Out of the cage

In the year 2202 of the Qin Dynasty, the entire Western Economic Union kneaded a prototype of an industrial cycle in the Western Regions. A foundation that enables a society of tens of millions of people to function is being born,

In the past, the vast west could not be developed because some core elements were lacking. However, large-scale infrastructure can be integrated.

The environment of the plateau is fragile. Although it is not short of water, it is the upper reaches of all water sources in China. Heavy industries such as ore washing and coking, which may produce three wastes, must not be developed. However, the local energy reserves are quite abundant.

It is also a hot boiler that never goes out. Compared with nuclear energy, dry hot rock is safer and pollution-free. The difficulty restricting its development is the high initial investment in geological surveys, high water consumption, and the need for a large amount of power storage infrastructure.

Wei Keng guided the detailed geological data on the roof of the world according to the main world (open hanging), and the eighteen dry and hot rock wells drilled by the Western Meridian Union have burst out with abundant energy, and the entire plateau area has become an energy exporter. .

Here in the Western Regions, apart from the characteristics of solar energy and abundant mineral resources, the focus of the Western Economic Union's planning is agriculture.

[The large-scale Russian-style reckless project of storing water into Xinjiang with too many uncontrollable elements, as a person who lived once in the 27th century, it is impossible for Wei Keng to be superstitious about it. Natural river water contains soluble salt. The amount of evaporation in the Western Regions is still greater than the amount of precipitation. Extensive irrigation for several years will only dry out the land, resulting in a saline-alkali land where poplar trees cannot grow. 】

According to the information of the main world, the way out for agriculture in the Western Regions is the comprehensive utilization of water sources.

All crops are grown in metal-plastic greenhouses. The technology enables the use of drip irrigation and precise control of planting techniques to reduce evaporation.

During the daytime, the water vapor produced by plant photosynthesis and transpiration is directly introduced into the area with lower underground temperature through air exchange, and condensed in the condensation box through the cooling of groundwater to ensure constant humidity in the greenhouse. In the evening, when there is no photosynthesis and the temperature is low, is proper ventilation.

Such agricultural investment may seem like a lot, but as industrial productivity increases, the cost of non-high-tech products such as glass, steel frames, and thermometers will gradually decrease to a point where it is not so outrageous.

At least Wei Keng has seen many garden flowers in rich houses, and they are cultivated in this way. Master Wei is not interested in flowers, but when it comes to farming, it's like "a starving ghost sees food, hoards and wants to save canned food".

As for the Luoshui Group's original industry in the Guanzhong area! The disadvantage is that the site is too small, far away from the ocean traffic line, lacks raw materials, and lacks a market for industrial product sales.

In the past, Luoshui's transportation had to go through railways, so it could only be attached to the economic zone of the Northern Plains of China. But now, with the tightening of belts and the continuous investment of manpower and capital in the plateau and the Western Regions for three years, the Guanzhong Economic Zone has begun to gradually get rid of the original dependence.

In the current management system of Western Economic Union: agricultural products and light industry products have begun to be self-sufficient, especially the cotton textile industry has become a key product.

Although heavy industrial products rely on imports, Luoshui Group has core technologies in heavy trucks, high-performance batteries and other projects, and still maintains self-manufactured technical requirements for imported heavy industrial products, without forming a fatal dependence. There is also the electronics industry, which brought back the deficit.

The most important thing is that Xijinglian has just gone through the Battle of Talas and did not lose! There will be no more wars outside the Northern Great Wall in the short term.

With security in place, the full focus can now be put on basic economic development. Unlike the fierce high-tech competition in the East!

In the shipyard of the Soviet-Shanghai United Industrial Technology Co., Ltd., the price of a new cutting-edge battleship with an all-electric system is easily 40 billion.

The navy commanders in the entire eastern part of Shenzhou kept asking for military expenses, clamoring to maintain fifty "Xuanming" class battleships with laser anti-missile capabilities to replace the "Wu Mourning Prince" class that was already a generation behind.

