464 A.D., April.

Heavy rainstorms have begun, massive clouds have formed, and the sun has been completely obscured. The rain is falling all the time, either densely or slowly. Large natural rivers have emerged in patches of area, scouring into depressions that were once lakes.

Of course, on the high ground not far from each lake, there are 80-meter-high cement "dam" walls, which are piled up with salt scraped from the bottom of the original lake, now covered with layers of plastic.

Today, the dam is a piece of infrastructure that warlords everywhere maintain.

……

I have to say that in the past few years, the marginal ruling layer has kept pace with the times, so that compared with the previous generation of warlords, it is two faces.

Five years ago, the warlords maintained a high-level hierarchy, played mysticism, used psychological intimidation, and engaged in a semi-religious, semi-feudal mode of rule against their subordinates. On the other hand, that is, to collude with the big figures of the Federation, engage in weapons and resource channels.

Now these newly rising warlords are directly playing information bombing, creating personal idols, and then engaging in economic buying. Both the organizational model and the scale are much larger than they were ten years ago.

[Just like people born in the 80s and 90s of the 20th century, the various information channels are two levels. In the last decade, he still boasted that he could get first-hand information over the wall, and the latter could get more data to falsify one by one. 】

Because times have changed. Although the marginal areas are still relatively backward, they are not destitute and blind.

The rise of the fuel wheel in the middle and lower reaches of the industry has led to a flood of low-end industrial products that are not so important to the middle and upper echelons of the federal rulers.

Similar to infrastructure steel, cement, as well as Linlong excavators, air and fuel manufacturing equipment, are flooded in the market. Even, as long as the fuel wheel is promised not to move a kilometer of a certain underground area, the fuel wheel will pull a circuit from the energy station 1,000 kilometers away to export cheap electricity to facilitate the local forces to manufacture equipment.

Of course, now everyone knows that these industrial products are cheap. And being a warlord is a channel that can make money.

Nine years ago, when the proliferation bill was first introduced, cultivating mechanical puppets to pull out and sell seemed to be a money-making channel, but after the Burning Wheel followed up, the economic attraction was stronger than that of the Federation.

They (the warlords) basically don't make mechanical puppets now, and the birth pods raise their children, and they have breached the Federation one after another.

Each of these warlords is now short of labor.

For example, the salt mine hoarding warehouses on the highlands of the major lakes are now built by the fire wheel with loans to them. One part of the loan was used to buy the machinery of the gas turbine to build (the salt warehouse was built as collateral), and the other part was to buy what they wanted.

[With the large-scale geothermal work of the Burning Turbine, there is an exchange station of 3,000 kilometers underground and surface every 300 kilometers in each fringe area, which will buy the salt mines in the area with people's money.] And the people's money of the burning wheel can buy steel, oil, chemicals, machinery, electronic parts, and all kinds of things. 】

Both sides take what they need, and the burning wheel does not need to conquer various regions to derive the underground network; And the largest amount of raw salt needed in various regions can also be purchased locally from the warlords in each region.

And for the warlords, the dehydrated salt mine is like the omnipotent mine in the strategy real-time game. Of course, if there is a salt separation plant to separate magnesium, sodium, and potassium again, it will be a mineral refinery.

……

As the Burning Wheel made it easier to obtain all kinds of industrial goods, the new warlords began to industrialize the remaining money after taking out large loans to open mines.

The warlords with the slightest ambition will definitely buy production equipment from the firewheels (firewheels: "We export civilian machinery") and process them into the artillery, ammunition, and fuel they need.

The thriving industry in the fringe area is not the capacity of the transfer of the fuel wheel, but the production capacity of the elimination of the gas wheel. (The high-end technology of the modern federation was finalized four hundred years ago, and there is only an active stockpile, and there is no obsolete production capacity.) ）

The fuel wheel is now fully equipped with electromagnetic weapons, and the ammunition is intelligent, the energy is lithium and electrified (the atomic core is charged for the army), and the traditional artillery has long been out of production.

With the upgrading of the fuel wheel industry, the original equipment was worthless if no one took over, and now it is directly transferred to the next family as a loan.

