Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

August 1901, 8 in the Western calendar, Emperor Dekang of the Great Xia Empire, the thirteenth year of Yanqing.

Lin Yi, who has been away for more than a year, returned to the capital once again.

On this day, almost all the people in the capital came to watch the ceremony at the city gate.

And our Dekang Emperor Zhao Xu has already arrived at the city gate with all his civil and military officials to wait for Lin Yi's triumphant return.

Although logically speaking, after the army returned, they should directly enter the military camp and return all the ministries to build up. However, this time Lin Yi led the army to conquer the entire area outside the customs, and also took back Daxia's vassal states of Korea and Ryukyu, and also Sakura Country was crippled.

It can be said that Lin Yi's battle directly demonstrated Daxia's prestige and pushed Daxia back to its position as the overlord of the Far East.

So Zhao Xu decided to let Lin Yi lead the army through the city and enjoy the honor he deserved.

Lin Yi also felt that this was a good opportunity to promote national self-confidence and national prestige, so Lin Yi also arranged a brief military parade. The location is just outside the Desheng Gate of the capital.

At the same time, Lin Yi also summoned the ambassadors of Hans Empire, John Empire and other countries.

Zhao Xu stood on the city tower and looked at the First Army Corps and the various divisions of the Beijing Camp passing through the city gate. He suddenly felt a sense of heroism and heroism.

During this military parade, Lin Yi displayed all weapons and equipment except armored vehicles, which shocked the Western countries. Unknowingly, a powerful army appeared in the Far East whose military appearance and discipline surpassed that of the West.

While all the diplomats were shocked, Leinst, the ambassador of the Hans Empire, was very happy that the Hans Empire and the Daxia Empire had become a military alliance.

Having such a powerful ally is a strong guarantee for the interests of the Hans Empire in the Far East.

The second person to react was Andre from Empire John. After seeing this powerful army, he also confirmed in his heart that the John Empire must maintain friendly relations with Daxia.

The navy did not say whether it could defeat Daxia, but as for the army, Andre did not think that John's army could defeat this group of wolf-like soldiers.

After the brief military parade, Zhao Xu asked Lin Yi to follow him back to the palace and had a so-called homely meal.

After this "family-style" dinner, Lin Yi took a rare five-day break.

However, just after these five days, the ambassadors of various countries in the capital sent greeting cards to Lin Yi one after another, inviting Lin Yi to attend a cocktail reception in their embassy.

Lin Yi knew that he could not refuse such an invitation. After excluding some small countries, he still left six invitations. In other words, Lin Yi will visit the ambassadors of these six countries one by one in the next time.

Lin Yi also made a charter for himself to discuss industrial equipment issues with Hans Empire and John Empire, such as steel plants, industrial lathes, etc.

With the Gallic Empire, we are negotiating some deals on talent introduction, chemistry, railways and other aspects of people's livelihood.

With the Rakshasa Kingdom, we need to discuss territorial issues and agricultural and sideline products issues.

Austria-Hungary and the United States need to talk about the issue of international students.

Of course, this does not mean that related transactions are only negotiated with the corresponding countries. They are only the first consideration objects, not the absolute trade objects.

For example, Bactria can negotiate military and industrial deals with the John and Hans empires, just because these two countries lead the world in related fields, but the Gallic Empire is not bad in this regard either.

If the Hans and John Empire could not meet Bactria's requirements, then Bactria would most likely reach an agreement with the Gallic Empire.

In addition, Lin Yi also wants to build two large railways that traverse the north-south and east-west directions of Daxia. It starts from Mohe in the north, Guilin in the south, Jiaozhou Yantai in the east and Kashgar in the west.

The two railways add up to more than 8000 kilometers, nearly 9000 kilometers in length.

Emperor Kant of the Great Xia Empire, the Great Railway Plan of the Thirteenth Year of Yanqing

The two railways combined would cost almost 1.18 million imperial silver dollars. It accounted for almost all the war compensation paid by Sakura Country to Daxia. (Calculated based on 1.3 imperial silver dollars per kilometer)

But these two railways still need to be built. Only by building these two railways can Daxia have better control over various places.

Moreover, this 1.18 million is not settled at once.

The two railways are expected to be completed within ten years. In this case, the annual investment in them will only be more than [-] million imperial silver dollars. With Daxia's current financial resources, it may be difficult to afford such a large project.

But with the implementation of the changes planned by Lin Yi, Daxia can completely afford the investment of more than [-] million.

However, building railways requires engineers from Western countries. Lin Yi gave priority to the four countries of Hans, John, Gaul and Millenia.

Now, only this country in the world has complete railway construction capabilities.

Apart from these four countries, Lin Yi really looked down upon other countries.

However, Lin Yi did not plan to build the railway in the future, which would require the use of foreigners, so Lin Yi wanted to fill the railway engineering team with some laid-down engineers.

Let them follow those foreign engineers and learn while trying to build some railways on their own.

In Lin Yi's mind, apart from these two railways, the remaining branch railways will be built by the Daxia people themselves.

Besides railways, what Lin Yi wanted to build most was a steel plant. It is said that the steel plant is the backbone of a country. Without its own steel plant, the country will never be able to straighten its back.

Therefore, in Lin Yi's expectation, the steel plant must be built, and it must be built on a large scale.

After establishing a steel plant, it is also necessary to consider improving Daxia's R&D capabilities.

Now Lin Yi has a lot of ideas in his mind, and he can also buy some weapons or blueprints from the system.

However, if a country cannot conduct independent research and development and can only build something through drawings, then the country's scientific research capabilities will certainly not be that high.

Lin Yi also wanted to make it clear that the drawings or physical objects he bought from the system would be handed over to the people in these research institutes to study them, and then start with optimization.

Finally, let them develop a new weapon.

Only through such gradual progress can a country's scientific research capabilities be steadily improved.

For example, the Mauser 98K rifle currently used by the First Army. Although purchased from the system, a gun only costs a few imperial silver dollars. But you can’t always go the buying route.

If he died that day, wouldn't Daxia be immediately knocked back to his original form? Therefore, what Lin Yi wanted to do was to gather all the outstanding engineers in Daxia, take out a batch of 98K rifles, let them dismantle them, and let them study them.

Then try to prevent it first, and then improve the performance of the 98K rifle.

Finally, let them develop a new rifle based on 98K.

In this way, in the early stage, the cost of making a gun may be far more expensive than buying it from the system, but these paths must be taken.