Tales of Soldier - Chapter 184

[Chapter 184]

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“What happened?” Tang Long, who returned to Datang, immediately asked Ling Li, seeing that Yuna, Xingling and the others were all here, he knew it was a big deal. Because of this, Tang Long forgot to tell Xingling about the Xingling Guards.

“My lord, the emperor of the Tie Le Empire in the Moon Moon Star Region is the leader of the alliance. A total of 35 forces in the three Star Regions of Moon Moon, Qinghai, and Mantun have formed the Anti-Tang Alliance.” Ling Li said while putting the collected information on the screen. Play it out.

“Anti-Tang Alliance? Uh, does this anti-Tang refer to our Tang Dynasty?” Tang Long asked in surprise. Seeing everyone nodding their heads with a heavy face, he couldn’t help scratching his head and muttering: “What are they doing against us? We I didn’t offend them.”

Ling Li sighed and said, “It’s not that we have offended them, it’s that they are afraid of us, who told us to have a fortress that can jump in space, and we have never been in contact with any forces. Coupled with our consistent attacks Sex, it’s strange not to treat us as the enemy.”

Tang Long nodded while looking at the information on the screen, and suddenly he jumped up abruptly: “More than 50,000 ships? There are so many warships in 35 power alliances?” Others who saw this also showed shocking expressions. , 50,000 warships, which is five times the current strength of the Tang Dynasty.

Ling Li nodded and said, “Yes, originally they couldn’t have so many warships, but the increase in fighting between various factions in the past year or two has increased their troops, so now they add up to 50,000. More than a dozen warships. And intelligence shows that these 35 forces are buying and manufacturing warships aggressively, and when they are ready, this number may double.”

“It’s doubled, wouldn’t that mean we have 100,000 warships? I can’t imagine that we have used so many warships 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 the economy or strengthened our armaments, and we have never conducted diplomacy. It can be said that we don’t have a single friend in the chaos-free galaxy.” Ling Li sighed. Hearing this, everyone remembered that there was no Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the government departments, and that there was no friendly country in Datang, everyone sighed helplessly.

Tang Long nodded and said, “Yuna, set up a Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and you will be the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the time being. We will replace it when a suitable candidate is found.” Yuna nodded. Although she is the Minister of Finance, she is equivalent to the Prime Minister. The absence of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also has its own share of responsibilities. Others also agreed with this appointment. After all, when it comes to dealing with outsiders, it is more suitable for the eldest sister Yuna.

“When will the battleship we purchased arrive? We can’t do more without training!” Jess said.

“Two weeks to go,” Yuna replied. Hearing this, everyone prayed in their hearts that the anti-Tang alliance would not attack at this time.

“Master, do we also need to expand our army?” Sally asked worriedly. Hearing that the enemy has nearly 10 times the strength of his own, the generals are not worried.

“No, even if we buy 100,000 warships, we still don’t have enough manpower to control them. If all recruits are used, the combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced, and it is not as effective as it is now.” Li Wu, who manages personnel, reminded and put the personnel information. pass it on to everyone.

“Don’t we just compete against the enemy one-on-one?” Elsie jumped up and shouted, and it seemed that the position of Minister of Education did not exercise her character.

“It is impossible to expand the army. The formation of the 16 brigades in front of us is our limit.” After watching the information handed over by Li Wu, Tang Long shook his head and said.

“Then what should we do? How can we compete with an army of 100,000 people with only 16 brigades? And half of the battleships have not arrived yet. Although the personnel of each brigades take turns relying on the existing battleship training, 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 battleships.” Elsie sighed, and when they heard this, everyone sighed again.

Seeing that everyone was frowning, Xing Ling couldn’t help but say, “Uh, that, if we don’t have enough manpower, can we use robots?”

Everyone’s eyes lit up immediately, Yuna frowned and said, “But even if we use robots, we can’t make so many robots in such a short period of time.”

Ling Li immediately said excitedly: “Don’t worry, all battles in the Silver Eagle Empire are now completed by robots, we can buy them from them.” Now everyone began to discuss happily, how many robots to buy, and how many robots to buy. How many warships. Elsie said even more excitedly: “With the robot army, we will be invincible! And these robots do not need maintenance, pay wages, medical insurance, and retirement. There are many benefits.”

