1702 New Changes in Society
The Defense Department's silence made Mr. Trueman's expression turn serious because it meant it could be true.
When the Prime Minister discussed the qualification issue with him, he also mentioned that the mainstream view in Gefra’s country was that this was impossible.
Mr. Trueman also thought it was impossible. Two thousand seven hundred kilometers, not two hundred and seventy kilometers, you can just pass it.
To a certain extent, he still supported the views of those nobles, but now, he no longer thinks so.
"In other words, this is possible?" He looked at the senior generals of the Ministry of National Defense with a serious expression.
One of the officers nodded, "We don't doubt their ability, Mr. President."
Mr. Trueman straightened his sitting posture and put his hands back on the table. "What's the reason?"
The officer knew that such a high-level meeting could not be based entirely on his own guesses, so he directly cited conclusive evidence.
"Mr. President, we have completed more than 1,600 kilometers of railway system in Marillo, and we expect to complete the remaining 1,400 kilometers of railway construction plan between the second half of this year and the first half of next year."
"Based on our current understanding of the Southern Continent, it is a society with backward military strength and a semi-primitive and semi-feudal form."
"Even if some countries have certain military strength, it will be difficult for them to fight against the mechanized army of the Pengeo Military Group."
"They can move forward and build the railroad at the same time, and you know, the labor over there is not valuable..."
Labor is worthless, which means you can hire more people to work with less money!
For a job like railway construction that does not require high-tech or construction requirements, manpower is its mortal enemy!
Tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people work together. Even if one person can only lay one meter a day, they can also lay ten kilometers a day.
This is to be taken lightly. In fact, Peng Jieao's mechanical level is not too low, and he also has various construction machinery. Their speed of laying railways will not be that slow.
Maybe in less than a year, their railway can be laid directly from the Homer Corridor to the seaport in the west!
As long as the railway is laid, all that is left is a steady stream of repetition, and then transporting troops and equipment.
In fact, the reason why the Gafra people think it is impossible is that Gafra is an island country and it is very small.
They were once very powerful, but their arrogance caused them to look at the world in the past. They could not understand the speed and power of that large-scale project!
Maybe for them, this kind of thing is absolutely impossible to exist.
But the federal people are not that arrogant and know very well that this matter is not complicated.
As long as no one can interfere with the speed of laying railroad tracks, then as fast as the Federation can lay railroads in Mariro, Pengeo Military Group can lay railroads in the Southern Continent.
Mr. Trueman quickly understood after the officer's explanation that he was not a politician who knew nothing about military affairs. He realized that the Prime Minister's concerns were likely to come true!
If no one interferes, it may be turning into reality.
Pengeo's changes in war strategy have made the federal Ministry of Defense and the military feel some difficulties. They have never experienced such a large-scale grand strategy with the world as the stage.
This also caused them to always lag behind the Pengeo Military Group in this regard.
They did not think about opening up a new front to continue fighting against the Pengeo people for consumption and national strength. On the contrary, Pengeo found a way to try to deal with Gaevra.
Mr. Trueman's expression was serious and solemn, "Is there any way we can prevent this from happening? At least for now, we need Gaevra."
He used "now", which is a word with a range. For the Federation, after the war is over, Gefra may not exist.
It may collapse on its own. Your Excellency the Prime Minister's reform of the national system is superficially successful, but what he challenges is not entirely the authority of the entire royal family, but also the authority of the nobility.
Now that he has great power, there is little to see. Once he abdicates, Gafra will fall into political strife or even turmoil.
It was just right at that time, but not now. It must continue to hold back part of Pengeo's main force for the Federation.
An officer later expressed improbability.
"We can't directly interfere in places that far away, and people there may not believe us. What we can do now is probably the same as what they did before."
"Provide some military assistance, material and military, to countries willing to resist Pengeo."
The Federation does not have much friendship with the indigenous people in the Southern Continent. They are all isolated from the civilized world. Only the Eastern and Western Continents can be called civilized worlds.
Of course this is what they think.
The most important thing is that it is too far away, and it is all inland. The federal army... that's it. In the absence of air support, it may not be the opponent of the Penteo people!
