【Oka Imperial Prime Minister's Residence】

The Prime Minister looked at the pictures sent by his intelligence system from Sea Crab Harbor.

The information and data obtained by the Oka people about the submarine may be clearer than that of the upper echelons of West. Due to the economic hardship of a small principality like West, some small aristocratic families have been controlled by Oka's intelligence organizations.

Photographs of submarines anchored in the harbor, photographs of wooden sailing ships sunk on the sea, photographs of submarines sailing, and photographs of the shipyard where the submarine was built were all presented in front of these Oka bigwigs.

Of course, the submarine of the Westers, even if the information investigated by the intelligence organization of the Oka people is clear, it is not as clear as the chief designer.

The submarine project is the kind of industrial project that is so complex that it can be divided into separate categories, and it is still a new technology field for the world. This project not only involves the traditional shipbuilding industry, but also the linkage of many industrial projects such as electronics, coal chemical industry, and internal combustion engines. If another country does not carry out a similar project to compare information, it is difficult to determine the specific information of the project by relying solely on spies with a large number of blind spots.

If the Oka people want to thoroughly understand West's submarine project without their own submarine project, then only the core person in charge of the bribery project can understand it in detail. It's just that the core personnel of the West submarine project are one person, and the Oka people just can't buy it.

Now the Prime Minister has invited the Marquis of the Tashi family in China to confirm the authenticity of this small submarine. After reading the information of the port, the Marquis of Tashi immediately took out the information of a diving experimental ship in his family seventy-five years ago and compared it with it.

Marquis Tashi: "A seven-hundred-ton underwater submarine ship is technically feasible, but there are still many problems that cannot be solved in underwater operations. If the Empire is willing to allocate funds, we can build an experimental ship to further compare the intelligence situation. ”

After the prime minister put down the information: "In your opinion, what is the main difficulty in building this submarine?"

Marquis of Tashi: "Guided warhead technology, the homing warhead technology of the Gun Flame family is very advanced, and the guided warhead below the water flow is very difficult to manipulate because it cannot be seen visually. We cannot understand how they managed to make the homing warhead go in a straight line at a distance of a full five kilometers, and various water flow factors would cause the warhead to form a curved path or even return to the same place in a circle. ”

The Marquis of Tashi said so, but in fact he didn't say it all. The mechanical controller guessed that the torpedo warhead should have been stabilized with a gyroscope. But without clarification, there are two reasons here.

First: gyroscopes are expensive, and the mechanical controller believes that gyroscopes cannot be used on a large scale in warfare.

Second: The mechanical controller doesn't believe that the Qiu Eight are willing to pay enough for the tiny gyroscope. And a small gyroscope, if it is produced by a workshop, it will waste a lot of time of high-level mechanics, and if it is to be industrialized, even with the help of the mechanical controller, the cost of the gyroscope factory is not lower than that of half a steel plant.

The military aristocracy in the feudal era had a very serious problem, that is, they habitually ignored the R&D and consumption costs of the factory system, and only counted the material cost and did not count the labor cost when calculating things.

The military-industrial aristocracy has been negotiating with the military aristocracy on this issue for thousands of years, and the military aristocracy of the steam calendar tolerated the elevation of the status of the mechanic and the mechanical controller, the military aristocracy, which was a major compromise with them on the labor cost of "industrial technicians".

Under the current feudal military aristocracy system, it is still difficult for the military aristocrats to talk about the cost of technology research and development with the military aristocracy on an equal footing.

When the military aristocracy can forcibly order with their fists to obtain short-term benefits. Then the military-industrial aristocracy will not let these big bosses have all the right to know about science and technology.

Because, when those military aristocrats saw this palm-sized mechanical gyroscope, they only considered whether you could build it, and they didn't consider whether you worked hard to build it. Once they know that a mechanic can build it, they will go down to the task without discussion. When the mechanic spent a lot of time building, when it came time to negotiate compensation, the military aristocracy would still arbitrarily lower the price.

Therefore, in order to avoid arguing with the military aristocracy in this regard, the mechanical controllers simply did not say anything.

Narrator: This is similar to a relative who borrows money from you, and you have money, but you don't want to borrow it.

Only when the military aristocracy has been beaten and thoroughly attaches importance to a certain technology will they clearly regard the homing warhead with gyroscope and other ordinary ammunition as two categories, and will accept from the bottom of their hearts the fact that torpedoes and missiles with gyroscopes cost hundreds of times more than ordinary artillery shells.

