Lord of the Misty World

After visiting a big city along the way for a day, the emissary team of the elves boarded the car again, crossed the rolling hills, passed through a large area of ​​woodland, and headed towards Qinghe City.

In fact, with the Qinghe Empire's development of many roads in the south, large areas of forest have almost been eradicated.

Among those large basins, there are no large forests anymore, and only a few preserved forests are used as parks.

And those hills, which are slightly gentler, are ready to be developed into mountain forest farms, special medicinal planting bases, tea gardens, orchards, etc.Only the tops of the steep, rocky mountains remain intact.

Passing through the southern mountain forest area, the view on both sides of the rune train suddenly widened, with large tracts of farmland and villages located here.

The regions of the Qinghe Empire can actually be divided into many types, each of which is a landscape.

For example, the mountains and forests that the elves saw before were cities and large forests among the mountains, and everything they saw was green.

And this great plain is actually the core area of ​​the Qinghe Empire. Here, the population is dense, and most of them live in villages and towns. The land is scattered, and there are not many large farms and pastures.

Villages, towns and cities make this area seem populated.In the north, the continuous farms and pastures are connected, which is another kind of scenery.

As for the barren land further north, it gives people a sense of desolation.Of course, the islands on the eastern ocean, Qiandao Road, Lanhai Road, Luoxia Road and other areas are all marine style.

However, the elves, who live surrounded by tall trees and have plant characteristics, have not seen such a scenery as the Qinghe Empire.

The villages and the farmland between the villages give people a novel feeling.

As the rune train moves forward, there are more and more villages and towns along the way. Cities pass through, high-rise buildings, and forests made of reinforced concrete. Even the second princess of the elves is staring at the scenery outside the window. .

How are these buildings built and why are they so tall.

At this time, the person in charge at the side of the messenger team looked at the elf princess and others, and began to introduce the current situation to several people.

From time to time, the elf princess and the prince also asked some questions, and the person in charge explained them one by one.

When the rune train came to the current edge of Qinghe City, a new district.Although it is on the edge, the large buildings all show the prosperity of this area.

At this time, the person in charge introduced Qinghe City to the elf mission.

"What you are seeing now is the imperial capital of our Qinghe Empire, Qinghe City.

Today's Qinghe City has an urban area of ​​800 square kilometers, seven subordinate districts, and a population of over [-] million. It is the most prosperous city in the empire.

What everyone sees now is the most marginal wasteland area, because it has just been incorporated into the city, and there is not much development yet, but soon everyone will be able to see the most prosperous city in the empire. "

"A city with a population of 800 million." Regarding the person in charge's introduction, the prince at the side asked in disbelief. "Are you sure it's true, not an approximation."

"Of course." The person in charge said proudly. "We don't want to make fakes in this place. The imperial capital has a population of 800 million, all of whom are permanent residents. In addition, our country has four large cities with a population of over [-] million."

"Then do you know the current total population of your Qinghe Empire?" the Prince asked.

"We only did a census two years ago," said the person in charge. "This data is public. The total population of the empire has exceeded one billion."

Hearing this number, the elf prince also fell silent.

The number of one billion, in the eyes of the Elf Prince, is simply an unimaginable number.

Because elves have a long life span, they don't care about love, and spend their long lives in martial arts, archery, spells, arts and other fields.

In addition, elves are difficult to conceive, so there are not many elves in the elves empire.The total population of the elves in the entire elf empire is only about 3000 million.

But now this number is not worth mentioning compared to the population of the Qinghe Empire.

Of course, the Elven Empire is not just the elves, but also the allies of the elves, the tree elves, the goblins, and the Druin sect, Pegasus, Griffin, Falcon and other partner races,

These races are united under the leadership of the elves, but even if the other races are added together, the total population is only 8000 to [-] million, not even over [-] million.

Among the kingdoms in the south of the Elf Empire, those kingdoms occupy three to four million, or even one or two million square kilometers of land.

There are continuous wars between kingdoms and kingdoms, and a large number of casualties make each country only have a population of tens of millions.

Even the Ming Empire in the west has a population of only one or two hundred million.

Therefore, under such cognition, the sudden appearance of a billion-level population shocked the prince instantly.

Judging from the quality of the border soldiers of the Qinghe Empire at the border between the Elven Empire and the Qinghe Empire, the soldiers of the Qinghe Empire were not much weaker than the elves in terms of individual soldiers.

All the people of the Qinghe Empire cultivated, and the soldiers who joined the army had sufficient resources, so each of them had at least one martial skill and one body technique.

In this way, the elf soldiers themselves will not have much advantage.Moreover, the Qinghe Empire still has these firearms, all kinds of heavy firepower, which are not far behind the elves' enchanted armor, spell scrolls, and mage towers.

Therefore, for an empire of such size, the elf empire is already showing a disadvantage at this time, the elf prince thought in his heart.

"We need to pay more attention to the Qinghe Empire, and we need to strengthen our ties. If the Qinghe Empire suddenly attacks the Elf Empire, it will be difficult to stop it."

As the rune train penetrated into Qinghe City, it became a tall urban agglomeration, bustling streets, and an endless stream of vehicles along the way.

On the high-rise buildings, electronic display screens, various signboards, and lights make the buildings very bright.

The elves living in the forest have never seen such a life before, looking out of the window without taking their eyes off.

The rune train arrived at the terminal. Under the leadership of the person in charge, the elf messenger team got off, and then took several buses and trucks to load everyone with their mounts.

The convoy traveled through the streets and arrived at its destination about an hour later.This is an embassy that the Qinghe Empire has already prepared.

A separate building with nine floors and a garden can accommodate a team of more than 100 elves.

