Chapter 143 Chapter VII Merit Counts

"Hehe, you know what to do. The main gun of this fortress was directly removed from Wei Wuxing's main gun." When Chen Kang heard this voice, he turned his head and saw that it was Tang Long who was wiping his sweat. He couldn't help but bowed to Tang Long, and said with a smile, "This will save a lot of money and time." Tang Long sighed and said: "Yes, the Ministry of Finance predicts that the manufacture of this main gun will require nearly a trillion trillion, and it will take five years and five million engineers, but now it only takes a few months to adjust and install it. Tell me how much manpower and material resources you save!"

Of course, Tang Long knew that it was possible to assemble and complete this large project in such a short period of time because of the help of the 900,000 robots that moved down from the Beluga battleship.As for the current pilots of the white whale battleship, they are all humans. "I don't know what other things Mr. Tang Long installed on this fort besides the main cannon?" Chen Kang started to attack from the side. He was going to find out the situation clearly. If Tang Long had a device that could make this metal ball jump, he would find a way to get it. You know, although this kind of fortress is a bit small, it is still a fortress. As long as it can jump in space, one of this kind of fortress can be sold for the price equivalent to tens of thousands of warships.

"Well, in addition to this main cannon with a diameter of 50 kilometers that cannot be moved, it is also equipped with 30,000 fort cannons with a diameter of 30 meters that can move freely throughout the entire fortress. There is also a structure that wraps the entire fortress, which is divided into 100 layers. One kilometer thick, with a total thickness of one hundred kilometers of protective armor. "In addition, there is a giant shield covering the entire fortress with a strength of 3 million degrees. It can be said that it is definitely a perfect combination of shield and spear." Tang Long said proudly.

"Oh, looking at the appearance of this main gun, it seems that it is exposed outside the protective armor, right? If so, as long as a missile hits the muzzle of this gun, the main gun will be useless." Chen Kang took a look. Behind the launch port left by the thick protective armor outside the main gun, he said worriedly. Tang Long said triumphantly: "Haha, don't worry, the one hundred layers of protective armor wrap the entire fortress. Each of the hundred layers of protective armor is made of countless pieces of diamond-shaped metal with an area of ​​more than 30 square meters. It is made up of blocks. Usually nothing happens, these metal blocks are tightly bonded together.

"When it's time to fire the fort gun or open the landing port, the metal blocks will move enough to open the space. The metal blocks in the entire fort can move freely, so except for this position of the main gun in the center of the fort, it can be anywhere else. Launch artillery fire and missiles, and warships can also enter anywhere. "That is to say, this fortress is full of launch ports and landing ports! How about it, isn't it amazing?" "It's amazing, it's really amazing!" When Tang Long was explaining, Chen Kang had already seen the structure of those diamond-shaped metal blocks, and also clearly saw the various passages and facilities extending in all directions in this fortress. Of course, he also understood what Tang Long said.

To put it simply, in addition to firing fortress guns in any direction, this fortress can also release and receive warships and fighter planes in any direction. During fierce battles, wounded warships can go directly through the fortress to hide behind to recuperate, and warships hiding behind the fortress can also go directly through the fortress to attack the enemy. If this fortress were bigger, it would be absolutely flawless.It's a pity that such a small fortress, after installing so many fortress guns and building passages extending in all directions, can no longer build other facilities except for the necessary energy storage system and energy production.

If it is possible to build and repair equipment, military production, food production, and residential areas for soldiers in the fortress, the fortress will be able to carry out fierce battles for a long time. And the most important thing is that this fortress will not be able to put down the warships stationed there, which is a huge flaw. After Chen Kang praised a lot, he said: "But it's too small, if it can be enlarged..." He told Tang Long what he thought just now. After hearing this, Tang Long shook his head helplessly, "Oh, you think I don't want to do this, but those jumping devices and engines can only drive such a big fortress, so I can't do anything about it.

"However, this fortress is not as big as you think it can hold a warship. Let me tell you, it can hold a brigade of a hundred white whale warships in it!" After talking about this, Tang Long became proud again. It was he who dug around and found the parking platform with great difficulty, so of course he was proud of it. Although Chen Kang lamented in his heart what effect these hundred warships could have, he still seized this opportunity immediately and secretly brought up the idea of ​​obtaining the jumping device: "Oh, our company's technological strength is good, we may To 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, no one can solve this problem except the creator of this device." Speaking of this, Tang Long changed the subject and asked: "By the way, what's the matter with you, have the 2,000 X battleships and 40,000 advanced transport ships arrived?" "Ah, it hasn't arrived yet, but it will arrive the day after tomorrow at the latest." Looking at Tang Long's appearance, Chen Kang knew that Tang Long didn't want to talk about the jumping device. It seemed that he had to find another opportunity.