Then the mechanical controllers who understand that they don't have to fight with them will be urged by the above to tackle the corresponding technology through "difficult efforts".

The so-called war promotes scientific progress, but in fact war prompts those who want scientific and technological progress to let go of their arrogance. This was the case in the feudal era, and it is still the same in the network era of great industrial development.

After the Marquis of Tashi finished speaking.

Although the prime minister of the target profession did not understand the technical information, he nodded as if he understood. He turned to the admiral next to him and said, "What do you think, is this kind of underwater attack ship a threat to our maritime security?" ”

A politician's calm smile appeared on the face of the ice floe Hood: "There is no threat to the main fleet, once this kind of underwater ship dares to attack the fleet, the escort fleet will immediately sail above the submarine and destroy the underwater warship with mines, but according to the information, the purpose of this underwater ship is not to engage the main fleet." Rather, it was used to raid merchant ships. Prime Minister, the Navy needs more funding to maintain a patrol fleet."

Speaking of which, the marshal glanced at the field marshal. Now West's external technical support is the Army's pot. The look in the marshal's eyes was: "You are responsible." ”

The prime minister coughed and stopped the topic, and the prime minister could not escape the blame for the problem.

Prime Minister: "If we threaten further at sea now, can we force the Westers to stop at ......?" ”

Hood immediately replied, "I don't think it's possible, it's counterproductive." ”

Narrator: Actually, this involves a political struggle on land and sea, and the naval blockade was originally vigorously promoted by the army. The Navy simply cooperated with the Army in its operations. This was not originally a matter for the Navy. In the eyes of the navy, the main task is only the control of sea supremacy.

The key to sea supremacy is to control key ports and the cruising fleet to control the shipping lanes.

The several maritime commercial channels controlled by the Oka Navy are flowing with gold. The submarines developed by West did not have the ability to control the harbor and control the shipping lanes.

So even if West's submarines destroyed the waterway during the war, they would not be able to master the golden waterway with the cruising fleet after the war. After all, the purpose of war is to make profits, so West's naval strategy does not have a plan to seize sea supremacy, but only a strategy related to coastal defense.

The Oka Naval Command did not see West as a contender for sea power. The contender for naval sea power in Oka is Saint Sauk. However, the Army's side is trying to get West. So whether Oka is a land power country or a sea power country, the sea and land sides have broken out disagreements.

The prime minister was pushed back by the admiral and kept silent.

Duke Lin Yin of the army said: "The king election ceremony has been abandoned halfway, and now the authority of the alliance leader of Oakley has not been completely wiped out by us, once we and Pratt & Whitney jointly carry out a military operation on land against West, it is very likely that we will face greater resistance." ”

Oka is now very jealous of Oakley, because when they attack West, Oakley is likely to lead the nations in selling war materials to West, sending mercenaries, and mobilizing troops on the border between Oka and Pratt & Whitney to contain them, in this situation, the Field Marshal wants to persuade the navy to obey the situation.

Hood ironically retorted with the emphasis, "Yes, to prevent the backlash of that loose alliance of the Hemans on land." Only a firm naval blockade, by which way, weakens West. Well, the Navy should pay for the great cause of the Empire. And in the future, if there is a public opinion of 'naval incompetence' in the country, it will depend on you to stand on the position of 'neutrality'. Help us mediate! ”

When West didn't have any countermeasures against the port blockade of Oka. The blockade of West was a no-brainer for the Navy. But now, West is starting to develop submarines, although military observers in various countries do not yet know the capabilities of submarines. However, it is undeniable that West's submarine development has interfered with the safety of Oka's sea lanes.

If the attack on West, a country without maritime ambitions, continues to make the originally good shipping lanes insecure, then the arrogant and arrogant Oka aristocratic public opinion circle will not reflect on its policy mistakes towards West, but will point the contradiction to the Navy's dereliction of duty, and the Navy will get into trouble because of the Army's plan.

There was a stalemate in the atmosphere of the meeting of the Oka giants

A minute later, Grand Duke Lin Yin slowly said the decision: "Then dispose of him (Binghe)." ”

This is indeed a method, dispose of the core personnel of the project, and West's submarine program is stopped.

But Hood smiled sarcastically, and said nothing, everything was silent.

The mechanical controllers who were originally controlled by the Oka Imperial Navy are now being taken out of the country by the Army, and then assassinated by the Army (and even failed), this kind of serious violation of political rules is enough to give the Navy enough excuse to contain the Army in the next hundred years of talent competition.

