Volume II, Chapter 7: One Man to One World
After a night of careful consideration, at breakfast, the heads of the delegations of China and the United States, in the name of the principal and deputy heads of the joint visiting delegation, proposed to Zhuang Bifan that they hoped that the two sides would hold friendly peace talks on the issue of peaceful coexistence between the Three-Eyes civilization and the civilization of the earth. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Zhuang Bifan immediately agreed.
After breakfast, the two sides sat down to negotiate in a conference room with an area of more than 300 square meters. Not only were all members of the mission present, but even journalists were allowed to attend the event.
On the side of the "Three-Eyed Civilization", Zhuang Bifan sat in the middle, and there were more than a dozen uniformly dressed androids on both sides. On the other side were the heads of the 36 delegations of the joint mission.
Zhuang Bifan did not take off his helmet because of the talks. This makes the earthlings feel a little disrespected, but it's not easy to say anything. Who knows if the Three-Eyed Man is like this to be considered respectful to others?
And so the talks soon began.
Minister Peng, as the head of the negotiators on the Earth side, first said: "Your Excellency, Your Excellency, we earthlings are very welcome to the Three-Eyed Civilization coming to Earth for peaceful trade. ”
In these two sentences, the word "peace" was very heavy. Of course Zhuang Bifan can hear it. He responded: "The universe is big enough for all civilizations to develop together. Our Three-Eyes Civilization is a peace-loving civilization and a civilization that has been invaded. We do not intend to bring the pain we have endured to other civilizations. ”
In that world, he watched a certain TV a lot, and he learned a lot of diplomatic rhetoric.
Listening to him say this, whether you believe it or not, the earth side can only assume that the two sides have reached a consensus in this regard. Then the following negotiations can begin.
The United States of America is the country most affected by the appearance of Aurora Island, or the country that feels the most threatened. Because Aurora Island is so close. At 4,000 kilometers, missiles with a slightly longer range and bombers with a slightly larger range would be able to attack their west coast. The distance was very uncomfortable for them.
Therefore, before Zhuang Bifan's words fell, Smith said: "Since both sides think that they should live in peace." The Pacific Ocean is the common wealth of all mankind, with freedom of navigation. Now the emergence of Aurora Island has included a large area of sea and airspace, which has affected our human economic activities. We hope that Aurora will take into account the needs of human economic activities and remove the exclusion zone. ”
Zhuang Bifan didn't know anything about the location of Aurora's appearance. The brain over there put Aurora Island in this position, which is just right.
In fact, Aurora Island is located in a location where there are almost no ocean routes, and there are no flight routes. Not even submarine communication cables. He knew that Smith brought this up just to test it and ask for peace of mind.
But he didn't agree to that. What should be insisted on, must be adhered to, he still understands this. So he said, "We do occupy a small piece of the sea on Aurora Island. But as far as we know, there is not much human activity in this area. We have demarcated the restricted areas, and it has not affected the navigation of civil flights and ships of all human countries. We have designated this area as a no-go zone simply to protect the safety of Aurora Island. We will not be withdrawing the exclusion zone for the time being. However, we can promise that flights and ships to Aurora Island or, in case of emergency, can sail safely on designated routes within the restricted area, subject to permission. ”
Sticking to what needs to be insisted on, there are also some concessions that need to be made. He didn't call the people on the other side to declare war. No matter how strong Aurora Island is, it also needs to give people a little face, so as not to make the relationship between the two sides too tense. In particular, there are a large number of reporters present, and a little backing down can make them feel that these aliens on Aurora Island are not completely unreasonable.
Although other countries also hope that Aurora Island can revoke the forbidden area, this article is because of his insistence, and the earth side does not have the courage to put forward any threats, and in the end the two sides did not fail to reach a consensus.
In this regard, the human side has no choice but to put this issue aside for the time being, and move on to other things, which are also the things they are most concerned about this trip: "I don't know what kind of trading goods Aurora Island can provide, and what kind of trading goods do we need from the earth." ”
Zhuang Bifan shook his head and said: "I don't think there is any point in discussing this issue before determining the settlement currency. ”
Money is an indispensable tool in the development of civilization, no matter what kind of society, it may exist in different forms, but as long as transactions exist, money is missing.
"We propose to issue a new currency," he suggested. Dedicated to trade between the two sides. ”
He paused, as if he was worried that human beings would be concerned about controlling the earth because of Aurora Island's use of currency, and said, "Whether this currency is circulating inside the earth, we will not make any requests." It is only required that the trade between our two sides must be settled in this currency. For example, we can set up a new bank to issue this currency. We and all nations of humanity can become shareholders in this bank. The amount of new currency to be issued is determined by mutual agreement. However, in the early stage, each party must first determine the exchange rate of each country's currency with the new currency, and destroy the corresponding original currency. ”
When the representatives of the Chinese Empire and the United States heard this, they did not approve of it. If the volume of trade with Aurora Island is large in the future, the international status of the currencies of the two countries will be greatly affected, and it may even be squeezed out of the status of the world's circulating currency by this new currency. If it really comes to that point, the losses for both countries will be great. Even if it doesn't go that far, as long as it does, the trade between the countries of the earth will have an additional currency that circulates globally, and this currency will definitely be stronger than the currency of any country on the planet with the backing of Aurora Island.
But that's what they think. Other countries don't have much to do with what kind of settlement currency is used. For a relatively large number of countries, it is only beneficial for them to be able to participate in the issuance of such a currency.
Knowing that the shareholders of other countries can also become new currencies will certainly not object, Israel and the United States do not dare to explicitly oppose it, so as not to provoke public anger. If this is only an internal matter of the earth, they can still be domineering. But now there is something that makes them feel powerless, and they don't dare to play domineering.
