Alien Arms Empire

 Chapter 335335The path taken by Datang Group

Eternal Winter City is the northern ice-free port that the dwarves permanently sold to the Tang Group as a reward to pay off debts.

 This port is a natural ice-free port, and it is considered the best port in the entire dwarven icy kingdom.

Although they are a little reluctant to part with it, the fact is that according to the standards of the Datang Group, this may be the only ice-free port in the dwarves' icy kingdom that can be directly used.

Before the workers from the Datang Group arrived, the scale here seemed to be inferior to the Osa military port ceded to the Datang Group by the elves.

 In other words, comparing this place with Osa Port, which has begun to be completely transformed by Datang Group, is actually too much.

 The annual throughput here is very limited, and this is an important criterion used by Datang Group to measure the usefulness of a port.

However, the people from the Datang Group came. They came to this somewhat cold port and began to transform the port.

 Countless machines were sent here, some were delivered directly to the dwarves, and some were left in the port.

Compared to the slightly bleak past, this place is now prosperous, and the local dwarves have begun to call it a "human gold mine."

Just finding a job here will allow these dwarves to earn money that they could never have imagined before.

Although these wages seem very low, it is impossible to recruit workers at the same level in Bunas, but for dwarves, what humans give is really too much...

At the request of the dwarves, part of the salary can be paid directly in wine, so a large-scale brewery was built together with the port.

The name of the new wine is Everwinter Wine. In the dwarves’ nonsense after drinking the wine, this fine spirit was called “the wine from the winery in Everwinter.” Later, it became more and more simplified, and this The name gradually became "Yongdong Family".

Then, I don’t know when it started, and it became a common name similar to "vodka"... So, after hearing this name, Tang Mo felt more and more that these bearded dwarves were already turning into hair. We walked far down the road without looking back.

Of course, these dwarves are relatively normal now. They will come in groups to pay tribute, receive wages, and then squander the silver coins they get in the bars in the port.

Neverwinter's strategic position in the Datang Group is even higher than that of Osa, because this port can be said to be one of the most important strategic nodes of the Datang Group in the future.

 Because of the cooperation with the dwarves, Datang Group owns countless mines and an oil field in the north.

These strategic materials, as well as various other strategic materials purchased by Datang Group from the dwarves, are almost all shipped here and transported to sea.

If something goes wrong here, then at least two-thirds of Datang Group's gold mines, one-half of its copper mines, and one-quarter of its rare metals cannot be sent to Bunas and Longdao in time.

No matter which direction you look at it, these losses are unbearable for Datang Group, so the construction here has naturally been raised to a very important level.

Datang Group has a Bunas-class warship cruising in the nearby sea all year round. At the same time, Datang Group also has a 500-person "foreign corps" stationed here for training.

This army is an army of the orcs. After the successful restoration of the Kingdom of Gales, they asked Datang Group to help train their army.

Tang Mo was unwilling to let a large number of orc troops enter Bunas, so he sent them to Neverwinter City to receive formal training here.

This unit adopts a rotation system. Each unit is stationed here for 60 days. After learning some drill formations and the most basic tactical movements, they will change defenses.

 On the one hand, time is indeed too tight, so it is impossible to teach too much. On the other hand, the surrounding dwarves do not have a good impression of these orcs.

In short, Everwinter City began its rise amidst the busyness. The steel plants, train stations, power stations, and other supporting facilities here, including the increasingly large winery, began to gradually integrate into it. into the production cycle of Datang Group.

Every morning, sailing ships will start to go out to sea one after another here. These sailing ships are loaded with iron ore that has not been processed in any way, or materials that have been roughly refined into iron ingots. They sail out to sea and disappear on the sea level.

 Every half an hour, one such ship leaves the port. This is simply a management miracle in Everwinter City, which has very backward supporting facilities.

Countless dwarves work here, including hired poor people, slaves bought from dwarf nobles, and of course prisoners who were pulled out of the prison to make up for the work.

 After all, Datang Group provides money, so the dwarves will try their best to help Datang Group solve the manpower shortage problem.