“No! We can’t treat robots as tools!” Tang Long stood up abruptly and shouted. After hearing this, everyone was stunned for a while, and then all fell silent. Only Elsie was muttering: “If you don’t treat robots as tools, what do you think of them? Besides, aren’t all your Praetorian Guards now robots? Did you pay them wages?” Tang, who had a dignified expression After hearing Elsie’s words, Long lowered his head speechlessly. Xingling knew that Tang Long couldn’t bear it, but there was a crisis of life and death in front of him. Although he wanted to comfort Tang Long, he didn’t know how to speak, so he had to walk to Tang Long and hold Tang Long’s shoulder.

Tang Long turned his head to look at Xingling, his eyes that were a little dull suddenly recovered, he stood up and said with a smile: “What are you beautiful sisters thinking? I said that we can’t treat robots as tools, but we can treat them Treat them as soldiers, we put all the robots that belong to us into our archives. Let them be promoted if they do meritorious deeds. If they commit crimes, they will be sentenced to prison. They usually have holidays, monthly salary, and housing. If it is damaged, we will repair it. Anyway, all the treatment of robots is the same as that of our human soldiers, right?”

Hearing Tang Long’s unbelievable words, everyone was stunned, but Sally was the first to respond with a smile and said, “Yes, since robots fight for us, then they should enjoy the treatment of soldiers.”

And Jess also nodded and said, “As long as we treat them as warriors, then we don’t have to worry about anything.”

Ling Li said with a smile: “My lord, this is a good solution. I heard that the soldiers of the Silver Eagle Empire are hostile to robots. According to the lord’s method, I believe that our soldiers will not complain about robots. After all, robots fight with them. Ah. I’m proposing a one-to-one ratio of robots to human soldiers so they can develop feelings on the battlefield.”

Tang Long nodded his head: “Yes, they have formed a deep friendship in this way. I think that when I was in the training camp, I was saved by a robot.” Then he told about himself in the robot battlefield, listen to When it comes to Tang Long’s remarks, including Elsie, who doesn’t really agree with Tang Long’s approach, looked at Tang Long with a caring look. As for Feng Bing and Feng Shuang, they looked at Tang Long with an expression that could be said to be affectionate.

But Elsie immediately said soberly: “You must know that a private soldier has a monthly salary of 500 Wulai coins, and the salary has tripled after the last military reform, which means that a private soldier needs to pay 1,500 Wulai coins a month from the government. If the ratio of robots to soldiers is one to one, how do we pay this huge salary?”

Hearing this, everyone looked at Yuna again, and Yuna smiled: “Although this money is 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 not spending it. Although because of reputation issues and in order not to be told that we are ‘saying one thing, doing another thing, even robots cheat.’ So we can’t deduct this no matter what. It’s money. But we can borrow it at any time for use and investment. I believe that robots will not protest against us borrowing their money to save the emergency.” After Yuna said this, everyone showed your ruthless expression.

“Then my lord, how many warships and robots do we need to buy?” Sally asked.

“You ask Yuna to see how much money you can set aside and buy as much as you can, but be careful not to damage the development of the national economy. If you buy warships, go to Chen Kang, buy 1,000 ships and 10,000 ships full of supplies. As a gift from the high-level transport ship, who do you want to find him?” Tang Long said with a smile. Yuna smiled and nodded. Of course, she will not let the people’s livelihood economy have a crisis. The current economy is something that she managed to build up, how can she let it fall.

“My lord, I want to remind you that 10,000 advanced transport ships full of supplies are more expensive than 1,000 enhanced X battleships,” Ling Li said.

“Of course I know, but is it possible to send such a big bargain? We dare to ask for it if we want to send it. For other issues, we just need to be careful in secret.” Tang Long said and winked at Ling Li. Ling Li knew that the lord knew what she had in mind, and nodded with a smile.

“Okay, the matter is settled, the border is strengthened, the battleship fortresses are moved to the Tianhe Star Region, and the army’s training will also be held there.” Tang Long said this, looking at Xingling and smiling: “Sister Xingling , network problems between planets and the fact that robot numbers will be programmed into military and political computers soon will trouble you.”

Xing Ling nodded, she noticed that Tang Long seemed to be leaving, and couldn’t help asking: “You, where are you going?”

“I’ll go to the planet factory of Sister Tang Xing to see how many Beluga battleships I can get back. I’ve worked hard for my sisters. Next time I will buy some gifts for them.” Tang Long said and brought Feng Bing. , Feng Shuang 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 factory in the Silver Eagle Empire, several imperial officers are commanding a team of robots onto the transport ship. An officer with a cigarette in his mouth said to the officer who was smoking the 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.” 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 do not feel pain, when they are beaten with the electric whip, they will groan unconsciously. I heard that this is caused by a short circuit in the power supply.”

