"What happened?" Tang Long who returned to Datang immediately asked Ling Li. Seeing that Yuna and Xing Ling had all come, he knew it was a big deal. Because of this, Tang Long forgot to tell Xingling about the Xingling Guards.
"My lord, with the emperor of the Tiele Empire in the Crescent Star Region as the leader, a total of 35 forces in the three star regions of Crescent Moon, Qinghai, and Mandun have formed the Anti-Tang Alliance." Ling Li said while displaying the collected information on the screen. Play it out.
"Anti-Tang alliance? Uh, this anti-Tang refers to our Great Tang?" Tang Long asked in surprise. Didn't offend them."
Ling Li sighed and said: "It's not that we have offended them, but they are afraid of us. Who told us to have a fortress that can jump in space, and we have never interacted with any forces. In addition to our consistent attacks sex, it would be strange not to treat us as enemies."
Tang Long nodded while looking at the information on the screen, and suddenly he jumped up: "More than 50,000 ships? There are so many warships in 35 faction alliances?" Other people who saw this also showed shocking expressions. , 50,000 warships, fully five times the current strength of Datang.
Ling Li nodded and said: "Yes, originally they couldn't have so many warships, but the increase in fighting between various forces in the past one or two years has increased their military strength, so now they add up to 50,000 More than one warship. Moreover, intelligence shows that these 35 forces are buying and manufacturing warships, and when they are ready, this number may double."
"Double that. Wouldn't that mean we have 100,000 warships? I can't imagine that so many warships are used to oppose us. Is our foreign policy a failure?" Tang Long shook his head with a wry smile.
"Yes, since we established our power, we have either grown our economy or strengthened our military. We have not conducted any diplomacy at all. It can be said that we don't have a single friend in the chaotic galaxy." Ling Li sighed. Hearing this, everyone remembered that there was no Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the government department, and thought that Datang did not have a friendly country, and everyone sighed helplessly.
Tang Long nodded and said: "Yuna, set up a foreign ministry. You will be the foreign minister for the time being. You will be replaced when you find a suitable candidate." Yuna nodded. Although she is the finance minister, she is also the prime minister. The failure to set up a foreign ministry also has its own responsibility. Others also agreed with this appointment. After all, when it comes to dealing with outsiders, Yuna, the elder sister, is more suitable.
"When will the battleship we purchased arrive? We can't do it unless we step up training!" Jess said.
"There are still two weeks." Yuna replied. Hearing this, everyone prayed in their hearts that the anti-Tang alliance would not attack at this time.
"My lord, do we also need to expand our army?" Sally asked worriedly. Hearing that the enemy has ten times the strength of his own, no general is not worried.
"No, even if we buy 100,000 warships, we still don't have enough manpower to control them. If we all use new recruits, the combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced. It's not as good as it is now." Li Wu, who is in charge of personnel, reminded and handed over the personnel information. Pass it on to everyone.
"Are we just going to fight against the enemy one-on-ten?" Elsie, who has a fiery personality, jumped up and shouted. It seems that the position of Minister of Education has not tempered her character.
"It's impossible to expand the army. The formation of the 16 brigades in front of us is our limit." Tang Long shook his head and said after reading the information that Li Wu handed over.
"Then what should we do? How can we compete with an army of 100,000 with only 16 brigades? And now half of the warships have not arrived. Although the personnel of each brigade rely on the existing warships for training in turn, their proficiency cannot keep up. "Sally frowned.
"Yes, the most important thing is that there are not enough veterans. If there are hundreds of millions of veterans, we just need to buy warships." Elsie sighed. Hearing this, everyone sighed again.
Seeing everyone's frowning faces, Xing Ling couldn't help saying: "Uh, well, if we don't have enough manpower, can we use robots?"
Everyone's eyes lit up immediately, and Yuna frowned and said, "But even if we use robots, it's impossible for us to produce so many robots in such a short period of time."
