At the same time, Tang Mo is also planning to build a small cement factory there to produce cement locally - as long as raw materials can be found there.
There is really a lot of good news that Roger sent back. On the one hand, he has confirmed that there is indeed oil on Heilong Island, and according to the geological exploration scientists he brought, the reserves here should not be low.
In addition, among the troops that Roger brought, the scouts briefly surveyed the island. They did not find the other boundary of the island within a day.
This proves that the island is actually very large and can support tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people. They also found some large animals on the island, which also proved that the island itself is vast enough.
The large forests on the island provide a large amount of wood that can be cut, and the mountains on the other side can also provide stone resources.
In addition to the oil production on this island, it can be said to be a very valuable treasure. If it were not for the difficulty of navigation due to the monsoon, it might have been developed by other countries long ago.
When the hunters inspected the island, they also found traces of activities from other countries. They found measuring positioning poles at the top of the mountain, as well as some discarded rags, wine bottles and other rags.
Roger was not in a hurry to expand on this island. He steadily expanded the base on this island according to the plan Tang Mo gave him.
On the one hand, he worked hard to build a port, hoping to connect the island to Bunas in the future to facilitate transportation.
On the other hand, he is also desperately building a defense system surrounding his landing site. He ordered his troops to set up defensive positions on nearby highlands and deployed his only three companies around the base.
When exploring the island, he only sent a few dozen hunters to spread out their activities, and strictly ordered them not to be the first to open fire on suspicious targets. Once you discover that other races or forces from other countries are operating here, you should return as soon as possible and report your findings.
Under his order, the hunters did not explore the entire island with great fanfare, but systematically investigated areas where they thought there might be human activity.
Finally, after Roger's repeated confirmations, Datang Group's security forces wiped out a group of pirates on the island, annihilated more than 200 pirates, and rescued seven or eight people who had just been captured on the island. woman.
Unfortunately, only three of these daughters survived, and the rest found opportunities to commit suicide or die of depression.
When Tang Mo's factory produced the first batch of fertilizer and was preparing to transport it to Beiling for agricultural experiments, Bernard took the fleet back to Bunas.
His return not only brought back the fleet, but also brought Tang Mo the oil on Black Dragon Island! This made Tang Mo extremely excited. With these things, he could continue his "inventions".
So these days, he has been shutting himself in the basement and not showing up for several days.
As time went by, the Bunas-Beiling railway and the Datang Group's trains completely made the surrounding countries boil.
Rich people even traveled thousands of miles to Bunas just to see the train with their own eyes and experience for themselves what it was like to ride the magical train described by the bard.
As a result, they all felt that their trip was worthwhile - they brought their feelings back to their own countries, and at the same time, the monarchs of these countries found an artifact that could consolidate their rule!
There is an endless stream of people who come to Tang Mo to discuss business. What they want is nothing more than two things. One is Datang Group's guns and artillery, and the other is Tang Mo's rails and trains.
However, there is no patent law in this world. Even if there were, it would never stop plagiarism and imitation by interested people.
Therefore, when Tang Mo developed Heilong Island, almost all the old products of Datang Group had imitations and substitutes.
Datang Group's K1 fast gun orders began to decline, because outside the Wright Kingdom, the price of Cyric needle guns is cheaper and the production is gradually increasing. Coupled with Cyric's terrifying influence, these kingdoms are still logical. Prioritize the purchase of Cyric needle guns.
Similarly, with fuses and primers, grenades are not something that cannot be imitated, so Tang Mo's C64 field frame retractor has also begun to have imitations.
Cyric was already shameless. They tried their best to imitate all of Tang Mo's arms products. Even the calibers were produced according to the standards specified by Tang Mo.
Ever since, driven by the technological competition between Cyric and Datang Group, several surrounding kingdoms began to change their weapons one after another.
Susas purchased 10,000 Datang Group's K1 needle guns, the Kingdom of Dorne purchased 7,000 K1 needle guns, and the Kingdom of Wright and Beiling purchased a total of 7,500 Datang K1 needle guns and 4,500 Da Tang K1 needle guns. Tang K3 rifle.
In addition to these three countries, the Yangmu Kingdom purchased 15,000 various needle guns from the Augustine family, and some other countries controlled by Cyric also purchased more than 40,000 needle guns.
