In the northern part, in the vast fields, a lonely railway track spans this place. A goshawk is flying high above the sky and looking at the moving train on the railway tracks.

The north of Yanguan was nominally the territory of Hanshan, but in fact, due to insufficient economic and technological strength in the past, the control was very insufficient.

【After entering the steam era, humans still have limitations in controlling the planet's surface]

Taking many economically developed areas on Earth in the 21st century as an example, it was actually only developed after science and technology fully entered the power era.

The development history of economically developed areas in pan-frost and tropical areas is the most significant, because the infrastructure foundations of these areas were unable to support the highest civilized system before the power era.

Tropical areas: The countries on Earth that came into being through the first industrial revolution, only ports have real absolute control in the subtropical zone. Large areas of colonies rely on the assistance of local indigenous leaders to govern themselves.

Why? It is not that the military power is insufficient, but that the local production system cannot be maintained in tropical areas. The summer is extremely hot, and advanced communities like factories that need to gather a large number of people cannot be opened. (No air conditioning)

And the Pan-frost zone: In the 21st century, North America and Northeast Asia can definitely be called fertile land. But why did the first country of the Industrial Revolution not take advantage of the advantages at that time to carry out absolute administrative control over these lands?

It was not that the national politicians of the first industrial revolution were blind and could not see the future potential of these regions, but that in the steam engine era, in order to ensure the production of the primary industry, the pan-cold zone adopted "slavery" without exception.

The Russians were serfs, and the American imperial plantations were plantations. Before the shogunate era, Japan did not count the household registration and only counted Shigao. As for the hunting and farming people in the White Water of Montenegro, there is no need to say.

Because before the electric power revolution, the cold weather in the cold zone made it impossible for the single-family self-cultivated farmers to survive. To ensure agricultural production, they must survive in a concentrated manner, and this model gave slave owners room for their existence.

The advanced modern social system in old Europe at that time was disconnected from the pan-frost colonies, which directly led to the separation of culture and national consciousness. The root of rule lies in the fact that the book and the car are the same. The inability to implement the same system is naturally difficult to annex.

The advanced modern social system was established in the pan-frost zone and the tropical zone, and objective conditions were only considered to be collected after the electric power revolution.

In other words, as productivity becomes more and more developed, people will always be surprised to find that - oh, as long as infrastructure is built, is this land very fertile?

[And now, in this world, Lu Ming is such a "lucky discoverer"]

During the Battle of Sixi's destruction of the country, Lu Ming seized a certain amount of political capital. At the suggestion of a certain Guangling, Lu Ming bargained with the Congress and obtained some resources to guard the border and farm in the north.

The Hanshan political arena happened to be a headache for the place where the legions that surrendered to the eastern part of Sixi were. There was no such resource in Hanshan to arrange these Sixi soldiers who turned to Hanshan under the Taiyun army. Therefore, it is not unreasonable that Shangguan Deyang said that his daughter was a fool.

Narrator: If this kind of foreign legion is not handled properly, it will be the "Hou Jing Rebellion".

So how do you place these Sisi military organizations, disband on the spot, and then deport them to the north to open up land? If you dare to do this, you can quickly change your war.

The only way is to let your side use strong battles to restrain the troops in the future and then send them to the north. And the only one who is confident and capable of suppressing this guest army is Lu Ming, a young military strongman who just performed well in the battle to destroy the country in Sisi.

Of course, Lu Ming was not polite to the people in Hanshan. What kind of national justice and how to serve the country? Lu Ming directly posted the document that his old father was reprimanded by Congress at the door, and then wrote an opinion at the end: "I have foot disease, and I am afraid that I will betray the country's kindness."

It was not until the end that the ministers and ministers in Hanshan gritted their teeth and bleed heavily that Lu Ming accepted the appointment.

Now the train that accompanied Lu Ming out of customs transports a large number of agricultural machinery and a complete set of industrial production equipment.

From the long-term perspective, Lu Ming brought these Sisi soldiers to the north. If it was done, it would undoubtedly make Lu Ming the most powerful warlord in the north.

Can't you see it in Hanshan? No, they can see it, but politicians have no time to think about long-term interests now. At this time, the foreign army is the urgent need for domestic officials. As long as they can force the Sixi people out of their bodies and send them outside Yanguan, and if anything happens, there will be Yanshan military fortress blocking them.

Moreover, it is still a bit of whether Lu Ming can gain a foothold in the north. Because there is a terrible agricultural disaster in the north.

...

The rumbling armored train was driving on the railway in the north of Hanshan. This fortress-like train had a flat observation deck on the front of the train like a warship deck.

