The final chapter of the first volume is the last word, and the death of the country is the last word

The final chapter of the first volume of Gold and Steel

A Brief Discussion on the Fall of the Tasman Empire - The Three Character Classic, excerpted from the history textbook of the Republic of Assenstan at the compulsory education stage

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A cannon, a thousand pounds of silver, a ship, a province of gold. Casting the prestige of the country, sparing no expense, the treasury is empty, and the people's livelihood is covered.

The army is vast, there are more than 100 ships, and after twenty years, they are all old goods. Issuing banknotes, gathering people's wealth, and then purchasing weapons, Weiwei famous.

False fame, real powerless, weak country, and public discouragement. From the side, the fleet is destroyed, the paper tiger, and the world laughs.

Strengthen the country and tigers, operate the knife, grass mustard people, and raise the banner of righteousness. Foreign armies, millions, in times of crisis, fight back.

The army of this clan, although brave in battle, is dead at the end of the days. Ashina, enemies on all sides, unable to resist, fled to other places.

A thousand-year-old country, a hundred years old, five hundred years, invincible. The barbarians are fierce, despise technology, are uneducated, and enslave the people.

Lost people's hearts, empty treasury, widows, lack of sharp weapons. The clan war, the battlefield is cold, the momentum is weak, and it is difficult to win.

The benefits are combined, the hearts are united, the age is not enough, and the country is ruined. Qiankun Hao, the people are free, this country is dead, and it is in accordance with heaven.

Romeo Aemilius Caesar: "The Tasman Empire is a barbarian country, the scientific and technological strength of this empire is very weak, he has never paid attention to education and science, he cannot make good weapons, and the equipment of his army will only become more and more backward." The equipment in his army with a little technical content was bought from other countries at high prices, and with the accumulated wealth, he could buy a large number of advanced weapons at any price, but he could never really master the leading military science and technology. He can buy a temporary ranking of the top military powers in the world, but one day he will fall behind...... There was a limit to the wealth of this empire, which came entirely from the plundering of the peoples of its dependencies and conquered territories. The dawn of science and technology released by the industrial revolution has begun to shine on mankind, and civilization will surely usher in liberation. In the near future, both the empire and the armies on which it rests will be obsolete. ”

The course of history was as predicted by the United Emperor.

The Tasman Empire, once one of the world's three great powers, was ranked sixth in the list of world powers a few years before its demise; In the arms race in the B century, gold-level buyers in the international arms market have always paid their bills in gold and settled their accounts before the arrival of goods, and they are VIP customers in the eyes of various arms selling countries. It's a pity that the big donor is no longer there. Today, this mighty ancient empire has been gone for more than 100 years. Its centuries-old history as a great power has long since vanished, leaving almost no trace. Even within the former borders of the Empire, few people remember this barbarian state, and the barbarians may have conquered civilization, but it was only a gust of wind.

The demise of this barbarian state began with an arms race initiated by civilized people, the first in history with science and technology as its core competitive advantage.

In the 40s of the B century, the Saxony-Windsor Empire, which was the first to implement a constitutional monarchy and a noble council system, was also the first to start a revolution in military technology. Countries around the world followed suit, triggering the first global arms race, an arms race that lasted for more than half a century.

In the early 50s of the B century, the Tasman Empire joined the arms race of the B century, launched a plan to build a strong army on both land and sea, purchased a large number of weapons from the international market, and replaced the army with new equipment. Because the country has always used gold to settle its accounts in the international arms trade (in the last years of the empire, due to the depletion of gold stocks, silver began to be used as a means of payment), and the country's arms purchases have always been quite popular with international arms dealers, and the country's arms purchases are also nicknamed gold arms purchases.

In 52 years of the B century, the Tasman Empire Army signed the first order for the purchase of weapons in this arms race, 2,000 6mm Manlisha light machine guns, 40,000 6mm Manlisha short rifles, another era of gold procurement in the Tasman Empire began, and a large amount of gold continued to flow from the Tasman Empire and its conquered areas to high-tech powers. Unlike the many gold purchases of the previous war years, this gold purchase was not accompanied by gunsmoke and bloodshed, and large quantities of gold continued to flow from the Tasman Empire's treasury to the high-tech arms exporting powers, but the gold from the newly conquered areas was never seen flowing into the Tasman Empire's treasury again.

