Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1032 Strategic Strike
"How is it going?" Zheng Shijie asked on the phone, "Shangluo, have you decided where to blow up with the spiritual weapon first?"

"Nagasaki?" Shangluo casually gave a name.

"Except for this."

"Why anything other than this?"

"Because Nagasaki is my territory. We have ancestral property there."

"What about Yokosuka in Kanagawa?"

"That won't work. That's my territory too. I have properties there."

"I knew it. So Guoxing, you called me just to tell me 'where not to bomb' by saying 'where to bomb', right?"

"Ahem," Zheng Shijie coughed, "You know, developing Southeast Asia is very expensive. The Celestial Empire is rich in resources and has everything, so it doesn't need any goods from Southeast Asia. Lan Fang supported the country's frontier in Southeast Asia, and our ancestors from all generations came to Southeast Asia from thousands of miles away to open up the barbarians."

"Wait a minute." Shang Luo interrupted him. "If I remember correctly, the proportion of Qigong practitioners in Nanyang seems to be much higher than most places in Jinei, right? Isn't the Feng Shui in your place very good?"

"Ah, anyway, you just need to know, right? We actually have some bottles and jars there. If you must break them, that's not a problem. For the great cause of the court, it's okay to donate some money. But if it's not needed, the money can be used for something more useful to the court, right?"

"Okay, okay, but you have to tell me one thing first - how much do you know about Xu Fu?"

"To be honest, I have heard of it."

"Then why don't you report it?"

"Who knew he would suddenly resurrect the First Emperor? I also want to ask, do you know about the Dragon Palace? You are the Heavenly Lord, right? Did you know about the Dragon Palace before this?"

"Don't even mention me. Even General Fu Yuanshan, who has been a god for decades, doesn't know. When he was thinking about the 20 sailors, he was actually thinking about you."

"Well," Zheng Shijie paused, "I have a good relationship with the emperor, and it seems that he doesn't tell me everything."

"Dragons can hide themselves, so it's normal that you can't see them when they're hiding."

"But now because of Xu Fu's matter, Long Gong will probably have to come forward in front of everyone, right?"

"Not necessarily." Shangluo replied, "I don't think the Dragon King himself has this intention. He seems to think that if he keeps hiding, it will be more suitable for the future development of the Dragon Clan."

Zheng Shijie replied: "When it is big, it will create clouds and mist, and when it is small, it will hide its shape; when it rises, it will soar into the universe, and when it hides, it will lurk in the waves. It is a great thing to do at home."

"You're not happy with them?"

"Because they are the elephant in the room! I finally figured it out now. I always felt that there was an invisible hand on the water controlling the situation in the North Sea, East China Sea and South China Sea. Every time I was about to find out the truth, it always slipped away. Now I finally understand! It turns out that there is such an invisible hand! It turns out that there is a group of dragons who like to trade stocks and manipulate the market there."

"Is there still this?"

"That's right! Who knows how much money they have! The money they have might be more than the grain stored in the Ministry of Revenue's Taicang warehouse. But they seem to like spending money more than saving it. They don't just want to accumulate money, they want it to flow. Wherever the invisible big hand reaches out, liquidity will overflow - I can save money from them, so I think I'm pretty good."

"So do you still want to meet the Dragon King?"

"Actually, it's not necessary to meet them." Zheng Shijie paused. "It's better not to meet the invisible big hand. I'm afraid of being remembered. Maybe they don't care who I am - no, not maybe, they never care who I am, they are the invisible big hand. So just knowing their existence, I am already very satisfied." Zheng Shijie has always been very sensible. Shangluo found that Zheng Shijie never made any requests, but liked to provide convenience to the court on various occasions. Although he called this time to ask the king's teacher to protect the Zheng family's assets, the support he promised was real.

"By the way," Shangluo asked, "has the cannon been built?"

"It's hard to say whether it can enter orbit, but bombing targets on the ground is no problem. It's quite simple."

"What about guidance?"

"There will be a monk sitting on the cannonball to guide it."

"???"

"Is this weird? As a spaceflight facility, this thing was originally designed to carry Qigong practitioners, so of course it can carry people. After arriving above the target, the Qigong practitioner manually calibrates the target and then ejects himself. The rest is up to gravity."

"It's not surprising. But compared to the space bomber last time, your shells are more powerful."

"By the way, Shangluo, are you free now? Are you interested in sitting inside a cannonball?"

"Huh? Why?"

"Because the crew is just about to start filming that commercial. We were planning to take you to Pontianak for a tour soon, but we didn't expect to run into the Xu Fu incident. Why don't you come over quickly, and we'll spend the whole afternoon filming the commercial, and then you can take a test ride on the lunar cannon? It will definitely not waste your time, because the cannon will only take you four hours to get you back."

[Why is it so slow?] Apollonia asked, [The flight only takes one or two hours.]

Shangluo conveyed this question.

"That's the situation - the Lunar Cannon's firing angle is only about ±1°."

[Ah!] Apollonia understood. [Considering that it was a huge gun several hundred meters long, a 1° shooting angle was already quite impressive. If it was one degree to the left and one degree to the right, it meant that the muzzle had nearly 10 meters of space to turn. This was amazing engineering!]

"Thanks for the compliment. But even so, the cannon will have to perform multiple orbital maneuvers in space to reach the entire globe. So the time will be extended to one or two hours."

"Eh?" Shangluo suddenly thought, "How did you change your trajectory in space?"

"Through additional Torch Engines. However, the amount of fuel that can be carried is very small, because considering the impact during launch, we have to protect the internal structure. After launching into space, the Qigong practitioner in the cockpit will start the trajectory change maneuver according to the flight plan."

"Have you ever considered the waverider solution?"

"Waverider? What is that?"

"A hypersonic vehicle design. By increasing its supersonic lift-to-drag ratio, it uses its own flight to generate a lifting surface shock wave."

"." Zheng Shijie paused, "Sorry, I don't understand. Tianzi and I are both from the Department of Chemistry, and we don't understand these cutting-edge physics research very well."

"That's it!" Shang Luo slapped his head, "It's flying swords! You give the warhead an initial velocity, and leave the rest to the Qigong practitioners. Let them fly swords and surf at the edge of the atmosphere!"

(End of this chapter)