Chapter 180 Strategic Adjustment, Talent Crisis

Eastern continent.

The Empire of Eternal Night.

It was already late at night at the No. 1 Shipyard, but the lights were still brightly lit in the factory. Workers were busy moving around, and a large number of extraordinary experts cooperated with the command to accurately place heavy steel parts on the ship's hull.

Behemoths are being built one after another. These ships are more majestic and powerful than any previous ships in the empire. The cannons on the ships are also the latest development. They were just researched and put on the ships after simple testing. They have extremely terrifying weapons. Destructive power.

After these years of confrontation with the navy of the Hundred Nations Alliance, the navy of the Evernight Empire has been fully developed. This development is not only reflected in the technology of naval warfare, but also in the replacement of ships.

There is a saying that war is the most effective technological catalyst.

In the constant battle, both sides aim to kill their opponents, and if they don't want to die, they can only progress and develop.

The oppression of death is very strong, so the speed of development is also very fast.

At the beginning, the navy of the Hundred Nations Alliance had a suppressive power on the Eternal Night Empire. After all, they have been developing for so many years, so it would be strange if they could not suppress it.

However, the Eternal Night Empire implements a mixed navy, and the naval ships cannot compare with it, so it is better than others. Relying on the large-scale sea troops, the Imperial Navy has flattened the gap between the two sides, and even carried out counter-suppression.

After knowing that the Eternal Night Empire had a large number of sea warriors, the Hundred Nations Alliance was not a fool. They immediately developed various new weapons and formed a new naval fleet, using a more conservative style of play.

At this point, in the naval battle, they also fell into a war of attrition.

In the process of consumption, the Eternal Night Empire was able to absorb the essence accumulated by the navy of the Hundred Nations Alliance over the years, thereby quickly improving its own naval construction and saving a lot of time.

To be honest, Su Xingyu was not very interested in the navy.

Because this world is a little different. Regardless of the two major forces in this plane, the Hundred Nations Alliance and the Blood Empire, he has not solved them yet, but that is only a matter of time.

As mentioned before, the pace of unifying this plane may be slower, but it is definitely moving forward firmly.

Therefore, his opponents have never fought against natives of this plane, but from the void plane outside, or other players. In this case, the significance of developing a navy is not very great.

After all, you can't go on an expedition with a naval fleet, right?

That's outrageous.

What's more, even if it can be used, it will not be of much use.

Without the support of the logistics system, the strength of the naval fleet will be greatly reduced.

Therefore, in terms of cost performance, the significance of developing a naval fleet is really not as good as developing a sea kingdom.

But...

From the empire's perspective, things are not that simple.

In pursuit of an overall strong empire, we do not allow ourselves to leave such obvious shortcomings.

Therefore, the naval fleet may not be used, but it must be available, so we can only bite the bullet and allocate part of the resources for development.

In a relatively quiet workshop.

A group of short-haired, gray-faced engineers were discussing.

"The overall performance of the third-generation naval warship has been improved by about 70% compared to the second-generation, and the effective range has reached 100 kilometers. It is much more powerful than the previous castrated version. It can be said to be a real beyond-visual-range strike."

"It's amazing. It's worth spending so much time improving, and finally we have a workable answer sheet."

"Yes, if we don't produce some results, I'm afraid the financial officer will cut off our funding,"

"Haha, you don't know that when the boss went to apply for funds a few days ago, the financial officer's face turned dark."

"With these three generations of warships, the navy of the Hundred Nations Alliance will not be a problem. Even without the Naga Kingdom's sea army, we can defeat them. When the time comes to completely block the routes of the Northern Continent, I would like to see if we lose the sea. How are they going to fight us with logistical support?”

"Don't talk too much. I think we should increase the production first. Otherwise, no matter how strong the performance and quantity of these few ships are now, they won't be enough to fill the gap between the enemy's teeth."

"Indeed, production must be increased. The fleet has not formed a large scale and has a shitty combat effectiveness. If we build hundreds of ships and a linkage magic array, even if the demigods come, they will have to lie down."

