Luo Ji had always been quite satisfied with the ANBU's ability to do things. The interrogation report in front of him made Luo Ji know a lot of things.

For example, there is not just one fish-men clan in the sea, but they are scattered into countless clans, large and small, occupying various sea areas.

Similar to some indigenous tribes on land.

The fish people in the sea also occupy their own territories. Sometimes they live in peace and harmony, and sometimes they attack each other and fight fiercely. All this is for the sake of living space and food resources.

This group of fishmen originally lived in the sea area outside the swamp rainforest.

However, the emergence of Hydra squeezed their living space to a great extent, which made them subject to the dark elves and formed the current situation.

Of course, this information is only secondary. For Luo Ji, the most important information is the location of the dark elves' island!

If you can't grasp the enemy's position, you can only fall into passivity.

If you want to turn passivity into initiative, mastering intelligence is the first step.

From the two murloc prisoners, the ANBU members asked for a relatively detailed sea map. Judging from this map, after leaving the Yangtze River Basin, it would still take a long time to reach the island where the dark elves were.

Quite a long period of time.

At the same time, there are still a large number of fishmen and even Hydras in the sea leading to this island.

This made Luo Ji realize more clearly that conquering this sea area was not as easy as he thought. The sea is really a dangerous place. In comparison, other people's seas are much more lovely...

Moreover, as he thought deeply, Luo Ji quickly realized another, more troublesome problem.

That's how he should deal with the fish-men?

As a race that lives underwater, what will happen if he finally shows strong force value and forces the other party to surrender? How will he rule after that? The fishmen live underwater, but they live on land.

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Facts have proved that there seems to be no suitable solution, and this is really a headache.

Taking a long breath, Luo Ji decided not to worry about it for the time being.

The most urgent thing right now is to find a way to deal with Hydra first.

The Dark Elf's comprehensive naval strength is definitely not as good as his, and the backward Black Sail Fleet is absolutely vulnerable to his Yangtze River Fleet, but the opponent has the super-standard top naval combat unit 'Hydra'.

For this kind of monster whose scales are hard enough to defend against bullets and bombardments, and can even move under the sea for a long time, even the talented staff commander headquarters seemed a little helpless for a while.

Feeling the pressure from the sea, Luo Ji had to change his current development policy and asked the Military Research Department to put aside several other projects for the time being and focus on the development and research of underwater weapons in order to strive for an early date.

Make a weapon that can cause enough damage to Hydra.

During this period, what should be developed on land must naturally continue to develop.

Over the years, the crazy development of the naval power of all civilizations has put considerable pressure on the finances of civilizations.

After all, before officially starting to develop naval combat power, the civilization of all worlds did not have this financial expenditure.

Originally, the financial department thought that the biggest money burner was the army, the research and development of various rifles and cannons, the mass production of ammunition and shells, and the daily training expenses of soldiers in major military regions. Every day was an astronomical figure.

Once a war breaks out, this number may suddenly increase tenfold.

And ever since the naval forces started training and the steel battleships were put into production, they suddenly felt that something was wrong...

What's going on? When the army burns money, it's better to burn it in bundles. How about you just pour it into the brazier in large boxes?!

In just a few years, the financial pressure brought by the navy has caused the civilization of all worlds to once again sound a red alarm when its economic situation was about to turn into a good one.

And just last week, another battleship entered official service. Now their Yangtze River Fleet of All Realms Civilization has twenty-three destroyers and five battleships!

Luo Ji had no intention of building a cruiser.

The original purpose of the emergence of cruisers was to balance speed and firepower.

But it has been said before that in the field of battleships, it is impossible to take into account all three of armor, speed and firepower.

If you insist on taking both things into account, you will end up with a ship that can neither get up nor disembark, which is meaningless.

And this is indeed the case. Take modern society as an example. After World War II, almost no country was building cruisers. This is a fact.

Luo Ji obviously had no intention of wasting time on the cruiser.

Therefore, he had a clear goal and directly invested in the manufacture of destroyers and battleships.

The number of warships in the Yangtze River Fleet may not sound like many, but at a glance from the river, it is already quite large.

This fleet is already burning through exaggerated numbers just from daily training exercises and regular maintenance.

I heard that the financial losses caused by the destruction of the destroyer due to the Hydra incident almost made our old minister of the Ministry of Finance go into shock on the spot.

Now with the completion of the latest battleship, in order to prevent their emperor from starting to build new battleships with a stroke of his pen, our old minister hastily sent a report up, with a lot of snot and tears.

Tell Luo Ji that we can no longer build warships. If we continue to maintain such financial expenditure, the national treasury will be empty.

After receiving such a report, Luo Ji naturally had to ask Ye Qingxuan for confirmation.

After making a simple calculation, Ye Qingxuan said that in terms of finance, there is actually still enough room to build a few more warships. However, considering the continued expenditure in the future and the fact that there are other major projects underway in the civilization,

If this continues, there will inevitably be the risk of economic instability.

At the same time, at this juncture, if a sudden war breaks out, the huge economic pressure caused and the economic collapse may only happen in an instant.

The risk was not small, and it had already developed to this point. Luo Ji could not do such a thing at the risk of collapse, so he decisively suspended the subsequent manufacturing plans at the shipyard.

According to the current situation, I am afraid that we will have to wait for a few years before we can proceed with the next step of development. However, during this period, research will obviously have to continue.

We may not stop building battleships, but research must not stop.

How far it can develop these days depends entirely on the progress of research.

Once research stops, won't development also stop? This is something Luo Ji will never allow.
Chapter completed!