Throne of Vientiane Civilization

Soon, winter passed and spring came. The weather in early spring was still a bit cold. In Black Moon City, drizzling rain had been falling for several days in a row.

This is a normal phenomenon in Black Moon City in early spring. It is common for the weather to not clear up for a single day in a month.

If you stand on a high place and look towards Qingshui Lake at this time, you will find that the whole lake has become misty and rainy, and the continuous green mountains are hidden in the hazy mist and rain, looming. Apart from the humid climate, this scene is inexplicably poetic.

"Your Majesty, I have already checked what you asked me to do."

Inside the Qinzheng Hall, Li Bowen respectfully spread out the map of Black Moon City. Several places were circled on the map.

"It is appropriate to arrange embassies in these places. Your Majesty, please make the decision."

The United Nations conference ended last fall. Due to the distance factor, it will take at least early winter for King Baron of Copperforge to return home.

Taking into account the time issues of various forces, the five countries decided after consultation to schedule the specific implementation time for next year, which is now.

Although it is just the beginning of the year, the actions of various forces are certainly not that fast, but it is time to slowly do some things.

The selection of the location for this embassy undoubtedly requires more thought.

First of all, they certainly cannot be arranged in their work areas, as many of their work areas are important departments involving internal secrets.

As mentioned before, this embassy is equivalent to an outpost set up by other countries here, and a frontline base for spies.

"Okay, let's arrange it this way."

Just after arranging this matter, a personal soldier came in quickly and whispered to Zhou Xu.

Zhou Xu nodded, stood up and walked towards the side hall.

"Your humble servant Ye Jinghong pays respect to Your Majesty!"

"No need to be polite, please take a seat."

Entering the side hall, Zhou Xu quickly sat down.

The Inspection Department is responsible for inspecting all officials and doing a large amount of intelligence work. As the director of the Inspection Department, Ye Jinghong's identity is also very sensitive, and he basically rarely appears in public now.

"Now that the United Nations has been established, each country will send diplomats to other countries this year to maintain diplomatic relations between them."

"This is a good opportunity to plant spies, but it's the same for other countries."

Having said this, Zhou Xu paused.

"Jinghong, you should understand what I am saying. When we send spies to other countries, we also have to keep a close eye on the people sent by other countries. Have you arranged all the candidates?"

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, everything has been arranged."

Ye Jinghong had a calm expression, not showing any trace of panic.

As for the cultivation and training of spies, Zhou Xu had already made arrangements as early as when he was sure that there was a "coalition" outside. This was definitely not a team formed on the spur of the moment.

After years of training, they have been waiting for this moment for a long time!

"Very good. Go back to the list and check with the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Ask them to be prepared, both at home and abroad!"

"I obey your orders!"

With a response, Ye Jinghong quickly left.

After finishing one task, Zhou Xu would turn around and start working on the next one. Recently, Zhou Xu has a lot of things to do and has no time to rest.

"Have all the individual crossbows in the military units been eliminated?"

"Yes, sire."

With the completion of the production line and the increasingly skilled operating techniques of the assembly line workers, the production efficiency of the matchlock gun can be said to have doubled compared to the early days.

This also meant that by the spring of this year, all individual crossbows in the crossbow units of the Great Zhou army had been eliminated and replaced with the latest produced matchlock rifles.

From this moment on, the rear-line troops of the Great Zhou Dynasty had fully entered the era of firearms.

At the same time, with the updating of weapons, the crossbow troops were also eliminated by the times and were directly upgraded to musket troops on the spot.

With the completion of this upgrade, the most important thing for the arsenal is no longer to continue producing matchlock guns, but to speed up the production of projectiles and gunpowder.

The musket units in various places need to be trained, and the cost of each training session is not a small number.

On this basis, they still have to do a good job of keeping confidentiality.

After all, the fact that the rear-line troops of the Great Zhou were fully equipped with muskets had not yet been made public, and he had no plans to make it public in the coming year.

It would not be good for the Great Zhou if this matter was made public too early. At the same time, if he made this matter public now, who would he sell his remaining individual crossbows to?

At present, he has a large number of discarded individual crossbows. According to the inventory results of relevant departments, there are a total of 3,731 of them.

In the past two years, although the Russian Republican Party headed by Peter has been very eager to obtain more individual crossbows to enhance the military strength of its troops, it is impossible for him to come up with more than 3,000 crossbows at once.

Once he did that, even if Peter was a fool, he would realize that something was wrong.

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In this way, Zhou Xu planned to trade the remaining 3,000 individual crossbows in four or five batches depending on the situation.

[In the new year, the first batch of individual crossbows will be 800.]

The thought flashed through his mind, and Zhou Xu began to write letters to Peter and Fisher.

If we start the process now, from bidding to transaction completion, it will basically take until summer.

However, Zhou Xu didn't care. After all, more time would allow them to better assimilate the immigrants from last winter, and in his opinion there was no harm in it.

After finishing the conversation with the Minister of Military and Political Affairs, Zhou Xu turned around and called Qin Fen over again.

"Your humble servant Qin Fen pays respect to Your Majesty."

The recent research and development of firearms has made Qin Fen a little melancholy. He really doesn't want to discuss the research and development and improvement of firearms with those guys in the project team.

When he saw Zhou Xu at this time, he also looked like he had lost all hope in life.

Seeing his look, Zhou Xu laughed.

"Are you showing off for me?"

"I dare not."

Qin Fen still felt hopeless.

Zhou Xu was not surprised, but spoke mysteriously...

"I asked you to come here this time because I have good news."

“…”

Qin Fen did not say anything about this. He always felt that their Majesty was trying to trick him.

Seeing this, Zhou Xu pretended to be helpless and spread his hands.

"Forget it, I'll find someone else. It seems that you are not interested in the project of developing steam battleships?"

“Wait!!!”

At that moment, Qin Fen was seen with one hand on his head, and he almost came back to life visibly.

"Your Majesty, you just mentioned the steam battleship, right?!"

“…”