Munitions Empire

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Dragon Island, where Tang Mo nodded in acknowledgement of his own thoughts during a small meeting with Nangong Hong and Roger, "I am indeed relocating the new industries deep into the heartland of the Kingdom."

"Compared to Brunas with almost no strategic depth and Jade City, Linshui and Tongcheng are obviously more suitable for increasing my investment," he did not hide, "Brunas is no longer a focus area for my business in the future, of this I am quite certain."

Roger was a little unhappy, for Brunas was once the core industrial zone of the Great Tang Group and also carried his most bitter and glorious memories.

Having always fought for Brunas, Roger had deep feelings for the place. He also regarded it as his foundation, as well as the foundation of the Great Tang Group.

Now that Tang Mo was giving up this foundation to shift the focal point to Dragon Island and places like Linshui, this made Roger very uncomfortable.

Today's Roger was not only the Prime Minister but also represented the interests of many who had risen to wealth from Brunas with Tang Mo in the early days.

They were very worried that Tang Mo, after returning to Tang Country, was gradually abandoning the old system and relying on those black-eyed, black-haired fellow tribesmen who came later.

Tang Mo also knew Roger's thoughts, and it wasn't a time when he could feed himself without worrying about his family. Around him, a whole group of people had their own ideas.

On one side, Roger was deeply concerned about the future of Brunas, while on the other, Nangong Hong was feeling clear and refreshed.

In his eyes, as long as Tang Mo was willing to shift his focus, then he and the forces newly joined to the Great Tang Kingdom represented by him had hope.

"The strategic depth of Brunas is indeed a problem," Tang Mo explained to Roger, "There's no more room for expansion there, so it's unsafe to place important facilities there."

Although he now relied on the more talented Nangong Hong, it didn't mean he trusted Nangong Hong. In fact, the people Tang Mo trusted most in his group were still the old folks brought out from Brunas.

Therefore, when making decisions unfavorable to Brunas, Tang Mo would explain his intentions to Roger to reassure him.

"The chaos within the trade alliance this time has exposed many problems. For example, our old friend Leines I clearly has some ideas of his own," Tang Mo pointed to his temple, "Obviously, he is considering breaking away from our influence."

"The Laines Empire is just a microcosm, actually Dorne, Suthers, these nations are all beginning to try to shake off our influence," Tang Mo said, spreading his hands helplessly, "When there was only Shireck before, they had no choice but to endure. Now that we're here, they're ready to hold onto their old lover Shireck to weaken our influence."

"Sounds infuriating, doesn't it?" Tang Mo said, laughing himself, "But no matter, they can't get rid of us so easily."

Tang Mo was confident about this; if anyone planned to make a move on Brunas, he would definitely receive news in advance. No matter how well they hid, they couldn't escape his surveillance.

"Just using heavy artillery, the enemy could threaten the industrial zone of Jade City. If they break through our defense line, we would have no chance to reorganize," Tang Mo stated, cigarette in hand, spreading his hands in resignation.

Roger seemed reluctant to give up on Brunas, a bustling city that had been built up. He wanted to continue the fight: "But no one will break through our defense line..."

"War will be prolonged! Prime Minister! By then we will have to keep funneling troops continuously into the trenches for attrition, which is clearly not what we want to see," Nangong Hong interjected, unable to watch any longer, and continued explaining on behalf of Tang Mo.

He somewhat despised Roger's stubbornness and felt Roger was far inferior to himself in talent. However, Roger was Tang Mo's confidant, seemingly irreplaceable in his position.

So even though he somewhat scorned Roger, he still patiently tried to convince him.

Tang Mo added, "Moreover, war would shatter our industrial investments and the loss of factories would directly affect our war potential, weakening our production capacity."

"You know how many new weapons we have..." Roger still believed that with Great Tang Group's advanced weaponry, defending Brunas shouldn't be a big problem.

However, Tang Mo was somewhat embarrassed because it was the very advanced weaponry he had developed that completely reduced the strategic depth between Jade City and Brunas to negligible.

If it were just the infantry, the distance between Jade City and Brunas could be considered very vast, and the strategic depth ample.

But then Tang Mo introduced tanks, train guns, automobiles, and airborne dirigibles and airplanes, which suddenly made the strategic depth between Jade City and Brunas a joke.

Therefore, Tang Mo could only continue with a resigned explanation, "Yes, I am aware of that. It is precisely because we foresaw the nature of future warfare that we put more emphasis on strategic depth. Without sufficient strategic depth, the enemy's bombers could potentially obliterate us overnight."

Roger also knew that Great Tang Group couldn't indefinitely refrain from selling airplanes as weapons. Once everyone had airplanes, the distance between Jade City and Brunas would indeed be trivial. Find your next adventure on My Virtual Library Empire

The range of airplanes taking off from within the Laines Empire would completely cover Brunas. For a Brunas littered with industrial zones, there really wasn't much time to react.

Only to hear Tang Mo continue at this point, "Our anti-aircraft guns can intercept the enemy's dirigibles, but what if the enemy had airplanes? Would we have enough time to respond then? In an hour, maybe two, the enemy's airplanes could reach Brunas. By that time, would our factories still be safe?"

Seeing Roger not responding, Tang Mo further questioned him, "Even if we know the enemy's airplanes are about to strike, do we have time to launch our own airplanes for interception?"

"This..." Roger, in fact, had understood Tang Mo's reasoning, but his hesitance stemmed from his emotional attachment to Brunas.

Seeing Roger wavering, Tang Mo reminded him, "Roger, we are now the rulers of a nation; we should see issues from the perspective of the entire country, not let our emotions for Brunas blind us."

"Your Grace, I understand," at last, Roger conceded to Tang Mo's choices, bowing his head and suppressing his personal emotions for Brunas: "I will depart for Chang'an at once!"