The road to national restoration that began at the end of the century - #248 - Chapter 249 The only option provided by kind organizations
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Qin: “Actually, in my own opinion, I don’t mind that the Holy Church has contact with the rebels in the Takagi Kingdom. After all, the Holy Church doesn’t like pig-headed people, and it also has a lot of dissatisfaction with pig-headed people. Just simply In terms of interests, there is a prerequisite for joint cooperation between the Crurod Empire and the Holy Church. Of course, I also know that the Holy Church is a human-oriented sect, and they have always had a clear rejection of non-human races. mentality. However, the current leaders of the Holy Church are not fools, nor are they idiots who keep the methods of their ancestors immutable. When it is time to adapt, their priests have many flexible ways to deal with it.”
Unlike Pierre, who was fighting against the wave of pig-headed men when the sun was low, Qinna from the Lymington Arms Company did not hesitate to express her evaluation of the behavior of the Holy Church in recent times. Zelen, who had always disliked the Holy Church but had no choice but to cooperate for the sake of the Holy Church’s money, shook his head repeatedly.
The Holy Church is not stupid and does not want to become an oil-extracting material for the Crurod Empire. In order to ensure the normal development of its economy and increase its income year by year, the Holy Church has set its sights on more distant overseas countries.
That’s right.
The Holy Church not only has a cooperation agreement with the Krorod Empire, but also has certain commercial cooperation agreements with the Negan Empire.
As for the purpose…it’s simple. The Holy Church also wants to take over the Takagi Kingdom. As a country where almost all the people are illiterate, the Takagi Kingdom naturally has a lot of money if its people are stupid. In addition, the resistance forces of the Takagi Kingdom can effectively hinder the progress of the Akitsu Empire, so why not ask these rebels for money?
More importantly, the prices offered by profiteers in the Negan Empire were so dark that some resistance forces directly developed various weapons and equipment on their own.
This is not a good thing.
If an armed force takes the path of completely producing and using its own materials, it will definitely be difficult for outside merchants to do business. At that time, the Orchid Republic finally obtained a considerable amount of production technology through procurement and imitation, thereby completing the transformation from an agricultural country to an industrial country.
Therefore, the Holy Church also harbored evil intentions, trying to use its cheap products to get the rebels of the Takagi Kingdom to buy them, and cultivated the idea of ”making is worse than buying”.
After all, for now, the resistance forces in the Takagi Kingdom are at best better than those using cold weapons.
At most, explosives are made for use in battles.
Moreover, the Takagi Kingdom also has a kind of tree that is planted on a large scale in many countries – the diesel tree, which also has a good foundation in making incendiary weapons.
But that’s all.
The successive rulers of the Takagi Kingdom, the current Takagi royal family, had used force to purge and exile the original ruling forces due to their improper position. Therefore, the royal family of the Takagi Kingdom is extremely wary of the power of the people, and fundamentally strictly controls education to prevent the circulation of all kinds of knowledge that should not be spread.
To borrow some of the “famous sayings” of King Shungo, the current king of the Takagi Kingdom, how can the people rule them without being stupid?
Is it possible to rule a group of clever people who are not obedient and know how to refute themselves?
What’s the use of keeping such unruly people? Direct killing can also reduce the country’s losses, thereby ensuring that other democracies are obedient and pay more taxes.
However, this kind of governance has few advantages and many disadvantages. The Takagi Kingdom has always been unable to become a powerful country, because such suppression has led to the development of science, technology, and even cultural knowledge being almost non-existent.
Regardless of the mainstream rifles in the Takagi Kingdom, the companion swivel rifle is not a very backward weapon. But in today’s era when major powers have used fully automatic weapons, the military level of the Takagi Kingdom can only be described as mediocre.
There is only one, at least the rifle bullet consumption of Takagi Kingdom will not be too high.
But here comes the problem.
Zelen is very suspicious of one thing. Can the current Takagi Kingdom complete its mission of industrialization in time?
If you want to become a great power, industrialization is an absolutely unavoidable choice. Even a resource-poor country like the Akitsu Empire can produce 3 million tons of steel per year.
If you don’t have enough steel, you are not qualified to be powerful.
Nagamasa also knew this very well.
But now he is also facing a bigger trouble.
As the number of weapons and equipment from foreign forces is increasing, it also has a clear imitation task. Therefore, words from the outside world became the first problem he faced.
The language and script of the Takagi Kingdom are the same as those of the Akitsu Empire, but the languages and scripts spoken by many foreign forces headed by the Negan Empire are different.
In other words, Nagamasa either needs enough translators to translate foreign languages, or he directly treats foreign languages as the only language that every member of his side must learn.
What’s the meaning?
Except for a very small number of noble elites in the Takagi Kingdom, the whole country is illiterate. Moreover, the language and writing of the Akitsu Empire had a Achilles heel, the language and writing were not unified.
That is, the same words can be pronounced in different ways.
Although pure text expression will not cause obvious ambiguity, except for a few special cases like him who can master two languages and most illiterate members…
Illiterate members cannot read or understand no matter what kind of language it is.
Therefore, Nagamasa himself was very entangled. He wanted to engage in military industry and develop his own strength, and education was an inevitable matter. At the same time, arms dealers in the west may have smelled the blood on his side and came to the southwestern region of Takagi Kingdom to conduct black market transactions.
To be honest, for now, the price of the profiteers in the Negan Empire is too terrible. If you want to buy any machine gun, you have to buy it with the same weight of gold, but where does Changzheng have gold?
For gold or something, he needs to sell grain to exchange for it! Or maybe it’s to rob the mansions of some dignitaries!
These two ways…
Are you really making fun of him?
That King Junwu never disclosed to the whole country where gold was produced in his country.
Therefore, he had no choice but to rely on his own ability to build an arsenal to ensure the success of the resistance cause.
But he doesn’t have many choices now.
He is short of people, very short of talents who can make weapons and equipment. Therefore, outsourcing is the inevitable only option.
Especially after an arms dealer claiming to be a kind-hearted organization gave him a large-caliber anti-aircraft machine gun for free, he felt itchy in his heart. But this machine gun fired 15×96 mm caseless machine gun ammunition. He couldn’t make it and didn’t know how to make it, nor did he know how to make it.
Even in the experiment, the 15×96 mm caseless machine gun bullet was more lethal than the 13×99 mm machine gun bullet sold by profiteers in the Negan Empire. At the same time, he also discovered that the automatic loading mechanism used by this large-caliber anti-aircraft machine gun – the tube-type automatic loading mechanism – was not very complicated. It was simpler than the gas-guided automatic loading mechanism he had seen more often.
Why don’t you continue to discuss the purchase with that kind organization?
Well…that’s it. Anyway, the Negan Empire in the south always produces profiteers, so it wouldn’t be a bad idea to change the purchasing merchant. What’s more, he doesn’t really want to continue to have anything to do with northern orchids. The Orchid Republic is becoming more and more strict about smuggling.
Obviously, Nagamasa did not know who he was conducting black market arms transactions with, nor did he know that the weapons and equipment he obtained actually came from a religious group that once wanted to destroy the kobold clan. But even if he knew it at this time, he would not refuse such a deal. After all, if he wants to expand his business now, he must seek more assistance.
Of course, the best way is that all of Nagamasa’s men can read, write and draw. It’s just a pity that the vast majority of people in illiterate countries don’t have much knowledge at all.
If you want knowledge, you need to pay a considerable price to make adequate compensation for the suppression policy of the Takagi royal family that deliberately deceives the people. Otherwise, mastering knowledge is just empty talk, which is a huge waste of everyone’s time and energy.