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"Hehe, you know the goods, this fortress main cannon was directly removed from Wei Wuxing's main cannon." Chen Kang turned his head when he heard this voice and saw that it was Tang Long who was wiping sweat. couldn't help but hurriedly bow to Tang Long, and said with a smile: "This saves a lot of money and time." ”

Tang Long sighed: "Yes, the Ministry of Finance predicts that it will take nearly 100 billion to manufacture this main gun, and it will take five years and five million engineers. But now it only takes a few months to adjust the installation, and you say how much manpower and material resources are saved. Of course, Tang Long knew that the ability to assemble and complete this big project in such a short time was because of the help of the 900,000 robots that were removed from the Moby Dick battleship. As for the people who are piloting the Moby Dick battleship now, they are all humans.

"I don't know what Lord Tang Long has put on this fortress in addition to this main cannon?" Chen Kang began to attack from the flanks. He was going to probe the situation clearly, and if Tang Long had a device that could make this metal ball jump, he would find a way to get his hands on it. You must know that although this kind of fortress is a little smaller, it is a fortress anyway, as long as it can perform space jumps, one such fortress can be sold for the price equivalent to tens of thousands of warships.

"Well, in addition to this 50-kilometer-diameter cannon that cannot be moved, it is also equipped with 30,000 fortress guns that can move at will throughout the fortress with a diameter of 30 meters. There is also protective armor that wraps the entire fortress and is divided into 100 layers, each layer is 1 kilometer thick, and the total thickness is 100 kilometers. In addition, there is a huge shield with a strength of 3 million degrees, which envelops the entire fortress. It can be said that it is definitely the perfect combination of shield and spear. Tang Long said proudly.

"Oh, the main gun looks like it's exposed to protective armor, right? If so, as long as one missile hits this muzzle, the main gun is useless. Chen Kang glanced at the emitter port left by the heavy protective armor outside the main gun and said worriedly.

Tang Long said triumphantly: "Haha, don't worry, those hundred layers of protective armor are wrapped around the entire fortress." Each layer of this 100-layer protective armor is composed of countless diamond-shaped metal blocks of more than 30 square meters. Normally, the pieces of metal are tightly glued together. When a fortress cannon is fired or a landing port is opened, the metal blocks will move enough empty space. The entire metal block of the fortress can be moved freely, so except for this position of the main gun in the center of the fortress, artillery fire, missiles can be fired anywhere, and the battleship can also be entered anywhere. In other words, this fortress is full of launch ports and landing ports! How's that, awesome, right? ”

"Awesome, really awesome!" When Chen Kang was explaining to Tang Long, he had already seen the structure of those diamond-shaped metal blocks, and he had also seen clearly the various passage facilities that extended in all directions of this fortress, and of course he also understood what Tang Long said. To put it simply, in addition to being able to fire fortress guns in any direction, this fortress can also release and receive warships and warplanes in any direction. In the heat of battle, wounded ships can go directly through the fortress to hide in the rear to recuperate, and ships hiding behind the fortress can also go directly through the fortress to surprise the enemy. If this fortress were a little bigger, it would be flawless. It's just a pity that such a small fortress, after installing so many fortress guns and building passages in all directions, can no longer build other facilities except for the construction of the necessary energy storage system and energy manufacturing plant. If the fortress can be built with equipment such as a maintenance factory, a military production plant, a food production factory, and a soldier's housing area, the fortress will be able to fight fiercely for a long time. And most importantly, it will be impossible for this fortress to lay down the garrison warships, which is a huge flaw.

Chen Kang praised and then said something that couldn't be done, and said: "But it's too small, if it can be expanded...... he told Tang Long what he thought just now.

After hearing this, Tang Long shook his head helplessly: "Hey, you think I don't want to do this, but those jumping devices and engines can only drive such a big fortress, and I can't help it." But this fortress can't put down a single battleship like you think, and let me tell you, oh, you can put a large group of a hundred Moby Dick warships! Speaking of this, Tang Long became proud again, this is the parking platform that he dug and dug with great difficulty, so of course he was proud.