"Stop dreaming, producing hundreds of ships? A third-generation warship requires a ninth-order crystal core as the core, and countless other materials. The financial officer would be crazy to allow you to build it like this. According to my estimation, There will only be dozens of ships if they are exhausted.”

"Well, the empire has been expanding into half a plane recently, and it has gained a lot of resources. However, the harvest is huge and the consumption is huge. The army is still the main force of the empire. It is good for our navy to get a piece of meat."

An engineer who looked a little old smiled and said: "To be honest, we have to thank the Hundred Nations Alliance. If it weren't for their strong naval strength, the empire would probably not even think of us."

"Hey, I definitely have to thank you... Defeating them and integrating and inheriting their technology is the best way to thank them."

"Although the number of dozens of ships is a little less, as a vanguard, it is enough. Let's apply jointly. If nothing else happens, this should be the largest amount of funding we can get in the near future."

"good."

"Hurry up, time waits for no one."

"I can't wait to see how powerful they are."

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Evernight City.

Presbytery.

Sitting on the first seat, Ye San took out a document, looked at the elders, and said lightly:

"War Zone No. 11 has basically been taken. Next, we need to send someone to represent the empire to sit there to ensure the interests of the citizens of the empire. Do you have any good candidates?"

The Eternal Night Empire has been advancing smoothly in the northern continent, expanding its territory countless times, and has now taken nearly 1/6 of the land.

However, it is easy to take down a piece of land, but it is difficult to govern it in the future.

Especially now that the Hundred Nations Alliance has not fallen and is still resisting, resistance forces will emerge from time to time in those empire-occupied areas.

Under the strict supervision of the Eternal Night Empire, the strength of these resistance forces is not strong, but they are particularly annoying.

Just like mosquitoes in summer, they keep calling in your ears and bite you from time to time. They don't hurt much, but they are extremely annoying.

So after conquering an area, the Eternal Night Empire will send a governor to re-govern, restore local production, and maintain public security there as much as possible.

Due to wartime regulations, these governors have great power.

After all, the northern continent is too far away from the empire. Even if there are special ways of communication, it takes several days for a message to go back and forth. Therefore, if you want to govern well, you must delegate power.

In the local area, the governor of the occupied area can be said to be a local emperor. They can even adjust their strategies according to local conditions.

There is nothing you can do about it.

Rules are dead, but people are alive.

This rule is well implemented in other places, but it does not mean that it can be implemented here.

Adapt to local conditions and formulate different local strategies according to different environments.

From any other perspective, being the governor of the occupied area is a lucrative job.

However, facing the question of the archon at this moment, everyone below bowed their heads and remained silent.

They no longer have a candidate in mind.

Ye San tapped his fingers beside him, looking at the elders, and had a headache, "Push someone out, the pace of the empire's expansion will not slow down, and the rear must be stabilized no matter what. If there is no candidate, you can only do it yourself."

While expanding the empire's territory, occupying planes, and managing the development of the empire, all require people, which has caused the empire to fall into the problem of population shortage again.

The rapidly expanding territory and the huge population attached to it once again overwhelmed the Eternal Night Empire.

For those areas that surrendered, they could implement a policy of allowing the gods to settle in, change their beliefs, and slowly transform the people of the kingdom. With the help of the surrenderists, this policy went very smoothly, and it wouldn't take many years for the local people to submit to the empire.

But it was not the same for the occupied areas. Bandits, rebels, resistance forces and other troubles, even if the empire supported a puppet, it would be useless. It must be done with both civil and military forces.

The problem is that people who can manage such a large area at the same time are first-class talents no matter where they are placed.

The empire itself is not enough for such talents, so how can it have the spare energy to support the management of the occupied areas.

"Your Majesty, now the empire is building affiliated kingdoms and expanding the planes, and all places need manpower. We can't squeeze out other teams." Seeing that no one spoke, an elder with gray hair had to say.

As soon as he said this, others immediately echoed him:

"Yes, yes, we really can't hold on any longer. All the people that the empire can send out have been sent out, even those students who have just graduated and have no internship experience have been sent out. We really have no one to use."

