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After discussing state affairs with Liu Rui, Liu Sheng spent a few days inspecting the area around Tianmu Mountain and Ruyang City.

Although Dalai is now a very powerful country, it has not designated the entire Tianmu Mountain as a forbidden area like Da Chu did. It has only designated Fangshan, Liujiazhai and the areas within a radius of several miles as restricted areas.

Because there is a Chengping Town at the original location of Dashuiping Village.

Liu Sheng went to take a look and found that after more than ten years, the scale of Chengping Town's buildings had expanded on the original basis and it could already be called a small mountain city.

The mayor of Chengping Town today is naturally not Li Fuchang, and the deputy mayor is no longer Ma Gui - these two were already over 40 years old when Liu Sheng emerged, and more than 30 years have passed, and they have already passed away one after another.

However, during the time when the two served as mayors, they did lay a good foundation for Chengping Town in all aspects.

Although Chengping Town is now at the township administrative level, it has a population of over 200,000.

The mountain town of Chengping alone has a population of nearly 100,000!

The cement roads in the mountain city can no longer be described as extending in all directions. Instead, like in later generations, all the land that does not need to be exposed is paved with cement.

As for the buildings in the mountain city, most of them are buildings.

The tallest building is five stories high!

Of course, the five-story building here is very different from the later ones. The interior is made of reinforced concrete, but the exterior still tends to be in the architectural style of the Ming and Qing dynasties.

When Liu Sheng walked in it, he felt that the environment was a bit strange, as if he had entered some later game with an ancient style.

Near Tianmu Mountain, people in the villages and communities under Chengping Town seem to live a wealthy life.

Cement roads have met the requirement of "connecting every village" in the early years. When Liu Sheng was on tour, he even saw many farmers having bicycles, or even more than one, which shows how wealthy they were.

Chengping Town is backed by the time and space gate of Liujiazhai and is tasked with assisting the exchange of materials between the two sessions. It is destined to be relatively wealthy, which Liu Sheng had anticipated.

However, Ruyang City has undergone some changes compared to when he left, but the changes are not too big.

Although Ruyang City still has a high political status in this area, the focus of the military industry has shifted from here.

Today, the Ruyang Arsenal is only responsible for producing some less important equipment, such as guns, ammunition, armor, etc. for the garrison troops.

According to the layout plan of Liu Sheng and Liu Rui, the truly high-tech military factories were moved to the vicinity of Nanjing to facilitate the control of the Dalai court.

Not only that, the Dalai court can control the army mainly by relying on three things.

The first is to use military and political personnel to carry out ideological education for the soldiers unremittingly, so that they will be loyal to the emperor and patriotic and know the duties of a soldier.

The second is to control the payment of military pay.

The third is to master logistics - including food supplies and various weapons and equipment.

Today, the firearms equipment rate of the Hai army has almost reached 100%, and its dependence on logistics has become more serious. Without stable and reliable logistical supplies, its combat effectiveness will be seriously reduced after the ammunition is used up.

In addition, the gap in equipment levels among the four military units, namely the Royal Guards, the Standing Army, the Security Army, and the Militia, has become quite obvious, just as Liu Sheng had planned when he left.

The Dalai Guards are now equipped with the latest practical models of breech-loading rifles, whose performance can almost catch up with the rifles of the late Qing Dynasty.

The standing army was equipped with a small number of breech-loading rifles, which were used as snipers.

Most soldiers were still equipped with flintlock rifles, which were muzzle-loading smoothbore rifles that fired instantly, but they also used fixed bullets.

The local garrison troops used flintlock rifles retired from the regular army, which were of inferior performance.

As for the militia - there are almost no militia organizations in the inland provinces of Dalai nowadays, only in the border provinces, and they use the inferior flintlock rifles.

The matchlock gun has long been eliminated in Dalai. It has either been recycled or sold to neighboring countries...

After two days of inspection in Ruyang, Liu Sheng and Liu Rui took their entourage, guards, etc. and took a train from Ruyang south to Hezhou in Yingtian Prefecture.

No need to change to a ferry in between.

Because Dalai has built more than one railway bridge across the Huai River!

