The end of the military era

If human beings want to leave the six major orc countries, they can basically rely on smuggling, and the risk of smuggling is very high. Once captured by the orc army, they will be executed immediately.

Joanna went on to say: "General Zhou recruited so many technicians and workers from the shipyard, it should be to establish his own family's shipyard.

Presumably General Zhou should be interested in the three large shipyards of the Bull Empire, the docks and equipment that manufacture large warships. "

Sure enough, as Zhou Rui expected, this Joanna really came to sell him shipbuilding equipment.

Although Zhou Rui was secretly pleased, he said calmly on the surface: "I do plan to build a ship repair factory that can maintain large warships.

Of course I am interested in the docks and equipment for the manufacture of large warships in the three shipyards of the Bull Empire, but I am worried that the Navy Department of the Bull Empire will not agree to this deal. "

Joanna picked up the wine glass, took a sip of the wine in the glass, and then slowly said: "General Zhou, don't worry, I can come to you to discuss this business, and I am naturally capable of transporting the docks and equipment for manufacturing large warships to Gansu. The port of Yangcheng.

The question now is whether General Zhou has enough funds to eat up the docks and equipment of the three shipyards to manufacture large warships? "

At the dinner table, Zhou Rui reached an agreement with Joanna.

周睿将以9700万银币的价格，购买蛮牛帝国三家大型造船厂的10座2.5万吨船坞、12座2万吨船坞和20座1.5万吨船坞。

The 42 docks will be disassembled, transported and reassembled by Joanna.

At the same time, Joanna will help Zhou Rui continue to recruit human technicians and human workers who have been laid off in various shipyards of the Bull Empire.

In addition, Zhou Rui is very interested in the 7 unbuilt Punisher-class battleships with full main guns. The hulls, steam turbines and boilers of these 7 Punisher-class battleships have basically been completed, and the completion rate of the 7 Punisher-class ships is in the 70 or more.

Only the weapon system and some auxiliary equipment are left uninstalled.

Since the Bull Empire is going to dismantle these 7 Punisher-class ships, why not take them out and sell them!

Zhou Rui is willing to pay a high price to buy these 7 unbuilt Punisher-class ships, and pay a high price to purchase the weapon systems and various auxiliary equipment required by these 7 Punisher-class ships.

According to Zhou Rui's information, the Punisher-class all-main-gun battleship of the Bull Empire has a designed full-load displacement of 22000 tons and a maximum speed of 19 knots.

装备5座双联装四十倍口径300毫米主炮，16门45倍口径150毫米副炮，12门30毫米高射炮，20挺13毫米高射机枪，4具500毫米鱼雷发射管。

The side armor belt is 120 mm to 250 mm, the main deck armor is 60 mm, the main turret armor is 300 mm, and the crew is full of 940 people.

Although the Punisher class is weaker in performance than the latest all-main-gun battleships of the other five orc nations, it still has good combat effectiveness. After all, it is a full-main-gun battleship.

Regarding Zhou Rui's wish to buy 7 Punisher-class battleships with full main guns that have not yet been built, Joanna agreed. After returning to the Bull Empire, she can help Zhou Rui ask the Navy Department of the Bull Empire whether there are 7 Punishers for sale. level will.

However, Joanna believes that the possibility of the Buffalo Empire's Navy Department agreeing is very small. After all, a battleship with full main guns, even if it is an unbuilt battleship with full main guns, once it is sold to a human country, it will inevitably be in the territory of the Buffalo Empire, or even other countries. There was an uproar among the five orc nations.

After the agreement was reached, Joanna left first with the Barbarian Empire gold coupons worth 300 million silver coins. These gold coupons were the deposit paid by Zhou Rui.

Zhou Rui then said emotionally to Cheng Xianhou: "To be honest, if this Joanna wasn't brought by Mr. Cheng, I even thought she was a liar.

After all, this deal sounds unbelievable.

This is equivalent to sweeping all the large shipyards of the Barbarian Empire with more than 1.5 tons, which is simply too dreamy. "

At present, there are only 1.5 large shipyards in the Manniu Empire with a capacity of more than 42 tons.

Cheng Xianhou said with a smile: "Master Zhou, don't worry, the newly appointed Minister of the Navy of the Barbarian Empire Navy, Larion, is determined to carry out his fish plan, and prepares to build the Barbarian Empire Navy into destroyers and torpedo boats." It is an offshore defensive navy with main combat ships.

