First Secret Agent in History

The past two years have been two years of rapid progress for the New Dayan Empire.

Earth-shaking changes have taken place throughout the empire. Every county has been electrified and many tall buildings have been erected.

Of course, imperial officials were very enthusiastic about building high-rise buildings, but Yun Zhonghe was more restrained.

His general opinion is that a large number of high-rise buildings can be built in the first, second, and third colonies, but in the empire itself, the original appearance of the city should be maintained as much as possible.

Because the stone buildings in the empire are so beautiful and simple, many of them are hundreds of years old, and there are even buildings that are thousands of years old. At most, the interiors of the houses are repaired and decorated.

If all the beautiful ancient buildings were demolished and built into towers, future generations would scold them.

Moreover, the houses in the empire are all made of stone, which are strong and warm. And because it is relatively large and sparsely populated, the per capita living area is also very large and the comfort level is good.

The empire's main army originally had only 600,000, but now it has grown to 1.8 million, nearly half of which are Yi troops.

And in order to prevent the tragedy of the Roman Empire from happening again, the empire began to implement the policy of barbarians becoming imperial citizens.

You can't really let people become servants. In this way, there will be no sense of belonging or honor when fighting.

Although the productivity of the empire has been highly developed, and all of it serves the war. However, it had only been more than three years since Yun Zhonghe took the throne, and the empire was unable to produce the guns and ammunition that could supply an army of 1.8 million people.

However, two-thirds of the armies have completed the conversion, and the semi-automatic rifles have begun to be fully finalized and mass-produced, and will soon be equipped with the army.

Thousands of various types of howitzers and cannons were manufactured.

A total of more than twenty main battleships will be upgraded soon.

But a total of two newly built imperial battleships have not yet been completed. They are 15,000-ton battleships.

An absolute maritime artifact, from design to construction, three years have passed and it has not yet been launched.

According to the progress, it will be launched in about half a year, and it will not officially enter service until at least one year.

The names for the two battleships were collected nationwide and then voted on.

It turned out that the first ship was the Xinzong and the second was the Aotian.

The new clan title is natural, because he is considered the great ancestor of the New Dayan Empire. The other ship was supposed to be the Jixia or the Yunzhonghe.

But Ji Xia is just Yun Zhonghe's official name, and very few people actually call him that.

As for Yunzhong Hehao, he is not domineering enough and sounds like a bad guy.

So at the opening ceremony of the Imperial Naval Academy, a student asked Yun Zhonghe, Your Majesty, which of your names is more majestic and domineering.

Yun Zhonghe instinctively replied: Yun Aotian.

As a result, the name spread immediately, and the people of the empire thought this name was interesting, kind, and domineering, which was great.

Then, the second battleship was called Aotian.

Now the entire empire is waiting for these two maritime weapons to be officially launched.

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On the Black Flame Empire side, the marshals of the Black Flame Empire discovered that they had become the leveling monsters of the new Great Yan Empire legion.

It’s really a series of rebellions.

Yun Zhonghe and the New Dayan Empire were not in a hurry at all, and took turns sending the empire's troops to the battlefield of the Black Flame Empire.

After more than two years of fighting, the total number of troops who came to the Black Flame Empire to fight the rebellion exceeded 700,000.

Finally...these rebel generals from the Black Flame Empire quit.

Gradually, no one rebelled.

With the arrival of the new Great Yan Empire, the Black Flame Empire has also undergone tremendous changes.

Start building a brand new Black Dragon City, laying railroad tracks, and building roads.

Moreover, the Imperial Legion built a series of fortresses around the Cursed Land, officially sealing off this area.

Finally, Yun Zhonghe approved Ji Yan to enter the cursed land to practice martial arts.

But in this aspect, Yun Zhonghe is still very restrained. Try to improve the martial arts of the original Black Flame Empire's warriors, instead of letting the new Great Flame Empire's warriors enter the cursed land to practice martial arts.

The Black Flame Empire originally had nearly 200,000 warriors. After two or three years of war, more than half of them were casualties. Now there are less than 100,000 warriors left.

With the entry of the New Great Yan Empire, the devouring effect of advanced civilization on backward civilization gradually became apparent.

The warriors of the Black Flame Empire also gradually realized what advanced productivity and powerful power were.

After being brainwashed day after day, the warriors of the Black Flame Empire finally began to truly be loyal to Yun Zhonghe.

Many people were worried that Yun Zhonghe would directly cancel the warrior clan or the priest clan, but he did not. Instead, he continued to develop these two forces and even let some scientists turn to research in this area.