For a time, it directly overwhelmed the total amount of support for the marginal layer under the new federal policy. Federation-backed missiles, mechic infantry, if these weapons don't form a system, they are really not as good as brutal firepower.

[For example, the local tyrants in the Middle East, who get dozens of first-class main battle tanks, are far inferior to the poor camels in the south, and the equivalent civilian, fool-operated DJI drones operate remote-controlled bombs and rockets. 】

Moreover, what the warlords are most happy to do is to control the ammunition factory themselves and fight as much as they want, without looking at the faces of the purchasers.

……

This is not, on the east side of the salinity pile, on the reinforced concrete bridge over the river.

A mechanized unit came through.

The symbol on the chariot is a diamond pyramid with three purple bundles.

The name of this force is the Soul Fire Regiment.

In this convoy of combat vehicles, a leader in military uniform holds an electronic screen and looks at the terrain detected by drones.

The whole chain of command looks quite formal. This formalized non-commissioned officer system means that there is a spiritualism in support. Otherwise, neither pure interest nor religion will allow the team to implement discipline.

The 'total drill wind' of the Soul Fire military force is Heshan.

His troops have already leveled down the original religious group, and now they are frantically expanding abroad under the guise of 'less-pure' doctrine.

……

Lessivism – this is a term defined by Ranlun when he studied the new birth of the world's working class after the economy blocked the federal growth bill, and it was subsequently widely accepted.

That is, this generation of young people who are driven by the federal multiplication bill and persecuted by warlords.

In the eyes of Lu Yi and Lilan, these first-generation young rebels who were first taught by Zhou You and Lu Boya are still too emotional (Zhou You: It seems that you were not emotional back then, and the Beiyuan permafrost dug the network line to calm down), and the actions of resistance are more impetuous and more inclined to destruction.

Of course, this is also because the leaders of the Young Purist faction did not want to suppress it at all. They themselves want to gain great prestige in the sabotage.

……

Of course, in the evaluation of the universe, the core reason for the emergence of the Shao Pure faction is the lack of education for an entire generation of young people in society.

In this era of industrial economy, the destruction of the education system in a certain region will inevitably lead to the phenomenon of junkiness.

Pulling young people out of schools to participate in society, or directly destroying the original social education system, and not building schools at all when the fertility rate is increasing, will inevitably lead to the phenomenon of de-purification.

Once the phenomenon of the Lesser Sect occurs, it will form a phenomenon that is more than destructive, but far from meeting the standards of cutting-edge science and technology construction.

Why didn't the Federation have a Lesser Purist phenomenon in the past? Because the federal government used to have a policy of close segregation, developing science and technology, but not developing productive forces, resulting in a huge technological generation gap between the lower and upper classes. And now, the fuel turbine has spread the technology.

For the prevalence of miniorism, the burning wheel side must maintain internal stability.

The cost of education has been greatly increased, basic compulsory education has been extended by 12 years, and public examinations have been expanded every year. At all costs, try to ensure that a large number of young people can connect with the production technology of the new era.

Even if there is still a surplus of manpower in the industrial chain, it can still be piled up on scientific research.

People with different levels of education in the natural sciences have different entertainment needs. The former will look up at the stars and spend money to buy places in order to watch the live broadcast of the rocket launch. The latter is obsessed with scandals, idol chasing, and under the traffic economy, acts as a leek (the criterion of obsession: willing to consume in this regard. ）

And Ranlun, the response to external miniorism is - Lu Boya: "Peace and respect, common development." "Translation: Respect and stay away, never set yourself on fire.

Why not re-educate? Lesser Purism has formed a unique organization, and now it is difficult to have the strength to pull them back to the school!

Enlightenment education is based on interest, but when it comes to teenagers, all knowledge is basically exam-oriented education, and all teenagers at this stage are excluded from exam-oriented education! If you don't believe it, when the teacher forgets to assign homework, remind you to try it, and you will be scolded.

And now if you bring these teenage populists back to school, hehe—they're not defenseless and weak teenagers right now.