As for Shenjing, it is clenching its teeth and developing a cutting-edge air force. It needs to compete with the first-class air force of the European Allied Forces, upgrade the new generation of Suzaku, Phoenix fighters, and Qinglong floating ships. The funds behind any of these projects, It is enough for Western Economic Federation to transform thousands of hectares of farmland greenhouses in the Western Regions (one hectare, four to five million funds, one thousand hectares is only four to five million)

The main world also encountered this problem during the first, second, and World Wars after the industrial age.

After the Versailles Peace Conference achieved the goal of victory, the British found that their standard of living was not as good as that of the Germans. Haha, the British don't want to think about how terrifying their battleship clusters were all over the oceans at that time.

As for the second time, the economic situation of Germany and Japan was once better than that of the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, because the development of these two countries was restricted, and they did not need to compete in nuclear energy, spaceflight, aviation and capital ship technology, and focused on themselves Good at machinery, chemical industry, semiconductor field.

Of course, it is necessary for superpowers to compete in cutting-edge fields. After the Mao Xiong was dealt with, the Bald Eagle turned around and cut off the leeks of the followers. But rabbits who keep up with the pace in the field of high-tech, bald eagles are more scrupulous when brandishing harvesters.

However, it is also very important to recognize one's own strength. The biggest negative teaching material in the same period is the white elephant. As a regional power, it needs to consolidate the security of the region first. But after the second millennium, when many problems in its internal governance system have not been resolved, the economic structure has not even laid the most basic foundation, and it is trying to invest in various major fields such as nuclear energy, aerospace, and capital ships. Compete and expand global influence. As a result, the eagerness to get started means that all kinds of external technology replacements are in full swing, just like the Westernization Movement of the last century. As a result, the world fluctuated and everything stagnated.

Wei Keng is very down-to-earth now. The appearance of a middle-aged man, there is not so much fantasy.

After serving as the commander-in-chief of the Shenzhou Plateau area, the number of tanks did not increase in the first few years, and all wheeled armored vehicles.

For air power, only drones have been updated, and they have not competed with other theaters for cutting-edge fighters.

As for the distribution of armaments at the annual Ministry of War meeting, Wei Keng wants to buy whichever second-hand is cheap. Anyway, no one beat me on the plateau, and the military expenditure was reduced to a quarter of that of other land generals. As for those naval commanders in the east, Wei Keng is even more incomparable.

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Of course, Wei Keng let go of his unrealistic pursuits, not because he said he was not motivated. Some can be completed, and those that should be completed should be done honestly.

In August, in order to commemorate the third anniversary of the Battle of Talas, Wei Keng came to a group of exercises on the plateau, whether it was a show or a sword dance in Xiangzhuang.

In the multiple sets of passages in Kunlun Mountains, trains are mobilized in the caves. The missile vehicle then maneuvered along the road system to various road sections.

Following an order, three missiles took off at different times from three launch positions, then made tactical maneuvers according to different trajectories, and finally crossed 2,000 kilometers and arrived at the shooting range designated in the Mobei area at the same time .

The exercise was very successful. In the final summary report submitted, there was such a self-proclaimed sentence: "Condescending, it can provide tactical support for the surrounding military areas."

Wei Keng: "I am not idle on the plateau."

Shenjing seems to be a procedural reward.

But in Wei Keng's real calculation, the cunning rabbit has three caves, and the third cave has been completed.

[The third cave of the allusion to the Three Caves of the Rabbit is to distribute the ancestor worship artifacts of the Qi State to Xueyi, the fief of Lord Mengchang. With the artifacts sitting in his own fiefdom, the Qi Kingdom has to send troops to protect them, so there is no need to worry about other calculations. 】

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As for what will happen in the next timeline of this plane? The novice mission planned by the Space-Time Administration for Wei Keng was not arranged.

On August 15th, just after Wei Keng finished the plateau exercise, the Space-Time Management Bureau just released the declassified data of this plane. After seeing this data, Master Wei frowned.