Although Chen Kang sighed in his heart what effect these hundred warships could have, he still immediately seized this opportunity and implicitly mentioned the idea of wanting to obtain that jumping device: "Oh, our company's scientific and technological strength is good, we may be able to help you solve this problem, of course, the premise is that you have analyzed the jumping device of your fortress." ”

Tang Long glanced at Chen Kang and said with a smile: "No need, except for the creator of this device, no one can solve this problem." Speaking of this, Tang Long changed the topic and asked, "By the way, what's the matter with you, have the two thousand X Battleships and forty thousand advanced transport ships arrived?" ”

"Ah, it's not there yet, but it's either tomorrow or the day after tomorrow." Chen Kang knew from Tang Long's appearance that Tang Long didn't want to talk about the jumping device, and it seemed that he was going to find another opportunity. He pretended to remember something and said, "By the way, you gave us the Moby Dick last time, but you didn't give us the original control system of the Moby Dick Battleship. Now we are in trouble, because the system we developed is not in harmony with the Moby Dick battleship, and it can hardly exert 20% of the power of the Moby Dick battleship. ”

"Oh, it was just the Moby Dick that was sold to you in the first place, and you didn't say you wanted the supporting system of the Moby Dick battleship." Tang Long dug his ears and said disappreciatively.

Chen Kang knew that Tang Long would not agree if he had no interests, so he said directly: "Our company is willing to exchange this system with 3,000 X-Combat ships with the same configuration as before, as well as 60,000 high-level transport ships full of supplies." Of course, he directly stated his bottom line, and this is not something that needs to be bargained for business. If Tang Long directly gave that system to himself for free, he would still be distressed, because there was no excuse to help Tang Long strengthen his army.

Tang Long's saliva immediately flowed: "3,000 modified X-battleships and 60,000 high-level transport ships full of supplies? However, he quickly returned to his normal expression and said, "Good! Changed with you! I'm going to go and make a copy of the system on the Moby Dick. But this time we are handing over the system with one hand and the warship with the other, and if we don't see the warship, we won't hand over the system! "Tang Long, this stupid person, doesn't know the value of this system at all, if Chen Kang's company has this system, Tang Long's future enemies will be as strong as him, and it will be impossible to win as easily as he is now. However, according to Tang Long's surname, I am afraid that Tang Xing will be grinding to build him a new type of warship.

Chen Kang nodded hurriedly and said, "No problem, I'll let the company transport the warship over." Although Chen Kang did not get the information of the fortress jumping device, he completed the task assigned by the general manager. He also breathed a sigh of relief, anyway, time is there, and he will always find a chance to get this jumping device.

I don't know if Chen Kang's company was too eager or what, a week after the arrival of 2,000 modified X-battleships and 40,000 high-level transport ships in Zhongzhouxing, 3,000 modified X-battleships and 60,000 high-level transport ships also arrived in Zhongzhouxing. Tang Long, who handed over the information of the Moby Dick system, did not appear like he drooled when he looked at these battleships last time, but stayed in the harbor with a frown.

And the members of the military department of Datang, like their supreme commander, looked at these warships with a sad face, and it can be said that almost all the military and political personnel present looked at those warships with sad faces.

If everyone's eyes are bright, they can be very surprised to find that Sally standing behind Tang Long, her military rank has actually become brigadier general, and the three brigadier generals behind her have become majors. And Yuna, who was standing on the other side of Tang Long, the royal badge on her chest had actually become a first-class marquis badge, and most of the political axe officials behind her were viscounts and barons, and there was no one earl and marquis who had a large vote before.

"The composition of the battleship corps has been reorganized after being disrupted, right?" Tang Long asked Sally.