【On the border between the Roland Kingdom and West】

The armored train was slowly moving on the railway, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Roland Kingdom was standing on the bow platform of the armored train.

His Highness Criffin is admiring West's western scenery as much as his own back garden. On the table behind him were a large number of letterheads, greetings from aristocratic families large and small in the southeast of West.

When His Highness Criffin announced his visit, he asked the families in the southeast of Westster to pay their respects. This shows Roland's influence in the southeast of West, and this phenomenon is a precursor to the future separation of Westeast.

Regarding the situation in the southeast, the Gangluan family is well aware, and the knighthood and fief that Vilian originally planned for Binghe was to cut the fief of these two or five boys.

The train was on its way, and the metal gates of the carriages were opened. Two knights entered, one from Roland and one from Saint Sauce.

Kriffin slowly turned around and asked, "What, Your Highness Princess, is there no time?" ”

The knight who walked in Roland said, "Your Highness, Her Royal Highness the princess is still doing the work of coordinating the legal lineage. ”

Kriffin looked at the Knight of Saint Sauce on the side and said, "I am glad to hear that Her Royal Highness Princess Caijing has achieved the achievement of a mid-level medical priest last year. The royal family of St. Sauce is really prosperous and enviable. ”

The knight of Saint Sauk said, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is gracious. You are a high-ranking knight, and you are only one step away from a high-ranking knight. ”

Kriffin smiled and said modestly, "The fortress of West, which we are about to visit, is the real genius of Tianzhong. ”

The knight of Saint Sauk replied with a little deep meaning: "Yes, under the crown of Wei Lian, it is the youngest fortress in the continent in three hundred years, less than twenty-eight this year, and unmarried. ”

The knight was well aware of Kriffin's dandy reputation, so he made what seemed to be a covert instigation but was actually sarcastic.

In the royal family of St. Sauce, only the median occupation is considered royalty. And only those who have a high-level occupation or have the potential to advance to a high-level career can be regarded as a descendant. St. Sauce is now under the age of thirty, strictly speaking, there are only two.

One is Chan Hong, and the other is the daughter of Yin, the second prince of Emperor Jialong, who is the one Binghe saw in the Celestial Tower Library and when he opened the knife.

The reason why the second prince of St. Sauk took the name of Yin was because he was uneducated and unskilled, and he only had the professional rank of a high-ranking soldier, but his daughter had the potential to advance to the authority, so he was accepted into the royal family.

Eight years ago, before that happened, the color mirror was also a descendant of St. Sauk. But that incident made Caijing's mood fluctuate violently. There were several mistakes in cultivation within half a year, and although they were all corrected, they were regarded as having greatly reduced potential, so they were assigned by the empire.

But through the experience of being banished from the center of power in the past eight years, the cold-hearted color mirror woke up, started working hard again, and stubbornly bit the last bit of hope for the promotion to the upper professional. I hope to have the ability to no longer be influenced by my fate.

Now, the knights of Saint Sauk admired Her Royal Highness's efforts over the years, and while admiring, they were very dissatisfied with Criffin.

In the eyes of the knights, this Highness Criffin just treated Her Royal Highness the princess as a vase. His insincere pursuit was just disturbing the struggle of Her Royal Highness the Princess, and it was the same as the two boys of the Gun Flame and Flame Stone families back then, called pursuit, but in fact it was an obstacle.

Therefore, the knight's words were tinged. And Kriffin frowned, and the two sides did not speculate, so the conversation ended.

【Wester Naval Harbor, the residence of Binghe】

A man in a cloak lifted his mask, revealing a face that was familiar but surprising to Binghe.

Binghe understood that this was a high-level mechanic when he was nine years old, and when he was twelve years old, he became a mechanical controller. It's also a core member of the family. The Gun Flame Family originally had five mechanical controllers, plus Bing Core and the current Gun Flame Blue Cun, there were only seven. His arrival meant that West and St. Sauc had more political interests exchanged.

"Fourth Young Master, hello." Lan Cun said with a grin. As soon as the mechanical controller entered, he stared at his metallic hair.

