Alien Arms Empire

Chapter 457 457 People who can't keep up

Flame Castle, Sophia closed the ledger and rubbed her temples wearily.She's recently been victorious in the wave of mergers and acquisitions within Cyric, taking almost all of the properties under the name of the smiling old man.

In addition, she also bought a few other directors, expanded her influence, and almost really turned Cyric into her voice.

In the process, she also updated many factories under her command, invested in the construction of many new factories, and almost completed the modernization of the industries under her command.

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

Not only that, she almost single-handedly took the lead in setting up Cyric's automobile industry.Although the car brand is now called Goble, sales have finally picked up.

Mirage and Zheng Guo, which are not very good at dealing with Datang Group, both purchased some cars from Cyric. Although the performance of these cars is average, but fortunately, the price is also very average.

The Frost Car has always been competing with the Goblin Car. Both sides are following the same path. The Dwarves' car technology is better, and the Goblin Car is sold at a lower price.

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

"The technology of the airship was given up to me so easily... It seems that this Tang Mo has no good intentions." Sophia said aloud after flicking the red hair next to her ear, and sighed.

A Marquis sitting next to her didn't take it seriously, snorted and said, "It's not surprising, didn't we pay the money..."

"Do you think that money can solve all problems?" Sophia glanced at her confidant, leaned back on the chair, closed her eyes and meditated: "Do you know how long I begged, this Mr. Tang from Datang Group refused to seal the propeller?" Spit me the technology?"

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

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

Having said that, she paused for a moment, frowned and concluded: "In short, with his character, I always feel that this airship transfer plan, he is playing some tricks behind the scenes that we don't know about!"

"Then we don't want it?" the Marquis asked Sophia unwillingly.She knew the current market price of the airship, even if the price dropped slightly, and one sold for 10, they estimated that they could make a lot of money.

"How could it not be possible... I just need to judge in advance and take countermeasures to prevent us from being caught off guard when Tang Mo targets us." Sophia pressed her hand to the side of the message paper on the table, staring at the message said the paper.

This is the telegram sent back by the maid. Recently, there have been more and more similar telegrams, and the news has become more and more heavy on Sofia.

Some telegrams are about certain technological innovations of the Datang Group, which may seem inconspicuous, but these things actually change everything at present.

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

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

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

Modern science and technology are like rolling a snowball. It was very difficult to rub a snowball with your hands at first, but when you put the snowball on the ground and roll it a little bit, it will grow bigger and bigger.In the process of rolling, the further you go, the easier it is to increase.

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

But now, all kinds of machine tools and equipment are quite complete, and it is actually easier to produce more sophisticated equipment.

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

The gap between Tang Mo's blueprint design and actual construction production is being filled by 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 T-type car, the People's 2 car launched by Datang Group is already more advanced and powerful in technology.

What is even more exaggerated is that the automobile production line of Datang Group has been exaggerated to the point that it can produce thousands of automobiles every month-both in terms of quality and quantity, Cyric's automobile production has lost, lost Thoroughly.

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

Datang Group not only made a lot of money in anti-aircraft guns and airship projects, but also mass-produced more 155mm caliber howitzers, 150mm caliber long-barreled naval guns, 120mm caliber naval guns, 75mm caliber Field Artillery...

At the same time, Datang Group's shipbuilding factory is also starting to produce more than 20 new destroyers, more than 10 Burnas-class ironclad ships, 5 wolf-class cruisers, and 3 Yucheng-class battleships.

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

What Cyric didn't know yet was that Datang was actually still producing planes 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 of the times, and it is realizing motorization. This concept has never appeared in this world so far.

Whenever thinking of these things, Sophia would feel extremely depressed. While Datang Group was concentrating all its strength on the fast track of technology, the Cyric consortium led by her was still wasting time.

That fat man is still proud of being able to produce Cyric 1 bolt-action rifles, as well as Cyric semi-automatic pistols (Mauser shell guns), and at the same time he and the **** are still producing obsolete paddle steamer.

Sophia has no ability to stop them from wasting production capacity and committing suicide slowly, because these projects are indeed bringing profits to Cyric.

But everyone knows that these things are outdated, especially that damn paddle boat!Everyone knows that this thing can't be the opponent of the propeller-propelled battleship, but there is an order sent by a fool!
Mirage paid for another 10 paddle steamers like this, and Zheng Guo actually purchased 30 of them in one go, and I heard that they may order some more later... What's even more ridiculous is that people who didn't pay much attention to the development of the navy originally The Dahua Empire, the State of Chu, and the State of Chu also purchased a batch of paddle steamers, ranging in number from ten to twenty.

Sophia didn't even know what words to use to describe these idiots who spent money to buy paddle steamers. They might as well buy more expensive but obviously more advanced Datang Group battleships with this money!
It's not that she doesn't know that there must be people with sophistication, kickbacks and bribes, but such shady transactions have also diluted Cyric's profits, and at the same time affected or delayed Cyric's industrial upgrading.

The shipyard, which should have been expanded and equipped with new equipment, is now working overtime to produce unused paddle ships. How can this not make Sophia worried.

The Countess heard Sofia say this, and then 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 to build, but also to expand the production scale when necessary!"

"I understand." The Marquis nodded, indicating that she would personally take care of this matter: "Leave it to me."

"In addition, our secret weapon plan cannot be stopped!" Sophia continued to exhort: "Our... brand new 'chariot' plan!"

"I understand!" The Marquis continued to nod, with a smug smile on her face.This project was proposed by one of his craftsmen, but he didn't expect it to be so useful at a critical moment.

It's not that there are no capable people in Cyric. After Tang Mo inspired this world, it's not that no one is thinking about trying to explore a new future.

Whether it was the "airplane inventor" who went to Tang Mo before, or the "chariot builder" of Heric Kerry, after Tang Mo pushed, many people stumbled forward or walked or ran away. stand up.Sophia followed closely behind Tang Mo, out of breath, but didn't even catch Tang Mo's exhaust.

Of course, more people choose to stay where they are, which is impossible: you can never let everyone keep up with the pace of world development, on the contrary, more people will be left behind by the pace of development.

For example, those decision makers in Cyric who insisted on building paddle ships, such as those who insisted on purchasing paddle ships...
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Well, I won’t make any updates today, just rest and adjust.

(End of this chapter)