Chapter 189 Chapter 603 The Honeymoon Ends and the Confrontation Begins.
Chapter 189 Chapter 6.03 The honeymoon is over and the confrontation begins.
In the 148th year of the Pandora calendar, Jianye City took many unilateral actions against the Tongfa District.
For example: confiscating shops in the Tongfa District, increasing troops on the defense wall in central Jiangxi, and prohibiting merchants in the Tongfa District from transporting goods on the Yangtze River route.
This series of actions continued to cool the bilateral relationship between the Tongfa District and Jianye City after the Tianjilong incident.
On May 13.
The two sides held a diplomatic meeting on the current situation. In this diplomatic meeting, there were eight crew members in the team sent by the Tongfa District, and the other 67 were from local factions, of which 27 were once genetic polluters.
The high rate of genetic polluters is not due to "correctness", but because the Tongfa District can find very few people who are familiar with the affairs of the Yangtze River Basin.
Some people who originally worked as clerks in the Yangtze River Basin were excluded by the upper echelons of their city-state system due to mild genetic pollution, and were then treated and assessed by the Tongfa District, and selected into the Tongfa District's external system.
On the cargo ship in the middle section of the Ganjiang River, both parties sat down.
On the conference table, compared with the various personalized outfits of the elite trainers sent by Jianye City, the Tongfa District was all dressed in blue homespun clothing and red star cloth hats.
The fabric was a little rustic, but the energy storage battery metal belt around the waist and the colonization ligaments extending to the legs were in the style of "Iron Blood Warrior".
From the beginning of this negotiation, both parties had no expectations.
In the Tongfa District, there is a very popular way to judge whether a certain job is important, that is, to see how much of the proportion of Wei Keng Group in this job is?
If it is important enough and the policy attaches enough importance to it, then the proportion of Wei Keng Group in it is very high.
In this negotiation, there is no Wei Keng. Before departure, the whole team was told to "stand firm", and everyone understood that this job was to repeat themselves.
So at the meeting,
the trainers from Jianye reported a lot of conditions: "Not allowed to enter the Yangtze River waterway", "stop oppressing the city-states in Fujian", "the maritime trade between the Tongfa District and the Minliu Strait should be jointly hosted by both parties (that is, the fleet of the Tongfa District must have trainers sent by Jianye)"... When this series of regulations were put forward to take advantage of all the benefits,
the negotiation experts sent by the Tongfa District also competed with each other.
Wang Lekang - this is the ideological and political personnel on the ship, he is the most positive and popular person on the ship. However, in actual work, the disadvantage is that it is not easy to take detours. He personally knows the shortcomings of his work. In recent years, he has rarely done propaganda work so directly.
But this time, Sun Xiangyang specifically designated him to stick to his position. Sun Xiangyang: "Well, anyway, there is a high probability that 'the negotiation will fail'. Since the other side is playing rogue, we have to send someone to play temper."
At the negotiation table, Wang Lekang used his mouth to spray Jianye's unreasonable demands over and over again. When he was tired, he took a sip of water from the teacup and continued.
Wang Lekang: "We insist on xx", "Our actions are based on equal conditions between the two sides", "You should reflect on your arrogant and domineering behavior."
This day was the most comfortable day for Wang Lekang in this world. With the powerful strength of his own side, he pointed at the nose and cursed the "feudal corruption" of the other side. The language can be as sharp as you want, and you are not afraid of "the other side getting angry and starting a fight".
Oh, "fighting" is not a big deal!
The Tongfa District has prepared troops in the south, and the Lugia cruise war beast in the sky is on standby with live ammunition. A seven-meter-high hydrogen peroxide and alcohol rocket with a range of 100 kilometers in the back has also been erected.
There are profound contradictions behind wars. If a war really breaks out, the reason cannot be that one side is not humble enough, but that the other side is hungry and one side is not strong enough.
If Jianye wants to fight, someone in the Tongfa District may be injured, but these trainers must be wiped out.
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Of course, what finally made the negotiations end completely (broken, unhappy) was that the Tongfa District came up with a solution for the city-states in Fujian.
That is, the model of Yuedi, Ji'an City and other places.
From the inside to the outside, from the foundation to the upper level, these city-state societies will be reshaped.
The Tongfa District has always emphasized its position:
"Under the framework of great unification, we will uphold the constant morality of people's stable life and national development, and insist on implementing policies and governance under the extensive supervision of the people. We will guide the behavior of every person and every class in a fair and just manner, and adjudicate conflicts according to law."
In short, the Tongfa District must fully integrate Fujian into itself, and the privileges of a few people in the city-state must be eliminated. The right to speak to determine the general direction of governance must also return from a few people to the masses.
