After returning to his original territory of Dali, Di Xin left the expeditionary force and continued towards the capital.
Apart from the guards, the only other companions left were Zeng Hongshen and Song Qianwei.
As for Zhao Yue'er, she returned to Yanque Pass with the expeditionary force and reunited with Zhao Quanyou after three years of separation.
In fact, after discovering that this journey might take several years, Zhao Yue'er regretted it a little.
She likes to play freely, but having grown up next to Zhao Quanyou, she is reluctant to be separated from her father for a long time.
You must know that even during those years when she stayed in Northern Xinjiang as a hostage, she was able to meet Zhao Quan several times a year when he returned to Northern Xinjiang to report on his duties.
Now that they haven't seen each other for three years, it has already exceeded the limit of her longing.
However, after staying with Di Xin for several years, although Zhao Yue'er was a little arrogant, she also knew what priorities were.
If she returns to Northern Xinjiang halfway, Di Xin will definitely send someone to escort her back, and he will have to worry about her safety along the way.
Now is the time of war, and once Di Xin, as the commander-in-chief, is distracted, it is likely to cause bad consequences.
Therefore, she stayed obediently by Di Xin's side and never once raised the idea of returning to Northern Xinjiang.
Di Xin took the initiative to mention it, but she refused on the grounds that she was accompanying sister Qianwei.
Because of this, during this training, although she also missed her sister Ruoqing in the capital, she still chose to return to northern Xinjiang with the expeditionary force.
Di Xin naturally respects her choice.
And Song Qianwei, of course, followed Di Xin.
After witnessing countless lives and deaths in the past few years, she finally broke through the last line of defense in her heart and officially became Di Xin's woman.
Now was the time when things were so tight that she certainly didn't want to be separated from Di Xin.
At the same time, she may also have untied a layer of knots in her heart.
After officially becoming Di Xin's woman, her cultivation also began to rise steadily, and she successfully broke through to the innate realm soon after.
Officially became a great innate master.
Although there is no shortage of experts around Di Xin today, this is still a good thing.
After all, unlike Wang Ruoqing, it is impossible for Song Qianwei, who comes from a martial arts background, to stay safely at the rear.
Even when her cultivation was weak, she wanted to be by Di Xin's side, to advance and retreat together when Di Xin was in danger, and to use her meager strength to gain even a slight advantage for him.
With this thought, even if Di Xin forced her to stay behind, as long as something happened to Di Xin, she would find a way to find him.
This is also the reason why Emperor Xin would take Song Qianwei with him when he went on an expedition.
In order to prevent her from fooling around in the back just listening to the wind and rain, it would be better to keep her next to her.
But Di Xin wants to lead the army to fight, and it is impossible to be absolutely safe around him.
Apart from anything else, there have been countless attempts by foreigners to assassinate him in the past three years, but very few have been able to break through the defense lines of the two great innate masters, Zeng Hongshen and Yaoluo Ge Tongjian.
Even if he breaks through by chance, facing Di Xin who has dual second-level cultivation, the killer can only sink into the sand and fail.
As for the assassination planned against the strength of the three second-level experts Zeng Hongshen, Yaoluo Ge Tongjian and Di Xin, even if Song Qianwei is a martial arts cultivator at the peak of acquired skills, it is still a very dangerous thing.
But now that she has the cultivation of the innate realm, in the Ancient Moon Realm, even if she is with Di Xin, she has the strength to protect herself.
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At the speed of the steam carriage, Di Xin returned to the capital with Zeng Hongshen, Song Qianwei, and a kind of escort in less than two-thirds of the time it took before.
After being used by the military, it naturally spread to the civilian population.
Steam technology is naturally not a taboo technology that can only be used by the military.
There are many smart people among the people.
After the emergence of steam creation, smart people who realized that the times were about to change have already actively embraced steam technology.
As the capital of Great Li, the capital city naturally ushered in the first round of transformation.
On the way back to the capital, there were only a small amount of steam creations in those cities. The closer to the capital, the more steam creations there were in the cities.
The final capital already has a hint of the steampunk world.
When Di Xin stood at the gate of the city after three years of absence, he felt a sense of trance.
If he hadn't known that it all started with him, he would have doubted whether he had entered a new world.
But this is a good thing.
New creations naturally bring new business opportunities.
And new business opportunities will generate new taxes.
Dali's taxes were not excessive. Even during the years of Emperor Xin's expedition, the imperial court did not exploit the people because of large military expenditures.
With the development in the past few years, Northern Xinjiang has already saved enough military expenses for the expedition, and the imperial court only provided a small amount.
But this does not mean that the court is not short of money.
In fact, if it had more money, the court could equip the army with better weapons.
The arrival of steam technology obviously opened up a new source of income for the court.
Or maybe several.
All in all, even if Emperor Xin no longer takes the initiative to catalyze, the court's technical reserves in the past few years are enough to allow Dali to develop rapidly for a period of time.
From what we can see with the naked eye, even if Emperor Xin went on a military rampage, Dali's development had fallen into a virtuous cycle.
And this is still the consequence of Di Xin's selective leakage. If there is a comprehensive technological invasion, it is uncertain whether there will be backlash in the future, but in the early stage, Ancient Moon Realm will definitely be able to go through other countries in a few decades.
The development of the world over hundreds or even thousands of years.
In the end, all of this will turn into Di Xin's advantage in the battle for world masters.
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After showing the token, Di Xin's carriage drove into the capital, which was gradually developing towards steampunk.
The next day.
Emperor Xin, who had been away for three years, summarized the results of the past three years at the court meeting, and decided with the old emperor and officials on the firearms equipment of the Northern Xinjiang Army.
That's right.
In three years, firearms equipment has been completed from the Imperial Guard to the Beijing Camp to the armies in various places, and even the Western Region, Southern Xinjiang and Eastern Retreats. Only the Northern Xinjiang Army who is on an expedition still uses cold weapons.
This is naturally not the Ministry of War's mistake, but was done specifically for it.
Naturally, he also asked for... No, this was Di Xin's proposal.
The reason is also very simple.
On the continent where Dali is located, the Northern Xinjiang Army can crush it with cold weapons. If it is replaced by hot weapons, although the results may be more brilliant, the consumption of firearms and ammunition is a huge number.
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Firearms have a lifespan, and once they have reached the end of their use, they naturally need to be scrapped.
In war, ammunition is purely a consumable.
If the expeditionary force is equipped with firearms first, then the Ministry of Industry will need to set aside a special production line to be responsible for the combat supplies of the expeditionary force.