Chapter 166: 166 Go and see Heilong Island
Chapter 166 166 Go and see Black Dragon Island
In the newly built factory building in Tangmo, a room has been set up as a conference room. A huge detailed survey map of the Bunas neighborhood hangs here, and a beautiful chandelier hangs on the roof.
To be honest, by the standards of this world, Tang Mo’s new building is a bit extravagant. The entire building has a complete sewer system, as well as running water. All rooms with water supply have 24-hour hot water supply.
And the entire building has electricity, and every room is lit with expensive incandescent bulbs.
The basement here is brighter than the bedrooms of other nobles at night, and the decoration design style here is also praised by businessmen who often come here as guests.
The complete heating system even allowed Tang Mo to cancel the fireplace design, which made the house cleaner and tidier, and also eliminated the need for openings to avoid mosquito nuisance.
To be frank, apart from the fact that there is no Internet and the lighting is unnatural, this place is not much different from the houses in the 20th century.
While the orcs and elves were fighting fiercely on the Seine Plain, Tang Mo was discussing with Roger and others whether to develop Black Dragon Island first under the cover of new warships.
Roger was a little worried about this arrangement. He seemed to be more enthusiastic about the base camp of Bunas: "Isn't it a little too risky to mobilize so many soldiers at once?"
Tang Mo prefers to arrange his industry on Heilong Island, which is surrounded by the sea, because his current naval advantage is much greater than that of the army.
With a new type of warship stationed there, the defense of Heilong Island can be said to be impregnable. He is now more worried about whether the relocation of workers can be done well and other issues.
So Tang Mo said helplessly: "There is no way, Cunning Rabbit has three holes. What we need now is time."
Roger flipped through the battle plan prepared by Tang Mo and had a rough idea of the scale of this operation.
It can be said that this is almost a large-scale relocation operation based on Tang Mo's existing power. There are more than 300 soldiers in 7 transport ships and two reinforced companies, plus less than 1,000 workers and workers' families working together.
The entire fleet will also carry at least seven steam engine equipment, 40 simple machine tools, five generators and three wireless telegraph equipment.
Roger looked at the size of the entire fleet and felt that what he had thought before was a bit conservative: "A new warship, 13 armed merchant ships converted into troop carriers, and carrying a lot of equipment and tents... It's simply... This is simply overwhelming. Out."
It is indeed all out. This expedition fleet also needs to carry food and medicine, as well as steel and raw materials to support the establishment of industry.
This alone is not enough. Except for the Datang Group's only steel warship that remains near Heilong Island for warning and support, the remaining 13 transport ships must turn around immediately after unloading their cargo and personnel and return to Bunas. .
Then these transport ships will once again be loaded with cement and steel supplies, as well as a second batch of food and personnel, and once again rush to Heilong Island desperately.
At the same time, the only warship from the elves remaining in the port will also act as an **** warship.
At this time, the waters near Bunas are undefended. It will take more than ten days for the second steel battleship to be commissioned before it can be considered as having a navy.
When the fleet arrives at Black Dragon Island again, and after dropping off supplies and personnel there, the sail warship escorts the transport fleet back, and the third immigration plan will continue to be implemented.
Three transports, 4,000 workers and their families will be immigrated to Heilong Island, a battalion of combat troops will be transferred, a new factory will be built on the island, and a temporary dock that can handle goods will be built!
According to the standards of this world, this is basically building a fully functional port village across the sea. This is a plan that even a kingdom may not be willing to implement, which wastes people and money.
However, Tang Mo planned to use Bunas as a city to support this plan, with at most only some support from Beiling.
Tang Mo nodded after hearing Roger's words and acknowledged Roger's statement: "In fact, according to my plan, it is indeed equivalent to moving. I want to build a base there and control the entire Black Dragon Island. "
If Tang Mo's plan is followed, his future development focus will even be on Heilong Island. After all, islands are much easier to manage than coastal cities.
It is easier to defend there and easier to keep secrets. As long as he firmly controls the sea power and air superiority, the island's confidentiality function and self-sustainability are obviously better.
Furthermore, with the development of Bunas, most of the raw materials consumed by Tang Mo come from maritime trade rather than local supply.
Although the mines in Beiling and Bunas are increasing production at a very fast rate, the development speed of Tangmo's factory is obviously faster.