And it has its own kitchen, allowing the elves to process their own food.According to the requirements, the Qinghe Empire provided the ingredients, plus the fruits and meat prepared by the elves for processing.

On the first day of arriving in Qinghe City, the horses and horses were exhausted, and the team of elf messengers rested at the residence.On the second day, rest or be guided by professionals to visit Qinghe City.

On the third day, Di Feng and several wives will receive the three envoys.

Resting in the residence, the staff explained the usage of various equipment in the room, and soon, the most active second princess took a fancy to the computer.

Turn on the computer, watch all kinds of browsing information and various videos on the computer, and can't stop for a while.

As the prince leading the team, he was more concerned with the difference between the Qinghe Empire and the Elf Empire.

While all kinds of technological equipment make life convenient, the prince sees its huge military value.

For example, with the popularity of civilian equipment such as convenient communication, TV, and computer, it is unimaginable how much military equipment will be.

Not only that, but on the Internet, the Elven Prince searched for information about the Qinghe Empire clumsily since he was in contact with a computer for the first time.

As an open network, in fact, if you really search, you can generally find information about the Qinghe Empire on this Internet.

For example, some videos of military weapons, maps about the Qinghe Empire.However, because there is too much information on the Internet, the complicated information made it impossible for the elf prince to read it all at once.

But just the detailed introduction gave the Elven Prince a deeper understanding of the Qinghe Empire.

As for the reserve saint among the three, she watched the TV drama on TV relatively quietly.This brand-new thing similar to drama and opera also made this saint fall into it.

Through one night of contact, the three of them had a deeper understanding of the Qinghe Empire.Early the next morning, a maid served breakfast.

After breakfast, the reception staff from the Qinghe Empire arrived and asked the three elf envoys to change into calmer clothes. The envoys led the three of them to visit Qinghe City.

But this time in the city, the team of maids and guards brought by the three of them could not all be pulled into the streets.You can only bring two guards and two maids.

Along the way, the group first went to Qinghe Imperial Art University, because the elves admire art and have super high artistic accomplishment, so it is beneficial to get closer to the elves through various arts first.

In the university, the elf princess and the saint communicate with the art students in the university.But as a prince, he was involved in the affairs of the empire, and when he saw the model of the university, he saw some special places at first sight.

For example, the Qinghe Empire brought sufficient talents to the empire through the way of cultivating talents through schools.Moreover, the Elven Prince also inquired about education, and thus learned that the Qinghe Empire is universal education for all.

In this comparison, the elf empire is very different.

In the elf empire, because of the noble class, the nobles don't care much about the lives of the elves at the bottom.After all, because the elf empire is vast and sparsely populated, there is sufficient food, and there is no need for governance, and the elves at the bottom can live well.

Therefore, schools in the elf empire are generally only responsible for popularizing writing and art to the lower elves.You can go to these schools if you want to, and it's okay if you don't want to practice martial arts at home.

And the Higher Academy of the Elf Empire taught everything, but only the children of nobles could enter.And education is also a master-apprentice model, with very few large classes.

During my visit to this art university, I saw that several teachers were in charge of a class, and all of them took large classes.This seems to cultivate top talents, but that can cultivate talents on a large scale.

Afterwards, the Elven Prince asked to visit the Qinghe Empire's middle school and elementary school in the afternoon.

For such a request, the person in charge did not make any guesses and agreed.

Since the Qinghe Empire agreed to the visit of the elf mission, there are not many problems with visiting various places.

Even if you can see something from the social development structure of the Qinghe Empire, this is not a big problem for the Qinghe Empire.

The Elven Empire itself only has a population of tens of millions, and the population is growing very slowly. Even if it learns something from the Qinghe Empire, it is not a problem at all for the Qinghe Empire, whose population grows by tens of millions every year.

I went to the middle school to see it, and then visited the primary school of Qinghe Empire. The large-scale and standardized talent training method is free.

For the Elf Prince, this is an important reason why the Qinghe Empire has developed to this day.

From the moment a child is born, he begins to cultivate a large amount of knowledge from simple to difficult methods. After more than ten years of learning, he becomes a talent and increases the foundation of the empire.

And the knowledge learned is free, and there are libraries in the school, and a large number of books stored are also free.

In the eyes of the elf prince, this is really unbelievable.In the elven empire, knowledge is a precious asset, and the elven empire also has some libraries.

But if ordinary elves want to read books, they not only need a certain social status, but also need enough wealth to pay for reading books.

This makes books owned by the nobles, while the common people at the bottom can only master simple literacy.In the eyes of the nobles, the elves at the bottom are of the same race, but they all lack potential. They only need to master martial arts to become warriors or craftsmen.

The nobles are noble mages, priests, and scholars, with noble status and few people.

But now the huge public library that the Elf Prince saw here, as well as various school libraries, all kinds of knowledge on the computer, all showed that in the Qinghe Empire, as long as he was willing to learn, he could learn anything.

In addition, all the people of the Qinghe Empire entered school from birth, and then received training from professional teachers. They studied all the way for more than ten years before joining the army or working.

This training method means that every one of the Qinghe Empire has enough knowledge and is an individual talent.

"This is the gap between the Qinghe Empire and the Elf Empire." The prince's eyes were shocked, and he thought to himself. "After going back this time, the system within the empire must be reformed, otherwise, the empire will be pulled bigger and bigger by the Qinghe Empire."

Universal education for all, except for a large number of basic qualified talents, those potential geniuses will also stand out after more than ten years of training and become the pillars of the empire.

After leaving school, Elf Princess and Saintess didn't see so much, they were more cheerful, and they were more emotional about the difference of Qinghe Empire.

And the elf prince became worried and thoughtful.