The Black Flame Empire's research on martial arts is a bit close to biology to a large extent.

But what is foreseeable is that once the civilization of the New Great Yan Empire fully enters the Black Flame Empire, will this martial arts civilization still be preserved? It’s really hard to tell.

The reason why the martial arts of the Black Flame Empire is strong is because they respect martial arts. And once it deviates from this mainstream, the weakening of martial arts level will become inevitable.

Yun Zhonghe has considered this issue many times and is preparing to use detachment and nicheness to face martial arts civilization. Weaken the name of the Black Flame Empire and restore order.

This is like the Jedi Order in "Star Wars". Of course, this is just a movie. It is completely unknown whether such a niche and detached goal can be achieved in reality.

And in this way, the Council of Order would be beyond the imperial power, the cabinet, and the Privy Council, but it would also have certain powers.

This balance of power is really difficult to establish.

Fortunately, the Order Warriors Association has a good foundation.

First of all, Yun Zhonghe himself is the supreme leader of the Order Society, his wife Jing Zhongyue is the chief warrior of the Order Society, and Yun Zhonghe's daughter Jingque is a martial arts genius who is determined to study martial arts and can become the heir of the Order Society in the future.

The Black Flame Empire's 100,000 warrior legions have also begun to reorganize. They also need to learn hot weapon combat, but they cannot give up cold weapon special operations.

Even when necessary, they still need to become the ace army of the empire.

I have to say that these people from the Black Flame Empire are really strong in martial arts.

In just two or three years, one after another, the powerful men of the Black Flame Empire entered the Black Dragon Tower for trials and narrowly escaped death.

After they came out of the trial, they all caught up with Jing Zhongyue's martial arts level. Now in the Black Flame Empire, there are already three top powerhouses who can rival Jing Zhongyue.

Yun Zhonghe could not conquer them with force, so he baptized them spiritually and became their mentor.

This baptism was very successful.

Because... it was too dangerous during the trial at the Black Dragon Pyramid, and they were also very aggressive. Yun Zhonghe came in every time to rescue them.

These black dragon pyramids are extremely dangerous. Anyone who enters them will be in danger and may escape death. Only Yun Zhonghe could enter and exit as easily as a toilet, without feeling anything or any danger.

Moreover, Yun Zhonghe can also use dreaming and mental techniques to brainwash everyone crazily.

The goal is to train instinctive reactions, so that when everyone sees Yun Zhonghe, they will feel awe and loyalty from the depths of their souls.

And this kind of mental brainwashing is especially easy to use in the pyramid, but it takes a long time.

This is like cooking an eagle, like training a ferocious beast.

There is no way. The worldview of these top powerhouses has already been formed and cannot be changed. They can only use brainwashing.

And some young martial arts geniuses can instill a sense of honor in being loyal to the empire.

In short, Yun Zhonghe carried out the transformation of the Black Flame Empire carefully, slowly but with remarkable results.

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In addition, the Empire's airship corps has conducted large-scale aerial exploration.

The straight-line distance between the New Great Yan Empire and the Great Salt Demonic Kingdom is about 13,000 kilometers, and the round trip is 26,000 kilometers. This distance far exceeds the maximum range of the airship.

Moreover, there were no supplies along the way, so the imperial airship still did not enter the territory of the Great Salt Demonic Kingdom, and it was not known what was happening in the Eastern World.

At this time, it has been only seven years since Yun Zhonghe left the Eastern World, and great changes may have taken place in the Great Xian Demon Kingdom.

About a year and a half ago, the Airship Corps had reached a conclusion.

It is almost impossible for the empire to launch a large-scale eastern expedition.

Under today's conditions, no army can cross more than 20,000 miles of no-man's land, let alone an army of hundreds of thousands of people.

This is not like the territory of the empire, where there are roads everywhere, and there are supplies and food everywhere.

Moreover, the sea route is impassable.

From the north, there is more than 10,000 miles of permafrost sea. Although the empire already has icebreakers, it is impossible for the entire fleet to break through the ice.

Moreover, after breaking through the ice for more than 10,000 miles, the energy has long been exhausted, and even the ship has been destroyed.

This is very strange. At that time, the new members of the Great Yan Empire left by boat, found the new continent, and established the New Great Yan Empire.

Why is it impossible to travel by sea now?

Because of global climate problems, the world has become colder over the past few hundred years. Originally, this sea area was thawed for at least a few months, but now it has been completely frozen and completely impassable.

