Gum, as one of the main raw materials of the future information age, this raw material can be widely used in the spice industry, food industry, pharmaceutical industry and even industry, and the gum produced by the bottle tree is a kind of gum arabic produced by the gum arabic tree in the original world is very similar to the gum arabic, in the future information age, this gum will become a must for all walks of life. Of course, with the current level of science and technology of the Great Empire, in addition to the propolis produced in the Northwest Continent, gums like bottle trees cannot be widely used at all, and they don't even know how to use them. However, it is one thing whether it can be used or not, and it is another thing to possess and widely plant and study these gums.

As we all know, Sun Lin is not arrogant because he and the influence of the Great Empire on the King Continent are becoming bigger and bigger, on the contrary, he himself is becoming more and more cautious as the sun never sets, and it is not an exaggeration to even use the word timidity, because Sun Lin knows that the embankment of thousands of miles collapses in the anthill, and the greater his influence, the more he wants to kill himself, although the system has promised that he will not let himself die so easily before he completes the so-called hegemony in his heart, but even if others can't kill him, It's still okay to make yourself a lifelong disability, after all, the system guarantees that you won't be killed so easily, and others can't kill yourself, but you can kill the person next to you, Ruyue'er.

And this situation will also happen on the Great Empire on which the sun never sets: the territory of the Great Empire is already the largest on the continent of the king, although in the eyes of many powerful forces, the territory occupied by the Great Empire is not mountains and forests, or grasslands and snow-capped mountains, which are unnutritious land, but this does not mean that other powerful forces are so laissez-faire that the Great Empire of the Sun Never Sets is devouring those territories at will beside them, after all, some powerful forces are secretly on their side.

In fact, a long time ago, there were several old players in the King Continent who were ready to match. When the Great Empire of the Sun Never Sets attacked the northwest region of the Central Continent, it was preparing to attack the Great Empire of the Sun Never Set, and even the Intelligence Network of the Sun Never Setting had intercepted information similar to this situation back then. If it weren't for the fact that one of the main forces was unable to participate in this action because of the change of leaders, which led to the final lack of self-confidence in this plan, the Great Empire of the Sun Never Sets is now estimated to have been knocked out of the Central Continent by the strength of several old players in the King Continent, so with Sun Lin's character, it would be impossible for him to enter the Central Continent without completely digesting the Northwest Continent and the Western Continent.

PS: At present, only 70% of the grassroots construction of the Northwest Continent has been completed, and the high-level facilities are not even 30%, after all, the Mars area and the Edinburgh area are mountainous terrain, and it is too difficult to fully develop the Northwest Continent without unlocking the terraces, hydraulic facilities and other technologies in the early days, let alone the mainland. Half of them are more than 70% unexplored islands, and the other half are mainly forested areas that have been destroyed several times, and this area has only recently been acquired by the Sunset Empire.

But under such circumstances, Sun Lin finally chose to enter the Western and Northwest Regions of the Central Continent when the financial and material aspects were not good. It's not that Sun Lin is vindictive and wants to solve the Dick Empire and the Water Qilin Empire that has been killed as soon as possible. It's because Sun Lin knows how to say. Even if the Western Continent and the Northwest Continent are all developed in a short period of time, they will definitely not be the development speed of the Sunset Empire, which can actually be seen from the time when the Sunset Military Department decided to transfer the headquarters of the Horse Herding Guild to the Nat Plain.

Sun Lin Zhilu said that at present, only the rich territory outside the Central Continent can meet the needs of the development of the great empire on which the sun never sets in the future. Similarly, if you want to fight against the old power of the King Continent in the future, in an area that is not suitable for the army of the sun never sets, it is impossible to win the old power of the King Continent. And what is the region that the sun never sets on the empire that it is best at? Not hills, not plains, not deserts, but the sea, the vast sea and the rich king's inland sea are the only battlefields where the most powerful navy can give full play to its greatest advantages among all the arms on which the sun never sets. So Sun Lin had already invaded the depths of the King's Continent back then. He has been telling himself that among all the troops on which the sun never sets, only the navy can compete with the old forces in the depths of the King Continent in the future, and if he wants to defeat them, he must make the battlefield the home of the great empire on which the sun never sets again. Although Sun Lin has attracted many powerful and potential forces over the years, and even the Spider Clan, which can completely compete with the Heavenly Dragon Empire, the first power of the King Continent established by the Dragon Clan, Sun Lin is still a force that tells himself that he wants to let the enemy fight with him, the battlefield that belongs to his own home field.

And this is one of the two main reasons why Sun Lin wants the Great Empire of the Sun to set all the way to the middle of the Middle Continent, and to stop advancing until the territory of the Great Empire of the Sun Never Sets can touch the Inland Sea of the King, as for the second reason, it is related to the materials of the Great Empire and the raw materials needed for future development.