"We don't want to slow down the pace of expansion. After all, if the Hundred Nations Alliance is allowed to catch its breath and integrate its internal forces, the trouble will be even greater. But if we continue like this, we can only transfer internal talents, and then the local development will be affected..."

"If it really doesn't work, we can only lower the local policy standards. We can directly select management personnel from the local area and make the local people suffer. We will make other arrangements after we have recovered from this breath."

"I agree. They didn't live very well to begin with. What if they suffer for a while? And this is not too hard. Compared with the period of the kingdom's rule, their lives after we took over are already pretty good."

"That's right. Compared with the policies of those masters in the Northern Kingdom, even if we lower the standards, we are benevolent and we deserve them."

Everyone talked a lot, and the Elders' Council became lively in an instant. They expressed their opinions, and they meant one thing: no.

We can no longer provide external support. If we continue like this, the development of the empire will be affected.

In the eyes of the citizens of the Eternal Night Empire, the creatures of the world are divided into high and low levels, including the empire headquarters, affiliated kingdoms, surrendered forces, and other forces, while those kingdoms that have been conquered belong to the lowest level of other forces.

They have not been incorporated into the system of the Eternal Night Empire and are still outsiders.

So when they affect the development of the empire, the elders will abandon them without hesitation.

After all, there is no reason to sacrifice one's own development to support outsiders. Isn't this pure nonsense!

Looking at everyone, Ye San frowned slightly, sighed in his heart, and felt a little powerless.

The expansion of the empire is good for the entire empire. The elders are not short-sighted people, and they naturally understand this truth.

Therefore, the opinions they put forward did not slow down the expansion.

The opinions that the elders wanted to express were very simple, that is, to lower the standards for conquering areas. There is no need to be sound in everything. Just maintain the lowest stability and do not affect the front-line operations.

Since they are not the people of the Empire, they can live a hard life.

Ye San naturally understood what they meant. In fact, this was the best solution at present. After all, the Empire really had no people left. If they did not want to slow down the expansion, they could only do this. However, this violated the principles that the Empire had always followed.

"Your Majesty, the Empire's foreign policy is too kind. Perhaps it is time to make some changes." An upright and middle-aged elder who belonged to the Knights said, "For those people who have surrendered to the Eternal Night, there is nothing to say. I will help them. After all, we are all one family. But why should those rebellious guys enjoy the preferential treatment of the Empire?"

"I agree with the idea of ​​the Seventh Elder. In the past, the Empire had abundant resources, so we supported them. We could manage them if we didn't lack those things. Now, if we continue to support them, the Empire will be affected. Is it really worth it?"

"Please consider it again, Your Majesty..."

Other elders also spoke up. Although their words were slightly different, their meanings were similar. They lowered the standards of the people of the Kingdom and could not interfere with their own development because of outsiders.

Ye San sat in the first seat, lost in thought. After a long time, he said, "Since there is no consensus, let's discuss this matter again in three days."

Lowering the standard will not bring any harm, at least not in the short term.

But Ye San's intuition told him that this matter was not that simple. Therefore, although all the elders opposed it, he did not agree immediately, but used the word delay tactic, preparing to find someone to discuss it and think it through before making a decision.

"Yes, sir."

"Okay."

Seeing this, the elders had to nod in agreement. No matter what, Ye San was the archon.

Soon, the meeting ended.

Ye San left the Elders' Council, got on the carriage, and headed towards the temple.

When he arrived in front of the temple, there was already a young priest guarding outside. Seeing Ye San coming, he immediately stepped forward and saluted, saying, "Your Majesty, the high priest invites you."

Ye San was not surprised why the other party knew he would come, and ordered the guards behind him, "You wait here."

"Yes." The guards were a little disappointed that they could not enter the temple, but they still responded respectfully.

Following the priest, Ye San walked into the temple.

Two and a half days later, Ye San walked out of the temple with a smile on his face. It can be seen that he was very satisfied with this conversation.