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Chapter 232 Mechanical Legion
In the inherent impression of the outside world.

America is the largest arms dealer in the world. Its arms sales reach hundreds of billions of dollars every year. It is a golden egg that is not much worse than the Arc Light Motor Company.

The Rockefeller consortium accounted for a terrifying 80% of the hundreds of billions of dollars in arms sales.

On the surface, it is the largest arms dealer in the world, bar none.

But in fact, the military manufacturing capability of the Civilized Science City is not weaker than the Rockefeller Foundation at all, and even far stronger than the other side.

However, since the military industry is one of the few forces directly under Lu Chen's control in the entire civilized science city, not to mention the outside world, even the top leaders of Lu Chen's faction do not know how strong their military industry is.

It's also thanks to Lu Chen's control of several forces with terrifying profitability, otherwise he really wouldn't be able to support such a huge military industry.

Now among all the forces of Lu Chen Group.

The most profitable force should be the Chensheng Department, whose annual profits are hard to count, especially after the anti-aging technology of Chensheng Life Science and Technology was launched on the market.

Its terrifying gold-absorbing effect is unimaginable even for a country with a population of tens of millions, let alone a company.

Apart from the Chensheng Department, the second most profitable industry of Lu Chen Group is not the Huanyu Department, but the real estate industry of Civilization Science City itself.

That's right.

Although the Civilized Science City does not belong to any of the Huanyu Department and the Chensheng Department, its management model is completely modeled after the country, and it adopts centralized management of the central government.

But just after Chensheng Life Science and Technology launched the anti-aging technology, Civilization Science City, a gold-swallowing monster that has always been unable to enter, not only turned losses into profits for the first time this year.

Moreover, the horror of profit even has the meaning of surpassing the Chensheng system.

How terrible is the profitability of the Chensheng system?
A mere Arclight Automobile Company has a market value of more than 2.5 trillion U.S. dollars.

Even the helm of the group does not know the specific profit of the entire group.

This may sound like an exaggeration, but it is what it is.

The companies in the Chensheng department are not managed by Zhang Mingbo alone. Although he is the nominal president of the group, the companies he can manage are very limited.

There is only one person who can really grasp the financial situation of the entire Chensheng Department in real time. No, to be precise, it is not a person, but Lu Chen's artificial intelligence, Ling.

As Lu Chen's power became more and more powerful, apart from controlling the most core powers, he could only hand over the other powers to his subordinates.

After all, he is a human being, not a god, with limited energy, it is impossible to cover everything.

Lu Chen is still able to maintain such a strong control over the power group with himself as the core, Ling's role is irreplaceable.

Otherwise, will the people below be able to implement his policies well, and will there be a situation where Yin obeys Yang and violates Yang.

There is no guarantee at all.

This is also the fundamental reason why some countries have good policies, but they are a mess down below.

Because man is essentially a selfish creature, under normal circumstances, the first thing people consider is often their own interests.

It is debatable what choice people will make when their own interests conflict with the policies they need to implement.

As for the third force in terms of profitability, it is naturally a Huanyu company.

Apart from these three profit-making forces, there are more places where Lu Chen needs to spend money.

The one ranked first should belong to the Academy of Civilization and Science.

Although the Academy of Civilization and Science is the number one force under Lu Chen's command, it is also the number one swallowing gold beast.

If it weren't for his better ability to make money, he wouldn't be able to support this terrifying scientific research behemoth.

In addition to the money spent on scientific research, the second most expensive force under Lu Chen's subordinates is not even the infrastructure industry with Chensheng Construction as its core, but military expenses.

That's right.

In order to build a powerful military force as soon as possible, Lu Chen invested a lot of money into it.

This does not include the scientific research expenses of the Academy of Civilization Sciences.

If the scientific research expenses of the Academy of Civilization and Science were included in the military expenses, the military expenses might become the biggest expense of the Lu Chen Group.

2024 only.

Lu Chen Group's military expenditure (excluding scientific research expenses) reached 2761 billion Xia Yuan.

The most expensive part is the air force!
The most powerful fighter in the world, and also the most expensive to manufacture—the Banshee fighter, a total of 216 fighters were built last year.

This part of the expenditure alone reached 1080 billion Xia Yuan.

In addition, honeycomb unmanned bombers, large military transport aircraft, hummingbird unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, etc., spent a total of 1124 billion Xia Yuan.

The military expenditure of the entire Air Force has reached a terrifying 2204 billion Xia Yuan, accounting for about 80% of the entire military expenditure.

The remaining 20% ​​is used for the manufacture and maintenance of nuclear weapons and the building of the army.

Compared with the expensive air force.

The army's military spending seems to be insignificant.

But that was before.

Since the rapid mechanical bug was developed not long ago, Lu Chen produced 5000 of them in the first batch.

With the unit price of 500 million Xiayuan per swift mechanical bug, that would be 250 billion Xiayuan.

And this is just the first batch.

If the performance of the swift mechanical bugs in large-scale wars can be guaranteed, Lu Chen will definitely manufacture them in large quantities.

Plus the logistical maintenance of weapons and equipment.

That fee will be high.

Although Lu Chen's logistics system is basically contracted by the T-1 robot, the production of the T-1 robot and its own maintenance also require high costs.

If an army wants to truly form combat effectiveness, it must not only have advanced weapons and equipment, but also have a strong logistics system and high combat morale.

Coupled with the commander's extraordinary command ability, basically an invincible army is formed.

For Lu Chen's army.

Combat morale is always at full value, because his army is almost all composed of mechanical legions, and this thing is not afraid of death at all.

As for the advanced degree of equipment and the perfection of logistics system.

Lu Chen can also be sure that he is not weaker than any army in the world.

The only thing he can't guarantee is the command ability of the army.

In the final analysis, a completely unmanned army can be said to be unprecedented in human history, and Lu Chen can be regarded as a historical precedent.

And letting artificial intelligence command the army is an attempt where no one knows the result.

As the first person to eat crabs, Lu Chen can't guarantee whether the combat effectiveness of this army can reach the level he imagined.

Because the battlefield is changing rapidly, artificial intelligence may be able to improve continuously in learning, but Ling has not actually commanded a decent war.

As a rookie commander, if Lu Chen really had a military conflict with a certain big country, he would probably have to rely on equipment to crush the opponent.

It is quite difficult to beat the opponent in military command.

Lu Chen sometimes thought that military talents could be cultivated by establishing a military academy.

But the development time of his power is still short after all, many things have not been gradually formed, and he still has more important things to do in his hands.

He has repeatedly delayed the matter of improving the commanding ability of the army.

(End of this chapter)