It is equivalent to Penelope, the emperor of the Yingroba Empire, who has a lot of money, and Edgru, the emperor of the Noomi Empire, who has mines in his hands, and Herris, the emperor of the Sharad Empire, but he is a little shabby in his pocket.

On the evening of September 17, 3015 in the Tang calendar, in a study in the palace of Feni City, the capital of the Salad Empire, Shurik, the prime minister of the Sharad Empire, reported to Emperor Herris: "Your Majesty, after verification by our intelligence department, the seven main fleets of the Tang Navy are combined, and the battleships alone have two hundred and sixty-one super dreadnought battleships, two hundred and forty-five battle cruisers and one hundred and seven dreadnought battleships, and among the many shipyards of the Tang Empire, Sixty more super-dreadnought battleships and sixty battlecruisers are under construction. ”

When Emperor Herris heard this, he immediately said bitterly: "Now the total number of battleships of the main fleets of our Royal Navy in Sharad is only thirty-one super dreadnought battleships, thirty-one battlecruisers, ten dreadnought battleships, twelve former dreadnought battleships and twenty-four ironclad battleships. ”

In November last year, the Sharad Empire had twenty-four Loud-class super dreadnought battleships and twenty-four Maple Leaf-class battlecruisers completed the construction and joined the sequence of the Sharad Navy, which allowed the Sharad Navy to recover some vitality.

Prime Minister Shurik sighed and said: "In addition to the completion of the construction of 36 Zhenyuan-class super dreadnought battleships and 36 Dingyuan-class battlecruisers at the end of last year, the Datang Navy does not know where to get 52 new super dreadnought battleships, 64 new battle cruisers and 16 dreadnought battleships, which makes the Datang Navy have an astonishing number of capital ships. ”

Emperor Herris frowned and asked, "Could it be that some island shipyard built it?" Where the hell is that mysterious island shipyard? ”

Prime Minister Shurik shook his head and said: "At present, all countries are searching for the mysterious island shipyard, but this island shipyard seems to not exist, and the minister even thinks that the island shipyard claimed by Su Yi is just a smoke bomb." ”

Emperor Herris's brows furrowed a little tighter, "Then where did those new super dreadnought battleships, battlecruisers and dreadnought battleships of the Tang Navy come from?" ”

Prime Minister Shurik couldn't help but sigh again, "Your Majesty, the minister has asked the intelligence department to send additional personnel to investigate this matter, hoping to find some discoveries." ”

Emperor Herris waved his hand and said: "Let's not study the matter of the Datang Navy first, the new twenty-four Loud class and twenty-four Maple Leaf class, as well as thirty Julang-class and thirty-thirty Wutong-class, when will the construction be completed, if these one hundred and eight giant ships can join our Salad Royal Navy, then our Salad Royal Navy will not be powerless at least when facing the Tang Navy." ”

In order to expand the strength of the Royal Navy and the Royal Army, Emperor Herris almost exhausted the funds of the Royal Family, so in order to let the Salad Empire not fall behind in the naval arms race that swept the world's naval powers, at the suggestion of Prime Minister Shurik, a donation campaign for the Royal Navy of Sharad was launched in the Empire.

In this event, the Sharad Navy eventually raised about 2.7 billion S$, which is equivalent to almost 540 million S$ at a five-to-one exchange rate between Saudi and British dollars.

The Sharad Navy then used the donation to build twenty-four Loud-class super-dreadnought battleships with 381-mm guns and twenty-four Maple-class battlecruisers, as well as thirty Julang-class super-dreadnought battleships with 406-mm guns and thirty Indus-class battlecruisers.

The construction of these 54 super dreadnought battleships and 54 battle cruisers cost about 2.2 billion S$, including the cost of building 60 50,000-ton docks in the Sharad Empire for the construction of 30 Julang-class and 30 Indus-class, and the remaining 500 million S$ donation was used by the Sharad Navy as military expenses.

