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The war story will be told again. This story is mainly from the records of the diplomatic circles and synthesizes the secrets of the business world, not the "Selected War Cases". This chapter hardly fights, this chapter is a story of fortune in the intercontinental colonial wars. Learn a little, maybe you can use it.

Story 2, war, dead people's money

(1) BIGBIGBIG News

On January 1, B59, the New Year arrived. On the first day of the new year, a major event happened, an international event, BIG News, which is definitely an international BIG news, and the BIG News that you can't do if you want to. The next day, the main newspapers of many civilized countries in the Central Continent were as follows: "The United Imperial Pirates Sink an Unarmed Cruise Ship of a Neutral Country", "A Terrible Massacre at Sea in the Era of Civilization in the B Century", and "The Navy of a Great Power Turns into a Pirate Gang to Rob and Kill Innocent Women and Children......

Most of the headlines published by these thunderous people are the big newspapers of small and medium-sized countries. Compared with these small countries that have not seen good things on the market, the big countries are much calmer.

As a suspected perpetrator of the crime, the backstage of the murderer, the newspaper of the United Empire of St. Romain Sanjunia published an article "Our Lady of the Luxury Cruise Ship Ventured into the Combat Zone of the Two Armies and Was Sunk Without Informing Our Navy". The financier of the country that caused the incident, the Saxony-Windsor Empire, was even more calm and surprising, and this matter was put into the second edition, with a small title - "The Sinking of the Virgin Luxury Cruise Ship".

So many news from so many countries say the same thing, B59, on January 1, B59, the Chinese Navy's long-range fleet sank the small neutral country of the Republic of Irene Land, the flag luxury cruise ship "Our Lady", which was also the world's largest luxury cruise ship at that time. Compared with the sinking of the world's largest munitions ship, the big catfish "Qingjiang" mixed cargo ship, this matter is indeed a big deal, not only sank the civilian ships of neutral countries, but even worse is that it is a cruise ship, and the passengers are almost all rich and handsome people from various countries, and even dignitaries and nobles of some countries.

"Our Lady" is a 16,000-ton luxury cruise ship, launched in B56 and put into commercial operation, the interior decoration of the ship is extremely luxurious, the facilities are also advanced, can be called the crystallization of high-end decoration materials expo and civil high-tech. The Notre Dame built one, and she became the only one, with a full load displacement of nearly 20,000 tons, compared to 9,000 tons for his contemporaries, and the ship deserved to be the world's largest cruise ship. In addition to being large, his equipment is also very good, equipped with a full-band radio, an automatic transmitter, two sets of independent backup power generation systems, and a waterline balance anti-sinking tank hull design, which is still very high in terms of safety factor.

This cruise ship was the newest and largest and most luxurious in the world at that time, but the results of commercial operation were not very popular. Due to the sluggish cruise market, the cruise ship was the highest-grade means of intercontinental transportation at that time as an ultra-luxury high-class passenger liner between the Central Continent countries and their Far Eastern colonies. The fare of the ship was expensive, and although the passengers were not necessarily dignitaries, at least they had to be from wealthy families, and many wealthy families from various countries on the Central Continent took this boat to the colonies for vacation.

According to investigations, there were 1,374 passengers of all classes on the ship at that time, and 414 crew members of various types, including the captain. Among them, there are more than 50 dignitaries and nobles from various countries in the Central Continent, as well as more than 100 dignitaries from the Nurha Empire, a quasi-colony in the Far East of a certain powerful country. The ship was sinking so fast that it was late at night, and the passengers and crew were so panicked that most of the lifeboats could not be lowered in time. Most of the survivors are really struggling in the water, and in the tropics, it's nothing, even if they soak for three days, as long as they have fresh water to drink, they can't die. The problem is that the area is infested with sharks. At dawn the next day, hundreds of sharks arrived for dinner, mainly hammerhead sharks less than two meters long. A thousand-year-old human flesh feast...... It is rare that there are more people and fewer fish, and the shark even becomes picky eater, only taking a beautiful bite on the victim's thigh and then the next one. The smell of blood that permeated the sea attracted more sharks, and there were many hungry people here who had been hungry for half a month......

In the end, only 106 people sitting in lifeboats survived the shipwreck, and the rest all sank into the sea or were killed by sharks. Of the deaths, 753 were women and children. According to the fishermen involved in the rescue, "the sharks in this area are very well fed, and after that, for more than a week, you can't catch sharks with any kind of bait."