……

Heshan himself is a young man who can't stay in the Ranlun education system.

Well, he couldn't stay, but he still read all the textbooks of Burning Wheel, and he was pro-Burning Wheel ideologically. As the leader of the Lesser Purification, he is thinking about having children in the future, and he must be sent to Ranlun to find the best teacher. This ——— not contradictory! The boss of the club is happy to recruit younger brothers from school dropouts, because fools are easy to control, but they will never allow their children to roam the streets.

Heshan finished all the rules and regulations for the organization and mobilization of the burning wheel. He also has a secret friend of the scholar (Wei Shan Qi), who has a lot of channels in Ranlun and knows how to build a primary industrial system. And when dealing with Ranlun, he is good at dancing with long sleeves, and he is trustworthy and has the skills to stabilize the regional economy.

Heshan has now opened up all the basically open land on the ground, he focuses on controlling the surface, and all the rights to work at a depth of 1,000 meters underground are given to Ranlun. At the same time, it organizes manpower to monitor the data of all soil layers above a depth of 500 meters on the surface, and connects with the scientific research data of the burning wheel to stabilize the harvest of foreign exchange.

[The 500-meter stratigraphic data involves the groundwater cycle and mechanical changes, and only the combustion turbine can produce economic benefits, which is of little use to the Federation.] Because the federation will not intensively engage in underground infrastructure. 】

He quickly rose to become the most important agent of the Burning Wheel on the southern edge of the Divine Presence Plate.

With such an achievement, it can be said that he has a long-term vision - well, some people say, isn't it just hugging his thighs.

This thigh hug should also be held in the right place. Not roughly, but those departments that "can cooperate with each other and can have significant benefits to each other".

In the second half of 463, he was approached by the Divine Presence and claimed to provide more advanced equipment.

At that time, the people under Heshan were proud, thinking that there was a new thigh to hug, but as a result, Heshan directly denied it.

Heshan's reason is simple: "We have a relatively long-term effect on the burning wheel, but for the people of God's presence, it only has a short-term effect. ”

As a result, after Heshan refused, the enraged Divine Presence directly aided the three-legged mecha to another religious force.

So, there is the war that has just ended.

Well, just behind the convoy, the huge mechs that had been destroyed were dragged under the hill fortress where the Psychic Fire headquarters were located.

……

The 20-meter-high steel gate on the mountain slowly opened with the help of gears. The armored convoy quickly entered the first layer of storage above.

Personnel go through tunnels and go deeper into the tunnel.

The base of the Soul Fire was built under the suggestion of the technicians of the burning wheel, and it is a tunnel system and network system that extends in all directions.

The place of residence of the personnel is not a fixed cave location, but a large number of subway cars, maneuvering in several areas underground. It is not known where these wagons are located in the underground tunnel network. The members of the Psychic Fire are in communication with each other in the various carriages.

Such a design can maximize the survival rate of a nuclear bomb strike from the ground.

Of course, the missiles on the various mountain heights will also carry out anti-missile attacks according to the strafing of the distant 'pave claw' radar. - The members of these Lesser Purist armed forces are still capable of maintaining these systems.

Heshan stepped into his carriage.

On the carriage projector, many officers in handsome military uniforms were already waiting here, and after Heshan walked in, Huo Ran stood up, kicked neatly with his feet, and then saluted! (The second time they broke the table, well, they were originally the age of the second second.) ）

Heshan waved his hand, and the people on these projectors sat down.

Heshan: "This time, our victory is very ......" (4,000 words omitted)

At the end of the meeting, Heshan pointed to the map and pointed to the important instructions for continuing to build surface mines (salt hoards), underground refineries, and tunnel defense networks.

……

Sixty minutes later, when the projection call ended, he sat down in his chair and pressed his handprint, linking the communication behind him.

In a high position, he is now in a state of leisure, because the next person to contact him is Wei Shan Qi.

Ranlun playing the economic card against these local forces does not mean that it will not play the emotional card. Lu Boya pulled Weishan Qi into the foreign trade department as a "part-time job".