“What’s the fun in that, it’s fun to beat those slaves,” the officer asked.

“Slaves are more expensive than these robots, not nobles can’t enjoy it at all. It is said that there is a factory that specializes in making a robot that will scream in pain and sell it. I heard that it is very popular with the people. I tried it once, and tell you, that’s called The voice is like a real person, it’s cool to think about it.” The officer groaned happily.

“Huh? Is there such a thing? When I have the money, I will buy one to play with. By the way, where are these newly repaired battle robots going to be sent to the front line?” the officer asked.

“Where is it for the front line? It was bought by a certain merchant. It is said that there will be some kind of robot battle competition.”

“Oh, if that’s the case, why don’t those robots that have just been produced, but specially repair the bodies for these worn-out robots?”

“Hey, who knows, anyway, the merchant’s requirement is that the robot must have participated in the battle, saying that such a robot is different from the robot that was just made, and the fight looks more like a real battle.”

“Different? What’s the difference? Aren’t they all made of steel?”

“That’s right, but this is the businessman’s request. If he wants to do this, you can’t do anything about it. Now most of the robots fighting on the front line have been replaced by new ones. If you repair the robots that have been fighting, you can sell them to the businessman, saving money. It cost us a lot of repairs.”

“Hehe, I believe that the generals in the military must have raised the price and sold it. Those of you who carry out orders will also benefit from it.”

“Hey, this is obvious, if it wasn’t like this, who would work so hard to scrape these worn-out robots all over the world.”

The officer said enviously: “The current battle has become like this, besides you guys can still make some extra money, we people can only get some dead wages, and we have to worry about accidentally offending the boss and being forced to retire, going out to drink the northwest wind. .”

The officer threw the cigarette butt and sighed and said, “Alas, although I won’t die as a soldier now, I have also lost my former blood and passion.” Speaking of which, he found that all the robots had entered the spaceship, so he patted the officer’s He shook his head and said, “Forget it, it’s good to be able to make do with the money. Many soldiers who have been persuaded to leave are living their days without having dinner. Okay, I’m leaving.”

TY0912 stood quietly among the partners, quietly looking around. Judging from the structure of the huge cargo hold where he is, this is a high-level transport ship, and there are not many in the Silver Eagle Empire. This high-level transport ship is loaded with 9899 robots that are the same as himself. TY0912 has not found a brother who can communicate with himself among so many partners, or has, but dare not show it, just like himself, afraid that humans will find out that they have intelligence and destroyed.

TY0912 remembered a battle not long ago. An intelligent partner rescued the human commander of the battleship, but the commander ordered the robots to throw the partner into the melting furnace. I didn’t find the existence of intelligent robots, and I was more careful to hide the fact that I had intelligence.

TY0912 thought quietly that he and a large number of his partners were suddenly transferred from the front to the rear. At that time, he was still panicking that he was discovered. However, he soon learned from his superior that the robots that were made for the purpose of fighting were sold to a merchant, and the merchant wanted these robots to fight each other to earn money. Thinking of this, TY0912 felt a sense of sadness. For some reason, he felt betrayed, and he was also sad that he was about to become a tool for making money.

But TY0912 knew that he couldn’t resist, and he couldn’t resist. This is the fate of robots, a fate used as a tool. It didn’t think about resisting or running away, it just waited quietly for the helpless fate to come.

It took three days and 12 hours, 34 minutes and 7 seconds from the time it entered the high-level transport ship to take off, and the high-level transport ship landed. In the past three days, TY0912 found four robots with the same intelligence as himself among the 9899 robots, because the intelligent robots emit a weak radio wave when they are thinking. Humans can’t detect it, but the robots themselves can know it right away. TY0912 can be sure that these four intelligent robots have also discovered themselves, but they have not contacted them, and they have not contacted themselves.

The hatch of the transport ship slowly opened, and the bright light became brighter as the hatch expanded. TY0912 didn’t move, because there was no order, because none of the robots around him moved their bodies.

“Run down one by one in order.” A male voice sounded through the horn in the engine room, probably the driver of this advanced transport ship. With the order, the robots in the front row began to run out of the hatch, and soon, TY0912 followed.

