Chapter 557: The Legend of the Continent Mu and the Ghost Valley
"Isn't it just Lie Ning? Just kill him!"
After a brief hesitation, Li Weiguo finally chose to kill Lie Ning.
Although Li Weiguo once thought about supporting Lie Ning to build a super Soviet Union and then harming the entire Europe, the focus was on disgusting the German Empire.
However, Lienning and the Soviet Union were a double-edged sword. History has proved that the reason why the Soviet Union was able to grow stronger from the poor and backward Tsarist Russia was because of the internal strife of Western powers and planned to use the Soviet Union to deal with its enemies. However, it did not make use of it, but instead made the Soviet Union grow stronger.
Now Li Weiguo has almost embarked on this path. He initially planned to use Lienning and the future Soviet Union to harm Europe. Fortunately, he changed his mind in time. A powerful Soviet Union is also not in line with the national interests of the Chinese Empire.
So Li Weiguo decided to kill Lie Ning and kill the Soviet Union in the cradle.
The Sino-Russian negotiations began quickly, and the location was Ulya Sutai, the northern capital of the Chinese Empire.
Since the conditions of the Chinese Empire are far superior to those of the German Empire, the representatives of the Tsarist Russian Empire also knew very well that the Tsarist Russian Empire could not defeat the Chinese Empire at all, and even without the Chinese Empire fighting to St. Petersburg, the Tsarist Russian Empire would collapse due to economic collapse.
Therefore, the representatives of the Tsarist Russian Empire did not dare to bargain with the Chinese Empire, and soon the two sides signed a Sino-Russian armistice agreement.
According to the agreement, the Tsarist Russian Empire permanently abandoned its Asian territory and transferred this part of the territory to the Chinese Empire unconditionally.
The Tsarist Russian Empire compensated the Chinese Empire 400 tons of gold for military expenditure. The Chinese Empire will urgently provide 1 million tons of food and 10,000 tons of arms to the Tsarist Russian Empire in humanitarian ways to help the Tsarist Russian Empire suppress the peasant rebellion in the country.
From the date of signing the agreement, the Chinese Empire and the Tsarist Russian Empire will achieve a full ceasefire. The Tsarist Russian troops will need to withdraw from Asia within one week, namely east of the Ural Mountains, east of the Ural River, and the western coast of the Caspian Sea. The Chinese Empire's Shence Army will only carry out military operations in the Asian region.
The Chinese Empire was responsible for mediating and eliminating the war between the Tsarist Russian Empire and the German Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Before this, the Tsarist Russian Empire was not allowed to contact any third-party countries.
The Chinese Empire took advantage of this armistice agreement. Not only did it obtain nine million square kilometers of land in Asia, but it also received 400 tons of gold in war compensation, which was a huge profit.
If the Tsarist Russian Empire surrendered to the German Empire, then let alone whether the nine million square kilometers of land obtained by the Chinese Empire was legal, that is, whether the German Empire would recognize it. At least it would not be able to obtain the 400 tons of gold from St. Petersburg.
The Tsarist Russian Empire paid a heavy price, and its land area was cut off and occupied more than 9 million square kilometers. Yes, the territory of the Tsarist Russian Empire was limited to the European part, with only 4.12 million square kilometers, and it completely became a European country.
Four hundred tons of gold were a huge compensation for the Tsarist Russian Empire, but the only one who hurt was the Tsar and the Duma Parliamentary nobles. Because in Tsarist Russia implemented serfdom, gold was in the hands of the nobles, and serfs were not allowed to have gold, they could only use rubles. This was an inhumane system of exploitation (that strange Lienin would rebel), and the Tsarist Russian nobles would eventually be exploited by the Tsar, so most of the gold holders were the Tsar.
So the Tsarist Russian ministers and the Duma Parliament nobles who participated in the negotiations took the lead and almost made the Tsar an instinctive act. They happily agreed to the 400-ton gold compensation plan proposed by the Chinese Empire, and almost no bargained. Then they returned to the country and told Tsar Nicholas II directly, saying that this was the price of the Chinese Empire ensuring the Tsar's rule, otherwise they would change to someone else to be the Tsar.
Although Nicholas II vomited blood in anger, it was four hundred tons of gold after all, and that was the wealth accumulated by the Tsar family over thousands of years. How could it be better to give it to the Chinese Empire for nothing?
However, even though he vomited blood, Nicholas II really believed it. Even though he was extremely reluctant, he finally agreed to pay 400 tons of gold compensation. Nicholas II's idea was that as long as he was letting him be the Tsar, he could continue to exploit the nobles and serfs of the Tsarist Russian Empire, and sooner or later he would earn back the capital and profit.
Of course, the Chinese Empire still likes to give a sweet date, after all, you have to comfort the 400 tons of gold in the Tsarist Russian Empire.
Therefore, in the agreement, the Chinese Empire promised to assist the Tsarist Russian Empire in a humanitarian way with one million tons of food and arms.
This food is useless to the Chinese Empire. The World War is about to end. The Chinese Empire hoarded enough food to eat for more than four years without farming or harvesting grain. Now the world war has only been fighting for three years. There are still hundreds of millions of tons of food left by the Chinese Empire. The Chinese Empire has not suffered any war and a bumper harvest of food. Therefore, giving some old food to the Tsarist Russian Empire is also making room for new food.