Now, this plan is undisguisedly thrown out at the negotiation table. It seems to be dealing with Fujian, but it is actually a polite way of saying: "Sooner or later, I will deal with you this way."
The consensus spirit of the unified area was drafted by Wei Keng, which comes from the modern summary of the spirit of the Eastern nation-building in the ancient times in the main world: "constant justice, public law, and clear politics."
Constant justice is the reason for unity: since ancient times, we have been integrated and unified, from heaven to earth, bearing disasters together, and moving towards prosperity together.
Clear politics: It is a way to reduce conflicts and frictions between each other when we unite and gather on the basis of constant justice! Everyone has enough food, everyone has clothes to wear, building roads, and farming are all manifestations of clear politics. The essence of clear politics is to allow the voices of all kinds of people who maintain the world to reach the center directly and become the criteria for policy formulation.
As for public law: law governs rewards and punishments. The consequences of all actions should be fair and should not be distorted by any individual or a small group of people.
The city-state system of Jianye City does not have any of the above! It can be regarded as a substantial degradation of civilization.
In the past hundred years, these people in the east of Pandora have claimed to "use stones from other mountains to attack jade from one's own side" and played the city-state of Mediterranean civilization. This is not a pioneering work, but an old thing that was abandoned long ago on this land.
Master Wei Keng: "One person is overshadowing the sun, and the tyrant is a tyrant" allusion comes from the city-state system of China. It can only be said that the upper class of Jianye, who used old Hollywood movies as "enlightenment cognition in the old civilization era", is uneducated.
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At the meeting on May 13, Tongfa and Jianye had a frank struggle, exchanged opinions in depth, and then enhanced understanding. In the end, the two sides agreed to strengthen border control.
The so-called enhanced understanding:
Starting at 3:30 p.m., the aerial mechanical beasts of both sides demonstrated against each other in the sky over southern Jiangxi.
The air array formed by the Lugia cluster of the Tongfa Army suppressed the mechanical beasts of the trainers. On the premise of not firing at each other, the Lugia plucked the flight feathers from the trainers' flying mechanical beasts. ——The scene was like a flock of geese chasing and biting.
The Tongfa Army, due to its advantages in informatization and productivity, had twice as many Lugia as the other side, and loaded with 50-kilogram turbojet engines, its sprint speed reached three times that of the other side. This was a righteous group fight! The trainers in Jianye City cursed loudly, but they did not dare to really open fire.
Wei Keng: "Logistics, information command, the advantage is mine. If you can fight in a group, why do you have to fight alone?"
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After June, the city-state district in the Yangtze River Basin issued an official document and began to strengthen border control.
This decision was a unilateral decision made by Jianye after it fell into a disadvantage after the 5.13 air confrontation. It was a feedback to the behavior of the Tongfa District.
Following the order of the trainer associations, the bureaucratic decision-makers of Jianye no longer issued passes to the Tongfa Army.
Jianye's decision made the city-states in the central Jiangxi area celebrate. This group of brainless local city-state nobles hung "No Passage" warning signs on all roads, completely blocking the trading routes in the central Jiangxi area.
In the confrontation between the Tongfa District and Jianye, the politicians of these small city-states in Jiangxi were the most active promoters of the deterioration of relations between the two behemoths.
According to the ideas of these small city-states, the route of the Tongfa District's commercial exports to the north must rely on them. ——This is similar to the late Ming Dynasty, when the Jiangnan clans strongly supported the sea ban in order to facilitate their own monopoly of smuggling interests.
They thought: If they actively closed it now, the merchants in the Tongfa District would definitely come to ask for it, and then they could collect a higher proportion of tolls.
However, these "country rich people" in the inland area were wrong.
With the ban on the border, the trade volume of the Tongfa District through the central Jiangxi area really decreased!
The city-states in central Jiangxi had no idea that this land passage was no longer the only trade route between the Tongfa District and Jianye.
After the commercial channels along the coast of eastern Fujian were opened, the goods from the Tongfa District entered Jianye's sphere of influence through multiple routes in the coastal city-states.
Jianye's ban could not stop the city-states in central Jiangxi from smuggling, and naturally could not stop the city-states in the East China Sea.
After all, everyone had to make a living. As the boss, Jianye was well fed, and it was wrong to issue orders to starve the brother city-states.
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After August, the city-states in central Jiangxi went directly from being able to make money lying down to being able to only be full.
After completely cutting off commercial exchanges, the consumption demand that the city-states in central Jiangxi had developed in the past few years was still there.
As this fight and trade route became completely deserted, the interest groups in these city-states in central Jiangxi could no longer sit still, and began to protest "inexplicably" against the Tongfa District for destroying regional harmony and stability.
