In the middle of the Northlands, in the wilderness, a lone railroad track crosses it. A goshawk flies high in the sky for a bird's-eye view of a train moving on the railroad tracks.

The north of Yanguan is nominally the territory of Hanshan, but in fact, in the past, due to insufficient economic and technological resources, the control power was very insufficient.

[After entering the steam age, human beings still have limitations in controlling the surface of the planet]

Taking many economically developed areas on the earth in the 21st century as an example, in fact, they were all developed after science and technology fully entered the era of electricity.

The development of economically developed regions in the panarctic and tropical regions has been most significant, because the infrastructure of these regions was not able to support the highest civilizations before the age of electricity.

Tropics: The countries on earth that emerged through the first industrial revolution have only ports in the subtropics. Large colonies were self-governing with the assistance of local indigenous chiefs.

Why? It is by no means a lack of military power, but the inability to maintain a home-grown production system in the tropics. The summer is extremely hot, and advanced communities such as factories, which need to gather large populations, cannot be opened. (No air conditioning)

And the pan-boreal zone: in the 21st century, North America, Northeast Asia, can definitely be called fertile land. But why didn't the pioneers of the first industrial revolution take advantage of the advantages of the time to exercise absolute administrative control over these lands?

It was not that the politicians of the countries of the first industrial revolution at that time were blind and could not see the future potential of these regions, but that in the age of the steam engine, the Pan-Arctic Zone adopted "slavery" without exception in order to ensure the production of the primary industry.

Maozi was a serfdom system, a plantation of the American imperialists, and as for Japan before the shogunate era, it was not counted in the household registration, only Shigao. As for the hunting and cultivating people of Black Mountain and White Water, there is no need to talk about it.

Because before the electricity revolution, the cold weather in the pan-arctic zone made it impossible for self-employed farmers to survive. In order to ensure agricultural production, it was necessary to concentrate on survival, and this model gave slave owners room to manage their existence.

The disconnection between the advanced modern social system of old Europe at that time and the Panarctic colonies directly led to the separation of culture and national consciousness. And the root of rule is 'the same book, the same track'. If the same system cannot be implemented, it will naturally be difficult to annex.

The advanced modern social system was established in the pan-cold zone and the tropics, and only after the electric revolution could the objective conditions be met.

In other words, as the productive forces become more and more developed, people will always be pleasantly surprised to find that - hey, as long as the infrastructure is built, this land is very fertile?

[And now, in this world, Lu Ming is such a 'lucky discoverer']

During the war of Sisi's annihilation, Lü Ming grabbed a certain amount of political capital. At the suggestion of a certain spirit, Lu Ming bargained with the Congress and got some of the resources to go to the northern border of the border Tuntian.

And the political arena of Hanshan happened to be a headache for the legions that took refuge in the east of Sesi. These Sexi soldiers who were transferred to Hanshan under the front of Taiyun's soldiers, Hanshan didn't have so many resources to arrange them. So Shangguan Deyang's statement that his daughter is a fool is not unreasonable.

Narrator: If this kind of foreign army is not handled well, it will be the 'Hou Jing Rebellion'.

So how to place these Sisi military organizations. Disbanded on the spot, and then sent to the north to open up the wasteland? If you dare to do so, you will quickly mutiny.

The only way is to let your own side restrain this force with a strong battle and then send it to the north. And the only one who has the confidence and ability to suppress this guest army is Lu Ming, a young military strongman who has just performed well in the battle of Sesi's annihilation.

Of course, Lu Ming didn't be polite to these birdmen in Hanshan, what kind of national righteousness, what kind of service to the country? Lu Ming directly pasted the document of his old father being reprimanded by the Congress at the door, and then wrote his opinion at the end: "I have a foot disease, and I am afraid of losing the country's favor." ”

It wasn't until the end that the ministers of Hanshan gritted their teeth and bled profusely, and Lu Ming accepted the appointment.

Now the train accompanying Lu Ming out of the customs is transporting a large number of agricultural machinery and a complete set of industrial production equipment.

And in the long run, Lü Ming took this group of Sesi soldiers to the north, in case it succeeded, this would undoubtedly make Lü Ming the most powerful warlord in the north.

Can't you see it in Hanshan? No, they can see it, it's just that politicians don't have time to think about long-term interests now, and at this time, the foreign army is urgently needed for the domestic minister. As long as they can force those Sexi people out of the body and send them outside Yanguan, if anything happens, they will be blocked by the Yanshan Military Fortress.

What's more, whether Lu Ming can gain a foothold in the north is still a matter of words. Because there is a terrible agricultural catastrophe in the north.

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A rumbling armored train is moving on the railroad north of Cold Mountain. The fortress-like train had a flat observation platform on the front of the train like the deck of a battleship.

