Alien Arms Empire

  Chapter 878 879 The less people know, the happier they are

 In the increasingly frequent and large-scale trade, the rulers of the Orc Empire found that they themselves also had very serious problems.

 The former tribal system seemed too sloppy and primitive in the face of such trade and exchanges. They began to gradually realize that they could no longer control the situation.

The life of the orc tribe near the southern Shu Kingdom is getting better and better, and they can obtain a large amount of trade profits by virtue of their geographical advantages.

Grain that the Orc Empire could not even imagine in the past was transported to these tribes for sale, and these tribes quickly learned from human merchants how to increase prices and continue selling to the north.

These orc tribes became the compradors of human merchants, and then quickly rose to become the beneficiaries of the small number of people in the orc empire who became rich first.

The problem is that the Orc Empire has no ability to restrain these tribes. Their management is so loose that each of these grassroots tribes are like independent small countries.

Datang Group does not care about the problems that arise within the Orc Empire. They are just selling all obsolete things to the Orc Empire to make profits.

 The only things the Orc Empire can get away with are gold, silver, gems and the like.

Regrettably, these things happen to be produced by the orc tribes in the north: This creates an interesting phenomenon. The orcs in the south have the geographical advantage to trade with humans, but the orcs in the north are the producers of orc trade goods.

Ever since, a north-south trade war broke out within the Orc Empire. The southern orcs increased the prices of food, weapons, equipment and parts in an attempt to harvest the northern orcs' leeks. But the orcs in the north began to increase the price of gold and silver, so the orcs in the south had to use more materials in exchange.

 Originally, in this kind of confrontation, the orcs in the south have an absolute advantage. They can temporarily do without precious metals and gems, but the orcs in the north cannot do without hard currency such as food.

 But the crux of the problem is: Shu's trade channels only accept precious metals such as gold, and the purchase prices do not fluctuate much.

This in turn stuck the necks of the southern orcs: no matter how much money they spent to purchase the materials, they could only exchange them for food materials at the price given by humans. In turn, they had to sell these materials to the northern orcs at a higher price, and then they were The northern orcs used gold to kill them, and in turn used their own money to continue purchasing human supplies at the original price.

In addition to the increasingly serious confrontation between the northern and southern orcs, the top brass of the orc empire hopes to increase control over each tribe, which also creates a confrontation between the region and the top brass of the orc empire.

 The leaders of each tribe do not want the empire to interfere in their affairs, but they all hope to receive the food and material subsidies provided by the empire.

 Loose management prevents the Orc Empire from mobilizing as a whole, and thus prevents its troops from fully improving their combat effectiveness.

 In the past, when the empire launched wars, its troops were warriors recruited from various tribes. Each tribe would send out warriors in proportion to its population, as if it were a kind of human sacrifice.

 But now, wealthy tribes began to raise objections. They believed that the number of people was no longer a fair way to measure the contribution of tribes in sending troops.

Those tribes that have gold mines in their control areas or can trade have spare money to improve their weapons and equipment. For them, weapons and equipment also have to settle accounts.

  Could it be said that others will provide 40 infantrymen, our side will provide 40 truck drivers, and an additional 20 trucks will be provided? Then this is so unfair! Trucks are not money, are they? The same is true for artillery. Even artillery shells have to be settled.

 Because after so many years, there is no way to win on the battlefield, and no one has considered the "results distribution method". Those who put in more effort will not receive more rewards, so for the tribes who put in more effort, the system itself is unfair.

 Modern warfare does not allow the Orc Empire to play the trick of only sending out infantry, so the well-equipped tribes began to clamor for a cost-effective system: one truck can carry at least 30 people, right? If our village provides a truck, then there is no need to provide others, right?

Similar things are breaking out every day in the Orc Empire, and the Orc chiefs and high priests are also very worried.

Even because there was enough food and the target of population decline was met ahead of schedule, the Orc Empire canceled the Tang Dynasty's 3-year attack plan on the Western Wall of Qin for the first time.

However, even if they stopped their attack plan, the war near Steel Fist Fortress still did not stop. Qin's slave-hunting teams were connected one after another, and the battle between the two sides near the Steel Fist Fortress even escalated.

 In the past, the orc attacks were nothing more than investing some troops to attack Qin's defense line. Now both sides invested a large amount of artillery and used aircraft, which suddenly made the battle several times more brutal.

  Qin’s Gale 1 fighter jets often appear in two formations to hunt Ork aircraft that take off for reconnaissance and corrective artillery fire. After acquiring some anti-aircraft guns, the Orks began to cover their own aircraft. The two sides fought back and forth in the air, and the scene was very beautiful.

