Alien Arms Empire

Chapter 1038 1039 Zhao’s surrender

Zhao Chen, who was sitting in the train, thought he was dead. He really didn't expect that Zhao Yu would hand him over to the Tang Empire so easily, without even asking for any conditions.

 People from the Tang Empire took over his security work on the third day after his surrender, and then the former prince of the Great China Empire was put on the train to the Datang Empire.

When passing Fengjiang Station, Zhao Chen found that the reconstruction work there had begun. The speed of recovery was really beyond Zhao Chen's expectation.

 He originally thought that only when Zhao Yu completed complete control of the Dahua Empire would he start to remember that his country needed to be restored.

What he didn't expect was that Zhao Yu had already started to rebuild Fengjiang Railway Station before the end of the war. Frankly speaking, judging from the scale of the rollout, this Fengjiang Railway Station seemed to be larger than the previous Fengjiang Railway Station. The site is larger.

Thousands of workers are picking through the rubble, and there is a busy scene everywhere. People who left Toyoe began to return as if they had never left.

Through the train window, Zhao Chen even saw the labor team of orcs and goblins. Originally, these people were warriors fighting with his army. Now they laid down their weapons and immediately became the best workers.

The entire project is in an orderly manner. The strong orcs are responsible for transporting the stones away, or erecting them directly on the spot to build a platform. The goblins are responsible for pouring cement and trying to smooth the ground.

Zhao Chen also saw an intact Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft gun being sold as scrap metal. The person who bought it was a well-dressed businessman.

He didn't know whether this businessman was from Tang Dynasty or Chinese. He only knew that the equipment Zhao Yu had spent a lot of money to buy was quickly disappearing.

 Old equipment that has not yet been scrapped will be disposed of, and new and identical equipment will be delivered soon—don’t question it, the items are not the same thing, just the same model.

The Tang Empire has never been in the business of refurbishment. Old things are really scrapped and disposed of, and new things are definitely newly produced: it’s just that they are consumed by others, and the army of the Tang Empire has never been like this. Just do it.

Zhao Chen withdrew his gaze. In fact, Zhao Chen was no longer in the mood to care about Zhao Yu's life and death. In his opinion, Dahua was finished, completely finished.

From the moment he surrendered, or from the moment he lost all hope, the fate of the Dahua Empire was doomed.

An Emperor of China who is pro-Datang Empire, or to be precise, is completely a puppet of Datang Empire, is destined to ascend to power, and everything is inevitable.

There is no doubt that Zhao Yu defeated Zhao Ji and Zhao Jie. Zhao Yu's overall situation is much better than the other two.

 The actual situation in Fengjiang was not as miserable as Zhao Chen thought: he had always thought that most of Fengjiang had been turned into ruins, but the actual situation was that there were still a large number of buildings left here.

The urban area close to Fengjiang is the richest place in Fengjiang. The city center after the establishment of Xifengjiang, where the construction team of the Tang Empire was built, was actually not damaged too much.

Only the buildings in the north, south, and west directions of the city were seriously damaged. The essence of the east part of the city was actually preserved.

The main reason is that the artillery on the Dahua Empire side does not dare to fire to the east of the city, where the Tang Empire's customs department in Dahua Empire is located, as well as some diplomatic departments, as well as the Datang Empire's epidemic prevention and inspection department.

 These buildings and the people inside them, including the Fengjiang River bank they backed up, would easily cause disputes if they were bombarded, so Dahua simply stopped firing on these targets.

 This is also the reason why Zhao Yu dared to persist in Fengjiang until the end: he had a relatively safe hiding place, so he did not need to worry about his life.

 “Why did you stop for so long?” After having lunch on the train, Zhao Chen finally realized that he seemed to have stayed in Fengjiang for too long.

 Under normal circumstances, the train he was on would have already set off for Fengjiang City in the Tang Empire.

Although Zhao Chen was not in a hurry to die, he was still extremely curious about why he didn't drive. The officials from the Tang Dynasty who accompanied him did not hide anything and answered his question: "We are waiting for someone. There are some distinguished guests who want to take this train, but they are late."

"Dignified guest?" Zhao Chen became curious about this word. Although he felt that he was in jail now, he also had a strong energy to seize the last opportunity to gossip.

"Yes, you know these people too." The Tang Dynasty official who accompanied Zhao Chen nodded: "Chu Muzhou, Jiang Run, Wang Yucai...and Chen Jing, Zhou Qiang."

