Immortal Artifacts

"Xia Ren (Shrimp)?"

Qin Ning was puzzled, "Is there some story behind this name?"

"Young Master Qin, you don't know?"

Xia Fei asked in return, "It's the saying 'an iron-clad Xia Ren (Shrimp), a flowing feudal dynasty.' Legend has it that there was a time traveler in the Great Ming named Xia Ren (Shrimp). Sometimes he is Zhu Yuntong, sometimes Zhu Yunwen, sometimes Zhu Xiongying. He even occasionally appears in the Great Tang, Great Qin, and so on."

"..."

Qin Ning was speechless. "Have you gone crazy from reading too many novels?"

Too lazy to waste words on him, Qin Ning directly took Xia Fei and left the place.

When the two reappeared, they arrived at a cultivation base in the suburbs of the capital.

Here stood a massive portal leading to the Great Tang. From time to time, figures could be seen going in and out, or large machines and equipment were being transported back and forth.

Qin Ning didn't waste any time. He took out some spirit stones and quickly constructed a portal leading to the Hongwu era of the Great Ming.

During this time, Xia Fei had already communicated with some personnel in the base, asking them to prepare some equipment that he would take to the Great Ming later.

"Let's go."

Qin Ning spoke, then had someone put Xia Fei's prepared equipment into the portal before walking in himself with Xia Fei.

"Buzz!"

Xia Fei only felt a wave of weightlessness wash over him, and a flash of white crossed his eyes.

But this feeling did not last for long.

When his vision recovered, he looked around. The sky and environment here were already completely different.

The two of them had arrived in the wilderness—more accurately, a clearing in the mountains.

Surrounding the clearing, many armored and armed ancient soldiers were standing guard. Not far ahead, a middle-aged man wearing a dragon robe could be seen; it was none other than Zhu Yuanzhang, along with Hu Weiyong, Li Shanchang, Xu Da, and others.

"Mr. Qin."

Zhu Yuanzhang immediately came forward with the others to greet them.

"This is the first batch of equipment we brought over. The quantity isn't large, and we'll send more later. It mainly consists of walkie-talkies and radios. Each unit comes with a solar panel and a hand-crank generator, so charging won't be a problem. There are also some solar-powered lights. Have someone install them on the streets of Yingtian Prefecture later, and they can be used for illumination at night," Qin Ning said.

Then, he introduced Xia Fei, "This is the founding emperor of the Great Ming, Zhu Yuanzhang."

"Hello, Old Zhu. I'm Xia Fei, just call me Little Xia, or you can call me Xia Ren (Shrimp)," Xia Fei said with a smile, extending his hand.

Old Zhu knew this was the handshake greeting of later generations, so he enthusiastically reached out his hand and said, "Mr. Xia is too polite. Our Great Ming will need your guidance and care in the future."

Before long, people began to emerge from the portal one after another. They were all personnel sent by the base to help build the Great Ming.

Earlier, after the portal to the Great Tang was built, the base had specially set up a training class, mostly consisting of talents from various fields selected from the military.

The people in this training class were originally supposed to go to the Great Tang to help with construction after finishing their training.

But now that the portal to the Great Ming was connected, Qin Ning specifically had some of them come here first for practical experience.

While participating in the training class, everyone naturally already knew about time travel, but they had never actually experienced it.

At this moment, seeing that they had walked through the portal and truly arrived in an unfamiliar ancient era, they couldn't help but feel amazed.

Most of the first batch of people who came over were electrical engineering professionals, including a few exploration personnel responsible for surveying tasks before the construction of hydropower and wind power facilities.

"Later, take these lights to the city and install them. Since we are just starting, there's no need to install them too densely. Just put one up every two hundred meters for now. We can add more later when more solar lights are sent over."

Xia Fei had someone drive over a few tricycles, loaded the solar equipment onto them, and transported them into the city.

Then he looked at Zhu Yuanzhang again. "Old Zhu, have the people participating in the studies been selected? Later, I will have people come here to build a school. It will only take a few days to finish, so for the first few days, you need to find a place and clear it out for us to use as a classroom."

"The first batch of students has basically been selected, and the place can be cleared out shortly," Zhu Yuanzhang said.

He knew these were top priorities for developing the Great Ming, so he didn't slack off and had already ordered people to arrange it early on.

"Mr. Xia, besides the various professional knowledge of later generations, do you also provide military training?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

Hearing this, Xia Fei froze for a moment. "There are no arrangements for that, but if you want it, I can certainly arrange for someone to come over and teach."

"Good, good, good."

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled. "Then I'll trouble Mr. Xia. Military education naturally needs to be arranged as well."

Saying that, he turned to look at a few young figures in the distance. "The fourth son, Jiujiang, Lan Yu, come here."

Hearing this, the three immediately came over.

"Great-uncle, I don't want to study. I just want to go to the battlefield and achieve the glory of sealing the Wolf Mountain. I, Li Jinglong, am the God of War of the Great Ming, born for the battlefield," Li Jinglong said.

Earlier, the three of them had heard the conversation between Zhu Yuanzhang and Xia Fei from a distance.

"What's the rush? There will be plenty of battles for you to fight in the future. For now, focus on learning the military knowledge of the later generations properly. We will have the teachers assess you regularly. If you fail, don't blame me for whipping you!" Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly.

"Your Majesty, I wonder what all these things on the ground are?"

At this time, Xu Da, Li Shanchang, and the others were curiously examining the walkie-talkies, radios, and similar items on the ground.

"These are walkie-talkies."

Qin Ning casually picked up two and handed one to Xia Fei, telling him to run far away.

"Young Master Qin, Young Master Qin, this is Xia Fei, can you hear me? Over..."

Under the astonished and incredulous expressions of Lan Yu and the others, Xia Fei's voice came out of the walkie-talkie in Qin Ning's hand.

Everyone immediately stood frozen on the spot.

Xu Da said excitedly, "This item... this item can actually allow people to converse across a distance? If this were used in the military..."

"I can hear you, come back."

Qin Ning spoke into the walkie-talkie.

After Xia Fei returned, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately couldn't help but ask, "Sir, I wonder how far this walkie-talkie can allow people to speak to each other?"

Xia Fei thought carefully and then said, "In open areas, this thing can transmit quite far. Moreover, there is no various interference here in the Great Ming. The range can probably reach about a hundred miles."

A hundred miles!

As soon as he said this, everyone was shocked.

Originally, they thought that if this thing could reach a range of one mile, it would be practical enough.

How could they dare to imagine that its range could actually reach a hundred miles!

"An immortal artifact!"

Lan Yu said excitedly, "Your Majesty, this is definitely an immortal artifact!"

"Sigh, it's just a walkie-talkie, don't get too excited. Besides, a range of a hundred miles is still too small and not convenient enough. You should know that our mobile phones in the later generations can make real-time calls within a range of ten thousand miles," Xia Fei laughed.