Interlude: Undercurrent (1)
Earlier, at the Luna II Fortress, the base of the Federation Space Forces
In a dimly lit room, a man was talking to his master.
I don't know why they always don't like to turn on the lights when they do bad things, maybe it's because under the light, the darkness in people's hearts will be reduced.
Probably.
The two sides of the conversation are a lieutenant colonel of the Federation, whose name is Ethan Leia, an ambitious general of the Federation Army, and now an officer in the Federation fleet who is responsible for overseeing the entry and exit of the Earth and Moon Department.
On the other hand, there is an agent, an agent of the Geosphere Agricultural Production Association, who of course is nominally just a nominal manager of a leather bag company.
An identity that is both convenient for doing things and convenient for discarding at any time.
The project they negotiated was, of course, a typical dirty deal, with the Farmers Association promising to endorse Ethan Lea's future, and Ethan Lea used his power to let a group of hitmen into von Blanc with the aim of assassinating federal negotiators.
Wait, something seems to be wrong, the target of the assassination is not Zeon's negotiator, Darcia Bajaro, but the Federation's negotiator?
Forget it, why the Agricultural Association?
However, there is nothing really wrong with that.
The purpose of the assassination of the Federation's negotiators was, of course, to sabotage the peace talks, but how could it be possible to assassinate the representatives of the Zeon side? The fact that the Zeon representative is dead and the federal representative is all right proves that the Federation has no good faith in negotiating.
So the representative of the Federation can only die with regret, anyway, this representative is not from the side of the Federation's main battle faction, but from the cowards of the main and faction, and he can also put the blame on Zeon, it's perfect.
As for why it is an agricultural association, it is easy to understand, and it starts with the nature of the so-called agricultural association.
The so-called agricultural production association is not a club of peasants or even farmers, but a 'cartel' organization composed of big businessmen who have monopolized the agricultural production of the earth's sphere, that is, a monopoly alliance formed by dividing the market share of agricultural products, stipulating the output of agricultural products, and determining the prices of agricultural products in order to obtain high profits.
For many years, agricultural production associations have not only monopolized the earth's agricultural product market, but also monopolized the market for exporting agricultural products to various colonial satellites, because the number of colonial satellites in the early cosmic century was small, and the technology was not mature and there was no potential for the development of agriculture, so basically all food needs to be imported from the earth, and the agricultural associations controlled the production and import and export prices of food, and obtained maddeningly high profits. But SIDE3, which is located on the periphery of the Earth's sphere), causes a large-scale famine and then profites from it.
Such a group of dead merchants who are even more frantic than the arms dealers.
Of course, the various SIDES will not sit still, even the pro-federal SIDE does not have any good feelings for these dead merchants, and after each SIDE has gained autonomy one after another, they have begun to try to achieve food self-sufficiency, the most typical representative of which is Zeon Zim Dyken, the father of SIDE 3.
Daken was not just a thinker (although his ideas were very awkward in Lear's opinion), he was also a brilliant politician, after preaching cosmic independenceism and successfully coming to power, the first reform he carried out was the development of satellite agriculture, although it was too extravagant to farm land with precious, habitable colonial satellites in the densely populated SIDE3, and this reform was also met with great resistance when it was introduced, but it was the first step to get rid of the earth's clamps. The army is still important, after all, there is absolutely no one to make a revolution with no food, Zeon Dyken insisted on going his own way, and he used strong political skills to force through reforms.
Thanks to the development of satellite construction technology and the unsparing support of the Daken government, during the reign of Zeon Daken, SIDE3 quickly completed agricultural self-sufficiency, and was even able to export on a small scale. Dai Ken's legacy, he solved the problem of eating for the people of the universe, and naturally he could be supported by the people of the universe, and the cosmic independenceism he advocated could be so prevalent.
Immediately after SIDE3, each SIDE also vigorously promoted local agricultural self-sufficiency, and in the process, SIDE3 led by Zeon Dyken generously helped, which was the initial mass base of SIDE3 in the colony moons, and also the cause of the spread of cosmic independence.
It was for this reason that Lear judged that the dominance of cosmic independenceism, with such deep roots, in colonial thought could not be shaken until he suffered a major setback, and that the ideas he believed in could now only develop under water.
This is the status quo, simple slogans cannot be followed, only the visible bright future, and the actual results, can gather people's hearts.
Well, so why are the breasts not hugeγγγγγγ Ahem, there is a certain scientific truth.
Just kidding.
But in this way, the earth's agricultural associations will naturally suffer huge losses, but the cartel monopolists will certainly not silently bear the losses, they will pass on the losses to the downstream suppliers, reduce purchases, incinerate excess products, reduce the purchase price, etc., as the suppliers of agricultural associations, the farmers in the earth circle, agricultural workers, and farmers are the main bearers of losses, and the agricultural producers who have suffered huge losses do not know where the fundamental problems are. The current situation of small farmers changing jobs, their hearts are full of hatred for the cosmic people, and this group has also become the source of earth-based doctrine, their huge number and wide distribution, so that the earth-based doctrine has gradually become the mainstream, in opposition to the cosmic independence advocated by Zeon.
This was the initial beginning.
Therefore, it is only natural that the agricultural associations would want to sabotage the peace talks, but it would be surprising if they were indifferent.
So they hooked up with Ethan Leia and tried to sabotage the peace talks with an assassination
"That's settled, Lieutenant Colonel Leia," said the agent on the other side of the video in a pleasant tone, "Please rest assured, after this incident, you will be our own man." β
"We will support you in your development in the military, and you can expect what kind of support we will give you."
