Zhou Rui had no interest in the land of the Continent of the Gods, and now the land area of the Han and Tang Empires is as high as 99.06 million square kilometers, which is enough to accommodate the 3.5 billion people of the Han and Tang Empires.

Moreover, according to the area of cultivated land that can be cultivated by the Han and Tang Empires, even if the population of the Han and Tang Empires doubles or even triples, it will be enough to feed the people of the Han and Tang Empires.

If it weren't for the lottery system's mandatory task of "helping Princess Dai Berna ascend to the throne", Zhou Rui would not even interfere in the competition for the throne within the Star and Moon Alliance.

What's more, Zhou Rui always had some awe for the magical power of the Continent of the Gods, and Zhou Rui was not willing to really fight the countries of the Continent of the Gods to the death.

So when the other four human nations led by the Ice Tide Alliance invited the Han and Tang Empires to join the Great Alliance of Beast Defense, Zhou Rui directly refused.

Isn't it fragrant to exchange silver, steel, and grain for tens of thousands of tons of gold to the Totem Alliance?

However, Zhou Rui explained to the four human nations including the Ice Tide Alliance that the Han and Tang Empires did not have any idea of expanding their power in the Continent of the Gods, and they did not want to be enemies of any country, including the Totem Alliance.

The Han and Tang Empires only hoped that they could conduct fair trade transactions with the various countries of the Continent of the Gods.

Of course, since Princess Dai Baina has been put on the throne of the Star-Moon Alliance, even if Zhou Rui has no intention of merging the Star-Moon Alliance into the Han and Tang Empires, Zhou Rui will not let the Star-Moon Alliance go.

After all, now that Dai Bona is already the queen of the Star Moon Alliance, Zhou Rui and Dai Bona's children will inherit the throne of the Star Moon Alliance in the future.

So with the support of the Han and Tang Empires, the rebuilt Star and Moon Alliance Guards Legion suddenly expanded to 1 million troops, and its weapons and equipment were so sophisticated that even the dwarven army of the Rock Alliance was envious.

The rock alliance of the dwarven race is known for its well-produced weapons and equipment, and many famous craftsmen in the continent of the gods are dwarves.

The various countries of the Continent of the Gods have always adopted a feudal system, although with the power of the Han and Tang Empires, it is completely possible to turn all the lands of the Star and Moon Alliance into the land under the direct jurisdiction of the king, but Zhou Rui did not do that.

It is not easy to break the inherent traditions of the Continent of the Gods, maybe at that time, it will no longer be a matter within the Star and Moon Alliance, and the four human countries such as the Ice Tide Alliance will probably also intervene.

As long as they firmly control the 1.2 million square kilometers of land and 40 million people under the direct jurisdiction of the king, and have the Han and Tang Empires behind them, the nobles from all over the Star and Moon Alliance must be loyal to Queen Dai Baina on the surface.

After helping Princess Dai Bona ascend to the throne of the Star and Moon Alliance, the Han and Tang Empires entered a period of steady and rapid development for several years, and the development of the Han and Tang Empires in all aspects can even be described as changing with each passing day.

However, at the beginning of January of Tianyuan 1557, some wolf people and leopard people of the Silver Wolf Empire and the Flying Leopard Empire suddenly began to attack the human civilians in the territory and rob the human civilians of their belongings.

In just a few days, more than 50,000 human civilians in these two countries have been killed or injured, and the loss of property by human civilians is as high as billions of silver coins.

At the beginning, when the human civilians in the five countries of Golden Lion, Red Tiger, Black Bear, Silver Wolf, and Flying Leopard emigrated to the feudal towns controlled by the Zhou family, due to the compulsory immigration policies promulgated by the Golden Lion, Red Tiger, and Black Bear, the human civilians of the three beast countries basically migrated to the territory of the current Han and Tang Empires.

In the territory of the Silver Wolf Empire and the Flying Leopard Empire, there are always many human civilians, because they are reluctant to give up the wealth accumulated by their ancestors, and these two countries have not promulgated mandatory immigration policies, so these human civilians choose to continue to live in the Silver Wolf Empire or the Flying Leopard Empire.

According to statistics, as of the end of Tian Yuan 1556, there were about 7 million humans living in the Silver Wolf Empire for a long time, and about 6 million humans living in the Flying Leopard Empire for a long time.

Although the humans in the two countries of Silver Wolf and Flying Leopard were not citizens of the Han and Tang Empires, after the attacks on human civilians in the two countries began, the envoys of the Han and Tang Empires to the Silver Wolf Empire and the Han and Tang Empires to the Flying Leopard Empire immediately lodged a strong protest to the above two countries.

It is required that the Silver Wolf Empire and the Flying Leopard Empire must immediately quell the massacre of human civilians in the country and severely punish all murderers of human civilians.

