"I really didn't expect that they would so easily agree to hand over the right to set the number of trains and routes, and give back the 'right to rapid quarantine', isn't this giving up their sovereignty? ”

For New Tonya City, it is really not worth mentioning to talk about the distribution of the Sunshine Festival, after all, they are not only the victims, but also have an advantage in absolute power.

The former makes its voice louder, and the latter can turn the opponent's argument into nonsense, and the two add up to a complete advantage at the negotiating table........ especially at the moment when the weaker side is uneven and the power is extremely dispersed.

As long as they don't have war reparations on the surface, or who they want to give their heads, the bottom line is very low........ they are willing to cut some land, really, they don't value land very much. ”

Morally, the city of New Tonya, which had been attacked, had the option of war reparations.

But if this money is really raised, considering the reality that the nominal unification of Jiaocheng is actually divided, the huge amount must be divided.

Rorschach had already seen it, and if he really proposed reparations and put up the specific warlords in Jiaocheng, then most of them would choose war to solve the problem....... While the economy has been declining year after year, people have emigrated in large numbers, and the competition for goods has been completely defeated, in order to guard against "external threats," military spending has risen sharply every year.

Sending Rorschach to talk about these things was originally a double-edged sword, and naturally it couldn't be for just a sunshine festival, and Rorschach also easily completed his work and found out the bottom line of most of the bigwigs in Corner City.

To be honest, this bottom line made Rorschach feel a little too much.

"As long as it's not you who loses, as long as you don't have a humiliating treaty that damages your reputation, as long as there is no war, you can give anything. ”

To put it simply, as long as their rights and power are not affected, the city-state can cede land and delegate power.

Rorschach shook his head, although some people's behavior was really shameless, but there was no room for wavering and mercy on his side.

"Don't they understand what we want?"

"Why don't they understand, they are fine, and even if they don't understand it, will their staff still not understand? ”

The disdain in Rorschach's words is undisguised.

Compared with Siddian and the old city lord back then, although the current high-level leaders of Jiaocheng are more numerous, seem to be more polite in accepting foreign culture, and speak and act more righteously and with human rights, they are essentially just warlords rather than racial leaders, and they lack a little responsibility.

The leaders of the new working class, the spokesmen of the hawks in the city-state, the advocates of the shamanic spirit of the old tribes, and the high-sounding packages, none of them focused on the general trend, and only focused on their own one-third of an acre.

This time, along with the Sunshine Festival, the Ash took two conditions that didn't seem like a big deal:

"In order to better meet the needs of the people of Kausei to participate in the Sunshine Festival in the two places, the New Tonya side will temporarily decide the timetable, batch, and route of the train. ”

"In order to deal with the problems of scalpers, fare evaders, and wanted criminals, and also to avoid the devastating impact of the virus carried by the evil gods, the New Tonya side carried out the quarantine and control of the train entry and exit. ”

These two conditions seem to be really nothing, and they seem to be urgent measures taken for the current situation, but the key is that both sides of this negotiation have tacitly "forgotten" the agreed implementation time of these two measures.

According to one of the default rules of diplomacy, if there is no agreed time, it is permanent, and the fun is great, and it goes directly from a temporary emergency measure to a real long-term policy.

The former is like a country's transportation in the hands of others, and they decide when they want to send people to deliver goods and take people away.

The latter is said to be the right to quarantine, but not to mention the fact that the evil god can still be quarantined out of the virus carrying the virus, your own customs entry and exit let others have the final say, does this mean that others have sovereignty over your home?

Taken together, the two are still a tacit agreement on the permanent policy, that is, all the entry and exit of the corner city are decided by the Ash, and the border is completely open to the Ash.

For the Ash Church, which pursues profits, it is the full opening of the entire Jiaocheng market and human resources, which is a long-term and stable huge profit point.

