839 Underground World Exploration (1/2)

Chapter 839 – Underground World Exploration

4th month, 1st day, afternoon, Nanjiang Governor-General House reading room.

Ouyang Shuo called to see Industrialization Director Chen Bingguang and asked, ”Old Chen, how long till the Z1 Type Warships can enter the waters?”

Although Old Chen was surprised, he answered in detail, ”The main body of The Emperor has been constructed and can enter the water in a week. After that, we will do water tests which will take another month.”

The Emperor was the first Z1 Type Warship crafted from the bones of the black dragon and was Ouyang Shuo's new flagship. In the next half a year, Ouyang Shuo planned to go for another voyage with The Emperor.

”One month?” Ouyang Shuo frowned slightly and asked, ”Can you speed it up slightly?”

”Is the Monarch in a hurry to use it?” Old Chen did not understand.

Ouyang Shuo shook his head and roughly introduced the country establishment quest to Old Chen.

Old Chen understood, and his face showed obvious excitement as he said, ”That's great. Do not worry Monarch, I'll ask the Shipbuilding Division to quicken the pace and try to complete all the tests on The Emperor in half a month.”

Ouyang Shuo smiled and nodded, ”Thank you for your hard work Old Chen.”

”My pleasure! My pleasure!”

Old Chen's footsteps were floaty when he left. To a scientist, to be able to witness the rise of a huge empire and personally participate in its establishment was a truly meaningful matter.

After sending away Old Chen, Ouyang Shuo still was not relaxed. In an afternoon, all three quests were started and Ouyang Shuo had already given his instructions.

Out of the three quests, the quest regarding recruiting the foreign races was the most uncertain, the time was uncertain, the location was uncertain, and even the goal was uncertain.

Ouyang Shuo had already instructed Dongchuan Prefecture Governor Cao Can to work with the Honglu Temple envoy to come into contact with the Qiang Tribes to try to get a few big tribes to move into Shanhai City. With the way Gaia did things, if he attracted too little of them, Gaia would not recognize it.

The 2nd quest was the one that gave him a headache.

At the moment, the quest that seemed the most possible was the Z1 Type Warship.

Ouyang Shuo thought back to the Heaven's 10 divinations that Song Jia gave him. He had already passed it over the Xinan University to ask all of them to work together to break through the 10th divination.

Xinan University was where all the top scientists in the Federation were gathered, and they definitely would be able to find a way to solve it.

If they could succeed, it could be considered an academic breakthrough.

As for the last technology, Ouyang Shuo had no idea. Ouyang Shuo looked for Liu Mo to see if the No.7 Research Institute could combine the western alchemical methods to come up with a new technique.

All this needed time.

The 3rd quest would take the least time and there was no rest.

Ouyang Shuo had already instructed the Honglu Temple to start making invitations. Once the 1st and 2nd quests were about to be completed, they would set a date to send out all the invitations.

The Culture Division had also started to prepare for the ceremony of that day.

Before the event, Honglu Temple was going to be really busy.

Seeing that the news of Shanhai City establishing a country was spreading through the wilderness, some people probably wanted to make a joke out of them. Ouyang Shuo naturally could not take it and needed to keep up his aura.

The crowning ceremony was the moment where Shanhai City would show its influence.

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In the next few days, none of the quests had any progress, making Ouyang Shuo really worried.

On the 4th month, 5th day, Blood Shadow Alliance guild leader Moon Shines over the River came to find Ouyang Shuo.

A day ago, the headquarters of Blood Shadow Alliance had smoothly moved to the Satellite City. Shanhai City had also signed an official agreement with Blood Shadow Alliance.

Same with the imperial city satellite cities, all of the properties and shops would be ran by Blood Shadow Alliance. The only difference was that Shanhai City would take 60%, 10% more than the imperial city.

With the current player scale in the city, the Financial Bureau calculated that the 60% profits along with business tax would allow then to earn 300 thousand gold each month from the Satellite City.

It was not Ouyang Shuo being greedy. After all, if he wanted to, he could arrange his own officials to deal with it and reap even more profits. Ouyang Shuo wanted to stick to a win-win situation, so he did not interfere with Satellite City matters.

Sometimes, one could not stretch their hands too far in.

Furthermore, Shanhai City was not good at the management of adventure gamemode player.

Moon Shines over the River went to find Ouyang Shuo to ask for an army to be housed inside to help them in managing the city.

Each imperial city Satellite City would have 10 thousand troops guarding it that were spawned by Gaia. The player territory ones did not have such treatment and could only be arranged by the Lord himself.

Ouyang Shuo listened to his request and smiled, ”Do not worry, the 5th legion of the Leopard Legion Corps is housed outside Tianjing City, so we will just arrange a division to move into the Satellite City.”