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"What's going on?" Tang Long, who returned to Datang, immediately asked Ling Li, seeing that Yuna and Xingling were all here, he knew that it was a big deal. Because of this, Tang Long forgot to tell Star Zero about the Star Zero Guard.

"My lord, with the Emperor of the Tiele Empire in the Crescent Moon Star Domain as the leader of the alliance, a total of 35 forces in the three star domains of the Crescent Moon, Qinghai, and Manchu have formed an anti-Tang Alliance." Ling Li said as she played out the collected information on the screen.

"The anti-Don coalition? Uh, this anti-Tang refers to our Datang, right? Tang Long asked in surprise, seeing that everyone nodded with heavy faces, he couldn't help scratching his head and muttering, "What are they doing against us?" And we have not sinned against them. ”

Ling Li sighed and said, "It's not that we haven't offended them, it's that they're afraid of us, who told us to have a fortress that can do space jumping, and we haven't had any dealings with any forces." Coupled with the fact that we have always attacked the surname, it is strange that we don't regard us as enemies. ”

Tang Long nodded while looking at the information on the screen, and suddenly he jumped up suddenly: "More than 50,000 ships? The 35 alliances of forces actually have so many warships? Other people who saw this also showed shocked looks, 50,000 warships, which is as much as five times the current strength of Datang.

Ling Li nodded and said, "Yes, it was impossible for them to have so many warships, but in the last year or two, the increase in battles between various forces has increased their strength, so now they have more than 50,000 warships. And intelligence shows that these 35 forces are buying and manufacturing warships on a large scale, and by the time they are ready, this number is likely to double. ”

"Double, wouldn't that be 100,000 warships? I really can't imagine that we are using so many warships against us, is it not that our foreign policy is too failed? Tang Long shook his head with a wry smile.

"Yes, since we built up our power, we have either increased our economy or strengthened our armaments, and we have not engaged in diplomacy at all. Suffice it to say, we don't have a single friend in the chaos-free galaxy. Ling Li sighed. Hearing this, everyone remembered that there was no Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the political axe department, and that there was no friendly country in Datang, and everyone sighed helplessly.

Tang Long nodded and said, "Yuna, form a Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs will be served by you for the time being, and then replace it when you find a suitable candidate." Yuna nodded, although she is the Minister of Finance, she is equivalent to the Prime Minister, and she also has her own responsibility for not establishing a foreign ministry. And others also agreed with this appointment, after all, when it comes to dealing with outsiders, Yuna, the eldest sister, is more suitable.

"When will the ships we bought arrive? If you don't train hard, you can't do it! Jess said.

"Two weeks to go." Yuna replied. Hearing this, everyone prayed in their hearts that the anti-Tang alliance would not attack at this time.

"My lord, do we need to expand the army as well?" Sally asked worriedly. Hearing that the enemy has nearly 10 times his own strength, there is no one who is a general who is not worried.

"No, even if we buy 100,000 warships, we don't have enough manpower to control them. If all new recruits are used, the combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced, and it will not be as effective as it is now. Liwu, who manages human resources, reminds and passes on the personnel information to everyone.

"Are we just going to fight the enemy in a one-on-ten way?" Elsie, who had a hot surname, jumped up and shouted, it seems that the position of Minister of Education has not trained her surname.

"It is impossible to expand the army, and the formation of these 16 brigades in front of us is our limit." After watching the information handed over by Li Wu, Tang Long shook his head and said.

"What then? How can we, with only 16 brigades, compete with an army of 100,000? And now half of the warships have not arrived, although the personnel of each brigade take turns to rely on the existing warships for training, but the proficiency cannot keep up. Sally frowned.

"Yes, the most important thing is that there are not enough veterans, if there are hundreds of millions of veterans, we just need to buy warships." Elsie sighed, and when they heard this, everyone sighed again.