"Oh? If you don't mind, can you tell me about it? Ethan Leia narrowed her eyes and feigned curiosity.
"Well, of course, we've always been happy to help our own people."
"After this incident, I think you will also be held responsible, I'm afraid you won't be able to stay in the Space Army," the agent said cheerfully, "We can move you around and transfer you to the Ground Army." β
"Why should I go to the Ground Army?" Ethan Lea feigned displeasure: "The Space Army has a future, what does the Ground Army have?" β
"Indeed, in this cosmic era, the cosmic army has more prospects than the ground army," the agent smiled, revealing a gaze that I had seen through everything, "but that is the situation when you are favored by your superiors. β
"Although Lieutenant General Rebil is an outstanding commander, and it is admirable to build the Space Army from scratch, he always has some cronyism, and the people he reuses, whether it is Kaningan or Tiam, or Douglas, are either his fellow students from the military academy or his old subordinates, just like you-"
"Ethan Lea, obviously the backbone of the Space Army when it was established, but after nearly ten years, you have only been promoted from major to lieutenant colonel, Kaninga's kind of unassertive person has been promoted to brigadier general, and Thiam has even commanded a fleet independently, and the entire Space Army has become a word for him Rebil, don't you think it's unfair?"
Ethan Leia was silent.
"But we can give you the fairness you want, we will move you to the Asian Command of the Ground Army, although it is only a deputy, but with our help, you will be in charge of the Asian Command in less than ten years, and it is not a problem to be promoted to general."
"Asiaγγγγγγ Isn't that the base of your agricultural association, the largest agricultural area in the geosphere? Ethan Leia said coldly, "You are not going to make me your watchdog, are you?" β
"What watchdog, that's too ugly to say, it's a partner," the agent said with an awkward smile, "We need a friend who can help us on Earth, and you need someone who can support you." β
"Moreover, the ground force seems to have no future, but in fact it is still in strength, and it is responsible for the security of all regions of the planet, and its power is even higher than that of most governments outside the G3."
"As long as you become the master of the Asian Command, whether it is fame, power or money, what you want, isn't it better than floating in space and dying without knowing when?"
"Maybe after you retire, you can still strive to become a federal councilor, or even a representative of the federal garrison, and even that Reybir will have to report to you according to the regulations."
"I think that's enough, isn't it?"
Ethan Leia was silent for a moment and then said, "Enough, this is exactly what I need." β
"A wise decision."
The dirty deal ended with both parties taking what they wanted, no one had anything to lose, and everyone was happy.
What the? What about the losses and feelings of those who died because of the breakdown of peace talks and the war between the two sides?
How can you ask such a naΓ―ve question.
Who cares.
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P.S As for the situation that some people must think I am procrastinating, why I still don't start fighting, here is an explanation.
Don't talk about you, when I write it myself, I have thoughts like "Why do you write longer and longer?", "Surprise, this place is completely out of line", and "When will I be able to send the super cock Gundam Zagu to the battlefield?", but I'm not going to change it.
Because although this book is based on war, it is not actually about war itself.
The blurb to my book is 'Why the Flames of War Burn, Why Satellites Fall?' and this is not the title of the book that I wrote after thinking about it for five minutes.
Although it's strange to write a book of unpopular fanfics who don't make money at all, I'm not going to write just about the main character pretending, nor about writing a story about the war madness of developing MS-war-developing MS, I'm going to write about the root causes of all the wars (that I imagined) in the Gundam worldview, and how the main character reversed the trend of the world.
Why is it that when democracy is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, Zeon can go against the trend of the times and dictate it? Why did the One Year War break out? Why would Zeon use such an excessive means as losing colonial satellites? Why is Zeon's Nazism still in market centuries later? Why was the post-war rebuilding of the Union slow, and why did Zeon have the resources to keep making small moves, even though it was a completely defeated country?
Lil Wolfgang Alxstein is a person like me, although he believes in communism, but he lacks the quality of many communists, there are many deficiencies, and he also lacks tempering, he believes in communism, but he is indeed a powerful person from Zeon, how can such a person reverse the general trend and guide mankind to the right track of the development of the universe.
Actually, this is also the reason why I said that I should focus on my settings, not only because I don't have the ability to integrate the settings of all Gundam works, but also because I change a lot of the original content, and if I don't explain the cause and effect of the incident, probably no one will understand what I am saying.
But that's the story I'm going to write, and if I want to write about battles, I'll shoot the Hokage or the Pirates, or at least I feel like I'll be more comfortable writing the Hokage, because I don't have to think about it that much.
So while some people (and probably most people) may think that I write too many irrelevant things and are very procrastinating, it's actually the core content that I bring with my head.
Of course, due to my lack of knowledge, experience, and talent, there are not only many things to be discussed, but even a lot of unreasonable flaws.
Seek truth from facts, what is not good-looking is not good-looking.
But for different people, there is no unified definition of what kind of thing is good-looking, for example, most people may think that combat is better than other content, but I prefer to watch farming development than fighting, and after reading books for so many years, now I basically skip to watch battles.
So, I'm sorry, but what I've written may be out of the way for some, if not most, of my friends, even though I know that if I say that, I'll probably be able to reduce my collection a lot (wry smile).
But I don't want people to see the end and say to me, "Liar, this is not a Gundam novel at all." β