A period of time passed quietly, and during this period, Daxia made new progress.

The territory of Folangji, far away from the West Sea, was completely annexed by him. Later, for the convenience of being named, it was temporarily named the Eighth District.

This incident can be said to be completely expected by Xia Qi.

Long before when he took over the sea hegemony of No. 12, the player of the Folang Machine had already become a piece of meat on his plate.

How to eat and when to eat is just his thoughts.

Therefore, when confirming the news, Xia Qi's mood did not change much.

After sending a group of officials to manage, his attention quickly shifted to another matter.

The capture of a piece of territory can allow him to gain a large number of population, factories, and resource points.

And these things will eventually become the productivity of Daxia.

Over the years, hisxia's productivity has been growing at a rate visible to the naked eye.

Although the population burden has also increased, its development momentum is still quite fierce.

Nowadays, all areas on the central continent, as well as the fifth area far away from the East China Sea, namely the Cherry Blossom Islands, can regularly bring him sufficient resources and productivity.

These resources include various types of metal ores, food, fuel, energy materials, etc.

Not to mention productivity, just take the fifth zone as an example. As a civilization that focused on naval warfare, there were many shipbuilding factories in the fifth zone. Now, after being taken over by Daxia, it is naturally all put into use.

In this period, the manufacturing efficiency of Daxia warships has been significantly improved.

As for the sixth, seventh and eighth districts that were later recovered one by one.

Among them, Alber, a top talent in the sixth district, has personally taken charge of the management, and has improved over the years.

However, it is still in the process of restoring vitality. If you want to gain profits, you may have to wait a few more years.

Not to mention the seventh and eighth districts.

In order to connect all the industrial chains of these regions, Zhang Liang, who is responsible for the internal economic, trade and finance of civilization, has also squandered a lot of time and energy, and directly spent money to create several maritime trade fleets.

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These fleets have fixed sea routes, responsible for transporting resources and cargo to various regions.

Often, it takes a year and a half, or even longer to go to sea at one time.

However, their existence completely connects the economy and trade of several continents and islands in this entire area, together with several continents and islands.

At the same time, it also attracted a large number of businessmen to rush into the sea.

As a result, with the central continent as the main point, at this time, maritime trade developed rapidly in this entire area with an unprecedented rapid momentum and brought a lot of economic benefits to Xia Qi.

As soon as these batches of income were collected, the fiscal and economic economy of Daxia became much more abundant, and those important projects were finally allocated funds.

At the same time, Xia Qi also wanted to further expand the airship force and the sea fleet!

I have to say that building warships and airships is really a great thing.

Not to mention, it is also necessary while it is very pleasant.

This territory is too large, and there are more sea areas that require daily patrols on weekdays. Then the original warships are definitely not enough, and the fleet must be expanded!

In order to gain a broader vision and increase the support of air power on this larger territory, the air reconnaissance forces and the goblin air bombing forces must also be expanded together!

The financial funds that require expenditure were stunned by the old minister of the Ministry of Finance.

Compared with the financial funds required to expand naval warships and airships of the air force, the little funds required to expand the army's strength can only be said to be worth mentioning.

At the same time, in Daxia, the scope of recruitment has been expanded to all areas except the sixth, seventh and eighth areas

It's right.

This is also impossible, although for Xia Qi, the original citizens in Daxia were more credible.

However, the years of continuous recruitment has begun to reduce the labor force of young and middle-aged people within his civilization, although it has grown rapidly in terms of the total population.

But there is a very big problem here, that is, children who have just been born in recent years account for a considerable proportion.

And those children will not be able to truly regard them as laborers in the next fifteen or sixteen years, let alone join the army and fight.

In this way, in order to maintain productivity and labor, recruitment from other regions has become inevitable.

However, there is actually no need to think too pessimistic about this matter. After all, he has been operating in those areas for some years.

His own talent has made the people in those areas already have basic loyalty and can still be used.

Xia Qi called Du Ruhui, and the two discussed it. Then, as soon as the conscription order was issued, the responses in each area could not be said to be very good, but they were not bad.

The people in these areas had just experienced war in their early years, so they could not ask for too much.

Afterwards, Xia Qi was actually quite satisfied with the report sent by the Ministry of Military Affairs.

In short, those recruits who are not reserves but are basically zero-foundations must be trained for at least half a year before talking about them.

