Zhang Cheng had no impression of the Niu Kingdom other than bullfighting, but this time it was really different. After the Chicken Country forced the Eagle Country to cede territory and pay compensation, the final battle of the battlefield abruptly transformed the Niu Country from an empire to an empire.

Principality.

Although in the final war, the King of the Ox Country called on all the people of the Ox Country to resist the invasion of the Chicken Country, in fact most of the wealth of the Ox Country was in the hands of the nobles, royal families and big businessmen, and had nothing to do with the people. After being ruled by the Chicken Country

, and still pay grain and taxes. In fact, there is no substantial loss.

Zhang Cheng's comment to the senior officials of the Chicken Country was: Meat eaters are despicable and fail to plan far ahead.

But in fact, all countries are similar.

In the end, the Niu Kingdom was not destroyed, but became a principality with only a port city. There are only two reasons. The first is that the Niu Kingdom also has a powerful navy. The second is that the two countries, Chicken and Niu, are still relatives, even if it takes a hundred years.

As wars continue, marriages between royal families are still necessary.

In addition to marrying kings of other countries, only a few of the princesses from various countries marry the great nobles of the country.

As for a princess marrying a commoner, that's not a thing. As for a prince marrying a commoner's daughter, that's not a thing either. No novel would dare to write that.

Because in this day and age, that doesn't make sense.

Novels must at least be logical.

After only one city was left, the remaining King of the Ox Country also acknowledged the reality and used a large amount of gold and silver from the royal family and the treasury to compensate the Ox Country for the damage caused to the Chicken Country in its history.

Half of it was given to Chicken Country as part of the compensation.

As for the original nobles of the Niu Kingdom, those who were able to surrender in time during the war will have their titles reduced by one rank and can continue to be nobles. As for those who are caught and fail to surrender in time and cannot pay the ransom, they will all have their titles taken away and imprisoned in a bus.

Life imprisonment in the bottom prison - these people are local gangsters. With them around, it will be difficult to maintain local security.

After this battle, although the Chicken Kingdom has not yet completely restored its ancestral glory, it has regained 70% to 80% of its ancestral land. The King of the Chicken Kingdom has finally given an account to his ancestors.

The current situation in Hezhou, Xiniu, is that the two powers compete for hegemony between the east and the west. The chicken country is in the west, the bear country is in the east, and the lion country in the north is only a maritime power. The army has always been the weak point of the lion country.

There are still several small countries between the two great powers in the east and west, including the Eagle Country, which has now become a small country. There is no way for the two powers to fight with each other for the time being.

In the Maple Dew City of the Chicken Kingdom, in order to welcome the victorious soldiers of the Chicken Kingdom, a special budget was approved to build a triumphal arch in the midfield square of Maple Dew City.

Three days before the triumphal parade, the Chicken Country government distributed free carts of bread and beer to the citizens for free carnival, and Maple Dew City began to celebrate the victory as the army passed through the Arc de Triomphe.

It is understandable that this time the Chicken Country suffered a hundred years of national humiliation.

The war bonds that Zhang Cheng is more concerned about have already risen to 12% off. At this time, the war situation is clear. Even if you buy the bonds at 12% off, you will still have stable income two and a half years later. This makes you sell the bonds at that time.

The guys beat their chests in remorse.

The figures for the compensation negotiated by the three parties were kept secret from the following, but most of it went into the national treasury. However, only a small portion of the war compensation received by the King of Chicken Country allowed the King to pay off the principal and interest debt of nearly 70 million gold coins.

There is quite a bit left over.

The bonds held by Zhang Cheng were slowly released at a discount of 12%, always letting others make a little profit. Although the profit was not much, it was a risk-free profit.

Although the war is over, the artillery factory under Zhang Cheng's name still has not stopped production, because the army still needs some 18-pound siege guns to supplement. Now that the land area is larger, there will be more places that need artillery.

More importantly, the Chicken Country now has half of the former Cow Country's Royal Navy fleet. The crossbows and trebuchets previously installed on these ships will be removed in the Navy Department's plan, and the capital ships will be equipped with 18-pound cannons.

Siege guns are supplemented by six-pound field guns, and non-capital ships must also be equipped with six-pound field guns.

