Alien Arms Empire

 Chapter 879 880 One-step leisurely chess

  The southern city of the orcs, South Point, is a city that has recently become very prosperous due to free trade with humans. This city started out as a tribe and later turned into a city, an orc city where humans can be seen everywhere.

Human beings are protected here, and a large number of humans work here: although the conditions here are a bit more difficult, and you may earn more money, who wouldn't want to?

  The orcs are in urgent need of various technical talents, so they are willing to pay a lot of gold and gems to attract these talents to gather, bring the technology over, and stay...

 Compared to those countries that can send their own nephews, their own confidants, or go into battle themselves to study in the Tang Empire, the Orc Empire is obviously at a natural disadvantage.

Orcs can often be seen in the Tang Empire, but these ugly hapless creatures are all slaves and laborers and cannot move around at will.

 So it is very troublesome for the Orc Empire to learn technology. The good news is that humans who have mastered technology do not seem to intend to impose too strict restrictions this time. The bad news is that the Orc Empire must spend more money to learn this knowledge.

 There are many small workshops in South Point City, all set up by humans. Every human is surrounded by a group of orc apprentices.

These apprentices were sent from various tribes and villages, and each one was carefully selected. At least they had enough brains. Because they want to learn the corresponding knowledge and help the villages establish the most basic industries.

 In South Point City, there is also a pilot training school specifically for the orcs: the instructors here come from all over the world.

It is very interesting that those students from poor families who went to Chu State to learn flying skills at their own expense, after graduation, many of them would go to the South Point City of the Orc Empire and work as instructors here for a few months. Because there is so much provided here and the skills of pilots are not required, it is very suitable for them to work part-time to replenish themselves.

It is very annoying to endure these ugly monsters every day, but after all, there are also cat-eared girls here, which is another side that many men cannot refuse.

There are a lot of cat-eared girls here, and they are all beautiful, so those poor people who have seen too many male orcs with green faces and fangs during the day will choose to go to the Fengyue place at night to wash their eyes.

Looking from a distance, you can see a lot of cars parked outside Nanjiao City. These cars do not belong to the orcs, but to the Shu Kingdom.

  Various cars are parked here and used as teaching equipment for the orcs to take driving license tests: Compared with things like airplanes, cars are obviously new knowledge that has a wider audience and is easier to learn.

If you want to be respected in the tribe, or at least earn a living, learning to drive is obviously a good way: as long as you have a driving license, you can get preferential treatment in many aspects.

For example, at least people who can drive are no longer needed to go to the front line: such talents are either working in the army as logistics, or working in their own villages or tribes. They are urgently needed technical jobs...

 It’s just like China in 1980. At that time, drivers were still a relatively popular technical job type and were quite popular in factories. Everyone who saw them would call them "Master Drivers".

So, around this kind of driving training venue, you can hear hysterical shouting one after another: "Left! Left! I am specifically talking about left! Left wheel! Wheel wheel! Are you having a brain problem?"

Similar curses have been going on for a long time, even getting louder and stronger. Many privately run small driving skills training schools only have two or three cars.

The key is that compared to the Tang Empire, which has focused its enrollment on driving family cars, the orcs are more interested in driving large trucks.

 They are more willing to learn the driving skills of heavy-duty trucks, because these types of vehicles have more comprehensive functions and are exactly the type of vehicles that the orcs need.

At this moment, these training grounds are still full of people. Even if they can't afford the tuition, it is worthwhile for the orcs to stand aside and learn some new terms and develop a sense of driving.

"Back up! Slow down and release the clutch! Slow down! Brake! Brake!" The coach standing next to the truck yelled in pain, his hoarse voice full of exhaustion.

 Not all coach cars are equipped with a brake pedal on the passenger side. Most of the cars brought over from the Shu Kingdom are actually ordinary models and are not coach cars in the strict sense.

The Chu Kingdom has no intention of getting these trucks back. When they are old, they will be disposed of directly by the orcs. They can almost be sold for the original price of the vehicles purchased by the Shu Kingdom!

 It is not an exaggeration at all, because transporting cars requires transportation capacity, which itself has costs. In addition, the orcs are also in urgent need of various vehicles, and they are willing to pay for second-hand cars even if they are of different quality. Because the number of cars began to increase, the Orcs also began to experience a shortage of gasoline: the Orc Empire did not have oil refining equipment, and they did not even have oil fields.

ˆ Relatively speaking, oil has not been found in the relatively primitive Orc Empire, and they have never seriously looked for it.

 Now they are asking around to see if they can find geographers, or professional exploration teams, expedition teams, etc. who are willing to go to the Orc Empire to survey, hoping that they can help find oil fields.

It is a pity that they have not found an oil field yet, let alone purchased oil extraction equipment and built an oil refinery.

 So the Orc Empire needs to import a large number of cars and fuel. In fact, the oil field closest to them is the oil field of Qin State.

It’s a pity that the two countries have been at war near the Steel Fist Fortress, so purchasing Qin’s oil fields seems a bit unrealistic.

Therefore, the only route through which the Orc Empire can import oil is through the Shu Kingdom - the gasoline produced in the Chu Kingdom is transported to the Orc Empire through the Shu Kingdom.

The price of the gasoline is naturally not cheap for those who are willing to go far away, but the orcs can only make do with it. In addition, not only the gasoline for cars, but also all the aviation gasoline in the Orc Empire must be imported from Shu.

 It is hard to imagine what future a country that relies on imported food and energy can have.

But the Orc Empire relies on its own poverty to develop its own style and its own world... This has to be said to be a miracle.

The orc children gathered around a truck suddenly discovered that a convoy appeared on the broken road covered with yellow sand in the distance.

The Orc Empire is determined not to allow a railway to be extended to South Point City, so the last section of the road from Shu to the Orc Empire has always been maintained by automobile transportation.

 In the long wind and sand, the canvas covering the back compartments of these cars was blown loudly. And just by looking at the styles of these trucks, you can tell that most of the cargo transported in them should be arms.

The difference is that a car is driving at the front of the convoy, which means that there is another business with the leader of Nanjiao City.

The orc soldiers carrying Cyric Type 1 bolt-action rifles did not stop them. They just stood in the shade under the city gate and looked at the cars in the smoke.

With no intention of stopping, the window of the car driving at the front rolled down a gap, and some copper coins were thrown out, making a tinkling sound when they fell to the ground.

This was a bribe, and the originally listless soldiers immediately swarmed forward, lying on the ground and starting to look for the "rewards."

They didn’t even raise their heads to look at the trucks that were only a few decimeters away from their heads but were speeding past without slowing down.

"This is a barbaric place." In the car, a middle-aged man glanced at the Shu businessman sitting in the passenger seat. It was this businessman who was throwing money and bribes just now.

 “You are right, sir.” The businessman smiled with a smile on his face, because the man sitting in the back row was someone he could not afford to offend.

"You can't make much money in barbaric places... They should be made richer and richer." The man looked out the window at the so-called houses that were badly damaged and miserable on both sides of the street and spoke again.

 “Your Excellency is wise.” The businessman once again flattered himself. He only knew that the man behind him was from Cyric, a terrifying existence that he did not dare to look directly at.

What he didn't know was that this man had actually been working for the more terrifying Datang Group, the person in charge of Cyric. That was just a lie he used as a cover-up.

 In the eyes of the man sitting in the back seat, everything here is actually just a casual move arranged by the Datang Group.

 (End of this chapter)