Compared with 400 tons of gold, one million tons of grain is nothing.
The key is that this batch of food is urgently needed by the Tsarist Russian Empire. After all, after three years of war, the domestic food was cut off, starvation was everywhere, and peasant riots were everywhere. At this time, the Chinese Empire gave the Tsarist Russian Empire one million tons of food, which can be said to have solved the urgent needs of the Tsarist Russian Empire, making the Tsarist Russian Empire feel that it was still "reliable" to surrender to the Chinese Empire.
As for 10,000 tons of arms, on the one hand, it helped the Tsarist Russian Empire fight against Germany, Austro-Hungarian Empire and Turkish Empire. After all, the Tsarist Russian Empire has only surrendered to the Chinese Empire at present, and Tsarist Russian Empire is still fighting fiercely with Germany, Austro-Hungarian Empire and Turkish Empire on the battlefield in the western front. In order to prevent the German Empire from blitzing the Tsarist Russian Empire from snatching the fruits of victory from the Chinese Empire, the Chinese Empire will only provide 10,000 tons of arms to the Tsarist Russian Empire.
On the other hand, the Chinese Empire also had overcapacity and thought it could fight for a few more years, so the Chinese Empire's arsenal produced weapons, equipment and ammunition on a large scale. As a result, the Chinese Empire was too powerful, so powerful that a squad of thirteen soldiers could capture a Tsarist Russian city. The ammunition was consumed less and less, and the warehouse backlog was increasing.
So the Chinese Emperor gave 10,000 tons of arms to the Tsarist Russian Empire, and then paid them to relevant domestic arms companies to get their funds back.
The 10,000 tons of arms given to the Tsarist Russian Empire were all the excess weapons and ammunition of the Chinese Emperor's team. The advanced level of the wheels was naturally very advanced. They were all the most cutting-edge weapons and equipment in the contemporary world, making the Tsarist Russian military drool just by looking at it.
Of course, the premise is that even if the Tsarist Russian Empire team uses these equipment to fight against the Chinese Empire, the Chinese Empire has enough means and methods to fight back.
As a result, a deal between the Chinese Empire and the Tsarist Russian Empire was reached.
When the Chinese Empire wrote a note to Germany, Italy and Austria and other ambassadors to China and conveyed the news that the Tsarist Russian Empire had surrendered to the Chinese Empire and prohibited the member states of the allied countries from attacking the Tsarist Russian Empire again, although Germany, Italy and Austria and Austria were very unhappy, especially when the German Empire received the news first, William II vomited blood, they still had to congratulate the Chinese Empire because they did not dare to break up with the Chinese Empire. Especially when the German Empire did not make any statement, Italy, Austria-Hungarian Empire, and the Ottoman Empire were even more afraid to say anything.
However, the Kingdom of Italy still expressed their position to the Chinese Empire. Regarding the Chinese Empire's dispatch of troops to occupy Corsica, the Italian government claimed that the German Empire had transferred Corsica to the Kingdom of Italy, and the defeated French Empire also proved that it hoped that the Chinese Empire could transfer Corsica to Italy.
Corsica has great strategic significance for the Chinese Empire, which is to blockade the German Empire and the entire Europe.
Today, the Chinese Empire has three nails in Europe, namely Cyprus, Corsica and the British Archipelago, which just surrounded Europe in an circular shape and formed an island chain to blockade.
In the future battle for hegemony between China and Germany, Corsica has a huge role, so the Chinese Empire will never give up easily.
So Italy became angry and became disconnected from the Chinese Empire.
Of course, these were all the alienation schemes of the German Empire. They themselves did not intend to give Corsica to Italy. Unfortunately, Corsica was taken away by the Chinese Empire, so the German Empire could only use this method to undermine the Chinese Empire.
Li Weiguo, who is far away in Chang'an, Xijing, is not interested in these things.
Now the Chinese Empire has been on the right track, everything has laws to find and have laws to follow, and the domestic talents are full of people, and cabinet ministers are capable of handling these things. Therefore, Li Weiguo does not have to worry about paying attention to and dealing with everything, but let the ministers make their own decisions. Only when Li Weiguo no longer intervenes, can the ministers let go of their hands and feet to do it.
Li Weiguo believes that everyone has their own strengths, and ministers also have expertise in governing the country. These expertise are usually suppressed by Li Weiguo's halo, unable to display it, or have some concerns. This is a burial of talents, not the situation that Li Weiguo wants to see.
Of course, Li Weiguo is not interested in state affairs. He is more focused on his own personal great cause, such as exploring the secrets of immortality, and methods to make the Chinese Empire strong forever.
British Indian Major General Wat arrived in Chang'an, and Li Weiguo personally met him, and obtained more detailed information using both soft and hard.
The patterns on those mysterious tiles are indeed very recognizable to those on the Moon Gate, and some of them are even exactly the same, which strengthens Li Weiguo's confidence.
"M Culture!"
