Lord of the Misty World

Chapter 502 The direction of the empire
The civil strife in the Ming Empire tended to intensify, but from the internal analysis of the empire, the Qinghe Empire needed to pay a huge price if it wanted to defeat the Ming Empire.

The Ming Empire seems to be in civil turmoil, but the army still has a strong combat effectiveness, and the newly opened provinces in these years are still stable.

Although those rebellions would greatly weaken the Ming Empire's national strength, the Ming Empire could still guarantee the empire's combat effectiveness. Millions of hunters were equipped with steam tanks, steam mechs, steam airships, and steam high-pressure rifles.

Moreover, after contacting the Qinghe Empire, the researchers of the Ming Empire also saw the fuel engine inside the Qinghe Empire.

Afterwards, looking at the unique fuel liquefaction technology of the Ming Empire, isn’t this just a steady stream of liquid fuel, so why bother to boil water, just use it as fuel.

Therefore, with this change of thinking, the Ming Empire also changed from steam engines to internal combustion engines, and internal combustion engine tanks, automobiles and other products have appeared.

Just because there are millions of troops and a large number of strong men commanded by the imperial family, those rebellions will be destroyed sooner or later from the Qinghe Empire's point of view.

After all, there are huge empires all around, which in itself created a foreign enemy for the Ming Empire, which to a certain extent made the Ming Empire united.

However, the internal chaos, after the high-level analysis of the Qinghe Empire, found that although it can be resolved, it will not be resolved in a short time.

At least it can last for a year or two. After that, because of this chaos, the momentum of the Ming Empire's continuous development will decline, and the gap with the Qinghe Empire will become wider and wider.

Although the Qinghe Empire would not dispatch troops to take the opportunity to attack the Ming Empire, secretly, Di Feng used the intelligence personnel of the Ninja Army to infiltrate into the Ming Empire through the chaos.

This disaster was an excellent opportunity for the Qinghe Empire. A large number of refugees were scattered all over the place, and because of the rebellion and peasant uprising, the Ming Empire could not take care of these scattered refugees.

In this way, some intelligence personnel trained by the Ninja Army over the years entered the Ming Empire through various means, and according to the civil strife, mixed into the refugee team and scattered to the provinces of the Ming Empire.

Some spies also broke into the government and factory owners, or took the opportunity to replace some landlords, recruited refugees, raised orphans, expanded their own power, and waited for the war between the Empire and the Ming Empire.

However, according to the plan of the Qinghe Empire, the empire will not attack the Ming Empire within ten years, so these spies need to rely on their own skills to develop within the Ming Empire.

On the bright side, the Qinghe Empire is still peaceful, and the empire is constantly developing every day, almost every day is changing with each passing day.

Almost every few days, the empire's newspapers would announce that the empire had made a breakthrough in such-and-such technology.And with the popularization of television, besides the news, the Qinghe Empire developed TV dramas and entertainment programs, which enriched the cultural life of the empire.

Moreover, with the development of the empire, there are already dozens of movie theaters in Qinghe City. These movie theaters have made profits in Qinghe City and have also begun to expand to other Dao counties.

This virtually brought some new industries and economic development to the empire.

The chaos of the Ming Empire did not affect the internal life of the Qinghe Empire. This year, the major event of the Qinghe Empire's top management was the establishment of the Wanzu Sea Area Naval Headquarters.

However, because the Wanzu sea area is too far away from the empire, and there is still a large area of ​​undeveloped land inside, the people inside are only concerned about their lives getting better day by day.

With the passage of time, since the last expansion, the ten-year plan has come to an end. During these years, the development of the Qinghe Empire has reached the predetermined plan.

Just the population. According to the last census, the total population of the Qinghe Empire is now 7000 million. Especially in the last few years, more than 2000 million newborns were born every year, which caused the population of the empire to grow rapidly.

Moreover, in the past ten years of development, a large number of young people in the Qinghe Empire have grown up and participated in the work, and now there are more than ten million adults participating in the work every year, which has made the development of the empire more rapid.

But now, more than half of the empire's total population of 7000 million are minors, and the deconstruction of the population is not perfect, so the empire's internal development is still the best.

