Chapter 7.34 The New God's Cooperation and Competition
In the 89th year of Fengfu Li, three new forces on the mainland signed the "Meridian Treaty" around the newly built Meridian Railway line.
"Meridian" is a line of longitude. It is a line of great significance for planning the longitude and latitude of the earth after humans in the main world entered the Age of Enlightenment. The delineation of the "prime meridian" is a supreme honor for the country that initiated the Industrial Revolution.
On the Fengfu Continent, it is reasonable to set the "prime meridian" based on the first railway that runs from north to south.
After the division of this line, "science", "industry", and "machinery" were joint actions for the first time. It was also a clear manifestation of the competition between the three.
At the southernmost tip of Fengfu Continent, a large number of warships began to gather,
In the most prosperous commercial port, amid sharp slogans, a large number of soldiers wearing khaki cloth began to board the troop transport, and further away, there were warships with towers and bridges holding cannons as thick as an arms length.
Tube.
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On the largest battleship, the Mutsu with a standard displacement of 35,000 tons. One of the fifteen incarnations of Yamasada, an admiral, stood on the bridge, reviewing his strength.
In front of Shanzada's gaze, the bright Chamber of Commerce flags were flying in the port square, and amid the familiar naval military music, the energetic navy officers in the port began to gather.
Shan Zhen's memory couldn't help but return to the historical line where he was born.
However, when I thought about that historical line, my country, as a maritime country, declined after its re-emergence on the World Island. I sighed helplessly.
Yamazada held up the wine glass with white gloves and murmured: "Science and industry can only stand on one side." Choosing a side between East and West is a problem for every Neon person.
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Due to recent history, technology and industry broke out from the West.
The Eastern Chinese system is an ancient civilization that has been passed down for thousands of years. It is a tenacious self-sustaining civilization. It is not easy to let the moral system completely return to zero (Yidi who drink hair and drink blood).
However, this stubborn self-sustainment ultimately made it difficult for it to break through its philosophical system before the industrial revolution.
As a fringe civilization, Neon does not have as deep a foundation as China and does not want to perish under the wheel of Western expansion. It will become the "bat" in the camp of Eastern and Western civilizations.
However, as Eastern civilization breaks out of the dead cycle of philosophy and understands science and technology correctly and objectively, post-industrial development shows strong potential for development, and its own social ideological system also bursts with vitality.
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In Shanzhen's historical line, when the Asian empire was in deep trouble, he was an "Eastern returnist".
After the second industrial revolution, when it was difficult to break through the third technological revolution, everything Nihong learned from the West along the historical line of Yamazada was difficult to use in maintaining a huge multi-ethnic country. It could only be used to maintain a huge multi-ethnic country.
Turn around and look for the Confucian system.
However, there are "Eastern returnists", and there are also "Albinoists" who continue to be friendly to Europe, that is, they are pursuing the idea of Germany's superior race, and the "Albinoists" are the people in the Imperial Army who are obsessed with old horse shit in the early 20th century.
He insists on the "Great Harmony" and insists on further subdividing the races within Asia.
The "Oriental returnists" believe that it is precisely because of the "Albinoists" brain-feeding behavior that the Asian empires can only control the Jiangnan, Guangdong and Guangxi, and the Bohai area at most, and cannot solve the resistance in Gansu, Shaanxi, Henan, Sichuan and other vast areas.
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The resistance on the East Asian continent is different from Europe, where there are multiple batches and small groups of resistance forces. Instead, it is a truly unified organization that spans millions of square kilometers. This is a characteristic of Eastern civilization. Compared with the independent fighting of European resistance organizations,
, Eastern unscrupulous people can always get together and do something big.
And in terms of technology, these rebels who occupy the second step with their backs on the plateau and launch counterattacks against the empire from west to east are not alone.
After Germany completed its comprehensive suppression of Europe, a large number of former Eastern European scientists and technicians ran into the caves and translated countless technical drawings and parameters into square characters. A true global proletarian union.
This resulted in the Asian Empire falling behind the Eastern Rebel Army in terms of excellent light infantry and ground artillery coordination in the later period.
On the black soil in the north, the gang of Malu who hugged geishas every day, degenerated, and were called the flowers of the empire, but in fact were unbearable. They perfectly stepped on the avalanche of combat power in the later stages of countless small dynasties (Jin, Liao, and Yuan) in China for five thousand years.
