Chapter 1997: Slave Life

The Longyan scientists all around glanced at the beaten Zhang Mang with expressionless faces, not making a sound.

Only one female scientist from Longyan tugged at his clothes as she passed by, signaling him not to be impulsive.

Zhang Mang was not an impulsive person; he endured it.

From early morning until late at night, they were not allowed to rest until twelve o'clock at night.

A Longyan female scientist named Yang Dong stole a bottle of industrial Alcohol: "This can disinfect; let me apply it for you."

Zhang Mang gave a soft grunt; Yang Dong helped him disinfect the wound, and a burning sensation immediately spread across his back.

Zhang Mang's face was terrifyingly grim, but he still asked calmly: "What did you experience afterward, and what is going on here?"

Zhang Mang clearly felt the hand of the female scientist behind him trembling, and a barely audible sob came from behind his back.

"The French treat us like slaves..."

"The plan you mentioned before—in this completely sealed place, we have no Method of seeing a glimmer of hope for escape."

"At first, some people resisted, but later they were killed by the French, and they were hung at the highest point here."

"We can only work here day and night without getting any rest, helping them produce the so-called Yinzhou Drunkenness!"

Zhang Mang looked at Yang Dong and saw that her once-pretty face seemed to have traces left by the torture of the French.

His heart was filled with endless rage and grief.

"So much time has passed; has Longyan forgotten about us..." Yang Dong said with utter despair.

Zhang Mang looked into her eyes and said extremely seriously: "Regardless of whether Longyan comes or not, I will find a Method to save you all; give me a little time."

A bold and terrifying idea formed in his mind.

At this time, Jiang Yuyan and the captain of Ling Chen's Special Operations Team, Feng Zhenyun, had already infiltrated the French mainland.

Located in the city of Paris.

Jiang Yuyan took out a bottle of white liquor produced in France and said: "Captain, you know your liquor; taste this bottle and see how similar it is to Yinzhou Drunkenness?"

Feng Zhenyun looked at the bottle of white liquor and glanced at Jiang Yuyan suspiciously; the brewing of Yinzhou Drunkenness was a closely guarded secret, so how could the French possibly brew the taste of Longyan's Yinzhou Drunkenness?

But the moment Feng Zhenyun opened the bottle, a pungent smell rushed toward him!

He was all too familiar with this smell!

It was Longyan's Yinzhou Drunkenness!

Feng Zhenyun was filled with disbelief; he took a swig directly from the bottle and exclaimed: "This is Yinzhou Drunkenness!"

"Are you sure it was produced by the French!"

Jiang Yuyan nodded and said in a low voice: "Indeed, this French liquor is now competing for market share with our Yinzhou Drunkenness!"

"But the taste and grade of this liquor before were far inferior to our Longyan Yinzhou Drunkenness!"

"So I now suspect that the Factory that manufactures this batch of liquor is very likely..."

Jiang Yuyan did not continue, but Feng Zhenyun already understood what she meant.

He said in a low voice: "Your speculation is very reasonable; perhaps we should go and take a look at this manufacturer."

"Do you have any good Method, or do you need our people to sneak in?"

Jiang Yuyan thought and said: "If we act rashly, we might alert the enemy, and behind this manufacturer is a prince of Louis XV."

"Then what do you mean?" Feng Zhenyun asked.

After pondering for a moment, Jiang Yuyan said: "We can use the approach of discussing business to get this prince's attention; at the very least, we must determine the location of this Factory."

Feng Zhenyun looked at Jiang Yuyan and said calmly: "In other words, you want to meet this prince and then cooperate with him to determine the location of his factory; is that what you mean?"

"Yes, but there is a very critical problem now: people of that status in France generally will not meet merchants like us; we need to have a powerful identity, preferably a European Noble..."

Jiang Yuyan was troubled by this matter; there were very few European Nobles outside of their own families, and although Jiang Yuyan was a fairly successful Longyan merchant.

She did not know a single one of these Nobles.

This was clearly very difficult.

She sighed: "I don't even know one such business partner; I'm sorry I can't help..."

Feng Zhenyun looked at her: "You mean the biggest problem now is that we lack the identity of a Noble."

Jiang Yuyan nodded regretfully: "Yes, this is the core of the plan."

Feng Zhenyun gave an 'oh', snapped his fingers to summon his subordinate, and said two sentences to him; his subordinate left in a hurry and reappeared not long after.

Moreover, he had two items in his hand that looked like certificates.

Jiang Yuyan looked suspiciously at these two items that looked like certificates, seeing the text written on them and the seal carved on them.

These were two identity certifications, with titles personally certified by the King of Saxony.

It was written clearly on them that the two people were European Counts!

Seeing such an identity certification, Jiang Yuyan's expression went blank for a second.

For a merchant, if she had such a Noble identity certified by a king, she would gain huge assistance in business.

She looked at Feng Zhenyun; what she completely did not expect was that such an extremely difficult matter.

In the other party's eyes, it was just a matter as small as could be.

"Is the identity of a Count enough? If it's not enough, I'll change it." Feng Zhenyun said with concern.

Jiang Yuyan collapsed; could this kind of thing be changed casually!

However, once she thought about how Longyan now directly controlled Saxony, it seemed that such an identity could be conferred at will.

She didn't say anything else.

"A Count is enough..."

She silently added to herself that in the future, doing business in Europe, this identity would definitely be useful!

At this time, in other parts of Europe, Hanover.

The French troops were fighting the Longyan Army alone.

Their commander launched a war directly against the Longyan Army led by Ling Chen in Hanover.

The French troops marched from the mountainous section of Hanover.

The Longyan Army led by Ling Chen had set up their troops on the highlands of the Central German Highlands.

Ever since Longyan established an arsenal in Saxony, Ling Chen had received ample supplies.

His strength grew further, and the combat effectiveness of the entire Longyan Army rose rapidly; because of the excess military funds he had earned, he was even able to equip almost every one of the two hundred thousand troops under his command with a Longyan Firearm.

The first truly fully-armed hot-weapon unit in the real sense was successfully formed under his hand.

He wanted to give the French troops a taste of modern warfare.

At this moment, the French troops had already marched into the mountains; in this mountainous terrain, Ling Chen had long since dug trenches to serve as cover, waiting quietly for the arrival of the French troops.

He dispersed his main positions at both ends of this essential passage, and set up an Artillery Array on the highlands!