Chapter 374 Chapter 964 Empire, Business and Private Affairs

Chapter 374 Chapter 9.64 Empire, Business and Private Sector

In the year 2292 of the Qin Tongli calendar, in the direction of the Lihai and Xianyan, the Eastern Federation lost twelve generals, more than two million professional troops, and more than 10 million tons of steel.

The Eastern Federation had to retreat completely and gave up the production of a large area of ​​territory. All industrial sites and agricultural areas in the Kazan Fortress area were blown up and destroyed by the Eastern Federation themselves.

This was the scorched earth strategy implemented by the Russians in response to the many invasions from the European direction in history. It was only effective for the Europeans, but it was a little uninteresting for Shenzhou.

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Historically, the Europeans pushed eastward to the areas occupied by the Slavs, and strategically they always targeted large cities represented by Moscow.

So for the Europeans, the condition for victory or defeat lies in whether they can conquer Moscow and make it a satellite country that obeys them. As the defenders, the Slavs can survive the opponents from the west as long as they stick to it.

Now they are using the same strategy against Shenzhou, but they are wrong. The strategic goal of Shenzhou's opponents in the Mobei and Western Regions is "You, stay away from me!"

The Eastern Orthodox Federation retreated significantly, and Shenzhou had no intention of further pursuit. Facing the fertile territory of the Lihai lowlands and the lower reaches of the Volga River, there was no intention to occupy it.

Yes, this territory is indeed very fertile, and the blood shed by the ethnic groups around the Lihai for this place can dye the Volga River red. But Shenzhou does not need to spend the mind to govern this land full of contradictions.

In the words of Zhuangzi's allusion: "The owl gets the rotten rat, and the phoenix passes by it."

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Based on the Han and Tang dynasties' war against the north-after striking the living forces of the powerful enemies in the north, they just waited for the powerful enemies to split.

And now there is this trend. The local forces in the land of Lihai and the Lihai land bridge have begun to show disobedience to the Eastern Orthodox Federation.

There are several famous terms in the ancient times for that lump: Gnukia and Cheqi.

Therefore, after the Qin Tongli 2292, the Western Region of Shenzhou confirmed that the Dongzheng Federation had scorched earth and retreated from the Lihai area.

Shenzhou announced that it would seek peace, retreat to the actual control line of the Yibohai area, and suspend the attack on the Dongzheng Federation. We look forward to further negotiations between Dongzheng and us.

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This battle in the center of the world island started suddenly and ended suddenly.

The war brought certain losses to both sides.

Well, for Shenzhou, the military equipment that had been stockpiled for ten years and more than one billion tons of logistical supplies were all emptied. The casualties of more than 700 people were more painful.

Of course! These military preparations were originally intended to deal with conflicts in the west. Now that the strategic goal has been achieved, it can only be said that this investment has not been wasted.

In the chaotic era of the universe war, a big country like Shenzhou can use these military investments to exchange for a long enough regional peace in a strategic direction, which is not a loss.

And Shenzhou blocked the war on the outside. At the same time, it shrank after the battle, and there was no mess of post-war governance.

But for the Eastern Federation, this battle was a mess.

The largest strategic offensive force was annihilated, and the productivity in the ruling area was continuously drained, and the industrial productivity dropped by three levels, and it was difficult to recover in a short time.

The most important thing is that after conquering Europe and the northern part of the Arab Empire, the ruling authority of its leadership group was severely weakened by Shenzhou.

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In the Palace of Light in the Caucasus, the positions of many generals under the command of the "great father" of the Eastern Federation have been vacant-including three generals from the future. All of them were created by Shenzhou's two-year military strike.

The leader looked at the map around the Lihai.

The Eastern Federation has indeed retreated, but the Persian region has deployed mechanized troops along the Lihai, which makes the Eastern Federation people very angry.

There is nothing to say about being defeated by the strong, but the Persian region is obviously a weak one. When Shenzhou no longer has the obligation to invest in military alliances, the Persians took the opportunity to seek benefits here. It's really a bit bold.

But the Eastern Federation did not have the strength to go south at this time, and could only punish the Persians on a small scale at most. But the subsequent problems of suppression and counter-suppression are endless.

The leader slid the global map to the north. At this time, the Eastern Federation was facing the Xianbei Lia territory that could not be defended. The leader made the decision to introduce external forces: "Alliance with Edenia."

Across the perspective, Edenia was now in conflict with Shenzhou in the North Pacific. Introducing Edenia's power to exert military pressure on Shenzhou on the vast land of Xianbei Lia can make up for the power gap after the failure of the Eastern Campaign.

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The perspective shifted to the Tianzhu Ocean. The industrial construction troops entering the ocean on the Shenzhou side began to operate rapidly like clockwork. This team that went to the sea also included Wei Keng.

On the seabed of the Tianzhu Ocean, batches of machines pushed more than 100 meters of ceramic-coated cement components on the seabed to build high-rise buildings in the deep sea.