The sea to the north was frozen.

From the south, the sea route is also impassable.

The empire's airship corps has drawn very detailed maps, including sea charts.

The sea from here to the Eastern World is intercepted by land without any gaps.

Because it is accompanied by large ships all the way, the airship can continuously replenish energy, all the way south, all the way south.

Finally, when we arrived at the Permafrost Sea in the south, we were completely sure that the sea route was impassable and was completely blocked by land.

At this time, there was a little discord within the New Dayan Empire.

Some people think that since the army of the New Great Yan Empire can't get through, then the army of the Great Salt Demonic Kingdom can't get through either, and everyone is isolated from the rest of the world.

In this way, the New Great Yan Empire does not need to rush to the Eastern Expedition. It can wait until it is strong enough and a million-strong army can be pushed from land to the Great Salt Demonic Kingdom before starting the war.

Yun Zhonghe became angry for the first time at the cabinet and Privy Council meetings, declaring that this was typical capitulationism.

Born in sorrow, died in happiness.

The Great Salty Demonic Kingdom continues to transform and grow stronger. At any time in the future, the warriors of the Great Salty Demonic Kingdom may cross the no-man's land of more than 20,000 miles and come to kill them.

Of course, the New Dayan Empire is surrounded by the sea and looks very safe.

But after all, one day, the empire's mainland is not enough, and it must develop across the sea.

And now the empire has crossed the sea and built cities and strongholds in the central continent. This piece of land borders the Great Salt Demonic Kingdom, but it's just far away.

The war must be kept away from the mainland of the empire. This is more important than anything else.

Once the warriors of the Great Salt Demon Kingdom enter the empire, it will be a complete nightmare.

At that time, the Prime Minister of the Cabinet and the First Marshal of the Privy Council completely sided with Yun Zhonghe, and directly suppressed the voices of the capitulationists in a one-sided manner.

Just three days later, all capitulation officials resigned.

This also allowed all officials in the empire to see clearly the absolute will of the highest level.

The two giants Ji Zhan and Hua Bi saw very clearly that the empire had been preparing for this war for several years, and everything revolved around this war.

At this time, if you tell the citizens and the army of the empire that this war will not be fought, the consequences will be very terrible. The entire empire will instantly lose its purpose, become empty, and even fall.

This is the saying that when an arrow is on the string, it must be fired.

Once the will to fight is aroused, it is difficult to extinguish it.

And because of the general mobilization of war and the operation of the war machine, the development of the empire has entered an unprecedented high-speed stage.

The empire's GDP increases by tens of percent every year.

After the strategy of the Eastern Expedition is completely decided, the next step is how to conquer the Eastern Expedition.

The empire's airship corps was once again dispatched, and the fleet was once again dispatched for exploration.

Finally, the narrowest spot on the entire continent was found.

This empire is about five thousand kilometers away from the Black Flame Empire. It is like the connection between two continents. The narrowest part is only less than fifty kilometers.

Therefore, an unprecedented project was discussed repeatedly.

Finally, it was decided.

Cut open the narrowest continent and dig a canal to allow the fleet to pass. This requires digging out dozens of kilometers of land, and in order to allow large warships to pass through, the canal must be deep and wide enough.

This resolution has been discussed over and over again.

First of all, it will cost a lot to dig this canal, not to mention how much manpower it will cost.

And once this canal is successfully dug, it will be equivalent to actively destroying the barrier between the Great Xian Demon Kingdom and the Great Yan Empire.

If the fleet of the New Great Yan Empire can go to the Great Salty Demonic Kingdom, then the fleet of the Great Salty Demonic Kingdom can also come over, right?

Therefore, Yun Zhonghe really thought about whether to dig this canal.

Eventually, the Cabinet and Privy Council submitted a report.

A very scary report.

In the past few years, the New Great Yan Empire has sent more than a dozen exploration teams to the Great Salt Demonic Kingdom. All of them are powerful warriors, with a total number of more than a few thousand people.

But no one came back.

And, someone pulled out an old report.

Back then, Jing Zhongyue led more than 10,000 people from the direction of the countries in the Western Regions, but when she reached the central continent, she was only a few thousand miles away from the New Great Yan Empire.

Despite heavy casualties, only five percent survived.

However, the warriors of the Great Salt Demonic Kingdom are much stronger than Jing Zhongyue's army, so the Legion of the Great Salty Demonic Kingdom may not be able to get through.

