Chapter 367: Changes in the Territory after Thirty Years (Below)

Chapter 361 – Changes in the Territory after Thirty Years (Next)
The Northern Glory Alliance was originally Owen’s joke, but after thirty years it has become a behemoth, with a direct population of one million and an affiliated population of several hundred thousand, adding up to a small two million people, it is a loud and clear party of earth emperors in the Northlands.

Don’t think that this population is not as much as a city in the previous world, but in this world is enough to call the king and build a country.

However, the power of a large, and with many border, involving all aspects of the affairs are very cumbersome and troublesome, let a person look at the big head.

Fortunately, Maya knows Owen’s temperament, specially organized the information, by the upgraded baby warmer projection out, replacing the original sand table, so that he can more intuitively feel the changes in the territory.

See the projection of a small area of the Northland densely inserted are the northern glory of the flag, Owen nodded with satisfaction, although no credit to himself, but does not delay his pride, after all, everyone is his men, this credit does not count his count who.

Northern glory alliance population is quite a lot, but because we know that the territory population conversion has a ceiling, so these years Maya has been in the control of the population of the northern city, now in the ninety million or so, all the system after the conversion.

Although this led to many of the Alliance’s minor nobles traveling outside of the core, making it difficult to control, it made the North City solid as gold, and clearly the benefits outweighed the drawbacks.

North City’s population of nearly one million certainly can’t all live in the city, even if North City has been expanding it can’t be accommodated, only 400,000 of them live in the city, the remaining 500,000 are distributed in the surrounding villages and towns.

Although a large number of people are scattered outside the city, but do not have to worry about security issues, first of all, the south has the Mara town upgraded Mara city, the north has more and more growing bison tribes, the east has the unfathomable Green Shade City, even the west has Bella nomadic tribal defense, so want to break through the outer defenses to invade the hinterland of the north is not an easy thing.

On top of that, Maya also utilized two sub-city slots, one was Ferrier City and the other was Solari City, that’s right, both of these cities were in the sphere of influence of the Northland Noble Alliance, and they weren’t even small cities.

In this way, whenever the Northland Noble Alliance has any movement, there is no way to hide it from the North City, not to mention that the two cities have more young and strong people, and well-trained to obey orders, the army composed of the Northland Noble Alliance’s main trump card.

The barbarian tribes across the river have been declining over the years, and more and more barbarians are joining the Bison Tribe, and for this reason, they even had to allocate part of their population to the North City, and built a number of barbarian villages and towns, or else they would have long since exceeded the population limit of 50,000 people in the sub-city, and therefore would not be much of a threat.

As for the barbarian kingdom and the north customs border city alliance, strong is strong, but far away, even if the army out, will give the north city enough time to respond!
Of course, the real strength of North City still came from the productivity of the territory and the army.

Thirty years is enough time for the territory to enter the steam era, but the factories are hidden in the dungeons and underground ruins and not revealed, after all, the style is different, it is better to hide a little bit, only agricultural machinery will be disguised as golems in the spring plowing and fall harvest time to use, and even sold to the outside world.

Unfortunately, no one buys them, even if everyone knows that these machines are more efficient and can save labor.

The problem was that for the vast majority of lords, the cost effectiveness of using steam machinery was too low, as a single piece of agricultural machinery was enough to hire hundreds of peasants to keep them dry until they died.

It wasn’t that Bei Cheng was asking for money indiscriminately, metal itself wasn’t cheap, and manufacturing steam machinery also required the use of a large amount of steel and complex processing, which made it even more expensive.

You know a set of steel armor and weapons is enough to make a fiefdom knight in a year or two to eat dirt, and the metal used to make a farm machinery can make how many armor and weapons.

Those noble lords hadn’t gone crazy when they spent so much money on a golem that plowed the land.

In addition to the massive use of steam machinery, the agricultural water advantage of the territory has been greatly improved, but also able to dump a large number of commodities, from agricultural tools, firearms, armor, cloth, is the most indispensable best-seller in the Northland.

Because of the initiative of trade, although the volume of the Northern Glory Union is a bit worse, its status is not lower at all. Of course, only wealth without guns and swords will not work, after all, neighboring grain and guns are more popular here, so the territory’s army has also begun to update.

The first to eliminate the old-fashioned musket, began to equip the use of paper shells of the rear loading rifle.

The rear-loading rifle can only be loaded one round at a time, and is also prone to moisture, and because of the insufficient combustion need to often clean the chamber, in addition to the excessive length of the barrel leads to cleaning up more troublesome, but on the whole it is still good.

Nearly one meter and a half length, so that the range and hit rate of this gun is very high, loaded with a bayonet is a spear, the most important thing is the rate of fire, ten rounds per minute, on the shooting position is also low, the use of the way and the structure is also very simple, very suitable for large-scale equipment.

In addition to guns, there are also guns, small caliber infantry guns, do not look small, caliber only sixty millimeters, range and power but not bad, the use of ammunition integrated copper shells, or high-explosive warheads, if not for the production is not high, based on this alone, the North City can be beaten all over the Northland unbeatable.

These are only infantry equipment, thanks to the large-scale use of agricultural machinery over the years, steam tanks have also been not small development, has been relatively mature light steam tanks equipped to the army.

The light steam tank with riveted homogeneous armor weighed only three or four tons, and with a full load of ammunition, fuel and water, it was less than five tons.

This type of steam tank in the steam enough time, can reach 30 ~ 40 per hour speed, comparable to the electric car, the main weapon is a eighty millimeter steam smoothbore gun and two ten millimeter caliber steam nail gun.

Unfortunately, limited by resources and production, although there are new equipment, but difficult to expand, currently only 50,000 infantry, light steam tanks 50.

If it was a normal Cold War era, this army would be enough to crush any enemy.

The problem is that this world is not normal, not to mention how much ammo needs to be consumed in order to face the sea of undead bones, just the legend that can tear the tanks apart with his hands is not something that these rudimentary weapons can deal with.

But the biggest headache is the resources, because the territory’s steam machinery and guns all need magic horn trees, or as many as can be eaten.

With the territory’s current steam industry and army volume, if not restrained, the magic horn tree forest simply can not grow in time, it is only a matter of time to be cut down, unless the reckless use of super farmland, to destroy nature as the cost of a short period of time to spawn a large number of magic horn trees.

No one would be so short-sighted, even if the Magic Horn Woods are now large enough to allow the North City to bombard all the way to the Imperial Capital, Maya did not approve of expanding the size of the army, but only to maintain the number needed for defense.

The limitations of the Knights made the North City unsuitable for expeditions, as the newer armies relied too heavily on ammunition and fuel.

However, on the contrary, the North City was almost unbeatable in defensive battles, even if the barbarian kingdom’s army dared to come, it could make the other side suffer.

In addition, Maya was implementing the same strategy as Owen, these were all on the surface, the territory’s real bottom card was the 1,500-strong close guards.

(End of chapter)