Chapter 156: Choice
The Zerg base is a seed planted by Sandra for the Luoyun Countries, and Louis is a scoop of water poured on this seed, and now this seed has begun to germinate under the continuous suppression of the Zerg on the Luoyun Countries, and now this sprout has slowly grown into a towering tree in Andrea's heart.
"Abamia, the great Latum Essar (greeting of the blue-bloods). The people of Essar are the most warlike warriors, and as long as the generous President agrees to the Sicilian plan, the soldiers will not be the root of our confrontation with the Zerg. The blue-blooded man, who had never spoken, suddenly interjected, his face full of sincerity, but in Andrea's eyes, the corners of his eyes were full of mockery.
Andrea was secretly annoyed but helpless, compared to a country like the Blue Bloods, which had been ruled by imperial power for generations, a liberal and democratic country like the Morakot Federation did have many disadvantages, such as being kidnapped by public opinion now.
In the Blue-Blood Empire, the Blue-Blooded commoners have been ruled by the Emperor for generations, and they have become accustomed to obeying the orders of the so-called Essar God's spokesman on earth, so the level of tenacity shown in the war is unmatched by the Morakot Federation.
However, the Morakot Federation is not without advantages over the imperial state, at least economically, the Morakot Federation has to throw them out of them for several streets. Like Volks, Bigil and other companies ranked in the top ten in the whole star field, the Morakot Federation has as many as four. And in the country's economy, it is known as the strongest country of blue-bloods, and the Gamma Empire's tax revenue is not even half of that of the Morakot Federation.
And the Sicilian plan mentioned by the blue-blooded envoy is a plan to integrate the advantages of both sides into a stronger and stronger plan. There is no shortage of soldiers for the Blue Bloods, and they have so many Marines that the Morakot Federation can only stare dryly, and the relationship between the divine power of the monarch makes the soldiers of the Blue Bloods extremely loyal to the Emperor, as long as the Emperor gives an order, all men in the country can become soldiers.
However, the Gamma Empire's industrial capacity was extremely limited, and the few powerful munitions factories that were few were mostly used to produce warships. It is simply impossible to produce a large number of land combat equipment in a short period of time.
During the one-year war, the Gamma Empire recruited a total of 370 million marines, not because they did not want to recruit more marines, but because the production of factories could not keep up. Even with the recruitment of a large number of civilian factories, it was able to increase the output from 15 million units per year before the war to 40 million units per year, and finally the nobles more than doubled the size to 90 million units per year by conscripting some aristocracy-controlled factories under the compromise of the aristocracy.
If it weren't for the fact that a batch of marine equipment had been hoarded in strategic materials in previous years, and some private equipment hoarded by the nobles had been purchased at a high price, it would have been impossible for the Gamma Empire to arm the number of marines it has reached its current size.
The reasons for this are extremely complex, and there are two main ones. The first is that the Gamma Empire was a feudal imperial state, and a large part of its resources were in the hands of the nobility. Although they are loyal to their monarch, they cannot help the empire without limit without limiting their own interests. The second is that the Empire once placed too much emphasis on the space battlefield and tilted most of its resources towards the manufacture of warships, so that it is now blind when it suddenly wants to transform factories to produce land combat equipment.
However, the Morakot Federation and many human democracies are different from the Blue Blood Empire, including imperial countries such as the Falcon Empire, the strength of domestic private capital is incomparable to the four major Blue Blood Empires. And as the largest economy of the Luoyun countries. The Morakot Federation does not impose limits on the power of the private sector, which allows the private capital to swell to the point of terror that can influence or even manipulate the state.
Typical of these are the Vaux family, the Bigier family, and the Merlin family. Their energy is so great that they can even manipulate the election of the president. And Rhodes made a treason to steal the design of the Tiger King 3 mecha and other things that were covered up by him, which shows the depth of influence of these big private capitalists on the political situation.
Don't think that Rhodes was let go because he was judged by a lie detector to be not related to the Counter-War Alliance, that is just a superficial excuse. You must know that Lu Dao's mistake is enough to pull him out of Lu Dao and shoot him 10,000 times even if he is not sincere treason, but now although Rhodes is being watched by the military, he is still alive and well, what is this for? It is because he is the chairman of the Volks-Pharma Alliance. The patriarch of the Volkson family has in his hands a huge amount of money and powerful technology that can make the entire Morakot Federation tremble.
