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To allow him to use modular production equipment and free up that weight, Lao Xia saved him all the furniture, including the space bed, as well as various folding storage cabinets and even cooking utensils. He only left him with an induction cooker, a microwave oven, and a set of pots and pans, cutting everything else out.

Fortunately, considering that there are no leaves to wipe your bottom on the moon, we kept the negative pressure toilet with a water washing function.

Otherwise, Johnny going to the toilet would be a nightmare. Nobody would take off their pants to go to the toilet in an environment where the sun side is 330 degrees Celsius and the shade side is -170 degrees Celsius.

In a microgravity environment, although not all sorts of indescribable particles float in the air, going to the toilet is still a huge problem. Fortunately, vacuum negative pressure toilets solve this problem very well.

For showering, Johnny was also given a private bathroom where he could wash himself using a high-speed water mist in the most water-efficient way.

So Johnny's first night on the moon was spent on the floor in his spacesuit.

Because the oxygen recirculation machine hasn't been installed yet, the cabin is still in a vacuum state, making it impossible to breathe, although the temperature has begun to gradually improve.

For this guy who needs to survive on the moon, installing all the equipment is only the first step; the second step is that he must find lunar ice within 30 days.

Without it, hydroponics would be impossible, meaning he would starve to death on the moon.

The third step is to search for various minerals brought by meteorites, including phosphorus, sulfur, iron, and most importantly, carbon.

Otherwise, it will be unable to synthesize organic matter, replenish nutrient solutions and the material consumption of crop growth, and expand the carbon cycle, which means that its greenhouse ecosystem will collapse at an alarming rate.

Next comes mining minerals, using military manufacturing equipment to expand the drone fleet, and building solar panel arrays for power, forming a small but complete cycle; otherwise, running out of fuel would be a dead end.

Moreover, he can hardly expect Old Xia to launch new rockets for him from the planet. Without engines for interstellar travel, Old Xia can't send enough heavy cargo to the moon. Perhaps he can launch cargo containers directly after he builds some supermassive launcher, but that's not something to look forward to for the next five or six years.

While Johnny was struggling with thousands of pages of assembly instructions and a huge pile of communication equipment parts, nothing major happened on Old Xia's side, or rather, nothing major happened that required his personal attention.

The group is operating quite well, probably because of its high profitability and relatively small and loyal staff. Although Little Tiger said he would try to find some investment to help him with the funding gap.

However, it is still necessary to reserve enough working capital first, since the appetite of those nobles is not so easy to estimate.

The Amiya Logistics temporary supply station near Longmen is a temporary supply station made of tents and crates, which serves as a rest and resupply station for convoys along the transport route.

To expand business into Kazdel, we need someone familiar with Kazdel to investigate the situation and select an initial breakthrough point. In other words, Lao Xia needs to send out a capable team.

However, now it is not only difficult to find suitable candidates, but it can even be said that there are almost no suitable candidates.

If he needs people to kidnap and cause trouble, then he has at least two professional mercenaries at his disposal.

But what he needs now are skilled lobbyists, exploration experts familiar with agriculture and geography, and business investigators who understand the power of commerce and money—these professionals are less of a concern than the duties of bodyguards.

Mudrock, W, or Skadi are all capable of the task. Although Little Orca is not keen on fieldwork, her orders are to stay by Old Xia's side and wait for further instructions from the captain. She will not leave unless absolutely necessary.

There's no need to rush the selection of personnel for now. After all, because W "supposedly" killed Theresis, the nearly unified Sarkaz forces have fallen apart again. The Demon Lord who is popular but lacks ability and the Regent who is powerful but lacks legitimacy are both gone.

To paraphrase an old Chinese saying, "When Qin lost its deer, the whole world chased after it." For the powers of the feudal era, the death of the ruler and the destruction of the state were almost a foregone conclusion, especially when there was no qualified successor.

Therefore, the Sarkaz civil war, which had been gradually heating up, subsided. This was not a good thing. The previous tensions were because Theresis had accumulated considerable power and was preparing to unify Sarkaz. These battles were merely probing outposts.

Now that Theresis is gone, it's not surprising that the nobles and subordinates who originally supported him have simply split up.