The rising sun prince who changed the history of this timeline is back. It's just that after he comes back, there will be changes in the entire time-space fusion process.

In this stable space-time, there will be a plurality of space-time reflections, and the super-space-time technology of all countries in the world will undergo major application changes.

Just like comparing two mirrors, there can be countless mirrors within mirrors.

In the space-time rift technology, after projecting large-scale weapons into it, and then injecting enough energy and metal minerals, the weapons and equipment in the reflection can be easily taken out.

Of course, the more you want to project in the space-time crack, the more energy you will consume. The most economical post-projection claim will be around twenty times that. After the projected product is corrected, it can be used as a master to continue projecting!

And what will this mean? ——The above-mentioned expensive large-scale military armaments will be able to be multiplied. The only thing consumed is minerals and energy.

Wei Keng clicked on the information Ke Feijia had left for him.

It turns out that the purpose of this dude's research and development of the two space laboratories, Hetu and Luoshu, is not just for superpowers.

In fact, Wei Keng himself was careless. At that time, Ke Feijia left a lot of complex concepts such as space-time reflections that he had researched in his report. And Wei Keng, because these physical concepts are different from those in the main world, they only apply here, so he feels that learning them is useless. Completely ignored.

And now! Once physicists around the world discover the space-time mirror phenomenon.

This technology will soon be put into practical use, and it will be put into various military factories. The operators only need to continuously correct it against the master plate during the process of generating metal structures from space-time cracks.

The manufacturing threshold of those industrial products that have been perfected will be greatly reduced. As long as the energy system and resource extraction and transportation system are stable, they can support frontier combat forces.

The base car system will appear.

Wei Keng quickly opened up the information of various forces in the world in this regard:

The "Little Basil" base vehicle of Soviet Russia in Siberia, because its architectural structure is very similar to St. Basil's Cathedral, was originally intended to stimulate the economy and build board houses, but as long as this crack projection processing system is installed, it can automatically Use local minerals to manufacture weapons and vehicles.

The base vehicle specially developed by the Allied Forces for overseas supplies, their space printing technology has a better projection progress, and there is no need to prepare a lathe for additional polishing of some places requiring high precision like the Soviet-Russian base vehicle.

As for Sunrise, they are the original interveners in the history here, and their nanoscale calibration technology can allow armor, even large ships, and floating fortresses to be included in this projection system.

Wei Keng sighed, and complained to Ke Feijia who was no longer in this timeline: "No wonder, I feel that what I do is just a play in your eyes. This world is so crazy. In fact, no matter what Construction, in the coming decades of conflict, the great powers here will only use artillery and energy bombs to talk."

Wei Keng also understood why the system only sent the information of this plane to himself now

That's because I was just a novice. According to the original plan, I should go back after staying in this world until 2202 in the Qin Tongli. In order not to interfere, the time is divided into the deployment of combat time and space. Fei Jia, according to the time and space mission regulations, kept Wei Keng a secret.

But now, Wei Keng started a mission on this plane alone.

And with the end of the Plane War, Wei Keng was classified as an official traveler due to his contribution in the Pandora plane. So, a new mission was released.

When Wei Keng was on the plateau, he only positioned himself as a strategically projected "bowman\

,"Now the system reminds Wei Keng, a guy who is too frugal in military equipment, that he still needs to master heavy armor equipment.

Command and Conquer is about to begin.

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From spring to summer, on May 26, 2203, on the Oriental Cruise Line in the southeast waters, Shangli, a modern water hotel with a dragon boat style,

The No. 2 member of the Donglin Party, Yan Muneng, the housekeeper under the old Yan Ge's command, is meeting with European businessmen on behalf of the Fenghou Group. What came was not an ordinary businessman, but Lisette, an agent sent by the Intelligence Division. She came to the East under the false identity of a business manager, and her purpose was to try to sign a rare earth procurement contract for the Allied Forces.

