Chapter 143 "Grandma Liu" Enters the Grand View Garden (Part )
It is easy to imagine what kind of mentality Zhou Yu had when he was driving a ship of no more than a few feet, or about ten meters, to attack Qingzhou, but saw an aircraft carrier with a diameter of several miles.

It's like an ant seeing an elephant.

Without even having to fight, he knew that there was no hope for him at all.

"No wonder Zhuge Kongming always seems to be in low spirits. Who can be in high spirits?" Zhou Yu's mentality exploded, and he directly ordered the soldiers to tear down the sails and hold them above their heads as a white flag.

Surrender.

There is no play if you don't vote.

If such a large ship hit them directly, the entire Eastern Wu navy would be destroyed.

"Gongjin is here? It's just right. According to the time, Liu Bei and others will be here soon." Ji Hao was inspecting his "aircraft carrier" and when he saw Zhou Yu raising the white flag, he immediately invited him in.

Then we took a "small boat" to Chengtian Ferry.

It’s just a small boat for Ji Hao.

It is only about ten meters long and has a draft of only three tons. Everything is kept simple in pursuit of extreme speed.

Equipped with a diesel generator and six electric turbines... When Zhou Yu saw a ship made of iron that could float on the water and move without sails, and was so fast that it could travel a thousand miles a day, he once again sighed that times have really changed.

"Originally I wanted to fight you, but now it seems that I was really naive!"

Cross-sea expedition, detour via the Yellow River ferry?
Do not make jokes!
The coast is full of "salt drying ponds" built by Ji Hao, and there are bunkers built on the ponds, each one like a city wall, with a large army stationed inside. They can fight on land along the ponds or take boats into the water.

It's like an iron wall.

What’s even more outrageous is that after entering the Yellow River and traveling 500 miles, we actually saw a “dam”.

The entire Yellow River was blocked horizontally using reinforced concrete.

Ships were unable to pass through.

Only the navigation channel beside it could allow ships to pass if there were heavy troops stationed on both sides. However, if the navy was used to attack, it would almost be like actively walking into an enemy ambush.

Put yourself in his shoes. He only needs a few thousand men to stop an army of hundreds of thousands!

Just stand on the two banks ten feet high and shoot arrows directly.

"How do you financially support such a large-scale construction project?" Zhou Yu wondered.

In response to this, Ji Hao smiled and said, "Actually, I was quite surprised too!"

At the beginning, he only planned a "Greater State Wall", thinking that with his productivity far exceeding that of the ancient times, he could do the same thing as Qin Shi Huang. So, should he be able to succeed in his 30-year plan?

But when he really started to do it, he found that he had greatly underestimated the wisdom of the ancients.

After cement became available, the craftsmen’s imaginations were greatly stimulated. After only a few years of research, they created a production line that was no less advanced than the modern ones.

And the labor force is far beyond that of modern times.

Because in modern times, labor costs have remained high, and any large project requires massive financial support.

It's not that it can't be done, but it's not worth it.

But in this era, if you give you food, there are plenty of people who will work for you for free. The wages are well controlled, the labor force is easily in the hundreds of millions, and there is no such thing as child labor. Boys can start a family at the age of twelve or thirteen and they have to earn money to support their family.

Those who work hard can't do it, but those who don't work hard can always do it.

Modern children are playing games and watching short videos, but in ancient times, children in their teens were able to participate in various technological research, improve cement and design buildings.

All these differences made Ji Hao realize that many huge projects that are impossible to accomplish in modern times were actually not difficult for him.

"My lord, what arrangements do you plan to make?" Zhou Yu asked.

This battle is doomed to failure, there is no suspense.

In other words, there was no suspense from the beginning. Zhuge Liang was just trying to give Liu Bei a glimmer of hope, but that hope had nothing to do with the Eastern Wu.

"It depends on the situation! If we hand over the military and political power, we can also let Sun Quan be a leisurely king of Wu." Ji Hao said. How to arrange it?

Marriage is a brilliant move.

Even if they had nothing, Sun Quan and Sun Ce were still Ji Hao's brothers-in-law and royal relatives.

This alone makes his status no lower than that of a mere "King of Wu".

There is simply no room to go down.

"I don't even plan to kill Liu Bei!" Ji Hao added, "Build a manor and put him under house arrest, and Guan and Zhang will be at my service. If I don't kill him, Zhuge Liang will sincerely submit to me - I have to say that many things in the human court still require his help!"

Having said that, he suddenly smiled.

He added: "Now, Granny Liu should have entered the Grand View Garden!"

Zhou Yu: “???”

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On the other side, on the airship, after Liu Bei and Sun Quan entered the territory of Xuzhou, the expressions on their faces became more and more solemn: they thought that the two places would not be much different because of the wall, but when they really arrived in Xuzhou, they found that Ji Ying’s territory was completely two different worlds from the outside world.

The city wall of Xuzhou is not just a city wall.

It was built very wide, about fifteen to twenty meters wide, and the windward side was all black and flat. It was built according to the standards of later highways - in other words, the Great Wall was also a state highway, an ancient version of an elevated bridge.

It’s a big loop.

With horses running on it, the carriage went so fast that it almost caught up with the speed of the horses.

Not only that, there was not a single ox cart to be seen. Instead, there were "iron lumps" speeding forward on them, pulling extremely heavy cargo - although they were just the most primitive tractors + trailers, they were still astonishing in ancient times.

In addition, they actually saw a traffic policeman every few miles directing traffic.

There are checkpoints at every intersection.

After a rough estimate, there were tens of thousands of checkpoints seen along the way.

Such a waste of manpower is simply insane.

"Qin Shi Huang only had three people stationed at each beacon tower, but here there are dozens of people guarding the checkpoints, and there is one every few miles. Isn't their mobility too strong?" Zhang Fei said.

But soon, he wondered: "But the alertness is too poor!"

I have been flying for more than ten days, but I haven't seen any smoke or fire.

No one organized a counterattack.

In fact, it was as if they were their own people and they didn't react at all.

"Not necessarily! I've heard that the court emphasizes that everyone has their own duties, and the soldiers on the road only care about order, not the enemy. The Ministry of Justice to which Chen Gong belongs, the Six Gates and the Embroidered Uniform Guards, all only care about people's livelihood, not military affairs." Sun Quan said: "Only the four armies of Chengtian, Haotian, Shengtian, and Datong are fighting. Apart from them, it is said that other departments can only care about themselves and not others after the enemy breaks into the gate!"

So, that makes sense.

"So, if the four armies are held back by us, Qingzhou will no longer have the power to resist?" Liu Bei said.

That seems to be the case.

But for some reason, he felt something was wrong.

I vaguely felt that I seemed to have overlooked something, but I couldn't remember what it was.

Until the airship entered the territory of Qingzhou and headed towards Ji Hao's original base camp, the former Chengtiandu and the imperial capital Luoyang, and now the newly built human capital "Renhuang City".

Finally I felt something was wrong.

"Have we arrived in heaven?" Liu Bei exclaimed.

(End of this chapter)