Except for population growth, various industrial categories have become more complete, and with the improvement of technology and some changes, the empire has become more prosperous.

For example, household appliances such as televisions and refrigerators are becoming popular on a large scale, and more people are starting to buy cars.

In addition, computers and mobile phones have also developed to a new level.According to the summary of the Imperial Government Affairs Office, the entire Qinghe Empire is expected to have 50 computers, and it will grow at a rate of 20.00% every year in the future.

With the increase of computers, the Internet of Qinghe Empire began to develop, and some software began to develop based on the reference of smart phones and computers in other worlds.

And because of the progress of the electronics industry, the new generation of floating platforms has added a lot of equipment, and has added cameras to the ground, and can also transmit pictures and videos through the network. This is a huge development for war and all aspects.

Today, the number of floating platforms in the Qinghe Empire has exceeded ten, and they are distributed in remote areas and borders of the empire, ensuring border communication.

And through the photography of the floating platform, some geography within the Qinghe Empire has also begun to be studied. For example, a detailed topographic map of the Qinghe Empire has been drawn, which has become a secret of the empire.

In addition to technological development, the army of the Qinghe Empire has added some new-generation fighters except for the air force, and the navy has added a number of warships.

The size of the army has not changed much, and there are no new personnel. It is just that with the rotation training of ten garrison divisions, the millions of army soldiers in the army are now almost 80.00% in rotation.

It can be said that the recruits replaced the veterans who had fought for more than ten years, and letting these veterans retire and go home can be regarded as injecting a new batch of high-quality talents into the first European.

Every veteran is a talent in the empire. For the empire that is expanding greatly, all jobs are immediately assigned and become a useful member of society.

After ten years of development, the Qinghe Empire has become stronger and stronger, but Di Feng looked around. The chaos of the Ming Empire ended two years ago. The total population of the Ming Empire has dropped by tens of millions, and its internal development has stalled. Now it is sorting out the damage caused by the chaos of the previous two years. .

As for the Southern Elf Empire, the relationship between the two parties has gradually become closer with the trade, and the amount of trade has increased. During the negotiations between the Elf Empire and the Qinghe Empire, both sides opened up several port cities to expand the trade between the two sides.

And as they get along well with the Elf Empire, and the Elf Empire has no sense of sea power, the navy fleet of the Qinghe Empire discovered an archipelago in the sea more than 300 kilometers away from the coastline of the Qinghe Empire.

This archipelago covers an area of ​​[-] square kilometers, and is composed of three large islands with an area of ​​[-] to [-] square kilometers and thousands of small islands.

No new forces were found on the island, only some wild beasts and indigenous savages, so the East China Sea Navy Headquarters took over here.

And developed this place into a transit base, through this archipelago, to explore further south.

Because of the sea charts of the wizards who traveled before, the Qinghe Empire contacted several kingdoms near the sea in the south of the Elven Empire, and successfully established trade exchanges.

However, this kind of trade was not smooth sailing. Several kingdoms saw the wealth of the Qinghe Empire's merchant ships and wanted to rob them, and a naval battle broke out with the Qinghe Empire's East China Sea Navy Headquarters.

In this battle, the fleets of these kingdoms were defeated by a fleet from the Qinghe Empire's East China Sea Navy Headquarters. The several kingdoms were forced to sign an agreement, and the Qinghe Empire took several coastal islands to establish ports and conduct trade.

Since then, the Qinghe Empire has earned more wealth every year.And use this archipelago [-] kilometers away from Blue Sea Road as a base.

The Qinghe Empire's fleet searched the southern and eastern waters. In order to ensure communication in that area, a floating platform of the Qinghe Empire moved over the islands.

In addition to the naval fleet, there are four marine divisions, three air force bases, more than 200 fighters of various types, and a newly built missile base on the island.

And according to the location of that island, Di Feng pondered whether to set up a naval headquarters there.

To a certain extent, the Qinghe Empire is very stable in the southern ocean and land, and will not start a war in a short time.

In the north, because of the increased contact with the Red Dragon family and the vast space further north, the mighty Red Dragon was also sleeping and did not launch a war in person.