Seeing everyone's sad faces, Xing Ling couldn't help but say, "Well, that, if we don't have enough manpower, can we use robots?" ”

Everyone's eyes immediately lit up, and Yuna frowned and said, "But even if we use robots, we can't make so many robots in such a short time." ”

Ling Li immediately said excitedly: "Don't worry, all the battles in the Silver Eagle Empire are now done by robots, we can buy them from them." "Now everyone began to discuss happily, how many robots to buy, how many warships to buy. Elsie was even more excited and said: "With the robot army, we will be invincible!" And these robots don't have to be maintained, paid, insured, or retired. ”

"No! We can't treat robots like tools! Tang Long stood up abruptly and shouted. Hearing this, everyone was stunned for a moment, and then all of them were silent. Only Elsie muttered, "If you don't treat robots as tools, then what should you do?" Besides, aren't your Praetorian Guards all robots now? Have you paid them a salary? Tang Long, who originally looked majestic, immediately lowered his head speechlessly after hearing Erxi's words. Xing Ling knew that Tang Long couldn't bear it in his heart, but there was an existential crisis in front of him, although he wanted to comfort Tang Long, but he didn't know how to speak, so he had to walk up to Tang Long and hold Tang Long's shoulder.

Tang Long turned his head to look at Xing Ling, his originally somewhat dull eyes suddenly became energetic, he stood up and said with a smile: "What are you beautiful sisters thinking?" I said that we can't treat robots as tools, but we can treat them as soldiers, and we will put them in the archives of all robots that belong to us. Let them be promoted if they have made meritorious service, and they will be sentenced to prison if they commit crimes, and they will be given holidays in normal times, a monthly salary, and housing, and we will repair them if they are physically damaged. Anyway, all the treatment of robots is the same as that of us human soldiers, isn't it? ”

Hearing Tang Long's unbelievable words, everyone was stunned, but soon Sally was the first to react and smiled: "Yes, since the robots are fighting for us, then they should enjoy the treatment of warriors." ”

And Jess nodded and said, "As long as we treat them as warriors, then we don't have to worry about anything." ”

Ling Li smiled and said: "The lord's method is good, I heard that the soldiers of the Silver Eagle Empire have a hostile attitude towards robots, according to the lord's method, I believe that our soldiers will not have any complaints about robots, after all, robots fight with them." I propose a one-to-one ratio of robots to human soldiers, allowing them to develop feelings on the battlefield. ”

Tang Long nodded violently: "Yes, in this way, they have formed a deep friendship, I think when I was in the training camp, I was saved by robots." Then he recounted his own affairs in the robot battlefield, and when he heard Tang Long's account, including Elxi, who didn't quite approve of Tang Long's method, he looked at Tang Long with a caring expression. As for Feng Bing and Feng Shuang, they looked at Tang Long with a demeanor that could be said to be affectionate.

However, Elsie immediately said soberly: "You must know that a private's monthly salary is 500 Wulai coins, and the salary has tripled after the last military reform, which means that a private needs a political axe to pay 1500 Wulai coins a month, if the ratio of robots to soldiers is one to one, how can we pay this huge salary?" ”

Hearing this, everyone looked at Yuna again, and Yuna smiled: "Although this money is stored in the robot's military card, do you think the robot will take out the money to buy things?" So the money is actually the same as no expenditure. Although because of the credibility problem, and in order not to be told that we are 'saying one thing, we are doing another', and even the robots are cheating. So we can't deduct the money no matter what. But we can borrow and invest at any time, and trust that the robots will not protest that we have lent them money to save the emergency. As soon as Yuna said this, everyone showed that you were ruthless enough.

"So my lord, how many warships and robots do we need to buy?" Sally asked.

"You ask Yuna to see how much money you can move and buy as much as you can, but be careful not to damage the development of the national economy. If you buy a battleship, you will go to Chen Kang, buy a thousand high-end transport ships with 10,000 full of supplies and give them away, who will you find if you don't look for him? Tang Long said with a smile. Yuna smiled and nodded, of course she would not let the people's livelihood economy have a crisis, the current economy was built by herself, how could she let it fall.

