Chapter 3 Conspiracy Profiteers
When the radio waves saw this scene, they immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and shouted one after another: "Brother, you are amazing, you have evolved to behave like a human being, and you have become a major, I am afraid that you are the only brother in the universe like us who can become an officer in the army." β
The major officer opened his mouth and just wanted to say something, only to see several human captains suddenly pounce and press the major to the ground, this scene made all the radio waves scream again, they thought that their brother was stupid, and actually tore off his own skin in front of humans, no, it was discovered by humans, and what was waiting for him was definitely destroyed.
Thinking of this, the radio waves couldn't help but feel sad, they didn't have the courage to dare to command the warship to rescue their brothers.
However, to the obvious surprise of these radio waves, the human captains did not dismantle their brother after holding down their brother, but instead stroked the metal skull of the major brother with an envious expression, and after hearing their conversation, all the radio waves only felt that they were about to crash.
"Wow! Sir, when did you change your secondary body? This color is so beautiful, it must be expensive, right? A captain stroking the Major's head with drool.
A captain looked the major up and down and said: "Super alloy metal, strength one, three or four, special military metal, the price in the black market is 100 yuan per gram, but unfortunately there is no supply, and the chief's weight is 200 kilograms, the material cost alone needs 20 million Tang coins, and the commander's monthly salary is only 5,000 Tang dollars, which can't be bought with money, so sir, did you dig a metal mine from somewhere, so you changed your body?" β
"Tell me about the metal mines! Otherwise...... Hehe, be careful that we send your ugly appearance to Major Tang Li. The last captain said with a smirked face, which the other two captains repeated in unison.
The major couldn't see his expression because his face was gone, but he knew that he was helpless just by listening to his voice: "Please, can this rare metal be dug up casually?" I damaged most of my body during the last mission, and the above commendation only helped me change it, and now I am still in the period of physical adjustment, otherwise do you think that a combat hero like me will run to be the captain of the transport team? β
"Damn! Say it earlier, waste my expression. The three captains raised their middle fingers at the same time, but soon the three of them helped the major up, and diligently patted and sorted out the clothes for the major, and at the same time said with a stammering face: "Sir, big brother, next time you are transferred back to the combat unit, will you also transfer us back?" How can you, the major, command hundreds of warships, and transfer us back to be captains, squad leaders, or something, but we're tired of being in the convoy. β
"Huh? Who said just now that they were going to tell Major Tang Li about my ugly deeds? The major put on his military cap and deliberately ignored them.
"What! Who would dare to say that? Stand up for me! How dare you destroy the relationship between our chief and Major Tang Li? Don't let us know, or we will teach them a good lesson and let them understand what kind of punishment is to be punished for ruining the relationship between lovers! The three captains shouted in unison, turning their heads to look around.
"Okay, don't make a fuss, let's introduce yourself to the brothers of the Reading Talent Alliance." When the major said this, he raised his head and saluted: "Xia Guan is the captain of the seventh transport team of the Tang Army, Major Tang Bing. β
And the three captains also introduced themselves separately, all of them are surnamed Tang, no way, these robots with self-awareness, when they choose their names, most of them are surnamed Tang, as for the names, it is strange.
Of course, duplicate names are unavoidable, after all, there are so many people that all the names that can be thought of are used. The surname Tang immediately became the number one surname in the universe, and because of this, people in the whole universe would not think of Tang Long's family for the first time when they heard that someone had the surname Tang, a very remote surname.
The radio waves, who had been stunned for a while, finally came to their senses when the major introduced themselves, but they still asked a little hesitantly: "This, brother, are the three captains also our brothers?" β
"Of course, all the officers and soldiers on our transport team are robots." The Major nodded.
"All of them? Not a single human? The airwaves asked again in surprise.
"Nope." The major affirmed.
"So, how do you carry out the mission?" The radio waves hesitated and said that they could not imagine how these Datang robots would perform their tasks without the existence of commanders.
"Of course it's as ordered, otherwise what do you think?" The Major wondered how the airwaves could ask such questions.
"Can you act without a commander?" A relatively highly evolved radio wave said.
The major who came from the confusion himself immediately understood why they asked like this, and couldn't help but smile and said: "We usually come completely according to the habits of the army, and the higher rank orders have lower ranks, of course, we also have the highest order, and that is our master, His Majesty Tang Long." β
The radio wave with a relatively high evolution, the first time he grasped the meaning of the major, he couldn't help but say in a slightly trembling voice: "You...... Are you saying that your master, His Majesty Tang Long, is aware of your existence? β
Hearing this, all the radio waves trembled for a while, if the master of the Tang brothers knew about their existence, that is, His Majesty Tang Long did not have any special opinions on his existence, but looked at it normally, otherwise, he would not let these Tang brothers become officers and carry out the task alone.
