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Section 24 Peace Festival (1)

The situation in Northern Luzon was somewhat subtle. According to the information, Frederick had been scattering his military and practicing martial arts. His military strength was not much different from when he was defeated by the Pashas a few years ago. It is now obvious that the Luzons and the Comineans formed an alliance, and the female grand duke of the Free Dominion was among the ones who threaded the needle and thread, and also provided a lot of financial support and loans for the restoration of Luzon's military strength. Otherwise, the Luzons would not have been able to reach this point in a short period of time.

According to the information obtained by the security department in Northern Luzon, some Andes people in Vito's palace were becoming increasingly agile, and some people had even secretly colluded with the Luzons. However, due to the overall situation, the security department had not taken major actions, which made Wufeng a little worried. Wufeng also knew that it was an opportunity to seize Northern Luzon. If it weren't for the Luzons' civil strife themselves and the invasion of the Pasha people, it would not be his turn to enjoy the fertile land of Northern Luzons.

As investment and publicity in Northern Luzon gradually increased in the past two years, funds from the mainland of the empire began to flock in. The natural conditions of solar heat and soil irrigation are far stronger than those in the northwest, so Northern Luzon quickly became an indispensable raw material and export base for the entire northwest. Economic crops such as coffee, sugar and tobacco have broad market prospects both in the western and eastern continents. The empire's coffee was popular for a while, and sucrose even occupied more than half of the beet sugar market. Even Taixuan, which was originally mainly beet planting, has gradually changed to cotton planting, and tobacco has gradually entered ordinary families and is no longer a luxury unique to noble and wealthy businessmen. In addition, the development of Shuangdui's northern iron ore has driven the development of many related industries such as metallurgy and iron manufacturing, and has become an important supply base for export to the Indian and German regions.

This huge success has made it impossible and absolutely impossible to lose this land in the northwest. The economic take-off has also made the local residents of all ethnic groups gradually recognize their rule. The strategic position of it further determines that it can not only attack the countries in the Western Regions that have been swaying, but also be the solid cornerstone for itself to set foot in the Central Continent in the future. In this case, every step of the way, we have to carefully consider the possible consequences.

Until now, Wu Feng still has not been sure whether to draw the troops of the Northern Luzon Army to join the Eastern Front battlefield. Five divisions and 100,000 troops, not too much or too little. At this stage, the defense used for Northern Luzon should be satisfactory, but when the Luzons took advantage of their eastern expedition under the leadership of Frederick, can they withstand the Luzons' offensive? Wu Feng has no idea.

It was not that he had no confidence in Helianbo, but Frederick's military genius was shocked in the battle with the Pasha people. The hero's courage to cut off his arm made Wufeng unable to refuse to admit that even if he had made the decision to give up the West City of Gia, it was a very painful choice. Then a series of counterattacks were launched on the Salwin River, which was also impressive. After the war, he used the conflict between the Comineans and the Pasha people to cleverly provoke the discord, and he seized the opportunity to turn the enemy into friends with the Comineans into friends. These big moves forced Wufeng to put the danger of this guy to the highest level, so even when he was using large-scale troops on the Tenggeri grassland, Wufeng never relaxed his vigilance against the Luzon side.

The Grassland Peace Gala was held at the Northwest National Art Palace in Qingyang Prefecture. This is an oval luxury building that can accommodate 12,000 people. It was built four years ago. In the words of Qingyang City Molun, it was specially built to express the respect of the people of all ethnic groups in the northwest for living and working peacefully under the leadership of the great leader Li Wufeng. It cost a total of 3 million imperial gold coins and took more than three years to complete the construction. This was an astronomical figure for the Northwest Finance four years ago. It was once denounced by Xiao Tang, who was also the director of the Northwest Finance at that time, as "destroying the people and harming the country and the people." At that time, Molun also took great risks to use Qingyang Prefecture as collateral to jointly borrow funds from several banks that had just gained a foothold in the Northwest.

It is impossible to say that Moron's feat was quite forward-looking at the time, and the huge project volume required a large amount of labor. When the project was launched four years ago, it not only effectively alleviated the employment pressure caused by the influx of immigrants, but also well condensed the people's hearts at that time. Although it encountered great financial trouble, under the pressure of Wufeng, Xiao Tang still had to agree that the Northwest County-level finance would pay part of the money for the project. Afterwards, Xiao Tang angrily denounced at the Northwest Administrative Work Conference that this was a typical face-saving project "Moron is glorious, and the whole Northwest County pays for it", which caused countless complaints from the parties involved.

