After all, the war between the two civilizations has not long ended, and the earth civilization that has been hit hard in the war has not yet fully recovered, and now the Gaia civilization, which is an invader, has come uninvited, and according to what they said, this time it is no longer war, it is "peace".

Peace? ...... in this world Or does peace really exist between Chinese and civilization in this universe? Although it is under the banner of peace, the announcement of the Gaia civilization to the earth civilization also states the fact that when the earth civilization failed to enter the ranks of the universe civilization before, according to the general guidelines of the galaxy, it is a normal thing for the Gaia civilization to invade the earth civilization. In other words, in the eyes of the Gaians or higher-level cosmic civilizations, the original Earth civilization was only slightly higher than the primitive animals.

In fact, this view is not only true for the galaxy, but also for the history of Earth civilization. Throughout history, there have been many examples of one nation annihilating another, and one nation destroying another. In the Age of Discovery, wasn't that true of the explorers who sailed the Seven Seas? Faced with the "natives" who set foot in the New World, the Europeans, who claimed to be civilized people, also took up muskets and cannons in their hands, slaughtering the masters of the so-called natives, thus plundering their wealth and land .......

In recent centuries, China, as an ancient civilization, has also suffered a century of humiliation, from a great empire standing proudly in the East to being carved up by the Western powers. At such times, in the eyes of Westerners. China has become a representative of backwardness and ignorance, and these "civilized people" are here to bring modern human civilization to this ignorant and backward country. These reasons seem ridiculous today, but at the time it cannot be denied that Westerners did think so. That's what it does.

It was not until a hundred years later, when China relied on its own efforts to regain its footing from the ashes, that it was recognized by the Western world. In other words, there is the right to dialogue on an equal footing between nations, between nations, between civilizations, or between civilizations only when you reach a certain level of strength.

Even decades ago, before the Earth Federation was founded. Isn't it true that the governments of the planet are facing some of the weaker countries, especially the third world countries in Africa? It's just that compared with their peers a hundred years ago, what modern people do is no longer so naked*, but from the essence of it. There is no difference between them.

And now that the Gaia civilization has proposed to contact and negotiate with the civilization of the earth, what is the difference between what it has done and what happened on the earth in the first place? As a brilliant statesman who is well versed in history, Mr. President clearly understands all this, and these people who attended the meeting also knew in their hearts the intentions of the Gaian civilization in doing so.

If you can't beat it, just talk about it. What is not obtained on the battlefield may be commercially or otherwise obtainable. If I didn't guess wrong. This is the real purpose of this surprise visit of the Gaian civilization. With the deep hatred of the two civilizations, Mr. President does not want to continue to deal with the Gaia civilization from the bottom of his heart, but there is one problem that he can't get around, as the earth civilization that has entered the cosmic civilization, normal contact and even trade with other cosmic civilizations is inevitable, and the earth civilization can no longer "close the country" as before after entering the cosmic civilization, and history also tells them that there is no point in doing so at all. Not only will it be of no benefit to the civilization of the earth, but it will also make the civilization of the earth isolated in the civilization of the universe.

In the millennia of the Earth's history. This has not happened before. For example, in China's Song Dynasty, there were many wars between Song and Liao, but the two countries still maintained normal exchanges. The same is true of the Song and Jin dynasties, the Southern Song Dynasty experienced the shame of Jingkang after the two sides formed a confrontation, and in the following hundred years, the Song and Jin countries finally formed a normal diplomacy, not only the upper echelons of the two countries, the people-to-people exchanges between the two countries were extremely frequent, this situation was not broken until the Southern Song Dynasty led the wolf into the house to recruit the Mongols to destroy the Jin State.

This is only a part of China's thousands of years of history, and even pushed upwards, during the Warring States period in China, the Seven Kingdoms competed for power and there was a theory of a joint alliance. And in the Western countries, this is more the case, in the hundreds of years in Europe, on the one hand, countries have fought fiercely, and on the other hand, they have intermarried with each other, and even after two world wars, European countries with deep hatred have not finally come together? Formed an EU organization?

