Chapter 499: The Right Way Has Always Been Vicissitudes
The arrival of the locust fleet swarms led to another widespread upheaval.
The Outland city-state itself was relatively least affected, only due to the 'Operation Tinder' contract with the Republic of Mars, which adjusted Bobosan's production plan.
In addition, the production plan on the side of Dioto has also changed, and the so-called Aquarius migration plan is naturally based on the minors of the old Federation.
Take the Hercules-class transport ship as a circle and build a cylindrical ecological ship.
This plan is not considered Meng Lang, because the structure and size of the new Ark built on the St. Michael's space station have many similarities with the base frame of the Hercules-class transport ship and the ecological ship to be built, and the relevant data can be used as parameters.
In addition to these two core and secondary core production bases, the outer city-states also have the peripheral Star City Industrial Circle and the Earth Star Port Industrial Circle.
The Star City Industrial Circle is a production system with three movable space cities and the Kyushu space station as the core, which has been affected to a certain extent, but in general the output is stable.
The employees of Kyushu Industrial have all experienced the test of the anarchic chaos in the asteroid belt, and they have high loyalty and a good mentality.
The Asteroid Belt people, who are the main suppliers of raw materials, are also okay, their options are limited, and most of them have decided to join the outland city-states that are known to resist to the end to go to the danger of civilization.
With its steady operation, the output of the Asian Star Port industry is also relatively guaranteed, there is not much production adjustment there, and the adjustment of production conversion is the most time-consuming, often only one or two months, and there is that time, even if it is the production of new transport ships, it can produce a few more.
The outermost part of the outer city-states is the Huameng and the Lunar Autonomous Region, and the Huameng is okay, but the Lunar Autonomous Region has always adhered to the principle of not paying much and pointing fingers. After they became autonomous before, the representative came to ask for more benefits, but they were blown away by Xu Changqing, and this time they were not stable.
After several incidents of ship robbery and escape, Xu Changqing no longer wanted to put up with them. Change the settlement method again, take one in and one out, and deliver the material to the money.
Since the resumption of production on the moon, they have actually been working for the outer city-states to obtain the living materials they need.
The Moon does not produce food on its own, and at the same time needs a lot of resources such as water and gas, as well as daily necessities, for normal consumption.
In the past, food was provided by the earth, and other resources came from the extraterrestrial domain, which were processed and transported to special factories on the moon for processing, and light industrial products, such as toothpaste, textiles, etc., also came from the earth. They trade heavy industrial products for these.
After the exile of the Federation, this system completely collapsed, in fact, as early as after the asteroid belt was attacked by alien creatures and closed its ports, the logistics of the alien domain had been interrupted.
So when the foreign city-states gave them military aid and tactical guidance, they faced a very bad situation. To put it bluntly, if it weren't for the fact that more than half of the population died on the moon in a very short period of time, there would have been an event similar to the death wave of the Earth's nuclear winter holocacia in the face of severe shortages.
It is precisely because of the severe situation that the foreign city-states have carried out a certain degree of technical support and are making every effort to build new transport ships. Get logistics back on the ground quickly.
It can be said that it was the outer city-states that brought food, water, air, and other means of subsistence, and made the labor of the moon people valuable again, rather than priceless.
The outer city-states did not make money from the Lunar People, and even posted technology and military aid, etc., but even so, the Lunar People's still owed a lot of money to the Outer City-States. An important reason is that in order to build a safe city, they have spent a lot of production capacity on the construction of the cabin community that dismantles the old and builds the new. The arrears of grain and other resources are slowly repaid in the form of the manufacture of new transport ships.
In other words, basically all the new transport ships actually belong to the foreign city-states.
Naturally, the outland city-states would not sit idly by and watch the hired group of moon drivers join forces with the fugitives and drive the ships into exile. The Outland city-states still have a few ships, such as the Assassin-class scoutship, which is the same scaffolding as the Red Stick-class light cruiser, but has a big ass, is faster, and has dagger-like firepower, and it is easy to force it to stop when it catches up with those transport ships that deviate from the course.
But obviously he couldn't leave, and there were still repeated robbery incidents, Xu Changqing was naturally annoyed, so he had a new trading principle, and he no longer refused to let the moon people owe credit.
