the Duel. Besides exploiting the command of Ewentra Autonomous Parliament regarding the fleet, this act also extracts the overall strength across Ewentra Archipelago and put it into a hopeless war. This violates the agreement that we have made with His Majesty. If we pass this act, we're betraying the country and His Majesty in a foolish way. I oppose passing this act because I want to save Ewentra Archipelago and preserve the reputation of His Majesty..."
Levins Hill was eloquent on the rostrum. His words beautified himself; meanwhile, he splashed a basin of dirty water towards junior Bell.
The entire conference hall was in an uproar at once as both parties were blaming the opposition for betraying the country. It was already a very serious diction; additionally, from the result of the debate, Levins Hill seemingly took the wind.
Levins Hill behaved pleasantly.
"You b*stard and coward!" Bell Filis was driven mad as he directly jumped over the rostrum and punched at Levins Hill's face. Levins Hill dodged away; as a result, Bell Filis punched at Levins Hill's shoulder. The two people then started to wrestle with each other and fell down at the same time. A great number of members of parliament hurriedly rushed and swarmed up to pull them apart, causing the spot to be chaotic once again...
In the chaos, the president knocked the wooden block by hammer at the rostrum for 3 times. After that, junior Bell and Levins Hill were pulled apart.
Levins Hill looked embarrassed in messy hair. There was a bruise on his face; additionally, junior Bell lost two buttons with two footprints on his trousers.
"As members of parliament have a great divergence in views. We could barely reach an agreement. We will not vote on the act today. Let's continue tomorrow, adjournment!" Ms. Olina said helplessly as she stood up and put down the long hammer. After throwing another glance at the spot, she left the rostrum quietly.
Connar was lowering his head and putting his documents in order. However, when he raised his head, his mouth corners slightly rose.
Chapter 1225: Name List of the Dead
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
After walking off the rostrum of Ewentra Autonomous Parliament, Ms. Olina left the conference hall through a professional tunnel being isolated by dark-colored birch railings on the opposite of the seats of the members of parliament.
As the president of Ewentra Autonomous Parliament, Ms. Olina worked in the plaza of the parliament. Of course, she enjoyed all the privileges here.
When Ms. Olina walked to the gate, two guards opened the door. The conference hall was still noisy until Ms. Olina left there.
The adjournment of this conference didn't mean that the disputes and divergences had come to an end. Conversely, given the situation in the conference hall, the divergences and conflicts between major clans inside Ewentra Archipelago were already in the open and were becoming increasingly fiercer. In the past few years, at least before the news that Sacred Light Empire's expeditionary fleet set off the harbor for Sacred Iceland Kingdom was confirmed, the inside of Ewentra Autonomous Parliament was always in peace. However, since the news that Sacred Light Empire's expeditionary fleet set off the harbor for Ewentra Archipelago was spread across Ewentra, the atmosphere inside the Ewentra Autonomous Parliament had gradually changed. Today, the act was like a fuse which detonated the bomb in Ewentra Autonomous Parliament, causing undercurrents and turmoils to reach their climaxes at once.
Not until the gate was closed did the noise disappear.
Behind that gate, there was a quiet passage, which was paved with thick, soft and luxurious camel hair carpet from Manla Empire in the Western Continent. Both sides of the passage were adorned with fresh flowers. After the gate was closed, the inside and outside were utterly different.
Watching Ms. Olina coming in, Ms. Olina's beautiful female assistant behind the gate helped Ms. Olina put on a top-quality fox-fur cappa. After that, she accompanied Ms. Olina to walk towards her office.
"Madam, Bishop Maxim has just arrived here half an hour ago. He's waiting for you in Navyblue Hall."
The assistant of Ms. Olina wore a pair of wire-rimmed glasses, a suit of pale blue professional clothes with a briefcase in hand. She followed Ms. Olina towards the end of this passage.
"Hmm, I know, let's go there!" Ms. Olina said as she let out a sigh all of a sudden. At the same time, she looked at the beautiful and capable female assistant on her side and asked, "Dalina, what sort of behavior do you think is silliest? Although those men look smart, why do they always make mistakes at such a critical moment?"
The beautiful bartender that Zhang Tie encountered in the bar of the cruise ship Narwhal had already become one of the assistants of the president of Ewentra Autonomous Parliament after graduating from Sinira Business College. After so many years, Dalina's innocence and naivety had faded away; instead, she became more beautiful and capable.
"Men's silliness is mostly related to their greed!" After graduating from Sinira Business College, Dalina had a short marriage which lasted fewer than half a year. After being betrayed by his husband, Dalina became as independent as Ms. Olina. After hearing this question, Dalina immediately expressed her feeling calmly. Putting her glasses a bit upward, she ironized, "Men are always greedy; they always expect to go fishing on the sea with a broken, small fishing net and catch all the beautiful women and wealth in the world!"
"You're right. However, Bishop Maxim has a famous remark. Under the brilliance of God, reverence is the greatest virtue; obedience is the greatest wisdom! Perhaps in the eyes of Bishop Maxim, those silly men don't have virtue or wisdom!"
When they talked, they had gone upstairs and arrived at the Navyblue Hall on the first floor.