Minister Peng asked, "How should the shares of the two sides be divided, and what will you use to buy the shares?"
"We are asking for a 30% stake and for the right of supervision and veto in the new bank. However, we only demanded 5% of the amount of the first batch of currency issued for the first installment, secured by goods of considerable value. "Having the right of veto on the issuance of new currencies avoids the possibility that the indiscriminate issuance of paper money by those countries may lead to the depreciation of new currencies.
"How is the price of the goods determined? ”
"It's up to the market to decide. ”
To do business, you can do nothing more than what you can do, and don't do what you can't do. No one will do a loss-making business. So the Earth side finally agreed to this one.
In fact, there are many things that the Earth side is authorized to negotiate, but after seeing the strength of Aurora Island, I feel that those issues have lost the meaning of negotiation. So in the end, they didn't have a lot of content in this negotiation.
However, they still talked about how to enhance mutual trust and connection between the two sides, how to reduce human worries about aliens, and so on. Huaxia and the United States have expressed the hope that Aurora Island will reduce its armaments so as not to cause tension and confrontation among mankind.
Zhuang Bifan didn't take this to heart, even if he cut the armament on Aurora Island by half, wouldn't the earthlings be nervous? As for confrontation, he felt that the stronger Aurora Island was, the more politicians on Earth would not dare to have confrontational feelings.
He vetoed the demand for a reduction in armaments: "It is impossible to reduce the armaments of Aurora Island." This is because this armament force is a request from our headquarters. It is not possible for us to negotiate with you on this issue. ”
However, he did not want to drive the earth crazy, and made concessions on some things: "We can open the surface of the Twelfth Island to the humans of the earth, and welcome human enterprises and individuals to invest, live and travel to the Twelfth Island." We guarantee the safety of the lives and property of the people of the planet who come to the island. ”
The so-called twelve good islands are actually one of the small islands separated by the six corners of the large platform. These islets are symmetrical in location, the same shape, and equal in size. Each one is a hexagonal platform of 1,000 square kilometers. The 12 good islands are located in the northwest direction of Aurora and are 150 kilometers away from Aurora Island in the middle.
And he also promised: "Island Twelve, we only retain ownership, we can accept the currency of each country to circulate on it, and hire humans to manage it, and we only collect management fees and taxes according to the management of the earth." But countries must also commit to the fact that these currencies can be converted into new currencies. The subtext of saying this is that it is a promise that can only be fulfilled after the currency is issued.
When he made such a promise, it was indeed a gag on the earth's side. Since humans are free to play, Aurora Island has no so-called distrust of humans. If there is still confrontation, the problem is on the human side.
After concluding this issue, which was destined to be impossible to reach consensus, the two sides exchanged views on some details. After a lunch break, two hours later, the countries felt that all the topics that could be discussed in the meeting had been discussed, and although there was not much consensus, at least it did not make them feel that Aurora Island was hostile to humans. Let those reporters who accompanied him not feel that Aurora Island is overbearing after visiting the strength of Aurora Island and experiencing this meeting. Maybe the report of their return will be more positive for Aurora Island. That would help humanity accept Aurora Island.
Of course, as long as Aurora Island maintains its superiority over the whole world, no country in the world will be stupid enough to want to conflict with Aurora Island.
Zhuang Bifan finally sent these 'guests' away. After the two airliners flew away, he finally stopped pretending to be an alien, so he changed out of his thick military uniform and went to the main control room in the tower to communicate with the spaceship brain.
"I'll let you collect some information here, and you can help me analyze the stock markets of various countries, and those stocks will fluctuate a lot," he said. ”
"We found out that earthlings make some virtual transactions, and these transactions are networked. We can collect data from these networks and analyze them with software. ”
Zhuang Bifan was overjoyed. Although he doesn't need much money now, if he can make enough money in a short period of time, then he can have more time: "When will the software be given to me?"
"The scientists we train should soon be able to make decisions based on the laws of those transactions. When it is done, it will be sent to the commander immediately. ”
Although he doesn't have much emotion on this earth, he also has some concerns. The family in this world, as well as Zhu Tao, who has always treated him like a brother. He needs to repay these people. Before these people live a really good life, even if he has the opportunity to leave this earth, he may not be able to really leave with peace of mind.
Maybe money is not the only thing, but without money, many things are inconvenient to do.
In fact, he took some technology that was slightly higher than the earth, and he continued to make money. It's just that the technology stored by the spaceship's intelligent brain is too advanced to be applied on Earth. And the lower one, that is, it can be applied, he didn't explain it before, and Zhi Brain disdains to summarize it. Otherwise, he wouldn't have to worry about money now.
However, Youzhi Brain said that with such software, it doesn't seem difficult for him to make money.
Although he didn't know when, maybe his identity as the true owner of Aurora Island would be revealed. But being able to be a day late is a day. When he earns enough money, he can settle his family, and even if human society can't accommodate him, he can stay on Aurora Island.
He wasn't worried that someone would know his identity and dare to catch him for slicing despite the existence of Aurora Island. It's just that I don't want to be watched by humans with scrutinizing eyes.
Analytical speculation cannot be 100% accurate, and the results given may be ambiguous. But it's better than having no insiders.
He now has more than a million people, his headache has been cured, and he is not in danger for the time being. Then the money can try to make money.
And today is the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, he thought about it for a while and felt that it was time to go home, he hadn't been home for three and a half years, and he spent four Spring Festivals outside. I'm a little sorry for always worrying about his 'parents'.