He pretended to remember something and said: "By the way, you gave us the Beluga warship last time, but you didn't give us the original control system of the Beluga warship. Now we have more exciting, more good books, all in www . 5 1 7 z . com is very troublesome, because the system we developed is not in harmony with the Beluga battleship, and it can hardly exert 20% of the Beluga battleship's power." "Oh, it was only the Beluga warship that was sold to you at the beginning, and you didn't say you wanted the supporting system of the Beluga warship." Tang Long said nonchalantly, digging his ears.

Knowing that Tang Long had no interest, Chen Kang would not agree, so he said directly: "Our company is willing to exchange this system with you with 3,000 X-ships with the same configuration as before, and 60,000 advanced transport ships full of supplies. .” Of course, he directly stated his bottom line. This is not a matter of negotiating for business. If Tang Long directly gave him the system for free, he would still be distressed, because there is no excuse to help Tang Long strengthen his military. Tang Long's saliva immediately flowed down: "Three thousand remodeled X battleships and 60,000 advanced transport ships full of supplies?" However, he quickly returned to his normal expression and said: "Okay! I'll change it with you! I'll go to the Beluga battleship to copy a copy of the system. "But this time we hand over the system with one hand and the warship with the other. If you don't see a warship, don't hand over the system!" Tang Long is an idiot who doesn't know the value of this system at all. If Chen Kang Company owns this system, Tang Long's future enemies will be as tough as him, and it will be impossible for him to win as easily as now. However, according to Tang Long's personality, I'm afraid Tang Xing will be forced to manufacture a new type of warship for him. Chen Kang hurriedly nodded and said, "No problem, I'll let the company deliver the warship." Although Chen Kang did not get the information about the jumping device in the fortress, he completed the task assigned by the general manager. He heaved a sigh of relief, anyway, he had plenty of time, and he would always find a chance to get this jumping device. I don’t know if Chen Kang Company is too eager or what. One week after the 2,000 remodeled X battleships and 40,000 high-level transport ships arrived at Zhongzhou Star, 3,000 remodeled X battleships and 60,000 high-level transport ships It also arrived at Zhongzhou Star. Tang Long, who handed over the information of the Beluga Whale system, did not appear drooling as he looked at these battleships last time, but stayed in the port frowning. And the military members of Datang, like their supreme commander, looked at these warships with a sad face. It can be said that almost all the military and political personnel present looked at those warships with a sad face. If you have bright eyes, you can be very surprised to find that Sally standing behind Tang Long has become a brigadier general, and the three brigadier generals behind her have become majors. As for Yuna, who was standing on the other side of Tang Long, the badge of the prince on her chest turned into the badge of a first-class marquis. Most of the government officials behind her were viscounts and barons. None left. "After the composition of the battleship soldiers has been disrupted, should they be reorganized?" Tang Long asked Sally. "Yes, my lord, the barely qualified 20 million Earth Star soldiers have been reorganized from the original soldiers." Sally replied. "How is their combat effectiveness?" Tang Long continued to ask. "Training needs to be strengthened to keep up with the original combat effectiveness." Sally said helplessly, if it wasn't for preventing the soldiers from the planet Earth from making trouble, she wouldn't have carried out this kind of reorganization that weakened the combat effectiveness. But if you don't do this, even if the Earth Star soldiers don't make trouble, the fleet composed entirely of Earth Star soldiers will be vulnerable, after all, they have never fought warship battles at all. "En." Tang Long thought for a while, turned around and ordered: "Zhang Guanhua, Major Li Jiamin, go up and receive your troops." Hearing this order, Zhang Guanhua and the two standing behind Sally immediately threw away their dead father-like expressions, changed into excited expressions and answered yes loudly, and excitedly took the subordinates to receive their thousands of orders. battleship. Seeing these excited soldiers running towards the landing ship, Tang Long sighed helplessly, and said to Sally: "Order the captains to take over those three thousand warships." Sally saluted Tang Long and went on. She knew why Tang Long sighed. There were only two brigadier generals and three majors in an army of tens of millions. A brigadier general commanded all ground troops and police forces, and a brigadier general commanded six thousand warships, which was nothing, but three majors each commanded a thousand warships, and a brigade commanded a lieutenant. Not long ago, Tang Long set the required military ranks for warships, and now he can only lower the military rank requirements by three ranks to appoint officers. Thinking of this incident, Sally couldn't help sighing, 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 remodeled X battleships? Sixty thousand advanced transport ships full of supplies? My lord, is this true? Why is Chen Kang willing to