Urban Sims

By the way, why does Zhou Ming suddenly want to help Dong Yuanzhou?

Is it just for the sake of the mother and daughter?

Of course not, this is only a small factor.

The big reason is: he doesn't want Wancheng Kingdom to go too smoothly, expand too far, and remain invincible for a long time.

Being invincible is never a good thing.

Even quite scary.

Individuals who are invincible may be unscrupulous, do whatever they want, be arrogant, and become extremely ignorant and arrogant.

The invincibility of a country is even more destructive. Even if it can be cool for a while, over time, it will either embark on the path of wanton aggression and expansion and crazy plunder of resources, or it will be conservative and consider itself "the kingdom of heaven" and lose the motivation to move forward. Give up on self-improvement and be surpassed by others while remaining stuck in the past.

In the end, the dinosaurs, the overlord of the planet, suddenly disappeared and perished in the drastic changes in the environment.

Are there many such examples in history, such as Zhou Ming's braided dynasty in the real world and the former superpower Country M. How many small and medium-sized countries fought because they felt invincible?

Even so, after becoming the only superpower, didn't Country M still list Country Z as a containment target and always seek subversion?

Because M country knows in its heart: It is impossible not to have an opponent. If there is no opponent, just create one!

In short, you must not stop where you are, eat and wait to die!

Same reason.

Wan Chengguo also needs a competitor, an opponent who is equally matched, an opponent who can cheer him up at all times.

In this way, Wancheng Kingdom will continue to progress, grow, and remain strong.

The only person with the qualifications and strength to be the opponent of Wancheng Kingdom is Dongyuanzhou. If Dongyuanzhou is destroyed, I am afraid that for a long time, the only opponent of Wanchengguo will be himself.

Are there any problems within Wancheng Kingdom?

certainly.

There have even been many interest groups or giant families trying to establish countries in other continents.

The continuous growth of these interest groups or families will sooner or later become an unstable factor that will tear Wancheng Kingdom apart.

Without certain external suppression, it would be very difficult for the Wancheng Kingdom to maintain a unified state with a low degree of cohesion.

Therefore, Zhou Ming's decision to take Dong Yuanzhou's hand was definitely not a whim.

…

A few months later.

There is an influx of people from outside the city in Hyunqing City.

Although some of the foreigners tried their best to avoid speaking, their thick Dongyuanzhou accent would still be revealed when they spoke.

Anyone from Wancheng who has been to Dongyuan Continent can tell that this accent is unique to Dongyuan Continent after just a few listens.

In fact, what surprised Zhou Ming, who had been wandering in other continents for seven years, was why do humans in all places speak the same language and use basically the same characters?

Even if some continents are separated by millions or tens of millions of miles, the languages ​​and characters used by people are not very different.

Completely barrier-free communication.

Zhou Ming could only guess: After the creation of this Lingyuan Continent, all intelligent humans should have come from the same ethnic group and later dispersed in all directions.

Of course, due to the isolation of the miasma forest, the accents of various continents are still quite different. The environment where the water and soil support the people and the environment is relatively closed to each other creates a variety of accents.

No matter how hard you try to cover it up, it will still be exposed inadvertently.

His father Bai Xutang reported back to Zhou Ming: A businessman told him that many people from Dongyuanzhou had entered Hyunqing City recently, and they did not look like they were doing serious business. He told him to be more vigilant and send someone to investigate.

He asked Zhou Ming what to do?

"Don't pay too much attention. Dongyuanzhou merchants are all over the world. It's normal for a few to appear here." Zhou Ming said.

"However, the country has recently stepped up its efforts to blockade Dongyuanzhou. I suspect there is something wrong with these Dongyuanzhou people..." Bai Xutang said hesitantly. He was not a fool. The characteristics of Hyunqing City as a free city have led to the 'miscellaneous people waiting' here. Very much. I like buying things very much, but I don’t know where the money comes from.

"Then let's strengthen the monitoring a little bit. If there is any abnormality, we will respond."

Nowadays, the urban population of Hyunqing City has expanded to 5 million, most of which are immigrants. There are even many cheap laborers and stowaways from Nanyuanzhou. The composition is very complex. With the Bai Family Army's less than 20,000 troops, it maintains the entire Public security in the country is somewhat difficult. When it comes to strengthening surveillance, it can only be strengthened slightly.

"That's all it can do."

Bai Xutang nodded and said, since he took over as the Lord of the City of Hyun Qing City, with the increase in various thorny matters, he has become more and more unable to do what he wants. There have been a lot more gray hairs on his head in the past few years.

He wanted to give up his job many times and let Zhou Ming, who was young and powerful, be the lord of the city. He retired early and took his wife to travel around the country and live a happy and comfortable old life.

But Zhou Ming is also not interested in the position of city lord. He is an immortal and cannot stay in the mortal world forever. It just so happens that his younger brother Bai Feijian has average qualifications and is good at handling all kinds of government affairs. Zhou Ming deliberately cultivates him and has allowed him to Got training in many positions.