"Yes, my lord, the barely qualified 20 million Earth Star soldiers have been disrupted and reorganized with the original soldiers." Sally replied.

"How effective are they?" Tang Long continued to ask.

"It takes intensive training to keep up with the original combat effectiveness." Sally reluctantly said that if it weren't for the rebellion of the Earth Star soldiers, she would not have carried out this kind of reorganization that weakened combat effectiveness. If you don't do this, even if the Earth Star soldiers don't make trouble, the fleet composed of all Earth Star soldiers will be vulnerable, after all, they haven't fought warship battles at all.

"Hmm." Tang Long thought for a moment and turned around and ordered, "Zhang Guanhua and Major Li Jiamin, go up and receive your troops." Hearing this order, Zhang Guanhua and the others, who were standing behind Sally, immediately threw away the expression that looked like a dead father just now, replaced them with excited expressions, and responded loudly, and rushed to take his subordinates to receive their thousand warships.

Seeing these soldiers who were excited to run towards the landing craft, Tang Long sighed helplessly and said to Sally: "Order the captains to receive the 3,000 warships." Sally saluted Tang Long, she knew why Tang Long sighed, there were only two brigadier generals and three majors in the army of tens of millions of people. A brigadier general commands all ground and police forces, and a brigadier general commands 6,000 warships. It was nothing, but each of the three majors commanded a thousand ships, and the commander of a brigade was a lieutenant. Tang Long had recently set the officer rank required for a warship, and now he could only lower the rank requirement by three levels to appoint officers.

Thinking of this, Sally sighed, and couldn't help but think of what happened a few days ago when her group held a meeting in the capital of Zhongzhou Star:

"Three thousand modified X-Fighters? 60,000 high-class transport ships full of supplies? Lord, is this true? Why is Chen Kang willing to give us so many warships? Yuna asked nervously, although she was happy to receive a large number of supplies, she was also unwilling to pay too much for Tang Long.

"It's nothing, it's just exchanged for the Moby Dick battleship's control system." Tang Long smiled happily.

"My lord, in this way, Chen Kang's company can really produce Moby Dick battleships, if he sells them to our enemies, it will be a major blow to us!" Sally immediately stood up and said nervously.

"Hehe, don't be nervous, they promise not to sell it to our enemies." Tang Long comforted.

"But they only promise not to sell to the forces of the Chaos Free Galaxy, I believe that the lord's purpose will not be limited to the Chaos Galaxy, right?" Fili, who is in charge of law, reminded. Under the influence of everyone, she also began to call Tang Long the lord.

"It doesn't matter, even if they sell the Moby Dick to the forces of the Chaos Galaxy, it won't be long before we have a mobile fortress that can make space jumps, have powerful firepower, and have great defense! Even if they have a Moby Dick battleship, under the attack of this fortress, it will be finished! Tang Long said nonchalantly.

Hearing Tang Long's words, the people present looked at Tang Long and Sally with excitement and confusion, and it wasn't until Sally nodded in approval that they believed that what Tang Long said was true. It's not that they don't believe in Tang Long, it's that they don't believe that there can be a device that can make the behemoth of the fortress jump in space. Of course, they didn't ask too many questions, and it was not strange that Tang Long, a person who was taken care of by those two mysterious sisters, had such a device.

"Lord, no matter what conditions Chen Kang prescribes, you can't give this jumping device to him, this is our important trump card!" Ling Li, a beautiful woman who was in charge of the intelligence department, suddenly stood up and said to Tang Long.

"That's right! You can't just see a few warships and give away this trump card! Elsie jumped up and shouted.