Binghe stood up, moved a chair and said, "Cousin, it's been a hard journey. ”

Lan Cun sat down, patted Binghe's shoulder and whispered, "You are now promising." Many people in our family have come to the door in the past few months, all for your business. ”

Binghe smiled, and then asked worriedly, "That... On the Imperial side... Can the family keep me safe now? (Binghe is still worried about the 'dissection' operation that the empire gave him back then)

Lan Cun asked in surprise, "What's the matter with you?" ”

Binghe squirmed and said, "It's... It is... Back then, the empire wanted to use a knife to check my lineage, I was afraid, and then I fled. ”

Lan Cun showed a strange look on his face, and asked Binghe curiously, "Is this why you ran away at that time?" ”

Binghe scratched his head and was a little embarrassed, now that he thinks back to his escape back then, it is indeed a bit ridiculous.

Binghe, who was a little worried, asked, "Didn't the upper echelons of the empire say anything?" For example, you have to punish me. ”

Lan Cun's Yan Yi was "helpless", and at the same time rubbed Binghe's head, tried the feel by the way, and said: "It's okay above the empire." But when you go back, the head of the house will settle the account for you. ”

Binghe gagged his lips and said with an aggrieved expression: "I'm a high-level mechanical controller now, can't the family open up to me?" Cousin, can you help me intercede? "Bing Nucleus continues to be almost.

Lan Cun's eyes widened and looked at Binghe for a full minute, just when Binghe was uncomfortable.

Lan Cun said slowly: "Now our family's mechanic inheritance can only be a mid-level mechanic, why did you become a high-level mechanical controller?" ”

An important purpose of Lan Cun's coming here is to find out the level of Binghe's lineage, because all kinds of indications show that Binghe is not an ordinary mechanical controller. There is now a trace of doubt within the Gun Flame Family, whether the law lineage has changed here when it arrives at Binghe.

Binghe's eyes drifted and disguised, "I've made a little change." ”

Lan Cun looked at Binghe for a minute. Then he said in a long-spoken tone: "Binghe, do you know the Qingjun family?" ”

Binghe nodded, and nodded again: "Know, know,"

Lan Cun recounted: "We have had a relationship with the Qingjun family for nearly a thousand years. In the past thousand years, we and the Qingjun family have actually changed from a completely vassal relationship to a slightly equal relationship. ”

Binghe's ears moved, and Bingxin secretly said: "Here, there is a story. ”

Lan Cun: "The Qingjun family is a puppet master family from the East. After a special curse for a period of time, all males are cut off, and even men who come from outside will give birth to females completely in the third generation. In order to continue, the Qingjun family passed on some of the relevant to the servant family and maintained a marriage relationship with the servant family.

And the ancestor of the Gun Flame family was one of the many domestic servants who followed Qingjun from the east. That's when we started to become a family of mechanics.

Each generation of mechanics of the vassal family will select a disciple to join the family to continue the inheritance of the next generation of the Qingjun family, and for more than a thousand years, the first batch of domestic servants is only our one. The rest are about to be cut off because of the difficulty of inheritance, and only our family has endured the difficulty of inheritance and become a family of mechanical controllers.

In each of our generations, there will be mechanical controllers who marry people from the Qingjun family. Then send outstanding disciples into the Qingjun family. In order not to make serious mistakes in the accumulation of Dharma lineage experience, we have always maintained a marriage with the Qingjun family. And in order to maintain this relationship, the Qingjun family has not given us the correct inheritance directly for thousands of years.

Binghe: "What about my brother?" (Illot)

Lan Cun smiled bitterly with a little sadness: "He obtained the inheritance from the head of the family, when he and the Qingjun family have more than two girls, the best of them will get the inheritance from the Qingjun family." If that girl is still worried about the Gun Flame Family at that time, she will point out the mistakes in the process of accumulating our family's legal lineage experience, but she can only give a little point, because the Qingjun family is strictly guarding against this situation. Over the past few hundred years, our inheritance and development have been led by outsiders. Therefore, our lineage system is similar to theirs, but due to the large amount of concealment in their early teachings, we have always had some fundamental problems in the exploration of the lineage. ”

Hearing this, Binghe nodded clearly, and Bingxin suddenly said: "The original design modification needs to be cautious."

Lan Cun looked at Binghe as if he was in a daze, and suppressed the uneasiness in his tone and asked Binghe, "Are you really sure that you are a high-level mechanical controller now?" ”

Binghe: "Uh, yes." Yes? What's wrong. ”

Lan Cun looked at Binghe with suspicion, and then said slowly: "If what you say is true, there is no need for us to maintain this marriage relationship. "Note: Each generation has to send out a mechanical controller-level inheritor, which is really expensive.