The big pit.
Among the countless defeats in the later period, the one that most severely dampened the confidence of scholars on the mainland of the Empire was: the long-established 5th and 6th Tank Divisions were directly surrounded and annihilated in Fengtian, and the Imperial Navy bombarded Tashan for four days.
For four nights, the rescue channel could not be opened.
So before the soul is packaged.
Yamazada lamented the decline of cherry blossoms, lamenting the ideological divisions of the Asian empires, which made Neon lose the only chance to become the protagonist. Of course, after learning more about the historical line, he saw the worse future of the main world (for him,
If neon becomes the dog of the United States, it will be a worse future).
He could only acquiesce in the acquiescence that the protagonists of the earth's civilization are the Eastern and Western civilizations of the World Island, and Neon's ultimate fate can only be to choose one of them to integrate.
Oh, this moment is just like that moment.
In this different world, "technology" and "industry" are the strong ones in a peer-to-peer competition, while machinery is the middle-of-the-road struggle.
Shanzada doesn't know what her long-term goal is, she just needs to do something. Pretend that she knows the goal. Well, act more enthusiastic.
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‘Machine’ is running mechanically, while ‘industry’ and ‘science’ are both checking and predicting the situation of ‘machine’.
The Southern Chamber of Commerce, these colonial troops summoned from the countryside, hold muskets from the Northern Territory in 1981
This firearm uses 20 mm caliber low-velocity heavy ammunition. As for these soldiers holding muskets, their training level is equivalent to the militia of the Northern Territory five years ago.
The bullet's range can kill unarmored targets at a distance of two hundred meters. It can basically achieve the effectiveness of an archer.
The soldiers in these troop carriers were bankrupt farmers and unemployed people from all over the southern part of the main continent a year ago.
Industrial finished muskets and bullets speed up the cultivation of this type of standard long-range troops.
Please note: Fast training equals low cost. The cost not only depends on the equipment price and training consumption, but also comprehensive social costs.
It takes two to three years to train an archer, so the lord cannot give up such an archer casually. He needs to continue to be responsible for the archer's livelihood and let him become a soldier out of work.
The Musketeers can form an army within three months if they receive sufficient food, strict discipline, and live-fire drills. Then after the war, they can be quickly disbanded and sent back to society to serve as a prime-age labor force. No need.
Bear maintenance costs.
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The north is the region with the highest popularity of basic natural education, and there is no such militia anymore. In the Red Sun game, United Industries has very high requirements for manpower quality for combat readiness.
With the productivity of northern industry, instead of wasting economic potential by creating such a militia, it is better to popularize education.
The reservists who receive public support in the United Industry must know more than a hundred runes and must pass the assessment before they can stay in the job.
The gunpowder weapons operated by such reserves were all rapid-fire weapons such as the "Chicago Typewriter".
As for the regular troops in the Northern Territory, all regular troops have popularized the "Shoulder Cannon Magnetic Energy Metal Spear Energy Shield"
Shoulder Cannon: On the frame of the whole body exoskeleton, a two-ring energy beam energy weapon is installed on the shoulder.
Magnetic metal spear: This is a weapon like a baton in the restrained state. With a swish, it unfolds like a tape measure and ejects to a length of eight meters, but it is different from the main world material. This weapon is instantly strengthened by a "magnetic field"
"Within five seconds of unfolding, it is very hard. It is similar to a three-ring strengthening technique. Holding this thing against light infantry of the same level is like the A4 paper in the main world folded into spikes that can pierce a can.
Energy shield: The same principle as the magnetic energy metal spear. The material is also very small and is strengthened and expanded under the action of energy. A translucent shield with a diameter of 1.5 meters is formed on the arm.
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The Southern Chamber of Commerce, which has a "mechanical" base, obviously cannot be as heroic as the two major powers in the north. It can only choose armed forces that are relatively cost-effective, but are actually backward, and carry out poor imperialism against the even more backward southern continent.
Regarding the fact that southern businessmen were able to launch expeditions by picking up second-hand equipment, the generals of the Northern Industrial Party who held mechanized troops were unwilling to accept it.