The Lion Kingdom, which is separated by a strait to the north, has already equipped its fleet with artillery developed by itself. According to what the spies of the Chicken Kingdom saw, the artillery equipped by the Lion Kingdom's fleet is about ten-pound cannons or twelve-pound cannons.

An artillery piece of this caliber, calculated based on the caliber, would have an effective range of about five to six hundred meters during a naval battle, which was far beyond the range of the crossbows and trebuchets equipped on the ship at this time.

The 18-pound siege cannon has a five-degree horizontal firing range of one thousand meters. At least in terms of range, it can still suppress the Lion Kingdom Navy. However, for the time being, the Chicken Kingdom does not have so many naval personnel to launch these fleets, and the navy has never been able to do so.

It was not built in a day. This is completely different from recruiting some farmers and holding forks and shovels to form an army and go to the battlefield.

The Chicken Country, which had suffered from a weak navy for many years, is now not only vigorously developing the artillery of the army, but also putting a large-scale construction of the navy on the agenda.

If we take Double One as the goal, that is, being first in the army and first in the navy, the former goal has been achieved, but the latter goal has a long way to go.

By the time the Cow Kingdom was defeated and the Chicken Kingdom's army triumphed, it was already late autumn. Although this war did not last for a full year, it still lasted ten months.

In the past, when the war was fought in the enemy's territory, it had little impact on the chicken country's production and life. However, as the war ended, the areas that were conquered were all our own territory. Looking at it again, the areas that had experienced the war were almost devastated.

Within two years, there is a high probability that there will be no tax revenue on the newly acquired land, and some areas may even need state financial subsidies to allow local residents to continue to exist.

Once the army passes by or passes by the enemy's territory, even the wheat seedlings will be eaten as horse feed. As for the livestock grain in the enemy's rural areas, it is naturally used for military purposes. If you encounter resistance during the collection of military rations, you will naturally have to

Set a fire.

It’s not without reason that many places became scorched earth after the war. As for the displacement of civilians from enemy countries during the war, it’s none of my business.

Outside of Maju Port in the south of Chicken Country, Zhang Chengchun's unattended oak boat parked on the tidal flats here has grown to five thousand meters long and one thousand meters wide.

At first, only some homeless people went up there to explore, but they soon discovered that the acorns growing in the cabins here were the most delicious food, and there were even bathhouses with water and water. For homeless people, what more could they need than a bicycle if they had food and drink?

Woolen cloth?

As the war between the Three Kingdoms became more and more intense, some refugees from the Ox and Eagle countries also arrived at Maju Port, which was the largest port in the southern part of the Chicken Kingdom. They originally thought that there would be more opportunities here.

Who would have known that the oak boats on the tidal flats here have now become the homes of these refugees from both countries and local homeless people. When the oak boats are fine, they absorb nutrients and sunlight to grow, and constantly replenish acorns and clean water. This is all

It was set when Zhang Cheng planted the acorn at the beginning.

Unexpectedly, tens of thousands of poor people from the Three Kingdoms have gathered in this oak boat, and the news has spread that more poor people from the Three Kingdoms are on their way to this ship, which is called a miracle ship, and a place of miracles.

In fact, using acorns to feed tens of thousands of people has already made the oak boat itself somewhat difficult to recover. However, this is a tidal flat area on the seaside, and there are still a lot of seafood and sea fish. The spectacle of thousands of people fishing along the side of the boat every day is probably only

It only exists here.

The domestic garbage produced by tens of thousands of people every day is actually absorbed by the roots at the bottom of the oak boat, and becomes the nutrients for the oak boat to grow again.

Over time, the people living on the oak boats and the oak boats formed a symbiotic relationship.

By the time the real captain of the oak ship got the news from the newspaper that the oak ship was called a miracle ship and a place of miracles by the poor people of the three countries, there were already more than 20,000 and nearly 30,000 poor people gathered on the oak ship.

The oak ships at that time could not carry so many people, but the oak ships themselves were also growing. As they grew, more cabins were isolated and more edible acorns were produced. With the addition of seafood and marine fish,

There is no shortage of food either.

After receiving the news, Zhang Cheng regretted it for about three seconds, and then decided to forget about it, just an acorn. Besides, no one else could drive the ship except himself. Forget it, even if it was to support the poor after the war.