In the ancient Chinese masterpiece "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", it is written that the general trend of the world must be divided for a long time, and the ...... must be divided for a long time, and this sentence can also be used to describe such a situation. Diplomacy is not simply black and white, politics is not a straightforward approach, no matter what kind of grudge there is between the earth civilization and the Gaia civilization, out of the exchanges between civilizations and civilizations, the earth civilization has no reason to refuse the Gaia civilization's request for contact and negotiation, and from the perspective of the earth civilization, such contact and negotiation is not harmful to the earth civilization, only by understanding more opponents and making the earth civilization completely integrate into the big family of the universe civilization, so that the earth civilization can have a place in the universe civilization.

As for the military, there are also military considerations, and as long as the interests of the earth's civilization are not harmed, appropriate contact with the Gaia civilization can be carried out. Moreover, judging from the current scientific and technological level of the earth civilization, although there is already the power to guarantee the earth civilization, if a war between the two cosmic civilizations really breaks out between the Gaia civilization, the earth civilization has no certainty to win this war at all.

After several days of heated discussions, the participants finally voted, and although there were many strong objections to contact with Gaia, in the end the rationals prevailed and passed a resolution agreeing to appropriate engagement and negotiations.

Of course, this resolution is confidential, this is mainly due to the hatred of the people towards Gaia civilization, in order to avoid the leakage of information and social unrest, the president who presided over the meeting controlled the incident to a range known to only a few people, and strictly blocked the outside world.

In addition, it is impossible for the two sides to select representatives from among high-ranking government officials, and after discussion, the Space Fleet, that is, the military representatives, and the special presidential envoy will contact the other side to find out the real purpose of the other side before making a decision.

The selection of representatives of the military is simple. The Planetary Defense Committee will send a representative and representatives of the Space Fleet to form the main military representative, and then form a three-member team with the special envoy of the President to negotiate initial contacts with the Gaia civilization.

As for who will serve as the special envoy of the president, high-ranking officials in the government are not suitable. Just as Mr. President was a little hesitant, wondering whether to choose one of his staff? However, the problem is that if the selection is from the staff, the rank of this person is problematic, and it is very inappropriate for a person without any official status to be the head of the member group in the negotiation of contact with the Gaian civilization.

"If there is no suitable candidate, I, an old man, am willing to make a trip."

Just as Mr. President was in a dilemma, a voice suddenly rang out.

"Old ...... Tian?" Surprisingly, the person recommended by Mao Sui was actually Tian Lao, president of the Federal Academy of Sciences, which stunned Mr. President, including many people present.

"What? Am I not qualified enough for this old man? Tian Lao asked with a smile.

Tian Lao is not qualified enough? Isn't that a joke? Tian Lao is the president of the Federal Academy of Sciences. With his independent rank, he is equal even in front of Mr. President, and don't forget that Tian Lao also had the rank of technical soldier equivalent to the rank of general before the establishment of the Earth Federation, although this rank was not awarded after the establishment of the Earth Federation. However, Tian Lao, as a general, also has a lot of influence in the military of the Earth Federation.

"Of course you qualify, but ......." Mr. President hurriedly explained, but before he could say anything. Tian Lao waved his hand and said, "It's nothing." In fact, according to the normal procedure, I am already a retired old man, and if it weren't for this conference, I would have been living the retirement life I longed for by now. But now that this situation has happened, do you think I, an old man, can sit still? Besides, to engage and negotiate with a cosmic civilization requires not only the qualifications and prestige of the participants, but also the eyes and judgment of scientists, and I think there is no one here who is more suitable than me, what do you say? ”

After speaking. Tian Lao smiled and picked up the teacup in front of him and drank the tea, and everyone was speechless for a while. Tian Lao is indeed right, if you want to talk about qualifications, there is no problem with his qualifications, if you want to talk about status, his status is enough, and when it comes to cooperation with the military, Tian Lao is the most suitable person, and he also pointed out a more important problem, that is, it is best to have a scientist in the process of contact and negotiation, this time it is to contact and negotiate with the Gaia civilization, for what is the strength of this cosmic civilization that has invaded the earth, it is far from enough to judge by the military, and the eyes of scientists may be able to see more clearly, Judgment is more accurate.