Judging from the surrounding situation of the New Delhi Peninsula owned by the early Sunset Empire, although the land of the New Delhi Peninsula is extremely fertile, and there is still a dig in the Notting Khan Territory that can dig up dozens of centuries of silver, but behind this richness can never hide the scarcity of various materials on the New Delhi Peninsula, such as wood, iron, ore and other materials, and in the early days, when the Sunset Empire had not yet invaded the northwest continent and the western continent, almost more than half of the raw materials such as iron and flax were obtained by selling the luxury goods produced by the Sunset Empire.

After the Empire successfully seized the Northwest Continent, after the conclusion reached by the agricultural experts of the Empire, Sun Lin was disappointed to find that although some of the land in the Northwest Continent could be transformed into farmland, with the climate of the Northwest Continent, it was destined that the direction of development of this region in the future could only be based on the cultivation of leather and luxury raw materials (such as sugar, cocoa, spices, etc.) and the forestry industry.

This is the reason why the sun never sets the great empire will look at the western continent, because although the territory owned by the Atlanta Empire in the western continent is also a wooded area, when these trees and forests are cleared, what will appear in front of the world will be fertile grasslands and plains, rather than like the northwest continent, when the forests are cleared, all that is left are hills with a greater degree of undulation.

But as the war situation in the Western Continent became more and more unexpected, even the Water Qilin Empire in the Western Regions of the Central Continent came to intervene, which eventually led to the fertile land in the Western Continent being scorched earth, although after the geologists of the Great Empire on which the sun never sets, in fact, those scorched earth can be restored to its original appearance only by investing money and materials, but the problem is that the materials needed are simply a bottomless pit for the Great Empire on which the sun never sets, Sun Lin 100% believes that the Western Continent has not yet recovered, The sun never sets, and the great empire will be dragged down. So Sun Lin finally set his sights on the Western Regions of the Central Continent.

Then, with the rapid development of the Great Empire after obtaining the rich land in the northwest region of the Central Continent, Sun Lin was surprised to find that Sun Lin had always thought that the black powder weapon that he had been estimated to develop until he was in his 40s was actually developed so quickly, and at the same time, the hydraulic facilities that were used as the main power facilities were developed in the early days when the steam engine did not appear.

And Sun Lin himself believes that when the Mo Forging people are all loyal to the Great Empire of the Sun Never Sets, and no longer fantasize about rebuilding the Mo Forging Empire and teach the principles of ice steam they have developed to the master craftsmen of the Sun Never Setting without reservation, it will not be long before the craftsmen of the Sun Never Set will be able to develop the principle of coal steam, and at that time, the Sun will continue to use principles such as coal, oil, and gum that cannot be regarded as necessary raw materials for industry before.

In order to maintain the speed of scientific and technological development of the Sunset Empire, the Sunset Empire must give priority to finding and developing and producing these raw materials, and the oil will not be used for the time being due to technical problems, but coal and gum, which can be mined by the original stone method of collecting technology, are included in the early development projects of the Sunset Empire.

Among them, the sun-falling geologists have found huge aluminum veins and coal veins in the northwest region and the northwest continent of the Central Continent respectively, but there is no such thing as gum, until the merchants of the business alliance said that in the forest where the bear monster tribe in the western region of the Central Continent is located, there is a kind of bottle tree trunk that will flow out of milky white liquid after being cut by a blade, this liquid is very viscous, and is often used by bear monsters to smear it in the trunk wooden house where it lives, after the seam between the planks and the planks. Sun Lin learned that the gum that the Great Empire was looking for had been found, and ordered a full-scale attack on the Western Regions of the Central Continent.

Otherwise, with Sun Lin's prudence, even if Sun Lin knew that after the Dao Water Qilin Empire killed his two generals, he would not be so fast, and in about half a year, he let the two expeditionary forces of the Central Continent enter the Western Regions of the Central Continent, and in a short period of time, they continuously captured the city and pushed the troops to the edge of the bear monster tribe. At most, Sun Lin only let the Second Expeditionary Force of the Central Continent wander around the Sharanmar Hills of the Water Qilin Empire, and then attack after the Northwest Region of the Central Continent and all the infrastructure of the Northwest Continent can be fully operational.

PS: Here's a point, the reason why Sunset didn't choose to directly capture the dense forest area of the Western Regions of the Central Continent where the Bear Monster tribe is located is because Sun Lin found that the Bear Monsters have the ability to plant bottle trees in a large area, which is much better than the garden experts who never set in planting bottle trees, which is also one of the main reasons why the Sunset Empire wants to win over the Bear Monster clan. (To be continued......)