In 2050, the world war will intensify, and although East Asia is relatively peaceful, it will also be found in the atmosphere of war.

Pudong, once a financial city, began to fade slightly with the destruction of global trade, and global trade has become a coastal city, because the world's technology exchanges, maritime material exchanges, and personnel exchanges, the coastal area is a global hot spot. This is a beautiful and prosperous era that can only be enjoyed in the international environment of peacetime.

The coast is a window to a country. In the era of rational peace, every country will show half of its body out of the window, and the international is a lively event at this time.

And the major powers dominate this grand event, and the peacetime strategy of each major power is to open up exchanges and strive for all the forces in the world that can cooperate to be friends. Concentrate half of the country's manpower in coastal areas. Try to stretch your body out of the window more in order to gain more strength in the international community.

But with the gunfire of the war, the once lively streets (the international community) became deserted, and when the guns rang out, no one would stretch out (the focus was on the coast). Almost always shrink the body inward (the focus of the work is on the large rear), and then push the battleship and the fighter outward. — and that's the time now.

Nearly all of the world's industrialized countries have shifted their industrial power and population inland, and Pudong's population has plummeted by 30 percent in three years. This has deserted the once wide streets. Because even if China still has an invincible fleet in the western Pacific, it does not dare to hold it up, and the industrial strength of the whole country is still within the reach of the enemy's artillery.

Therefore, in the Pudong area in recent years, the commercial atmosphere has been thin, and the militarization atmosphere has become very strong, and of course, in the Taiwan island area, it has almost become a zone with many defense systems. The same is true of the entire southeast coast of East Asia.

This is both a state of war

Peace has a state of peace, war has a state of war, and countries do not rashly choose war in a state of peace, nor do they maintain a state of peace in war. War will turn everything into a new pattern.

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This is the timeline of Meng's throne, in the 21st century, the war to regain the lost eastern treasure island has not started for a long time. In fact, "the concept of this war among the people" is inconsistent with "the concept in the eyes of strategists".

In the 21st century, the Chinese people believe that the reconquest of lost territory is the end of a century of humiliation.

And in the eyes of the strategists of that era: this war is the second half of China's rejuvenation, the beginning

This is because once the war begins, it will not be decided at all whether the island of Taiwan will belong. It will include the provinces of Japan, the Philippines, the Strait of Malacca, and a large area of Australia.

The transformation of a super-industrial country into a state of war is by no means just for the purpose of recovering lost territory, and the words "we only want our land and do not occupy a single grass or tree of other countries" are fine in the 21st century, but in the 22nd century, where Meng is located, this is a traitorous rhetoric.

This is because as long as the super-industrial country of the East in the 22nd century transforms into a state of war, it will inevitably evolve into a new power that is still alive and challenging the old hegemon. Even if this emerging power is only waging a war to subdue one of its own islands.

Because the old hegemonic forces only care about one thing, that is, whether there are industrial forces in this world that can compete with themselves into an armed state. The industrial forces of the East do not enter the full-fledged armed forces (the so-called full-fledged armed state is not as simple as building a few aircraft carriers), and the old hegemon will at most talk about it and send troops over at most. Once the industrial transformation is brought into an armed state, the old hegemony will inevitably blow up.

And once a war conflict breaks out. And when the old hegemony is challenged, regardless of the outcome of the war, it will inevitably have to shrink strategically, which will leave a large number of power vacuums, including Japan, the South Seas, the Strait of Malacca, and the resource-rich Australia.

The citizens of the emerging powers (such as Meng Wei) saw their developed coastal areas in ruins, and they simply could not bear this war just to subdue the lost territory that had been shouted for a hundred years!

At this time, in the face of those weak chickens who gave the old hegemon a voice during the war.

What are the "Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence", "Equality and Mutual Assistance"? These reasons did not make sense after the end of the war. Saying this to the people who saw the devastation along the coast after the war was the same as the situation of asking the state to help people in need without receiving subsidies at the Letters and Visits Bureau.

Just as some foreign media such as Japan gloated before the war, the media excitedly speculated that once a war broke out, the internal contradictions in East Asia and China would be stimulated. - Yes, when war breaks out, contradictions will break out.