Dalina stayed in the restroom in the outer hall while Ms. Olina met Bishop Maxim in the inner hall alone.
Watching Ms. Olina entering the inner hall with a silver brooch on her breast, Bishop Maxim let out a sigh, "Madam, you're really thoughtful. Pitifully, those people might not understand your heart. They might be celebrating that they had successfully refuted the act. As long as the dispute about that act lasted for one more month, they would reach their target!"
Black longuette was both elegant and solemn. It could be worn in both the conference room and funeral ceremony. Ms. Olina's brooch was a silver diamond flower.
Pitifully, those silliest people in this world couldn't even understand such a clear hint.
The Act on the Mobilisation of the Duel was absolutely a plot. The one who set this plot was Bishop Maxim. Facing the great crisis, Bishop Maxim who ruled the entire parish across Ewentra Archipelago couldn't stand the undercurrents and the betrayals of some major clans on Ewentra Archipelago. Therefore, he planned to eliminate them by power and blood.
Ms. Olina coordinated Bishop Maxim to set this plot. As a woman who was onto something big at her own efforts in this male-predominated world, as long as she made a decision to do something, even male couldn't imagine how decisive and vicious she was.
It was Ms. Olina's final warning to those silly ones in this suit of black longuette with a silver brooch on her breast. This could reflect her kindness as a woman. However, as long as men were dominated by greed and silliness, they could see nothing except her look and figure. Whereas, someone might have understood her meaning.
"The names of opponents have been listed. They are almost the 40-odd members of autonomous parliament on the side of Renard Clan. Bishop might have already received that!"
"Yes, I've received the name list after Madam left the conference hall!" Bishop Maxim nodded as he added, "It's almost as same as we've predicted. Renard Clan always has a relationship with their original Renard Clan on Western Continent. This time, Renard Clan has already connected with Sacred Light Empire through their original clan on the Western Continent and reached a privity with each other. Renard Clan is waiting for the arrival of the expeditionary fleet of Sacred Light Empire. All the actions of Sacred Iceland Kingdom have been exposed to Sacred Light Empire by Renard Clan!"
"Are you sure?"
"2 weeks ago, we've already caught some detectives near the bases of Northwind Fleet. Through interrogation, all the detectives admitted that they were monitoring the actions of Northwind Fleet. We discovered that those detectives were all related to a business group being affiliated to Renard Clan. In case of frightening the snake, we released those detectives. Therefore, Renard Clan didn't know that they had exposed their intention! If those detectives couldn't prove anything, what happened today in the conference hall could prove everything!"
After hearing his words, Ms. Olina could only let out a sigh as she said, "I really wonder why did they do that? Even though Sacred Light Empire could really annex us, would Renard Clan face a better situation? Connar has been the deputy president of Ewentra Autonomous Parliament, after Sacred Light Empire arrives here, is he dreaming that Sacred Light Empire would keep the autonomous parliament and select him as the president?"
"People are always greedy. They treat the mercy and generosity of His Majesty as the chip and reliance of their shameless betrayal. This is pure blasphemy. How about the Wilis Clan in Gantiadu Island? Their names are not on my name list. Madam, do you think it's necessary for us to add this clan into the name list?"
The members of autonomous parliament who opposed the act on the name list were destined to die. When Ms. Olina left the conference hall, the name list had been fixed. now that they had determined to make a massacre, it was nothing different for Bishop Maxim to increase or decrease a clan in the name list. As a pious believer of Ancient God Church, since the day he promoted to bishop of Ewentra Parish, Bishop Maxim had held another opinion about the Ewentra Autonomous Parliament. In the opinion of Bishop Maxim, under the halos of the Ancient God, Ewentra Autonomous Parliament was simply a group of silly and short-sighted gamblers who manifested their silliness and arrogance in blandishments. This was what Bishop Maxim couldn't stand.
After hearing that Bishop Maxim mentioned about Wilis Clan with a strong killing intent, Ms. Olina shook her head after thinking about it seriously as she said, "Wilis Clan didn't veto the Act today. Many members on the side of Wilis Clan maintained neutral today. I think they've already done well with such a neutral attitude at this moment!"
"It seems that they���re not that silly!"
"Bishop, are you confident to clear so many clans?"
"The Northwind Fleet has already entered the military harbor in Fijina Island. They could monitor and frighten those insurgents in Ewentra Mixed Fleet. The moment we moved, Northwind Fleet would disarm some captains who are closely related to Renard Clan and arrest them. Furthermore, Clan head Hags of Sea Bear Tribe has already arrived at Arkray Island with 2,000 sea soul warriors. All the red gloves of the Order Jury have been in place…"
Ms. Olina just listened to Bishop Maxim calmly. She didn't change her facial expression when bishop mentioned Northwind Fleet, the clan head of sea bear tribe and sea soul warriors; only when Bishop Maxim mentioned those red gloves of Order Jury, Ms. Olina slightly frowned as her stomach twitched; she felt like vomiting…
"Now that those guilty ones profaned the mercy of His Majesty, let red gloves teach them how to show respect to His Majesty in the hell-like judgment…��