Utopia

At the same time, Quan Dunde, who had begun to feel that there was something wrong with the expedition ship or that there was some trouble, continued to discuss with his younger brother.

"Fourth brother, the geographical environment in the south is too bad. A raging gale and the waves it caused are quite dangerous. Especially our ships need fuel, a lot of fuel to continue to go south with confidence. And if necessary, I suggest that the navy send ironclad ships south for exploration activities."

"Hmm..."

"Fourth brother, although the New World is not as strong as the Old World, we don't know the full picture of the New World, let alone whether there are any mysterious forces hiding."

"For example, the dark elves?"

"Yes. I... Until now, I have only heard about an elf force from the mouths of the Japanese arms dealers or the mouths of the natives. But I have never seen them, and I don't know what they look like."

"Hmm..."

"Even... I have a doubt myself, will the dark elves' base camp be in the south of the New World?"

"Tenth brother, doubt is meaningless. So I stopped biting the defense line of the Zweiner Kingdom in recent years, and ordered the troops to attack the western part of the New World by ship. Coastal countries along the coastline. If possible, I want to build one or even several node towns that can be connected in a line in the appropriate area of ​​the western coastline. "

"Then our ships can only be supplied in these towns?"

"That's right. However, according to the telegram sent by the first expedition team before losing contact, there is a large mountain range in the New World that runs from north to south, but has several gaps. It is difficult to find a place suitable for construction and development. At least the indigenous forces have controlled these places. If you want to build a town belonging to our empire, you have to fight a tug-of-war with the indigenous people. Of course, I personally believe that the soldiers below have this ability, but I don't want the soldiers to focus their energy and time on these natives, and I don't want the empire to invest a huge amount of money in building node towns. Anyway, I still hope that these node towns can provide economic income to the empire as quickly as possible. "

Obviously, Emperor Quan Dunde still can't escape the nature of a miser. But he doesn't know one thing, that is, investment and return are often proportional.

With an administrative area of ​​23 square kilometers (the actual controlled area is not so much, most of it is a wilderness with various primeval forests, snow-capped mountains and lakes), Ligang City is 32 kilometers away from the capital of the Negan Kingdom, Solo City, and the climate is not very rainy and cool and wet; but there is a river estuary in Ligang City that divides the southernmost sea area of ​​the New World into two halves.

In other words, Ligang City, a city built on a river, controls the safe waterway at the southernmost end of the New World. With the development of time and even the times, caravans from all over the world will definitely run around the world.

Therefore, the Negan Kingdom has actually controlled a strategic location, waiting for future merchant ships to pay tolls and come to Ligang City, where the navy is stationed, for consumption.

At the same time, since Ligang City is only 8 kilometers away from the southern ice continent, Ligang City is only 8 kilometers away from the southern ice continent. 】The distance of 1,000 meters is the most suitable logistics base for investigation and supply. In the future, the Kingdom of Nigan can completely rely on its geographical advantages to take the lead in investigating the Ice Continent and even establish its own military or scientific research base on the Ice Continent.

Therefore, Quan Dunde, who had no idea how much his ideas were behind the Kingdom of Nigan, and how much his national strength was behind the Kingdom of Nigan, had no idea how much trouble Ligang City would bring to his empire in the future.

Of course, for now, his "short-sighted" behavior is still very suitable for the current situation of the Guangwu Empire. In particular, the Guangwu Empire and the natives of various forces are still in a low-intensity war state.

Even if this low intensity is only for the Guangwu Empire, it is a nightmare for the major princes of the Kahn Empire, an extremely cruel nightmare.

For this reason, His Majesty Emperor Philip of the Kahn Empire was watching a group of musketeers holding flintlock rifles performing shooting demonstrations for him in the square of the palace, and he felt a certain degree of sadness in his heart.

"We can't defeat them. Guns that require standing to pour gunpowder from the muzzle and then use cleaning rods to stuff bullets are completely meaningless in front of the kobolds. Not only are their guns faster to load and shoot than flintlocks, they can also keep shooting bullets at us one after another. Moreover, the kobolds now have warships that can attack towns west of the mountains from the sea. If this continues, our empire may say goodbye to the sea."

"Your Majesty, this, this is already the best gun in our empire."

"What?"

"After all, we don't know what materials the kobold bullets are made of, let alone what the kobold bullets look like."

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"Wait? There are no bullets on the bodies of the fallen soldiers and civilians?"

"That's just a fragment. Especially the bullets from the Kobolds. All the dead bodies our church found had bursting and tearing wounds. Just like flowers blooming, the wounds burst. Even if the dead didn't die on the spot, they would die from heavy bleeding from the wounds. As for the bullets we picked up... they were also shot by the Kobolds. They really bloomed like flowers, and even completely shattered. Our church has no way to reassemble them to confirm their true appearance."

"This..."

"If it's the Dark Elves, their bullets won't break easily after hitting the target. But the material of their bullets can't be analyzed at all, and there are also serious deformations or gaps on them. The only thing we can be sure of is that the Dark Elves' bullets are made of steel."

"Steel? What steel? The steel used for my sword?"

"Uh..."

When the representative of the Ascetic Church hesitated, Emperor Philip immediately understood that the Dark Elves, that is, the Kingdom of Negan, still had something.

But he also knew that he had to gather all the princes of the empire to have a chance to fight the Kingdom of Negan to decide the life and death of the Kahn Empire. The problem is that even if he wants to, the princes below may not listen to him.

Especially since some of the princes below have completely broken away from the control of the Kahn Empire's royal family and completely cut off ties with the Kahn Empire and the Ascetic Church in the name of independent churches.

If this continues, he is very sure that these independent princes will one day attack the palace and completely turn the Kahn royal family into an insignificant speck of dust in the long river of history.