Chapter 3424 Intelligence Business

In troubled times, extreme voices are always the most attractive, because extremists do not need to propose production plans or advanced ideas, they can just throw the blame on others, and then burn, kill and rob.

Everyone is busy all day and night, and there is no need to think about the future. As long as they can grab what they can now, they will win.

So there are extreme organizations everywhere, and extreme organizations can concentrate their strength the fastest and grow like a snowball. They roar in the steel jungle of the city, causing a lot of damage.

In the face of troubled times, one or two people are of no use at all. Even if Confucius and Mencius were resurrected, they would be powerless in the face of the collapse of rituals and music.

However, Duran said that as long as everyone's mentality is transformed into a state of war, as long as they regard heaven as more important than reality, believe that there is no buying and selling in heaven and no killing, believe that everything in reality is suffering, and would rather become a suicide bomber than live, then there is no need for troubled times, and everyone can just roll around in troubled times together.

As for ending the troubled times, of course it depends on the landlords and gentry in various places to build castles and maintain order. As long as there is no problem with their own small piece of land, it doesn't matter if there is a big fight outside.

Just like in many zombie movies, a wall is built, inside the wall is in good order, and outside the wall zombies are rampant.

Since the order has been maintained inside the wall, the forces have been organized, production has been resumed, and even weapons and equipment can be produced, why don't the people inside the wall know about the zombies and take back the land?

Because you can't do that. Once the land is taken back, many people will inevitably grow stronger, and the status of the landlords and gentry will be threatened. So the city lords in zombie movies will try their best to promote the fear outside the wall and prevent people inside from going out. In this way, the city lord can maintain the advantage.

This is just like Genghis Khan suddenly becoming kind. It's not that he really changed his temperament, but that he continued to let his son go to war, and his position was threatened.

It's also like Empress Dowager Cixi. Why can't you give money to the army? If the navy wins, will Cixi give up her throne or give the generals of the army a cup of poisoned wine?

There is also the famous game "Frostpunk". When the player organizes people through various means and survives the difficult test, the game will pop up a sentence: But is it all worth it?

The landlords and gentry maintain their own small piece of land, and then tell their subordinates that the outside world is a devil's cave, and they must not go there, otherwise they will die. They tell everyone that they should not work hard, because if they work hard, the landlord's position will be unstable. It is best to die rather than work hard like in "Frostpunk". Landlords like such people the most.

The gathering places in zombie movies are obviously capable of fighting, but they would rather shrink back than destroy zombies and recover lost land, because they cannot recover it. Once recovered, the landlords and gentry will not be able to control everything and will not have the right to speak.

So in the zombie worldview, there are gathering places for survivors, and the gathering places are peaceful inside, and the outside is a doomsday scene of ruins. The protagonist goes from one gathering place to another, causing trouble in many places.

Because the protagonist represents an external force, it is easy to get support and conflict with the city lord. With the help of the protagonist's halo, the protagonist provokes a civil war in the gathering place in minutes.

It's not that there are no opponents in the gathering place, but the city lord has the most resources and suppresses the opponents. However, the protagonist group, an external force, has explosive combat power. It is not a problem for the opponents to cooperate with the protagonist group to defeat the city lord.

Generally speaking, after the city lord disappears, there will be three directions: one is the parliament, one is another city lord, and the other is division.

In short, the protagonist group is a human-shaped killer. Wherever they go, there will be war.

Duran thinks that soon everyone will circle the land and grow on their own, just like in zombie movies, where landlords and gentry occupy safe strongholds, and the worthless land outside is left alone, allowing those free people to toss.

Indeed, many landlords and tyrants have built walls and turned their territories into fortresses, so that they can resist the chaos.

Because of superpowers, the walls are also electromagnetic shield walls, which can effectively resist energy attacks.

There is also the hoarding of supplies, food, seeds, weapons, energy and other basic things are needed.

But these things are also needed for people's lives. If the landlords hoard them, the prices will rise, and ordinary people can't buy them, which will further accelerate the chaos.

These are standard features of the chaos, and there is no way.

Even Duran can't do anything. If he tells everyone to unite, they will only think that Duran has bad intentions. They have been taught since childhood that individualism is great and unity is evil. How can they unite suddenly?

These people don't look at problems dialectically at all. Individualism is not perfect and can't solve all problems. Unity is not just oppression of individuals, but a way to concentrate on doing big things.

To be serious and lively, to unite and tense, both individuals and unity are needed. There is no contradiction in themselves. Both are ways to solve problems.

The problem is that when people don't learn dialectics, don't understand these pragmatic principles, and don't understand that practice is the only criterion for testing truth, it is easy to lean towards individualism.

Even if Duran wants to help, he can't unite everyone. Of course, he can also use absolute strength to unify this land with overwhelming force, but that's meaningless.

Duran decided to continue to use the app as a platform to develop communication infrastructure, and then the landlords and gentry will pay if they want to use these infrastructures.

Sure enough, they quickly began to enclose land, and high-tech fortresses sprang up one after another, and all production and life were gathered in the fortresses. The city began to be empty, with only homeless vagrants, risky adventurers, and robbers who killed and set fires wandering in the city.

These people made the world outside the fortress very dangerous.

Of course, you can graze and farm around the fortress, which is under the radiation of the fortress guards.

This is similar to the situation in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, cities, grazing, fields, and wastelands. The wilderness is a place where all kinds of dangers lurk, so don't go there if you don't have anything to do.

The extremists also sighed in despair when facing the fortress, and they couldn't grab it. If they couldn't grab it, no one would listen to the extremists. Everyone would hope to live in the fortress.

But the owner of the fortress would definitely not accept it, because the carrying capacity of the fortress is limited. Not only can they not accept it, but they will also formulate various laws and regulations to kick out the lawbreakers from the fortress.

Anyway, through this means of isolation, a new order is gradually established. Then there will be merchant organizations that trade between different fortresses, making huge profits through the flow of resources.

What Duran has to do is to become the backing of all organizations, providing them with communication, positioning, weapons and other technologies, and they can buy services as long as they spend money.

Whether it is a chaotic world or a peaceful era, information asymmetry is always the only choice for making money. Duran uses information asymmetry to make money, so he will definitely not be short of money.

"These Pip Boys can be sold now." Speaking of the end of the world, the game "Fallout" is naturally indispensable. The terminal Pip Boy in it allows players to receive information anywhere. Now Duran has also produced a lot of Pip Boys. This kind of terminal computer allows users to purchase services at any time.

Intelligence is the most valuable in any era, and Duran's intelligence is definitely worth the money. You may spend money to buy false intelligence in other places, but in Duran, as long as you spend money, it must be true intelligence. Just for this reason, Duran is a conscientious merchant.

The most difficult thing about intelligence is not how to obtain intelligence, but how to distinguish true from false. There are many channels to obtain intelligence, and there is always a way, but it is difficult to distinguish true from false intelligence.

Just like the Pearl Harbor incident, there must be a lot of true and false intelligence, and the US military didn't know whether the attack on Pearl Harbor was true or not.

There was also the Normandy Landing, and the German army also got a lot of intelligence. Some said it was in Normandy, and some said it was somewhere else.

Another example is the plank road repaired in the open but Chencang was secretly attacked. Xiang Yu must have known that there were enemy troops in Chencang and the plank road, but he didn't know where the enemy would attack from.

The intelligence is true or false, and once the judgment is wrong, it will be a failure.