The commander of the Northern Tour, Lu Ming, was standing on the platform in mechanical uniforms, with his young and resolute face looking at the Beiyuan map projected from the field in front of him.

With a click, in the wind as the train was driving, an object the size of a thumb fell on the railing and then lay on the combat uniform.

Lu Ming looked down at the locusts landing on the ceramic armor, raised his hand with mechanical gloves, and pinched the insect to death with one palm.

The great locust plague is a unique disaster in the north.

They erupt from the western mountains every year and gnaw off all the surface vegetation in the north. Fortunately, because the soil and soil in the south are wet, it is suitable for the growth of a parasitic mycelium. This locust cannot adult in the south, and it disappears quickly after it comes down from the Haobei Plateau. The range of this great locust plague has firmly set the dividing line between nomadism and farming.

[But when it comes to this big locust plague, there are also myths and legends]

After the end of the Age of Hundred Saints, it is said that a king in the north failed to fight with the Central God Emperor. He smashed the Dingbei tripod in anger. The big tripod was broken, and the sealed hatred flowed on the earth. The contact between hatred and the soil became a great locust plague. In order to save the people from the mouths of the insects, the Central God Emperor took off his hair and turned into a mycelium to curb the swarm.

Su Deng had such a mystery as to the legend that the locust disaster should be related to the war between the ancestors of the Hela people and the ancestors of the humans in the East Continent.

The sudden locust should be a weapon specifically targeting farmland after gene debugging.

The big tripod in the myth should be broken, and the consensus between the two sides was completely broken, and then a war broke out. There is no doubt that the Hela people failed. In order to prevent the retreat to the west and were chased, the locust plague was released after measuring the climate.

Human scientists in the East Continent have tried their best to develop corresponding spore weapons to curb the destruction of East Continent agriculture, but have completely exhausted the energy of only one generation of scientists in the East Continent after the war.

As for the connection between mycelium and hair, the narrator: "In order to study mycelium, the researcher should have worked all night and sacrificed a lot of his hair."

...

After 20,000 years of development, these insects are no longer as terrifying as they were originally and are embedded in the northern ecosystem.

For example: locust plagues break out regularly every year, and migratory birds from the north come to eat regularly. And amazing guano minerals are left on the islands along the north. Nature is balanced, and the balance is broken by humans, and other species will restore balance.

Of course, it is precisely because the locust swarms that rise regularly every year have formed a new natural balance. After the development of human productivity, if they want to change again, they are always taught a lesson by nature again.

There were two attempts to conquer the northern nature in Yanshan history, but both failed.

The first time: In the 934th year of the Steam Calendar, a certain city of the ancestor of the Lu family attempted to establish Bohai County north of Yanshan Mountain.

The climate was relatively warm at that time, with a large amount of steam agricultural equipment reclaiming northern farmland and newly built water conservancy. As a result, the harvest was good in the first year, and the mycelium was sown in advance in the second year, and the locust plague did not rise.

However, in the third year, the climate experienced a setback. The average temperature in early spring was low and the precipitation was also low. The mycelium was low, which directly broke a threshold. After the threshold was lowered, the locust plague was a series of promoting conditions.

Before the crop harvest, a major locust plague that had not been seen for thousands of years suddenly broke out. A large number of crops and water conservancy facilities will accelerate the reproduction of locusts. Because crop cultivation has caused the sudden surge in locusts to a level that has not been seen for thousands of years. Locusts are directly overwhelmed, not only eating up all the crops, but also eating up other vegetation.

And a huge number of them migrate directly southward, crossing the constant boundary line of the past, and directly swept across all areas within 600 kilometers south of the Haobei Plateau. The ecology of the entire north cannot be restored for three years.

However, due to the poor harvest of Hanshan, Hanshan was defeated by Sixi and the land west of Hengshan was ceded.

The second time was a hundred years later.

At that time, large airships appeared in the technological revolution, and biologists began to cultivate new varieties of mycelium on a large scale. At that time, the locust plague had signs of a rise. The rapid release of mycelium could infect all locusts at once and eliminate them. This anti-locust plague mechanism was very successful.

However, after more than ten years of harvest, the world war broke out. In order to eliminate the power of Hanshan, the Penghai Empire directly sent the Great Wall into the north and blew up all the airship bases on land.

The locust plague could not be curbed, so people in the north watched the black storm made of insects come again.

Because the previous decade used spores to exterminate locusts, the number of migratory bird populations has decreased year by year. Once the survival of organisms at the upper level of the food chain is in crisis, it is not as easy to recover as species at the lower level of the food chain.

