1704 Prohibition

After returning from Sera, Lynch didn't pay much attention to their affairs. He thought they were just having a little fight.

Maybe some people are really bored, maybe some people want to use this opportunity to heat up their partners, and maybe some people are like Sierra.

But no matter what, he didn't think it would be a big thing.

It's just that he slightly underestimated the thoughts of those women. For most people, opening a factory is a very serious matter.

But for these extremely bored women, this turned into an interesting social activity.

Soon more ladies joined in, and they turned it into a new fashionable behavior.

These days, if a lady doesn’t open a factory, she seems to be no longer a lady!

During this time, Lynch also visited the women and children Nell left behind.

They were both healthy and a little afraid of Lynch, who left without staying long.

They have begun to adapt to the life of the Federation. Perhaps this is the process of going from a simple, backward and hard life to a life of luxury and wealth. It is almost no process!

The work is tiring and hard, but anyone can do it by lying in bed and sleeping until they wake up naturally!

As long as you're not hungry!

Everyone is changing!

The Federation is here and it won't change for anyone, just people adapting to it!

The first piece of good news after the start of summer was that a separate group at the Flight Research Institute had made breakthrough progress in a collaborative research project with Ancock Industries.

Pengeo's tank design is obviously not as reasonable as the federal design. Their design looks like a wide-open and wide-close type.

Although the turret is angled, this angle is relatively difficult for the cannonball to bounce away.

There is actually nothing special about the tanks they are currently serving, except that the steel plates are thick enough.

This allowed the designers at the Flight Research Institute and Ancock to become more targeted in their research.

They designed a very special armor-piercing bullet, which uses a very special pointed warhead structure. The warhead uses a special alloy, which is also the main direction of research and development.

The reason is actually very simple. As long as the metal hardness of the warhead is higher than the hardness of the armor, it can tear the armor apart if it has enough kinetic energy.

Researching this thing is actually not too difficult. It is just constantly designing the alloy formula of the warhead tip and designing a shell jacket that is more aerodynamic.

If you want it to effectively achieve the purpose of armor-piercing, it must maintain sufficient kinetic energy. Without changing the caliber of the current active tank, it must have more terrifying destructive power. Wind resistance is the key.

Following the results of laboratory and live-fire testing, Anker Industries immediately contacted the Ministry of Defense.

Now that the front line is tight, no one is too worried about air combat. The main problem is the confrontation between mechanized troops on the ground.

Pengeo's tank has great advantages, although it cannot climb large slopes, although it is too heavy and has strict requirements on the terrain.

But it's hard enough to resist!

There is no good way for the front to deal with this kind of tank that can't be defeated by a few shots. They can only solve it by throwing incendiary bombs at close range.

The incendiary bomb of the Flight Research Institute has a fast reaction speed and high temperature. Although it cannot directly kill the people in the tank, it can turn the tank into a small oven.

This is currently a more effective method.

In addition, destroying the tracks, or getting lucky, is also a way.

But people would rather have a direct and simple way to deal with this enemy.

Lynch also participated in the test. Mr. Wardrick invited him as a precaution.

"You seem to have lost a lot of weight recently." After Lynch and Mr. Wardrick shook hands, the two stood aside.

In terms of body shape, Mr. Wardrick used to look just a little strong, but not fat or bloated.

Now he has completely lost weight, but is... not very good-looking.

After a man reaches middle age, he is actually too thin and ugly. He looks like a skeleton and cannot give people any threatening feeling.

Mr. Wardrick smiled and sighed, "I can't help it. I haven't been able to sleep well or eat well. Now I can only rely on this. I rarely even go home."

This is an exaggeration, but it is true that he does not rest well.

Now Ankok Industry is an industry that truly belongs to him. There may be other people's shares in it, but in the end, he still has the final say here.

He devoted himself wholeheartedly to making Ankerk a family business so that it could be passed down from generation to generation.

At the point where Mr. Wardrick has reached the point where he is no longer thinking about how he will live in the future, but about the lives of his children, his descendants, and those beyond him.

It is precisely because he does not want Severella to be besieged in the consortium that he works so hard, otherwise he would not need to do this at all.

In fact, Mr. Wardrick still felt a little regretful at this time. He regretted that he only had one daughter. He should have had two or three more children.

It's not that he doesn't think Severella is good enough, but he hopes these kids can help each other.

It’s really hard to be alone!

