3: Chapter 3 A Weak Dynasty?

"How could he dare, how could he dare!!"

"This concerns the national destiny of our Dragon Country, yet he actually dared to make such a random choice!"

The military officers in the military headquarters conference room were furious.

No one would have expected that such an ordinary student would dare to defy the orders of the country's top leadership.

Instead of choosing the Late Qing Dynasty, he chose a Dynasty unknown to anyone.

The historians in the conference room quickly checked their materials, struggling to dig up a few scattered words about the Qin Dynasty.

"According to the surviving information, the Qin Dynasty should have existed thousands of years ago, and its technological level is likely appallingly low."

As soon as the historian finished speaking, the complexions of the generals in the conference room instantly turned deathly pale.

It was bad enough that he didn't follow orders and chose randomly, but he actually picked an ancient Dynasty.

In the Forbidden Ground, the initial troops are determined by the technological level of the chosen civilization.

Although technology would catch up with development in the Late Stage, if the initial technology is too weak, one cannot even survive the early stages.

Most countries try to balance technological level and development potential, choosing the most suitable template.

For example, England would choose the Victorian Era, and France would choose the Napoleonic Era.

Both are world-renowned eras.

Although the initial technology is slightly inferior, their development potential is very strong.

However, the Qin Dynasty chosen by Su Yang belongs to the cold weapon era of thousands of years ago, and its early combat power is far too weak.

Coupled with the spawn point being the Heart of the Hive, they are facing the Zerg, which have the strongest early-game combat power.

Seeing Su Yang's choice, the officers could not bear to think any further.

Dragon Country is likely facing a slim chance of survival.

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Official Live Stream.

Through analysis of the surviving data, historians concluded that the military industry of the Qin Dynasty was still stuck in the Bronze Age.

They hadn't even popularized ironware on a large scale, and their early combat power was even worse than the Western Jin Dynasty chosen last time.

Once the analysis was released, the live stream chat exploded instantly.

"What kind of choice is this! Su Yang is a sinner through the ages; he wants to drag us down to the grave with him."

"The Bronze Age, did I hear that right?! How the hell are we supposed to play this!!"

"This is the strongest early-game Zerg, bronze swords can't even break through their armor."

"It's over, it's over. I should have gone abroad with my cousin. Who would want to be a citizen of Dragon Country!"

"How could it be like this? Won't this be even faster than the Western Jin catastrophe? That disaster level will definitely destroy Dragon Country..."

Su Yang's choice was like dropping a bomb into a crowd.

The public was filled with grievances, and a sense of despair quickly spread throughout Dragon Country.

Contrary to the reaction of the people in reality.

Su Yang, who was in the Forbidden Ground, was calm and filled with confidence at this moment.

For no other reason than because he chose the Great Qin as his template.

The reason for choosing the Great Qin as a template, aside from his yearning for that First Emperor through the ages, the beginning of ten thousand dynasties, was more due to Su Yang's own thinking and considerations.

In his view, the Forbidden Area Trial mode, which involves developing a civilization from scratch, is essentially no different from a real-time strategy game.

As a top-tier war criminal in Paradox games, Su Yang has nearly 20,000 hours of playtime in real-time strategy games.

He naturally knew the importance of initial troops and also considered the factor that ancient troops might be weak in the early stages.

But when choosing the template, he carefully analyzed the passive traits of each Dynasty.

Among them, the trait effect of the Qin Dynasty moved him the most.

[Civilization Template: Qin Dynasty]

[Initial Civilization Trait: Great Qin Heavy Industry]

[This civilization possesses superb craftsmanship; all manufactured goods will reach the peak level of current technology.]

The manufactured goods here include not only weapons and equipment but also infrastructure; as long as it is something made by humans, it will be at the highest level.

This means that as long as the sword is unlocked, the sword manufactured will be the sharpest.

Once the gun is unlocked, it will possess the longest range and greatest power.

Even products like mines and processing machine tools will have higher efficiency.

