February 14th, 154th year of the Pandora calendar at eight o'clock in the morning,
In the southern part of the Shandong Peninsula, near the newly built port in Xinlu City, the returning coastal security fleet passed through the sea mist.
Next to this rock fortress made of cement and stone, the ships that can be berthed are only 400 tons, and the cement piers are all at the level of river bank embankments.
However, just as the fleet flying the flag of unification approached the port, it encountered a contradiction that "although unexpected, it will happen sooner or later."
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Please note that this is already the northern part of the Yellow Sea. The navy in the command zone bypassed Jianye and went north to the sphere of influence of the Five Color Alliance.
The Tongfu District used other means to contact Qiantang Bay and several urban areas in Lianyungang. After successfully settling in, although there is still a long way to go before establishing complete steel, machinery, military and other factories.
However, warehouses that can store ammunition, machine parts, grain, and cloth materials have been established, and the maintenance industry that can oil cannon parts, clean and paint ships and machinery is also becoming increasingly complete.
These infrastructures are enough to open up shipping channels! In contrast, the repair of inland railway facilities is really much more difficult.
Therefore, this trade team sailing along the coastline can go all the way north until the route extends to the Qilu Peninsula area.
As for this small port, it was built by the Ministry of Commerce of the Tongfa District with the help of Xinlu City in December last year. It has a fifteen-kilometer-long gravel road leading to the city.
Just two months of trade helped Xinlu City make a lot of money. A large amount of cans, steel, firearms and ammunition, and cloth were flowing.
Under the guidance of Xinlu City, the salt drying field was also opened. Each time, hundreds of tons of salt were pulled directly into the unified cutting area. There were also some aluminum ingots moved from abandoned factories during the Great Disaster.
Industrial products such as copper coils, these industrial relics were difficult to break open for smelting scrap iron after the Great Depression, but now they are the bulk of the trade.
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However, such mutually beneficial trade cannot escape the supervision of the northern local forces.
Sometimes they don’t cherish things that no one wants. Once someone comes to spend money to buy them, they feel that they have been stolen. This sentence can be applied to the acquisition of thousands of oceans by the Tongfa District and the purchase of coastal marine gas turbines.
When it comes to large matters, the attitude of the upper echelons of the northern inland cities towards the trade of coastal city-states that they have no influence on.
The Five-Color Alliance, an established force in the north, has taken action.
Ten days ago, the Taihang Mountain special commissioner led his team to Xinlu City. In compliance with the conservative faction's request, he directly controlled the trade faction and sealed the port.
And now, when the fleet from the command area comes, they have to stop it.
A black mechanical beast that looks like a Spinosaurus (with steel wheels on its belly to assist ground movement) and another mechanical beast that looks like a large pangolin blocked the ship directly in the deep water area in front of the dock.
The two special commissioners stood on the mechanical beast like the "Two Envoys of Reward and Punishment", confidently blocking it.
During the confrontation between the two sides,
The commanding area insisted on entering the port, because the port was invested and constructed by its own side, and its own materials were still stored in the warehouse.
However, the two special commissioners of the Five Color Alliance declared: "The South is illegally entering other people's sphere of influence, and all supplies have been confiscated." and refused to negotiate.
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Under such circumstances, the Tongfeng District, which had always had smooth sailing, could not bear it.
To use the captain's explanation afterwards: "Today he can confiscate it at will, and tomorrow he can rob it unscrupulously at sea! I can't swallow this breath."
Looking back on this matter, we might as well make some assumptions.
If Wei Keng were to deal with it, he would definitely be more tolerant. He would ask the five-color alliance to release all the people who cooperated with him, and use the fleet to continue the confrontation on the coastline to put pressure.
This method of handling can ensure bottom-line interests, is effective, and is controllable. The special commissioners of the Five Color Alliance cannot keep the mechanical beast in water forever, and sooner or later they will compromise on this aspect during the confrontation.
And after recruiting people, at least the bottom line will be touched and the losses will not be suffered, which shows that the Tongfa District still has the ability and determination to protect the personal safety of its own people and those it cooperates with.
As for the material losses? With the little profit they took away today, next year they will watch the edge of the control area rise into a new trade center, eating away at the influence of the uncooperative conservative groups in Xinlu City.
Eat it back several times.
However, Wei Keng has given up on dealing with city-states for a long time. Therefore, the above-mentioned patient diplomacy cannot be implemented.
These comrades in the command area, I cannot say comrades, they are young businessmen with swords. After three warnings failed, they dispatched the Marine Corps to engage in fierce conflicts with the special commissioners in the area.
The accompanying mage (Lu Min) in the conquest area directed a life-band ray, causing all the mechanical beasts five hundred meters away who tried to sneak close to the battleship to drown in the water.
