Chapter 240: The Beginning

Resources in reality are very important, and even determine the main theme of this world to a certain extent. After all, the most important thing in life is to survive, and you can even have a better living space and living environment. But what does it all take to make it all happen? Nature is the whole country's environment.

And how the country's environment behaves, nature is the amount of resources. Although the development of the times will definitely lead to uneven distribution of resources, a country with many resources, even the worst group of people in that country, will have a good living environment.

And in countries with slightly less resourced resources, naturally most people will not live very well. If everyone is not very good, it doesn't matter much, but their own lives are in dire straits, but others are singing and dancing, and naturally some other thoughts come to mind. And in this way, the struggle is inevitable.

If it is only a small-scale struggle, then it must be within a region, but if it is larger, even the number of people involved is larger. International wars can easily arise.

From ancient times to the present, no matter which war, in the end, it is for some interests. The most obvious thing is not the largest wars on the planet, why those wars broke out, not because the resources of those countries have been barren to a certain extent, and people have no way to survive, so they must take the road of war.

Resources can be obtained through trading or aid, but there is no such thing as a free lunch, and you have to get help from others. What do you need to do to qualify to trade with others? By friendship. By face, or by what else you lose. Such as sovereignty, territory, national character, resources, or whatever. Moreover, this kind of aid and trading puts you in a completely passive position, and if you do not meet any of the requirements of the resource provider, even if it is very excessive, the resource will be in vain.

Dongying is now using his own technology in exchange for other countries' resources, and it seems that they are following the "world trend" of trading to obtain resources, but what is he using China's coal for reclamation and Malayan oil for mountain building? For the sake of world peace or for the unity of mankind? Neither. They are preparing for the next war, because they understand it well. These deals are unreliable. Once there is a wind and grass and resources are cut off, Dongying will be finished.

Why did Dongying make a desperate attack on Pearl Harbor in the first place? It's not because he is uncomfortable and has nothing to do, but because the United States has stopped supplying him with resources. Don't the political elites of the world powers understand that resources can be obtained without war? Of course not. Then why did they still rely on the Second World War to divide resources? Because they understand that the most reliable resources are in their own hands, not in the pockets of others. And in order to truly control the resources in our own hands, we must rely on strong military force. On the one hand, we rely on this strength to suppress weak opponents, and then through diplomatic and political means. Take full control of the resources at the disposal of these adversaries. On the other hand, use military force to destroy powerful and unyielding adversaries and take full control of the resources at the disposal of these adversaries. So, although not everything has to be solved militarily. But the problem of resources must be solved militarily, even if not by the outbreak of war.

The reason why the United States and the Soviet Union became superpowers is not because they did well in politics, diplomacy and trade. Rather, he participated in many resource division battles at the right time and place, and won the victory. The path they took was: Start a war to get resources before you run out of them. Then rely on these resources to continue to wage war, and the cycle repeats, forming a virtuous circle. It is not a vicious circle like some countries, where their own resources are taken away by others, and they are exchanging their limited resources for the resources that have been taken away, and then they are defeated by countries with more resources, losing control of some of their resources, and exchanging the remaining resources for resources that originally belonged to them.

And when any part of the above cycle goes wrong, the superpower will become weakened or even destroyed. The United States in North Korea. After losing the war, the Soviet Union was rampant in Europe, and the United States was in Vietnam. After losing the Yugoslav War, the Soviet Union was qualified to compete for global hegemony. After the defeat of the Khan, the empire collapsed. Therefore, the premise of the end of the military is that it suffers a major defeat in the war for resources. If you have been lucky for a long time and won every battle, then you can completely fight for eternity. If you fail hard enough and can come back, then you can go on with the military. Far from being overwhelmed by the Roman Empire's 800 years of military force, the Roman Empire built a great empire with the Mediterranean Sea as its inner lake, and it was precisely when they lost their ambition to seize resources and territory that they were content with the status quo and were finally destroyed by the barbarians who poured out of the northern forest. In terms of Chinese civilization, if the Yellow Emperor, Emperor Yan and Chi You engaged in resource sharing and trading assistance, then our current China. There will only be a few small tribes on the land, and they will have long been destroyed by the powerful enemies around them.