Most of the industrial construction on the Heshan side is through the 'acquaintances' introduced by Weishan Qi to his classmates. Heshan also knew that there was a whole organization on the other side of the Burning Wheel, and it was contacting him through Weishan Qi. But he's happy to be idle, at least not to be respectful in the Fuel Turbine Supply Department. His best friend can ask for what he wants from Ranlun in the most appropriate way, and at the same time, he can also get information from Ranlun.

When Heshan saw Wei Shanqi, he hammered the table, and said a little smugly: "Wei? I also got the news over there, and Lao Tzu won the battle. 40,000 square kilometers and 120,000 people. ”

Of course, he didn't say anything about the mechanical puppets that were initially exchanged for organs. This issue is now the most obscure political topic between the Burning Wheel and the Young Purists.

This is similar to how the Qin army, which was short of its own food after the Battle of Changping, dealt with the prisoners.

Now the Psychic Fire Legion handles the matter by handing over these robots to an intermediary agency in the Federation, and this intermediary will mortgage all the robots to Ranlun and set up a large labor company. In this way, Heshan received the funds, and the ranlun paid for labor, avoiding the internal moral barrier (not touching cause and effect).

As for the robot dolls? There is no personal injury for the time being, and they need to exchange labor for organs for transplantation,—— as for the shackles that lock them, it is still very clear, it is still the federal mechanical puppet policy.

There is no savior in this world, and the shackles must be smashed by themselves. As an outsider, out of the principle of this stage, he cannot cause harm, but the current morality does not allow his own group to take risks to liberate. The only way to do this is not to trample on existing principles.

……

Wei Shan Qi smiled and listened to Heshan's victory in the war, and showed surprise cooperatively.

When he finished speaking, Wei Shan Qi said the news that was earth-shattering for Heshan: "Heshan, the headquarters is now determined to open up the procurement of the atomic core. ”

Heshan: "Oh (inadvertently)-(react) Uh-huh (the tone jumps and turns)-"

Heshan grabbed the projector and asked, "Really?" - Are there any restrictions? ”

Wei Shanqi sent the price list over: "The only restriction is the financial resources on your side and the quality of personnel operation." At high concentrations, the energy of heavy nuclear elements is unstable, but the position of the fuel grain must be calibrated by precision instruments (the nuclear power plant inserts uranium ore fuel rods, which are the size of rice grains). ”

He Shan glanced at the price list. In fact, it is to look at the information outside the price on the price list.

He knows the process of operation at the core of the atom, which has been designed to be a safe fool-proof automatic mode.

Workers operate more than 40 operations a day, as long as the process of calibration and inspection is fine. One-third of the training sessions for workers are rehearsals for dealing with various breakdowns, and the Soul Fire Group is sure to have enough people to use it. - But would you really sell such a good thing to yourself?

So, he looked up and asked, "What other (political) demands are there?" ”

Wei Shanqi smiled: "Ranlun feels that there is no need for you to have other requirements, this time the atomic core technology will be opened for you because, according to the strategic prediction over there, after you win the war here, there will be a high probability of contact with this general." ”

Weishan Qi sent the portrait of the Iron Dragon's Back, the war zone where he is now, and the basic information.

He Shan glanced at it, his brows locked for two seconds, and he stretched out, and he turned around. After getting this atomic core in hand, and then contacting the higher echelons of the Federation, it will be a person from the Burning Wheel faction.

He looked at Wei Shanqi and asked tentatively: "Over there (Ranlun) think that our side ......"

Wei Shanqi: "Burning Wheel hopes that you can expand indirect cooperation with the Federation (there are no reformists inside Burning Wheel who are willing to deal with warlords outside), and the Shaozhuang faction of the Yellowstone faction, if you are not strong enough, you will not be able to maintain a good communication mode with them." ”

Heshan turned around in his mind a few times, combined with relevant information, and suddenly realized.

There is a risk of being dragged in if Ranlun is in direct contact with the Federal Young Zhuang. And through third-party transit, the risk can be reduced. - After all, at this stage, Ranlun only wants to build on Fang Xingxing, and does not want to form a gang.