At the same time, new rear-loading artillery such as the C64 has also become popular. With the addition of new grenades, the power of artillery has finally reached a level with rifles.
Not everyone can afford these big guys, which can easily weigh a ton, so they became toys of big countries as soon as they came out.
The entire Wright Kingdom has only purchased 70 C64 field guns, including the cannons for the forts on the Royal Castle.
The Kingdom of Susas was severely weakened. Although the tax reform was going very well, it only managed to squeeze out the purchase funds for 60 cannons.
That's all, they were determined to expand northward, so they gritted their teeth and managed to scrape together the numbers with the support of the Datang Group.
In comparison, Beiling's weapons are much more terrifying - in today's Beiling, all three legions have been equipped with C80 howitzers with an astonishing 120 mm caliber. Compared with the surrounding forces, it is really awesome. It's extremely arrogant.
After all, in this era, caliber is justice and cannon is truth... Beiling is really a good comrade who coexists justice and truth.
Times are developing, weapons are improving, and these countries that have obtained better weapons are beginning to become eager to start their own expansion plans in the surrounding backward areas.
And those relatively backward areas were not to be outdone. They also began to find ways to find out the origins of new weapons before starting their own procurement plans.
A new arms competition has begun, and some countries have already benefited before the arms race escalates.
The North Ridge of the Wright Kingdom won the war and received the ceded territory south of the Ice Crystal River and a large amount of compensation.
Relying on new weapons, the Yangmu Kingdom has also won the Battle of Sena and annexed almost all of its neighboring countries' territories.
Stimulated by such successful cases, those countries that were belatedly aware of the situation have also begun to go crazy.
They began to invest more gold coins and got involved in this weapons procurement wave where they didn't know who would have the last laugh.
What’s even more interesting is that in addition to weapons, Cyric also crazily started imitating railways, which were not very technological.
They first developed two types of locomotives, the performance of which was really appalling. However, because of Cyric's wealth, these low-quality, rubbish trains were sold at almost free prices to those who were eager to develop the railway. Countries that invest money.
What's ridiculous is that when Sirik formulated the railway track standards, they completely followed Tang Mo's railway standards - they didn't even have the courage to change the standards.
Because almost all customers have such an indicator: if Cyric cannot guarantee that the performance of its trains exceeds that of Datang Group's trains, then the standards of the rails must be consistent!
This makes it easier for customers to switch to Datang Group's trains when necessary, so Sirik had to hold his nose and accept this requirement in order to get the project investment.
In the end, even Xirik himself had to admit that Tang Mo's train design was the most reasonable and efficient. The train design versions they had experimented with before were actually garbage and all outdated.
There was no other way, so Cyric had to go back to the old path of plagiarizing Datang Group. Relying on their abundant capital and no need to pay patent fees, they are simply unscrupulous.
These businessmen who tried their best finally launched a train that was almost identical to the Datang Group locomotive, and named it the Cyric 2 train.
However, almost everyone knows that Cyric's trains are inferior to Datang Group's trains in terms of quality and performance. The quality of the former is only about two-thirds of the latter, and the failure rate remains high.
Of course, this was something that happened a long time ago. Now, if you want to buy a locomotive, you have only two choices: go to Datang Group to buy the best locomotive, or go to Cyric to buy experimental junk...
But no matter what, the Tang Group's influence in the surrounding kingdoms is increasing day by day. Many kingdoms have also become accustomed to hedging their bets on Datang Group and Cyric Group.
It's just that Tang Mo can accept such a fence-sitting, but Cyric will never think this is a good thing. This means that Cyric's influence in these kingdoms is declining, while Datang Group's influence in these kingdoms is increasing linearly.
This improvement is irreversible, so Cyric's losses are real. However, their losses are not too obvious, because these countries still choose Cyric when purchasing arms. After all, the name Cyric is an awe-inspiring brand name on this continent.
But Cyric's losses were not limited to that. They had to eliminate the products they produced the most and throw the flintlock production technology into the garbage heap.
They also had to deal with the workers whose jobs had been replaced by steam engines, which was another real expense...
Therefore, in the past six months, the Cyric Consortium has been very uncomfortable, very uncomfortable...
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Long Ling has a day off, so there will be two updates today. I'll start updating slowly tomorrow...it's too uncomfortable, sorry.