Therefore, there is not much advantage left in the mines near Bunas. Instead of continuing to expand here, it would be more exciting to occupy the island with new oil resources: after all, the steel and coal in Bunas can be transported by ships. To Black Dragon Island. On the other hand, the confidentiality and security of the continued expansion of Bunas will be obviously not as good as that of Black Dragon Island. Although Bunas clearly had the advantage in terms of personnel mobility and population, Tang Mo valued the secrecy and monopoly of the subsequent production of weapons and equipment more.
Of course, he has no intention of giving up on Bunas, nor does he intend to stop the development of Bunas. Only children make choices, so of course he wanted them all.
He plans to develop Bunas and Heilong Island at the same time, using Bunas as an advanced base to contact various countries, and Heilong Island as his own base camp to operate.
To be honest, there will definitely be some pain at the beginning, which will affect his production capacity and his population resources. But the final result must be good. He will have a safe foothold and control the entire ocean.
Roger was still the person he trusted the most, so he gave Roger the task of developing Black Dragon Island. The other person who assisted Roger was, of course, Tiger.
Tiger's character is absolutely reassuring. With him and Roger around, it is obviously impossible for Black Dragon Island to deviate from Tang Mo's control.
"I'll give it a try... It seems like you've already decided." Roger read Tang Mo's plan carefully and sketched out what it looked like over there in his mind.
The map John sent was actually not simple. It also contained traces of exploration. In addition to the exploration for oil, it also roughly recorded some of the topography and environmental features of the island.
From the records, this island is probably located close to the equator of this alien world. There is a rainforest on it, which probably ensures that there is fresh water and a certain amount of food production on the island.
In addition, there are birds and animals on the island, which also shows that the island must be quite large, otherwise it would not be able to support so many lives.
"I have no intention of letting you take risks directly." Tang Mo said with a smile: "I have already given the copied chart to Bernard. He will take a look first."
Ever since Bernard saw Tang Mo's steel battleship, Tang Mo no longer worried about his naval commander. After all, as long as you are not a fool, you cannot drive away a sail warship and betray the idea of having a steel-powered warship.
Bernard still knows who is the future and who is the strong man worthy of allegiance. He is not a fool, so he will naturally show his loyalty to Tang Mo.
“So, this plan will take some time to be implemented, possibly even after the end of the Cyric Consortium’s first war.” Tang Mo leaned on his chair and said casually.
As soon as he finished speaking, Leo opened the door and walked in. He handed a piece of information to Tang Mo, and then said: "It was just sent from the royal city... Our trouble is coming!"
Tang Mo looked down at the information on the letter, then raised his head and said to Leo: "Go and gather everyone together and tell them... Cyric is ready to go to war!"
The first to enter was Weiss, who was on standby not far away, followed by Love and Parker. After waiting for a long time, Matthews who was guarding Factory No. 2, and Redman and Tiger who were training troops there. It's long overdue.
Seeing that everyone was here, Tang Mo signaled that Leo could speak.
Leo pushed the document to the middle of the long table in the conference room and briefly introduced the current situation: "There are about 30,000 rounds of paper-cased fixed-load ammunition, which were transported from the border to the Royal City... This news has been verified, so we It is almost certain that Cyric has mastered the manufacturing process of mercury fulminates and can produce flash caps and paper shells. "
"Then our current judgment that they have about 130,000 rounds of paper-cased fixed-load ammunition is not accurate." Holding his chin, Loew said in a low tone.
If it is impossible to judge Cyric's material reserves, then their defense preparations will have to be raised to a higher level.
Now, the Datang Group's war preparations have actually been maintained at a very low level. Basically, there is no preparation, and everyone’s main focus is still on production.
But if the enemy may attack at any time, the situation is completely different - at least the troops must be mobilized, which will affect part of the production work to some extent.
Tang Mo took a breath and continued to tell the bad news: "There is definite news that they have also begun to imitate steam engines. They used merchants' scattered purchases to order more than 30 steam engines from us."
Different from mercury fluoride and flash caps, the steam engine is similar to the K1 fast gun, and there is actually no technical difficulty in imitating it. As long as the craftsmanship level is sufficient, even if the accuracy is worse and the performance is worse, it can still be manufactured.
Therefore, Datang Group cannot prevent Sirik from plagiarizing and imitating in these aspects. It has no patent law and no law enforcement power, or in other words, it has no law enforcement ability...
It is no secret that Cyric imitates K1 fast guns. Depending on the scale of workers, the output of Cyric's K1 fast guns is actually very amazing.
(End of this chapter)