Chapter 180 Strategic Adjustment, Talent Crisis
Eastern Continent.
Eternal Night Empire.
No. 1 Shipyard, it is already late at night, the factory is still brightly lit, and workers are busy moving through it. A large number of extraordinary experts cooperate with the command to accurately arrange heavy steel parts on the hull. superior.
Behemoths are being built one after another. These ships are more majestic and powerful than any previous ships in the empire. The cannons on the ships are also the latest development. They were just developed and were put on the ships after simple testing. The ship possesses extremely terrifying destructive power.
After these years of confrontation with the navy of the Hundred Nations Alliance, the navy of the Evernight Empire has been fully developed. This development is not only reflected in the technology of naval warfare, but also in the replacement of ships.
There is a saying that war is the most effective technological catalyst.
In the constant battle, both sides aim to kill their opponents, and if they don't want to die, they can only progress and develop.
The oppression of death is very strong, so the speed of development is also very fast.
In the beginning, the navy of the Hundred Nations Alliance had a suppressive power on the Eternal Night Empire. After all, they have been developing for so many years, so it is strange that they cannot suppress it.
However, the Eternal Night Empire implements a mixed navy, and the naval ships cannot compare with it, so it is better than others. Relying on the large-scale sea troops, the Imperial Navy has flattened the gap between the two sides, and even carried out counter-suppression.
After learning that the Eternal Night Empire had a large number of sea warriors, the Hundred Nations Alliance was not a fool. They immediately developed various new weapons and formed a new naval fleet, using a more conservative style of play.
At this point, in the naval battle, they also fell into a war of attrition.
In the process of consumption, the Eternal Night Empire was able to absorb the essence accumulated by the navy of the Hundred Nations Alliance over the years, thereby quickly improving its own naval construction and saving a lot of time.
To be honest, Su Xingyu is not very interested in the navy.
Because this world is a little different. Regardless of the two major forces in this plane, the Hundred Nations Alliance and the Blood Empire, he has not solved it yet, but that is only a matter of time.
As mentioned before, the pace of unifying this plane may be slower, but it is definitely moving forward firmly.
So his opponents have never fought not with the natives of this plane, but with the void plane outside, or with other players. In this case, the significance of developing a navy is not very great.
After all, you can’t go on an expedition with a naval fleet, right?
That’s outrageous.
What's more, even if it can be used, it will not be of much use.
Without the support of the logistics system, the strength of the naval fleet will be greatly reduced.
So in terms of cost performance, the significance of developing a naval fleet is really not as good as developing a sea kingdom.
But...
From the empire's perspective, things are not that simple.
Pursue an overall strong empire and do not allow yourself to leave such obvious shortcomings.
Therefore, the naval fleet does not need to be used, but it must be available, so we can only bite the bullet and allocate part of the resources for development.
In a relatively quiet workshop.
A group of engineers with short hair and gray faces are discussing.
“The overall performance of the third-generation naval warship is about 70% higher than that of the second-generation, and the effective range has reached 100 kilometers. It is much more powerful than the previous castrated version. It can be said to be truly super-sighted. The distance hit.”
"It's amazing. It's worth spending so much time to improve, and finally we have a workable answer sheet."
"Yes, if we don't produce some results, I'm afraid the financial officer will cut us off." "Haha, you don't know. When the boss went to apply for funds a few days ago, the financial officer's face turned dark."
"With these three generations of warships. The navy of the Hundred Nations Alliance is not a problem. Even without the Naga Kingdom's sea army, we can defeat them. When the time comes to completely block the routes of the Northern Continent, I would like to see if they lose the maritime logistics support. How to fight us?”
“Don’t talk too much. I think we should increase the production first. Otherwise, no matter how powerful the performance and quantity of these ships are, they will not be enough to fill the gap in the enemy. . ”
“Indeed, production must be increased. The fleet has not formed a scale and has a shitty combat effectiveness. If we build hundreds of ships and a linkage magic array, even if the demigods come, it will be useless. You have to lie down."