During this period, he realized very well that he had to shoulder everything by himself. If someone could share some of the burden for him, at least he would not become so thin.

But there is no point in saying this.

As people from the Ministry of Defense and the military arrived, the test firings began.

This test firing is mainly divided into two parts. The first part is the test firing of the cannon-based armor-piercing projectile. The target is bombarded from three points: close, medium and long range to test the armor-piercing ability of the projectile.

The second part is the test firing of the tank. There are no different distances. The tanks are basically shot at close range.

Mr. Lynch and Mr. Wardrick both put on earmuffs. As the artillery began to roar, the effect of the armor-piercing shells was very obvious.

As long as it doesn't jump away, it will be very lethal to Pengeo's current tank.

The test firing effect of the tank is also very good, this kind of thing cannot be faked.

The Ministry of National Defense and the military discussed it and immediately gave Ankok Industrial a large order.

They placed an order of 100 million in one go!

Based on the current price of 398 yuan and 99 cents per artillery shell, this is more than 200,000 artillery shells!

This also made Mr. Wardrick very excited. In fact, he originally intended to price it at a little more than three hundred yuan.

In fact, this price already guaranteed enough profit, but Lynch directly added dozens of dollars to him to make the profit even greater.

For the current federation, money is not an issue at all. The issue is whether they have what they need.

Doesn’t the military, the Department of Defense, know that Lynch’s planes are fucking ridiculously expensive?

Obviously, they knew that Pengeo's aircraft cost less than a quarter of Lynch's, but so what?

Blackstone Aviation leads the way in flight technology, which can no longer be bought with money!

If His Majesty the Emperor of Pengeo was given a chance, he would still choose to purchase Lynch's aircraft.

This is not a question of money, but a question of whether the strategy and tactics can be completed!

Private scientists can build an airplane with a few thousand yuan, but is that kind of airplane meaningful?

Now the federal military can still fight back and forth under the heavy pressure of Penjiao Military Group, not because of how good the federal army is.

They can fight like this all because of the air force!

This also allowed Mr. Wardrick to see Lynch's ability. Not only did he dare to think, he also dared to speak!

Even the big capitalist Mr. Wardrick shed tears after hearing this. This is so damn dark-hearted!

A large number of assembly lines began production at the Ankerk factory. A week later, a steady stream of armor-piercing bombs were sent to the front line, and the effect was unanimously praised...

In July, the Federal Congress suddenly passed a very special proposal.

From 23:59:59 on July 31st, which is exactly 00:00 on August 1st, the federal government will fully implement alcohol prohibition!

The key reason why Congress passed such a decision that looked like it was thought up by a dog is that the federal food supply is not enough.

In the past twenty years, the Federation's population has grown from less than 40 million to more than 60 million now, and it continues to increase.

However, the federal area of ​​cultivated land and the number of registered pastures, as well as the number of live livestock, did not increase in the same proportion.

Even the number of people engaged in agriculture has dropped significantly, which has resulted in the federal agricultural output being unable to meet the market demand of the domestic population surge.

So all the time, the federation has been importing food, from the WDC member states, from Nagaril.

Nagaril has solved the federation's food gap very well, but due to the war, half of Nagaril has been occupied, and the spread and continuation of the war have resulted in a low cultivation rate this spring.

This also means that the federation's food supply is very tight.

Making wine requires a lot of grain.

In the past, when there was no shortage of food, wineries could open up to make wine.

But now that there is not enough food, opening up winemaking will obviously further reduce the proportion of food used to maintain life.

After a short discussion, Congress quickly passed this proposal, and all wineries in the federal territory were completely suspended.

The local police and the FBI have the right to seal down wineries produced during the prohibition period and arrest relevant producers and business owners!

Of course, there is not much interference in the sales of alcoholic beverages that have been produced so far.

However, starting from August 1, an "alcoholic beverage license" is required to sell alcohol. Bars without this license are not allowed to sell any alcoholic beverages.

This certificate is difficult to obtain. Depending on the size of the city, each city has anywhere from a few to dozens of certificates.

As soon as this bill came out, the entire federation was at a loss. Why was the war going well and suddenly no one allowed to drink?

People did not understand, and there were still people demonstrating. Mr. Trueman even personally delivered a national address on television. He mentioned the reality of the current severe food gap and hoped that everyone could understand.

And he promised that once the war is over, Prohibition will be lifted immediately and the production and sale of alcoholic products will be resumed...