This is the same as a port city in recent ancient history that made a lot of money from entrepot trade. After losing the privilege of the only channel, it is difficult to adjust the mentality.
From the 145th year to the 148th year of the Pandora calendar, there were only three years, but the local forces in central Jiangxi have been full of prestige in these three years.
Take Poyang City as an example: the concrete and steel imported from the Tongfa District were not used to build dams and power stations, or to strengthen the defense of remote outposts. Instead, they were squandered by the four major families in the city, and they built dozens of six-story towers to compete with each other!
And for weddings and funerals, after the canned grain was imported, they began to hold banquets. Within the export range of the Tongfa District: they use the most pepper and star anise. The sewage they discharge into Poyang Lake is all oily.
In the past three years, the number of places to study in Jianye City has increased from 23 at the beginning to 78 recently. These were all bought from Jianye with the profits of the business road.
After the Tongfa District and Jianye communicated directly, they have been constantly instigating and doing bad things in the past two years! Trying to continue to monopolize trade. Now everything is as they wished, the official connection between the Tongfa District and Jianye City is broken! However, other trade demands between the Tongfa District and Jianye Control Area were not controlled by them.
It is not so easy to "be frugal" after falling from a high position!
For the whole month of July, they did nothing and were still waiting for the goods of the Tongfa District to enter the customs! In August, they realized that after the opening of the trade line in the east, the goods would not go from them. The reaction of the noble families in these city-states was not to beg for mercy, but to issue "threats" to the Tongfa District!
That's right!
The logic seems very abnormal,
But the first reaction of these guys who "clearly took care of themselves" towards the command area is to threaten them! And the declared method of revenge is self-mutilation!
On July 7, city-states including Poyang City dispatched defense representatives, went south to the command area, and found the Ministry of Trade to make a notice.
It was claimed that due to improper trade practices in the controlled area, the eight city-states of Poyang Lake would follow the instructions of Jianye City and consider permanently blocking the southern border!
They suddenly jumped out and said such cruel words, just like the teddy on the roadside suddenly jumped out and barked after he didn't get the bones like usual!
The threat is not great, but it can be regarded as a success in attracting the attention of the highest decision-making level in the unified control area to this marginal force.
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Sun Xiangyang, who was inspecting Eastern Fujian, allocated an afternoon in his schedule to discuss the meaning of the release of the eight city-states headed by Poyang City.
In fact, it didn't take an afternoon, and it was analyzed quickly.
Wei Keng: "They are threatening us by using their 'complete fall' to build Ye City as a bargaining chip."
Wang Lekang: "Aren't they just followers of Jian Ye City? Why are they still going against us?"
Wei Keng: "There are three forms of selling one's body. One is to follow behind and be a younger brother, which is one kind of follower. One is to be willing to kneel down and follow, which is another. The other is to rush up directly and become cannon fodder."
Wei Keng used his expressions and gestures to describe it perfectly: "As dogs, they have multiple thoughts."
Wei Keng's description made everyone at the meeting laugh.
After laughing loudly, Sun Xiangyang signaled the venue to be quiet: "Then, what does it have to do with them?"
Wei Keng spread his hands: "Yeah, it's none of our business. Just watch the joke.
Next, they may issue a clear threat to engage in a head-on war with us on behalf of the forces in Jianye City. That is to say, he dares to be cannon fodder. Then he would kneel down and lick Jianye even more to express his awareness, but in fact he probably didn't have the guts. "
"Militant" Bai Minghui asked: "What if, I mean what if, they really become angry and take risks?"
Wei Keng: "If the first shot is fired from the opposite side, then we will have to do it reluctantly and be forced~" Wei Keng looked at Sun Xiangyang. (This needs to be said by the top leader.)
As the supreme military commander of the command zone, Sun Xiangyang solemnly set the tone for the comrades: "If these few right-wing forces insist on provoking our bottom line with force, then we will also recover the Poyang Lake area and hold the Jianye forces accountable for their actions that undermine peace. !”
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There was no accidental misfire in 148 years.
Although the Tongfa District has slightly increased patrols on the defense line of the Great Wall in central Jiangxi. The other side only screamed a little louder at first, but then stopped.
During the patrol, some tracked troops repeatedly drove along the border between central Jiangxi and the 18th North Regiment of the Commanding Area in colonial uniforms to explore the landforms in the area. Tripod cameras were set up on various highlands.
The officers and soldiers of the Imperial Army shouted "Always be ready!" every morning, lunch, and before going to bed in the garrison.
The high fighting spirit radiates outward in the life radiation field. The emotional adjective "full of energy and scorching sun" in the past is now truly happening in the military camp. Mosquitoes avoided the camp.
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Compared with the control area, which is loose on the outside and tight on the inside, the city-states in Poyang City are "tough in appearance and soft on the inside".