Graphite battery-powered flying saucers - underwater aircraft are shuttling. When it stops, it uses its squid-like tentacles to clean up the seabed sediments and determine the seabed rock foundation.

In the No. 4 underwater military base, two months ago, I was still thinking about how to lie comfortably, but now I have to enter the irritable mode again.

Wei Keng is impatiently teaching a novice: "Lu Tiansi, I asked you to complete the supply of fresh water pipeline on Line 8. How long have you been dawdling? Are you organized in your work?!"

Wei Keng: "Zhao Yunlong, you are awesome. My entire work sequence was agreed to be at 9:32 in the morning. You took the lead and overturned the salt layer. The entire work brigade asked you to start fighting half an hour earlier. You are more awesome than me, the army commander. You should take this position!" - This is disobeying orders.

The entire No. 4 Ocean Construction Force has seen the style of the new commander in two months - roaring, just like a high school class teacher. Of course, this roar is masculine, without the darkness of a smiling tiger. In the background of the deep sea, being able to hear the nagging on the radio is also popular like "watching a video with barrage".

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In the deep sea work, Wei Keng did a lot of things.

Changed the design of the cockpit, partitioned the toilet cockpit, and solved the problem of difficulty in peeing and defecating.

Changed the seat extension problem to solve the problem of lumbar pain caused by long-term sitting work.

Increased the types of electric hot rice in the deep sea, so that the deep sea work cabin is no longer luncheon meat with vermicelli. There are more than 60 deep-sea recipes such as Fuqi Feipian, Muxu Pork, Tomato and Egg, Four-Happiness Meatballs, and Kung Pao Chicken.

And in the ocean, base station network cables are installed every kilometer to solve the problem of Internet access in the work area. ——In the work area of ​​the No. 4 offshore construction base, there is currently a rare "permanent" work team that maintains good performance.

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Large quenching factories have been established throughout the deep sea.

The mined minerals move along the water flow pipeline and eventually flow into the hundreds of meters of the building's entrance, where they are crushed by water flow, classified by precipitation, and then separated with fresh water, and finally screened and sent to the argon furnace for refining.

This complete set of submarine processing chains is a full two kilometers long, and the ceramic exterior building is as majestic as a mountain.

Because the transportation system in the seawater can be larger than that on the ground, the processing capacity of such minerals is larger than any system on land, just like the blue whale is heavier than any animal on land.

When it is running at full power, it can handle the primary processing and smelting of one billion tons of minerals per year. Supporting the surrounding shallow sea continental shelf factories, a further mechanical processing production chain is formed.

Of course, this requires geothermal pipelines to increase energy output, and all mining areas can be effectively developed and transported to the production center. At present, these auxiliary facilities are being arranged, and it is expected that all related engineering problems will be solved in 2295.

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But what will happen by then?

Traditional heavy industrial production will shift to the ocean area, and the land economy will be responsible for light industry, information industry, micro-nano field and high-energy particle field.

The second global industrial division of labor will be transformed in the difference between the ocean and the land.

Perhaps it won’t take that long. Now the Shenzhou marine economy has a significant impact on the Thousand Islands between the Tianzhu Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, as well as the land economic zone of Lizhou.

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This year, due to the substantial reduction in the cost of deep-sea raw materials, the shipbuilding industry of the joint faction of the plateau and Lizhou regions has crushed other old industrial forces in the surrounding areas.

The plateau produces technology, Lizhou organizes industrial production, and now the production and construction military forces settled in the ocean guarantee the stability of raw materials. A complete economic chain has been formed.

This made the business and private forces of the East Ocean faction, who were originally prepared to sanction Lizhou for "proletarianization", suffer a setback.

Incompetent and furious, they did the same thing as they did when they disbanded the manganese nodule mining industry in the Taiyang Ocean, and dug up the "heavy metal content in fishery resources exceeds the standard, which is directly related to the mining of Xishenzhou" and reported it in a series of articles,

announcing a boycott of all industrial products from Tianzhuyang and Lizhou that "do not care about the ocean".

In a series of documentaries, the dissenting voices that conform to their right to speak and oppose the development of the West Shenzhou ocean will be set off with the music of the hero's return to create a great atmosphere.

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Of course, all this is not the point. In 2292, at Lizhou's large automated port, Wei Keng boarded the naval flagship of the Lizhou United Front.

When this 200-meter-long battleship on the surface docked with the flat engineering submarine underwater, it was like a paper boat on a tea tray.

When the underwater engineering ship broke away, the light white on the bottom of the Lizhou battleship slid back into the deep sea, and the bottom of the ship returned to dark blue. This transformation, captured by a high-altitude drone, can evoke the fear of the deep sea in many viewers.

As the person in charge of the ocean construction force of the people in the western part of Shenzhou, although he has very little actual combat power and his military defense duties are limited to the control of the ocean.