In the constitution of the Morakot Federation, there is a temporary war regulation, once the president implements this regulation, all factories can be temporarily requisitioned by the military, and even those big families cannot jump out against the government at this time. At that time, the federal government of Morakot will only need to pay a little more than the cost to convert those former civilian factories into wartime military factories. With the industrial capacity of the Morakot Federation, if it is fully in state and has the potential to explode, it can even reach the terrifying level of producing one billion sets of land armor per year.
According to the Sicilian plan, one of the most important is to have humans provide land equipment to arm the blue-blooded soldiers, so that the advantages of both sides can complement each other, and the disadvantage of insufficient number of marines can also be alleviated. And the Gamma Empire has even proposed that if humans agree to this proposal, they can sign an agreement to export more than a billion marines to the human battlefield within half a year.
To be honest, Andrea was tempted, and it was a good proposal in the face of his own shortage of soldiers, but the bad thing was that the grudge between humans and blue-bloods was too deep, and it was impossible to achieve the possibility of close cooperation.
Andrea had to consider whether doing so would make the Bluebloods so powerful that they would eventually overwhelm the Bashak Human Alliance. You must know that when the human race was strong, it had bullied the blue-blooded people, and once the blue-blooded people had such an opportunity, they would definitely not let the humans go.
What's more, throwing those blue-blooded marines into their own country will not lead the wolf into the house? This is a more worthy question, the hatred between the blue-bloods and humans makes Andrea directly rule out the possibility of living in harmony after the war, he must consider the possibility of the blue-bloods suddenly turning against him even after defeating the Zerg, thinking of this, Andrea no longer hesitates.
"Mr. Polákstia, the Sicilian plan is too big, let's wait for the results of the Grand Alliance Council before discussing it." Andrea said calmly.
Hearing this, the blue-blooded man with slender braids on his head was full of surprise: "Your Excellency the President, I am curious, how long can your Marines hold out?" Or have you decided to abandon some of the colonies? ”
"You don't have to worry about this, we will protect our territory, and we will never abandon any piece of land." Andrea said unhappily on his face, when facing the blue-blooded people, he never plays deep, and he should give them a face, otherwise these blue-blooded people will only climb up the pole.
"I'm sorry!" The blue-blooded man's face was full of disappointment this time, the reason why he was sent here to see Andrea alone was to get the support of the Morakot Federation so that he could carry out the Sicilian plan as soon as possible. It is important to know that most of the human kingdoms today are cautious about the plan of exchanging equipment for troops in the Sicilian plan, and it will undoubtedly be very difficult to pass this plan.
At this time, the blue-bloods are targeting the Morakot Federation, which has the most serious military crisis, and if the Morakot Federation agrees to this plan, even if the other human kingdoms do not agree, it can immediately be supported by the annual production of nearly a billion equipment, it will also be an extremely important diplomatic victory. I thought Andrea, who was decided, was short of soldiers, but I didn't expect Andrea to seem to have other confidence, so he rejected his proposal like this.
After saying some unnutritious words, Andrea and the others sent the blue-blooded messenger out of the room, and after waving everyone away, only Andrea and Murphy were left in the room, two people who could decide the fate of the Morakot Federation.
"Andrea, have you decided to do this?" Murphy, who had not spoken, asked when he saw everyone leave.
"I don't have a choice, do I?" Andrea shrugged.
"Really?" Murphy's eyes stared at Andrea, and after being looked at for a while, Andrea finally retreated in defeat and said with a wry smile: "It seems that nothing can be hidden from Lord Marshal." ”
"You're going to carry out the fangfang plan?"
Andrea was startled when she heard Murphy's words, and then calmed down. Although Murphy usually doesn't care about politics at all, there is nothing in the entire Morakot Federation that can be called a secret to him.
Andrea originally thought that only he and a few cronies knew about Louis and Jonas's secret research on the Zerg, but he didn't expect that Murphy would quietly control everything by Murphy to hide it so deeply. He still hasn't figured out what the problem is, there are very few people who know Jonas Laboratory, and the only military representative, Bonnard, is Andrea's cronies, but when he thinks of Murphy's unmatched position in the country, he is calm again, and he is not this old man's opponent after all.
"Don't blame me for not reminding you Andrea, the Zerg left the hatchery suspicious. While I haven't seen any flaws so far, years of intuition have told me it's a trap, a trap that can push us into the abyss. Murphy said meaningfully.
"Then Marshal, do you agree with my plan for compulsory conscription?" Andrea asked rhetorically.
Murphy shook his head and didn't speak, but the meaning was already obvious.
If the implementation of the compulsory conscription plan undoubtedly puts the government in opposition to the people, and then the military will become the government's minions to suppress the surging public opinion, then the image of the military will be completely bankrupt among the people, which Murphy does not want to see. (To be continued......)