If conditions permit, it is necessary to train for one or two years.

After stamping the documents of the Ministry of Military Affairs and signing their names, Xia Qi directly handed the document to Du Ruhui below.

In response, Du Ruhui took the opportunity to open another document, handed it over, and reported it at the same time.

"Your Majesty, this is our latest bolt-pull-type rifle, the equipment of the 7th Lightning Company."

Weapons will be constantly updated.

However, considering a series of issues such as quantity, cost and fiscal funds, it is often impossible to fully equip them all at once. Basically, we have to make a priority order, batch by batch.

If the efficiency is slower, it will take several years to complete the update.

Fortunately, according to Gangduo, this Lightning Seventh Company is currently the best-performance bolt-pull-type rifle that Daxia can manufacture. In the short term, it is impossible to make further upgrades and improvements.

Therefore, Xia Qi didn't have to worry that the 7th Company of Lightning had only been halfway through popularity, and the Ordnance Research Department has improved a new model of rifle with stronger performance.

Considering the priority level, Xia Qi was the first to equip the army on the front line, the latest model of the Lightning 7th Company.

As for the garrison on the inland side, he also equipped some of them just in case, and as for other legions, he could only take it slowly.

After confirming the latest progress, Xia Qi closed the document. Then, he seemed to remember something, and asked Du Ruhui: "By the way, the bulletproof vest I ordered the Ordnance Research Department to study, how are you doing?"

After entering this era, leaving aside some special civilizations and special arms, bulletproof vests undoubtedly became the main armor.

Although the Ordnance Research Department is not under Du Ruhui's jurisdiction, the bulletproof vest is closely related to the military after all, so Du Ruhui has always been very concerned about it, and there is basically nothing wrong with asking him about this question.

Sure enough, facing Xia Qi's problem, Du Ruhui said simply: "Report to Your Majesty, multiple samples have been developed at present, and experiments and improvements are being carried out one by one. If you want to get specific results, you may have to go back.

Wait for a while."

Xia Qi nodded after hearing this. He probably knew about this matter.

Guns and bullets are one of the main output methods of this era, and the bulletproof vest, as a corresponding armor, is obviously not something that can be done with just talking.

What is important is comprehensive performance.

There are so many metals that can withstand bullets in Daxia, just make a set of armor.

But according to the amount of the armor, how many people can eat and wear?

Not to mention the full-body bulletproof armor, even if you only make a piece of breastplate and wear it on your body, the amount will be enough.

But in contrast, if the bulletproof ability is very poor or basically not, then equipment will not make much sense.

In this way, how to create a bulletproof vest that is bulletproof but not too bulky and relatively light while controlling costs has become one of the main projects currently being studied by the Ordnance Research Department.

While Xia Qi was busy developing his internal affairs and military power in Daxia, outside the No. 12 waters, five shark men led by Rubin, the youngest son of the shark human leader Malfoy and Rubin, were experiencing a long-distance rush.

Afterwards, I finally arrived here.

It has to be said that the efficiency of acting alone is much faster than leading a large army or troops.

In addition, the stamina and speed of the Sharkman clan are quite excellent. This action has been relatively smooth for Rubin, at least, so far.

"Captain, what should we do next?"

With such a question, the four shark men who had arrived outside the No. 12 Sea area all fell on Rubin's eyes.

To be honest, although Rubin had several experience in leading troops before this, most of the time, he actually acted as a young general under his father or brother's account to wait for the call, so things like this are really a big deal.

Once.

The successful arrival made Rubin breathe a sigh of relief. Now facing this problem of his tribesmen, he has only two choices.

The first is to keep it hidden and try to meet Dort quietly to understand the situation.

However, he was not familiar with this No. 12 sea area, and with such a large area, finding a needle in a haystack is tantamount to finding a needle, so the feasibility of this first method is very low and can basically be ignored.

In this way, we can only choose the second method, directly contact the fishman on this side, explain the purpose, and then try to see Dort.

According to the information he has confirmed, none of the fishman reconnaissance teams sent by William Mousse have returned.

From this information, it is enough to see that there must be a fishman army patroling within the No. 12 sea area.

In this way, things will be easier.

Rubin first took his four tribe members to find a place to hide the remaining supplies on them. The batch of supplies his father prepared for them saved some money, which was enough for them to return, so there were still a lot left now.

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To be continued...