The strength of the New Great Yan Empire lies in the new navy, while the strength of the Great Salt Demonic Kingdom lies in the Demonic Kingdom’s Samurai Order, which is the ground army.

Therefore, naval battles are more beneficial to the New Dayan Empire.

Because the warships of the New Dayan Empire have advanced steam engines, have a longer range, and are equipped with high-rate, high-range, and high-precision cannons.

After all, the mainland of the New Dayan Empire is surrounded by the sea. As long as it has a strong navy, it can eventually protect the mainland.

After dozens of arguments, the empire finally decided to build a canal!

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First, site selection was carried out to decide where to dig the canal, and then a port was built nearby and a city base was built.

This took a full year and a half, and the city was named Jingtian City.

Next, hundreds of thousands of Yi people, tens of thousands of imperial craftsmen, and tens of thousands of legions were transported to Jingtian City.

Not only did they transport explosives from the empire, they also built an explosives workshop in Yunzhong City.

After everything was ready, the vigorous and earth-shattering project began.

Hundreds of thousands of people began to dig the canal.

"Boom, boom, boom, boom..." It's exploding every day.

Astronomical amounts of explosives blasted holes in this narrowest continent bit by bit.

No words can describe the difficulty of this huge project, nor the great significance of this amazing project.

The powerful New Dayan Empire has never had such a grand project.

This is the true creation of a new world, where a chasm in the sky becomes a thoroughfare.

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Time flies like water, years flies, and another five years have passed.

By this time, the empire's third battleship had been launched and put into service.

Dozens of main battleships have also been upgraded.

The army of more than one million has also been equipped with all its equipment.

At this time, it had been more than eight years since Yun Zhonghe ascended the throne, and twelve years had passed since he left the Eastern World.

The three colonies, as well as the Black Flame Empire, have been merged into the Great Yan Empire.

More than tens of millions of Yi people have also become citizens of the empire.

Yun Zhonghe is also over forty years old, but he really looks immortal, his face has not changed at all, he is still as handsome as jade, as if carved.

The two children, Jing Que and Jing Hu, are both twenty-three years old.

The two babies Ji Qing gave birth to are already eight years old. Jing Zhongyue and Yun Zhonghe gave birth to another set of twin children, who are also five years old. The children Dusha gave birth to are over six years old.

So Yun Zhonghe was a little embarrassed, because the empire's law was monogamy.

As the monarch of the empire, you have three wives in the empire?

However, no king can be perfect, and he cannot be allowed to abandon his wife and children for the throne, right?

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"Your Majesty, the old man is dying." Ji Zhan said tremblingly.

Yun Zhonghe hurried to the snowy mountain top to meet Ji Sheng, who was living in seclusion, for the last time.

Prince Ji Sheng was over one hundred and ten years old and finally reached the end of his life.

In fact, in recent years, he has been unable to go to the ground, but he has been holding on, just because he wants to wait until the day of the Eastern Expedition, or even until the day when Yun Zhonghe regains the Eastern World.

But he couldn't wait any longer.

"Your Majesty... I was very rebellious when I was young. I have been to the East, the Great Xia, the Great Victory, and the Great Zhou Empire. I was also a representative of the Order Society at the time and accepted tribute from the three empires. I probably After living there for fifteen years, the Eastern world is not that advanced, but I don’t know why, but I always feel that it is our roots.”

"I spent my best years there, and...I married three wives and gave birth to several children there."

"I've never dreamed of going back, I've never dreamed of going back."

"How I want to eat a bite of steamed buns, how I want to eat a bowl of dumplings, how I want to eat a bowl of tofu puffs..."

"My East, the East of my dreams."

"Your Majesty, eastward march, eastward march, eastward march..."

Then, the elderly Prince Ji Sheng passed away.

It left behind deep regrets, but also full of infinite hope.

Moreover, Prince Ji Sheng left a will that after his death, he would be cremated into ashes and then sprinkled on the newly dug canal.

After his death, Yun Zhonghe used the name of the dictatorial king of the empire to posthumously title Ji Sheng the prince of the empire again.

And named the empire's third battleship the Holy King.

This decision was opposed by many people. Many people felt that Ji Sheng was just the former ruling king and a posthumous prince, and could never be compared with Yan Xinzong and Yun Zhonghe.

But Yun Zhonghe was still very determined and directly named it with an inscription.

There is no need to pay so much attention to it. At that time, Germany had a battleship named Bismarck, even though it was already Germany during World War II and there was no emperor.

