Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 1763 1764 Worth a personal welcome

For a traditional, old-fashioned emperor, Binghan Yishi would obviously feel uncomfortable seeing the common people living a carefree, confident and sunny life.

In his subconscious, it was not a good thing for civilians to eat too much. Among the imperial tactics that he had practiced and learned throughout his life, there was no option that could truly benefit the people.

In Binghan I's view, the king or emperor is a shepherd, and his subjects are the lambs he shepherds.

The lambs were fed grass to fatten them up and provide wool and meat, not to unite and seize the shepherd's land and house.

The secret of the ancient art of ruling lies in keeping the civilians in a half-dead state, making them busy with their lives, so that they will not focus on boring things like rebellion.

Of course, in the same way, letting them go hungry while preventing them from starving to death can make it easier to use these laborers and have them contribute their strength to the monarch: as long as they are provided with a little insignificant food or money, they can be allowed to join the army or perform labor service. The poorer the civilians are, the easier it is to do this.

These little life hacks from ancient times are the secrets of governance that emperors have kept secret. To a certain extent, they are secret techniques that are passed down to men but not women.

But the emergence of the damn Tang Empire caused the entire system to collapse. It turned out that there was also a set of ways to promote social progress, and this new way of playing was so devastating and invincible when facing the old system.

The halo on the common people who are on the road to progress is more dazzling than the crown on the emperor's head. They are more like the masters of this era than Emperor Binghan Yishi.

Such a comparison made Binghan Yishi pale in comparison. He was even a little timid and did not dare to meet the legendary emperor of the Tang Empire. He was afraid that after meeting him, he would find that the gap between himself and him was like the gap between a fly and the sun and the moon.

When he got off the train and walked onto the platform with the prime minister and other ministers who had accompanied him, he found that there were indeed very few people coming to greet him as a "distinguished guest".

A mayor's secretary and three or five attendants were all the people who came to greet him: among the new aristocrats of the Tang Empire, although the rank of marquis was still distinguished, it was not necessarily as high in status as a mayor who held real power.

Even because of the construction, the people who came to greet Binghan Yishi were unable to drive their cars onto the platform. They had to take a temporary passage, walk out of the train station honestly, and then take a car to the administrative hall in the city center.

There is now a unit there, called the Tang Empire Front Command, where Marshal Tiger is working. He is now going to meet with the surrendered Marquis Binghan on behalf of Emperor Tang Mo.

Taking the train was Binghan Yishi's request. He did not have a good impression of airplanes. After all, the most numerous transport aircraft, or civil airliners on the dwarf side, were actually modified C-47 transport aircraft, and their safety was just so-so.

Naturally, the Tang Empire has not popularized its jet airliners on a large scale in the East Continent, at least it has not had time to do so yet.

So Binghan Yishi had to change several trains and took buses several times before he arrived at Eternal Winter City.

Before getting on the train, the dwarven ministers were also shocked by the huge scale of the train station in front of them. They really didn't expect that the Tang Empire had restored the throughput capacity of Yongdong Port so quickly, and even resumed the construction and repair work of the city during the war.

Naturally, these people could not understand the Tang Dynasty's philosophy that time is money, nor could they understand the crazy behavior of Tang merchants who would rather raise money themselves than transport goods to the East Continent for sale.

In the eyes of these businessmen, opening up the market on the East Continent as soon as possible is simply the most important thing in the world. Therefore, all the docks in the shipyards of the Tang Empire are now filled with orders. Those bigwigs with backgrounds and strength are waving their money in their hands, wanting to buy every new ship launched at five times the price.

  These people even want retired warships. As long as they can get those hot commodities across the Endless Sea, they are willing to pay!

After marveling at the grandeur of the Tang Empire as it advanced the war while expanding the city, these people began to envy the cars that came to pick them up: these cars were all new Rolls-Royces that had just been delivered and were not available in the Dwarf region.

They have a more rounded design concept, a more exaggerated air intake grille, and more sophisticated processing technology. The entire car is a work of art, showing the dignity and luxury of the Tang Empire.

Everyone who got into the car had a different feeling. The luxury inside the car made them sigh. These people didn't know that the most luxurious car brand in the Tang Empire was no longer the Rolls-Royce in front of them...

When the motorcade passed through the street, it still attracted a lot of people's attention, because so many luxury cars from the city hall were dispatched at once, it was indeed not easy to see.

The main streets in the city had been repaired and were incredibly smooth. The luxurious Datang Rolls-Royce car drove on them without feeling any bumps.

Although the newly built buildings did not look tall, their style was completely different from the original dwarven buildings. It was a very simple style, but it looked very modern.

Huge glass has become the mainstream, and floor-to-ceiling windows are standard on buildings, making all buildings very transparent. This is completely different from the style of the small window buildings that the dwarves built in the past to keep warm.

From Icefrost's perspective, these buildings did not take into account the cold climate conditions of Everwinter City at all, and they would definitely not be usable in winter.

But in fact, the heating of the entire city is guaranteed. The huge oil refineries and other machinery manufacturing plants will provide almost unlimited heating, which can easily raise the temperature of the entire city.

Moreover, the Tang Empire did not need to consider how its cities would face the threat of war. No matter how fragile these buildings were, they would not be tested by artillery fire.

After passing these luxurious buildings, the car slowly stopped in a huge courtyard. Binghan Yishi finally saw the middle-aged general standing at the door to greet him.

Tiger still showed due respect to an old monarch. In his opinion, at least the dwarf emperor chose to surrender, which prevented the brave soldiers of the Tang Empire from suffering more casualties. This merit alone was worthy of a personal welcome from him, the marshal of the Tang Empire.

(End of this chapter)