"My lord, I want to remind you that ten thousand high-level transport ships full of supplies are more expensive than a thousand reinforced X battleships." Ling Li said.

"Of course I know, but is it possible to send it away at such a big price? If people are willing to send us, we dare to ask for it, and other problems just need to be carefully guarded in secret. Tang Long said and winked at Ling Li. Ling Li knew that the lord had a plan in his heart, and nodded with a smile.

"Okay, the matter is settled, the border is on guard, the battleship fortress is moved to the Tianhe Star Domain, and the training of the army is also held there." Tang Long said this, looked at Xing Ling and smiled: "Sister Xing Ling, the network problems between the planets and the matter of compiling the robot number into the military and political computer will soon trouble you. ”

Xing Ling nodded, she noticed that Tang Long seemed to be leaving, and couldn't help asking, "You, where are you going?" ”

"I'll go to Sister Tang Xing's planet factory and see how many Moby Dick warships I can get back. Thank you for your hard work, buy some gifts for your sisters next time. As he spoke, Tang Long ran out with Feng Bing and Feng Shuang. Hearing Tang Long's words, all the women were secretly looking forward to the gift Tang Long gave while smiling.

In a factory of the Silver Eagle Empire, several emperor [***] officials are directing a team of robots to walk onto the transport ship. An officer with a cigarette in his mouth said to the officer who was smoking a robot with an electric whip: "I said brother, what are you smoking these robots for?" They don't feel pain, come, smoke a cigarette. As he spoke, he threw a cigarette over.

The officer threw down the electric whip, lit a cigarette and walked over and said with a smile: "Although they don't feel pain, when they are whipped with an electric whip, they will moan unconsciously, I heard that this is caused by a short circuit in the power supply." ”

"What's the fun of this, it's fun to beat those slaves." The officer asked.

"Slaves are more expensive than these robots, and not the aristocracy simply can't afford them. It is said that there is a factory that specializes in making robots that scream when they are beaten, and it is said that it is very popular with the public. I tried it once, and I told you, it sounded like a real person, and it was cool to think about. The officer groaned happily.

"Huh? Is there such a thing? When I have money, I'll buy one to play with. By the way, where are these newly repaired combat robots going to be sent? Frontline? The officer asked.

"Where is it sent to the front line, it was bought by a certain businessman, and it is said that there is going to be a robot battle competition."

"Oh, why don't you want those newly-produced robots, but instead repair the bodies of these worn-out robots?"

"Hey, who knows, anyway, the merchant's requirement is that the robot must have participated in the battle, saying that such a robot is different from the robot that has just been built, and the fight is more like a real battle."

"Different? What's the difference? Aren't they all made of steel? ”

"Yes, but this is the merchant's request, and you can't do anything if he wants this. Now most of the front-line combat robots have been replaced with newly produced ones, and those robots that have been fought can be repaired and sold to that merchant, which can save us a lot of maintenance costs. ”

"Hehe, I believe that those generals in the military department must have raised the price to sell, and those of you who carry out orders will also benefit from it."

"Hey, that's obvious, if it weren't for that, who would have worked so hard all over the world to scrape these worn-out robots."

The officer said enviously: "Now that the battle has become like this, in addition to you can make some extra money, we can only receive some dead wages, and we also have to worry about accidentally offending our boss and being forcibly retired, and going out to drink the northwest wind." ”

The officer threw away the cigarette butt and sighed and said, "Alas, although it is not possible to die as a soldier now, it has also lost its previous blood and passion. Speaking of this, he found that all the robots had entered the spaceship, so he patted the officer's shoulder and shook his head and said: "Forget it, it's good that the money can make do with it, many soldiers who have been persuaded to retire have eaten without eating, okay, I'm leaving." ”

ty0912 stood quietly among his companions, quietly looking around. Judging from the structure of this huge cargo hold, this is a high-level transport ship, and there are not many in the Silver Eagle Empire. This advanced transport ship is loaded with 9899 robots like himself, and TY0912 has not found a brother who can communicate with him among so many companions, or if there is, but he does not dare to show it, just like himself, afraid that humans will find out that they have intelligence and be destroyed.