Here's how this tragic thing happened:

At about 0:30 a.m. on January 1, B59, the deputy captain of the Z119 belonging to the K30 fast gunboat squadron, Lieutenant Simpson Lohr (the officer on duty at the time), observed that a large ship was moving in the sea near the squadron's overnight point, the ship was big enough and fast, judging from the size and speed of the ship, this was likely to be a warship, and the most important thing was that the ship was not on the route of normal cargo merchant ships, and the lights were also controlled, and Lieutenant Lore immediately woke up the captain, and then all the captains, including the squadron leader, also called. After discussing the matter, the captains agreed that it was a warship. The squadron leader used his own radio channel to contact the ship and inquire about it for verification. The result was shocking, and the ship replied in a playful tone, "We are the Virgin, do you want to see God, we can help you".

The full-band radio watchman on the Notre Dame humorously replied to the United Imperial Navy with a joke, and the lonely seaman on duty thought it was just a joke and replied to the verification inquiry.

But in the eyes of the K30 squadron, this is not the case, which shows two problems: first, the ship has a military radio and may be listening to the communications of our army; Secondly, the ship issued an extremely unfriendly threat of force. Judging from other factors, this ship is likely to be an Imperial warship of Marnerocco.

For the sake of caution, the K30 squadron still inquired with its superiors, and learned that there were indeed no large ships of our army in the vicinity, and the captains decided that this ship must be a large warship of the Marnerocco Empire, and the officer on duty at the headquarters repeatedly ordered that if this ship was an enemy ship, it must be sunk with all its might.

At 0:55 a.m. that day, the K30 squadron launched a secret pursuit.

At 1:45 a.m., the K30 squadron caught up with the Virgin and immediately launched a sneak attack with torpedoes. At a distance of 900 meters and 600 meters respectively, the K30 squadron fired two salvos of torpedoes at the ship, firing a total of 8 torpedoes, and finally a total of three torpedoes hit, and one of the second salvo torpedoes hit the position of the first torpedo, to be exact, it exploded inside the ship. Successive torpedo strikes at the same position caused the entire deck of the ship to be blown open here, and the anti-sinking compartment was rendered useless. The backup power system and the automatic transmitter continued to function normally until the ship sank and was completely submerged, when the automatic transmitter continued to send out distress telegrams. The captain of the ship immediately ordered the SOS international distress signal and all other bands to be issued, and organized the crew on board to escape in a lifeboat.

The K30 squadron left after firing the torpedo, not knowing that it was a luxury cruise ship without any armament, and that it had caused a catastrophe. Our small warships are not equipped with civilian communication equipment, and the military-band distress signal sent by the Virgin makes the K30 believe that it has attacked a warship.

At 2:05 a.m. on January 1, the "Madonna" sank, the first neutral ship to be sunk in the intercontinental war of the colonies in the B century. From 10:40 a.m. on January 1, the victims were rescued one after another by the Imperial Navy of Marnerocco, which received a distress signal and rushed to save people. While searching for other survivors and salvaging the remains of the victims, the rescue fleet scooped up a torpedo that did not explode due to a faulty fuse, a 400-mm torpedo, a torpedo of the United Empire of San Roman......

An Imperial naval officer who participated in the rescue said, "The sea is littered with the remains of the victims after shark bites, and it is terrible to see." "The fishing boat that came with us to the rescue used a net to recover the bodies and relics of the victims, and after collecting the net, we found the torpedo. "At first we thought it was some kind of metal container on the ship, but it had the insignia of the Saint-Roman Empire's navy on it. Some officers recognized this as a torpedo. ”。

At that time, the torpedo had only been invented for a few years, and it was a brand-new naval warfare weapon, and many countries did not accept or agree with it, so they did not equip it. As one of the original inventors of torpedoes, the United Imperial Navy was equipped with a large number of torpedoes, and the other side, the Imperial Navy of Marnerocco acted conservatively and did not equip torpedoes, and the place of the incident was the sea infested by the torpedo attack ships of the United Imperial Navy.

The ship sank, the man died, and this is only the beginning of the story. Subsequently, a diplomatic mediation or diplomatic brawl was staged between the countries of the Central Continent involved in the matter.

(2) The principle of great powers

It stands to reason that the first priority of a responsible big country in the international community, a traditional civilized country on the central continent, and a powerful country with strong national strength and surplus finances is to punish the perpetrators and then negotiate with the victims to compensate for the losses, so as to win the broad understanding and higher evaluation of the international community.

Caesar didn't intend to do this, he never thought so from the beginning, it's not that Emperor Romeo Caesar didn't care about bad reviews.