This can be regarded as completely igniting the emotions of the moon people. To say that these people are also very powerful, they are worthy of being the hometown of heavy industry of the Earth-Moon Federation, and they actually quickly came up with a wandering moon plan.
There are two basic points for the plan.
After years of mining, the Moon has been hollowed out, so to speak, semi-Sebertinized, and it is a larger hollow-shelled object than Ceres.
In addition, the towing ships of the outer city-states were widely used, and the technology was basically made public. It is also possible to say that this kind of ship is a super-large thruster with an energy compartment and a control compartment. Many people call it a plug-in rocket. It means that as soon as it is hung, the space container or something will be shipped away.
According to the research of relevant professionals, this super-large thruster can be further expanded. Larger than that used by Hercules-class transports.
In the unit, bundled use, that is the planetary thruster.
The Wandering Moon Program, to put it bluntly, is to equip the moon with planetary thrusters, then accelerate it, and use a gravitational slingshot to throw the moon out of the Earth's orbit and start exile.
Xu Changqing laughed when he heard this, and ran away pushing the celestial body, this is very high, give it a thumbs up. If these people really have this kind of urine, those foreign city-states who owe money don't want it, and they should sponsor their inspirational behavior.
As a result, the moonmen roared like this, and the minds of the people of the new federation became active.
"We, we want to take shares, we have food stocks, we have supplies, we still have warships, once the two merge, the plan will immediately become more operational."
The Moonman was quick to agree. So the Federation came to Xu Changqing again and said that he wanted to charter a boat to merge the stream.
"Idle is idle, rent! I'm glad to see that happen. ”
In this way, the new stool under the ass of the new federation was not yet hot, and it turned in in a hurry.
And every time you turn in, you will inevitably have to peel off the skin, especially after experiencing a great escape, people's hearts are unstable, and the public's credit is damaged.
In this way, the group of people who can best represent the Federation, such as the President and his staff group, etc., ran to merge with the Moon People, and raised the banner of the Earth-Moon Federation again.
And the Republic of Mars has nothing to say about this except shaking their heads, they have had technical exchanges with the new federation before.
Due to the grim situation faced by the new federation and the fact that it no longer poses a threat to the Martian Republic, the new federation has taken advantage of the exchange process. For example, technologies related to artificial ecology.
The outer city-states helped build the colony of Europa in the first and second phases of the project, which was the main foundation of the new federation, and the Republic of Mars considered that it would use this colonial facility for a long time in the future, and there was a need for technology, so it gave them the technology that it had traded from Xu Changqing.
What was exchanged was the cutting-edge technology of the original Earth-Moon Federation, such as the technology related to the Hades fleet of the Skyworth Group. Of course, these technologies are not as valuable these days, but there are still some bright spots.
As a result, now the new federation has taken a stake in the Wandering Moon project with ecological technology. And this is indeed what the moon needs, they have not had a perfect planting and breeding system before, and now they can have it.
This is really a needle, the exiled federation has come full circle, and it has actually fattened itself with foreign aid, and it has also come to an end, and it is tossing in the St. Michael's space station, and participating in the wandering moon program, and it seems that it is still a success.
And the Republic of Mars, which has not had a great enemy for many years, has its own problems surfaced, and under the test of the catastrophe, it has intensified, and strange voices continue to appear.
Following the example of St. Michael's ship-for-exile built while fleeing with resources, some people asked, why don't we let the space colonization satellites run? With a population of 20 million, that's pretty impressive.
There are even people who have formulated a plan for a second expedition, according to this plan, the ship design drawings and related technologies obtained from the foreign city-states, no longer build the mothership, and now the laying of the production line has been completed, and the foundation frame is being built. It just so happens that the eco-ship that is being built like the Tempo is learning to create a small eco-ship.
Then these small ecological ships, the stars and the moon, start an expedition with three colonial satellites (the third was built after the alien catastrophe and is about to be completed).
Operation Tinder should be regarded as a pioneer.
Not to mention, this set of rhetoric, in the context of the great exodus of all mankind, has really attracted the attention and recognition of many people.
Revolutionary feelings, fighting spirit, red faith, is it still the same? This has always been one of the more acute of the many problems facing the Republic.
The new generation has not suffered that sin, and there is no such deep memory to inspire the determination to forge ahead.
