Chapter 262: War and Profit
Ten years of development can be said to be ambitious. What man doesn't want to be able to sweep the Eight Wildernesses, make immortal achievements, and become the first person in the ages. Especially for the dignity of a country, for them, there is no material pursuit, and some are just the one that created the hegemony of the ages, made itself famous for centuries, and was admired by future generations.
Chen Shao is no exception, because he is only one person, and ascending to the altar does not mean that he has really become a god. It cannot be denied that all human beings have selfish desires. It's just that the goal of selfish desires varies from person to person, and the responsibility is as great as the ability, and the same is true for the strength. Chen Shao will not reach the kind of situation where people's hearts are not enough to swallow elephants, in this regard, Chen Shao has always been very rational and thinks far.
As the saying goes, a soldier who does not want to be a general is not a good soldier, and in the same way, naturally, an emperor who does not want to expand his territory for the country and the people is not a good emperor either. One is for the country and the people, and the other is expanding the territory, Chen Shao puts the country and the people in the first place. After more than 20 years of construction, the goal of serving the country and the people has been basically achieved. Now he has to think about expanding his territory, and World War II is the best opportunity.
In later generations, Chen Shao has always been very unhappy with the repeated tolerance of some people. Anyone can climb on their heads to and pee, except for protesting, there is not much reaction at all. Now Chen Shao somewhat understands why they want to do it, and he can only think so much if he is in a high position.
Today's China is similar to many places in later generations, and China will also rise. As mentioned earlier, the rise of a country is only plundering and wars, and no matter how much you emphasize peaceful rise, Western countries will not believe your words, they will only judge based on historical experience. Therefore, in later generations, despite the repeated emphasis on peaceful rise, the siege of countries around the world has not stopped, and various embargoes have continued.
Although China is about to rise now, it is different from the world pattern of later generations, there is one more Germany, one more red Soviet Union, and three countries rise together. These understandings share the pressure of China coming to the world. If the other two countries are to rise, then China will rise, and it will be the same as later generations, step by step.
At that time, even if there is a Red Alert base, unless Chen Shao fights the whole world, I don't know how many years it will take to rise. Because it's easy to cause a siege all over the world, especially the white world. Racial divides are pervasive. In particular, China had a lot of prosperous times before, and they were afraid that China would return to the prosperous Han and Tang dynasties again.
Regardless of whether Genghis Khan's Mongolia is considered Chinese in the eyes of everyone, in the eyes of all countries in the world, it is a member of the Chinese civilization. They are also worried that the power that hit Europe will reappear. Whether it is in the future or here, this concern still exists.
In other words, if it were not for the nuclear forces in the future, blackmail would be everywhere. Do you really think that future generations of leaders don't want to be strong? Do you think they also want to protest all day long, living every day in the cloak of peace? Do you think they don't want to turn into the new world policeman one day?
It's just that they need to think about the people, and there is a big gap between their own technology and others, it is easy to fight, but how to end it, it is simple to be strong, but to have strong capital. The world's interest cake is so big, and the first criterion for the rise of a great country is to share that cake. But the cake has been divided, what are you going to do? That is to take the cake from someone else. And there are many holders of cakes, and if you grab one, others will be wary of you and even besiege you. Two fists are hard to beat four hands.
No matter what you think now, if one day you can put yourself in your shoes, it won't be hard to decide. We don't care about anything else, just the foreign military. After more than 20 years of development, there has been a new development in the face of life. If war comes one day, no matter whether it is won or lost, economic blows are inevitable. Now that you're used to it, would you like to go back to your old life? The war burns, and you feel better, but what about after your heart is comfortable? Looking back at those ruins, do you still have the idea of war?
The important thing in war is to achieve political results, not military success. Its essence is still for the sake of profit, and it is a continuation of politics. If the benefits of war can move everyone and make people crazy about those interests, do you think they won't start a war? (It's a bit far!) War is the predator of life, and with every light footprint, how many innocent lives are being avenged. It is the destroyer of emotions, every faint footprint, how many sad families are crying bitterly. It is the incursor of darkness, every little scar, how many people hide in the sun...... War will bring endless disasters and suffering to people, and in the long history of the past and present, it is the people who have suffered innocently, and the soldiers who have fought bloodily, and there are many people who have died of starvation and war...... The battlefield is filled with this never-ending slaughter, and the living have not had time to grieve for the dead, and before they can accept the sadness of the death of their loved ones, they are beheaded by the enemy's sword. But in the end, the desperate fight of the fighters is just a game played by politicians, just powerful people competing for more interests, and nothing more than careerists for their own **...... How much harm they did to those innocent people, they had thought no, no, they never thought about it, otherwise how could they have carried out more brutal slaughter? What about those people? War is terrible, bloody, there is no human touch at all, only merciless bloodthirsty killing.
