God is in the Rift Valley region. There's a sub-force here, the Brotherhood of Steel.

The sixty stepped pyramidal buildings are arranged in a four-story ring, and there are traces of rust-colored liquid in the cracks of the brick walls of the buildings.

A warrior in power armor strides over the sentry post, with an inscription of an iron fist hanging on the power armor, and a lot of wear and tear on the enamel shell. Trucks came in and out of the defense base. Some of these trucks are modular equipment, and some are organic materials.

The hard currency in the Federal Stability Zone is the Federated Coin that is pegged to control of the Robot.

The hard currency in the burning wheel is the people's money that is linked to the rising industry of "education".

As for the current federally supported fringe areas, the hard currencies are as follows:

1. Sugar cubes, chocolate, compressed food, clean bottled drinking water; 2. Ammunition; 3. Pills that can bring "happiness" to people.

……

Hard currency is a thing that depends on demand. The demand is not high, and no matter how high the output is, it is the inventory in the hands of the government, which cannot be exchanged for the mobilization power that the government needs.

The basis of the existence of the regime is the mobilization power that can give orders to a large number of people,—— a small court that does not have the power to give orders is not a fart.

But how to mobilize, relying on door-to-door to convey orders, explaining the advantages of following along, and the disadvantages of not following? - This can be done in a society of less than 1,000 people. But in the social structure of tens of thousands of people, there is information opacity. The lower levels are unable to convey information to the tops, and the mobilization power of the upper and lower levels is weakened.

The government in the urban era is in dire need of something that is digitally ready to drive all classes.

That's where money comes in.

The effect brought by the rulers suddenly changed from the refined operation of surgery to the effect of replenishing blood bars in the game.

[For example, if a person (society) is injured, where is the original injury, and whether it needs blood transfusion or sutures, there are various complex treatments.] At this time, (society) suddenly becomes a digital health bar in the game, as long as the digital thing (capital) is filled, this wound can be healed by itself (the economic activities of businessmen to assist in construction). 】

But the problem is that as society becomes more complicated, this way of relying on the blood bar mode to regulate and reckless self-healing will eventually fail.

Because the collateral of the currency is pegged, the value is not constant in a complex society. -- A monetary system that cannot maintain value at all levels will inevitably fail.

This can be seen in the embryonic stages of capitalism: the price of land is getting higher and higher, and the price of grain fluctuates violently during the harvest season and the green and yellow season.

Behind this, money cannot match the needs of all classes.

The landlord class is demanding its own right to speak in the local area and desperately hoarding real estate. And what farmers need is to have food for every meal. The needs of the two classes are different.

When the landlords are full of food and can feed the dogs, and are unwilling to mobilize the labor force of the poor, then it can be said that the unit of money can no longer equate the needs of these two classes with stability and regularity.

At this time, the ruling apparatus is unable to digitally and fairly command the two strata (effective mobilization of subjective initiative), and the state apparatus cannot achieve extensive mobilization no matter how much it is approved. - Because all the state inputs will be cut in half by a certain class that wants to maintain a monopoly, and a little will be leaked out to the poor.

At that time, some classes were rich and did not want to innovate in their productive forces, while others bore almost all the costs of domination and could not accept education to upgrade the value of their labor (late Aitmin, Tsarist Russia, Showa).

When the fire boils to a certain extent, forces other than money come into play. - Well, every time a power outside of currency comes into play, the cannon will be extremely loud.

……

In the case of the burning wheel, the needs of all strata are uniformly linked to the development of society through education (the teachers who are needed), and the currency is re-standardized, so as to mobilize all strata up and down.

Money can have the same value in all classes, which is why it is designated as people's banknotes.

The federation, on the other hand, is hierarchical by default, with the upper layer defaulting to a monetary system pegged to "slaves". At the lower level is the monetary system that has begun to be pegged to the "necessities of life" and "the necessities of pleasure". The currency of the lower layer is a number for the upper layer.

For example, the Federal Border District. The cans and drums that the common people are so desperate for are only industrial products here in the Federation.

[There are many kinds of iron cans, the earthy yellow iron cans are energy bars inside, and the blue iron cans are antibiotics and other medicinal materials. The yellow iron bucket is a drink like sugar porridge, and the white one is pure alcohol. 】

How to convert industrial products into the resources they need, Bei Zhuoming chose local warlords as a transit point.

