Chapter 399: Insights

The translator translated the word Yingzhou as Japanese Japanese.

When several envoys heard that the Japanese and Japanese kingdoms had been destroyed by Daxia, they were shocked by the news and could not conceal their feelings.

The countries in Thailand and the West are not ignorant of Japan and Japan. There were many conflicts between the two due to missionary work and maritime trade. Tokugawa Iemitsu implemented a policy of seclusion, expelled businessmen from several countries, including the Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal, strictly prohibited them from entering and leaving Japan freely, and extremely rejected Catholicism.

And there is nothing they can do about it. They could only follow the regulations of the Japanese shogunate and were aggrieved to trade in Nagasaki.

In their eyes, the Japanese were not weak.

How could a country that was not weak be wiped out like this not shocking? The key is time - how long will Daxia block the sea? Before that, their merchant ships were still trading with the Japanese. But it was gone in the blink of an eye.

From the eyes of Maxi and others, they could read a deeper vigilance.

The officials seemed to have disappeared and were still talking: "Everyone knows that I have banned the sea in Daxia. This is the national policy of the empire and cannot be shaken. The Japanese and Japanese asked Daxia to open the sea, but they were unwilling to pay the price, thus teasing the emperor. And because the Japanese and Japanese had once In order to avenge the previous dynasty and avenge his ancestors and tease him, in April this year, the emperor sent 100,000 troops to attack the Japanese across the sea and stopped on the 44th day. 300,000 were beheaded and 200,000 were captured. He also planned to Fifteen million of his sons were beaten as slaves..."

The more they listened, the more shocked they became.

They didn't know whether what the officials said was exaggerated, and how much it was exaggerated. But if the Japanese were really destroyed by the Xia Kingdom, and it really only took forty-four days, and if they really killed 300,000 people in one battle, then the assessment of the country in front of them would have to be improved a few more level.

Outside the closed door, a bell suddenly sounded. The official suddenly stopped talking, and then said with a smile: "Messengers, please get ready, we are about to board the train."

The door slowly opened, and Sir Maxi and others looked up. For a moment, they looked like sculptures.

...

Not to mention how the huge monster-like element transport truck shocked these European bumpkins, nor the thousands of miles of obstacles that came day and night, not to mention how majestic the majestic bridge across the river was to conquer the natural chasm.

Let's say that after the official sent the delegation to the element transport vehicle, he suddenly let out a breath. After walking out of the station, a carriage was waiting outside the station.

"Brother Lin."

"Brother Jiang."

Waiting in the carriage was the official who had sent the delegation to the station earlier.

"Brother Jiang, how do you feel?" the young official asked with a smile.

"Although it is extremely rude to talk about others behind their backs, I have to tell Brother Lin if he asks." He said: "These Western envoys from Europe seem to be reserved, but they smell really bad."

"Haha... We share the blessings and share the hardships. Brother Jiang, thank you for your hard work." The official surnamed Lin smiled and said: "I sent them out and shared a car, but they were also so suffocated that they couldn't bear it."

Although the envoys from the European Basilica were not dressed in the same etiquette as Daxia, and their appearance was a bit shabby, they were still passable. It just smells so bad. I have body odor and sweat odor, and I haven’t taken a shower in I don’t know how many years. Mixed with the smell of strong spices, the sourness is really intolerable.

It's like... it's been sitting there for a few days.

"The task of controlling you and me has been completed." The official surnamed Jiang shook his head and said: "...The post house may have a bathhouse specially prepared for them."

The official surnamed Lin laughed.

The two returned to Guangzhou City and did not mention their lives.

The huge Yuanqi car set off from Guangzhou at a speed of 500 miles in half an hour, arrived at Wuchang Prefecture in Huguang in the afternoon, rested for half an hour in Jiangxia, and then set off again, crossed the Han-Jiang Yangtze River Bridge that had just been built, and continued northward.