In that news, the victims made it clear that they would unite with the empire to deal with the "criminals" involved and compensate for the damages, and many of the families of the victims interviewed also mentioned the issue of accountability and compensation. The owner of the Virgin, Irene Land, and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) also made it clear that the United Empire that sank the ship must pay compensation according to the price. This price is also a lion's mouth, sky-high, 600 million reels (the currency of international trade settlement at the time, a 10-gram physical silver coin). 600 million raels, the value of the specific currency metal, converted into 6,000 tons of silver, according to the gold-silver ratio at that time, it was 400 tons of gold. This is enough to form a top-tier ocean-going fleet. This dead man's fortune is a bit big. As a small commercial nation, Irelyn Rand did not have battleships, not even a cruiser of the first rank, and she obviously did not have the strength to remove 400 tons of gold from the United Empire. The country's SASAC later felt that this figure was too outrageous, and the next day published an article saying that the SASAC had miscalculated the account, and as long as it could get 20 million reels, everyone would be happy. 20 million raels is still a huge fortune. The Nurha Empire, which has been beaten in history, does not seem to be ambiguous, "the nobility of our country is really expensive,......"

However, the wealth of the dead is not so easy to make, and Caesar is resolute - "The United Empire of San Romain will not give money, not a single rael will give it, and it will not punish the perpetrators." ”

From Caesar's point of view, this is the case: the navy is its own navy, and the cruise ship is the cruise ship of another country. There are principles for dealing with matters involving the military: first, one's own army is always justified; Second, if it does not comply with Article 1, refer to Article 1. The reason is very simple, if something serious happens in His Majesty's family, other families in the international community will issue editorials to show support, but the soldiers and brothers of their own family will try their best to save the emperor's family. The role of the military is there, and the international leaders must protect the calf, not to mention that the naval brethren have poked this basket because of the war. Therefore, none of the officers and men of the navy involved can be arrested. As for the money, their cruise ship was torpedoed and sank, and the cruise ship was also responsible; The United Empire of San Romain fought for many years, and more civilians died innocently as a result of combat operations, and countless third-party properties of all kinds were destroyed by the war. This precedent must not be set!! Besides, the soldiers of our Saint Roman Empire who died in battle don't have so many pensions, so why give money to these battlefield stumbling blocks!! Once this money is given, it will definitely hurt morale!! Money can't be given, at least not on the surface.

Before Julius Caesar finished reading the headlines, he corrected his position in his heart: first, he would never admit any perpetrators; Secondly, no compensation will be made for any victims. Based on this principle, Caesar made a move, "take the initiative in everything", and first give the poor people who have illusions a head start.

On the afternoon of January 2, B59, the diplomatic service issued a diplomatic document on the instructions of Caesar, the Proclamation of the Incident of the Virgin.

This "Incident Notice", which made the mainstream media of the Central Continent fry instantly, wrote like this:

"I, the United Empire of St. Romain and Santa Sonia, regret the unexpected sinking of the Virgin. In response to the requests made by the families and survivors of the victims in various countries involved in this incident, the following is provided:

The first point is on the handling of the officers and soldiers involved. The United Imperial Navy warship involved in this incident sank the cruise ship Our Lady in accordance with normal combat procedures, and sank the cruise ship Our Lady of Grace, which was suspected to be an enemy warship, during a combat duty operation in the combat area. According to Imperial military law, the Empire had no authority to dispose of naval officers and sailors involved in this battle. In view of the devotion of this naval force to the sinking of suspected enemy ships in battle, it was still rewarded in accordance with the relevant regulations promulgated by the Imperial Navy.

The second point is on the issue of compensation for the victims. In many previous wars, there have been unfortunate incidents in which civilians have strayed into combat areas and died in the fighting, and this incident is similar to the previous incident, and the essence of the incident is the same. As a result, the United Empire of St. Roman's Santa Sunia will resolve this incident in accordance with the previous pattern for dealing with similar unfortunate events. In principle, we will not compensate any of the victims or survivors, because the responsibility for this tragedy does not lie with us. This unfortunate event was directly related to the ship's serious deviation from the normal commercial route at that time, and the families of the victims could claim compensation from the shipping company.

(3) Accidents after accidents

On the Central Continent, the "Our Lady" accident continues to ferment.

On January 2, B59, the "Notification of the Incident of the Virgin" of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the United Empire was published, and the international community was in an uproar, and the countries involved in the Central Continent were "angry with me", and "it is inconceivable that such a thing could happen". Many families of the victims who wanted to make money instantly lost hope of making a fortune from the dead, and in addition, the front page of the international mainstream newspaper the next day also had a fairly hard enough material.