Strategic resources such as rare earths involve military technology.

four years ago,

The Allies believe that it is necessary to develop a new advanced anti-armor cluster combat vehicle. After several rounds of bidding, European and American technology companies have taken turns to demonstrate various anti-armor cluster technologies.

The European Joint Operations Committee finally finalized the high-energy spectral penetrating weapon. After many studies, the scientific and technical personnel finally touched the limit of the spectral power output, 465nm. At this time, the system outputs blue-violet visible light. However, the output of high-power beams is limited to the coupling of optical fibers to the spectrum, and regardless of its complex industry, the rare earth share opened by the United States alone is not enough for the Allied forces to manufacture.

China now has the most terrestrial rare earth resources in the world.

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In the first-class cabin of the cruise ship, the oriental-style garden decoration makes the giant ship on the sea extravagantly express the tranquil atmosphere of the mountain temple. In terms of taste, the oriental people play well.

Lisette picked up the tea and said, "Tea from Mount Wuyi. Would you like it?"

Mu Neng said: "Of course entertaining foreigners is the best."

When the two were talking happily, they didn't know that their conversation had been eavesdropped by a small bug.

And the private tea party for the next half hour became an important sharp edge in the internal struggle of the Donglin party members.

The next day, the news that the Donglin party members were colluding with others and preparing to sell important strategic resources made it to the headlines of major business news.

This matter caused an uproar, and the Yan family of the cabinet also quickly put aside the matter and kicked the steward out, but how could he be allowed to refute under the opinion of everyone in the wind?

According to the information found in the main world, this eavesdropping incident was planned by the Fenghou Group, in order to attack the court forces behind the Shanghai-Soviet United Industrial Group, and this timeline is also the same.

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Under the influence of this turmoil in the temple, Bai Jingqi talked with Wei Keng again.

This guy who has climbed to the top of the Fenghou Group now has a more and more oily face recently, and he has a romantic air. And Wei Keng's face was basking in plateau red, and he became more and more country bumpkin. So the painting styles of the two parties seem to be very inconsistent, but the business contacts have made the relationship between the two parties more and more harmonious! At least on the surface it was peaceful.

Currently, Wei Keng's group does not have any strategic projects that have been selected by Fenghou. On the contrary, whether the financial report of Fenghou's projects this year will be a loss or a profit depends on the procurement and infrastructure plans of Western Economic Union.

Wei Keng looked at Haicha on the opposite side, and at the same time took out the multi-purpose knife and peeled an AKS apple for himself.

Today’s topic is rare earths. China’s rare earths are distributed from north to south, 98% of which are distributed in Southern Mongolia, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Sichuan, and Shandong. Baiyun Obo, the most core rare earth capital, was planned by Wei Keng ten years ago. A steel factory has been taken.

Moreover, Luoshui quickly produced a set of the most advanced extraction and purification industry (from the main world) in the technical reserve, and established the largest processing industry. The output value of these processing, part of its own research and development of related optoelectronic equipment for internal needs, and the other part of the delivery of some military projects of Fenghou Group.

When the Shanghai-Soviet United Industrial Group was caught in a storm of public opinion, at the moment, the rare earth trade is at the discretion of the Fenghou Group.

Without competitors, Fenghou Group no longer needs to think about selling more and selling less in terms of economic considerations, but starts to calculate whether it should sell or not! So he had to find Wei Keng to unify his opinions.

After hearing this, Wei Keng asked incredulously: "Do we need to help our potential opponents? Or, when we were carrying the torrent of Su's armor a few years ago, they helped us, and now we need to return the gift?"

After receiving Wei Keng's clear response, Bai Jingqi clapped his hands and praised: "Heroes see the same thing."

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A few weeks later, a document from the Land and Resources Department of the Ministry of Household Affairs of China froze the trade.

The trade representative of Fenghou Group, who was fully in charge of this transaction, returned the request from Raytheon (United States of Edenia) with a "smile of regret".

However, Wei Keng did not expect that the decision he made according to the original timeline history caused another change in the time flow.