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Three months later!

This thirty-nine-kilometer-long canal was finally successfully dug.

As the dictatorial king of the empire, Yun Zhonghe officially announced that the canal project was completed.

The Empire's third battleship, the Holy King, became the first ship to pass through the canal, and then Yun Zhonghe personally scattered the ashes of Prince Ji Sheng in the canal.

Moreover, the canal was named the Holy King Canal, and the city on the side of the canal was also renamed the Holy King City.

The entire project lasted five and a half years.

A total of three million people were mobilized, and there were already three city clusters on both sides of the canal.

It has become a province of the empire, with more than millions of people settling here, and the empire's Second Naval Command was built here.

Not only that, three universities are about to be completed.

During the eight years that Yun Zhonghe served as the dictatorial king, the territory of the empire expanded more than six times.

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After the Saint King Canal was opened to navigation, the passage from the New Great Yan Empire to the Great Salt Demon Kingdom was officially opened.

The Eastern Expedition can begin!

At this time, the giants of the Imperial Cabinet and the Privy Council began new discussions.

Because there is a loud voice in the empire.

He wants Yun Zhonghe to become emperor.

Because in the imperial system, there has always been an emperor, that is, the Yanxin Sect, but the throne has been vacant for more than a thousand years. In everyone's eyes, the achievements of the dictator king were no less than those of the Yanxin Sect, and even more impressive. Therefore, it is completely natural for him to proclaim himself emperor.

Moreover, now the Eastern Expedition is about to begin, and a war with the Great Salt Demonic Kingdom is about to begin.

The enemy has an emperor, but if the Great Yan Empire does not have an emperor, wouldn't it mean that they are inferior?

The dictatorial king is still considered a human being, while the emperor's words have the meaning of a divine right to kingship.

With the emperor as the supreme leader of the empire, then in future wars, God may also have troops to protect the empire.

This sounds a bit superstitious, and the New Dayan Empire has always denounced superstition as the backward and decadent ideas of the East. However, what we are going to face next is a world-class war, a war involving life and death, and everyone is superstitious.

This trend of proclaiming emperor grew stronger and stronger, and eventually the cabinet and the Privy Council were unable to resist it.

Finally, at a meeting one day, the cabinet and Privy Council officials suddenly knelt down in unison and persuaded Yun Zhonghe to proclaim himself emperor.

No matter what they thought in their hearts, they could not stop Yun Zhonghe from proclaiming himself emperor, and they also loved and respected Yun Zhonghe in their hearts. The reason why I feel uneasy is that I am afraid that once I proclaim myself emperor, what will happen to the future emperor’s descendants? Wouldn't there be a danger of national subjugation?

Yun Zhonghe was silent for a moment.

Then he said: "In the Eastern world, becoming emperor is very sacred and requires three words of advice and three words. But we are all old friends, so I will go straight and stop playing tricks."

"First of all, once you become emperor, it will inevitably be a hereditary system. I can do well myself, but I can't guarantee that my descendants will be wise. A mediocre emperor is still very lethal."

"Secondly, whether I want to be emperor or not depends not on my personal will, but on the interests of the empire. If the empire needs me to be emperor, then I will be emperor. But now it seems that the empire has little need for me to be emperor. .”

"Finally, even if you want to be emperor in the future, you will have to become a virtual monarch. The emperor is the supreme leader of the empire, but he is more of a spiritual leader, and cannot truly act arbitrarily and wield power alone."

"That's all I have to say, let's continue the discussion."

The ministers still didn't get up.

Yun Zhonghe said straightforwardly: "I will never proclaim myself emperor now. Whether I want to proclaim myself emperor in the future depends on the needs of the empire, but it is definitely not now."

At this time, the ministers stood up and said: "Yes, Your Majesty!"

Yun Zhonghe said: "The biggest thing now is to set the date for the Eastern Expedition. As the old saying goes, everything is ready, all we need is the east wind. Now that the Holy King Canal has been opened, our fleet has been fully upgraded and renovated. The empire's legions have been upgraded, and there is unlikely to be a rebellion in the Black Flame Empire, and each colony has become the empire's homeland. Everything is ready, and we can march eastward to destroy the Great Salt Demonic Kingdom. Although I feel like returning home Arrow, but still have to set a date.”

Next, the Cabinet and Privy Council began to discuss the date of the expedition.

An hour later!

The date of departure was set.

On the ninth day of September, the imperial army set out for battle.

This day has finally arrived!

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