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Volume 14, Chapter 21 Stargazing City

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    Stargazing City is located in the northwest of Huaiyuan County, where the slave trading market of the entire Huaiyuan County is located.

    The scale of the slave market in Stargazing City ranks first not only in Huaiyuan County, but also in the entire Hawaiian subcontinent. The reason is for no other reason than the slaves from other continents and some scattered human races.  Slaves from the settlements were also continuously transported to Huaiyuan County via sea ships through overseas trade, and then transferred here from ports such as Yiyang Port in Huaiyuan County.

    The slave trade is the fourth largest trading commodity in the human world in this era. According to those slave traders, the slave trade is an important way to optimize the overall human resource allocation of the human race, maintain the survival of the fittest within the human race, and keep human beings energetic and enterprising.

    Although the slave trade cannot be said to be noble, it has the inevitability and rationality of its existence. After all, not to mention slaves, everyone in this era lives under the threat of the giant wheel of the era and the demon clan.

    The name of Stargazing City is very poetic, but this city is not poetic at all. In addition to the large-scale slave trade, it also has the largest and largest casinos in Huaiyuan County, the largest and largest jails, and the bloodiest and most brutal underground.  Arena.

    The Zhang family of Huaiyuantang shows another image of the family here.

    Many people can imagine what the place with the most slaves, the most prostitutes, and the most gamblers looks like. If Stargazing City was in another place, then the city would probably be in chaos, but because it is  In Huaiyuan County, because in addition to slaves, prostitutes and gamblers, there are also the most terrifying Hurricane Corps in Huaiyuan Hall, so the order in this city is surprisingly good.

    The crime rate of this city is even lower than that of Yiyang City. The security level of the entire city can be ranked in the top three among the eight cities under Huaiyuan County.

    The Hurricane Legion is an iron fist of Huaiyuantang. The entire legion has 420,000 people. More than two-thirds of these people are slaves from various continents and countries. After completing the established service period or obtaining corresponding military merits,  , Huaiyuantang will grant these slaves the status of freedmen.

    The Hurricane Legion has existed for more than 300 years. During these more than 300 years, Huaiyuantang has figured out an efficient and stable system for managing this mixed legion.  Under this system, the combat effectiveness and loyalty to the family of each individual in the legion were exploited to the greatest extent.

    There are many senior brothers in Qianlong Hall who served in the Hurricane Legion as officers at all levels after leaving Qianlong Hall.

    These general information about Star Observation City was learned by Zhang Tie when he was at home in the past two days.

    Zhang Tie, who had stayed at home for two days, left Jinhai City after having breakfast at home on the 25th and headed to Stargazing City alone.

    At this moment, Zhang Tie was holding the sun above his head, wearing a pair of sunglasses, driving a stylish sports car that he had just bought less than an hour ago, the Dragon Zodiac T9, and was driving at full speed in Jinhai City to the sightseeing area.  On the highway in Star City.

    In the past hour, Zhang Tie understood several things.

    The first thing is that the cars that cost thousands of gold coins each in Black Flame City used to be very expensive.  Most ordinary steam-powered cars in this era can be purchased for between 100 gold coins and 200 gold coins.  The biggest reason why cars in Heiyan City are so expensive is that Heiyan City itself does not produce cars. Cars shipped to Heiyan City from outside have to go through numerous tax barriers in various places and the exploitative policy of Heiyan City's car monopoly.  After that, an ordinary car sold for a sky-high price.

    Because Huaiyuan County has its own automobile industry, the price of buying an ordinary steam-powered car in Jinhai City is only more than one hundred gold coins.

    The T9 sports car that Zhang Tie is driving now costs just over 500 gold coins. It is already considered a high-end car.

    This is the first thing Zhang Tie understands, and the second thing Zhang Tie understands just now is that although the cars of this era are all steam-powered, the power effects brought by different steam power units installed on the cars are:  totally different.

    Installed on the Cyrus T9 is a turbine steam heat recovery external combustion engine, which is an engine between an internal combustion engine and an ordinary steam boiler engine. Compared with ordinary steam engines, this engine has higher heat  In terms of utilization efficiency, the fuel used by this engine is not coal, but anhydrous alcohol, which is N times more expensive than coal, but the combustion value is not as high as coal.

    This turbine steam heat recovery external combustion engine has 9 parallel pistons. The pistons are installed tilted to the chassis. Under the action of the pistons, its power output is transmitted not by rotation but by swing. With the help of the tilt axis, it changes from swing to rotation, and  It is transmitted to the wheel axle through the angle transmission device to drive the car forward.