Out of the hatch, TY0912 immediately discovered that this was a huge cosmic port, but apart from a few soldiers in blue military uniforms, there were only robots like himself. TY0912 was taken aback when he saw the soldier in the military uniform of an unknown country. He could confirm that these humans were well-trained soldiers. Moreover, this cosmic port was huge and the facilities were perfect. According to the knowledge he had received, businessmen could It is impossible to have such soldiers and such a cosmic port. So you say that you were bought by the military of a certain country? Thinking of this, TY0912 couldn’t help but feel a sense of joy, and he really didn’t want to be a useless tool.

When passing through the human soldiers in the queue, TY0912 found that they were holding a laser engraver to engrave a pattern for the robot. Seeing these, TY0912 is even more sure that he was purchased by the army.

After TY0912 was engraved, he quickly scanned the pattern printed on his arms. The bottom was printed with a blue flying dragon, and the surface was printed with a row of numbers: AX013456. This is his new number, TY0912 exclaimed. Soon it followed the team out of the spaceport and into one of the hundreds of troop carriers to a military base.

Standing in the large, dense and quiet playground, TY0912 felt a little weird, because a human second lieutenant was actually talking to his own tens of thousands of robots.

“From now on, you are a member of the Tang Dynasty and a member of the Tang army. Remember your new number. Unless you enter the Guards, this is the only number in your military career. As a soldier Our only rule is to obey! Obey the orders of His Highness Tang Long, the supreme commander of the Tang Dynasty! Obey the orders of the commanders! Obey the orders of the leaders!”

Listening to this second lieutenant, TY0912, oh, it should be called AX013456 now. He doesn’t have any special feeling. When he was in the Silver Eagle Empire, the orders he was given were also obey the orders of a certain prince and the commander. The former command will be modified to another prince when he is captured, while the latter command will not be modified. Now, he needs 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 rank is all private. As long as your merits are 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 I say these things to robots that they can’t understand, but an order is an order, even if the following is completely useless to the robot, he will say it: “The salary of a private is 1500 Vulai, and the monthly vacation is two days. , vacations are exempted during wartime, vacations accrued to peacetime, and health care retirement benefits…”

AX013456 stupidly looked at a set of blue military uniforms and a military card with his own information in his hand, and 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 all sitting on the edge of the bed. It seems that what the second lieutenant said and what he got are really amazing, not to mention intelligent robots like himself, even those ordinary robots have their computers crashed because of these things.

Salary, clothing, housing, vacation, identification, these things are not needed by these robots, and I can’t imagine it. Why is this country’s army so good to robots? It felt as if they were treating these robots as human beings.

When AX013456 was still in a daze with his companions, four humans with the same rank of private army walked in. They were obviously stunned when they saw these robots. They pushed each other and shrugged their companions. The last young man was pushed forward by them. The young man swallowed and said, “I said, brothers, why don’t you change your clothes and make the bed quickly? Wait for the inspection by the chief. Then you will be out of luck.” After seeing the other three human beings start to make their own beds, they couldn’t help shouting: “You bastards, push me out to talk, and start making the beds without waiting for me, Did it kill me?” After speaking, he started to make his bed.

AX013456 was stunned for a moment, then the computer calculated it, and felt that it would be better to do as the young man said. So it changed into the Datang military uniform, and at the same time began to make the bed and quilt. And the three ordinary robots also began to change clothes and quilts.

“Damn it! The robot is amazing. It’s faster than us to clean up, and it’s perfect!” A young man shouted in surprise when he looked at the quilt that AX013456 was finishing.

“What robots, didn’t the commander say not to call them robots? They will fight with us, that is, our comrades, so we have to call them by their names!” A more experienced soldier knocked the soldier’s head hard. brain.

“Wow, I don’t know their names.” The soldier shouted, covering his head.

“You won’t ask!” The veteran soldier glanced at the soldier, then stretched out his hand to AX013456 and said, “Hello, I’m Chen Bing.”

AX013456 was stunned for a moment, then carefully stretched out his hand and shook it gently, and said in an electronic voice: “Hello, I’m AX013456.” When Chen Bing shook hands with AX013456, several other soldiers also shook hands with several other robots. .

“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 difficult to pronounce, let’s just call you A6, by the way, you are from A6. Where did it come from?”

“Silver Eagle Empire.” AX013456 replied while paying attention to several other people, and found that they had already talked to those robots.

“Wow, the Silver Eagle Empire, I’ve heard of it. It’s a very powerful country, but there’s a civil war going on there, right? Have you ever participated in a battle? Come and listen?” Chen Bing asked curiously.

AX013456 nodded and began to describe his experience of fighting. It also doesn’t understand how it can talk to Chen Bing, maybe because these people don’t discriminate against the robot.