……

Perspective through, inside the Iron Brotherhood.

On the pompous temple, in a semi-circular glass cover, monsters with various metal gear skull patterns looked down on the people in the hall. - This is a religious patriarch.

This Iron Brotherhood, his leader was formerly the peripheral leader of the Titanium Steel God Society.

In the first battle of the Scales Mound, the Titanium Steel Tree fell and scattered, but they learned the way of religious organization of the Titanium Steel, and mystified the various ruling parts.

For example, the guardian in power armor at the doorway is the Knight.

The mechanical maintenance base has become a sacristy workshop.

Etcetera.

Faith loyalty is no longer linked to the criteria for entering the White Bolt Temple, so is it still mystified, is it useful? - Useful, because it is able to deceive a group of the most vulnerable.

Now underground, in the blue cultivation cabins, babies are being cultivated under the supply of nutrients from the intubation of the umbilical cord.

These tens of thousands of cultivation pods indicate that the fetus, which was originally frozen, will be born in the form of a teenager with a height of one meter and three meters in three or four years.

These children are born with intimidation and are filled with walls of unbelievers if they do not believe in their gods (the leaders of the group). Well—that is, to sell it to the Federation as a mechanical puppet.

When he was ten years old, he began to implant chips to fight; At the age of fifteen, the local warlords will leave thirty percent behind, while the others are sent out to be made cyborgs; At the age of 20, one percent is left, and the rest are embedded in mechanization.

……

Directly below this pyramid, a leader whose head has been transformed by metal is giving a lecture to his followers: "The Great Judgment is coming, all the crimes of the world will be recorded by the stars and gods, the Angel of Savior has come to the world, she will choose all those who can be saved......"

While this guy was "crackling" and saying bewitching words, outside the temple, two 16-year-old teenagers were escaping from prison.

Wearing respirators and protective suits, they climbed out of the long-standing backup discharge port, and then took the stolen unlock key, stabbed the motorcycle, and walked away.

Electronic systems throughout the base identified them as postmen who were out delivering letters. Because, they did get a small boss pass.

These two teenagers, one is called Heshan, and the other is called Weishan Qi.

Wei Shanqi is in charge of planning. The investigation of the entire escape route and the time for the execution of the plan were completed by him; And Heshan, a bold boy, was also selected by him after repeated screening.

Heshan is responsible for carrying out the operation, from the theft of the key to the acquisition of various tools, all of which are handled by this well-connected and strict-mouthed child king.

The two worked together seamlessly.

……

Fifteen hours later, they completely escaped the danger zone that the Brotherhood drones were able to search.

In a sand dune, they hid their motorbikes and pulled up a shield. Heshan was in charge of heating the food, while Weishan Kai took out the map.

Two minutes later.

Wei Shanqi picked up the map and said, "If we turn over this crack again, we will arrive at the control area of the Burning Wheel Base." ”

Heshan, who was chewing a cube of luncheon meat on the side, raised his head and asked, "Wei, what will Ranlun do to us?" ”

Wei Shan paused: "The Burning Wheel does not have a robot puppet economy. - As long as they accept us, we will not be sold. ”

Heshan nodded and said slowly: "Well, listen to you." Then he looked in the direction, gave Wei Shanqi the half-eaten lunch box, and then gritted his teeth and said, "One day, I will make them pay." ”

Wei Shan Qi picked up the spoon that Heshan had just used, and after gobbling up the remaining half of it, he wiped his mouth and said, "Don't worry, there will be a chance, the reason why forces like the church can rise are supported by the Federation and used to deal with the burning wheel." As the Burning Wheel continues to develop, this kind of force that jumps in front will be crushed as soon as possible. ”

Heshan grabbed Wei Shanqi's shoulder and said, "Wei, you are so smart, you know everything. ”

Wei Shanqi couldn't help but be stunned for a moment in the face of his companion's intimacy, as if evoking memories, and then smiled, nodded and said: "Celebrate, wait until we are completely out of danger, it may not be all good things to be in the burning wheel." ”

Heshan nodded.

That night, the two teenagers hugged each other and slept in the freshly dug cat ear hole.