After all, reality is not a game or a "rational person" that only exists in fantasy—the most rational way is to elect a new leader, which is something everyone can think of.

But who should be chosen? Do you really think it's about selecting the virtuous and capable, choosing whoever is competent? What a joke! Of course, the one with the strongest army and the most powerful troops should be the emperor. The abdication system of selecting the virtuous and passing the throne has been dead for so many years.

The current temporary calm means that everyone is unwilling to lose too much of their own strength for the position of leader, so they are observing the situation and trying to seize as much of the political resources left by Theresis as possible.

Next, conflicts in the Sarkaz will become quite frequent, and they will enter a phase of accumulating troops and supplies. During this phase, some of the weaker border nobles will inevitably succumb to the pressure. This will be the best time for Lao Xia and his group to enter.

Only when the other side grasps at their last straw can they gain the most benefits at the lowest cost—and by then, if all else fails, armed intervention is not out of the question.

If Terra hadn't yet evolved things like national bonds and war bonds, Old Xia would have been ready to buy a bunch. What, you're saying what if you lose and can't redeem them?

Of course, the best course of action would be to decisively intervene with armed force, forcefully win the battle, and demand the exchange—if Wall Street can do it, why can't it?

There is still some time before the best time, and in comparison, the more urgent task is to carry out the refitting of the first land-based vessel delivered by Victoria.

The modification and construction of large-scale equipment is not within Lao Xia's professional skills. All he can do is provide various advanced wet components and Covenant industrial products based on the suggestions of the professional team he recruited through his Swire family connections.

Furthermore, he also recruited the Rhodes Island engineering department's elite trio to serve as technical advisors. This land-based ship, named "Aritosa (Goddess of Forest and Spring)," is a standard Victoria third-generation Originium-powered armed transport ship.

Six pairs of twelve sets of dual tracks provide support and propulsion, and the folding sail frame allows for acceleration using wind power when necessary, making it suitable for Kazdel and snowfields.

The cargo hold entrance is located at the front, and the deck is flat, equipped with a large number of lifting and loading equipment. The weapons are two large turrets at the front and rear, which are equipped with Terra Originium City Defense Cannons, the kind of things that require a squad of warlocks to operate.

It has small ballistae on the sides and multiple folding platforms for docking and boarding, as well as a drone take-off and landing platform. It can be said to be a very reasonable and advanced piece of equipment.

It was the latest armed land-based vessel that even the Victoria Fleet did not possess. However, in this era of "free market economy," this phenomenon was very common, after all, many ships became obsolete as soon as they were completed, and all sorts of strange and wonderful new technologies emerged one after another.

Therefore, no one found it strange that Xia Lin hired a professional shipbuilding team or even poached engineers from shipyards to consult on the modifications.

Although it is currently the most advanced land-based ship, it is still outdated compared to Rhodes Island, and also outdated compared to the second ship in Victoria's dock, which has just begun laying its keel and uses fourth-generation Originium power technology.

This ship was originally intended for use by the Royal Victoria Fleet, because Old Xia offered a lot of money.

So they gave it to him. The Royal Navy used the money to order two fourth-generation ships, expedited, so that their new ships might arrive as soon as the modifications are completed here.

"Regarding the modification plan, based on your requirements... my suggestion is: dismantle everything." The stern Victorian gentleman in front of me said seriously, "Okay, just kidding. At least the cargo hold and loading equipment don't need to be dismantled, but the power and transmission system upgrades are too radical. We can't be sure of the reliability of your equipment, and there might also be some problems with the connections..."

"To be honest, Sir, the Originium engine you're using is too outdated."

"But it is reliable. Whether in sandstorms, snowstorms, or when attacked by enemy boarding raids and city-breaking ballistae, it will at most lose one or two supercharged cylinders, rather than all of them exploding."

“Um… Sir, I must say that this is an armed civilian ship, not a Victoria warship. What we need is… performance, not reliability.”

The stranger thought for a moment and said that this stubborn old man was not so easy to persuade—because he was the chief designer of the ship.