However, after receiving the strong protest from the Han and Tang Empires, the Silver Wolf Empire and the Flying Leopard Empire showed a very arrogant attitude, claiming that the current riots were the internal affairs of their two countries, and that the two countries would handle it by themselves, and there was no need for the Han and Tang Empires to intervene.

Regarding the reply of the Silver Wolf Empire and the Flying Leopard Empire, Zhou Rui was furious when he heard it, and immediately ordered a number of aircraft carrier formations of the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empires to assemble along the coast of the Silver Wolf Empire and the Flying Leopard Empire, and at the same time ordered the Han and Tang armies close to the border area of the Silver Wolf Empire to be in a state of combat readiness.

At present, the aircraft carriers in service in the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empires include 40 Dongying Xianghe-class aircraft carriers, 60 Essex-class aircraft carriers, 100 Bird's Nest-class aircraft carriers, 160 Midway-class aircraft carriers and 80 Jumbo-class aircraft carriers.

The Jumbo-class aircraft carrier is a supercarrier independently built by the six major shipyards of the Han and Tang Empires, with a full load displacement of up to 115,000 tons, a design maximum speed of 30 knots, and a crew of 3,550 people.

The waterline armor belt was 120 mm to 150 mm thick, the flight deck armor was 120 mm thick, and the hangar deck armor was 120 mm thick.

It is equipped with 20 100-mm high-level guns, 80 40-mm anti-aircraft guns, 50 30-mm anti-aircraft guns, and 50 13-mm anti-aircraft machine guns.

It can be equipped with 48 jet carrier-based fighters, 48 jet carrier-based dive bombers and 48 jet carrier-based torpedo attack aircraft.

Originally, the Jumbo-class aircraft carriers were designed to carry 240 propeller carrier-based aircraft, but now all the aircraft carriers of the Han and Tang Empires, including the Xianghe-class of Dongying Guo, the Essex class of the United States, the Midway class of the United States and the Bird's Nest class, have been equipped with jet carrier-based aircraft independently designed and built by the Han and Tang Empires.

Because the space occupied by jet carrier-based aircraft is much larger than that of propeller carrier-based aircraft, the Jumbo-class aircraft carrier can only carry 146 jet carrier-based aircraft, and the number of carrier-based aircraft carried by the other four aircraft carriers has also been reduced accordingly.

The Xianghe-class, the Essex-class, the Midway-class and the Bird's Nest class have all undergone varying degrees of modification in order to be able to carry jet-based carrier-based aircraft.

The Dongying Guoxiang Crane-class aircraft carrier, the U.S. Essex-class aircraft carrier, and the Bird's Nest-class aircraft carrier can all carry 45 jet carrier-based aircraft, and the U.S. Midway-class can carry 72 jet carrier-based aircraft.

In the past few years, Zhou Rui has obtained a large number of U.S. Midway-class aircraft carriers from the lottery system, which makes the U.S. Midway-class aircraft carriers currently in service in the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empires as many as 160.

However, the lottery system has never given Zhou Rui more advanced aircraft carriers and more advanced jet fighters, and several jet fighters issued by the lottery system still belong to the first generation of jet fighters.

At present, the jet fighters produced by several large aircraft factories in the Han and Tang Empires have surpassed the first-generation jet fighters in all aspects of performance, except that they are not equipped with missiles, and they are comparable to the second-generation jet fighters in other aspects, especially in terms of maximum flight speed.

Zhou Rui had already set up a missile research and development department, but because he could not solve the problem of the guidance system, the missiles of the Han and Tang empires could not be developed for a long time.

Today, the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empires has formed dozens of aircraft carrier formations with aircraft carriers as the main ships, and each aircraft carrier formation has 6 to 8 aircraft carriers under its jurisdiction.

The establishment of the 12 main fleets of the Royal Navy of the Han and Tang Empires has not changed, and each main force has a number of aircraft carrier formations under its jurisdiction.

The reaction of the Han and Tang Empires immediately made the clouds of war once again loom over the heads of the Han and Tang Empires and the military alliance of the 10 countries.

At the invitation of the Golden Lion Empire, the Nature Elf Empire, the Light Elf Empire, and the Dark Elf Empire of the Beast World joined the new military alliance a few years ago.

Because this new military alliance has more Liang Yan Empire, it is called the 10-nation military alliance.

In the palace of Norya City, the first capital of the Golden Lion Empire, Emperor Kosno asked Prime Minister Salento, "What is the attitude of the Silver Wolf Empire and the Flying Leopard Empire towards the military operations of the Han and Tang Empires?" ”

Prime Minister Salento said in a deep voice: "Both the Silver Wolf Empire and the Flying Leopard Empire have issued orders for combat readiness mobilization, and it is obvious that the Silver Wolf Empire and the Flying Leopard Empire are ready to be tough to the end this time. ”

Emperor Kosno smiled slightly, "It seems that the Red Tiger Empire has given the Silver Wolf Empire and the Flying Leopard Empire a lot of promises, otherwise the Silver Wolf Empire and the Flying Leopard Empire will not be the first birds." ”

Prime Minister Salento nodded, "According to the information obtained by the intelligence department, the Red Tiger Empire has indeed given a lot of benefits to the Silver Wolf Empire and the Flying Leopard Empire, and even gave the design drawings of several jet fighters to the Silver Wolf Empire and the Flying Leopard Empire for free.