In order to reduce the loss of gold in the Empire's treasury, the Empire required that all new equipment introduced in this arms race be produced as much as possible. Influenced by images from the sponsors and other participating countries, the country focused its participation on the development of its navy. Navy, the most expensive branch of the military.

In this arms race, the equipment innovation of the Imperial Army began with the purchase of high-priced surplus army equipment of the Saxony-Windsor Empire, to the workshop-style imitation of new firearms, and then to the mass production of various types of firearms and artillery, and developed step by step. Since the 60s of the B century, the country has successfully introduced a number of gun and ammunition production lines, which has basically solved the problem of weapon self-sufficiency of the army. By the mid-70s of the B century, except for large-caliber heavy artillery and its ammunition, which could not be produced by itself and were still purchased from the Saxony-Windsor Empire at a high price, all the new army weapons of the Tasman Empire had been domestically produced and the planning was basically completed.

In terms of the navy, due to the country's weak shipbuilding technology, the Imperial Navy has been purchasing high-priced second-hand surface ships produced in large quantities from the Kingdom of William for many years, and the country plans to make a leap forward in naval armaments, fully realize the self-manufacture of new equipment capital ships and the naval strength to enter the forefront of the world. The reigning emperor at that time dictated: "The strength of the navy must be worthy of the strength of our empire."

In 53 of the B century, the Tasman Empire began to plan to "self-build" dreadnoughts, because the country did not have any relevant ship industry equipment supporting system, this "self-built" could only buy everything needed overseas at a high price, and assemble it domestically under the guidance of foreign engineers. This kind of "self-made" may be more expensive than buying. The vast wealth of gold plundered during the period of expansion was thrown into the navy in large quantities. Navy, a super expensive branch of the military. Due to the rapid progress of mining and smelting technology, gold was no longer as scarce as it was in the A century, and it no longer had the high price it used to be, which meant that the Tasman Empire would have to pay more to get what it wanted......

In B54, the first round of shipbuilding in the Tasman Empire began, in fact, it was a campaign to buy warship parts at a high price from beginning to end. Everything on the warship was bought, inside and out, keels, ribs, steel plates, deck steel frames, cannons, shells. Boilers, chimneys, cables, paints, this is all made abroad. Even the uniforms of the officers and men of the Navy were bought from abroad.

Mesu-class battleships, a total of 7 ships. The first generation of self-built dreadnoughts, self-built, slightly ironclad battleships, the first B century was built in 54, with a standard displacement of 9,020 tons, a full load displacement of 9,800 tons, a length of 106.2 meters, a width of 18.8 meters, a draft of 8.1 meters, equipped with 12 152mm guns (6 twins), 14 single-seat 76mm guns and two single-seat 47mm guns, using a three-rise steam engine, rated power of 11,000 horsepower, maximum speed of 16 knots. Personnel: 630.

Diye-class battleships, a total of 7 ships. The first generation of dreadnoughts, self-built, the appearance of ironclad battleships, the empire at that time was very rich, and it was able to build two capital ships at the same time. The first ship was built in 55 years of the B century, with a standard displacement of 9,320 tons, a full load displacement of 9,910 tons, a length of 111.6 meters, a width of 19.9 meters, a draft of 8.2 meters, a rated engine power of 14,000 horsepower, a maximum speed of 17.7 knots, and 12 250mm guns (6 twins) and 6 76mm guns (single) and 6 single-seat 47mm guns. Personnel: 600.

In June 66 of the B century, the construction of the epoch-making King Redbeard-class battleship began, a battleship built by the Tasman Empire in cooperation with the allied Kingdom William.

Displacement: standard 10013 tons and 10670 tons at full load. Dimensions: 115.8x19.5x7.9. Speed: 16 knots, power plant: 12 boilers, 2 triple-rise reciprocating steam engines, main engine power: 9,698-10, 2282 shafts, 2 propellers, coal: 1050 tons, heavy oil: 110 tons, endurance: 10 knots, 4300 nautical miles, 14 knots, 2180 nautical miles, weapons: main guns: 2 2 2 260mm/L40 (bow and stern); 2 single tubes 260mm/L35 (amidships); Secondary gun: 6 single-barreled 105mm/L35; 8-seater single tube 88mm/L30; Torpedoes: 6 450mm torpedo tubes, armor main armor belt: 300-400-300mm Horizontal armor: 180-200-180mm Deck: 60mm Main turret: 120mm on both sides Top 50mm Gun mount: 300mm Conning tower: 300mm on both sides Top 30mm Personnel: 568-591 people

The Redbeard King class battleship began construction in June 66 of the B century, and six battleships were built at the same time, and they were launched almost simultaneously in January of the 68th century B, and all of them began official service in October of the following year. At that time, with the launch of these six capital ships, the country's navy began to have 20 active ironclad dreadnoughts (ironclad battleships) in October 69 of the B century, and the number of large dreadnoughts with a tonnage of about 10,000 tons jumped to the first place in the world at that time.

