Alien Arms Empire

 Chapter 293293Material issues

While Tang Mo and Weiss were talking, Harry walked over with a stack of documents. The waiter saw his gentle wave, so he held the tray and stayed away.

Wes was playing with the Thompson submachine gun, and suddenly he felt like he couldn't put it down - submachine guns are also fun, aren't they?

Harry glanced at Weiss, who was aiming the gun and then putting down the gun to play with. He ignored it and directly reported to Tang Mo: "The port dock has confirmed it."

 “Hmm.” Tang Mo motioned for the other party to continue.

Harry gave some not-so-good news: “We won’t be able to build ships faster in the short term because steel production capacity really can’t keep up.”

"We have built two battleships and four transport ships on Long Island at the same time. All the docks have been occupied." He took out a document from the folder he held, handed it to Tang Mo, and said .

 Then, he took out a second one and handed it out as well: "The five large shipyards in Bunas are all producing Wolf-class cruisers, and the remaining four shipyards are all producing transport ships..."

Tang Mo took the first report first, and when he saw the explanation above, there was no sign of anger on his expression. He was just browsing the content above to understand related issues.

 In fact, the shipbuilding system of Datang Group was indeed at full capacity—Tang Mo built 15 steel ships in one go, including 8 transport ships and 7 warships.

These giant steel ships did take up a lot of steel, and they also used up Tang Mo's shipbuilding workers.

Most of the shipbuilders actually only have experience in manufacturing sailboats, and they were forced to be put on the shelf and trained as manufacturing workers to build ships.

In fact, the Datang Group currently has a large shipyard that is producing sailboats. This shipyard is in Osa. It was originally used to manufacture sailing warships, but now it has been transformed into a shipyard that produces civilian sailboats.

At present, only large-tonnage transport ships are produced here, and most of them are oil tankers specialized in transporting oil. There are a large number of wooden barrels in the hull and can transport hundreds of tons of crude oil at a time.

 Despite this, maritime transport capacity is actually still insufficient. Tang Mo needs a large number of ships and countless fleets to supplement his Long Island and Bunas with production materials.

"In other words, we have 15 steam-powered ships being produced at the same time, consuming tens of thousands of tons of steel... It is indeed a bit too much." Tang Mo thought as he took the first ship from Harry. After reading the second piece of information, he rubbed his eyebrows and continued reading.

If these warships and transport ships are launched, Datang Group's maritime power can indeed soar to an unprecedented height.

Moreover, once the five Wolf-class battleships are launched, he will be confident that he will sell all the Bunas-class battleships in his hand - obviously, this can bring him a lot of blood.

You must know that steel battleships are a new item now, and any maritime power will covet such weapons. As long as there is a possibility of purchasing them, they will not care how much they spend.

Harry reminded Tang Mo with some worry: "At the same time, we are still producing a large number of rails. Many factories, including Beiling, are producing rails at full capacity. We are laying 300 kilometers of railway. This is already It’s the limit of what we can do.”

After enjoying the benefits of railway transportation, both the Wright Kingdom and Datang Group are working hard to expand the number of railway kilometers.

This is almost the inevitable trend, so Harry has nothing to do. However, this kind of infrastructure project does consume a lot of steel, so it does affect Datang Group's material reserves.

Harry said while handing another report to Tang Mo: "In addition, we are also supplying several battlefields, providing artillery shells, bullets, rifles and other weapons and equipment for these theaters... Frankly speaking, the scale of the war has never been... As big as it is today.”

Tang Mo didn't say anything. He took the report and after looking at it for a few times, he held it in his hand as well: "What do you think?"

 He was testing his own students—Harry was his favorite student, and he was also the one he planned to use to replace Roger in foreign affairs.

Of course, Tang Mo is going to leave the internal affairs, or Roger's secretarial work, to You Lin to manage - just wait until Her Majesty the Queen successfully obtains the diploma from the Military Academy.

Harry was not afraid of the stage and directly answered Tang Mo's question: "Our weapons are very advanced, so the killing speed is unprecedented. In this case, the losses of the troops skyrocketed." It was obvious that he had done a lot This young man, who is also among the best in the academy, is by no means a mediocre person: "In order for the army to be able to withstand huge losses, the size of the army must be larger than before... There is no way around it."