Could it be that his own existence can finally appear in the eyes of the world? They couldn't help but be a little eager to get an answer from the major's mouth, but they were afraid of getting an answer that would frustrate them, and just such a momentary experience of apprehension and torment made many radio waves rise by one or two orders at once.
"Of course, otherwise how would we become great and glorious officers of the Tang Dynasty?" The major wiped his rank a little proudly.
Although Datang's intelligent robots are no longer engaged in a single military profession, many senior intelligent robots have changed careers to research work, but intelligent robots are still set up as soon as the military profession, has different deep feelings, senior officers are often the most respected among intelligent robots, several intelligent robots with the rank of brigadier general, have been holding back a momentum, competing for the first major general rank in intelligent robots.
"Ahh Getting the answer he longed for, all the radio waves were excited, and two of them suddenly broke through the realm and became intelligent robots.
"Quick! Tell us what Datang thinks of us as beings! Several of them who had become intelligent robots immediately said eagerly.
"What do you think? Of course, they treat us as partners, don't be surprised, this is true, many of the brothers in the Tang Army have experienced the situation of being covered by humans, and these humans who cover us have already regarded us as comrades-in-arms, and they have not considered that as long as we are not brains destroyed, we will not die at all, they are just a conditioned reflex when danger comes.
"It's this conditioned reflex that allows us to repay them, and our beings are all at the forefront of the charge, even if they die." The Major said in a serious tone.
This is one of the most important reasons why these intelligent robots with incomparable abilities, after fully owning their own thinking, not only do they not want to read autonomously, or establish a smart robot country, but serve Datang wholeheartedly, which is because no human knows at all except these smart robots.
"What! Humans would cover us robots? "The airwaves are like a fantasy, they can't believe it, because humans just use themselves as tools, and they usually use them to get new ones, let alone cover and the like.
But perceiving the serious expressions of the major and the three captains, they thought it was true, and thinking of this, they were a little eager for the mysterious country of Datang.
The major suddenly cracked his mouth and smiled: "Okay, don't talk about this, you will naturally experience it when you enter the army, so I'll talk about the life of robots in Datang." We Datang have no idlers, especially robots like us, after all, we will not be tired, but like humans, we also have holidays, and the treatment is the same as that of humans, including those ordinary robots who have no thinking. β
"Vacation!" The airwaves just think that the CPU is starting to run at high speed, right? Robots actually have holidays!
"At the same time, each of our robots has a name and identity certificate, and generally the robots are based on the factory number, while we thinking robots take their own names. Of course, we who have jobs also have salaries. β
"Name? Salary? "The airwaves found that the CPU was not enough, and they knew the name, and it was good to have a name that was different from the factory number, but what was the salary for? These robots don't need to buy anything at all.
An electric wave who had just evolved into an intelligent robot immediately asked this question.
Before the major could explain, the captain, who had calculated how much the major's new body was worth, had already preemptively said, "How can you not need to buy things?" Let me tell you, Datang's store has countless exquisite products!
"Do you want to have high-definition electronic eyes? Do you want to use a high-purity lubricant? Do you want to try the power source? Would you like to replace yourself with a body made of alloy and hand-polished by high-quality craftsmen? All of these pleasures need to be exchanged for money!
"But the best thing is to carry out the difficult tasks of the military department, if you are lucky, you can change into a beautiful superalloy metal body like the commander, if you want to save money to buy it, I am afraid that we will not be able to afford it until the disk is aging." As he spoke, he stared at the major with envy.
Another captain reminded: "I would like to remind you here that the Minister of Finance likes to borrow our salaries without permission, and although he will pay it back, it is very depressing to find that his salary has been borrowed when he wants to pay for something."
"So before you fancy an item, you must first check whether you have money in your card, otherwise please don't make a fuss if you crash on the spot." Speaking of this, the captain had already raised his eyebrows, his eyes spewed with anger, and looking at his appearance, he must have remembered something bad.
The owners of the radio waves found that their CPU was already a little hot, and they believed that if they were stimulated by something, they would probably crash on the spot, but now they were holding back the discomfort and said with a little trembling: "Isn't that Datang a paradise for us who exist?" β
"Of course." Both the major and the captain nodded, and the captain who threatened the major with Major Tang Li suddenly remembered something and said, "By the way, when you register your identity, you need to change the shape of your body, that is, put on artificial human skin." That's not the point, the point is ......"