Currently, the Railway Engineering Division is researching the technology for building a Yangtze River Bridge and is expected to achieve a breakthrough in the technology within ten years.

Therefore, Liu Sheng and others still had to take a ferry to cross the river. Of course, Liu Sheng and others were not riding an ordinary ferry, but a warship of the Sea Dragon Guard.

The warship set off from Hezhou Wharf and in less than an hour, it brought Liu Sheng and others to the outskirts of Nanjing.

On the deck of the battleship, Liu Sheng looked through a telescope and found that over the past decade, there had been great changes outside the city of Nanjing - there were many more buildings.

Many of them are "high-rise buildings". Steam vehicles, bicycles, and horse-drawn carriages travel on the left and right sides of the road. Pedestrians basically walk on both sides of the road. In places with busy traffic, there are "traffic police" to direct and patrol.

There is a hustle and bustle of traffic and the place is bustling, resembling the scene of a metropolis from the late 19th century and early 20th century.

At Liu Sheng's instruction, the news of his return was not publicized, and only a few high-ranking people in the Dalai court knew about it.

Even fewer people knew that Liu Rui left Nanjing for Tianmu Mountain.

In order to continue to conceal the news, Nanjing naturally did not hold any welcoming ceremony.

So, when the warship docked at the military port of Hailongwei’s Nanjing garrison, Liu Sheng, Liu Rui and his party entered Nanjing city in such a low-key manner.

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Dalai Tiannan Province.

This place is located in the southeast of Indochina Peninsula and was originally the Zhenla Kingdom.

More than a decade ago, the Dalai army entered the Indochina Peninsula to suppress the disobedience of the countries. The countries were either conquered by the Dalai army by force or surrendered voluntarily, and they have become a thing of the past one after another.

Now the entire Indochina Peninsula has become Dalai's territory.

Dalai successively established seven provinces in the Indochina Peninsula, from west to east and from north to south, namely Beidian, Southern Myanmar, Vientiane, Jiaozhi, Tiannan, Rinnan, and Haixi.

Only a small part of Haixi is located on the Indochina Peninsula - the Haixi Province is headquartered in Malacca, but most of the province is on the large island further south.

The provincial capital of Tiannan Province was in Phnom Penh.

There is a Dalai military camp outside Phnom Penh, where a brigade of the Dalai regular army is stationed.

However, it was the division headquarters led by Li Dingguo, the commander of the 13th Division of the Dalai Regular Army, the Prince of Cangwu, and the Three-Star Marshal.

All the countries in Indochina Peninsula had only recently submitted to Dakai. From time to time, the remnants of the fallen nations would rebel, or some local ethnic minorities would rebel without knowing the power of heaven. Therefore, Dakai stationed at least one brigade of standing troops and several brigades of guard troops in each province.

Li Dingguo was the main general who conquered the Indochina Peninsula in Dalai and made many contributions. He is a three-star marshal. Now he is not only the commander of the 13th Division, but also the chief of military affairs (abbreviated as commander) of the Central South Military Region composed of the four major provinces of Tiannan, Rinan, Jiaozhi and Vientiane.

The 13th Division headquarters had been stationed outside Phnom Penh for several years and had already built a permanent camp.

Li Dingguo's residence was in a courtyard with a Jiangnan garden style next to the camp.

On weekdays, when Li Dingguo had little military duties, he would come here to read and write to cultivate his sentiments.

Today, he came back from the camp office with a slightly frown on his brow, looking like he was worried about something.

Seeing this, a beautiful woman in her thirties personally poured tea for Li Dingguo and asked a maid to fan him. Then she asked, "Why do you look so sad, Master?"

As a general leading an army outside, Li Dingguo's wife and children were all in Nanjing. As for this woman, she was his concubine Nguyen, whom he took in more than ten years ago. It was said that she was from the Nguyen clan of Annan.

Li Dingguo is now in his early fifties. Although his hair has some white hair, his face does not look old. As he has been leading the army for many years, his majesty is much more serious than when he was young.

He glanced at Ruan and answered irrelevantly, "Get ready. I will be leaving for Beijing tomorrow."