 Because everyone is in a cooperative relationship and trust each other very much, the support provided by the dwarves is also very strong. While the war was going on, the dwarves gathered 200,000 people and built a railway between the Royal City and the City of Everwinter regardless of the severe cold.

At the same time, another 50,000 people are building a giant military factory on the outskirts of the Dwarf King City. This military factory can produce various weapons including rifles and machine guns in the future.

Next to this military factory, there are 30,000 people who are constantly building an automobile factory. Huge factory buildings are rising from the ground, which can be called a miracle in the icy kingdom.

At the same time, outside Everwinter City, several large factories are also being built. These factories include textile factories, generator factories, and a large chemical factory.

Although the two parties signed a contract, Datang Group packaged and sold almost all of its heavy industry technology to the dwarves. However, there were other technologies in light industry that Datang Group could produce and sell in the Ice Kingdom according to the contract.

 So, in fact, Datang Group can operate drugs, fertilizers and other products, and it is a franchise, and only needs to pay one-half of the tax.

There is no way, who makes Datang Group the most favorable partner of the Ice Kingdom? This thing is similar to the most-favored-nation treatment, but unfortunately it is one-sided.

 In short, in Everwinter City, everything is centered around building a large enough port to ensure that gold, copper, iron, rare metals, oil and other materials can be continuously transported to Dragon Island here.

Early this morning, the dwarf sailors and some dwarf porters who were working on the dock couldn't help but put down their work.

They all looked up and saw a huge steel ship with high freeboard, billowing black smoke, slowly approaching the dock.

They have seen ships emitting black smoke before. The Bunas-class ironclad ship that often comes to the port to refuel coal emits black smoke when it moves.

 The ship in front of me is obviously much larger than the Bunas-class battleship! These sailors couldn't tell the difference between these giant steel ships.

So they were frightened, thinking that the Datang Group, which was the king here, had developed some brand new warship.

However, they soon discovered that this ship was a transport ship, and it was a super huge one, a... terrifying transport ship that could overwhelm a fleet.

 The crane that has just been set up lifts the cars one by one, and then transfers and unloads them to the dock.

 The whole morning, the crane was working non-stop, and even due to a mistake, an expensive car was smashed to the ground and turned into a pile of scrap metal.

Everyone was shocked, because they watched helplessly as this giant ship coming from a long distance actually contained 100 cars in its belly! And looking at this posture, there are still many cars inside the hull that have not been lifted out!

 This kind of loading and transportation capacity is almost 20 or even 50 times that of a sailing ship! After all, sailing boats can only transport five cars at a time.

 Because the sailboat only has a narrow cargo skylight, cars can hardly be loaded into the hull of the sailboat, so larger cargo can only be placed on the deck of the sailboat, which seriously affects the sailboat's transportation capacity.

 “Oh my God! This is so fake!” A dwarf thought he had drunk too much and was still awake. He kept rubbing his eyes and said.

 He ​​saw that after unloading 100 cars of various types, the crane began to lift each machine tool equipment to the dock.

This time, the workers were more careful. The leading figures even shouted that they would be fined 500 gold coins for damaging a piece of equipment!

　　Many robot dwarves have already seen it. The power plant outside the city and the telegraph office next to the power plant are full of these strange devices.

And relying on these rare equipment, Everwinter City can quickly contact the Ice King City, and can even command the steel battleships outside the port.

"Such a ship can almost equal a fleet... No wonder, we were expanding the dock a month ago..." A dwarf noble looked at the free ship and sighed: "We thought we didn't need such a big dock before. Well...it turns out that they prepared it for this guy!"

“It seems that maritime trade will belong to Datang Group in the future.” Another dwarf noble sighed. He was engaged in maritime trade, otherwise he would not be standing on the dock at this time.

"Hahaha!" The nobleman who spoke first looked up to the sky and laughed: "Don't worry, there must not be many such a big ship..."

 Before he finished speaking, he saw another identical giant ship on the sea in the distance, slowly approaching another pier...

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The dwarf who was running sea trade standing next to him shook his head: "Sigh... you still haven't dealt with people from Datang Group... If they want to take that road, they will kill everyone who walks on that road... They were all smashed to pieces..."

 (End of this chapter)