Prime Minister Schurik then replied: "Your Majesty, in about May next year, the new twenty-four Loud and twenty-four Maple Leaf classes will be completed, and by July next year, all thirty Julang-class and thirty Sycamore-class ships will be able to join our Royal Navy in Sharad." ”

Emperor Herris nodded slightly, "In this way, by July next year, the number of capital ships of our Royal Navy in Sharad will increase to eighty-five super dreadnought battleships, eighty-five battle cruisers, ten dreadnought battleships, twelve former dreadnought battleships and twenty-four ironclad battleships, which is not satisfactory, by the way, what does the prime minister think about the reorganization of the seven-nation alliance?" ”

Prime Minister Shurik said without hesitation: "Your Majesty, for the reorganization of the Seven Nations Alliance, the minister is in favor of raising his hands, now the strength of the Tang Empire can almost be described as a thousand miles a day, and the Tang Empire has a long border with our Shalad Empire, and it is difficult to resolve the hatred, the stronger the Tang Empire, the more threatening it is to our Sharad Empire, if we can reorganize the Seven Nations Alliance and dismember the Tang Empire, then our Sharad Empire can not only go to a strong enemy, You can also get quite a lot of war dividends. ”

Emperor Herris said with a little hesitation: "In my heart, I am also in favor of our Shalad Empire rejoining the Seven Nations Alliance, but now the military strength of the Tang Empire is very strong, in addition to the navy of the Tang Empire, the army and air force of the Tang Empire can be called the first in the world, and our Sharad Empire has a long border with the Tang Empire in the east. The Noomi Empire and the Monia Empire are much bigger! ”

The seven countries of the Seven-Nation Alliance, before the birth of the Tang Empire, have always been ranked among the world's first-class powers, but these seven countries can also be divided into two grades according to their strength, the strength of the British Empire, the Sharad Empire, the Noomi Empire and the Monia Empire is obviously higher than that of the three kingdoms of Gisk, Ruierland, and Orenza.

Prime Minister Shurik said loudly: "Your Majesty, although the Tang Empire has strong military strength, if the Seven Nations Alliance can be reorganized, then with the military strength of our seven countries combined, it is enough to crush the Tang Empire, so as long as the Seven Nations Alliance can be reorganized and declare war on the Tang Empire, the final victory of the war must belong to the Seven Nations Alliance!" ”

Emperor Herris sighed and said: "Prime Minister, the military strength of our seven countries combined in the last war also had a huge advantage over the Tang Empire, but in the end, our Seven Nations Alliance was defeated, and the Tang Empire has become a behemoth with more than 87 million square kilometers of land and more than 5 billion people. ”

Prime Minister Shurik pondered for a while and said: "Your Majesty, the main reason for the failure of the last war was that our seven-nation alliance lost its sea supremacy, and now Yingluoba, Noomi, Monia and other countries are building super dreadnought battleships and battle cruisers on a large scale, and when the one hundred and eight capital ships under construction in our Sharad Navy join the active service, the navies of our seven countries together will completely suppress the navy of the Tang Empire in terms of the number of capital ships, as long as our seven-nation navies do not make the mistake of underestimating the enemy in the last war, It should still be no problem to defeat the Datang Navy. ”

Seeing that there was still a look of hesitation on Emperor Herris's face, Prime Minister Schulik continued: "Your Majesty, because of that large amount of donations collected for the Royal Navy, the finances of our Sharad Empire can allocate more military funds to the Royal Army and the Royal Air Force, and at present, our Royal Army of Sharad has been reorganized into one hundred and forty infantry divisions, with a total strength of more than 14 million, with more than 600 tanks and more than 500 armored vehicles. In addition, our Royal Air Force already has thousands of warplanes and more than 100 airships, and the overall strength of our Salad Empire has undergone earth-shaking changes compared to two years ago. ”

The Sharad Empire was located between the Tang Empire and the Noomi Empire, and in order to defend against these two powers at the same time, the Sharad Empire had to maintain a large army and air force.

At present, in addition to the navy, land and air forces of the Tang Empire, which rank first in the world in terms of strength, the navy and air force of the Yingroba Empire are ranked second in the world, and the army of the Yingroba Empire is ranked fourth.

