Sometimes, growing fast comes at a cost. Environmental protection is indeed important, but for the sake of development speed, sometimes we have to make some sacrifices.
The Tang Kingdom was not powerful enough to place heavily polluting factories in other countries. Even heavy-polluting enterprises such as smelters and chemical plants are still under construction.
It’s not that Tang Mo doesn’t know that it’s more difficult and labor-intensive to clean up after pollution. But he really has no way to ensure that environmental protection work will be carried out at the same time as industrialization.
On the one hand, he lacks the corresponding technology, and on the other hand, he also lacks enough talents.
In terms of technology, Tang Mo prioritized the development of those branches that were urgently used, but after all, he was only one person, so he could only choose and plan by himself which technologies to develop and which technologies to temporarily abandon.
Tang Mo didn't do well enough when it came to Lei's technical choices. This is still a weapon technology, and Tang Mo knows it very well.
But Tang Mo didn't invest any energy in research and development of environmental protection technology. This resulted in similar work being left to the people below to "research on their own."
The actual situation is that Datang Group’s environmental protection technology research and development team consists of two people in total, and all their research is still in the theoretical stage.
Now Tang State is still frantically improving the literacy rate and cultivating more professional talents, and has no time to train environmental protection professionals.
What he wants to ensure now is sufficient food production and sufficient industrial production capacity. And if you want to do this, it can be said that you have tried your best.
Most of the talents trained by all universities and high schools in the Tang Kingdom entered the army, and a small half became administrative talents.
In addition, engineers, technical workers, high-end technical personnel, etc. will allocate part of it. Are the remaining talents just waiting to be acquired?
This is not a world where college students are inferior to dogs and where masters and PhDs are everywhere! This is an era when you only need 5 weeks of training and know 500 words to find a job!
What Tang Mo worries about every day is: he needs to produce dozens of tanks and dozens of aircraft every day, and he needs to produce a battleship or freewheel every week.
The workers of Datang Group work non-stop every day, but they are unable to meet Tang Mo's demand with production capacity. There is no spare manpower to worry about the pollution problem.
All the talents have been divided up by more important departments, and the remaining people are illiterate. They are more concerned about how much edible food is left in the rice vat at home.
In this world, 80% of ordinary people still don’t know what diabetes is or how terrible cancer is.
For them, being coughed by the choking smoke when going out is not an unbearable thing: compared with hunger and poverty, the choking smoke is simply nothing!
Environmental friendly? Are you kidding me? Hasn't Chang'an not turned into a foggy city yet? Isn’t the river water drunk to death yet? Isn’t it possible to grow crops on colorful land?
For people in this era, environmental pollution is just an unfamiliar word. No one cares, no one cares.
Although Tang Mo did have concerns in this regard, he was just worried about it. Most people in this world think there is nothing wrong with pouring polluted water directly into rivers.
As for there being a few more skin disease patients in a certain place, and some strange diseases appearing somewhere, they are just normal things.
Do you know how many beggars starved to death every day in this place last year? When people don’t even have enough to eat and don’t take a shower once a year, who cares about carbon emissions?
Oh my god, the white smoke billowing in those cement chimneys every day is not pollution, it is the hope of hundreds of poor, naked people to live!
What's more, compared to the world Tang Mo was familiar with, this world was as pure as a piece of white paper. The environmental pollution here is simply too small to be mentioned on the table.
All the chemical factories of the Datang Group work overtime day and night, but none of them will emit as much toxic substances in one minute as a giant chemical company in later generations.
The workers of the Tang Kingdom were building new factories crazily every day. However, looking at the map, these factories were scattered throughout the kingdom and were still sparse and pitiful.
In fact, except for Chang'an and Tongcheng, the air in other industrial cities in the Tang Kingdom was not bad. At least compared to the world Tang Mo was familiar with, the air quality in these cities could be described as excellent.
After all, cities such as Longcheng, Weigang, Fengshun, Dongwan, and Linshui are actually coastal cities, and the sea breeze has long carried the smoke and dust emitted to distant places.
In fact, it's not that Tang Mo doesn't pay attention to environmental protection, but he doesn't have time to take care of this aspect now.
Datang Group's environmental protection actions are still at the stage of planting trees: the group employs a large number of farmers and replenishes some saplings every day to maintain the basic size of the forest.