The commander of the Northern Tour, Lu Ming, was standing on the platform in a mechanical uniform, with a young and resolute face staring at the map of the Northern Plains projected from the field in front of him.

With a snap, in the wind of the train's movement, something the size of a thumb fell on the railing, and then lay on the combat uniform.

Lu Ming looked down at the locust that landed on the ceramic armor, raised his hand with a mechanical glove, and pinched the insect to death with one palm.

The Great Locust Plague, a disaster peculiar to the North.

They erupt from the western mountains every year, eating away all the surface vegetation in the north, but fortunately, because the water and soil in the south are moist, suitable for the growth of a parasitic hyphae, this locust cannot become an adult in the south, and after coming down from the Haobei plateau, it quickly disappears. And the ravaging range of this great locust plague firmly set the dividing line between nomadism and agriculture.

[But when it comes to this great locust plague, there are also myths and legends]

After the end of the Hundred Saints Era, it is said that a certain king in the north lost a battle with the Central God Emperor, and smashed the Dingbei Ding in a fit of rage, the Great Ding was broken, and the hatred of the seal flowed wantonly on the earth, and the hatred and the soil came into contact with this great locust plague. In order to save the people from being born in the mouths of insects, the Central God Emperor plucked his own hair and turned it into a mycelium to contain the insect swarm.

For this myth and legend, Su Ying has such a brain, and the locust disaster should be related to the war between the ancestors of the Hella people and the ancestors of the land humans in the Eastern Continent.

The sudden locust should be a weapon specifically targeted at farmland after genetic adjustment.

The mythical Dading is broken, it should be a complete rupture of the consensus between the two sides, and then a war will occur. There was no doubt that the Hela had failed, and in order to prevent the westward retreat from being pursued, the locust plague was released after measuring the climate.

The scientists of the Eastern Continent did their best to develop the corresponding spore weapon to curb the destruction of the agriculture of the Eastern Continent, but it also completely exhausted the energy of the last generation of scientists in the Eastern Continent after the war.

As for the connection between mycelium and hair, narrator: "In order to study mycelium, the researcher was supposed to be working all night and sacrificing a lot of his own hair. ”

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After 20,000 years of development, these insects are no longer as terrifying as they were originally and are embedded in the ecosystems of the north.

For example, locust plagues break out regularly every year, and migratory birds from the north come to dine regularly. And on the islands off the northern coast there are also amazing guano minerals, which are balanced in nature, and the balance that humans have broken, other species will restore the balance.

Of course, it is precisely because the locust swarms that rise regularly every year have formed a new natural balance, and after the development of human productivity, if they want to change again, they will always be taught a lesson by nature again.

There have been two attempts to conquer northern nature in the history of Yanshan, both of which have failed.

The first time: In 934 of the steam calendar, a certain city of the ancestor of the Lu family attempted to establish Bohai County north of Yanshan.

At that time, the climate was on the warm side, and a large number of steam agricultural equipment was used to reclaim the northern farmland, and at the same time, new water conservancy projects were built. As a result, the first year was harvested, the mycelium was sown in advance in the second year, and the locust plague did not arise.

However, in the third year, there was a twist in the climate, with low average temperatures and low precipitation in early spring. There are fewer hyphae, which directly breaks a threshold. After the threshold is lowered, the locust plague is a series of promoting conditions.

Before the crop harvest, a large locust plague that has not been seen for thousands of years suddenly broke out, and a large number of crops and water conservancy facilities will accelerate the reproduction of locusts. Because of the cultivation of crops, there was a sudden surge of locusts to a level not seen in thousands of years. The locusts were overwhelming, eating not only all the crops, but also the rest of the vegetation.

And they migrated directly southward, crossing the constant border line in the past, and directly swept all the areas within six hundred kilometers south of the Haobei Plateau. The ecology of the entire north cannot be restored for three years.

In that year, due to the poor grain harvest in Hanshan, Hanshan was defeated by Sexi and ceded the land west of Hengshan.

The second time, it was a hundred years later.

At that time, the technological revolution saw the emergence of large airships, and biologists began to cultivate new varieties of mycelium on a large scale. At that time, there were signs of a locust plague, and the rapid release of mycelium could infect all locusts at once and make the locust plague disappear. This anti-locust mechanism has been very successful.

But after more than ten years of good harvest, the world war broke out. In order to eliminate the power of Hanshan, the Penghai Empire at that time directly sent the Great Wall into the north and blew up all the airship bases on land.

The locust plague could not be contained, so the people of the Northland watched as the black storm of insects arrived again.

As a result of the extermination of locusts with spores in the previous decade, the number of migratory bird populations has been decreasing year by year. Organisms at the top of the food chain are not as resilient as species at the bottom of the food chain when their survival is in crisis.

So the scale of the locust plague was even larger, and it was not only the cold mountains that ravaged it, but also the Sexi Penghai and even Taiyun were not spared.