And as far as I know, there is another important reason why Larion wants to implement the school of fish plan is that the funds of the Barbarian Empire Navy are seriously insufficient.

From the 42 large docks of the Bull Empire, only 7 Punisher-class battleships with full main guns are under construction. It can be seen how short of money the Navy of the Bull Empire is. The large docks of the other five orc countries are all crowded. Full of warships under construction.

If it wasn't for the Barbarian Empire's navy that was so poor that it was almost impossible to solve the problem, how could even the 7 Punisher-class battleships with full main guns that had completed the construction of 70 be ready to be dismantled.

That's why the three large shipyards of the Bull Empire rushed to deal with these large shipyards, hoping to recover some losses. "

Zhou Rui asked somewhat unexpectedly: "The newspaper said that the financial revenue of the Bull Empire last year was as high as 60 billion silver coins. How could the navy of the Bull Empire be short of money?"

Cheng Xianhou explained: "The Bull Empire was originally based on the army, and the navy of the Bull Empire did not perform satisfactorily in several wars, so that the military expenditure of the Navy of the Bull Empire was reduced every year.

Moreover, a considerable part of the financial revenue of the Bull Empire needs to be handed over to another world every year, so the share of the Navy of the Bull Empire is even less. "

"another world?"

"It's the other side of the different space-time node."

Chapter 91 Secret

When Zhou Rui left the Nine Stars Hotel, the expression on his face was very serious.

The rebel army has mastered many secrets that are not known to the outside world because they have struggled with the six major orc nations for many years.

It turned out that the orcs who established the six major orc countries all came from the six empires in the world on the other side of the node in different time and space.

For example, the Bull Empire, on the other side of the node in different time and space, there is another Bull Empire. The relationship between the two is like an overseas colony and the mainland.

The bull empires of the two worlds respected the same royal family, and both armies and financial power were controlled by the same government.

In addition, the Bull Empire also controls more than a dozen different space-time nodes that can travel between the two worlds, so although they are in two worlds, they are only one country.

For example, the navies of the Brutal Bull Empire in the two worlds are under the jurisdiction of the newly appointed Minister of the Navy of the Buffalo Empire Navy, Larion.

In order to allow the navies of the two worlds to support and communicate with each other, the Barbarian Empire even chose a space-time node closest to the sea and dug an artificial canal nearly 300 kilometers away.

The other end of the artificial canal leads directly to the sea.

In this way, the warships of the Barbarian Empire Navy can freely shuttle between the two worlds.

The situation of the other five orc nations is the same as that of the Bull Empire. Their territories in this world can only be regarded as overseas colonies for the five orc nations.

According to the information obtained by the rebel army, on the other side of the node in different time and space, the strength of the six major orc nations is much stronger.

For example, the bull empire in this world has a land area of ​​about 1100 million square kilometers and a total population of about 2.7 million, of which about 6000 million are the orcs who are mainly cattle, and the remaining 2.1 million are humans.

On the other side of the different time and space node, the Bull Empire has a land area of ​​about 800 million square kilometers and a total population of about 1.3 million, all of whom are orcs mainly composed of cattle.

Originally, the six orc nations were already very powerful for Zhou Rui, but they had even bigger backers behind them.

It's no wonder that more than ten years after the last life, when the six major orc nations joined forces to invade the Han and Tang Empires, even if all the feudal towns of the Han and Tang Empires were united, they could not resist the coalition forces of the six orc nations.

Even Wei Jie, the Jiedu envoy of the Three Towns with millions of troops and dozens of battleships with full main guns, was under the attack of the orc army from the six countries, and he was in a panic, losing most of his territory.

Although I have an enhanced version of the lottery system, if the six major orc nations in this world still unite to invade the Han and Tang Empires, will I be able to turn the tide?

After Zhou Rui left the Nine Stars Hotel, he returned directly to the Zhou Mansion, and told his father Zhou Xiaozheng the information he had heard from Cheng Xianhou.

After Zhou Xiaozheng finished listening, he couldn't help but said with emotion: "I never thought that the six orc nations would have such secrets.

It is also thanks to the many conflicts among the six orc nations, otherwise, with the strength of the six orc nations, even if there is a barrier of the sea, the 12 human nations in our Eastern Continent would be very dangerous. "

There are two continents in this world, called the Eastern Continent and the Western Continent.