Ling Li immediately said excitedly: "Don't worry, all the battles of the Silver Eagle Empire are now completed by robots, we can buy them from them." Now everyone started to discuss happily, saying how many robots to buy, how many robots to buy? How many warships. Elsie said excitedly: "With the robot army, we will be invincible! And these robots don't need maintenance, salary, medical insurance, or retirement at all. There are many benefits."
"No! We can't treat robots as tools!" Tang Long stood up abruptly and shouted. Hearing this, everyone froze for a moment, and then fell silent. Only Elsie muttered: "If you don't treat robots as tools, what should you think of them? Besides, aren't all your Janissaries all robots now? Don't tell me you paid them wages." Tang, who was originally dignified After hearing Elsie's words, Long immediately lowered his head speechlessly. Xing Ling knew that Tang Long couldn't bear it, but it was a crisis of survival. Although he wanted to comfort Tang Long, he didn't know how to speak, so he walked up to Tang Long and pressed Tang Long's shoulder.
Tang Long turned his head to look at Xing Ling, his eyes that were a little dull suddenly became brighter, he stood up and said with a smile: "What are you beautiful sisters thinking? I said that robots should not be treated as tools, but we can treat them as tools. Treat it like a soldier. All robots that belong to us, we put them in the file. Let them be promoted if they make meritorious deeds, and sentenced to prison if they commit crimes. They usually have vacations, monthly salaries, and housing. If it is damaged, we will repair it. Anyway, the treatment of robots is the same as that of our human soldiers, isn’t it all right?”
Hearing Tang Long's unimaginable words, everyone was stunned, but soon Sally was the first to react and said with a smile: "Yes, since robots are fighting for us, then they should enjoy the treatment of soldiers."
And Jess also nodded and said, "As long as we treat them as fighters, then we don't have to worry about anything."
Ling Li said with a smile: "My lord, this is a good way. I heard that the soldiers of the Silver Eagle Empire have a hostile attitude towards robots. According to my lord's method, I believe our soldiers will not complain about robots. After all, robots are fighting with them." Ah. I propose a one-to-one ratio between robots and human soldiers, and let them develop bonds of affection on the battlefield."
Tang Long nodded fiercely: "Yes, in this way they have formed a deep friendship. I think I was saved by a robot when I was in the training camp." Seeing Tang Long's narration, including Elsie who didn't quite approve of Tang Long's method, looked at Tang Long with a caring expression. As for Feng Bing and Feng Shuang, they even looked at Tang Long with an expression that could be said to be affectionate.
But Elsie immediately said soberly: "You should know that a private soldier has a monthly salary of 500 Vurai coins, and the salary has been tripled after the last military system reform, which means that a private soldier needs to pay 1,500 Vurai coins a month from the government. How do we pay this huge salary if the ratio of robots to soldiers is one to one?"
Hearing this, everyone looked at Yuna again, Yuna smiled and said: "Although the money is stored in the robot's military card, do you think the robot will take the money out to buy things? So This money is actually the same as if there is no expenditure. Although because of reputation issues, and in order not to be said that we are "saying one thing, doing another, even robots are cheated." So we can't skimp on this no matter what. It’s a small amount of money. But we can borrow it for use and investment at any time, and I believe the robots will not protest that we borrowed their money for emergency.” After Yuna finished speaking, everyone showed a ruthless expression.
"So my lord, how many warships and robots do we need to buy?" Sally asked.
"Ask Yuna to see how much money you can spare and how much you can buy, but be careful not to damage the development of the national economy. If you want to buy a warship, go to Chen Kang. If you buy a thousand ships, ten thousand ships will be filled with supplies. If you don't look for him, who else can you look for?" Tang Long laughed. Yuna nodded with a smile. Of course, she will not let the people's livelihood and economy be in crisis. The current economy has been created with great difficulty by herself, so how can I let it fall.