Mu is the word "其口" and the same mother. The mother of a mother means that if the current human beings are compared to sons, then the previous generation will be the mother.
However, the legendary M (mother) continent sank, and the changes in sea and land have led to the current Asia, Europe, Africa, America, Oceania and Antarctica.
"Your Majesty, based on Wat's diary and translation, and our inference, we believe that the mysterious fragments worshipped in the Indian temples have recorded an island called Tam, which is the only channel for the connection between the M continent and the present continent!"
Hua Hengfang excitedly reported to Li Weiguo with an inference.
Li Weiguo asked: "What is Tam?"
Hua Hengfang replied: "Your Majesty, Tam is in Indian, Wat uses literal translation, and we translated it in Chinese to mean ghosts!"
"Ghost Island!"
Li Weiguo exclaimed, the three words "Ghost Island" had already taken root in his heart. It was Zhao Kuangyin who told him that as long as he found the Ghost Island, he could leave this space-time plane and go to the next space-time plane.
However, Li Weiguo was not lucky, so he killed a "gardener", and that gardener came through Ghost Island. Unfortunately, with the death of the gardener, Ghost Island disappeared.
Although Li Weiguo has sent people to search for ghost islands on seas all over the world, unfortunately the sea on Earth is too large, so it is very difficult to find, and there has been no news yet.
Now that information about Ghost Island was found from the mysterious sacred relics in India can be regarded as mutual confirmation of this fact that Ghost Island does exist. Zhao Kuangyin did not deceive Li Weiguo in at least in this matter.
"Since I know about Ghost Island, what do the words and patterns on the Moon Gate represent?"
Li Weiguo was most concerned about the Moon Sect, but Hua Hengfang keenly discovered that Li Weiguo was very calm about the Ghost Island, which only means that Li Weiguo had known Ghost Island for a long time.
Who is His Majesty the Holy One?
Hua Hengfang had a doubt in his heart, but he didn't dare to ask more questions.
"Your Majesty, the information on Ghost Island can be cracked so quickly because there are some related records in the ancient Indian temples, so it is easy to infer. However, there are no clues about the records of Moon Gate. Although you know the meaning of a few words and patterns, you cannot infer the full meaning!"
Li Weiguo frowned and said, "This makes sense. Why didn't the Moon Gate leave any relevant records?"
Hua Hengfang then inferred: "Your Majesty, I think the reason why the Moon Gate did not leave any record is probably because of the book burning and burying scholars launched by Qin Shihuang?"
Li Weiguo was puzzled and said, "Burning books and burying Confucians? Isn't that what I meant was killed was a book of Confucians and Confucians?"
"No!" Hua Hengfang smiled and said, "That's all a rumor! In fact, Qin Shihuang burned books and burying scholars, not destroying the entire Confucianism, nor burning all the Confucian books, but some sorcerers who helped Qin Shihuang find spiritual medicines were finally discovered to be deceived by Qin Shihuang, so Qin Shihuang was furious and killed all these sorcerers. However, when Qin Shihuang was seeking immortality, many Confucian scholars supported and encouraged the most, so Qin Shihuang held a grudge and killed a group of Confucians suspected of deceiving him, and burned a group of books on spiritual medicines. Your Majesty, you should understand that if the government killed a literati, a large group of literati would come to cause trouble, so the matter of burning books and burying scholars naturally became a stain on smearing Qin Shihuang."
Li Weiguo asked back: "What do you mean?"
Hua Hengfang said: "I infer that the records about Moon Gate should be burned down during the operation of burning books and burying scholars!"
Li Weiguo was immediately unhappy and said, "Since it has been burned, what's the point of saying this?"
Hua Hengfang smiled and said, "Your Majesty, I want to say, do you know what sect they learned from those sorcerers back then?"
Li Weiguo said impatiently: "Don't keep it a secret, say it quickly!"
Hua Hengfang was bored and wanted to keep an eye on her, so she had to answer: "I'm going to hide it from your Majesty, many of them are Guiguzi's disciples!"
Li Weiguo was stunned. He seemed to have heard of the name Guiguzi somewhere, and Mao Shi looked very awesome.
Hua Hengfang added: "Your Majesty, it is rumored that Guiguzi has super powers that can overcome all the worlds. The disciples he trained are all powerful figures. Sun Bin, Zhang Yi, Mao Sui and others are all talented people from the country of Anbang and Dingguo!"
Li Weiguo asked back: "What's the use? I'm not interested in this!"
Hua Hengfang said: "Your Majesty, you forgot that Guiguzi's descendants are called the descendants of Guiguzi. Every generation that enters the world will cause bloody storms and dynasties. This shows that Guiguzi's ability is not like that of modern people, but more like that of the Mu Continent. At the same time, Guiguzi can be traced back to the emperor's era and ended in the era of Qin Shihuang, which shows that Guiguzi is an old monster who has lived for more than a thousand years. In the end, his death is related to Qin Shihuang. Your Majesty, the secret of immortality is probably in Guiguzi. We can't find Guiguzi, but we can start from the successors of Guigu every generation. I believe that clues can be found."
Hua Hengfang, who is worthy of being an IQ of 251, suddenly lit up after listening to his inference. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!