Another worker who was mixing cement was also very dissatisfied with this repetitive work. He nodded and summed it up in one word: "It wastes people and money!"
Yes, in his opinion, this is a waste of time, a waste of people and money. Because no matter what they do, they will fall into passivity when facing the Tang Empire.
No way, those stories that promote the use of old-fashioned equipment to defeat powerful enemies are actually just to cheer themselves up when they are unable to improve their own backwardness in weapons and equipment technology.
It is one skill to enable soldiers to defeat strong enemies with millet and rifles. It is another skill to equip soldiers with aircraft and cannons to face strong enemies. The best situation is actually "I want them all" rather than making a choice.
Are the planes of the Lines Empire more advanced than the planes of the Tang Empire? No one would think so. Everyone knows that the planes equipped by the Lines Empire are just junk that the Datang Empire does not want.
But those in power always have an illusion. They always feel that the gap between their own aircraft and those owned by the Tang Empire may not be as big as imagined.
In other words, they actually know, but are unwilling to admit this fact: If a person can only say that guns are inferior to men and cannons are inferior to men, and the country will be destroyed if they fight, he is definitely not a qualified ruler.
Therefore, even if they bite the bullet, other countries can only try their best to catch up with the progress of the Tang Empire and dare not easily fall behind in technology.
There is no way, if the gap really widens, they will feel even more uncomfortable when the time comes: theoretically speaking, the advanced weapons and equipment of the Tang Empire are expensive, and it may be more cost-effective to consume them with a large number of worthless targets in a fight.
But actually think about it the other way around, who is willing to use a weapon that is several generations behind to attract the enemy's firepower? By then, more people will die and everyone will be afraid, so there will be no need to resist.
When casualties are too heavy, the troops will collapse and surrender without hesitation... The war may be ended within a few days, and the lagging side will obviously be the one to be ended.
Under such circumstances, the rulers have no way to pin their own survival on the affordability of cheap troops.
So they could only keep following up and step into the trap of the Tang Empire. Because this was basically a conspiracy and no one could reverse the trend.
Just like in modern times, everyone knows that if everyone destroys their weapons, the burden on the country of abolishing the army will be less, but no one is willing to do this. The arms race is still circulating, and no one wants to fall behind.
"When will this kind of life end?" The worker who spoke first continued to sigh. He really didn't want to take a job in the army anymore. He was given less money and had more things to do.
What must comply with a certain standard, how much steel bars should be used, how much cement should be used, there are strict requirements. In some places, it even needs to be watered repeatedly to build a mountain with cement...
In order to deal with the weapons of the Tang Empire, some countries are digging caves, and some countries are building cement hangars. In short, everyone is very busy.
"There is no head, unless... the Tang people come over..." Another worker spoke very boldly, but his voice was very low, and he looked left and right while speaking, obviously he was also nervous.
"Sigh... This was the Royal City earlier, but later it was renamed Yucheng. You are a foreigner and you don't know, but our life was very good at that time." The worker on the opposite side didn't care about that and said directly.
Recalling the days before, he was really sighing. If he had known that life would get worse and worse if he stayed here, he might as well have followed the Datang Group to leave his hometown and go to Longdao like his neighbors who left.
I heard that life there is very good. Apart from not allowing people to leave the island easily, life there can be said to be a paradise.
Unfortunately, they were all just heard. After the Tang Empire completely sealed off Dragon Island and prohibited ships from other countries from approaching it, he never heard about it again.
Naturally, he didn't know that rockets could be seen taking off almost every day. People there had gradually begun to popularize mobile phones. Naturally, he didn't know that there were huge aircraft carriers parked in the ports over there, and other aircraft flying in the sky.
The place has never seen a jet aircraft.
The level of construction of the Tang Empire has far exceeded the imagination of other countries. Many flights connecting the empire have been replaced by jet airliners, which is something other countries simply cannot do.
Although the Tang Empire is also constantly exporting jet airliners, such aircraft are still rare luxury items in other countries, but in the Tang Empire, they are already standard equipment at most airports.
"The money we earned back then allowed us to eat meat every day... Now that we don't make much money, we can't eat meat anymore... Sigh." The worker who felt more and more miserable sighed as he thought about it more, not caring whether there was anyone around him who could.
Hear your own complaints.
This kind of thing was already a daily routine for the aborigines in the areas controlled by the Datang Group. They chose to stay instead of leaving their hometowns with the Datang Group. Now that they are fine, they really regret it.
If I had known that the nobles of the Lions Empire were so ugly, if I had known that the expelled landowners and gentry would be worse when they came back, they would not have the so-called homesickness.
Unfortunately, there is no what if in this world. Datang Group left and established a huge empire on another continent.
And they stayed, suffering hardship in the newly-rising Lions Empire, being oppressed by those damn officials and nobles.
"What are you talking about? What are you talking about! Work hard and don't be lazy." A supervisor came up behind him, scolded him angrily, and then left with his hands behind his back.
He didn't want to meddle in other people's business. After all, he was just a minor official who was bullied after work. There was no need to strain the relationship between his colleagues because of those scolded bastards.
After all, there are fewer and fewer workers nowadays, and those who are more or less capable have run away. Who wants to stay and be oppressed and exploited by the nobles?
It's not easy to find a few workers who can do the job, and it's not easy for him as a small foreman, so why should everyone make things difficult for each other? That's almost enough. As long as the project is completed, everything else is a trivial matter.
"..." The chat stopped abruptly. In the distance, you could still see the ME-262 fighter jets that had been secretly produced earlier. These fighter jets were used as tactical bombers, which was in line with the original views of the three major German commanders on this type of aircraft.