But after all, this kind of petty fighting is outdated. The senior officials of the Qin State, who have seen big scenes, have always dreamed that one day they would be able to have a huge air fleet like the Tang Empire.

Qin, who had already accumulated some experience, saw that all the countries in the Eastern Continent were frantically purchasing aircraft designed by Tang, and he was also a little tempted. Then they also spent tens of millions of gold coins and begged the Tang Empire to "tailor-make" the DO-17 bomber for their country.

This kind of aircraft, which originally belonged to San Dezi, was sold to the Qin State by Tang Mo, which was regarded as a complete separation from the Yangmu Empire that purchased the HE-111 bomber.

However, because Qin only purchased designs and related technologies, it will take some time for them to build their own production lines and equip them with DO-17 bombers.

 During this period, the Orc Empire, which had spent money to purchase the Cyric 2 low-wing monoplane fighter previously designed and produced by Cyric, could still support it in the air to some extent.

 After Qin's bombers enter service, it will be almost risk-free for Qin, which has advantages in both speed and height, to bomb the Orc Empire.

At that time, whether the Orcs purchased more advanced fighter jets or purchased more anti-aircraft guns would depend on what these extremely ugly guys were thinking.

What’s interesting is that Mirage, which has been secretly developing its navy and trying to regain control of the northern part of the Endless Sea, finally got over the shadow of two consecutive defeats in the war and purchased a set of design drawings for a new bomber from the Tang Empire.

The blueprints provided by Emperor Tang Mo of the Tang Dynasty, who was full of bad taste, to Mirage were for a thing called the Type 97 land attack aircraft.

As for the performance of this bomber, it is actually not much better than the bombers purchased by various countries. After all, they are all products of the earth's civilization in the 1930s, and are generally at a similar level.

 But for Tang Mo personally, this bomber named Type 96 is filled with too many personal feelings - all countries that use this type of weapon have been recorded in a small notebook by Tang Mo...

 Back to the Orc Empire: Unable to strengthen local control, the top brass of the Orc Empire had to veto the proposal to build a railway within their own country.

This was also their helpless choice: even though they knew that the construction of the railway would facilitate their control of local tribes, they still did not dare to do so.

Compared with controlling the less obedient tribes, the Beast King is more worried that humans will suddenly attack the Orc Empire in the future: driving straight along the railway built by the Orcs themselves, this will cause the Orc Empire to collapse immediately.

The Beast King, who has carefully studied the rise of the Tang Empire, noticed a detail that other countries had not noticed, or had no choice but to pretend to be stupid if they did: the better the roads were built, the more the attackers could rely on these roads to advance quickly.

For the Orc Empire, such an advance is even more fatal: their cities and settlements rely heavily on water sources, so they are basically distributed along rivers. If we use roads to connect them together, it is equivalent to packaging the best parts of the Orc Empire together and waiting for others to take it.

 Hence, the Beast King is more willing to continue to lag behind in transportation, in order to increase the difficulty of trying to attack the Beastman Empire.

 In this way, there will never be a terrible situation where the enemy drives straight along the communication line and cannot be stopped after losing a city on the border.

However, such a decision, in turn, did restrict the transportation development of the Orc Empire, and also affected the circulation speed of goods within the Orc Empire.

With the introduction of wireless telegraphy, the connection between the top and the grassroots of the Orc Empire has become a little closer than before, but the speed of this progress obviously cannot keep up with the development of other parts of the world.

The Orc Empire, which has its own national conditions, is still adapting to the changes in the world little by little, but what they don't know is that in the distant Tang Empire, something has appeared that can subvert their perceptions.

 Some people have said that in this world, the less you know, the happier you are... For orcs, this is absolutely true.

Because they would be troubled if they knew that while they were still worrying about repairing a biplane, someone was flying the plane faster than the speed of sound.

If the orcs knew that many countries were now frantically building bomber groups that were faster than their fighter jets, they would probably not be in a good mood.

If the orcs knew that the powerful 130 mm caliber howitzer, which they consider to be Cyric's outdated product, uses technology that is already more than ten years old, they would not be as happy as they are now.

If they knew that the Tang Empire already had ballistic missiles capable of attacking 2,000 kilometers away, and that they could easily attack the Imperial Court of the Orc Empire by deploying them behind Qin's Western Wall... they would probably cry.

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 There is another update to make up for yesterday’s update. You can watch it tomorrow morning. In February, Longling made up a total of 8 updates, and still owes you 12 updates. In March, it will continue to make up...

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