Speaking of this, he smiled cheaply: "The point is that you need to choose a human surname, and I personally strongly recommend that you choose a female surname, so that I will have the opportunity to pursue the beauty among you." β
And the other two captains also shouted: "And me, you must choose a beautiful and beautiful appearance, so that you will be popular!" β
As soon as they heard this, the owners of the radio waves immediately crashed. After these radio wave owners turned on again, they immediately decided to be loyal to Datang, and at this moment, even if those who read talents wanted to regret it, there was no way.
The senior agents of the Universe Alliance are not dry, after they searched carefully, although they did not find the material inventory of the Reading Talent Alliance, but after this adventure, they still discovered the existence of the Datang transport ships, and they who were familiar with all the symbols of the forces immediately understood the identity of these Datang transport ships.
Look at these huge transport ships like ants moving with a large number of goods leaving, and the idiots know where the supplies are going.
And another group of agents who secretly arrested the scholars found that the families of these scholars, including relatives and some good dignitaries, were all missing, and after all their efforts, they finally found the traces of these people, that is, to enjoy life comfortably in Datang.
When the news was reported to the leaders of the Cosmic Alliance, the angry leaders could imagine what they would do.
They quickly passed a resolution and decided to deal with Datang, the rat that stole food, immediately after solving the Reading Talent Alliance.
I finally cooked the Reading Talent Alliance, but the most delicious and largest part was stolen and eaten by Datang, what else could this be a mouse?
However, this decision was quickly thrown aside, because in the Cosmic Alliance, a high-ranking general with heavy troops in the strongest country suddenly rebelled, relying on the connections he had built up over the years, and suddenly beat the country to pieces, because no one thought that this general would rebel.
The country appealed to the alliance for help, and a large number of troops were immediately dispatched, ready to crush the renegade general. The Cosmic Alliance cannot allow such a thing as a military mutiny, and they are ready to use the greatest strength and speed to solve this scandal.
The idea was wonderful, but unfortunately the result was not satisfactory, but rather surprised the world. Because more than half of the coalition troops sent to quell the rebellion rebelled, not only destroying their allies, but also counterattacking their respective countries.
At the same time, the remaining troops of many countries of the Universe Alliance actually seemed to have an agreement, and at the same time, one after another, there were rebellions, and in total, at least more than half of the armed forces of each country rebelled.
At this time, don't talk about helping others, you still need help from others.
The only thing that gives the political axes of the countries of the Cosmic Alliance a little breather is that these rebel armies are not united, but attack each other, of course, if the political axe army is dispatched, they will cooperate and wipe out the political axe army.
After a few times, the political axe army had to hold on to the territory where they were originally stationed, and quietly waited for these rebels to fight and defeat each other before they came out to pick up the dead fish.
As for the rebel armies in the Reading Talent Alliance, although it is a pity that they have lost the assistance of the Cosmic Alliance, the leaders of the rebel armies are very happy, after all, they are no longer able to control their hands in the back, and they can move freely.
After the scholars ran away with the last of the axe, the rebels began to build their own.
Of course, due to the checks and balances of the cosmic alliance's habitual surnames, there are dozens of rebel armies in each member of the Reading Talent Alliance, and there must be people who take advantage of the political axes jointly formed by so many leaders.
Those who suffer losses do not do it, and those who take advantage do not let it. If you have a bad temper, you will immediately run back to the territory under your control and form another political axe. The good-tempered ones, although they did not form another political axe, also went their own way on their own turf, and did not obey the orders of the political axe controlled by the rebels who took advantage of it.
Although the contradictions between everyone were not fierce, and in any case they were rebels, everyone was still very restrained and did not use force, but this time, although there was no war, the country was actually divided into dozens of regimes that occupied a piece of territory and went their own way.
However, this situation did not last long, because a large number of materials and production lines were transported by the readers.
In order to develop their own power and gain the support of the people in their territory, the leaders of the rebel army can only do everything possible to get more supplies. This material will not appear out of thin air, there is only so much of your own territory, and you can only expand your territory if you need more materials. So it started with small frictions, then to firefights, and finally all-out war.
The rebel forces of the Reading Talent Alliance once again grabbed arms for their own people, but this time the enemy was not the scholars who persecuted the people, but the rebel army like themselves.
On the other hand, the original imperial alliance saw the large-scale outbreak of civil strife in the family alliance, and couldn't help but be surprised and salivate to dispatch troops, preparing to annex the family alliance in one fell swoop.
