The ability of the dark department has always been quite satisfactory to Luo Ji, and the interrogation report in front of him has made Luo Ji know a lot of things.

For example, there is not only one fish-man tribe in this sea, but they are scattered into countless branches, large and small, and occupy various seas.

Similar to some of the indigenous tribes on land.

The fish people in the sea also occupy their own territory, sometimes they are peaceful, and sometimes they will attack each other, and they are inseparable, all for the sake of living space and food resources.

And this fish-man originally lived in the sea outside the swampy rainforest.

However, the appearance of the hydra has greatly squeezed their living space, which makes them subject to the dark elves and forms the current situation.

Of course, this information is only secondary, and for Luo Ji, the most important information is the location of the dark elves on the island!

If you can't grasp the enemy's position, you can only fall into passivity.

If you want to turn reactive into proactive, mastering intelligence is the first step.

From the two fish-man captives, the members of the Dark Division asked for a relatively detailed map of the sea, from which it would take a long time to reach the island where the dark elves were located after breaking away from the Yangtze River basin.

At the same time, there are a large number of fish-people and even a hydra in the sea leading to this island.

This made Luo Ji realize more clearly that wanting to conquer this sea area was far from being as easy as he thought, the sea was really a dangerous place, compared to it, the sea of other people's homes was much more lovely......

Moreover, as he thought deeply, Luo Ji quickly realized another more troublesome problem.

So what was he going to do with the Fish-People?

As a race that lives underwater, even if he finally shows a strong force value, what can he do to force the other party to submit? How will he rule after that? Fish-people live underwater, but they live on land.

As it turns out, there doesn't seem to be a way to do it, which is a real headache.

Exhaling a long breath, Luo Ji decided not to bother with it for the time being.

The most urgent thing at the moment is to find a way to solve the hydra first.

The comprehensive naval strength of the dark elves is definitely inferior to him, and the backward Black Sail fleet is absolutely vulnerable in front of his Yangtze River fleet, but the other party has the 'Hydra', a super-sized top-level naval combat unit.

For this kind of monster whose scale armor is hard enough to resist bullet shelling, and can even move for a long time under the surface of the sea, even the headquarters of the chief of staff, which is full of talents, seems a little helpless for a while.

Feeling this pressure from the sea, Luo Ji had to change the current development policy, and let the Military Research Department put aside several other projects for the time being, and make every effort to develop and research underwater weapons, and strive to make weapons that can cause enough lethality to Hydra as soon as possible.

And during this period, on the land, what should be developed, naturally must continue to develop.

Over the past few years, the frenzied development of the naval forces of the Ten Thousand Worlds Civilization has brought a lot of pressure to the finances of the civilization.

After all, before the official development of naval combat power began, the civilization of the Ten Thousand Worlds would not have had this financial consumption.

Originally, the financial departments thought that the most ruthless money was burned by the army units, and the research and development of various rifles and artillery, the mass production of ammunition and shells, and the daily training expenses of the soldiers of the major military regions were an astronomical amount every day, and once a war was fought, this number might suddenly have to increase tenfold.

And since the naval units began to train and the steel battleships were put into production, they suddenly felt that something was wrong......

What's the situation? The army troops burned the money, but they still burned it one by one, and you poured it directly into the brazier?!

In just a few years, the financial pressure brought by the navy has once again sounded the red alarm for the civilization of the world, which was already about to turn into a good economy.

And just last week, another battleship began to officially enter service, and now their Yangtze River Fleet of Ten Thousand Worlds Civilization already has twenty-three destroyers and five battleships!

Luo Ji didn't mean to build a cruiser.

The original purpose of the appearance of cruisers was to balance speed and firepower.

But it has been said before that in the field of warships, it is impossible to take into account armor, speed and firepower.

If you insist on taking care of both, you will only build a ship that can't get up and down, but it doesn't make any sense.

And this is indeed the case, take modern society as an example, after World War II, there was basically no country building cruisers, this is a fact.

Luo Ji obviously didn't intend to waste time on the cruiser either.

So he had a clear goal and threw himself directly into the creation of destroyers and battleships.

The number of warships in the Yangtze River Fleet today may not sound like much, but when you look at it from the river, it is already quite large.

This fleet, now just for daily training exercises and regular maintenance, has to burn up exaggerated numbers.

I heard that the financial damage caused by the destroyer that was destroyed due to the Hydra incident almost shocked the old minister of our Ministry of Finance on the spot.

Now, with the completion of the construction of the latest battleship, in order to prevent their Emperor Majesty from swiping the pen and starting to build new battleships, our old minister hurriedly sent a report up, and told Luo Ji with a handful of snot and tears that no more battleships could be built, and the treasury would be emptied if such financial expenditures were maintained.

Luo Ji, who received this kind of report, naturally inevitably asked Ye Qingxuan for confirmation.

After making a simple calculation, Ye Qingxuan said that in terms of finance, there is actually still room for it, and it is possible to build a few more warships, but considering the continuous expenditure in the future, and there are other major projects in the civilization, if this continues, there will inevitably be a risk of economic instability.

At the same time, at that juncture, if there is a sudden war, the huge economic pressure caused by it will lead to an economic collapse, which is probably a matter of an instant.

This risk is not small, it has developed to this point, Luo Ji can't do this kind of thing at the risk of collapse, so he decisively stopped the follow-up manufacturing plan of the shipyard temporarily.

In the current situation, I am afraid that it will have to be delayed for a few years before the next step of development, but in the meantime, the research will obviously have to continue.

Battleships can not be built first, but research must not be stopped.

In these years, how far we can go depends on the progress of research.

As soon as research stops, won't development also stop? This is something that Luo Ji will never allow.

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