The fleet's lifeboat then fished out the two trainers from the Five Color Alliance and took them as hostages.
At 13:11 noon, under the reconnaissance of three Lugia, the enemy's location was determined. The Marines immediately calibrated the map through spiritual language and began to install biological guides on the 130 rocket launcher-modified warheads, targeting the city.
Certain warehouses were targeted for bombing.
In this tit-for-tat retaliation, the maritime power of the Allied Forces destroyed Xinlu City's warehouses and the parking lot where transportation vehicles were gathered.
The accompanying Taoist Master Lu Min was also an unreasonable and ruthless character. He sat directly on Lugia, took a look at the life radiation group outside the city, and cast down a series of life frequency band spells to let the large mechanical war beasts of the Five Color Alliance
All "neuronal necrosis".
In the end, the foreign trade caravan dropped a leaflet through Lugia: "We are attacking those who break the contract. City residents can receive rations and clothing in coastal areas."
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The 2.14 Incident occurred, which resulted in a direct conflict between the commanded area and the Five Color Alliance forces.
The population of Xinlu City is 50,000. During the lean period like February, food reserves are needed. Originally, the trade faction completed the stockpiling of rations through trade with the control area, but as the conservative faction seized power, they changed the trade rules.
Destruction led to the radical approach of the commercial sector in the control area.
Sixty minutes after the incident occurred, the complete cause and effect had been reported to Hengyang.
Before Sun Xiangyang made certain decisions, Secretary Wei Keng, who specialized in international diplomacy, emphasized the nature of this matter to Sun Xiangyang!
Wei Keng: "As the old saying goes, the conquest of ritual and music originated from the emperor. This is an overview of the highest central power of a country.
With the current theory, we must understand the nature of our regime before we can eliminate the wrong path.
Our supreme power never serves commercial capital, and our strategy is based on the interests of the people.
But now the caravan can directly mobilize troops. This shows that the fleet has seriously violated discipline! They just want to fight, maybe they can find reasons to protect overseas Chinese and rescue partners.
But they took the initiative to express their position and thought that their sophistry was successful. This is unorganized, undisciplined and completely nonsense."
When Sun Xiangyang and other comrades heard what Wei Keng said, they returned their attention from "the possible attitude of the Five Color Alliance" to "the current transgressive behavior of our Eastern Front Trade Team."
Lao Li, who was in charge of personnel appointments and removals, asked: "What do you think we should do about this matter?" His expression clearly showed that he felt that something was being made out of a molehill.
Wei Keng said solemnly: "We must be dismissed and punished. Otherwise, there will no longer be boundaries in doing things over there. For this matter, the central government must directly send other people over and divide it into three parts to wipe the matter."
Part One: Ease relations with the Five Color Alliance and be willing to compensate for the accidental injuries to their personnel and the loss of the mechanical beasts. Please note that we only accidentally hit them. Don't talk about invasion and defense with them. Their special commissioners are very concerned about the new
Lucheng is also an outsider.
Part Two: Complain to the current group of people in power in Xinlu City and ask for negotiations on the breach of commercial contracts. In diplomacy, we should also not talk about who fired first, otherwise we would be unreasonable.
Our diplomatic purpose is not to ask them to compensate, but to ask them to apologize. As for the city's losses, we must provide them with humanitarian aid afterwards.
The third part: This is also the most important part, which is the people in the city. The most important strategic work of our eastern coastline is to win the hearts and minds of the people step by step.
We must remember one thing: once a war breaks out, no matter what the reason is, the people in the area will always feel the pain.
The reason why we are opening fire now seems to be a dispute over commercial interests. This must be corrected internally. Alas, now that we are embarrassed, we will simply do more in-depth work at the grassroots level. We will do this winter
Win over most people.
To this end, we must also be prepared to set up a new base in the area. This requires a large number of responsible cadres to organize work in the area and allow the area to rely on our people for construction."
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Similarly, Wei Keng also used spiritual language to deduce the serious consequences of not doing so and allowing it to develop!
As the advanced side, the unified area will inevitably produce compradors among the backward classes in the process of industrial exchanges.
However, in industrial exchanges, when compradors are produced, progressives are also produced. These progressives are now very poor and inconspicuous, but only they can be absorbed into our organization and govern the local area.
But what is special now is that the command zone opened fire in Xinlu City. The reason for the shooting was not to stand with the local oppressed people to seek justice, but for commercial interests. This is pure imperialism.
It will inevitably push the progressives in the region away from us. Then what’s the point of talking about “unification”?
This is like a rich man in the 21st century talking to you about struggles and ideals. But after talking about all this, in practice, all your Saturdays are filled with overtime work. In the end, when it comes to interests, he even takes the advantage of exploitation.
Although it was just a little bit of money, it was insignificant to his already billions worth of money. He even never bothered to take that little money out, but as long as he took it, his words would be nonsense.