Therefore, there have been no large-scale battles among the monsters of the various races of the Red Dragon Family in the north in recent years, only continuous small-scale battles.

After these battles over the years, a total of tens of millions of monsters have been wiped out, and with the expansion of outposts, camps, forts, and positions, the northern front has extended to the north for [-] kilometers, which can be said to have occupied a large number of monsters for the empire. territory.

Moreover, with the expansion of an area, most of the border defense divisions and legions in the north have moved forward. For this reason, Sejuani, who is in charge of the commander-in-chief of the Liaodong Military Region in the north, also applied to Di Feng to expand the establishment of several border defense divisions.

However, because of the situation there, the empire's war was placed on the expansion of the navy, and the Liaodong Military Region remained the same.

As for the vast ocean in the east of the empire, because the navy of the Qinghe Empire is not strong enough, and there are a large number of various races and huge sea monsters in the ocean, it can be said that every time you advance a certain distance, you will enter a new force or an ocean. Overlord's territory.

Since then, the Qinghe Empire's navy will have to fight against this force and the sea monsters. As a result, the development of the Qinghe Empire has naturally slowed down a lot.

However, with the wars of these years, the navy has also produced many new naval warfare weapons, and there are also warship plans specifically for various situations.

For example, the construction of the first aircraft carrier of the Qinghe Empire has been completed, and it is now undergoing experiments. There are also reloaded warships for giant sea monsters, and magic warships specially designed to stabilize the ocean for ocean spells.

However, because these new warships have just been designed or are still under construction, the Qinghe Empire's navy is still developing.

On the contrary, it opened up with the sea area of ​​​​the Seven Nations Alliance, and through the islands along the way as supply points, the two sides trade with each other. In addition, they are far apart and have a common enemy, so the two sides have close trade. This is very important for the two forces. Both have huge benefits.

Looking around at the forces in Difeng, he found that unless a large-scale battle was launched, the Qinghe Empire had no possibility of large-scale expansion of its territory.

In addition to the internal areas, the snake colonies in Jiangnan and Jiangbei provinces have not been cleaned up, and more than half of the land in the southern forests has not been developed.

There are also the newly added Diyou Road and the wider Nanyue Road that have not been developed. Now the Qinghe Empire's population of 7000 million is divided into this vast land, which is really sparsely populated.

From this point of view, after ten years, it is better for the empire to continue to develop internally.

Therefore, Di Feng called all the members of the government affairs cabinet and the military cabinet to hold a small internal meeting to discuss the future development of the Qinghe Empire.

"Peace is also very precious to the empire." Zhang Xiu was the first to speak.

"Now, while the forces around us are not making big moves, it is better to continue to develop the country. Now that the empire's various technologies are developing rapidly, new factories, and more graduates, the annual economic growth of the empire has exceeded 20.00%.

The military expenditure, which accounted for 50.00% of the empire's income, has now dropped to [-]%. Therefore, I suggest that if it can develop peacefully, then continue to develop peacefully. It would be best if it can last another ten years. "

"Most of the southern part of the empire is barren land, and the Underground Road also has a large area of ​​land, and there are many passages connecting the Underground Road to other regions. If the empire wants to expand, I think developing the underground world is a good choice. "

"Now all the legions are strengthening their training, and the army can fight at any time, but the various weapons of the army, air force and navy are all being updated, it would be best if it can be delayed a few years.

And we are surrounded by big forces. No matter which direction the east, west, north, and south start, it is an empire-level battle. It is really bad that the empire's rapid development is suddenly interrupted. "

"Is that so?"

Seeing that all the subordinates said that it is best to continue to develop, Di Feng saw the unanimous opinion of the subordinates, so there is no need to choose other options.

Although with Di Feng's prestige, no one will resist if he chooses to go to war, but after all, it is not an imperial crisis, and it is the best choice for Di Feng to listen to the opinions from below.

"In that case." Di Feng finally concluded. "Then, according to everyone's opinions, continue to develop. The deadline is to develop for five years first. If there is no problem, continue to develop for five years."

(End of this chapter)