This record stood for more than 10 years, and was not broken until September 81 of the B century.

The power of the purchase has been maintained for more than 10 years, which is a miracle in the era of the arms race.

By the mid-to-late 80s of the B century, the navy of this empire was noticeably lagging behind. In order to maintain the superiority of the Navy's capital ships at sea, and in order to continue to make the empire dazzling, the empire had to continue to compete under this rule, and another round of "gold for steel" mode of naval ship purchase and refitting movement began. Why only the Navy, because the Navy is on the outside. If the empire wants to brag about it, the navy must be strong. The Navy has new warships, and there are a lot of beautiful shells that are newly bought or bought under their own flags. It looks like it has caught up with the world's advanced trend, but the glory of the world's largest number of large dreadnoughts in the memory of the empire will never come back. It's a miracle to buy the first one. But all miracles are unsustainable and almost unrepeatable.

In June 87 of the B century, with the help of the Kingdom of William, the Tasman Empire began to design and build the next generation of capital ships, and the first batch of 4 warships B91 was launched in January and completed in June of the following year B92, officially joining active service that year.

This type of ship uses a large number of technologies and materials from the Kingdom of William, which assisted in the construction, and all the weapons are equipped with the standards of that country. It is planned to build 8 to 12 ships, and the Imperial Navy plans to use this class of warships as the main ocean-going warships of the Imperial Navy from the end of the B century to the beginning of the C century. The empire had only four ships completed and commissioned at that time. The other four ships were under construction at the time, but due to lack of funds, the progress of the project was extremely slow, which can be described as the speed of a snail, until the country had many civil strife, and the country was defeated one after another, falling into division and perishing, and these four ships were still unfinished. At that time, the rebels took the shipyard and captured these warships, whose hulls were nearing completion. Many years after the fall of the Empire, the new state established by the rebels tried to complete the four warships, but the Kingdom of William, which assisted the empire in building warships, fell into a serious economic crisis, and the manufacturers of warship equipment were closed, and they could no longer provide these warships with the necessary engines, weapons and technical guidance for construction engineering, and even the steel plates used for warships were no longer produced. In the end, these four ships could only be sold to other countries at the price of scrap iron. This class of battleships may have been the last major military artifact of this ancient empire, but none have survived.

The entry into service of these four ships in that year made the Tasman Empire have 24 capital ships of about 10,000 tons and more than 10,000 tons, and it seems that the number of capital ships in the country has once again entered the forefront of the world. However, at that time, the world's naval strength evaluation no longer regarded warships below 15,000 tons or even 20,000 tons as capital ships. At that time, the number one naval power had 2 giant battleships of 40,000 tons, 4 battleships of between 30,000 and 40,000 tons, and as many as 11 warships of nearly 30,000 tons below 30,000 tons. The country has only four so-called giant ships of more than 20,000 tons and six large warships of more than 10,000 tons, which will definitely not enter the top 10 of the world's naval forces.

In fact, the Tasman Empire was very old at that time, but in order to maintain its apparent strength, he was still using limited financial resources to maintain and expand its armaments and decorate the façade. At that time, those high-level officials of the empire knew very well that once the façade of this empire was broken and it was impossible to scare people, the powers around the empire and other powers in the world would not hesitate to rush over and eat themselves like a cake, either slapping their swollen faces and filling up their fat people to survive, or they would cower and be seen as weak and the essence of weakness would be carved up.

In fact, the decision-makers of those powerful countries have long seen the weakness of the Tasman Empire's aging dragon clock, and they are afraid of the majesty of the empire in the past, or the profit cake is not big enough, or they think that the best time has not yet come, and these countries have not yet made a move. The Baiyang Democratic Federation can be said to be a newborn calf that is not afraid of tigers, and the merchants have seen the Tasman Empire's pretense of arrogance, and behind the display of strength is the extreme weakness of the actual national strength. An old empire with a regular ocean-going fleet that had to work part-time as pirates was already faltering, and a young man could kick him over with a single kick. The White Ocean Federation believes that in the open sea, Roquedel, an overseas colony, is in the corner of the world, and her naval strength is enough to defeat this old empire, and the capture of this place means that the rolling gold flows into the treasury every year, driven by the potential huge benefits, the royal sister bravely wielded the sword of sea power.