Mr. President didn't want Tian Lao to take risks at first, although on the surface, this initiative of the Gaia civilization to make contact and ask for negotiations is normal diplomacy between cosmic civilizations, but who can guarantee that there will be no danger? But when he listened to Tian Lao's explanation of the reason, he was silent again, frowned slightly and thought about it for a long time, and finally decided that Tian Lao would serve as the presidential envoy.

When the candidate is decided, Tian Lao will leave as soon as possible, he will first go to the moon base with an official of the Planetary Defense Committee, and then meet with the representatives of the space fleet at the moon base, and then take a warship to make contact with the Gaia civilization.

Time is relatively tight, Tian Lao only has 24 hours to prepare, which means that he will leave at this time the next day. In fact, Tian Lao personally had no preparations, and when he returned to his temporary residence, he explained to Lin Dong and them through a special line communication, of course, he didn't tell them what the situation was, but just found a suitable reason.

Subsequently, Tian Lao handed over the work of the Federal Academy of Sciences to Dr. Elena through a conference of communication, and Dr. Elena presided over the daily work of the Academy of Sciences as the acting president. And Tian Lao, who was supposed to step down, temporarily continued to serve as the dean for negotiation reasons, which of course took into account the identity requirements of Tian Lao's negotiator, and Tian Lao, who had retired for this matter, could only reluctantly make it difficult.

After resting all night, the next day, Tian Lao's door was knocked open, and a military attache of the guards next to Mr. President and a man in a suit who looked shrewd walked in.

"Tian Lao, this is Mr. Jedidia, a member of the Federal Planetary Defense Committee, he is one of the members of the delegation this time, and he will go to the moon base with you."

"Hello, Mr. Jedidia, you are a member of the committee?" Tian Lao stretched out his hand and shook hands with the other party, and at the same time was a little puzzled, because he basically knew the members of the Planetary Defense Committee, but this Mr. Jedidia had never seen it.

"Temporary member, I used to be in charge of the day-to-day work of the committee." Jedidia replied with a smile, not only did he not have any embarrassment or embarrassment on his face, but he was very generous.

As soon as he said this, Tian Lao understood that in view of the fact that it was very inappropriate for the negotiation committee to come forward directly, he adopted a workaround method to give Jedidiya the title of temporary commissioner. And judging from his previous work description, this is a very capable person, and at the same time, Tian Lao has a good impression of this polite and generous Mr. Jedidia when they meet for the first time.

The military attache stood aside, and after they whispered a few words, he gently reminded that the time was almost up, Tian Lao nodded slightly, signaled to Jedidia, and the two then walked out of the door. Guided by the military attaché, they left in a small shuttle, and half an hour later arrived at the port area of a space fleet, where a medium-sized spacecraft was already ready, and they were to take it to the lunar base.

Walking on the spaceship, many people had already arrived early. Although it is a three-person delegation, in fact, in addition to the main three, there are other personnel accompanying it, who will serve as the delegation's entourage, staff and escort, and considering Tian Lao's age, there is also a short and concise medical team in the delegation, which can be seen that the Earth Federal Government has done a very good job of preparing for this contact negotiation.

Shortly after boarding, the ship received a message that it was allowed to take off, and as the engines were activated, the ship began to gradually accelerate off the ground. Inside the spaceship, because of the adjustment of artificial gravity, Tian Lao did not feel more discomfort, at most it was like taking a high-speed elevator.

The speed of the ship became faster and faster, and as the ship passed through the atmosphere, the scenery outside gradually darkened. This is the first time that Tian Lao personally took a spacecraft into space, for a scientist who has been engaged in space research all his life, Tian Lao looked at the scene outside the spacecraft with great interest, and under the spacecraft, the beautiful earth is getting smaller and smaller, when the spacecraft passes through the atmosphere to low earth orbit, it seems that the whole earth is under his feet, it looks so gorgeous. (To be continued......)