In the previous discussion, or rather, the "intense debate" that was almost like a full-blown brawl except for not drawing weapons, Sir William White, after witnessing the power of the molten cannon, felt that it could indeed replace the original weapon set.

However, he didn't quite understand Lao Xia's electronic modification plan. Of course, we'll leave that for later, since most of the discussion focuses on the superstructure.

On the issues of power and engineering maintenance systems, the two sides almost completely failed to reach an agreement, with the stranger wanting to use his clockwork-like transmission system.

Jazz, however, thought it was too unreliable. Once it lay prone, it wouldn't be like a Titan. The road wheels of this thing were taller than a three-story building, and it couldn't be disassembled without heavy equipment.

Old Xia was even more radical in his plan to use the Covenant's tracked equipment. Jazz partially agreed to this, because the new alloy he provided was indeed... much stronger than Terra's Originium alloy. However, Jazz had no trust in his electromagnetic transmission.

Victoria is at the forefront of this new discipline of electromagnetism. If he doesn't even know something, and this guy says it's feasible, isn't that nonsense—although Lao Xia's plan is indeed feasible.

The Covenant's largest ground vehicle is practically a supercarrier lying on the ground—the "Mole-class mobile engineering vessel," used for planetary terraforming, roughly equivalent to the purpose of a "light industrial mech" in some other world.

Of course, it can also be used as ground warfare equipment. After all, there's nothing wrong with using those "industrial machines" that are used to blow up mountains, flatten hills, evaporate lakes, and blow up rivers to transfer the same effects to cities or fortresses.

Finally, Lao Xia resorted to the warp drive modification method, and only after the microgravity field reduced the weight of the entire ship by 1/3 did he reluctantly agree to the alien's bunch of redundant improvement plans.

However, Sir William and Sir Charles both opposed the Stranger's "Super Clock Tower" proposal regarding the tracks and running gear.

You have the ability to disintegrate and reassemble in a second, but no one else does. Besides, even if an outsider has Originium Arts, even with maximum power amplification, they still can't work on this level of complex walking mechanism.

The armor section still adopted Lao Xia's design, which further reduced the weight of the entire ship. In order to fit in the "blade coolers" and "tower fire tube boilers", the hull was lengthened by a large margin. The entire modification project was almost the biggest test for the entire heavy industry workforce at Longmen Shipyard.

Fortunately, most industrial problems can be condensed into three issues: power, materials, and money. Old Xia can solve most of these three issues, so there are no problems left.

"Mr. Xia, have you considered serving the Victorian Navy?" After a month of arguing and the team's almost endless expansion, the man looked at the final plan with some dissatisfaction and asked, "Your deflection shield and this armor technology are very... advanced."

"There's only one set of the deflection shield. Don't ask why, it's an ancient relic..." They can't exactly say it fell from the spaceship. Besides, this isn't the first time the Terrans have unearthed all sorts of random relics.

"Armor materials cost 20 LMD per ton. Do you have the money?"

"Hmm..." Sir William pondered for a long time, seemingly seriously calculating how many generals he could dismiss to refit the capital ships, and finally sighed.

The Royal Navy is indeed wealthy, but with a large number of ships and generals, and significant pressure on the borders, it is extremely expensive.

Although the better-performing armor probably wouldn't be very convincing to the gentlemen on the Finance Committee.

After all, in Terra, which lacks high-precision, rapid-fire, large-caliber cannons, the quantity of ships is more important than the quality of armor. After all, even the strongest armor can't withstand a group of strong men jumping on board.

"Alright, let's finish this project first. Your second ship won't be using this system too, will it?"

"No, we'll still use the fourth-generation Originium power. My power system isn't much more advanced than this."

That's true. It's not much more advanced than fourth-generation ship propulsion, unless Lao Xia upgrades the wet propulsion to Covenant fusion nuclear power.

"However, my proposals can be considered for the weapon systems and hull structure systems..."

"Hmm, a lightweight honeycomb frame and inlaid armor structure. However, this places high demands on manufacturing processes and materials..."

"I can sell a batch of Dragon Flame Cutting Machines and Hot Melt Welding Machines as appropriate." Anyway, Victoria will use these tools for production, and she will probably need them from the other party's shipyard in the future, so it is only right to help them upgrade their tools.