"Stop dreaming. Producing hundreds of ships? A third-generation warship requires a ninth-order crystal core as the core, and countless other materials. The financial officer is crazy. I will allow you to build it like this. According to my estimation, it will only last a few dozen ships."
"Alas, the empire has been expanding half a plane recently, and it has gained a lot of resources, but the harvest is huge and consumed. It’s also big. The army is still the main force of the empire. It’s good for our navy to get a piece of meat.”
An engineer who looked a little old smiled and said: “To be honest, we still have to. Thank you to the Hundred Nations Alliance. If it weren’t for their good naval strength, I guess the empire would not even think of us.”
“Hey, we must thank you...defeat them and integrate and inherit their technology.” , is the best thank you to them.”
"Although there are fewer dozens of ships, they are enough to serve as the vanguard. Let's apply jointly. If nothing else happens, this should be the largest amount of funding we can get in the near future."
"Okay."
"Hurry up, time waits for no one."
"I can't wait to see their power."
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Eternal Night City.
Presbyterian House.
Sitting on the first seat, Ye San took out a document, looked at the elders, and said lightly:
"War Zone 11 has basically been captured. Next, we need to send a People will sit there on behalf of the empire to ensure the interests of the citizens of the empire. Do you have any good candidates? ”
The Yongye Empire has been advancing smoothly in the northern continent, expanding its territory countless times, and now has captured nearly 1/6 of the land.
However, it is easy to acquire a piece of land, but the subsequent management is difficult.
Especially now that the Hundred Nations Alliance has not fallen and is still resisting, resistance armies will appear from time to time in those empire-occupied areas.
Under the strict supervision of the Evernight Empire, these resistance forces are not strong, but they are particularly annoying.
It's like a mosquito in summer, always buzzing in your ears and stinging from time to time. It's not harmful, but it's extremely annoying.
So after capturing an area, a governor from the Evernight Empire would go over to re-govern it, restore local production, and maintain security there as much as possible.
Due to wartime regulations, these governors had great power. After all, the Northern Continent is too far away from the empire. Even if there is a special communication method, it will take several days for a message to be sent back and forth. Therefore, if you want to govern well, you must delegate power.
In the local area, the governors of the occupied areas can be said to be like Turkish emperors. They can even adjust their own strategies based on local conditions.
There is nothing we can do about it.
Rules are dead, people are alive.
This rule has been implemented well in other places, but it does not mean that it can also be implemented here.
Adapt measures to local conditions and formulate different local strategies according to different environments.
From any other perspective, being the governor of an occupied territory is a fat job.
But at this moment, facing the consul's inquiry, everyone below bowed their heads and remained silent.
They have no choice in their minds.
Ye San tapped his fingers on the side and looked at the elders with a headache. "If you push someone out, the pace of empire expansion will not slow down. The rear must be stabilized no matter what. If there is no candidate, then just It’s up to you to do it yourself.”
While expanding the territory of the empire, conquering planes, and managing the development of the empire, all of them need people, which makes the empire once again fall into the problem of population shortage.
The rapidly expanding territory and the huge population attached to it have once again overwhelmed the Evernight Empire.
For those surrendered areas, they can implement the policy of settling the religious cult, changing their beliefs, and slowly transforming the people of the kingdom. With the help of the surrender faction, this policy is going very smoothly and will not take many years. , the local people will submit to the empire.
But it is not possible to capture areas. Bandits, rebels, resistance forces and other troubles, even if the empire supports a puppet, it will be useless. Civil and military forces must come together.
The problem is that people who can manage such a large area at the same time are first-class talents no matter where they are placed.
The empire itself is somewhat short of such talents, and has no spare capacity to support and manage the occupied areas.
"Your Majesty, now that the empire is building affiliated kingdoms and expanding its planes, manpower is needed everywhere. We can no longer squeeze out other teams." Seeing that everyone was silent, an elder with gray hair , I have to say.
As soon as he spoke, the others immediately echoed:
"Yes, yes, I really can't hold it anymore. All the people the empire can send out, even Those students who have just graduated and have no internship experience have also been sent out. We really have no one to use.”
