"Welcome, Major Liang."

This is Xiaobai's voice. Major Liang, are you calling me? Liang Hong looked at the bronze mirror in surprise. But Xiaobai in the mirror always seems to be able to see through his psychology.

"Yes, every time your base is upgraded, your rank will be automatically promoted by one level as a reward for your efforts to meet the conditions of the upgrade."

Well, a promotion is always a good thing, although Liang Hong doesn't think it's that important, and the rank is just a title between him and Xiaobai.

"The rank is the system's recognition of your abilities, and represents an increase in the fit between you and the system."

Xiaobai continued to explain, but Liang Hong hadn't understood yet, what was the use of fit?

"First, the number of systematic soldiers that can be commanded by the rank of major has doubled compared to captains, reaching a thousand."

This is very important, it turns out that there is a limit to the number of soldiers in the system, and he has been suffering from the economic situation before, and he has never touched this threshold.

"Second, in order to effectively protect the officers, the system provides you with major-level protection. Please open the box on the table, the world's top silk bulletproof suit, invented a few years ago, can protect against most of the current low-velocity bullets. ”

This can be had, silk body armor he has seen in museums. In 1881, the Americans began to develop this body armor, and in 1893 it was commercialized. It is said that the murderer of the Austro-Hungarian crown prince chose to shoot in the neck because Archduke Ferdinand wore silk body armor.

Liang Hong opened the box, and inside was a very thick set of flesh-colored silk clothes, which looked like thermal underwear but were thicker and firmer, and were a little uncomfortable to wear.

"Third, the next promotion will be on the basis of the rank of major."

"Hey, Comrade Xiaobai, next time it's a lieutenant colonel, what does a lieutenant colonel-level protective suit look like?"

This time, Liang Hong had expectations and hurriedly asked.

"I'm sorry, I have no comment at the moment, I hope Major Liang will be promoted as soon as possible."

"What are the upgrade conditions for the secondary base?"

"The second-level base is upgraded to the third-level base, and the first condition is that all the types of buildable buildings are fully constructed; Condition 2: Effectively control the area within a radius of 100 km; Condition 3: Cumulative consumption of more than 1 million yuan within one year; Condition 4: Have at least one scientist to serve; Condition 5: Theoretical research in a certain scientific field is ahead of the times. If all the above five conditions are met, the base can be upgraded to level three. ”

The base upgrade is still far away for the time being, and Liang Hong is more concerned about the base that has just been promoted to the second level in front of him.

Clicking on the bronze mirror, Liang Hong found that the picture was clearer, could it be that the resolution had improved? Another change is that the visual range of the base in the interface has been expanded, to a radius of five kilometers. In addition, on the global map, the Transvaal, where the base is currently located, is at the bottom of the map, which appears to be a world map. With the exception of a small shiny area at the moment, all other areas are shades of black, representing an unknown area.

Click on the buildings column, and there are more ore smelting workshops, weapons workshops, and small power plants. The ore smelting workshop is an upgrade of the ore smelter, the weapon workshop is an upgrade of the weapons workshop, and as for the small power plant, it is a brand new building, which is estimated to represent the technical level of the base into the electrification era.

Click on the ore smelting workshop, the mirror pops up a prompt box, asking whether to upgrade the existing ore smelter, the new smelting workshop costs 5,000 yuan, and the upgrade smelter needs 4,000 yuan, which is equivalent to a discount of 1,000 yuan for each old smelter.

Just as I was about to choose to upgrade, a beeping warning sound sounded in the mirror, and a red prompt box suddenly popped up in the interface:

The system is seriously underpowered!

Liang Hong remembered that he had never had electricity. Hurry up and click on the small power plant, the cost is 10,000 yuan, compared with the past workshop era, the cost of the secondary base building has increased several times. A power plant used up almost half of his savings.

Small power plant, coal-fired thermal power generation, construction time 1 day, installed capacity of 20 kilowatts, power generation standard 50 Hz 220 volts AC. Is 50 kilowatts a lot? It can probably ensure that dozens of rice cookers can be used at the same time, Liang Hong is very resentful. All the existing craftsmen were sent to speed up the construction of the power plant, and the progress was significantly accelerated.

Then click on the ore smelting workshop, the upgrade time is 2 hours, and the new construction time is also 1 day. It needs to consume 20 kilowatts of electricity, and it can smelt fifty wagons of ore per day, and it seems that the capacity is still very strong.

The power plant had not yet been built, so it was impossible to build or upgrade new buildings, so Liang Hong had to move to existing buildings. The barracks don't need to be upgraded, there are more types of troops inside, artillerymen, shooters, spies, and mechanics.

Technicians are the upgraded version of the craftsmen of the past, no longer craftsmen such as handicraft craftsmen, but skilled workers who adapt to industrial production, and have mechanical processing skills such as plier planing, milling, grinding and welding. This kind of mechanic is required for new and upgraded workshops, which costs 500 yuan and takes 1 day to manufacture.

