The auction went on until half past eleven. Only the latter item remains that has not yet been unveiled. But everybody knows. It is customary to leave the best for the last at auctions.

"Now. Let's welcome the last lot of the Old Days Auction. ”[

The auctioneer had a smile on his face all the time. Lin Yu admired this auctioneer very much. In 1

Having said so long. I haven't even drunk a sip of water. I really don't know how I managed to hold on.

Anyway, Lin Yu can't do it.

Backstage of the auction. A staff member came over with a small cart. There is a glass cover on the cart. Underneath stands a small leather product. Rectangular. I couldn't tell what it was like under the bright lights.

"This auction item is an information document, and after the inspection of our experts, there will definitely not be more than three countries that have this technology now." The photographer pointed to the glass leather product and said loudly.

Lin Yu's heart trembled slightly, no more than the technology that three countries have. In every aspect, it has a huge impact on a country. If it's military, it's enough to shock the whole world.

At this time, not only Lin Yu was thinking about this, but even everyone else was thinking about this.

The significance of the existence of military force is undoubtedly for the sake of national security and interests, and the premise of its existence is that national interests are in opposition and conflict, and each country is its own obvious or potential opponent or enemy, and each country is constantly enhancing its military strength in order to ensure its own national security and interests, which has led to an arms competition, but defense spending is a bottomless pit, and an endless arms competition will inevitably drag down the economies of various countries and cause other social problems and damage the interests of all countries. At the same time, the development of science and technology has made the military power of the great powers enough to destroy the entire earth and put the world in terror, so the relevant countries began to negotiate and sign various arms limitation competitions and nuclear non-proliferation treaties, and joined various military alliances to ensure their own security.

When people talk about military power, they often think of resources such as soldiers, tanks, planes, ships, etc., which are the basis for hard power acts that use or threaten to use force. Ultimately, such military resources will be critical if they are forced to do so.

Napoleon left behind the famous quote "Heaven helps the strong"** also pointed out: power comes out of the barrel of a gun.

However, in today's world, military resources go far beyond guns and soldiers, and the use or threat of force is not the only manifestation of hard power. Military force is also used to protect allies and aid friendly countries. This kind of non-coercive use of military resources can also be an important source of soft power behavior, which includes setting agendas in world politics.

Convince other governments and win support.

When considering the use and threat of use of force, many analysts focus solely on international wars, focusing on regular armies that exist in formal military formations, organized and equipped by the state. In the 21st century, however, most of the "wars" erupted within countries, not between them: many of the combatants were not members of the regular army, and less than half of the 226 major armed conflicts between 1945 and 2002 occurred in the 50s between the state and armed groups: by the 90s this form of conflict had become mainstream.

Of course, civil wars and escalated combatants are not new. The increase in the number of irregular battles and technological changes that have given small groups an increasingly powerful destructive power, which they were previously unable to carve out in the field of mass destruction, are the new development. Moreover, technology today has introduced a new dimension of warfare, namely cyber attacks. In this way, an adversary (national or non-state) will be able to inflict (or threaten to inflict) massive physical destruction without actually sending troops to invade another country's borders.

War and force may have subsided, but they have not. On the contrary, the use of force is taking on a new form. Today, military theorists are describing "fourth-generation warfare" as sometimes without a "definable battlefield or front": in fact, the distinction between military and civilian may no longer exist.

The bigger question is what role does military power play in world politics? Since military power shapes the fabric of world politics, it remains relevant. Indeed, the use of military force on many issues is becoming increasingly difficult and costly for countries. However, the fact that military power may not always be able to adequately meet needs in a given situation does not mean that it has lost its ability to influence political intentions.

Markets and economic power are based on a political framework: if there is great uncertainty in politics, then the market will fail. The political framework, in turn, is based on norms and mechanisms, but it also relies on control over coercive power. An orderly modern State is characterized by a monopoly on the legitimate use of force, thereby enabling the domestic market to function.

At the international level, where the order is weaker, even if the probability of forcing the use of force is low, the state's concern for it can still have a significant impact. Military force, along with norms and mechanisms, helps to provide a minimum of order.

For the political and economic order, the degree of security provided by military force, like the significance of oxygen for breathing, is rarely subject to scarcity until it begins to become scarce, and when it does occur, its lack takes precedence over all other elements.

Therefore, in the coming decades, the importance of military power will definitely not decrease, at least only small armaments.

Although military power no longer has the same utility for nations as it once had in the 19th century, it will remain a key element of power in world politics.