The "Eastern Strategy" identified by Wei Keng: Economic imports and even sanctions can be allowed, but in terms of the consequences of force, one must be extremely cautious.
But if you really have no choice but to use force, you must be responsible to the end.
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Sun Xiangyang and other senior officials finally listened to Wei Keng's analysis.
The eight-member committee voted and ultimately unanimously approved the "correction" plan.
This voting result is a bit exaggerated, but it is also expected.
Because the decision-making power of the unified expedition area is now in Hengyang, and they are all members of the northward movement faction and have very little contact with related interests.
If the vote is still held in Zhuxin City, it may be a few versus several situation. Because of its impact on trade in coastal areas, there will be a large number of losers among the decision-makers.
Two hours later, a communication from Hengyang came out, issuing a series of serious instructions.
All relevant personnel involved in the fire were dismissed, and operators were re-mobilized to handle related matters. Chu Cang and Huang Yu were on the recruitment list. Of course, 343 Wei Keng who had already landed on Da Yuan Island were also urgently transferred as the backbone of the work.
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Personnel from the unified felling area arrived at the incident area on an An-2 transport plane within one day.
The working group held a meeting at 5:00 in the morning on February 15th to read out the Hengyang Center's spirit on the matter, and then began to deal with it intensely.
Negotiations with the people in power in Xinlu City began on February 16. The two sides completely ceased fire and released each other's blockade. At the same time, personnel safety was ensured.
On February 18, Xinlu City agreed to release the trade faction, and the Tongfa District agreed to supply goods. The two sides conducted anxious negotiations on the damage caused by this war.
On February 22, there was a food shortage in the slums of Xinlu City.
Bulldozers from outside the city have already entered the camp and began to recruit people in the city to join the construction. A large amount of follow-up materials were transferred and began to provide changes of clothes and ensure food supply.
The aroma of dozens of large iron pots cooking canned food blew into the city in the cold winter wind, attracting more people. This attracted a large number of people to go out of the city to eat.
The cadres in the commanding area did not catch this kind of taking advantage. Those who were willing to stay could eat two bowls and wear our clothes and follow us. Those who were not willing to stay could eat one bowl and go back with the steel porridge.
On February 25, Xinlu City was forced to admit that it was its own side that had confiscated the goods from the control area. Of course, this admission may be just a temporary measure, waiting for the support of the Five Color Alliance.
But this was enough for the Tongfu District. The upper echelons of Xinlu City admitted to "plundering the commercial food shipped from the Tongfu District." The announcement was spread to thousands of families in the city along with the supplies that were once again provided to Xinlu City.
household.
This gave 70% of the lower-class people in Xinlu District the feeling that the food that Tongfu District wanted to give to the people was robbed by Xinlu City.
The reason why the unified area opened fire this time was because "the food that should have been handed over to the trade faction to be implemented by the people" was robbed, so it can be morally justified.
On the 27th, the last day of February, the Tongfa District released two five-color alliance commissioners, and the contract was signed under the witness of the two commissioners.
As for the next step, we will discuss with the special commissioners of the Five Color Alliance the issue of compensation for those outside the territory who were accidentally injured in this fire.
Regarding this loss, Chu Cang and others originally thought about whether they could revive the mechanical beasts. They were very confident in their own medical technology, but after the autopsy, they found that the beasts were completely cold.
Lu Min, as the crazy carbon-based programmer in this incident, was very ruthless! He used a variety of frequency bands, first causing coma, then destroying the nerves, and finally not forgetting to use some "phosphorus organic radiation" to repair the damage.
Quite thorough.
This makes it impossible for the trainers who regard the mechanical beasts as partners to reconcile.
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On February 21,
Chu Cang went directly to the solitary room to see Lu Min, who had lost a lot of weight.
This guy poisoned himself and reduced himself to residual blood. He relied on blood pack technology to revive himself, but he also lost a lot of body tissue.
Chu Cang faced this junior brother: "Why don't you leave a trace when you do things?"
Lu Min raised his head and smiled miserably: "I want to tell you, adults who were born on the backs of others, times have changed."
Wei Keng, who was in charge of custody next door, immediately retrieved Lu Min's information. Good guy, he came to the Tongfu District during the period of hostilities in the Ganzhou District. Someone in his family died after being driven and trampled by mechanical beasts from the upper class of Ganzhou. So this is class hatred.
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On February 27, the Tongfa District and Xinlu City reached a literal reconciliation, which also won the hearts and minds of the people in the city.
What is the Five Color Alliance doing?
They got the news on February 17th and started discussing it on the 22nd. On the 26th, the top executive made a decision and decided to send someone there on March 1st. The pace of dealing with the problem was as slow as a martial arts conference in a martial arts novel.