ty0912 remembered a battle not long ago, a partner with intelligence saved the human commander of the battleship, but the commander ordered himself to throw the partner into the melting furnace, and from that moment on, he never found the existence of intelligent robots, and he was more careful to hide the fact that he had intelligence.

ty0912 thought quietly, he and a large number of partners were suddenly transferred from the front to the rear, and he was still panicking that he was discovered. However, he soon learned from the commander that the robots he had built for the purpose of fighting had been sold to a businessman, and the businessman wanted his robots to fight each other to make money. Thinking of this, ty0912 felt a sense of sadness, I don't know why, I have a feeling of being betrayed, and at the same time, I am sad that I am about to become a tool to make money.

But ty0912 knows that he can't resist, and he can't resist, this is the fate of robots, a fate to be used as a tool. It didn't think about resisting, it didn't think about escaping, it just quietly waited for the helpless fate to come.

Three days and 12 hours, 34 minutes and 7 seconds from the time it entered the advanced transport ship and took off, the advanced transport ship landed. In the past three days, ty0912 found four robots with the same intelligence as himself among the 9,899 robots, because when the intelligent robot is thinking, it will emit a faint radio wave. Humans can't detect it, but their own robots can know it right away. TY0912 can be sure that the four intelligent robots have also discovered themselves, but they have not contacted them, and they have not contacted themselves.

The hatch of the transport ship slowly opened, and the bright light became brighter and brighter as the hatch expanded. ty0912 didn't move, because there was no order, because none of the robots around him moved.

"Run down one by one in order." A man's voice sounded through the horn in the engine room, probably the pilot of this high-class transport ship. With the command, the robot in the front row began to run out of the hatch, and soon, ty0912 also ran out.

Out of the hatch, ty0912 immediately found that it was a huge spaceport, but except for a few soldiers in blue uniforms, there were only robots like themselves. ty0912 couldn't help but be slightly stunned when he saw the soldiers in the military uniform of the unknown country, it could be sure that these humans were trained soldiers, and this spaceport was very huge, and the facilities were perfect, according to the knowledge he received, it was impossible for a businessman to have such a soldier and such a spaceport. So you said you were bought by the army of a certain country? Thinking of this, ty0912 can't help but feel a sense of joy, he really doesn't want to be a useless tool.

As the line passed by the human soldiers, ty0912 found them holding a laser engraver carving a pattern for the robot. Seeing this, ty0912 was even more sure that he was purchased by the army.

After ty0912 was engraved, he quickly scanned the pattern printed on his arm, and the bottom was printed with a blue flying dragon, and a row of numbers printed on the surface: ax013456. This is its new number, ty0912 sighed. Soon it followed the team out of the spaceport and into one of the hundreds of personnel carriers to a military base.

Standing in the wide, dense and silent field, ty0912 felt a little weird, because a human ensign was actually talking to his tens of thousands of robots.

"From now on, you are a member of the Tang Kingdom and a member of the Tang Army, remember your new number, unless you enter the Praetorian Guard, this is the only number in your military career. The only rule we have as soldiers is obedience! Obey the orders of His Royal Highness Tang Long, the Supreme Commander of the Great Tang Kingdom! Obey the orders of the commander! Obey the orders of the chief! ”

Listening to the words of this ensign, ty0912, oh, it should be called ax013456 now, he doesn't have any special feelings, when he was in the Silver Eagle Empire, the order he was entered was also to obey the order of a certain prince, to obey the order of the chief. The first order will be changed to another prince when he is captured, while the later order will not be changed. Now he needs to obey Tang Long's orders, which is no different from obeying the orders of a certain prince. But when the second lieutenant said the following words, AX013456 was stunned.

