Alien Arms Empire

 Chapter 457 457 People who can’t keep up

At the Flame Castle, Sophia closed her account book and rubbed her temples tiredly. She has recently won a great victory in the wave of mergers and acquisitions within Cyric, and has taken over almost all the properties under the name of the old man Smiling Tiger.

In addition, she also bribed several other directors to expand her power, and almost turned Cyric into her sole authority.

 In the process, she also updated many of her factories, invested in the construction of many new factories, and almost completed the modern industrial transformation of her industries.

 Being able to complete industrial transformation with such high efficiency and learn to adopt countless new technologies from Datang Group, I have to say that Sophia is an outstanding person.

Not only that, she also took the lead in establishing Cyric's automobile industry almost single-handedly. Although the car brand is now called Gobel, sales have finally improved.

Both Mirage State and Zheng State, which had a hard time dealing with the Datang Group, purchased some cars from Cyric. Although the performance of these cars was average, the price was also very average. They followed the people-friendly route, so they naturally sold well.

Binghan Automobile has always been competing with Gobel Automobile. Both sides are following the same path. Dwarf Automobile has better technology and Gobel Automobile is cheaper.

 In short, both of them have become new people-friendly cars, and together with Bunas' People's Car, they are fiercely competing for the civilian car market.

“You gave up the airship technology to me so easily... It seems that Tang Mo has no good intentions.” Sophia flipped the red hair beside her ears, sighed and said out loud.

A Marquise sitting next to her disapproved and snorted and said: "This is not surprising. Didn't we pay..."

"Do you think money can solve all problems?" Glancing at her confidants, Sophia leaned on the chair and closed her eyes to rest and said: "Do you know how long I have been begging, but Mr. Tang from the Datang Group refused to seal the propeller? Technology spit it out to me?”

"Didn't you say...two months later?" The Marquis was stunned when she heard this, and then asked subconsciously.

"That's what I care about." Sophia pointed to the message she put on the table and explained irritably: "The propulsion technology of the battleship has been suppressed by me for half a year, and the airship technology was given back reluctantly. Even the filling gas preparation technology, factory equipment and personnel training, he packaged it all for me without even thinking about it..."

At this point, she paused, frowned and concluded: "Anyway, with his character, I always feel that he is playing some tricks behind his back in this airship transfer plan that we don't know about!"

"Then we don't want it?" the Marquise asked Sophia reluctantly. She knew the current market situation of airships. Even if the price dropped slightly, if one was sold for 100,000 yuan, they would probably be able to make a lot of money.

"How is it possible not to... I just want to judge in advance and take countermeasures to prevent us from being caught off guard when Tang Mo targets us." Sophia pressed her hand on the edge of the message paper on the table and stared at the message paper said.

This is a message sent back to her by the maid. There have been more and more similar messages recently, and the news is becoming more and more heavy on Sophia.

 Some of the messages are about certain technological innovations of Datang Group, which may seem inconspicuous, but these things are really changing everything currently.

For example, everyone produces steel plates, but the width of Datang Group's steel plates is improving significantly. The widest steel plate has even approached 3 meters, and this is not the most advanced of Datang Group.

Similarly, the area of ​​glass produced by Datang Group is also gradually increasing. A new type of building with floor-to-ceiling windows has appeared on Longdao, which greatly improves the indoor lighting effect.

For Sophia, these details are not funny at all. This intuitively reflects the reality: Although Cyric is constantly trying to catch up, the fact is that there is a technological gap between Cyric and Datang Group. It's not that it's shrinking, but it's growing rapidly.

 Modern science and technology is like rolling a snowball. It is difficult to roll a snow ball with your hands at first. But if you put the snow ball on the ground and roll it little by little, it will get bigger and bigger. And in the process of rolling, the further back you go, the easier it becomes to increase.

The same is true for the development of Datang Group. At the beginning, it was not easy for Tangshan to produce a piece of machinery and equipment. It relied on workers to manually cut and polish and assemble it bit by bit, and finally it was barely usable.

 But now, various machine tools and equipment have been quite perfect, and it is actually easier to produce more sophisticated equipment.

 Because Datang Group has accumulated higher-skilled workers and summarized production experience that is more in line with reality.

The gap between Tang Mo’s drawing design and actual construction production is being filled with practice, and Datang Group’s technological progress is becoming more and more enjoyable. Now, although Cyric can already produce cars that are more advanced than the Model T car, the Renmin Type 2 car launched by Datang Group is already more technologically advanced and powerful.