As long as it exists, it is the best.

For a civilization pursuing technological development, this is undoubtedly an extremely powerful trait.

Historically, the Qin Dynasty implemented the policy of "inscribing the artisan's name on the product" and indeed possessed extremely high manufacturing craftsmanship.

Coupled with the massive construction projects, its infrastructure capability was also terrifying.

Great Qin artisans, truly worthy of the name.

With this talent, even if the early stage is only at the Bronze Age level, Su Yang believes its combat power will not be too low.

And as long as they survive the early stage, the potential of the Qin Dynasty will definitely be invincible in the Late Stage.

The First Emperor exerted the remaining might of six generations and gave Huaxia its first unified Dynasty in fifteen years.

Su Yang vows that in this one year of Reincarnation in the Forbidden Ground, he will let the world re-recognize the greatest Dynasty of Huaxia Civilization.

[Territory Panel]

[Territory: Qin]

[Lord: Su Yang]

[Affiliation: Dragon Country]

[Main Base Rank: Level 1 lords residence]

[Territory Buildings: 0]

[Combat Units: 0]

[Resources: 0]

[command points: 1000]

Just like in a game, everything starts from zero.

Su Yang opened the building tab; only one building could be constructed.

The origin of all things, similar to a Main Base.

[Main Base: lords residence]

[The core building of the territory. If the Lord dies or the Main Base is destroyed, it will be judged as a failure by the Forbidden Ground. Please be sure to protect your Main Base.]

Su Yang's thoughts flickered as he took out the blueprint of the residence, found an open space in the complex forest environment, and placed the blueprint down.

The moment the blueprint was placed, a pale blue light effect surged out.

A clicking sound of mechanical parts rotating rang out.

Su Yang looked puzzled.

Logically, the buildings of the Qin Dynasty should all be wooden structures; why would there be mechanical gear sounds when building it?

After a burst of clicking, the lords residence materialized in front of Su Yang.

Seeing the finished product, he couldn't help but widen his eyes.

The lords residence was not like the ancient wooden houses in his memory.

The entire building sat on a grey-blue metal base.

Ascending the polished stone steps was a huge yellow metal door, with various precision gears inlaid on it.

The walls were also made of blue-yellow metal, looking incredibly sturdy.

Above the base, surrounding the house, eight huge and smooth pillars supported a roof made of metal.

The roof tiles, flying eaves, and dougong brackets were all, without exception, some kind of special metal.

Although not large in scale, it gave a feeling of immense grandeur and solemnity at a glance.

This was no residence; it was practically a fortress!

Su Yang was immensely shocked; the initial technological level of the Qin Dynasty seemed to far exceed his expectations.

Based on its appearance, he guessed that the main body of the building was likely composed of bronze alloys with different proportions.

Thinking back to the territory talent of the Qin Dynasty, Su Yang realized that this was precisely the embodiment of the Qin Dynasty's top-tier bronze craftsmanship!

According to the different needs of the building's components, the ratio of copper to other metals is changed to ensure structural solidity while meeting construction requirements.

In addition to the superb bronze craftsmanship, another thing that surprised Su Yang was the exquisite mechanism on the door.

It was composed of bronze gears of different sizes, with a beautiful structure.

What is this for?

Su Yang stepped onto the stone steps, and his foot clicked.

Hiss—

Accompanied by the spray of water vapor, the bronze gears on the door began to rotate.

Amidst a rhythmic sound, the heavy metal door in front of Su Yang slowly opened.

This is?

He widened his eyes slightly, a mechanical structure controlled by steam technology!

The Qin Dynasty also mastered steam technology?

Too shocked to care, Su Yang quickly opened the panel.

After building the lords residence, he unlocked a new building.

Barracks!

He couldn't wait to know what kind of soldiers the Qin Dynasty, which possessed cutting-edge bronze craftsmanship and even mastered steam technology, would produce!

He had a premonition that the early stage of the Qin Dynasty might not be weak at all!