give us so many warships?" Yuna asked nervously. She was happy to get a large amount of supplies, but she didn't want Tang Long to pay too much. "It's nothing, it's just exchanged for the control system of the Beluga warship." Tang Long said with a cheerful smile. "My lord, by doing this, Chen Kang's company can actually produce the white whale warship. If he sells it to our enemy, it will be a major blow to us!" Sally immediately stood up and said nervously. "Hehe, don't be nervous, they promise they won't sell it to our enemies." Tang Long comforted. "But they only promise not to sell it to forces in the Wuchao galaxy. I believe the Lord's purpose is not limited to the Wuchao galaxy, right?" Fei Li, who is in charge of the law, reminded.Under the influence of everyone, she also began to call Tang Long the Lord. "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter even if they sell the Beluga Whale to the forces of the chaotic galaxy, because we will have a mobile fortress that can perform space jumps, strong firepower and strong defense in a short time! "Even if they have the white whale battleship, they will be finished under the attack of this fortress!" Tang Long said nonchalantly. Hearing Tang Long's words, the people present looked at Tang Long and Sally with both excitement and doubt. They didn't believe what Tang Long said was true until Sally nodded in approval. It's not that they don't believe in Tang Long, but that they don't believe that there is a device that can make the behemoth of the fortress jump in space. Of course, they didn't ask too much. It's not surprising that Tang Long, who is taken care of by those two mysterious sisters, has such a device. "My lord, no matter what conditions Chen Kang asks for this jumping device, you can't give it to him. This is our important trump card!" Ling Li, the beauty in charge of the intelligence department, suddenly stood up and said to Tang Long. "Yes, you can't see a few warships and just give away this trump card," Elsie also jumped up and shouted. Seeing that everyone was looking at him nervously, Tang Long hurriedly nodded in agreement with everyone's request, then curled his lips and muttered: "Really, I won't be so greedy that I don't care about the general situation. How could it be possible to exchange a trump card for a battleship? And we are now There are enough warships, if there are more, there will be no manpower to open them." Hearing Tang Long's muttering, Sally immediately said: "Yes, my lord, counting the warships and transport ships that have not yet arrived, we now have a thousand Beluga warships, and the full staffing requires five million soldiers. If some Insignificant members also need three million soldiers. "The 6,000 remodeled X-ships are even more exaggerated, requiring a full 30 million soldiers. Even if the unimportant members are reduced, it will still need about 20 million. "And the 120,000 high-level transport ships need 12 million soldiers, which cannot be reduced. In addition to the necessary maintenance and logistics staff of 30 million, the fleet alone needs 60,500. million people. "Combined with the violent institutions such as the ground forces and the police force, our armed personnel will need an astonishing number of 200 to 300 million. You need to know our population..." Sally was speechless when she said this. Although she knew that there were more than 8 billion people in the Zhongzhou star field including the earth star, but now that there were six more planets in the Li family, she didn't know how many people there were. Li Wu, Minister of State Affairs, continued: "There are about 8 billion people in the Zhongzhou star field, and about 5 billion people in the six planets of the Li family. Our current total population is about 13.1 billion." Yuna interjected and said, "Oh, I used to think the population was small, but now with such a large population, not only have to pay the salaries of military and political personnel, but also need to pay a large amount of pensions for those defeated army personnel in order to ensure law and order and buy people's hearts. The cost of the transport ship. "As for the expenditures for building enterprises and military funds, there are countless. Now the funds of our Ministry of Finance have begun to tighten up. If it weren't for the release of the honorary title of the lord, which aroused the enthusiasm of businessmen, I am afraid that our finances would have been in deficit. .” "It's so bad? How many people are there in our army now?" Tang Long asked in surprise. He didn't understand financial matters, and he didn't bother to take care of them, so he didn't care much about Yuna's words, anyway, Yuna would solve them. What he cares about is the army, because this is the job he is familiar with. Gan said: "Now we have about 40 million soldiers in warship driving, maintenance, and logistics, plus the Earth Star soldiers, and there is a shortage of 25 million people. However, most of the shortage is logistics maintenance personnel. On the one hand, they can be recruited from the general public, as long as they are trained, I dare not say that they are proficient in logistics and maintenance techniques, but they should be able to barely maintain the logistics system. "The more serious thing is the members of the advanced transport ships. Our current personnel can only meet the operation of about 20,000 advanced transport ships. That is, among the 120,000 transport ships, 100,000 will be stored due to insufficient