But his military rank is linked to the regular generals in Shenzhou, that is, it is parallel to the highest military commander in Lizhou.

The current military force of the United Front in Lizhou was established in the final battle stage in cooperation with Xi Bafang's guerrilla warfare organization. Speaking of the establishment of the Lizhou National Front, Wei Keng was also a veteran.

It is not too much for the local comrades in Lizhou to give Wei Keng the highest standard of welcome. ——But Wei Keng eliminated the honor guard and the welcome ceremony for pragmatic considerations. Quickly enter the core talks.

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Wei Keng met Li Ruixin, the current head of the front in Lizhou.

Because like Gaoyuan, both implemented the policy of the governance team to go private, and both sides maintained the principles of "no additional restrictions", "trade balance" and "mutual equality" in industry.

For the plateau region: those who can be called comrades are teams that can maintain industrial governance capabilities without relying on aid.

This is extremely rare. It requires strong organizational capabilities in the popularization of basic education, industrial employment, and economic planning.

Under this premise, transfer technology or sign a long-term and trustworthy economic complementarity treaty. And jointly carry out scientific and technological development in aspects beneficial to mankind.

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This is not the relationship between big brother and little brother in modern times.

The plateau area did not continue to have "garrison-style military guidance" after the Lizhou Campaign. Lizhou has always been responsible for possible counterattacks by reactionary forces. This means both parties are equal.

In marine development, 30% of Wei Keng's current team are also young people from Lizhou. As for what kind of relationship it will evolve into in the future, in any case, with economic integration, institutional connection, and high mobility of personnel from both sides, the future will lead to the same goal through different paths.

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Wei Keng came to the military headquarters and looked at the map.

In the past two years, the Tang Jiedushi Army in the north has repeatedly crossed the line to provoke. This makes it very likely that the second war of change will break out in Lizhou.

Li Ruixin declared unabashedly: "If this kind of harassment continues, we will inevitably launch a counterattack."

Wei Keng nodded and acknowledged this possibility, and at the same time confirmed in his heart: "You are just worried about the consequences when the Nanyang countries intervene, or even Shenzhou Dongbin directly ends."

Just as Wei Keng thought, Li Ruixin expressed his concerns: "But if we launch a war, it will affect the entire Nanyang intervention."

Wei Keng looked at the map of Lizhou and said: "There are three military governors in the entire Nanyang Islands, four military governors in the Izumo Islands, and the Eastern China Group has twelve Qinglong battleships and two hundred 10,000-ton maritime combat ships. This It is indeed a huge force.”

Wei Keng turned around and asked: "Right now, we are worried about the intervention of this force, right?"

Li Ruixin nodded. There is infinite fatigue in the eyes.

Most of the restoration pressure faced by Xia Lian back then was now borne by Lizhou. Faced with the Lizhou fire in their rear areas, business and private forces used various means such as economic blockade, military threats, and public opinion to deny legitimacy.

Wei Keng: "I must tell you that in mainland China, we currently do not have the conditions to launch a war of change! If the social change forces in 'Western China' take the initiative to launch a war, they will not get the support of the people in the east."

Li Ruixin still wants to work harder: "There is no longer a concept of 'social governance' in eastern China."

Wei Keng nodded seriously: "Yes, and as the most monopolized place, the proportion of proletarians is actually more than 99%. Just because the chains have been relaxed, many people enjoy the so-called 'celebrity class consumption' and mistakenly think that they are Petty bourgeoisie. Once conflicts arise, the illusion will be shattered and we must be patient with the people.”

Li Ruixin: “But the people on my side can’t bear the pressure anymore.”

Wei Keng: "If you can't bear it, just resist. Resist where you should. - Are you afraid of death?"

Li Ruixin paused and said with some dissatisfaction: "Are you encouraging us to take the lead in starting a war?"

Wei Keng understands his emotions. Now they are in a difficult situation. They don't want another big brother to take charge of Zhan He's decision-making.

Wei Keng drew the map, connected Latin America Shengyang and Nanyang and said: "Once your war starts, the Chinese organization will definitely recruit me to fight here, so I am not encouraging you, but reminding you, My comrade. You must now face the fact that the reactionary sectarianism wants to break through from your weak point."

Wei Keng tapped the map with his finger and said, "Once a fight breaks out here, you will have to face more than just the Nanyang Jiedushi. Judging from our capital and technology transfer situation in Eastern China, those turtles are now ready to Find external thugs to resolve internal conflicts.”

Li Ruixin immediately walked to the location of Southwest Taiyang on the map, took a few steps, stared at the Latin American area, and read the information Wei Keng handed over in disbelief: "How dare you do this?"

Wei Keng: "My suggestion is to abandon your illusions. It is impossible to resolve conflicts with different butts. The development of business and private affairs today has become an imperial monopoly. For the sake of profit, they can trample everything. It's not that I encourage you to go to war, but now In terms of situation, you will be targeted by them.”