So the locust plague was even larger, and it was not only Hanshan, but also Sexipeng Sea and even Taiyun were not spared.

Because it was originally a war era and the destruction of production was extremely serious, the locust plague broke out at this time and became the last straw that broke the situation. Two thousand kilometers north of the north were covered with barren land, forty cities in the north were full of bones, and people even fed each other.

That disaster directly led to the collapse of the Hanshan monarchy and then transformed into an aristocratic republic. So this small bug caused human politics to go ups and downs.

For the past six hundred years, the development of the northern part of the Sei River has always been a taboo in Hanshan. Now, politicians within Hanshan have once again defaulted on the development plan of the northern part of the Sei River. To some extent, they have no choice but to have political scoundrel ideas. - "The ecology of the northern part of the Sei River changes again, at worst everyone will die together."

However, now Su Ding encouraged Lu Ming to go to the north to develop, but he had no intention of dying together.

...

Now Lu Ming looked at the display of the helmet, and there was a rotating diorama. This was a large propeller aircraft.

The aluminum alloy is the main body, with a wingspan of 34 meters, a total length of 34 meters, and a weight of 70 tons. It adopts a turboprop engine (also a turbojet engine and a turbofan engine). The overall layout is similar to that of the H-6.

Looking back on history, Su Deng said that before the second major locust plague broke out, he felt that the airship had already successfully curbed the locust plague, but he did not consider the destruction of the war.

In the past, airships had slow speeds and short ranges, so all airship platforms had to be set on land, and there were fixed hydrogen refueling stations on the airship platforms, so the extreme capacity was infiltration and damage from the Great Wall.

So, what if this risk is directly eliminated?

Therefore, Su Deng (Guang Ling) now uses Lu Ming directly to the long-range bomber technology and plans to establish an air force base on the East China Sea islands.

Once war is encountered on land, the air force will be directly deployed to the maritime air force base. Under the protection of the maritime base, a single Great Wall cannot break through the defense system.

If you encounter maritime violations, you will directly deploy to an inland air base. The range is long and you can cross-range strikes in the face of war.

In this way, the mechanism by which the country can curb insect disasters from the air will be much more stable when facing war destruction.

...

This long-range manned aircraft is produced by Binhai Rongshi.

After learning that Lu Ming was going to develop the north, the Sandstorm Group signed the contract directly.

Lu Ming has not paid a penny now, and it is used to mortgage the future crop trade exports in the north.

Of course, sandstorms are not a loss. The more raw materials suppliers like this, the better. Especially this kind of aircraft supply chain is essentially linked to the core interests and security of Lu Ming. It is equivalent to an agent who indirectly controls new land interests.

Of course, this kind of control is far from comparable to that of Meng Hong. Meng Hong has no bargaining chips at all, and the sandstorm on Lu Ming is still very equal.

...

But for Lu Ming, he attaches great importance to planes.

Because he has a standard military aristocratic thinking, in terms of political thinking, there is often only the way that military means influence politics, and the impact on politics in other aspects is often ignored. Therefore, Su Deng (Guangling) introduced to him that he lacks interest in the connection between aircraft and national economic security, and he only cares about military roles.

However, with pure military thinking, he is more keen than others to perceive the new military changes brought by new equipment.

When Lu Ming first saw this large aluminum bird, he arranged its importance alongside the armored regiments, destroyers and armored trains.

Especially when I saw the data, I could cruise for 4,000 kilometers with six tons of ammunition loaded, and immediately drew a large circle on the map to calibrate the strike range. I planned this war mode under future aerial bombardment. The red and blue cursors on the screen map of the helmet eyepiece, and the flash of digital annotations jumped in his ambition pupils.

Seeing Lu Ming like this, Su Deng (Guang Ling) sitting on Lu Ming's helmet shook his head helplessly and sighed: "One other person who treats me as a crutch."

Only when food is independent and military industry is independent can one have the foundation for becoming a warlord. It is not that Lu Ming did not know this. However, with the auxiliary system of Su Ding, he seemed too lazy to bother to be troublesome. He focused on the interests he was good at - that is, "military talent".

By the way, when did this bad habit come from?

It appeared in school. In recent years, Lu Ming made extensive friends in school and was generous. He often acted as a timely rain to provide financial support to some poor disciples in difficult situations, and even provided knowledge guidance. He gained fame when he was young. In fact, his interpersonal communication at school was recommended by Su Ding.

When he entered the army, his friends came to rely on him, and all the systems and rewards and punishments were also listed by Su Deng, which made him have a stable and efficient group around him.

And now, Su Deng couldn't help but reflect: "Am I... too considerate?"
Chapter completed!