Binghe asked with interest: "Are the girls of the Qingjun family ugly?" ”

Lan Cun was stunned and said, "The Qingjun family has married multiple servant families at the same time, and the marriage place with us is the best. Well? Lan Cun didn't continue, but looked at Binghe, and Binghe didn't ask the point.

Binghe tilted his head and asked strangely: "They have been in harmony with us for generations, isn't it good?" ”

Hearing this, Lan Cun explained with some annoyance: "Inheritance, the descendants that every mechanical controller can inherit with their hearts are limited. And every time we marry, we must cultivate a successor of the mechanical controller for them. Your brother Elliott, for example, must be promoted to Mechanical Controller. ”

Binghe: "Wait, Madame (Qingjun Elliott's mother) is a high-level mechanic, right?" Didn't Elliott get her legacy? ”

Blue Cun: "Elliott's legacy comes from the Earl, and the Lady is only responsible for Elliott's most basic mechanic inheritance. In the future, after Elliott gave birth to several daughters, the lady would choose the best granddaughter to pass on the Qingjun family's inheritance. Every forty years in our family, no more than five mechanical controllers are born. But we must cultivate one for the Qingjun family in each generation. ”

Narrator: It's not that Gunflame Sifen's wife doesn't want to, but the maids next to her are all from the Qingjun family, and Gu has followed the interests of the Qingjun family since she was a child, and strictly monitors the eldest ladies with excellent legal lineage, and these maids are changed every year.

Each median professional also has limited energy, and can only be responsible for a few children in a period of time, and often a median professional can only guide more than 20 young people in a few decades. There are very few possibilities for success.

For the difficulty of guiding the next generation to become talents, Binghe still has no feelings, because the eraser ability makes Binghe's own development along the way continuous trial and error. He only felt the difficulty of trial and error, but did not appreciate the difficulty of a family inheritance.

Facing Lan Cun's questioning, Binghe smiled, and then sighed in a sympathetic tone: "The Qingjun family is also pitiful." Stuck to us for a thousand years. ”

Bing complained frantically in the core: "Ask for a son with a lot of money, don't disturb if you are not sincere." ”

For the laughter hidden in Binghe's eyes, Gunflame Blue Cun wanted to open his mouth to denounce, but held back. He explained in a cold voice, "The curse of the Qingjun family has dissipated in the past two hundred years. Now they want to use us to continue their lineage. ”

[Lan Cun will tell the new situation of the Qingjun family in the last few hundred years].

The Qingjun family began to give birth to males 600 years ago, but the proportion of males born 600 years ago was only 1/20. That is, twenty are born before one appears. Therefore, after five generations of reproduction, the heir is extinct. But in the last 200 years, with a new family, new males have appeared, and the proportion is one in five. However, the two male appearances have nothing to do with gunfire.

And now the Qingjun family can barely start to reproduce as a family. Due to the scarcity of men, the Qingjun family still fished the Gun Flame family in order to ensure the accuracy of the man's mechanical controller lineage template. Let the Gun Flame Family retain the lineage of the male mechanical controller for the Light Jun family.

Lan Cun finished this secret.

"Binghe couldn't hold back anymore and laughed. Binghe doesn't have any hatred for the Qingjun family, and Binghe, who has a very objective attitude, feels that the relationship between his family and the Qingjun family for a thousand years is really interesting.

Binghe complained heartlessly: "The Gun Flame family has been a spare tire for a thousand years, and the Gun Flame has not allowed Qingjun to have a stable male bloodline for a thousand years, but it has allowed another family to pick peaches." It's really a thousand-year history of family struggle, and it's not as good as a generation of cloth seeds. No wonder the heart is unbalanced. ”

Binghe forcibly held back his laughter, and said to Lan Cun, who was on the verge of attack: "Okay, good, good, I know, I know, our family's black history." Isn't it just a high-level mechanical controller? Since the beginning, the Gun Flame family has existed. Don't dwell on it. Tomorrow you will write to the family and ask the family to send more children over, and I will guide the inheritance. ”

Lan Cun's original Tie Qing's face became soothed, but he didn't quite agree with Binghe's idea.

Lan Cun: "The family is asking me to take over the task on your side, so that you can go back quickly." ”

Binghe smiled and flickered: "Okay, when you can successfully take over my work, I will go back, I am a man, I can't be untrustworthy here." ”