“They are really old acquaintances.” Zhao Chen was stunned for a moment, then shook his head with a wry smile. He really didn't expect that the Tang Empire would go to such great lengths to get all these "unforgivable" people into its hands. "You took great pains to capture all of us to the Tang Empire, just to set an example?" After Zhao Chen smiled bitterly, he was inevitably a little dissatisfied with Tang Mo, the Emperor of the Tang Empire's petty attitude: "The defeated general, kill him Just kill them, how innocent are those ministers?"

“The general may have misunderstood.” The accompanying official explained again. He didn't know much about the specific situation of Chu Muzhou and others, so he couldn't explain too much.

 Unfortunately, Zhao Chen was not willing to believe his explanation. He felt that the accompanying official was lying to him or even playing tricks on him.

Seeing that Zhao Chen still didn't believe him, he didn't bother to explain more, so he simply closed his mouth and pretended to be asleep.

Zhao Chen saw that the other party had stopped talking, thinking that he had exposed the other party's conspiracy, so he didn't say much and continued to look at the construction site not far away through the gap in the curtains.

What I didn’t expect was that even when it was time for dinner, those who were waiting still hadn’t arrived. Zhao Chen had to eat on the train again, and he was still not in a good mood.

After it was completely dark, cars finally began to enter the temporary platform one after another: it was next to the official platform, and was actually a filled-in empty space.

In order to avoid missing trains, a temporary railway track was added here. It is very troublesome to get on and off the train because the train is much higher than the ground.

Cars parked next to the train one after another. After the entourage of Tang Dynasty in black clothes took their positions, the people in the cars finally got off.

Because we had to transport as many people as possible, the end of the convoy was all trucks. People who jumped out of the trucks were obviously not feeling well, and some people started vomiting as soon as they got off.

They obviously didn't have a good life along the way. In order to ensure their safety, Du Jia had to choose to go north first and then take a detour after leaving the city. There were cars all the way, which was extremely bumpy and the natural experience was very poor.

The original plan was to use a Huey helicopter to pick people up after arriving in Dongqing, but because the range was too limited and I was afraid of problems, so in the end this plan had to be abandoned.

Chu Muzhou, who was used to riding in luxury cars, didn't look very good when he got out of the car. The journey was really bumpy and painful for him - he is already sixty years old, and after sitting in a car for such a long time, he could feel his bones all over. It's almost falling apart.

Seeing Chen Jing getting out of the car behind him, Chu Muzhou forced a smile: Now their safety is almost guaranteed.

Chen Jing also stretched his old arms and legs. Along the way, he also saw how poor the infrastructure of the Dahua Empire was - they almost didn't take the main roads along the way, and directly experienced the roads that ordinary people often use. .

This experience made him feel a little self-reproached about his daily work: he invested a lot of money, but in the end he failed to improve the country's infrastructure environment. This is a responsibility that he, the Minister of Industry, cannot shirk.

"After crossing the bridge, the Datang Empire is in front of us." Accompanying them all the way here were Pan Yiping and Pan Qi. They were sent back to the Tang Dynasty by Du Jia, because Du Jia's mission in the Dahua Empire was expected to be very soon. It will be over.

Hearing what Pan Yiping said, Chu Muzhou nodded slightly. As the prime minister of the empire, he had been listening to Pan Yiping talk about what he had experienced while doing business for so many years. I heard how hard it was for businessmen to be exploited by the Tang Dynasty Empire, and I also heard about the fair treatment they encountered in the Tang Dynasty Empire.

 The attentive reception staff even prepared a wooden staircase for Chu Muzhou and others, which made it much more convenient for them to get on the train.

Chu Muzhou slowly walked onto the train and saw a very familiar face at the end of the carriage. Even Chu Muzhou was surprised to see an old acquaintance here and shouted: "Your Highness the Prince!"

Seeing Chu Muzhou, Zhao Chen hurried forward, walked over and stretched out his hand to support Chu Muzhou's arm: "Master Prime Minister, you and I are both prisoners now... The name of this prince will never be used again. mentioned."

Hearing Zhao Chen say that he was a prisoner, Chu Muzhou was obviously stunned for a moment. The official of the Tang Empire accompanying Zhao Chen smiled helplessly and explained: "General Zhao Chen does not want to believe the recruitment of the Tang Empire. He thinks that I took him back to be tried and executed..."

Hearing this, Chu Muzhou was stunned again, and then burst into laughter: "Hahahaha! What General Zhao said is that it is not appropriate to mention the name of the prince again, but the name of General Zhao, I guess You still have to use it.”

"Prime Minister?" Zhao Chen was stunned. He had not yet realized what Chu Muzhou meant. But he immediately realized something, and suddenly looked at the Tang Empire officials accompanying him: "You really dare to recruit a Zhao family general like me?"

 “Hahaha!” The official of the Tang Empire laughed: “What else?”

 (End of this chapter)