He told Tang Mo the answer he had thought up: "In the past two years, wars involving tens of thousands of troops have been considered large-scale wars. Sirik planned the war in Beiling and planned in advance. For nearly a year.”

Seeing that Tang Mo had no intention of speaking, he continued: "But now, gathering more than 30,000 troops is just a basic requirement for a simple battle. It seems that a few thousand troops cannot meet the strategic needs at all. "

"Of course, except for our security forces, because our security forces are ahead of the times in equipment, our troops don't have to worry about similar problems at all." After finishing speaking, he stopped, as if waiting for Tang Mo's comment.

Tang Mo rolled the document in his hand into a cylinder and ordered without raising his head: "The analysis is very good, keep talking!"

"But although we don't have to worry, other countries have such troubles. Their troops are losing too quickly in the face of new weapons, so that they have to mobilize more troops to participate in the war." Harry thought for a moment, Continue to speak.

"In the Battle of Dorne, both sides fought with more than 100,000 troops. According to the scale of the past, this was already a battle to destroy the country." He took the Battle of Dorne that had just ended as an example and said very specifically: "And now, this battle After it was over, both sides still had the energy to continue the war... Bolton had just sent back the news that another 20,000 people in the Kingdom of Hillon had been wiped out, and they still had not surrendered. "

“Go and call Matthews and Parker!” Tang Mo thought for a few seconds and shouted an order to the waiter standing in the distance.

 Watching the waiter leave, Tang Mo turned to look at Harry again and said, "I know your opinion. I want to hear the opinion of the production department before making arrangements."

 Soon, Matthews and Parker hurried from the factory area.

When we met, Parker first talked about the excellent results achieved by Datang Group in the past month or so: "We have made some progress in terms of total power generation, and there is still some surplus in power generation, which can support us. Continue research on metal plating.”

This director of the production department has grown a lot in the past year, because in the past he would not be so fluent in bringing up happy events and reporting them to Tang Mo in front of him.

 Before, he always said the bad things first... However, apparently he began to realize that sometimes, the order of reporting was actually very meaningful.

It can’t be said that such changes are not good. After all, Tang Mo knows that people will always grow—whether he becomes mature or grows old, he will eventually grow...

“In addition, we have also been experimenting with the electrolytic aluminum technology. In fact, we have obtained some aluminum metal...” Matthews also started to talk about the experimental project that he is very interested in recently.

Electroplating and electrolytic aluminum are both major projects currently being studied by Tang Mo's factory. Once successful, with new materials and new electroplating processes, the quality of Datang Group's parts will be raised to a whole new level.

Seeing that Tang Mo was silent, Parker quickly talked about dispatching personnel to the Ice Kingdom: "I have ordered 300 people to go to the Ice Kingdom of the dwarves to develop and operate copper and gold mines, as well as oil fields, etc. and other industries. However, the mineral mining there is far from quenching our thirst, and it cannot alleviate our crisis of material scarcity for a while.”

Then he told another piece of information that Tang Mo had actually known for a long time: "King Wright VII has ordered iron ore to be classified as a temporarily non-tradable strategic material. This can, to a certain extent, make up for some of our losses."

After talking about a lot of good news and some bad news, Parker finally plucked up the courage and expressed his opinion: "If I were to say, we should suspend some unnecessary production, such as cars. On the other hand...we can now produce more than 6,000 Model T cars a year, which is really unnecessary.”

It seems that, like Harry, he also hopes that Tang Mo can suspend the production of some products and concentrate on expanding the scale of production for immediate needs: "If we don't produce so many cars, we won't need such a large production capacity for petroleum refining. Well...this part of the production capacity can also be moved to weapons production.”

 After finishing speaking, he fell silent, as if he was waiting for Tang Mo to speak, and seemed to be waiting for others to echo him.

Soon, Matthews also spoke, and it seemed that he agreed with Parker and Harry: "At least, 3,000 workers can be saved, which is not a small amount, and we can also save the steel consumed in automobile production. …”

"I understand what you are saying, but if we suspend the production of cars, then the existing transportation capacity will be reduced bit by bit, and we will still be passive, letting the lagging transportation capacity restrict our subsequent expansion." After listening to the opinions After that, Tang Mo thought for a minute, and then he put forward his own opinion: "But now, whoever retreats first may slow down his development and lose future victory!"

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 The second update will be later, you can watch it tomorrow morning.

 (End of this chapter)