The current pattern of the world is that of two small people, that is, between two superpowers and many world powers. The so-called two superpowers are the United States and the Soviet Union, and the many military powers are European countries and Asian countries such as China and India.

Among all the superpowers and military powers, the United States is undoubtedly the most powerful in military strength, and it is something that no country or force dares to ignore. In addition, no one dares to ignore the military power of the Soviet Union, and even the most powerful United States, the military power of the Soviet Union is regarded as the top priority.

In fact, in the 80s of the 20th century, because the whole world pattern was on the eve of a great upheaval, many contradictions were constantly brewing and accumulating. The two major plates of the East and the West are constantly colliding, blending and penetrating. Due to differences in the ideological field and differences in various traditional cultures, the whole world is in a state of unrest.

The capitalist market economy is based on Protestant ethics, self-will, ethics and market ethics as the most basic cornerstone, which is based on human values to stipulate the basic behavior of people, mainly emphasizing the essence of people, that is, having independent personality characteristics as the basic unit of life of society.

In a society composed of each individual person, a variety of forms of social organization are formed because they are governed by the natural laws of organization. The result is a rich and colorful social picture today, and the basic element of these social pictures is that each person is independent. In the process of realizing people's personal values, with the development of productive forces, after satisfying basic needs, people will immediately demand to be satisfied in the pursuit of individual psychological needs, which leads to the diversification of needs. In order to meet the ever-changing market demand, the difficulty of survival and development of enterprises is rising under the condition of coexistence of opportunities and risks.

Marxism holds that "science and technology are the primary productive forces" is also the main factor causing changes in military development, and that the military field has always been a field in which the latest achievements in science and technology are given priority to application, and the progress of science and technology will inevitably lead to changes in weaponry.

The main technology that brought about this new military change was information technology.

Information technology is based on microelectronic technology, integrating computer technology, communication technology,

Sensing technology, control technology and multimedia simulation technology as one of the comprehensive technology group. Its basic technology is microelectronics. The mainstream technology of microelectronics technology is integrated circuit technology. 1962-

In 1965, it developed a small-scale integrated circuit with 10-100 transistors, in 1971, a microprocessor was introduced, and a large-scale integrated circuit with 10,000 elements was developed in 1 inch. In 1978, the integration level reached 10

000,000 components. The integration degree has increased by more than 100,000 times in 16 years.

Microelectronics technology is driven by military needs, and it has shown an important role in weapons systems in the early stages of development. In the 60s, the American militia "intercontinental missiles were too bulky to be put into service because the guidance computer was too bulky, and later the troops were equipped because the integrated circuits made the reliability of the computer on the missile meet the specified indicators.

In the 60s, the Tomahawk Lou cruise missile was ready to be eliminated due to its low cost-effectiveness ratio, but later it was re-equipped with troops because of the micro-guidance technology to solve the problem of its cost-effectiveness ratio, and became one of the killer steels of the US military.

Since the 70s of this century, the technological revolution has entered a new stage of development, which is characterized by attaching importance to the research of the latest basic sciences and making major breakthroughs in various fields. A large number of emerging technologies have come to the fore, forming a wave of new technology revolution. Information technology based on microelectronic technology, electronic computer technology, artificial intelligence technology, and communication technology, new material technology represented by composite materials and high-temperature resistant materials, as well as new energy technology, space technology, and biotechnology constitute the basic structure of high-tech and high-tech industries. Roughly by the beginning of the 90s, high technology was applied in the entire military field, forming a military high-tech group.

The application of high technology has brought about a series of military changes, which have brought about corresponding changes in military technology, weaponry, partial control systems, military theories, and forms of warfare. The interaction of these elements led to a new military revolution.

Military high technology has promoted the upgrading of weapons and equipment, and has greatly enhanced the technology of weapons and equipment: At the same time, military high technology has also greatly changed the organizational structure of the armed forces and promoted tremendous progress in the military's partial system. The extensive application of high technology has profoundly affected the reform of military theory and the replacement of the form of warfare, and the innovation of military theory has played a guiding role in the development and development of new high-tech weapons, as well as the partial control system and combat methods, and has accelerated the reform in the military field. The outbreak of the Gulf War and the Kosovo War has further deepened people's understanding of the world's military changes. High-tech warfare has stepped onto the stage of history, and the world's military has entered an era of great changes.

This is the advantage of a strong military force, then you can rest assured to develop the economy and science and technology, the rapid development of the economy and science and technology, then your military strength will naturally be slowly improving, this is a good cycle, the United States is doing exactly this.

