The Great Seminary

Chapter 26 Running into the Steam Age
After a month of work, one hundred craftsmen finally completed the core area of ​​the city, the administrative district.

What was even more surprising was that we discovered a 'Shadow Water Lingbi'.

Zhang Gui suddenly realized that this was the most crucial reason why Tiangong Kaiwu confirmed that the origin site was the best "Huangji".

The name of the city has already been decided.

Although it was the size of a large county, Zhang Gui still called it "Shangshishijing" with great momentum.

His own residence was called 'Guiyang Palace'.

The courts, procuratorates and police stations responsible for judicial affairs are called the Court of Justice, the Court of Decision and the Court of Civil Defense respectively.

He will be fully responsible for military affairs, so there will be no separate management agency. There will only be a Zhanwei Division in charge of logistics, a Mouwei Division in charge of strategy, and a Wei Division in charge of training and operations.

The administrative office was located in Kyoto.

Tianzhengyuan, which is in charge of tax collection.

The Ministry of Personnel, which is responsible for the appointment, dismissal, performance evaluation, and promotion and demotion of officials;

The Ministry of Household Affairs, which is in charge of land allocation and population registration;
The Ministry of Finance, which is responsible for the fiscal budget and public appropriations;

the Ministry of Rites, which oversaw schools and civil service examinations;
The Ministry of Works, which is responsible for engineering and construction;

The Ministry of Agriculture is in charge of military farming and water conservancy.

The names of these institutions are extremely impressive, but their settings and services are very simple.

The Tensaiin and Jueliin in the judicial system, and the chief officials of the Kyoto Yamen and Tenshoin in the administrative system were of the seventh rank.

The remaining four departments and six ministries were all heads of the eighth rank.

In addition, there are the eighth-rank chief officers of the Beijing Post Station, the chief officers of the township and town government offices, and the chief officers of the Tianzhengyuan branch.

The ninth-rank branch officer of the Weimin Division, the auxiliary officer of the township and town government offices, and the auxiliary officer of the Tianzhengyuan branch.

From the ninth rank: Muramasa, Nomasa, and Zaimasa.

Although the True Dragon Kingdom still only has Zhang Gui as its commander-in-chief, the first city has been built on the island.

The official area has been completed.

At this time, a little pug appeared.

Because Zhang Gui was also the regent prince of the Shishi Kingdom, a foreign country under the Ming Song Dynasty.

As the supreme ruler of the stone corpse, he can change the country's suzerain from Ming Song to the real dragon.

In this way, the True Dragon nominally owned a vassal state, and its status was suddenly elevated, transforming the kingdom into an empire.

In this world, there are four continents: Dongsheng, Xihe, Nanchi and Beixuan.

The powerful countries in Dongshengzhou are all "centralized feudal regimes."

Most of the countries in Xigazhou are feudal governments with a 'lord-negotiated peace system'.

South Chizhou is relatively backward, and most countries are "slavery" countries, where human sacrifice and burial are common.

In the last few hundred years, many tribes have been semi-colonized by Xihezhou, and the country has gradually improved.

However, the number of Nanchizhou people who died for this was hundreds or thousands of times more than those who were sacrificed and buried alive.

Beixuanzhou is a "city-state union" political system with more than a dozen super cities as its center, integrating countless large, medium and small cities.

The political structure is even looser than that of the slave state in South Chizhou.

It seems to be the freest of the four continents, but the people there are also most likely to die.

Lack of obligations also leads to lack of rights, and 'living safely' is one of the rights.

Commander Zhang Guiguang's childish move to upgrade himself to "emperor" is of course meaningless in reality.

But it is of great significance on a mystical level.

For example, if one were to perform some metaphysical ritual in the future, calling oneself an 'Emperor' could trigger a more intense response than calling oneself a 'King'.

By the time he finished all this, he had been out in the wild for a month and a half.

Then, he came up with another fantastic idea. The four continents of Dongsheng, Xihe, Nanchi, and Beixuan, apart from their widely varying political systems, all their transcendental systems were largely similar, save for the "bloodline inheritance" aspect.

The source of the advanced productivity unit system in Dongshengzhou is "mechanism".

In Xigazhou it is 'alchemy'.

In South Chizhou, it is the 'secret medicine livestock'.

Beixuanzhou gathered everything for its own use.

But no matter how different the above are, they still rely on the "supernormal" as the foundation, which is completely different from the materialistic technology of Zhang Gui's previous life.

As for the materialistic technological system, it is impossible for Zhang Gui to reappear in this life.

But as the owner of the powerful steam god cluster 'Water and Fire Harmony', he was an excellent student in the key junior high school in his previous life.

In his previous life, in order to be able to participate in the interview for the provincial key high school, he filled in the interest and hobbies column more brilliantly.

Single-acting and double-acting types have been made;
Vertical, horizontal;
Various exquisite and life-size simulation steam engine models such as single-expansion type and multi-expansion type, participate in science model competitions and collect certificates.

Later, he successfully passed the high school entrance examination and entered the ideal university, where he developed a strong interest in the fictional "steampunk".

I joined the university's 'Giant Punk Club' and spent all day hanging out with a bunch of like-minded people.

Over the years, countless life-size models of steam locomotives, steam gunboats, steam airships, etc. were designed and manufactured.

Not only did he remain single throughout college, he almost didn't even get his degree.

Now with the help of the unique product "Tiangong Kaiwu", we have the integrated production capabilities.

It is almost certain that we can show an enlightened miniature 'steam civilization'.

So he set out to return to Blackwood Town.

Zhang Gui used whale skin as tires and sealants, and Peng bird blood as adhesive to create a series of steam engines.
Time flies and flies by.

All the sea merchants doing business seriously in Kuroki Town had long since left.

The rest were all unlucky people who were cheated by Zhang Yan and had nowhere else to go.

Some of them have backgrounds, some are brutal enough not to be afraid of a fight to the death, and some are strong enough to hold hundreds of cattle and horses of the Pingyang Zhang family in their hands.

Of course, everyone just wants to make money.

As long as there is hope of solving the problem, no one wants to cause loss of life.

If too many people die and the reasonable becomes unreasonable, the loss will outweigh the gain.

So after capturing more than half of the Zhang family managers and servants in the town, they did not continue to force the search and arrest, and formed a standoff with the new fleet of the Pingyang Zhang family.
The heat on Snake Island lingers in the midsummer.

At Zhangjia Wharf in Pingyang, several huge sailing ships were anchored in a row and moored neatly.

The boats are fixed with iron chains and connected with wooden boards in the middle, just like land.

The midday sun was high in the sky, cloudless, casting its rays upon the earth with a scorching heat.

Those who were not on duty hid in the narrow cabin, unwilling to show their heads even if they would be steamed into dried salted fish.

The sentry was helpless.

I could only hold a wooden frame oilcloth umbrella and stay under the scorching sun.

If I sit, the sand will burn my butt, and if I stand, my feet will be unbearable, so I have to pace back and forth constantly.

A thousand meters away, Zhang Gui, hiding in the shadows of the basin mouth, looked at the painful masks on the faces of the sentries and sighed with pity.

If it were a monk, no matter how high the temperature was, it wouldn't be this hot.

But unless he is a bodyguard for a big boss, how could a monk do such hard and tiring work?

But now is not the time to feel pity for others. He took a few deep breaths, and his face instantly put on a mask of pain that was even more distorted than the one on guard.

He staggered towards the dock.

(End of this chapter)