Munitions Empire-Chapter 1072: Meet once for 994

Chapter 1072: Meet once for 994

In the office beside the grand council hall of Kangrao, King City of Shu Country, a woman so beautifully out of place sat next to Speaker Liu Jing, the two of them chatting and laughing about something.

No one knew the origin of this woman; she was simply too stunning to forget, leaving an indelible impression on the servants.

Many of the officials, who prided themselves on their wide-ranging experiences and claimed to have encountered countless beauties, had to starkly admit their own ignorance after merely brushing past this woman.

After delivering two cups of black tea, a servant, whose face blushed with excitement from a simple thank you, had just stepped out when several people asked him about the woman inside the room.

But he knew nothing, as he really only dared to carry the teacups in, set them on the coffee table in front of the woman, and then hurriedly excused himself after receiving her pleasant thank you.

Yes, pleasant… He pondered long and hard, the only ordinary word that came to mind: her voice was really pleasant, the kind that made him tremble with excitement.

Inside the room, observing his subordinate’s loss of composure, Liu Jing gave a soft cough and restarted the conversation: “Our interests align, at least in our hatred for the Great Tang Empire, where our interests are one and the same.”

After losing a large portion of its northern territory, Shu Country’s national strength was undoubtedly much weaker. Liu Jing was very aware that he and those greedy, lustful members of Shu’s council would probably never reclaim their ancestral lands in their lifetimes.

Being a speaker in Shu Country, Liu Jing was obviously no fool; not only was he not a fool, but he was also a smart man. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have hurriedly arranged a visit to the Great Tang Empire; if he had actually gone to Great Tang, Shu’s current situation might have been a lot better.

Since Liu Jing was a smart man, he was certainly capable of analyzing what role the Great Tang Empire had recently played amidst a series of upheavals.

Recently, as Chu Country began occupying large swathes of Shu’s northern lands, envoys from the Great Tang Empire were active throughout Shu Country. Even a fool could see that the entire incident, if not orchestrated by the Great Tang Empire, was certainly permitted by them.

Thus, in Shu Country, protests against the Great Tang Empire erupted—a movement which, unfortunately, turned out quite ineffectively, embarrassing the people of Shu Country themselves.

Indeed, the protesting citizens of Shu quickly realized that their cars used components from the Great Tang Empire, their houses were built with cement produced by factories that Great Tang companies established locally.

Without the products of the Great Tang Empire, they would nearly be reverting to a primal age: their previous way of life had already been thoroughly infiltrated by the technology of the Great Tang.

You say you want to live in a wooden house? Well, the logging equipment is all produced by the Great Tang Group. You say you want to eat the food of the past, will you use the MSG and soy sauce produced by the Great Tang Group?

The factories owned by Shu merchants manufacturing national products were all equipped with machinery imported from the Great Tang Empire, and they had just spent a great deal of money on them; would you just smash them with a single word? Are you joking?

Moreover, boycotting products of the Great Tang Empire was inherently contradictory to the already established global industrial supply chain. As the world’s provider of advanced technology, boycotting the Great Tang Empire was essentially no different from self-castration.

Sofia came to Shu Country amidst its internal troubles and consecutive defeats on the battlefield. She had always been active in the shadows, hoping to foster an Anti-Tang Alliance in the Western Continent.

However, the outcomes of such efforts were meager since a previous Anti-Tang Alliance had already been crushed, and Dahua Empire, having suffered the most, witnessed Zhao Kai lose faith in confronting the Great Tang Empire head-on.

At the same time, the regions stealthily targeted by the Great Tang Empire coincided with those of the Dahua Empire, hence Sofia’s activities here were continuously repressed by the intelligence department of the Great Tang Empire; she dared not expose herself due to the absolute difference in strength, which she had no means of reversing.

Subsequently, a civil war broke out in the Dahua Empire, and Qin Country invaded Shu Country. As a result, the plans for an Anti-Tang Alliance had aborted and could not be carried out.

Yet, Sofia still seized the opportunity to come to Shu Country, seeking a more reliable and powerful ally: Shu Country, which was also laid bare on the dining table by the Great Tang Empire!

Hearing Liu Jing’s words, Sofia smiled seductively in agreement: “We must unite, all who oppose Tang Mo, all those opposed to Tang Mo’s persecution of the established upper class should come together! We must show Tang Mo our strength is enough to devour his!”

She, of course, was aware that many old merchants and nobility of Shu Country were naturally against the established policies of the Great Tang Empire. According to Tang Mo’s policies, all of Shu’s existing old bureaucrats, old nobility, and old merchants, as well as all landlord and gentry classes, were to be utterly purged and eradicated.