"My lord, I want to remind you that the price of 10,000 advanced transport ships full of supplies is more expensive than 1,000 enhanced X-ships." Ling Li said.
"Of course I know, but is it possible to give away such a huge bargain? If people are willing to give it to us, we dare to take it. We just need to be careful in secret for other issues." Tang Long said and winked at Ling Li. Ling Li knew that the lord had figured it out, so she nodded with a smile.
"Okay, that's it. That's it. The border is strengthened, and the battleship fortress is moved to the Tianhe star field, and the army training will also be held there." Tang Long looked at Xing Ling and smiled: "Sister Xing Ling , the network problems between the planets and the matter of encoding the robot numbers into the military and government computers will trouble you soon."
Xing Ling nodded, and she noticed that Tang Long seemed to be leaving, so she couldn't help asking: "You, where are you going?"
"I'll go to Miss Tang Xing's star factory to see how many white whale warships I can get back. Thank you for your hard work, sisters, next time I will buy some gifts for you sisters." Tang Long said and brought Feng Bing , Fengshuang ran out. Hearing Tang Long's last words, all the girls were secretly looking forward to the gift from Tang Long while smiling.
In a certain factory of the Silver Eagle Empire, several imperial military officers were directing a team of robots onto the transport ship. An officer with a cigarette in his mouth said to the officer who was whipping a robot with an electric whip: "I said brother, what are you smoking these robots for? They don't feel pain. Come on, smoke a cigarette." Then he threw it away. A cigarette passed.
The officer threw down the electric whip, lit a cigarette and came over with a smile, "Although they don't feel pain, when you beat them with the electric whip, they will moan unconsciously. I heard that this is caused by a short circuit in the power supply."
"What's the fun in this? It's fun to beat those slaves." The officer asked.
"Slaves are more expensive than these robots. It's not that the nobles can't afford them. It is said that there is a factory that manufactures a robot that screams when beaten. I heard that it is very popular with the people. I tried it once and tell you, it is called The voice is just like a real person, it's cool to think of it." The officer moaned happily.
"Huh? Is there such a thing? When I have money, I'll buy one and play with it. By the way, where are these newly repaired combat robots going? The front line?" the officer asked.
"Where is it for the front line? It was bought by a merchant. It is said that there will be some kind of robot fighting competition."
"Oh, in this case, why don't you use the newly produced robots, but repair the bodies of these old robots?"
"Hey, who knows, anyway, the businessman's request is that the robot must have participated in a battle, saying that such a robot is different from the robot just made, and the fight is more like a real battle."
"Different? What's the difference? Aren't they all made of steel?"
"That's right, but this is the merchant's request, and you have nothing to do if he wants to do this. Now most of the robots fighting on the front line have been replaced with new ones. It will save money if you repair and sell those robots that have fought. It cost us a lot of money to repair."
"Hehe, I believe that the generals in the military department must have raised the price to sell them, and those of you who carry out orders will also benefit from it."
"Hey, this is obvious. If it weren't for this, who would work so hard to collect these old robots all over the world?"
The officer said enviously: "The current battle has become like this. In addition to you can earn some extra money, we people can only receive some dead wages, and we also have to worry about accidentally offending our boss and being forcibly retired. Go out and drink the northwest wind." .”
The officer threw away the cigarette butt and sighed, "Well, although the soldier will not die now, he has lost the blood and passion of the past." Speaking of this, he found that all the robots had entered the spaceship, so he patted the officer's hand. Shaking his head with his shoulders, he said, "Forget it, it's good to be able to make do with the money. Many soldiers who have been persuaded to retire live their lives without eating. Okay, I'm leaving."
TY0912 stood quietly among his partners, quietly looking around. Judging from the structure of the huge cargo hold where I am, this is a high-level transport ship, and there are not many in the Silver Eagle Empire. This advanced transport ship is loaded with 9,899 robots that are the same as itself. TY0912 did not find a brother who could communicate with him among so many partners, or he did, but he dared not reveal it. Just like himself, he was afraid that humans would find that he had intelligence. and was destroyed.