At the same time, it also means that Jiaocheng is about to be infiltrated cleanly, and commerce and trade beyond an era will gradually colonize Jiaocheng...... This is the same as those colonial countries desperately seized the railways, transportation, and customs of the local country, and the final result is that your human resources are my human resources, and only those who have been carefully selected by you for many years will jump to me as third-class laborers, and your resources will become my resources through "legal trade" and "higher bids", and my surplus goods will be dumped on your territory.

Customs and transportation are in the hands of outsiders, and they will naturally be selectively drawn and transfused, and it is not a mutual trade, but a strange "forced transaction" of what I want to give you any injection, and what black tea I want to give you.

And from the perspective of the bigwigs in Jiaocheng, these two things can be allowed, after all, what is lost is not real items and land, and it is not unpleasant to spread out, and it will not become a target for political enemies, as for the time that has not been agreed....... doesn't it mean that the time is ripe, and the situation in Jiaocheng is stronger, can you get it back at any time.

Well, at least Rorschach can see that there are a few big guys who really think so.

But since the Ash dared to sign a contract, and Rorschach dared to ask for these two, he had this self-confidence—"Do you want to turn the tide of things? Keep dreaming, before you were a hundred and we were one, now you are only thirty, we are seventy, and in thirty years......... We are at most 0.1 per hundred, and the current development trend still has the potential of both sides, and the gap between us will only get bigger and bigger. ”

Of course, if the situation is really reversed, and the corner city is strong and the new Tonya city is weak, then there is no point in continuing to maintain the ownership of this channel, after all, immigrants are going to rich countries, and the more backward areas are suitable for dumping, and those who do business are also powerful and earn more.

As for whether the local enterprises in the corner city will be overturned by competition and imported goods after the passage is opened, whether the newly sprouted new industries will be devastated, and the unemployment rate will rise by 20 percentage points, and the young people without jobs will cause social instability........ then it is none of the business of the Ash, at least New Tonya City will be very happy to see the continuous blood transfusion of elite immigrants and the expansion of overseas markets.

Isn't that better, more convenient for us to do whatever we want.

Once the treaty is signed, both sides can claim to be the victors, but it is still the essential difference, and the different perspectives of the two sides lead to different pursuits.

The people of Horntown thought that they had finally survived another crisis, and the opponent did not take this opportunity to start a war to unify the Haraite Wasteland, but only paid a little authority that had no practical value, which was an important diplomatic victory........ the Ichs had never thought of power rule, and previous experience had proved that the benefits of "conquest and military victory" were far less than the benefits of "successful commercial trade and colonization".

So both sides can advertise victory, and besides, the bigwigs in Horn City do the same.

The interview was hastily completed, and before the formal treaty had been signed, they announced that "an important diplomatic victory has been won, and the clouds of war are far away from us." And then living in the embassy, Rorschach could hear the cheers outside.

"....... are we going to announce it too? Or do we want to say something selectively? After all, we have reaped the actual benefits, and according to the old custom, let them declare victory. ”

The envoy of this negotiation was a high-ranking descender of the Glorious Scroll, and in fact it was Rorschach, the deputy envoy who was mostly wearing masks and pretending to be dumb, but now that the "superior" asked, Rorschach shook his head without hesitation.

"It's not our goal to get this little thing, we will go not only to hype, but also to name who is the real winner, directly put the bloody facts in front of the citizens, and by the way, attack the short-sightedness and stupidity of these high-ranking Horn Cities, and predict the chaos caused by the colonization of Horn City in the future.........."

The high-ranking priest's look of "You're kidding me, you're a spy?" made Rorschach almost laugh.

"Don't look at me like that, I'm not a living Lei Feng, everyone is not stupid, even if they can't see it now, they will feel it sooner or later, but even if they see it, they can't change it, will those immigrants move back because of the poverty and weakness of the old city-state? ”

Rorschach paused, and the subject shifted.

"Don't forget what we're really here for. Victory and good news are always analgesics to dilute grief, and more reassuring than bad, and only by taking this step can we carry out real plans. ”