Munitions Empire - Chapter 1475 - : 1392: a familiar plan
Chapter 1475: Chapter 1392: A Familiar Plan
The Imperial Capital of Chang’an in the Tang Empire now barely shows any sign of war, and people here are busily making the city better with their efforts.
The streets are spotless, with water trucks having just passed by. People dressed in sweaters walk along both sides of the roads, where cars are jammed together, waiting for the traffic lights to change.
From any angle, this is now a prosperous modern city, even though some places might not be perfect. Overall, it is definitely the most beautiful city in the world.
However, Chang’an is large, but not easy to live in. The capital of the Tang Empire is not very friendly to outsiders. The housing prices here are insanely high, and the cost of living is unimaginably higher than in other places.
On one side of the already very congested streets, blue construction barriers enclose a large area, with excavating machines working amidst the roar of engines.
The simultaneous construction of two subway lines in the capital of the Tang Empire has made the city’s traffic overly congested. The roads, already insufficient, are now even more burdened due to construction.
Being able to start the construction of subways amidst a war of annihilation, while simultaneously laying civilian internet cables and widely popularizing home computers… the Tang Empire seems to not consider the Qin Country as its opponent at all.
The Forbidden City, representing the power of the Empire, bathes in sunlight, exuding majesty and authority. On the enormous city tower, the blood-red Dragon Banner of the Tang Empire flutters in the wind.
In the office, Tang Mo is listening to reports from several important ministers. For the Tang Empire, defeating the Qin Country seems to have become a certainty, and how to devour the vast territory is the concern of everyone.
“Famine in the Chu Territory requires allocating grain for relief, which will take up some of the Military’s transportation capacity. Therefore, the offensives towards Huai Mountain and Tiger Pavilion should be slowed down. After all, relieving disaster victims is a priority,” Vice Premier Chu Muzhou suggested.
Tang Mo also knows that to maintain stability in the occupied areas, more effort and resources are needed. He must carefully handle all sorts of new problems, some of which may last as long as a decade.
To truly gain the loyalty of a region, merely appeasing is sometimes useless; appropriate suppression must also be carried out.
As the saying goes, loosen and tighten, give a slap and then a sweet date, in a back-and-forth tug until, over time, the people of the newly occupied territories recognize their new identity. This requires a process.
“Additionally, the funding for building railways, highways, bridges, and airports in the Chu Territory… also needs to be calculated clearly and disbursed quickly… Their isolation is their self-reliance capital, and only by opening up connections and establishing transportation will they be subdued,” Chu Muzhou continued to say to Tang Mo.
“Money is not the issue; the problem is the construction progress… Even though we’ve thought of countless ways to expand our infrastructure team, we still lack the necessary personnel to accelerate our development and construction of the entire Western Continent,” Tang Mo rubbed his brow wearily, lamenting.
No matter how much effort he puts in, the result is always not enough–the infrastructure personnel of the Tang Empire already number in the millions, but spread across the country, they seem so scarce.
To supplement, the Tang Empire has expanded the scale of orc labor and also employed a large number of goblin workers. At the same time, they’ve even begun to use captured Qin Country prisoners on a large scale to build the Dahua region.
Despite this, in many places, the Tang Empire still lacks construction personnel, which has seriously affected the construction speed within the occupied territories of the Tang Empire.
There’s no choice, the Tang Empire’s expansion is truly too fast. In the past half-year, the Tang Empire has annexed more than half of the Dahua Empire, occupied two-thirds of the Shu Territory, and controlled the entire Chu Territory.
This expansion speed makes their originally rapid infrastructure development seem lackluster. Many newly occupied regions lack personnel management, making it impossible to start construction, and even the means to distribute supplies are lacking.
The war destroyed local agriculture, ruined roads and railways, leaving behind millions to tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of disaster victims, refugees, marauders, and bandits… and these are far more troublesome than the already ineffective Qin Country troops.
“The empire’s grain reserves are declining, and the projected harvest this year isn’t even enough to cover the additional mouths in the occupied territories,” Roger, who has always overseen agriculture, commented authoritatively.
The Tang Empire’s grain reserves have shown a declining trend for the first time in recent months, which is enough to alert Tang Mo.
“Countries on the Eastern Continent are decreasing their grain exports. From the data, they’re trying to restrict our development,” Alice from the economic department provided a series of direct data: “The data doesn’t lie; they’re on guard against us, intending to slow our development pace through resources.”
“No matter what, after annexing the Qin Country, we need to recuperate for a while. In the first year, we need to consolidate agricultural resources, level the land, distribute quality seeds, and encourage farming…” Chu Muzhou proposed the idea of recuperation.
“At least two years of good harvests are needed to stabilize the agricultural base before we can begin industrializing and modernizing the Shu Territory, Chu Territory, and Qin Territory,” Roger quickly added.
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Chen Jing, who has always led the Tang Empire’s industrial layout work in the industrial department, has achieved very apparent results, saving a lot of time and money due to more reasonable arrangements in the Tang Empire.
The deputy of the industrial department then stated: “Then we need to also consider our relations with the Orc Empire and push for the industrialization of the Qi Region, Zheng Region, and Shen Region.”
“Furthermore, personally, I think the place names should be officially banned afterward. In the future, our Tang Empire should give these areas some new names to strengthen the concept of Tang People, increasing the people’s sense of belonging,” suggested the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nangong Hong.
Tang Mo nodded slightly upon hearing his ministers’ suggestions and agreed, “Indeed, we shouldn’t rush to expand; we should solidify our achievements, chew thoroughly on what we have, swallow it… and then consider other things…”
“In any case, let’s first consume the Qin Country, then turn back to organize domestic affairs… take it step by step, draft a plan for the next five years, set our goals, and accomplish them!” Tang Mo recalled a “plan” he was very familiar with and casually ordered.