The Han-Jiang River Bridge is the fourth successfully built bridge across a natural chasm after the Kaifeng Yellow River Bridge. The other two are one in Xuzhou, which is the Xuzhou Yellow River Bridge, and one across the Yangtze River in Yingtian, which is the Jiangning Yangtze River Bridge.

Han-Jiang Bridge is the abbreviation of Hanyang-Jiangxia Yangtze River Bridge. It belongs to the same main road as the Kaifeng Yellow River Bridge, and both belong to Zongyi. The other two longitudinal armors belong to it.

Since the Kaifeng Yellow River Bridge was successfully built, the subsequent three bridges across rivers and natural chasms were all completed at about the same time within the past three months. The first one is to accumulate experience, and the subsequent ones are naturally much easier. There is no shortage of manpower and material resources. Modular construction is naturally not slow.

At this time, the main bridge on Zongbing Avenue is also under construction.

At noon, the Yuanqi train stopped at Jiangxia Station and set off half an hour later at Weishichu. It arrived at the riverside shortly after leaving the station. The envoys of the Taixi Mission, who were already numb and shocked by the speed of the Yuanqi vehicle and what they saw and heard along the way, looked at the bridge that spanned the river with no end in sight. After exclaiming for a while, they all fell silent.

In the evening, when it was getting dark, they arrived in Kaifeng.

The journey will continue until tomorrow morning, but for the sake of convenience, we did not go into the city, but stayed at the station. The station was originally converted into a post station, so accommodation is naturally available. Not to mention foreign envoys?

The station in Kaifeng is not far from the south bridgehead of the Kaifeng Yellow River Bridge. After Maxi and other envoys had a dinner with the characteristics of Daxia, they were eager to go to the bridgehead of the Yellow River Bridge in Kaifeng.

An official who accompanied them did not stop them. He called a few carriages with a smile and looked at the bridge all the way.

While still on the carriage, I could see the metal frame of the bridgehead carrying the southern end of the bridge from a distance. Three huge gold-gray metal pillars like works of art intersect and nestle together. Two of them are on the river surface, with their bottoms deeply buried in the dim river water. One is on the bank, like a sky pillar growing out of the ground.

Three gold-element alloy pillars form a three-dimensional tetrahedron, jointly shouldering the heavy bridgehead. The double-layer bridge extends from the two-layer beams of Jinyuan alloy columns. Every hundred meters, there are two Jinyuan alloy columns supporting the bridge until it is invisible to the naked eye.

The carriage climbed up the slow slope with difficulty and finally reached the bridge. The surface of the Yellow River is slightly higher than the two banks. From a distance, the bridge looks more like a flyover.

The Thai and Western envoys jumped out of the carriage in a hurry and ran across the wide bridge one by one to the bridge railing on one side.

The officials followed him leisurely and smiled.

After a moment of exclamation, Sir Edward sighed: "We were very wrong, and Tang Ruowang was not wrong. If I hadn't witnessed such a miracle with my own eyes, I would have thought that even the gods could not do it."

Maxi and others were silent for a moment, and Sir Tangi whispered: "This country is too powerful...the speed of those cars...I even thought we were flying."

"What I hate the most is the way they look at us. It's like I used to look at those untouchables who came into the city. That official's smile is so disgusting!"

"Keep your voice down, he's coming..."

"Let's go to the side and ask the translator to go."

Maxi and others moved away from the translator and started muttering in the distance.

"We started from Guangzhou, and the place we stopped in the middle called Jiangxia, as well as Hanyang after crossing the bridge from Jiangxia, looked no worse than Guangzhou."

"More than that. There are many cities along the way. Although they are far apart, they don't look like small cities. We arrived at a place called Jiangxia. The journey took up to four hours. The speed of the car was very fast. It might be seven or eight hundred miles in four hours. ." Sir Edward looked sad: "That is almost equivalent to the distance from the seaside of Scotland to the seaside of England. That is the length of the entire England!"