Chapter 167: Lightning Storm
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, most of the countries in the original Soviet camp had to submit to the money of the Tang Empire because of poverty, and chose to join the world government and accept the leadership of the Tang Empire.
However, Russia, which succeeded most of the Soviet Union, still has extremely strong military power, and Russia did not apply to join the world government, but wanted to maintain the face of the former Soviet Union and bargain with the Tang Empire.
However, the Tang Empire soon took countermeasures, Russia's most powerful land-based ICBM 'Force Commander' system, its research and development-related materials and main parts and components are all in Ukraine, with the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine applied to join the world government, and all relevant former Soviet weapons and equipment materials and technologies were transferred to the Tang Empire for safekeeping.
Similarly, other countries of the former Soviet Union have a large number of materials on the manufacture and research and development of weapons and equipment in the former Soviet Union, and when they join the world government, all these technical materials must be handed over to the Tang Empire for unified safekeeping. After all, after joining the world government, countries do not need to maintain huge military and defense expenditures, and these weapons and equipment do not need to be reproduced, so all countries transfer all relevant technical information to the Tang Empire without reservation.
Although the former Soviet Union was poor, it should not be underestimated to maintain a huge military force, but the former Soviet Union had a fatal weakness, that is, the research and development and production of any weapons and equipment were carried out separately in different design bureaus and factories. This led to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the separation of countries, although Russia inherited most of the powerful weaponry. However, since then, it has lost most of its weapons and equipment production and R&D capabilities, because after other member states joined the world government, they were forced to terminate all R&D, design and production cooperation with Russia under the pressure of the Tang Empire.
These parts, ranging from pistol triggers to nuclear reactors, have all been terminated from supplying to Russia, forcing 80% of Russia's weapons and equipment parts to be unsupplied and maintained. Although it will take four or five years to find a replacement with Russia's scientific and technological strength, it will require huge funds to develop and rebuild production plants. For its part, Russia inherited most of the Soviet army's military and weaponry, and the cost of maintaining its nuclear arsenal alone stretched it to the limit. The effects of the Great Famine had not yet passed, and the people were living in misery and had no money to rebuild all the production plants.
In addition, the most critical is with the collapse of the USSR. Most countries join the world government. As a result, a large number of elite talents in the former Soviet Union era were left with high salaries, mainly by the Tang Empire, which exacerbated the shortage of Russian talent, and even if funds were obtained to rebuild factories, technology and developers could not complete the task of developing alternatives in a short time.
In the end, the Russian government had nothing to do, and in the face of growing calls for joining the world government, the new president, Boris Yeltsin, wanted to avoid being isolated from the world and plunged into an even more painful quagmire. In the end, he lowered his noble head and applied to the Tang Empire to join the world government.
After Zhang Meng learned that Russia bowed its head. He was immediately instructed to complete the negotiation process for the approval of the application to Russia as soon as possible.
According to the requirements of the Tang Empire, Russia must first hand over all its nuclear arsenal and related technical materials, which is the most important thing for the Tang Empire, after all, Russia has inherited more than 10,000 nuclear weapons from the former Soviet Union, although there is a nuclear disarmament treaty, but the Tang Empire can't wait to solve this big trouble as soon as possible.
On April 1, 1983, the Tang Empire chose to send joint ** troops to various parts of Russia on April Fool's Day to take over and reorganize all Russian armed forces and their weapons and equipment.
A large group of Russian conservatives tried to stop it, but their arms could not twist their thighs, and they ended up crying and lowering the Russian flag and raising the United Nations flag representing the world government.
The transfer of more than 5 million Russian troops and more than 300 million pieces of weapons and equipment lasted for three months, and the Tang Empire sent military experts, technicians and engineers to take away all the relevant means of production and technical data of weapons and equipment, dismantle the weapons production line, and seal all the equipment, and then reorganize the Russian army, cut 4.95 million people, select 50,000 elites to be incorporated into the United Army, and distribute joint military uniforms and weapons and equipment.
With the disarming of Russia by the world government, it represented the complete disappearance of the Soviet Union, and the Tang Empire finally completely defeated a formidable enemy.
The rest of the work is to stabilize the people in the whole Soviet Union, they have been starving for a long time, and the most urgent thing is food and clothing, fortunately, in addition to the rich money, the most is food, and after quickly providing relief to the victims, the whole territory of the Soviet Union will be stabilized.
Of course, like other countries that have joined the world government, there will inevitably be some hard-line diehards in their respective countries, who carry out guerrilla warfare and oppose the world government, and the same is true in the Soviet Union, and the majority of public opinion in many countries, including Russia, supports joining the world government, and a small number of groups with harmful interests persist in resisting and use terrorist attacks to undermine the world government's rule over the entire territory of the Soviet Union.
However, the joint army is strong and extremely advanced, and it is more than enough to deal with these armed forces, but because the new member countries of the Soviet Union have not long joined, the joint army does not want to make a big move to destroy the impression, so the disbanded former Soviet army is temporarily changed to an armed explosion-proof police force, distributed conventional weapons, and adopts the strategy of local control of local people, which will not arouse the disgust of the local people, and can suppress all opposition forces, killing two birds with one stone.
As the entire territory of the former Soviet Union gradually stabilized, the world government dominated by the Tang Empire aimed at the world's only remaining confrontational force, the United States.
Unlike the Soviet Union, the United States has a large land area, complete infrastructure, developed industry, and although the people's living standards are not as good as those of the Tang Empire, they are much higher than those of the Soviet Union.
Therefore, no matter how the Tang Empire imposed economic sanctions and military and political blockades, the United States is still strong, but it is not satisfied.
However, Zhang Meng is dictatorial to all kinds of disobedience, in the face of the last hardliner United States, Zhang Meng must be won, Zhang Meng is very old at this time, and the urgency of wanting to dominate the earth in his lifetime is even stronger.
In order to achieve this wish, he even went to great lengths.
The Great Famine that caused the collapse of the Soviet Union was an action planned by Zhang Meng, using a weather control system that had been secretly developed by the Tang Empire for more than 50 years, which was very secret and few people knew.
Now Zhang Meng plans to conquer the United States again, the same set of means to deal with the Soviet Union, this time Zhang Meng no longer uses snowfall, because the United States is not so close to the polar regions, and large-scale snowfall like dealing with the Soviet Union will cause suspicion, considering that the United States has a two-ocean climate, so it was changed to a tropical lightning storm and tornado. (To be continued......)