This is something Shu Country cannot tolerate, so when Sofia says this, it is equivalent to uniting the forces that are naturally hostile to Tang Country.

In order to win over Liu Jing, Sofia even used the term “we”: “The expansion of Tang Country must be contained. The more territories ruled by Tang Mo, the more his political ideas will be accepted by people, and that is unfavorable for us!”

Sitting across from her, Liu Jing also very much agrees with Sofia’s viewpoint. He is also extremely dissatisfied with the behavior of the Great Tang Empire: “The fragmentation of Dahua, along with the invasion of Shu Country by Qin Country, these vivid examples tell us that the Great Tang Empire cannot bring peace; it is chaos and a threat in itself!”

In the eyes of Shu Country, a strong regional power, at least one that appears strong on the surface, is a good leader for maintaining regional stability.

The Dahua Empire is an excellent “suzerain.” This suzerain only needs to be paid some respects and then behave as a proud celestial empire, honestly mediating conflicts among smaller brothers, acting as a frightening judge is enough.

Its existence should not threaten the survival of surrounding smaller nations, nor should it harbor ambitions for territories and populations.

But the Great Tang Empire is not like this. Liu Jing can see that the newly risen Great Tang Empire and the already declining and decadent Dahua Empire are entirely different; Emperor Tang Mo of the Great Tang Empire has an almost obstinate instinct for expansion and control. He hopes to gain more territory, and the courtiers of the Great Tang Empire are also more willing to display their achievements in this way.

An empire like this is dangerous. Nanshan Port of Chu Country is an example: the act of exchanging other countries’ territories for land that one desires is in itself a strong demand that provokes resentment and apprehension among neighboring countries.

Qin Country, Dahua, and all other nations in the world, there is none that does not dread the Great Tang Empire. It’s just that the Great Tang Empire is truly too powerful – so potent that it took on the world single-handedly during the first Anti-Tang war.

Although countries of the Eastern Continent hardly exerted any effort in that war, the formidable combat power of the Great Tang Empire indeed struck terror into all participating nations.

As one of the main characters in the last war, the Dahua Empire even lost a large expanse of territory and had its backbone broken, unable to recover even up to now.

The whole world has long suffered from the “Great Tang headache,” but there’s nothing to be done about it. If there truly appears a hope of overthrowing the Great Tang Empire, I believe everyone will give it a try.

This is also the reason why Liu Jing personally receives Sofia: as long as one adheres to the Anti-Tang stance, they are naturally allies. Apart from those from the Great Tang Empire, no one in this world likes this country.

In fact, if truth be told, the common people of other countries might also like Tang Country – more precisely, they like to become Tang People… but this is a bit like slapping one’s own face, so the nobility, landlords, kings, and ministers of various countries would surely never admit it.

As the two of them discussed this, Liu Jing shook his head with a hint of helplessness and lamented, “Its technology is too powerful; we simply cannot shake off its influence! Shu Country has always been trying to find an independent path, but the greed of the Great Tang Empire has destroyed all our hopes.”

He recalled the series of farces in Shu Country a few days ago and spoke with feeling, “The Great Tang Empire even has many secret weapons that would only be brought out during war…”

This is also another main reason why the new Anti-Tang Alliance has been unable to form: last time the Anti-Tang Alliance brought out submarines and torpedoes, directly causing the vast Anti-Tang Alliance Fleet to collapse.

At the same time, they brought out advanced airplanes and tanks, grinding the seemingly invincible Dahua Empire into the ground.

Who can guarantee that in the next war, the Great Tang Empire won’t bring out some new tricks and make the nations of the world taste defeat once again?

So even if they collude in secret, a formal Anti-Tang Alliance still cannot be established openly. Because everyone does not wish to become a sacrificial offering to the powerful military might of the Great Tang Empire.

After all, numerous recent rumors about the Great Tang Empire have been quite detailed: some have heard the sound of dragon’s chants near Dragon Island; others claim to have seen Great Tang Empire’s aircraft in places too remote from any island for planes to appear.

In short, many countries speculate that the Great Tang Empire is manufacturing new war weapons on Dragon Island, and none want to become the first target of these weapons.

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How many times have they thought they purchased new equipment, believed they had closed the gap, and then turned around to be defeated by Tang Mo? From breech-loading rifles to breech-loading cannons, from airships to airplanes, from cars to tanks, and recently, the Great Tang Empire introduced missile and radar equipment, even using long-range missiles to attack the Imperial Capital of the Dahua Empire… How many times has this happened? Probably even fools no longer believe the Great Tang Empire doesn’t have another trick up its sleeve.