Alien Arms Empire

 Chapter 880 881 Self-research

 Wang Yucai, the Minister of Household Affairs of the Dahua Empire, rubbed his sore eyes and put down the accounting information in his hand. His recent work has been going smoothly, because at least judging from the accounts, the financial revenue of the Dahua Empire is increasing.

The originally unsatisfactory financial situation is improving, and many grants that were originally unaffordable can now be considered.

 For a household official in charge of money and grain, this is definitely a good thing, and at the same time, it is definitely good news for an empire.

 Income comes from many sources. In the past few days, Wang Yucai has been sorting out the accounts and trying to analyze something. To his relief, he actually saw something.

 The largest increase in finance comes from the prosperity of industry: the Dahua Empire has added a large number of factories in the past two years, and these factories have corresponding commercial operations, which have brought a large amount of tax revenue to the Dahua Empire.

 The second half is agriculture. Because of the introduction of excellent varieties from the Tang Empire and the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers, the Great China Empire also had a bumper harvest this year. The Great China Empire, which originally relied on agriculture as its main source of income, naturally also obtained a large amount of income from this bumper harvest.

 The third piece of revenue is tariffs. As an important trading port, Fengjiang has become the richest city in the Great China Empire. Countless goods are settled there for customs clearance, and the income of a Fengjiang City is almost higher than that of the southern region of the Great China Empire.

Not only did the trade taxes between the Tang Empire and the Dahua Empire increase massively, but the goods sold from the Qin State to the Tang Empire also had to pass through the Dahua Empire, and transit fees also had to be paid.

These constant incomes every year made Wang Yucai, the Minister of Household Affairs, breathe a sigh of relief. During the court meeting, the weight of his words increased a lot.

  Unfortunately, with the increase in income, Wang Yucai found that the speed of spending money in various departments was also increasing rapidly. No matter how it is suppressed, the expenses of the Dahua Empire have been rising in the past two years.

 Investment in road construction began to increase sharply. Due to the prosperity of business and the needs of production, transportation capacity must be strengthened. This is the spending that everyone agrees on because everyone is asking for better road traffic.

 In turn, repairing and maintaining these roads requires money, and managing these roads and railways also requires a large group of people.

As the economic situation improved, the Emperor of the Great China Empire increased everyone's salary and salary in order to stabilize his position and appease his ministers and lower officials.

This kind of behavior of inviting people to buy people's hearts becomes extremely correct under the premise that the Ministry of Revenue has money, so Wang Yucai had to agree to this salary increase plan. After all, in the past two years or so, these ministers have really paid attention to Dahua’s stability has made a certain contribution.

 Finally, the biggest increase is in defense spending. The Great China Empire increased its defense spending budget as soon as its finances improved.

There is no way. It is now sandwiched between the Qin State and the Tang Empire. It has huge security pressure, so it will inevitably strengthen its military capabilities to deal with the two-front war crisis that may arise at any time.

The strange thing is that the Dahua Empire is unwilling to purchase advanced weapons and equipment sold by the Datang Group. They insist on "independent research and development" of weapons and have invested a lot of money in this area.

Although this idea is not necessarily wrong, and the results may not be bad, it is obviously unreasonable to rush to develop more advanced weapons and equipment on our own without fully understanding advanced technology.

 The amazing thing is that they actually succeeded in the end. The Dahua Empire made a series of enhancements based on the Dahua 1 fighter jet it previously produced, and finally designed the Dahua 2 fighter jet.

With the support of Prince Zhao Yu and the forces behind him, the Dahua 2 fighter jet designed by the Dahua Empire’s technical staff is almost identical in appearance to the Italian G50 fighter jet. There is no need to elaborate on the reason. In short, the credit belongs to Zhao Yu, which makes Zhao Ji more and more anxious. Dahua’s so-called new fighter, the G50, not only adds a closed cockpit, but also improves the performance of the hip-mounted engine a little bit, allowing the aircraft to barely fly at a speed of 500 kilometers per hour.

 Its overall performance is at the same level as the Qin Dynasty's Gale fighter, and there is still a certain gap between the Tang Empire's butcher fighter, which is being phased out.

As a result, this OEM self-developed advanced fighter jet immediately received orders. In order to replace its old fighter jets, the Dahua Empire purchased 1,000 of them in one go.

The Dahua Empire has no other choice. Their neighbor to the west, Qin, has begun mass production of Gale 2 fighter jets. If the Dahua Empire does not follow up, it is likely to be surpassed by its neighbor.

In addition, the Dahua Empire improved its tanks and began to produce Type 3 tanks based on the original Type 2 tanks.

  The performance of the new tank has generally caught up with the level of the Tang Empire No. 4 tank. After all, vehicle-mounted radios are not a secret technology nowadays.

Although the military of the Dahua Empire was not as well aware of this type of tank as the Leopard tanks of the Tang Empire, they still purchased a large number of such tanks.

 Because they do not need to surpass the Tang Empire, they only need to be more advanced than the Qin State on the other side: Qin State has not yet equipped a large number of tanks, and the Great China Empire, which has a better economic situation, obviously has an advantage in the arms race.

 As can be seen from the procurement of aircraft, the Dahua Empire's air force strategy has begun to undergo a fundamental change.

 They did not rush to deploy new bombers, but instead concentrated funds to purchase a large number of fighter jets. This shows that the Dahua Empire's air force philosophy is mainly defensive, which is completely different from most countries in the eastern continent.

This is also determined by the special national conditions of the Great China Empire: their opponents are too powerful. They do not believe that their air force can control air power in front of the Great Tang Empire Air Force, so they are not prepared to waste precious funds on offensive bombers. superior.

The equipment of a large number of armored troops shows that the Dahua Empire attaches great importance to ground troops: they hope that their troops can withstand the enemy's attack and have the ability to launch a counterattack when necessary.

It has to be said that Shen Chuan, the Minister of War, is still quite good. After summing up the lessons learned from the failure of the previous war, he formulated a relatively feasible plan to strengthen the army.

 The main purpose of the Tang Empire was to be wary and friendly, avoid war as much as possible, and mainly use permanent defense fortifications to resist possible attacks by the Tang army. Even if the technical equipment is bad, if I can't catch up, I won't catch up, saving money and effort.

Facing its neighbor Qin to the west, the Great China Empire focused on deterrence and deployed a large number of tank troops to assume a posture that could fight Qin. Relying on sufficient funds, Dahua's Western Front troops did create huge pressure on Qin, forcing Qin to temporarily hide its small plans for Dahua.

 Cooperating with diplomatic operations, Dahua's external situation has been basically stabilized in the past two years, and there is even a faint tendency to overshadow Qin's situation. However, all this seems to be based on the fact that the Tang Empire has no plans to expand westward.

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I have something to do at home today, so I can only update it once. I will make it up tomorrow, sorry.

 (End of this chapter)