However, most of the newspapers in Maple City described the miracle ship and the place of miracles formed by the oak boats as miracles. It was a miracle that God blessed the Chicken Country. It was precisely because of God's blessing that the Chicken Country could

After a century of national humiliation, he defeated his old enemy.

In their shallow understanding, no one can do this except God.

As the reputation of the Miracle Ship and the Land of Miracles spread, many devout believers wanted to taste the food given by God. However, after the news spread, more than 30,000 people had gathered in the Miracle Ship.

, I have to salvage seafood and fish for some of my food, and I don’t have any extra acorns for consumption.

But the more this happened, the more curious people became. In the end, the locals in Mahu Port exchanged ten kilograms of oatmeal bread for an eight-pound acorn. After opening the shell, there were about four kilograms of edible acorns inside.

.The two halves of the acorn shell can also be used as a scoop or wooden bowl.

After opening the acorn, the local family received a portion of the food given by God, and they were extremely moved.

From then on, the price of acorns on the Miracle Ship became higher and higher, until it took more than ten kilograms of white bread to buy a big acorn.

After the aristocratic families in Maple Dew City began to use large acorns as snacks, the exchange price of these large acorns increased further.

This also allows the Miracle Ship to carry more people, and more people bring more nutrients. More nutrients make the Miracle Ship grow faster. It originally seemed to be the limit for carrying more than 30,000 people.

The miracle ship later miraculously carried more than 50,000 people, more than 80,000 people, and even more than 100,000 people.

In this era, a hundred thousand people lived together, which was already the population of a large city or a small principality.

The only remaining port city in the Niu Kingdom, Saier Port, has more than 200,000 people. It is almost the same as Mahu Port and the Land of Miracles combined.

Such a city on a ship with 100,000 people was simply unheard of before. If the war had not caused a large number of refugees, this miraculous ship would not have grown to be so big.

A maritime city with so many people obviously cannot do without rules. However, the largest number of people on the ship are the former refugees from the Ox Country and the Eagle Country. They are very close to each other and naturally rely on different languages ​​and customs to form two major groups. The Chicken Country lives on the ship.

The homeless people were the first to come here, but now there are only a handful of them, and now there are only a few thousand people. They can only survive by relying on these two large groups of more than 50,000 people each.

After the population of Miracle Ship exceeded 100,000, the growth rate slowed down a lot. Those who had families and businesses would naturally not go to distant places to live in Miracle Ship. Most of those who were displaced during the war and survived had already arrived.

Life aboard the Miracle Ship.

However, at this time, the Miracle Ship had grown to the size of a small island with a length of more than 60,000 meters and a width of more than 10,000 meters. And it did not stop growing.

Here in Miracle Ship, changes are happening every moment. Maybe overnight, a new compartment will appear between two neighbors. And if you live here for a long time, you have to adapt to this sudden change.

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For example, it is normal to get lost in a ship. Even if there are deliberately light-transmitting spots on the deck, the cabin is still a little dark. The refugees who come here are not people who can afford candles and lanterns. Living in a dark place

And living on an island that is getting bigger and bigger, it is normal to not be able to find a home when you go out.

If there weren't so many homeless people, this would not be considered a livable area.

The Navy Department of the Chicken Kingdom also sent people to inspect this place, and found that it just looks like a ship and cannot be driven at all. Except for the acorns inside, which taste good and are a very good food substitute, there is nothing that can be used.

The large acorns produced here in the Miracle Ship will not go bad for several years if they are not opened. This is much longer than the shelf life of brown bread rich in gluten.

Conveniently stored food is very useful for long-term sea voyages.

The inspection of this miraculous ship was not without its use by the Chinese Navy. There are so many people here, and they have been living on the beach and in the cabin for at least a few months or as long as a year. They have adapted to a certain degree at sea.

Life.

What the Chicken Country's navy lacks the most today is not ships, but people. Among these people, healthy men with a little training can be a good source of sailors.

As for naval officers, they must graduate from the Royal Naval Academy in the Kingdom of Chicken. Although the Royal Naval Academy in the Kingdom of Chicken does not have a rule that does not allow people with civilian backgrounds to come here to attend school, in fact, the college's admissions are based on a recommendation system.

Only former graduates of the Royal Naval Academy and domestic nobles are eligible for recommendation. This also blocks the path of civilians who want to become naval officers in disguise.
Chapter completed!