After a naval battle, the former giant was knocked to the ground, he struggled to get up, fought again, and the result was that he was knocked down again, this time and could not fight again. At this time, the truth that the Tasman Empire was strong and powerful on the surface, but in fact it was weak and weak, had been exposed. The false picture of the "sixth largest power in the world" has been debunked by a small strong emerging country.

If the empire is really strong, why does the façade need naval outfits!? Behind the camouflage of being known as the world's top X powerful fleet is the huge Imperial Army, and the backward armament system has created an army with extremely backward equipment and a huge scale. In order to support the table, the empire spent a lot of military money on the navy, and the army has not changed its equipment for 30 years. Lack of money is on the one hand, on the other hand, it is also the most essential factor, the Imperial Army has been transformed from an aggressive army during the period of foreign expansion into an internal guard force. Internal guards, against unarmed civilians, broadswords and spears are enough, not to mention that there are rifles, machine guns and cannons in their hands!! The former emperor said, "The army has no strong combat objects, just maintain the status quo." ”

Under the cover of a powerful navy, the Tasman Imperial Army was poorly equipped, organized antiques, and unable to build its own large-caliber artillery and ammunition. Not only heavy artillery, but also a slightly better gun empire can't build it. At that time, the accuracy and range of the Empire's self-made guns were far inferior to those of foreign countries. The artillery can only make 100 mm and 80 mm two small and medium-caliber guns, which are known as all-round domestic artillery. It is true that these two caliber guns have indeed been localized, but the fuses of these two kinds of guns and all heavy guns with shells cannot be made by themselves. This means that all shell fuses used with all army equipment and artillery can only be imported from abroad!

From the end of B95 onwards, as the skin of the empire was punctured at the Battle of Cape Roquedel, the oppressed people began to rebel, and more and more regions saw armed revolts by the conquered. As of 1 January B96, a large number of foreign armies of the empire joined the rebels, who were truly capable of overthrowing the Tasman Empire...... At that time, the flames of rebellion were burning within the empire, and the empire needed advanced weapons to quell the rebellion and extinguish the fire more than ever, because he could not make these weapons himself. International arms purchases, immediately, quickly.

At this time, a bolt from the blue came. On 14 February B96, the Saxony-Windsor Empire concluded the International Agreement on an Arms Embargo for Backward Countries against the Tasman Empire. At the critical moment, all the old friends unanimously launched an international arms trade blockade against the Tasman Empire. Even the old friend Wilhelm Kingdom was fed with interest by the Saxony-Windsor Empire and no longer sold to the Imperial Arms.

With the exception of the nine Bruno-class cruisers signed at the beginning of the year, the Tasman Empire could no longer buy arms from the regular international market. Except for 60 150mm large-caliber heavy guns (120 in total) purchased at a high price from the active equipment of the old friend William Kingdom, the Tasman Empire did not buy a decent cannon in the entire internal war. (The first 60 150mm guns were destroyed in the Battle of Vera.) The second time, the 60 guns of 150 guns were organized into two heavy artillery regiments of 24 guns and a separate heavy artillery battalion of 12 guns. Both heavy artillery regiments, which reinforced the mobile heavy groups in the eastern part of the empire, were annihilated by the rebel army in the battle of eastern Yasen. The separate heavy artillery battalion took part in the Battle of Dill and was deployed to the city of Dire, where the division took part in the uprising. ）

The Imperial Army could not buy good guns and artillery, but the rebel army on the other side of the battle line could. The rebel army can buy it from our army, or it can be purchased by our army on its behalf. For some rebel armies, our army will even give away the arms of their entire army for nothing. The rebels had guns, the rebels had artillery, and the rebels had tactical advisers and liaison officers sent by our army. Since April B96, with the deepening of our army's assistance, the gap between the two sides has become apparent.