It is simply a dream to establish a complete air force supply system in that deserted place.
They chose the right battlefield and front, and immediately fully demonstrated their advantages.
This also made Mr. Trueman feel worried. He realized that the situation he least wanted to face was likely to come.
The silence in the conference room was replaced by an even crazier attack on the Nagaril battlefield!
It was as if the federal army wanted to drive the Penteo people out of the land of Nagaril in the shortest possible time!
The intensity and anxiety of the war did not affect the country much.
The Federals were a little awe and sensitive to the war at first, but now they no longer think so.
Apart from higher tax rates, there is actually no change in everyone's lives. The government has sufficient material relief, and with the increase in female jobs now, the female labor force in many ordinary families has also been liberated.
There is nothing we can do without emancipation. More than two million young men have been conscripted into the army. If the female labor force is not liberated, the federal production capacity will decline.
And this just caters to the ideas of feminist organizations. After liberating sex and the right to control one's own body, they target "independent financial freedom" in the next stage of their work.
The newly elected Landa has begun to adapt to her new role. After Ms. Tracey consolidated her political position, women's rights organizations also regained their respect for her.
In addition, Landa hooked up with Lynch, so she quickly secured her position.
And she proposed "comprehensive liberation of the female labor force" and "women across the federation can control their own finances from today on", which is actually cooperating with Lynch.
Although these two new movement directions proposed by Landa are not very satisfactory to the top leaders of the feminist movement, they are very welcome to women at the bottom.
The workers' union also followed up in a timely manner. Through the Socialist Party, they submitted a proposal for the "Act on the Protection of Women's Rights at Work" to Congress, and it was successfully passed.
This is not because the Socialist Party has suddenly become successful in Congress, but it is now a time when the federation really needs women to work.
The Ministry of National Defense plans to continue to recruit one million young and middle-aged men to join the army in the second half of the year, and at the same time recruit no less than 50,000 female soldiers. This also means that there will be hundreds of thousands of labor positions lacking male employees!
Therefore, after the Socialist Party proposed this proposal, Congress directly voted it through without even holding a hearing, and it became effective.
Currently, federal enterprises must reserve 25% of their positions for women. This is a hard target.
If a factory, a company, does not meet this standard and does not have at least 25 female employees for every 100 employees, then the union will sue them.
The rapid changes in society as a whole have caused many people to get used to it before they even get used to it!
When walking on the street, people will find that there are many more women wearing work clothes now than before!
Even on the streets of Bupain, there will be some women wearing work clothes when commuting to and from get off work.
They have a very fresh feeling about their work, probably because they have just started working and are not bored yet. Most of them are very supportive of these changes.
The union has also built some departments specifically for women, as well as clubs specifically for female workers, providing a relatively private relaxing environment.
The most interesting thing is that male strippers have begun to appear in some striptease bars.
They were not in the same hall as the female strippers, and the male guests did not want to see a guy on the stage who was handsomer and thicker than them, taking off his clothes...
In such a limited afternoon of interesting time, Serra took the initiative to contact Lynch.
Selah had been depressed for a long time since Nell's death, and when Lynch visited her several times, she appeared distant.
In fact, it can't be regarded as indifference, it's just that some emotions are blocked.
In fact, she and Nell... didn't have much love, just family affection, but it was family affection that was the most painful when they were separated.
In fact, in addition to these things, Lynch can also feel her fear, the fear of death.
But there was no good way to solve this. He could only let people keep an eye on Sera and prevent her from doing stupid things, that's all.
After arriving at Serra's house, Lynch met her on the lawn.
She was standing on the lawn in very beautiful clothes and a sunhat, and there were several ladies around her talking to him.
The cooks next to them are busy preparing lunch. These cooks from the royal family or nobles of Gefra are in high demand now.
The people of the Federation are extremely hypocritical. The richer they are, the more hypocritical they are. They like chefs who serve the royal family or nobles to also serve them, as if they are also nobles!
Sierra was holding a glass of champagne in her hand. When she lowered her head, she happened to see Lynch. She immediately put down the things in her hands and the people next to her, and walked towards Lynch...