Chapter 764 Chapter 1735 (Part 2) The Fate of Being Manipulated
Chapter 764 Chapter 17.35 (Part 2) The fate of being manipulated
In June of the 3248th year of the Fire Emblem Calendar, Vaner was also developing new military technology accordingly.
At the same time, in the south of Xiluoer, a train with eight tracks, ten meters wide and five meters high, like a land fortress, drove from Vaner to the powerful country in the southeast sea area in the south.
This train brought the latest experimental military equipment. The air cushion equipment slowly moved the 50-meter-long and 30-meter-high metal container to the grassy battlefield. This was packed with black military partitions, and such packaging looked very oppressive.
Vaner took the route of super-heavy platforms, that is, "big is beautiful, more is better".
After the black metal container plate opened on all sides like a flower, it revealed a new mobile fortress with a metallic aura inside. This is a larger version of the land cruiser. On its outer shell, in addition to the updated rotating turret, the secondary gun system on both sides has also been strengthened, and there are many more radar equipment to enhance communication with the outside.
The rise of Iron Star brought a technological leap, which brought about a sudden change in the military of the countries in Wanlun Continent. Military experts in Vaner unanimously agreed that the traditional heavily armored "Land Cruiser" needed light armor mechanization to cover it.
… Vaner's continental militarism, the attitude towards new things in the new military transformation, everything should be centered on the old...
The Vaner people believed that the army needed a tonnage of about 20 tons and a caliber of 30 mm rapid-fire mechanical armor, and another tonnage of 50 tons, with a single turret tank with 120 mm armor-piercing firepower, as an auxiliary to the Land Cruiser.
Of course, a large number of such light vehicles are equipped as the main land cruiser to cooperate, and steam power is not suitable. A new "hydrocarbon combustion working fluid engine" needs to be developed to drive it. (Steam engines start too slowly. In the past, they were okay as logistics transportation, but now they emphasize interspersing and launching assaults quickly.)
Such military changes have made "fuel" a very important strategic material.
Vaner took the technical route of "petrochemical mining". One survey ship after another and one geological team after another entered the bay of Wanlun Continent and the lake basin of the old continent. Once they went down, they could harvest a lot of light oil.
The abundance of oil allowed Vaner to quickly stuff all the original infantry groups into light armored vehicles and maneuver with land cruisers.
...In the past, under the information cover, oil was the saliva of hell demons. Under the influence of gods, it was not until now that it was widely recognized...
In this era, Iron Star, which also attaches great importance to light mechanization, has large-scale production of "hydrocarbon fuel" earlier than Vaner.
"Fuel" production capacity is mainly coal chemical industry in cities. A considerable part of it is hydrogenation of biomass fuels by industrial sites in rural areas.
"Crop straw conversion" has the advantage of convenient material collection and no transportation. The disadvantage is that the quality of oil products is uneven, and each biofuel station can only sell in the hometown area, but this industry has a huge problem.
This is just like the solar panels used in the 21st century for household use, which are self-sufficient, and the excess electricity is connected to the grid to generate asset appreciation. This mainly depends on private consumption for self-use, and there is no "investment appreciation" effect. Since it cannot appreciate like stocks and real estate, this type of industry is the most lacking in financing and can only rely on industry. 90% of the population in the country has purchasing power.
However, under the Matthew effect, capital is concentrated in the hands of a few people, and more than 90% of the population has no purchasing power.
90% of the capital is in the hands of a few people, and will only invest in "value-added" projects, rather than for the development of "industrial consumption" for the majority of people. Therefore, under the "free economy", this scattered industry will eventually be completely destroyed due to the depression of the capital cycle and the shrinking market.
The rural areas of Sky Iron Star have "economic autonomy", and have completed capital accumulation in the past few decades and undertaken a large number of terminal industrial manufacturing.
The cadres of the Agricultural Youth Association in various rural areas are very sensitive to idle resources. They don't want to waste the straw and corn cobs grown in the fields, so they protect the fuel production capacity as an important asset.
Judging from the current cost, the cost of marine mining is at least 20% lower than that of chemical synthesis. The Xiluo region has the largest "ancient closed marine stratum", which stores a large amount of oil. Mining from underground and then processing is much shorter than the industrial chain of coal chemical industry.
However, Vaner is destined to rely more on overseas colonies, and its military strategy has to develop in the direction of "offense" and "interference". The strategy of Iron Star can be slightly independent.