Seeing that everyone was looking at him nervously, Tang Long hurriedly nodded and agreed to everyone's request, and then pouted and muttered: "Really, I won't be so greedy that I don't care about the general situation, how can I use my trump card to exchange for a battleship?" And we have enough warships now, and there will be no one to drive any more. ”

Hearing Tang Long's muttering, Sally immediately said: "Yes, my lord, counting those warships and transports that have not yet arrived, we now have a thousand Moby Dick warships, and the full strength needs 5 million soldiers. If you deduct some unimportant members, you will also need 3 million soldiers. The 6,000 modified X-Battleships are even more exaggerated at full strength, requiring 30 million soldiers. Even if the unimportant members are cut, it will take about 20 million. And the 120,000 high-level transport ships need 12 million soldiers, which cannot be reduced. Together with the 30 million necessary maintenance, logistics and other personnel, the fleet alone needs 65 million personnel. Add to that the violent apparatus of the ground forces and the police force, and our armed personnel will need a staggering figure of two to three hundred million. You must know that our population is ......" Sally said this, although she knew that there were more than 8 billion people in the Zhongzhou Star Domain, including the Earth Star, but now that there are six more planets of the Li family, I don't know how many people there are.

Minister of State Li Wu continued: "There are more than 8 billion people in the Zhongzhou Star Domain, and there are more than 5 billion people in the six planets of the Li family, and we now have a total population of about 13.1 billion. ”

Yuna interjected and said: "Alas, in the past, the population was small, but now with such a large population, not only do you have to pay the salaries of military and political personnel, but also in order to ensure public order and stability and buy the hearts of the people, you need to pay a large number of pensions for those defeated army personnel, and you also need to pay for the maintenance of warships and transports." As for the expenses such as the construction of enterprise factories and military factories, there are countless expenses. Now that the funds of our treasury have begun to be tightened, if it were not for the release of the honorary title of the lord and the fanatical enthusiasm of businessmen, I am afraid that our finances would have been in deficit. ”

"So bad? How many people are in our army now? Tang Long asked in surprise, he didn't understand the financial affairs, and he didn't bother to take care of it, so he didn't care much about Yuna's words, Yuna would solve it anyway. He cares about the military, because this is the job he is familiar with.

Sally said: "At present, there are more than 40 million soldiers in the piloting, maintenance, and logistics of our warships, plus the soldiers of the Earth Star Nationality, and there is a shortage of 25 million people. However, most of this shortfall is due to logistics and maintenance personnel, which can be recruited from the public. As long as you are trained, you dare not say that you are proficient in logistics and maintenance, but you should be able to barely maintain the logistics system. What is more serious is the membership of advanced transport ships, and our current personnel can only be satisfied with the operation of about 20,000 advanced transport ships. That is, out of 120,000 transport ships, 100,000 will be stored due to lack of personnel. He glanced at Jesse and motioned for her to continue.

The Minister of Security in charge of homeland security, Jess immediately continued: "As for the ground forces and police forces, there is not a shortage of personnel, but there are too many of them, mainly because there are a large number of such personnel on the occupied planet. Although it is possible to transfer their extra personnel into the army, they still need to go through a period of training before they can qualify if they have just surrendered. ”

Tang Long nodded and said, "Well, we don't need so many transport ships to operate for the time being, just 20,000 high-level transport ships, and the rest of the stocks will be stocked." Now the number of our warships, can we make a thousand Moby Dick and six thousand X-battleships combat-ready? Speaking of this, Tang Long looked at Sally and waited for her answer.

Sally nodded and said: "Reluctantly, after deducting the logistics system personnel, it is just barely able to make these seven thousand warships operate, but the combat effectiveness is absolutely insufficient." In this way, the main thing is that the soldiers on Earth who have never fought battleship battles make up half of the troops, and in order not to give them a numerical advantage, we will reorganize them and all the battleship troops. Of course, although the Lord's Moby Dick Battleship is now temporarily piloted by military personnel, after the robot completes the fortress, they will be transferred away and the piloting rights of the Moby Whale will be returned to the robot, so that the combat effectiveness of the Lord's 1,000 Moby Dick will not be reduced. ”