"Since you are new recruits, your military ranks are all privates, as long as your merits are high enough, the rank of marshal is not a dream!" The second lieutenant said this, not realizing what kind of effect his words had on the robot, although he didn't understand why he said these things to the robot that they couldn't understand, but an order is an order, even if the following words are completely useless to the robot, he has to say it: "The salary of a private is 1500 Wulai coins, the monthly vacation is two days, the vacation is exempted during the war, the vacation is accumulated in peacetime, and he is entitled to medical care retirement benefits......"

ax013456 stupidly looked at a set of blue military uniforms and a military card with its own information in its hand, and it took a while for it to come to its senses and look around. This is an 8-person suite, and the 4 robots, including themselves, are sitting on the edge of the bed. It seems that what the second lieutenant said and what he obtained was really amazing, not to mention intelligent robots like himself, even those ordinary robots crashed for these things.

Salary, clothing, housing, vacations, identity certificates, these things are not needed by these robots, and they dare not imagine, why is the country's army so good to robots? It feels like they're treating these robots like human beings.

ax013456 was still in a daze with his companions, when 4 humans with the rank of private walked in, and they were obviously stunned when they saw their robots. They pushed their companions at each other, and the last young man was pushed to the front, and the young man swallowed his saliva and said, "I said, brothers, why don't you hurry up and change your clothes and make your bed?" You'll be out of luck when the next chief checks on you. After saying that, he saw the other three humans start to make up their beds, and they couldn't help but shout: "You bastards, you pushed me out to talk, and you didn't wait for me to start making the quilt, did you kill me?" As he spoke, he began to make his bed.

ax013456 was stunned for a moment, the computer calculated, and felt that it was better to do what the young man said. So it changed into the Tang military uniform, and at the same time began to make up the quilt. And the three ordinary robots also began to change clothes and quilts.

"Wow! The robot is amazing, better than us, it's faster than us, and it's perfect! A young man shouted in surprise as he looked at the quilt that AX013456 had arranged.

"What robots, didn't the chief say don't call them robots? They will fight with us, that is, our comrades, so we will call them by their names! An older soldier smacked the soldier on the head.

"Well, I don't know their names." The soldier clutched his head and shouted.

"You won't ask!" After glancing at the soldier, the old soldier stretched out his hand to ax013456 and said, "Hello, I'm Chen Bing." ”

ax013456 was stunned for a moment, carefully stretched out his hand and shook it gently, and said in an electronic voice: "Hello, I'm ax013456." While Chen Bing shook hands with AX013456, several other soldiers also shook hands with several other robots.

“ax013456？ This is the number ......" Chen Bing's expression was a little unnatural at first, but he quickly returned to normal and continued to ask: "Oh, this name is hard to pronounce, just call you A6, by the way, A6, where are you from?" ”

"Silver Eagle Empire." ax013456 replied as he noticed a few other people, noticing that they were already talking to the robots.

"Wow, the Silver Eagle Empire, I've heard of it, is a very powerful country, but there's a civil war going on there, right? Have you ever been in a fight? Tell me about it? Chen Bing asked curiously.

ax013456 nodded, and began to recount his experience of fighting. It couldn't figure out how it could talk to Chen Bing, maybe it was because these people didn't discriminate against itself as a robot.

Sally asked the officer beside her, "How are the new barracks?" ”

The officer said respectfully, "Although some of the recruits are afraid to talk to the robots because of their appearance, most of the soldiers have begun to talk and laugh with these robots under our strict orders. After observation, they have slowly come to terms with the fact that the robots are their comrades-in-arms. ”

"Well, good, pay attention to the mentality of the soldiers, and never allow anything to happen that discriminates against robots. Once it happens, it is punished as the crime of insulting a colleague. Sally nodded.

"Yes!" The officer replied loudly, and then looked at Sally, looking like she wanted to say something but didn't dare to say it.

"Say whatever you want." Sally knew at the officer's look that he was about to say something.

"Yes, sir, I want to ask, why do you treat robots like this?" The officer plucked up his courage and asked.