TY0912 remembered a battle not long ago, where an intelligent partner rescued the human commander of the battleship, but the commander ordered his robots to throw that partner into the melting furnace. I have not found the existence of intelligent robots, and I am more careful to hide the fact that I have intelligence.
TY0912 thought quietly, he and a large number of partners were suddenly transferred from the front to the rear, and he was still panicking that he would be discovered. However, I soon learned from the officer that my robots, which were manufactured for the purpose of fighting, were sold to a businessman, and that businessman hoped that these robots would fight and perform with each other to make money. Thinking of this, TY0912 felt a sense of sadness. For some reason, he had a feeling of being betrayed, and at the same time, he was also sad that he was about to become a tool to make money.
But TY0912 knows that he can't resist, and he can't resist. This is the fate of a robot, a fate of being used as a tool. It didn't think about resisting or running away, it just quietly waited for the helpless fate to come.
Counting from when the advanced transport ship took off, three days and 12 hours, 34 minutes and 7 seconds later, the advanced transport ship landed. During these three days, TY0912 found four robots with the same intelligence as himself among the 9899 robots, because when the intelligent robot is thinking, it will emit a weak electric wave. Humans can't detect it, but these robots can know it immediately. TY0912 can confirm that these four intelligent robots also found him, but he didn't contact them, and they didn't contact him either.
The hatch of the transport ship slowly opened, and the bright light became brighter as the hatch expanded. TY0912 didn't move, because no order was given, and because none of the robots around him moved.
"Run down one by one in order." A male voice sounded through the horn in the engine room, probably the pilot of this advanced transport ship. With the order, the robots in the front row started to run out of the hatch, and soon, TY0912 also ran out.
Out of the hatch, TY0912 immediately found that it was a huge space port, but apart from a few soldiers in blue uniforms, there were only robots like themselves. TY0912 couldn't help being a little taken aback when he saw the soldiers in the military uniform of the unknown country. It can be sure that these humans are well-trained soldiers, and this spaceport is very huge and the facilities are perfect. It is impossible to have such soldiers and such a space port. So you said you were bought by the army of a certain country? Thinking of this, TY0912 couldn't help but feel joyful, he really didn't want to be a useless tool.
When queuing up and passing those human soldiers, TY0912 found that they were holding a laser engraving instrument and engraving a pattern for the robot. Seeing this, TY0912 was sure that he was purchased by the army.
After TY0912 was engraved, he quickly scanned the pattern printed on his arm. A blue flying dragon was printed on the bottom, and a row of numbers printed on the surface: AX013456. This is my new serial number, TY0912 exclaimed. Soon it followed the team out of the spaceport and into one of hundreds of personnel carriers to a military base.
Standing in the large, dense and quiet playground, TY0912 felt a little weird, because a human second lieutenant was speaking to tens of thousands of robots.
"From now on, you are members of the Great Tang Kingdom and the Great Tang Army. Remember your new numbers. Unless you enter the Imperial Guard, this is the only number in your military career. As a soldier Our only criterion is to obey! Obey the orders of His Highness Tang Long, the Supreme Commander of the Tang Dynasty! Obey the commander's orders! Obey the commander's orders!"
Hearing what this second lieutenant said, TY0912, oh, should be called AX013456 now, he didn't have any special feeling, when he was in the Silver Eagle Empire, the order he was input was also to obey the order of a certain prince, obey the order of the chief. The previous order will be changed to another prince when he is captured, while the latter order will not be changed. Now I need to obey Tang Long's orders, which is no different from obeying the orders of a certain prince. But when the second lieutenant said the following words, AX013456 was stunned.