Speaking of this, Sally paused and sighed before continuing: "There is another important issue, according to the military system proposed by the lord, only the commodore and above can serve as the commander of a thousand warships. Now we have 7 brigades of 1,000 ships, the Moby Dick brigade is the main guard, and the first, second, and third brigades are also served by Liu Yihui and other three brigadier generals. The officer system of these four brigades has been perfected, and even if there are not enough soldiers, it is enough to keep the brigade running. However, in the remaining three brigades, except for some middle- and low-level officers, there were no high-ranking generals at all, so they could only rely on the brigade to form an establishment. In this way, the 300 brigades, which are not controlled by high-level officers, do not have any combat effectiveness at all. Therefore, here, the subordinates hoped that the lord would be able to promote a group of officers to serve as commanders of the three brigades. ”

"Oh, anyone?" Tang Long asked, only then did he remember that there were no high-ranking officers in his army, and it seemed that a group of personnel should be promoted.

Sally nodded, pulled out a document and handed it over.

Tang Long looked at the documents, and then sighed: "Although the military merits of these people have not yet reached the level of promotion, in order to make the brigade operational, they can only be promoted in advance. What do you think? ”

As everyone nodded in agreement, there was a few knocks on the door of the conference hall, and then the guards shouted loudly, "My lord, Miss Star Zero has arrived." Originally, these guards were all calling for someone to come to see them, but after knowing that Xing Ling was Tang Long's sister, they changed their words to say that they had arrived.

"Oh, please." Tang Long hurriedly stood up, he hadn't seen Xing Ling for a while, and he even asked Xing Ling to do a promotion system for him. It's not that Tang Long doesn't want to meet Xing Ling, but Xing Ling, who got the task of installing Datang Central Computer, has been immersed in this mission since the day Tang Xing left, and outsiders can hardly find any trace of her.

Dressed in a wide blue overalls, with his hair tied up in a rope at random, Xing Ling's face was red and walked in quickly. When she saw Tang Long, she immediately rushed forward happily and said, "Brother, the central computer has been completed, the planets of the star field in Zhongzhou have been connected, and the social management service system can be activated at any time." And the promotion system you asked me to get has also been completed, and the information of the political axe army personnel has also been entered, as long as you need it, this system can be activated as soon as possible. After speaking, he handed Tang Long a magnetic card that recorded the boot data of the central computer and the home page of those systems.

Tang Long, who was fascinated by Xing Ling's youthful and beautiful appearance, woke up from this beautiful beauty for a while, and he said busily: "Ah, thank you, sister, we will gather people to hold a celebration of the start of the central computer." He hurriedly took the magnetic card.

"Celebrations, huh? Then if I don't go to participate, what else can my sister help with? Xing Ling said this, looking at Tang Long with bright eyes.

Tang Long, who was uncomfortable, stammered, "Sister doesn't participate...... That...... Then start the system right away, you say help? Well...... There are 6 planets we have newly occupied in the Tianhe Star Domain, please let my sister establish a management system controlled by a central computer on these 6 planets. His eyes kept staring at Xing Zero when he said this, and he didn't know why, although he wanted to look away, but he couldn't do it anyway. Why does this ordinarily dressed Star Zero look better than the Star Zero when he was a star? Why do you feel like you want to be by your side now? Why didn't I feel this way before? Has the star changed, or has it changed itself?

Xing Ling found that Tang Long's eyes were looking directly at him, his face immediately turned red, he lowered his head and turned around and ran away. The strong women present saw that Tang Long's gaze had been following behind Xingling, and they couldn't help but smile knowingly, it seemed that their lord was really tempted. They didn't think about that idea at all, and even if they did, they just wanted to stay by the lord's side forever, although no one here knew their past, but they knew very well that they were a person who couldn't ask for love.

Sally coughed dryly: "Lord, the promotion of those officers ......"