The thoughts of these will-o'-the-wisp boys back then are now: The equipment here is so good, but it cannot be moved due to the situation, but the south side can use the equipment we have eliminated, but it can leverage the situation.
Similarly, some arcane generals in the Alliance of Truth have the same idea.
In terms of tactical magic cannons, the giant cannons installed on battleships like the Southern Chamber of Commerce are all second-rate and first-rate high-energy magic cannons, all of which are on standby at key fortress positions.
There are space teleportation arrays (quantum channels) between the fortresses of the Alliance of Truth, and the magic cannon can be teleported in various positions.
In terms of vehicles, the Truth Alliance has studied suspended battleships, which are probably more than 6,000 tons each and can allow two to three magic cannons to fire on such a battleship.
The average price of one ship is 100,000 gold coins! The Xuan'ao Alliance's economy has made great progress, but the annual tax is calculated in terms of gold coins, which is more than 8 to 9 million, which can only maintain five ships. (United Industries)
The total fiscal revenue is 30 million.)
It can be seen that the Truth Alliance is also wary of an "imaginary enemy".
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In the calculation of 'technology', 'industry' is now too powerful and unbalanced.
The industrial party's economic scale is three times that of the Truth Alliance. It uses huge steel and accumulated heavy mechanized troops. This is definitely not something that the Truth Alliance can clear out with a wave of battle arcane weapons.
High technology can use quality to suppress quantity, but Wei Keng is so vigorously pursuing it that the quality advantage of "science" may not necessarily suppress the quantity advantage of "industry".
Last year, the Truth Alliance obtained the Northern Territory's main battle armor through special channels, a 250-ton "Heavy Knight (Iron Buddha)" heavy-armored tank.
It uses a triple turret, adhering to the requirement that large caliber is the truth, and the rune tungsten bullets with the "penetration and penetration" effect are enough to smash through any castle fortress in the Xuanao Alliance.
At the armor level, the composite structure of electromagnetic shield, ceramics, and steel armor is densely packed with protective runes. The overall structure can withstand more than three rounds of high-level magic cannons.
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Moreover, the organizational capabilities of the industrial party need to be considered in the confrontation, in addition to technical and economic factors.
In the year 2284 of the Fengfu calendar, in order to build suspended warships, the Xuan'ao Alliance came up with the "ground suspension theory", which means that the ground airflow can form liquid rigidity under the power-shaping spell, allowing large vehicles to sail on dry land.
Caret's United Industries was very fast, and also introduced this technology, and went through special efforts to solve the problem.
This technology of United Industries is not used on large suspended vehicles. Instead, a special tactical paving team has been set up. A group of lightly armed combat vehicles with only about five tons are used to cast spells on the road while driving, allowing the road airflow to temporarily appear. "
The effect of the "rigid" air shaft is like "roller air columns" appearing on the road, which can support the "sliding" of heavy units.
Therefore, the heavy armored cluster of United Industries can be strategically maneuvered. It is self-evident who is planning such a strategic capability.
United Industries can consume 30 tons of coal-fired electricity every 50 kilometers on low-standard roads or even plains to temporarily levitate the road, allowing a brigade of more than 20 "Heavy Knights" to just go from there.
Sliding action on the road.
The three major armies of the Industrial Party maintain a total of about 800,900 "Heavy Knights". During the Red Sun exercise, they also practiced moving southward on multiple routes at the same time to fight against the possibility of armed invasion by the "blue army imaginary enemy". The scene was like a sandstorm going south.
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Nowadays, "industry" and "science" are competing. If the pattern of World War I is followed, and both sides make a large number of military allies, the entire Fengfu Continent will definitely start a war.
However, Caret's strategy is very conservative. It does not provide military protection to the southern trading parties and has no substantial military allies. It seems that it is alone, but it also reduces the risk of being passively involved in the war. In essence, it is a selective participation in the war.
freedom (don’t say it’s unforeseen)
Sainz, who was also born in the main world, also has profound historical memories of this.
After all, after the end of modern history, the Mediterranean civilization and the Great River civilization have collided many times, and we have learned about both sides.
He also curbed the possibility of the hawks on the Xuan'ao Alliance side playing military cards against the north.