[The two of them left lightly, only a sleeping bag, and everything was simple. As for why it's not a man and a woman. Because it is not easy for Weishan Qi to find a bold child. This young man who dared to put the spirit of resistance into action in poverty was still a woman. Well, that's not easy. - Wei Shan Qi: The ratio of rich women will be a little higher. But I can't reach it. 】

The next day, they set off again, and at 3 p.m., they were spotted by a circling reconnaissance plane of the burning wheel, and then taken away by the arriving double-edged helicopter.

……

In the year 461, the Confederation had recovered from a rebellion in Titanium. Although the official attack of the White Star is about to be held in the next two years, the current Federation is a rare time to spare.

So in April, we had another round of negotiations with Ranlun. The purpose of the discussion is, of course, the control of the robot puppet. Of course, the federation is not so explicit as it is discussed, they are discussing "the issue of burning the people's own loans to start businesses." ”

This is similar to some people in the 21st century who want to cut leeks, it is impossible to directly say "you give me your money and let me control it", but will say "I will help you invest, open a bubble tea shop in partnership, and let you start a business and make money without going out".

Of course, it is impossible to fall for this trick.

Zhou You, who picked his nose, said boringly: "When I played this game, my planet was probably just created by Tianchen." ”

Since he didn't want to agree, why did the Ranlun of the representative of the tour continue to talk? Because - to fill in the hole, to fill in the pit of the robot puppet. Some of the scientific research data of the federation is very useful for the next step.

"Not everyone can be saved, but everyone must be given a ladder to climb up." ”

……

Ninety percent of the people who fall into the robot puppet are the result of their own planting, but there are many people who are born without a choice. - So it's necessary to turn the robot puppet back into a human.

How to change? Replace artificial organs with biological organs.

The question is, how can there be so many organs that are suitable for human matching? Is it possible to clone human beings and then harvest organs? - This is a dehumanization.

But there is a technology that can be found.

That is, the artificial cultivation of anencephaly, from which organs are taken. A large amount of investment has been made in the artificial amniotic fluid chamber, and a lot of experiments have been done on primates, but the reliability has never been confirmed technically. And the federation - hundreds of years ago, completed the accumulation of this technology.

This data is needed for the burning wheel.

……

In the most advanced Xihuang industrial area of Ranlun.

It is already a post-modern architectural style, with a large number of mining towers built and layers of energy shields staggered for thousands of kilometers.

Representatives of both sides sat down, each hiding their disdain for the other.

The representative of the Federation, who was born condescending, despises the Burning Wheel for stealing technology from himself with the help of war, and now disobeys the orders of the Federation.

On the other hand, the representatives of the Burning Wheel are contemptuous of this group of unprincipled, profit-making, and proud of greed and fraud.

Since the two sides had such a mutual impression before the talks, the result of the talks was that "the two sides fully exchanged views".

Both the Burning Wheel and the Federation have marked their own price codes, and the next thing is to see who will bargain again in the next war.

……

After the negotiations, Zhou You connected with Lu Boya.

The two sides exchanged information using a matrix.

Zhou You: "Now, I'm ready for the split plan. ”

Lu Boya paused: "Well, this (for you) is too early." ”

Seems to be asked, after a second of stuck.

"We have won victory after victory here, but the place where this world tramples on hope is getting more and more crazy. So—"

Zhou You looked at Lu Boya: "There is still a need for a more tragic battle, so that all sophistry has nowhere to hide." ”

Lu Boya couldn't help but be moved when she heard it, but she didn't persuade her, but nodded to Zhou You with a stiff smile. - Zhou You also smiled, because at this time, he really felt that this student brought out from Rock Crystal Star was a person who understood himself.

……

When Lu Boya and Zeyo ended their communication.

Lu Boya gestured in the void, as if he was talking to someone.

And on the other side.

In the Shenlin section, the library of the juvenile restoration training base.

Wei Shanqi raised his head suddenly, and Heshan on the side couldn't help asking, "What's wrong." ”

Wei Shan Qi smiled and said, "It's nothing, I was a little choked just now." ”

A few seconds later, Wei Shanqi looked at the departing Heshan and muttered, "The natives here." Don't understand what a saint is...... That guy 'lived for the sake of hope.'"