"Oh, oh, I'm going to ......" Tang Long, who was flushed, had just said half a sentence, and he immediately remembered something and stopped. Seeing Tang Long's movements, all the women looked at their lord, and they all knew that the lord's appearance must have thought of something important.

Tang Long said with a solemn face: "Since the promotion system has been completed, let's use this system to promote officers, and we must clearly stipulate in the form of a law that no one can promote talents privately." As long as we implement this well, we will be able to avoid following in the footsteps of the Wanluo Federation's indiscriminate promotion of people. ”

Hearing this, all the women agreed, although there is an urgent need for officers now, but if you can avoid the habit of promoting subordinates privately, it is still worth it. Besides, now 3 X Brigades and 1 Moby Dick Brigade are enough to defend against any enemy invasion, and the need for officers is not very urgent.

Tang Long and the others didn't go anywhere, they directly inserted the magnetic card into the computer in the conference room, and after entering the intranet, they first started the social management service system of the central computer, and then started the promotion system. After the system was activated, after a little browsing, it was found that all other military and political personnel, including Tang Long, had been recorded.

"Huh? What is this Organize button for? Tang Long muttered, and then clicked the button without waiting for everyone to react, and the words "Recalculate Meritorious" immediately appeared on the screen. When everyone was stunned, the words on the screen changed to "reassign official ranks", and after these words stayed for a few seconds, the refreshed ranking of the official rank of the political axe appeared in front of everyone.

Seeing this new ranking, everyone was stunned, because except for the "Supreme Commander - Tang Long" in the first place, which has not changed, the princes, dukes, and marquis below him are all empty, and Yuna, who was originally ranked second, has now become a first-class marquis, not only her, but also the three princes such as Erxi have also become first-class marquises. And Fili, who had just been promoted to a third-class duke, became a third-class earl. And those officials such as earls and marquis have been demoted to viscounts and barons, and even worse, many have been directly reduced to lords.

"This ...... What's going on? Tang Long looked at the screen dumbfounded, and his fingers subconsciously clicked on the army's column. The ranking here is even worse, except for the "Supreme Commander - Tang Long" who is in the first place, there has been no change, generals like Sally and Jess have actually been demoted to brigadier generals, while Liu Yihui's three brigadier generals have been demoted to majors, and the former colonel-level officers have all been demoted to captain-level officers, and as for captain-level officers, they have been directly demoted to non-commissioned officers. That is to say, at this moment, there were only five officers above the rank of colonel in Tang Long, and all the rest were officers below the rank of lieutenant.

"What's going on? How did they all downgrade? How can a war be fought like this? Tang Long croaked as he searched the disk for a way to recover.

Everyone watched Tang Long fiddling with the magnetic card in a daze, and no one made a sound, they didn't expect that their merits were only this position in the computer's calculations. Yuna, the eldest sister, saw everyone's expressions, and couldn't help but smile and said: "Oh, this computer is really accurate, I already knew that my merits were not enough to get the king, but I didn't expect to be able to get a first-class marquis, it's really earned." ”

Hearing Yuna's words, everyone was speculating whether she was mad. At this time, Sally also smiled and patted her chest and said: "Yes, I have always been worried about being scolded by people pointing at my back with the rank of general, and now I am not afraid of getting this rank of brigadier general, because this is the rank that my military merits should obtain." ”

The two eldest sisters all spoke up, and the girls immediately came to their senses, they all knew that their merits were not so huge at all, and it was Tang Long who cared for himself to promote himself to such a high status. However, judging from the ranking, the merits of his group are much higher than those of other officials, and it seems that his own merits and abilities are not lower than others. Seeing this ranking, those guys who are unconvinced should have nothing to say.

"What do you say? Once this ranking appears in front of everyone, it will cause chaos! Those officers and soldiers and officials will definitely make trouble! No, I'll have to tell Zero to restore the program to its original state! Tang Long wanted to go out as he spoke, but he was stopped by Yuna.

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