Without Hua people and Taixia Country, humans had long been exterminated in the previous two holy wars. This was the consensus that almost each human historian admitted. Anyone who had a clear understanding about this age would sigh with emotion — — Black Iron Age belonged to Hua people and Taixia Country.
In this age, the survival of Hua people and the power of Taixia Country had become the biggest hope for humans to survive on.
If not going back to those ancient histories and legends, the recorded history of humans had almost 6,000 years. Taking the Catastrophe as a coordinate, the human history before the Catastrophe took over 5,000 years; however, the human history after the Catastrophe took less than 900 years. In the human history of 6,000 years, there had never been such a powerful and prosperous country like Taixia Country. Even in all the human history textbooks, it was hard to find any country or alliance that could match Taixia Country. All the so-called glorious and powerful countries and alliances that existed in the human history books were like fireflies competing with the bright moon. Compared to Taixia Country today, Taixia Country was like fireflies competing for brilliance with the bright moon.
Taixia Country was powerful and prosperous. They could only admire Zhang Tie and try their best to approach him. When the holy war broke out, they became more urgent. As one of the 72 provinces in Taixia Country, Yingzhou Province was located at the seaside, which made it hard for Zhang Tie and Zhang Tie to approach Yingzhou Province. As a gateway to Taixia Country, after the holy war broke out, a lot of overseas immigrants poured into Yingzhou Province. The entire Yingzhou Province, especially the cities near the sea became boisterous.
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Although it was not Zhang Tie's first time to come to the harbor of Fuhai City, he had seen those prosperous harbors in Huaiyuan Prefecture. However, each time he came here, he would feel shocked. Zhang Yan couldn't help but feel shocked.
Fuhai Harbor was just one of the 17 harbors in Yingzhou State; additionally, it was not the largest one. Its scale and cargo throughput could only rank in the middle. However, Zhang Yang almost got lost when he came here for the first time.
The coastline of the port facing the sea was more than 70 kilometers long. There were more than 20,000 docks and docks of various sizes. There were cranes densely packed like giants everywhere, walking in the middle of such a port. It felt like walking in a steel forest composed of ships and huge battleships. Right here, Zhang Yang saw the captain of a million-ton ocean-going battleship for the first time.
The port was equipped with a special railway line that connected the northern and southern parts of the port. It would take about an hour to travel from the southernmost part of the port to the northernmost part of the port by train.
Fuhai Harbor was very large, so was Fuhai City. After coming to Taixia Country, Zhang Yang's first deep impression about Taixia Country was that it was huge after collecting all the information that he had been exposed to from all sides.
Zhang Yang didn't know how large Taixia Country was. Because the entire Eastern Continent, including many black and grey areas on the map, belonged to Taixia Country. In the words of Hua people, the entire Eastern Continent was the inherent territory of Taixia Country.
In Taixia Country, the 9 immortal provinces were the most prosperous places, followed by 36 upper provinces, 72 upper provinces, many small and medium-sized prefectures and populated areas which had not reached the scale of upper provinces in remote places.
The most basic condition for being a big province in Taixia Country was to have at least 108 Class A cities within the territory of this province. Besides, there were many other conditions and requirements.
After staying in Taixia Country for a few months, Zhang Yang still didn't know how the cities in Taixia Country were divided. As for Class A cities, he only heard that Yiyang City in Jinyun Country could barely meet the requirements of Class A cities in Taixia Country. The so-called barely referred to the population and economic scale that Yiyang City and its surroundings could accommodate. Even Yiyang City could barely meet the requirements of Class A cities in Taixia Country.
In Waii Sub-continent, Norman Empire was imitating Taixia Country everywhere. Many social systems of Norman Empire copied that of Taixia Country, such as the city-level system and the city-level system of countries, etc.
The famous founding emperor of Norman Empire in Waii Sub-continent became commonplace in Taixia Country. In the eyes of most of the people who knew Norman Empire, the so-called founding emperor of Norman Empire was just a smart guy who admired Hua culture and learned something lucky after traveling in Taixia Country for a few years. After that, he returned to a remote place and started to be an overlord with what he had learned. There were many such people in each continent and those so-called remote places. Even today, many guys would come to Taixia Country with the same thought and dream each year. They hoped to find a shortcut for them to return to their homeland in this marvelous land.
As a Hua person who lived overseas, after returning to Taixia Country, the first thing that he needed to adapt to was the inborn confidence and pride of Hua people in Taixia Country. After Taixia Country developed to a certain degree, some extremely stubborn and proud Hua people started to call themselves deities.
In this age, each Hua person in Taixia Country had such a capital to be proud.
Take Yingzhou State as an instance. On the map, Yingzhou spanned more than 20,000 kilometers from north to south and from east to west. This was only the land area of Yingzhou. It had already surpassed the total territory area of all the countries across Blackson Humans Corridor. Plus those islands and sea areas, large or small, under the jurisdiction of Yingzhou State, Yingzhou State was many times larger than that of Blackson Humans Corridor.
Of course, Yingzhou was not only big. As an upper province, Yingzhou was also big. It was also very prosperous.
Yingzhou State was divided into 7 prefectures. Besides over 130 Class A cities, there were over 1000 cities below Class A in the 7 prefectures. There were tens of thousands of cities and towns, large or small. 17 years ago, the Yingzhou Provincial Governor's Mansion calculated the consumption of salt across Yingzhou Province and roughly calculated the total population of Hua people in Yingzhou Province. There were about 6.7 billion to 7 billion Chinese people living in Yingzhou. And today, this number could only be higher.