The final structure was based on the original design, with a lower, flatter, and wider deck, a taller bridge, and the sail racks replaced by Lao Xia's electronic system antennas. Four or five hemispherical unidentified objects were placed around the superstructure, and the number of drone landing pads on the sides was increased to 16.

The ship also has anti-boarding supports and sensing antennas on its sides, which are said to be local equipment used to sense ground echoes and avoid sharp Originium clusters.

The most eye-catching weapon system is the triple thermal fusion gun in the front, the twin Originium railgun in the back, and two electromagnetic rapid-fire crossbows on the sides for anti-boarding and deck sweeping. This is Victoria's new technology, different from Old Xia's electromagnetic crossbows, they use coil magnetic reluctance acceleration.

However, Lao Xia also left behind a large number of expansion brackets and plug-ins, since in this era, artillery surgeons mainly controlled the equipment.

Therefore, there's no need to worry about automated fire control channels; the radar transmits the relevant data directly to the gunner's brain, which is equipped with an "aided aiming helmet," via a neural processor.

This means that the "Neural Tree" wet parts core is also an essential modification product, which needs to be made by Lao Xia and his workers.

Because... it was far too evil and terrifying to outsiders, with red nerve bundles everywhere inside the ship.

Of course, once it's neatly arranged and placed inside the light red plastic conduit, it looks no different from an ordinary cable.

After that, rocket launch boxes can be added. As for missiles, we haven't found any wet components that can perform guidance work. Maybe we can try using pigeon heads when we start raising pigeons?

The new rocket artillery system consists of a tower-type propulsion unit and a W-shaped high-explosive warhead, along with a secondary gun system.

Although a low-cost method for manufacturing gunpowder has not yet been found, Lao Xia has discovered a low-cost expanding propellant, which means that conventional artillery can now be manufactured.

"With twenty-four gas-propelled machine gun emplacements, not even a swarm of ants could break through the interception fire net, let alone a person!"

Because it requires a tower-type fire tube system, it can only be shipborne. This includes those things that are low-cost expansion propellants. They are a bit large in size and have large ignition devices, making it difficult to mount them to individual soldiers or even small vehicles. However, mounting them on land-based ships is not a problem at all.

"It's practically a mini-fleet." With six Titan tanks and a landship in the dock, it looked like a miniature version of Victoria's main fleet. "I think this might be more than enough to deal with bandits."

“Because we need to deal with the generals and dukes of Ursus…” Old Xia told the truth, and Sir William White immediately understood, spitting out a low curse, “Those northern barbarians and bandits.”

Normal bandits wouldn't rob a group so full of martial virtue that they could "reason with people" or even "persuade" some small countries.

However, it's hard to say about the warlords of Ursus who also acted as bandits, or rather, the bandits who also served as generals of Ursus.

Of course, they won't just take a direct hit, but if you don't have enough powerful equipment and weapons, you won't be able to scare them away. They're not intimidated by appearances.

Of course, Titan's deterrent power is already there. At the cost of a certain Ursus transport team mysteriously disappearing in the wasteland, the two transport convoys, just as they are about to pass each other, may have reached some kind of consensus by exchanging a glance.

After a conversation tinged with Ursus influence, the Titan convoy gained two more vehicles of loot, while the local garrison lost several vehicles, supplies, and an old assault boat.

Like two armed merchant ships meeting during the Age of Exploration, both sides immediately felt they could test each other a little; if the latter proved weak, they would immediately switch to banditry.

Clearly, the Reunification Movement, which runs around various military districts every day, and Amiya Logistics' escort team are more skilled—they might even have some "professionals" who used to be bandits.

After the mini convoy completes its desert kit upgrade, it will take the "negotiation team" selected by Old Xia to Kazdel.

If all goes well, those doomed nobles who have only one straw to cling to will not let this opportunity slip by.

If things don't go smoothly, using armed persuasion is also an option—one hand on the guillotine, the other on the emancipation of serfs, backed by a mini land fleet that can actually be traded one-for-one with the Victoria Fleet; the effect might even be better than negotiation.