However, it would be naïve for these foreign media to optimistically believe that after the new power defeats the old power, it will not be able to deal with the contradictions within itself and then disintegrate.

They do, but they ignore a couple of premises,

First, that is, after the war, the old powers will also decline, and the countries that decline after the war will inevitably retreat, leaving a large area of frontier ruins. Where are the frontiers (not in East Asia, but in Europe?) ）

Second, after the start of the war, the new powers will inevitably shift the contradictions that have arisen at home to the outside.

These were in the middle of the elephant wrestling battlefield before the war, and they were stupid and gloating that they could be neutral, and then they could still be, maybe they were really fooled by strategy.

In peacetime, the strategy of emerging countries is not to lose space on the chessboard, but to focus on their own development and progress. As for the loss of ground - in wartime space can be exchanged for time, and in peacetime, time can be exchanged for space. War will come back sooner or later, and the borders of the planet will never change forever.

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The perspective returns to the present. Pudong area during the war.

At this time, the atmosphere here is militarized. Sky planes continue to cruise, and warships on the sea are parked in the harbor like pre-war fishing boats. Mechanical AI police have also appeared on the streets, and the police program settings of these mechanical AIs are relatively mild. So people in Pudong have not yet realized the cruelty of the AI war in Eastern Europe. Although all aspects were controlled, Pudong at this time basically maintained a rare and precious peace in this era.

In a large factory in the Huangpu River region, batches of special engines are being manufactured. Because this batch of engines is ramjet engines. Because there is no blade structure. It is relatively simple to manufacture, but it is loaded with a special structure. At the center of this structure are superenergetic crystals. And the role of this super is to separate the air from the air intake.

In the Pudong factory, Zhao Qingyun (the Divine Favorite) is in the laboratory, sampling and inspecting industrial products. This unique engine, after starting, spews a powerful tongue of fire.

The ramjet engine can be started only at a certain speed, with a constant sufficient flow of air into the front inlet. And now it's starting at low speed on the ground. However, with the advent of superpowers, the laws of physics in this world have provided many fantastical solutions to mechanical design.

Zhao Qingxun, thirty-two years old, codenamed Material Separation, was a god in the Golden Age (before the Pudong Incident, when only those with golden abilities were in the era). At the time of the Pudong incident, he was a student at Zaiyuan College in Chongming District. It is also the most commendable trump card in the Yuan Academy.

At the third Global Super Energy Exchange Conference that year, when Zhao Qingxun was still a teenager, an hour before the opening ceremony, he separated nitrogen and oxygen in the air on a large scale, and the nitrogen wrapped in soap bubbles rose on a large scale, creating a scene of illusion. Nitrogen bubbles filled the entire street, and Yuan College deservedly became the most elite campus in Chongming District.

At that time, he gained the attention of all parties, and as a god, he was almost targeted by many groups. Trying to enter the blockade of the Abyon School and have a conversation with him. There is no doubt that in the golden age, Zhao Qingxun was the pride of the time. Uh, next, no more. ——Because the opening ceremony of the Third Global Super Energy Exchange Association did not start, the Pudong incident occurred that overshadowed any Tianjiao at that time.

When the Pudong incident occurred, Zhao Qingxun was not only present and witnessed the strength of the famous person, but also the domineering Zhao Qingxun and Lu An competed in less than a second. (As a result of the competition, Lu An condensed the kinetic energy in the air.) The internal energy tremors at the molecular scale are stagnant, and the air separation cannot be carried out at all. The victory and defeat in one second made Zhao Qingxun feel greatly shocked back then, and what shocked Zhao Qingxun even more was that it was revealed in the city's spiritual connection ten minutes later that it was just a mechanical split of Lu An.

Therefore, Zhao Qingxun was once Lu An's fan brother, and he once wanted to follow Lu An in the past, and he once imagined that the world's super-capable people would form a unique world organization under the leadership of the famous people. Of course, that was just the idea of his youth, and as he grew up, Zhao Qingyun still maintained awe of Lu An's strength. But there was no attempt to form a superstructure in Luan. Even when the Miracle Society appeared later, the Quang Nam incident clearly confirmed that Lu An was still there, and Zhao Qingxun no longer had the impulsiveness of his youth.