The Noomi Empire's Army was in second place, the Navy was in third place, and the Air Force was in fourth place.

The Salad Empire's army and air force were ranked third, and the navy was ranked fourth behind the Datang Navy, the Yingroba Navy, and Noomi.

The industrial level of the Sharad Empire is still very strong, the fighters, bombers, tanks and armored vehicles equipped by the Sharad army are all designed and produced by the Shalad Empire itself, and they are not bad in performance, the tanks and armored vehicles equipped by the Shalad Army are not worse than those of the Noomi Empire in terms of performance, and the fighters and bombers equipped by the Sharad Air Force are not worse than those of the Yingroba Empire.

Emperor Herris smiled bitterly and said: "Prime Minister, if I remember correctly, the Tang Empire's army still seems to have more than 70 million regular troops, and the Tang Empire's air force has more than 6,000 fighters, and the Royal Army, which our Shalad Empire spent a lot of money to build, is not even a quarter of the strength of the Tang Army, and the number of fighters in the Royal Air Force is only one-sixth of the Tang Air Force. ”

Prime Minister Shurik is very scruples about the Tang Empire, so he agrees very much with the reorganization of the Seven-Nation Alliance, hearing Emperor Herris's concerns, Prime Minister Shurik then thought about it and said: "Your Majesty, it is precisely because of the strong military strength of the Tang Empire that our Salad Empire should join the Seven Nations Alliance again, our Sharad Empire now spends a lot of money every year to raise a large scale of land, sea and air forces, a big reason is to guard against the Tang Empire, and raise such a scale of the Royal Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force, Sooner or later, the finances of our Sharad Empire will go bankrupt, so it's better to rejoin the Seven Nations Alliance and take a gamble! ”

Prime Minister Schurik's words suddenly moved Emperor Herris, "The Prime Minister is right, now the world's major powers, in terms of the navy, land and air forces, are all engaged in an arms race, if it continues like this, other countries do not know, our Shalad Empire will definitely not be able to hold on, it seems that we can only gamble!" ”

Prime Minister Shurik said excitedly: "Your Majesty, rest assured, Yingluoba, Noomi and other countries should also have the intention of reorganizing the Seven-Nation Alliance, as long as the seven countries of our original Seven-Nation Alliance unite again, they will definitely defeat the Tang Empire and achieve the final victory in the war." ”

Emperor Herris didn't care about the pie drawn by Prime Minister Shurik, he frowned slightly and said: "Once a war breaks out with the Tang Empire, the eastern region of our Sharad Empire is likely to be invaded by the Tang Army, so I feel that it is best to expand the strength of the Royal Army from now on, as well as add more fighters and bombers to the Royal Air Force, and strengthen the fortifications on the border in the eastern region." ”

Prime Minister Shurik immediately said with some embarrassment: "Your Majesty, expanding the strength of the Royal Army and adding more fighters to the Royal Air Force should indeed start now, but the finances of our Sharad Empire really can't squeeze out the money." ”

Emperor Herris shook his head with a wry smile, "I can't get any money in my hand for the time being, what do you suggest, Prime Minister?" Want to do another fundraiser? ”

Prime Minister Shurik pondered for a moment and said: "Your Majesty, fundraising is also a way, and the minister feels that a batch of three-year and five-year treasury bonds can be issued, and it must not be a problem to raise billions of Saudi dollars." ”

When Emperor Herris heard that the treasury bonds were to be issued, his face was a little hesitant, "After all, the treasury bonds have to be returned, and there is a high interest rate, what can I do when the treasury bonds mature?" ”

"That's why the minister suggested issuing three-year and five-year treasury bonds, if the seven-nation alliance can be successfully reorganized, three years is enough time to defeat the Tang Empire, as long as the Tang Empire is defeated, the issue of treasury bonds is not a problem for our Shalad Empire."

Emperor Herris nodded and said: "What the Prime Minister said makes sense, then according to what the Prime Minister said, issue a batch of three-year and five-year treasury bonds to reorganize the armament war, by the way, the fund-raising activities for the army will also be carried out, and last time it raised 2.7 billion S$ for the Royal Navy!" ”