The strength of the dark elves is far less than that of Daxia, and the backward Black Sailing fleet is definitely vulnerable to Daxia's fleet.

But they have a super-spec top naval combat unit like Hydra.

Even Xia Qi was helpless for a monster whose scales were so hard that they could defend against bullets and shelling, and even moved under the sea for a long time.

As a last resort, Xia Qi changed his current development policy and asked the Military Research Department to temporarily put several other projects aside to carry out the development and research of underwater weapons, and strive to make weapons that can cause sufficient lethality to Hydra as soon as possible.

During this period, what should be developed on land naturally needs to continue to develop.

Over the years, the crazy development of Daxia's naval power has brought considerable pressure to Daxia's finances.

The armors continued to flow into the water like dumplings. Even the minister of the Ministry of Finance did not dare to read the reports from the Navy, and the liver trembled every time they saw them.

In the past, the Ministry of Finance believed that the most expensive things were the army troops, the research and development of various rifles and cannons, the mass production of ammunition and shells, and the daily training expenses of soldiers from various units were astronomical every day.

Once a war is fought, the investment required will rise even further.

But since the naval forces began to train and the steel warships were put into production, they realized that they were still too young.

The navy burned money and didn't count it at all.

In just a few years, the money spent on building the navy directly reduced the annual income of Daxia, which was originally economically sound.

Today's fleet is quite large, and every year, daily exercises and regular maintenance, the money required is astronomical.

In order to create a new warship with his own majesty, the Minister of Finance hurriedly sent a report and cried to Xia Qi that he could not build a warship, otherwise the national treasury would be hollowed out.

In fact, Daxia still has enough financial resources in its finances, and it is still not a problem to build a few more warships. However, considering the continued expenditures in the future, and other large and small projects are underway within Daxia, if this continues, there will inevitably be a risk of economic instability.

If it really reaches that point, if a war suddenly starts, the economic collapse will only take a moment.

The risk is too great. Since the fleet has begun to take shape, it will be suspended for a while. Xia Qi doesn't want to take risks to do such things.

However, warships can not be built, but research is absolutely impossible.

Blue Star’s Huaxia once told Xia Qi a truth: if you don’t advance, you will retreat.

If you have been dominating the world for thousands of years, as long as you are complacent, you will be caught up by others.

Not only will the status be lost, but others will also be bullied.

Nowadays, how far a civilization has developed depends entirely on its own research progress.

Once the research stops, development stops. This is something Xia Qi absolutely does not allow.

Xia Hai.

Under the sea of ​​Xiahai, groups of fishman soldiers were in agile shapes and quickly approached the military port.

For these fishmen, this is already their retained project.

But this time, it was a little different from their usual scripts.

boom!

Accompanied by the violent explosion, the originally calm sea surface was blown open, and suddenly, a large area of ​​fishmen were blown into powder without knowing anything.

The remaining small number of fishmen were also caught in fear.

In the distance, on the deck of the initial number, Lu Meng put down the telescope in his hand and turned to look at the adjutant Tang Han beside him.

"The mine battle was successful, send a signal to ask the water lizard troops to pull up the underwater cordon at the pre-determined location, and then clean up the remaining fishmen."

After receiving the news, the water lizard warriors who had been waiting for a long time jumped down from the destroyer.

The entrance to Xiahai is almost covered with mines, and the east and west are extremely powerful, but they cannot distinguish the enemy. While attacking the enemy, they will also limit their own actions.

So even if they themselves dare not get close to this sea area.

The existence of mines effectively curbed the fish people's in-depth entry.

After this battle, if they want to sneak into the Xiahai Sea again, they have to first see if they have the strength to pass through this mine area.

After that, the Daxia Navy finally calmed down for a while.

But Taklia on the other side felt so uncomfortable. The feeling of being controlled by others was really bad!

He understood that Daxia's steel fleet was not something his Black Sail Battleship could compete with.

Now the only trump card in his hand that can pose a threat to the steel fleet is Hydra.

Facing such a powerful opponent, the huge psychological pressure made Taklia increasingly anxious.

However, Xia Qi, who was far away in Daxia City, was exactly the opposite of him.

After producing the first batch of mines and laying a mine defense line at the entrance of the Xiahai Sea, he no longer paid attention to the matter there and left all his power to Lu Meng to handle.

After all, he is an emperor, and he has so many things every day, so it is impossible for him to just focus on one piece every day.

Also, he wanted to take care of it but couldn't, and now he has no choice but to do anything to the Hydra.

Fortunately, Taklia is the same in this regard.

Xia Qi was temporarily helpless with Hydra, and Taklia was also afraid of the existence of Fantasy and did not dare to play his last trump card.

In a short time, both sides fell into a delicate balance.

During this period, Xia Qi turned his attention to other aspects of development.

In recent years, with the increasing population of Daxia, many cities have become overcrowded, especially Daxia City, whose population has far exceeded the affordable range.

So, Xia Qi issued an order, which was to demolish the city walls to expand the area of ​​the city.

Of course, the demolition of the city walls requires gradual progress and it is impossible to completely remove them all at once.

In this era, the city walls on the periphery of civilization still have value, but inland cities, the actual significance of the city walls is no longer great, and they will not play any defensive role, and will also affect the expansion and development of the city.

The demolition of the inner city walls has now become a necessary process.

However, the first city to demolish the city wall was not Daxia City, but Silk City not far from Daxia City.

This city was founded very early, and because of its production of silk, it grew and grew in a very short time. It is now known as the Silk Capital of Daxia.

In short, this is a densely populated city and very prosperous economy.

As for Daxia City, it is actually no longer suitable as the capital of Daxia, because its geographical location is too north and the surrounding geographical environment also limits his expansion.

However, from construction to migration of the capital, such a large project cannot be completed in a short time.

Moreover, Xia Qi just has this intention now. Whether to move depends on the specific situation.

Anyway, there is no need to pay too much attention now.

Xia Qi has been very concerned about the research and development progress of various projects in the Science and Technology Academy recently. At present, the academicians of the Science and Technology Academy have finally overcome difficulties and made dry batteries. I believe that they will be able to mass production soon.

In this way, the flashlight, an electrical appliance can be used for military purposes and enter thousands of households.

I just hope that this thing will not become the only electrical appliance in many people's homes.

During this period, the research and development of generators also made progress, and some people proposed the idea of ​​developing portable generators.

However, this idea was rejected by Xia Qi, and in a short period of time, he did not need this thing.

What he needs is a thermal generator with a huge output power that can power a whole city!

However, it is not easy to manufacture such a high-power generator.

Moreover, excessive output power can easily lead to unstable machine and uncontrollable dangers.

In this regard, Xia Qi naturally helped them with his modern people based on his common sense.

For example, it doesn’t mean that you really need to use one generator to complete it all, ten or twenty units are actually OK.

They can divide an entire city into several small areas that are relatively easy to manage and control, and then use wires to connect each small area with the generator. A generator only needs to provide stable electrical energy to one area.

Xia Qi's words provided a new direction for the scientists who almost got into a dead end.

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