personnel." Speaking of this, he glanced at Jess and motioned for her to continue. The Minister of Security in charge of homeland security, Jess, immediately went on to say: "As for the ground troops and the police force, not only are there not a shortage of personnel, but there are too many of them. The main reason is that there are a large number of such personnel on the occupied planets. Although we can send more of them Those who have just surrendered will be assigned to the army, but they still need to go through a period of training before they can meet the conditions." Tang Long nodded and said: "Well, we don't need so many transport ships to operate for the time being, 20,000 high-level transport ships are enough, and the rest of the inventory can be kept in stock. "Currently, with the number of our battleships, can one thousand Beluga battleships and six thousand X battleships have the combat effectiveness?" Speaking of this, Tang Long looked at Sally and waited for her answer. Sally nodded and said: "Barely, after deducting the logistics system personnel, it is barely enough to make these 7,000 warships operate, but the combat power is definitely not enough. "It will be like this, mainly because the soldiers on Earth who have never fought battleship battles account for half of the soldiers, and in order not to let them take advantage of the number, we will reorganize them and all the battleship soldiers. "Of course, although the lord's Beluga warship is currently temporarily driven by soldiers, they will be transferred away after the robot completes the fortress, and the driving right of the Beluga warship will be returned to the robot. The combat effectiveness of the whale warship will not decrease." Speaking of this, Sally stopped and sighed before continuing: "There is another important question. According to the military system proposed by the lord, only a brigadier general and above can be the commander of a thousand warships. Now we have seven thousand-ship brigades. The Beluga Brigade is the Lord's personal guard, and the first, second, and third brigades are also served by three Brigadier Generals including Liu Yihui. "The officer system of these four brigades has been perfected. Even if there are insufficient soldiers, it is enough to make the brigades operate. However, in the remaining three brigades, except for some middle and low-level officers, there are no high-level generals at all, so they can only rely on the brigade To form an establishment, such a brigade of 300 without the control of upper-level officers has no combat effectiveness at all. "So here, I hope that the Lord can promote a group of officers to serve as the commanders of these three brigades." "Oh, is there anyone to choose?" Tang Long asked, and then he remembered that his army didn't have any senior officers, and it seemed that he had to promote a group of personnel. Sally nodded, took out a document and handed it over. Tang Long looked at the document, and then sighed: "Although the military achievements of these people have not yet reached the level of promotion, in order to make the brigade work, they can only be promoted in advance. What do you think?" When everyone nodded in agreement, the door of the conference hall was knocked several times, and then the guard shouted loudly: "My lord, Miss Xing Ling is here." Originally, these guards were calling someone to see him, but after knowing that Xing Ling was Tang Long's sister, they changed their name to Jia Dao. "Oh, please." Tang Long hurriedly stood up. He hadn't seen Xingling for a while, and he even asked Xingling to set up the promotion system for him. It wasn't that Tang Long didn't want to meet Xing Ling, but that Xing Ling, who got the task of installing Datang Central Computer, had been immersed in this task since the day Tang Xing left, and outsiders could hardly find her. Xing Ling, who was wearing a loose blue overalls, her hair tied up in a mess with a rope, and her face was flushed, walked in quickly. Seeing Tang Long, she immediately ran forward happily and said, "Brother, the central computer has been completed, the planets in the star field of Zhongzhou have been connected together, and the social management service system can be activated at any time. "Also, the promotion system you entrusted to me has also been completed, and the information of government military personnel has also been entered. As long as you need it, this system can be activated immediately." After speaking, he gave Tang Long a record to start the central computer. Information and magnetic cards of those system homepages. Tang Long, who was fascinated by Xingling's youthful and beautiful appearance, took a while to wake up from this beauty. He said hurriedly: "Ah, thank you sister, we will call people to hold a celebration for the central computer startup." Busy took the magnetic card. "Is there a celebration? Then I won't be attending, what else can my sister help me with?" Xingling said this, looking at Tang Long with bright eyes. Tang Long, who was seen feeling uncomfortable, stammered, "My sister won't participate...then...then start the system immediately, you say help? Hmm... there are six planets we have newly occupied in the Tianhe Star Region Please, sister, set up a management system controlled by a central computer on these six planets." When he said these words, he kept staring at Xing Ling, and he didn't know why, although he wanted to look away, but he couldn't do it anyway. Why is this Xing