And those new resource countries, such as Xiluo, took off in the sudden wind, and it seems difficult to grasp their own positioning, a little floating.
Vaner, under the leadership of Poma, began to lay out Xiluo.
In the current world situation, when Oshima was interfered by the sky.
Vaner has essentially become a strategic opponent of Iron Star, encircling Iron Star on the southern line.
Xiluo was also a member of the Thunder Flash Alliance. One hundred and twenty years ago, under the arrangement of Anglo, it divided the southern coastline of the former Sky Empire. Xiluo is now actively contacting Vaner urgently.
…Boma is good at playing with his sleeves under the advice of the system, while Wei Keng, who is hostile to the world, cannot see through the fog in this regard, but has his own cognitive principles for diplomacy. …
After the end of the ancient times, the main world once divided diplomacy into two types.
1: Eastern style, evolved from the ancient tribute system, pursuing regional stability and border stability.
2: Western Ocean system, taking a step-by-step approach and pursuing profit.
Bo Ma obviously learned the second method, which is to take his own interests as the highest and calculate every step.
Of course, this is also the insecurity that Oshima suddenly revolutionized and got rid of the influence of Vaner's interference, which gave the so-called "No. 1 Army in Wanlun Continent" a sense of insecurity.
Vaner's layout for Xiluoer is obviously very utilitarian. All kinds of situations directly point to Tiexing, providing more than 20 land cruisers and a complete set of light mechanical equipment maintenance support, and then obtaining oil mining rights from the region.
…Oil interests will create economic and industrial miracles, and will also breed ambitions beyond their own capabilities in the local area...
On the top of the high-rise building in Gatel, a newly emerging port city in Xiluoer in the past ten years.
An ancient hero "Mingguang" (summoned several years ago) with deep blue pupils and military uniforms, looked at the city land cruiser that drove into the city center and said leisurely: "Has the era become like this today?"
A thousand years ago, Xiluoer was still one of the "powerful countries" in the continent.
The heavy tanks at that time were not as big as today's Land Cruisers. They just adopted the names of sword and shield soldiers, archers, spearmen, and knights to divide the battlefield functions of various armored vehicles.
On the ancient battlefield where Mingguang stood, the fifty-ton steel monster led by him (a thousand years ago) loaded with mechanical hoes and carried the "longbow" of a 200mm mortar, and fought all the way to the Wind Whispering Plain of Oshima, and almost carved the "Dark Moon Badge" on the wall of Wind Whispering City as a conqueror.
Mingguang still vaguely remembers the steam clouds that made people feel hot in the military camp where he was at that time.
Mingguang, who was "unearthed" a few years ago, read through his posthumous history. With the changes of the times, Xiluo declined and could not devote a lot of technical resources to nuclear engines and steel processing like those old industrial countries. In the following hundreds of years, whether it was heavy ground armor or aviation, Xiluo inevitably fell behind.
…Heroes are the “pillars” of an era, but heroes who do not belong to this era can only be regarded as “mud”…
After Mingguang came to the new era, he barely adapted to this “super fearless” era on land, but the gods reminded him that technology had changed again.
However, in the current competition among major powers, Xiluoer, as a weak country, lacks the ability to invest resources in high-tech fields and can only rely on flexible diplomacy to dance with its sleeves. Such a “weak and sunset” era is a great opportunity for talented people with eloquence, but as an ancient hero, Mingguang thinks this is a kind of sadness.
Mingguang expects history to turn around. In international analysis, if the Iron Star falls, Xiluoer will have the opportunity to obtain talents and scientific equipment and rise again.
So at this stage, Mingguang believes that Xiluoer should stand with Vaner.
As for why Mingguang dares to think so much about something that is not in line with “historical common sense”? That’s because here is under the glory of the gods of the “multidimensional plane”, and history has many “miracles” that do not develop according to common sense.
…The legends sung by the bards gradually became the script that the most upper-class people want to bring in. …
In the arcane universe, the fortune of a country is driven by a few genius heroes, so when it rises rapidly, it will also fall rapidly. As long as the faith of a small number of people in a country is collapsed, the economic wealth, the knowledge system of engineers, and even the industrial equipment will be transferred to the new country.
For example, five thousand years ago, the light of civilization was in the south of Wanlun Continent, and the north was desolate. And two thousand years ago, Anglo was just a principality, belonging to a lord under the Vaner feudal system.
Wei Keng read the history here and sighed: The country can be calculated, and its vitality can be plundered by conspiracy.
And because of this! This world has the so-called "destiny".