At this time, the Tasman Imperial Army was even worse, not only could it not buy good guns and cannons from abroad, but even some of the guns in its hands could not be used. The fuses of the shells of the foreign heavy artillery of the Imperial Army have expired or are about to expire, which means that the shells cannot be blown out, and the hundreds of large-caliber heavy guns equipped by the Tasman Imperial Fortress and the Independent Field Artillery Unit have become scrap metal that can only scare people.

It was because of the expiration of the fuse that the last battle of the empire against the rebels that more than 100 heavy guns of the independent heavy artillery unit of the eastern heavy army group of Yassen became Roman trebuchets!! Only 48 150mm large-caliber heavy guns, purchased at a high price from an old friend, William Kingdom, can speak effectively. And the Assenstein rebel army, which was opposed to it, was armed with more than two hundred 155 howitzers. The result of this battle was that the rebels used more than 200 155 howitzers and cheerfully made a declaration of victory......

There is no doubt that without imported fuses, all Tasman Imperial Army field units would have lost their artillery. But the Saxony-Windsor Empire actually cut off the supply of shell fuses from all channels. The new artillery shells produced by the Tasman Empire during the war had to be filled with black powder, and the old gunpowder fuse of the principle of smashing fire was used. In contrast, the rebels on the opposite side were fired by explosive shells loaded with TNT, real high-explosive shells.

Can't you buy it in the regular market, then go to the black market, what do you want, isn't it just spending money?? Our Tasman Empire's Emperor Ashina has money. Although this "sixth largest power in the world" continued to maintain and expand its armaments with extremely limited financial resources in the later period, it was strong to support it, and it was "silver to continue its life" regardless of the cost. But what kind of arms can the Tasman Empire buy at this moment when it is most needed? And where can you buy the arms you really need??

The dilapidated body of the Boss Empire struggles in agony in the fires lit by various rebel armies. The Imperial Army, on which the Tasman Empire depended, was indeed powerful in the past, but was still huge at that time, was quickly burned out in the flames of the uprising. The surrounding powers of the empire and the other powers of the world have prepared their utensils, and the dignitaries of the powerful countries are leisurely discussing the issue of sharing the cake, and the Tasman Empire, which is still alive in their plans, is divided step by step.

After the fall of the empire, look back at the prophecy of Romeo Aemilius Julius Caesar decades ago, and history is so public.

No one can deny that this purchase of arms has indeed injected a certain amount of vitality into the Tasman Imperial Army, especially the Navy, and has greatly improved the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Navy in a short period of time.

However, arms procurement is a double-edged sword, on the one hand, it can improve the combat effectiveness of an army, and on the other hand, it can also weaken the combat effectiveness of an army. In the case of being able to carry out arms procurement, countries that do not have their own technology and cannot manufacture advanced weapons and equipment on their own can arm their own armed forces through arms purchases, so that the army has sufficient ability to defend itself or conduct a war of a certain scale; After the arms purchase, if it cannot develop independently and the army becomes dependent on the arms purchase, then once the arms purchase is interrupted, the army will become an army that lacks a strong backing, becomes a group that is passively beaten, and loses its proper combat capability. However, arms purchases cannot be carried out permanently, and the party providing arms purchases will depend on the situation, and will carry out if there is an interest, and cancel if it suffers. However, after obtaining the arms purchase, the party that relies on arms procurement is happy with the improvement of its military strength on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is worried about the interruption of arms procurement. This is because no matter how large and advanced the weapons and equipment purchased by the military are, they cannot support a large-scale war. Once the war is waged, the battle front needs a constant supply of weapons and equipment. If those weapons and equipment cannot be self-sufficient at home, and foreign countries refuse to supply them, then the war will not be able to be fought, and it will definitely end in failure.

For the Tasman Empire, the gold purchase did enable the Imperial Army, especially the Imperial Navy, to have many advanced weapons and equipment, but it also undoubtedly made the Empire lose the driving force behind its own research and development equipment. From a long-term and considerable perspective, it is precisely this gold purchase that has weakened the actual military strength of the Tasman Imperial Army, especially the Navy. This proposition can be confirmed in two ways:

1. Arms purchases made it impossible for the Tasman Empire to conduct large-scale wars. As we all know, for an army to conduct a large-scale war, it needs all kinds of material resources to be able to be self-sufficient. And self-sufficiency in weapons and equipment is especially important, without some kind of equipment, the army will become a victim of the enemy. For example, the Argentine army in the Falklands War was "only four Exocet missiles away from victory, and only four Exoces will be victorious." But at that time, Argentina used gold of the same weight or even heavier than the Exocet missile, and it could not exchange it for any Exocet missile or other missiles of the same grade of performance. At that time, the arms in that place were no longer a matter of money. Don't say that Argentina is a special case, when you actually use arms, it's in the same situation as Argentina at that time. Can you be sure that when you really need some kind of advanced weapon, when you don't have it, you will be defeated or even destroyed at the critical moment, you can buy it in time......

