Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 244 Chapter 244 Sophia

A beautiful maid pushed open a double door carved with the god of the sun and the god of the moon and the moon.

There is a stunning floor-to-ceiling mirror in the ornate room, and on the other side hangs a huge picture depicting the gods overlooking the world.

Outside a row of exquisite floor-to-ceiling windows are the balcony railings with carved beams and painted columns, which is so spacious that you can almost gallop a horse.

On the soft bed, the owner of this room opened his eyes and moved a slender bare arm away from his chest.

"Lord Sophia..." The maid folded her hands on her stomach, stood beside the bed and bowed slightly, her tone full of concern: "You haven't eaten breakfast yet."

"Hmm..." A lazy woman's voice sounded on the big bed, and then a naked woman with an almost perfect figure sat up from the bed.

She flicked her curly red hair like waves in a daze, and looked at the woman who was still lying beside her with sleepy eyes.

more than one woman...

There were three women lying on this big bed, two of whom were still asleep.

Sophia twisted her neck twice, and then woke up the woman sleeping next to her with her hand: "Wake up! Babies..."

Then, the maid who came in and woke up her master moved away from her seat, took out a very silky and large pajamas from behind, and helped Sophia put it on her body.

Just like that, the red-haired Sophia put down her hands, and walked out of her staggeringly luxurious bedroom with bare feet in a "vacuum" without caring about the two beautiful bed partners behind her.

In the corridor, the graceful footsteps of the maids echoed. When Sophia passed by those female guards, the guards knelt on one knee and greeted their master with their delicate voice: "Lord Sophia!"

The woman's hand brushed over the heads of these female guards, and then walked through the corridor that was even exaggerated to the point of echoing, and walked to her office.

There are only women here, as if it is a kingdom of women, so a hostess can dress casually here.The women who can enter this castle are either beautiful or rich, and they have one thing in common... they don't like men very much.

Flame Castle, one of the most wealthy and impressive castles in the world so far, is owned by Duchess Sofia the Red Hair, who is also the richest woman in the world... bar none.

She inherited her fortune from her mother, who inherited her mother's fortune from her grandmother.Her grandmother had many men, each richer than the last.

Sophia's grandmother was one of the people who founded the Cyric Arms Consortium. She keenly grasped this opportunity to make a fortune and multiplied her wealth hundreds of times.

The flame castle was built by Sophia's mother, and it didn't have this nickname at that time.But after Sophia inherited her mother's inheritance, it was painted red and became what it is now.

It is said that a certain section of the castle's outer wall was painted with blood, which was the blood all over the body of another shareholder of the Cyric Group who assassinated Sophia's mother.

"My lord, we just sent the news that we have obtained a sample of the wireless telegraph equipment." After Sophia took her seat, the maid reported.

"We lied about the Telegraph's equipment being broken and then stole the whole thing...it's not that big of a thing."

"What about the loss?" Sophia looked at her slender fingers, as if admiring a part of the almost perfect body bestowed on her by the gods.

"A hidden army lurking in Dorne is completely finished, including the bribed officials, the assassins lurking there, and the dark men. Dozens of dark threads cultivated over the years have all been killed." There was no disturbance in the maid's words. , as if what was lost didn't matter.

"It doesn't matter, anyway, they will lose sooner or later..." Sophia also looked indifferent: "Tell me, why... that organization called Silver Fox Company can develop so fast, so... powerful ?”

"The other party has a more professional system than ours. This is the conjecture summed up by the intelligence chief on our side. The other party is stronger than us, and can easily find clues to find the people we left with them." The maid said coldly. replied coldly.

Sophia nodded, and then asked again: "Then, tell me...why did this...organization called Datang Group, which rose up in less than two years, be so impeccable in such details?"

"This, the subordinate doesn't know." The maid lowered her head a little ashamed, as if she had done something wrong.

Sophia was just asking casually, and she didn't expect her maid to tell her something that even she couldn't figure out.

This mysterious Datang Group far away in the Kingdom of Wright almost wiped out most of the forces deployed by the Cyric Group in the Kingdom of Wright in less than a year.