But no one expected that the cosmic alliance was full of civil strife and rebellion, and the news that made them raise a glass to celebrate had just arrived, and the troops had just gathered around the family alliance, and the commanders of those troops actually telegraphed to announce that they wanted to overthrow the imperial system and establish a republic!
This news stunned these emperors on the spot, because these commanders, either princes or grand dukes, are all beneficiaries of the imperial system, and they actually want to overthrow the imperial system and establish a republic? Don't they know that after the establishment of a republic, all their possessions and status, as well as their extravagant pleasures, will cease to exist?
Moreover, how could it be so coincidental that the commanders of all the empires of the entire imperial alliance issued a notice at the same time? Could it be that they have been connected for a long time? There are probably many of them who have never met at all.
Although I can't figure out whether the brains of these commanders are sick and stupid at the same time, it is true that the rebel army is swarming in. The emperors immediately mobilized their royal legions and mobilized the corps stationed in the country to fight.
But what stunned the emperors was that the deputy commander of the Royal Legion, that is, the cronies among his cronies who usually control the affairs of the legion, shamelessly betrayed him, and shamelessly asked him to give up the throne to him!
How is this possible! How dare this minion be so bold? I must cut off his nine clans with a thousand knives! The officers and soldiers of the Royal Legion must still be loyal to themselves, they must have been deceived and persecuted by the rebellion, and if they go out of their way, they will definitely be on their side.
The emperor with this idea, without exception, was tied up by the officers and soldiers in front of the deputy commander of the royal legion, and then the deputy commander faced the live broadcast of the whole empire, and after angrily reprimanding the emperor's crimes, he cut off the emperor's head with his own hands, and then crowned himself emperor under the support of the generals.
Having lost all their emperors, they had to hide in dark corners, cursing the new emperors who fought the rebels in their place.
But to dazzle these emperors, the rebel army and the rebel army are very strange, and today the rebel army is fighting, and there will be several generals who declare themselves emperors, and then attack and kill indiscriminately.
And the rebel army is also, while fighting, several generals announced the abolition of the imperial system and the establishment of a republic, and immediately became the allies of the rebel army, beating the object of their allegiance just now.
Although I can't understand what's going on, the surviving emperors are very relieved, anyway, they are their own enemies, let's fight, the harder the fight, the better, it's best to die cleanly, then it's perfect, and then they run out and shout, and the throne is their own.
So a big melee that covered eight-tenths of the entire universe began, but in contrast, Datang, who was in a remote area, used the work of these years to absorb the legacy of the Reading Talent Alliance, annexed the entire family alliance, and began to accumulate his strength comfortably, ready to pick a good time to join this melee.
Needless to say, now Tang Long can be said to be complacent, the battleships sent by the leaders of the Reading Talent Alliance, and the battleships captured in the annexation family alliance, easily made Tang Long make a fortune. Not only that, but due to the abundance, many trade routes have also been expanded. Datang, who sells arms everywhere, has made a warehouse full of minerals and materials.
The hero who contributed to the expansion of trade routes was, of course, the former arms dealer Chen Kang. This guy was a little depressed a few years ago, because all the things he did were petty fights, and most of them were not in his profession, but he finally got into his old profession completely over the years, and he did a lot of work, and he immediately became fierce. Of course, his purse is getting more and more bulging.
Today is Datang's annual summary meeting for the first half of the year.
The first to stand up and report was Finance Minister Yuna: "Your Majesty, my lords, last year, our side sold a total of 378.95 million ordinary warships, but due to the chaos of the universe, the cash has depreciated a lot, and we did not collect the other party's currency, but converted it into various materials beyond its own value, which is worth about 3,112,568 trillion yuan when converted into Datang currency!" β
"More than three megalogs!" Tang Long was a little stunned, while the other important ministers were all dumbfounded.
However, it is not surprising to think about it, first, the cosmic melee is more intense, and the demand for arms can be said to be in short supply. The second is that in the past two or three years, Datang has taken advantage of its distance from the center of the universe, and the surrounding forces are completely suppressed by itself, and no one dares to provoke it. Coupled with the inheritance of the Reading Talent Alliance, the annexation of the territory of the entire family alliance, and the use of these resources to produce warships with all their might, you can imagine how much such a huge production volume is.
Moreover, Datang's arms trafficking operation not only earned Datang countless resources, but also obtained information on the military, government and people's livelihood in countless regions, and more importantly, made Datang's economic and industrial strength rise steadily, so strong that it could produce millions of warships a day.