What’s even more exaggerated is that Datang Group’s automobile production lines have been exaggerated to the point that they can produce thousands of cars every month—both in terms of quality and quantity, Cyric’s automobile production has lost. A thorough one.

This is only one aspect of cars. If other aspects are included, the gap will be even wider.

Datang Group is not only making a lot of money from anti-aircraft guns and airship projects, it is also mass-producing more 155 mm caliber howitzers, 150 mm caliber long barrel naval guns, 120 mm caliber naval guns, and 75 mm caliber naval guns. Field artillery…

At the same time, Datang Group's shipbuilding factories are also simultaneously starting to produce more than 20 new destroyers, more than 10 Bunas-class ironclads, 5 Wolf-class cruisers, and 3 Yucheng-class battleships.

 Just this shipbuilding capability is actually almost on par with the British Empire before World War I. Today's Datang Group shipbuilding industry is a complete production monster.

What Sirik doesn’t know yet is that Datang Group is actually still producing aircraft and tanks, more general-purpose machine guns, and more advanced six-wheeled military trucks.

  The newly formed 1st Armored Division of the Datang Group is completely a product ahead of its time. It is realizing motorization, a concept that has never appeared in this world so far.

 Every time she thinks of these things, Sophia will be extremely depressed. While Datang Group is concentrating all its efforts on the fast lane of technology, the Cyric Consortium led by herself is still wasting time.

That **** fat man is still proud of his ability to produce Cyric Type 1 bolt-action rifles and Cyric semi-automatic pistols (Mauser rifles). At the same time, he and that slutty woman are still producing outdated Ming rifles. ship.

Sophia has no ability to stop their slow suicide behavior of wasting production capacity, because these projects are indeed bringing profits to Cyric.

 But everyone knows that these things are outdated, especially that **** paddle steamer! Everyone knows that this thing is impossible to rival a propeller-propelled battleship, but some fool just sent the order!

The Mirage Kingdom spent money to purchase 10 more paddle steamers like this, and the Zheng Kingdom actually purchased 30 of them in one go. I heard that they might even order some more later... What's even more ridiculous is that the country didn't pay much attention to the development of the navy. The Chinese Empire and the Chu State also purchased a number of paddle steamers, ranging in number from ten to twenty.

Sofia doesn’t even know what words to use to describe these fools who spend money to buy paddle boats. With this money, they might as well buy more expensive but obviously more advanced Datang Group warships!

It’s not that she didn’t know that there must be sophisticated people involved, as well as kickbacks and bribes, but such shady transactions also diluted Cyric’s profits, and at the same time affected or delayed Cyric’s industrial upgrading.

The shipyard that was supposed to be expanded and equipped with new equipment was now working overtime to produce useless paddle boats. How could this not make Sofia worried?

Hearing what Sophia said, the countess confirmed and asked: "Then do we still need to build an airship factory? According to the plan, the new factory will produce more than three giant airships every month?"

"Of course! Even for the supporting chemical factory, this airship manufacturing plant should be established." Sophia immediately replied: "Not only must it be built, but the production scale must also be expanded if necessary!"

“I understand.” The Marquise nodded, indicating that she would personally handle the matter: “Leave it to me.”

"In addition, our secret weapons program cannot be stopped!" Sophia continued to warn: "Our... brand new 'chariot' program!"

 “I understand!” The Marquise continued to nod, with a proud smile on her face. This project was a plan proposed by one of his craftsmen, but he didn't expect it to be of such great use at a critical moment.

It is not that there are no talented people in Cyric. After Tang Mo inspired this world, it is not that there are no people who are thinking and trying to explore a new future.

Whether it was the "aircraft inventor" who went to Tang Mo before or the "chariot craftsman" of Xiricli, after Tang Mo pushed him, many people stumbled forward, walked or ran away. stand up. Sophia followed Tang Mo step by step, out of breath, but didn't even catch Tang Mo's exhaust.

Of course, more people choose to stay put, and there is nothing we can do about it: you will never be able to keep everyone up to date with the pace of world development. On the contrary, more people will be left far behind by the pace of development.

For example, those decision-makers in Cyric who insist on building paddle steamers, such as those who insist on purchasing paddle steamers...

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Hmm, I won’t make any updates today. I’ll take a rest and adjust.

 (End of this chapter)