Starting a war without interest is the act of idiots, and Chen Shao is well aware of these things. For the sake of the Chinese people in the future, unlike the people of later generations, no matter how evil the war is, it must be persevered. The predecessors planted trees and the later generations enjoyed the shade, and Chen Shao wanted to lead this generation of soldiers to be the tree planters.
In the eyes of those who need war, war is just. Whether it is for oneself or for the country, war is needed to obtain the benefits of the present and the long-term benefits of future generations, and war is the best choice.
Chen Shao has always kept in mind the words of Bismarck of Germany: The major problems of this era cannot be solved by speeches and resolutions...... These problems can only be solved with iron and blood.
As I said earlier, the interests of the world are a cake, and these cakes have been occupied by people. There will be nuclear weapons in the future, and the third world war is very far and close to us. But in this time and space, this is a great world, an era of the strong, and whoever can occupy the greatest interests in this great world can ensure prosperity for the next hundred years, or even hundreds of years.
There are no nuclear weapons here, countries have no scruples, and no matter how much they fight, it is still human beings who rule the earth. This is the stage for careerists, whether it is Hitler, Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt, or now Chen Shao, the world is the stage for their game. The last person standing on the stage will be the biggest winner and will also become the maker of the new world pattern.
Now there is another person who is as ambitious as Chen Shao and deserves our attention, that is, Stalin, the leader of the polar bear red regime. Compared with Chen Shao, Stalin's ambitions were more aggressive.
Later in life, Stalin promised to return the Far East, and when the war ended, such a promise became a joke. Whether it is the era of Tsarist Russia or the current Red Era, the aggressiveness in his bones has not changed. The desire for territory has become the driving force for them to maintain an army of 6 million at all times. Whether it's Europe, the Middle East, or Asia, large tracts of land have always been the target of their longing.
China has the longest border with the Soviet Union in the world. The part of the Soviet Union facing China was precisely the "soft belly" of the Soviet Union, which was the most sparsely populated, the weakest, and the most undefendable. If a "military power" attacked the USSR from this direction, it would be possible to cut the USSR horizontally and dismantle it in eight pieces.
Stalin once said: "As soon as the Trans-Siberian Railway is cut off by a 'military power,' Russia will be finished."
This is not unfounded. Even if the "military power" does not attack, as long as it garrisons along the Sino-Soviet border confront the Soviet Union, it will be enough to produce sufficient deterrence, so that the Soviet Union will be nervous day and night, unable to guard against it, and will not know how many troops to deploy before it dares to rest assured. The Soviet Union has always regarded the military threat from this strategic direction as a danger to its henchmen and has never dared to take it lightly. Especially when China's military power is rising, the sense of vigilance is even heavier.
In later generations, in the summer and autumn of 1941, the Soviet Union was so tight on the Soviet-German battlefield, losing 410,000 troops in the Minsk Campaign, 760,000 in the Smolensk Campaign, 700,000 in the Kiev Campaign, and 660,000 in the Vyazma Campaign.
It was only when Sorge received accurate information that Japan would "advance south" rather than "north" and would not threaten Siberia that Stalin dared to transfer the Siberian garrison to the west and rushed to the front line "at the last minute" to hold Moscow.
You must know that as early as 1939, the Soviet Union had beaten Japan's most elite Kwantung Army in the Battle of the Khalkhin River, and it already knew that the comprehensive combat effectiveness of the Japanese army was not half a star worse than that of the Soviet army, and the threat to the Soviet Union could not be compared with the German army.
Even so, the Soviet Union did not dare to take this strategic direction lightly and still did everything possible to maintain a heavy army. It can be seen how important the security of the Sino-Soviet border is in the strategic thinking of the Soviet Union.
Since the Soviet Union regards this direction as a strategic point and regards the military threat in this direction as a danger to its henchmen, the Soviet Union will naturally spare no effort to deal with this threat, and will never have any scruples or be bound by any constraints.
However, this strategic point only exists when the large area of the Far East is taken into account, and once this strategic goal is gone, the so-called strategic point does not exist.
(To be continued)