Those who died in the two wars were martyrs who sacrificed their lives for their own people's survival resources, and they all deserve the respect of their own peoples. We should not belittle the Germans just because Germany lost, nor should we belittle the people because they were competing with us for resources, and we should not worship them as gods because the United States and the Soviet Union were victorious. It's just that some are lucky, and some are unlucky. The same nation of islanders, Britain established the empire on which the sun never sets because of its early start. Dongying started late, so he could only lie down and taste his courage, and challenge other nationalities again and again. Britain's victory was not due to good diplomacy, and Dongying's defeat was not due to poor politics, but the difference was that it realized the importance of seizing resources by force and put it into practice. Early birds have food to eat, and it's very simple.

In the world war, everyone knows that fighting a war is to kill people, but why do people still choose war, and even the whole country participates in it and is supported by the whole nation?

It's not because if they don't fight, they won't have the resources to support it at all, and sooner or later it will be destroyed, so why not fight again when they can still fight. If the war is won, it is good, then it is possible to obtain countless resources, and then use these resources to fill the void of the entire country.

And even if it was a real defeat, it would have consumed some of the population in these wars, making it a little easier for the whole country. All this is not because of resources, it is conceivable that if all the countries in the world have sufficient resources, there are resources that cannot be consumed.

So who still wants to fight?

No kidding, fighting is to kill people, there are countless resources for them to consume, why fight? When are they stupid? Therefore, unless the whole earth is an infinite resource, there can be no absolute peace at all, and these peace is only a short-term process, just to accumulate strength for the next war.

This is the case in the real world, and without the restraints, it is even more obvious in the ability realm of the red fruit fruit. Not all of the Abilities are Wu Ling, he has almost infinite energy space, as long as he can strengthen it, the energy is not a big problem at all. Even the unsealing of the space against the sky has completely deduced the entire exercise, as long as he is not stupid, under the accumulation of so many resources, it is inevitable to become a strong person.

But this is not the case with other abilities, it can be said that from the beginning of the awakening of abilities, unless it is those who are really gifted and have abilities, they can obtain certain resources for cultivation by some big forces. Otherwise, then ordinary people with abilities can only slowly accumulate and struggle.

Just like Shao Zikang now, they even have to pay the price of their lives for a power stone that can strengthen their bodies. It's something they'll have to face for the rest of their lives, unless they don't want to continue their promotions.

But it is simply impossible, except for the attraction of the higher power, and because once you enter the Ability, there is no way to turn back. On this road, you can only forget to walk forward, and you must surpass everyone, otherwise, you will only be used as a stepping stone by others and die silently at a certain moment.

Therefore, once you step into the realm of supernatural abilities, you can only move forward without looking back, and if you want to move forward, you naturally need resources. These resources would not have been so abundant in the first place, otherwise, at the beginning of the earth, only four heroes entered the B rank, and most of the abilities were still only below the B level.

This is not only because of talent and exercises, but also because there are no more resources on the earth to support the continued strengthening of the ability, so the era of the four heroes must be comparable to the four heroes, or even far more than their genius, but unfortunately, the four heroes occupy those resources, so others can only fall gloomily.

It can also be seen from this how important the dependence of the Adept on resources is. And because of the plane channel, the entire energy that can provide the enhancement of the ability is slowly filled, because the energy is transmitted from the ability world, so the area around the channel is naturally the place where the energy is the thickest.

The cultivation there is many times stronger than the outside world. These things, for the supernatural, were originally blessed by the heavens. Not to mention, the treasures that will be revealed from time to time in the plane passages, so in the minds of all the superpowers, these passages are completely what they need to seize with their lives. (To be continued......)