Cyric's private army was buried in Bunas. After that battle, Cyric almost lost his control over the Kingdom of Wright.

The dark men who had been lurking had also lost their lives. These people either became proven double-faced agents and provided false information to Cyric, or they completely cut off contact and became unheard of. missing persons.

In short, the map of the Wright Kingdom, which was already lit up, seems to be shrouded in the fog of war again.It was not until more than half a year ago that the Cyric consortium finally began to slowly understand Datang Group, a rival that had completely risen.

This kind of understanding is painful, the kind that makes all shareholders of the Cyric Group feel heartbroken.

In order to obtain the production technology of needle guns, flash caps and steam engines, Cyric had to compromise with the Poplar Kingdom, giving up all the interests in the Poplar Kingdom.

Then, when Cyric began to slowly build steam engines, learn and catch up with the Datang Group, they successively lost the markets of Wright, Suzas, Dorne and other kingdoms.

Their munitions products have been beaten steadily, and almost all fields no longer maintain their leadership and advantages.

The flintlock has long been an obsolete product, but this weapon is still the bulk of the arms business of the Cyric Consortium.

But when Cyric was frantically building steam engines, improving his own production line, and catching up with Datang Group's weapon technology advantages as much as possible, Datang Group surprisingly launched something like a steam train.

Using the steam engine as a power source and paving the road with steel has completely changed the traditional mode of transportation and brought a country closer together... This... is really beyond everyone's expectations.

In the next round of operations, Cyric's top executives paid the price for their slow response.Because they have dominated the world arms trade for more than 100 years, they are rotten and stagnant.

By the time Cyric realized that he seemed to have missed a new weapon revolution, or productivity revolution, they had only plagiarized to catch up.

Ever since, they began to imitate the railway tracks, using their huge production capacity to seize the market that the Datang Group could not afford.

In fact, they did succeed. They got orders from more than a dozen countries, and even kingdoms such as Wright and Poplar, which had lost their markets, purchased rails from them to build their own railways.

And because the locomotives of the train are temporarily unavailable, Cyric can only honestly produce rails and carriages in order to expand his profits.

In the end, before the Cyric consortium had fully grasped Tang Mo's rail train technology, Tang Mo came up with a brand new technology such as a car.

It’s not that Cyric didn’t think about getting some cars back and dismantling them for research. After all, compared with the locomotives of trains, cars can’t be managed, and they are also very easy to transport and transfer.

What is pessimistic is that Tang Mo's car looks simple on the outside, but the structure of the engine and gearbox is desperately complicated.

With the processing precision of most of Cyric's factories, they are completely unable to imitate this product, so they can only watch Tang Mo swallow the huge market bit by bit.

On the other hand, Cyric can only produce some auto parts, and help Tang Mo occupy the market while earning some hard money.

However, Cyric has not been useless in the past few months. Relying on their geographical advantages and first-mover advantages, they have acquired a large number of oil fields in the countries they control.

So although Cyric had already been defeated in the competition, this behemoth miraculously increased the total value of his fixed assets by a large margin.

At the same time, other products related to Datang Group also began to enter the vision of the Cyric consortium.

For example...a telegraph, for example...a light bulb...

These things all run on electricity, so as a person with a keen sense of smell, Sophia is very sensitive to realize that the power system developed by Datang Group may be an important direction for future technological development.

After all, generator technology is relatively easy to copy, so Cyric is also "copying and pasting" Datang Group's power generation technology.

It's just that the progress in this area has been relatively slow, and the other leaders of Cyric have focused their attention on Tang Mo's breech-loading guns, modern bolt-action rifles, and machine guns.

Fortunately, Cyric is Cyric after all. Sophia used some secrets and contacts accumulated over the years to find a way to buy a few original generators produced by Datang Group.

Now, apart from being disassembled and researched, and several generators used by the most high-end Cyric factory, Flame Castle has become one of the few buildings in the world that uses electricity.

It has also become one of the few castles that has installed electric lighting, which makes it look more resplendent.

(End of this chapter)