Now the air forces and aircraft carriers of the Silver Wolf Empire and the Flying Leopard Empire have begun to equip the jet fighters produced by the two countries. ”

After learning that the Han and Tang Empires were equipped with jet fighters, the countries of the 10-nation military alliance began to develop their own jet fighters.

Several jet fighters developed by the Red Tiger Empire have very good performance, and the maximum flight speed has even reached supersonic speed.

On the condition of selling iron ore, the Golden Lion Empire has jointly developed several jet fighters in conjunction with the Natural Elf Empire, the Light Elf Empire, and the Dark Elf Empire, and the performance is comparable to that of the jet fighters produced by several large aircraft factories in the Han and Tang Empires.

Emperor Kosno's eyes flashed, "Salento, do you think now is the time to go to war with the Han and Tang Empires again?" ”

Prime Minister Salento said loudly: "Your Majesty, after several years of dormancy, it can be said that the military alliance of the 10 countries is no weaker than the Han and Tang Empires in all aspects of the navy, land and air forces.

Especially in terms of navy, our Royal Navy of the Golden Lion Empire alone already has 84 Stinger-class aircraft carriers and 150 Poison Lotus-class aircraft carriers.

In addition, the number of aircraft carriers of the Nature Elf Empire, the Light Elf Empire, the Dark Elf Empire, and the Red Tiger Empire has exceeded 100 at present.

The combined aircraft carriers of our five countries have surpassed the Han and Tang Empires in terms of numbers.

If you count the Flying Leopard Empire, the Silver Wolf Empire, the Black Bear Empire, the Wild Bull Empire and the Liang Yan Empire, even if the Han and Tang Empire Navy adds the 120 Jumbo-class aircraft carriers under construction, our 10-nation military alliance still has an advantage over the Han and Tang Empire's navies in terms of aircraft carriers. ”

With a full load displacement of 49,500 tons, the Golden Lion Empire built a total of 150 ships in three batches, which can carry 64 jet carrier-based aircraft.

In addition to the 150 Poison Lotus-class aircraft carriers, the Golden Lion Empire has also built a total of 80 Wild Lion-class super battleships with a full load displacement of up to 106,000 tons in two batches.

Super battleships like the Mad Lion class, among the 10-nation military alliances, in addition to the Golden Lion Empire, only the Red Tiger Empire has built 60 ships.

Although the Red Tiger Empire has lost all the territory of the New World, the Red Tiger Empire has accumulated a lot of heritage in the previous two hundred years.

After the Red Tiger Empire was driven back to the beast world, it has been rearming and fighting in the past few years, frantically expanding its armaments, trying to recapture the land seized by the Han and Tang Empires.

In the face of the arms race initiated by the 10-nation military alliance, the Han and Tang empires did not show the slightest weakness.

After the construction of the first batch of 80 Jumbo-class aircraft carriers and 80 Ganyang-class super battleships, the six major shipyards of the Han and Tang Empires began to build 120 Jumbo-class aircraft carriers and 120 Ganyang-class super battleships at the same time.

The Ganyang-class super battleship has a full load displacement of 146,000 tons, a maximum speed of 30 knots, and is equipped with 5 triple 500-caliber 500 mm guns.

Emperor Kosno's tone suddenly became solemn, "So, are you in favor of another war with the Han and Tang Empires?" ”

"Your Majesty, the countries of the 10-nation military alliance, including our Golden Lion Empire, have almost emptied their families after several years of arms race.

The Red Tiger Empire supported the Silver Wolf Empire and the Flying Leopard Empire behind the scenes this time to take the initiative to provoke incidents, which shows that the Red Tiger Empire, as well as the Silver Wolf Empire and the Flying Leopard Empire, actually can't hold on. ”

Emperor Kosno nodded, "The financial deficit of our Golden Lion Empire is getting more and more serious, and if a new war breaks out with the Han and Tang Empires as soon as possible, our Golden Lion Empire should not be able to hold out for long."

Our Golden Lion Empire is not like the Han and Tang Empires, which can get a steady stream of gold from the world of fierce beasts, and is still at ease in the face of an increasingly fierce arms race. ”

Prime Minister Salento sighed and said: "It's a pity that our Golden Lion Empire has so far not found a way for the Han and Tang Empires to turn a one-way channel space-time node into a two-way channel space-time node.

If we can get a lot of gold from the beast world, with the industrial base and technological level of our Golden Lion Empire, we are not afraid of starting an arms race with the Han and Tang Empires at all. ”