"Your Majesty, this is the Navy Commander, Lieutenant General Chen Shaokuan!”
"Lieutenant Colonel Huang Bingheng, Director of the National Air Administration!”
"Lieutenant General Chen Cheng, commander of the 18th army!”
"Mr. Gu Weijun, Minister of Foreign Affairs!"
" National Army Staff…"
After exchanging pleasantries for a while, Chang Kaishen began to introduce Qin Zhen's entourage.
Among the accompanying officials, Qin Zhen was most interested in Chen Cheng and Gu Weijun.
Seeing two famous historical figures, especially the legendary Gu Weijun, Qin Zhen could not help but take a few more glances.
Hmm?
Why did Gu Weijun's appearance resemble the Great Qin's Foreign Affairs Minister, Gu Lingtian?
At this moment, Gu Lingtian, who was standing behind Qin Zhen, also noticed it. He took the initiative to ask,""Minister Gu, where are you from?”
"My ancestral home is in Kunshan, Jiang Province!"
Gu Lingtian smiled and nodded." That's right. My ancestral home is also Kunshan. I went overseas to become a citizen of Great Qin in the third year of Chongzhen."”
Hearing this, Chang Kaishen and the others were stunned. The Foreign Affairs Minister of Great Qin, who was an Earl, was actually related to Gu Weijun?
Gu Weijun, the person involved, was even more shocked!
He had long heard from his family elders that Great Qin's prestigious Gu family should be from the same clan as them. Unfortunately, due to the chaos of war, their genealogy had been lost, and there was no way to verify it.
He did not expect to see Gu Lingtian with his own eyes when he came to Great Qin. He did not even need to check the genealogy to be able to confirm that he was from the same clan based on his appearance. He had the standard thick eyebrows and big eyes of a male of the Gu family. They were too similar.
Just as Gu Weijun was still a little confused, Gu Lingtian continued to ask,""What generation are you?"
"Uh, according to my father, it should be the Yun generation!”
"Hahaha, you can call me uncle now. I'm from the Jiang generation.”
"Uncle!"
Gu Weijun respectfully called him uncle. He was 43 years old this year, and Gu Lingtian looked to be at least 50 years old. It was not a loss to call him uncle.
Moreover, even if Gu Lingtian was younger than him, he was still older! He had to call him uncle.
"Sure, I've heard of your deeds. It's not bad! Very outstanding!"
Gu Lingtian did not hold back and gave him a thumbs up, praising this family's junior.
Putting everything else aside, Gu Weijun's performance at the Paris Peace Conference was enough to prove his excellence.
"Uncle, you flatter me. I only did what I should do…"
Qin Zhen couldn't help but interject," Minister Gu, don't be modest. It's not an exaggeration to call you the number one diplomat."”
Was the evaluation that high?
Gu Weijun was flattered, and Chang Kaishen rolled his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.
Following that, Qin Zhen introduced the cabinet and military officials to Chang Kaishen. He then got into the car and drove toward the Imperial Palace under the welcome of tens of thousands of citizens.
……
The Qin Imperial Palace was known as the Heavenly Palace by the outside world. It was built at the foot of Mount Li on the east side of Xianyang City.
The palace complex, which was built in 1284 and completed in 1335, took 51 years to complete. After completion, it covered an area of 1.22 million square meters. There were 108 palaces of various sizes and 6666 houses. It was even more magnificent than the Forbidden City!
Dongnamya did not lack wood, nor did it lack natives. Because Great Qin had a small population in the early stages of its establishment, they had sent the navy to Dongnamya to cut down high-quality wood and capture natives to do manual labor.
Regrettably, the old wooden palace had been severely damaged after several major fires. During the First World War, the Western Coalition Fleet bombarded Xianyang, and the Heavenly Palace became the focus of attention. After three days of bombardment, the resplendent Xianyang Palace, Zhangtai Palace, and Longteng Palace were reduced to ashes.
After the war ended, Emperor Long Chang Qin Ming issued an edict to cordon off the ruins of the Heavenly Palace and not rebuild it for the time being. Instead, a new Imperial Palace was built with reinforced concrete on the empty space beside the ruins of the Heavenly Palace.
It was more like a manor than a palace. How could a modern reinforced concrete building compare to a complex and majestic palace?
The convoy arrived at the ruins of the Heavenly Palace. Chang Kaishen looked through the window of the carriage. The main body of the main hall was still intact. Traces of fire burning could be seen clearly, and one could vaguely see how magnificent it used to be.
"Your Majesty, this should be the world's number one palace back then, right?”
Qin Zhen, who was sitting at the side, had a gloomy expression.
The destruction of the Heavenly Palace had always been a pain that Great Qin's people did not want to talk about.
Qin Zhen had transmigrated over. Just the information and photos of the Heavenly Palace that he had left behind were so shocking that his jaw dropped.
Millions of indigenous slaves built the palace for 51 years, and hundreds of thousands of trees that were more than 200 years old were used. Even the stones used to build the palace were from Dongnan Asian Games. One could imagine how magnificent the palace was.
After flipping through the royal family's books, Qin Zhen found out that Great Qin was the first country to engage in the slave trade. It had pushed the slave trade to the extreme, and it had quickly accumulated capital. Its national strength had rapidly increased, and the Great Voyage Era had officially begun.
The western slave trade was basically following Great Qin's footsteps, and the market was dominated by Great Qin's merchants.
Apart from the slave trade, Great Qin's merchants also did business all over the world, suppressing Western capitalists.
Therefore, in order to make money, Great Britain and Gaul launched anti-Qin wars more than once.
Only after several centuries of struggle did they slowly surpass Great Qin and gain the initiative.
"The ruins of the Heavenly Palace. The main building was destroyed by the bombardment of the allied fleet of the Western powers thirteen years ago. The fire burned for half a month before it was extinguished.”
"What a pity! These damned bandits!"
Chang Kaishen noticed that Qin Zhen's expression wasn't right. He cursed and immediately changed the topic.
"Your Majesty, I have a presumptuous request.”
"Tell me."
"Can Your Majesty help me connect with the Milky Way Trading Company and purchase a batch of weapons and equipment?”
“……”
Qin Zhen was speechless. This Chang Kaishen was really a thief!
Smart, too smart.
For the sake of their own interests, the West had long imposed an arms and technological blockade on Hanhua. Their only purpose was to prevent Hanhua from rising.
It was impossible for Great Qin to directly sell weapons or lend them to the Western countries. After all, Great Qin still had a lot of assets overseas. If the Western countries were forced into a corner, what if they broke the rules and confiscated Great Qin's assets?
Don't doubt the shamelessness of the western bandits. They have no limits!
Chang Kaishen had probably considered this point as well, which was why he had taken a different approach and bought weapons from the Milky Way Trading Company.
The entire world knew that the mastermind behind the Milky Way Trading Company was a merchant from the Beauty Nation, so they could not pin this blame on Great Qin.
However, this was also good. If Chang Kaishen wanted to buy weapons from Great Qin, would he still have the nerve to charge such a high price? What if you want to buy it on credit? Do you have the heart to refuse?
The Milky Way Trading Company was different…
"Chairman, it's fine to pull strings, but I want to know how many weapons you want to buy first.”
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