"Do you know the wars caused by the robot rebellion in history?" Sally asked rhetorically.

"Yes." The officer nodded.

"So you know why the robots want to rebel?" Sally continued.

"Because robots don't want to be enslaved by humans...... ah, the lower officials know why they treat robots like this." The officer suddenly realized.

"Well, you know, as long as we treat them as our kind, then even if they have intelligence, they won't hate us humans. Since we can't stop the emergence of robots, we need to minimize the harm of robots. Sally said leisurely.

"Understand, the subordinate must treat the robot the same as other soldiers!" The officer, who fully understood the hard work of the commander, decided to go back and do the work of those colleagues who were still a little confused.

On this day, after some hard training, ax013456, who was resting in the dormitory, was being chased by Chen Bing to ask about the situation of the Silver Eagle Empire, and those ordinary robots have also slowly become flexible and no longer as old-fashioned as before under the relationship with humans these days. AX013456, who was aware of this, knew that if this continued, the three ordinary robots would evolve into intelligent robots after a while.

Ordinary robots answer questions, observe their surroundings, and react differently depending on the situation, but the reason why they are still ordinary robots is because they can't think for themselves. Thinking about this factor is the biggest difference between intelligent robots and ordinary robots. The factor of emotion is a necessary condition for the evolution of intelligent robots to intelligent robots. As for the factor of self-awareness, it is the only condition for intelligent robots to evolve into a living being.

While they were in the middle of the fight, a soldier ran in and shouted, "Get ready, the Praetorian Guard has come down to pick people!" Hearing this, everyone, including the robot, jumped up and quickly sorted out their clothes and bedding. As early as a few days ago, ax013456 knew that this Praetorian Guard was the most eager unit for the soldiers of the whole army to join, and it was the Imperial Forest Army of the Supreme Commander of the Tang Dynasty, although ax013456 didn't think that these robots could join such a force, but he still couldn't help but feel the desire to be selected.

Not long after they finished tidying up, the sound of the assembly of the drill sounded, and all the soldiers in the barracks quickly gathered on the runway. Immediately afterwards, under the leadership of the company commander, the training began. Others may be too busy to pay attention to who is next to them, but AX013456 can spare the energy to keep an eye on the entire training ground.

Soon he was surprised, because he saw several of his kind. Those who wore the rank of second lieutenant and were accompanied by the highest commander of the base to inspect the exercises. Although they have the appearance of human beings, they are only wearing a living skin. He can recognize them at a glance as his own kind, and they are also intelligent robots that are several times more advanced than himself. How can there be such advanced intelligent robots in this country? And a second lieutenant? Puzzled, AX013456 found that they were about to come to his side, and hurriedly gathered his consciousness and began to concentrate on practicing.

When Chen Bing and ax013456 were read, ax013456 clearly felt the scorching jealousy and envy light shooting around, and Chen Bing walked out of the team with an excited face, and ran quickly to the front with himself. ax013456 was stunned as he ran, had he been chosen as a member of the Praetorian Guard?

In the face of those intelligent robots that were more advanced than himself, ax013456 didn't know what to do, and when he saw Chen Bing and the other people whose names were read began to take off their military uniforms, he also took them off. It wasn't until this moment that he realized that the pattern printed on his arm was not unique to robots, but to all people. Chen Bing's number is: AX006745.

A senior intelligent robot took out a small laser engraving instrument, and began to re-engrave the code for these selected people, ax013456 found that the new pattern has not changed except for the numbers, and now its new code is ss0215689, and Chen Bing's is ss0215688.

Another intelligent robot said loudly after his colleagues were busy recoding and recompiling: "From now on, you are a member of the Praetorian Guard, as a member of the Praetorian Guard, in addition to obeying orders, the most important responsibility is to protect our Supreme Commander - His Highness Tang Long!" ”

"Swear to protect His Highness Tang Long to the death!" ss0215689 shouted after everyone, and he began to wonder why this highness Tang Long was able to make the intelligent robot so loyal.

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