Chapter 26

It took a month, and 108 Heavenly Crafts finally built the core area of the city, the administrative district.

Even more surprisingly, a 'Shadow Water Spirit Wall' was also discovered.

Zhang Gui suddenly realized that this was the most critical reason why Heavenly Craft Opens Things confirmed the base location as 'Huangji' optimal.

The city name had already been decided.

Although it was a large county specification, Zhang Gui still called it 'Upper Stone Corpse Capital' with great momentum.

His own residence was called 'Guiyang Palace'.

The courts, procuratorates, and police stations responsible for justice were called the Heavenly Taxation Court, the Decision-Making Court, and the Wei Min Office, respectively.

In the military conception, he would be fully responsible, so no separate management agency was set up, only the Zhanwei Division in charge of logistics, the Mouwei Division in charge of strategy, and the Training and Martial Guard Department were established.

The administration set up the Capital Government Office.

The Heavenly Taxation Court in charge of tax collection.

The Ministry of Personnel in charge of official appointment, assessment, and promotion;

The Ministry of Revenue in charge of land allocation and population registration;

The Ministry of Finance in charge of fiscal budget and official appropriation;

The Ministry of Rites in charge of schools and public examinations;

The Ministry of Works in charge of engineering and construction;

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

The names of these institutions were set extremely loudly, but the treatment was very simple when set up.

The main officials of the Heavenly Taxation Court and Decision-Making Court in the judicial system, and the main officials of the Capital Government Office and Heavenly Taxation Court in the administrative system were of the Seventh Rank Secondary.

The main officials of the remaining four divisions and six ministries were all of the Eighth Rank Primary.

In addition, there were Eighth Rank Secondary Capital Station main officials, township and town government office main officials, and Heavenly Taxation Court branch main officials.

Ninth Rank Primary Wei Min Office branch officials, township and town government office auxiliary officials, and Heavenly Taxation Court branch auxiliary officials.

Ninth Rank Secondary Village Head, Agriculture Head, and Finance Head.

Although the True Dragon Kingdom still only had Zhang Gui as a lone-commander, with the first city standing on the island.

The public area was built.

At this time, a small bug appeared.

Because Zhang Gui was also the Regent Crown Prince of the Stone Corpse State, a vassal state under the Ming Song Dynasty.

As the supreme ruler of the Stone Corpse, he could change the suzerain of the country from Ming Song to True Dragon.

In this way, True Dragon nominally possessed a vassal state, and the style was suddenly improved, turning a kingdom into an empire.

In this world, the four continents of Dongsheng, Xihe, Southern Red, and Beixuan.

The powerful countries in Dongsheng Continent are all 'centralized feudal political systems'.

Most countries in Xihe Continent are 'feudal political systems with lord consultation'.

Southern Red Continent is relatively backward, and most countries are 'slave systems', where human sacrifice and burial are very common.

In the last few hundred years, many tribes have been semi-colonized by Xihe Continent, and the countries have gradually improved.

However, the Southern Red Continent people who died for this were a hundred or a thousand times more than those sacrificed or buried.

Beixuan Continent is a 'city-state union' political system that integrates countless large, medium, and small cities with more than a dozen super cities as the center.

The political structure is looser than the slave states of Southern Red Continent.

It looks like the freest of the four continents, but the common people are also the easiest to die.

While lacking obligations, they also lack rights, and 'living safely' is one of the rights.

Zhang Gui's childish operation as a lone commander to upgrade himself to 'Emperor' naturally had no meaning at the realistic level.

But it had great significance at the mysterious level.

For example, in the future, when performing any metaphysical ritual, calling oneself 'Emperor' can trigger a more violent response than 'King'.

After doing all this, he had been out in the wild for a month and a half.

Then he had a whimsical idea and did a big thing.

The four continents of Dongsheng, Xihe, Southern Red, and Beixuan, besides the popular political systems being quite different, the supernatural systems, except for 'bloodline inheritance', are about the same, and the rest are also different.

Among them, the source of the advanced productivity unit system is 'Mechanism Art' in Dongsheng Continent.

It is 'Alchemy' in Xihe Continent.

It is 'Secret Medicine Livestock' in Southern Red Continent.

Beixuan Continent summarizes everything for its own use.

But no matter how different the above are, they are still based on 'supernatural', which is completely different from the materialist technology of Zhang Gui's previous life.

And the materialist technology system, although it is impossible for Zhang Gui to reproduce in this life.

But as the owner of the powerful steam Divine Cong 'Water-Fire Harmony', an honor student in a key junior high school in his previous life.

In order to make the interest column on his interview form for the provincial key high school look more glorious in his previous life.

He once made single-acting, double-acting;

Vertical, horizontal;

Single-expansion, multi-expansion, and various other exquisite scale-simulated steam engine models to participate in science model competitions and collect certificates.

Later, after successfully being admitted to high school and entering his ideal university, he developed a strong interest in the fictional 'steampunk'.

He joined the university's 'Giant Punk Club' and hung out with a group of like-minded people all day.

Over the years, he designed and manufactured countless scale-simulated steam locomotives, steam warships, steam airships, and other models.

Not only did he maintain his status as a single dog throughout the university, but he also almost didn't get his degree.

Now, with the integrated production capability of the marvel 'Heavenly Craft Opens Things'.

It is still a sure thing to show an enlightened micro 'steam civilization'.

So before returning to Blackwood Town.

Zhang Gui used giant whale skin as tires and sealing materials, and Peng bird blood as adhesive to make a series of steam engines.

Time flies, and it passes in a flash.

The sea merchants who were doing proper business in Blackwood Town had long since left.

The ones left were the unlucky ones who were cheated by Zhang Yan and had nowhere to go.

Some of them had backgrounds, some were barbaric enough not to fear a fish-die-net-break, and some had hard enough fists, and they forcibly held hundreds of beasts of burden of the Pingyang Zhang Family in their hands.

Of course, everyone is just seeking wealth.

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

If too many people die and the reasonable becomes unreasonable, it will be a loss that outweighs the gain.

So after capturing more than half of the Zhang family managers and shop assistants in town, they didn't continue to force searches and arrests, forming a confrontation with the newly arrived fleet of the Pingyang Zhang Family.

The summer heat on Giant Serpent Island did not dissipate.

On the Pingyang Zhang Family wharf, several huge sailing ships dropped anchor and lined up, parking neatly.

The ships were fixed with iron chains, and wooden boards were laid in the middle to connect them like land.

The noon sun hung high in the sky, cloudless, sprinkling scorching heat like fire on the ground.

Those not on duty hid in the narrow cabins, not wanting to show their heads even if they were steamed into salted fish.

But those on guard had no choice.

They could only hold wooden-bone oilcloth umbrellas and guard under the big sun.

If they sat, the beach could cook their butts; if they stood, the soles of their feet couldn't take it, so they had to pace back and forth constantly.

A thousand meters away, Zhang Gui, hiding in the shadow of the basin entrance, looked at the painful masks on the faces of the few people on guard and sighed with pity.

If they were cultivators, no matter how high the temperature was, they wouldn't be this hot.

But unless they were bodyguards for big shots, how could cultivators do such exhausting work?

But now is not the time to pity others; he took a few deep breaths, and a painful mask even more distorted than those on guard instantly appeared on his face.

He stumbled and ran toward the wharf.

(End of this chapter)