On the one hand, Lu An has continued to dig in a low-key manner for more than ten years, which does not conform to the image of the 'strongest god' expected by Zhao Qingxun

On the other hand, after entering the society for so many years, Zhao Qingxun's perspective has been mostly about interests as he has seen it over the years. Now that he has joined Lu An, Zhao Qingxun believes that his interests are insufficient.

At that time, Zhao Qingxun's impulse back then was largely due to the fact that public opinion at that time made "capable people feel that they were being treated unfairly", and Zhao Qingxun, as an capable person, wanted to be majestic in front of this world. With the arrival of the war, the vision of 'the world giving enough respect to the capable' has been realized. And then Zhao Qingxun wanted more. Power and wealth, once attracted, are more than just a little bit and a half.

Moreover, while Zhao Qingxun is valued by the world, he also has interest groups around him, and he himself is the leader of the interest group. After getting what he wanted, Zhao Qingxun didn't have the idea of taking the initiative to go to Lu An back then.

Zhao Qingxun's change in mentality, this can be said to be the epitome of the change in the mentality of all the gods in the world over the past ten years.

More than ten years ago, Lu An had enough prestige to raise his arms in the superpower. And now, although in the eyes of all political groups in the world, Lu An still has a strong appeal in the world, but he can't integrate the interests of all superpowers like he has for more than ten years.

But with the acquisition of rights, the division of the world has quietly changed.

Twenty years ago, all the decisions made by the divine servants could be said to be their own decisions, but now 90 percent of the decisions made by the divine servants are in line with the interests of their own interest groups.

At this time, East Asia, with a large number of domestic gods and goddesses going north into Imperial Russia, maintained the Eastern European battlefield. The country and the surrounding areas of East Asia are also in a state of turmoil.

First of all, the Pacific Neon built the Pacific Co-prosperity Sphere plan. This has triggered a series of changes in interests in the Pacific.

The Nandu political group expressed concern about this. — and worry inevitably leads to action.

The interest groups around Zhao Qingxun are involved, and Zhao Qingxun must also consider the interests of his own interest groups.

This batch of ramjet engines in the factory now is what he prepared for the military in the South Seas. - He is capable of maintaining the strength of the Air Superiority Group with 5,000 aircraft of all types in the South Seas.

A few hours later, when Zhao Qingxun walked out of the product testing room, his assistant came up to him and told him: "Sheng Ruxin has come to communicate. ”

Zhao Qingxun smiled, put on the eyepieces, connected to the network, and connected to the data communication network. A few seconds later, the light projection of Sheng Ruxin, who was sitting in the office, appeared in front of him.

Zhao Qingxun sat on the sofa, crossed his fingers against his chin, looked at Sheng Ruxin with interest and asked, "Minister, you have something to do with me?" ”

In the office, Sheng Ruxin looked at Zhao Qingxun's casual appearance, stunned (Zhao Qingxun's attitude did not even maintain the superficial respect), and then asked in a kind tone: "Qingxun, you are ready to completely meddle in the affairs of the Nanyang region, right?" ”

Zhao Qingxun said as a matter of course: "Of course, the actions of the Pacific Federation threaten regional security. Some action is a must. ”

Sheng Ruxin nodded and said, "Preventive action is necessary. But we have already sent warships in the region. ”

Zhao Qingxun said: "Yes, but I think it is necessary to strengthen a little. ”

The atmosphere was abrupt.

Sheng Ruxin frowned and said, "I heard a rumor, I hope to get confirmation from you. ”

Zhao Qingxun smiled and said, "Are you talking about the engagement ceremony between me and Li Yalan (the god of the tribe)?"

Sheng Ruxin looked at Zhao Qingxun, took a breath and said, "It seems that I really want to congratulate you." ”

Zhao Qingxun nodded and said with a smile on his face: "I'm preparing to send you an invitation." ”

Sheng Ruxin looked at Zhao Qingxun, said with a smile on his face: "Okay, then I'll congratulate you verbally first, and I will send the congratulatory gift later." ”