Chapter 1199 Pressure at Sea

Anbu's ability to handle affairs has always satisfied Luo Ji quite a bit. The interrogation report in front of him has taught Luo Ji a lot of things.

For example, the murlocs in this sea are not only one, but scattered into countless branches, large and small, occupying various sea areas.

Similar to some indigenous tribes on land.

The fish people in the sea also occupy their own territory. Sometimes they live in peace with each other, and sometimes they attack each other and fight each other, all for the sake of living space and food resources.

And this murloc originally lived in the sea outside the swamp rainforest.

However, the appearance of the Hydra squeezed their living space to a great extent, which made them subject to the dark elves and formed the current situation.

Of course, these pieces of information are only secondary. For Luo Ji, the most important piece of information is the location of the Dark Elf's island!

If you can't grasp the enemy's position, you can only fall into passive.

If you want to turn passive into active, mastering information is the first step.

From the two murloc captives, the members of Anbu asked for a relatively detailed map of the sea. From this map, after leaving the Yangtze River Basin, if you want to reach the island where the dark elves are, you have to spend a lot of money. quite a long time.

At the same time, there are still a large number of murlocs and even hydras in the sea leading to this island.

This made Luo Ji realize more clearly that conquering this sea area was far less easy than he thought. The sea is really a dangerous place. Compared to other people's seas, the seas are much cuter...

Moreover, as he pondered deeply, Luo Ji quickly realized another more troublesome problem.

That is how he should deal with the murlocs?

As a race that lives under water, even if he finally shows a powerful force value, what if he forces the opponent to surrender? How will he rule after that? Murlocs live underwater, but they live on land.

As it turns out, there doesn't seem to be a proper way to do it, which is a real headache.

Taking a long breath, Luo Ji decided not to worry about it for the time being.

The most urgent thing at the moment is to find a way to solve the Hydra first.

The comprehensive naval strength of the Dark Elf is definitely not as good as his. The backward Black Sail Fleet is absolutely vulnerable in front of his Yangtze River Fleet, but the opponent has a super-special top-level naval combat unit called "Hydra".

For this kind of monster whose scales are hard enough to defend against bullet shelling, and can even operate under the sea for a long time, even the staff commander's headquarters, which is full of talents, seems a little helpless for a while.

Feeling the pressure from the sea, Luo Ji had to change the current development policy, and let the military research department put aside several other projects for the time being, and fully carry out the development and research of underwater weapons, so as to strive for an early date. Make a weapon that can do enough damage to Hydra.

During this period, on the land, what should be developed will naturally continue to develop.

Over the years, the crazy development of the naval power of Wanjie Civilization has brought a lot of pressure to civilization's finances.

After all, before the official development of naval combat power, Wanjie Civilization did not have this financial consumption.

Originally, the financial department thought that the most ruthless thing that burns money is the army. The research and development of various rifles and cannons, the mass production of ammunition and shells, and the daily training expenses of soldiers in major military regions are an astronomical figure every day. In the event of a war, this number may have to be tenfolded all of a sudden.

And since the naval forces started training and the steel warships were put into production, they suddenly felt something was wrong...

what's the situation? When the army troops burn money, they still burn bundles of money. You might as well just pour the big boxes into the brazier? !

In just a few years, the financial pressure brought by the navy has caused the Myriad Realms Civilization, whose economic situation was already turning to be good, to sound the red alarm again.

And just last week, another battleship officially entered service, and now their Yangtze River fleet of Myriad Realms Civilization already has 23 destroyers and five battleships!

Luo Ji currently has no intention of building a cruiser.

There are many types of cruisers, which can be roughly divided into battle cruisers (battle cruisers), heavy cruisers (heavy cruisers), and light cruisers (light cruisers). Generally, the armor is good, the firepower is good, and the speed is good, giving people the feeling of a generalist, as if everything can be done.

But on the other hand, it will make people feel that everything is OK, but it seems that nothing is OK...

According to the current pattern of naval battles in this era, Luo Ji obviously did not intend to waste time on cruisers.

So he had a clear goal and went directly into the manufacture of destroyers and battleships.

The number of warships in the Yangtze River Fleet may sound like a small number today, but at a glance from the river, it is already quite large.

This fleet, now just daily training exercises and regular maintenance, has to burn exaggerated numbers.

It is said that the financial loss caused by the destroyer destroyed by the Hydra incident almost made the old minister of the Ministry of Finance go into shock on the spot.

Now, with the completion of the latest battleship, in order to prevent their emperor from making a big stroke of his pen and starting to manufacture new battleships, our old minister hurriedly sent a report, with snot and tears. Tell Luo Ji that no more warships can be built, and that if such financial expenditures are maintained, the national treasury will be emptied.

When Luo Ji received such a report, it was inevitable to ask Ye Qingxuan for confirmation.

After making a simple calculation, Ye Qingxuan said that in terms of finance, there is actually room to spare, and it is possible to build a few more warships, but considering the continuous expenditure in the future, and other major projects in the civilization are also underway, If this continues, there will inevitably be the risk of economic instability.

At the same time, at that juncture, in the event of a sudden war, the huge economic pressure caused and the economic collapse will probably only happen in an instant.

This risk is not too big, it has already developed to this point, Luo Ji can't do this kind of thing with the risk of collapse, so he decisively stopped the follow-up manufacturing plan at the shipyard for the time being.

According to the current situation, I am afraid that it will take a few years to delay the next development, but during this period, the research obviously has to continue.

Battleships may not be built first, but research must not stop.

This year, how far it can develop depends on the progress of the research.

Once research stops, doesn't development also stop? This is something that Luo Ji absolutely does not allow.

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