The artillery can skillfully operate all kinds of artillery, direct or indirect aiming, costing 200 yuan, and the manufacturing time is 10 hours.

The shooter is a sharpshooter, who can shoot accurately from a long distance, can give full play to the performance of the gun, and spends the same time as the artillery, which is 200 yuan and 10 hours.

The Spy is a very advanced class of troops, with a high IQ, proficient in three languages, the ability to hide identities, intelligence gathering, ordinary shooting and combat skills, and the ability to use special spy tools, such as ciphertext potions. It costs 1000 yuan and the manufacturing time is 2 days.

The spy is a good soldier, and after a trip to Pretoria, Liang Hong has a lot of resentment about the missionary's ability, and it is okay to preach openly, but it is far from engaging in secret activities. In terms of ability, the spy fully meets his requirements, but it has not yet been seen whether he has the ability to use modern means of communication, such as radio transmission.

But then, his doubts were lifted. A prompt pops up in the system interface:

In view of the invention of the radio transmitter by the base commander, a new branch of the barracks - the communications corps - was added.

Signal corps, who can skillfully use wired or wireless means of communication, including telegraphs and telephones, spend and manufacture time with artillerymen.

Flipping back to the espionage, sure enough, the item explains the use of telecommunications tools.

Liang Hong first had two mechanics early, and immediately sent them to the power plant construction site, and then clicked on creating spies, and now he has ten barracks, and it only takes 2 hours to build technicians, and 4 hours to build spies.

In other buildings, there is also an animal training ground, and Liang Hong clicked into it and found that there were also new breeds inside: horses and carrier pigeons. 100 yuan for cavalry horses, 60 yuan for horses, and 20 yuan for carrier pigeons. The original Pitbull has also changed, and the manufacturing cost has been discounted by 20% to 40 yuan. In addition, there are more military dogs in the dog breed, and I clicked in to find that it was a German black shell, which cost 50 yuan. German Shellfish are versatile dogs, agile, loyal, tall and mighty, but not as furious as Pitbulls.

Liang Hong recalled, it seems that the German black shell was cultivated after 1880, and sure enough, this system is very strict to limit the time and age of output.

At night, the small power plant was finally built, and it looked like a small red brick building, with white smoke emitting from a towering chimney next to it. The power plant is coal-fired, so special arrangements are needed to mine coal from nearby mines. Fortunately, the coal mine is an open-pit mine, and it is easy to mine, more than just transporting the coal back.

It cost a total of 12,000 yuan to upgrade all the three smelters next to the mine, and the balance of funds on the books was only more than 2,000 yuan. Toot, a warning sound appeared in the mirror again, and a yellow prompt box popped up again in the interface:

The system is not powered enough!

The rest of the money was used to build a mining wagon, hoping to speed up the rate of making money from mining. From a rational point of view, it is most efficient to upgrade only one ore smelter first, but Liang Hong still hopes that the workers in the ore smelter will be able to get rid of the chromium pollution that is harmful to health one day sooner.

The soldiers and all the horses were sent to mine the ore, and three days later, another small power plant was built. A portion of the revenue was used to build mining wagons to keep the three smelting plants running at full capacity.

Another part of the funds was invested to upgrade the weapons workshop to the weapons workshop, and the cost and time of the new construction were the same as that of the ore smelting workshop, with 5,000 yuan for the new construction and 4,000 yuan for upgrading.

After the upgrade, the list of weapons workshops that can be made is even larger, and you have to search by keyword to find the weapon type you need. Liang Hong first looked at artillery, and the weapons workshop could manufacture retracted artillery with a caliber of 90 mm. After choosing, it was found that the German 88-year 90-mm field gun was the most advanced on the list. The projectile weighs 7.5 kg, the gun weighs 1308 kg, and the maximum firing range is 6600 meters. The manufacturing cost is 5,000 yuan, and the standard manufacturing time is 2 days.

The list of rifles is sad. Before 1888, good magazine rifles used black powder bullets, such as the British Lee Matheford rifle. Rifles that used smokeless powder bullets were poorly designed, like the French Lebel 1886 rifle. Both the magazine and smokeless gunpowder satisfied, and only the German 1888 Commission rifle was easy to blow up without a sleeve.

In desperation, I had to choose the French Lebel 1886 rifle, 8 mm caliber, 8-round tube type built-in magazine, the gun weighs 4.2 kg, the barrel is 80 cm long, and the whole gun is 1.3 meters long. Anyway, this rifle has been tested by two world wars and is also a famous gun. The biggest disadvantage is the magazine, the built-in magazine is difficult to reload, and the tube magazine cannot use pointed bullets, but Liang Hong doesn't care about this, anyway, he can only make round-headed bullets now.

Lebel 1886 rifle, the cost is 50 yuan, the bullet is 10 yuan per 100 rounds, and the manufacturing time is 1 hour each.

In addition, Liang Hong was pleasantly surprised to find that after the base was upgraded, the products on the original first-level base production list were discounted.