And because it was a war year, the damage to production was extremely serious, and the outbreak of locusts at this time directly became the last straw that crushed the situation. The north is 2,000 kilometers away from the red land, and the forty cities in the north are full of bones, and people cannibalize each other.

That catastrophe led directly to the collapse of the Hanshan monarchy, which was later transformed into an aristocratic republic. So this little bug makes human politics go up and down.

In the past 600 years, the development of Saibei has always been a taboo in Hanshan. And now the politicians inside Hanshan have once again acquiesced in the development plan of Saibei. To a certain extent, it is a strong disadvantage to Taiyun, and he has the idea of a political scoundrel. - "If the ecology of Saibei changes again, it is a big deal that everyone will die together".

However, now Su Ying is instigating Lu Ming to develop in the north, but he has no intention of ending up together.

……

Now Lu Ming looked at the helmet display, and there was a rotating diorama. This is a large propeller aircraft.

The aluminum alloy is the main body, the wingspan is thirty-four meters, the total length is thirty-four meters, the weight is seventy tons, and the turboprop engine (there are also turbojet engines and turbofan engines) is adopted, and the overall layout is similar to that of the H-6.

Looking back on history, before looking at the outbreak of the second locust plague, Su Ying felt that the airship had been very successful in containing the locust plague at that time, but it did not take into account the damage of the war.

In the past, the speed of the airship was slow and the range was short, so all the airship platforms had to be set up on land, and there was a fixed hydrogen refueling station on the airship platform, so it was extremely vulnerable to the infiltration and destruction of the Great Wall.

So, what if this risk is eliminated directly?

Therefore, now Su Ying (Guangling) is directly on the long-range bomber technology for Lu Ming, and plans to establish an air base on the islands in the East China Sea.

In the event of a war on land, the Air Force is deployed directly to the sea air base, and under the protection of the sea base, a single Great Wall cannot break through the defense system.

In the event of an invasion from the sea, it will be deployed directly to an inland air base. The voyage is long, and it can cross long-range strikes in the face of war.

In this way, the country's mechanism for containing insect plagues from the air is much more stable in the face of war damage.

……

This long-range manned aerial vehicle is produced by Binhai Rongshi.

After learning that Lu Ming was going to develop the north, the Sandstorm Group directly signed this contract.

Lu Ming didn't pay a penny now, and what she used as collateral was the future export of crops in the north.

Of course, sandstorms are not a loss, and the more raw material suppliers like this, the better. In particular, this aircraft supply chain is essentially linked to the security of Lu Ming's core interests. It is equivalent to an agent who indirectly controls the new land interests.

Of course, this kind of control is far less than the control of Meng Hong, Meng Hong has no bargaining chips at all now, and Lu Ming's sandstorm is still very equal.

……

It's just that Lu Ming's side attaches great importance to airplanes.

Since he is standard military aristocratic thinking. In terms of political thinking, there is often only one way in which the military means influence politics, and the influence of other aspects on politics is often ignored. Therefore, Su Ying (Guangling) introduced to him that the connection between aircraft and national economic security was not interested, and he only cared about the military role.

However, with pure military thinking, he is keenly aware of the new military changes brought about by new equipment than others.

When Lu Ming saw this large aluminum bird at first glance, he put its importance alongside the armored regiment, the destroyer, and the armored train.

In particular, when I saw the data, it was possible to cruise 4,000 kilometers with six tons of ammunition, and immediately drew a large circle on the map to demarcate the strike range. And plan this future mode of warfare under aerial bombardment. The red and blue cursors on the map of the helmet eyepiece screen, the flashes of digital annotations jumped in his ambitious pupils.

Seeing Lu Ming like this, Su Ying (Guangling), who was sitting on Lu Ming's helmet, shook his head helplessly and sighed: "Another one who uses me as a crutch." ”

Only the independence of grain and the independence of the military industry can have the basis for becoming a warlord. It's not that Lu Ming doesn't know this. It's just that with the auxiliary system of Su Ying, he seems to be too lazy to bother. Concentrate on the interest he is good at, that is, 'military talent'.

In other words, when did this habitual bad habit begin?

It appeared when he was in school, and in recent years, Lu Ming has made a wide range of friends in school, is bold, and often acts as a timely rain to give financial support to some poor disciples in distress, and even give intellectual guidance. made him famous at a young age. - Actually, his interpersonal interactions at school were all suggested by Su Ying.

And when he entered the army, these friends of his came to rely on him, and all the systems and rewards and punishments were also the processes listed by Su Ying, which allowed him to have a stable and efficient group around him.

And now, Su Ying couldn't help but reflect: "I...... Isn't it too sweet? ”

The train continued northward, and the sky was stormy, and a moving star hurried through the gap between the clouds.