Once he leaves Hyunqing City and Bai Xutang passes away, he will probably take care of Hyunqing City.

Of course, Bai Xutang is only in his early sixties now, and he complains, but he can actually work for a few more years.

I often consult Zhou Ming on many matters that I am unsure about.

But a few months later.

Chengbei Hyunqing Airport.

Standing in the higher airport observation tower, I watched an ordinary-looking Royal Airliner slowly land, stop on the runway, and get on the gangway. Among the hundreds of passengers walking down, I saw a person wearing a white windbreaker. Wearing a wide-brimmed hat, large green sunglasses, and light makeup, with only a round chin, cherry-red lips, and a delicate nose exposed, the young woman slowly walked down the gangway, followed by an old man, looking around from time to time.

Zhou Ming inside the tower shook his head repeatedly.

He smiled helplessly.

He murmured: "Who would have guessed that a supreme palace lord who sits on millions of miles of mountains and rivers, controls the destiny of six billion people, has an extremely noble status, and is loved by the people, would actually move his body and travel thousands of miles to come here in person? What an honor it is for our city to go to a remote and backward place like Xuqing City?"

"What kind of nonsense, but no one successfully stopped it?"

This courage is truly incredible.

…

The young woman who was getting off the passenger plane exclaimed with a Dongyuanzhou accent:

"A city from the Kingdom of Wancheng, is this a city from the Kingdom of Wancheng?"

“Advanced, clean, beautiful, unparalleled.”

"That building is at least a hundred stories high, right? There are still three buildings side by side. If it were our Dong Yuan Continent, the tallest building would only be 80 stories high, and the number would be pitiful."

"Psychic cars, there are psychic cars everywhere on the streets, there are also some gasoline buses, there are also many rail trains... all kinds of cars, making the city roads congested and busy."

"In Dong Yuan Continent, the most developed city, the number of psychic cars is only a few thousand. Very few people can afford them. Most of them are on dirt roads, and there are a large number of oxcarts and horse-drawn carriages. They occupy an area of The driveway is excreted at will, which not only covers the sky with dust, but is also extremely dirty and smelly."

"The people here are also well-dressed and fashionable, and the people are highly educated. Most of them are polite and gentle, just like a civilized country."

“Technology is even more advanced, culture and entertainment are prosperous and developed, and it’s such a prosperous scene that is enviable.”

Along the way and visiting, Jiang Ruyue kept praising and sighing from time to time.

The city in front of her gave her a big shock and a huge impact visually.

In the past, she had heard descriptions of the development and prosperity of Wancheng Kingdom from businessmen or diplomats who had been to Wancheng Kingdom, but she had always felt that it was a bit exaggerated and could not be convinced.

But when she saw it with her own eyes, she found that those people were not lying or exaggerating at all.

Even more prosperous than they described.

It also frightens and shocks her.

For a few moments, as noble as she was, she actually had thoughts of inferiority and insignificance in her heart.

She thought to herself: "Xuanqing City is just a medium-sized city among the cities in Wancheng Kingdom. If it were one of those more prosperous giant cities with a population of tens of millions or tens of millions, what would I think if I looked at it? "

She began to understand why, in Dongyuan Continent, when she asked those businessmen or officials who had been to Wancheng Kingdom and asked them about their feelings about Wancheng Kingdom, what showed on their faces was not pride and excitement, but It is a deep inferiority complex, low-pitched words, and unambitious comments such as "it will be difficult to surpass within fifty years."

Jiang Ruyue was very angry and slapped the table and said: Is it so difficult to surpass Wancheng Kingdom in fifty years? How long does it take?

Fifty years is at least, it may even take eighty or one hundred years... Even though she was very angry, someone still answered her like this.

Fuck you!

Do you have rickets? Do you think Wan Chengguo is so powerful? !

Jiang Ruyue's face was livid, and she wanted to swear and curse, but seeing that they still had such unambitious expressions on their faces, she could only hold back her anger.

But I am definitely very unconvinced.

But after walking around Hyun Qingcheng today, the dissatisfaction in Jiang Ruyue's heart had long since dissipated.

It turned into a little inferiority complex, as well as a strong sense of urgency and crisis.

"This remote Hyunqing City looks to be thirty or fifty years more advanced than Xiaole City (the capital of Dongyuanzhou). Where is the most prosperous capital city of Wancheng Kingdom?"

Fifty years.

Surpassing in about fifty years has become Jiang Ruyue's most optimistic estimate now.

But fifty years later, will Dong Yuan Continent still exist?

Will Wancheng Congress give Dongyuanzhou fifty years to develop?

Shaked his head.

Extremely pessimistic.

For a moment, Jiang Ruyue had no intention of looking at the scenery, and fell into extreme anxiety, even a brief moment of despair.