There are not many people who have such an awareness of burning themselves like fuel for the sake of the country and the nation.
Of course, as a representative of the micro perspective, the pressure on the long-term national policy level that the individual can experience is not particularly sharp, but is reflected in all aspects of life, including laws, taxes, advocacy and elimination, and other details that can affect people and have the characteristics of control and guidance.
And people's low consciousness is also mainly reflected in the negative treatment and even resistance to many policies. It is even a bit similar to Ah San's non-violent non-cooperation back then, or he often mentions rights and interests, and liberal ideas are rampant.
These ideological and social problems have also contributed to the fact that in the face of the invasion catastrophe, there are many supporters of the idea of choosing to flee rather than deal with it.
"I'd rather die a desperate death on the way to exile." This is the attitude of many people, who can live one day at a time and not fight against strong enemies.
Faced with such a situation, to be honest, the ruling party of the republic is a little anxious.
Encourage people to unite and fight to the death. Such an argument is a bit anti-human at this moment.
Survival is the instinct of life, the basic need and will of human existence. Only when there is no way to choose, it is necessary to try to find a way out at all costs.
Otherwise, there is no reason for people to face death.
In this context, what the Republic can do now is to put an end to this trend of escape from the perspective of 'minimum fairness'.
As the saying goes, it's always the majority who is silent.
Throughout the ages, there have been a handful of people who make trouble and dance happily. However, this small group has a high degree of exposure, attracts attention, creates a big movement, a big momentum, and when it exceeds a certain threshold, it begins to have followers with various thoughts, and then there are a large number of blind followers.
Such is the power of demagoguery.
In fact, if you think about it carefully, many of the truths are nonsense, and no matter how you say it, you can justify it. So why did you choose A instead of B? It is because there is such a thing as a situation and atmosphere, and when many people do this, there will be fewer and fewer people who can still sit still and strengthen their cognition.
Believe the majority, this is the beginning of blind obedience.
In fact, many of the participants did not really think about it carefully, and the addition of it made the snowball effect happen.
Therefore, what is chosen by the majority does not necessarily mean that it is correct.
It is precisely because the ruler knows this that he must strictly guard it from the source. Many historical events have repeatedly proved that sympathy and appeasement will worsen the situation, leading to the expansion of the situation, more people being implicated, and becoming victims with a confused face.
As a result, the official of the republic, who had been recuperating for decades and had been self-spurring with his salary, showed his fangs.
Originally, I thought it was for an external enemy, but the reality is so ironic, the original main foreign enemy has collapsed, and the new foreign enemy is difficult to deal with, and as a result, this fangs have become an internal purge.
"We have 8 billion citizens, we are national socialism, all of us are the bricks and tiles of the building of the state, and we do our best to make all citizens have equal treatment in terms of personality and rights, and the rich will not gain more rights and interests because they are rich, and they will be more noble, and the poor will not lose their dignity and qualifications because of poverty. Of course, there are many unsatisfactory in reality, and when people are accustomed to measuring their lives by success, money, material, education, status, and work, there is indeed a substantial high and low. But today, in the face of the catastrophe, everyone will bear it together, everyone will be treated basically equally, and no one except the members of Operation Tinder will have the right to flee alone beforehand. Using power, wealth, connections, technology, and brains to flee means betraying the whole. Traitors, who will be deprived of civil rights, will be executed. ”
Public speaking, when it comes to this, it can definitely be regarded as murderous. Those who do not believe in evil have ushered in their death. This ferocious knife also achieved the effect of killing one and setting an example, and the national spirit was invigorated.
Xu Changqing praised it, and went to the national disaster together, and the backbone of the leaders of the republic is still there. This knife chops well. And the fact that this knife can be chopped out shows that most of the people of the republic are also good. If it's really escapism, the execution will be greatly reduced, and this knife will never be so dry and brittle.
In the face of the catastrophe, the Republic has successfully stabilized its figure, and has not been as changeable and chaotic as the Federation was at the beginning. Next, it's up to the alien creature's super solar wind effect.
If it is really a mortal despair, then escaping as much as possible will still be the theme. At that time, the republic will also face the challenges faced by the Federation at the beginning, who will withdraw? Who's broken?
(End of chapter)