Ling, who is dressed in ordinary clothes, more beautiful than the Xing Ling who was a star?Why now I actually have the feeling that I wish I could stay by Xing Ling's side?Why didn't I feel this way at all before? Did Xing Ling change, or did he change himself? Xingling noticed that Tang Long was staring directly at him, his face flushed immediately, he lowered his head and hummed, then turned and ran away. Seeing Tang Long's eyes following Xing Ling's back, all the strong women present couldn't help smiling knowingly. It seemed that their lord was really tempted. These strong women never thought about that idea at all. Even if they did, they just hoped to stay by the lord's side forever. Although no one here knows their past, they understand very well that they are a person who cannot extravagantly ask for love. people. Sally coughed dryly: "My lord, the promotion of those officers..." "Oh, oh, I'm just..." Tang Long, who was blushing, had just said half a sentence, but he immediately remembered something and stopped. Seeing Tang Long's actions, all the girls looked at their lord, and they all knew that the lord must have thought of something important. Tang Long said solemnly: "Now that the promotion system has been completed, let's use this system to promote officers, and it must be clearly stipulated in the form of law that no one can promote talents privately. As long as this is implemented well, it will avoid We are following in the footsteps of Wanluo Federation's random promotion of people." Hearing this, all the women agreed. Although there is an urgent need for officers, it is still worthwhile if you can avoid the habit of promoting subordinates privately. Besides, now three X brigades and one white whale brigade are enough to resist any enemy's invasion, and the needs of officers are not very urgent. Tang Long and the others didn't go anywhere, and directly inserted the magnetic card into the computer in the meeting room. After entering the intranet, they first activated the social management service system of the central computer, and then activated the promotion system. After the system was started, I browsed briefly and found that Tang Long and all other military and political personnel had been recorded. "Huh? What's the sorting button for?" Tang Long muttered, and before everyone could react, he clicked the button, and the words "recalculate meritorious service" appeared on the screen immediately. When everyone was stunned, the words on the screen changed to "redistribute official titles". After these words stayed for a few seconds, the refreshed rankings of government official titles appeared in front of everyone. Seeing the new ranking, everyone was stunned, because except for the "Supreme Commander-Tang Long" who ranked first, all the princes, dukes, and marquises below him were empty. Yuna, who was in second place, has now become a first-class marquis. Not only her, but the three princes including Elsie have also become first-class marquises. And Fei Li, who had just been promoted to the third-class duke, became the third-class earl. And those officials such as earls and marquises were reduced to viscounts and barons one after another, and what was even worse was that many people were directly reduced to lords. "What... what's going on here?" Tang Long stared at the screen dumbfounded, and subconsciously clicked on the column of the army. The ranking here is even worse. Except for the "Supreme Commander-Tang Long" who ranked first, there is no change. All the school-level officers in the school were demoted to lieutenant-level officers, and the lieutenant-level officers were directly demoted to upper officials. In other words, at this moment, Tang Long had only five officers above the school level, and the rest were all below the lieutenant rank. screamed, while searching for the disk to find a way to recover. Everyone watched Tang Long fiddling with the magnetic card in a daze, but no one made a sound. They didn't expect that their meritorious deeds were only in this position in the calculation of the computer. Seeing everyone's expressions, Yuna, the eldest sister, couldn't help smiling and said: "Oh, this computer is really accurate. I knew that my merits were not enough to get a prince, but I didn't expect to be able to get a first-class marquis. It's really earned!" Woolen cloth." After hearing Yuna's words, everyone wondered if she was mad. At this time, Sally also smiled and patted her chest, and said, "Yeah, I have always been worried about being pointed at the spine while holding the rank of general, but now that I have the rank of brigadier general, I am not afraid anymore, because this It’s the rank I deserve for my military exploits.” The two eldest sisters spoke out, and the girls immediately came to their senses. They all knew that their contribution was not that great at all, and it was Tang Long's love for him that promoted him to such a high position. However, judging from the ranking, the contribution of my group is much higher than that of other officials. It seems that my contribution and ability are not inferior to others. Seeing this ranking, those who are not convinced should have nothing to say. "Why do you say that? Once this ranking appears in front of everyone, it will cause chaos, and those officers, soldiers and officials will definitely cause trouble. No, I have to ask Xing Ling to restore this program to its original state!" Tang Long As he spoke, he wanted to go out, but he was held back by Yuna.