"Because you are recruits, your military ranks are private soldiers. As long as your meritorious service is high enough, the rank of marshal is not a dream!" The second lieutenant said this, not realizing what kind of impact his words had on the robot, although he I don't understand why you say these things to robots that they don't understand, but an order is an order, even if the following is completely useless to robots, he will say it: "The salary of a private is 1500 Vurai coins, and the monthly vacation is two days , vacations are exempted during wars, and the vacations are accumulated to be released in peacetime, and enjoy medical care and retirement benefits... "
AX013456 looked at a set of blue military uniforms and a military card with its own information in its hands stupidly. It took a while for it to wake up and look around. This is an 8-person suite, and the 4 robots, including myself, are sitting on the edge of the bed in a daze. It seems that what the second lieutenant said and what he got was really amazing, let alone an intelligent robot like himself, even those ordinary robots crashed their computers because of these things.
Salary, clothing, housing, holidays, identity certificates, these things are not needed by robots like myself, and I dare not imagine. Why is the army of this country so good to robots? I feel that they seem to regard these robots as human beings.
When AX013456 was still in a daze with his companions, four humans with the rank of private soldiers walked in. They were obviously stunned when they saw the robots themselves. They pushed each other and shoved their companions, and finally a young boy was pushed to the front by them. After swallowing his saliva, the young man said, "I said brothers, why don't you hurry up and change your clothes and make the bed? Wait for the officer to check." Then you will be unlucky." After speaking, seeing the other three humans start to make their own quilts, they couldn't help shouting: "You bastards, push me out to talk, and start making the quilts without waiting for me, Did you kill me?" As he spoke, he began to make his bed quilt.
AX013456 froze for a moment, calculated on the computer, and felt that it would be better for him to do what the young man said. So it changed into the Datang military uniform and started making the bed at the same time. And the three ordinary robots also started the work of changing clothes and quilts.
"Wow! The robot is amazing. It finishes finishing faster than us, and it's perfect!" A young man shouted in surprise as he looked at the quilt that AX013456 was finishing.
"What robots, didn't the boss say not to call them robots? They will fight with us, that is, our comrades-in-arms, so we have to call them by their names!" An older soldier knocked on the soldier's head.
"Oh, I don't know their names." The soldier shouted, covering his head.
"You don't know how to ask!" After the veteran soldier glanced at the soldier, he stretched out his hand to AX013456 and said, "Hello, I'm Chen Bing."
AX013456 froze for a moment, carefully stretched out his hand and shook it gently, and said electronically: "Hello, I am AX013456." When Chen Bing shook hands with AX013456, several other soldiers also shook hands with several other robots up.
"AX013456? This is the number..." Chen Bing looked a little unnatural at first, but he quickly returned to normal and continued to ask: "Oh, this name is hard to pronounce, why don't you just call you A6, by the way, A6, where are you from?" here?"
"Silver Eagle Empire." AX013456 answered while paying attention to several other people, and found that they had already chatted with those robots.
"Wow, the Silver Eagle Empire, I've heard that it is a very powerful country, but there is a civil war there, right? Have you participated in the battle? Tell me about it?" Chen Bing asked curiously.
AX013456 nodded and began to talk about his fighting experience. It also couldn't figure out how it could talk to Chen Bing, maybe it was because these people didn't discriminate against itself as a robot.
Sally asked the officer beside her, "How are the boot camps?"
The officer said respectfully: "Although some recruits are scared by the appearance of the robots and dare not talk to the robots, most of the soldiers started talking and laughing with these robots under our strict orders. After observation , they have slowly accepted the fact that robots are their comrades in arms.”
"Well, very good. We must pay attention to the mentality of the soldiers. Discrimination against robots must not be allowed to happen. Once it happens, it will be punished as the crime of insulting colleagues." Sally nodded and said.
"Yes!" The officer replied loudly, and then looked at Sally, showing an expression of wanting to say something but not daring to say it.
"You can say whatever you want." Sally saw the officer's expression and knew that he was hesitant to speak.
"Yes, sir, I want to ask, why do you treat robots like this?" the officer asked courageously.