“We don’t want to slow down the pace of expansion, after all, if the Hundred Nations Alliance can survive. At this tone, after integrating internal forces, the trouble will be even greater. But if we continue like this, we will have to mobilize internal talents, and local development will be affected..."
"If it doesn't work, we will just have to deploy internal talents. If we can lower the local policy standards, we can select managers directly from the local area, and then we can make other arrangements for the local people after we have calmed down."
"I agree, they are already living well. Not so good, so what if they have to suffer for a while? And it’s not that hard. Compared with the Kingdom’s rule, their life has been pretty good since we took over.”
“Yes, compare it to the Northern Kingdom. Even if those gentlemen’s policies lower the standards, we are still benevolent and worthy of them.”
Everyone was talking, and the elders' house instantly became lively. They expressed their opinions, and they probably had the same idea, no.
We can no longer provide external support. If we continue like this, the development of the empire will be affected.
In the perception of the citizens of the Evernight Empire, there are high and low levels of life in the world. The empire headquarters, affiliated kingdoms, surrendered forces, and other forces, and those kingdoms that were captured are among the lowest. other forces.
They have not been included in the system of the Evernight Empire and are still outsiders.
So when they affect the development of the empire, the elders will abandon them without hesitation.
After all, there is no reason to sacrifice one's own development to support outsiders. Isn't this pure nonsense?
Looking at everyone, Ye San frowned slightly and sighed secretly in his heart, feeling a little weak.
The expansion of the empire's territory will be beneficial to the entire empire. The elders are not short-sighted people, and they naturally understand this truth.
Therefore, the opinions they put forward did not slow down the expansion.
The opinion that the elders want to express is very simple, that is, to lower the standards for capturing the area. There is no need to be sound in everything. It is enough to maintain the lowest stability and not affect the frontline operations.
After all, you are not a citizen of the empire, so if your life is difficult, just be miserable.
Yesan naturally understands what they mean. In fact, this is also the best solution at present. After all, the empire really has no people left. If you don’t want to slow down its expansion, you can only do this. But in this way Come, it goes against the empire's long-standing principles.
"Your Majesty, the empire's foreign policy is too benevolent. Maybe it's time to make some changes." An upright man, an elder belonging to the Knights, said: "For those who have joined Yongye People, there is nothing to say. I agree to help them. After all, we are all one family. But why do those rebellious guys enjoy the preferential treatment of the empire?"
"I agree with the seventh elder. The idea is that in the past, the empire had abundant resources, so it could only be managed if it didn’t lack that much. Now, if we continue to support it, the empire will be affected. Is it really worth it?” br>
"Your Majesty, please think again..."
Other elders also spoke out one after another. Although their words were slightly different, they expressed the same meaning, lowering the standards of the people of the kingdom. Don't let outsiders interfere with your own development.
Ye San sat in the front seat, lost in thought. After a long time, he said: "Since the opinions are not unanimous, let's discuss this matter in three days."
Lowering standards does not mean What harm will it bring, at least we can't see it in the short term.
But Ye San's intuition told him that this matter was not that simple, so although all the elders objected, he did not agree immediately. Instead, he used the dragging technique and prepared to find someone to discuss it. Think clearly before speaking.
“As you command.”
"That's fine."
Seeing this, the elders could only nod in agreement. No matter what, Ye San was the consul.
Soon, the conference ended.
Ye San left the Presbytery, got on the carriage, and headed towards the temple.
When we arrived in front of the temple, there was a young priest waiting outside. When he saw Ye San approaching, he immediately stepped forward, bowed and said, "Your Majesty, the high priest invites you."
Ye San was not surprised why the other party knew that he would come, and told the guards behind him: "You guys wait here."
"Yes." The guards were a little disappointed that they could not enter the temple, but they still responded respectfully. .
Following the priest, Ye San walked into the temple.
Two and a half days later, Ye San walked out of the temple with a smile on his face. It was obvious that he was very satisfied with the conversation.
(End of this chapter)