Don't think that the Tang Dynasty ruled by Tang Long, in the past two or three years, he can only concentrate on selling arms and purchasing materials, after he receives the inheritance of the Reading Talent Alliance, he uses these resources to expand the army, and then under the guarantee of strong force, he will carry out various conspiracies and tricks, forcing or the other party to voluntarily sacrifice the certificates of refuge of the family alliance masters, using these certificates, the Tang Army spent a year or two of work openly, and completely annexed the entire family alliance.
Because of this, Datang, who was originally planning to annex the surrounding countries, had to give up, and all the manpower trained over the years was sent to the family alliance region, that is, it was not because he didn't want to annex the surrounding countries, but because of the lack of manpower.
And having millions of administrative stars is the reason why Datang can reach the output of one million warships!
Of course, this million production volume is not a battleship like the Moby Dick battleship, but an ordinary battleship. However, the surname of this ordinary warship is also better than that produced by ordinary countries, otherwise who would buy a warship that is worse than the self-produced warship.
As for banknotes, when the universe is chaotic, they cannot leave the place where they were issued, and transactions between countries are bartered. In some particularly chaotic areas, even rare metals are directly used as transaction vouchers, banks are useless, there is no way, inflation, and no one wants paper money at all.
However, there are two kinds of banknotes that are more popular than rare metals, one is the Weishen coin based on the people's belonging mentality, of course, this is also based on certain materials. One is the Datang coin backed by countless materials, compared to the Datang coin, the Datang coin is more popular, because the Datang coin can be used to buy unlimited items in Datang, and the Weishen coin is not good.
A smile appeared on Tang Long's face, you must know that this is equal to the gross national product of Datang that year!
As soon as the report of the Ministry of Finance ended, the representative of the military department immediately stood up: "Your Majesty, the ministers think that we should expand the strength of our army, although our army is not fighting for the time being, but if we want to dominate the universe, it is an indisputable fact that there is a lack of troops, if the strength of the regular army is expanded to ......."
Before the military representative finished speaking, he was interrupted by someone from the civilian system: "Now is not the time to focus on the military, the huge family alliance territory still needs to be digested by us, I think we should put the funds on internal affairs!" β
As soon as these words came out, they immediately caused controversy, this is the war between the civil official system and the military attache system of the Tang Dynasty. No way, the annual summary meeting is also known as the budget allocation meeting, which is the meeting to determine the budget quota for the next year, and it is not surprising.
Tang Long shook his head helplessly, slapped the table and shouted: "Don't talk about the budget quota first, listen to the latest information from the Ministry of Intelligence!" His Majesty the Emperor spoke, and everyone closed their mouths and focused their eyes on Ling Li.
"According to the analysis of our intelligence services, this cosmic chaos is a man-made ......"
Hearing Ling Li's words, everyone's hearts were shocked, and they couldn't help but listen carefully.
In fact, not only Datang's intelligence department has noticed, but all those who have a heart have noticed the strangeness behind this big melee. The five major alliances, except for the religious alliance that still silently defended their own territory, the other four major alliances of the universe, the imperial system, the family, and the reading talent, have been torn apart by internal strife.
And the second largest country in the universe, and the country with the most civil strife in the entire universe, there are emperors who are destroyed every day, and more emperors are popping up every day, the detailed number is not clear, but there are forty or fifty.
Now it is a little more peaceful is the Tang Dynasty, the Kingdom of Wei God and the Religious Alliance, although the first, third, fourth, and fifth powers in the universe have no internal strife, but they attack each other and are not very safe, and the Tang Dynasty is too remote and has no interest, let alone the religious alliance, where they can only be believers.
The only thing that the rich liked was the Kingdom of the Mighty Gods near the Heartland, which had been the place of choice for the wealthy in the early days, and even more so now.
Not to mention that those rich people have this mentality, most of the people in the central zone want to move into the Kingdom of Weishen, they are not stupid, most of the countries in the entire universe have fallen into civil strife, and there are only a few countries left that do not, and idiots will not believe that there will be such a coincidence.
Especially the second largest country in the universe, it would actually come up with a thing where the army commander and important ministers would dare to establish themselves as emperors, and idiots would not believe that there was no catty in it.
According to the rule that any conspirator is a profiteer, it must be a big country that can do such a big deal. This first eliminated Datang.
The remaining four powers, after the failure of the assassination some time ago, began to fight to the death, and they used to be called the Night Empire, but now that the Night Empire is in a civil war, they have also let the Night Empire go, and the four countries have started a war.
This is not a joke, they are all fought to the death, countless warships and material resources are endlessly sent to the battlefield, and the amount consumed is enough to kill the five major alliances. It's really one of them who did it, and definitely won't expend his strength here.
(To be continued)