"Do you know the wars caused by robot rebellion in history?" Sally asked back.
"I know." The officer nodded.
"So you know why the robots want to rebel?" Sally continued.
"Because robots don't want to be enslaved by humans... Ah, I know why I treat robots like this." The officer suddenly realized.
"Well, it's good for you to understand, as long as we treat them with the same eyes, then even if they have intelligence, they will not hate us humans. Since the emergence of robots cannot be stopped, then we must minimize the harm of robots " Sally said leisurely.
"Understood, I must treat robots like other soldiers!" The officer, who fully understood the chief's painstaking efforts, decided to do the work of those colleagues who were still a little confused after returning home.
On this day, after a hard training, AX013456, who was resting in the dormitory, was being chased by Chen Bing to ask about the situation of the Silver Eagle Empire, and those few ordinary robots also gradually became flexible after getting along with humans these days. It's not as old-fashioned as it used to be. AX013456 who is aware of this knows that if this continues, these three ordinary robots will evolve into intelligent robots after a while.
Ordinary robots can answer questions, observe their surroundings, and react differently depending on the situation, but the reason why they are still ordinary robots is because they cannot think for themselves. Thinking about this factor is the biggest difference between intelligent robots and ordinary robots. The factor of emotion is a necessary condition for the evolution of intelligent robots to intelligent robots. As for the factor of self-awareness, it is the only condition for an intelligent robot to evolve into a life.
When they were manning the machine, a soldier ran in and shouted: "Get ready, the imperial guards are coming down to pick people up!" Hearing this, everyone including the robot jumped up and ran quickly. Arrange your clothes and make your bed. As early as a few days ago, AX013456 knew that this imperial guard army was the unit most eager to join the army. It was the Imperial Forest Army, the supreme commander of the Tang Dynasty. Welling up the longing to be chosen.
Not long after they finished tidying up, the sound of assembly for drills sounded, and the soldiers in all the barracks quickly gathered on the runway playground. Then began to drill under the leadership of the company commander. Others may be so busy that they don't even have time to pay attention to who is around them, but AX013456 can focus on the entire practice field.
Soon he was surprised, because he saw several of his kind. Those few with the rank of second lieutenant were accompanied by the base's top officer to inspect and practice the same kind. Although they have the appearance of human beings, they are only covered with a layer of active skin. I can recognize at a glance that they are my own kind, and they are intelligent robots that are several times more advanced than myself. There are such advanced intelligent robots in this country? And still a second lieutenant? Puzzled, AX013456 found that they were about to come to him, so he hurriedly restrained his consciousness and began to concentrate on practicing.
After the drill was over, everyone gathered in the drill field, and then the top officer of the base began to read their names. When Chen Bing and AX013456 were called, AX013456 obviously felt the scorching light of envy and envy from all around, and Chen Bing was even more so. He walked out of the team with a look of excitement, and ran forward with himself. AX013456 was in a daze while running, could it be that he was selected as a member of the Praetorian Guard
AX013456 didn't know what to do when faced with those smart robots who were more advanced than himself. When he saw Chen Bing and other people whose names were being read started to take off their military uniforms, he followed suit. It wasn't until this moment that he realized that the pattern printed on his arm was not only for robots, but for all people. Chen Bing's number is: AX006745.
An advanced intelligent robot took out a small laser engraving instrument and began to re-engrave codes for these selected people. AX013456 found that the new pattern had not changed except for the number. Now his new code It is SS0215689, while Chen Bing's is SS0215688.
Another intelligent robot said aloud after his colleagues were busy recoding: "From now on, you are a member of the Imperial Guard. As a member of the Imperial Guard, in addition to obeying orders, the most important responsibility is to protect our territory." Supreme Commander—His Highness Tang Long!"
"Swear to protect His Highness Tang Long to the death!" SS0215689 shouted along with the crowd, and he began to wonder why His Highness Tang Long was able to make the intelligent robot so loyal.