They did not have the guts to actually start a war. When the plan to rely on external pressure failed, internal conflicts broke out everywhere.
Due to the stupid behavior of several major families, certain greedy forces have risen in recent years, and the military system originally used to maintain governance has been ruined.
On September 2, an explosion occurred at the ammunition depot in Ganlu City.
On October 6, the two families of Huang and Tang merged in Poyang City.
On November 1, the salt gang forces in Yingtan City ousted the city owner.
All three are big things.
There were also dozens of trivial matters that caused friction with each other, and they all reached the border post of Tongfa District along with a few individual small businessmen who came to pull goods.
And in December, as the cold icy rain spread across the south of the Yangtze River, the wet winter in the south became the last straw for the city-state in central Jiangxi!
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A year ago, due to trade needs, the Tongfa District invested in the renovation of a number of war-ready highways from southern Jiangxi to the Yangtze River Basin. This kind of renovation involves removing vegetation, then spreading gravel and lime, and then flattening it with a steam roller. Therefore, the tanks of the Tongfa Army (Type 62 light tanks) can be used on the hundreds of kilometers of roads in southern Gansu.
Especially in winter, when the weather is cold and the activities of wild genetic communities in the wilderness are greatly reduced, the road traffic conditions are better for ordinary people.
You know, in the vast areas where the Human Emperor is not deterred, some grasses grow very viciously. For example, there is a kind of grass in the cracks of the road that will suddenly lift up when people walk by, giving people "spicy" burrs. Take a sip to warn people not to continue pedaling forward.
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In late November, a small group of refugees, traveling in groups of two or three, arrived at the border of the unified expedition area. But within less than ten days, dozens, hundreds, and finally thousands of people migrated south in groups.
The word "refugee" is actually not accurate. "Liu" means "displacement", which means being separated from permanent property and becoming propertyless.
In the city-state system, these people are originally propertyless. Winter is coming and they are short of all kinds of supplies. With the trade of the conquering army in the past two years, they know that the human forces in the south are willing to accept them.
Of course, the Tongfa District is willing to accept these immigrants. Registration, classification, bathing, receiving personal items, joining the group, singing, and swearing! This set of procedures is well-known to the grassroots civil affairs.
But as more and more immigrants from central Jiangxi go south.
The leadership of the Tongfa District now has to study the problem: not the group of people who have come here, but the people who have not come yet!
In the description of the refugees who have arrived, those who can run a hundred kilometers to the south are all strong and have a mouthful of food. There are also a large number of people who do not have the conditions and are stranded in the north.
The Tongfa District has this burden in concept! ——The inland city-states to the north have obviously experienced humanitarian disasters under their governance, and they must be managed.
According to the "justice" formed in the Xia period, when the king of a country is unjust, the people can be punished for their displacement.
This idea came to the Qin Emperor and Han Wu, and the poor governance of a certain place was a crime. After the neighboring land helped you govern and settled the people, you had the right to punish according to the will of heaven.
In the ancient times, any unified regime, after a disaster occurred within the territory of the East, must take practical actions to protect the lives and property of its compatriots, otherwise it will lose the legitimacy of "great unification".
But in fact, the Tongfa District, which is still a local force, is very likely to trigger unknown consequences if it extends its hand to central Jiangxi.
Although the Tongfa District does not yet have the governance capacity to swallow up dozens of city-states within the influence of Jianye, the Tongfa District does not want to use a large amount of manpower and materials for infighting between human forces. But this must be done.
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In the signal tower link, the Tongfa high-level officials started another meeting about the hot spot of Gan District, and the tone of the meeting was "peacekeeping".
In the newly opened venue in the center of the new Gan City, Sun Xiangyang knocked on the microphone. The six Wei Kengs of the staff center made a sand table and summarized the strategic information, and then the Wei Keng individual who served as the chief of staff reported to Sun Xiangyang: "We need a special military operation, which must be restrained, have clear boundaries, and try to restrain from firing the first shot as much as possible."
Sun Xiangyang passed the plan to others.
In the military, the "Lugia Formation" scattered leaflets in the city-state area. The leaflets marked the safe paths outside the city with comic strips and maps, striving to be easy to understand.
At the same time, the ships in the Tongfa District went north along the Ganjiang River, set up temporary bases in many places, and marked out a "peacekeeping safety zone".
In diplomacy, Sun Xiangyang found Wang Lekang again and asked him to go to Jianye again to express that he had no intention of expansion. The peacekeeping mission will only end before the beginning of spring, and in order to avoid accidental clashes between the two sides in the Gan area, Jianye can send people to jointly perform the peacekeeping mission.
After the meeting, Zeng Jiakan frowned: We have to deal with Jianye again!