Yingzhou Province could have such a scale, it was imaginable how prosperous and powerful Taixia Country was.
After coming to Yingzhou Province, the first item that Zhang Yang bought was a complete map of the territory of Taixia Country which covered almost 4 square meters. This complete map was already a small one. Zhang Yang calculated the total territory of Taixia Country except for the grey areas on the map. After drawing a clear map from the southernmost to the northernmost of Taixia Country, Zhang Tie got a figure — — 380,000 miles.
What did it mean? It meant that if a person took a train, the train could reach 100 miles per hour. Besides stopping for 2 hours to add water and coal every day, the train would run on a straight railway which crossed the north and the south of Taixia Country. It would take a person half a year to travel from the southernmost to the northernmost of Taixia Country by train. Actually, Zhang Yang was told that many people had tried to travel from the southernmost to the northernmost of Taixia Country to the northernmost of Taixia Country by train.
However, on the map, the distance from the easternmost to the westernmost of Taixia Country was almost 1/3 longer than that from the southernmost to the northernmost of Taixia Country.
Not knowing why, after coming to Taixia Country, Zhang Yang had been reassured. When he was in Blackhot City, he didn't feel reassured. After returning to Huaiyuan Prefecture, he felt a bit reassured; however, he didn't completely reassured. Not until he stepped on the land of Taixia Country and knew that there were hundreds of millions of Hua people with black hair and black eyes like him did Zhang Yang recover his composure. The restless noise that had been agitated in his mind for over 2 decades disappeared. His concern about coming to a strange place also disappeared at once.
Zhang Yang felt that Taixia Country was the place where the descendants of Zhang family could settle down and sprout. It was also the place where he could show his talent and lay the foundation for Zhang family for generations.
Zhang Ping said that Taixia Country was the real home of Zhang family.
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Zhang Yang was waiting near the dock area of "Mao No. 08" in Fuhai Harbor with some attendants. Through inquiry, Zhang Yang knew that all the ships between 50,000 tons and 30,000 tons from overseas would berth near the dock area of "Mao No. 08". Ships with different tonnage would berth in different areas. Additionally, the water depth and dock facilities in different areas were different. In the dock area with the word "Zi", super huge ships above 1 million tons would berth; however, huge ships above 500,000 tons would basically berth in the dock area with the word "Chou".
It took Zhang family over 2 months to arrive at Yingzhou Province of Taixia Country from Waii Sub-continent by airship last year. The airship was fast and comfortable. Its shortcoming was that it could not carry too many people or too many items in such a long-distance flight. Therefore, when he left Huaiyuan Prefecture last year, Zhang Yang had decided to evacuate in batches. The second batch of people would arrive here today by a 36000 tons ocean-going ship "Safety and Tranquility" which Jinwu Business Group purchased from Zhang family's Milky Way Shipyard. After tossing on the sea for 9 months, the huge ship sent a message to Zhang Yang yesterday, saying that it would arrive at Fuhai Harbor in Yingzhou Province this morning. Therefore, Zhang Yang just waited here with some attendants.
On the huge ship, besides some reliable backbones of the departments of Jinwu Business Group and their family members, Zhang Yang also had people bring some items from Huaiyuan Prefecture, including some key equipment of the airship manufacturing factory run by Zhang Tie's dad. No matter what, they were all valuable belongings. Zhang Yang packed all of them here.
After waiting for over 2 hours on the dock, Zhang Yang still didn't see "Safety and Tranquility". By contrast, some other huge ships berthed near "Mao 08".
As soon as the huge ships docked, the people on the ships began to rush to the deck and cheer. For those people, the feeling of coming ashore was as if they had escaped from the sea of bitterness and reached the shore. Everything here was fresh and beautiful to them.
Watching those people, Zhang Yang recalled the scene when he came to Yingzhou Province for the first time.
Those who could come to Yingzhou by ship at this time were all wealthy people. This could be seen from the clothes of those who got off the ship.
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"Ahh, dad, what's that?" When a group of people got off the huge steamer and passed by Zhang Yang, a 11-12 year old girl in a beautiful skirt suddenly raised her head and pointed at an object in the sky while screaming.
"Miss, of course, it's an airship. What else can we have besides an airship? When we settle down in Taixia Country, the old master would consider buying an airship for our family as a traffic tool. It's said that Taixia Country is very large. It would be very inconvenient without an airship!" A chubby woman on one side of the little girl coaxed her, "I've not imagined that Miss could speak Chinese so well only after learning it for 2 years!"
"No, Lisa, it's not an airship. There's no air sac on it at all..." the little girl exclaimed.
"Impossible!"
Some people raised their heads out of doubt. After that, they became stunned. Closely after that, they exclaimed, "Ahh, really? What's that? How could it fly in the sky without air sac?"
Their exclamations attracted more people's attention. Therefore, more people stopped their footsteps as they raised their heads and watched the sky.
Zhang Yang also raised his head. There was indeed an object longer than 200 m floating in the sky at 1,000 m high in the air. Being utterly different than those airships, it didn't have air sacs, wings or wings. Looking at it from below, it was absolutely a naked ship. Being different than common ships, that ship was floating in the sky while common ships were floating on water.
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