The Tasman Empire in the text was not bought at a critical moment.

Many of the advanced weapons and equipment of the Imperial Navy came from military purchases, such as large ships and large-caliber artillery shells, which could not be self-sufficient, and had to rely on imports, which not only yielded sky-high prices, but also made it difficult to guarantee the supply when it was really used. The fuse of the empire's demise -- The Tasman Imperial Navy encountered a large-scale sudden war, and suffered repeated losses in major weapons and equipment, and could not make and replenish it in time. In the last moments of the Empire, the Imperial Treasury was able to pay a lot of money for weapons at any cost, but the side that could provide military supplies was cut off, so that the Imperial Army could not get the much-needed military supplies, especially the lack of artillery, and the defeat of the war was inevitable.

Therefore, arms purchases simply cannot meet the needs of actual war. Because the Tasman Empire relied on international arms purchases, it seriously restricted the combat effectiveness of the imperial army, resulting in the actual lack of the ability of the imperial army to deal with large-scale wars with powerful countries. Therefore, in the face of the division of the country by the old enemy and the invasion of the old enemy power, the Tasman Empire and the seemingly powerful imperial army had no choice but to take the defense and could not carry out a resolute counterattack.

Second, the purchase of arms has caused the generals of the Tasman Empire to lack self-confidence. Since advanced weapons and equipment come from military procurement, officers and men of the armed forces are always shrouded in the shadow of advanced foreign weapons, and no matter how good the quality of the military is, it will lack self-confidence and be pessimistic and disappointed. At that time, the imperial army in that place was also composed of flesh and blood warriors, especially the imperial army. However, the generals of the empire's own army faced with a limited number of important weapons and equipment, which could be cut off at any time, their self-confidence was greatly reduced, and they were bound to shrink back in the fight. On the other side of the battle line, the Imperial rebels had a full set of advanced foreign heavy equipment and a steady stream of weapons and ammunition replenishment, allowing them to always act generously on the battlefield. Many foreign armies that were originally on the side of the empire chose to join the rebels when they saw this situation, and only by joining the rebels would they win. This is one of the reasons why the alien rebels are getting more and more suppressed. This situation intensified, and even in the later period, the Empire's own army joined the rebel camp. At that time, the overwhelming majority of the consensus was that the Tasman Empire was bound to fail and perish, and the situation was irreversible.

The Tasman Empire's army, which relied heavily on foreign arms purchases for equipment in the later period of the empire, could not bear the burden of conducting a large-scale war. In the year of the fall of the empire, in the battle against the rebel army, the generals of the imperial army did not resolutely carry out the action of destroying the enemy even if they encountered many fighters. At the end of the War, after the Assenstein Defense Army withdrew from the war, the Imperial Army never carried out a strategic initiative to attack the enemy on all fronts in the face of a ragtag armed rebel army, because the Imperial Army had lost its ammunition source and the existing ammunition stocks could not support such offensive operations. There are still many artillery pieces in the Imperial Army, but the problem is that there are too few shells that can still be used to organize an attack.

Arms purchases make the Tasman Empire appear to be strong, but in fact weak. The Tasman Empire's gold military purchase, which emptied its treasury, was in fact an out-and-out failure. A large amount of gold is directly used to buy warships and weapons manufacturing equipment, which can be bought, but you can't buy technology, R&D technology. Just like the Qing Empire in real history, it did not pay enough attention to the country's military construction, thinking that it could do great things by spending money, and only wanted to buy foreign ships and foreign guns from foreign countries, trying to rely on arms purchases to defend the country. When foreign troops were imminent, the Qing Dynasty empire still dreamed of preserving the weapons and equipment purchased by the army, but in a series of naval and land battles, it ended up with foreign weapons being wiped out and the country repeatedly humiliated. In the Republic of China era, too, it relied on foreign weapons and equipment to enrich the army, and the heavy weapons of the elite troops were not allowed to be used on the battlefield for fear of suffering losses in battle. As a result, with the strength of a great country, it was unable to resist the attack of small Japan, and the whole country was poisoned by military disasters and wars, and the people suffered many slaughters, and the country was ruined and devastated and irreversible. Alack!