Sally asked the officer next to her, “How are the recruits?”

The officer said respectfully: “Although some recruits are afraid to talk to robots because of the appearance of robots, most of the soldiers began to chat and laugh with these robots under our strict order. After observation , they have slowly come to accept the fact that the robot is their comrade-in-arms.”

“Well, very good. Pay attention to the mentality of the soldiers. Discrimination against robots must not be allowed to happen. Once it happens, you will be punished for insulting colleagues.” Sally nodded and said.

“Yes!” The officer responded loudly, then looked at Sally, with an expression that he didn’t dare to say what he wanted to say.

“Just say what you want to say.” Sally saw the officer’s demeanor and knew that he was about to stop talking.

“Yes, sir, I want to ask, why do you treat the robot like this?” the officer asked with courage.

“Do you know about wars caused by robot rebellions in history?” Sally asked rhetorically.

“I know.” The officer nodded.

“Then you know why the robots want to rebel?” Sally continued.

“Because robots don’t want to be enslaved by humans… ah, the subordinate knows why he treats robots like this.” The officer said suddenly.

“Well, you understand, as long as we treat them with the same vision, 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, the subordinate must treat robots like other soldiers!” The officer, who fully understood the painstaking efforts of the superior, decided to go back and do the work of his colleagues who were still a little confused.

On this day, after some 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 ordinary robots were slowly becoming more flexible under the interaction with humans these days. Not as old-fashioned as it used to be. AX013456, who sensed this, knew that if this continued, the three ordinary robots would evolve into intelligent robots after a while.

Ordinary robots answer questions, observe their surroundings, and respond differently depending on the situation, but the reason they are ordinary robots is that they don’t think for themselves. Thinking about this factor is the biggest difference between intelligent robots and ordinary robots. The emotion factor is a necessary condition for intelligent robots to evolve into intelligent robots. As for the factor of self-awareness, it is the only condition for an intelligent robot to evolve into a life.

While they were manning the machine, a soldier ran in and shouted: “Get ready, the Guards are coming down to pick people!” Upon hearing this, everyone, including the robot, jumped up and quickly Organize your clothes and make your bed. As early as a few days ago, AX013456 knew that this Praetorian Guard was the most eager to join the army. It was the Imperial Forest Army, the supreme commander of the Tang Dynasty. Although AX013456 did not think that these robots could join such a force, he still couldn’t help it. Desire to be chosen.

Not long after they finished sorting, the sound of the assembly of drills sounded, and all the soldiers in the barracks all quickly concentrated on the runway playground. Immediately afterwards, the drills began under the leadership of the company commander. Others may be too busy to pay attention to whoever is next to them, but the AX013456 is able to focus on the entire training ground.

Soon he was surprised because he saw several of his kind. Those with the rank of second lieutenant were accompanied by the top commander of the base to review and practice the same kind. Although they have the appearance of humans, they are only covered with a layer of active skin. You can recognize at a glance that they are your own kind, and they are intelligent robots that are several times more advanced than yourself. There are such advanced intelligent robots in this country? And a second lieutenant? The puzzled AX013456 found that they were about to come beside him, and hurriedly restrained his consciousness and began to concentrate on practicing.

After the training, everyone gathered at the training ground, and then the top commander of the base began to read the names. When Chen Bing and AX013456 were read, AX013456 clearly felt the scorching light of envy and envy, and Chen Bing was even more so. He walked out of the team with a look of excitement, and quickly ran forward with himself. AX013456 was in a daze while running. Could it be that he was chosen as a member of the Praetorian Guard?

Facing those intelligent robots that were higher than himself, AX013456 didn’t know what to do. When he saw Chen Bing and others whose names were read, they started to take off their military uniforms. It wasn’t until this moment that he realized that the pattern printed on his arm was not only found in robots, but in all humans. Chen Bing’s number is: AX006745.

A high-level intelligent robot took out a small laser engraver and began to re-engrave the codes for the selected people. AX013456 found that the new pattern has not changed except the number, and now he has a new code. It is SS0215689, and Chen Bing’s is SS0215688.

Another intelligent robot said: “From now on, you are a member of the Praetorian Guard. As a member of the Praetorian Guard, in addition to obeying orders, the most important responsibility is to protect us. Supreme Commander – His Royal Highness Tang Long!”

“I swear to protect His Royal Highness Tang Long!” SS0215689 shouted after the crowd. He began to wonder why His Highness Tang Long could make the intelligent robot so loyal.