Qingzhou.

After the newspaper publication of the high-priced purchase of Siberian furs caused a sensation, the next day another news from the newspaper caused a sensation among the people.

In an article in which Xiao Ming personally stated the sins of the Golden Horde, it was announced that the Great Yu State had officially declared war on the Golden Horde.

"Great, we've been waiting for this day for a long time, how arrogant the Golden Horde was back then, and how it bullied us, it's time for revenge."

In the restaurant, a middle-aged man wearing a short coat and pants shouted after reading the newspaper.

He was at the same table as three men, all dressed in the same gray clothes and of different ages.

Hearing the middle-aged man's words, one of the other three young people quickly grabbed the newspaper, and after reading the article written by the emperor himself, he immediately became excited.

"Hey, if it weren't for my poor eyesight, I would be able to fight the barbarians as a soldier now."

The young man lifted his eyes, and when he was still sixteen years old, he suddenly one day found that he could see something in the distance a little blurry, so his family took him to seek medical advice for several years, but nothing could be done.

It wasn't until the great development of Qingzhou's glass industry that glasses came out that he understood what myopia was, and at this time he was saved, although it was not very comfortable to bring his eyes, but he was always able to see things clearly.

However, the only regret is that he was unable to join the army because of eyesight problems.

"It's a pity that you can't be a soldier, but it's not only a soldier to be loyal to the emperor, we work hard in the machinery factory as well, this sled, this steam locomotive also has our credit in it, right?" The middle-aged man said loudly.

The other two laughed, and one of them touched the clothes on his body and said: "No, now I wear the clothes issued by the machinery factory to go out, and many matchmakers want to tell me about matchmaking!" It can be seen that our machinery factory is the first. “

With that, the four of them burst into laughter.

"Your machinery factory is great, our rubber factory is not bad, without the tires we produce, do you build bicycles and tricycles?"

"Like, oh my god, didn't our steel mill give you a piece of wood to assemble machinery?"

"We, the chemical plant, are not convinced!"

“……”

In the tavern sat workers from other factories, and now with the regularization of the factories, the workers of each factory wore specialized overalls, and it was easy to distinguish what factory they came from.

The shopkeeper at the counter looked at these workers with a smile, his restaurant was relatively close to the industrial area because of the large amount of food and the fact that it was close to the workshop area.

Every day during the noon break, a large number of workers come here to eat.

These workers are not paid a low salary every month, at least 30 silver dragons per month, and their lives are very nourishing, and it is normal to drink some wine and eat some side dishes.

It was precisely because of these wealthy workers that his tavern was able to bring him an income of twenty gold dragons every month.

And he is also used to the competition between these workers, after all, there are many factories here, and the workers in each factory are very proud.

When everyone was making a noise, suddenly there was a neat sound of horses' hooves on the road outside the tavern, and everyone looked out, only to see a large number of cavalrymen wearing silver cuirasses shuttling by, led by a general with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, wearing a red cloak, and a fierce aura on his body.

"This is Qi Guangyi, the commander of the cavalry corps, right?" A worker recognized the leader of the general.

"It seems that this time there is really going to be a war, and you have to rely on cavalry to deal with the barbarians, and this infantry has short legs and can't catch up with four-legged horses."

Another worker said.

Outside the restaurant, Qi Guangyi is also looking at the workers in the industrial area and along the road, since he was stationed in Raozhou, he has not come back for a year, and this time he has returned to Qingzhou and there are some more changes.

On the way back, he basically walked on the wide cement road, and the imperial court has not stopped building roads over the years, and the road network extending in all directions in Qingzhou Mansion has basically taken shape.

And as the roads improved, there were more horse-drawn carriages shuttling through the roads, all of which were merchants who transported goods to their destinations by horse-drawn carriages, and occasionally he could see some people riding bicycles on their way.

In addition, the most obvious is the clothing on the people's bodies, although many people still wear patched clothes, but more people wear clean and beautiful clothes.

While admiring the prosperous scene, Qi Guangyi urged the war horse to go to Qingzhou City, and this time he was ordered to return to the court.

From Raozhou to Cangzhou by steam locomotive, but at this time the steam locomotive broke down and needed to be repaired, in order to hurry, he rode directly along the former post station to Qingzhou.

Entering the city, Qi Guangyi's eyes shrank again, compared with a year ago, there are now more and more bicyclers in Qingzhou City, almost all over the street.

Feeling the prosperity of Qingzhou's industry again, he didn't dare to delay any longer, and went directly to the palace.

In the imperial study, Xiao Ming was already waiting for Qi Guangyi.

The northern crusade against the barbarians is imminent, Niu Ben and Luo Quan have gathered 80,000 infantry, plus 60,000 cavalry led by Qi Guangyi, they will attack the Golden Horde with 140,000 troops.

However, in this battle, he believed that cavalry still had to play an important role, and although his Han-style rifles and guards artillery were good enough, without the mobility of cavalry in the grassland, these two-legged infantry could not catch up with the barbarian cavalry.

Because of this, he specially summoned Qi Guangyi over this time.

In fact, this Northern Expedition was not because of the wishes of the barbarians Niu Ben and Luo Quan, but an act of war that he had been planning for a long time, otherwise he would be too childish for war.

In order to weaken the threat from the north, he needs to take the initiative, one Tsarist Russia is enough for him to have a headache, and now with the addition of a Golden Horde, the north of the Great Chongqing State cannot be stable, and the most important point is that these threats are close at hand, not thousands of miles away like Britain and France.

"Long live my emperor, the last general Qi Guangyi will see the emperor."

Seeing Xiao Ming, Qi Guangyi bowed down and said.

Standing up from the chair, Xiao Ming walked up to Qi Guangyi, and held Qi Guangyi with both hands, "This time I called you from thousands of miles away to Qingzhou for the next Northern Expedition, but before the Northern Expedition, I have a weapon belonging to the cavalry that needs to be handed over to you, I think you will definitely like it very much." ”

"Weapons!" When Qi Guangyi heard this, his pupils shrank a little, and now his subordinates are asking for Han-style rifles to be equipped with higher and louder voices.

This time he wanted to mention this matter to the imperial court.

"Exactly." At this time, Xiao Ming picked up a rifle with a slightly shorter barrel from the table and said, "This is a carbine made by the military factory based on a Han-style rifle!"