From an objective point of view, it can be seen that the Tasman Empire's gold arms purchase and the later "silver renewal" provided huge financial support for the arms race and military science and technology research and development of high-tech countries at that time, and also promoted the development of heavy industry in the two countries and stimulated the economic development of the two countries and their related economies. The two countries continue to widen the distance between the two countries and the Tasman Empire in terms of military, economic, and scientific and technological strength, and the explosive emergence of new weapons, and the increasing leadership of military equipment, which once again stimulates the Tasman Empire to buy weapons from the two countries with a large amount of gold and fund the research and development of weapons of the two countries, which is like a vicious circle. Under this rule of the game, no matter how much wealth the technologically advanced countries invest, they cannot have a long-term military lead, and the technologically advanced countries can only exchange the processed steel for the real money and silver accumulated over the centuries (almost all of which are plundered from the conquered areas).

It is in this "gold for steel" trade game triggered by the arms race that the Tasman Empire established by the barbarians is gradually falling into a financial crisis, but this Tasman Empire must participate in this arms race trade game, which is a competition game that all powerful countries must join. Once withdrawn, this empire could become a fragrant roast turkey on the tables of other countries at any time. Historically, the Tasman Empire invaded and destroyed dozens of small and weak countries; The only reason why these countries are invaded and perished is weakness. As a backward country that has never had a perfect industrial system and scientific and technological research and development capabilities, the Starman Empire is gradually becoming a small and weak country with a large territory. The country's top brass is well aware that once they become the losers in this race, everything they have will be lost, just like those ancient kingdoms that were effortlessly destroyed by high-tech countries because of their military and technological backwardness, and their homeland was reduced to colonies, and their royal family was either executed by the colonizers or exiled, and the luckiest thing was at best to live in exile and live a life of commoner rich people without any aristocratic dignity. This is obviously unacceptable to the imperial family, and the feudal rulers of the world will inevitably use the national wealth to do household affairs, regardless of the cost, to carry out the "gold for steel" trade game. The royal family's fear of the lost country and the conqueror's distrust of the vanquished made the country's arms purchases pathological throughout, not for the sake of being truly powerful, but to ensure the safety of their own throne and to scare people.

If any normal country wants to become a real power, it must rely on itself in weaponry and equipment, and truly rely on itself to arm itself. Technologically backward countries should dare to pull out their hands and feet caught in the whirlpool of arms procurement, eliminate all kinds of noise, vigorously support domestic military industrial enterprises, support enterprises that have the ability to enter the military manufacturing industry, and let the domestic military manufacturing industry freely research and develop, develop at a high speed, and constantly improve, so that the level of weapons manufacturing ranks among the world's advanced, and all kinds of advanced weapons and equipment can be self-sufficient no matter what the circumstances, so as to ensure adequate supply. Only in this way will the armed forces of this country be equipped with whatever weapons and ammunition they want, and will they be able to launch all kinds of wars that they deem necessary, and they will be able to win the wars. Only by doing this will this army become a veritable army of kings, a great army that can make the enemy fearful, and a victorious army that can prestige the battlefield, fight, dare to fight, and win battles.

Finally, a poem ends the volume.

The Fall of the Tasman Empire

In the past, it was a barbaric country, a thousand-year-old country, and one of the three great powers in the world.

The scimitar is on the horse, the riding skills are heroic, and the city stands proudly, and the crescent moon flag flutters.

I want to survive for 10,000 years, and my reputation is immense, who knows that science and technology are shining, and the sun is shining and frosty.

The sea was defeated miserably, the battle flags of the strong neighbors were fluttering, the empire was embered, and the rebels raised their swords.

The warrior heart of the clan, but outnumbered, the fierce general led the tiger division, and there was no male in the rear.

The rebels are as vast as the sea, the stormy waves overturn the emperor's boat, the situation is aided by the old enemy, and the heavy artillery is as dense as a forest.

It is difficult to defeat the enemy on the battlefield, and in the wild season, there are seven emperors in a country, how can it be reasonable not to die.

In the next volume, the contest between the real powers, how the two sides of equal strength can defeat each other, this will be a competition of the country's top-level design model, and a collision of the wisdom of the top leaders.