The day after the "Circular" was released, the mainstream media on almost the entire continent denounced Caesar. The inscriptions in these newspapers and periodicals were extremely eye-catching, and one daily newspaper was full of editorial examples -- "Romeo Caesar the Barbarian", "The Cruel Butcher of the Sea", "The Rogue Monarch of the Central Continent", "The Shamelessness and Ignorance of the Monarch of War Criminals......

In the face of the accusations and insults of various media, the top management of the United Empire has long been indifferent, like a breeze blowing on their faces, almost insensitive. They had experienced so much of this kind of thing, and in their opinion, it was just a few weak people wailing on the front page of the newspapers, and this kind of defeat had no effect on a truly strong man like Julius Caesar. "If front-page reports and news editorials were decisive, the world wouldn't need the military." Julius Caesar and his successors did not pay lip service to it, and almost all of the countries in history that cared too much about public opinion became failures, or collapsed, or declined.

The United Empire of St. Romain, which has a strong military force, only recognizes true strength, "If you don't accept it, then come to war!" "But looking at these small and medium-sized commercial countries that like to engage in neutrality in the Central Continent, no matter at sea or land, none of them are the opponents of the Saint-Roman Empire, even if they go together, they can't do it. War?! You're making an international joke. We are a bunch of rabbits, who have beaten a lion like Caesar??!!

The largest number of victims, the territory of the small Republic of Irene Land is not as large as the smallest province of the Saint-Roman Empire, the population is equivalent to a city in the United Empire, her army, that is, the size of a brigade of the United Imperial Army, has never fought, and the country's international reputation seems to be very high, "a very reputable commercial country", "a rich country with a lot of money", "willing to assume international responsibilities, and willing to give". This beautiful country with a super good image is in trouble, and the international community will definitely help to bark a few times, but it is limited to dog-like barking. No one is going to rush over and bite the United Empire because of this big incident in a small country. For the sake of someone else's family to die, it is absolutely impossible to play military affairs with Schwarzenegger strong men.

The Nurha Empire, a large country in the Far East, with the highest level of the victims, and nearly half of the core leadership in the belly of a shark, should not be considered a rabbit, although the country is actually only a vassal state like a colony of a powerful country in the Central Continent. This Far Eastern country is a vast country, with a large army, millions of registered people, and a great empire that has been built for hundreds of years. The navy is equipped with two 3,500-ton ironclad cruisers and a dozen smaller wooden-clad iron-clad cruisers, all of which are purely imported. These two ironclad cruisers are said to be very powerful, at least they really look very powerful, and they have always been very deterrent in use. Although the ancient empire's powerful or huge army even had to import rifles, and the main target of war has always been limited to the country's people, the country has used military intimidation to achieve diplomatic goals in many border disputes or expatriate incidents, and has driven its fleet to the door of a small country to demand unreasonably large compensation, and successfully succeeded. But compared to Caesar's Lion, this country is nothing more than a large rabbit. These two 3,500-ton ironclad cruisers sailed to any of the larger port cities of the United Empire of San Roman, and the coastal defense artillery would have found it a little unpleasant.

At this time, this matter, the international influence and national image that many weak and small countries have always talked about, etc., this false and fake thing to deceive children has all lost its effect. A truly powerful power has always known that "the truth is only within the range of artillery", that only warships and artillery can solve the problem when something goes wrong, and that those bells and whistles "national business cards" are useless except for arousing the greed of all kinds of robbers.

That major historical event nakedly revealed that the "international order", "national justice", and "universal human rights values" repeatedly preached by the so-called civilized society after the industrial revolution were all bullshit. Maintaining order?? Justice?? Defending human rights?? That's just talk. Something happened, is it necessary to offend an evil lion for the sake of a good rabbit? Besides, it's not just a lion. (Just as the horrific massacres in concentration camps were staged before World War II, and the top leaders of various countries have heard about it since then, but did they save people?) They also had concentration camps in their own country. Throughout the course of World War II, there was not a single campaign action or battle above the regimental level on the side of justice. ）

When Rabbit hoped that international public opinion in the Rabbit world would force Caesar the Lion to make some concessions, things changed. In the blink of an eye, another lion spoke for Caesar the Lion.