At present, the military strength of all countries is basically built on the basis of comprehensive national strength and economy, as the saying goes, to fight a war is to fight money, and under the condition that the nuclear force is constrained, conventional war has more embodied that strong national strength is the prerequisite for winning a war, and the development of high-end weapons and digital tactical confrontation do not require the consumption of a large amount of money.

And now the auctioneer can actually say that this kind of technology will not be more than three countries in the world, so this kind of technology is either the United States or the Soviet Union, whether this technology is American or Soviet, it is very, very important for a country and a force.

No. 33 bent over again, and they themselves had the task of introducing the auction items to these rich people: "Sir, this kind of technology will definitely not be possessed by more than three countries, so this kind of technology is still valuable to the people." ”

It is indeed very valuable, Lin Yu nodded in agreement, a military technology that only two or three countries have, is definitely not comparable to a little bit of money.

"Now, I officially announce that the starting price for this information on the technology that no more than three countries in the world have is $80 million. A minimum of $1,000,000 per price increase. ”

"Sir, the auction price of this technology is definitely not high, but I don't say what kind of technology it is here. However, the starting price of 80 million should be a more important and practical military technology. ”

"Ninety million." Someone directly shouted the price.

At this time, a large screen appeared next to Lin Yu's glass, and began to play the photos taken from all angles of the auction item below.

"Eleven and thirteen million." The bell rang outside, and the price of the auction item had risen to 113 million.

"200 million, I'll give 200 million." A hoarse voice suddenly sounded. In fact, the voices of people outside are like this every afternoon. Sounds like a person.

After the price of 200 million, there was a brief silence in the venue.

"Two hundred million for the first time." Seeing that no one continued to bid, the auctioneer had already begun to shout.

"Two hundred and fifty million." Lin Yu picked up the microphone, although it was not the first time he shouted, he was still startled by the voice he made.

At the same time, there was 33 who was taken aback, Lin Yu has been acting very steadily today, I don't know why the price was raised so high at this time.

Silent. Silence again. Something just makes people curious. Although it is said that there are no more than three countries in the world that have this kind of technology, it is not said what the specific technology is, which has to make people doubt and curious about this technology.

However, it is still unthinkable that someone can contribute 200 million.

"Drip."

The bell rang again. This means that there are people who continue to compete for this thing. 205 million.

Lin Yu didn't shout the price again, Lin Yu had a hunch that this technology would be announced by the organizer in a while, and there would be a new round of price surge after that.

Therefore, Lin Yu simply stopped bidding now.

Lin Yu does not shout, it does not mean that others will no longer shout.

"Two hundred and ten million." Just when Lin Yu was thinking, he remembered the bidding outside.

"Two hundred and fifteen million."

"Two hundred and thirty million."

The price continued to soar, and finally stopped at 270 million.

However, at this moment, the auctioneer spoke again.

"Guys, the experts outside just now have finally settled on this technique." "This technique is definitely an important one," says the auctioneer. We have already established that this technology is possessed only by two countries, the United States and the Soviet Union. And it's a very important piece of military technology. ”

As soon as the auctioneer's voice fell, someone shouted out the price.

"Three hundred million."

soared from 270 million to 300 million, and I have to say that the auctioneer's words still have a great impact on the psychology of the people present.

The price of 300 million is sky-high in normal times, but now, 300 million is far from the end.

"Three J B ten million."

"Three hundred and twenty million."

"Three hundred and thirty-three million."

"Three hundred and sixty million."

"Three hundred and seventy-seven thousand."

Prices have been soaring.

"Four hundred million." Lin Yu shouted out the price again, and Lin Yu was still very greedy and curious about this technology that only two countries had.

"400 million, 400 million, is there anything higher than this?" The auctioneer asked excitedly.

"Four hundred and ten million." As soon as the auctioneer's voice fell, he heard someone shouting.

"Five hundred million." Lin Yu shouted out the price again.

This time. No one competes with Lin Yu anymore. The price of 500 million is already more than double the budget. Some people began to speculate about which country or power the people bought such an important technology.

"Five hundred million for the third time. Congratulations to the auctioneer. Get this technology that only the United States and the Soviet Union have. The auctioneer removed the item to his satisfaction. The price of 500 million was already beyond his expectations. This time, I can get a lot of bonuses.

"When will I get that thing?" Lin Yu watched as the five hundred million were slowly pushed out of the auction table, and turned around and asked.

"After you paid the money. You can take whatever you want. Number 3 replied with a smile.

At the same time, he was sighing in his heart. When he first came, he felt that this person was too young, and he was an Oriental, and he thought that Lin Yu would not buy anything particularly valuable tonight.