Once you are affected by a hot-spot event and are forced to play the military card, it is very likely that you will be suddenly eaten up by Eastern strategists at the wrong time and in the wrong place.
This will have a cascading effect on the region, which will be like a domino and have severe negative effects.
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All in all, Sainz was also helpless by Wei Keng.
"Science, industry, and machinery" should maintain a delicate balance when developing
Sainz's point of view: Only if his own camp shows a delicate balance, the gods will not dare to act rashly. As long as the gods do not act in the short term, the future will belong to the new gods. But this balance must be grasped by oneself.
Sainz has completed internet technology between the arcanist towers,
And this kind of Internet has begun to spread downwards, and mutual exchanges in the information age have seen a large-scale new extension of information. This massive information proliferation has already appeared in the etheric world, making the growth of the etheric world a hundred times higher than at any time in the past.
In this way, in the future civilization, technology will lead the proliferation of information under the virtual network, allowing the Fengfu Planet to grow into a high-end belief planet.
The more I think about this, the more I believe in it. Building several large-scale game worlds such as "World of Warcraft and Sword Network" will last for hundreds of years. With the explosion of information, the thickness of the ethereal world may be only
A large world no less than a multi-level dungeon.
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When preparing to do this task, Sainz had already conceived the development of the situation:
Industry provides the material basis for maintaining reality after informatization.
The machine controls the most ruthless cold power and outputs symbols outward.
And be "scientific" yourself, master the source, and steer the development.
Once the new era is completed, the old gods can be overthrown. The concepts of the old gods will be washed away by a large number of new concepts. Only the gods in charge of basic concepts such as goods trade, night and dawn will be spared.
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In this plan, Sainz set "science" as the dominant position, chose the "science" godhead, and then used skills to win over and build an alliance.
You know, before sending the invitation letter to Wei Keng, he took Shan Zhen as his ally first.
[Sainz has always been wary of the possibility of Wei Keng's alliance with Shan Zhen, as both parties are from the Oriental system. Well, in fact, Bai Linglu really has this consideration. Mr. Wei insists on "Sun Yamamoto Sage"
", exclude neon when making plans.]
When Sainz determined that "Industry" was isolated, he thought he was sure of victory.
But he never expected that this "industrial" development, as a "high-end arcane field crusher, would move forward too fast." Narrator: From Wei Keng's perspective, he is always catching up, so he must be modest and cautious.
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Sainz found "Carrette" to be more difficult to handle than he thought.
He began to re-evaluate 'Carrette' and found that this competitor could not be won by small means. He was quite independent.
Sainz looked back and recalled that in the first meeting, he was not able to get Wei Keng to obey his strategy at all. And the subsequent development was always unambiguous in the competition in various major fields. (Humble evaluation of Bai Linglu team)
:Although he is very troublesome, he will never lose his points.)
Nowadays, "industry" has directly built the Meridian Railway line southward, connecting it with the mainland, dumping a large number of basic consumer goods, and accelerating the flow of technology to the north.
Sainz fell into passivity. The 'scientific' leadership was oppressed by the power of the 'industrial' backbone.
Militarily, the offensive technologies developed by the Truth Alliance encountered mutual deterrence from the "industrialized combat readiness counterattack system" established by United Industries, and the military card could not be played.
And economically! The Xuan'ao Alliance is at a disadvantage. Yes, Sainz has to admit that the Eastern industrial concept is more comprehensive in the planning of the total production chain.
He calculated it in a mathematical formula. As long as there are no major changes, "science" can attract one percent of the population on Fengfu Continent, and "industry" can mobilize the remaining 80% of the population.
Even if one percent of the elite population breaks through to a high-level mage (seventh ring), the probability is seven times that of the "industrial" side.
The total value controlled by the Xuan'ao Alliance in the labor value-added chain still cannot reach one-third of the value chain controlled by a comprehensive education system like United Industry.
Dongfang Industrial's concept of large-scale collaboration allows "quantity" to triumph over "quality."
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Therefore, if ‘science’ wants to break the situation, it can only play the resource card.
But it cannot be played by the Xuanao Alliance. Instead, the "machine" can be used as an agent to play this card.
Occupy the south, control more and broader resource chains, and exert influence on industry from upstream high-tech and resources. But these war materials still have to be purchased from ‘industry’.