    ?Compared with cars that use coal and ordinary steam engines as power units, the biggest advantage of cars that burn alcohol and use turbine steam heat recovery external combustion engines is that they start quickly, which can greatly shorten the warm-up start of steam-powered cars.  time.

    But its shortcomings are equally obvious, that is, the cost of use is extremely expensive.

    One kilogram of anhydrous alcohol requires about ten kilograms of grain raw materials to ferment. Ten kilograms of grain can almost buy a ton of coal in a coal-producing area like Black Flame City, and it can also be purchased in other places.  After buying hundreds of kilograms of coal, and adding that the combustion value of alcohol of the same weight is far lower than that of coal, the cost of using alcohol to produce the same combustion value is nearly a thousand times higher than the price of coal fuel.

    These many factors have made alcohol-fueled vehicles of this era truly expensive toys that only a few people can enjoy.

    Before the catastrophe, humans could still obtain alcohol through the chemical industry. However, with the depletion of oil and other resources and the arrival of the catastrophe, the only way for people to obtain alcohol in this era was the traditional grain fermentation method. In times of resource constraints,  In this era, many countries have even banned the production and sale of any power equipment that uses alcohol as fuel.

    However, there are also some weird countries, such as the mad emperor of the Holy Golden Orchid Empire - Haige VII, who once fantasized about building a powerful alcohol internal combustion engine to realize his dream of flying into the sky.

    I heard that before the Cataclysm, alcohol could indeed be used as fuel for the internal combustion engines of cars and airplanes. However, after the Cataclysm, just as the status and properties of many things have changed, the combustion value of alcohol has also become significantly lower, so  It cannot meet the requirements as a high-efficiency internal combustion engine fuel.

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    The Draco T9 is currently speeding on the road at a speed of more than 100 kilometers per hour. At this speed, the convertible sports car feels comfortable due to the speed, which makes Zhang Tie enjoy it very much.

    After leaving Qianlong Island, Zhang Tie felt that the money he earned had finally turned into money.

    On Qianlong Island, hundreds of thousands of gold coins were spent as soon as words were spoken, and it turned into a castle under construction. Every day, just tinkering with some potions and selling them would earn dozens or hundreds of gold coins.  This made Zhang Tie almost stop taking gold coins seriously.

    At this moment, driving this stylish sports car that was worth less than the high-end recovery potion he used for his brother, looking at the envious and jealous looks cast by the people and vehicles he met along the way,  Zhang Tie only has one feeling in his heart - it's great to have money!

    After leaving Qianlong Island, a few hundred gold coins can buy a cool sports car to play with. Two or three gold coins can allow you to stay comfortably in a city for a month without doing anything. A few hundred gold coins can buy you a cool sports car to play with.  Gold coins can buy a nice house, thousands of gold coins can buy a villa, more than ten silver coins can allow the family to enjoy a delicious meal, and dozens of silver coins can hire an ordinary worker

    All of this made Zhang Tie realize the magic of money again.

    The Stargazing City we are going to now is a place that vividly explains the magic of money. Here, money can even buy people. The value of a person here ranges from dozens to hundreds of gold coins.

    In Zhang Tie's pocket, Zhang Taibai handed him a gold ticket worth 20,000 gold coins after buying a jar of his full potion. This time he came to Stargazing City to buy people.

    After experiencing a crisis, for Zhang Tie, it was time to slowly turn his money into a strength that can intimidate others. Otherwise, the money will be of no use, and any rubbish he encounters will chase him.  Like a dog, if this happens again in the future, I will use my money to pile up those garbage.

    After driving for almost an hour, there were more and more billboards on both sides of the road. On those billboards, there were either beauties of various colors posing in sexy clothes, or various gambling equipment in the casino.  There are billboards every few hundred meters in various hotels, casinos, and casinos in Stargazing City.

    Of course, there is also the advertisement for the largest slave trading market in Stargazing City. The advertisement on the background with the outline of a special building has only one sentence - Lost Paradise, everything you need is available here.

    A pleasant roar of the engine came from behind. In just two or three seconds, a red sports car drove into the left lane of Zhang Tie Xianlongzuo T9, and the two sports cars drove side by side.

    Compared with the sharp-edged and masculine Dragon Zodiac T9, the lines of the red Red Rabbit sports car are more elegant and slender. People can tell at a glance that it is a car suitable for women. Driving a sports car  She is also a young beauty with short hair in her twenties.

    Zhang TieHe and the beautiful woman looked at each other.

    What Zhang Tie didn't expect was that the woman looked at him with disdain, and finally raised her chin towards him with a provocative look (To be continued. Please search Piao Tian Literature, novels  Better updates faster!)
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