On the third day of the Notre Dame incident, the Saxony-Windsor Empire, which had many nationals killed in the incident, began to uphold justice, the justice of the lion, "to express understanding of the actions of the United Empire of St. Romain in the sinking of the cruise ship Our Lady, and the departure of the cruise ship Our Lady into the combat area was the main cause of this unfortunate incident." ”

This sudden and unexpected statement instantly transferred the anger in the hearts of some of the victims to the side of the shipping company. The Republic of Irin Land, which operated the shipping company, is naturally also guilty of crimes, which is called joint and several civil liability. As a kind-hearted rabbit, it seems that he can also get the victim's tolerance and understanding on the basis of a large amount of money, "smoothly resolve the matter and improve the international image", and comfort himself somewhat with such nonsense and appease the bleeding people. It's a pity that a few days later, an early arranged "accident" made the rabbit have to pay more compensation, and the "international image" that has been maintained for many years has also been extinguished.

On January 6, when the countries involved and the families of the victims hesitated, an international media controlled by the Windsor Empire in Saxony broke the news again: "The luxury cruise ship Our Lady is suspected of smuggling coca leaves, the raw material of the banned psychotropic drug (the famous white fetish of the highly effective drug Koka. Because it is made by extracting and purifying this thing and drying it, the scientific name is coca. alkali), the amount is staggering, as many as more than ten tons, and it is in order to load these prohibited goods that the ship deviates from the course for hundreds of kilometers. In addition, the Virgin is also suspected of colluding with unscrupulous merchants in the colonies of Sahir Continent to smuggle gold to the Central Continent on several occasions. ”

The smuggling of coca leaves involves gangsters from many countries, and it is not easy to investigate for the time being, and the gangs may not be willing to show their faces; However, the smuggling of gold can be clearly investigated through the balance of payments of the Republic of Irin Land. The Saxony-Windsor Empire forced the international banks to carefully audit their accounts, and the results showed that since the Virgin was put into operation, there was indeed a large amount of gold of unknown origin in the country, which can be described as conclusive evidence. Subsequently, the gangsters decisively fell into the ground, and in order to collude with the superpowers to get some weapons and franchises for high-priced special goods, a certain boss took the initiative to stand up. Tainted witness - "The Republic of Irene Rand is our accomplice in selling these high-margin white drugs", the testimony of drug dealers is too lethal.

With the further exposure of these bloody incidents, the Republic of Irene Land, which was originally a victim of this incident, has become the focus of international media attention and the object of claims for victims in many countries. The United Empire of St. Romain, as the country responsible, successfully broke away from this international incident.

After several completely failed international lawsuits, the Republic of Irene Rand lost another luxury cruise ship. The Republic of Irene Rand threw out a lot of silver flowers, and the parties finally fell silent. Human nature is essentially to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, no one remembers to track down the whereabouts of those coca leaves in the past, and the media who took the money did not want to make things too big.

A large amount of gold and silver produced in the Sasil continent is still smuggled into the currency circulation system of the countries of the Central Continent. Some of the underground companies under the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) are still operating ultra-lucrative white drug businesses. In fact, the smuggling of gold and the sale of white medicines were also a source of finance for the Saxony-Windsor Empire. This powerful product was sold in underground companies run by the colonial governments of the country.

There are some things that the State does when it does it, and even if it violates the laws it enacts itself, it does not fear being prosecuted. In the real world, many quasi-criminal things can be done by the state, but not by private individuals......

(The National Family Planning Commission of Pigs forced abortion, this is the murder of the open fire.) actually asked the family of the deceased for money, which family is this?? ）

Postscript:

In June of the 20th year of the C century, a private salvage team of a certain country carried out a destructive salvage of the ship, breaking the hull of the Virgin by deep-water blasting, and then using the deep-sea bottom sweeping net and gripping claw net to retrieve various objects from the broken wreckage of the "Virgin......

The salvage team recovered a lot of gold, and it is said that after deducting various costs and paying the "landlords" to the local government of the United Empire colonies as agreed, each person received more than 200 ounces of gold, weighing about 6.5 kilograms. 200 ounces of gold, $260,000, 1.6 million Indian dollars, a single-family villa on Long Island, New York, a stacked duplex mansion in the suburbs of Qingdao, Shandong Province, and a bedroom in the Third Ring Road of Beijing, Cosmic Truth City, is really a lot of money for poor children from civilian families like us (the Sprinkle family also has to go to the salvage team to work part-time). However, compared to the extra money made by some officers in the colonial wars of the B century, this money is too little, it is too little......

The next story can make people think about it even more, so that every ordinary person can see the opportunity - wealth soldiers, wealth stories in the war, "you can do any business with guns and cannons". Wishing you prosperity!!