The entire building is completely built in Western style. It is also a style that always appreciates the architectural style of the Western Mainland. Moriente invited architects from the Western Mainland to design. The stands are set up on three radially arranged concrete cylindrical arches, with thirty trumpet arches on each floor. They are gathered on the outside by two circles of circular arcades, plus the upper solid wall to form a 30-meter-high facade. The trumpet arches open on the facade, with thirty openings on each floor, with the bottom floor being an open corridor entrance, and the upper two floors being a window hole. The stands retreat layer by layer to form a stepped slope. The trumpet arches are arranged in the trumpet arches, leading to each area of ​​the stands. The audience finds their own entrances according to the number of the tickets, and then finds their own stairs. They can easily reach their seats by climbing up. The entire Art Palace can accommodate 12,000 people, and the entry and exit are well-organized, very smooth, and not chaotic.

The outside of the Palace of Art is built with gray-white tuff, which is extremely majestic. The three layers below are decorated with a voucher-shaped column. A solid wall on the top is divided by a pilaster. A small window is opened in the center of each room, and a bronze shield is hung with a chariot, supporting the mast on the top. The mast is used to pull suspension cables to open the sun. There are thirty openings in a circle, only four doors at both ends of the long and short axis are slightly difficult to attract attention. However, its oval shape and voucher-shaped column form cause rich changes and contrasts of light and shadow, while its simplicity makes it look more grand and solemn. A statue is erected in front of each window hole on the second and third floors, which is very vivid against the black shadow behind it, embellishing the Palace of Art as noble and vigorous.

The huge project requires a large amount of volcanic ash. Fortunately, there are many volcanoes in the mountainous area at the junction of Qingyang and Northern Luzon. The volcanic ash is inexhaustible. Vehicles coming and going to transport volcanic ash have become the busiest road at that time. The transportation industry of the Wei family in Qingyang took this opportunity to dig the first pot of gold, and thus began to move towards the first transportation family in the northwest. The volcanic group is not only beautiful in scenery, but also many hot spring groups. Later, it was built into a special hot spring hall for the Jiedushi, becoming a special holy place for women in Wufeng and his harem.

After the speech of Xiao Tang, the Northwest Administrative Director, the party officially began. All ethnic groups in the northwest with strong ethnic style took the stage to perform songs and dances representing the characteristics of each ethnic group to show the great achievements made by the Northwest under the leadership of the great Yumeng Gong.

Along with singing and dancing, someone sitting in the huge opening in the middle also began to complain endlessly.

"Look, look, sir, how are you? What did Lord Xiao say at the beginning? Molun's face alone? Now this is the first time he is used, but Lord Xiao is very popular. All the people of all ethnic groups in the northwest are staring at him. You are all the leaders of all ethnic groups in the northwest. Look, our Lord Xiao is now full of joy and full of spring breeze. Who still remembers the pain that Molun had received to build this broken house?" The fat man sitting in the corner shook his head and vented his dissatisfaction indignation.

Wufeng regretted whether he shouldn't have put this guy in the same room with him? He originally thought that he had made some contributions to the completion of this art palace. In addition, he is also the highest local official in the northwest capital, and even other officials were ranked in the other few rooms. He sat alone with himself and the leaders of all ethnic groups from the northwest. But this was good, causing trouble, I'm afraid that I would be in peace tonight.

"Come!" Seeing that someone was still talking nonstop, Wufeng frowned slightly and his eyes rolled.

"Sir, what are you asking?" The guard immediately stood behind Wufeng.

"Go and invite Lord Mifengmi next door to come over and add a seat next to Lord Molun. I think I'm excited to talk tonight. I believe I will definitely have many common languages ​​with Lord Mi." Wufeng said lightly.

Someone who was turning his tongue at the next few people was stunned for a moment, as if he suddenly stuffed a duck egg into his mouth, and he couldn't speak. Seeing that the guard was ordered, he walked out, he shouted anxiously: "Slow!"

"What's wrong? Lord Mo?" Wufeng looked at the fat face that was swollen and red with a smile.

"Uh, this, my throat suddenly became a little dry and painful. I was afraid my throat was cold and I couldn't speak, so I didn't have to invite Lord Mi to come here." The fat man's voice suddenly lowered octaves and said with little confidence.

"Oh? Lord Mo suffered from a cold all of a sudden? What should I do? Lord Mo was generous and became a lyric. Now why are you suddenly-?" Wu Feng looked surprised.

"Well, there are unexpected situations in the world, this is inevitable." The fat man, who had lowered octaves, was really hoarse at this time.
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