This is actually much better than those powerful countries during the Industrial Revolution in Tang Mo's previous life. At least Tang Mo took some actions and did not keep pretending to be stupid until the last moment.
However, because the technology cannot keep up and there is a shortage of personnel, the current Tang Kingdom can only stay at the awkward stage of laughing at the same time when it comes to environmental pollution.
"Let's go!" Just like that, the middle-aged man pointed forward, walked out of the airport with his young apprentice and assistant, and stood under the bus stop sign outside the airport.
There is no way. Of all the departments of Datang Group, only the Environmental Improvement Project Department is not equipped with cars. This is evident from its attitude towards environmental protection.
Although there will always be a day when they regret it, it is indeed a fact that environmental protection issues are not taken seriously nowadays.
The two miserable people just stood under the bus stop, watching the cars passing by in front of them.
Some are cars sent by government departments to pick people up, and some are drivers who have received telegrams to pick up their friends or bosses. By the time the two of them got on the bus and arrived at Linshui City with a bumpy ride, their stomachs were already roaring with hunger.
Moreover, the best morning time had passed, so they had to reveal their identity, stay here for one night, and go to investigate the seafood market early the next morning.
"Environment? Protection? How sick do you have to be to support idiots like you two?" After hearing their identities, the old lady in the guest house who was responsible for entertaining them looked disdainful: "I have only had enough food for a few days. , just enough to hold up..."
On the fifth day after the air force attacked and destroyed the Cyric airship force, the Tang Army's intelligence department finally confirmed the scale of the Cyric maritime fleet's attack.
Cyric's own fleet consists of about 5 cruisers and about 20 destroyers. Together with Gobel's 10 cruisers and 10 destroyers, they formed this sneak attack fleet.
In fact, the Lions Empire, the Ice Empire, the Dorne Empire and the Poplar Kingdom did not send their own fleets to explore this muddy water.
They were afraid of Tang Mo's fleet attacking their rich port: you know, their profit this time was mainly focused on snatching the "territory" of the Datang Group.
Imagine what would happen to the Endless Sea if ports such as Neverwinter City, Rewind Port, Bunas, Osa, Nanshui, and Everwinter City were all destroyed by Datang Group's warships.
However, since Cyric had the idea of attacking Dragon Island, they would not worry about the Tang Kingdom's retaliation, so they coerced Gobel's navy and attacked Dragon Island aggressively.
With 15 cruisers and 30 destroyers, Cyric deployed almost all of his naval assets this time.
Unfortunately, what they don't know is that the Tang Dynasty's navy has been lingering nearby at Long Island, waiting for the arrival of Cyric's sneak attack fleet!
The Tang Kingdom's naval fleet has 3 battleships, 15 cruisers, and 20 destroyers.
In terms of combat effectiveness on paper, the Tang Navy clearly had the upper hand. Their three battleships could easily destroy Cyric's sneak attack fleet.
As for why there are no battleships on Cyric's side, it's because they sold all the battleships they built to the Mirage Navy...
"Dorne's fleet has been found... In addition to the previously confirmed fleet of the Reese Empire, as well as the fleet of the Ice Empire... most of the fleets have confirmed their positions." Leo confidently told Tang Mo Reported on the intelligence department's results.
"Our personnel hidden in Gobol haven't sent back any news yet." Then he added.
Tang Mo nodded slightly and did not speak. He just nodded and then looked at the person in charge of the air force.
Since radio navigation was successful, the air force stationed on Long Island has launched daily patrols and searches. Led by an experienced veteran instructor, four aircraft were grouped together to continuously monitor and search the waters near Long Island.
This was not available in previous Air Force training projects, but now in order to perform sea attack missions, all Air Force pilots have increased sea search and attack training.
"Your Majesty! We haven't found this fleet yet... but according to fuel calculations, they should show up soon." the Air Force Liaison Officer assured with his chin high.
Tang Mo nodded again: The enemy's fleet is not nuclear-powered, so they naturally have a endurance limit. The longer time passes, the closer Cyric's sneak attack fleet is to its supply limit.
"Continue to monitor the airspace near Dragon Island! Once you discover the enemy fleet, report it to me immediately!" He casually ordered.
He has been in good spirits recently because his finance minister went back to work in Chang'an. So he slept well at night, and at least he no longer had to pay public food.
"Yes! Your Majesty!" the Air Force liaison officer responded, standing at attention and saluting.
